Everything we do, we do because of experience. When, as babies, we touch something hot and burn our hands, we learn to be careful not to touch things that may be hot. When we do something bad and get punished, it is natural to not want to be punished again, so we avoid doing the [...]
In factories, all over the world’s largest economy, little replicators punch out Iphqnes, Blackbarries, Soni Laptops and anything else you want as you long as you require 50 or more or 100 or more or one container or more. These “replicated” devices look the same as the real product but have subtle differences. Usually [...]
Some good friends came to stay over the weekend just past. They brought with them a couple who are here on holiday from a Eurozone country. Their names should remain anonymous for the purposes of this story. The couple are both retired now. We got talking about his work in the police force of said [...]
Have you noticed that a lot of the big companies from America are on the chopping block? We all know the big banks are taking on foreign capital like its going out of style…. I think it is remarkable that in the deal to help Merryl Lynch out of its woes Temasek wrote the deal [...]
Great article in the American Conservative magazine about why Bush is NOT like Churchill – and quotes an anecdote about historian, John Lukacs…. John Lukacs, whose book Giuliani was reading around 9/11—the mayor actually carried the book with him, at least when television cameras were around—knows quite a lot about Churchill and in an interview [...]