Sounds like another big win for Marketing.

You should try actually being a "guest worker" in another country sometime. Then maybe you'd see how completely full of crap you are.

Med vänliga hälsningar från Stockholm,

Z.

Just as soon as we figure out who he is...

Feel free to expose Microsoft and Apple.

Yeah, it's bad to have padrones run society.

Yeah, it's bad when somebody who managed to make a lot of money once decides that makes him competent to run areas of society that they know nothing about, like education.

The other problem is that, in addition to spending things that are in their own interest, they can spend things on sheer whim.

Bill Gates listened to a few glib educational theorists and bought the idea of destroying the public education system and replacing them with private charter schools.

He and his billionaire friends funded a movement that is wrecking the educational system, and running everything by high-stakes testing that has never been validated and has been proven to be invalid. They're lowering teacher salaries, and humiliating teachers.

When I was studying accounting I collected annual reports and 10-K financial statements of corporations. For example, I got the annual reports of media companies. For the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and McGraw-Hill, the controlling stock was owned by women.

The reason was simple: most wealth in America is inherited family wealth. Men usually die before their wives, so their wives inherit their wealth and have control over it. So it was the family matriarchs that wound up owning the Post, Times, WSJ and M-H. And they usually managed the companies to some degree. Katherine Graham was a hands-on publisher, but even at the others, a woman usually made fundamental decisions such as hiring (or firing) a publisher and top executives.

If there weren't enough women at the executive levels of those corporations, it was because Katherine Graham, Iphigenea Ochs Sulzberger, etc., didn't appoint them.

When you talk about presidents, senators, prime ministers, and corporate board members, you're talking about the 1%. Almost any woman among them is more powerful than almost any man in the bottom 99%.

Referring to state crony capitalism as "socialism" does not make it that.

The current setup in China is more accurately described as "Fascism-Lite".

Nancy Reagan: I'll have the meat loaf.

Waiter: And the vegetable?

Nancy Reagan: He'll have the meat loaf too.

Your reading of this is not quite the same as mine, I suspect. :)

I really like how the Firefox devs recently decided that my tabs should move above almost everything else instead of at the top of the browser window where is where I put them so they would be immediately accessible from whatever page I'm viewing, AND did their damnedest to keep anybody from moving it back. What a complete and utter fail.

I would like the "semantic desktop" and Akonadi to die in a fire. Along with forcing me to accept a MariaDB installation that I do not want.

And just how long have you been employed by Microsoft's Marketing Deptartment, Mr Aldenissin?

Poppycock. Windows got a lock on the desktop because MS spread FUD far and wide, and worked shitty deals with vendors to lock out the competition.

That's right. We'll always have Window Maker.