the motivation behind the oil companies to invest in alternate fuel technology is two fold.
The first is that by investing in (read buying up) new fuel innovations they can squash them, prevent them from reaching the global market. It is easy to see that they gain by doing this.
The second is that the are realists. They acknowledge that the time of oil as a fuel will eventually come to an end, or slow. To prevent themselves slowly collapsing when this occurs they need to diversify, one easy way to do this is into the alternate fuel sector. Its obvious that as their traditional market declines this new area will pack up, and with a collection of alternate fuel devices and concepts (from motivation 1) they are in a strong position in this market.
"... provided that any such Non-Microsoft Middleware displays on the desktop no user interface or a user interface of similar size and shape to the user interface displayed by the corresponding Microsoft Middleware."
does that mean that 3rd party software is ok so long as it doesn't have a square window?
Are there better things for the United States government to be doing than restricting crypto, spending lots of money on planes or anything else they are doing post NY.
A few statistics
A NY death toll figure 5,500 - CNN (maybe not the current one, but close enough)
Firearms deaths for 1997 10,369 - pcvp (again sorry for the old figures, newer ones have probably gone up)
now, twice as bad. why hasn't anything been done? As I see it its far easier to ban handguns than it is to ban crop dusters, put security guards on Aeroplanes, monitor trucks or declare war on a hidden man.
After all, every one of those weapons has a legitimate purpose. What alternative use does a handgun have?
There is nothing amazing about people willing to give up thier wallet to save their life.
If you actually took a gun into an alley I'd be surprised if one person said no.
Its bred into you, self preservation. You can't hold your breath to kill yourself, you won't voluntarily give up your own life (especially over a wallet).
It takes great mental preparation or anguish to overcome this survival instinct.
I agree
I have seen lots of mainstream media attention about this worm that kills the internet and ends the world
I have not seen one article about how poor quality products leave themselves over to exploitation and that prehaps, maybe the large company that has made millions of dollars off this product (and others) should be held responsible for thier mess.
When somebody builds a substandard bridge and it falls over and kills 20 people they get in trouble... A substandard webserver isn't worth a mention?
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the motivation behind the oil companies to invest in alternate fuel technology is two fold.
The first is that by investing in (read buying up) new fuel innovations they can squash them, prevent them from reaching the global market. It is easy to see that they gain by doing this.
The second is that the are realists. They acknowledge that the time of oil as a fuel will eventually come to an end, or slow. To prevent themselves slowly collapsing when this occurs they need to diversify, one easy way to do this is into the alternate fuel sector. Its obvious that as their traditional market declines this new area will pack up, and with a collection of alternate fuel devices and concepts (from motivation 1) they are in a strong position in this market.
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discussing launching of 3rd party software:
"... provided that any such Non-Microsoft Middleware displays on the desktop no user interface or a user interface of similar size and shape to the user interface displayed by the corresponding Microsoft Middleware."
does that mean that 3rd party software is ok so long as it doesn't have a square window?
(or nearly square, it does say similar)
Are there better things for the United States government to be doing than restricting crypto, spending lots of money on planes or anything else they are doing post NY.
A few statistics
A NY death toll figure 5,500 - CNN (maybe not the current one, but close enough)
Firearms deaths for 1997 10,369 - pcvp (again sorry for the old figures, newer ones have probably gone up)
now, twice as bad. why hasn't anything been done? As I see it its far easier to ban handguns than it is to ban crop dusters, put security guards on Aeroplanes, monitor trucks or declare war on a hidden man.
After all, every one of those weapons has a legitimate purpose. What alternative use does a handgun have?
There is nothing amazing about people willing to give up thier wallet to save their life.
If you actually took a gun into an alley I'd be surprised if one person said no.
Its bred into you, self preservation. You can't hold your breath to kill yourself, you won't voluntarily give up your own life (especially over a wallet).
It takes great mental preparation or anguish to overcome this survival instinct.
I agree I have seen lots of mainstream media attention about this worm that kills the internet and ends the world I have not seen one article about how poor quality products leave themselves over to exploitation and that prehaps, maybe the large company that has made millions of dollars off this product (and others) should be held responsible for thier mess. When somebody builds a substandard bridge and it falls over and kills 20 people they get in trouble... A substandard webserver isn't worth a mention?