If Apple go through with the rumoured sub-notebook cheap laptop… (View Post)

They knew change was coming. They were told. It was legislated. They could have invested some of those record profits. But no - culturally they had to wait. For a handout. For someone else to do some… (View Post)

And European governments spend enormous amounts of time and effort supporting the existing players and making sure they don’t get challenged. Similar very often in the US - see the endless propping u… (View Post)

It is like that, I think. The biggest barrier to innovation is often “we don’t do it like that” - the accreted socio-economic structures of the existing organisation. After WWII the Koreans built a m… (View Post)

During the 80s, Iranian armed speedboats were doing all kinds of stuff in the Straits of Hormuz. Even trying to sink tankers. One got run over by a tanker.. Anyway, they liked shit talking US warship… (View Post)