Comments on: Davos: Where epic shifts are converging http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/01/10/davos-where-epic-shifts-are-converging/ A slice of lime in the soda Sat, 18 May 2013 04:10:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Neurochuck http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/01/10/davos-where-epic-shifts-are-converging/comment-page-1/#comment-23102 Neurochuck Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:41:17 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=6881#comment-23102 Perhaps the world is ready for "Debbie Does Davos", with various interesting personas from Russia, Saudi Arabia, USA, Italy, France, Germany, ... Might end up with more enemies than Julian A. Perhaps the world is ready for “Debbie Does Davos”, with various interesting personas from Russia, Saudi Arabia, USA, Italy, France, Germany, …
Might end up with more enemies than Julian A.

]]> By: levinsontodd http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/01/10/davos-where-epic-shifts-are-converging/comment-page-1/#comment-23088 levinsontodd Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:28:24 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=6881#comment-23088 This is very "though provoking." This is very “though provoking.”

]]> By: Old49Tom http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/01/10/davos-where-epic-shifts-are-converging/comment-page-1/#comment-23080 Old49Tom Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:12:59 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=6881#comment-23080 Oh, yes - our CEO is just all a twitter about making the Davos scene this year, just like last year. I suspect that it's the only reason she keeps the job - other than the immense salary, of course... Oh, yes – our CEO is just all a twitter about making the Davos scene this year, just like last year. I suspect that it’s the only reason she keeps the job – other than the immense salary, of course…

]]> By: Gotthardbahn http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/01/10/davos-where-epic-shifts-are-converging/comment-page-1/#comment-23074 Gotthardbahn Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:07:25 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=6881#comment-23074 Way to go Felix! I look forward to more Davos 'reports' from you. Way to go Felix! I look forward to more Davos ‘reports’ from you.

]]> By: ARJTurgot2 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/01/10/davos-where-epic-shifts-are-converging/comment-page-1/#comment-22980 ARJTurgot2 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:53:45 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=6881#comment-22980 A smart lad would have figured out how to wangle a boondoggle to Davos for 'reporting', and then gone skiing. A smarter lad would simply spend his own money and be in Vail. 14" of fresh powder. None of these conferences do anything. Do you really think greedy Plutocrats are going to share trade secrets on plunder techniques. Even more, that Economists have any clue as to existential reality. But, I managed to seriously augment my baseball cap inventory back when IT conferences were in vogue. Also, super balls, especially ones with the kinetic lights inside. A smart lad would have figured out how to wangle a boondoggle to Davos for ‘reporting’, and then gone skiing. A smarter lad would simply spend his own money and be in Vail. 14″ of fresh powder.

None of these conferences do anything. Do you really think greedy Plutocrats are going to share trade secrets on plunder techniques. Even more, that Economists have any clue as to existential reality.

But, I managed to seriously augment my baseball cap inventory back when IT conferences were in vogue. Also, super balls, especially ones with the kinetic lights inside.

]]> By: midasw http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/01/10/davos-where-epic-shifts-are-converging/comment-page-1/#comment-22974 midasw Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:17:08 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=6881#comment-22974 Davos is one of the two places- the other being St. Barth's on New Years Eve - that offers a targetable sufficiency in one place of the sort of people who have contributed the most to, and extracted the most egregious rents from, the general degradation of life and values. A wish for the general betterment of mankind argues that this factor not be neglected, although to take advantage of this would require the development of a kind of psychology-based neutron bomb: a weapon that would turn to mush the minds of the self-absorbed, pompous, trite, bootlicking, self-congratulatory, arrogant, doctrinaire and greedy - that is, anyone with three or more points of resemblance to, say, Stephen Schwarzman or Mitch McConnell- while leaving the commonsensical, decent and open-minded in full possession of their faculties and in control of the global purse. Davos is one of the two places- the other being St. Barth’s on New Years Eve – that offers a targetable sufficiency in one place of the sort of people who have contributed the most to, and extracted the most egregious rents from, the general degradation of life and values. A wish for the general betterment of mankind argues that this factor not be neglected, although to take advantage of this would require the development of a kind of psychology-based neutron bomb: a weapon that would turn to mush the minds of the self-absorbed, pompous, trite, bootlicking, self-congratulatory, arrogant, doctrinaire and greedy – that is, anyone with three or more points of resemblance to, say, Stephen Schwarzman or Mitch McConnell- while leaving the commonsensical, decent and open-minded in full possession of their faculties and in control of the global purse.

]]> By: davew http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/01/10/davos-where-epic-shifts-are-converging/comment-page-1/#comment-22972 davew Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:39:48 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=6881#comment-22972 Stop quoting from The Onion, Felix. Stop quoting from The Onion, Felix.

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