"The idea is to... make people start to get nervous..."
So, Microsoft is the new SCO. The result will eventually be the same.
Adversarial behavior eventually destroys those who engage in it.
If you want a very good indication of the effect this new rotten behavior by Microsoft will have, just look at the Slashdot comments. People are ready for this after years of considering SCO. The parent comment is an example of this; the parent comment shows complete understanding. The SCO case has prepared us.
Microsoft has always depended on ignorance. That ignorance is disappearing.
Another self-destructive software name by open source authors. Taps: "A signal by bugle or drum sometimes performed as a postlude to a military funeral".
Otherwise, opentaps (all lower case) seems interesting, except that the home page contains many editing errors.
Do you have a Physics background? I do, and I say that 3 extremely strongly built buildings falling symmetrically into piles of dust and small pieces cannot be explained by weakened support beams.
Such a collapse has never happened before or since in the history of the world, even when the top of a building burned for many hours.
I did NOT say the "administration" planned the World Trade Center building collapses. I only think that it was not a collapse due to heat. If there were a collapse due to heat, it would leave big pieces and not be symmetrical.
The Bush administration is so corrupt that it is difficult for one person even
to summarize all the corruption. But I tried: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy
Time Warner agreed to be bought. The value of the combined company decreased by $88 billion immediately. Thousands of Time Warner employees lost most of their savings.
The deal was an example of the incredible stupidity and profound ignorance of some top managers.
It's not outsourcing, it's incompetence. My opinion: If you read the links carefully, you will get the impression that IBM is an incompetent company run by
someone with no technical knowledge. Death is normal for an incompetent
corporation.
Cringley: "... the executive ranks from CEO Sam
Palmisano on down were losing touch with reality, bidding contracts too low to
make a profit then mismanaging them in an attempt to make a profit
anyway..."
IBM employee: "They just cut nearly half our team
Tuesday, wtihout even notifying the customer (Who is going apeshit). And 40%
is indeed the workforce reduction I've heard bandied about." That comment
is anonymous, of course. However, that fits with my experience, which is that IBM is an amazingly
incompetent company. The incompetence has been there for a LONG time. Remember, IBM lost more than $2 Billion on OS/2, which
in the beginning was fundamentally better than the competition from Microsoft.
IBM is run by a technically ignorant CEO: Samuel J. Palmisano is a technically ignorant CEO: "He holds a Bachelor's degree in history..." Note that his official IBM biography
carefully avoids mentioning anything that would give a true picture of his
incompetence.
I don't think the IBM layoffs are about outsourcing. They seem to be
only about incompetence. Only technically ignorant managers contract with IBM, a
company run by someone as ignorant as they are.
Also, I don't think outsourcing is working. U.S. companies get an EXTREMELY
bad reputation when calls are answered by an under-trained person who can't
speak English. Outsourcing is more an abuse of people outside the U.S. by U.S.
managers than it is a way to get things done, apparently. Outsourcing call
centers is a very effective way to sell customers on the competition, if the
competition has competent employees.
Look at the web sites of any online bank. They are stupid, stupid, and
purposely stupid. After people in India learn how to write good banking
software, magically some company owned by an Indian will have the best banking
software.
There is only one reason for outsourcing. Non-technical managers want
the technical responsibility as far away from themselves as possible. It is
dishonesty only.
Walk down any street in India and ask yourself: Why are people in
India so poor? They are poor because their culture is extremely
self-defeating. No matter how well an Indian who is first- or
second-generation educated is trained technically, he is still guided mostly
by his culture.
The claimed cost savings are not there. They simply are not there. The
"cost savings" come from situations like this:
1) It is cheaper to hire Indians for a sloppy, poorly defined project
than it is to hire people in the U.S. for a sloppy, poorly defined project,
and the result is the same.
2) Many top managers today are like kings. They have complete control,
can be as destructive as they want to their company and to other people, and
are very ignorant. So when it comes time for a technical improvement that will
be a lot of work, and require a lot of responsibility and decision-making,
moving the entire project 10,000 miles away seems attractive. The distance
offers lots of excuses, and it just doesn't matter to the king how much money
is wasted. The "cost savings" are what the king says they are.
We are going through a time in which most managers of
technically-oriented companies know nothing about technical issues, and don't
want to know anything.
You said, "There is no evidence of an evolutionary tie to the Caucasus region."
Apparently you didn't read the scientific evidence I posted that indicates that my ancestors, and probably yours, too, migrated through the Caucasus region:
My ancestral path of migration (and yours, maybe).
Quote from the link I provided: "Your next ancestor, a man born around 40,000 years ago in Iran or southern Central Asia, gave rise to a genetic marker known as M9, which marked a new lineage diverging from the M89 Middle Eastern Clan. His descendants, of which you are one, spent the next 30,000 years populating much of the planet."
It's a fact that Europeans and their descendants are no longer black. Apparently it is a fact that the ancestors of most of those who live in the U.S. and Europe once lived in northern Iran. I suppose the mutation to white occurred then, because it is a fact that the people who still live there are very white, and there are no people so purely white anywhere else on earth. It is a fact that many or most of us later mixed with other people, such as the Arabs who invaded Europe.
You said, "There is no evidence of an evolutionary tie to the Caucasus region."
Apparently you didn't read the scientific evidence I posted that indicates that my ancestors, and probably yours, too, migrated through the Caucasus region:
My ancestral path of migration (and yours, maybe).
Quote from the My Male Genetic Contribution" TARGET="_blank" >link I provided: "Your next ancestor, a man born around 40,000 years ago in Iran or southern Central Asia, gave rise to a genetic marker known as M9, which marked a new lineage diverging from the M89 Middle Eastern Clan. His descendants, of which you are one, spent the next 30,000 years populating much of the planet."
It's a fact that we are no longer black. Apparently it is a fact that most of us lived in northern Iran. I suppose the mutation to white occurred then, because it is a fact that the people who still live there are very white.
The Financial Post article is typical scientific fraud, in my opinion. They apparently want you to read their publication so that you will see the ads, and they don't care how they get you to do it. They don't hire writers who understand
the issues apparently, and they don't give their writers enough time to do
research.
Look at these paragraphs from a June 20, 2006 article from the
Oregonian newspaper, Mercury rules give kiln a pass, which is now available
only to paid subscribers.
"As Oregon, with federal prodding, clamps down on mercury emitted
by a Portland General Electric coal-fired power plant in Boardman, it leaves
unregulated an Eastern Oregon factory that is a far larger source of the toxic
compound.
"The state's biggest industrial source of airborne mercury is a cement
kiln run by Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Co. in the town of Durkee.
Unaffected by federal laws aimed at coal-fired power plants, it released 632
pounds of mercury into the air in 2004, the last year when records are
available, compared with 151 pounds emitted by PGE's facility."
Yes, compact fluorescent bulbs should be given to some agency to
recycle them. But broken compact fluorescents are a small contribution to the
total amount of mercury in the atmosphere, which is rapidly increasing by thousands of tons each year since
China is increasing the number of coal-fired plants.
Very interesting comment. However, I did not intend to link what I said to anyone else. I made the comment about Caucasians coming from the Caucasus because of my own personal experience with Iranian friends. (In spite of the Bush administration's attempts to demonize Iran, I have found Iranians to be very friendly.)
What I observed is that Iranians originally from northern Iran have a lighter skin color than those from the south of Iran. I am talking about Iranians who know their extended ancestry, of course, not about people who recently moved to either region.
It seems that when darker-skinned people intermarry with people from the Caucasas, the lighter skin tends to become the norm. That's all.
Migration route of my ancestors: You may be interested to see the
migration route of my ancestors: My Male Genetic Contribution.
That adds to the discussion of why there is a need for Vitamin D
supplements, and my parent comment, by showing that much more can be
determined about our general ancestry than most people know. The results shown
came from The Genographic Project, an organization related to the National
Geographic Society.
My guess is that, long before the 1600s, some of my Caucasian
ancestors intermarried with Slavs, and before that, Arabs. That would account
for my Slavic look and the Mediterranean shade of my skin.
Our white skin color comes from the Caucasus mountains, north of Iran. That's why white people are called Caucasians. I had a woman friend whose ancestry was from northern Iran, and it was amazing to see how white she was, in a way I thought was beautiful. Comparing her skin and mine, it was easy to see that I am a mixture of Caucasian and something else.
Probably the reason northern people are white is that black people inter-marrying with a high concentration of white people tends to produce lighter-skinned new generations.
All humans apparently spread from an original migration from Africa, but the people who initially migrated tended to continue to migrate, and migrated much more than those who initially stayed in Africa.
For Microsoft, every software developer is competition, because Microsoft
sells both operating systems and user software, in clear violation of any
sensible standard of anti-trust. Now that Microsoft is developing online
applications, the company is in competition with every IT department, too.
Part of the problem with installing software on Windows is that
Microsoft has a monopoly and doesn't want systems to be easily patched. Fixing
many issues like that will wait for some new version of Windows Microsoft will
sell in the future; that's one of the ways virtual monopolies protect their
income, by assuring a necessary product always has failures that can be
improved later. (Chevy did that decades ago; that's one reason why Toyota and
Datsun are now more popular brands.)
Microsoft has consistently failed to develop good standards and failed
to help software developers work by the standards, again part of a monopoly's
ignorant adversarial method of maximizing income. Ignorant, because
adversarial behavior is self-destructive.
Automate installations with AutoHotKey and AutoIt: We've had
some luck getting around quirky install problems by making an installer using
AutoIt
and AutoHotKey.
(The AutoIt link is to the IDE, which is excellent. Install AutoIt and then
install the linked package, which after the full installation can be used to
update both AutoIt and the IDE at the same time.)
Both AutoHotKey and AutoIt simply simulate pressing the keys and
moving the mouse the same way installation of new software is done manually,
but according to a script, which is faster and less prone to error than manual
installation. In rare cases, AutoHotKey works when AutoIt doesn't, and the
opposite is true, too.
Both AutoIt and AutoHotKey are free and mature. AutoHotKey is open
source. AutoHotKey is under extremely active and responsive development; there
have been 9
new versions since the beginning of 2007 mostly to fix very minor issues
recommended by users. Chris Mallett, the developer of AutoHotKey, is a very
rare sort of person. He is both an excellent programmer and an excellent
writer. It is far easier to get involved with AutoHotKey than with other new
programming languages because the documentation is excellent.
We also use AutoHotKey and AutoIt to send a copy of a screen and email
it to the IT department when a user presses Windows Key-F11. The software
compresses the image first. We like having a record of what a user saw on the
screen together with an accurate permanent record of the machine name and time
and date.
I watched the World Trade Center towers fall on television, as it
happened. At the time, I thought to myself, hey wait a minute, something is
wrong. "Something is wrong" is a very weak theory.
Later people began considering the fact that very strongly built
buildings feel into a heap of powder and very small pieces. They began making
theories. Many of those theories led nowhere.
The people who made the movie "Loose Change" helped enormously
by presenting a lot of facts, and by presenting theories on which others could
improve, or could disprove.
My writing a summary of the U.S. government corruption was just a part
time unpaid effort, by someone who loves the U.S., but has little interest in
politics. At the time, Loose Change was the best we had.
If the World Trade Center towers were demolished by explosive charges,
it is now believed credibly that all of those charges would have had to have
been released at the same time. That's not impossible.
Anyhow, if tall buildings have a failure mode in which they can
collapse into powder, I would never work in one. Such a collapse has never
happened before or since, howoever.
You made another mistake. If someone makes many statements, and one of
them is wrong, that doesn't mean every statement is wrong.
And another. The intent of the summary of corruption was not to
establish that I have credibility. I only gathered information. What is
important is if the information has credibility.
In any case, I'm not the only one who believes that U.S. government
has become corrupt in an unprecendented way. More than 30% of U.S. citizens
believe that, maybe much more than 30%.
As I said, I hope you will write your own summary, particularly since
you didn't like mine.
The point was: There have been extremely destructive incidents, such as the shooting of President Reagan, and every time someone from the Bush family was there.
Now just take any other family of which you know. Could you find several otherwise disconnected incidents in which a member of that family was there?
There was no claim that Bush family members did any of those terrible things. The interesting fact is that Bush family members were present.
This problem sounds like it is caused by the Winifred factor. Mozilla Foundation is headed by someone who doesn't know or care about technical issues. There simply is very little discipline within the organization; bugs that matter a lot to users don't get fixed. See Firefox development sometimes resembles playing.
Many problems with Mozilla products seem caused by some kind of overuse of OS resources. I haven't been able to determine more than that. Bugs in Thunderbird and Firefox can actually cause Microsoft Windows to be unstable. (In Linux, you can just kill the Mozilla process and continue using the OS.)
In 5 or 6 years of discussing this, Mozilla developers have shown no interest in fixing it. Instead, they give at least 20 excuses. (See the list.)
Weirdly, Thunderbird and Firefox bugs actually interact, sometimes.
Video hardware may be quite advanced, but video software, in my experience, is amazingly primitive. My experience is that nVidia video driver and video adapter control software is extremely sloppy. For example see: Problem: Wrong display on boot with new driver. The link is to the Google cache version.
A good source for help with nVidia video adapters is Laptop Video 2 Go. The site is down now, and will be back soon, it says.
Slashdot Mirror
"The idea is to ... make people start to get nervous..."
So, Microsoft is the new SCO. The result will eventually be the same.
Adversarial behavior eventually destroys those who engage in it.
If you want a very good indication of the effect this new rotten behavior by Microsoft will have, just look at the Slashdot comments. People are ready for this after years of considering SCO. The parent comment is an example of this; the parent comment shows complete understanding. The SCO case has prepared us.
Microsoft has always depended on ignorance. That ignorance is disappearing.
More open source self-destruction. TinyERP is not tiny. It's huge.
Lots of editing errors on the home page. They picked photos of flaky-looking people to represent the product.
Apparently he means this: TinyERP.
I guess he means this: opentaps.
Another self-destructive software name by open source authors. Taps: "A signal by bugle or drum sometimes performed as a postlude to a military funeral".
Otherwise, opentaps (all lower case) seems interesting, except that the home page contains many editing errors.
Do you have a Physics background? I do, and I say that 3 extremely strongly built buildings falling symmetrically into piles of dust and small pieces cannot be explained by weakened support beams.
Such a collapse has never happened before or since in the history of the world, even when the top of a building burned for many hours.
I did NOT say the "administration" planned the World Trade Center building collapses. I only think that it was not a collapse due to heat. If there were a collapse due to heat, it would leave big pieces and not be symmetrical.
The Bush administration is so corrupt that it is difficult for one person even to summarize all the corruption. But I tried: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy
Time Warner agreed to be bought. The value of the combined company decreased by $88 billion immediately. Thousands of Time Warner employees lost most of their savings.
The deal was an example of the incredible stupidity and profound ignorance of some top managers.
People in India commit suicide for the same reasons people commit suicide in the U.S.: social and psychological problems.
Women in India have too many babies that they and the society have no hope of supporting.
Don't miss this comment: Every time a change needs to be made ..., [IBM] takes 6 people...
It's not outsourcing, it's incompetence. My opinion: If you read the links carefully, you will get the impression that IBM is an incompetent company run by someone with no technical knowledge. Death is normal for an incompetent corporation.
Links: General information: IBM Employee.com.
Cringley: "... the executive ranks from CEO Sam Palmisano on down were losing touch with reality, bidding contracts too low to make a profit then mismanaging them in an attempt to make a profit anyway..."
IBM employee: "They just cut nearly half our team Tuesday, wtihout even notifying the customer (Who is going apeshit). And 40% is indeed the workforce reduction I've heard bandied about." That comment is anonymous, of course. However, that fits with my experience, which is that IBM is an amazingly incompetent company. The incompetence has been there for a LONG time. Remember, IBM lost more than $2 Billion on OS/2, which in the beginning was fundamentally better than the competition from Microsoft.
IBM is run by a technically ignorant CEO: Samuel J. Palmisano is a technically ignorant CEO: "He holds a Bachelor's degree in history..." Note that his official IBM biography carefully avoids mentioning anything that would give a true picture of his incompetence.
I don't think the IBM layoffs are about outsourcing. They seem to be only about incompetence. Only technically ignorant managers contract with IBM, a company run by someone as ignorant as they are.
Also, I don't think outsourcing is working. U.S. companies get an EXTREMELY bad reputation when calls are answered by an under-trained person who can't speak English. Outsourcing is more an abuse of people outside the U.S. by U.S. managers than it is a way to get things done, apparently. Outsourcing call centers is a very effective way to sell customers on the competition, if the competition has competent employees.
Look at the web sites of any online bank. They are stupid, stupid, and purposely stupid. After people in India learn how to write good banking software, magically some company owned by an Indian will have the best banking software.
There is only one reason for outsourcing. Non-technical managers want the technical responsibility as far away from themselves as possible. It is dishonesty only.
Walk down any street in India and ask yourself: Why are people in India so poor? They are poor because their culture is extremely self-defeating. No matter how well an Indian who is first- or second-generation educated is trained technically, he is still guided mostly by his culture.
The claimed cost savings are not there. They simply are not there. The "cost savings" come from situations like this:
1) It is cheaper to hire Indians for a sloppy, poorly defined project than it is to hire people in the U.S. for a sloppy, poorly defined project, and the result is the same.
2) Many top managers today are like kings. They have complete control, can be as destructive as they want to their company and to other people, and are very ignorant. So when it comes time for a technical improvement that will be a lot of work, and require a lot of responsibility and decision-making, moving the entire project 10,000 miles away seems attractive. The distance offers lots of excuses, and it just doesn't matter to the king how much money is wasted. The "cost savings" are what the king says they are.
We are going through a time in which most managers of technically-oriented companies know nothing about technical issues, and don't want to know anything.
You said, "There is no evidence of an evolutionary tie to the Caucasus region."
Apparently you didn't read the scientific evidence I posted that indicates that my ancestors, and probably yours, too, migrated through the Caucasus region: My ancestral path of migration (and yours, maybe).
Quote from the link I provided: "Your next ancestor, a man born around 40,000 years ago in Iran or southern Central Asia, gave rise to a genetic marker known as M9, which marked a new lineage diverging from the M89 Middle Eastern Clan. His descendants, of which you are one, spent the next 30,000 years populating much of the planet."
It's a fact that Europeans and their descendants are no longer black. Apparently it is a fact that the ancestors of most of those who live in the U.S. and Europe once lived in northern Iran. I suppose the mutation to white occurred then, because it is a fact that the people who still live there are very white, and there are no people so purely white anywhere else on earth. It is a fact that many or most of us later mixed with other people, such as the Arabs who invaded Europe.
You said, "There is no evidence of an evolutionary tie to the Caucasus region."
Apparently you didn't read the scientific evidence I posted that indicates that my ancestors, and probably yours, too, migrated through the Caucasus region: My ancestral path of migration (and yours, maybe).
Quote from the My Male Genetic Contribution" TARGET="_blank" >link I provided: "Your next ancestor, a man born around 40,000 years ago in Iran or southern Central Asia, gave rise to a genetic marker known as M9, which marked a new lineage diverging from the M89 Middle Eastern Clan. His descendants, of which you are one, spent the next 30,000 years populating much of the planet."
It's a fact that we are no longer black. Apparently it is a fact that most of us lived in northern Iran. I suppose the mutation to white occurred then, because it is a fact that the people who still live there are very white.
FRAUD ALERT
The Financial Post article is typical scientific fraud, in my opinion. They apparently want you to read their publication so that you will see the ads, and they don't care how they get you to do it. They don't hire writers who understand the issues apparently, and they don't give their writers enough time to do research.
Look at these paragraphs from a June 20, 2006 article from the Oregonian newspaper, Mercury rules give kiln a pass, which is now available only to paid subscribers.
"As Oregon, with federal prodding, clamps down on mercury emitted by a Portland General Electric coal-fired power plant in Boardman, it leaves unregulated an Eastern Oregon factory that is a far larger source of the toxic compound.
"The state's biggest industrial source of airborne mercury is a cement kiln run by Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Co. in the town of Durkee. Unaffected by federal laws aimed at coal-fired power plants, it released 632 pounds of mercury into the air in 2004, the last year when records are available, compared with 151 pounds emitted by PGE's facility."
Yes, compact fluorescent bulbs should be given to some agency to recycle them. But broken compact fluorescents are a small contribution to the total amount of mercury in the atmosphere, which is rapidly increasing by thousands of tons each year since China is increasing the number of coal-fired plants.
Very interesting comment. However, I did not intend to link what I said to anyone else. I made the comment about Caucasians coming from the Caucasus because of my own personal experience with Iranian friends. (In spite of the Bush administration's attempts to demonize Iran, I have found Iranians to be very friendly.)
What I observed is that Iranians originally from northern Iran have a lighter skin color than those from the south of Iran. I am talking about Iranians who know their extended ancestry, of course, not about people who recently moved to either region.
It seems that when darker-skinned people intermarry with people from the Caucasas, the lighter skin tends to become the norm. That's all.
--
Here is my summary of U.S. government corruption. Where's yours?
Migration route of my ancestors: You may be interested to see the migration route of my ancestors: My Male Genetic Contribution.
That adds to the discussion of why there is a need for Vitamin D supplements, and my parent comment, by showing that much more can be determined about our general ancestry than most people know. The results shown came from The Genographic Project, an organization related to the National Geographic Society.
My guess is that, long before the 1600s, some of my Caucasian ancestors intermarried with Slavs, and before that, Arabs. That would account for my Slavic look and the Mediterranean shade of my skin.
Our white skin color comes from the Caucasus mountains, north of Iran. That's why white people are called Caucasians. I had a woman friend whose ancestry was from northern Iran, and it was amazing to see how white she was, in a way I thought was beautiful. Comparing her skin and mine, it was easy to see that I am a mixture of Caucasian and something else.
Probably the reason northern people are white is that black people inter-marrying with a high concentration of white people tends to produce lighter-skinned new generations.
All humans apparently spread from an original migration from Africa, but the people who initially migrated tended to continue to migrate, and migrated much more than those who initially stayed in Africa.
For Microsoft, every software developer is competition, because Microsoft sells both operating systems and user software, in clear violation of any sensible standard of anti-trust. Now that Microsoft is developing online applications, the company is in competition with every IT department, too.
Part of the problem with installing software on Windows is that Microsoft has a monopoly and doesn't want systems to be easily patched. Fixing many issues like that will wait for some new version of Windows Microsoft will sell in the future; that's one of the ways virtual monopolies protect their income, by assuring a necessary product always has failures that can be improved later. (Chevy did that decades ago; that's one reason why Toyota and Datsun are now more popular brands.)
Microsoft has consistently failed to develop good standards and failed to help software developers work by the standards, again part of a monopoly's ignorant adversarial method of maximizing income. Ignorant, because adversarial behavior is self-destructive.
Automate installations with AutoHotKey and AutoIt: We've had some luck getting around quirky install problems by making an installer using AutoIt and AutoHotKey. (The AutoIt link is to the IDE, which is excellent. Install AutoIt and then install the linked package, which after the full installation can be used to update both AutoIt and the IDE at the same time.)
Both AutoHotKey and AutoIt simply simulate pressing the keys and moving the mouse the same way installation of new software is done manually, but according to a script, which is faster and less prone to error than manual installation. In rare cases, AutoHotKey works when AutoIt doesn't, and the opposite is true, too.
Both AutoIt and AutoHotKey are free and mature. AutoHotKey is open source. AutoHotKey is under extremely active and responsive development; there have been 9 new versions since the beginning of 2007 mostly to fix very minor issues recommended by users. Chris Mallett, the developer of AutoHotKey, is a very rare sort of person. He is both an excellent programmer and an excellent writer. It is far easier to get involved with AutoHotKey than with other new programming languages because the documentation is excellent.
We also use AutoHotKey and AutoIt to send a copy of a screen and email it to the IT department when a user presses Windows Key-F11. The software compresses the image first. We like having a record of what a user saw on the screen together with an accurate permanent record of the machine name and time and date.
If you can accept just having some partitions encrypted, TrueCrypt is wonderful.
The media has become much more corrupt since the Bush administration began illegally buying influence. See the links provided at #2 here: The Bush administration found support for war through manipulation.
Free broadband will, of course, result in India becoming a richer country. I am happy about that.
You misunderstand the development of theory.
I watched the World Trade Center towers fall on television, as it happened. At the time, I thought to myself, hey wait a minute, something is wrong. "Something is wrong" is a very weak theory.
Later people began considering the fact that very strongly built buildings feel into a heap of powder and very small pieces. They began making theories. Many of those theories led nowhere.
The people who made the movie "Loose Change" helped enormously by presenting a lot of facts, and by presenting theories on which others could improve, or could disprove.
My writing a summary of the U.S. government corruption was just a part time unpaid effort, by someone who loves the U.S., but has little interest in politics. At the time, Loose Change was the best we had.
If the World Trade Center towers were demolished by explosive charges, it is now believed credibly that all of those charges would have had to have been released at the same time. That's not impossible.
Anyhow, if tall buildings have a failure mode in which they can collapse into powder, I would never work in one. Such a collapse has never happened before or since, howoever.
You made another mistake. If someone makes many statements, and one of them is wrong, that doesn't mean every statement is wrong.
And another. The intent of the summary of corruption was not to establish that I have credibility. I only gathered information. What is important is if the information has credibility.
In any case, I'm not the only one who believes that U.S. government has become corrupt in an unprecendented way. More than 30% of U.S. citizens believe that, maybe much more than 30%.
As I said, I hope you will write your own summary, particularly since you didn't like mine.
You missed the point.
The point was: There have been extremely destructive incidents, such as the shooting of President Reagan, and every time someone from the Bush family was there.
Now just take any other family of which you know. Could you find several otherwise disconnected incidents in which a member of that family was there?
There was no claim that Bush family members did any of those terrible things. The interesting fact is that Bush family members were present.
This is not really a joking matter. Most people in the U.S. have no idea how corrupt the U.S. government is. If you knew, you wouldn't joke.
We need to help each other educate ourselves about the corruption. Here is my summary of U.S. government corruption. Where's yours?
This problem sounds like it is caused by the Winifred factor. Mozilla Foundation is headed by someone who doesn't know or care about technical issues. There simply is very little discipline within the organization; bugs that matter a lot to users don't get fixed. See Firefox development sometimes resembles playing.
Many problems with Mozilla products seem caused by some kind of overuse of OS resources. I haven't been able to determine more than that. Bugs in Thunderbird and Firefox can actually cause Microsoft Windows to be unstable. (In Linux, you can just kill the Mozilla process and continue using the OS.)
In 5 or 6 years of discussing this, Mozilla developers have shown no interest in fixing it. Instead, they give at least 20 excuses. (See the list.)
Weirdly, Thunderbird and Firefox bugs actually interact, sometimes.
Video hardware may be quite advanced, but video software, in my experience, is amazingly primitive. My experience is that nVidia video driver and video adapter control software is extremely sloppy. For example see: Problem: Wrong display on boot with new driver. The link is to the Google cache version.
A good source for help with nVidia video adapters is Laptop Video 2 Go. The site is down now, and will be back soon, it says.