Currently, the Reform Party will probably lose control of the government and Centre Party is expected to take over given the fractious nature of the governing coalition. So maybe Putin will finally succeed in getting his stooge into power. Maybe he'll screw up spectacularly before turning the country over to Putin and his merry band of kleptocrats.
In addition, propaganda also works when people choose to believe it over real world information.
Now I must go off to think about what real world information is. Maybe I'll know it when I see it. In any case, the internet allows people to believe their preconceived notions are true. I guess real world information, to count as information and not disinformation, must entail a web of consistent, interlocking facts. Hmmm...seems indiscernible from conspiracy "theories". Maybe real world information is a bit like a scientific theory. It must be open to testing. Conspiracy theories typically are not.
Yep, this G-d fellow's a bit weird. A country has some people who don't follow whatever holy book, so then S/He gets to whack the innocents that had nothing to do with the transgression. If it were a human doing the whacking, we'd call them a psycho-killer, but if it is a Deity, well, then any amount of violence is deemed acceptable.
The U.S. Defense budget is about $600 Billion per year now, the Federal Budget is about $4 trillion. So that's about 15%. So 85% of the budget is going for Grandma, her meds, her opiate addicted great-grand kids and their parents, etc. The military also spins off a lot of technology, networks for instance.
Ah, so you'd have flushed the U.S. auto industry down the toilet during the last recession. Approx 1.5 million Americans worked directly the auto industry. Another roughly 6 million jobs are connected to it. They generate about $200 billion in state and federal taxes. The auto industry paid most of the U.S. government money back, as did the banks.
So you'd whack them all on the alter of Ann Rand. Let's let cut the U.S. economy because some misguided theory which has no use for humans or their offspring.
I rather think that depends upon government institutions. Want to trust your company's secrets to the tender loving care of the Chinese judicial system? Or the creaking Indian system?
Then there is the problem of sourcing. Do you want your company's systems reliant on Chinese or Indian gear or software? How far can you trust that gear to not spill the beans of your organization? And if they do, what will you be able to do about it. Trying suing them in China or India and see how far that gets you dragging one of their favorite sons through the dirt.
You will also have to deal with their education system where face means everything, over and above competency. That is part of their society and not likely to change anytime soon. Any move to change runs into the homegrown complaining of foreign interference. You can see the same echoed here in the current U.S. presidential election. Foreigners, and worse, their ideas are not welcome.
In addition to that, I think Google looked at what Apple was going to do (Schmidt was on their board) and what MS was providing and decided they could screw MS out of a market and use MS's PC software strategy to screw Apple. However, they didn't do it just to screw the other two, they did it because Google knows its own revenue streams better than anyone. Having a dominant OS on phones when PCs were going nowhere or down due to be being an overmatch for what people actually used computing for, meant that they could preserve their revenue model. Changing a company's revenue model is fraught with pitfalls, many companies have died trying to do it. The jury's still out on whether MS will survive the changes in computing with phones and the cloud. So far they seem to be holding their own outside of phones.
That waste from the farms is not merely disgusting, it is a health hazard. When one of the ponds breaks it bounds, the waste drains the way the rest of the land drains, right into rivers. Worse, when there's a flood, it can send that waste directly into city centers.
Yes, but Hitler had the Depression to do a bank shot off of. Turkey has no excuse. For nothing they elected the one person most likely to destroy their democracy. And they are still too stupid to see the problem.
Insightful? How is parroting Beibart insightful? That overgrown Cheetoh showed he has no intellect in the debates. His "policies" amount to nothing more than inventing conspiracies.
The most insulting part is a good part of the American people cannot spot him for the low-grade grifter that he is. He make Sargent Bilko look like a paradigm of virtue.
Erdogan is a whore who sold out his country and democracy for a bag of beans. His modus operandi is to hide behind a Muslim face veil claiming to be pious while he wastes his country.
Trump's supporters would simply deny he nuked the planet and that it was all a rigged to make him look bad...just before they suffer a total existence failure.
Oh, what U.S. company do you figure Qualcomm should have bought? NXP makes a lot of the processors that go into cars. They bought Freescale not so long ago which was spun out of Motorola when the big shots there were stitching together their golden parachutes. Texas Instruments is probably only the logical choice but it is second to NXP in the auto industry. And it might raise antitrust concerns given their other businesses.
Errr...I hate him, and recoil at any stories about him or commenting on anything he says. He's convinced me he's not got anything interesting to say, on anything. Making stuff up I can get from the Ancient Aliens shows.
I give up, just what exactly are those "edge" devices? Refrigerators? Air conditioning units? Even if it is these sorts of things, connecting them to the internet is asking for trouble seeing as security is not nailed down just yet. And what refrigerator company wants to ramp up their software effort to take advantage of the extra power. What will it buy them, what do consumers get out of it? They will probably buy from some middleman who wants to sell millions of processing units....which means cost per unit is going to favor ARM because it isn't that your device is powerful, it is that your device needs a power supplying infrastructure.
Remember when the U.S. said those systems were for protecting Europe against the Iranian. Even were the U.S. to be lying about that, one Satan 2 hitting its mark in Europe would drift nuclear fallout over Russia turning their alleged country into wasteland.
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So we should just ignore the "benefits" his businesses got from his campaign because he's somehow has this mystical belief others shouldn't do it?
Right, so all industries should build out their own private network infrastructure. That shouldn't cost you too much, should it?
You don't really get global warming, do you?
Currently, the Reform Party will probably lose control of the government and Centre Party is expected to take over given the fractious nature of the governing coalition. So maybe Putin will finally succeed in getting his stooge into power. Maybe he'll screw up spectacularly before turning the country over to Putin and his merry band of kleptocrats.
In addition, propaganda also works when people choose to believe it over real world information.
Now I must go off to think about what real world information is. Maybe I'll know it when I see it. In any case, the internet allows people to believe their preconceived notions are true. I guess real world information, to count as information and not disinformation, must entail a web of consistent, interlocking facts. Hmmm...seems indiscernible from conspiracy "theories". Maybe real world information is a bit like a scientific theory. It must be open to testing. Conspiracy theories typically are not.
Yep, this G-d fellow's a bit weird. A country has some people who don't follow whatever holy book, so then S/He gets to whack the innocents that had nothing to do with the transgression. If it were a human doing the whacking, we'd call them a psycho-killer, but if it is a Deity, well, then any amount of violence is deemed acceptable.
The U.S. Defense budget is about $600 Billion per year now, the Federal Budget is about $4 trillion. So that's about 15%. So 85% of the budget is going for Grandma, her meds, her opiate addicted great-grand kids and their parents, etc. The military also spins off a lot of technology, networks for instance.
This isn't the 60's anymore, grow up.
Nailing Osama's ass in 1998 would have yielded a much bigger return than $1 million. Too bad the U.S. figured the Pakistanis were allies.
Ah, so you'd have flushed the U.S. auto industry down the toilet during the last recession. Approx 1.5 million Americans worked directly the auto industry. Another roughly 6 million jobs are connected to it. They generate about $200 billion in state and federal taxes. The auto industry paid most of the U.S. government money back, as did the banks.
So you'd whack them all on the alter of Ann Rand. Let's let cut the U.S. economy because some misguided theory which has no use for humans or their offspring.
I rather think that depends upon government institutions. Want to trust your company's secrets to the tender loving care of the Chinese judicial system? Or the creaking Indian system?
Then there is the problem of sourcing. Do you want your company's systems reliant on Chinese or Indian gear or software? How far can you trust that gear to not spill the beans of your organization? And if they do, what will you be able to do about it. Trying suing them in China or India and see how far that gets you dragging one of their favorite sons through the dirt.
You will also have to deal with their education system where face means everything, over and above competency. That is part of their society and not likely to change anytime soon. Any move to change runs into the homegrown complaining of foreign interference. You can see the same echoed here in the current U.S. presidential election. Foreigners, and worse, their ideas are not welcome.
Well, Musk is a genius, just ask him any question you like. He has an opinion and never has to answer "I don't know". Money talks.
In addition to that, I think Google looked at what Apple was going to do (Schmidt was on their board) and what MS was providing and decided they could screw MS out of a market and use MS's PC software strategy to screw Apple. However, they didn't do it just to screw the other two, they did it because Google knows its own revenue streams better than anyone. Having a dominant OS on phones when PCs were going nowhere or down due to be being an overmatch for what people actually used computing for, meant that they could preserve their revenue model. Changing a company's revenue model is fraught with pitfalls, many companies have died trying to do it. The jury's still out on whether MS will survive the changes in computing with phones and the cloud. So far they seem to be holding their own outside of phones.
That waste from the farms is not merely disgusting, it is a health hazard. When one of the ponds breaks it bounds, the waste drains the way the rest of the land drains, right into rivers. Worse, when there's a flood, it can send that waste directly into city centers.
Yes, but Hitler had the Depression to do a bank shot off of. Turkey has no excuse. For nothing they elected the one person most likely to destroy their democracy. And they are still too stupid to see the problem.
Insightful? How is parroting Beibart insightful? That overgrown Cheetoh showed he has no intellect in the debates. His "policies" amount to nothing more than inventing conspiracies.
The most insulting part is a good part of the American people cannot spot him for the low-grade grifter that he is. He make Sargent Bilko look like a paradigm of virtue.
Erdogan is a whore who sold out his country and democracy for a bag of beans. His modus operandi is to hide behind a Muslim face veil claiming to be pious while he wastes his country.
Trump's supporters would simply deny he nuked the planet and that it was all a rigged to make him look bad...just before they suffer a total existence failure.
Oh, what U.S. company do you figure Qualcomm should have bought? NXP makes a lot of the processors that go into cars. They bought Freescale not so long ago which was spun out of Motorola when the big shots there were stitching together their golden parachutes. Texas Instruments is probably only the logical choice but it is second to NXP in the auto industry. And it might raise antitrust concerns given their other businesses.
Who Gowdy? I've watched the hearings, that guy and his cronies ought to be selling FlexSeal.
Errr...I hate him, and recoil at any stories about him or commenting on anything he says. He's convinced me he's not got anything interesting to say, on anything. Making stuff up I can get from the Ancient Aliens shows.
"probably wanted to hide his substance abuse" what? Eats too many Cheetos? That would explain the weird orange tints of the hair on a guy whose 70.
I give up, just what exactly are those "edge" devices? Refrigerators? Air conditioning units? Even if it is these sorts of things, connecting them to the internet is asking for trouble seeing as security is not nailed down just yet. And what refrigerator company wants to ramp up their software effort to take advantage of the extra power. What will it buy them, what do consumers get out of it? They will probably buy from some middleman who wants to sell millions of processing units....which means cost per unit is going to favor ARM because it isn't that your device is powerful, it is that your device needs a power supplying infrastructure.
You mean, as long as Russia's nuclear safeguards actually work and no one does anything stupid over there.
Because it makes Putin's dick look bigger. "Now, improved with Extra Length, Extra Power, Extra Double Secret Testosterone Enhanced Warhead."
Putin: don't mess with Russia or we'll destroy the world.
Remember when the U.S. said those systems were for protecting Europe against the Iranian. Even were the U.S. to be lying about that, one Satan 2 hitting its mark in Europe would drift nuclear fallout over Russia turning their alleged country into wasteland.