Is Cloudwebstore the real hashslingrz?

[Joseph Tracy]

Who does "VIP" refer to? I thought it was virtual internet provider, a generic term, not an entity. Are you talking about google (biggest bandwidth owner) or how the conflicker virus invaded computer systems and allows the rental of cloudspace to spammers and shady internet enterprises? Isn't Cloudwebstore a newcomer? I'm probably forgetting something from the book.

The banks were looted? Looks to me like banks and finance industry blew a big international financial bubble with mortgage backed "securities/derivatives" and played a game of musical chairs as to who would be sitting when the music stopped. Taxpayers were then forced by the finance industry cronies in government to put money into the banks so they could borrow it later. Weirder and weirder.

One thing that should be noted as regards crash of 2008 is the degree to which the MSM  or any other public or government medium  of information failed to see it coming, while there were quite a few outsiders from all political and economic perspectives who predicted the exact nature of the looming event.

They remain outsiders with no increase in MSM respect.


On Nov 24, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Robin Landseadel wrote:
>  Reading BE, seems like this is one of the real punchlines of the book: we are all looking at 9/11, that wonderful distraction, while the banks are being looted by the likes of "VIP", who somehow around 2004 starts buying up bandwidth like it's going out of style. Really, the financial stuff we ignored while we were boiling over over Iraq and that incredibly effective dunderhead in the oval office is what all that Bleeding Edge Webware really did to all of us. And control of information over every nook and cranny on the internet? Built right into the system from the ground up. This is really, honestly, the very best that DARPA and its many friends and affiliates has to offer. Doubtless Cloudwebstore and the Powers That Be are going to be really good buddies.
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> Meanwhile, back in Echo Courts, filming commences on the opening credit sequence of The Crying of Lot 49. Black & White. A pocket transistor radio. Dark lacquered fingernail switches radio on, music commences. Credit titles flash over Slow zoom to small decoration over speaker grill, 'til the little oval fills the screen. Decoration is a silver and black muted posthorn, logo for this particular model. Music playing is "Have You Seen Her Face?" Only first verse of the song plays, up to "Can't hide from that look in her eye." Music and visuals are cut, screen goes to color, envelope of letter obscuring Oedipa's eyes as she scryes the back of envelope, muted posthorn overstamp visible to camera's pov but only just barely as the envelope and hand holding envelope descend and we see her face:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kr4xG-Zg9I
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