I don't know what cease-fire they are talking about.
No matter what "Cease and Desist" letters come in the future, Craigslist's massive network effects present the technology community with a great challenge to build the next generation of global message board, to take the dive and become the next big community platform and marketplace.
That's what never ceases to amaze me".
There's nothing wrong with crass humour, but what never ceases to amaze and depress in equal measure are Hollywood's demonstrable paucity of imagination and the suffocating control by the studios' risk-averse conglomerations.
What never ceases to amaze me is the symmetry of the charts' peaks and valleys, cycle after cycle after cycle.
But what has ceased is the short-termism that characterised the late 1990s, not the pace of technological innovation.
That is what the cease-fire resolution ending the Persian Gulf war called for, and it has still not been achieved.
(In the 1990s Argentina actually adopted some sensible policies, and guess what? Inflation ceased, investments flowered, and the economy blossomed. But by the end of the decade toxic actions, such as increasing taxes, were setting the stage for a calamitous relapse).
What they say ceases to matter.
The fourth source refers to situations in which the object of knowledge may change, such that what we know ceases to be the case.
