Well, they have a lot of money to devote to it since they don't have to spend ANY money on defense. If the USA took all of its money from defense and put it into Healthcare or "Green Tech," then yes, we'd be able to claim advances in those areas. But we can't, because we're the only Western World with a _real_ military and we use it to protect all of the other countries, and they know it. If America suddenly disassembled its Military, every other country would have to step up and pick up the slack to a have a force to send into every hotspot on the planet and to keep the other guys from attacking.
So you have already found the solution ! The only thing you didn't get right here ist that the rest of the world would actually do a LOT better without America's policy to play world-police.
I don't say that a little intervention here and there wouldn't be bad, it's only that the foreign wars that the US is fighting right now (and in the past) didn't exactly help anyone besides maybe Haliburton etc.
That would SO never pass in the US.
True. But still: who gives a fuck after 50 years ?!?!? If greedy company X doesn't want to publish my stuff - what will it help me if they send me my demo tape from 1959 back ?
Thanks a LOT !
Just fell out of bed because of your comment.
ROFL
Yeah. That's what makes the whole system interesting. If the USD is subject to massive inflation, nearly all countries will loose but the US would win - because of it's massive dept.
So true... nobody needs Citrix !
We're using old ~300MHz PCs with PXE and a few IGEL ThinClients (for â20 on Ebay) as clients.
We're running *all* software on a central X11 Server (XFCE, Openoffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Gajim...)
The server is a XEN guest with 2 CPUs (3.2GHz) and 6GB RAM. It can easily support 60 (!!) simultaneous users. And for those few that can't live without Microsoft(TM) Office(R), we're running a Windows 2003 Server with terminal services using RDP.
Works great !
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs
