Nationalize Microsoft
No, I'm not a socialist. I wouldn't go around nationalizing everything. But I think exercising a little eminent domain over Microsoft is a great idea, not only for the massive economic benefits but also, as they said when they hanged Admiral Byng, "pour encourager les autres".
Microsoft is still wrangling with the EU as to how to implement the EU antitrust ruling, using the same stalling tactics they've always used to weasel their slimy way to the top.
They no longer serve any useful economic purpose. We don't need any more "upgrades" to our spreadsheet or wordprocessing programs or to our operating system, and it is certainly an economic negative for this company to force us to take them just in order to escape finding really useful ways to make a buck. Nationalizing the company might make others think twice before embarking on such rampant abuse of monopoly power. As for the worldwide economic benefits, just imagine what producticity might be unleashed if nobody had to pay for the operating system and the source code were made freely available. Write to your congressman!
Microsoft is still wrangling with the EU as to how to implement the EU antitrust ruling, using the same stalling tactics they've always used to weasel their slimy way to the top.
They no longer serve any useful economic purpose. We don't need any more "upgrades" to our spreadsheet or wordprocessing programs or to our operating system, and it is certainly an economic negative for this company to force us to take them just in order to escape finding really useful ways to make a buck. Nationalizing the company might make others think twice before embarking on such rampant abuse of monopoly power. As for the worldwide economic benefits, just imagine what producticity might be unleashed if nobody had to pay for the operating system and the source code were made freely available. Write to your congressman!
posted by econoclast at 9:46 PM
10 Comments:
Well, I don't know a lot about Microsoft, but I like the Beatles and Beethoven...7th symphony, 2nd movement is my favorite. However, I do know a thing or two about the meaning of life...
Agreed on the Beatles and Beethoven. Hard to pick a favorite movement, but I'm pretty fond of the 3rd movement in the Ninth.
Here's the basic question on the meaning of life, the universe and everything:
How come there isn't nothing?
The Ninth is an excellent choice. But what do you mean "how come there isn't nothing?" Everything is something. Maybe you should expound on that a bit so I can understand the question more.
Really the question speaks for itself. Why is there anything at all? Why isn't there just nothing? If you can answer that question, then you've probably found the meaning of life.
Well many people believe in evolution, and that explains to them why there is anything.
For me, I know that God created us and the world. I know that we were sent here to be tested, to have agency that allows us, the natural man, to make our own choices. It is our decision to make the right choices so that we may return to him again when we die.
My meaning of life is a constant effort to do the best I can; to help others, to serve God, obey his commandments, and repent of my wrong doings, all in order to be able to return and live with God again.
I have no idea what you believe, whether you are an atheist or an agnostic, or what. But I Personaly know that we can live with God again. We can. There is life after death, and knowing that, puts so much more meaning into my life.
Evolution doesn't answer the question. As for God, well, that's one answer, but it's surely a matter of faith rather than reason.
As John Nash said in his Nobel Prize Award acceptance speech in '94, "What is logic? Who decides reason?"
What do you think are possible answers to your own question?
As I said, the answer is elusive...
It often seems to have been in the past that questions are unanswerable because they make invalid assumptions. For example: "What happens when you reach the edge of the world?" is a question that must often have been asked in the days when people thought the world was flat. The answer would have been completely unexpected.
I suspect that the answer to my question is similarly not to be found by thinking along conventional lines.
It seems that you have thought about this a lot. I hope you find your answer. I like to think about life and ask questions and answer them. I like to think. However, I am just a teenager across the country and your mind is obviously far more advanced than my own. So thanks for letting me talk about all this with you. I enjoyed it.
Post a Comment
<< Home