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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdegm/is _200310/ai_ziff109674

I couldn't find EGM's Child's Play I that they referenced, but here's a copy I found through Google.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdegm/is _200310/ai_ziff109674/pg_2

Especially in third-world countries. We're outsourcing jobs there and not to Canada or Britain for a reason, which often seems to be forgotten. India and the US are not equivalent. Consider just for a second the political turmoil and goings-on in the USA, a first-world nation, before you comprehend that India is barely even a democracy. It's often on the brink of dictatorship, like its neighbor Pakistan.

The upshot of this is that the populace are unconcerned with patent laws not because of first-worldesque apathy, but rather because the majority of the population has more important things to worry about, starting with basic survival. The fact that their political opinions ultimately don't matter is just icing on that cake, to use a horribly inappropriate pun.

Especially in third-world countries. We're outsourcing jobs there and not to Canada or Britain for a reason, which often seems to be forgotten. India and the US are not equivalent. Consider just for a second the political turmoil and goings-on in the USA, a first-world nation, before you comprehend that India is barely even a democracy. It's often on the brink of dictatorship, like its neighbor Pakistan.

The upshot of this is that the populace are unconcerned with patent laws not because of first-worldesque apathy, but rather because the majority of the population has more important things to worry about, starting with basic survival. The fact that their political opinions ultimately don't matter is just icing on that cake, to use a horribly inappropriate pun.

My post was a slight exaggeration, but here is what I was referring to.

~Philly

Its the same funda as in a FMCG marketing war, one cuts the price, everyone else has to. There is no other way. So its natural that we will have big and small players wanting a share in the pie.
To add to this, There is book called the The Rule of Three - which says, amongst a number of companies, only three will dominate. More on it at Rule of Three. My three will still be Google, M$ and Yahoo

Reagan sold arms to Iran to free Americans held captive and used the proceeds to fund essentially anti-Communists during the Cold War.
Maybe Reagan (if he was still alive) in your analogy could argue he was acted at least in national interests

He could argue that, but it would be bullshit. Read up on the Nicaragua situation before you start praising the Contras. If someone did in our country what the CIA-trained Contras did there, we would call them terrorists.

This piece has a perspective that you may find interesting.

For those curious about this use of GPS, a reference.

Based on the information in the reference, and what (very little) I remember of power engineering from my nuclear engineering classes, this would be of most critical importance when taking generation systems on and off the grid. This is not something that happens every minute, but is something that happens every day. Moreover, one of the likely targets for terror attack would be a nuclear plant. If a terror scenario involves the need for an emergency shutdown of a nuke plant to marginally reduce the consequences of someone flying a plane into it, removing the GPS sync signal would increase the phase sync complications for the rest of the grid, increasing the likelihood of brownouts or blackouts-- not to mention, damage to multi-million dollar generators and/or turbines in the plants still operating if the phase shift gets bad enough.

I haven't been able to find the actual announcement on any .gov site; pretty much everyone is carrying the AP story verbatim, so the plan isn't clear (and may not be finalized). If they merely degrade the civilian signal again, that's one thing; if, on the other hand, they turn GPS off completely in some area, that's a much hairier mess entirely.

will drive people to use alternatives sooner due to supply/demand curves

Syntehtic rubber came about because of supply/demand, and maybe technologies like this will mean that supply will keep increasing for the time being.

Checking the "About Us" page of an organization's website is not really adequate research to determine the character of an organization. It's more informative to look at their actions, like this. Oh and there's also this little nugget of hypocricy. And, well, Jeff Jarvis deals with the numbers game that PTC tries to play. An organization whose membership is 0.3% of the population producing 99% of the complaints to the FCC seems a little disproportionate. All this is just the tip of the iceburg. The PTC is not the good guys they pretend to be.

Also keep in mind that these are the people who are horribly offended at the hilarious spanking incident on Angel.

What we have here is a case of a few people with no sense of humor capitalizing on a million Americans who don't realize what they're really supporting.

1. men who get excited by/about women
2. men who get excited by/about men
3. women who get excited by/about men
4. women who get excited by/about women

In Minnesota, pigs are being born with human blood in their veins.

I'm not sure I like having an easier path for viruses to migrate.

You realize that the first DVD-ROM drives were incompatible with reading CDRs because the dye used in CDRs is invisible to DVD wavelengths? DVDs read at a shorter wavelength than CDs do, just like Blu-Ray reads at a shorter wavelength than DVDs. They very quickly came out with dual laser systems.

Check it out.

http://www.cjmag.co.jp/magazine/issues/1997/oct97/ 1097indeye.html
Candescent did make some small models, but they never got into big production. I think the largest I saw was a 7 inch, and it was about as thick as a picture frame.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is _n2128_v42/ai_18595794
http://www.phys.ksu.edu/~jingli/nano%20emitter.ppt

More specifically, spammers infecting new zombie PCs included an anti-SCO DDoS in their worms' payload.

Don't thank them too soon, though. It's impossible to hurt SCO through the internet, since they haven't needed a net presence since they transformed from a software company into a lawsuit company. It is possible to hurt Linux's PR when crap like this happens, though, by helping SCO's efforts to associate us with "evil hackers" stereotypes.

Man, my wife's anti-Simpsons campaign is having an effect on my Simpson's useless trivia knowledge. I had it confused with the flavored milk product.

*shudder*

Step 1: Tell everyone that you see the future of Microsoft being anchored by an extensive IP and patent portfolio.

Step 2: Start patenting EVERYTHING you can think of that's even remotely related to software, regardless of prior art or validity.

Step 3: Tell everyone that Microsoft will protect its customers from IP lawsuits.

Yep. Nothing to see here... move along, please.

American high school dropouts are still ahead of anyone else

"The frightening truth is that even though our nation spends $185 billion annually on public education, we're turning out a bumper crop of functional illiterates," says John L. Clendenin, chairman of BellSouth Corp. and a leader in the business drive to improve American education. Some other findings of various analyses of the U.S. school system:

* Three out of four U.S. students leaving school are not ready for the basic problem-solving demands of work or college, according to the National Academy of Sciences.

* The dropout rate in public high schools averages 25 percent across the country and ranges to 50 percent in some inner-city areas.

* In a recent test of the mathematics and science proficiency of 13-year-olds in this country, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Korea, Spain, and four Canadian provinces, American students finished last in math and near the bottom in science. South Korea was first in math and second to British Columbia--by a razor-thin margin--in science.

The American students did rank highest in one category: the amount of time spent watching television.

And the "last in math" helps explain your country's inability to do something as simple as count votes ... again! No wonder there's so much action at http://www.marryanamerican.ca/.

A few years ago, a prototype of a smart holster was shown -- it wouldn't let you draw the gun from it unless it recognized your fingerprints. Although this wasn't perfect, it seemed very promising, and it seems like an idea that many people would find more acceptable than smart guns.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BTT/is _151_25/ai_70380673

Smart guns conjure up a lot of fears from gun owners. There's a fear that "smart" technology might be required on new guns. There's a fear that they might be too expensive, or unreliable (batteries gone dead), or that it might be possible to disable them remotely with something like EMP. Don't laugh, it's already possible to stop many motor vehicles this way.

Smart holsters could provide practically all of the same benefits without all the associated fear.

When it erupts--and scientists say one day it will--blistering avalanches of hot rock, lava, and ash will sweep down the volcano.

Microsoft's revenues from OEM sales are up 10% from last year, which means that something like nine million XP systems ship each month with IE6 as the default browser. You could argue that SP2 has already put the brake on migration to alternative browsers. Browser Statistics

Decision makers do read the Times. The problem is that anyone with a cause and money to burn can buy a page in the Times and eventually you begin to page these things over without thinking, out of boredom or self-defense. Tomorrow's edition will always bring with it some new prophet of doom or salvation.

I can't see the Firefox add as anything more than a clever fund-raiser for the Moz Foundation, and on that level, if no other, it has been succesful.

You don't see Standard Oil selling kerosine do you?

No, but somebody is selling [Dr. Evil] One BILLION gallons[/Dr. Evil] a year..... :)

But you're right. What is going to happen is that the laws will get tighter and tighter, but have no effect, just like the drug laws. This will be true no matter who is President, unless some unlikely like Cobb or Peroutka gets elected.

Water was by far the best, but has the obvious downsides of being well, ya know.

What? Oxidizing? Not if you submerse an object in the water, assuming your water is deaerated. If you want to preserve something, try sinking it in a lake.

Or did you mean conductive? Actually, deionized (pure) water is rather nonconductive. At 0.055uS/cm, that works out to 18Mohm/cm.

I'm not a chemist, but I don't think there are any elements on a motherboard that would react with pure water.

"...and it's wastewater that's been purified through advanced synthetic membranes called ZeeWeed, which could help 20% of the world's population that doesn't have easy access to clean water."

Water recycling to this extent is only useful in areas with water systems. ZeeWeed, and all other municipal systems such as this, are just too expensive for people in poor rural areas, such as much of India, China, and major parts of the African continent.

A much more practical solution for poor rural areas with abundant dirty water is household filtration and chlorination. This can be done with low-tech methods. The only middling tech item is a small bottle of sodium hypochlorite (bleach) that is used on a household basis. Since the bottle costs under US$0.40, and is lasts for several (six to ten) weeks depending on the household size, this truly is an affordable solution.

ATI is the number 3 player

Some time ago, there was a site called JusticeFiles with information about police officers, including Social Security numbers. Not surprisingly, the site got into trouble as a result.

Now how long do you think it will take to shut those out, given the design now looks very similar to the new i-Macs ?

Maybe it's a disease. Maybe it's a mutation. Maybe these particular bass cross bred with some frogs. Nobody can say for sure at this point, but they sure can speculate that it's all our fault. And that's just bad science.

Yeah, the Potomac is famous for its purity. So despite the fact that it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, in all probability it is actually a fish-frog hybrid.

It's not as if we have any scientific evidence that human-created pollutants like chemicals released by common household plastics can produce weird hormonal reactions in humans and animals. By the way, please stop chewing on your pen, Bobby.

The mall rats have been driven out of our upscale "Galleria" malls and are becoming an endangered species elsewhere. Teens on a leash - malls lauch curfews for teens

Nope, he's talking about the one where it was in the beta but removed from retail....

MS Flight Sim Reworked After Attacks

Microsoft Corp. will alter its Flight Simulator airplane simulator game to eliminate the World Trade Center, Microsoft officials confirmed late Friday.

A spokesman for Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash., said the World Trade Center would be removed from the game's next release, due out this fall. The introduction will also be changed to eliminate a scene where two people discuss crashing a plane into the Empire State Building.

or Release of "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002" Postponed

Minimal changes will be made to "Flight Simulator 2002." The only change that will be made is the removal of the World Trade Center. A patch for previous versions is in the works.

Failed to compete? Are we talking about the same Microsoft? How many companies have succesfully competed against them?

Proof is in the bank statement, my friend, no matter how much you may not like it.

They still have the best word processing suite, the most deployed word processing suite, the most deployed enterprise mail server, the most deployed web server, the most deployed web browser, the most deployed development environment (I don't consider GCC an environment), the most deployed instant messenger (and the one I frankly prefer since it's the least intrusive of the major players), the second most popular game system....

Most companies would be able to build a highly profitable stream of income around just one of those products.

Not going to happen any time soon.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/02/apples_x86 _os_named_sized/
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdewk/is _200208/ai_ziff30554

This is about as close as you are going to get. Just google for "Marklar". It'd be nice to see, but Apple makes a nice margin on its hardware, and x86 would destroy it.

Uh huh... I live in Japan. Here we don't have "love hotels" all over the place. Neither do we have countless brothels disguised as "massage outlets". Furthermore, we don't have porn mags on the shelves of convenience and book stoors right out there with all the other mags without restrictions on who can see or buy them... Nope, it's all squeaky clean here. It's not like there's any increasing danger from the spread of HIV or anything either.

(read the "Changing epidemic" part specifically from the last link.)

http://www.geocities.com/endeavour_uksa/article.ht ml
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is _n6_v18/ai_19447788/pg_2

This is the advice that has been given to our university (in the UK) covering all possible research areas (hardware/software engineering). A good example is the Dyson vs. Hoover patent lawsuit:

Hoover to pay 4m [pounds sterling] damages to Dyson - News - in dispute over bagless vacuum cleaner

Hoover wins court battle with Dyson

Dust settles on Dyson's long battle

Forgive my use of the word "register", but I am using it within the context defined by the following article:

Business Law - An Overview of Patents

$260M in cash for their software business .. the hardware side was pretty much dead by that point anyhow .. wang's only major presence was in the public sector (gov't and such) and i believe sun had competing technology so that kind of buyout didn't make that much sense back then (imo)

on a side note .. i believe the origin of this idea in software is predated back to the 60's in LISP, so while IANAL i believe one could argue prior art and thus the invalidity of the wang software patent (s/w patents seem pointless to me anyhow - like recipe patents) .. i believe there's a large number of s/w patents that have been and continue to be awarded in large part due to the lack of due diligence from patent attorneys, hence we may see a new glut of lawsuits from the failing institutions looking for a quick cash boost

The Economist began life as a Liberal rag in the 1840s, and to this day is liberal in both these senses (free trade is their mantra, of course, but they also came out in favour of gay marriage years ago, for example). And although I consider myself vaguely leftish, I think it's a pretty good mix ... let's try to do the right thing, but also not forget that it has to be paid for.

PS A good example of left-wing Christians is (was) the Labour churches.

An interesting note: the asteroid believed to have caused Earth's biggest mass extinction is thought to have been between 3.7 and 7.5 miles as reported here in 2001

I was just watching something the other day on the History channel about a recent find. A huge lot of dinosaurs buried under meters of volcanic ash - sort of hinting a giant volcano blast may have done all the dirt work.

I tried to google for some more info, but came up empty-handed. I did find this article though, about dinosaurs found in Alaska. It states that if they had managed to adapt to an arctic environment, then the "nuclear winter" effect of a large meteor hitting earth may not hold as much water.

Then again, I doubt we'll ever truly know - maybe the dinosaurs just got tired of living and went the way of the Heaven's Gate members.

I don't know where you got the idea that GDP = productivity. Can you provide any source where a noted economist says PCGDP and productivity are the same?

How about here, for one:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1094/is _2_34/ai_54405330
National productivity statistics - The Statistics Corner - excerpts from an article with the same title published in the Federal Reserve Bank of richmond Economic Quarterly, Winter 1998

Here's the quote:
"For national productivity statistics, an obvious starting point is to take an estimate of aggregate output such as real gross domestic product (GDP) from the national income and product accounts (NIPAs). On the input side, the first requirement is to measure labor input, such as the number of workers or the number of hours worked."

Weren't paying attention in Economics 101, were ya?

Bacteriophage appears to be an alternative to antibiotics for fighting bacteria. An article (you have to pay to access it) in Discover Magazine by Peter Radetsky about bacteriophage was published in November, 1996. It was mentioned by a man named Caisey Harlingten in a Horizon documentary on the BBC, and seems to have been an important publication that set things into motion. What isn't mentioned in the transcript is that right at the end of the documentary, text appears that says the deal between the American company called Georgia Research, Inc. set up by Harlingten and the Eliava Institute fell apart.

Wired wrote a follow up article on the story. One of the disputes involved another man, Alexander Sulakvelidze, opposing the seemingly pointless aim to genetically engineering phages, which Harlingten wanted to do. This possibly has something to do with the fact that genetically engineered products are protected by patents and can be regulated by intellectual property laws, whereas natural phages are not. This is what Harlingten is up to now. He is trying to apply phage therapy to multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis . And this is what Sulakvelidze is up to now, applying phage therapy to livestock.

Evergreen State College and the Rowland Institute at Harvard have pages about bacteriophage. Phage therapy may have some side effects, however. Some types of phage carry genes that can actually make bacteria pathogenic (briefly mentioned at end of page). This has been observed in E. Coli as a response to antibiotics.

What you're calling antibiotics, most people call poisins. Organisms evolved these poisons in order to achieve an ecological advantage, but the problem is that they almost always come with side effects. Extermely rare indeed are the toxins that kill off only bacteria without killing you.

The reason most pharmacutical companies concentrate on derivatives is because with relatively little effort they create modified versions of an effective antibiotic work with little side effects.

So, you've found a toxic molecule. Now figure out how it works & what possible use it can be. Remember that no drug comes on the market without mass testing. Hope you've got enough money to finance all that.

Searching through all the different poisins to find molecules is not only a massive undertaking, it also omits the production side of the equation. What good is it to find that miracle molecule if you cannot produce enough to help more than a few people because its source is some rare mushroom that cannot be cultivated. Look into Taxol for an example. It is touted as a miracle drug for cancer, but initially it could only be extacted (in very small quantities) from the bark of the english yew. Yew is not an extremely rare tree bur harvesting enough taxol to treat everyone in the USA for a year would have meant killing every tree on earth. Things have gotten better now that it is possible to create taxol from precursor molecules in the needles, but it is still a very rare and expensive drug. See here for more info.

I'm no doctor but I'm violently allergic to penecillin & most of it's derivatives, so I've looked into why most antibiotic drugs make me sick. I wish there were more choices for me incase of a serious infection, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to go off half cocked on the basis of what a program on Discovery said...

Now where did that come from?

Jesus fucking Christ. From the plants that turned into coal, of course.

Now where did that come from?

Coal generally contains concentrations of uranium of from 1 to 10 parts per million, and from 2 to 4 times as much thorium.

Here. Here Here Here.Here.Here.

Those numbers are just a little high for something that is laid down in sediemnts.

Or maybe you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Communism and Fascism are natural political enemies. It was Communists that went off to the gas chambers along with the Jews, Gypsies and Gays systematically. Communists in the US during the rise of Hitler wrote that American Fascism, if it were to rise, would have a theocratic form of nationalism. The GOP certainly has been running for the theocratic vote.

Remember that the fascists tried to get General Butler to execute a coup d'etat against Roosevelt in the 30's. The also campaigned to leave Hitler alone. Many wealthy people, including Edward VIII of England, were personal friends of Hitler. These were the people who believed in things like Social Darwinism.

Most of the descendents of these people are now in the GOP. They tend to trend more libertarian except for Corporate Welfare, they believe that by vitue of their wealth, they are better people than the rest of us slobs. They see the theocrats as a tool to be used for their rise to power.

Anyway, here are some articles:

Rush, Newspeak and Fascism: An exegesis
Neo-fascism and the religious right
The Danger of American Fascism
Facts and Fascism by George Seldes

As wrong as communists are, they're right about one thing, Fascists.

This is laughable. You think that's where the money would go... you don't think that just maybe, it would be spent on some other "opiate of the masses?"

I'm a realist - of course it wouldn't all go to science. Perhaps some of it might. I'm just pointing out how poorly religion has done with all of the money and power it has commanded over the centuries.

How about mother Theresa?

How about Ghandi? A person's goodness has nothing to do with what religion they follow. I guess all of the work she accomplished would have been nothing without her faith. After all, feeding the poor isn't good enough for God - you have to accept Jesus/Mohommad/Abraham too, right?

you couldn't be much more wrong about Europe and North and South America

This article has some more concrete evidence about this. There is no denying that religion has declined rapidly in the last century throughout Europe. Judging by the history of social evolution, from outlawing slavery to accepting homosexuality, we usually follow in Europe's footsteps.

And if you don't think America is an empire, you aren't paying attention. I love it when someone says, "America hasn't taken an inch of ground in 200 years!" Um, Guantanamo Bay? The Sinai? Military bases and installations around the world? New Mexico, Arizona, California and Texas? Puerto Rico? The Marshall Islands?

You're wrong. They don't even have to intersect.

No, they don't intersect, so you don't believe that they have to. Why must religion always be full of promise and nothing else? Where are the miracles? Where are the blind men who see, and where are the cripples who walk only because someone prayed for them?

It's not intended to replace science, or even supplement it.

Of course it's not intended to replace science. The writers of those ancient texts had no idea that science would exist. That's why religions only last so long. Sooner or later, the complete lack of insight into modern daily life is too obvious to deny. Unless you're still giving your heave offering and not working on the Sabbath.

No less self assured than any of the other fanatics you bash for "fervently" believing that they are right.

If you become paralyzed from the neck down, does the ambulance take you to a hospital or to your church? If your child has the flu, do you give them antibiotics or do you simply have your pastor pray? If your mother is going blind, do you take her to an optometrist or to an exorcist?

I am assured by results, not by false promises. If someone questions my faith in the scientific method, I don't have to leave the room to find concrete examples of why it works. I don't have to get into some overbearing conversation, explaining to them how "Science is real, but just not in this life. Science will help you, but you have to believe in it first. Science will provide all of these blessings for you, but you can only be sure until you're dead."

Given the choice, most people will give up God before they give up even the tiniest modern conveniences provided by science. Most people already have.

Prove to me that Sony has sold all their consoles at a loss.

I guarantee you cannot cite adequate evidence to support this. You don't know what you're talking about and you're just repeating the same old crap that gets posted in the games section all the time. Not all consoles are sold at a loss - get over it.

Most of the reliable sources (newspapers, magazines) don't have the stories available for the PlayStation and PS2 in easily-searchable sources like Google news, but a quick search turned up two interesting bits about their current plans:

As per 1Up's article, Sony plans to sell the PSP at a loss. And if you Ctrl+F for the word "loss" in ZDNet's PSX story, it will not only tell you that the PSX was planned to sell at a loss, but that it is generally an industry standard, much like the razorblade entry.

makers typically sell hardware at a loss and make their profits from royalties on game software sales. That model gets shaky, however, when you start cramming nongame functions into the same box, Cole said.

"They've been able to get the price way down on game systems, because they can make it up on software," Cole said. "With these kinds of hybrid devices, you're selling to people who aren't necessarily going to buy a lot of games. But you can't necessarily expect to charge a premium over the existing products it's intended to replace."

The only thing I can't really prove is that Nintendo actually sells theirs at a profit. That's mostly from print sources like EGM's Quartermann column.

I've never bought the argument that "intelligent" people are mostly of part X. Other than some stuck up politicans claiming such a thing, it is really hard to back up with facts.

Many scientists are against Bush because of his science policies. Many successful busines peoples are for Bush because of his tax policies. Both groups are intelligent, successful, and likely to have cell phones. And both are using their intelligence to decide their votes based on their own beliefs of what is important.

You are making assumptions of what an intelligent person would do based on your beliefs, and supporting it by using your friends as a source. First, birds of the feather.... Second, your beliefs are probably biasing your friends answers and you understand of their answers.

I think that the only thing that should be correctly stated is that intelligent people make up their mind on who to vote for using reason and facts as opposed to lies and smears.

And, in case you haven't been paying attention, if you want to keep more of the money you are working for, don't vote for Bush and his tax "reduction" policies. Basically, non-working income is become tax free, while more and more of the burden of taxes is falling on the people who actually work to earn money. And, just so you understand, any liberal friend that you have that is voting for Bush is either obtuse or a closet conservative.

The only newsy thing about this is the interest from makers of space probes; the thermoacoustic engine has been around for a while (combine with a thermoacoustic chiller and you've got a gas-liquefaction system with no moving parts; here's another one from 1999) and the page from LANL on thermoacoustic systems is almost two years old already. These guys were plugging their sound-to-electricity converter some time ago.

The tech industry crash might not have been caused by Clinton, but it started on his watch.

I'll agree with you on this point. But there are smart things you can do, as president, to minimize the impact of such a crash, and then there are dumb things you can do that will only exacerbate the situation.

Now, wait a minute, I work for one of them wasteful defense contractors, and the paycheck is very nice. The money being spent is an important part of fighting threats to our citizens and our values. Plus it is also one of the few IT jobs that won't be outsourced.

Now given that, had the current President acted responsibly after 9/11, we could have been pooling the resources of the world to fight terrorism and not needed to waste so much money doing it alone. Any fool could have "led" the American people to bounce back after 9/11. But only a fool could have turned a world of countries united to fight terrorism into a coalition of the "willing" (aka bribed). Had the President not alienated the US from most of its allies and nearly all of the rest of the world, we could be spending a fraction of what we are now on defence, triming the budget, and actually giving the working class a real tax break.

Or fix social security. Bush on social security, Muskegon, Michigan, Sep. 13, 2004: "And baby boomers are fine. We're in good shape, you know. The people who aren't in good shape are the children and grandchildren in this country..."

I agree with you about trickle up, but also believe that the debt we are leaving our children and grandchildren will criple this nation. Paying interest to debts gives our tax money (that could be paying for the front-line workers) to rich domestic and foriegn investors.

As the article itself points out, such prices have not historically been sustained, but I'm not so sure this time around...