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kjhgfhjkhgfv··on How to use Dropbox as a git server?
It does work for a central 'master' repository that people push/pull rarely when new versions are done but otherwise it's only good for a single user.
kjhgfhjkhgfv··on Borders file for bankruptcy
The world changes, there isn't enough market in high street bookstores wedged between small local bookshops that also sell used and Amazon or supermarkets on the other.

If bookshops can't make enough $/sq ft then another type of store will move in.

kjhgfhjkhgfv··on Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
If you know they are bad and are intending to make money out of destroying your client and the client is relying on a rating agency that is prepared to give it a AAA in order to get more business from you - then I think someone is being a bit naughty somewhere.
kjhgfhjkhgfv··on Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
Guess who makes the laws.

Copy a CD you own to an MP3 player you own and you're breaking the law. Sell a bad debt to a client and then bet on the same client failing and you get a bonus.

kjhgfhjkhgfv··on Q&A: Michael Lewis on the Politicians That Sank Ireland
This might be the best thing that ever happened to Ireland.

Since independance it has operated like a corrupt african regime. There were elections but the same party was always in power. The politician's job was to go off to Dublin and get money for their local area. This used to be european handouts when Ireland was the poor relative - all over Ireland there are huge freeway projects that go from nowhere to nowhere just because one county got a grant.

Then it managed to attract a few US corporations to HQ there to avoid paying tax in the UK or Germany - it then managed to convince itself that this made it a celtic tiger. Rather like Liberia deciding it's a great naval power because of the number of oil tankers registered there.

With a bit of luck we will now get real elections, a real economy and a chance to become a real european country