while yer @ it greg_s discount the polemics
there are two types of extremists here:
there's the barge types that believe that it is largely inevitable that Wave's Embassy will become the de facto trusted web services o/s (a theory i find somewhat possible though it requires a bunch of dominos to first fall).
then there's Howie...
Howie's a guy who has been living in a dank bomb shelter somewhere in L.A. since just prior Y2K. He especially likes the geothermal cooling aspects of his newfound subterranean splendor. But he can't get any tv reception, being that he resides almost 500 feet below ground. So he ran a really long phone cord back up to his former home, a cozy bungalow somewhere around Lakewood & so the 'puter has become a trusty friend.
He has posted thousands of times over the last 4 years deriding Wave (though he makes some valid points about mgmt's self-interest & disregard for fiduciary duty). His sense of duty is quixotic but admirable for the single-minded determination.
Howie's been almost exclusively in cash for *years* But the voices in his head forced him to seek out the ear of the Smart Money reporter (despite repeated claims of having no wavx position (long or short) whatsoever for @ least 3 years). He didn't want a repeat of the Weekly World News debacle where he was extensively misquoted, despite the listening devices that were planted in his microwave, toilet, garden hose & of course, in every electrical outlet in his hovel.
Necessity being the mother of invention & all, Howie was able to avoid being located by the nefarious GPS implants placed subcutaneously during the last abduction he experienced in 99. You mighta seen all the headlines in the Weekly World News. His wife was subjugated to be a host embryo farm & is rumored to have birthed dozens of hermaphrodite hybrids, though he denies the count & claims it was less than ten hybrid births.
Howie didn't come above ground for a while b/c of the obvious risks of being detected by the Crab Nebula Confederation, but the opportunity to sound the alarm that Wave is a co-conspirator in the Confederation, hell-bent on world domination through various secret mind-control technologies was simply too much to resist.
Through a closely guarded secret combination of aluminum foil, cling wrap, vaseline, fingernails, talcum powder & barber shop clippings, Howie has developed breakthrough technology destined to help the millions of abductees from GPS detection. The expected market runs well into the hundreds.
I heard he had already trademarked "Howienator," though gubernatorial candidate Ahnahld w/co-plaintiff James Cameron, are rumored to have initiated a suit to declare the term "Howienator" as confusingly similar.
He's been busy lately working on patenting the process in order to help others from being detected by the now rampant alien invasion of the left coast by former inhabitants of Centaur Alpha who have found the LA smog to be the ideal breeding ground for a new strain of hybrids.
His wife was tired of being a human petri dish & Howie, being the good guy he is, quickly set to work in his laboratory. Four years later, he unveiled to the world the "Howienator." The media didn't pick up the story (mostly because it is controlled by the aliens), but he's been hording a supply of used tissues that e plans to recycle for his upcoming newsletter.
His alter-personality Lord Nigel was a ton of fun, but the adverse side-effects of the Howienator cerebellum cloaking technology tends to suppress his submissive secondary personalities. It's a good thing he's almost 100% in cash b/c the patent prosecution on his revolutionary innovation might be pricey...
Anyway greg_s, i've learned more than a little from your posts & despite you being a pessimist on Wave, i'm glad yer here!
You might wanna get out of yer INTC position soon though & consider investing in the Howienator @ the ground floor.
He's courting VCs now and even has a brochure. He only has one though because used kleenex are scarce, so he'll have to meet you... unless you too are an alien. Which, according to Howie, after the last invasion, is almost 85% likely!
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