Self sufficiency and nationalism are the fundamental conservative values. I can't see how you can advocate letting the USA's manufacturing capability go belly up in the interest of a foolish marriage to the ideas of a free trade.
Do you seriously think that, a Japanese car worker has more culturally in common with you than a liberal American? Do you hate unions that much?
I don't. I'd rather be spending my money on the biggest bleeding heart Obama is too conservative supporting liberal than another guy in another country simply because that liberal most likely grew up watching the same shows I did, believes in the same holidays I did, raises his kids the same way I do... politics are only a tiny, tiny slivver of life for most people and when you reject half your country for its politics, its like, chopping off your arm because you don't like the fingernail. I'd be willing to bet that the liberal likes either video games or sports, likes a good novel, a good movie, certain kinds of constructions... there's 10 million points of things in common between Americans conservative and Americans liberal and its only because we've let ourselves get characterized as red and blue that we've lost site of how much in common we have.
I would rather see the USA invest a stake in ALL of the USA car companies than invest it in another bank. Why not? As it stands, the USA is getting handed money by the rest of the world at essentially 3% interest over 30 years. Instead of pissing it away on banks, why not get a big three straightened out, some electric cars and a spaceship.
Look, we're WAY past the point where anyone in any political party seriously believes the government can just keep its hands off the economy and do nothing. Let's at least keep our manufacturing base going, and get our country making for itself again, and in doing so yeah, a few rich people make out, but so do plenty of conservatives that work the shops, liberals the art departments, and every american of every stripe in between.
Are we so dogmatically into capitalism vs socialism that we cannot even see the utility of investing in the economic capability of our own country?
I think we've had ENOUGH of that.
I would think that learning how to assemble complex products, the management and expertise, the experience of the whole process of making cars is just as important as an educational process than spending money on education.
I'm a conservative. I'm a liberal. I'm for the USA first and foremost. Whatever it takes the government to do to get things rolling. Let's get it done.
Yes, the USA should invest in manufacturing and in particular, manufacturing for better technologies, and at a national level. It benefits the workers, it benefits the rich, it benefits a country whose sense of well being is made by being self sufficient in both the goods it produces and energy that it uses.
It's easy to demonize the rich, but history suggests caution. In 1993, as part of the Clinton economic recovery plan, Democrats raised taxes on luxury items. What they discovered is that they threw out of work quite a number of not-so-rich custom craftsmen, artists and workers that did things like make $2000 end tables, boats, and jewelry. Woops. The luxury tax was quickly repealed but the symbol of the small business owning craftsmen going belly up inspired middle America to elect Republicans in droves in 1994.
The whole "bailout" for car manufacturers is about retaining the skill among the workforce to create manufactured products. Clearly, Tesla is forging ahead and trying to build all electric cars. While only the rich can afford them now, if they are successful, perhaps other people will too in the future. I know Elon Musk is a self promoting douche, but, he is building the damn car and I bet he's got a lot of good people working for him.
I think the bank bailouts are far worse than any detroit bailout. Has anyone else ever bothered to total up the cost of the bailouts to banks versus the cost of the mortgages actually supposedly bad? You'll not be too surprised to find that we've already written out enough money to buy -all- of the subprime mortgages....but, why is anyone being foreclosed on?
Occam's razor applies to science as well. If you are not doing the simplest possible thing to solve the problem at hand, you are dicking around at humanity's expense. I think this story falls into that category of self indulgence funded by human fear and I think that's terrible.
It's fine for you to wave the flag of basic research, but honestly, I'm questioning whether or not this is in fact the way to go. We've been onto this "basic research" approach for quite some time now and have very little to show for it. I think a Manhattan style approach would be far more efficient.
You could probably cut a lot of crap out with manhattan style project planning for all major dieseases. You go and establish prevention tracking databases as I described, and then open up lines of inquiries as prescribed towards several major approaches towards curing the disease in question. In cancer it might be elevating immune responses, killing the cells, starving the tumors, whatever, and just get those approaches down. If you have to do detailed research there, then obviously do it. You would assign scientists to each slot, and that's what their career is. If they can't get it done, then replace them... and the scientist can either be sent off to work another problem, off to teach, or just sent back to wawa, who cares.
Consider this approach for alzheimers and this article... you could take millions of dollars and pay people to torture mice and find out everything about them, then spend billions more trying out different things in people only to find out that it doesn't work because mice are not human..., or you could set up a data warehouse that tracks what people do.
Just take any number of family members of alzheimers patients, gather up as much data about their diets as possible, and create a public wiki with a data mining engine to let and go -any- researcher mine the stuff for statistical links. Any sort of dietary culprit would stick out like a red flag and from there you could do genetic testing on the people involved to determine if the diet triggers an alzheimer's gene.
Because self reporting might not be accurate enough, going forward, you could add the support of supermarkets and restaurants to dump their data from participating credit card holders to this database and then you'd -know- exactly what those newer participants ate.
I would think the whole shebang, from soup to nuts, would cost less than a few million bucks to set up and we would be done already. Instead, we got this person waving around basic research, a pile of dead mice, and really nothing useful for it. You can call it science as much as you want, but I call it religion...
If I want a religion, I can pick one a lot more entertaining than some dike stuffing rodents into a torture pit to say that mcdonald's is bad for us. I like an angry judeo-christian god smiting everyone with flood and fire and brimstone, not even for any just reason, but, because, he's just a god and a dick and can do that. Sure, fire and brimstone god isn't going to cure alzheimers with some miracle, but then again, neither is some dike killing mice for the fuck of it.
The point here is that the study said nothing that was new or useful. What we have hear is some broad tortured a mouse and said that we need to eat more healthily. Like, what did she really do that was useful? Nothing. There's no guarantee that if you follow her conclusion, you won't get alzheimers. There's nothing to treat people that already have gotten it. There's nothing but a bunch of dead mice, a scientist with a flair for self promotion, saying that we need to eat better. Big deal.
I'm sick of all the vague and useless FUD coming out of the scientific community. There is not a single thing that they can discover or will discover that will change the fact that we will die.
Regardless of the novel intent, the underlying message, that we should be in constant fear, of what we eat, breath, and drink is really no improvement of where we were 200 years ago, before there were even scientists. What's the point! Get back to work on flying cars leave the mice alone.
I can hear already the trumpets of safety wailing away. Soon we'll have even more legislation about the sorts of food that we can eat, supposedly in our best interest, but really, a puritanical expression of clinging to life at every last grasp no matter what. We should only be puritans about things that matter.
Sometimes life is worth more than just extending it. Sometimes there is a choice between living free and well versus merely living longer.
I predict that in 5 years, IBM will finish moving all of its datacenter support to India, will exit the CPU business in the face of withering competition from Intel, and sell its mainframe business from some yet to be identified Chinese company.
Ah, but Darwin called himself a geologist...
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I left out the reference to Darwin, as I didn't want to inadvertently get another troll on this... but, Darwin actually called himself a Geologist and studied geology himself. Some of his ideas about evolution had antecedents in his father's staunch uniformitarianism.
Pardon me if I'm wrong, but, I thought it was the idea of sedimentary rocks that first gave real proof that the earth itself was a static thing.
Early geologists began to make great arguments that huge processes created a dynamic planet, and that really opened up the can of worms. If the planet changed, and change slowly, a naturalist might ask, then, wouldn't living organisms breed themselves in different directions in response to that? Animals have changed as a result of breeding by humans, and so what if nature had a similar hand?
It's funny to so easily dismiss the claim that soldiers think many Iraqi civilians are insurgents or are connected to the insurgency in some way.
But, what if they are? If an insurgent in Iraq can go into the middle of street of a major city, dig a giant hole, stuff it with artillery shells, bury it and walk and walk away, what does that say about the hundreds of other people that saw him do it and said nothing. I guarantee you that if I walked out with a shovel and a truckload of artillery shells into the middle of LA, someone -might- call the cops. But in Iraq, no one does.
If anything, this statistic supports one of the of the arguments against a continued US presence in Iraq was that our presence insights people to join the insurgency. If, soldiers are encountering a population sympathetic to insurgents, then, are we really to be surprised?
Instead of following on the liberal religion that a middle class army lead by college educated officers is somehow stupid, how about instead take these soldiers word as something probably accurate? Is it really so problematic to say that we should leave Iraq because the entire population hates us?
Is there a web site that compares distros? I look at the release list for FC10 and I don't see much compared to how Ubuntu is, but there is a lot of techy stuff under the hood also on that list that causes me to wonder what is good "inside" of Ubuntu, versus FC10.
The whole reason the patent system exists is so that the "little guy" will have incentive to make a product without fear of the big guy stomping them. Of course, it turns out that the big guy with a 1000 patents a year deters any competition, so, there's obviously going to be more competition if this ruling means as the article says. But, at the same time, if I genuinely do make a product that is new, then, big companies will be allowed to take it. In fact, anyone will.
As such, patents aren't -that- bad, but just imagine if copyrights were also deregulated to a degree. Yeah, people might be able to copy madonna songs more freely (as terrible a thing to do as that is), but, at the same time, the GPL would lose quite a bit of its teeth as its only as good as the rights the code authors have. If you are MS, looking at a billion in Windows development costs a year, suddenly a few hundred million in political "donations" in favor of candidates that are willing to legislate in that open source means public domain, and suddenly Linux is on everyone's desktop, but, it's closed source!
It's generally in the best interest of a company to just give up everything and follow the rules procedure in the USA.
If a judge finds out that a company is taking evasive action or has put in a policy in place to deliberately hide information from the court, then that company is going to get banged and banged hard. And if a you are judge, you can bang a company for a long, long time.
There are just some judges who will just look at a company, sigh, and say "what are you guys in trouble for now?" The lawyers for the company bring changes of underwear.
Windows ISVs used to laughing at the confusion caused by a plethora of Linux distributions have been orphaned by Microsoft. That's really the problem. You can't market Vista head to head against anything, because, there's all of these editions. You can't develop for anything but Vista Cheapo Edition, because, the market is now fragmented.
Quite honestly Microsoft would have been better served to wait a year to ship Vista, get more drivers out there, and have only -one- edition and for all computers. Then, they could turn around and go head to against Mac and Linux and compete with a single message. Hardware partners would have been happier to get newer computers out there, and developers could take advantage of the features of Vista premium without worrying about them.
Microsoft made add-ons essentially super-user in the browser space, and now they complain about add-ons being ill-behaved? If you don't want kids to bang their heads on your playground, perhaps design it better?
Look, here's the trade secret of the USA - we lost the free trade battle, we don't make anything the world wants, and we're bankrupt. Therefor, our stock market is cratering.
Who cares about company loyalty anyway, when they are just going to send your job to India. Only idiots believe that their work will be rewarded.
Ok, people, do some math... All the video game consoles in the USA total up to around 600,000 trucks when it comes to CO2 emissions. If you want to save the CO2 that your video game makes, I think you'd be square if you drove to the store one less time per month, if not year.
It's a Power Server and just run that as your desktop. I mean, the original 386 was dubbed the "mainframe" on the chip, linux is a multiuser OS. There's no more difference between a desktop and a mainframe anyway, except size of the box. Workstations are just big honking computers that you can fit nearby you. The only question would be what sort of graphics you can get on one of these jobs... but if you are just in it to crunch numbers, who cares?
Whether or not software is free or not free, we have more or less redistribution of wealth, more free trade or less free trade, more environmental protections or less, is not nearly as important as whether or not this nation is producing leaders sufficient to the tasks before it.
Right now, I'd say the answer is NO.
On paper, American managers and CEOs and political leaders, particularly the Bush administration, ought to have succeeding wildly.
BushCo, for all of its "revolutionary Republican" posturing, is a product of the system of education and nation building. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, all of them are top school graduates. All the generals that came before Petreaus also have distinguished resumes.
The CEOs that run American companies, financial institutions, etc, all have similarly stellar pedigrees.
Yet, the government is a mess and the private sector is in tatters. Our financial institutions are burned from bad loans and our manufacturing is gutted from bad products. A country with the supposedly best educational system in the world ought to have produced a ruling class capable of winning wars quickly, balancing the budget, and making use of the largest pool of private and public capital ever assembled to expand its businesses and not lose them to third world countries.
Yet, this nation has utterly failed.
And, on the left, we can see too that the leadership is similarly anemic. Our arts are in a constant spiral downward, free speech now means whether or not you can say the F- bomb on public TV. Are there any musicians today, who we will listen to in 100 years? Are you are there any books today, that will be read in 100 years? Can we really say the writing behind a movie made today is the equal of the writing of a movie made before?
This isn't about politics any more. This is a failure of our institutions to produce decent leaders, or leaders capable of making the right decision. Why this is the case, and how do we fix that, how do we fix a culture that has failed, is really the national debate, and every other issue almost doesn't even matter.
Scott McNeally used to say that he had no idea how he was going to make money off of Java, by giving it away. Well, now we know that he didn't and his successors didn't and it looks like there's about 6,000 less reasons for that platform to advance.
We would be delighted to become subjects of the crown again, but we doubt that her majesty could afford all the cameras that her subjects are so accustomed to.
PS. The Irish make better beer than you do, and soccer still sucks.
There's nothing that helps a victim and a bully than the bully getting the shit kicked out of him. Bullies pick on people because they enjoy it, and until you make that enjoyment sting, they will keep right on doing it. I don't care how big the bully is, and how small you are, there is always a stick or something that you can use to level the odds.
Sometimes, a pretzel can do the trick!
I remember this one kid used to pick on me and always take my lunch or lunch money, and I got fed up with it. So I stuffed a pretzel full of x-acto blades and offered that up. I got into a mountain of trouble and heard that sorry song and dance about how we should accept bullies and be like ghandi and the bully was pissed...
but the bully never took my lunch money money again.
otherwise I'd say it would be a good way to force a government to think harder about diplomacy, which might be a secondary agenda for 'environmentalists'.
Yes, and that makes them anti-Americans. When you steal a tool out of someone's toolbox, that makes you anti-them. Why can't environmentalists just admit they are anti-American and move on with it?
It's a little hard for the whales to do that, because apart from the fact that the sonar travels for hundreds of miles in water, in the shallow portions of the coast where these exercises take place, there aren't a lot of places for the whales to escape to.
A Sonar technician already calculated that the maximum volume of the sonar in the water isn't "hundreds of miles". So you are posting your propaganda, not I.
that you seem to want to grind regarding people who aren't just thinking about number 1 all the time...., given your immediate leap to the unpatriotic "why do you hate america?"
No, I genuinely believe the hard core leadership of the environmental movement is ultimately anti-humanity. All I ever see them do is block project after project. Trying to appease the environmental movement is like trying to be a black guy looking for job in the 1950s... it's always something supposedly constructive that can be approved, the suit, the tie, the shoes, the presentation, education, experience or delivery, but ultimately, old blackey never gets promoted because it doesn't have to do with anything other than his existence. Same with industry.. first its particulates, dumping and now its CO2... there will always be something that puts the environmental movement protesting at the gates, shutting down projects, driving jobs away, and wrecking the American middle class. Even if you could a factory in a hermetically sealed bubble, environmentalists would be protesting the effects of the bubble. They simply are anti-industry, and therefor, anti-American.
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Self sufficiency and nationalism are the fundamental conservative values. I can't see how you can advocate letting the USA's manufacturing capability go belly up in the interest of a foolish marriage to the ideas of a free trade.
Do you seriously think that, a Japanese car worker has more culturally in common with you than a liberal American? Do you hate unions that much?
I don't. I'd rather be spending my money on the biggest bleeding heart Obama is too conservative supporting liberal than another guy in another country simply because that liberal most likely grew up watching the same shows I did, believes in the same holidays I did, raises his kids the same way I do... politics are only a tiny, tiny slivver of life for most people and when you reject half your country for its politics, its like, chopping off your arm because you don't like the fingernail. I'd be willing to bet that the liberal likes either video games or sports, likes a good novel, a good movie, certain kinds of constructions... there's 10 million points of things in common between Americans conservative and Americans liberal and its only because we've let ourselves get characterized as red and blue that we've lost site of how much in common we have.
I would rather see the USA invest a stake in ALL of the USA car companies than invest it in another bank. Why not? As it stands, the USA is getting handed money by the rest of the world at essentially 3% interest over 30 years. Instead of pissing it away on banks, why not get a big three straightened out, some electric cars and a spaceship.
Look, we're WAY past the point where anyone in any political party seriously believes the government can just keep its hands off the economy and do nothing. Let's at least keep our manufacturing base going, and get our country making for itself again, and in doing so yeah, a few rich people make out, but so do plenty of conservatives that work the shops, liberals the art departments, and every american of every stripe in between.
Are we so dogmatically into capitalism vs socialism that we cannot even see the utility of investing in the economic capability of our own country?
I think we've had ENOUGH of that.
I would think that learning how to assemble complex products, the management and expertise, the experience of the whole process of making cars is just as important as an educational process than spending money on education.
I'm a conservative. I'm a liberal. I'm for the USA first and foremost. Whatever it takes the government to do to get things rolling. Let's get it done.
Yes, the USA should invest in manufacturing and in particular, manufacturing for better technologies, and at a national level. It benefits the workers, it benefits the rich, it benefits a country whose sense of well being is made by being self sufficient in both the goods it produces and energy that it uses.
It's easy to demonize the rich, but history suggests caution. In 1993, as part of the Clinton economic recovery plan, Democrats raised taxes on luxury items. What they discovered is that they threw out of work quite a number of not-so-rich custom craftsmen, artists and workers that did things like make $2000 end tables, boats, and jewelry. Woops. The luxury tax was quickly repealed but the symbol of the small business owning craftsmen going belly up inspired middle America to elect Republicans in droves in 1994.
The whole "bailout" for car manufacturers is about retaining the skill among the workforce to create manufactured products. Clearly, Tesla is forging ahead and trying to build all electric cars. While only the rich can afford them now, if they are successful, perhaps other people will too in the future. I know Elon Musk is a self promoting douche, but, he is building the damn car and I bet he's got a lot of good people working for him.
I think the bank bailouts are far worse than any detroit bailout. Has anyone else ever bothered to total up the cost of the bailouts to banks versus the cost of the mortgages actually supposedly bad? You'll not be too surprised to find that we've already written out enough money to buy -all- of the subprime mortgages....but, why is anyone being foreclosed on?
Occam's razor applies to science as well. If you are not doing the simplest possible thing to solve the problem at hand, you are dicking around at humanity's expense. I think this story falls into that category of self indulgence funded by human fear and I think that's terrible.
It's fine for you to wave the flag of basic research, but honestly, I'm questioning whether or not this is in fact the way to go. We've been onto this "basic research" approach for quite some time now and have very little to show for it. I think a Manhattan style approach would be far more efficient.
You could probably cut a lot of crap out with manhattan style project planning for all major dieseases. You go and establish prevention tracking databases as I described, and then open up lines of inquiries as prescribed towards several major approaches towards curing the disease in question. In cancer it might be elevating immune responses, killing the cells, starving the tumors, whatever, and just get those approaches down. If you have to do detailed research there, then obviously do it. You would assign scientists to each slot, and that's what their career is. If they can't get it done, then replace them... and the scientist can either be sent off to work another problem, off to teach, or just sent back to wawa, who cares.
Consider this approach for alzheimers and this article... you could take millions of dollars and pay people to torture mice and find out everything about them, then spend billions more trying out different things in people only to find out that it doesn't work because mice are not human..., or you could set up a data warehouse that tracks what people do.
Just take any number of family members of alzheimers patients, gather up as much data about their diets as possible, and create a public wiki with a data mining engine to let and go -any- researcher mine the stuff for statistical links.
Any sort of dietary culprit would stick out like a red flag and from there you could do genetic testing on the people involved to determine if the diet triggers an alzheimer's gene.
Because self reporting might not be accurate enough, going forward, you could add the support of supermarkets and restaurants to dump their data from participating credit card holders to this database and then you'd -know- exactly what those newer participants ate.
I would think the whole shebang, from soup to nuts, would cost less than a few million bucks to set up and we would be done already. Instead, we got this person waving around basic research, a pile of dead mice, and really nothing useful for it. You can call it science as much as you want, but I call it religion...
If I want a religion, I can pick one a lot more entertaining than some dike stuffing rodents into a torture pit to say that mcdonald's is bad for us. I like an angry judeo-christian god smiting everyone with flood and fire and brimstone, not even for any just reason, but, because, he's just a god and a dick and can do that. Sure, fire and brimstone god isn't going to cure alzheimers with some miracle, but then again, neither is some dike killing mice for the fuck of it.
The point here is that the study said nothing that was new or useful. What we have hear is some broad tortured a mouse and said that we need to eat more healthily. Like, what did she really do that was useful? Nothing. There's no guarantee that if you follow her conclusion, you won't get alzheimers. There's nothing to treat people that already have gotten it. There's nothing but a bunch of dead mice, a scientist with a flair for self promotion, saying that we need to eat better. Big deal.
I'm sick of all the vague and useless FUD coming out of the scientific community. There is not a single thing that they can discover or will discover that will change the fact that we will die.
Regardless of the novel intent, the underlying message, that we should be in constant fear, of what we eat, breath, and drink is really no improvement of where we were 200 years ago, before there were even scientists. What's the point! Get back to work on flying cars leave the mice alone.
I can hear already the trumpets of safety wailing away. Soon we'll have even more legislation about the sorts of food that we can eat, supposedly in our best interest, but really, a puritanical expression of clinging to life at every last grasp no matter what. We should only be puritans about things that matter.
Sometimes life is worth more than just extending it. Sometimes there is a choice between living free and well versus merely living longer.
I predict that in 5 years, IBM will finish moving all of its datacenter support to India, will exit the CPU business in the face of withering competition from Intel, and sell its mainframe business from some yet to be identified Chinese company.
I left out the reference to Darwin, as I didn't want to inadvertently get another troll on this... but, Darwin actually called himself a Geologist and studied geology himself. Some of his ideas about evolution had antecedents in his father's staunch uniformitarianism.
http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/planning.nsf/viewAttachments/GFRH-7KLC73/$file/charles-darwin-and-geology.pdf
and,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
Pardon me if I'm wrong, but, I thought it was the idea of sedimentary rocks that first gave real proof that the earth itself was a static thing.
Early geologists began to make great arguments that huge processes created a dynamic planet, and that really opened up the can of worms. If the planet changed, and change slowly, a naturalist might ask, then, wouldn't living organisms breed themselves in different directions in response to that? Animals have changed as a result of breeding by humans, and so what if nature had a similar hand?
Best post in a week, easily.
It's funny to so easily dismiss the claim that soldiers think many Iraqi civilians are insurgents or are connected to the insurgency in some way.
But, what if they are? If an insurgent in Iraq can go into the middle of street of a major city, dig a giant hole, stuff it with artillery shells, bury it and walk and walk away, what does that say about the hundreds of other people that saw him do it and said nothing. I guarantee you that if I walked out with a shovel and a truckload of artillery shells into the middle of LA, someone -might- call the cops. But in Iraq, no one does.
If anything, this statistic supports one of the of the arguments against a continued US presence in Iraq was that our presence insights people to join the insurgency. If, soldiers are encountering a population sympathetic to insurgents, then, are we really to be surprised?
Instead of following on the liberal religion that a middle class army lead by college educated officers is somehow stupid, how about instead take these soldiers word as something probably accurate? Is it really so problematic to say that we should leave Iraq because the entire population hates us?
Is there a web site that compares distros? I look at the release list for FC10 and I don't see much compared to how Ubuntu is, but there is a lot of techy stuff under the hood also on that list that causes me to wonder what is good "inside" of Ubuntu, versus FC10.
The whole reason the patent system exists is so that the "little guy" will have incentive to make a product without fear of the big guy stomping them. Of course, it turns out that the big guy with a 1000 patents a year deters any competition, so, there's obviously going to be more competition if this ruling means as the article says. But, at the same time, if I genuinely do make a product that is new, then, big companies will be allowed to take it. In fact, anyone will.
As such, patents aren't -that- bad, but just imagine if copyrights were also deregulated to a degree. Yeah, people might be able to copy madonna songs more freely (as terrible a thing to do as that is), but, at the same time, the GPL would lose quite a bit of its teeth as its only as good as the rights the code authors have. If you are MS, looking at a billion in Windows development costs a year, suddenly a few hundred million in political "donations" in favor of candidates that are willing to legislate in that open source means public domain, and suddenly Linux is on everyone's desktop, but, it's closed source!
It's generally in the best interest of a company to just give up everything and follow the rules procedure in the USA.
If a judge finds out that a company is taking evasive action or has put in a policy in place to deliberately hide information from the court, then that company is going to get banged and banged hard. And if a you are judge, you can bang a company for a long, long time.
There are just some judges who will just look at a company, sigh, and say "what are you guys in trouble for now?" The lawyers for the company bring changes of underwear.
Windows ISVs used to laughing at the confusion caused by a plethora of Linux distributions have been orphaned by Microsoft. That's really the problem. You can't market Vista head to head against anything, because, there's all of these editions. You can't develop for anything but Vista Cheapo Edition, because, the market is now fragmented.
Quite honestly Microsoft would have been better served to wait a year to ship Vista, get more drivers out there, and have only -one- edition and for all computers. Then, they could turn around and go head to against Mac and Linux and compete with a single message. Hardware partners would have been happier to get newer computers out there, and developers could take advantage of the features of Vista premium without worrying about them.
Microsoft made add-ons essentially super-user in the browser space, and now they complain about add-ons being ill-behaved? If you don't want kids to bang their heads on your playground, perhaps design it better?
Look, here's the trade secret of the USA - we lost the free trade battle, we don't make anything the world wants, and we're bankrupt. Therefor, our stock market is cratering.
Who cares about company loyalty anyway, when they are just going to send your job to India. Only idiots believe that their work will be rewarded.
We played Age of Mythology, and now he runs around with toy swords stabbing everything he sees. Yep, that worked out real well.
Ok, people, do some math... All the video game consoles in the USA total up to around 600,000 trucks when it comes to CO2 emissions. If you want to save the CO2 that your video game makes, I think you'd be square if you drove to the store one less time per month, if not year.
You could still get one of these chumpies..
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/pm/sp/n/pod03014usen/POD03014USEN.PDF
It's a Power Server and just run that as your desktop. I mean, the original 386 was dubbed the "mainframe" on the chip, linux is a multiuser OS. There's no more difference between a desktop and a mainframe anyway, except size of the box. Workstations are just big honking computers that you can fit nearby you. The only question would be what sort of graphics you can get on one of these jobs... but if you are just in it to crunch numbers, who cares?
Whether or not software is free or not free, we have more or less redistribution of wealth, more free trade or less free trade, more environmental protections or less, is not nearly as important as whether or not this nation is producing leaders sufficient to the tasks before it.
Right now, I'd say the answer is NO.
On paper, American managers and CEOs and political leaders, particularly the Bush administration, ought to have succeeding wildly.
BushCo, for all of its "revolutionary Republican" posturing, is a product of the system of education and nation building. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, all of them are top school graduates. All the generals that came before Petreaus also have distinguished resumes.
The CEOs that run American companies, financial institutions, etc, all have similarly stellar pedigrees.
Yet, the government is a mess and the private sector is in tatters. Our financial institutions are burned from bad loans and our manufacturing is gutted from bad products. A country with the supposedly best educational system in the world ought to have produced a ruling class capable of winning wars quickly, balancing the budget, and making use of the largest pool of private and public capital ever assembled to expand its businesses and not lose them to third world countries.
Yet, this nation has utterly failed.
And, on the left, we can see too that the leadership is similarly anemic. Our arts are in a constant spiral downward, free speech now means whether or not you can say the F- bomb on public TV. Are there any musicians today, who we will listen to in 100 years? Are you are there any books today, that will be read in 100 years? Can we really say the writing behind a movie made today is the equal of the writing of a movie made before?
This isn't about politics any more. This is a failure of our institutions to produce decent leaders, or leaders capable of making the right decision. Why this is the case, and how do we fix that, how do we fix a culture that has failed, is really the national debate, and every other issue almost doesn't even matter.
Scott McNeally used to say that he had no idea how he was going to make money off of Java, by giving it away. Well, now we know that he didn't and his successors didn't and it looks like there's about 6,000 less reasons for that platform to advance.
We would be delighted to become subjects of the crown again, but we doubt that her majesty could afford all the cameras that her subjects are so accustomed to.
PS. The Irish make better beer than you do, and soccer still sucks.
There's nothing that helps a victim and a bully than the bully getting the shit kicked out of him. Bullies pick on people because they enjoy it, and until you make that enjoyment sting, they will keep right on doing it. I don't care how big the bully is, and how small you are, there is always a stick or something that you can use to level the odds.
Sometimes, a pretzel can do the trick!
I remember this one kid used to pick on me and always take my lunch or lunch money, and I got fed up with it. So I stuffed a pretzel full of x-acto blades and offered that up. I got into a mountain of trouble and heard that sorry song and dance about how we should accept bullies and be like ghandi and the bully was pissed...
but the bully never took my lunch money money again.
otherwise I'd say it would be a good way to force a government to think harder about diplomacy, which might be a secondary agenda for 'environmentalists'.
Yes, and that makes them anti-Americans. When you steal a tool out of someone's toolbox, that makes you anti-them. Why can't environmentalists just admit they are anti-American and move on with it?
It's a little hard for the whales to do that, because apart from the fact that the sonar travels for hundreds of miles in water, in the shallow portions of the coast where these exercises take place, there aren't a lot of places for the whales to escape to.
A Sonar technician already calculated that the maximum volume of the sonar in the water isn't "hundreds of miles". So you are posting your propaganda, not I.
that you seem to want to grind regarding people who aren't just thinking about number 1 all the time...., given your immediate leap to the unpatriotic "why do you hate america?"
No, I genuinely believe the hard core leadership of the environmental movement is ultimately anti-humanity. All I ever see them do is block project after project. Trying to appease the environmental movement is like trying to be a black guy looking for job in the 1950s... it's always something supposedly constructive that can be approved, the suit, the tie, the shoes, the presentation, education, experience or delivery, but ultimately, old blackey never gets promoted because it doesn't have to do with anything other than his existence. Same with industry.. first its particulates, dumping and now its CO2... there will always be something that puts the environmental movement protesting at the gates, shutting down projects, driving jobs away, and wrecking the American middle class. Even if you could a factory in a hermetically sealed bubble, environmentalists would be protesting the effects of the bubble. They simply are anti-industry, and therefor, anti-American.