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Sun Solaris Vs Linux: The x86 Smack-down
JigSaw writes "Tony Bourke put together a long article, benchmarking File System, System, Compilation, OpenSSL and Web Performance for both Linux and Solaris on x86 hardware. While SPARC's Solaris is said to be more optimized than its x86 counterpart on the other hand so is Linux 2.6 compared to 2.4. Solaris-x86 performed well in the tests, but Linux 2.4 seems to win most of the tests and the overall impressions."
National healthcare will be run with the fairness of the IRS and the efficiency of the DMV.
Actually there have been studies done that showed that public healthcare is more efficent than the private sector.
Go figure.
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I guess Canada is just a suffering tyranny of a country. The real tyranny is mega-corporations in charge of a billion dollar industry, and like it or not, the system has a "role in directing the individual health choices of its citizens". Unforunately, since it's a system corrupted by money, the individuals are the ones that suffer.
The current state of capitalism is enough to "make the founders of the USA to spin in their graves". If our founding fathers saw the sorry state of capitalism today, they would have pumped Alexander Hamilton and Adam Smith full of bullets with their old-style gunpowdered pistols for even suggesting the idea. (Right now, I fear for the Russians 25-50 years down the line, when they learn how to become as corrupt as we are.)
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Why? The USA is still the most prosperous and inventive country on the planet, largely due to the delay between invention and regulation. When the regulation occurs, so does stagnation.
Invention to benefit oneself only applies to oneself. Invention to benefit the community applies to the community. When a person invents only to get money, s/he will only works as far as to get that money and work no further. A person who is committed to actually serving the community will work as hard as s/he can.
The government also has a nominal policing role to ferret out what corruption it can, but, ultimately, the government cannot catch every bad guy, no matter how hard they try.
The government cannot catch every bad guy because they are one of the bad guys themselves. They are being paid by the corporations they try to "catch", and happily pass laws that the corporations require (whether it damages the public or not). (Examples: MS's paultry anti-trust settlement, DCMA, etc., etc., etc.) When the government is immune to corruption, the system will work at its peak.
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