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Rik van Riel wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, kevinfreels.com wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Is there a company out there that is more capable and better at handling
the job and is willing to do it for less?
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Also, would you want disaster recovery work done by companies
that cut corners in order to be cheaper than competitors ?
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The question is how do you determine when value for money spent has
been achieved and<br>
when has a service been over compensated, not precisely who is
delivering it.<br>
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So long as there is a way to benchmark this the function of a
competitive bid system has been duplicated.<br>
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The problem is that there is a lack of world scale operators.<br>
China or other nations are lacking in this world scale enterprise I am
assuming.<br>
The only world scale enterprises outside the USA might only be military
in nature<br>
which makes their bidding on USA domestic contracts unthinkable for the
world-view of North America.<br>
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The answer would be for the military forces of countries to have a
commerical activities function.<br>
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Perhaps a new role for a consortium of multinational forces?<br>
Will we soon become mature enough as a species to think this way?<br>
It seems evident to me that expending resources on conflict-wars etc is
dragging down the potential<br>
of humanity to make the singularity a reality. <br>
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The core question is:<br>
Does conflict serve any useful purpose in a technologically advanced
society or is is merely a disease<br>
lingering from more primative times?<br>
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