TheRoyalScam commented on Indian man dies in pie-eating contest

"In only two generations, India has exploded onto the world stage, becoming a powerhouse of smart, educated hard-working labor cost-cutting job-snaring offshore talent, building the world's largest middle class almost from scratch. This article shows just how much parallel progress India has made on the social front."

TheRoyalScam commented on Alec Baldwin Fears Palin

"@MsMuffinMcGuffin: Unlike the retarded (and probably half-anesthetized from the pills found in Mommy's purse where they live) micro-mutts she's familiar with, corgis have enough self-esteem and cleverness that they should easily be able to avoid Paris's grasp. As a long-time corgi owner, I have seen them escape repeatedly from allegedly secure places, especially if they think there might be a cookie on the other side of that door. I like your beheading option for dealing with vacuous twits."

TheRoyalScam commented on Alec Baldwin Fears Palin

"@MsMuffinMcGuffin: The visual is quite scary: Paris, widely known for the incandescent intellectual depth needed to execute a strategy known as "subtlety" barreling into a high-end London nightclub, braying "I want me a prince."

TheRoyalScam commented on NASA's shame: Hubble Space Telescope runs on a 486 chip

"Of course the main computer systems are old clunkers."

TheRoyalScam commented on Jason Calacanis missive unpublished by Silicon Alley Insider

"Last I heard, four out of five startups fail in *any* economic climate."

TheRoyalScam commented on Oh That's Embarrassing

"The embarrassment is more subtle but much deeper than the surface silliness about them not "eating [their] own dog food." In the mid-1990s, Microsoft targeted Adobe's franchise, because Adobe was the most profitable PC software vendor other than itself, and because Adobe's price points were so much higher than Microsoft. One of the things that was supposed to let Windows finally take on the Apple+Adobe juggernaut was greatly improved color handling and graphics in the operating system."

TheRoyalScam commented on Why Did Vincent Gallo Call This Girl An 'Ugly Cunt'?

"@MsMuffinMcGuffin: DSM-IV is "Diagnostic Service Manual, 4th Edition." The bible of psychiatry, with diagnostic criteria for all sorts of mental disorders, not just the big ones like schizophrenia, paranoia, etc."

TheRoyalScam commented on Why Did Vincent Gallo Call This Girl An 'Ugly Cunt'?

"I have no idea who Vincent Gallo is."

TheRoyalScam commented on Steve Jobs Is Still Not Dead

"Neither Jobs nor Michael Bloomberg are likely to care a bit about this, if they even hear about it (Jobs lives in a PR bubble, and Bloomberg has been hands off from the business for years). I think the only loser in this scenario would be the generic 23-year-old journalism major in their first post-baccalaureate job, who moved to NYC with dreams of hitting it big in the newspaper business and whose tenure as an associate copy editor has just taken a turn for the worse."

TheRoyalScam commented on Microsoft heir apparent looks for life after Windows

"The only person that seems to be floating Eric Rudder's name as the heir apparent to Steve Ballmer is...Eric Rudder. Apparently he doesn't view his demotion in 2005, right after the Fortune article you cited to Gates's technical assistant from head of a $10 billion business unit to be a demotion or even the slightest hindrance to his ambitions."