I suggest that you buy a clue. Economics is a "social science" - meaning that it deals with social phenomena and all the math and methodology they use is a smoke screen. It will become science when people become robots (read - predictable and rational).
".. the Government can't currently monitor all the communication and interaction..."
What does this mean - that they currently do monitor all the communication and interaction in RL, or that they should do so? Both are pretty scary and make me want to emigrate to another planet. No I don't live in the US, but this is scary no matter where you live.
30% poverty rate is nothing. Here in Bulgaria we got a lot more, not sure of the exact figure; still, the state administration uses proprietary software only. This year the government made a deal with Microsoft for $13,650,000 - mostly WinXP licenses, without even considering any alternatives. The press was screaming against the deal for months, as did anyone who knew about free software and Linux. The official responsible for the MS deal presented the reasons for choosing our favourite company, revealing he was completely ignorant about computers. This guy can't tell the difference between a mail client and an operating system!**#@#@@? Not to mention that the deal itself was totally opaque and didn't help improve the reputation of MS (and the government) at all.
As a result of all this we now have a stronger than ever Linux society. The first projects aiming to provide Linux solutions for the government and NGO sector have started and this is Good(tm). I hope the guys in Jordan will act quicker.
Yeah, I know this is offtopic. I just wanted to share my $0.02 with the geek world.
Did you guys read the article at cnn.com? I think it gives huge credibility to the "moonoax". Before I read it, I just took for granted that the USians actually landed on the moon and I didn't really care. Now I am starting to wonder why the hell is that flag fluttering.
Yeah, maybe it's time for NASA to speak up.
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I suggest that you buy a clue. Economics is a "social science" - meaning that it deals with social phenomena and all the math and methodology they use is a smoke screen. It will become science when people become robots (read - predictable and rational).
".. the Government can't currently monitor all the communication and interaction..."
What does this mean - that they currently do monitor all the communication and interaction in RL, or that they should do so? Both are pretty scary and make me want to emigrate to another planet. No I don't live in the US, but this is scary no matter where you live.
30% poverty rate is nothing. Here in Bulgaria we got a lot more, not sure of the exact figure; still, the state administration uses proprietary software only. This year the government made a deal with Microsoft for $13,650,000 - mostly WinXP licenses, without even considering any alternatives. The press was screaming against the deal for months, as did anyone who knew about free software and Linux. The official responsible for the MS deal presented the reasons for choosing our favourite company, revealing he was completely ignorant about computers. This guy can't tell the difference between a mail client and an operating system!**#@#@@? Not to mention that the deal itself was totally opaque and didn't help improve the reputation of MS (and the government) at all.
As a result of all this we now have a stronger than ever Linux society. The first projects aiming to provide Linux solutions for the government and NGO sector have started and this is Good(tm). I hope the guys in Jordan will act quicker.
Yeah, I know this is offtopic. I just wanted to share my $0.02 with the geek world.
Did you guys read the article at cnn.com? I think it gives huge credibility to the "moonoax". Before I read it, I just took for granted that the USians actually landed on the moon and I didn't really care. Now I am starting to wonder why the hell is that flag fluttering. Yeah, maybe it's time for NASA to speak up.