Not to sound degradating, but do you really believe that the people who all run a corporation are trying to do nothing but poison the environment and put us all into economic slavery?
What I was talking about was a rational approach to reducing the cost of doing business in this country. What do I mean by that? Perhaps we should examine:
*The ridiculous salary and bonus options paid to company officers of major corporations. *Torte reform *Healthcare reform *Tax reform. Not just changing the rates, but changing how the whole system functions. *Sanity in labor contracts. *Sanity checks in unemployment benefits. *A wholistic view of subsidies, Tarrifs, and duties paid on goods. *Intelligent and strategic reviews of foreign aid and grants.
A business is a living being run by people. It will do whatever is necessary to insure its survival.
Yes they need to be regulated, but regulated in such a way they can can continue to grow without forcing them to do it at the expense of employees or shareholders. This is something that responsible government should be able to accomplish if we could just stop screaming at each other long enough to focus on it.
It is interesting how this works. GM just announced the "World Engine". Essentially, they will be manufacturing the parts in outsourced countries all over the world, shipping them back to the US, and doing final assembly here. Scary to think that it is more cost effective to ship parts thousands of miles from dozens of suppliers than to make them at home. Even then, GM's margin on autos is razor thin.
Perhaps we should start looking at why it is so expensive to manufacture here instead of gnashing our teeth about jobs going overseas.
Just a comment to all. THe date on the e-mail, if true, about chemical weapons is April 15, 1999. Mr. Clinton was in office. The big one hit on Mr. Bush's watch. So the next time someone says George Bush did this or Bill Clinton did that and it made the situation worse, remember this.
The terrorists don't give a damn about who's in office. They have been planning all this for many years. Bush or Kerry is irrelevant in the long-term as long as whomever is elected find a permanent solution to this one way or another.
SPeaking as a Michigan resident, I can tell you this does not change anything. They let monster carrier semis roam the Michigan roads, tearing them into rubble at a high tax rate. The trucking companies just raise their rates, raising the prices for the consumer. Try driving in Michigan. It's like trying to negotiate an artillery field.
Higher taxes won't solve anything. What we need is incentives for companies to develop more efficient vehicles, from the haulers all the way down to passenger vehicles. If the technology that this poor young man was working on becomes adopted, it would be a fitting legacy for him and others with his vision.
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actually, it's because I read the available trial transcripts and made my own decision. Which further proves my point
Looks like SCO has alrady cornered the market on those.
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Although I agree with your point, perhaps OJ is not the appropriate example to use here.
An appropriate example would have been someone who was assumed guilty and obviously did NOT do it. See the case of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, the inspiration for the movie "The Fugitive".
OK, I agree that SOME limited government regulation is required. Are you seriously comparing popup ads to a poisoned water supply or contaminated food?
This kind of idiotic regulation is what makes government grow and your taxes go up. Give it enough time and someone will create the technology to fix this with no government intervention. Less goverment is almost always good.
My faith in the medical research community always seems to be near zero until I hear from someone (like parent) that knows what the hell they're saying. Hats off to you, sir.
Unless this is Googled BS, then my universal balance is secure.
Hmmm... I'm having a problem seeing you going down the highway in ANY kind of car. After reading your post though I find I'm suddenly in favor of a medical review for driver's licenses.
Good point. I never thought of it from that angle. I personally think that long-term the war in Iraq will have been a very good thing.
I always used the Saddam argument to prove the UN irrelevant. The fact that they couldn't stop the US from attacking Iraq either should be the final nail in THAT coffin.
Of course, just because there's risk doesn't mean you won't get lucky.
The greatest chance of scientific stagnation is if we forego all risk. Given enough risk mitigation, I'll "light the fuse" and you can go hide. No one lives forever.
Your entire list of "issues" is made up of items that are entirely social in nature. Humankind could solve every single one of these if we could just put aside our petty differences and decide to do it. "Physician, heal thyself"
Space research is truly the last frontier. The knowledge derived from it lifts all humanity even if only from the perspective of giving us a glimpse into what all of us alive today will never see. Once a spacecraft leaves our planet it become research in it's purest form.
Fixing the roads may be important to you today but 1000 years from now will mankind get use from the fact that the local interstate had no potholes in 2004 or that a wealth of scientific information was gathered from Cassini?
Anyone have info on when the pics will make the transit and be broadcast? The Cassini site at JPL seems to be acting weird ATM. Looks like NASA can send a probe to Saturn but can't build a website to resist the/. effect.
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LOL, I stand corrected. I thing our baked goods are quite competitive.
Not to sound degradating, but do you really believe that the people who all run a corporation are trying to do nothing but poison the environment and put us all into economic slavery?
What I was talking about was a rational approach to reducing the cost of doing business in this country. What do I mean by that? Perhaps we should examine:
*The ridiculous salary and bonus options paid to company officers of major corporations.
*Torte reform
*Healthcare reform
*Tax reform. Not just changing the rates, but changing how the whole system functions.
*Sanity in labor contracts.
*Sanity checks in unemployment benefits.
*A wholistic view of subsidies, Tarrifs, and duties paid on goods.
*Intelligent and strategic reviews of foreign aid and grants.
A business is a living being run by people. It will do whatever is necessary to insure its survival.
Yes they need to be regulated, but regulated in such a way they can can continue to grow without forcing them to do it at the expense of employees or shareholders. This is something that responsible government should be able to accomplish if we could just stop screaming at each other long enough to focus on it.
It is interesting how this works. GM just announced the "World Engine". Essentially, they will be manufacturing the parts in outsourced countries all over the world, shipping them back to the US, and doing final assembly here. Scary to think that it is more cost effective to ship parts thousands of miles from dozens of suppliers than to make them at home. Even then, GM's margin on autos is razor thin.
Perhaps we should start looking at why it is so expensive to manufacture here instead of gnashing our teeth about jobs going overseas.
Mao is that you?
Just a comment to all. THe date on the e-mail, if true, about chemical weapons is April 15, 1999. Mr. Clinton was in office. The big one hit on Mr. Bush's watch. So the next time someone says George Bush did this or Bill Clinton did that and it made the situation worse, remember this.
The terrorists don't give a damn about who's in office. They have been planning all this for many years. Bush or Kerry is irrelevant in the long-term as long as whomever is elected find a permanent solution to this one way or another.
A whole other class of improve your [insert attribute here] spam on the way!
SPeaking as a Michigan resident, I can tell you this does not change anything. They let monster carrier semis roam the Michigan roads, tearing them into rubble at a high tax rate. The trucking companies just raise their rates, raising the prices for the consumer. Try driving in Michigan. It's like trying to negotiate an artillery field.
Higher taxes won't solve anything. What we need is incentives for companies to develop more efficient vehicles, from the haulers all the way down to passenger vehicles. If the technology that this poor young man was working on becomes adopted, it would be a fitting legacy for him and others with his vision.
actually, it's because I read the available trial transcripts and made my own decision. Which further proves my point
Looks like SCO has alrady cornered the market on those.
Although I agree with your point, perhaps OJ is not the appropriate example to use here.
An appropriate example would have been someone who was assumed guilty and obviously did NOT do it. See the case of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, the inspiration for the movie "The Fugitive".
OK, I agree that SOME limited government regulation is required. Are you seriously comparing popup ads to a poisoned water supply or contaminated food?
This kind of idiotic regulation is what makes government grow and your taxes go up. Give it enough time and someone will create the technology to fix this with no government intervention. Less goverment is almost always good.
Yeah, what he said.
My faith in the medical research community always seems to be near zero until I hear from someone (like parent) that knows what the hell they're saying. Hats off to you, sir.
Unless this is Googled BS, then my universal balance is secure.
Yeah, SP4 has an uninstaller. It's called Fedora Core 2 Disk 1.
Isn't John Kerry worth $500M US? Kinda blows that theory. Maybe we need a /. story comparing the relative net worth of all political candidates.
Hmmm... I'm having a problem seeing you going down the highway in ANY kind of car. After reading your post though I find I'm suddenly in favor of a medical review for driver's licenses.
If ever a post qualified as insightful, parent is it.
Good point. I never thought of it from that angle. I personally think that long-term the war in Iraq will have been a very good thing.
I always used the Saddam argument to prove the UN irrelevant. The fact that they couldn't stop the US from attacking Iraq either should be the final nail in THAT coffin.
Who cares as long as it's getting done. I know I have enough to guarantee a trip to OD every day from now until Labor Day.
/. They may change their minds.
God I hope they don't read
Of course, just because there's risk doesn't mean you won't get lucky.
The greatest chance of scientific stagnation is if we forego all risk. Given enough risk mitigation, I'll "light the fuse" and you can go hide. No one lives forever.
That "White Chicks" made any money is simply mindboggling.
Yeah, it's not like that tax money came from private enterprise or the private taxpayer in the first.......oh, wait
I realize that.
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I meant that I can't reach the website to find out when the pictures will be posted somewhere. Does anyone have that information?
Inability to post in understandable language is the Friday effect
Your entire list of "issues" is made up of items that are entirely social in nature. Humankind could solve every single one of these if we could just put aside our petty differences and decide to do it. "Physician, heal thyself"
Space research is truly the last frontier. The knowledge derived from it lifts all humanity even if only from the perspective of giving us a glimpse into what all of us alive today will never see. Once a spacecraft leaves our planet it become research in it's purest form.
Fixing the roads may be important to you today but 1000 years from now will mankind get use from the fact that the local interstate had no potholes in 2004 or that a wealth of scientific information was gathered from Cassini?
Anyone have info on when the pics will make the transit and be broadcast? The Cassini site at JPL seems to be acting weird ATM. Looks like NASA can send a probe to Saturn but can't build a website to resist the /. effect.
6.50? It's a lot more than that in any respectable theater in the Metro Detroit.
How is rural North Dakota anyhow?