It depends upon how many cockroaches are running the company. Beyond the Cockroach Horizon, the company cannot be killed....think Microsoft, Bank O' America, Citibank, etc.
Pharaoh thinks to himself: Errrmmmm....there's no damn reason for me to actually be at the head of Egypt. If all the proles got pissed off at one time, I could find myself swinging at the end of a gibbet. Hmm...what do to? The proles like believing in gods and forces and stuff. Hey, there, Flunky #1, I wish to issue a new edict: It has been revealed to me that I am a Great God, the Big One, the Mother of All Gods, the Rootenin, Tooteninest God East, West, North, and South of the Pecos (think Yosemite Sam). Now go out and publish that throughout the realm. Oh, and kill any mo-fo who has a problem with it.
La ti da, where's my first, second, and third wives, I feel particularly God-Like today....
Note sure why you got modded down, I'll repeat your post here:
"A lot of people don't know this, but the Indians were closely aligned with the Soviet Union in the 1970s. In particular you had the Indo-Soviet Treaty, under which India received military and (gasp) intelligence assistance from the Russians.
So the fact that they're behaving like pseudo-socialist totalitarians right now shouldn't really surprise anybody. And provided they continue to rent their workforce to US corporations at rates that can't be competed with on US soil, our CEOs and CFOs will continue to patronize them."
Stop giving them ideas, damnit. If India wants to shoot their economy in the head, please let them get on with it. Maybe we'll get some of our jobs back.
"Are companies so stupid that they have lost sight of the fact that if America's economy fails and we cannot get jobs that pay a living (or BETTER) wage then WE can't buy those nice shiny objects they're selling?"
Why yes, yes they have. Business School Product has no allegiance to the U.S. They understand little about a company considering it to be merely the current peddler of widgets they've sold their ass to.
I like to think of them as being a snake at the dinner table with that astonished look in their eye after being accused of swallowing the whole turkey while a suspicious lump is sliding down their body.
I don't think that maximizing their profit is what animates MS. Sure, they'd like that but they are more interested in control. This guarantees their survival and jobs over the long haul. There's also a pirate quality about the company. They seem to believe that for them to succeed implies someone else must fail. And in a way, they are correct. They wait until a market has developed and then jump in. That sort of strategy will enforce their belief that for them to succeed, they must cause someone else to fail so that they can steal their market. I think their attitude stems from a deep-seated belief that they really do not have what it takes to build a market from scratch. That can only come from a lack of confidence in their own abilities.
To give a company a personality like that, it must have been driven from the top down. Look at their corporate officers over the years. Not one was ever a technological heavy-weight. That in itself wouldn't cause their attitudes. I think they tend to understand the world as reflections of themselves. So since they've seen nothing wrong with stabbing others in the back, cutting shady deals, etc., they believe their competitors would surely do that to them, hence paranoia is born. They also got some sense of paranoia from their close relationship with Intel, who had/have their own bag of dirty tricks. The paranoia is a force that is not geared towards maximizing profits, it is geared toward controlling markets by controlling perceived competitors and buyers of their products.
Gates created a sclerotic company that cannot shoot straight. He succeeded because his monopoly was handed to him. Microsoft has never innovated anything. In the current environment, he'd be a failure..which is my suspicion as to why he gave up a boogied.
Oracle may have a stiffy for Java but it hasn't helped their applications. I have to use one of those bastard children of King Larry at work. There are error messages that make no sense to earthlings, error messages where there are no errors, fields that make no sense. Oracle wants to be producer of business software. Fine, it helps if you actually understand how to build user interfaces that are not fetid piles of steaming dingo kidneys. And it also helps if the back end is properly threaded so changes in one place get properly riffled through to the rest of the system.
Best thing for us is for Oracle shoot itself in the head and disband the alleged company.
This is in the same vein. I was on a light camping trip with girl friend once in eastern Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains. There was a fairly tall mountain there and we had gone part way up it to see a waterfall. She got it in her head that we should climb the rest of the way. There was a trail and some sort of cabin up at the top. I reasoned that since it took us half a day to get about 1/4-1/3 of the way up, we'd never get up before it got dark. We had no flashlights, little food, little water. But she insisted we could do this. I objected and refused on the grounds that stupidity is dangerous...as were park bears...in the woods...at night...with no flashlight...no gun...none of which I verbalized....simply refused.
She got mad, we both came back down off the damn hill and drove up there instead. Get back home, she's still upset. Next week, a story in the paper on how two hikers were attacked by a bear on that same mountain and one was killed. Killed dead. After that, I decided the better part of valor to know the difference between a bear with claws and significant other with a mouth.
"Hezbollah did not appear out of Iran's magic crystal ball. It appeared directly as a result of Israeli and American forces invading Lebanon in 1982." Bullshit. Hezbollah was born from the Shi'ite minority in Lebanon from the civil war they helped start.
"We destroyed the PLO and got Hamas." The PLO imploded through their own ineptitude and inability to strike a deal with Israel. There will always be a cadre of mullahs and imam skulking in their mosques praying for the day to return when they ruled the Muslims instead of government. To place the blame for them on the West is simply silly.
Without an outside threat, the Iranian regime doesn't have a lot going for it. It's economic policies are more or less national socialism. It has a number of minorities but no political system to give them a voice and a sense that they aren't mere cogs in a wheel. Then their is the perceived threat that those naughty Sunnis will convert the Shi'ites and the Imams will be out of jobs. Without conjuring an outside threat, the Iranian regime is finished and they know it.
"The US already had egg on it's face trying to stick up for Israel last time they didn't ask before attacking Iran." Errr...when was this? You mean Iran's dogs in Lebanon? I fail to recall the egg on the U.S. face. Last I recall, Israel cleaned Hezbollah's clock, enough for them to think twice about following their master's "go fetch" directives next time around.
Well, he does believe in the 12th Imam coming back (wonder where Shi'ites got that myth). However, I think rather Israel is only a football in the religious war between the Shi'ites and the Sunnis. Those crazy Shi'ites want to be the ones that get to say "We killed the rest of the Jews", it won't be true but they'll claim it. The Palestinians? Mere collateral damage...they be mostly Sunnis anyhow and hence expendable in the twisted visions of the Shi'ites.
Put your self in an Iranian Ayatollah's sandals for a moment. The wealth of your country is tied up in oil. Oil only has value because someone, those nasty infidels, are willing to pay for it because the Islamic world is not a driver of economic growth. Clearly the concept of economic growth is alien to Islamic culture although quite handy for keeping the local yokels from hanging you from a gibbet. What is economic growth to you as Ayatollah anyhow, what you are interested in is telling every one else how to live and behave, your compensation structure is determined by Allah, not by the economics of your country. There's a problem though, infidels and Sunnis (the other Islamic sects are too small to care about). Allah will reward you...errr...with something....only if you further decreasing the number of infidels (any way will do) and the number of Sunnis (they are misguided and not truly Islamic). What to do? Well, you can nuke Israel, that would knock off a bunch of the most irritating infidels and show the Sunnis they should be Shi'ites...if they know what's good for them.
Personally, I think Kurzweil is still full of shit. Systems are usually way more complex than most "futurists" would like to admit. They are finding that with the human genome. The promise was that once it is decoded, we'll find cures for everything. Errr...yeah, well, it sort of depends on how it gets expressed in proteins which is an order of complexity much higher than simply the genome.
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Said by someone who obviously has no family member with schizophrenia and/or manic depression. You have no idea what you are talking about. If you think psychopharmocology is useless, then I dare you to attempt to live with someone who has both schizophrenia and manic depression and is not taking any medications. The meds are not perfect but they are a damn sight better than the alternative. And there is no talking someone out of these sorts of ailments. Brains don't always work properly, they get specific problems just like any other organ.
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It depends upon how many cockroaches are running the company. Beyond the Cockroach Horizon, the company cannot be killed....think Microsoft, Bank O' America, Citibank, etc.
Pharaoh thinks to himself: Errrmmmm....there's no damn reason for me to actually be at the head of Egypt. If all the proles got pissed off at one time, I could find myself swinging at the end of a gibbet. Hmm...what do to? The proles like believing in gods and forces and stuff. Hey, there, Flunky #1, I wish to issue a new edict: It has been revealed to me that I am a Great God, the Big One, the Mother of All Gods, the Rootenin, Tooteninest God East, West, North, and South of the Pecos (think Yosemite Sam). Now go out and publish that throughout the realm. Oh, and kill any mo-fo who has a problem with it.
La ti da, where's my first, second, and third wives, I feel particularly God-Like today....
What does the U.S. have to do with Indira introducing nukes to the Indian subcontinent?
Yep, and let's recall that dear Premier of Peace who introduced nuclear weapons to the Indian subcontinent: Indira Gandhi.
Note sure why you got modded down, I'll repeat your post here:
"A lot of people don't know this, but the Indians were closely aligned with the Soviet Union in the 1970s. In particular you had the Indo-Soviet Treaty, under which India received military and (gasp) intelligence assistance from the Russians.
So the fact that they're behaving like pseudo-socialist totalitarians right now shouldn't really surprise anybody. And provided they continue to rent their workforce to US corporations at rates that can't be competed with on US soil, our CEOs and CFOs will continue to patronize them."
Stop giving them ideas, damnit. If India wants to shoot their economy in the head, please let them get on with it. Maybe we'll get some of our jobs back.
"Are companies so stupid that they have lost sight of the fact that if America's economy fails and we cannot get jobs that pay a living (or BETTER) wage then WE can't buy those nice shiny objects they're selling?"
Why yes, yes they have. Business School Product has no allegiance to the U.S. They understand little about a company considering it to be merely the current peddler of widgets they've sold their ass to.
"must have been complete n00bs", well....they were called Nubians.
I like to think of them as being a snake at the dinner table with that astonished look in their eye after being accused of swallowing the whole turkey while a suspicious lump is sliding down their body.
I don't think that maximizing their profit is what animates MS. Sure, they'd like that but they are more interested in control. This guarantees their survival and jobs over the long haul. There's also a pirate quality about the company. They seem to believe that for them to succeed implies someone else must fail. And in a way, they are correct. They wait until a market has developed and then jump in. That sort of strategy will enforce their belief that for them to succeed, they must cause someone else to fail so that they can steal their market. I think their attitude stems from a deep-seated belief that they really do not have what it takes to build a market from scratch. That can only come from a lack of confidence in their own abilities.
To give a company a personality like that, it must have been driven from the top down. Look at their corporate officers over the years. Not one was ever a technological heavy-weight. That in itself wouldn't cause their attitudes. I think they tend to understand the world as reflections of themselves. So since they've seen nothing wrong with stabbing others in the back, cutting shady deals, etc., they believe their competitors would surely do that to them, hence paranoia is born. They also got some sense of paranoia from their close relationship with Intel, who had/have their own bag of dirty tricks. The paranoia is a force that is not geared towards maximizing profits, it is geared toward controlling markets by controlling perceived competitors and buyers of their products.
You go girl!!
Gates created a sclerotic company that cannot shoot straight. He succeeded because his monopoly was handed to him. Microsoft has never innovated anything. In the current environment, he'd be a failure..which is my suspicion as to why he gave up a boogied.
Oracle may have a stiffy for Java but it hasn't helped their applications. I have to use one of those bastard children of King Larry at work. There are error messages that make no sense to earthlings, error messages where there are no errors, fields that make no sense. Oracle wants to be producer of business software. Fine, it helps if you actually understand how to build user interfaces that are not fetid piles of steaming dingo kidneys. And it also helps if the back end is properly threaded so changes in one place get properly riffled through to the rest of the system.
Best thing for us is for Oracle shoot itself in the head and disband the alleged company.
This is in the same vein. I was on a light camping trip with girl friend once in eastern Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains. There was a fairly tall mountain there and we had gone part way up it to see a waterfall. She got it in her head that we should climb the rest of the way. There was a trail and some sort of cabin up at the top. I reasoned that since it took us half a day to get about 1/4-1/3 of the way up, we'd never get up before it got dark. We had no flashlights, little food, little water. But she insisted we could do this. I objected and refused on the grounds that stupidity is dangerous...as were park bears...in the woods...at night...with no flashlight...no gun...none of which I verbalized....simply refused.
She got mad, we both came back down off the damn hill and drove up there instead. Get back home, she's still upset. Next week, a story in the paper on how two hikers were attacked by a bear on that same mountain and one was killed. Killed dead. After that, I decided the better part of valor to know the difference between a bear with claws and significant other with a mouth.
"Hezbollah did not appear out of Iran's magic crystal ball. It appeared directly as a result of Israeli and American forces invading Lebanon in 1982." Bullshit. Hezbollah was born from the Shi'ite minority in Lebanon from the civil war they helped start.
"We destroyed the PLO and got Hamas." The PLO imploded through their own ineptitude and inability to strike a deal with Israel. There will always be a cadre of mullahs and imam skulking in their mosques praying for the day to return when they ruled the Muslims instead of government. To place the blame for them on the West is simply silly.
Without an outside threat, the Iranian regime doesn't have a lot going for it. It's economic policies are more or less national socialism. It has a number of minorities but no political system to give them a voice and a sense that they aren't mere cogs in a wheel. Then their is the perceived threat that those naughty Sunnis will convert the Shi'ites and the Imams will be out of jobs. Without conjuring an outside threat, the Iranian regime is finished and they know it.
I sure hope the Taliban believe your bullshit.
No, Glenn Beck...it's that Aryan blond hair. Ahmadinejad fancies him.
"The US already had egg on it's face trying to stick up for Israel last time they didn't ask before attacking Iran." Errr...when was this? You mean Iran's dogs in Lebanon? I fail to recall the egg on the U.S. face. Last I recall, Israel cleaned Hezbollah's clock, enough for them to think twice about following their master's "go fetch" directives next time around.
Well, he does believe in the 12th Imam coming back (wonder where Shi'ites got that myth). However, I think rather Israel is only a football in the religious war between the Shi'ites and the Sunnis. Those crazy Shi'ites want to be the ones that get to say "We killed the rest of the Jews", it won't be true but they'll claim it. The Palestinians? Mere collateral damage...they be mostly Sunnis anyhow and hence expendable in the twisted visions of the Shi'ites.
Put your self in an Iranian Ayatollah's sandals for a moment. The wealth of your country is tied up in oil. Oil only has value because someone, those nasty infidels, are willing to pay for it because the Islamic world is not a driver of economic growth. Clearly the concept of economic growth is alien to Islamic culture although quite handy for keeping the local yokels from hanging you from a gibbet. What is economic growth to you as Ayatollah anyhow, what you are interested in is telling every one else how to live and behave, your compensation structure is determined by Allah, not by the economics of your country. There's a problem though, infidels and Sunnis (the other Islamic sects are too small to care about). Allah will reward you...errr...with something....only if you further decreasing the number of infidels (any way will do) and the number of Sunnis (they are misguided and not truly Islamic). What to do? Well, you can nuke Israel, that would knock off a bunch of the most irritating infidels and show the Sunnis they should be Shi'ites...if they know what's good for them.
Actually, there is something called Kolmogorov complexity where information theory is cached out in terms of algorithmic complexity, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity.
Personally, I think Kurzweil is still full of shit. Systems are usually way more complex than most "futurists" would like to admit. They are finding that with the human genome. The promise was that once it is decoded, we'll find cures for everything. Errr...yeah, well, it sort of depends on how it gets expressed in proteins which is an order of complexity much higher than simply the genome.
English isn't your first language, is it?
Sounds to me like Mcafee called that one correctly. Let us know if it takes King Larry out back and shoots him in the butt.
Alright, damnit! You caught us, us being they. Our representatives will be contacting you shortly to see about how you came by this wonder.
Said by someone who obviously has no family member with schizophrenia and/or manic depression. You have no idea what you are talking about. If you think psychopharmocology is useless, then I dare you to attempt to live with someone who has both schizophrenia and manic depression and is not taking any medications. The meds are not perfect but they are a damn sight better than the alternative. And there is no talking someone out of these sorts of ailments. Brains don't always work properly, they get specific problems just like any other organ.