OT: Apple's New xServe - 1U Rackmount Server/off topic

[George Mogiljansky]

Hi Robert:

The USA's internal and external policies are run in
the majority by the oil lobby. Formulating policy
behind closed doors (despite court orders to open the
books), these individuals have a very different view
of the USA than a typical Linux user. Washington
supports M$ in much the same way. (A Canadian
programmer found the 'third' key to Win 98 afew years
ago - the key used to open any Win 98 box on this
planet.)
Europe is actively promoting self-sufficiency in
energy (Denmark, since you mentioned it, is at the
forefront).
Self-sufficiency was a founding principal of the USA.

After Steve Jobs failed to hire Linus Torvalds to work
on OSX at Apple, Jobs embarked on an ambitious
strategy
to promote Apple machines as digital hubs. His grasp
of economics is closest to that of the
military-industrial complex that still runs the USA;
planned obsolescence, conspicuous consumption,
releasing apps and OSs in beta mode but not charging
beta prices (re: the recent post about OSX Server SW).
I salute Linux developers who redeem the wastefulness
of the 'princes of darkness' by making apps and
drivers available for perfectly usable devices (mainly
Intel-based and their clones).
Cheers
George 
PS: and don't forget Mac devices!

--- Robert Brandtjen <rob@prometheusmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Actually - I know quite a bit about it - neither of
> you responding are viewing 
> reality as it is- 
> 
> 2 points that prove it - our economy when headed
> south takes the world with 
> it, no other sector, including Japan, who's economy
> is far larger then any 
> Euro country, will do anything more then cause a
> ripple here - in fact, 
> Americans benefit from it as imports get cheaper, as
> a general rule of thumb.
> 
> Europeans tend to have a hard time seeing their
> increasing irrelevance in the 
> world, especially France, but the truth is, the
> Pacific rim has been on the 
> rise for some time now and Europe's socialistic
> economies just cannot compete 
> with the rest of the world. THe US, unlike Europe,
> does not suffer from a 
> core unemployment rate of around 12.5%.
> 
> As per our supposed greed using "30%" of the
> "world's" resources, I assume 
> that reference applies to oil in the main, since we
> produce more food then 
> the world can consume and we are now in the process
> of slowly ideling our 
> steel mills so as to allow for the cheap imports
> that will maintain other 
> nation's economies.
> 
> When that statement is made, it is usually based
> upon extreme naivete 
> vis-a-vis economics - were it not for that
> consumption, the nations supplying 
> us those resources would suffer massive unemployment
> compared to their 
> present levels. Who are they going to sell it to,
> China ? It is only by 
> producing products that are marketable that a nation
> can encrease it's 
> manufacturing base and improve the economic lives of
> it's citizens - you 
> cannot sell cars to people that cannot afford
> bicycles.
> 
> As per oil - well, if we didn't buy it, again, you
> would have the same 
> problem, show me one non NAFTA oil exporter that has
> bothered to invest it's 
> money in a manufacturing base with in it's own
> boarders. The middle eastern 
> countries for the most part have invested their
> monies in America. Gasoline, 
> in America, using 1969 dollars as a constant, is
> today, no more then 
> $.25/gal, not much more then in 1970 when it was $
> .199/gal, in fact, two 
> years ago it was cheaper then 1970 gas. The market
> price is set by the 
> market, if oil were truly in short supply, it would
> command a much higher 
> price tag.
> 
> You forget this whole thread (in it's present form)
> was predicated upon the 
> idea that US business' should adopt OSS, not, say,
> Taiwan, China, Denmark, 
> etc. That in itself is an admisssion that they tend
> to lead the rest of 
> world, or would have an impact that would push it
> into the mainstream.
> -- 
>  Robert Brandtjen

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