Trying to, you know, persuade others to join our side. Trying to make the other side look bad. Just like the Internet always was. - Neal Stephenson

When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery

I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.

There are always fuckups, and there is always a goat. Sometimes the goat is you.