The original X post was so obvious that even a 5-year old could know that it was a scam. It still amazes me that a lot of people fell for it. Anyway, I think that the fast pump and dump was not the original plan, but the idiot freaked out and pulled out too early.

Really? Ceos and executives are 'the architects of AI' ?

This is highly inaccurate and media biased. Protectionism was helping to develop an industry, specially in places like Tierra del Fuego and outer zones of Buenos Aires. Liberal lobbyists deceived the people using corporate media and won the elections. Production is expected to be reduced 70% this year, at least in electronics industry. Source? I'm an electronic engineer, worked setting up several plants. Currently in plans of leaving the country.

Wasn't something like this that caused one of the biggest extinctions ever? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event#Methane_hydrate_gasification

I find linux to be a lot better at multitasking, specially with IO

And yet, nobody cares because they were poor people of a poor country...

When I read your comment I thought I would find a silverlight plugin thing in that page. Instead I find the same message, but with a google logo. Things do change fast.

We should switch to a resource based economy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2xVey00nMI

It was not only a re-design of the gui, that's just a sub product. They have redone all the underlying api to improve animation capabilities and facilitate extensions and adding of new features. Check the release log http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-257/