Most users don't give shit about any operating systems period. They do care about applications and games. A user moving to a new OS might bitch about different things being presented by the OS but would eventually get the hang of it. On the other hand if their favorite applications were missing or problematic they would complain.
"Nobody needs native Exchange support when Zimbra and other platforms replace and open Exchange" - You might want to calculate the time and money it would take for companies to leave Exchange which is one of MS's strongest products and also add Active Directory to that same category. And "FYI, MS servers are far behind Linux in general" . Please quantify "behind"? There are the right tools for the right jobs and getting hung up on the particular company providing the tools places unnecessary limits in achieving the best solution.
You should get some of your facts straight. No one in the US is denied medical assistance just because they do not have insurance or the means to pay. It is against the law to not treat anyone who has been on an accident or having a heart attack on the street. Boob jobs and tummy tucks might not be available for all but you can't have everything. There are also programs such as Medicaid that supply health care to those who can not afford it. The health care system could be much better but those all knowing Europeans somehow are clearly misinformed. And the "mega" corporations are usually "mega" because they are international and have consumers outside of the US.
Your right about it being a small group of radicals spoiling the fun for everyone else but the Muslim community as a whole has been far to reticent about addressing the problem. Where are the radicals on the side of peaceful Islamic teachings and faith? There are extremists on every side of an issue but the minority troublemakers seem to be the only side speaking out. The Muslims living in the middle-east and North Africa have an excuse to keep quite because if they don't the probability of death approaches 90%. The Muslims living in the west do not have that excuse
Great! See you later!. But you might want to look a little deeper into the reality in Europe or any where else for that matter. Self-centered loudmouths and idiots are easy to find anywhere. Your claim that Americans are stupid probably surfaced because someone didn't recognize your innate and far greater intellectual abilities and that hurt your feelings.
Ah the old desktop extintction theory. People and companies can't even get off IE6 and you expect them to change direction and use "Cloud" services. And by the way way wasn't the Cloud called hosted services just a few years ago? MS is a big software company that can't just turn on a dime and enter into a whole new product line. A new product line that is more hardware than software focused. Apple has always targeted hardware and software but MS targeted software on commodity hardware which meant limited involvment with the manufactures. Apple has experience in managing hardware and long time associations with tech hardware vendors. They are also using this presence to make it harder for any of their competitiors to get into the supply chain. If MS used the same tactics Apple is using the today I am pretty sure Redmond would be under siege and people would be calling for grand juries and indictments for unfair trade but since it's Apple that's different.
By all means lets jump on the USSR bandwagon when it comes to examples of aviation advancement. Even Iran is willing to stick with 40 year old and poorly maintained western aircraft after finding out their newer Russian airplanes as even more unsafe. There are already a lot of instances where both metric and imperial measurements are used in the US, The day the US makes the total conversion is the day when someone forces them to and I don't see that happening anytime soon. Either measurement standard can do the job and one of course the main reason most of the world uses metric is because the US doesn't. Down with the Empire!!!
In 1976 the Indian reservations first won full sovereignty for gaming. In 1988 the law was implemented and they gained control over all of the gambling activities except for certain areas such as liquor licences and worker background checks. Of course these regulations vary according to state and tribe. In all other areas such as communal competitions for prizes of nominal worth, games of luck, lotteries, bingo, and non-table games are controlled by them. This allows the casinos considerable freedom from state regulators and oversight when compared to non-reservation casinos. The reservations are basically considered as "states" in their own right. Does this makeup for the past? I don't know. I do know that the wrongs perpetrated against the native Americans basically started with the first colonists and they were European. In the 1800's the US was not a very nice place, fair, or well governed place and bears little resemblance to what the US is today. What was done cannot be undone but today's generation should not be judged by the earlier actions. WW2 era Germany showed how an advanced country could be transformed into an abomination while people all over the world stared and did nothing. The majority of German's also stood around ignoring what was happening and doing nothing, But all of this is in the past and the current generation in Germany should not judged by that earlier time.
There were quite a few professional soldiers who had no love for Hitler or the Nazi's but the pogroms and brutality used to consolidate the Nazi power structure was just too much for some to bare. Watching entire families being killed if someone even questioned your loyalty was effective in suppressing any trouble makers. Of course those at the top of the miltary can't very well say they didn't know what was going on from the very start.
The native american treatment was and is a bad thing looking at it from today's perspective. However, back when it started it was SOP for every country on the planet when expanding their territories. Today the US government has made some attempts to set things right as much as possible. Indian tribes have large parcels of land which they administrate and govern themselves. Part of this administration allows gambling operations totally free from US government control and oversight. The revenue generated from these casinos is then controlled by the tribal leaders for them to use how they see fit. Plus there is not a person in the US living today that had anything to do with the actions taken against the natives.
Ah the good ole USSR. Stalin sacrificed hundreds of thousands of peasants when Germany was working their way through the country because his military was totally unprepared to fight. He needed time to raid their gulags for all the military officers and scientists he had put there. In fact the T-72 was designed by one of those retrieved from the Gulag. In Stalingrad their strategy consisted of sending more and more soldiers up against the Germans in a war of attrition helped along by the weather which prevented the Germans from re-supplying. If any Russian conscripted soldier tried to desert or didn't run into the meat grinder fast enough the officers summarily executed 1 in 10 soldiers in the deserters unit. When they got to Berlin the soldiers were given direct orders to rape, pillage, and kill anyone they could after Germany had surrendered. If the west had marched into the USSR they would have eventually run into the gulags that rivaled the Nazi death camps. The only difference was Germany applied engineering skills to setup the most efficient way to kill people where as the Soviets used starvation and privation to do the job. They held Germany POWs until 1954 and there was only 10% of the total POWS left to release. Then there was the little matter of them annexing every country they entered. The Russians did their part in the war but they relied on supplies from the West to re-start their military and if the Western allies had not went on the offensive Germany had enough soldiers and equipment to defeat the Russians handily. And the quoted figures of them causing 80% of German casualties doesn't take into account how many of that 80% were killed after Germany surrendered.
I believe he said a single plane not a single bomb. In any case the targets would have be sitting on each others laps to get them all squeezed together.
Personally I have never been "locked" into any one system or set of standards. Don't get me wrong I know people have been backed into a corner especially regarding document standards or lack there of. MS "standards" were a by product of their applications. The wrote the applications first and when they were done they looked at the output and declared here are our "standards". That made their apps in 100% compliance as far as they were concerned. Later on others came up with another set of standards that were not necessarily tied to any particular company or application and when they were done they declared any thing that didn't fit their standards were not compliant and proceeded to criticize and heap scorn on anyone who disagreed. Unfortunatley MS had such an overwhelming market share the their "standards" became the de-facto standards based solely on usage. Maybe one day people will get on the same page but it is not the end of the world.
Not sure I follow your reasoning but using the word "if" doesn't help your argument. The words "If " and "maybe" change the context in which the topic is being debated. The fact is Ford doesn't have any fuel requirements that are different then any other manufacturing and MS is the only company selling Windows and therefore doesn't meet the definition of a monopoly.
Your description of Google seems to match Microsoft's description in the early days. Leverage your large user base to get as many people as possible using your formats and specs which in turn will make those users and content providers dependant on your future good will and services while also raising the barrier for anyone new looking to enter that particular technology stack. Google seems well on it's way to become just another MS on steroids. Their steady march towards capturing, storing, and analyzing data from any where they can get it and providing that information to others, for a minor fee of course.
Windows monopoly? Is that something like Ford motor company having a monopoly on Fords? Last time I checked I didn't see any companies trying to compete with MS in selling Windows. MS has always done what any for profit company is supposed to do and that is succeed. The reason they were able to succeed enough to saturate the industry was due to the lack of any competition when they first started and a hell of alot of luck. MS took the software on commodity hardware approach where Apple chose the software and controlled hardware approach. This resulted in Macs always being more expensive than Windows and that resulted in a lot of companies choosing MS over Apple because the cost factor. Now that the IT landscape has turned towards phones and pads Apple can embrace their original business model and keep a tight rein on the hardware which runs their software offerings. Now MS needs to re-tool and come up with new set of priorities and plans. The IT business world is probably the most volatile industry on the planet. Every time you turn around there are new cpu's and improved network technology being developed. What was the best 2 years ago is totally obsolete today. Both hardware and software have a very short shelf life. I wouldn't count MS out just yet because as much as people complain about MS they do have some very smart people working for them and they certainly have enough money to take a hit in revenue while they work on changing their priorities. Judging and stereotyping all of their staff using Ballmer as the example is incredibly short sighted.
MS's biggest problem is backwards capatibility issues. They have such an extensive and varied user base that they spend a lot of their time trying to make sure their older products can interact with the newer products. Like making a version of Office that will only run on Windows 7 or later OS versions. They are starting down this road starting with drawing the line at Vista for IE9 support. Eventually they will rid themselves of their older product lines but it will take time. Most of the popular FOSS projects started out as applications that were initially designed and built by a single and usually closed source company. Community participation in designing something new from scratch would be full of all kinds of problems.
No, Because their is no genocide going on. Population is growing and the economy is one of the better ones in the middle east. If you have a complaint at least make it an honest one without trying to invent your own version of the dictionary just because it sounds good.
The US use of torture has been greatly overblown. Did the US water board, slap around, or isolate individuals in an attempt to extract information. Yes. Did they humiliate and verbally demean prisoners. Yes. Has it been systematic and used widely. No. I think the main reason the US has been willing to push the boundaries was to instill fear into those who would attempt attacks against the US or US personnel. Does anyone really think that if the US really wanted to they could have kept their rendition and interrogation methods totally secret? Why let any of this information see the light of day? The government as a whole can't keep a secret worth a damn but the CIA certainly has the capability. Why did the Germans in WW2 drop their guns and sprint west as fast as possible towards the US and British lines when the Russian were approaching at the end of the war? Fear. Why has the number of direct terrorist actions against Isreal diminished? Fear. Those contemplating action against Isreal know what happens if they are identified. Isreal has demonstrated their effectiveness and long memory on more than one occasion. In fact I am sure those same terrorists are ashamed of the fear hiding under their masks of defiance. Before Afghanistan/Iraq US enemies did not really fear the US on a personal level. They knew if they were caught by the Americans nothing of a fatal or particular painful nature would happen to them. Now they have doubt and fear. And let's list what real torture involves. Electricity to sensitive body parts, starvation, brutal beatings, getting hung upside down from the ceiling and having the soles of your feet hit with truncheons, threatening and torturing freinds and family members until you supply what ever information they are seeking, having fingers and toes cut off one at a time over long periods of time, repeated fake executions, being stripped and tied over a bench to be sodomized by packs of wild dogs. Egypt used this particular method after Sadat was assasinated and the victims of this horror spawned the first leaders of the Brotherhood and later Al-quida. There is "torture" and then there is "TORTURE". Torture of any type is deplorable and should be eliminated but we do not live in a perfect world. Maybe someday.
It must be difficult for someone as smart as you to live in a world filled with idiots. Maybe you should stop hiding your brilliance and straighten these people out once and for all.
MS has certainly purchased tech from others and incorporated it into their own products over the years but out right copying? I find that acusation a little wide of the mark. That would mean the first company who produced an x86 OS could then turn around and claim that any x86 OS with a newer build date is copying. If someone uses square windows as the presentation foundation of the GUI then any other system is copying them unless they use circles or triangles in the GUI. Today FOSS encourages copying, or sharing if you like that term better,and in some respects this is slowing down the development of new application technology because the companies who spend the R&D money to develop and implement new ideas are concerned they are entering a minefield of potential legal actions and won't see an adequate return on their investment. FOSS defenitely has it's place but how many "community" developers have access to the next generation of CPU's to build and test their applications against?
The US has had nuclear weapons since 1945 and have never used them since WW2. Ditto for the Soviet Union,England,France, and China. There have been plenty of opportunities but MADD does work. Let any middle-east country get hold of nuclear weapons and then sit back and watch them supply non-state actors who think MADD really isn't that bad. There is no reason in the world that any of the middle eastern countries should be trusted with nukes. Their religious dogma, belligerent diplomacy, willingness to incite hatred of the west as a means to control their citizens and excuse their failures, and issuing proclamations that are totally unsupported by any facts such as blaming this attack on Israel and the US without a single shred of proof.
The hostage crisis was a CIA plot? What alternative universe are you living in? The 1953 event happened over 57 years ago. Should we still be protesting Germany for their actions is WW2? That's only a few years earlier after all.
I know I will be slammed for this but if there is one nation on the planet that actually needs nuclear weapons it is Israel. They are surrounded by countries that have not been shy in announcing their desire to drive the Jew's into the sea. And it is hard to find any country on the planet doesn't have a sizable portion of their population who feel the same way. The Arabs could give a shit about palestine they are just pissed Israel was able to defeat them 3 times in all out war. Let Iran get nuclear weapons because if they do it will guarantee the total destruction of their country should they make the slightest move to use them. The big danger is countries like Iran and NK who would have no qualms about supplying nuclear weapons to non-state actors. But even if they did that as soon as the first nuke detonates it can traced to it's origin pretty easily. A lot of people would die in the first bomb but the response would be immediate and devastating.
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Most users don't give shit about any operating systems period. They do care about applications and games. A user moving to a new OS might bitch about different things being presented by the OS but would eventually get the hang of it. On the other hand if their favorite applications were missing or problematic they would complain.
"Nobody needs native Exchange support when Zimbra and other platforms replace and open Exchange" - You might want to calculate the time and money it would take for companies to leave Exchange which is one of MS's strongest products and also add Active Directory to that same category. And "FYI, MS servers are far behind Linux in general" . Please quantify "behind"? There are the right tools for the right jobs and getting hung up on the particular company providing the tools places unnecessary limits in achieving the best solution.
You should get some of your facts straight. No one in the US is denied medical assistance just because they do not have insurance or the means to pay. It is against the law to not treat anyone who has been on an accident or having a heart attack on the street. Boob jobs and tummy tucks might not be available for all but you can't have everything. There are also programs such as Medicaid that supply health care to those who can not afford it. The health care system could be much better but those all knowing Europeans somehow are clearly misinformed. And the "mega" corporations are usually "mega" because they are international and have consumers outside of the US.
Your right about it being a small group of radicals spoiling the fun for everyone else but the Muslim community as a whole has been far to reticent about addressing the problem. Where are the radicals on the side of peaceful Islamic teachings and faith? There are extremists on every side of an issue but the minority troublemakers seem to be the only side speaking out. The Muslims living in the middle-east and North Africa have an excuse to keep quite because if they don't the probability of death approaches 90%. The Muslims living in the west do not have that excuse
Great! See you later!. But you might want to look a little deeper into the reality in Europe or any where else for that matter. Self-centered loudmouths and idiots are easy to find anywhere. Your claim that Americans are stupid probably surfaced because someone didn't recognize your innate and far greater intellectual abilities and that hurt your feelings.
Ah the old desktop extintction theory. People and companies can't even get off IE6 and you expect them to change direction and use "Cloud" services. And by the way way wasn't the Cloud called hosted services just a few years ago? MS is a big software company that can't just turn on a dime and enter into a whole new product line. A new product line that is more hardware than software focused. Apple has always targeted hardware and software but MS targeted software on commodity hardware which meant limited involvment with the manufactures. Apple has experience in managing hardware and long time associations with tech hardware vendors. They are also using this presence to make it harder for any of their competitiors to get into the supply chain. If MS used the same tactics Apple is using the today I am pretty sure Redmond would be under siege and people would be calling for grand juries and indictments for unfair trade but since it's Apple that's different.
Why would you care? I don't know but I wish the other 95.5% didn't care either but the never ending bitching and moaning about the US is getting old.
By all means lets jump on the USSR bandwagon when it comes to examples of aviation advancement. Even Iran is willing to stick with 40 year old and poorly maintained western aircraft after finding out their newer Russian airplanes as even more unsafe. There are already a lot of instances where both metric and imperial measurements are used in the US, The day the US makes the total conversion is the day when someone forces them to and I don't see that happening anytime soon. Either measurement standard can do the job and one of course the main reason most of the world uses metric is because the US doesn't. Down with the Empire!!!
In 1976 the Indian reservations first won full sovereignty for gaming. In 1988 the law was implemented and they gained control over all of the gambling activities except for certain areas such as liquor licences and worker background checks. Of course these regulations vary according to state and tribe. In all other areas such as communal competitions for prizes of nominal worth, games of luck, lotteries, bingo, and non-table games are controlled by them. This allows the casinos considerable freedom from state regulators and oversight when compared to non-reservation casinos. The reservations are basically considered as "states" in their own right. Does this makeup for the past? I don't know. I do know that the wrongs perpetrated against the native Americans basically started with the first colonists and they were European. In the 1800's the US was not a very nice place, fair, or well governed place and bears little resemblance to what the US is today. What was done cannot be undone but today's generation should not be judged by the earlier actions. WW2 era Germany showed how an advanced country could be transformed into an abomination while people all over the world stared and did nothing. The majority of German's also stood around ignoring what was happening and doing nothing, But all of this is in the past and the current generation in Germany should not judged by that earlier time.
There were quite a few professional soldiers who had no love for Hitler or the Nazi's but the pogroms and brutality used to consolidate the Nazi power structure was just too much for some to bare. Watching entire families being killed if someone even questioned your loyalty was effective in suppressing any trouble makers. Of course those at the top of the miltary can't very well say they didn't know what was going on from the very start.
The native american treatment was and is a bad thing looking at it from today's perspective. However, back when it started it was SOP for every country on the planet when expanding their territories. Today the US government has made some attempts to set things right as much as possible. Indian tribes have large parcels of land which they administrate and govern themselves. Part of this administration allows gambling operations totally free from US government control and oversight. The revenue generated from these casinos is then controlled by the tribal leaders for them to use how they see fit. Plus there is not a person in the US living today that had anything to do with the actions taken against the natives.
Ah the good ole USSR. Stalin sacrificed hundreds of thousands of peasants when Germany was working their way through the country because his military was totally unprepared to fight. He needed time to raid their gulags for all the military officers and scientists he had put there. In fact the T-72 was designed by one of those retrieved from the Gulag. In Stalingrad their strategy consisted of sending more and more soldiers up against the Germans in a war of attrition helped along by the weather which prevented the Germans from re-supplying. If any Russian conscripted soldier tried to desert or didn't run into the meat grinder fast enough the officers summarily executed 1 in 10 soldiers in the deserters unit. When they got to Berlin the soldiers were given direct orders to rape, pillage, and kill anyone they could after Germany had surrendered. If the west had marched into the USSR they would have eventually run into the gulags that rivaled the Nazi death camps. The only difference was Germany applied engineering skills to setup the most efficient way to kill people where as the Soviets used starvation and privation to do the job. They held Germany POWs until 1954 and there was only 10% of the total POWS left to release. Then there was the little matter of them annexing every country they entered. The Russians did their part in the war but they relied on supplies from the West to re-start their military and if the Western allies had not went on the offensive Germany had enough soldiers and equipment to defeat the Russians handily. And the quoted figures of them causing 80% of German casualties doesn't take into account how many of that 80% were killed after Germany surrendered.
I believe he said a single plane not a single bomb. In any case the targets would have be sitting on each others laps to get them all squeezed together.
Personally I have never been "locked" into any one system or set of standards. Don't get me wrong I know people have been backed into a corner especially regarding document standards or lack there of. MS "standards" were a by product of their applications. The wrote the applications first and when they were done they looked at the output and declared here are our "standards". That made their apps in 100% compliance as far as they were concerned. Later on others came up with another set of standards that were not necessarily tied to any particular company or application and when they were done they declared any thing that didn't fit their standards were not compliant and proceeded to criticize and heap scorn on anyone who disagreed. Unfortunatley MS had such an overwhelming market share the their "standards" became the de-facto standards based solely on usage. Maybe one day people will get on the same page but it is not the end of the world.
Not sure I follow your reasoning but using the word "if" doesn't help your argument. The words "If " and "maybe" change the context in which the topic is being debated. The fact is Ford doesn't have any fuel requirements that are different then any other manufacturing and MS is the only company selling Windows and therefore doesn't meet the definition of a monopoly.
Your description of Google seems to match Microsoft's description in the early days. Leverage your large user base to get as many people as possible using your formats and specs which in turn will make those users and content providers dependant on your future good will and services while also raising the barrier for anyone new looking to enter that particular technology stack. Google seems well on it's way to become just another MS on steroids. Their steady march towards capturing, storing, and analyzing data from any where they can get it and providing that information to others, for a minor fee of course.
Windows monopoly? Is that something like Ford motor company having a monopoly on Fords? Last time I checked I didn't see any companies trying to compete with MS in selling Windows. MS has always done what any for profit company is supposed to do and that is succeed. The reason they were able to succeed enough to saturate the industry was due to the lack of any competition when they first started and a hell of alot of luck. MS took the software on commodity hardware approach where Apple chose the software and controlled hardware approach. This resulted in Macs always being more expensive than Windows and that resulted in a lot of companies choosing MS over Apple because the cost factor. Now that the IT landscape has turned towards phones and pads Apple can embrace their original business model and keep a tight rein on the hardware which runs their software offerings. Now MS needs to re-tool and come up with new set of priorities and plans. The IT business world is probably the most volatile industry on the planet. Every time you turn around there are new cpu's and improved network technology being developed. What was the best 2 years ago is totally obsolete today. Both hardware and software have a very short shelf life. I wouldn't count MS out just yet because as much as people complain about MS they do have some very smart people working for them and they certainly have enough money to take a hit in revenue while they work on changing their priorities. Judging and stereotyping all of their staff using Ballmer as the example is incredibly short sighted.
MS's biggest problem is backwards capatibility issues. They have such an extensive and varied user base that they spend a lot of their time trying to make sure their older products can interact with the newer products. Like making a version of Office that will only run on Windows 7 or later OS versions. They are starting down this road starting with drawing the line at Vista for IE9 support. Eventually they will rid themselves of their older product lines but it will take time. Most of the popular FOSS projects started out as applications that were initially designed and built by a single and usually closed source company. Community participation in designing something new from scratch would be full of all kinds of problems.
No, Because their is no genocide going on. Population is growing and the economy is one of the better ones in the middle east. If you have a complaint at least make it an honest one without trying to invent your own version of the dictionary just because it sounds good.
The US use of torture has been greatly overblown. Did the US water board, slap around, or isolate individuals in an attempt to extract information. Yes. Did they humiliate and verbally demean prisoners. Yes. Has it been systematic and used widely. No. I think the main reason the US has been willing to push the boundaries was to instill fear into those who would attempt attacks against the US or US personnel. Does anyone really think that if the US really wanted to they could have kept their rendition and interrogation methods totally secret? Why let any of this information see the light of day? The government as a whole can't keep a secret worth a damn but the CIA certainly has the capability. Why did the Germans in WW2 drop their guns and sprint west as fast as possible towards the US and British lines when the Russian were approaching at the end of the war? Fear. Why has the number of direct terrorist actions against Isreal diminished? Fear. Those contemplating action against Isreal know what happens if they are identified. Isreal has demonstrated their effectiveness and long memory on more than one occasion. In fact I am sure those same terrorists are ashamed of the fear hiding under their masks of defiance. Before Afghanistan/Iraq US enemies did not really fear the US on a personal level. They knew if they were caught by the Americans nothing of a fatal or particular painful nature would happen to them. Now they have doubt and fear. And let's list what real torture involves. Electricity to sensitive body parts, starvation, brutal beatings, getting hung upside down from the ceiling and having the soles of your feet hit with truncheons, threatening and torturing freinds and family members until you supply what ever information they are seeking, having fingers and toes cut off one at a time over long periods of time, repeated fake executions, being stripped and tied over a bench to be sodomized by packs of wild dogs. Egypt used this particular method after Sadat was assasinated and the victims of this horror spawned the first leaders of the Brotherhood and later Al-quida. There is "torture" and then there is "TORTURE". Torture of any type is deplorable and should be eliminated but we do not live in a perfect world. Maybe someday.
It must be difficult for someone as smart as you to live in a world filled with idiots. Maybe you should stop hiding your brilliance and straighten these people out once and for all.
MS has certainly purchased tech from others and incorporated it into their own products over the years but out right copying? I find that acusation a little wide of the mark. That would mean the first company who produced an x86 OS could then turn around and claim that any x86 OS with a newer build date is copying. If someone uses square windows as the presentation foundation of the GUI then any other system is copying them unless they use circles or triangles in the GUI. Today FOSS encourages copying, or sharing if you like that term better,and in some respects this is slowing down the development of new application technology because the companies who spend the R&D money to develop and implement new ideas are concerned they are entering a minefield of potential legal actions and won't see an adequate return on their investment. FOSS defenitely has it's place but how many "community" developers have access to the next generation of CPU's to build and test their applications against?
The US has had nuclear weapons since 1945 and have never used them since WW2. Ditto for the Soviet Union,England,France, and China. There have been plenty of opportunities but MADD does work. Let any middle-east country get hold of nuclear weapons and then sit back and watch them supply non-state actors who think MADD really isn't that bad. There is no reason in the world that any of the middle eastern countries should be trusted with nukes. Their religious dogma, belligerent diplomacy, willingness to incite hatred of the west as a means to control their citizens and excuse their failures, and issuing proclamations that are totally unsupported by any facts such as blaming this attack on Israel and the US without a single shred of proof.
The hostage crisis was a CIA plot? What alternative universe are you living in? The 1953 event happened over 57 years ago. Should we still be protesting Germany for their actions is WW2? That's only a few years earlier after all.
I know I will be slammed for this but if there is one nation on the planet that actually needs nuclear weapons it is Israel. They are surrounded by countries that have not been shy in announcing their desire to drive the Jew's into the sea. And it is hard to find any country on the planet doesn't have a sizable portion of their population who feel the same way. The Arabs could give a shit about palestine they are just pissed Israel was able to defeat them 3 times in all out war. Let Iran get nuclear weapons because if they do it will guarantee the total destruction of their country should they make the slightest move to use them. The big danger is countries like Iran and NK who would have no qualms about supplying nuclear weapons to non-state actors. But even if they did that as soon as the first nuke detonates it can traced to it's origin pretty easily. A lot of people would die in the first bomb but the response would be immediate and devastating.