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Taxi driver

by DougJ|  April 24, 20131:26 pm| 100 Comments

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Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman hosts this timely forum, bringing together chief executive officers, tech pioneers, government officials, influential decision-makers and scholars to discuss the new world economy, opportunities and challenges. We will explore the complex dynamics of new-world infrastructure, especially the transformative electronic, digital and mobile environment. Attendees can expect invaluable insights into strategies for success in today’s new world order.

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  1. 1.

    SparkleMotion!

    April 24, 2013 at 1:29 pm

    Did you see the panel? Awful lotta white guys . . . .

  2. 2.

    Forum Transmitted Disease

    April 24, 2013 at 1:29 pm

    Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman hosts this timely forum, bringing together chief executive officers, tech pioneers, government officials, influential decision-makers and scholars to discuss the new world economy, opportunities and challenges.

    Working people can go fuck themselves, I see.

  3. 3.

    GregB

    April 24, 2013 at 1:29 pm

    He’ll be talking about his new book:

    My Wallet is Fat

  4. 4.

    aimai

    April 24, 2013 at 1:29 pm

    Taxi to the dark side. Will synergize your…(noun, verb, adjective) here.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Mary

    April 24, 2013 at 1:30 pm

    Hmm. Read that article, or look at the best Russian cat video EVER? Cat video!

  6. 6.

    BGinCHI

    April 24, 2013 at 1:31 pm

    It’s just like Aspen but with 100% more ass.

  7. 7.

    maya

    April 24, 2013 at 1:31 pm

    And everyone should have their cell and smartphones left on.

  8. 8.

    Gary K

    April 24, 2013 at 1:34 pm

    @Comrade Mary: Yes, but is he sucking on it, or is it sucking on him?

  9. 9.

    Comrade Mary

    April 24, 2013 at 1:35 pm

    Hmm. Read that article, or watch Tilda Swinton lead a dance-along at Ebertfest 2013? Tilda!

  10. 10.

    Comrade Mary

    April 24, 2013 at 1:36 pm

    @Gary K: There’s a koan in there somewhere.

  11. 11.

    Roger Moore

    April 24, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    So he’s moving into outright grifting now. I guess it shouldn’t be a big surprise.

  12. 12.

    Roger Moore

    April 24, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    @Comrade Mary:

    Cat video!

    A cat that actually likes the vacuum cleaner? Wonders never cease.

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    April 24, 2013 at 1:40 pm

    … bringing together chief executive officers, tech pioneers, government officials, influential decision-makers and scholars …

    … but no taxi drivers from Bangalore? I haz a sad.

  14. 14.

    patroclus

    April 24, 2013 at 1:40 pm

    Unfortunately, it’ll probably be about six months before anyone will be able to fully comprehend the brilliant analysis and insights that the host will share with this forum.

  15. 15.

    Bob2

    April 24, 2013 at 1:40 pm

    Why do you hate America, DougJ?

  16. 16.

    TXG1112

    April 24, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    The discounted rate is only $995! What a bargain.

  17. 17.

    gbear

    April 24, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    I just placed my order with asteroid-o-gram. It’ll be a big surprise.

  18. 18.

    Tod Westlake

    April 24, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    What is this newfangled internet about which I hear so much?

  19. 19.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    April 24, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    My cat likes my little Eureka mighty mite but hates the upright. I can “suck” his fur and zap him in the butt and he challenges the small tank vac but it’s feet don’t fail him now once the upright is turned on.

  20. 20.

    MattF

    April 24, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    ‘New World Order’? That… rings a bell.

  21. 21.

    sherparick

    April 24, 2013 at 1:43 pm

    I am sure there will be lots of talk about the “deficit” and “tax reform” (a/k/a as cutting taxes on rich people) and how we need to shift money on spending on the “old” (e.g. those actually depend on Social Security and Medicare to survive and shift money to “investments,” especially “public-private partnerships” where all the profits go to the private and all the risks go to the public. About unemployment, especially long-term unemployment, I expect not so much. Jared Bernstein talked about how where the power is pretty much dictates such conversations. http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/the-preferences-of-the-wealthy-and-their-role-in-our-politics/

  22. 22.

    Morzer

    April 24, 2013 at 1:45 pm

    I am betting the real Friedman strategy (marry a rich, gullible woman) isn’t likely to be the focus of discussion.

  23. 23.

    Chris

    April 24, 2013 at 1:46 pm

    Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman hosts this timely forum, bringing together chief executive officers, tech pioneers, government officials, influential decision-makers and scholars

    How’s the view from up there?

  24. 24.

    Ted & Hellen

    April 24, 2013 at 1:46 pm

    Smiling faces tell lies.

    The sweet sweet joy of helping GWB open his new comic book library.

  25. 25.

    Anoniminous

    April 24, 2013 at 1:47 pm

    Thomas L. Friedman argues that while we were focused on post-9/11 and the subprime crisis/recession, something very big happened: we have built a whole new infrastructure for the world—an electronic, digital, mobile plumbing system that is the real lasting story of the moment.

    No Tommy. Take that “we” and shove it. You were focused on taxi drivers and golf courses. You did bugger all nothing to building anything.

    Looking at the agenda … it’s completely Start of the Art as of 1998. Same gaggle of goons spewing the same old horseshit.

  26. 26.

    Mike in NC

    April 24, 2013 at 1:49 pm

    The Koch brothers also put on an annual forum for CEOs and other influential types. Wonder if there’s any overlap?

  27. 27.

    celticdragonchick

    April 24, 2013 at 1:50 pm

    You forgot a few tags on this one:

    Bobbleheads
    Broderism
    “He has a book to sell”
    Kabuki
    Media Village Idiots
    Moustache of Understanding
    Serious Person
    We Are All Mayans Now-

  28. 28.

    sherparick

    April 24, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    Again, the politicians who will constantly scream nonsense about the deficit (see Senator Tom Coburn) and Benghazi, Benghazi (Rep. Issa, Cantor, etc.), no that no who matters cares about this problem. See http://www.businessinsider.com/this-photo-shows-how-much-politicians-care-about-the-long-term-unemployment-crisis-2013-4

  29. 29.

    jibeaux

    April 24, 2013 at 1:52 pm

    @Amir Khalid: good one, sir.

  30. 30.

    Yastreblyansky

    April 24, 2013 at 1:52 pm

    @Morzer: Mrs. F’s family was in real estate and lost billions during the kerfuffle in 2009, you know; they’re really down to their last yacht as it were. That’s why Tom has to hustle for a living after all.

  31. 31.

    Monkeyfister

    April 24, 2013 at 1:52 pm

    Six months from now, this will be hailed as a remarkable success, I am sure of it.

  32. 32.

    El Caganer

    April 24, 2013 at 1:54 pm

    It’s the Must-Miss Event of 2013!

  33. 33.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    April 24, 2013 at 1:55 pm

    @GregB: Tom Friedman, looking sharp and looking for love.

  34. 34.

    catclub

    April 24, 2013 at 1:56 pm

    @Anoniminous: “the real lasting story of the moment.”

    The writer is clearly an acolyte of the Friedman church.

  35. 35.

    Yutsano

    April 24, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    And they’re holding it in godless librul San Francisco. Jeebus save us all!

  36. 36.

    Eric U.

    April 24, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    @Morzer: the whole problem with rich, gullible women is that they sometimes are only rich because they own investment vehicles that fail, and fail big. I’m thinking that Tommy is a little worried about how much money his wife has now that the family business tanked

    @Anoniminous: looks like TeD after traumatic brain injury, if that’s even possible

  37. 37.

    Comrade Dread

    April 24, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    When we all have cybernetic implants that alter our perceptions of reality, I will pay cash money to the first of you geniuses who can make translate the pie filter to that device, so all words, images, sounds and articles generated from the media circle jerk are replaced with images of Strawberry-Banana Cream Pie.

  38. 38.

    Bokonon

    April 24, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    We’ve built a digital, mobile plumbing system?

    And that’s a bigger deal than the systemic financial and economic and political crises of the last few years?

    Wowsers. You mean to tell me that people actually pay money to hear that sort of insight? I am in the wrong business.

  39. 39.

    Forum Transmitted Disease

    April 24, 2013 at 2:00 pm

    So he’s moving into outright grifting now. I guess it shouldn’t be a big surprise.

    @Roger Moore: Next stop on that train: congressional representative.

    I think we know which party affiliation he’ll be running under.

  40. 40.

    gbear

    April 24, 2013 at 2:00 pm

    @Yutsano: It’s the only way they can get anyone to show up.

    Love the city, hate the twits.

    Edit: after finding out it was in SF, I cancelled my asteroid order.

  41. 41.

    scav

    April 24, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    English Dog Video to bookend Russian cats. Happy Recalcitrant Dogs running with Sheep.

  42. 42.

    Anoniminous

    April 24, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    @catclub:

    “The real lasting story of the moment” or six months. Which ever comes first.

    @Eric U.:

    At least the TeD Talkers have some vague idea of what they are talking about.

  43. 43.

    grape_crush

    April 24, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    @patroclus: Damn! You beat me to using that reference, FU!

    Anyone needing to book time with Tommy Friedman in order to have things ‘stache-splained to them is probably already a dinosaur in whatever field he works in.

  44. 44.

    Trollhattan

    April 24, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    @Comrade Mary:

    Aways liked her, now I lurve her! Also, too, Chaz boogies down on stage.

    Nice.

  45. 45.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    April 24, 2013 at 2:05 pm

    We keep putting out prime Meteor Bait, and yet no Meteor ever shows up. I’m beginning to think that The Flying Meteor Monster is just a myth.

  46. 46.

    Zifnab

    April 24, 2013 at 2:07 pm

    Attendees can expect invaluable insights into strategies for success in today’s new world order.

    Least intimidating Illuminati reference E-VAR.

  47. 47.

    muddy

    April 24, 2013 at 2:08 pm

    @SparkleMotion!:

    Awful lotta white guys

    That’s the “new world order” for ya.

  48. 48.

    Sophist

    April 24, 2013 at 2:10 pm

    Sweet fancy Moses. Please tell me this is just a scam to lure all these people into a rocket disguised as a convention center, and that when everyone’s inside they’ll weld the doors shut and fire it into the sun.

  49. 49.

    jl

    April 24, 2013 at 2:11 pm

    I find this agenda item intriguing.

    “What You Don’t Know Is Coming”

    Seems like it could be read several ways.

    At least it is in SF. More tourist bucks! Yay for us. And it might be easy to get Prof. De Long to come over the bridge and make a few comments on Friedman’s economic thought. I wonder whether they thought of that.

    I also liked what looked like a clip of UCLA in the clip. Go, gritty little Bruins!

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    April 24, 2013 at 2:11 pm

    @Comrade Dread:
    Wouldn’t it be better to hack the cybernetic implants of the media circle jerk and cause them to say things that were worth listening to?

  51. 51.

    Sophist

    April 24, 2013 at 2:11 pm

    @muddy:

    Awful lotta white guys

    That’s the “new world order” for ya.

    Meet the New World Order, same as the Old World Order.

  52. 52.

    catclub

    April 24, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    @Roger Moore: So how many suckers at $1k per head? What is the split of the take?

  53. 53.

    raven

    April 24, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    you talkin to me?

  54. 54.

    GxB

    April 24, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    And in the other corner, Yahoo Finance has a headlining story about Krugthulu being right all along.

    Tell us how it’s done Tommy-boy, just give it another six months! I’m sure austerity will prevail!

    Christ, what an asshole.

  55. 55.

    jl

    April 24, 2013 at 2:15 pm

    @muddy:

    There’s a Business Columnist and Culture Reporter from the The New York Times.

    I guess if Friedman is there, they don’t need an economist.

    I’ll tell them De Long is nearby and handy. He can represent the Krugman/Stiglitz/Galbraith nexus. (Edit: a nexus BTW which is hyper interconnected and therefore should be of interest, even if they don’t agree on every little thing).

  56. 56.

    lojasmo

    April 24, 2013 at 2:15 pm

    @Ted & Hellen:

    Carter and Clinton are there too. Nothing on them, Racist dickhead?

  57. 57.

    RaflW

    April 24, 2013 at 2:17 pm

    @tomgara
    The Friedman Forum is June 20, so we all still have time to grow our authoritative moustaches in preparation.

  58. 58.

    RaflW

    April 24, 2013 at 2:18 pm

    @Sophist: Thank. You.

    I need a bit of levity now and then. And now.

  59. 59.

    liberal

    April 24, 2013 at 2:20 pm

    @jl:
    DeLong has made too many obsequious noises in the direction of Alan “Public Enemy #1” Greenspan to represent anything respectable.

  60. 60.

    jl

    April 24, 2013 at 2:21 pm

    @Sophist:
    @RaflW:

    ” a scam to lure all these people into a rocket disguised as a convention center ”

    Wasn’t there a gimmick like that in an old Sim City? Everything is even more digitally hyper interconnected now, so you can never tell.

  61. 61.

    ranchandsyrup

    April 24, 2013 at 2:22 pm

    They’re just gonna hafta reconvene every six months.

  62. 62.

    jl

    April 24, 2013 at 2:23 pm

    @liberal: True, but I doubt he would do that act at the Friedman Fest SF. But, he does talk way too slow, so maybe Krugman or Stiglitz will be in town.

  63. 63.

    Another Halocene Human

    April 24, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    @Forum Transmitted Disease: Can’t we always? Haven’t you caught on that we’re assholes for not being rich tits like them?

  64. 64.

    Tim C.

    April 24, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    Dang it…. five other people made a “six months” joke before I saw the post.

  65. 65.

    Another Halocene Human

    April 24, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    @Roger Moore: More proof that cats are freaks.

  66. 66.

    Timurid

    April 24, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    So I assume it will be a lot more “GREAT NEWS the coming EXCITING CHALLENGING DYNAMIC social economic technological PARADIGM SHIFTS will turn the least accomplished 90% of you into EXPENDABLE MEATSACKS. Are you all as TOTALLY STOKED about that as I AM?! AVERAGE IS OVER, MOTHERFUCKER!”

  67. 67.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 24, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    Just wanted to say, on behalf of moustache-wearers all over America, Tommy is the unfortunate exception to our wit and coolness. He’s almost tempted me to shave in disgust.

  68. 68.

    Eric U.

    April 24, 2013 at 2:29 pm

    @jl: every time someone talks about launching a rocket full of undesirables into the sun I think of Hitchhiker’s Guide. Although I can’t think of what these people could conceivably be saving us from, too much prosperity?

    @Another Halocene Human: I know more than one dog that loves to lick a stream of compressed air. I assume the vacuum is similar

  69. 69.

    JPL

    April 24, 2013 at 2:30 pm

    @SparkleMotion!: Just so you know, white guys can be taxi drivers, also. According to Tom they have a lot of insight.

  70. 70.

    Another Halocene Human

    April 24, 2013 at 2:30 pm

    @Sophist: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Race_Riot

    This made me cry today.

  71. 71.

    Another Halocene Human

    April 24, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    @GxB: Don’t tempt me. I know about Yahoo! comments. I will not get out of the boat.

  72. 72.

    Amir Khalid

    April 24, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman hosts this timely forum, bringing together chief executive officers, tech pioneers, government officials, influential decision-makers and scholars to discuss the new world economy, opportunities and challenges to congratulate each other and the forum attendees on being the heppest and savviest and most influential dudes on the planet.

  73. 73.

    ericblair

    April 24, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    I can summarize the conference for only $495:

    The future is like today, only more so.

    Marry money.

    I guess I should have got your credit card info before telling you the big secrets, but I guess I’m not as smart as Timmeh.

  74. 74.

    Comrade Dread

    April 24, 2013 at 2:33 pm

    @Roger Moore: I don’t think anyone is that skilled of a programmer to do that.

  75. 75.

    Anoniminous

    April 24, 2013 at 2:34 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    “A well haired upper lip, being necessary to the cognitive functioning of a free State, the right of men to keep and bear mustaches, shall not be infringed.”

    I will give up my mustache when they pry it from my cold, dead, face.

  76. 76.

    kc

    April 24, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    Attendees can expect invaluable insights into strategies for success in today’s new world order.

    Hahaha, what a load of crap.

  77. 77.

    srv

    April 24, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    Quick, we need to lease a hundred google cars, offer them to the eventees and program them to drive off of one of Larry’s piers.

    Or something more Daniel Suarez-ish.

  78. 78.

    Patrick

    April 24, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    I bet the next six months will be critical…

  79. 79.

    Roger Moore

    April 24, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    Attendees can expect invaluable insights into strategies for success in today’s new world order.

    Somebody seems to have confused “invaluable” with “valueless”.

  80. 80.

    SatanicPanic

    April 24, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    @Another Halocene Human: Too late for me. I had to go there to mock the dummies for a little bit.

  81. 81.

    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    April 24, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    I parked my Lexus on the flat earth under the olive tree, and entered the conference which was hot and crowded.

  82. 82.

    pzerzan

    April 24, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    Who will chair the panel-

    Mustaches: Do they lead to more or less understanding?

  83. 83.

    SatanicPanic

    April 24, 2013 at 2:54 pm

    @kc: He’s using “can expect” in the same way I might say “you can expect invaluable insights… (quietly to self) but I wouldn’t”

  84. 84.

    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    April 24, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    @pzerzan: My money would be on John Bolton.

  85. 85.

    schrodinger's cat

    April 24, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    What did MoU get his Pulitzer for? Not for his insipid columns, I hope.

  86. 86.

    schrodinger's cat

    April 24, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    @pzerzan: Tunch.

  87. 87.

    Bokonon

    April 24, 2013 at 3:00 pm

    You know one of the coolest features of the New World Order that has developed?

    It is the high intellectual caliber of today’s cab drivers. You have people with PhDs and other advanced degrees driving cabs. It is just awesome!

    So you can get actually unusually good insights and analyses from your cab drivers, while they are taking you from one very important meeting to another. Not just common man stuff!

    Because … the world is flat! And tons of people are jobless! Ain’t it terrific?

  88. 88.

    MomSense

    April 24, 2013 at 3:07 pm

    @muddy:

    Meet the new world order, same as the old world order.

  89. 89.

    MomSense

    April 24, 2013 at 3:08 pm

    @Sophist:

    Darn, you got there first!!

  90. 90.

    catclub

    April 24, 2013 at 3:30 pm

    @jl: Hosted by Satchel Paige!

  91. 91.

    David Fud

    April 24, 2013 at 3:41 pm

    He has been talking about a carbon tax on his book tour to make up $1.2 trillion over ten years. If that is a signal of new thinking from the conservative side, I am all for at least having the discussion, at least for one Friedman unit or so.

  92. 92.

    burnspbesq

    April 24, 2013 at 3:53 pm

    Here’s another shocking revelation:

    Terrorists who attack the United States believe they have legitimate grievances.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/24/boston-terrorism-motives-us-violence

    Yes, Captain Reynaud, not only is there gambling going on in this establishment, it’s been going on for a long time.

  93. 93.

    chopper

    April 24, 2013 at 4:19 pm

    Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman hosts this timely forum, bringing together chief executive officers, tech pioneers, government officials, influential decision-makers and scholars to discuss the new world economy, opportunities and challenges.

    please let the next sentence be “and then we blow up the building”.

  94. 94.

    Morzer

    April 24, 2013 at 4:38 pm

    @Yastreblyansky:

    I am an evil person. Your post gave me a warm glow of inner satisfaction. How, if David Brooks could only be reduced to penury and washing the dishes in a halal restaurant….

  95. 95.

    GxB

    April 24, 2013 at 4:43 pm

    @Another Halocene Human: You are correct in that the comments are enough to make you wish for more and bigger meteors, nothing new there, but the accompanying vid with two talking heads is pretty scathing. Yeah they throw the GOP a bone or two, but the one guy is pretty chuffed. A good sign when the rank and file are starting to indicate they ain’t buying what Ryan and Co. are selling. Even better that it’s taking place on the likes of Yahoo finance.

  96. 96.

    Sad_Dem

    April 24, 2013 at 5:10 pm

    Comb-over beats mustache in the griftin’ game.

  97. 97.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    April 24, 2013 at 6:02 pm

    I can see some of the topics for discussion
    BULLWHIPS OR CATTLE PRODS, WHICH IS BETTER FOR PRODUCTIVITY?
    HEY AMERICANS SUCK IT UP YOU CAN LIVE ON A BANGLADESHI INCOME!!!!
    GOD MEANT US TO BE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE!!! OBEY GOD OR GO TO HELL!!!!
    WHAT TO DO WITH THE SURPLUS POPULATION, AND ADVANTAGES OF SOYLENT GREEN!

  98. 98.

    Lurking Canadian

    April 24, 2013 at 7:15 pm

    It might be interesting to go there to see if it is literally possible to cover San Francisco Bay in meaningless corporate catchphrases, or only figuratively possible.

  99. 99.

    gnomedad

    April 24, 2013 at 7:21 pm

    @Comrade Mary:
    Day, made.

  100. 100.

    Yastreblyansky

    April 24, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    @Morzer: Halal is a beautiful touch. And may Douthat be seduced by a luscious (or downright chunky) siren who thinks abortions are a great adventure and lose his faith and go get hepatitis in India trying to figure out what went wrong.

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