Montag, Mai 05, 2008
Der Fall einer Supermacht
Die vielen von Diebesbanden leergeräumten und nun unbewohnt verlotternden Suprime-Häusle in den USA sind ein Sinnbild der ganzen Nation:
The world has shifted from anti-Americanism to post-Americanism.
Quelle: The Rise of the Rest
Labels: USA, Zeitgeschehen, Zitate
Montag, Mai 05, 2008
The world's largest shit-magnet
Risk, as a pure abstraction unconnected to any real capital activity, is all that's left to buy and sell after all other plausibly practical vehicles for finance have failed. [...]
One feature of the risk economy is the Federal Reserve's new willingness to absorb any sort of crap collateral in exchange for massive cheap loans to insolvent companies and institutions. The Fed has, in effect, made itself the world's largest financial shit-magnet.
Quelle: THE RISK ECONOMY
Labels: Finanzen, Funny, USA, Wirtschaft, Zitate
Sonntag, Mai 04, 2008
Haushaltsbudgets werden eingeschränkt
While Rebecca, aged 10, is worried about the rising cost of food and utility bills: 'We won't be able to buy as much. Something should be done about this.'
Quelle: Worried about money? Perhaps a teenager can give you some advice
Wieso sollte jemand etwas dagegen tun? Niemand zwingt uns zum Konsum, und entgegen der landläufigen Meinung stirbt der Mensch auch nicht in der Sekunde, in der er mit dem Konsumieren aufhört (selbstverständlich schliesse ich die Nahrungsmittelaufnahme davon aus).
Labels: Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Zitate
Samstag, Mai 03, 2008
Iron Man: Kurzkritik
[...] he [Tony Stark; Robert Downey Jr.] puts down enough Scotches that one wonders if his Iron Man armor has retractable cup holders
Quelle: Stop Trying To Kill Robert Downey Jr.!
Mittwoch, Januar 02, 2008
Radikal-Diät zum Jahresbeginn
[...] and Al Gore went up another suit size (as well as winning part of the Nobel Prize for his Powerpoint show).
Quelle: FORECAST FOR 2008
Zwei Bemerkungen:
- Es ist also nicht nur mir aufgefallen, dass Al seit seiner Präsidentschafts-Kandidatur von 2000 mächtig Pfunde zugelegt hat
- Da Al im Verwaltungsrat von Apple sitzt und die Präsentation auf einem MacBook Pro laufen liess, gehe ich davon aus, dass er Apples Keynote und nicht etwa das fürchterliche Powerpoint verwendet hat, um die Präsentation zu erstellen.
Mittwoch, November 21, 2007
Zuckerbergs Gesetz
"Once every hundred years media changes." –– Mark Zuckerberg, Gründer von Facebook
Quelle: Liveblogging Facebook Advertising Announcement (Social Ads + Beacon + Insights)
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It's true. Look back over the last millennium or two, and you'll see that every century, like clockwork, there's been a big change in media. Cave painting lasted a hundred years, and then there was smoke signaling, which also lasted a hundred years, and of course there was the hundred years of yodeling, and then there was the printing press, which was invented almost precisely 100 years ago, and so forth and so on up to the present day -- the day that Facebook picked up the 100-year torch and ran with it.
Quelle: Facebook founder's 100-year flub
Fast so gut wie ...
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." –– Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr.
Montag, November 12, 2007
Mein Internet geht nicht mehr!
"Whit all due respect, John: I am Head of IT and I have it on good authority: If you type 'google' into google it will break your internet! So please, no one try it - even for a joke! It's not a laug[hing?] matter. You can break the Internet!" –– Jen Barber
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