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A Look at Microsoft's Regulatory Problems
jrexilius writes: "The Economist has a great article on the state of the EUs anti-trust case against microsoft, background, and future troubles with google. One interesting comment was 'Microsoft is preparing to use its dominance in web-browser and operating-system software to promote itself in yet another separate market--search engines this time'."
Its not just America's nuclear capability that makes it the most powerful country in the world. America's ability to project conventional forces anywhere in the world in a matter of days. Stealth aircraft that took off half a world away capableof placing a gps guided bomb in a pickle barrel from 50,000 feet, as well as stealth air superiority fighters make it difficult to win against America, as the USA controls the skys. On the ground there is yet to be found a main battle tank capable of standing up to the m1a2 abrams and actually winning.
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
"Even though the concept of "no guns = no gun-related crimes" is alien to the average Yank,"
You're basically wrong.
Gun ownership need not cause large amounts of gun related crime. And the lack of (legal) gun ownership doesn't preclude increasing gun related crime.
E.g. The Swiss have very high gun ownership rates, second only to the US I believe due to their national defense system but the rate of gun related crime is a tiny tiny fraction of that in the US.
The UK recently banned all firearms in private hands but now gun related crime is soaring out of control.
Now, I don't like guns, I believe they should be controlled, owners certified and re-certified regularly but the evidence is that the problem in the US and in the UK is a social and cultural problem, the availability of guns, legal or not doesn't necessarily help but your equation is laughably oversimplified which makes it basically incorrect.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.