Oh PLEASE! You're talking about our President. His TIME is MONEY. And by money we're talking MILLIONS to billions an hour. You want him wasting time in rush hour traffic to get to that summit meeting? Hell, your savings would probably be negated by the security and and infrastructure problems with getting his staff and reporters moved as well.
I'd mod you up if I could! Google searching is starting to become a nuisance since just about every search dumps a bunch of vendors on your lap when you're looking for topical information. I've had slightly better luck with Bing, but I'm sure they'll go the same route if their market share starts to increase.
I wouldn't say your opinion is so universal, but I'll give another example to support it. Look at indie film festivals like Cannes and Sundance. They used to be great outlets for puny budget films and artistic projects. Now, the megacompanies have taken them over and turned them into sales conventions for mainstream films (maybe I'm exaggerating OK). You can barely see the Requiem for a Dream posters with the ginormous 50 foot Shrek III banner blocking out the sun.
Don't they realize that artists are being disincentivized from creating content? That means only the safest, accountant-friendly products get made (e.g. crappy romantic comedies and bubblegum pop). I'm a big movie buff and it's infuriating that Hollywood is getting so creatively conservative.
I think these will eventually evolve, but I'd like to see *more* organized pushes to set some standards. I've been a net denizen since around '91 and many of the issues I see people struggling with (or at least not appreciating the consequences of) I've already been through. Things like firing off that quick, snide comment, the persistence of any statements you make, privacy, etc. I'm by no means perfect or Lawful Good on the interwebz, but I at least understand what can happen every time I interact online.
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I haven't collected since I was a kid...actually I've never collected. I just got them and read them until the covers literally fell off. But, those young readers were the pool from which adult readers sprang. Creating titles that everyone could read is what made the industry so ubiquitous. Now, it's a boutique niche with drastically reduced readership. Maybe that's made it more satisfying to the adult readers, I don't know.
I had a friend in college who collected and bragged about the value of his collection with the confidence of a basement full of gold bullion. That was before everyone figured out the only readers left were just the collectors, and the valuation formulas were all wrong. Kind of like their own economic bubble.
Real simple, right? Except, you get voted out of office for cutting services *or* raising taxes, or running on a platform of doing either. That's the rub. People want services, but have a naive disassociation with their tax revenue and funding their government.
Plenty of politicians love to talk in vagaries about how they'll do one or the other, but no one has the courage to campaign that way.
I haven't done a lick of descent research into them, but they always sounded like a silly, ineffective idea. What a surprise to find out that there's a Wall Street trading angle on the whole thing...
Believe me, I have plenty that I can criticize Al Gore for, but the notion that people in positions of great power are hypocrites if they don't ride the bus to work is ridiculous. The CEO of a company's time is probably literally worth $1Million/hour. Do we want him spending half is day rubbing shoulders with the public because of the negligible carbon footprint difference from his plane ride?
I thought the criticism of all the auto industry CEOs for not DRIVING to their Congressional hearing was equally without merit.
This is the downside of the interwebz and google. Dumb people don't know they're dumb anymore. They can google for some out-of-context fact or figure and assume they know it all.
IMO Time's Man of the Year lost relevance when they refused to give it to Osama Bin Laden and went on a hyperbolic rant about how evil he was.
As for Assange's leaks, there is a lot of good information in them. Most of the major outlets refuse to acknowledge that because some "nobody" got the scope, but I've noticed those documents have been referenced in follow-up stories quite a bit over the last month or so.
What's more damaging? Someone who makes hyperbolic straw man arguments, or a virgin-eating dragon pillaging the country side and incinerating our crops?
Didn't the government foot the bill for that fiasco? If I'm thinking of the same failed satellite network, they sent a bill to the US government stating they didn't have to resources to pay for the satellites and would abandon them unless the government bought them. And, I'm pretty sure we did at a reduced rate.
A while back I watched a documentary on flying wings and with all the their advantages, they have two major drawbacks. Firstly, we don't have the airport infrastructure to support their form factor. Secondly, passengers would be seated further away from the centerline of the aircraft. That means whenever you're making turns, passengers will experience pronounced pitching. That means more air sickness, discomfort, complaints, etc.
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Oh PLEASE! You're talking about our President. His TIME is MONEY. And by money we're talking MILLIONS to billions an hour. You want him wasting time in rush hour traffic to get to that summit meeting? Hell, your savings would probably be negated by the security and and infrastructure problems with getting his staff and reporters moved as well.
I'd mod you up if I could! Google searching is starting to become a nuisance since just about every search dumps a bunch of vendors on your lap when you're looking for topical information. I've had slightly better luck with Bing, but I'm sure they'll go the same route if their market share starts to increase.
I wouldn't say your opinion is so universal, but I'll give another example to support it. Look at indie film festivals like Cannes and Sundance. They used to be great outlets for puny budget films and artistic projects. Now, the megacompanies have taken them over and turned them into sales conventions for mainstream films (maybe I'm exaggerating OK). You can barely see the Requiem for a Dream posters with the ginormous 50 foot Shrek III banner blocking out the sun.
Relax, Grandpa. We've had good will ambassadors for honorary degrees for a long time now.
Don't they realize that artists are being disincentivized from creating content? That means only the safest, accountant-friendly products get made (e.g. crappy romantic comedies and bubblegum pop). I'm a big movie buff and it's infuriating that Hollywood is getting so creatively conservative.
You'd figure that'd be a bad omen if you're considering flying to another sun.
Imagine if Christopher Columbus came back from the New World, and no one returned in his footsteps.
There isn't gold and half-naked hot Indian women on the moon.
I think these will eventually evolve, but I'd like to see *more* organized pushes to set some standards. I've been a net denizen since around '91 and many of the issues I see people struggling with (or at least not appreciating the consequences of) I've already been through. Things like firing off that quick, snide comment, the persistence of any statements you make, privacy, etc. I'm by no means perfect or Lawful Good on the interwebz, but I at least understand what can happen every time I interact online.
I haven't collected since I was a kid...actually I've never collected. I just got them and read them until the covers literally fell off. But, those young readers were the pool from which adult readers sprang. Creating titles that everyone could read is what made the industry so ubiquitous. Now, it's a boutique niche with drastically reduced readership. Maybe that's made it more satisfying to the adult readers, I don't know.
I had a friend in college who collected and bragged about the value of his collection with the confidence of a basement full of gold bullion. That was before everyone figured out the only readers left were just the collectors, and the valuation formulas were all wrong. Kind of like their own economic bubble.
That being the blog author, Sarah Kavassalis, is insanely hot. I can't even tell what this theory means anyway.
Real simple, right? Except, you get voted out of office for cutting services *or* raising taxes, or running on a platform of doing either. That's the rub. People want services, but have a naive disassociation with their tax revenue and funding their government.
Plenty of politicians love to talk in vagaries about how they'll do one or the other, but no one has the courage to campaign that way.
I haven't done a lick of descent research into them, but they always sounded like a silly, ineffective idea. What a surprise to find out that there's a Wall Street trading angle on the whole thing...
Believe me, I have plenty that I can criticize Al Gore for, but the notion that people in positions of great power are hypocrites if they don't ride the bus to work is ridiculous. The CEO of a company's time is probably literally worth $1Million/hour. Do we want him spending half is day rubbing shoulders with the public because of the negligible carbon footprint difference from his plane ride?
I thought the criticism of all the auto industry CEOs for not DRIVING to their Congressional hearing was equally without merit.
Building nuclear reactors and dealing with the waste ain't like dustin' crops, boy!
This is the downside of the interwebz and google. Dumb people don't know they're dumb anymore. They can google for some out-of-context fact or figure and assume they know it all.
Mussolini would disagree with you.
IMO Time's Man of the Year lost relevance when they refused to give it to Osama Bin Laden and went on a hyperbolic rant about how evil he was.
As for Assange's leaks, there is a lot of good information in them. Most of the major outlets refuse to acknowledge that because some "nobody" got the scope, but I've noticed those documents have been referenced in follow-up stories quite a bit over the last month or so.
Not liking the tone surrounding him right now. Hoping for a full recovery.
Privacy violations??? In Casablanca???
Nothing to see here, move along, your unsecured networks are perfectly safe as they stand.
I thought the Swiss agreed to stop allowing US citizens to hide their money?
What's more damaging? Someone who makes hyperbolic straw man arguments, or a virgin-eating dragon pillaging the country side and incinerating our crops?
Didn't the government foot the bill for that fiasco? If I'm thinking of the same failed satellite network, they sent a bill to the US government stating they didn't have to resources to pay for the satellites and would abandon them unless the government bought them. And, I'm pretty sure we did at a reduced rate.
A while back I watched a documentary on flying wings and with all the their advantages, they have two major drawbacks. Firstly, we don't have the airport infrastructure to support their form factor. Secondly, passengers would be seated further away from the centerline of the aircraft. That means whenever you're making turns, passengers will experience pronounced pitching. That means more air sickness, discomfort, complaints, etc.
Hide him in a library.