You got me to look in/proc for said file, then I thought you tricked me! but it really does exist. Only it wasn't added until 2.6 & some of us still run 2.4
I'd never used files in proc before so I had no idea if such a beast existed.
You're missing the point. Stethoscopes aren't likely to spead disease because metal doesn't foster pathogens.
Ties on the other hand aren't made of cold metal. They carry around germs and reinfect the doctor's hands when he adjusts his tie.
So your argument is a little incoherent in that you first say that stethoscopes are more worrisome than ties, then explain that stethoscopes don't carry disease, while never addressing the point of the article--that ties come in contact with patients and bedding all the time, and carry lots of nasty shit around.
The main problem with Chomsky is that he claims the US is an imperialistic power and always was so. Has he no concept of change over time?
The historical record shows evolutionary change of the capitalist world-economy and the United States' place in it. The US was a relatively universalistic force in the world from roughly 1945-1970. Why did it change? This is a hard question; Chomsky neglects the social science mechanisms in favor of creating a catalog of moral infractions of varying importance. He neglects causality because he doesn't have the background to explain it.
For analysis from the intelligent Left, try out Wallerstein and Arrighi. Look up reviews/summaries of The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times or, better yet, The Decline of American Power? The US in a Chaotic World. The latter book, from Immanuel Wallerstein, is a timely and sober look at what is going on in the world at present.
The best thing about it is that he does not rationalize the same dribble that comes from his colleagues at Yale [see Age of Terror for two hundred pages of meaningless platitudes that echo the shallow analysis that journalism pumps out. Honestly, considering how much Yale professors get paid, it's a bit embarrassing to read.
If you paid attention to the coverage, you would know that Eisner vetoed what would have been a profitable distribution of the film because he didn't want to piss off the Bushes and lose tax favors in Florida.
That is the kind of quid pro quo corruption that makes me loathe the politicians involved here. Taxes should ideally be written objectively and uniformly, not shaped to favor political contributors or large capital enterprises.
Why would Britain ever join the US? Their economy is far more dependent upon Europe.
On your other point... "Empire" is the name for domination once it looses legitimacy. Once people start throwing that word around, it's a good sign that it is unraveling.
Given that their commerce with the EU is 4X larger than with the US, it's a given that they will have to choose Europe.
At that point they will adopt the euro, which will cause serious reverberations on Wall Street. Remember that the balance of trade deficit in the US can only be sustained as long as capital from Asia and Europe keeps flowing into the US at a rate of $1 B / day. The US ought to create a strategy to hold Britain else a huge amount of British capital is going to flow into European markets when they finally make the sensible choice.. Britain is the largest foreign investor state in the US.
Anyhow such a choice as Emmanuel Todd suggests could crash the dollar, but really it would be only the last straw; the balance of trade deficit will be what crashes the dollar, when they day comes that Frankfurt or Tokyo looks more stable than the US.
If you look at the future of the world-economy, it doesn't look quite so bright as that. Given limited natural resources, another 50-75 years of growth at current rates is unsustainable. The trade deficits in the U.S. can only be sustained for so long before the dollar crashes, and that will happen when the day comes that the U.S. is no longer seen as the safest bet for capital investment. It happened to Amsterdam, it happened to the City of London and it will happen on Wall Street.
Also consider the melting polar ice caps-->flooding of significant areas of the earth in what, twenty or thirty years? Remember that many economic hubs of the world are on coasts [NY, LA, Houston, Amsterdam, London, Singapore, et al].
I used to wish I could be born in the future. However now I believe that my generation could be one of the last to enjoy the good life on Earth.. at least until some of these problems get resolved, if they can be. There is simply not enough wealth to go around to make the world a peaceful place forever. Check out the political economy argument in Chaos and Governnance in the Modern World System, written way back in 1998 before the problems for the U.S. economy that are apparent today became so obvious, and certainly before the U.S. experiences Sept 11 or started acting so [overtly] militaristic.
I think your argument could have legs. U.S. foreign policy and economic policy share the same problem--no long-term focus, only short-term bandage fixes.
This is why our industrial output fell behind Germany and Japan in 1970, and this is why we keep making a show of attacking small countries that pose no direct risk [Vietnam, Iraq]. Emmanuel Todd makes a more complete argument of this American failing in After the Empire
[unfortunately he doesn't quite explicate all the social mechanisms completely, but many insightful points].
In terms of the software sector, if these companies would spend more time innovating [like Apple or GNU] rather than forcing out the competition [Microsoft] or litigating [Novell & Caldera] then the long-term outlook for U.S. industry, including software exports would be more robust.
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The problem is that the federal government doesn't give back enough revenue to state governments.
If individual states/localities were to raise taxes, businesses would move. "Free rider" states would benefit from their lower tax advantage and take in more business, raising revenues. This is a collective action problem only addressable on the national level.
The republican party won't address it, because the status quo puts downward pressure on taxes. In turn that helps the upper class. The mainstream public is apparently too stupid to realise this, and votes for the nationalist anti-terrorist party.
Your post raises a tangential point about the uselessness of navies in today's combat.
They are sitting ducks for air forces, and even aircraft carriers can't do much that long range bombers or portable cruise missile launchers can do.
While they have some advantage of being mobile in international waters, that probably doesn't justify their enormous costs. Yet the U.S. keeps building them because its Congressional pork barrel politics--they manage to get portions of the industry located in just about every state.
I doubt about the "extra" energy use coming back to hurt you later in life. For heavy weightlifter types, maybe.
But if you look at people in society who stay active all the time, they tend to be the ones who stay productive late in life.
I have the exact same problem as you; my college schedule has no classes on Wed and Fri, so I sleep in until 11:30 and the day is wasted. I'd be better off with class at nine in the morning daily. Exercise is starting to help me get back on track..
I see you point about concrete. I just remember walking out from high nineties heat on the plains of West Texas into an adobe walled gas station with no air conditioning inside--and it felt like low seventies.
Probably that only works in low humidity environments?
Disposing of the old solar panels has enviromental costs too, not to mention the large quantity of chemicals/waste involved in their production.
Seems to me like the best way to go is some sort of thick concrete wall structure that stays cool in the summer. Then use the latest in lighting technology [are white LEDs feasible for indoor use?] and generally minimize electronics within--find a high efficiency fridge, low power computer, etc. I think you could have made it work if you had planned the building from the ground up and made some lifestyle changes. Maybe line-dry clothes rather than with a machine, if it is feasible in your area.
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I'd never used files in proc before so I had no idea if such a beast existed.
Parent is modded as a troll, but I had the same experience.
If only GATT had included services industries, we wouldn't have to deal with these subsidies. Plus agriculture subsidies. gah..
it is late at night, at least where I am.
Ties on the other hand aren't made of cold metal. They carry around germs and reinfect the doctor's hands when he adjusts his tie.
So your argument is a little incoherent in that you first say that stethoscopes are more worrisome than ties, then explain that stethoscopes don't carry disease, while never addressing the point of the article--that ties come in contact with patients and bedding all the time, and carry lots of nasty shit around.
Blame the RIAA monopoly for the bands getting screwed.
The historical record shows evolutionary change of the capitalist world-economy and the United States' place in it. The US was a relatively universalistic force in the world from roughly 1945-1970. Why did it change? This is a hard question; Chomsky neglects the social science mechanisms in favor of creating a catalog of moral infractions of varying importance. He neglects causality because he doesn't have the background to explain it.
For analysis from the intelligent Left, try out Wallerstein and Arrighi. Look up reviews/summaries of The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times or, better yet, The Decline of American Power? The US in a Chaotic World. The latter book, from Immanuel Wallerstein, is a timely and sober look at what is going on in the world at present. The best thing about it is that he does not rationalize the same dribble that comes from his colleagues at Yale [see Age of Terror for two hundred pages of meaningless platitudes that echo the shallow analysis that journalism pumps out. Honestly, considering how much Yale professors get paid, it's a bit embarrassing to read.
That is the kind of quid pro quo corruption that makes me loathe the politicians involved here. Taxes should ideally be written objectively and uniformly, not shaped to favor political contributors or large capital enterprises.
Unfortunately the Right that is in power is different from his conservatism.
Because I could enjoy the awesome features of the OS X user experience and still be able to run Doom III natively under linux.
As Roger Ebert says, a good movie can never be too long.
Kind of irrelevant--unlike the shepherd dogs, the rats aren't heavy enough to set off the land mines, so not many are going to get killed by them.
/. attention doesn't give them credibility in the market that counts, the San Diego consumer/advertiser.
On your other point... "Empire" is the name for domination once it looses legitimacy. Once people start throwing that word around, it's a good sign that it is unraveling.
At that point they will adopt the euro, which will cause serious reverberations on Wall Street. Remember that the balance of trade deficit in the US can only be sustained as long as capital from Asia and Europe keeps flowing into the US at a rate of $1 B / day. The US ought to create a strategy to hold Britain else a huge amount of British capital is going to flow into European markets when they finally make the sensible choice.. Britain is the largest foreign investor state in the US.
Anyhow such a choice as Emmanuel Todd suggests could crash the dollar, but really it would be only the last straw; the balance of trade deficit will be what crashes the dollar, when they day comes that Frankfurt or Tokyo looks more stable than the US.
Also consider the melting polar ice caps-->flooding of significant areas of the earth in what, twenty or thirty years? Remember that many economic hubs of the world are on coasts [NY, LA, Houston, Amsterdam, London, Singapore, et al].
I used to wish I could be born in the future. However now I believe that my generation could be one of the last to enjoy the good life on Earth.. at least until some of these problems get resolved, if they can be. There is simply not enough wealth to go around to make the world a peaceful place forever. Check out the political economy argument in Chaos and Governnance in the Modern World System, written way back in 1998 before the problems for the U.S. economy that are apparent today became so obvious, and certainly before the U.S. experiences Sept 11 or started acting so [overtly] militaristic.
This is why our industrial output fell behind Germany and Japan in 1970, and this is why we keep making a show of attacking small countries that pose no direct risk [Vietnam, Iraq]. Emmanuel Todd makes a more complete argument of this American failing in After the Empire
[unfortunately he doesn't quite explicate all the social mechanisms completely, but many insightful points].
In terms of the software sector, if these companies would spend more time innovating [like Apple or GNU] rather than forcing out the competition [Microsoft] or litigating [Novell & Caldera] then the long-term outlook for U.S. industry, including software exports would be more robust.
If individual states/localities were to raise taxes, businesses would move. "Free rider" states would benefit from their lower tax advantage and take in more business, raising revenues. This is a collective action problem only addressable on the national level.
The republican party won't address it, because the status quo puts downward pressure on taxes. In turn that helps the upper class. The mainstream public is apparently too stupid to realise this, and votes for the nationalist anti-terrorist party.
no that's the swiss guard
They are sitting ducks for air forces, and even aircraft carriers can't do much that long range bombers or portable cruise missile launchers can do.
While they have some advantage of being mobile in international waters, that probably doesn't justify their enormous costs. Yet the U.S. keeps building them because its Congressional pork barrel politics--they manage to get portions of the industry located in just about every state.
But if you look at people in society who stay active all the time, they tend to be the ones who stay productive late in life.
I have the exact same problem as you; my college schedule has no classes on Wed and Fri, so I sleep in until 11:30 and the day is wasted. I'd be better off with class at nine in the morning daily. Exercise is starting to help me get back on track..
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Probably that only works in low humidity environments?
Seems to me like the best way to go is some sort of thick concrete wall structure that stays cool in the summer. Then use the latest in lighting technology [are white LEDs feasible for indoor use?] and generally minimize electronics within--find a high efficiency fridge, low power computer, etc. I think you could have made it work if you had planned the building from the ground up and made some lifestyle changes. Maybe line-dry clothes rather than with a machine, if it is feasible in your area.
Of course I'm speculating heavily.