Posted on 06/05/2002 12:10:14 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
The Microsoft case is an example where its competitors, not customers, employed theI like Walter Williams.........
heavy hand of government to accomplish what they couldn't accomplish in the market.
Molon Labe !!
Though there have been some inconsistencies in the rule of law, nothing else does more to ensure a civilized society.
Three cheers for libertarian commentators.
When a person does wrong to another person and then goes on to understand why what they did was wrong and thus openly acknowledge they were wrong, it is expected in the future that they will be as honest about future errors they make. For they have demonstrated the desire and ability to acknowledge and right their wrongs.
With politicians they almost never openly admit they were wrong, for they don't want to be held by the same future standard that all other people, for the most part, abide. For politicians it has little to do with being perceived as always being right. Instead, it is about avoiding having to show, via their actions, that they have demonstrated the desire and ability to acknowledge and right their wrongs. As often as they do make errors and wrong actions -- either out of ignorance or incompetence -- they desperately want to avoid being held to a standard of honesty and integrity in the future.
Simply put, once a person sincerely demonstrates the ability to be straight-forth, honest and respectful of integrity they have set a standard that others can expect from them in the future. Having done that, consider what transpires when the person later on creates a wrong but chooses not to hold true to his or her previously set standard of honesty and integrity. Onlookers see the person is being outright deceptive or dishonest.
In other words, once a person sets an honest standard for themselves they have to live up to it or the contradiction sticks out like a sore thumb. If and when that happens the person corrects that error. The fact is, most politicians, bureaucrats, media elite and academia elite shut down that very important aspect of character development. They avoid it all together. Else wise they wouldn't be able to look themselves in the mirror. Instead, to cover for their neglect they rely on ethical standards set by a governing body. But the standards set by a governing body, especially when it's bureaucrats setting ethical standards, they too have shut down that important aspect of their character development. Thus the ethical standards the governing body sets is all but void of what you and I and virtually every other person lives by -- the nature of conscious man.
That said, the government officials that are now in office, as well as their predecessors, are among the worst people to have high-ranking-government jobs. Not to mention that most of those jobs wouldn't have existed in the first place if people with a commitment to honesty and integrity ran the government -- people who do not neglect their character development.
Is it any wonder that so much weight is put on the character of a candidates seeking to win elections. The mainstream media is not unlike the politicians in that media elites have also chosen to neglect the same important aspect of character development as they become complicit in covering for their soul-mates in government. Ditto for the academia elite.
Even when politicians and bureaucrats admit they were wrong, in all but the rarest of instances it isn't until so much exposure of their wrong has been leaked out that they eventually admit they were wrong. That admittance of doing wrong has nothing to do with character development. Character development is voluntary and needs no prodding. Least wise not for adults. Prodding adolescents is a different issue and necessary at times. Come to think of it, most politicians and bureaucrats would fail an adolescent character test.
Around the world, governments are run by humanoids. Humanoids that have chosen to neglect their character development. They wield tremendous government power that has been usurped via failed characters -- deceiving the people/tax-payers they are supposed to be protecting. Each humanoid-politician and bureaucrat is several magnitudes more harmful than nearly any violent criminal of the day. They are not like you and I and every other person who lives naturally according to the nature of conscience man.
I have used MS Works for over 10 years. I bought a copy and donated it to our church when we bought our first computer a decade ago. Today, MW Works in the package with MS Word does 98% of the computer work at our church. I can teach people how to Word Process in less than an hour and how to use the spreadsheet in about one hour.
With my new computer I have Windows XP and now I'm on MSN.com as my url. If there is a problem with my HP computer or the Windows XP system, I get a little online note that I have a problem. I use the mouse and it is repaired/patched on in less than a minute. It took me about 5 minutes to learn how to use Windows XP to get on line, do my investment stuff, banking, bill paying and of course go to the fly fishing sites and Free Republic.
The messing with MS helped to trash the tech industry and trigger the overdue recession.
MY DIL started her own part time business which she runs from her home. She bought the MS Works package with MS word and was using it in a day. She will use the Quicken with Check Free on MSN to pay both her business and personal bills to prepare her quarterly tax payments.
Whoreacle and others who couldn't compete against MS gave vast sums to Jake Reno's Rat Party to try and level the playing field. That is how bad corporations and the rats do business as a fascist partnership! Davis has it down to an exact science.
Thanks for bringing this up. Decades later when we bury the last socialists, someone will write the real history on Jake Reno, Gray Davis and others as they tried to crash MS with the dark and heavy hand of the Rat controlled government!
To make matters worse, Ralph Nader is telling the Federal government to buy out Microsoft and nationalize our computer systems: “Ralph Nader, the self- styled consumer advocate, multi-millionaire champagne socialist and Green Party presidential candidate that stole votes away from Democrat Al Gore, blasted the Bush Administration for supporting the 'Microsoft monopoly' because Federal workers use Microsoft Office products. Most Federal Government computer and software purchases were made in 1998-1999 during the second term of the Clinton Administration.”
It was MSDOS 4.0, and it was a bloody nightmare. MSDOS 3.3 was quite nice, as such things went.
My nephew is in the business called last night spitting nails. He had heard about the Enviral Nazi Nader and what he wanted to do to Micro Soft. He said if that happened, he and his wife and all friends who shape and move the business, would probably bail and find some other country to work in.
I told him to calm down. It would be at least 7 years before the rats had a president and by then Nader would be in some home for the criminally demented old socialists.
Do us a big favor, please post your oped re Whoreacle as breaking news or news new thread and ping Ernest at the Beach and me. Ernest is our official pinger on this stuff. We have quite a great group and collection of date re Herr Davis, Whoreacle and other messes. We would love to have your opeds posted and you to comment on them.
The freepers like Scott and I really help guys like you. Just kidding, we have a great resource here with Scott.
Yes, sir. Thanks for you comments. I will do my best to post the World Tech Tribune.com Oracle news and op-ed pieces in the News/Activism section ASAP.
I will call it what it is; Progressive Socialism
My dear wife offered to buy me the Plastic covered sheet XP instruction sheet at Staples or Office Depot and/or the XP for Dummies. I looked the stuff over and there wasn't anything that I had not figured out how to do in 4 weeks with the news system. So I let her buy us lunch instead. Backing data up on a CD requires some thinking. But once I do it correct re the setup, I can back up about 10 years of Check Free in about 1 minute.
When it gets too hot to fish, I will invest some time in re scanning pictures and the picture thing, which I have avoided until now. I prefer to carry pictures of my Grandkids around to show and bore others with. It is hard to carry the HP around and find a socket to plug into and balance the monitor to show off pictures of my grandkids.
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