Comments by "" (@advancetotabletop5328) on "Patrick Boyle" channel.

  1. Those who have studied Disney management during the Eisner-Wells years vs. Eisner alone already know that once management stops having differences of opinion, either through yes men surrounding a single charismatic person, or groupthink, it‘s more prone to make mistakes affecting the entire company. Unfortunately, companies are usually intentionally structured this way.
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  2. The best way to beat your competition is to be your own competition.
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  3. Also, Walmart is reporting a rise in ”higher income“ customers. That sure isn’t a sign of an economy that feels like spending.
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  4. fwiw, I worked at Xerox PARC decades ago. Xerox‘s GUI was complicated and proof that, just because you have a GUI, didn’t mean it was better.
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  5. I worked at Xerox PARC decades ago, and, even then, the management at PARC knew Xerox‘s days were numbered. Canon already leaped from analog cameras to printers — just imagine that your Canon inkjet could have been a Xerox. As for OS, I dunno. I did see an Alto up close and the vector graphics were terrific. However, the Xerox implementation of the three-button mouse was horribly complicated, as was their office suite. The suite used “soft keys” which basically meant you had to know every context-based pop-up keyboard if you wanted to do anything. And our researchers wouldn’t even touch the Xerox internal OS, preferring to use Suns and PC‘s.
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  6. Okay. I don’t feel as bad backing Kickstarter projects now. :D Thanks for the videos (and comments)!
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  7. You mean like all those fly-by-night Chinese brands on Amazon?
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  8. The world will trust any currency of a government — and economy — they can trust. It’s been 20 years since the BRICS have been established, and I doubt they can even trust each other.
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  9. @Jimbo: See the economic videos about how resources can doom country economies. I think William Shapiro (?) has a few of them. Pretty sobering. ):
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  10. Nope! China went from an agrarian economy to an industrialized one, and still needs to continue to a service one. Most first-world countries have a service economy, but China doesn’t b/c most of its corrupt CCP have ties to infrastructure industries. As a result, the money goes to industry, not the consumer. And it’s the consumer who buys goods. But, since China doesn’t have a service economy, it doesn’t have domestic consumption, so must rely on international consumption, aka. Exports. This was fine until it wasn’t. I’d add that decades ago, I was reading business articles about how China was supposed to increase its domestic consumption, thus becoming independent of and relying less on exports. Now, look at China. They can’t even protect their own trade routes with their so-called Navy, and have to rely on the USA. Prior to the ME conflicts, the USA has actually been scaling back its “world police” military spending, including protecting world trade routes, which have benefitted China. (We’re still protecting regional trade routes with our trading partners.)
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  11. Anyone who would have left a bank left long ago, to brokerages and credit unions.
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  12. Well, USA producing as much oil as it does is bad news for OPEC. I’m all for China moving away from importing oil, at least.
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  13. More money to flow into corrupt host official and CCP pockets. Good luck in the world recession, China. (Same for US taxpayers and the bank bailouts, mind you.)
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  14. Yep — Just wait for USA’s recession.
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  15. It’s would work. For the Chinese.
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