The regulators didn't react to Microsoft's obvious takeover, deliberate share price crash and then purchase so why would they act in this case? Neither is what they see as their problem to deal with. They have a narrow range of actions they are allowed to stop and this doesn't match. They don't and can't act just because they see something is wrong, it has to be specific actions.
You got the spelling of "preposterous" wrong. South Africa, Nigeria and probably even Kenya have economies in far better shape than Libya ever had. Hillary is old news now so you don't have to pretend that Ghadaffi was some wonderful ruler any more. It's safe to remember him now as the guy Reagan taught a lesson when he sent bombers after his ass.
Ideally, you have a military, not to fight your enemies, but to deter them.
Good point. I mentioned it elsewhere but one reason given for the timing of the Falklands war was that the Argentinians expected to be facing zero Royal Navy aircraft carriers instead of HMS Hermes (ordered scrapped but still waiting in queue), HMS Invincible (sold to Australia two months earlier but not delivered) and HMS Illustrious (rushed out of dock to arrive four months into the war).
History repeats. People forget this due to the reversal afterwards, but one of the cost savings of the incoming Thatcher government in the UK was to scrap and sell all the aircraft carriers leaving a gap of some time with no aircraft carriers before HMS Illustrious and HMS Ark Royal (R07) were completed. The Argentinians took note and occupied the Falkland Islands expecting to be safe from a toothless Royal Navy. They acted too quickly because while the sale of the HMS Invincible in February 1982 to Australia had gone through the aircraft carrier was still in the UK in April when the war broke out. The other operational carrier, HMS Hermes, was going to be scrapped some time in 1982 due to a decision made in 1981 but was still intact in April. The Argentinians got a bit of a shock in facing two aircraft carriers instead of the zero they expected. The carriers HMS Triumph and HMS Ark Royal (R09) had already been recently scrapped under the Thatcher government Navy reduction plan, but they were quite old ships anyway.
Meanwhile China, Russia and all the rest are not sitting still so sitting back and watching with popcorn doesn't sound so pleasant. Just take a look at what they've already done while Baby Bush was on perpetual vacation and Obama was focused on health care.
Then there's the supreme court.
Just about the only words we can trust from Trump are that he's going to stack the court with a few extra people so that it will do as he's told. He wants "constitutional scholars" who will take orders instead of working judges used to dealing with cases so knowing practical implications of their decisions. He doesn't really get this democracy thing, or even the idea of a republic instead of a business run like a petty kingdom.
True. See RedHat and systemD for an example. RedHat funds so much work connected to it that it is far too much work for anyone trying to do something that competes with it.
The massive missed opportunity was that Xenix, owned by Microsoft was actually a very decent unix implementation on cheap PCs and had far more of a chance to take the world by storm than something put together in spare time by a Scandinavian student. The thing with chances is that if you don't take them nothing happens. Every now and then when MS Windows does something utterly stupid I wonder what would happen if MS had built on that instead of a cut down CP/M clone and a gutted pale shadow of VMS.
That would actually be of benefit since WINE on MS Windows would solve a few compatibility problems. I have an MS Windows 7 user who log onto a linux box via X-Windows (Xwin32) to run an old version ofAutoCAD via WINE. The old version will not start on anything newer than MS Windows XP. He doesn't like the newer interface, so that looks like a trivial reason, but there is plenty of legacy software out there that currently needs a virtual machine to run but could run with much more effectively just the right library replacement as WINE does.
It was a fantasy created as a sales spiel, it doesn't have to make sense just like the stupid wall fantasy does not make sense. Anyone who has taken Trump at his word is in for a long series of shocks. I'd say that's starting with the Russian banks that financed his campaign who took his word that he would pay them back so at least we don't have to worry about the Russian angle, he'll screw them over just like all those contractors he didn't pay.
Hating on people for voting for him is another matter.
Should we pity them instead? They voted for one of the worst of the elites to "send a message" to the elites. Very strange. Sure, Trump could pretend to be "one of the boys" but he goes back home to sleep in his gold tower build on the backs of the bankrupt contractors that he didn't pay. As for "shaking things up" - why do they hate America enough to want to destroy the dream of Washington, Jefferson and the rest? Was it some sort of "cry for help" like a failed suicide? Who cares about Hillary - there a dozen or so other choices just on the R side until the end of the primaries. Yet idiots picked Trump. Enjoy your new King "winners".
I doubt most of these people have even used windows during that time
MS Windows is all over the place so I cannot see how you could possibly be so deluded as to suggest so many of your shadowy conspirators could have managed to avoid it. What motivates you to push a line that is so obviously false? Is this some attempt at a joke, a troll, an especially pathetic case of being a fanboy to the point of making yourself look stupid or are you one of those paid "social media workers" we keep hearing about?
It's not some kind of weird conspiracy just a lot of annoyed people pissed off about a faulty product. As for the "perfect" bit - see the discussions about systemd - the exact same annoyance at a faulty product only it's one associated with linux.
That's because there is not one. Instead there is a pile of complaints from people who have had to fix or workaround broken stuff. Sure, a reboot fixes a lot of the problems caused by update weirdness (eg. start menu and all icons gone), but the people who called in techies like us for help did not know that so we got to see those problems.
Except millions run Windows and don't experience the doomsday scenarios you push as commonplace
That's because a lot of those computers used in offices stayed on Win7 instead of the fragile and deliberately confusing new MS platforms. Hidden controls offscreen? There must be some seriously strong weed for sale in Seattle.
Wait, wasn't working for her husband Hillary's entire claim to fame?
She didn't have an official position and little actual power unlike these Princes appointed to oversea parts of the Kingdom he's going to try to make out of the Republic.
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The regulators didn't react to Microsoft's obvious takeover, deliberate share price crash and then purchase so why would they act in this case? Neither is what they see as their problem to deal with. They have a narrow range of actions they are allowed to stop and this doesn't match. They don't and can't act just because they see something is wrong, it has to be specific actions.
I know that phrase sounds cool, but I suggest you look up how many bombs were dropped on Laos to get an idea of how silly it can seem as well.
You got the spelling of "preposterous" wrong.
South Africa, Nigeria and probably even Kenya have economies in far better shape than Libya ever had.
Hillary is old news now so you don't have to pretend that Ghadaffi was some wonderful ruler any more. It's safe to remember him now as the guy Reagan taught a lesson when he sent bombers after his ass.
Nuclear subs really helped in the Falklands did they? How about in Iraq? Afganistan? Syria?
Also one type of jet. ... maybe not so simple.
Hmm
A joint smoking frigate to match the joint smoking fighter?
Good point. I mentioned it elsewhere but one reason given for the timing of the Falklands war was that the Argentinians expected to be facing zero Royal Navy aircraft carriers instead of HMS Hermes (ordered scrapped but still waiting in queue), HMS Invincible (sold to Australia two months earlier but not delivered) and HMS Illustrious (rushed out of dock to arrive four months into the war).
If they load those into a cannon they might fly better.
History repeats.
People forget this due to the reversal afterwards, but one of the cost savings of the incoming Thatcher government in the UK was to scrap and sell all the aircraft carriers leaving a gap of some time with no aircraft carriers before HMS Illustrious and HMS Ark Royal (R07) were completed. The Argentinians took note and occupied the Falkland Islands expecting to be safe from a toothless Royal Navy.
They acted too quickly because while the sale of the HMS Invincible in February 1982 to Australia had gone through the aircraft carrier was still in the UK in April when the war broke out. The other operational carrier, HMS Hermes, was going to be scrapped some time in 1982 due to a decision made in 1981 but was still intact in April. The Argentinians got a bit of a shock in facing two aircraft carriers instead of the zero they expected. The carriers HMS Triumph and HMS Ark Royal (R09) had already been recently scrapped under the Thatcher government Navy reduction plan, but they were quite old ships anyway.
Meanwhile China, Russia and all the rest are not sitting still so sitting back and watching with popcorn doesn't sound so pleasant. Just take a look at what they've already done while Baby Bush was on perpetual vacation and Obama was focused on health care.
Just about the only words we can trust from Trump are that he's going to stack the court with a few extra people so that it will do as he's told. He wants "constitutional scholars" who will take orders instead of working judges used to dealing with cases so knowing practical implications of their decisions. He doesn't really get this democracy thing, or even the idea of a republic instead of a business run like a petty kingdom.
True.
See RedHat and systemD for an example.
RedHat funds so much work connected to it that it is far too much work for anyone trying to do something that competes with it.
Like the regulators stopped them with Nokia?
The massive missed opportunity was that Xenix, owned by Microsoft was actually a very decent unix implementation on cheap PCs and had far more of a chance to take the world by storm than something put together in spare time by a Scandinavian student. The thing with chances is that if you don't take them nothing happens.
Every now and then when MS Windows does something utterly stupid I wonder what would happen if MS had built on that instead of a cut down CP/M clone and a gutted pale shadow of VMS.
That would actually be of benefit since WINE on MS Windows would solve a few compatibility problems.
I have an MS Windows 7 user who log onto a linux box via X-Windows (Xwin32) to run an old version ofAutoCAD via WINE. The old version will not start on anything newer than MS Windows XP. He doesn't like the newer interface, so that looks like a trivial reason, but there is plenty of legacy software out there that currently needs a virtual machine to run but could run with much more effectively just the right library replacement as WINE does.
It was a fantasy created as a sales spiel, it doesn't have to make sense just like the stupid wall fantasy does not make sense.
Anyone who has taken Trump at his word is in for a long series of shocks. I'd say that's starting with the Russian banks that financed his campaign who took his word that he would pay them back so at least we don't have to worry about the Russian angle, he'll screw them over just like all those contractors he didn't pay.
I'm no zealot - I was installing something on a MS Windows 7 laptop yesterday.
In comparison I believe windows 10 is a faulty product.
Now consider who is the zealot when having such an opinion is considered unacceptable and must be shouted down.
The mystery here is what motivates you to shout such opinions down. Would you like to tell us.
I have a few lenovo thinkpads of various ages running linux well at this site, but that's old news since they have supported linux well for years.
Should we pity them instead? They voted for one of the worst of the elites to "send a message" to the elites. Very strange. Sure, Trump could pretend to be "one of the boys" but he goes back home to sleep in his gold tower build on the backs of the bankrupt contractors that he didn't pay.
As for "shaking things up" - why do they hate America enough to want to destroy the dream of Washington, Jefferson and the rest? Was it some sort of "cry for help" like a failed suicide?
Who cares about Hillary - there a dozen or so other choices just on the R side until the end of the primaries. Yet idiots picked Trump. Enjoy your new King "winners".
MS Windows is all over the place so I cannot see how you could possibly be so deluded as to suggest so many of your shadowy conspirators could have managed to avoid it. What motivates you to push a line that is so obviously false? Is this some attempt at a joke, a troll, an especially pathetic case of being a fanboy to the point of making yourself look stupid or are you one of those paid "social media workers" we keep hearing about?
It's not some kind of weird conspiracy just a lot of annoyed people pissed off about a faulty product.
As for the "perfect" bit - see the discussions about systemd - the exact same annoyance at a faulty product only it's one associated with linux.
Personally I think if a product is noticably unstable it's not fit for release.
That's because there is not one. Instead there is a pile of complaints from people who have had to fix or workaround broken stuff. Sure, a reboot fixes a lot of the problems caused by update weirdness (eg. start menu and all icons gone), but the people who called in techies like us for help did not know that so we got to see those problems.
That's because a lot of those computers used in offices stayed on Win7 instead of the fragile and deliberately confusing new MS platforms. Hidden controls offscreen? There must be some seriously strong weed for sale in Seattle.
We are discussing a very silly fantasy that would depend on the subjects being much younger than they are so that does not matter.
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She didn't have an official position and little actual power unlike these Princes appointed to oversea parts of the Kingdom he's going to try to make out of the Republic.