Posts by Bearshark 23 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Apr 2017
It may be a little hyperbolic to say but, Boeing bought MD and all their brass went to executive positions. Boeing was an engineering company and they lost that after the merger. What you get now is Safety be damned because its all about the shareholders now and will never be about the customer. Airbus will capitalize hugely in the coming years if it hasn't already.
All the Marxist state leaders in the world envy the CCP. This is the reason for industry consolidation. Following the CCP model of controlling an industry is easier than letting "free market capitalism" dictate the markets. There is no communist control in what you "can't" control.
This is not limited to the IT industry as other industries have also consolidated. How many phone companies are left(well I guess these are IT companies)? How many major airlines are left, how many oil companies are left, and how many, etc... etc... Look 20-30 years ago. There were a lot more companies in these industry sectors back then.
Of course, this is just my observations/opinions and I hope I'm wrong.
I've pretty much lost all hope for Science at this point. Science has been politicized for decades now. Sure fusion energy sounds fantastic... 20+ years from now. The reason why I'm bitter toward the Sciences these days is because we could have been using small fission reactors everywhere by now, but politically this never happened. We've had nuclear submarines since 1958 that can run indefinitely, yet there is no terrestrial nuclear power implemented at a small scale to supply power to neighborhoods. Nuclear power is very safe. The waste isn't an issue like politicians want you to think.
I don't think the current build of 'TOR' resembles anything close to what the United States Naval Research Laboratory built back in the day, IMO. This software is completely open source. That being said, I'm sure the source code has been audited many times. It's all about your trust tolerance I guess.
Maybe they should fix the silicon on my 300E first. SSL HW acceleration kept spiking the CPU so I had to turn it off. Now "proxyd" and "wad" are crashing causing any new VPN connections to not connect.
Don't pay for their rapid replacement service cause they've never rapidly sent me anything since this problem cropped up over a year ago.
Intuit deserves all that they get. They're a horrible company. My accountant curses Quick Books every time I pay him a visit. I stopped using turbo tax when I tried to open a previous year's .tax file with the most current version of TT and it couldn't. They have a paid service for that. That was inconvenient since I was being audited at the time. Intuit can go to hell.
Boeing troubles started immediately after the McDonald Douglas acquisition in the late '90s. As aki009 noted:
"Boeing shifted its focus from engineering to "share holder value"
People ask even today, "Who really bought who" during that acquisition. Once the transaction was complete, the MD executives basically took over. MD's culture has always been the "Share Holder" comes first.
That's 20years Boeing will never get back. And it seems this culture has spread to their industrial military complex businesses (including NASA).
Such a shame, Boeing used to the one of the worlds premier engineering companies.
@JohnFen gets it,
If anybody actually trusts ANY company to keep your data private, including government institutions, then you are a fool. In my opinion it goes this way:
Private companies sell 80% of our data where the other 20% is stolen.
Government(s) in general sell 10% of our data and 90% of our data gets stolen due to Government incompetence.
Operating Systems present users access to the hardware on which the OS resides. That's all it should be, nothing more. Then the user then has the freedom to run / install applications that interact with the hardware. (i.e. spreadsheet on the monitor, spread sheet using floating point calculations on a CPU).
Windows has grown to a bloated piece of crap and this update model just doesn't work well.
It's like the United States Federal Government. At it's constitutional core, I am to be protected from foreign aggression and have the freedom to prosper. In its current iteration, The United States Federal Government is there just to impede my pursuit of liberty and happiness.
So I can draw parallels with Windows :-)
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