because thats pretty much what happened in Afghanistan in 2002, and how we got people like Khalid Sheik Mohammad put in the same facility with random teenagers and goat herders.
shut yo mouth! how dare you say such things. we all know that IT is only 80% dudes because only 80% dudes are smart enough to click 'install windows now' and tell people 'have you tried rebooting' over the phone.
McAfee would go on to found 'PowWow' one of the first chat clients, which had a fascinatingly bizarre "fake native american" shell corporation running it.
Paula Giese, what we would call a 'blogger' these days, wrote an extensive expose on the situation. Of course, she died of some obscure disease, and McAfee went on to live a long and happy life, part of which consisted of becoming a new age guru and publishing new age books under a pseudonym.
This is the foundation of the 'anti-virus' industry, which is founded on Microsoft's business model.... make crap products, enforce an illegal monopoly, and profit. That model has broken down in the age of the smartphone and Apple, and Google. But we shouldn't forget (and you can't, every time you walk into a Best Buy past the wall of anti-virus addons) what this represented and what it means.
there were so many thousands of people who had uploaded their own music, whether it was indie bands or classical pianists, to mp3.com, and it all got completely obliterated, just wiped clean off the face of the internet.
people say 'oh, once you put something on the net, it will never disappear'. its not true. just not true.
it made no business sense, it made no logical sense. it soured a mass of people on a lot of things having to do with business, music, and the web. of course, now things have changed - and in the end, you cannot stop an idea whose time has come.
the intelligentsia who were truly intelligent understood what was happening in the 1930s, and they left. or were kicked out. the people doing research on vortex cannons during wwii would not have been 'innocent bystanders', they were more like von braun , scientists who did not care about the social implications of their work or their relationship with mass murderers.
and the nazi scientific community was controlled and/or infiltrated by the SS, as were most other parts of society, universities, corporations, research labs, radio societies, the youth groups, the judiciary, the hospitals, the churches, etc etc etc
Microsoft did not get to be a monopoly by kowtowing to threats of patent lawsuits from failing competitors.
the DOJ lawsuits against MS had more to do with MS supporting Apple than, well, anything. The DOJ was about to get all into MS's business, with bizarre stuff like forcing them to ship Windows without the IE browser, and other harebrained schemes.
this experience it also probably kept MS out of the phone market and the retail store market, vertical integration, etc. - apparently someone didn't give Redmond the memo that regulation and the FTC died when George Bush came into office. The things that apple is doing are blatantly anti-competitive, and nobody is batting an eye.
we don't care if the computers, the food, the books, the radios, the films, the cars, even the drywall in our houses came from another country.
corporations are almost unregulated the way their assets pour between one country and another. they almost ignore nationality anymore.
but oh my god, if its a human being crossing an imaginary line on a map, well, we need to put up a billion regulations and an artificial line across an impenetrable desert.
the entire portion of the labor force that thinks there is some future or hope in nationalism, i.e. 'them foreigners' vs 'us americans', do not get it.
corporations are international. they will do whatever they do, internationally. if you want to improve working conditions or wages for labor, you have to become international as well. nationalism is the antithesis of what is required to build an international labor movement that can compete with international capital-government structures like the Red Army and Walmart.
For example. India had a huge labor protest the other day. Banks were shut down. Banks! And telephone companies were shut down. That means that somewhere in India, there are nerds who have organized. Instead of keeping them out of the US, maybe we should be phoning them up and asking them if we can work together on strategy and tactics.
"we've allowed the politicians to poison the well with too many policies, taxes, regulations, and laws"
actually we just moved manufacturing to places where there are no policies, taxes, regulations or laws, so you can, for example, produce poisoned baby food and kill a bunch of kids, and nobody gets in trouble for it.
if people want the US to become like China, well my question is this - why dont you just move to china? its 'adam smith on steroids' according to hedge fund manager Mitt Romney.
nor should we indoctrinate children to admire a clandestine cell of violent insurgents who plotted to overthrow the civilized, modern government of their parent state.
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i mean dont prisoners make plastic weapons all the time out of toothbrushes and stuff?
because thats pretty much what happened in Afghanistan in 2002, and how we got people like Khalid Sheik Mohammad put in the same facility with random teenagers and goat herders.
Shamai Leibowitz, Jeffrey Sterling, Siobhan Gorman, Diane Roark, and Jesselyn Radack.
so i guess they probably will wait until the ipad 5 comes out... see if they can get a 4 on ebay.
shut yo mouth! how dare you say such things. we all know that IT is only 80% dudes because only 80% dudes are smart enough to click 'install windows now' and tell people 'have you tried rebooting' over the phone.
reminds me of the story of Sturmey Archer, the legendary bicycle manufacturers.
and then mention honey. its like saying 'abortion' in the middle of mass.
McAfee would go on to found 'PowWow' one of the first chat clients, which had a fascinatingly bizarre "fake native american" shell corporation running it.
Paula Giese, what we would call a 'blogger' these days, wrote an extensive expose on the situation. Of course, she died of some obscure disease, and McAfee went on to live a long and happy life, part of which consisted of becoming a new age guru and publishing new age books under a pseudonym.
This is the foundation of the 'anti-virus' industry, which is founded on Microsoft's business model.... make crap products, enforce an illegal monopoly, and profit. That model has broken down in the age of the smartphone and Apple, and Google. But we shouldn't forget (and you can't, every time you walk into a Best Buy past the wall of anti-virus addons) what this represented and what it means.
there were so many thousands of people who had uploaded their own music, whether it was indie bands or classical pianists, to mp3.com, and it all got completely obliterated, just wiped clean off the face of the internet.
people say 'oh, once you put something on the net, it will never disappear'. its not true. just not true.
it made no business sense, it made no logical sense. it soured a mass of people on a lot of things having to do with business, music, and the web. of course, now things have changed - and in the end, you cannot stop an idea whose time has come.
Bulfinch's Mythology contains the roots of much of the modern 'fantasy' universes. But Bulfinch's is itself a collection of more ancient texts.
In other words, why go back 50 years, when you could go back 1500?
they can't go 18 mph. it's not 'arrogance', its just pointing out a very simple fact.
that it can go 18 mph.
physics - fail
mathematics - fail
basic logic - fail
PR - win!
IBM, actually, but lets not nitpick ... this is slashdot after all
of which there are several tons at the US holocaust museum. the situation is not as simple as you make it sound.
the intelligentsia who were truly intelligent understood what was happening in the 1930s, and they left. or were kicked out. the people doing research on vortex cannons during wwii would not have been 'innocent bystanders', they were more like von braun , scientists who did not care about the social implications of their work or their relationship with mass murderers.
and the nazi scientific community was controlled and/or infiltrated by the SS, as were most other parts of society, universities, corporations, research labs, radio societies, the youth groups, the judiciary, the hospitals, the churches, etc etc etc
and a couple thousand other 'wehrmacht' people who suffered under the German High Command's alliance with hitler and the SS.
there, fixed that for ya.
the way i hear it, thousands of government bureaucrats get a $40,000 "prize" every year, whether they actually accomplish this goal or not.
Microsoft did not get to be a monopoly by kowtowing to threats of patent lawsuits from failing competitors.
the DOJ lawsuits against MS had more to do with MS supporting Apple than, well, anything. The DOJ was about to get all into MS's business, with bizarre stuff like forcing them to ship Windows without the IE browser, and other harebrained schemes.
this experience it also probably kept MS out of the phone market and the retail store market, vertical integration, etc. - apparently someone didn't give Redmond the memo that regulation and the FTC died when George Bush came into office. The things that apple is doing are blatantly anti-competitive, and nobody is batting an eye.
we don't care if the computers, the food, the books, the radios, the films, the cars, even the drywall in our houses came from another country.
corporations are almost unregulated the way their assets pour between one country and another. they almost ignore nationality anymore.
but oh my god, if its a human being crossing an imaginary line on a map, well, we need to put up a billion regulations and an artificial line across an impenetrable desert.
it makes no sense.
the entire portion of the labor force that thinks there is some future or hope in nationalism, i.e. 'them foreigners' vs 'us americans', do not get it.
corporations are international. they will do whatever they do, internationally. if you want to improve working conditions or wages for labor, you have to become international as well. nationalism is the antithesis of what is required to build an international labor movement that can compete with international capital-government structures like the Red Army and Walmart.
For example. India had a huge labor protest the other day. Banks were shut down. Banks! And telephone companies were shut down. That means that somewhere in India, there are nerds who have organized. Instead of keeping them out of the US, maybe we should be phoning them up and asking them if we can work together on strategy and tactics.
"we've allowed the politicians to poison the well with too many policies, taxes, regulations, and laws"
actually we just moved manufacturing to places where there are no policies, taxes, regulations or laws, so you can, for example, produce poisoned baby food and kill a bunch of kids, and nobody gets in trouble for it.
if people want the US to become like China, well my question is this - why dont you just move to china? its 'adam smith on steroids' according to hedge fund manager Mitt Romney.
nor should we indoctrinate children to admire a clandestine cell of violent insurgents who plotted to overthrow the civilized, modern government of their parent state.