That's the same guy who complained that even though he was the leading computer expert in his IT department for some reason they were wasting his amazing talents by relegating him to backup tape duty. He's almost certainly never learned anything at a conference because he's incapable of learning.

Way to stay up to date in the industry, guys.

They're probably also trying to avoid getting laughed at.

"Capitalist systems" have only existed for a couple of centuries, "thrive in the long term" isn't going to apply to them for a very long time. Centrally controlled social systems like China and Pharaonic Egypt have lasted thousands of years in comparison, and for most of that time they were the centers of civilization. The "rule of law, freedom of speech, association, religion, etc." seems to be reaching its end now, and the ruling parties and media conglomerates are undermining the "devolved governmental structures and strong civil society" faster than I would have believed possible.

Jack Ma broke the law, I'm not clear where that is supposed to be "inspirational", unless maybe you're a fan of Michael Milkin and Jamie Dimon.

Worst coffee I ever had was at the Starbucks in the airport in Atlanta. That's saying something, since I've traveled in almost 40 states and a dozen foreign countries. Generally fast food places can serve a reliable, if mediocre, product. I don't know what they did but it was foul.

Holy carp. And yet here at /. there are still scads of posters convinced that the Chinese can only copy what we 'superior intellects' in the West do.

Dirt's the better bet, even if the market for it crashes you can still live on a piece of property. And as my dad said, "They're not making any more land, except in Hawaii and Holland."

I'm waiting for some of Satoshi Nakamoto's coins to be sold, the market will shit itself.

Thousands of people are sex slaves or trapped in sweatshops in Western countries. Slavery is alive and well here, we just pretend it isn't.

That was incredibly brave, I'm glad it worked.

Solitary confinement is considered torture by most of the civilized world, and by the Pentagon as well. It was one of the methods used to torture people in Gitmo and the US 'Black Sites', and can cause some serious mental illnesses.

I'd certainly agree with giving the death penalty to corporations, particularly tobacco and chemical companies.

If they had executed the CEO of RJR tobacco once they discovered that their product definitely killed people and not only continued production but lied about the result of their research millions would have been saved.

The death penalty as instituted in the Untied States is not an effective deterrent.

FTFY

A death penalty decision in the US is mostly carried out by old age as the person waits on 'Death Row' for decades of appeals. In all my reading of history I've encountered exactly one civilization which was essentially crime-free, the Inca. The penalty for most crimes was death, carried out quickly and without appeals. They had essentially no prisons because an offender was reviewed and either released or condemned pretty much immediately. They had no thieves, no beggars, no scammers, no rapists, no pederasts, no corrupt officials, no abusive spouses.

Then the Spanish barbarians arrived.