Posts by Youngone 1580 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jun 2009
When Boris was campaigning on "getting Brexit done" every single person living in Britain was aware that he has been sacked from every previous job he held for lying.
If they weren't aware they should have been, because the man's trousers are constantly on fire.
They also know that the Tory party are generally the party of corruption and sleaze because of the evidence of the past 40 years or so.
Nonetheless you collectively gave Boris an increased majority and a mandate to continue to lie and screw around and you've got what you asked for.
This sort of nonsense is entirely predictable.
It is actually pretty funny. But then I don't have to live through it, so its easy me to laugh.
I am pretty sure that the vast corporation I work for was threatened with an audit by Oracle and then dared to drop them.
We have taken them up on that dare, and although it is going to take several years, we are in the process of dropping them worldwide and replacing Oracle with SAP.
Unfortunately my part of the world was chosen to be the guinea pig and it has not gone well. Lessons have been learned however and we are pressing on.
I can't imagine how bad Oracle must have been if SAP was the answer, although to be fair at least half our problems stem from employing a less than capable project manager.
The vast corporation I work for pays for both Redhat and SUSE licenses for various things we do.
I don't know exactly how much we spend every year, but my guess would be ~$20 - $30 million US. In that sort of ballpark anyway.
I'm going to assume there are good reasons we spend that money, but even if there are not, it's not my money and they spent $1 billion or so on share buybacks.
I know which one I prefer.
No, Biden didn't fall off any turnip truck.
This is funneling more taxpayer's money into the coffers of vastly profitable corporations. Also known as business as usual.
If Biden wanted to give Americans cheap fast Internet access he would break up the monopolies that dominate the industry almost everywhere.
All the complaints I am reading from Americans in the comments here don't exist where I live, because if my ISP pulled any of those sorts of tricks, I'd dump them and they know I would.
That has been China's policy since the 1990's when they decided to start taking the West's money in an effort to modernise their economy.
The greedy capitalists of the West fell over themselves in an effort to exploit a new, cheap source of labour and a potential new consumer market.
It is way too late to start complaining, the rules were spelled out quite clearly.
You are correct about why I downvoted him. His rant reads like someone who tried Linux one time in 1998, couldn't get it to work and has hated it ever since.
Meanwhile, I'm happily doing everything I need to do on Fedora with the nice new Gnome desktop not caring how many other people agree with me.
The vast corporation I work for has bought into it lock stock and barrel too.
There was a point when I tried to fight back because I think everything in the cloud is a bad idea for a big company, but I have realised that I don't really care if it all turns to poo, as it is not my money and no-one is listening anyway.
I will just do my best to mitigate the pain for my users.
Cyrus of Persia does not care at all about those rules, and will declare a surprise war just for shits and giggles. In fact if you invade your neighbours without warning he will offer you his friendship.
He does not care who he annoys.
No, I am not confusing Civilisation VI with real life, you are.
That will kill the whole thing even deader than it already is.
In an ideal world, Zuckerburg would spend every cent he has trying to make this stupid thing a success and die broke under a bridge, muttering about synergies or leveraging, or whatever pointless crap those management cockwombles think is cool this month.
I can but dream.
The US system was devised in the 18th century and set up to suit the needs of a tiny number of wealthy landowners and it has not been substantially reformed since.
The need for modernisation is pretty obvious, but because the system is sclerotic it resists change. History shows us that eventually change is imposed on those sorts of systems through violence which will not be good for anyone.
The huge American corporation I work for makes nearly $1 billion in profits every year from its Chinese operations and I don't think the shareholders particularly care how that money is made.
The thing about China is that they have never made a secret about who they are. 30 years ago, they allowed the West access to their cheap labour force and a potential consumer market of 1 billion, and the greedy capitalists fell over themselves despite China telling them the rules were whatever China decided they would be on any given day.
China are not the problem here.
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