Its a oligopoly, like Coke and Pepsi. Bad for consumers, but not quite as bad as a Monopoly. Its a very hard market failure to correct however, because actually breaking up Microsoft and Apple would cripple computing for 5-10 years. Kind of like At&t. In a decade we would all be better off, but in the short term it would be rough. It'll never happen anyway because the lobby system has become so powerful, and I don't think any politician wants to lose all that sweet money.
Then they have at least 4 levels of networks just for the military, 1 for the public(the recruiter websites), 1 for regular correspondence such as training and rosters(accessible by everyone in the military), 1 for things that may be considered secret but have fairly low impact if compromised(acceptable to everyone with a security clearance requiring a basic background check), such as deployment dates and reports from deployed units, and 1 for medium-high risk stuff like radio fill codes(available to people with extensive background checks and monitored closely). The networks that get compromised and make the news, at least in the US, are the first 3. Wiki-leaks stuff usually comes from the 3rd level there and tends to be stuff that a lot of people have access to. This compromise seems to be the very lowest level, as several people have pointed out, and I doubt if anyone in the royal navy is all that concerned about actual security. That doesn't mean its not embarrassing, because the public reaction is sure to be ill-informed and overblown, but the actual damage here is nil. The real secrets everyone wants to assume are stored on these websites, such as the black ops or alien autopsies, aren't actually anywhere. If the government actually does something super secret and potentially earth-shaking they don't write it down and file it. That wouldn't make any sense. Once you get past Grey-SOF level of secret stuff the paper trail pretty much needs to disappear.
It just means that we need fewer workers, and we have more minds free to be thinkers. It should be an era of amazing innovation where more of society is paid for what they know than what they can do with their bodies.
You're missing the fact that Pakistan shares a border with Afghanistan and Osama is most likely hiding out there. Of course we worked with the government. Would you rather we had invaded? Encouraged India to invade? The entire world has a vested interest in preventing a war between India and Pakistan, mainly because they are both nuclear powers, so we are going to do everything we can to make nice with both of them at every opportunity. Its just common sense.
The US trade deficit is about 4%, just like China, India, and Germany's surplus is about 4%. Its significant, but its being horribly miss-represented by our politicians. If we actually closed the trade deficit(and specifically went after China for currency devaluation which is what Geithner is doing now) we would lose the low cost of living we all enjoy(no more $.75 stacks lined paper at Walmart) and we would make it impossible for foreign creditors to buy any more of our debt. It sounds like a good thing to close this nefarious "Trade deficit", but remember that there are going to be 2nd 3rd and 100th order effects of tampering with trade and when politicians tamper with prices they get things wrong almost 100% of the time.
Because there were skills offered that made up for the added cost. Thank god we have a world leading cutting edge education system to create these highly desirable workers, instead of some impossible to fail, parent appeasing, overly reassuring and under challenging mess of a system.... oh shit.
From a purely economic standpoint it is true that outsourcing jobs is better for the US economy as a whole. Its not complex economics. The problem is that all that added wealth goes to a very small number of people, and although it does get spent and re-invested, it usually isn't going to be noticed within the industry where all the jobs are lost overseas.
Moral judgments are not economics, thats what everyone misses here. Something can be very good economics and still be wrong.
Entitlement. Our society no longer feels that we have to earn anything. Just look at who we idolize? Rich, spoiled, non-productive members of society who had everything handed to them. That is the new American dream.
I'm really sick of people being able to get in contact with me whenever they want, it makes it very hard to nap in the afternoon. What I want is a carrier to offer a service that causes me to not get all the stupid calls that cut into relaxation time.---
Boss: "Why didn't you answer your phone last night, I had a stupid problem that should have wasted hours of your time!"
Me: "Oh, sorry, my new Zero G cell phone only takes calls from people within 25 feet of me and only works from 8am-4pm with two hours off for lunch."
Boss: "Oh, ok. Keep up the good work".
Look, I don't get a lot of chances to validate the economics classes they made me take in college, so when I get a chance to use words like "Market Failure" and "Externality", I take it damnit.
If we only have 1 provider then that is an example of a market failure, and in that case it is not a violation of good market economics for the government to intervene. There are externalities imposed by the nature of the business that do require limited government regulation, I don't think that's to extreme a stance.
Very few people that I know who don't work directly with computers have a decent understanding of net neutrality. I actually know several people who believed that moron Glen Beck when he said it was an "Marxist takeover of the internet", which is about as far from the truth as you can get. I don't believe that these candidates were voted out because of their net neutrality stances, I think it was more an issue of health care and the economy, but if they ever want this issue to be understood and voted on by the public then they need to run campaign adds explaining it in very basic, honest, terms.
Unfortunately the US is very unlikely to prosecute for treason. Since the constitution was written there have been fewer than 40 people charged with treason, and in the last 50 years there hasn't been a single person convicted.
Source: Wikipedia
American football doesn't exist in the UK, they tried and it flopped. Rugby players are fitter, have significantly better stamina, are steroid junkies from college, and don't need armor when bumping into each other, plus they can run for more than 3 seconds without needing a break and a change of players. Oh yeah, rubgy is played in many other countries at a high level, unlike grid-iron.
Well thank you sir for pointing that out. I'll have to remember to use [sarcasm] brackets when I type out obvious jokes from now on.
I don't know where you got this idea, but you're dead wrong. The US has given the UK the single greatest gift we can bestow on a nation, simply because we like them so much. That's right, we've sent them real American football!
And yet you say they don't get anything from our special relationship, open your eyes man.
I don't know if I'm just not watching enough Fox, but I don't see many reports about domestic Islamic extremists in the US, yet I see stories about the KKK and neo-Nazis all the time.
I wonder if the news networks don't report on these guys because they are afraid of them and not the white supremacists?
I have to wonder if Microsoft was somehow behind the delay since the xbox has had this for quite some time, its a decent part of the reason an xbox is sitting under my projector instead of a PS3, I didn't want to wait for a disk to watch my movies.
What can I say, I'm impatient.
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Its a oligopoly, like Coke and Pepsi. Bad for consumers, but not quite as bad as a Monopoly. Its a very hard market failure to correct however, because actually breaking up Microsoft and Apple would cripple computing for 5-10 years. Kind of like At&t. In a decade we would all be better off, but in the short term it would be rough. It'll never happen anyway because the lobby system has become so powerful, and I don't think any politician wants to lose all that sweet money.
Cell phones will cause the downfall of society.
I usually just bring guns and beer.
This just shows how little respect people have for each-other.
Then they have at least 4 levels of networks just for the military, 1 for the public(the recruiter websites), 1 for regular correspondence such as training and rosters(accessible by everyone in the military), 1 for things that may be considered secret but have fairly low impact if compromised(acceptable to everyone with a security clearance requiring a basic background check), such as deployment dates and reports from deployed units, and 1 for medium-high risk stuff like radio fill codes(available to people with extensive background checks and monitored closely). The networks that get compromised and make the news, at least in the US, are the first 3. Wiki-leaks stuff usually comes from the 3rd level there and tends to be stuff that a lot of people have access to. This compromise seems to be the very lowest level, as several people have pointed out, and I doubt if anyone in the royal navy is all that concerned about actual security. That doesn't mean its not embarrassing, because the public reaction is sure to be ill-informed and overblown, but the actual damage here is nil. The real secrets everyone wants to assume are stored on these websites, such as the black ops or alien autopsies, aren't actually anywhere. If the government actually does something super secret and potentially earth-shaking they don't write it down and file it. That wouldn't make any sense. Once you get past Grey-SOF level of secret stuff the paper trail pretty much needs to disappear.
It just means that we need fewer workers, and we have more minds free to be thinkers. It should be an era of amazing innovation where more of society is paid for what they know than what they can do with their bodies.
You're missing the fact that Pakistan shares a border with Afghanistan and Osama is most likely hiding out there. Of course we worked with the government. Would you rather we had invaded? Encouraged India to invade? The entire world has a vested interest in preventing a war between India and Pakistan, mainly because they are both nuclear powers, so we are going to do everything we can to make nice with both of them at every opportunity. Its just common sense.
The US trade deficit is about 4%, just like China, India, and Germany's surplus is about 4%. Its significant, but its being horribly miss-represented by our politicians. If we actually closed the trade deficit(and specifically went after China for currency devaluation which is what Geithner is doing now) we would lose the low cost of living we all enjoy(no more $.75 stacks lined paper at Walmart) and we would make it impossible for foreign creditors to buy any more of our debt. It sounds like a good thing to close this nefarious "Trade deficit", but remember that there are going to be 2nd 3rd and 100th order effects of tampering with trade and when politicians tamper with prices they get things wrong almost 100% of the time.
Because there were skills offered that made up for the added cost. Thank god we have a world leading cutting edge education system to create these highly desirable workers, instead of some impossible to fail, parent appeasing, overly reassuring and under challenging mess of a system. ... oh shit.
From a purely economic standpoint it is true that outsourcing jobs is better for the US economy as a whole. Its not complex economics. The problem is that all that added wealth goes to a very small number of people, and although it does get spent and re-invested, it usually isn't going to be noticed within the industry where all the jobs are lost overseas. Moral judgments are not economics, thats what everyone misses here. Something can be very good economics and still be wrong.
Entitlement. Our society no longer feels that we have to earn anything. Just look at who we idolize? Rich, spoiled, non-productive members of society who had everything handed to them. That is the new American dream.
Its that bone loss in astronauts is usually caused by Predators and Aliens.
I'm really sick of people being able to get in contact with me whenever they want, it makes it very hard to nap in the afternoon. What I want is a carrier to offer a service that causes me to not get all the stupid calls that cut into relaxation time.--- Boss: "Why didn't you answer your phone last night, I had a stupid problem that should have wasted hours of your time!" Me: "Oh, sorry, my new Zero G cell phone only takes calls from people within 25 feet of me and only works from 8am-4pm with two hours off for lunch." Boss: "Oh, ok. Keep up the good work".
So is this where they store the schematics for their Swiss Army Knives?
Look, I don't get a lot of chances to validate the economics classes they made me take in college, so when I get a chance to use words like "Market Failure" and "Externality", I take it damnit.
If we only have 1 provider then that is an example of a market failure, and in that case it is not a violation of good market economics for the government to intervene. There are externalities imposed by the nature of the business that do require limited government regulation, I don't think that's to extreme a stance.
Very few people that I know who don't work directly with computers have a decent understanding of net neutrality. I actually know several people who believed that moron Glen Beck when he said it was an "Marxist takeover of the internet", which is about as far from the truth as you can get. I don't believe that these candidates were voted out because of their net neutrality stances, I think it was more an issue of health care and the economy, but if they ever want this issue to be understood and voted on by the public then they need to run campaign adds explaining it in very basic, honest, terms.
Glen Beck is annoying and stupid, but to be fair hes not even in the same ballpark of hate.
Unfortunately the US is very unlikely to prosecute for treason. Since the constitution was written there have been fewer than 40 people charged with treason, and in the last 50 years there hasn't been a single person convicted. Source: Wikipedia
American football doesn't exist in the UK, they tried and it flopped. Rugby players are fitter, have significantly better stamina, are steroid junkies from college, and don't need armor when bumping into each other, plus they can run for more than 3 seconds without needing a break and a change of players. Oh yeah, rubgy is played in many other countries at a high level, unlike grid-iron.
Well thank you sir for pointing that out. I'll have to remember to use [sarcasm] brackets when I type out obvious jokes from now on.
I don't know where you got this idea, but you're dead wrong. The US has given the UK the single greatest gift we can bestow on a nation, simply because we like them so much. That's right, we've sent them real American football! And yet you say they don't get anything from our special relationship, open your eyes man.
I don't know if I'm just not watching enough Fox, but I don't see many reports about domestic Islamic extremists in the US, yet I see stories about the KKK and neo-Nazis all the time. I wonder if the news networks don't report on these guys because they are afraid of them and not the white supremacists?
I thought this was an article about the Koreans finding a way to make baseball watchable.
Somehow I feel way less sympathy for these guys now that I can afford to just buy the games I want... weird.
I have to wonder if Microsoft was somehow behind the delay since the xbox has had this for quite some time, its a decent part of the reason an xbox is sitting under my projector instead of a PS3, I didn't want to wait for a disk to watch my movies. What can I say, I'm impatient.