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2015-07-10 Economy

...It appears that the world is having an outbreak of stupidity. In the imbecile olympics, America may well emerge best off by ironically being the least competent at being incompetent. For example it is distracted right now [5] by the problem of hauling down a 150 year old flag from a defeated government from several state capitols. Someone said on Twitter that when he boarded an airplane in Paris everyone was preoccupied with the Greek exit, but when he alighted in Atlanta everyone was talking about Donald Trump. This lack of focus may allow the others to pull ahead in the race to the bottom.

This happy state of affairs may not last long however.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-10 04:37|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 Remember, you don't have to be faster than the bear, just others in your party.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-07-10 07:07|| 2015-07-10 07:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Reverting to paper may actually improve security. Consider why this might be so.

Could an end of the....'paperless society' be near ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-10 08:34|| 2015-07-10 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Automation and privacy are mutually exclusive - Admiral Grace Hopper

A hundred thousand clerks shuffling paper is better than a hundred thousand bureaucrats shuffling your life.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-07-10 09:02|| 2015-07-10 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 A hundred thousand clerks shuffling paper is better than a hundred thousand bureaucrats shuffling your life.

Just think of the employment opportunities.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-07-10 12:05|| 2015-07-10 12:05|| Front Page Top

#5 The paperless society was always a myth. We still print out far to much junk where I work.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-07-10 15:23|| 2015-07-10 15:23|| Front Page Top

#6 When the Feds or State audit our construction management files, we better have hard copies for them to touch and carress or there's hell to pay

Posted by Frank G 2015-07-10 15:33|| 2015-07-10 15:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Another added benefit of paper records: when archives burn up, so go the records & suddenly, there are a lot of pensions & benefits the gov doesn't have to pay. Happened to a cousin of mine, Korea war vet.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-07-10 16:00|| 2015-07-10 16:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Paper burns built on Chinese whispers.

Posted by Grealet Stalin3886 2015-07-10 17:39|| 2015-07-10 17:39|| Front Page Top

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