Re: The best bit?
You heard it here first: Everyone misunderstood Roy. He was just an EVE player.
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It's more like BSD Unix saved them, right?
And then 10'000 USD cannot be found to pay the electricity bills.
Does anyone even remember Steve's gamble on NeXT that resulted in utter failure, but also utterly cool black boxes sitting on graduate students's desks? Anyone want to write up a "30 years of NeXT" next? It's gonna be soon.
"by the weaker yen"
Not sure whether particularly relevant. The terminally debt-laden economy, natural catastrophes, radioactivity scares, rumors of conflict with The Former Colonies of China, Abenomics, and sundry other catastrophes are wont to depress the yen and thus foster "exports on the cheap". On the other hand, Japan is a resource-poor country, so either they are manufacutring abroad anyway or need to import relatively more expensive materials to be assembled locally in the first place.
So I don't see how the yen exchange rate helps in the non-service IT sector.
You may have been living under the rocks for the last fifteen years. The US has been floundering due to a persistent infection of welfar-warfarism, which the doctor says is increasing and may well lead to arteries clogged by inflation a bit later.
Of course, all this China-vs-US talk is just so much mercantilist blather. This is companies we are talking about, at least nominally.
"Any intelligent adult, adolescent, child, chimpanzee, monkey, dog, or rodent with even a modicum of curiosity, would approach, investigate and closely examine a bowl-shaped structure which appears just a few feet in front of them"
Sounds like he wants us to wake up the Inhibitor device.
The problem with your anti-conspiracy rant is that you do not define what you mean by conspiracy?
Federal Reserve created in secret to ensure riskless profits for well-placed bankers? Yes.
Close-knit group engineering the entry of the US in WWI? Yes.
Finagling of evidence to get the hoi polloi into war lust for Afghanistan and Iraq? Yes.
A high number of politicians/visible persons are sociopaths and consider you their golden retriever? Yes.
FDR angling for a first strike by Japan and fully in the know about where and when? Probably yes.
JFK killed by a cabal able to influence random events / travel backward in time? Probably no.
Source of 2001 anthrax attacks not really the guy who conventiently died at the end? Maybe.
UFOs exist but are left unacknowledged because what you gonna do about it? Maybe.
World Trade Center dynamited from inside using nanoparticles? No.
UFOs exist and control politicans. No.
Elvis alive and living on Mars? No.
Yes, about that
Disquieting news next to your breakfast cereal
After last week´s decision by HSBC to halt its policy of not honoring large withdrawal requests by depositors comes news of the Russian bank “My Bank” implementing its own run-protection measure.
“My Bank”, one of Russia´s top 200 lenders by assets, has introduced “a complete ban on cash withdrawals until next week.” In my discussion of HSBC´s similar policy here, I note that limiting redemption requests has been a measure to help fractional-reserve banks remain solvent since, well, the advent of fractional-reserve banking.
To be true, Poland is a country that grows, shrinks, disappears, then reappears, then is forcefully visited by funky Trotsky and his Red Army, then stabilizes, then disappears in a double-sided hostile takeover, then is sold for by FDR to jovial Russians for a presidential election win, then reappears in modified form shifted to the left on the map, then unsovietizes only to be europized later.
It is hard to honour national heroes while doing this kind of electric boogaloo.
"driving growth" is a nonsensical juxtaposition of words created by tea-leaf readers and martini swilllers.
There is "growth" in a very specific sector if there is interest in buying the stuff offered in that very specific sector.
Nothing can "drive growth" except the government pumping in free money like some sort of farmer pumping in growth hormone because he is hellbent on seeing larger hams.
LOLNO.
It was fantasy then, it is fantasy now.
Additionally, it was never finished. Died before the final writeup. Such a drag.
"monopoly capitalism"
That would be "monopsony capitalism". Here we have the situation where exploitative companies are BUYING labor and cruelly raped creativity at ARTIFICIALLY LOW prices, as opposed to SELLING trinkets (to which we are all entitled) at ARTIFICIALLY HIGH prices while orphaned children and widows starve and are worked to death in the terrible sweatshops of ManchesterMountain View.
"Monopoly capitalism", with the adducted threat of violence and property destruction, would be a thing of the UNIONS.
"GOOGLING A POLITICIAN" == Replace it with higher-quality AI from the Choc Factory. Guaranteed 100% non-sociopathic!
Plasticky face, no baby petting and robotic demeanour will be (welcome?) side-effects of high intelligence, no ego problems and actually logical and consistent behaviour!