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Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
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Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
But if students learn some open-source software that doesn’t get used in private industry, will they be able to land a job that’s asking Autodesk et al. knowledge as a requirement?
It's not the job of a university to prepare you for the workplace. That's the job of the workplace. I'm sick of industry outsourcing their jobs to public institutions. It's the job of a university to teach cutting edge research
It's not a big jump to go from open-source equivalents of the close source products. The concept and what one wants to accomplish is the same. Many of these companies have certification programs, if the point is to be specific and narrow, for a particular job.
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#363Not exactly a sales pitch but TFW north korea has more of a soveign software ecosystem than EU.
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#364Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the case of these two countries dual citizenship is not allowed. So for the rest of my life I will not be able to vote here. This isn’t about “not integrating enough”. If someone has been living and working in a country for a long time that should be enough to let them vote in national elections, regardless of what citizenship they have.
Personally I don't think Not willing to change your citizenship is a sign of not integrating fully, in not being completely loyal to the country and to its citizens. Imagine that both countries start a war between each other - who are you going to support? Whoever you choose does not matter, the fact remains that you would have to choose, legally speaking. Why should your current living country give the strongest pos…
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Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the case of these two countries dual citizenship is not allowed. So for the rest of my life I will not be able to vote here. This isn’t about “not integrating enough”. If someone has been living and working in a country for a long time that should be enough to let them vote in national elections, regardless of what citizenship they have.
Can you give up citizenship of the old country? Not being willing to give up your old citizenship could be one example of "not integrating enough".
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Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
The usa couldnt handle Aghanistan. Now they are invading continental Europe? As I said, still licking the car battery.
Most European countries barely have a standing military to defend themselves, they're completely dependent on the USA for defense through NATO. And their leadership is so docile and complacent that I can't see them being able to muster up a strong resistance to any incursion, most likely if there was an actual invasion of The Hague they would let America do what they need to and try to return back to business as usua…
"Most European countries … are completely dependent on the USA for defense"
Only if invaded by Russia and possibly China. And even then only the little peripheral ones. UK, Germany, and France could handle Russia - up to and including nukes.
For any conceivable military or paramilitary invasion from the rest of world, Europe will do just fine.
And sadly (an a bit off topic) , Europe — well Denmark at least — is most likely to face an military invasion from the USA.
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
The usa couldnt handle Aghanistan. Now they are invading continental Europe? As I said, still licking the car battery.
In fairness, the US has a pretty good record when it comes to invading continental Europe. They already have troops and nukes on the ground in the Netherlands... And they didn't exactly struggle with the invasion parts of Afghanistan and Iraq, nor in the getting of high status targets in those theaters. Arguably, the ICJ in the Hague is actually a result of one of those successful deployments of US forces on the cont…
"In fairness, the US has a pretty good record when it comes to invading continental Europe."
Only by using the UK as a staging post - and then invading a country that wanted to be liberated with an active partisan network.
So, if China can't take Taiwan over a 150km stretch of littoral waters, a naval in invasion from over the Atlantic is impossible.
There is also no way such a fleet would get past Gibraltar or the Suez canal, so the US would they'd have to stage in Morocco or possibly take Scandinavia then cross into Denmark.
Back to licking batteries.
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
>And they didn't exactly struggle with the invasion parts of Afghanistan and Iraq, nor in the getting of high status targets in those theaters. That was post 9/11. The mentality and motivation was different back then. Im not saying the US Military is anything less than a top tier orderly organization, its just that morale is generally low now among not only ranks but the entire country that supports them. You can't j…
My comment was in fun. I hoped that the reference to licking car batteries would signal that. No one is sending in the troops to rescue Bibi from the Hague for a variety of reasons. Chief among them is that he is not currently under arrest, and the chances of him being arrested are effectively nil. Also, Mossad.
I don't understand the Mossad comment - unless its just "ooh they're so scary" fanboy stuff.
Let's suppose Netanyahu is somehow arrested and held in a highly secure government prison in The Netherlands awaiting his chance to clear his name at the ICC.
What exactly do you suppose Mossad is going to do?
- break him out? how?
- openly assassinate politicians/judges until someone gives in?
- blow up civilians?
What?
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
My comment was in fun. I hoped that the reference to licking car batteries would signal that. No one is sending in the troops to rescue Bibi from the Hague for a variety of reasons. Chief among them is that he is not currently under arrest, and the chances of him being arrested are effectively nil. Also, Mossad.
I don't understand the Mossad comment - unless its just "ooh they're so scary" fanboy stuff. Let's suppose Netanyahu is somehow arrested and held in a highly secure government prison in The Netherlands awaiting his chance to clear his name at the ICC. What exactly do you suppose Mossad is going to do? - break him out? how? - openly assassinate politicians/judges until someone gives in? - blow up civilians? What?
Of course not, haven't you seen any movies? They break him out during transport, either by hijacking a plane, or through a complicated series of car and bus chase scenes! Maybe a helicopter and submarine, too.
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#370I completely support not being dependant on a foreign company (or any company at all, standards FTW) and I don't think there should even be a shadow of possibility that an organization like the ICC could be cut off from services due to a foreign directive, but while I have seen it repeated many times, I think the article's opening assertion is not true; https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-did-not-cut-servic...…
> I think the article's opening assertion is not true The link you provided does not appear to contradict the assertion in any way. "We have not cut off services to the ICC" != "We have not cut off services to one specific sanctioned individual who just so happened to coincidentally be on the ICC". The linked article even mentions Microsoft were pressed on the specific subject of the individual rather than the ICC as…
Difficult to say exactly, and that's part of the problem, which is why my comment is about not being dependant on closed foreign companies.