I don't think you get Amazon. They exist to own as much of any market as they can. It doesn't have to be a standalone success, it only needs to feed the mothership in terms of control. If something isn't so critical now, Amazon will hang on to it and find a way to fit it into a larger scheme later.
Because when companies get too big, they get too big to fail and the government is left with either putting a bullet in the head of the company or putting a bullet in the head the budget. This is what happened during the last recession, the banks required bailouts. They paid a lot of that back but not all of it. And Congress learned nothing from this. They are now back in the business of removing banking regulations because the poor bankers need their freedom.
There is another issue, monopoly rules were written for a world of 50 years ago. Now, Amazon wields enough power to waste any industry they choose to enter. It's all "retail" at the local level, right?
Hahaha...you expect the Trump administration to generously fund science for research grants, an administration who believes science just a dodge, not unlike what they are turning the executive branch into.
I don't know that it was mention of "Islam" that gave us la Presidenta Tweetie. It was rather the Republican White Peoples party got their knickers in a bind over their perception of losing their favored race status. la Presidenta Tweetie could have blamed the white peoples' troubles on aliens (cue the Greek guy with the electric hair) and they'd been perfectly happy with their new scapegoat.
Religion is based on bigotry. It abhors the Other. I used to think Buddhism was different, then I saw what it did to the Rohingya. Do we hear a peep out of the non-Burmese Buddhists? Nope, not even the Dalai Lama can be arsed to speak up about these atrocities.
Errmm...you are referring to Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, northern sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, India (still has a lot even after the division),...I'm sure there are more. And get this, they don't get squat from the Muslim oil producers, it seems the Muslim oil producers are very good at keeping their money close to home. Now they do fund a bit of proselytizing, but then so do the Christians. In the U.S., that seems to have spawned a Christianity devoid of Christ and the principles he espoused. Apparently, it is only for white people.
Now he's building up his brand name so he'll be able to pull in big bucks when he leave government. It is important to have a goal in life. The fact that involves screwing America to get there is just part and parcel of the alleged Administration.
No its the Wookie defense. Their boy in the WH is looking like a petulant brat, time to pull out the "Whooooo...Clinton...scary!". And just in time for Halloween.
The CDC says it is over 480,000 deaths in the U.S. for 2016. Now about banning the little brown refugees so the don't come and kill Americans, one must have a sense of priorities to be good little zenophobe.
I'd settle for the Chinese scientists fixing their pigs so that they weren't generating new flu strains to export to the rest of the world. Pigs and humans are close physiologically, close enough where flu viruses jump. One of the big flu generating areas is southern China where farmers apparently get a bit to comfy with their livestock.
Well, it is sort of, but it will be a new gizmo, a shoe phone. It goes everywhere with you and you don't have worry about it falling out of your pocket or using a belt clip.
Brilliant, companies can damn well create their own private networks to manage their distributed systems. They should be able to recreate their own private internets in about, what, a year or two in your pink unicorn world? No doubt they'll be able to all hire the best network engineers to pull off this task. The fortune 100 companies can all create their own internets, 100 of them. That will surely lower the attack surface!!! Wow! Have you told these companies how to make their distributed systems secure? I'm sure they'll listen to you!!
Oh, be sure to include the cost of continuing network operations for running their own private networks too while you are at it. Just so you don't miss anything, you'll be wanting to include equipment costs (stuff wears out), personnel (hint, they like job security, medical ins., retirement plans), facilities costs (can't just throw the new equipment anywhere), energy costs (damn, the energy companies don't just give it away), local and federal regulations (admittedly these are not large but you'll be wanting to add increasing dollars for future regs since those appear to be percolating in Congress), redundancy (the internet...get this...is very redundant and networks rely upon that redundancy to keep up and functioning). I'm sure I've missed a few costs, no doubt they'll occur to you as you write your recommendation to companies.
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Your mistake is thinking they will be happy with owning less than all of retail.
I don't think you get Amazon. They exist to own as much of any market as they can. It doesn't have to be a standalone success, it only needs to feed the mothership in terms of control. If something isn't so critical now, Amazon will hang on to it and find a way to fit it into a larger scheme later.
Because when companies get too big, they get too big to fail and the government is left with either putting a bullet in the head of the company or putting a bullet in the head the budget. This is what happened during the last recession, the banks required bailouts. They paid a lot of that back but not all of it. And Congress learned nothing from this. They are now back in the business of removing banking regulations because the poor bankers need their freedom.
There is another issue, monopoly rules were written for a world of 50 years ago. Now, Amazon wields enough power to waste any industry they choose to enter. It's all "retail" at the local level, right?
Hahaha...you expect the Trump administration to generously fund science for research grants, an administration who believes science just a dodge, not unlike what they are turning the executive branch into.
Ever check what the Christian Right has in store for America? It is not much different than what Islam would like to do to America.
Christians and Muslims are fine, until they become overwhelming majorities. Then they turn into authoritarian dicks.
I don't know that it was mention of "Islam" that gave us la Presidenta Tweetie. It was rather the Republican White Peoples party got their knickers in a bind over their perception of losing their favored race status. la Presidenta Tweetie could have blamed the white peoples' troubles on aliens (cue the Greek guy with the electric hair) and they'd been perfectly happy with their new scapegoat.
Religion is based on bigotry. It abhors the Other. I used to think Buddhism was different, then I saw what it did to the Rohingya. Do we hear a peep out of the non-Burmese Buddhists? Nope, not even the Dalai Lama can be arsed to speak up about these atrocities.
Modern day America?
Errmm...you are referring to Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, northern sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, India (still has a lot even after the division),...I'm sure there are more. And get this, they don't get squat from the Muslim oil producers, it seems the Muslim oil producers are very good at keeping their money close to home. Now they do fund a bit of proselytizing, but then so do the Christians. In the U.S., that seems to have spawned a Christianity devoid of Christ and the principles he espoused. Apparently, it is only for white people.
"The Sinclair Broadcast Group doesn't own newspapers, you fuckwit." Yet.
Now he's building up his brand name so he'll be able to pull in big bucks when he leave government. It is important to have a goal in life. The fact that involves screwing America to get there is just part and parcel of the alleged Administration.
No its the Wookie defense. Their boy in the WH is looking like a petulant brat, time to pull out the "Whooooo...Clinton...scary!". And just in time for Halloween.
Far too many American citizens think the President should be able to shut down newspapers and other media he doesn't like.
The CDC says 41,000 Americans were killed in the U.S. during 2016 due to second hand smoke.
The CDC says it is over 480,000 deaths in the U.S. for 2016. Now about banning the little brown refugees so the don't come and kill Americans, one must have a sense of priorities to be good little zenophobe.
I'd settle for the Chinese scientists fixing their pigs so that they weren't generating new flu strains to export to the rest of the world. Pigs and humans are close physiologically, close enough where flu viruses jump. One of the big flu generating areas is southern China where farmers apparently get a bit to comfy with their livestock.
Well, it is sort of, but it will be a new gizmo, a shoe phone. It goes everywhere with you and you don't have worry about it falling out of your pocket or using a belt clip.
"Pipe wench", you mean.
Errr...because other countries were going to do it regardless of what the U.S. did?
Errmmm....you mean the Ukranian power plants? They got zapped or did you not get the memo?
Brilliant, companies can damn well create their own private networks to manage their distributed systems. They should be able to recreate their own private internets in about, what, a year or two in your pink unicorn world? No doubt they'll be able to all hire the best network engineers to pull off this task. The fortune 100 companies can all create their own internets, 100 of them. That will surely lower the attack surface!!! Wow! Have you told these companies how to make their distributed systems secure? I'm sure they'll listen to you!!
Oh, be sure to include the cost of continuing network operations for running their own private networks too while you are at it. Just so you don't miss anything, you'll be wanting to include equipment costs (stuff wears out), personnel (hint, they like job security, medical ins., retirement plans), facilities costs (can't just throw the new equipment anywhere), energy costs (damn, the energy companies don't just give it away), local and federal regulations (admittedly these are not large but you'll be wanting to add increasing dollars for future regs since those appear to be percolating in Congress), redundancy (the internet...get this...is very redundant and networks rely upon that redundancy to keep up and functioning). I'm sure I've missed a few costs, no doubt they'll occur to you as you write your recommendation to companies.
Except for the Chinese government, then its about power.
Just a hint, Bucko, you don't have enough other things going on in your life.
Not if you were anti-Putin in Russia you wouldn't.
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