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fdghjkh··on Do the rich need Americans?
But I imagine the people buying and selling those failing bonds still took a commission
fdghjkh··on Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple does for all products
Don't worry they have set up a series of "Strategy Boutiques" (seriously!) to get over it

http://www.slideshare.net/whatidiscover/open-innovation-in-a...

fdghjkh··on .42: new experimental, all numeric top-level domain
So what is an 'official' TLD? One that is controlled by an American government agency?

Why can't we have our own TLDs - just like we have our own browsers and servers.

fdghjkh··on Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple does for all products
But to be fair - they have now hired another 6000 HR managers to work out why not
fdghjkh··on Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple does for all products
Except R+D at nokia means anyone not actually bolting phones together.

Having 4 competing operating systems, each with their own layers of management and their own VPs all fighting each other - counts as R+D spend.

fdghjkh··on When Irish Eyes Are Crying
Don't remember - got stuck at Dublin airport once and it was the only book not about whiskey, your Irish ancestors or pictures of green fields
fdghjkh··on When Irish Eyes Are Crying
Best reply I heard was an interview with a new graduate.

"We will just do what we have always done when the government fucks-up - we emigrate!"

fdghjkh··on When Irish Eyes Are Crying
The UK spent the last 10years in a period of genuine economic growth - but still managed to increase it's national debt.

There is no limit to how much government's can spend, however they get the money!

fdghjkh··on When Irish Eyes Are Crying
There's a great book written by a civil servant in Ireland's foreign ministry in the 80s.

He said he had two maps on his wall, one of the eastern bloc enemy and a bigger one of his minister's constituency - a crisis (eg a pothole) in the constituency was the priority.

fdghjkh··on When Irish Eyes Are Crying
>Neither banks nor consumers should get them

Most of these are high street banks (equivalent to S+L) that were making housing loans. You want to tell pensioners that their life savings are gone and the government is not going to do anything?

It might work - but it also means people will stop putting their money into banks, which means no credit cards, no business loans, no mortgages, no saving, no insurance. So everybody will only deal in cash which means no taxes.

Admittedly ireland is probably closer to a 12th century barter economy than the rest of europe - but I don't think it really wants to go there.

fdghjkh··on When Irish Eyes Are Crying
Why's that positive? It means we will never get rid of the moaning buggers!