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Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by pjc50 on Thursday June 02, 2016 @06:01PM (#11826458)
Oil industry is extremely high-tech.
Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by toyg on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:26AM (#11830163)
High tech but often as cheap as stallholders. I did tech support for one big firm at some point, and their IT was shockingly old. I asked why and was told that's how you shave profits in lean years -- which is fair enough. When you've been around as long as these guys have been, your priorities probably don't include "being fashionably high-tech".
Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by oh_sigh on Thursday June 02, 2016 @06:07PM (#11826495)
Nah, don't you know that the oil industry is just digging holes. Real high-tech is working on hard problems like how to deliver grilled cheese sandwiches
Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by Aloha on Thursday June 02, 2016 @07:59PM (#11827266)
Artisanal, organic, locally sourced, (and optionally) vegan and gluten free grilled cheese sandwiches.
Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by bzbarsky on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:50AM (#11830631)
Organic and gluten free oil should not be too hard. Locally sourced is pretty location-dependent. Artisanal may take more work; whether one considers petroleum vegan is an interesting philosophical question.

I sense a business opportunity here; perhaps artisanal, organic, locally sourced oil sandwiches?

Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by pjc50 on Friday June 03, 2016 @11:33AM (#11830902)
Drill an artesian well and hope that nobody notices the spelling?
Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by Aloha on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:24PM (#11834614)
can confirm; am writing business plan and looking for seed funding ;-D.