wars

Java and JavaScript both had a chance to win in the early days of the browser wars.

So my guess is a bit of friendly competition that keeps spurring new innovation (similar to the browser wars).

You solve this problem by actively supporting anti-WAR campaings and removing from power parties who made/support wars.

Google's YouTube APIs played (and still does) a significant part in its turf wars against Microsoft.

We could get away from all the crazy wars that people are starting here on Earth.

Plenty of people don't care about funding wars or other harmful stuff, because it simply never occurs to them what's going on.

In order to stop having refugees, one must stop having wars, like the one we have in Syria.

The number one reason for Switzerland's wealth is that they were clever enough to stay out of wars as much as possible.

If this wasn't true the country would already be at least middle income, absent massive fuck ups, (communism included) or recent wars.

Especially in this times of guerilla wars against privacy.

As for the funding of wars, plenty of people are prepared to fund them as long as they and their relatives don't end up fighting in them.

It's very very hard to analyze, because you have to factor in wars, especially ones we did not exactly choose to fight (e.g.

We joke about language or editor wars being "religious", but really, that same thought process exists.

Millions of human minds connected for the first time in an elaborate feedback loop -- we get these non-adaptive non-linear emergent effects, these harmonics, like "flame wars", hatred, and all kinds of weird new forms of harassment.

The free exchange of ideas and information is a threat to any ruler anywhere, because the longer and more widely it goes on, the more likely a random person gets exposed to ideas like: "heyyy if we had a choice, we probably wouldn't fund wars or fight in them!

I've been part of a team that made a game called Favela Wars, and I have experience doing simulators to the Navy.

For myself, I can on days off, do two very different things that are very immersive: watch tv series, or play Star Wars: Online Galaxies.

Rotary International, Kiwanis International, the Independent Order of Foresters, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry - all those secular fraternal organizations still exist.