The day Microsoft dies is the day the United States of America dies. They are both the two greatest empires of our time, two towering beasts of stagnation and corruption. But these towering cespools will both inevitably collapse, giving way to the new. I only hope it happens within my lifetime. May we never forget the greatness of the Romans, the Brittons, AT&T, and IBM.
The day Microsoft dies is the day the United States of America dies. They are both the two greatest empires of our time, two towering beasts of stagnation and corruption. But these towering cespools will both inevitably collapse, giving way to the new. I only hope it happens within my lifetime.
I was going to post a very sarcastic message, but I reconsidered. Now for our regularly scheduled message.
I do believe that this will not be the last of the super sonic aircraft to be built and flown, though it more than likely will be the last non-profit aircraft of its kind, mark my words.
As some sort of grounds for my opinion I would like to present the case of the space program undertaken by the infamous United States of America. We are all quite well aware that it was a complete and total utter failure in a business sense. Sure jobs were created and a thriving industry arose, yet collapsed almost as fast. It was passed off in the name of science, but little about it was truly scientific, unless they meant social-political science. No profits were sought by our government, the whole ordeal of going up, prancing about beyond the boundaries of what we call home, and coming back to celebrate was nothing more than a lame fuck off.
At first the space race was nothing more than a sizing contest, where both contestants tried to produce a bigger rocket than the other. In the process of producing these bigger and bigger phallic marvels the public got shafted. But we are all quite well aware that as of recent the private sector has been thrusting their greedy fingers deeper and deeper into the tender morsel that has become of the space industry.
Were it not for the publics tax dollars, the publics sweat and blood represented in a universally acceptable form we would not be where we are now. I firmly believe that a similar set of events will follow the decommissioning of Concorde, and shortly thereafter the public will benefit greatly from that sacrifice made by that selfless British and French public. They had to be quite selfless to not have formed a united lynch mob to eradicate all of their politicians after having spent 11bn sterling pounds on Concorde!
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The day Microsoft dies is the day the United States of America dies. They are both the two greatest empires of our time, two towering beasts of stagnation and corruption. But these towering cespools will both inevitably collapse, giving way to the new. I only hope it happens within my lifetime. May we never forget the greatness of the Romans, the Brittons, AT&T, and IBM.
The day Microsoft dies is the day the United States of America dies. They are both the two greatest empires of our time, two towering beasts of stagnation and corruption. But these towering cespools will both inevitably collapse, giving way to the new. I only hope it happens within my lifetime.
I was going to post a very sarcastic message, but I reconsidered. Now for our regularly scheduled message.
I do believe that this will not be the last of the super sonic aircraft to be built and flown, though it more than likely will be the last non-profit aircraft of its kind, mark my words.
As some sort of grounds for my opinion I would like to present the case of the space program undertaken by the infamous United States of America. We are all quite well aware that it was a complete and total utter failure in a business sense. Sure jobs were created and a thriving industry arose, yet collapsed almost as fast. It was passed off in the name of science, but little about it was truly scientific, unless they meant social-political science. No profits were sought by our government, the whole ordeal of going up, prancing about beyond the boundaries of what we call home, and coming back to celebrate was nothing more than a lame fuck off.
At first the space race was nothing more than a sizing contest, where both contestants tried to produce a bigger rocket than the other. In the process of producing these bigger and bigger phallic marvels the public got shafted. But we are all quite well aware that as of recent the private sector has been thrusting their greedy fingers deeper and deeper into the tender morsel that has become of the space industry.
Were it not for the publics tax dollars, the publics sweat and blood represented in a universally acceptable form we would not be where we are now. I firmly believe that a similar set of events will follow the decommissioning of Concorde, and shortly thereafter the public will benefit greatly from that sacrifice made by that selfless British and French public. They had to be quite selfless to not have formed a united lynch mob to eradicate all of their politicians after having spent 11bn sterling pounds on Concorde!
-TalHadar a.k.a. drbardo