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2018-03-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Peter Thiel: Europe is cracking down on Silicon Valley out of 'jealousy'

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Posted by 3dc 2018-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Typical Europe. Can't do anything themselves, so they throw all the toys out of the crib and blame America. Why do we still call them allies? They're assholes.

Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2018-03-16 01:22|| 2018-03-16 01:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Pity, they both can't lose.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-03-16 09:04|| 2018-03-16 09:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Personally, I'd love to see someone crush that bunch of pompous, spoiled brats in Silicon valley like a couple of bugs. Their silly-assed play time work spaces are ruining American business and the millennials that the internet are cranking out are just impossible, literally, to supervise train or lead.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-16 10:17|| 2018-03-16 10:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Really?

Makeup is changing the meaning of masculinity

Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-16 10:24|| 2018-03-16 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 No, it's just to shake down more benefits for the bureaucrats at taxpayer expense.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-03-16 11:12|| 2018-03-16 11:12|| Front Page Top

#6 ..when isn't it?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-03-16 11:36|| 2018-03-16 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Jealous of your coffers.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-03-16 11:51|| 2018-03-16 11:51|| Front Page Top

#8 I personally don't feel much sympathy for silicon valley; they have an enourmous disdain for anyone who produces a physical product besides an electric car, up to and including the people who make the devices they use, but think they'll be able to grind everyone else to death and still make a bucket of money writing the software. And now they're going to be so shocked that China and the EU will be (or in the case of China, already has) erected barriers designed to make sure they control the software industry instead.

Guys? It wouldn't have hurt y'all that much to keep assembly lines for imacs and ipads here.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-03-16 13:55|| 2018-03-16 13:55|| Front Page Top

#9 I am completely over this concept that you have to entertain or whatever your staff...it used to be that you worked in a field because you liked the things that you did. Not ball rooms and bounce palaces and skateboard rooms to go and fire up your creativity.

That's why I like construction. People like to build things and the techy BS is only as good as what it can do to get that danged thing built

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-16 15:36|| 2018-03-16 15:36|| Front Page Top

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