Linux is getting better, while allowing you to accumulate skills, while every major Windows version renders good part of your skills useless. I passed MS certification in 98 (on NT 3.51) and almost none of this stuff is even remotely relevant today.
Well, there's competition among animals. possibly rivalry, not warfare. And, as a pacifist, I am much more horrified by, say, wars in China, where up to a third of a population would be slaughtered, because the objective was to capture land - it used to be a source of wealth. Defense - yes, but expansion just don't make as much sense as it used to. Besides we seem to be progressing from religion and nationalism (pretext).
Advances in technology might actually help saving lives. For it shifts the destruction focus towards machinery. Some two hundred years ago one had to kill his opponent - good stick was enough to make someone a threat.
The difference between a scientist and an engineer is that the former does research, and the latter applies results. Of course, scientists feel insulted by assumption they will have to apply their results themselves. But fortunately for everybody, System doesn't have means to make scientists practically productive against their will. In a country where I grew up, scientists (and everyone else) were sent to help harvest a crop. It was fun.
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Linux is getting better, while allowing you to accumulate skills, while every major Windows version renders good part of your skills useless. I passed MS certification in 98 (on NT 3.51) and almost none of this stuff is even remotely relevant today.
Well, there's competition among animals. possibly rivalry, not warfare. And, as a pacifist, I am much more horrified by, say, wars in China, where up to a third of a population would be slaughtered, because the objective was to capture land - it used to be a source of wealth. Defense - yes, but expansion just don't make as much sense as it used to. Besides we seem to be progressing from religion and nationalism (pretext).
Those willing to sacrifice can always go for Vista. Plenty of emotions, too.
Advances in technology might actually help saving lives. For it shifts the destruction focus towards machinery. Some two hundred years ago one had to kill his opponent - good stick was enough to make someone a threat.
The difference between a scientist and an engineer is that the former does research, and the latter applies results. Of course, scientists feel insulted by assumption they will have to apply their results themselves. But fortunately for everybody, System doesn't have means to make scientists practically productive against their will. In a country where I grew up, scientists (and everyone else) were sent to help harvest a crop. It was fun.