07-14-2010, 06:05 PM
no link, no nothing. One of my uncles (now retired) was a Venture Capital guy out of Berkeley, CA. And was part of the group that financed the invention of the deep water drilling blowout preventer.
At a family get together he was angrily discussing the 'stupidity' of BP and their team. "They did it all wrong. It was never designed to be used in that fashion. These people are criminally stupid."
This is the Uncle I class as "brilliant". 4 years in the USAF. PhD. Worked for the CIA for a decade. Retired into Venture banking. Gazillionaire. Very good at knowing what he's talking about.
And, of course, can curse extensively in Russian, French, and German.
At a family get together he was angrily discussing the 'stupidity' of BP and their team. "They did it all wrong. It was never designed to be used in that fashion. These people are criminally stupid."
This is the Uncle I class as "brilliant". 4 years in the USAF. PhD. Worked for the CIA for a decade. Retired into Venture banking. Gazillionaire. Very good at knowing what he's talking about.
And, of course, can curse extensively in Russian, French, and German.