Sure, it's better than reading a physical newspaper, where you're trapped in a single swamp of laziness, bias and lies. And we won't talk of TV "news", which is like a Bazooka Joe bubblegum wrapper. But before I was wise enough to realize how newspapers sucked (and before they totally sucked, after USA Today got through with them, and Fox Lies got through with newspapers), reading a newspaper could be an hour of thinking substantially about the world. An hour of depth and range.
But Google News sucks. Spending an hour reading it is like spending an hour speed dating. Yet it does have a lot of sources, some decent algorithms finding multiple sources for a single story, and a wide range of categories (especially if you're interested in PR in technical subjects written for a nontechnical audience). There's just "no there, there".
Is there an app that's better at presenting news? Browsing, linking among related articles? Formatted like a magazine or something, not just a clickable RSS feed?
Maybe something that listens to speech and gets content based on it? Maybe some social features? Something? The medium of "news" seems to be dead and rotting, right when the world needs it most. And right when my tea is ready.
Is there a utility yet that converts all Flash (Actionscript, not just video and animations) into HTML5? Even if just enough to make a prototype for specifying how the human recoders finish the job, in less than 80% of the time to hand convert from scratch?
You'll find that they're making high end electric cars. That's not just a scam. You have no explanation for how a Finnish company can't find manufacturing in America that is easy to find. But you aren't interested in the reason, or anything else.
For you Republicans, nothing matters except attacking "the other team".
You evidently got an A in false equivalence. Your GPA and your charity donations don't change the fact that your Republicanism is irredeemably stupid and evil.
The money in the Obama deficit comes from pumping cash back into an economy that Bush/Cheney and your Republican Congresses stole for 6-14 years in power. Because just in time for Election Day 2008 the money literally ran out. Without Obama's bailouts and stimulus (that cut back the Bush/Cheney TARP into something productive and manageable) , unemployment would be double or triple, the dollar would be worth what the Deutsche Mark was worth in 1933, and you wouldn't have the Internet to lie about it... or a light bulb.
Or do you think the rest of us are so stupid as to believe that everything was just hunky dory until suddenly Democrats retroactively deregulated the banks and sold all those credit default swaps?
You're the same Republican who is first to whine that 47% of Americans don't pay Federal taxes. Those are the poor people you're talking about, who don't pay for investment in electric vehicle development. But whose various other subsidies and cyclic job creations are funded by those investments.
Of course you Republicans don't get any of that. You're the ones who gave us the crash economy.
GM and Chrysler were both bailed out. Other than Ford, that's the US car industry. And since dealers, parts manufacturers, and all the related economy paid by GM, Chrysler and their manufacturers and dealers were bailed out, Ford was left with a functioning infrastructure without bailing it out itself, which would have required a bailout. Likewise the foreign brands that manufacture in the US. To say nothing of the bailed out incomes of the millions in the car industry, which gave money keeping all brands, foreign and domestic, supplied with paying customers the past 3 years.
Consumers aren't much better than private investors when it comes to funding industrial development. Especially when they're getting sucked into the Credit Bubble for SUVs and other trucks, and subsidized gasoline. The gasoline vehicle economy was rigged against consumers buying electric cars on the true economics. That's how the oil/vehicle/banking cartel organized our fake economy, which was more a market for subsidies and financial speculation than for products. Which is why it crashed, which makes it even harder for consumers to buy the first generation of electric vehicles. Unless government intervenes, the whole thing stays crashed, and just crashes everything else harder. Welcome to post-Soviet Russia, or any other post-crash anarchy.
But investors didn't give their money, and we're stuck without enough electric vehicle development.
With government it's jobs, tech development, strategic industry development, and all the income and taxes that come with it. That's a lot more than you're saying. Because you're a Republican, and you people never have government money for anything but killing.
Toyota is not an American company. The Volt was on the drawing board only because American car corps scammed out of 1990s California requirements for zero-emissions percentages of their fleets sold in CA to be allowed to sell any cars in CA by dragging out drawing board phase projects like the Volt. Which GM tried to recall once the laws were effectively dodged.
Hybrids are not electric cars, they're just more fuel efficient gas cars. Ford is a little better than GM and Chrysler, and failed a little softer so didn't take bailouts.
That's not it. The US is probably the best country in which to find factories able to run small volumes of specialty products or components. Especially ones made with new technologies, newly complex electronics, dependent on high quality raw materials, and sourcing ingredients from all over the world. Yet which require the plant to work with the product developers to tweak the process quickly and with effective communication. That all is indeed the US strength, since commodity manufacturing of well understood stuff from common materials requires only cheap labor and low pollution costs to be cheap but effective - the strength of foreign manufacturing, especially Chinese or Mexican.
Something else is going on here. Maybe the classic Obama flaw of giving money for a worthwhile endeavor that doesn't have enough strings attached for when it succeeds, not just if it fails.
Every president is a proponent of the power of the state. Especially liars like Ronald Reagan and Bush/Cheney, who expand state power to everyone's serious injury as they claim to avoid it.
You want an actually sensible explanation? You got it.
You Republicans never said a word while Bush/Cheney and your Republican Congresses were stealing $TRILLIONS. Except to blame everyone else, if you did admit it. You would vote for Bush/Cheney again. And indeed you will, when the Rombot or whatever standin comes up for auction next November.
You Republicans are stupid and evil. Proven every chance you open your mouths or cast a vote.
Electric car investment is clearly necessary. Without the investment, no electric cars. Private industry has had the opportunity for years, but blew it off in favor of gas guzzling SUVs and other trucks with suspended emissions regulations that it could sell to a market greased with fakeout balloon credit. That bizmodel crashed the car industry, while helping to drive up gas prices to $4+ and oil prices to $120+ - and made the Greenhouse even worse faster. Only when the public bailed out the US car industry (to save the rest of the US economy and industrial base) did it start to turn to serious electric product development.
But it's not enough. And because a lot of strategic progress hides behind multiple risky options, private industry (and finance) doesn't invest in it. Because those normal investors don't know how to invest in anything - which is why the entire investment industry had to get bailed out by the public. So the electric car investments have to come from the public, too.
Now, those investments are risky, as I said. Not too risky to do any of them, but too risky for each one to pay off. And when the government invests, it's far more efficient for it to invest in larger single investments, because managing a lot of little ones is beyond the ability to centrally plan and organize, especially given the volume and complexity of reporting and oversight that comes with any government contract. And then some of these investments will fail. Big ones will lose a lot of money.
Which is why private investment is better. Except private investment isn't doing it. Even before the Credit Bubble crashed, across many different bubbles (and even sustained growth), private investment wasn't doing it. Yet if we don't do it, either our resources and pollution crises will damage us more than the cost of the investment, or a foreign government will do it in ways that hurt us to help them, or most likely both.
So the government will have some Solyndras. It will have some Fiskers. Just as private investment would have had, though probably overall less wasted investment because there is so much more transparency (even if not enough) than when private investors make their deals - and fail. Plus government investment tends to take other policies, like US labor growth, into account that private investment ignores or worse. Not all the time, as is perhaps the case here with Fisker, but more than when private investment does it. Which, again, it is not doing here. And government investments, even when the commercial venture fails, tend to produce more usable lessons learned (and tech spun off) than private failures that usually keep the intellectual value suppressed in some new owner, or just left to rot entirely without a new use.
But is it legal in Italy for any teacher to have sex with any student, of any ages? It generally is in the US, too. Because generally in the US a person with some kind of professional power over another (as teachers have over their students) having sex with them is the basis of sexual harassment, where the sex isn't simply voluntary.
When every EU child has a recording box on their computer, all the pictures of them will be easily uploaded, and indeed probably "preventively" already uploaded to some EU surveillance database. Including their home webcams and personal phones. Which can be remotely activated.
I can't think of a better way to turn every EU child (and adult) into an unwilling porno star, when someone (on the inside, probably) publishes pictures take of those people without their even knowing it was their own equipment.
No, governments don't all want totalitarianism. Governments aren't people or even animals - they don't "want" anything.
Some people want totalitarianism, and use governments to get it.
These people are what we have government to protect the public from. Because without government, those people would be warlords (or their henchmen), and have all the totalitarianism they want.
After the beta test period, where Motti has a camera in his home to prevent the much more serious crimes that officials have the power to perpetrate, we will see how much of the kiddie porn problem can be solved by jailing Motti.
No, nobody would believe them. That's why they had to make it up, and get another clown to say many people would believe them.
You nuke fetishists are so desperate now that Japan nuked itself that you have to invent people to believe the BS you make up, even when that BS is against yourselves.
The constant speed of light is constant only in a given medium. Not only Einstein, but plenty of other scientists and mathematicians have covered that completely. Einstein's models account for different media.
You're just another childish egotist who thinks Einstein's work was some kind of great big "gotcha", so you'll just pull one off yourself.
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Google News sucks.
Sure, it's better than reading a physical newspaper, where you're trapped in a single swamp of laziness, bias and lies. And we won't talk of TV "news", which is like a Bazooka Joe bubblegum wrapper. But before I was wise enough to realize how newspapers sucked (and before they totally sucked, after USA Today got through with them, and Fox Lies got through with newspapers), reading a newspaper could be an hour of thinking substantially about the world. An hour of depth and range.
But Google News sucks. Spending an hour reading it is like spending an hour speed dating. Yet it does have a lot of sources, some decent algorithms finding multiple sources for a single story, and a wide range of categories (especially if you're interested in PR in technical subjects written for a nontechnical audience). There's just "no there, there".
Is there an app that's better at presenting news? Browsing, linking among related articles? Formatted like a magazine or something, not just a clickable RSS feed?
Maybe something that listens to speech and gets content based on it? Maybe some social features? Something? The medium of "news" seems to be dead and rotting, right when the world needs it most. And right when my tea is ready.
Is there a utility yet that converts all Flash (Actionscript, not just video and animations) into HTML5? Even if just enough to make a prototype for specifying how the human recoders finish the job, in less than 80% of the time to hand convert from scratch?
You'll find that they're making high end electric cars. That's not just a scam. You have no explanation for how a Finnish company can't find manufacturing in America that is easy to find. But you aren't interested in the reason, or anything else.
For you Republicans, nothing matters except attacking "the other team".
Literally $TRILLIONS just on the wars you Republicans lied us into, before we even get to the $TRILLIONS in bank.
You evidently got an A in false equivalence. Your GPA and your charity donations don't change the fact that your Republicanism is irredeemably stupid and evil.
Goodbye.
The money in the Obama deficit comes from pumping cash back into an economy that Bush/Cheney and your Republican Congresses stole for 6-14 years in power. Because just in time for Election Day 2008 the money literally ran out. Without Obama's bailouts and stimulus (that cut back the Bush/Cheney TARP into something productive and manageable) , unemployment would be double or triple, the dollar would be worth what the Deutsche Mark was worth in 1933, and you wouldn't have the Internet to lie about it... or a light bulb.
Or do you think the rest of us are so stupid as to believe that everything was just hunky dory until suddenly Democrats retroactively deregulated the banks and sold all those credit default swaps?
Stupid and evil. Rhymes with Republican.
You're the same Republican who is first to whine that 47% of Americans don't pay Federal taxes. Those are the poor people you're talking about, who don't pay for investment in electric vehicle development. But whose various other subsidies and cyclic job creations are funded by those investments.
Of course you Republicans don't get any of that. You're the ones who gave us the crash economy.
GM and Chrysler were both bailed out. Other than Ford, that's the US car industry. And since dealers, parts manufacturers, and all the related economy paid by GM, Chrysler and their manufacturers and dealers were bailed out, Ford was left with a functioning infrastructure without bailing it out itself, which would have required a bailout. Likewise the foreign brands that manufacture in the US. To say nothing of the bailed out incomes of the millions in the car industry, which gave money keeping all brands, foreign and domestic, supplied with paying customers the past 3 years.
Consumers aren't much better than private investors when it comes to funding industrial development. Especially when they're getting sucked into the Credit Bubble for SUVs and other trucks, and subsidized gasoline. The gasoline vehicle economy was rigged against consumers buying electric cars on the true economics. That's how the oil/vehicle/banking cartel organized our fake economy, which was more a market for subsidies and financial speculation than for products. Which is why it crashed, which makes it even harder for consumers to buy the first generation of electric vehicles. Unless government intervenes, the whole thing stays crashed, and just crashes everything else harder. Welcome to post-Soviet Russia, or any other post-crash anarchy.
But investors didn't give their money, and we're stuck without enough electric vehicle development.
With government it's jobs, tech development, strategic industry development, and all the income and taxes that come with it. That's a lot more than you're saying. Because you're a Republican, and you people never have government money for anything but killing.
Toyota is not an American company. The Volt was on the drawing board only because American car corps scammed out of 1990s California requirements for zero-emissions percentages of their fleets sold in CA to be allowed to sell any cars in CA by dragging out drawing board phase projects like the Volt. Which GM tried to recall once the laws were effectively dodged.
Hybrids are not electric cars, they're just more fuel efficient gas cars. Ford is a little better than GM and Chrysler, and failed a little softer so didn't take bailouts.
BTW: You are an asshole. Goodbye.
That's not it. The US is probably the best country in which to find factories able to run small volumes of specialty products or components. Especially ones made with new technologies, newly complex electronics, dependent on high quality raw materials, and sourcing ingredients from all over the world. Yet which require the plant to work with the product developers to tweak the process quickly and with effective communication. That all is indeed the US strength, since commodity manufacturing of well understood stuff from common materials requires only cheap labor and low pollution costs to be cheap but effective - the strength of foreign manufacturing, especially Chinese or Mexican.
Something else is going on here. Maybe the classic Obama flaw of giving money for a worthwhile endeavor that doesn't have enough strings attached for when it succeeds, not just if it fails.
Every president is a proponent of the power of the state. Especially liars like Ronald Reagan and Bush/Cheney, who expand state power to everyone's serious injury as they claim to avoid it.
You want an actually sensible explanation? You got it.
You Republicans never said a word while Bush/Cheney and your Republican Congresses were stealing $TRILLIONS. Except to blame everyone else, if you did admit it. You would vote for Bush/Cheney again. And indeed you will, when the Rombot or whatever standin comes up for auction next November.
You Republicans are stupid and evil. Proven every chance you open your mouths or cast a vote.
Electric car investment is clearly necessary. Without the investment, no electric cars. Private industry has had the opportunity for years, but blew it off in favor of gas guzzling SUVs and other trucks with suspended emissions regulations that it could sell to a market greased with fakeout balloon credit. That bizmodel crashed the car industry, while helping to drive up gas prices to $4+ and oil prices to $120+ - and made the Greenhouse even worse faster. Only when the public bailed out the US car industry (to save the rest of the US economy and industrial base) did it start to turn to serious electric product development.
But it's not enough. And because a lot of strategic progress hides behind multiple risky options, private industry (and finance) doesn't invest in it. Because those normal investors don't know how to invest in anything - which is why the entire investment industry had to get bailed out by the public. So the electric car investments have to come from the public, too.
Now, those investments are risky, as I said. Not too risky to do any of them, but too risky for each one to pay off. And when the government invests, it's far more efficient for it to invest in larger single investments, because managing a lot of little ones is beyond the ability to centrally plan and organize, especially given the volume and complexity of reporting and oversight that comes with any government contract. And then some of these investments will fail. Big ones will lose a lot of money.
Which is why private investment is better. Except private investment isn't doing it. Even before the Credit Bubble crashed, across many different bubbles (and even sustained growth), private investment wasn't doing it. Yet if we don't do it, either our resources and pollution crises will damage us more than the cost of the investment, or a foreign government will do it in ways that hurt us to help them, or most likely both.
So the government will have some Solyndras. It will have some Fiskers. Just as private investment would have had, though probably overall less wasted investment because there is so much more transparency (even if not enough) than when private investors make their deals - and fail. Plus government investment tends to take other policies, like US labor growth, into account that private investment ignores or worse. Not all the time, as is perhaps the case here with Fisker, but more than when private investment does it. Which, again, it is not doing here. And government investments, even when the commercial venture fails, tend to produce more usable lessons learned (and tech spun off) than private failures that usually keep the intellectual value suppressed in some new owner, or just left to rot entirely without a new use.
Anyone else want to join these Louisiana Republican lawmakers in "getting the government off our backs"?
But is it legal in Italy for any teacher to have sex with any student, of any ages? It generally is in the US, too. Because generally in the US a person with some kind of professional power over another (as teachers have over their students) having sex with them is the basis of sexual harassment, where the sex isn't simply voluntary.
Or a distinction between the child rapist and the random (or not so random) person who the court convicted and killed "by mistake".
And then criminals will use those computers and phones to make kiddie porn right there in the kids' homes. Brilliant!
When every EU child has a recording box on their computer, all the pictures of them will be easily uploaded, and indeed probably "preventively" already uploaded to some EU surveillance database. Including their home webcams and personal phones. Which can be remotely activated.
I can't think of a better way to turn every EU child (and adult) into an unwilling porno star, when someone (on the inside, probably) publishes pictures take of those people without their even knowing it was their own equipment.
Catholic monasteries are going to protect our children from being raped? Right.
Let's protect all of our chickens in the fox den. All of our money in Wall Street. Yes, the perfect safekeeping.
No, governments don't all want totalitarianism. Governments aren't people or even animals - they don't "want" anything.
Some people want totalitarianism, and use governments to get it.
These people are what we have government to protect the public from. Because without government, those people would be warlords (or their henchmen), and have all the totalitarianism they want.
After the beta test period, where Motti has a camera in his home to prevent the much more serious crimes that officials have the power to perpetrate, we will see how much of the kiddie porn problem can be solved by jailing Motti.
No, nobody would believe them. That's why they had to make it up, and get another clown to say many people would believe them.
You nuke fetishists are so desperate now that Japan nuked itself that you have to invent people to believe the BS you make up, even when that BS is against yourselves.
The constant speed of light is constant only in a given medium. Not only Einstein, but plenty of other scientists and mathematicians have covered that completely. Einstein's models account for different media.
You're just another childish egotist who thinks Einstein's work was some kind of great big "gotcha", so you'll just pull one off yourself.
You're stupid. Shut up.
Just because you don't know what the hell you're talking about doesn't mean no one else knows what they're talking about.
You're stupid.
You forgot to Post Anonymously.