Who Built Anandtech?

[dealcorn]

Reuters has a lovely puff piece on Anand And Anandtech at

 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/27/usa-chips-anandtech-idUSL2E8IQDGZ20120727

. It includes some educational background information I found helpful. I have difficulty reading the piece and then coming to the conclusion that the business of Anandtech was built by anyone other than Anand. Can someone reconcile the success of Anandtech with our Commander in Chief's statement that Anand did not build that?

 

[UberNeuman]

Reuters has a lovely puff piece on Anand And Anandtech at

 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/27/usa-chips-anandtech-idUSL2E8IQDGZ20120727

. It includes some educational background information I found helpful. I have difficulty reading the piece and then coming to the conclusion that the business of Anandtech was built by anyone other than Anand. Can someone reconcile the success of Anandtech with our Commander in Chief's statement that Anand did not build that?

Well... great post....

stupid is as stupid does...

 

[techs]

Anand didn't build the internet. He didn't build the backbones, etc.
He didn't build the telephone lines that enabled access in the early days.
He didn't educate the engineers, nor build the roads that took the engineers to school and work. etc, etc, etc

All this was all or in part built by the government.

Without these there is no Anandtech

 

[Phokus]

Reuters has a lovely puff piece on Anand And Anandtech at

 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/27/usa-chips-anandtech-idUSL2E8IQDGZ20120727

. It includes some educational background information I found helpful. I have difficulty reading the piece and then coming to the conclusion that the business of Anandtech was built by anyone other than Anand. Can someone reconcile the success of Anandtech with our Commander in Chief's statement that Anand did not build that?

He didn't say business owners didn't build their own businesses you drooling retard.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

"The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

"So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the G.I. Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for President -- because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together."

And anandtech wouldn't have existed if it weren't for the government creating the internet, which is totally in line with what obama said.

 

[techs]

Not to mention if it hadn't been for the government of the US, its economic and military power, that enabled a free and open internet.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Duh, blah blah blah Duh blah blah blah Duh Philipines derp blah blah blah Duh. I am trained to believe everything my leaders say is an undeniable fact. blah blah blah derp.

Welcome to an American forum, hosted on the internet built by funding from our government. Congratulations on finding us...lol

 

[UberNeuman]

Not to mention if it hadn't been for the government of the US, its economic and military power, that enabled a free and open internet.

Better yet:

"Can someone reconcile the success of Anandtech with our Commander in Chief's statement that Anand did not build that? "

We all have built this. A partnership...

\can't have one without the other....

 

[momeNt]

Football players thank God when scoring a touchdown. They get it. Government is your God now and you must thank it.

edit: on a more serious note, maybe Obama should have gone more along the lines of WE all built it together, as Americans, instead of like saying the government did it, because the government didn't do shit.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Football players thank God when scoring a touchdown. They get it. Government is your God now and you must thank it.

edit: on a more serious note, maybe Obama should have gone more along the lines of WE all built it together, as Americans, instead of like saying the government did it, because the government didn't do shit.

Yeah, now tell us how we should let the government rape us in order to protect our national security from a bunch of guys with box cutters again. Or better yet, how we have to invade Iran to protect our Constitution. You are always good for a laugh.

 

[Abraxas]

Reuters has a lovely puff piece on Anand And Anandtech at

 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/27/usa-chips-anandtech-idUSL2E8IQDGZ20120727

. It includes some educational background information I found helpful. I have difficulty reading the piece and then coming to the conclusion that the business of Anandtech was built by anyone other than Anand. Can someone reconcile the success of Anandtech with our Commander in Chief's statement that Anand did not build that?

Sure, as soon as someone reconciles how one can be stupid enough to post what you just posted but still operate a keyboard.

 

[Phokus]

Where the fuck are all these conservative retards coming from.

 

[Abraxas]

nm - poor taste joke

 

[DucatiMonster696]

Anand didn't build the internet. He didn't build the backbones, etc.
He didn't build the telephone lines that enabled access in the early days.
He didn't educate the engineers, nor build the roads that took the engineers to school and work. etc, etc, etc

All this was all or in part built by the government.

Without these there is no Anandtech

Does government still control the internet in the same manner it did in the early days?

Answer = No

Did government make the internet into the commercial success it is today?

Answer = No

The internet itself was handed off to the private sector to grow into what it is today because some in government knew to get out of the way so that they would not smother and kill of the growth of the private sector.

Thus the growth of the internet was due to the private sector turning this piece of tech into something people were/are willing to use and pay for in order to accomplish all sorts of things that would allow guys like Anand to also find his own success in the competitive field of providing tech news, reviews and other insights, etc. In the end it was up to Anand to do something with his website and grow it out so that people like yourself could come over and tell him he had no significant role in growing his business.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Does government still control the internet in the same manner it did in the early days?

Answer = No

Did government make the internet in the commercial success it is today?

Answer = No

The internet itself was handed off to the private sector to grow into what it is today because some in government knew to get out of the way so that they would not smother and kill of the growth of the private sector.

Thus the growth of the internet was due to the private sector turning this piece of tech into something people were/are willing to use and pay for in order to accomplish all sorts of things that would allow guys like Anand to also find his own success in the competitive field of providing tech news, reviews and other insights, etc. In the end it was up to Anand to do something with his website and grow it out so that people like yourself could come over and tell him he had no significant role in growing his business.

That thought you had there, you didn't built it.

 

[sandorski]

Does government still control the internet in the same manner it did in the early days?

Answer = No

Did government make the internet in the commercial success it is today?

Answer = No

The internet itself was handed off to the private sector to grow into what it is today because some in government knew to get out of the way so that they would not smother and kill of the growth of the private sector.

Thus the growth of the internet was due to the private sector turning this piece of tech into something people were/are willing to use and pay for in order to accomplish all sorts of things that would allow guys like Anand to also find his own success in the competitive field of providing tech news, reviews and other insights, etc. In the end it was up to Anand to do something with his website and grow it out so that people like yourself could come over and tell him he had no significant role in growing his business.

No one denies that, your point is Moot.

 

[Brainonska511]

 

[Pr0d1gy]

This thread got LOL real fast.

 

[michal1980]

Anand built Anandtech. Not his neighbor, not bob, not some smuck paving streets.

Any one else around that time could have done want he did. He just did it better then most.

The left with Obama want to think they had some part in it, they want to take credit for his work. Why? Because most of them are failures that created nothing of value, but want to stand next to the bright stars so they can feel they are worthy of the light.

Could Anand have built Anandtech without x,y, & z? No but for any success/achivement something had to be done before. But those x,y & z were around for everyone at the time Anand started.

 

[theevilsharpie]

Anand built Anandtech. Not his neighbor, not bob, not some smuck paving streets.

Any one else around that time could have done want he did. He just did it better then most.

The left with Obama want to think they had some part in it, they want to take credit for his work. Why? Because most of them are failures that created nothing of value, but want to stand next to the bright stars so they can feel they are worthy of the light.

Could Anand have built Anandtech without x,y, & z? No but for any success/achivement something had to be done before. But those x,y & z were around for everyone at the time Anand started.

Nobody on "the left" is trying to take credit for Anand's achievement; they're simply reminding the public that achievements like AnandTech don't come out of a vacuum.

In light of Obama's comments, let's analyze Anand's situation:

• From what I understand, he received his education in government-funded schools
• The electricity that his equipment requires is probably generated (at least in part) by government-funded power plants
• Manufacturers ship him equipment via freight carriers that rely on government-funded roads and airports
• The articles that Anand and his staff write are protected against unauthorized copying by government-enforced copyrights
• The computer network Anand uses to distribute his content relies on a government-managed network, which uses a government-built communications protocol
• Anand's technical writing requires his audience to be both literate and capable of analyzing the data within, skills that most people who read AnandTech will get from a public education
• Anand's income relies on the promises of advertisers to pay, which is enforced by government contract law

I'm sure I can go on. AnandTech (and by extension, Anand) absolutely relies on the services and infrastructure the government provides. This reliance is direct (in the case of roads, electricity, etc.), and indirect (in the case of past projects that have developed the technologies on which AnandTech relies), and this is exactly the message Obama attempted to convey. Obama's phrasing may have been awkward, but that doesn't make it any less correct.

 

[boomerang]

Not to mention if it hadn't been for the government of the US, its economic and military power, that enabled a free and open internet.

Huh. So what great things do you foresee for us on the horizon keeping in mind that progs like yourself are hell bent on reforming the economy through redistribution and greatly if not totally reducing our military power? Factor in your scuttling of NASA.

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[dmcowen674]

I have difficulty reading the piece and then coming to the conclusion that the business of Anandtech was built by anyone other than Anand.

Can someone reconcile the success of Anandtech with our Commander in Chief's statement that Anand did not build that?

According to the Reuters article and Anand himself the 12 million users that frequent AT built AT so why can you not come to the conclusion Anand did not build it?

 

[Pr0d1gy]

According to the Reuters article and Anand himself the 12 million users that frequent AT built AT so why can you not come to the conclusion Anand did not build it?

Because GodLimbaugh told them so...

 

[dmcowen674]

Nobody on "the left" is trying to take credit for Anand's achievement; they're simply reminding the public that achievements like AnandTech don't come out of a vacuum.

In light of Obama's comments, let's analyze Anand's situation:

• From what I understand, he received his education in government-funded schools
• The electricity that his equipment requires is probably generated (at least in part) by government-funded power plants
• Manufacturers ship him equipment via freight carriers that rely on government-funded roads and airports
• The articles that Anand and his staff write are protected against unauthorized copying by government-enforced copyrights
• The computer network Anand uses to distribute his content relies on a government-managed network, which uses a government-built communications protocol
• Anand's technical writing requires his audience to be both literate and capable of analyzing the data within, skills that most people who read AnandTech will get from a public education
• Anand's income relies on the promises of advertisers to pay, which is enforced by government contract law

I'm sure I can go on. AnandTech (and by extension, Anand) absolutely relies on the services and infrastructure the government provides. This reliance is direct (in the case of roads, electricity, etc.), and indirect (in the case of past projects that have developed the technologies on which AnandTech relies), and this is exactly the message Obama attempted to convey. Obama's phrasing may have been awkward, but that doesn't make it any less correct.

Very well written :thumbsup:

 

[dmcowen674]

Where the fuck are all these conservative retards coming from.

More than 51% of the country is full of them and it appears the majority of them post here.

 

[dmcowen674]

Anandtech wouldn't have existed if it weren't for the government creating the internet, which is totally in line with what obama said.

Actually at the London 2012 Olympics opening last night they had some guy from London on that said he created the Internet.

Poor Al Gore, he has been bumped by a Brit.