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"Amazon is currently appealing a Pentagon decision to award a 10 billion defense contract to Microsoft over Amazon." As a part of that pitch Bezos makes state

by harry8 7y ago

"Amazon is currently appealing a Pentagon decision to award a 10 billion defense contract to Microsoft over Amazon." As a part of that pitch Bezos makes statements in favour of the Pentagon. Now let's look at how the Washington Post reports that. I'm guessing there'll be a slant trashing Sanders somewhere but maybe they'll leave that out as a distraction from uncritical support of Bezos' interests. How much is enough Bezos? You've got more money than 5 future generations of your family can ever spend on anything. Unless things get a lot worse. Go dodge some more tax. You give capitalism a bad name.

brogrammernot 7y ago
Common practice to sue or appeal the decision to make sure your company didn’t get screwed out of it based on unfair terms. You can also find out where you went wrong on your RFP and make adjustments for the future. Knowing why Amazon lost to MS is just good business practice and understanding how to be better next time.
- harry8 7y ago
  I'm sorry, we don't have shared assumptions. I'll be explicit about mine. It's a Pentagon contact. It's completely corrupt from top to bottom. Being involved suggests criminality. You may think differently, of course and good luck. Who paid the bigger bribes? Who made the right promises in future job offers? Who can put the most pressure on to make people afraid for their jobs? No way a contract that big goes on merit. Zero chance. Have you ever seen Washington IT up close? It's utterly sickening and the Pentagon is the very worst offender. Hi Oracle! No you should still not exist. So why do you think Bezos thinks making this speech, devoid of content but a pledge of alliance to the Pentagon is a worthwhile investment of the time of the world's richest man? Consider travel time etc as well. Why does he even want this contract at all because it's clear he does.

by harry8 7y ago

brogrammernot 7y ago

Common practice to sue or appeal the decision to make sure your company didn’t get screwed out of it based on unfair terms. You can also find out where you went wrong on your RFP and make adjustments for the future. Knowing why Amazon lost to MS is just good business practice and understanding how to be better next time.

harry8 7y ago
I'm sorry, we don't have shared assumptions. I'll be explicit about mine. It's a Pentagon contact. It's completely corrupt from top to bottom. Being involved suggests criminality. You may think differently, of course and good luck. Who paid the bigger bribes? Who made the right promises in future job offers? Who can put the most pressure on to make people afraid for their jobs? No way a contract that big goes on merit. Zero chance. Have you ever seen Washington IT up close? It's utterly sickening and the Pentagon is the very worst offender. Hi Oracle! No you should still not exist. So why do you think Bezos thinks making this speech, devoid of content but a pledge of alliance to the Pentagon is a worthwhile investment of the time of the world's richest man? Consider travel time etc as well. Why does he even want this contract at all because it's clear he does.