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There's only one problem: the Internet is kind of boring. The video is eight and a half minutes long, and no matter how hard Bilgil tries, it's tough to make phrases like "accelerated knowledge transfer" and "interface message processor" visually interesting. The part about the Cuban Missile Crisis...
The video stops at the year 1990, right when things on the Internet started to get interesting. What about chatrooms? Instant messaging? Whatever happened to America Online's "You've got mail!" guy? And most importantly, when did the Internet evolve from something used largely by universities and the military...
It would have been interesting to ask each man what he thought about the value of the toxic assets on bank balance sheets. Unlike land, toxic assets can multiply. And, unlike land, the value of toxic assets may never rebound, although analysts differ on that subject. (See pictures of Mark...
There have been films about Mumbai slums before - most notably Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay (1988), which enjoyed critical success on the festival and art-house circuit. But many believe the reason that Slumdog has been raking in awards is simply that Western audiences haven't seen many films like...
The other factor was where Gramm's culpability came in: "the politicization of mortgage lending." Gramm trotted out the Republican bogeymen of the fall election campaign: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Community Reinvestment Act. But then he did something really interesting. He didn't give them all the blame...