When this year is over, US citizens will hold the world record for protests against their own government.
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The USA isn't the envy of the world for anything these days. Only Americans think that. Nobody envies you for anything, not even Silicon Valley, with the housing crisis and poverty surrounding it.
How about not declaring war and using half the taxpayer's money on making defense contractors richer? How about not having 800 bases around the world? How about not toppling foreign governments? How about actually making corporate giants keep and reinvest their profits inside the US instead of keeping it in the Bahamas or in Ireland? How about giving everyone free education, thus really investing in your country's future -its children? How about not having more than half of the US population living in financial precarity despite the country supposedly being the richest country on earth? How about making sure everyone has a home?
Writing blog posts is too easy for some people. Not that this president-elect can do better, but choosing the destiny of a country is more complicated than your dreams of robotic supremacy, Mr Cuban.
A country that does not want to live in peace with others, a country that mainly exports bombs and war, that does not look after its own population rich or poor, black,brown or white, a country that does not care for its sick, a country that has a government which only works for those who have bought it, a country completely indifferent to the mass murders of its own citizens, a country where being black is to be born guilty, a country where cops are judge, jury and executioner does not deserve to be leader in anything at all.
There's a much better chance that kernel writing would have been fully automated by AI or evolved through much advanced genetic algorithms by the time Linus Torvalds passes away.
Successive US governments have appointed Goldman Sachs operatives to important government positions and you find that China is Characterized by corruption and opportunism?
>China, a country's whose politics and economy is currently characterized by corruption and opportunism
The US started a war for bogus reasons for the benefit of corporations like Haliburton and you find China is Characterized by corruption and opportunism?
>China, a country's whose politics and economy is currently characterized by corruption and opportunism
Obama did absolutely nothing to punish the people responsible for the worst financial market crash since the great depression and you find that China is Characterized by corruption and opportunism?
>China, a country's whose politics and economy is currently characterized by corruption and opportunism
Debbie Wasserman-Shultz empowered pay-day lenders using her public office in Florida and you find that China is characterized by corruption and opportunism?
>China, a country's whose politics and economy is currently characterized by corruption and opportunism
Hillary and Bill Clinton have been PROVEN to have engaged in par-for-play politics with operatives from Arab countries by the Podesta email leaks and you find that China is characterized by corruption and opportunism?
>China, a country's whose politics and economy is currently characterized by corruption and opportunism
The Koch Brothers have year after year used their money and influence to buy politicians at all levels so that they could pollute, fire people and evade taxes at will and you find that China is characterized by corruption and opportunism?
>China, a country's whose politics and economy is currently characterized by corruption and opportunism
The Syrian war has been nothing but another one of the USA's oil wars, with the USA FUNDING, ARMING and TRAINING TERRORISTS (Tulsi Gabbard just proposed the Stop Funding Terrorism Act, check it out), all so that Qatar could have a pipeline built from Saudi Arabia to Turkey, with the blessing of the Obama administration, and you find that China is characterized by corruption and opportunism?
Throwing stones around while you're living in a glass house aren't you? Have you even seen the CORRUPT people that Donnie-Tiny-Hands-the-Swamp-Monster has appointed to his cabinet?
Seriously. Anonymous US "intelligence" sources having suspicions about Russian hacking are not PROOF of ANYTHING AT ALL.
Has everyone forgotten about Colin Powell shaking his little flask of "evidence" of weapons of mass destruction before the whole UN assembly?
Has everyone forgotten how NINETEEN SAUDIS boarded airplanes that they flew into your buildings and killing more than THREE THOUSAND US CITIZENS and the US government decided to invade Iraq which eventually led to the rise of Daesh?
How much more bloodshed does the USA need? How much meat for the grinder?
Those cheering on the war will not send their own children to die. It's always poor people who pay, either side of the gun.
Nobody steps down after protests - welcome to the real world. No need to question their mentality.
And Acorn (the company that invented ARM chips - Acorn Risc Machine) had the Acorn A4 http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22807/Acorn-A4-Laptop... Edit: Microsoft was also already there with their Windows CE devices.
And Psion and Vtech (http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/30249/Vtech-I-T-Lapto...) also used ARM Chips in laptop form factor devices
So it's not really about someone beating someone else to market, just the evolution of the market itself.
That is not the way forward for humanity.