My own guess (working for the Navy) is that the Army is populating its workforce and enlisted people with...uh...the same crowd that goes out and buys a bog standard Dell and the OS is simply Windoze because that's the bog standard OS. Why should we assume that DoD would not reflect the bias in the current population?
Put another way, how come allegedly intelligent corporations insist on sucking up Windoze systems when the could cut themselves loose? There are numerous reasons, like the one above. There's also the legacy apps that only run on Windoze because, gee, the code monkeys know Windoze. Add to that a population of Business School Product who know Windoze and are in love with Powerpoint (ones alleged insights always look impressive as bullet points), the question of switching isn't even a question.
A brief History, the Earth is approximately 4.5 Billion years old, dinosaurs died about 65 million years ago, this critter lived about 47 million years ago, humans and chimps split about 7-8 million years ago (well, if we are not counting our valued coworkers in that Other building), Lucy (small, cute hominid, sang songs of love and heartbreak to small audiences in Africa) about 3.2 million years ago, Homo Erectus (we won't say what was erect, but he had very good posture) about 2 million years ago. Neanderthals about 500 thousand years ago. Modern humans about 150,000 years ago.
Homo Erectus walked out of Africa to a life-style of his dreams, we have the fossils to prove it. There were several migrations of modern humans also out of Africa.
You do realize that the Bible was written by men with an odd woman thrown in, right? Men are fallible...errr...not me, but I've heard stories. Anyhow, your next argument is probably along the lines of "The Bible was Inspired by G-d" meaning that G-d caused men to write it. So, these men then, didn't really have a free will? Your next argument is probably along the lines of "They could have rejected G-d and decided not to write, but they chose otherwise."
On the other hand, knowing how trustworthy men are , it is conceivable that some only thought they heard the word of G-d, or they were lying for their own gain...not that men of the cloth would ever think to do such a thing. So, G-d must now have inspired the right thinking ones and somehow managed to get the liars sidelined.
This is one amazing G-d you have there. On the one hand, He's said to have given man a free will, yet on the other He has twiddled with knobs and levers behind the scenes to make sure the Bible came out as he wished...and then promptly shut his mouth for at least 2000 years.
So now we have the curious situation that we have no actual proof that these are G-d's thoughts in the Bible. All we have is your assurance that they are. And why should we believe you?
Apple cannot crush MS by selling OSX for PCs. As someone else alluded, they'd have to make it work for all the wacky hardware out there and that would cause their biggest strength, reliability, to go right out the door.
But there's a bigger problem, all the special purpose apps that are built for Windoze. There's no way to run them except dual boot or some hypervisor. So, you are Joe Windoze shop and you can: (1) do what you know and love (kissing MS's ass) or (2) buy OS X and run the apps you want using the dual boot or hyperthingy, in which case, why are you even screwing around with OS X in the first place.
Ben was also ambassador to France...well, given the stories, it appears he was more ambassador to French women, but officially it was to all of France. About 20,000 attended his funeral, no word on how many were French women.
Read "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith. You are referring the later capitalists which re-interpreted free market to require "hands off" by the government. What that meant was that the government should not help to create monopolies or distort the market. It has nothing to do with keeping the playing field level.
The "free" in "free market" refers to freedom of entry and exit. It in no way underwrites the archaic understanding you are pushing. It used to be believed, back before large conglomerate monopolies, that the free market governed itself. Then monopolies happened, either state manufactured via patents, or through what you describe. Nations wishing a free market economy then realized that the "free" had to be enforced via regulations and those regulations needed teeth to punish the Business School Product who connived, cheated, and stole violating the "free".
Antitrust regulation was drawn up and enforced. Then a strange thing happened, people like you never read up on what makes a free market and the "free" stopped being as protected as it needed to be. The consequence is companies that feel they can do anything they like to restrict "free" causing those of us who do read heartburn.
Errr..where have you been through the 1980s and 1990s? That's precisely what U.S. companies did. Guess what, many decided that Asia was even cheaper and China even more so. The Chinese government wasn't as dumb as the Mexican gov., they insisted on joint ventures and no respect for trademarks, licenses, and any of the intellectual-crappola associated with a modern industrial state. The result is that Mexico cannot compete with China. And increasingly, neither can the U.S.
There is no industry so safe that Business School Product cannot screw it up. These whiz kids would sell their grand-mother's soul to the Chinese if they thought it would get them one more step up the business ladder. It does tend to move them down the evolutionary scale though, so that now they are little more than trained apes...without the cuteness or wildlife organizations running fund drives for them.
Err...in the war against bugs, spiders are the good guys. We'd have many more bugs if the spiders weren't on our side. So lighten up and let the little fellers get on with the job of pest control. Most spiders are secretive and will leave you alone.
Yep, we have generated a whole culture from the Me Generation that believes it somehow can have it all with no sacrifices. Add a generous helping of Litigation Mania and a generation raised on the notion that making a big stink about single issues is somehow "being involved" and we get the general paralysis that is the U.S. Government.
To Pnuema below, the failure of Yucca mountain has everything to do with government. They failed to lead and make the hard decisions allowing the environut jobs to dictate the terms under which nuclear waste will be handled. The environuts have no intention of solving the waste problem, they need that problem because it bottles up any progress on building new nuclear plants. They don't want those because that would mean new energy to continue a society they wish to move back to the 1800's when all was well and good...except for dental care.
Bingo, just to fix the time line a bit, humans were thought to have split from apes roughly 6-7 million years ago...except for some valued coworkers here.
Do you know what 2 week old dead dinosaur smells like? Maybe they could scavenge for awhile but after that I'm sure the mammals would be too disgusted.
And there were secondary effects of what you mentioned that were also serious (I guess you already know of these and more). The housing bubble helped produce housing companies that build McMansions. You no longer went to your local contractor and had a house built that you could afford. Instead, you were presented with a Supermarket of houses in a "development". And these houses started in "low $300s$. To build a Development took a lot of workers helping to distort the employment picture since there were only so many McMansions one could pump out before the market was completely saturated and idiots who had the jack for $300K mortgages blew their wad.
This led to an increase in commodity prices and other stuff that went into the new houses, further distorting the economy. So when housing, as a share of economic activity rose to 15% of GDP, it was guaranteed that a housing cold would give the economy the flu. And with the leveraging of financial institutions dependent upon that 15%, the financial impact magnified even more.
I think it is worse than that. They use those formulas because it prevents them having to think. I had accounting in a one semester stint in the Business School at a Large Unnamed University (before I realized that way madness lay). In the middle of an exam, I couldn't remember the Big Formula for solving one particular problem. So I derived my own, solved the problem with the correct answer. My formula was a special case of the Big Formula and my formula was just fine for the particular test problem. I got no credit, that's when I figured Business School Product deserved no credit.
The Palentinian situation will never be solved as long as Arabs (and the Persians) are Muslim. They consider Israel to be a Western infidel invasion of their sacred, bloody, pure Islamic homeland, conveniently denying the Sabra exist(ed), and the Koran itself tells them to hate the Jews. Get over the idea that somehow the U.S. will solve this problem. It is essentially unsolvable; the Jews are not about to give up their homeland, the Muslims are not about to give up their hate for the Jews and the Infidel. Islam is not a tolerant religion, it thrives on hate for the outsider.
I think he has two or three sons. There were a few articles in the western press talking about succession and how none of his sons seemed to have an inside track. I'm guessing the old fart trusts his sons as much as his generals.
There are many reasons they might not want to sell it all the U.S. They might like to make trouble for the U.S. by selling to those other high and honorable people in Al Qaeda. Or the Taliban might want a piece of the action. Selling to the Pakistanis would keep the U.S. occupied as well. That's only if their motive was to keep the U.S. occupied elsewhere. There are other motives. N. Korea doesn't trust any agreement would hold over the long haul, so they'd want to develop their markets.
And consider what happens if the U.S. does offer to buy them out. What a wonderful precedent that would sent to every two-bit dictatorial regime. How much do you figure they'd change, something reasonable I presume you presume.
All nukes are not equal. Carter canned the neutron bomb precisely because it would be a useful nuclear weapon that wouldn't result in radiation being caught in the prevailing winds. Think of Iran with several of those.
That might have had something to do with Clinton administration warning the incoming Bush administration that N. Korea was sandbagging on the last nuke treaty they signed. N. Korea did dismantle the nuke plant in question, but failed to report they were building a newer better one. When Bush got into office, he was presented with a N. Korea that had been caught clearly lying.
What makes you think the N. Koreans, being a high and honorable people, would necessarily sell it all to the U.S. And what kinds of prices would they charge if the U.S. was the only buying (i.e., no free market as in freedom of entry for buyers and sellers).
Maybe payback for the years spent under Japanese occupation? Just because you have the memory of a gnat doesn't mean others do as well. Hell, the Muslims are still arguing over of the results of the third Caliph getting whacked in 656. My experience with Asians is they are not likely to easily forget Japanese domination.
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My own guess (working for the Navy) is that the Army is populating its workforce and enlisted people with...uh...the same crowd that goes out and buys a bog standard Dell and the OS is simply Windoze because that's the bog standard OS. Why should we assume that DoD would not reflect the bias in the current population?
Put another way, how come allegedly intelligent corporations insist on sucking up Windoze systems when the could cut themselves loose? There are numerous reasons, like the one above. There's also the legacy apps that only run on Windoze because, gee, the code monkeys know Windoze. Add to that a population of Business School Product who know Windoze and are in love with Powerpoint (ones alleged insights always look impressive as bullet points), the question of switching isn't even a question.
Depends upon your pictures. If you have very precise diagrams, say, in category theory, Word is worse than useless.
Biden's the VP, he's Robin.
Wow, did you swallow a Microsoft Marketing Executive?
A brief History, the Earth is approximately 4.5 Billion years old, dinosaurs died about 65 million years ago, this critter lived about 47 million years ago, humans and chimps split about 7-8 million years ago (well, if we are not counting our valued coworkers in that Other building), Lucy (small, cute hominid, sang songs of love and heartbreak to small audiences in Africa) about 3.2 million years ago, Homo Erectus (we won't say what was erect, but he had very good posture) about 2 million years ago. Neanderthals about 500 thousand years ago. Modern humans about 150,000 years ago.
Homo Erectus walked out of Africa to a life-style of his dreams, we have the fossils to prove it. There were several migrations of modern humans also out of Africa.
You do realize that the Bible was written by men with an odd woman thrown in, right? Men are fallible...errr...not me, but I've heard stories. Anyhow, your next argument is probably along the lines of "The Bible was Inspired by G-d" meaning that G-d caused men to write it. So, these men then, didn't really have a free will? Your next argument is probably along the lines of "They could have rejected G-d and decided not to write, but they chose otherwise."
On the other hand, knowing how trustworthy men are , it is conceivable that some only thought they heard the word of G-d, or they were lying for their own gain...not that men of the cloth would ever think to do such a thing. So, G-d must now have inspired the right thinking ones and somehow managed to get the liars sidelined.
This is one amazing G-d you have there. On the one hand, He's said to have given man a free will, yet on the other He has twiddled with knobs and levers behind the scenes to make sure the Bible came out as he wished...and then promptly shut his mouth for at least 2000 years.
So now we have the curious situation that we have no actual proof that these are G-d's thoughts in the Bible. All we have is your assurance that they are. And why should we believe you?
Apple cannot crush MS by selling OSX for PCs. As someone else alluded, they'd have to make it work for all the wacky hardware out there and that would cause their biggest strength, reliability, to go right out the door.
But there's a bigger problem, all the special purpose apps that are built for Windoze. There's no way to run them except dual boot or some hypervisor. So, you are Joe Windoze shop and you can: (1) do what you know and love (kissing MS's ass) or (2) buy OS X and run the apps you want using the dual boot or hyperthingy, in which case, why are you even screwing around with OS X in the first place.
Ben was also ambassador to France...well, given the stories, it appears he was more ambassador to French women, but officially it was to all of France. About 20,000 attended his funeral, no word on how many were French women.
Read "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith. You are referring the later capitalists which re-interpreted free market to require "hands off" by the government. What that meant was that the government should not help to create monopolies or distort the market. It has nothing to do with keeping the playing field level.
The "free" in "free market" refers to freedom of entry and exit. It in no way underwrites the archaic understanding you are pushing. It used to be believed, back before large conglomerate monopolies, that the free market governed itself. Then monopolies happened, either state manufactured via patents, or through what you describe. Nations wishing a free market economy then realized that the "free" had to be enforced via regulations and those regulations needed teeth to punish the Business School Product who connived, cheated, and stole violating the "free".
Antitrust regulation was drawn up and enforced. Then a strange thing happened, people like you never read up on what makes a free market and the "free" stopped being as protected as it needed to be. The consequence is companies that feel they can do anything they like to restrict "free" causing those of us who do read heartburn.
Errr..where have you been through the 1980s and 1990s? That's precisely what U.S. companies did. Guess what, many decided that Asia was even cheaper and China even more so. The Chinese government wasn't as dumb as the Mexican gov., they insisted on joint ventures and no respect for trademarks, licenses, and any of the intellectual-crappola associated with a modern industrial state. The result is that Mexico cannot compete with China. And increasingly, neither can the U.S.
There is no industry so safe that Business School Product cannot screw it up. These whiz kids would sell their grand-mother's soul to the Chinese if they thought it would get them one more step up the business ladder. It does tend to move them down the evolutionary scale though, so that now they are little more than trained apes...without the cuteness or wildlife organizations running fund drives for them.
Err...in the war against bugs, spiders are the good guys. We'd have many more bugs if the spiders weren't on our side. So lighten up and let the little fellers get on with the job of pest control. Most spiders are secretive and will leave you alone.
Yep, we have generated a whole culture from the Me Generation that believes it somehow can have it all with no sacrifices. Add a generous helping of Litigation Mania and a generation raised on the notion that making a big stink about single issues is somehow "being involved" and we get the general paralysis that is the U.S. Government.
To Pnuema below, the failure of Yucca mountain has everything to do with government. They failed to lead and make the hard decisions allowing the environut jobs to dictate the terms under which nuclear waste will be handled. The environuts have no intention of solving the waste problem, they need that problem because it bottles up any progress on building new nuclear plants. They don't want those because that would mean new energy to continue a society they wish to move back to the 1800's when all was well and good...except for dental care.
Bingo, just to fix the time line a bit, humans were thought to have split from apes roughly 6-7 million years ago...except for some valued coworkers here.
Do you know what 2 week old dead dinosaur smells like? Maybe they could scavenge for awhile but after that I'm sure the mammals would be too disgusted.
And there were secondary effects of what you mentioned that were also serious (I guess you already know of these and more). The housing bubble helped produce housing companies that build McMansions. You no longer went to your local contractor and had a house built that you could afford. Instead, you were presented with a Supermarket of houses in a "development". And these houses started in "low $300s$. To build a Development took a lot of workers helping to distort the employment picture since there were only so many McMansions one could pump out before the market was completely saturated and idiots who had the jack for $300K mortgages blew their wad.
This led to an increase in commodity prices and other stuff that went into the new houses, further distorting the economy. So when housing, as a share of economic activity rose to 15% of GDP, it was guaranteed that a housing cold would give the economy the flu. And with the leveraging of financial institutions dependent upon that 15%, the financial impact magnified even more.
I think it is worse than that. They use those formulas because it prevents them having to think. I had accounting in a one semester stint in the Business School at a Large Unnamed University (before I realized that way madness lay). In the middle of an exam, I couldn't remember the Big Formula for solving one particular problem. So I derived my own, solved the problem with the correct answer. My formula was a special case of the Big Formula and my formula was just fine for the particular test problem. I got no credit, that's when I figured Business School Product deserved no credit.
The Palentinian situation will never be solved as long as Arabs (and the Persians) are Muslim. They consider Israel to be a Western infidel invasion of their sacred, bloody, pure Islamic homeland, conveniently denying the Sabra exist(ed), and the Koran itself tells them to hate the Jews. Get over the idea that somehow the U.S. will solve this problem. It is essentially unsolvable; the Jews are not about to give up their homeland, the Muslims are not about to give up their hate for the Jews and the Infidel. Islam is not a tolerant religion, it thrives on hate for the outsider.
I think he has two or three sons. There were a few articles in the western press talking about succession and how none of his sons seemed to have an inside track. I'm guessing the old fart trusts his sons as much as his generals.
There are many reasons they might not want to sell it all the U.S. They might like to make trouble for the U.S. by selling to those other high and honorable people in Al Qaeda. Or the Taliban might want a piece of the action. Selling to the Pakistanis would keep the U.S. occupied as well. That's only if their motive was to keep the U.S. occupied elsewhere. There are other motives. N. Korea doesn't trust any agreement would hold over the long haul, so they'd want to develop their markets.
And consider what happens if the U.S. does offer to buy them out. What a wonderful precedent that would sent to every two-bit dictatorial regime. How much do you figure they'd change, something reasonable I presume you presume.
You starched your shorts again, didn't you.
All nukes are not equal. Carter canned the neutron bomb precisely because it would be a useful nuclear weapon that wouldn't result in radiation being caught in the prevailing winds. Think of Iran with several of those.
That might have had something to do with Clinton administration warning the incoming Bush administration that N. Korea was sandbagging on the last nuke treaty they signed. N. Korea did dismantle the nuke plant in question, but failed to report they were building a newer better one. When Bush got into office, he was presented with a N. Korea that had been caught clearly lying.
What makes you think the N. Koreans, being a high and honorable people, would necessarily sell it all to the U.S. And what kinds of prices would they charge if the U.S. was the only buying (i.e., no free market as in freedom of entry for buyers and sellers).
Maybe payback for the years spent under Japanese occupation? Just because you have the memory of a gnat doesn't mean others do as well. Hell, the Muslims are still arguing over of the results of the third Caliph getting whacked in 656. My experience with Asians is they are not likely to easily forget Japanese domination.