'The Web was invented by the British but exported to the US...We don't want that to happen again.'

[Rob Schaap]

>Didn't y'all invent capitalism ?

Hard to find a decisive moment or place for that one, I reckon.  Reckon
factory capitalism certainly made its debut in Britain, though.
Unconscionable enclosures and mass dislocations notwithstanding, capitalism
was probably not that bad an idea at the time, I reckon.

What I do like about this thread is the news that packet switching (UK Post
Office), Internet (US DoD) and the WWW (Mark's champion of the commons)
were all innovations that took place outside the market.  The very market
that now takes the credit for innovation in general and these technologies
in particular!

... which, I see, have taken a six per cent nasdunk this morning.  Anyone
hearing any margin calls, yet?  And how are those credit-card-funded
portfolios going now, I wonder ...

Cheers,
Rob.