3Q2U - Posts from April 6, 2008

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Posts from April 6, 2008

April 06, 2008

Quality Fade

Quality Fade
A 3q2u Production
A John Woo Film

Starring: Denzel Washington, Tony Leung, Maggie Q, and Clint Eastwood

In the wake of the devastating US financial crisis, the Chinese government steps in and buys all of Wall Street for 1.4 trillion in cash. Hu Jin Tao (Tony Leung) is now head of the US Treasury, and battles with the newly elected President (Denzel Washington) over who should be blamed and executed for causing the crisis. Hu's mistress, Maggie Q, seduces the President, leading to his resignation, and a hard boiled war veteran (Clint Eastwood) is appointed to now save the country.

Posted to Mr. Asia by corbett at 12:06 PM
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Who do we shoot now?

Paul Denlinger has a great blog entitled The China Vortex, and says some really interesting things. I told Paul I liked the way he got into a topic, made a point, and got out, not talking down to his readers.

I've known Paul for a long time, and he's the one who convinced me to get a Mac when he said "Did you know it's built on the BSD kernel?" That was all I needed to hear because my admin had set up BSD servers on Linux boxes many years ago, and they were unbelievably fast and stable, running on anything.

Anyway, recently he wrote something I found very amusing. "So, while Chinese factories have on occasion exported defective products, the US has exported defective financial products. And the US government participated because Treasury sold T-bills which were backed by these defective financial instruments."

Quality Fade: American or Chinese, Which is Worse? - Check it out.

Posted to Cool Links by corbett at 11:18 AM
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