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amanfromMars 1 Sun 5 Mar 08:24 [2303050824] ..... points out on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2023/03/03/china_leads_tech_aspi/

Re: So, what about NOT competing ..

.. but insted find a model to collaborate? ......Yeah, I know. It will never happen if at least one of the parties doesn't grow up.. ..... Anonymous Coward

Actually, AC, it can easily immediately happen whenever just one party realises they have to capture the room and assume/act /be all grown-up, and wise up to the advantage and reward gratitude generously supplies whenever one freely shares new and subversive resources with contemporaries ....... with such a mutually beneficial, positively reinforcing result very likely to be a continuing model of excellence guaranteeing further future collaborations/engagements/developments.

And such a novel revolutionary partnership with foreign and alien agents, although admittedly initially stalled until language differences are resolved to allow for accurate translation and transmission allowing for a perfect parallel understanding of proprietary intellectual property/stateless secret information/Advanced IntelAIgents, is virtually guaranteed if ever home grown services interest in such products/programmes/virtual machine weaponry as may be freely offered and gratefully received and deployed/employed/enjoyed, be clearly absent with proferred direct engagement with source core ore miner/minder either officially declined or worryingly ignored, given what would then be easily extrapolated/presumed/learnt by both friendly competitors and hostile opponents alike of one’s own state and level of intelligence and the state and level of one’s own national and international intelligence services too, if one identifies with any such statehood.

Some things are best realised as being absolutely vital to secure and engage with whenever failure to purchase favoured status is sure to result exceptionally grave damage to the national security.

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amanfromMars [2303051658] ....... airs on https://sluggerotoole.com/2023/03/05/open-sunday-discuss-what-you-like-51/

A little something from elsewhere which has the problem with Stormont and Westminster well sussed .... with most of yous paying through the nose for the privileged of being right royally shafted and played for mugs fit only to be thugs?

GOVERNMENTS, LIKE COMPANIES BUT WORSE

Government jobs are supposed to serve the country, by performing functions like adjudication, defense and infrastructure. These require some organization and, given that it's the government paying these people, such jobs are sought after. The reason is that generally, government jobs are very hard to get fired from. As I mentioned in the last essay, organizations past Dunbar's number have major disadvantages and governments, being even bigger than companies, have great disadvantages in this regard.

In particular, it's very difficult for those in charge to know what the workers are doing and rent seeking in such organizations tends to proliferate. Further, there's little incentive for managers to even care about employee performance as there is no direct feedback from the market. The goods and services provided by the government aren't market driven and require election waves or regime changes for even a small amount of change. Hence, the only way that such rent seekers lose their jobs is through some form of political upheaval.

The job security inherent in government work makes them very attractive, even if they don't pay as much as industry. As mentioned in the last essay, companies provide a lot of benefits besides salary and this is generally true of government as well. Health insurance, unemployment insurance, pensions, etc. are all available to government workers. Add job security, even for some of the worst performers, and we get a clamor for these jobs, especially in places where unemployment is high.

This, combined with a government's desire to stay in power, generally means a gigantic bureaucratic bloat. Because fiat money obviates the need for any sort of fiscal discipline, jobs are handed out to politically-connected people. These might be political supporters, relatives or perhaps even former political opponents. Political problems are often easily solved by bribes, and these bribes can take the form of government jobs and, of course, bribes are funded by fiat money. The only limitation on the growth of government is hyperinflation, which is essentially the death of an economy. The cancer can only grow as long as the host is alive.

Or are you going to deny it be so evidently true and thus be worthy of their arrogant contempt?

J’accuse.

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amanfromMars [23030511745] ..... replies to a comment on https://sluggerotoole.com/2023/03/05/open-sunday-discuss-what-you-like-51/

The problem is good government is absent and the void is filled with bad government, hence the parlous and perilous rapidly failing state of global geo-political play today, Charles.

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amanfromMars 1 Sun 5 Mar 17:33 [2303051733] ..... shares on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2023/03/02/scifi_mod/

A Persistent ACTive Cyber Threat Vector which may be an Unsuitable Case for Treatment

The MoD and Dame Angela McLean and the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) and Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, to name but just a few likely candidates, would first need to sort out/fix this Advanced Persistent Threat in order for anyone on planet Earth to think them in any way sincere and take them seriously, before surprisingly adept AI and IT boffins cause its myriad linked systems and defences to both implode and explode.

Avoid dealing with it at your never-ending peril.

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