So where are all of the don't throw rocks in a glass house jokes........

It is an intelligence test, and apparently a lot of employees are failing.

Idiots! Watch where you are going.

And any of them that walk into more than one glass wall should be fired.

Why? In order to run native windows software an emulator would be needed.

The better option is to find open source options for each of the windows type applications that are considered "essential".

Openoffice or what ever the current variation is, provides a majority of the applications typical users need.

Gimp provides another alternative, and so and so on.

Trying to run apps natively is folly. Better to get or make better alternatives to required functions.

Back in the day Wordstar was the required application until it was supplanted by Word. It can be done.

Also, don't go the dual boot route. Commit to linux and run it at all times. That is the way to find solutions to all the little programs people think they need.

Wasn't it Drakes equation that attempted to identify the number of intelligent species that might exist in the galaxy?

That equation makes it almost certain that there are at least some if not many intelligent species in the galaxy.

However, given the huge distances involved, why does anyone think that one of them has visited this planet?

And if they did visit, why is it they have not announced themselves to the primitives? After travelling all that distance they must have some kind of agenda, and I doubt it is to mutilate cattle and abuse the occasional backwoods hillbilly.

It would be more like the conquistadors arriving in the new world and enslaving the local population to extract all the gold from the planet or what ever resource they find valuable.

This why marijuana is being legalized. Soon it will be available as daily allotments to pacify most of the people.

Of course the real solution is to eliminate the jobless class. Once power is consolidated and the ones in power are protected in their enclaves they can start the next major conflict where the conscript the jobless to fight in a war that is designed to kill as many of them as possible.

They now know that we can sustain a medium size war in several countries at a time, just need to expand that to a few more and create an enemy that people will be complacent enough to willing fight.

So they are growing microbes to feed people.

Better learn to take small bites. :)

Automation of a large majority of jobs is only 10 to 20 years away.

Take autonomous cars. That is the next big disruptive technology that will start impacting everyone in the next 10 years.

No more truck drivers, taxi drivers, delivery people, to start.

Car dealerships will decline as people stop buying personal cars and use uber type services that have fleets of autonomous cars to handle all trips.

Once all manual drive vehicles are forced off the roads, no more stop signs or traffic lights. Autonomous cars will communicate with each other and schedule time in the intersection so other cars can slightly adjust speeds as they zip through intersections just missing cross traffic.

Food delivery services will be fully automated, place the order on line, an autonomous car goes to the restaurant and the order is placed in the car which then drives to your residence for delivery.

Houses will no longer be build with garages, no one owns a car anymore.

Kiosks are popping up in McDonalds and other restaurants are using table systems to order food. Getting rid of cashiers and waiters.

Amazon is opening a cashierless store in Seattle where you walk in pickup what you want and walk out. Cameras track what you select and then your account is charged as you walk out.

There is already thought experiments and at least one field test trying to give everyone a base level "salary" to live on.

At some point the government will need to start building basic housing so young adults can move into a place that is provided for them at no charge.

Things will eventually settle down to two classes, those that are dependent on the government (eloi) and those that rule over everyone (morlocks). Of course those that rule over everyone will have larger houses and dedicated autonomous cars assigned to them and won't have to eat the base rations that everyone else gets.

In theory that should free up most people to develop mentally or pursue what currently are hobbies such as painting, writing, etc. But most will just watch the government issued TV and spend time on line watching cat videos and cyber bullying their neighbors.

We are just a few decades away from utopia!

Of course it will be a benevolent dictatorship!

At least until there are enough minions to declare most of them slaves to build the temples!

Then it becomes an evil dictatorship!

That is the plan! Baaaahaaaahhaaaaahaaaahaaaaaa!

So because these companies are so large they allow fake news to control the population?

Where is the data that shows the fake news actually impacted anything?

This idea that a bunch of trolls can target a population and sway their ideas assumes people are really dumb animals.

Are we not better than that? Can we not think for ourselves? Or have we dumbed down our schools and failed to teach critical thinking to the masses?

If that is the case we are lost already and breaking up corporations because they are successful will not solve the problem.

First will come autonomous cars for the public.

Then there will be no need for autonomous police cars as outlined in the patent request.

Some simple code that detects if a driver takes over manual control of an autonomous cars and breaks any driving laws, the autonomous car simple locks the doors and drives to the closest police station.

It all becomes self policing.

Autonomous fire engines and police cars will be needed, but will be used to quickly navigate the streets at safe high speeds.

Remember, once all cars are autonomous we don't need things like stop signs or traffic lights, the cars will communicate with each other and setup appointments to pass through intersections at speed making slight adjustments to miss the cross traffic in the intersection.

Eventually, no person will need to drive any vehicle.

This will also eliminate most personal owner ship of cars. People will use uber like services that use autonomous cars to get around when needed. Houses will no longer need garages, car dealers will go out of business, auto repair shops will convert to fleet maintenance facilities for the fleets of cars used by uber like services and government organizations. There will be no more truck driving jobs, ot taxi drivers. It will be more convenient for food delivery services, when you place your order on line an autonomous car will arrive at the restaurant and the food will be placed in the car for delivery to your door. No tip needed for a driver.

This will be one of the most disruptive technologies in a very long time once it becomes ubiquitous.

Nature is always building better idiots. :)

Real story: At a McDonalds. The cashier rings up the wrong amount tendered. Not knowing what to do he calls over a second cashier. They stand there trying to figure out how to make the change. Manager comes over and looks at amounts and gives me the correct change. And the first cashier looks in disbelief and says "You can do math in your head!!"

Really happened.

They press pictures of the food you order on the register. Idiocracy is coming true!

Meant to say extinction. :)

The secret is getting out. We are about to be invaded. The government wants to alert people to the event many have speculated about for decades, first contact with an advanced intelligence. Of course it is easy to be more advanced than humans, just look at the nightly news. :)
By putting out movies like Independence Day, they are trying to prepare us for the extension of our species. Guessing that Oumuamua may be the mother ship that will shortly take up orbit and announce itself.