4 ms·
Ten things we know to be true
- contingencies 13y ago(1) Centralization is bad. (2) Defending centralization through appeal to child-like naievety is transparent. (3) Normal people, those who we can trust, don't visit North Korea for a holiday. (4) When you visit North Korea and claim it's for a holiday, but do so with a politician, you don't appear any more believable. (5) When you go out with a woman from the Council of Foreign Relations - summarized by the world's most respected academic as "essentially the corporate input to [US] foreign policy" - you don't appear any more believeable. (6) When you can't recruit people without throwing in an eternal childhood with food made for you, casual dress and bright colours, you know you have lost hearts and minds, even when your slogan is don't be evil. (7) Riding on the success of (thinly modified and rebranded) Linux to destroy all competition in the mobile space is a winning commercial strategy. (8) Stealing and corrupting Java to do it is a masterstroke. (9) It's OK because my daughter came to North Korea too. (10) Oh look, all the flunkies are telling my daughter she is smart now.