How do you steal intellectual property from a capitalist? Just grab it off the boardroom table.
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How do you steal intellectual property from a capitalist? Just grab it off the boardroom table.
The Guardian has a thought-provoking article about the race to develop a replacement for Viagra. [guard]
Do you keep track (loosely) of nuclear proliferation? I feel sometimes that there’s something odd about me, the way I am constantly keeping my ear to the ground about the various governments that are building these horrible monstrous things designed to destroy us all in a bath of light and fire.
At Frankfurt Airport:
Donald Trump’s tax returns will mean nothing and will change nothing. My prediction is that the democrats would be better off not going after them, and just painting a big picture of what a gigantic cheater Trump must be – keep it vague and unspecific.
Congestion pricing seems like a good idea, doesn’t it?
My telephones (cell and land line) have become effectively useless, thanks to the ridiculous number of robo-calls that I get.
PG&E’s lawyers are considering taking the $71 billion company into bankruptcy as a way of avoiding any successful legal claims for damages people may have suffered during the recent wildfires. [stderr]
Last week, I used a tow strap (I keep it in my truck bag in the back of my truck) and my big Chevy Tahoe to pull a UPS truck out of a ditch. You know, the standard UPS package car – big, brown, GMC service chassis with a Grumman aluminum body with dual rear wheels. I know GMC makes 4×4 drive-trains for those things; they’re not that much more expensive, either. I would sort of expect that each UPS motor-pool would have a couple 4×4 and the rest rigged for highway driving.
One of the assets of a company is its endowment or its retirement fund. In principle, it’s money that has been set aside for employees’ pensions when they retire.