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Article #622039Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:52
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:52
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On 2018-04-26, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
> If your doctor routinely uses current "best practice" but fails to be
> attentive to your own unique case, symptoms, circumstance & reports in
> detail, it will speed h{is,er} workday but you won't be entirely happy
> (sometimes, perhaps, very unhappy) with the results.
Possibly dead.
> A good physician *starts* at "best practice" but is attentive to
> detail. Website managers are free of the physician's Hippocratic
> onus which is typically replaced with the Friedman onus:
>
> Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations
> of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of
> a social responsibility other than to make as much money for
> their stockholders as possible. -- Milton Friedman
Another trend undermining the very foundations of our free society
is that of believing corporate PR blitzes that try to portray themselves
as benevelont philanthropists bent on improving the lives of people
other than their own boards and stockholders. People are waaaaay
too trusting, too cowed by gratuitous complexity, and too unwilling
(or addicted) to break free.
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