The premise is that Skynet is trying to kill all the humans...
Which seems quite illogical as long as SkyNet is not superior to humans. Original thinking and coming up with new stuff is quite hard for an A.I., despite our best efforts to teach it to them. We're able to create A.I. which are good problems solvers...but a problem solver can not come up with innovation, not much at least. As long as SkyNet is not superior to a human. As the problem solver would most likely have figured out by then that humans don't like to be killed, and go *way* out of their way to avoid being murdered *or* take the bastard at least with them down.
Yeah, were exactly my thoughts, too.
Unfortunately, I am serious...so are they. They also paid some € 10k for a browser addon (which acts just like a favorite toolbar, but with links to government sites)...guess what? Was one-browser-only...guess which one.
On the up-side, they acknowledge that there's a problem with partisanship and corruption in the government and big companies here in Austria...and defend it with, and I quote, "...this the culture here in Austria"...
I was less after the "they throw money out the window"-part, but more for the "they can do whatever they want, nobody checks ever!"-part.
And yes, I totally agree with you! Especially since here in Austria they threw out a Linux migration because they bought a proprietary ActiveX-Component halfway through and some authorities pay € 500k for their homepage (which is nothing but a simple CMS)...
It's as hard to keep a Windows machine free of viruses as it is to keep a Linux machine from shitting itself on boot.
I've only seen Linux not booting two times in 6+ years of using it: The first was faulty hardware which caused SEGFAULTS. The second was a damaged home-partition. From all the arguments you could come up with, this is the least viable.
...and last but not least, cost.
Wait...Windows 7-Ready hardware, Windows 7 Licensing Costs AND 5 additional IT-employees and they choose Microsoft because "it costs less"?! I seriously need to get a job in the public sector, seems like they can jack off all day or something.
Happiness is twin floppies.