Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 3/9/2009

If banks fail and take down depositors, the whole system will collapse. If a big bank failed and the FDIC had to bail out depositors...
...it would cause the US govt to collapse. No one is planning for that kind of collapse. So which does he prefer? Should get him to STFU.
In a lot of ways Obama is just a continuation of Bush. So I'm not happy. But god help us had McC won. That man is seriously stupid.
A fair number of people got through yesterday's 40 minute interview with Jay Rosen. http://bit.ly/p2n6k
Back to McC. If by fail he means the stockholders lose -- it's happened. Look at the share price for BofA or Citi. Near $0. McC == Fail.
These banks, on which our future rests -- ARE OWNED BY NO ONE. That ought to be keeping us up at night. Maybe we should send in the marines?
Osama bin Laden couid buy BofA. Think about it. Hugo Chavez. Medvedev. Ahmadinejad. Andrew Keen. The asshole with the puppets.
@asteris -- OK, perhaps Andrew Keen couldn't buy BofA. That was a little something I threw in to see if anyone was paying attention.
@oliverwright -- yeah Kim Jong Il is the creep with the puppets.
Flowering tree: http://bit.ly/6ROom
Cranberry the bird and Allen the human: http://bit.ly/uDL07
Amazon has already shipped the replacement for my poor 1000HE. It'll be here tomorrow. That's service. Whew.
I am not going Hackintosh this time. Tom Hunt here in Berkeley is turning an old netbook of mine into a Hackintosh, slowly, carefully.
At this point in my life I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at. Fussing with hardware is not one of my good-at things. :-)
Another Berkeley project is going well. Ken Sedgewick has an EC2 image that installs as your own "Personal Twitter." We're meeting tomorrow.
All of a sudden all these interesting projects are sprouting in Berkeley. It happens in cycles, I guess. BSD came out of Berkeley of course.
Anyone know how to cancel a subscription to the NY Times on a Kindle? They make it easy to opt-in for a trial, but I can't find the way out.
@dane I tried doing it through the Amazon site, but it says I have no Kindle orders. http://bit.ly/2OjOap
@kindlejunkie -- thank you -- that was the correct answer! http://tinyurl.com/auzba3
Time addresses the question I've been raising here. The FDIC is in no position to guarantee deposits at Citi. http://bit.ly/N98Ns