Italians joke grimly that you still have to spend a lot of time proving to bureaucrats that you exist.

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And while these players still exist to varying degrees today, you also have hedge funds, sovereign funds, and the dark pools to take into account.

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Reading analyst reports full of charts and graphics on iRex's pretty screen, you can imagine a law firm or investment bank (those that still exist) purchasing several hundred of the devices for its executives, as iRex hopes.

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And if you drink beer without hops in it, and there are one or two examples of beer that still exist, it's an awful lot more like wine.

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