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Re: [LUG] NIS (YP) + Samba ...

 

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 08:00:53AM +0100, tom wrote:
> very small enterprise - I wont call it SOHO as that, as anyone who
> has tried to expand a SOHO into an SME will realise that it is in
> fact a black hole and will take an infinite time to do anything
> with. As they say round here 'You donât want to start from ere!'.
Ta
> >>Making things 'easy' never solves the problem it
> >>just paints it into a corner an makes it a lot harder to solve
> >>later.
> >Making things easy got us into this financial mess
> >
> No - that was lying about leverage etc to the politicians. I'm
> assuming here that someone in the global city knew something about
> what they were doing and just wanted the short term profit but I
> could be wrong.

Politicians not wanting to upset the apple cart
No one prepared to say "you can't have everything today"

Then "salesmen" taking advantage of the greedy and the mis-sold just
escalated the whole thing.

What was it volcker said "the biggest innovation in the [financial]
industry over the past 20 years had been the cash machine."

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article6949387.ece

And I have read the following twice and still not sure if it is a joke or
not

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/rogue_trader_howto/

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