Macau’s government decides to save a strategically important industry: casinos. Now they really are taking a gamble with public money; shovelling it into a hole in the ground. Etc. There’s actually an interesting sidelight further down the story. It regards Sheldon Adelson, the casino boss who funded Freedom’s Watch, a creepy rightwing campaign group established…
Read More Best. Bailout. Ever!To the developers of Mozilla Ubiquity: what are you thinking? The whole idea is that you interact with Web things through a command line in the browser that is close to natural language; it’s all a bit like this post about the world’s favourite command line. But at the moment it’s not particularly useful for…
Read More |An unremarked-on aspect of the 1.5% interest rate cut last week. Namely, are we already living in a near-real time planned economy, as Stafford Beer foresaw? It sounds like I must be joking. But how else are we to interpret Sir Terry Leahy’s trip to see the Bank of England and the Treasury? Tesco boasts…
Read More tesco value beerI’m not so sure about this; arsewit wingnut blogger runs out of money, goes bankrupt, various people who should know better jeer. The whole point of everything from some way to the right of centre – Bismarck or thereabouts – leftwards is that IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. It doesn’t matter if you’re a good…
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