Can the UK Create Something To Rival Silicon Valley? 395
An anonymous reader writes "Hoping to bring together ambition, creativity and energy in one place, the UK government hopes to grow East London so that we can benefit from the same sort of success that has been seen in California; jobs, tax revenue, highly skilled workers and takeovers. If it works, the country would massively benefit, with something to rival other established industries."
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Old joke. (Score:5, Funny)
The UK doesn't have any PC manufactures.. ..Because they have not yet found a way to make PCs leak oil.
Re:No (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Can they? (Score:4, Funny)
You don't need civics class for that now. You can learn all about it with Johnny Depp in their wonderfully instructive series Pirates of the Caribbean.
LOL. Good luck with that. (Score:0, Funny)
Only in America is the market free enough to sustain innovation at the level of an Apple or a Microsoft. Socialistic countries like the UK simply cannot work efficiently to produce anything of any real value. The UK lost its car industry, the UK lost the computer industry, the UK lost EVERYTHING to socialism. That is yet another reason to vote for Mitt Romney, because we do not want to become a shit hole the way socialist europe has.
Romney/Ryan 2012. Take back America.
Come for the tech, stay for the dreck (Score:5, Funny)
so that we can benefit from the same sort of success that has been seen in California
Yes, and for free, if you order now, you will also receive:
*Crushingly high real estate prices
*Monstrously overcrowded prisons
*Bankrupt schools
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*Shortages of electricity and water!
*Political leadership totally devoid of morality, consistency, or backbone!
But seriously, California is a "hotbed" for ONE single reason: The weather is nice pretty much all year long. Anyone who lives there and tries to sell you on something else is lying to themselves. People go for the nice weather, and they put up with the constant bullshit because hey, it like never snows, unless you live in the mountains, which are only like 2 hours' drive away from the beaches... So why not live there? Right? And once you get enough smart people in one place (they are bound to turn up when you have 30 million people to start with) things just sort of take shape.
So, UK, you want your own Silicon Valley? Get a warm-weather generator, a couple of nice schools, a semi-pristine coastline, then fill it over the top with people, and wait 50 years. You will probably get something like that, or hey maybe you will end up with something like Haiti. Could go either way.
Re:No (Score:3, Funny)
No, because UK doesn't have Al Gore.
No but they have Tony Blair, and he's teflon coated, Al Gore only has hairspray and makeup.
Re:Americanisms (Score:5, Funny)
That's "Siliconionium" to you, pal