I'm very happy that this money is going towards climate change research and not with any sort of Space Shuttle replacement. Climate change is a far greater threat than any lack of space travel.
http://inhabitat.com/obama-gives-nasa-2-4-billion-to-study-climate-change/
Why are liberals so anti-science? They don't like GMO food, despite no scientific evidence it's harmful, they don't like nuclear power, don't like research on racial genetics and intelligence etc etc.
And now they cancelled the space shuttle to give more handouts to fraudulent climate scientists.
Slashdot is filled with whiny crybabies. These folks can write a Java program and for that they don't think they should have to compete with people the world over. Ignore these idiots.
All else being equal, the wealth distribution in Western Europe would tend to predict a higher percentage of broadband subscription. Undereducated folks living hand to mouth probably aren't going to shell out for broadband. They may not even have a computer. As a percentage of the total population, that demographic is larger in the U.S. than in Germany or France.
Ah, Slashdot, the MOST ignorant site on the Internet. Americans have the highest rate of personal computers per capita in the world (Ignorance be gone). But please, keep on with the Slashdot Hive mind, it will reward you well with mod points and an even less fulfilling life.
Ok, but how many idiotic Slashdot replies consist of "I LIVE IN RURAL ALASKA AND CANNOT GET 50MBIT DOWNLOAD, OH YEAH M$ SUCKS"?
Slashdot IS the laughing stock of the internet.
The US has a very high internet penetration, something like 6th in the world which is remarkable for a country of our size. I think the reason that broadband penetration has lagged in the US is because of early adoption of dialup. Most people who surf the internet are casual users and feel no need to upgrade to broadband, because they already have "internet". Whereas in other countries which had lower internet penetration levels than the US, when they decided to "get internet" it made more sense to get a broadband connection. It's a simliar situation for cellular phones, ever wonder why our adoption of cellular phones is about equal to Jamaica? We already had an extremely high percentage of folks with landline phones.
Much ado is made about population density, but PD only tells part of the story. It's fairly well known that US urban patterns are far more decentralized than European and even Canadian (and certainly Japanese). This is independent of any population density statistics. Americans tend to live farther away from urban centers than people in other countries. This has a larger affect on broadband penetration than you might think. It's odd how all the loonies on Slashdot are against "sprawl" but want to subsidize building broadband out to people's exurban homes.
There is a notion that digital lines should be completely unregulated though, and this is not something I support. The problem is that when you have lines crossing public property, those lines are in effect a government granted monopoly. Adam Smith does not apply when you have private lines using public property.
Slashdotters have a tendency to scream like little girls over every little thing. The fact is that broadband is not going to affect economic growth in any noticable way, the people getting their panties in a bunch about it are a bunch of little basement dwelling teenage freaks who spell Microsoft with a dollar sign and are laughed at by the rest of civilized society, and even if we fall behind for a while, we won't be for long.
Dissenting viewpoints on this site are routinely modded down because they disagree with the status quo on this website... Slashdotters are in effect hating themselves with this article. They do exactly what AT&T is doing.
Most of the suggestions are merely that we're not spending enough money. If anything, reading the recurring ignorant comments on Slashdot makes me weep for the future.
The US has the sixth highest internet penetration rate in the world. With a population of about 300 million. Did any of you unthinking, unknowing basement-dwellers ever consider that perhaps so many people have internet through dialup here that they weren't as motivated to get broadband? Same thing with cell phones.
The same mindless posters, the same mindless comments. ALL THE TIME.
I knew that any criticism of Yurp would make the idiots of Slashdot go into a frenzy. BTW, how are looser bankruptcy laws "conservative"?
Slashdot posters are the most mindless drones on the internet.
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What's more important, saving the planet or space exploration? NASA's ENTIRE budget should be put towards climate change research.
I'm very happy that this money is going towards climate change research and not with any sort of Space Shuttle replacement. Climate change is a far greater threat than any lack of space travel.
Climate change is far more important than space exploration.
ASA Boosts Climate Change Budget 62% This is probably for the best, climate change is a far larger problem than space exploration.
Climate change is far more important that space travel, I'm glad we have our priorities in order. http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nasa-boosts-climate-change-budget-62
Eh? We could have done 5 shuttle launches with that money.
http://inhabitat.com/obama-gives-nasa-2-4-billion-to-study-climate-change/ Why are liberals so anti-science? They don't like GMO food, despite no scientific evidence it's harmful, they don't like nuclear power, don't like research on racial genetics and intelligence etc etc. And now they cancelled the space shuttle to give more handouts to fraudulent climate scientists.
http://inhabitat.com/obama-gives-nasa-2-4-billion-to-study-climate-change/
Just in case anyone is wondering where the money went.
Obama Gives Nasa $2.4 Billion to Study Climate Change Oh really? Seems that 2.4 billion couldn't launched about... 5 shuttles.
How about NASA use their climate change funding (which Obama prioritized in 2010) towards, you know, space exploration?
We had to stop the program so NASA could increase our climate change research. I'm so glad we have our priorities in order!
Slashdot is filled with whiny crybabies. These folks can write a Java program and for that they don't think they should have to compete with people the world over. Ignore these idiots.
I'm not sure about the OECD statistics. The nationmaster stats also show that the US has the most (or close) radios, cars, and TV's per capita. The We're number 6 in the world for total internet penetration (a more important statistic than broadband penetration IMO). Don't mindlessly believe asinine slashdot articles like the rest of the hive mind.
Ah, Slashdot, the MOST ignorant site on the Internet. Americans have the highest rate of personal computers per capita in the world (Ignorance be gone). But please, keep on with the Slashdot Hive mind, it will reward you well with mod points and an even less fulfilling life.
Ok, but how many idiotic Slashdot replies consist of "I LIVE IN RURAL ALASKA AND CANNOT GET 50MBIT DOWNLOAD, OH YEAH M$ SUCKS"? Slashdot IS the laughing stock of the internet.
The US has a very high internet penetration, something like 6th in the world which is remarkable for a country of our size. I think the reason that broadband penetration has lagged in the US is because of early adoption of dialup. Most people who surf the internet are casual users and feel no need to upgrade to broadband, because they already have "internet". Whereas in other countries which had lower internet penetration levels than the US, when they decided to "get internet" it made more sense to get a broadband connection. It's a simliar situation for cellular phones, ever wonder why our adoption of cellular phones is about equal to Jamaica? We already had an extremely high percentage of folks with landline phones.
Much ado is made about population density, but PD only tells part of the story. It's fairly well known that US urban patterns are far more decentralized than European and even Canadian (and certainly Japanese). This is independent of any population density statistics. Americans tend to live farther away from urban centers than people in other countries. This has a larger affect on broadband penetration than you might think. It's odd how all the loonies on Slashdot are against "sprawl" but want to subsidize building broadband out to people's exurban homes.
There is a notion that digital lines should be completely unregulated though, and this is not something I support. The problem is that when you have lines crossing public property, those lines are in effect a government granted monopoly. Adam Smith does not apply when you have private lines using public property.
Slashdotters have a tendency to scream like little girls over every little thing. The fact is that broadband is not going to affect economic growth in any noticable way, the people getting their panties in a bunch about it are a bunch of little basement dwelling teenage freaks who spell Microsoft with a dollar sign and are laughed at by the rest of civilized society, and even if we fall behind for a while, we won't be for long.
Dissenting viewpoints on this site are routinely modded down because they disagree with the status quo on this website... Slashdotters are in effect hating themselves with this article. They do exactly what AT&T is doing.
Most of the suggestions are merely that we're not spending enough money. If anything, reading the recurring ignorant comments on Slashdot makes me weep for the future.
The US has the sixth highest internet penetration rate in the world. With a population of about 300 million. Did any of you unthinking, unknowing basement-dwellers ever consider that perhaps so many people have internet through dialup here that they weren't as motivated to get broadband? Same thing with cell phones.
The same mindless posters, the same mindless comments. ALL THE TIME.
I knew that any criticism of Yurp would make the idiots of Slashdot go into a frenzy. BTW, how are looser bankruptcy laws "conservative"? Slashdot posters are the most mindless drones on the internet.
And a small, spoiled vocal minority is unable to comprehend life without judging other people.
A constitution written by the idiots who post at Slashdot? Do you realize what a disaster that would be?
An "international criminal state"? An this lunacy gets modded up? This place is completely bonkers.
Yup, they had to dumb it down big time to accommodate all the international idiots who now post here.