I don’t know too much about how exactly the economy works, but I really hope that the people working on it do. Similarly, I don’t know too much about Java on Macs, but I hope the people working on it do.

Java running so darn slow on my Powerbook vs. Economic recession:
I don’t really know about the infrastructure of the (technology/economy), or if the problem is even something that can be fixed. What I DO know, however, is that I think that this is a faulty and inefficient process that I would like fixed, regardless of its possibilities.
Perhaps running slow is better than it not running at all? But that seems like such a retroactive way to look at it.

My point here isn’t really that things are pretty bad right now. It’s that usually when there is a problem, someone is trying really hard to fix that problem- except in the case of my powerbook, I think people have long abandoned improving such an ‘archaic’ system.
Maybe that’s whats wrong with the economy? It’s a 586 running in a dual core world (or is it quad core now?).

As I sit at home munching on Cocoa Puffs, preparing for a long night due to that exam, that project, or that paper, I hope that some guy in congress (or wall street, detroit, the finance industry, etc..) is losing sleep trying to some up with a solution to fix the problem.
I also wonder what they are munching on.