The saga of this year's America's Cup is totally ridiculous. Where to start? With Ellison suing to be declared the winner of the last one? With his promising the city of San Francisco a 17-team competition that only has four? Because the boat design he selected is so expensive that only billionaires can finance a team, and so dangerous that it's already killed one person in practice? With the fact that Louis Vuitton can get $2 million refunded but the city of San Francisco is footing the bill for races for which tourists haven't come? With the fact that there is America's Cup crap in every museum in town and on the buses? With the fact that Larry Ellison is a monumental asshole who tried to privatize the Java programming language by lawsuit? Where, indeed, to start?
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Date: 2013-09-06 07:17 (UTC)