I don't think these people are starving because we're unable to produce enough food (or how else did they get there in the first place). Nor do I think it's because westtern countries are to greedy to share some badly needed food with them.
I think most of this starvation is in fact genocide. Some group gets government power and starves their enemies. Didn't we Americans encounter this recently in Africa? As I recall some of our soldiers were killed off. And it was just a food operation. We had plenty of food to deliver to the hungry, we just couldn't get past the warlords.
I like the idea of this new rice. If he can start producing and helping people that's great. But this solution doesn't address the true problem.
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From Leiji Matsumoto (Star Blazers) is my second favourite that was broadcasted years ago on German TV as Queen of the thousand years. Too bad I can't get it on a dozen tapes.
Star Blazers? Seems to ring a bell. I've never really had an opportunity to watch anim but when I was a kid, must've bean early 80's or real late 70's, I use to watch a really good japanese cartoon.
It was about a WWII battleship converted into a spaceship that had to fight its way across the galaxy to find some girl that had a potion or something to save the Earth.
Is that Star Blazers? Man that cartoon was cool, any of the new stuff that cool?
I've been thinking about this Microsoft thing. As I understand it the 'why' of breaking up MS is that they've used their power to stifle compitetion rather than 'build a better mouse trap'.
So what you want to do is break up MS into different companies. You want to do this to encourage greater market compitetion.
But people don't want to break it up that way. As I understand it they talk of: An OS company: This does all the Windows OS software An internet company: IE and all their web business An Office Apps company: I suppose this would be all their business productivity software
How does this create more compitetion? All the software still needs Windows. Each company is still going to be huge and cash rich. Won't they have the same owners? The same business practices?
It seems to me that if you're going to break them up then multiple instances of the company should be created. As in many companies have the right to develope and sell Windows OS, Office, and IE.
Basically you'd have more compitetion and the product price would more reflect market value.
So instead of MS trying to sell you Windows + Office + MSN. You'd have 20 independent companies trying to sell you their Windows + Office + XXN.
Also I think you'd have to force all of the major stock holders to place their stock holdings in only one of the newly created companies. Nor should you allow the the major players in upper management to collect together in one or a few of the newly created companies.
PS. I'm uncomfortable with the breakup, it goes against the grain of my libertarian leanings. Still, I have a great deal of distaste for MS's business tactics.
PPS. I'm a die hard Linux fan, Debian 2.1r(whatever is current) pretty much 100%. Anybody know of something like "Learn Spanish" for Linux? Transparent Language doesn't run under Wine.
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I think most of this starvation is in fact genocide. Some group gets government power and starves their enemies. Didn't we Americans encounter this recently in Africa? As I recall some of our soldiers were killed off. And it was just a food operation. We had plenty of food to deliver to the hungry, we just couldn't get past the warlords.
I like the idea of this new rice. If he can start producing and helping people that's great. But this solution doesn't address the true problem.
Star Blazers? Seems to ring a bell. I've never really had an opportunity to watch anim but when I was a kid, must've bean early 80's or real late 70's, I use to watch a really good japanese cartoon.
It was about a WWII battleship converted into a spaceship that had to fight its way across the galaxy to find some girl that had a potion or something to save the Earth.
Is that Star Blazers? Man that cartoon was cool, any of the new stuff that cool?
I've been thinking about this Microsoft thing. As I understand it the 'why' of breaking up MS is that they've used their power to stifle compitetion rather than 'build a better mouse trap'.
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So what you want to do is break up MS into different companies. You want to do this to encourage greater market compitetion.
But people don't want to break it up that way. As I understand it they talk of:
An OS company: This does all the Windows OS software
An internet company: IE and all their web business
An Office Apps company: I suppose this would be all their business productivity software
How does this create more compitetion? All the software still needs Windows. Each company is still going to be huge and cash rich. Won't they have the same owners? The same business practices?
It seems to me that if you're going to break them up then multiple instances of the company should be created. As in many companies have the right to develope and sell Windows OS, Office, and IE.
Basically you'd have more compitetion and the product price would more reflect market value.
So instead of MS trying to sell you Windows + Office + MSN. You'd have 20 independent companies trying to sell you their Windows + Office + XXN.
Also I think you'd have to force all of the major stock holders to place their stock holdings in only one of the newly created companies. Nor should you allow the the major players in upper management to collect together in one or a few of the newly created companies.
PS. I'm uncomfortable with the breakup, it goes against the grain of my libertarian leanings. Still, I have a great deal of distaste for MS's business tactics.
PPS. I'm a die hard Linux fan, Debian 2.1r(whatever is current) pretty much 100%. Anybody know of something like "Learn Spanish" for Linux? Transparent Language doesn't run under Wine.
PSS. This is my first