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Services. 2026-08-08 12:23:20 - Paul D. Foy - AmericanIssues I thought I'd do a post on a few American issues, as written for me by, as perhaps is befitting to this post, by an American company: Wispr Flow. Now I've just gathered together my personal web page, my mathematical personal web page, which I recommend you have a look at. It's clear to me that I am using and have used and benefited from and have given money to a large number of American companies, particularly big American companies like the Googles, the Microsofts, and the Facebooks. They seem to be doing quite well from me to tell the truth and I think this is a general property of the British population. I don't begrudge people doing positive things and giving pleasure in your life and doing useful things for you, helpful things for you. Even if my mathematical personal post is a somewhat social thing, not a very serious thing, what's wrong with that? You've got to have a lighter side of life and engage in more lighthearted activities rather than the growing of food, the provision of water, and the building of housing all the time. You've got to have a break from that. I don't begrudge the efforts of these American companies, of which I'm benefiting and to which I'm contributing in their revenue. Now I actually think it's fairly disingenuous of your president, the American president, Mr Trump, when he sticks tariffs here, tariffs there, tariffs this and that. I think it's beeing a bit disingenuous to the American people to tell the truth, belittling their efforts, because it's quite clear to me that there's a lot of large American corporations doing absolutely fine and bringing in a lot of revenue from other countries like the UK, for example. Now I'm conscious of all this software, particularly from America, and I have in my own working life, recently perhaps the last 13 years or so, tried to address it by my mathematical services and mathematical enterprises websites to generate software, little software doing little utility things here and there. I thought this would be appreciated in this country and I could get something for myself going but that's proved not possible. That's a shame I think. I'm not sure of the reasons. To tell the truth, I think Great Britain, the UK, is one of the most capitalistic countries that there is, because people don't do anything unless they can make a quick buck from you. It seems to hinder a lot of things. There's no accounting for taking your time to develop things, for doing things properly, for waiting and seeing how things develop. That's an anathema to a lot of people. There's got to be a quick profit. There's got to be a profit at the quarterly return. This kind of phenomenon, I don't think that's very good. America is perhaps viewed as the harbinger of capitalism, but I think it's secondary to the UK on that. They seem to have a broader attitude to creating money and doing things in a more long-term, foresightful way. The investment in SpaceX, which has just been made, is perhaps a typical example of that. I'm looking forward to the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs when they come about. I might consider them as well. I put my money to good causes and where people are doing positive things, irrespective of which country they come from. If Russia had developed some software that I found useful, I would readily invest in them, were it not for the very unfortunate and completely unnecessary Ukraine-Russia war. I may say that I have invested a small amount in a Ukrainian company, a software provider, a utility software. I don't need it any longer because I wrote it myself. It proved very useful for a time. I invest in Ukrainian culture. I invest in Russian culture if they did anything worthwhile. Instead, they are spending time in all sorts of pointless endeavours. I wish the women could get together to tell the truth and sort them out. 2026-08-09 15:09:30 - Paul D. Foy - Whilst I'm lavishing praise on American corporates, perhaps I should mention a few more American companies. How about Amazon? That's a vastly successful company and it's successful for a reason. It does what it does very well, very well indeed. Passing on goods basically. I mean that must have taken a long time to get going. That's on a very slow burn. This was the start of that company selling books initially. Perhaps twenty years to mature that particular company but they do what they do very well. The British retailers could learn from them. When I was living in Dursley I would ask my local shop, "Can you get this book?" and they said, "Yes we can get it. " I asked for the price of it and they asked me what the Amazon price was. I tell them what the Amazon price was and then it's the same price as that so who's following who? Amazon are the leaders here. We can't even set our own agenda on passing on books, it seems, in smaller shops. There we go, well I've made those comments before, grumbling comments, grumbling old man. There are other American corporates that are doing a very good job as well and so many actually so many to think about. I don't know what's going on in some spheres. What about PayPal? PayPal using buttons so they can sell things easily. First company I could readily use to do that. Perhaps there were other alternatives but they were pretty pricy, pretty comprehensive and pretty pricy. Nothing like getting a simple button which you can just knock up and start selling things if people want to go along with your efforts. Also all sorts of things I can think about. eBay. That's a very good way, it's a very good way to buy and sell things. I've not had many disappointments at all really to tell the truth, not many at all. Just the odd one but that's a long history of using these companies. I'm appreciative, thank you. Post a comment: |