Politics can't be ignored. Even these greedy multinational companies use politics to deal with each other. Their politics are slowly but surely supplanting national/international politics. It will take a long time for that to happen completely, if ever. Politics are part of human nature and probably always will be. Once VR really takes off we'll be seeing virtual politics. So we're stuck with politics because that's just how humans focus power and deal with other focuses of power.
We're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. As a programmer, I find nothing 'humorous' about destructive viruses. The fact that people with programming skills (which only a small percentage of people actually have) use them to write programs that purposely hurt other people (no, not companies, but the people who work at them) makes me really angry. To put it nicely. If these individuals would use their obvious skills to write useful code, maybe we could program Microsoft into non-existence.:) As far as I'm concerned, virus writers are parasites, and like the big tick I picked up once a few years ago while hiking in the woods, we simply can not get rid of them quickly enough. I hope you don't consider my reaction too extreme and simply discount it as raving. I know many programmers and not a single one of them has any sympathy whatsoever for virus writers. Yes, most people do need to become more technologically savvy, no question, but do they have to have their hard work and personal files destroyed to get them to do so? For me, that's an unequivocal NO. There is a big difference between slapping a child's hand to keep it away from the stove and shoving the kid's hand onto the burner. 'Nuff said.
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That's easy - Deadly Weapons "starring" Chesty Morgan as a woman who kills men with her breasts.
Politics can't be ignored. Even these greedy multinational companies use politics to deal with each other. Their politics are slowly but surely supplanting national/international politics. It will take a long time for that to happen completely, if ever. Politics are part of human nature and probably always will be. Once VR really takes off we'll be seeing virtual politics. So we're stuck with politics because that's just how humans focus power and deal with other focuses of power.
We're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. As a programmer, I find nothing 'humorous' about destructive viruses. The fact that people with programming skills (which only a small percentage of people actually have) use them to write programs that purposely hurt other people (no, not companies, but the people who work at them) makes me really angry. To put it nicely. If these individuals would use their obvious skills to write useful code, maybe we could program Microsoft into non-existence. :) As far as I'm concerned, virus writers are parasites, and like the big tick I picked up once a few years ago while hiking in the woods, we simply can not get rid of them quickly enough. I hope you don't consider my reaction too extreme and simply discount it as raving. I know many programmers and not a single one of them has any sympathy whatsoever for virus writers. Yes, most people do need to become more technologically savvy, no question, but do they have to have their hard work and personal files destroyed to get them to do so? For me, that's an unequivocal NO. There is a big difference between slapping a child's hand to keep it away from the stove and shoving the kid's hand onto the burner. 'Nuff said.