Why does the Fireman Wear Red Suspenders?
The Department of Justice subpoenaed all the E-Mail, messages, and correspondence in the firehouse. Selecting a sentence here and a paragraph there, they claim that it is part of conspiracy to extend the boundaries of the fire district to adjacent neighborhoods and to protect the monopoly of the fire department from a future threat posed by alternate fire suppression technology. As an engineer, I tend to believe that he wears red suspenders to keep his pants up. The general principle is to accept the simplest explanation. The application of this principle, however, depends on how much you understand. To understand the product design and software engineering justification for Microsoft’s decision to incorporate browser function into Windows, you have to know something about operating systems, a lot about Web standards, and the basic elements of application programming. People who are not professionally involved with computers may think that a simpler answer is just to believe the conspi
