What makes you think they can compete with everyone else in the world?
You did actually read the post right? Uh how about that they can keep overhead down much lower then everyone else while still having a comfortable life? Seems to me they would be better able to compete with low cost workers overseas.
What disadvantages would they have? Thrift stores aren't that bad, what does not having a TV have to do with education? Home school kids are usually smarter anyways than the homogenized product our pris..school system puts out
The hardest thing for me when I started working for $300 a week in CA was that I didn't have things anymore. It hurt a lot at first, but then I learned you can buy the well made used bluejeans at thrift stores. If you learn to cook well you can do a lot with barley and carrots. Bicycles are great exercise, and socializing and community are better then having a playstation. The only burden I ever see is the burden of entitlement. The irrational search for value in goods that has become a destructive religion. Looking for happiness on store shelves not in other people. Failure and hardship are subjective. Most people in this country view not owning a pool they swim in twice a year as some form of failure and driving an economy car as hardship.
Those corporate tools also see statehouse reporting (for example) coverage as redundant, so save the local guy for the really local bourgeois stuff -- bake sales, feel-good ditties about toy runs and the Salvation Army, all the other things that no one complains (or cares) about.
I don't think thats it exactly. The people may buy the papers off the rack because of the lion killed hunter headline, but it's not what gets them to subscribe. That's one of the problems, quick fix sales that feed the stocks but kills the goose. People like community info and conversational currency in the long run.
You might not care about bake sales and other community things but mothers and fathers do. I don't get what your saying in point 2 though. Newscorps took out all the fluff that "nobody cares about", but are declining because they cut out the fluff? That even though the papers were profitable when they ran 95% about berries the cutting out of the berries section isn't what made them unprofitable? You seem to be disproving your own points.
My folks canceled their local and got a subscription to the LA times because the local cut out the stuff they liked about concerts in the parks and fund raising dinners, as did many other people.
These people have no idea how to function in the modern news world and I doubt that they ever will.
Sounds like you don't either, since your whole business model boils down to stealing their "outdated" work.
I do have more regular reader than these papers do and I more or less just print blurbs of what they already covered and give my own opinion.
So you basically take the copyrighted work of others, add some marginal utility and then sell it for a profit, And then call the very people you are dependent on ignorant. Why? for not sending you a DMCA take down notice?
You strike to the very core of the ignorance of the whole web "bubble" and the other bubbles. Your profits aren't based entirely on innovation, you have not greatly increased the efficiency of the market. You have found a more efficient means of selling the work of others and pocketing the profits from their labor. How long do you think your business model will last? Either the papers will go under or they will figure out how to get their cut from you, either way you'd be hard hit. Sounds to me the only reason you make money is time based, because it's new. A high school kid can do what you do these days.
As a side, I have to say that I work for a very small Local paper, and they are doing just fine with ads and no classifieds. There has been a serious shift in their focus from the "paper" to the web, and it is foreseeable that they will drop the dead tree route in the future. I also work freelance for a web based business journal that is doing great.
My main concern is with working and the market, not how it's distributed. I see nothing but growth as newspapers become news agencies and figure out an efficient way to get their cut funneling news stories to bloggers. I think the future will be in local news co-ops that can cheaply funnel local news to the web and people's homes.
Maybe you should put an add on Craigslist for some stringers to get your input or experiment with co-op profit sharing. It's not really that difficult and then you would actually be benefiting society and generating content instead of leaching off of others.
Locals aren't going to go bust. They are still solvent, and will always be because the websites that will replace their print editions are the ones run by the paper. I live in a City of 300k and an Alexa comparison shows the local papers website getting more page views than/. and to a very area specific populace.
I'd like one of these guys to define what "Print" journalism is. I work in a news room and I'm not exactly sure. Does it mean the dead tree outlet? or the AP style news story? because in our room we consider stories on our website "print." The people who think they are going to be replaced by bloggers on a soap box and news agregators are probably the same people who thought it was worth investing billions into Pets.com.
I liked the graph he used in his article: start at the spike after 9-11 and show how it declined.
So what he's saying is that the news companies are switching over from selling their car thats made out of paper to a car thats made out of electrons, but that it's of serious import that the paper cars are declining?
Everything you have said is wrong, I don't mean to be rude, but you scare me.
Not every American benefits, in fact, no American benefits.
The consumer who used to buy the pants now has to pay significantly higher prices, forcing them to spend their time patching clothing, and more of their labor hours just to buy clothing. Plus their food prices have gone up since the cotton has to be grown in this country so it now must compete for growing land with food.
The farmer is losing out because, while food may seem to be a necessity, Americans might be willing to cut back, and cotton pants aren't essentials. So the seemingly higher prices would probably not cover the slump in demand for his crops. And the cost of doing business has sky rocketed since he no longer has access to imported machinery.
The owner of the business is now deprived of his higher profit stream which helped feed the economy through stock holders and investments.
The workers are now worse off because you have now forced labor intensive industry onto the economy, without increasing efficiency or anything else, it means their wages may rise but the cost of everything else will rise faster because people who used to use tools to do things that require skill and mechanization for export are now being forced to use their hands to make pants for the domestic market. So that someone who would have gone to college is now stuck toiling in your workers paradise. Sure a lot of it can be mechanized, but at an even greater cost, meaning a loss.
And lastly you have just curtailed the livelihood of millions of foreigners who had the jobs before. I'm sure in your mind they are slaves being exploited, but the facts on free trade say otherwise.
And overnight you have a failed state like Zimbabwe
NASA said it was looking for each selected team to deliver a minimum of 20 metric tons to the space station over the seven-year life of the contract
At $1.6B for 20 metric tones per contract thats about $36,287 per pound. So it's actually a good deal if you take the worst cost estimate of the Shuttle running $40,000 a pound. And that the company only does the bare minimum. for the twelve launches for the Falcon 9 at $1.6B that comes out to $133M.
So you're saying that an "American" is somehow intrinsically better then a Mexican, and should have more rights under the eyes of the law? That one group of people is better and more deserving over another, and that it would be right to take what others have to benefit this group through State action? That it's a good idea to steal from the worlds poor so that the worlds rich can keep up it's inflated expectations? Wow, just Wow. You are a danger to every person on this planet.
Sure the program is flawed but your statement that it is indentured servitude serves no one. I am sick and tired of listening to people talk about how we need to "help" immigrants or H1-B's by enacting policy that is almost entirely designed to enrich the entrenched interest. If the people in the H1-B program think it's a good deal then who are you to tell them otherwise? Oh thats right an over entitled American who is following the latest trend of making daddy government cover his ass.
Uh you can do that, you just have to keep it on the down low and pay cash. Post an add on craigslist. In the economy right now there are lots of people willing to take on a part-time side job for cash.
Yep, government regulations to restrict supply work out so well in other industries.
Ask your self, what advantage is it immigrants have over native workers? lower cost right, and why is that? because they are willing to consume less. Why don't you give up all the things I know you think you deserve.
Hauled in from over seas you say? more like risks life and limb to get here. You're right though, FORCE companies to pay immigrants the same as everyone else and they will no longer be hired. just like when minimum wage goes up the first to be fired are minorities. It's bad to have the Goobernment create wage structures to isolate certain groups the state deems undesirable.
They are not "Slaves" they are people who practice the right to sell their labor, they just can keep overhead lower than you. And they don't "steal" your jobs, they are more valuable at the price they are selling themselves for than others, meaning they are a net value. As a person starting out, I know full well the Labor laws aren't designed to benefit up and comers, but the entrenched interests who have the money. I've worked alongside immigrants while sharing a studio doing the same work as someone 20 years my senior who gets higher pay because his wage is grandfathered in. I'm sorry you have an overinflated sense of entitlement, but it isn't the state's job to enforce it. By hook or by crook were going to take what you have.
Thats Just on the supply side too, don't even talk about the loss to consumers that raising prices arbitrarily would have, or the fact that businesses that can't use labor here will be more tempted to go over there.
If you pay attention to facts your "Ideas" are little more than nationalist discrimination that will not benefit society, so that a few overpaid workers can ride the gravy train thanks to uncle Sam. Your plan would create jobs for citizens, by stealing them from the poor and paying for them at the expense of society in general.
Sounds to me like a problem with limited liability. Get caught lying to drive up stock price, cashout then and drive the company into the ground? well your fired, but we're still under contract to give you a bonus of $60m, and can't prosecute. How about we arrest people for fraud? That would probably go a long way in giving investors confidence : you fuck me I nail your ass to the wall! not: you fuck me and you might not get all of your golden parachute.
Was that supposed to be sarcastic? cause it just sounded kind of dumb. I live very comfortably in a nation with the capacity to destroy the earth. It's this capacity that has brought us the longest era of peace in the history of Earth. I guess you think it was better when nations engaged in wholesale slaughter with tanks, bombs and guns, rather than live in peace under the threat of nuclear annihilation? If their was no bomb do you really think the USSR would have been content with just eastern Europe?
Of course mass starvation is still very fresh in the minds of the Chines, never mind the fact that they were caused, like the starvation in many parts of Africa, by failed government policies.
There is plenty of growing capacity on earth, the only reason that supply will not meet demand is because of market manipulations by the governments like what is happening in Zimbabwe. The Oil bogyman doesn't really work, worst case scenario they will go to coal gasification and let the developed nations cry about global warming.
Yes, because someone smoking pot or passing a bad check is a danger to society and must be confined with hardened criminals for several years. Exposing them to sexual and physical abuse, depriving his son of a father, institutionalizing his mind, and depriving society of any beneficial production on his part while spending tons to house him is somehow beneficial to society. The US system isn't about rehabilitation, or benefiting society.
Yes, yes I can. I lived next to a cop. Let me assure you in their eyes you are guilty utile your Jew lawyer gets you out on a technicality. Thats a paraphrase. Cops *know* the people they arrest are scum, and treat them as such. I've yet to see any police action that proves me wrong. How about I take a page from their book, why don't you show me proof that they don't?
This has not only homogenized the media, but it has also put the power of controlling how the public perceives the world into the hands of a select few.
however, with the advent of the web, we're starting to see a resurgence in independent news sources. this along with web search technology has made it easier than ever for individuals to access a wide/diverse range of media sources large and small
You hit the nail on the head with those two points. News papers are declining for the same reason the auto makers are hurting, they put out a shit product. News is News, it still cost the same to gather in the information age as it did in the steam age. Its the value added that makes the profit. Newspapers thought they could streamline their operations and roll them into one ball. It didn't work and people stopped buying.
Now they point the finger at the web. It's all bullshit. Doom and gloom bloggers get a hardon when they pretend they are more relevant than they are by pointing at stories like this, and CEO's who ran their company into the ground get a scapegoat.
The 10tn gorilla is add revenue.
Seems most small papers aren't doing to bad, nor is USA today which has some solid reporting despite its rep. Solid reporting is solid and will likely continue to be solvent. What they need is add revenue based less on hype and more on actual logic. I just did an Alexa search and my hometown of 300k people's newspaper's website had more reach than/.. Though that says more about/. then my paper.
In America police feel that everything is a crime worth jailing. I think it has something to do with the bureaucrats, unions and their lobbyists making more money based on how many people are in jail.
Yep, best way to solve the problem of kids acting out against authority is take away their rights, I mean "Privileges". While were at it, lets make it a crime for kids to be out after dark, more than 5 miles from their home without a permit, and to assemble in groups of more than 3. I think it could be the best thing for America to foster a strong nation is to instill in the young at an early age that they are a bitch of the state.
Lets not worry about kids who have to work. They shouldn't be doing that in the first place, yep they should just stay inside and be forced to go to school behind razor wire with teachers who get paid regardless of how they perform. Force them to go through years of schooling so that they get out of college at 24 knowing less than they did when they got in, unthinking trained monkeys that are great at popping out widgets and living on debt, worthless to society. Yes Me Must Protect the Children.
In my neck of the woods these things run a fine of $400, and they have cameras running 24/7. The light takes a picture of the plate and records the time it happened on the film. An officer has to review the footage for every picture taken to verify it. So he would be your guy.
Exactly, what really needs to be known is if their is water on the moon, and how much, first. That can be done through probes a lot cheaper.
If there is an ocean at the pole than sending people up at a later date would make sense because you could then extract essentials in-sutro, saving lots on resupply missions, and with the low gravity potentially allowing longer stays than Micro G saving cost on replacing crew. Which could then possibly assemble more probes on the moon cheaper then pushing them up the gravity well or even catch a NEO. Why we haven't figured out the most important part of future space travel (what resource's are easy and cheap to get off the moon) through cheap probes yet I can't figure out.
It's not always better. I wasn't defending Hoover or COINTELPRO or any of his excesses, but your examples of the KGB or gestapo aren't agencies without oversight, they were directed from the top to serve the needs of those at the top. Lacking oversight indeed.
The FBI was not in any position to control the country, and never would have been. John N. Mitchell on the other hand was the Attorney General for Nixon and a man who believed civil rights were bad for America and worked very close with Nixon to achieve the control they wanted.
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What makes you think they can compete with everyone else in the world?
You did actually read the post right? Uh how about that they can keep overhead down much lower then everyone else while still having a comfortable life? Seems to me they would be better able to compete with low cost workers overseas.
What disadvantages would they have? Thrift stores aren't that bad, what does not having a TV have to do with education? Home school kids are usually smarter anyways than the homogenized product our pris..school system puts out
The hardest thing for me when I started working for $300 a week in CA was that I didn't have things anymore. It hurt a lot at first, but then I learned you can buy the well made used bluejeans at thrift stores. If you learn to cook well you can do a lot with barley and carrots. Bicycles are great exercise, and socializing and community are better then having a playstation. The only burden I ever see is the burden of entitlement. The irrational search for value in goods that has become a destructive religion. Looking for happiness on store shelves not in other people. Failure and hardship are subjective. Most people in this country view not owning a pool they swim in twice a year as some form of failure and driving an economy car as hardship.
Those corporate tools also see statehouse reporting (for example) coverage as redundant, so save the local guy for the really local bourgeois stuff -- bake sales, feel-good ditties about toy runs and the Salvation Army, all the other things that no one complains (or cares) about.
I don't think thats it exactly. The people may buy the papers off the rack because of the lion killed hunter headline, but it's not what gets them to subscribe. That's one of the problems, quick fix sales that feed the stocks but kills the goose. People like community info and conversational currency in the long run.
You might not care about bake sales and other community things but mothers and fathers do. I don't get what your saying in point 2 though. Newscorps took out all the fluff that "nobody cares about", but are declining because they cut out the fluff? That even though the papers were profitable when they ran 95% about berries the cutting out of the berries section isn't what made them unprofitable? You seem to be disproving your own points.
My folks canceled their local and got a subscription to the LA times because the local cut out the stuff they liked about concerts in the parks and fund raising dinners, as did many other people.
These people have no idea how to function in the modern news world and I doubt that they ever will.
Sounds like you don't either, since your whole business model boils down to stealing their "outdated" work.
I do have more regular reader than these papers do and I more or less just print blurbs of what they already covered and give my own opinion.
So you basically take the copyrighted work of others, add some marginal utility and then sell it for a profit, And then call the very people you are dependent on ignorant. Why? for not sending you a DMCA take down notice?
You strike to the very core of the ignorance of the whole web "bubble" and the other bubbles. Your profits aren't based entirely on innovation, you have not greatly increased the efficiency of the market. You have found a more efficient means of selling the work of others and pocketing the profits from their labor. How long do you think your business model will last? Either the papers will go under or they will figure out how to get their cut from you, either way you'd be hard hit. Sounds to me the only reason you make money is time based, because it's new. A high school kid can do what you do these days.
As a side, I have to say that I work for a very small Local paper, and they are doing just fine with ads and no classifieds. There has been a serious shift in their focus from the "paper" to the web, and it is foreseeable that they will drop the dead tree route in the future. I also work freelance for a web based business journal that is doing great.
My main concern is with working and the market, not how it's distributed. I see nothing but growth as newspapers become news agencies and figure out an efficient way to get their cut funneling news stories to bloggers. I think the future will be in local news co-ops that can cheaply funnel local news to the web and people's homes.
Maybe you should put an add on Craigslist for some stringers to get your input or experiment with co-op profit sharing. It's not really that difficult and then you would actually be benefiting society and generating content instead of leaching off of others.
Locals aren't going to go bust. They are still solvent, and will always be because the websites that will replace their print editions are the ones run by the paper. I live in a City of 300k and an Alexa comparison shows the local papers website getting more page views than /. and to a very area specific populace.
I'd like one of these guys to define what "Print" journalism is. I work in a news room and I'm not exactly sure. Does it mean the dead tree outlet? or the AP style news story? because in our room we consider stories on our website "print." The people who think they are going to be replaced by bloggers on a soap box and news agregators are probably the same people who thought it was worth investing billions into Pets.com.
I liked the graph he used in his article: start at the spike after 9-11 and show how it declined.
So what he's saying is that the news companies are switching over from selling their car thats made out of paper to a car thats made out of electrons, but that it's of serious import that the paper cars are declining?
So this is like how Zombie's see then?
Everything you have said is wrong, I don't mean to be rude, but you scare me.
Not every American benefits, in fact, no American benefits.
The consumer who used to buy the pants now has to pay significantly higher prices, forcing them to spend their time patching clothing, and more of their labor hours just to buy clothing. Plus their food prices have gone up since the cotton has to be grown in this country so it now must compete for growing land with food.
The farmer is losing out because, while food may seem to be a necessity, Americans might be willing to cut back, and cotton pants aren't essentials. So the seemingly higher prices would probably not cover the slump in demand for his crops. And the cost of doing business has sky rocketed since he no longer has access to imported machinery.
The owner of the business is now deprived of his higher profit stream which helped feed the economy through stock holders and investments.
The workers are now worse off because you have now forced labor intensive industry onto the economy, without increasing efficiency or anything else, it means their wages may rise but the cost of everything else will rise faster because people who used to use tools to do things that require skill and mechanization for export are now being forced to use their hands to make pants for the domestic market. So that someone who would have gone to college is now stuck toiling in your workers paradise. Sure a lot of it can be mechanized, but at an even greater cost, meaning a loss.
And lastly you have just curtailed the livelihood of millions of foreigners who had the jobs before. I'm sure in your mind they are slaves being exploited, but the facts on free trade say otherwise.
And overnight you have a failed state like Zimbabwe
you are flying in the face of so many basic economic concepts right now it hurts: broken window falacy, substitution, comparative advantage, Free trade, pareto efficiency.
NASA said it was looking for each selected team to deliver a minimum of 20 metric tons to the space station over the seven-year life of the contract
At $1.6B for 20 metric tones per contract thats about $36,287 per pound. So it's actually a good deal if you take the worst cost estimate of the Shuttle running $40,000 a pound. And that the company only does the bare minimum. for the twelve launches for the Falcon 9 at $1.6B that comes out to $133M.
So you're saying that an "American" is somehow intrinsically better then a Mexican, and should have more rights under the eyes of the law? That one group of people is better and more deserving over another, and that it would be right to take what others have to benefit this group through State action? That it's a good idea to steal from the worlds poor so that the worlds rich can keep up it's inflated expectations? Wow, just Wow. You are a danger to every person on this planet.
Sure the program is flawed but your statement that it is indentured servitude serves no one. I am sick and tired of listening to people talk about how we need to "help" immigrants or H1-B's by enacting policy that is almost entirely designed to enrich the entrenched interest. If the people in the H1-B program think it's a good deal then who are you to tell them otherwise? Oh thats right an over entitled American who is following the latest trend of making daddy government cover his ass.
Uh you can do that, you just have to keep it on the down low and pay cash. Post an add on craigslist. In the economy right now there are lots of people willing to take on a part-time side job for cash.
Yep, government regulations to restrict supply work out so well in other industries.
Ask your self, what advantage is it immigrants have over native workers? lower cost right, and why is that? because they are willing to consume less. Why don't you give up all the things I know you think you deserve.
Hauled in from over seas you say? more like risks life and limb to get here. You're right though, FORCE companies to pay immigrants the same as everyone else and they will no longer be hired. just like when minimum wage goes up the first to be fired are minorities. It's bad to have the Goobernment create wage structures to isolate certain groups the state deems undesirable.
They are not "Slaves" they are people who practice the right to sell their labor, they just can keep overhead lower than you. And they don't "steal" your jobs, they are more valuable at the price they are selling themselves for than others, meaning they are a net value. As a person starting out, I know full well the Labor laws aren't designed to benefit up and comers, but the entrenched interests who have the money. I've worked alongside immigrants while sharing a studio doing the same work as someone 20 years my senior who gets higher pay because his wage is grandfathered in. I'm sorry you have an overinflated sense of entitlement, but it isn't the state's job to enforce it. By hook or by crook were going to take what you have.
Thats Just on the supply side too, don't even talk about the loss to consumers that raising prices arbitrarily would have, or the fact that businesses that can't use labor here will be more tempted to go over there.
If you pay attention to facts your "Ideas" are little more than nationalist discrimination that will not benefit society, so that a few overpaid workers can ride the gravy train thanks to uncle Sam. Your plan would create jobs for citizens, by stealing them from the poor and paying for them at the expense of society in general.
Sounds to me like a problem with limited liability. Get caught lying to drive up stock price, cashout then and drive the company into the ground? well your fired, but we're still under contract to give you a bonus of $60m, and can't prosecute. How about we arrest people for fraud? That would probably go a long way in giving investors confidence : you fuck me I nail your ass to the wall! not: you fuck me and you might not get all of your golden parachute.
Or cars. I know this is /. which is IT heavy, but there are more industries then high tech.
Yeah, Government at it's best. I'd rather take my chances with the OTS monitor than with my current provider: Prayer.
Yeah, but that would require changing people, not just creating a cheap technological fix.
Was that supposed to be sarcastic? cause it just sounded kind of dumb. I live very comfortably in a nation with the capacity to destroy the earth. It's this capacity that has brought us the longest era of peace in the history of Earth. I guess you think it was better when nations engaged in wholesale slaughter with tanks, bombs and guns, rather than live in peace under the threat of nuclear annihilation? If their was no bomb do you really think the USSR would have been content with just eastern Europe?
Of course mass starvation is still very fresh in the minds of the Chines, never mind the fact that they were caused, like the starvation in many parts of Africa, by failed government policies.
There is plenty of growing capacity on earth, the only reason that supply will not meet demand is because of market manipulations by the governments like what is happening in Zimbabwe. The Oil bogyman doesn't really work, worst case scenario they will go to coal gasification and let the developed nations cry about global warming.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/alex_singleton/blog/2008/04/13/big_government_causes_starvation
Yes, because someone smoking pot or passing a bad check is a danger to society and must be confined with hardened criminals for several years. Exposing them to sexual and physical abuse, depriving his son of a father, institutionalizing his mind, and depriving society of any beneficial production on his part while spending tons to house him is somehow beneficial to society. The US system isn't about rehabilitation, or benefiting society.
You make a nice abstract picture, one I can't disagree with, but the facts of the US system don't really align with what you say. The US system is broke. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/23/america/23prison.php
Yes, yes I can. I lived next to a cop. Let me assure you in their eyes you are guilty utile your Jew lawyer gets you out on a technicality. Thats a paraphrase. Cops *know* the people they arrest are scum, and treat them as such. I've yet to see any police action that proves me wrong. How about I take a page from their book, why don't you show me proof that they don't?
This has not only homogenized the media, but it has also put the power of controlling how the public perceives the world into the hands of a select few.
however, with the advent of the web, we're starting to see a resurgence in independent news sources. this along with web search technology has made it easier than ever for individuals to access a wide/diverse range of media sources large and small
You hit the nail on the head with those two points. News papers are declining for the same reason the auto makers are hurting, they put out a shit product. News is News, it still cost the same to gather in the information age as it did in the steam age. Its the value added that makes the profit. Newspapers thought they could streamline their operations and roll them into one ball. It didn't work and people stopped buying.
Now they point the finger at the web. It's all bullshit. Doom and gloom bloggers get a hardon when they pretend they are more relevant than they are by pointing at stories like this, and CEO's who ran their company into the ground get a scapegoat.
The 10tn gorilla is add revenue.
Seems most small papers aren't doing to bad, nor is USA today which has some solid reporting despite its rep. Solid reporting is solid and will likely continue to be solvent. What they need is add revenue based less on hype and more on actual logic. I just did an Alexa search and my hometown of 300k people's newspaper's website had more reach than /.. Though that says more about /. then my paper.
In America police feel that everything is a crime worth jailing. I think it has something to do with the bureaucrats, unions and their lobbyists making more money based on how many people are in jail.
Yep, best way to solve the problem of kids acting out against authority is take away their rights, I mean "Privileges". While were at it, lets make it a crime for kids to be out after dark, more than 5 miles from their home without a permit, and to assemble in groups of more than 3. I think it could be the best thing for America to foster a strong nation is to instill in the young at an early age that they are a bitch of the state.
Lets not worry about kids who have to work. They shouldn't be doing that in the first place, yep they should just stay inside and be forced to go to school behind razor wire with teachers who get paid regardless of how they perform. Force them to go through years of schooling so that they get out of college at 24 knowing less than they did when they got in, unthinking trained monkeys that are great at popping out widgets and living on debt, worthless to society. Yes Me Must Protect the Children.
In my neck of the woods these things run a fine of $400, and they have cameras running 24/7. The light takes a picture of the plate and records the time it happened on the film. An officer has to review the footage for every picture taken to verify it. So he would be your guy.
Exactly, what really needs to be known is if their is water on the moon, and how much, first. That can be done through probes a lot cheaper.
If there is an ocean at the pole than sending people up at a later date would make sense because you could then extract essentials in-sutro, saving lots on resupply missions, and with the low gravity potentially allowing longer stays than Micro G saving cost on replacing crew. Which could then possibly assemble more probes on the moon cheaper then pushing them up the gravity well or even catch a NEO. Why we haven't figured out the most important part of future space travel (what resource's are easy and cheap to get off the moon) through cheap probes yet I can't figure out.
It's not always better. I wasn't defending Hoover or COINTELPRO or any of his excesses, but your examples of the KGB or gestapo aren't agencies without oversight, they were directed from the top to serve the needs of those at the top. Lacking oversight indeed.
The FBI was not in any position to control the country, and never would have been. John N. Mitchell on the other hand was the Attorney General for Nixon and a man who believed civil rights were bad for America and worked very close with Nixon to achieve the control they wanted.
You missed the point completely.