They probably outsource their work, buy it, or outright steal it from someone else. The original product MS had was its BASIC programming language. After that, Bill Gates made a real stink about "unauthorized copying" of his stuff in the Open Letter to Hobbyists which kicked off the modern software copyright regime.
It seems that there's a lot of Merger & Acquisition growth in MS's past. Bill Gates bought a cheap knockoff of CP/M to edge out DR-DOS. Excel was based on a product from Apple. Windows is a clone of Xerox PARC ideas. MS used the BSD licensed TCP/IP stack for its internet backend. There's references to the NSA in some of MS's Cryptography DLLs.
More recently, they bought up services like LinkedIn and GitHub.
It makes you wonder how much of their stuff is truly original.
The Left has weaponized The Wave and inverted its target.
Remember when feminism complained about equality and systemic privilege? See, this is real equality. Nature is kind of sexist and racist in terms of average differences.
The entire point of womens' leagues was to compensate for these average differences in biology so that we can permit women to have a fair playing field. Feminism's complaint was already answered with a league that permitted women to compete. But the left wanted more. And now left expanded the definition of "women" to include "men with gender issues" and ignored the basic facts of biology.
Here's what you have wrought. Here's an idea: "Beware of those who complain about what they already have."
Hmm, interesting. So, those who take COVID super seriously will get the vaccine that may likely sterilize them and will also avoid having relationships with those that don't take it as seriously as them. I guess nature does have a way of culling the gullibility that produced this problem after all...
Hmm, it seems like a certain mayor is offering to be hunted by the "strong" and the "tough."
China's own people felt the hurt because their leaders wanted to boycott Australia. Their government is an evil monstrosity.
You can't be serious.
You think we would rather have radioactive waste that produces ionizing radiation and has to be sequestered for thousands of years? And the risk of "accidents" like Chernobyl and Fukushima that wipe out the habitability of chunks of the state for centuries? And the increased risks of cancer and tumors? That energy is "green" all right... green with radioactive Cerenkov radiation.
There's only one source of energy that wouldn't pollute. Fusion. But scientists have been wasting time trying to promote transgender studies.
Meanwhile you force people to use electricity devices that break down during the middle of a cold snap for the sake of preventing "climate change."
How about a "successor" to the failed Deep State "union?"
The bullshit that they are pushing is the "Cult of the Almighty Accident. They say the universe is a grand accident that randomly produced ordered life for no reason. They say it has no designer and no ultimate purpose. They say it's just there and one day our "happy accident" of consciousness will just return to just being disordered energy and matter. They say that there's no one is there to hold our hand or forgive our mistakes. And they most especially want us to believe that nobody is here watching us. Most especially not the government or the technological elites. After all, we're just sheep. Slime in a petri dish for their own experiments to "improve" themselves at our expense.
(BTW, they probably have help from like-minded entities "above" - the secular among us would call them "aliens" and the religious probably call them "demons" - but they'll deny that to all heck and mock you for thinking that because they've got a cushy deal with these entities to sell us all out for their own benefit...)
There's a lot of bug eyes and Sanpaku out there opposing Trump.
Caught a glowie did we? The Deep State infiltration strategy at its finest.
Agreeability is not a good psychological trait in excess. It can become quite toxic when applied as a required norm.
If what I've heard is right, it's more like picking specimens as puppet vehicles and enslaving or culling the rest. Same principle, though.
This is a far deeper matter that is coming home to roost. This is actually a problem from evolution itself.
In a nutshell, evolution fundamentally gears towards mediocracy rather than excellence. Since its inception, evolution operated in a state of subsistence rather than abundance. Therefore, the inherent solutions to problems that an organism must face that are engrained biologically are setup in such a way that work 'good enough' within the initial niche but are not usually good enough to be generalized to every situation. A truly 'great' solution requires limiting the impulses that have historically been engrained in cases where their application is deleterious to long term goals.
Intelligence, or... more accurately... impulse control is exactly that. And it has a hidden evolutionary cost that gradually accrues. Western culture and society started out far more regimented than we are now. Because the rules of this society are fundamentally built upon those premises of impulse control being exercised to promote long term goals. Over time, we have gradually begun to rely on voluntarily keeping these principles of self-control rather than using the means of coercion that had existed in prior generations. This is because most of us are adapted to that system and raised to expect its premises. But, over time these mechanisms of reinforcing self-control have been mostly eroded through countercultural paradigms such as Communism. Communism exploits the system by promising power to those who those who can't exercise self-control well which creates a cycle of "envy" and "greed" that slowly whittles away at the foundations of the system. This cooperates with other self-serving mechanisms that also undermine that long term net benefit. The Catholic Church formalized this system as it built Western society into Seven Deadly Sins: pride, wrath, greed, envy, lust, gluttony, sloth. What it didn't seem to anticipate is that these sins are actually invertible and it's possible to have one sin create a false virtue that masquerades as a good thing but is actually evil. Thus Communism presents itself as a "virtue" of charity when in reality it is the sin of envy.
Thus the principles allow the development of complex societies present a form of "weakness" that eventually begin to undermine its very strengths. These complex societies evolve and improve their standing but when a few generations pass we see the temptations coming from our short-term evolutionary design leading to corruption naturally setting in. Thus the very empathy and compassion which had previously served as a good means of building the complex societies gradually becomes an exploitable mechanism by those who prefer these short term gains. And soon that abundance bubble will collapse as the state of nature reasserts itself and mankind returns back to a state of "mediocracy" with the stupid people taking over again.
Eyes in the front, likes to hunt. Eyes on the side, runs and hides.
Smart thinking distinguishes short and long term goals. Using one enemy to attack another is fine for the short term. Just keep a clear sight on the fact that they'll inevitably turn on us when everything is said and done and act accordingly.
I'm addressing the fallacy of "an enemy of my enemy is my friend." "Not attacking me right now" is not the same as "being my friend." Are they going after the crony class? Sure. Am I going to delude myself that they're my friend? Nope.
Incorrect. They want to destroy capitalism and replace it with socialism. Socialism is an existential threat anyone who values individual liberty. Socialism gives middle managers tyranny over the economy.
Disinformation rule #14 "Demand complete solutions"
So your argument is basically "People trying to do things means nothing, unless I get the results I wanted they're a LARP." Have fun with that.
Yes. 1984 called this phenomenon Emmanuel Goldstein.
What valuable research? Do you think you'd know anything if it wasn't for anonymous people digging? Who found the PA voting timelines and shared it with the Trump community? You think that's your doing? You wouldn't even know Joe had stolen the election if the anons weren't watching.
Oh, by the way, they've been using PACER for 3 and a half years. It's how they got the count of "sealed indictments."
North Korea and Saudi. Iran. Hunter is now hunted. These people are sick. The fact that voter fraud was coming. Nothing, huh?
Just because it doesn't play out the way you or I had hoped doesn't make that nothing. I'm as bummed as you are that Trump let this scumbag steal his rightful office. But that's no reason to ignore the fact that there is a track record of cases where there have been hits.
See, here's the thing. You live and you learn. You make mistakes in interpreting the world. And you grow from them. Q shouldn't be treated like a god or a prophet. Q is a set of clues and wisdom is realizing that the clues aren't going to always fit your expectations.
Andrew Jackson killed the Bank of the United States. The Federal Reserve sees Andrew Jackson as a bad portent of what could happen to them.
I guess that makes trannies "erection fraud?"