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Spectrum as Property
the economist troll writes "An article in this week's Economist argues that overcautious control of electromagnetic spectrum, on the part of regulatory agencies, has resulted in the sheer waste of up to 95% of available spectrum. The article suggests remedies for this sorry state of affairs, including (but not limited to) various methods of privatization. Peppered with history and interesting facts--for instance, did you know only 2% of America's spectrum allocation is determined by auction?--this is one article you won't want to miss."
Israel? Are you mad? The place is a horrendous fascist limited-war zone in a near-dead desertified valley. If israel is first-world, so was iraq.
I guess that's an indication that the modern "internationalist" left really is a descendant of those old, worn-out radical ideologies, i.e. a kind of neo-communism. OK, so Amerikkka's evil because its citizens have rights and money and all that, and those Jews in Israel (let alone the Brooklyn-born Israeli) are fascists who eat babies for breakfast. Yadda yadda yadda. Israel's remarkably successful and humanitarian for a tiny country that as you say exists in a "near-dead desertified valley" -- hell, they've made it more progressive, advanced, wealthy, free, etc., than all the billions of neighboring Arabs and "made the desert bloom," without oil and while fighting four wars against 2 billion people. So, yeah, Israel whups most places' butt.
"First world" is places like Sweden and Canada. The USA is like a scaled-up third world hellhole.
That's a laugh! I'm on a two-year contract in Canada now, and I can tell you it looks like a decent country with all the luckiest benefits (U.S. influence, U.S. investment, U.S. trade, British heritage, vast land with natural resources, etc.) after being dragged through thirty-something years of socialism. Everybody here's miserable compared to all but the poorest, most desparate Americans. I can only imagine the same goes for Sweden and the likes, I haven't been to Scandinavia in over a decade.