Perhaps...and that would be the nature of a war turned political.
But this analysis was based on actual interviews with the North's generals and others. An actual autopsy of the war, if you will.
Regardless, it is one thing to report facts that are contradictory to the official version, embarrass them and tell a different story (with solid facts). It is another to use the forum provided by his position in the press to essentially advocate a political opinion based solely on his limited observations. He should have done the former, not the latter.
I believe that the fall of Journalism began with Walter Conkite, coming out against the Vietnam War after the Tet Offensive, proclaiming the war "lost" when by military standards it was a total disaster for the North.
Only in the arena of public opinion was the Tet Offensive successful, aided greatly by the single most respected journalist abandoning professional objectivity and publicly taking a position against the war.
But it is clear that the internet and the rise of social sites that cater to particular viewpoints is a driving force in the Balkanization of politics.
When you have sites like the Daily KOS, Democratic Underground and Free Republic where allegiance to a view point is either explicitly or implicitly required to participate in that community, alternative viewpoints are few and far between. You even see that here on Slashdot often when perfectly valid and reasonable comments with non-conformists views are modded into oblivion.
...how whatever authority that is perpetuating software patents continues to ignore the mountain of empirical evidence showing such patents are a very bad idea.
Your neighborhood is not the U.S. It's your little corner of the world.
Other neighborhood are very different. Different ground conditions, different existing infrastructures, different labor rates, different local ordinances, different street widths, different lot sizes, etc.
In my neighborhood and in fact 100s of miles around me you can't really dig more than a foot into the ground with out hitting huge limestone boulders. They did bury all of our utilities when they built it, using giant trenchers. If they had to do it today it would cost millions and millions.
But just for interest sake, almost half of Texas is either piney woods or rolling pastures and savannahs. North (Panhandle) and West Texas is where you find the tumbleweeds.
In central Texas, you don't just bring in a backhoe and dig a trench. You have to bring in a large trenching machine and grind through the rock...at about a few yards an hour or so.
And you would need a smaller version to get the power to your house, perhaps having to cut through your driveway, fences, etc. And then perhaps going around your existing gas, sewer and water lines. It's not like Cable TV where they bury it a few inches below your lawn. There are rules about depth and location lest some homeowner planting a bush be electrocuted.
Much cheaper in a new development. But in an existing one it is a giant pain in the ass.
They skipped the process of getting the money to the governments, who would contract with the construction companies who paid the union members who then paid Union dues and just gave it directly to the Unions.
So your post still doesn't make any sense. It's not a question of what it costs to do it for new development, but going back and doing it for the (probably) millions of miles of old services.
You are right. I should save my ad hominem attacks for the end of the post.
In the sense that words are not violence, the phrase "violent attack" is obviously a literary mechanism. I could have said vitriolic or something else. I choose that. Go with it. The whole post was nothing but a rant on his part anyway.
Oh! You got me 100s of years is inaccurate. How about over 100 years? Does that make you happy?
Enron, Deep Water Horizon, Halliburton, Exxon, or a coal disaster. - OWS garbage.
And about the M-80, merely a practical suggestion.
You are right. I noticed how many sewer lines and water lines are no longer hung from telephone poles. Oh...speaking of telephone poles...why are they called that?
I can't think of any other reason you would react so violently to someone simply pointing some simple fiscal truths. There is a shit ton of lines from 100s of years of infrastructure build out done way before deregulation. Yet morons like you expect them to magically get all the lines buried in a matter of decades. Oh...and buy the way, not raising your rates while doing so.
The rest of your pathetic post is merely warmed over OWS crap.
Why don't you just stick an M-80 in your mouth and save us from any more of your drivel.
First, these utilities are heavily regulated as public monopoly.
Second, dilapidated infrastructure implies that it has existed for many, many years...before the privatization.
Third, Power lines and other various utilities have been hung on poles since day one. Burying all these existing lines takes tons of time and tons of money.
In Austin, the local Greens have filed suit and held protests time and time again against tree trimming. They can't abide looking a a nice green canopy interrupted by corridors of cut away branches populated by various utility lines.
Really...do they have a company? Do we know their names? Do they take appropriate measures to prevent code from "getting into the wild". So they report their findings appropriately?
If the answer is no to all of the above, then they are not "researchers" and they are instead low rent punks hacking into the OS for purposes of compromising them and eventually making money.
And if they are not researches, then someone put a gun in their mouths and feed them a bullet.
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197MPH...almost as fast as my Mustang.
Perhaps...and that would be the nature of a war turned political.
But this analysis was based on actual interviews with the North's generals and others. An actual autopsy of the war, if you will.
Regardless, it is one thing to report facts that are contradictory to the official version, embarrass them and tell a different story (with solid facts). It is another to use the forum provided by his position in the press to essentially advocate a political opinion based solely on his limited observations. He should have done the former, not the latter.
I believe that the fall of Journalism began with Walter Conkite, coming out against the Vietnam War after the Tet Offensive, proclaiming the war "lost" when by military standards it was a total disaster for the North.
Only in the arena of public opinion was the Tet Offensive successful, aided greatly by the single most respected journalist abandoning professional objectivity and publicly taking a position against the war.
I agree.
Well, except for the part about not liking porn.
But it is clear that the internet and the rise of social sites that cater to particular viewpoints is a driving force in the Balkanization of politics.
When you have sites like the Daily KOS, Democratic Underground and Free Republic where allegiance to a view point is either explicitly or implicitly required to participate in that community, alternative viewpoints are few and far between. You even see that here on Slashdot often when perfectly valid and reasonable comments with non-conformists views are modded into oblivion.
...how whatever authority that is perpetuating software patents continues to ignore the mountain of empirical evidence showing such patents are a very bad idea.
"Don't grammar matter no more"
Fixed.
This is Slashdot, everything is a pissing contest.
They are harder to dig up/through/around when you can't just trundle some 5 ton trencher to where it needs to be.
As I said, your neighborhood is different from others no doubt. Some, it's easy and inexpensive, others, its difficult and expensive.
Your neighborhood is not the U.S. It's your little corner of the world.
Other neighborhood are very different. Different ground conditions, different existing infrastructures, different labor rates, different local ordinances, different street widths, different lot sizes, etc.
In my neighborhood and in fact 100s of miles around me you can't really dig more than a foot into the ground with out hitting huge limestone boulders. They did bury all of our utilities when they built it, using giant trenchers. If they had to do it today it would cost millions and millions.
That's 12 Dem voters.
Funny...Plus 1 please.
But just for interest sake, almost half of Texas is either piney woods or rolling pastures and savannahs. North (Panhandle) and West Texas is where you find the tumbleweeds.
In central Texas, you don't just bring in a backhoe and dig a trench. You have to bring in a large trenching machine and grind through the rock...at about a few yards an hour or so.
And you would need a smaller version to get the power to your house, perhaps having to cut through your driveway, fences, etc. And then perhaps going around your existing gas, sewer and water lines. It's not like Cable TV where they bury it a few inches below your lawn. There are rules about depth and location lest some homeowner planting a bush be electrocuted.
Much cheaper in a new development. But in an existing one it is a giant pain in the ass.
They skipped the process of getting the money to the governments, who would contract with the construction companies who paid the union members who then paid Union dues and just gave it directly to the Unions.
In my relatively new neighborhood, they did.
So your post still doesn't make any sense. It's not a question of what it costs to do it for new development, but going back and doing it for the (probably) millions of miles of old services.
You are right. I should save my ad hominem attacks for the end of the post.
In the sense that words are not violence, the phrase "violent attack" is obviously a literary mechanism. I could have said vitriolic or something else. I choose that. Go with it. The whole post was nothing but a rant on his part anyway.
Oh! You got me 100s of years is inaccurate. How about over 100 years? Does that make you happy?
Enron, Deep Water Horizon, Halliburton, Exxon, or a coal disaster. - OWS garbage.
And about the M-80, merely a practical suggestion.
You are right. I noticed how many sewer lines and water lines are no longer hung from telephone poles. Oh...speaking of telephone poles...why are they called that?
You must have a miserable life.
I can't think of any other reason you would react so violently to someone simply pointing some simple fiscal truths. There is a shit ton of lines from 100s of years of infrastructure build out done way before deregulation. Yet morons like you expect them to magically get all the lines buried in a matter of decades. Oh...and buy the way, not raising your rates while doing so.
The rest of your pathetic post is merely warmed over OWS crap.
Why don't you just stick an M-80 in your mouth and save us from any more of your drivel.
(quote me in 5 years, and you won't laugh about this one anymore)
Sure...who are you?
First, these utilities are heavily regulated as public monopoly.
Second, dilapidated infrastructure implies that it has existed for many, many years...before the privatization.
Third, Power lines and other various utilities have been hung on poles since day one. Burying all these existing lines takes tons of time and tons of money.
In Austin, the local Greens have filed suit and held protests time and time again against tree trimming. They can't abide looking a a nice green canopy interrupted by corridors of cut away branches populated by various utility lines.
Twitter is the technological incarnation of narcissism.
Really...do they have a company? Do we know their names? Do they take appropriate measures to prevent code from "getting into the wild". So they report their findings appropriately?
If the answer is no to all of the above, then they are not "researchers" and they are instead low rent punks hacking into the OS for purposes of compromising them and eventually making money.
And if they are not researches, then someone put a gun in their mouths and feed them a bullet.
Ha!
You have to be making money and paying taxes before they can reduce your taxes.
Maybe I just jinxed it and some idiot will introduce earn income tax credits for companies.
I had a 100MPG carburetor and the Koch brothers bought it from me fro $100,000.
I tried to sell them my engine that ran on water but they said they had one already.
In case you missed it, U.S. Oil companies lost out badly when it came to getting drilling rights in Iraq.
And then we have the standard, "we're not taking as much money from you as we could, so it is a subsidy" line of thought.