No recession , thanks to Client 9

Know what, all our third world jobs in Bangalore and Shanghai have been saved.
All the doomsdayers have been proven wrong.


Today, recession was prevented.

The guy responsible for it is straight out of a John Grisham novel. The take no prisonsers harvard lawyer. The democrat politician who takes on the big businesses and comes up trumps. The man who would be the first jew president of america.

But this time he has been caught with his pants down....ahem, literally.


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"I would think the markets would rally off this news"
said Gundlach of TCW. <link3>

My buddy, a quant has been telling me for long that all these high finance markets are based on complex and verified models too complex for me to understand
ie not on the testosterone induced one upmanship of alpha males in close contact with each other as I had understood them to be.

Yeah, right.

Before you push that button

Something to grok on before you post, mail, chat .....





What you post on the cloud is going to remain there forever - except for a nuclear holocaust.



Think it over a bit.



Whether you are posting to your blog, updating your website, even sending an email or chatting with someone. Some of it may get purged, but almost all of it will be there in some hard drive sectors archived somewhere - forever.



And as search technologies get more and more powerful, accessible to anyone and his uncle.











Twenty years from now, your teenaged son can be reading the drunken blogs you wrote yesterday night and which your buddies thought was cool.



And by the way, so will your potential employers. Even your potential mother-in-law.



Btw, if you are an anonymous weasel, thatz a different story.



Jimmy 'Wikipedia' Wales made a superstupid decision when he decided to dump his right wing talk host girlfriend with a wikipedia posting. The man who has played a pioneering part in making the Internet such a wonderful tool for all of us has been bitten hard by the same thing now.

Nothing compares to a woman scored. She is now selling his stained clothes in ebay and has made all their chats public. The sweater is now at $1,325 and the shirt is up to $2,226.



Yeah, really ugly.



The Wales affair may have more to do with his bad judgment of women than anything else. But it does raise the big question of what to post, where to post, when to post, to whom to post.... how to add content and use the net.



There are no one size fits all answers to this but it is a big question.







I have a test for something which I post on this blog. Or for any emails I send which are not one-on-one personal emails.



Would I be comfortable with a friend of a friend reading it?



Almost any group mail or a public post is going to be read by your friend's friend. So they are almost always in the audience, intended or not.



I think it is a good question to ask before you push that button.





For one on one communication, it's much more complicated. Much, much more which means it is for another day.



Technology is a queer muse. Badly used, she can come back and screw you.