All I want is a SMALL phone I can wear on my wrist, with a bluetooth headset: - no speaker or mike - no cameras - no web browser - no email - no mp3 player
They're have been a couple of prototypes, a couple of years ago, and one was available in Japan for a while...
To answer my own question... there's no money in it. The mobile phone companies need to up-sell you all the additional services -- that's where they make their profit -- the basic phone service is break-even at best......sigh
The Royal Greenwich Observatory is now a muesum, but the United States Naval Observatory at
http://www.usno.navy.mil/
is a good resource for this kind of (modern) information...
I'm for more parties. I'm also against the electoral college. I'm not sure how the two are connected, so I'd be interested if you could spell this out for me.
Small parties can't get equal representation --
Green candidate gets about 3% of popular presidential vote, but but ZERO of 535 seats in congress...
The parliamentary system allows small third parties to hit the jackpot by having the power to tilt the balance of power. This is too much power, IMO.
Too true -- major legislation gets passed and
then repealed -- lots of wasted energy...
I think that perfectionism is more to blame with voter disaffection. Kids are brainwashed into thinking we live in a perfect system and when they get old enough to see for themselves how messy it really is they're disgusted because that's not the way its supposed to be.
I think people are unhappy with Washington because they have a minority viewpoint that isn't represented -- in New Zealand they have a Rastifarian in Parliment !
The electoral college props-up the two party system -- at the expense of smaller, third parties.
This gives the US a stable, but perhaps too conservative political system -- with little representation from radical/fringe/third parties.
Compare to other parts of the world with parlimentary systems -- there are many more parties represented in parliment -- governments regularly collapse and reform.
One could argue that the two-party system has served the US well -- now the world's only super-power.
I would argue that the similarities of the two parties -- the lack of radical/fringe/third party representation in Washington -- has led to the voter backlash/hate/mistrust of the Federal Government.
If you are unhappy with Washington, if you don't think minority views get enough representation, then blame the electoral college.
If you are happy with the US as it is, blame the electoral college.
Politicians in election mode bear slight resemblance to human beings.
Democrats are for big gum'mint, Republicans are for big business.
Personally, I feel we need to help the less fortunate, rather than
letting them fend for themselves...
> Frightening info, but necessary reading
>
> The State of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George W. Bush, is
> ranked:
>
> 50th in spending for teachers' salaries
> 49th in spending on the environment
> 48th in per-capita funding for public health
> 47th in delivery of social services
> 42nd in child-support collections
> 41st in per-capita spending on public education
>
> and...
>
> 5th in percentage of population living in poverty
> 1st in air and water pollution
> 1st in percentage of poor working parents without insurance
> 1st in percentage of children without health insurance
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All I want is a SMALL phone I can wear on my wrist, with a bluetooth headset:
... there's no money in it. The mobile phone companies need to up-sell you all the additional services -- that's where they make their profit -- the basic phone service is break-even at best... ...sigh
- no speaker or mike
- no cameras
- no web browser
- no email
- no mp3 player
They're have been a couple of prototypes, a couple of years ago, and one was available in Japan for a while...
To answer my own question
First Law: You can't get somehing for nothing
Second Law: You get what you pay for
Third law: Hell, you can't even break even!
Grins -
Greets --
The Royal Greenwich Observatory is now a muesum, but the United States Naval Observatory at http://www.usno.navy.mil/ is a good resource for this kind of (modern) information...
Grins --
Carl
--
I'm for more parties. I'm also against the electoral college. I'm not sure how the two are connected, so I'd be interested if you could spell this out for me.
Small parties can't get equal representation -- Green candidate gets about 3% of popular presidential vote, but but ZERO of 535 seats in congress...
The parliamentary system allows small third parties to hit the jackpot by having the power to tilt the balance of power. This is too much power, IMO.
Too true -- major legislation gets passed and then repealed -- lots of wasted energy...
I think that perfectionism is more to blame with voter disaffection. Kids are brainwashed into thinking we live in a perfect system and when they get old enough to see for themselves how messy it really is they're disgusted because that's not the way its supposed to be.
I think people are unhappy with Washington because they have a minority viewpoint that isn't represented -- in New Zealand they have a Rastifarian in Parliment !
http://www.ps.parliament.govt.nz/mp133.htm
--
The electoral college props-up the two party system -- at the expense of smaller, third parties.
This gives the US a stable, but perhaps too conservative political system -- with little representation from radical/fringe/third parties.
Compare to other parts of the world with parlimentary systems -- there are many more parties represented in parliment -- governments regularly collapse and reform.
One could argue that the two-party system has served the US well -- now the world's only super-power.
I would argue that the similarities of the two parties -- the lack of radical/fringe/third party representation in Washington -- has led to the voter backlash/hate/mistrust of the Federal Government.
If you are unhappy with Washington, if you don't think minority views get enough representation, then blame the electoral college.
If you are happy with the US as it is, blame the electoral college.
Blue Skies...
--
Politicians in election mode bear slight resemblance to human beings.
...
Democrats are for big gum'mint, Republicans are for big business.
Personally, I feel we need to help the less fortunate, rather than
letting them fend for themselves...
> Frightening info, but necessary reading
>
> The State of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George W. Bush, is
> ranked:
>
> 50th in spending for teachers' salaries
> 49th in spending on the environment
> 48th in per-capita funding for public health
> 47th in delivery of social services
> 42nd in child-support collections
> 41st in per-capita spending on public education
>
> and
>
> 5th in percentage of population living in poverty
> 1st in air and water pollution
> 1st in percentage of poor working parents without insurance
> 1st in percentage of children without health insurance
Anybody else see a frivolous lawsuit as a method to generate publicity?
Grins --
Be nice --
ask for "expenses" (you did host the domain for 2 years, after all)
stall if they offer nothing --
be gratious with whatever you get.
Cheers --