One was a 'pseudo-transparent' iPhone-like device called nanoTouch, which has a trackpad on the back rather than a traditional touch screen and gives visual feedback in the form of a simulated image of the user's finger (the effect is like looking straight through the device). The other was a folding dual-screen device called Codex that can switch automatically between landscape, portrait, collaborative, or competitive modes depending on its 'posture' or orientation.
The other was not called 'Codex,' but rather 'shuffleClassic.'
Here's one who's doing at least as much hot-spot in-country reporting as your typical NYT correspondent: http://michaeltotten.com/ There's no particular reason you need to be a full-time employee of a print publication to report from warzones.
David Simon is probably right that there will always be major media organizations who maintain pools of employed reporters to deploy to newsworthy locations, but why "large" has to equal "print" I'm not quite so sure.
You wouldn't give the Kwik-E-Mart your checking account number. You use a credit card (if not cash) because it has fraud monitoring and the ability to dispute charges.
What you were missing in your GP comment is that in this particular scenario, the OP only needs to give govtrip.com access to his account for deposit reasons. Therefore, if someone were to steal his information under the multiple-account-number system, all they would have is the ability to deposit more money into his account. He's not using his checking account to pay for anything on that site.
Every single one of your examples is, not coincidentally, a privatization where the government granted a monopoly or oligopoly to providers. It should not be surprising that a private company with no competition is as corrupt and inefficient as a government.
I think it's time we saw more nationalization of what's important, not privatization. Leave the non-important stuff to capitalists and market forces
'Importance' has nothing to do with it -- availability of competition does. For goods like internet access, we can improve quality by loosening corrupt, good-ol-boy licensing/franchising deals that lock customers into Comcast-or-dialup. For goods like train service, it's probably not feasible.
Food, though, is certainly more 'important' than either of those two, and every instance of nationalized food supply seems to result in famine.
Warm weather, no Americans, armed thugs to keep the actual poor people at a safe distance, and you still get to come home with an undeserved smug sense of solidarity. Basically, it's heaven for Europeans.
You're describing the deaths of some retailers, not of a town's economy. Of course, with a major employer like Del Monte closing, the town's economy sounds like it probably died concurrently. I don't think overpriced hardware stores would have saved it though.
Yeah, visit Amazon.com (or.fr) and just look around. Nothing but high-volume items to be seen! And certainly no way to find out-of-print used books, either. Truly, the only winner is Jeff Bezos.
I'm not sure how to take seriously someone who says in 2008 that you're screwed if you want a non-bestselling book. We live in a time of unprecedented availability of books (and music, and movies, etc.). Truly screwed was when you went to the cozy little independent bookshop and they didn't have your book. Then you backordered it for six weeks.
This is paradise for book-buying, regardless of whatever romanticized ideal of the independent bookseller you cling to.
Referring to a system with equal votes between elected representatives of democracies and kleptocratic representatives of dictatorships as "democracy on a world scale" is so mind-bogglingly stupid it could only come from someone with a.ca address.
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Uh, what about your stupid country that gave you a possession misdemeanor? They apparently cared enough.
Agreed. And the iPhone would be so much cooler if Apple weren't wasting money on advertising, right?
On the other hand, I find it impossible to blame him.
The other was not called 'Codex,' but rather 'shuffleClassic.'
Here's one who's doing at least as much hot-spot in-country reporting as your typical NYT correspondent: http://michaeltotten.com/ There's no particular reason you need to be a full-time employee of a print publication to report from warzones.
David Simon is probably right that there will always be major media organizations who maintain pools of employed reporters to deploy to newsworthy locations, but why "large" has to equal "print" I'm not quite so sure.
You wouldn't give the Kwik-E-Mart your checking account number. You use a credit card (if not cash) because it has fraud monitoring and the ability to dispute charges.
What you were missing in your GP comment is that in this particular scenario, the OP only needs to give govtrip.com access to his account for deposit reasons. Therefore, if someone were to steal his information under the multiple-account-number system, all they would have is the ability to deposit more money into his account. He's not using his checking account to pay for anything on that site.
Should the British government have laid twenty parallel tracks before privatizing British Rail, so there could be real competition?
From my post:
For goods like train service, it's probably not feasible.
Every single one of your examples is, not coincidentally, a privatization where the government granted a monopoly or oligopoly to providers. It should not be surprising that a private company with no competition is as corrupt and inefficient as a government.
I think it's time we saw more nationalization of what's important, not privatization. Leave the non-important stuff to capitalists and market forces
'Importance' has nothing to do with it -- availability of competition does. For goods like internet access, we can improve quality by loosening corrupt, good-ol-boy licensing/franchising deals that lock customers into Comcast-or-dialup. For goods like train service, it's probably not feasible.
Food, though, is certainly more 'important' than either of those two, and every instance of nationalized food supply seems to result in famine.
No thanks.
Of course, once you add in the overhead from those frameworks, PHP isn't any faster anyway.
And how is that different from any other country?
German food sucks.
Ignorant European describes American economy to Americans without hint of irony; film at 11.
There is a big difference between "subjective" and "objective but imperfect."
Don't forget us godless Canadians.
We've made it this far without thinking about you, we're not about to change now.
Warm weather, no Americans, armed thugs to keep the actual poor people at a safe distance, and you still get to come home with an undeserved smug sense of solidarity. Basically, it's heaven for Europeans.
It's amazing how one question can bring to the surface the extraordinary ignorance of the US held by so many.
How's that double-digit unemployment working out for you.
You're describing the deaths of some retailers, not of a town's economy. Of course, with a major employer like Del Monte closing, the town's economy sounds like it probably died concurrently. I don't think overpriced hardware stores would have saved it though.
Actually a pretty large proportion of second hand bookstores with out of print books sell on Amazon. So you will find those there.
Yeah, visit Amazon.com (or .fr) and just look around. Nothing but high-volume items to be seen! And certainly no way to find out-of-print used books, either. Truly, the only winner is Jeff Bezos.
Can you give an actual example of Wal-Mart destroying a local economy? There are thousands of the stores, so it should be easy.
It's not enough to note that they are aesthetically displeasing, by the way.
I'm sorry, but personal distaste for a store is not a valid basis for economic policy.
I'm not sure how to take seriously someone who says in 2008 that you're screwed if you want a non-bestselling book. We live in a time of unprecedented availability of books (and music, and movies, etc.). Truly screwed was when you went to the cozy little independent bookshop and they didn't have your book. Then you backordered it for six weeks.
This is paradise for book-buying, regardless of whatever romanticized ideal of the independent bookseller you cling to.
Where's all this cheap gas anti-war kids have been promising me?
Referring to a system with equal votes between elected representatives of democracies and kleptocratic representatives of dictatorships as "democracy on a world scale" is so mind-bogglingly stupid it could only come from someone with a .ca address.