Very well comrade, we'll just set up a big federal program doles out "jobs" or if you prefer we can dump trillions in tax dollars into the groupthink approved company of choice.
As to china kicking the US's ass on it, that's not the free market people's fault.
1. Factory regulation in the US is such that it's a pain in the ass to make anything in the US. Steve Jobs for example went on record saying he wanted to make ipods in the US but it was almost impossible to get a permit to build the stupid factory.
2. Energy. By not building the energy we need we can't supply energy intensive industries like the semi conductor industry. We need nuclear power plants amongst others. Solar doesn't cut it. In china, do they use solar to power their solar power plant companies? No. They sell that to you. Their power their industry with nuclear and coal. So if you want to talk about the chinese, look to your own stupid energy policy making it impossible to supply energy intensive industry.
3. Labor policy in the US is uncompetitive. Look at what happened when Boeing tried to open a factory in a Right to Work state... the feds jumped on them and told them they COULD NOT build the factory there. Think about that.
4. Much of China's increasing dominance in high tech manufacturing comes from their dominance of rare earths. The US used to be the primary producer of these minerals. Why did we stop? Oh, to be sure China was pumping out cheaper product. But importantly the primary mines in the US that produced rare earths were also basically harassed by environmentalists out of business. Only now with the Chinese playing trade war games are these mines able to open up again as the enviros are being musseled.
So above and beyond if you think it's the free market people screwing up US industry you don't know anything.
The US remains a global industrial power house. China is growing rapidly but the US has massive industrial capability. But we're also infested with economically ignorant socialists and cultish enviro zealots.
Don't believe me? WHY is china more competitive? you really think it's just their state sponsorship of industry? Really? Want to bet we pump more money into our industrial base then they do on an annual basis? We do.
It isn't a lack of subsidy. It's the constant undermining of everything we do.
If we wanted to build the golden gate bridge today it would cost 10 times what it did originally AFTER inflation and probably take 10 times longer if it were allowed to be built at all. Doubtless the foundation would endanger the habitat of a local mud crab or something equally idiotic. And before you say I'm exaggerating these idiots recently shut down a LARGE solar power plant project because it infringed on the habitat of a local lizard... it was in the middle of the god damn desert. if we can't build a solar power plant in the middle of the desert we can't do anything.
So I have zero patience for the argument that it's the free market people doing this... we don't have the control to do it. We're not the ones calling the shots. We wish we were... really. But blaming us is like blaming the guy in the wheel chair of being an axe murderer. We lack the political strength to effect industry on the level you presume. We are strong IN the private sector itself but in government we only get anywhere by bribing people. We'd love to just argue our case but we're faced with little more then the ignorant, the crazy, and the corrupt. Amongst them all at least the corrupt will negotiate.
I don't disagree that because some bad things are done that any bad thing can be done to any extent without limits.
That would be like saying because there are bar fights in a given bar its okay to murder people in that bar.
The bar fights themselves shouldn't happen but assuming that's unavoidable you shouldn't escalate the situation.
Maybe you think I'm being unfair? I'm trying. I don't like such heavy handed tactics. I don't care if they're common in that industry. I'm not going to be okay with a given firing squad in Cuba simply because firing squads in general in that area are common. It's wrong.
I'm not against renewable energy. In fact, I think it's the future and we must invest in it heavily. But I don't think that is the right way to do it. The process of investment must be organic and natural... not forced by the state. That is not "demand"... that is the government putting a gun against your head and saying "buy it"... It's coercion. And coercion is not demand.
It's not really market demand if it's all regulated is it? If you force me to buy something and I buy it... I didn't buy it because I want it. Just as if you mandate that I have to hire someone. I didn't hire them because I wanted them or I found their labor competitive... I didn't have a choice.
I'm not a fan of putting loaded guns against people's heads and saying "do this or we see how many of these chambers are loaded"...
I'm confused as to why people say it's thriving when it's taking such a huge amount of money in subsidies. All competing energy forms take in either no or comparatively irrelevant subsidies and yet remain competitive. If solar power needs these subsidies then they're not thriving. Perhaps they're doing better then awful... but that's hardly a grand success.
In any case, I want solar to succeed, but I think it won't succeed until the social planners get out of the process. Solar will succeed or fail not because people believed in it but because it's a superior form of energy. Having solar shouldn't be seen as something "good" people do as if it's a sacrifice. Rather, it should be what "smart" people do because it's actually cheaper. Until we get there solar power stands about the same chances of catching on as ending poverty in Africa. The same sort of people are backing both initiatives and it's all for a good cause. But things don't get better because people care. I wish they did but they don't. They get better because it is in everyone's interest for them to get better.
Further, attacking our fossil fuel industry doesn't drive people to solar because it's easier to fight back against the regulations then it is to magically make solar panels as effective as coal power plants.
What's also interesting is that the phone responds to this tool. Certainly before the phone opens up to this thing it should query for a more advanced password.
Maybe set up the short pin for direct touch entry. But the actual system itself is secured with a much more advanced password. The pin system would know that password but the password would only be unlocked from that system if the 4 digit pin was PHYSICALLY entered into the system.
Obviously a four digit pin is very easy to hack but if it has to be done manually then it is much more time consuming to sit there and enter in 10 thousand possible combinations. A computer can go through all that very quickly but a human being typing in each one one at a time is another matter. And obviously the pin system would now allow so many incorrect answers in a row before it would go into a cool down mode. Maybe ten wrong answers and then it won't allow any more guesses for ten minutes.
Ideally the long form password should be quiet long.
I think something people should consider is quotations. Take a monologue from your favorite movie or play and make THAT the security key. It will be very long, hard to guess, and hard to forget. People could actually remember a very long key that way. Punctuation might be an issue in some quotations but ideally you'd instruct people to keep the book or whatever that they took the quote from as a hardcopy somewhere.
Well, I'd want the gesture to be complicated enough for that to be unlikely. For example, what if you had three or four gestures layered on top of each other?
So okay, you can guess ONE of the gestures or possibly see what all the gestures look like super imposed on each other but you don't what any individual gesture is or the sequence.
entering three or four gestures quickly one on top of the other should be fairly fast and significantly difficult to crack.
How do you get that on a prospective android phone?
I've been using smart phones for 15 years and back in the old days everything was modded on to the phones by interested parties. So I'm used to things being a little squirrely but I'd like a pointer in the right direction.
I'm thinking about buying a motorola Photon. It promises ten hours battery life which is twice what the competing phones offer. I suspect that the real battery life is half that just like the promises made by their rivals.
In any case, just wondering if you have any pointers on the subject.
Honestly, I don't have anything on my phone that I really care about. I mean... you get my phone numbers... Yippy!... who cares?
But If I did have anything on there that I actually care about, then I'd probably do as you suggest and get a blackberry... that is assuming the company survives. They look like they're dying.
it would seem there are simple ways to make more complex passwords. For example, maybe you draw a picture with your fingers and the system unlocks if you get it close to right. Can you have "fuzzy" encryption? Something that locks a system with a "general" password? I ask because obviously with the picture idea you're never going to enter it in exactly the same every time.
I know this is easier said then done and they have reasons for skimping on the pressure. BUUUUT it would be more comfortable if the pressure slowly transitioned from the take off pressure to the landing pressure with no consideration at all for the exterior pressure.
I'm assuming the reason they don't fully pressurize the plane is that it puts strain on the airframe or the cabin or it's hard to keep the plane pressurized. If that's the case just consider making that a feature in future plane designs. Passengers would prefer it. No screaming children clutching their ears.
We have so many out of control bureaucracies and they tend to survive by never pushing people too hard too fast.
However, every so often they go WAAAY too far and piss so many people off that it causes everyone to ask seriously "can you make me?"... and the reality is that if they try to cash this check it will bounce.
So they should do it. And the TSA should strip search people. And the FCC should start censoring the internet.
All great ways for overblown bureaucracies to cut their own throat.
There's only no point because you live in a fantasy world were sensible people assume unlimited liability and give you the arbitrary ability to change the terms of the contract at will.
NO ONE will willingly enter into a long term project where you can arbitarily change the rules and make them infinitely liable for whatever enters your head.
So if those are the rules you will accept then everything must happen over your objection.
Or we all sit in the dark while you try to defend the indefensible.
Guess how this is going to break down? The instant the lights go out they're going to ignore you until such time as they go back on. Then a few will forget and mistakenly take you seriously.
No insurance company would sell it to them. You're proposing UNLIMITED liability. Insurance companies don't sell such things.
Tell you what, what if the power company buys the insurance from the US government. They pay the government a premium. And when costs go up because of government regulation the government can pay for it themselves.
That way while the liability is also limitless the government would have control over it since they were responsible for causing it to go up in the first place.
I don't know why everyone is so quick to mindlessly attack industries and professions they know nothing about. It's odd. People seem to give people and things they have experience with the benefit of the doubt. And everything they don't know anything about they either assume them to be angels or devils based on some ideological or political tribalism. It's very odd.
People keep passing regulation thinking it's free because someone else is paying. They never grasp that the buck gets passed around until the public pays. The public always pays.
Jack up taxes on corporations for example and unemployment goes up.
Look at california... they had a 22 percent decline in state revenue THIS YEAR. Why? They're driving business out of the state and possibly out of the country. Unemployment is going up and they're talking about increasing corporate taxes further. Which will lead to only more revenue decline and more unemployment.
The amount that has to be paid in at intervals however is pre-stipulated as is the final amount that must be in the account adjusted for inflation.
If I say there has to be 1000 USD and then half way through the process I say it has to be 10,000... who is at fault here? Why is it my fault that there isn't 10k in there? I had no way of knowing people would change the rules like that. I was saying to 1k as stated in the initial legislation, license, and other associated contracts. I did my part. The money is there. It's just you want more now. Well, I can build that up in that account... it just will take a long time.
You can either lower the amount you want, you can pony up the difference, or we can all wait.
Those are your options. Act now and we can serve any of these combos with fries and a shake.
They were AAA rated which treasury bonds are not anymore. Just FYI... treasury bonds are now AA rated.
You say they should have put their money where people retiring put their money... well, they did. Which is why at the same time their accounts got nailed lots of retirement accounts were wiped out.
It's bad all around. These people are not wizards. Big firms on wall street went bankrupt. You're expecting a nuclear power company to be better at managing their money then a wall street investment bank? That's like expecting the investment bank to be better at managing a nuclear power plant then the nuclear power company.
Crony capitalism is neither conservative nor libertarian.
It's just corrupt. Look at the Solyndra scandal and the dozens of other examples with "green" companies. Was that libertarian? Nope. Was it conservative? Nope. Was it socialistic? Possibly. Was it corrupt? Yes.
Really, it's just corruption. And I don't think any ideology really is corrupt on purpose.
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Very well comrade, we'll just set up a big federal program doles out "jobs" or if you prefer we can dump trillions in tax dollars into the groupthink approved company of choice.
As to china kicking the US's ass on it, that's not the free market people's fault.
1. Factory regulation in the US is such that it's a pain in the ass to make anything in the US. Steve Jobs for example went on record saying he wanted to make ipods in the US but it was almost impossible to get a permit to build the stupid factory.
2. Energy. By not building the energy we need we can't supply energy intensive industries like the semi conductor industry. We need nuclear power plants amongst others. Solar doesn't cut it. In china, do they use solar to power their solar power plant companies? No. They sell that to you. Their power their industry with nuclear and coal. So if you want to talk about the chinese, look to your own stupid energy policy making it impossible to supply energy intensive industry.
3. Labor policy in the US is uncompetitive. Look at what happened when Boeing tried to open a factory in a Right to Work state... the feds jumped on them and told them they COULD NOT build the factory there. Think about that.
4. Much of China's increasing dominance in high tech manufacturing comes from their dominance of rare earths. The US used to be the primary producer of these minerals. Why did we stop? Oh, to be sure China was pumping out cheaper product. But importantly the primary mines in the US that produced rare earths were also basically harassed by environmentalists out of business. Only now with the Chinese playing trade war games are these mines able to open up again as the enviros are being musseled.
So above and beyond if you think it's the free market people screwing up US industry you don't know anything.
The US remains a global industrial power house. China is growing rapidly but the US has massive industrial capability. But we're also infested with economically ignorant socialists and cultish enviro zealots.
Don't believe me? WHY is china more competitive? you really think it's just their state sponsorship of industry? Really? Want to bet we pump more money into our industrial base then they do on an annual basis? We do.
It isn't a lack of subsidy. It's the constant undermining of everything we do.
If we wanted to build the golden gate bridge today it would cost 10 times what it did originally AFTER inflation and probably take 10 times longer if it were allowed to be built at all. Doubtless the foundation would endanger the habitat of a local mud crab or something equally idiotic. And before you say I'm exaggerating these idiots recently shut down a LARGE solar power plant project because it infringed on the habitat of a local lizard... it was in the middle of the god damn desert. if we can't build a solar power plant in the middle of the desert we can't do anything.
So I have zero patience for the argument that it's the free market people doing this... we don't have the control to do it. We're not the ones calling the shots. We wish we were... really. But blaming us is like blaming the guy in the wheel chair of being an axe murderer. We lack the political strength to effect industry on the level you presume. We are strong IN the private sector itself but in government we only get anywhere by bribing people. We'd love to just argue our case but we're faced with little more then the ignorant, the crazy, and the corrupt. Amongst them all at least the corrupt will negotiate.
I don't disagree that because some bad things are done that any bad thing can be done to any extent without limits.
That would be like saying because there are bar fights in a given bar its okay to murder people in that bar.
The bar fights themselves shouldn't happen but assuming that's unavoidable you shouldn't escalate the situation.
Maybe you think I'm being unfair? I'm trying. I don't like such heavy handed tactics. I don't care if they're common in that industry. I'm not going to be okay with a given firing squad in Cuba simply because firing squads in general in that area are common. It's wrong.
I'm not against renewable energy. In fact, I think it's the future and we must invest in it heavily. But I don't think that is the right way to do it. The process of investment must be organic and natural... not forced by the state. That is not "demand"... that is the government putting a gun against your head and saying "buy it"... It's coercion. And coercion is not demand.
It's not really market demand if it's all regulated is it? If you force me to buy something and I buy it... I didn't buy it because I want it. Just as if you mandate that I have to hire someone. I didn't hire them because I wanted them or I found their labor competitive... I didn't have a choice.
I'm not a fan of putting loaded guns against people's heads and saying "do this or we see how many of these chambers are loaded"...
I'm confused as to why people say it's thriving when it's taking such a huge amount of money in subsidies. All competing energy forms take in either no or comparatively irrelevant subsidies and yet remain competitive. If solar power needs these subsidies then they're not thriving. Perhaps they're doing better then awful... but that's hardly a grand success.
In any case, I want solar to succeed, but I think it won't succeed until the social planners get out of the process. Solar will succeed or fail not because people believed in it but because it's a superior form of energy. Having solar shouldn't be seen as something "good" people do as if it's a sacrifice. Rather, it should be what "smart" people do because it's actually cheaper. Until we get there solar power stands about the same chances of catching on as ending poverty in Africa. The same sort of people are backing both initiatives and it's all for a good cause. But things don't get better because people care. I wish they did but they don't. They get better because it is in everyone's interest for them to get better.
Further, attacking our fossil fuel industry doesn't drive people to solar because it's easier to fight back against the regulations then it is to magically make solar panels as effective as coal power plants.
People need to be practical.
What's also interesting is that the phone responds to this tool. Certainly before the phone opens up to this thing it should query for a more advanced password.
Maybe set up the short pin for direct touch entry. But the actual system itself is secured with a much more advanced password. The pin system would know that password but the password would only be unlocked from that system if the 4 digit pin was PHYSICALLY entered into the system.
Obviously a four digit pin is very easy to hack but if it has to be done manually then it is much more time consuming to sit there and enter in 10 thousand possible combinations. A computer can go through all that very quickly but a human being typing in each one one at a time is another matter. And obviously the pin system would now allow so many incorrect answers in a row before it would go into a cool down mode. Maybe ten wrong answers and then it won't allow any more guesses for ten minutes.
Ideally the long form password should be quiet long.
I think something people should consider is quotations. Take a monologue from your favorite movie or play and make THAT the security key. It will be very long, hard to guess, and hard to forget. People could actually remember a very long key that way. Punctuation might be an issue in some quotations but ideally you'd instruct people to keep the book or whatever that they took the quote from as a hardcopy somewhere.
Well, I'd want the gesture to be complicated enough for that to be unlikely. For example, what if you had three or four gestures layered on top of each other?
So okay, you can guess ONE of the gestures or possibly see what all the gestures look like super imposed on each other but you don't what any individual gesture is or the sequence.
entering three or four gestures quickly one on top of the other should be fairly fast and significantly difficult to crack.
How do you get that on a prospective android phone?
I've been using smart phones for 15 years and back in the old days everything was modded on to the phones by interested parties. So I'm used to things being a little squirrely but I'd like a pointer in the right direction.
I'm thinking about buying a motorola Photon. It promises ten hours battery life which is twice what the competing phones offer. I suspect that the real battery life is half that just like the promises made by their rivals.
In any case, just wondering if you have any pointers on the subject.
Honestly, I don't have anything on my phone that I really care about. I mean... you get my phone numbers... Yippy!... who cares?
But If I did have anything on there that I actually care about, then I'd probably do as you suggest and get a blackberry... that is assuming the company survives. They look like they're dying.
it would seem there are simple ways to make more complex passwords. For example, maybe you draw a picture with your fingers and the system unlocks if you get it close to right. Can you have "fuzzy" encryption? Something that locks a system with a "general" password? I ask because obviously with the picture idea you're never going to enter it in exactly the same every time.
Is it encrypted? If I pull the memory chip out of the phone and load it by some means into another machine will the information be encrypted?
Anyway, it looks neat. Is it impossible to install? It looks complicated.
We need versions of the android OS and apple iOS that are designed from the ground up to be secure. Full drive encryption would be a good start.
how about you keep the pressure but release a little laughing gas into the air...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8fWUUXeKM
I heard that. Good progress I guess... though I want it to hold it's pressure so well that people can't tell at all. No popping ears.
I know this is easier said then done and they have reasons for skimping on the pressure. BUUUUT it would be more comfortable if the pressure slowly transitioned from the take off pressure to the landing pressure with no consideration at all for the exterior pressure.
I'm assuming the reason they don't fully pressurize the plane is that it puts strain on the airframe or the cabin or it's hard to keep the plane pressurized. If that's the case just consider making that a feature in future plane designs. Passengers would prefer it. No screaming children clutching their ears.
Just an idea.
We have so many out of control bureaucracies and they tend to survive by never pushing people too hard too fast.
However, every so often they go WAAAY too far and piss so many people off that it causes everyone to ask seriously "can you make me?"... and the reality is that if they try to cash this check it will bounce.
So they should do it. And the TSA should strip search people. And the FCC should start censoring the internet.
All great ways for overblown bureaucracies to cut their own throat.
There's only no point because you live in a fantasy world were sensible people assume unlimited liability and give you the arbitrary ability to change the terms of the contract at will.
Your fantasy has no bearing on reality.
Wake up.
NO ONE will willingly enter into a long term project where you can arbitarily change the rules and make them infinitely liable for whatever enters your head.
So if those are the rules you will accept then everything must happen over your objection.
Or we all sit in the dark while you try to defend the indefensible.
Guess how this is going to break down? The instant the lights go out they're going to ignore you until such time as they go back on. Then a few will forget and mistakenly take you seriously.
Please stop having bad ideas.
No insurance company would sell it to them. You're proposing UNLIMITED liability. Insurance companies don't sell such things.
Tell you what, what if the power company buys the insurance from the US government. They pay the government a premium. And when costs go up because of government regulation the government can pay for it themselves.
That way while the liability is also limitless the government would have control over it since they were responsible for causing it to go up in the first place.
I don't know why everyone is so quick to mindlessly attack industries and professions they know nothing about. It's odd. People seem to give people and things they have experience with the benefit of the doubt. And everything they don't know anything about they either assume them to be angels or devils based on some ideological or political tribalism. It's very odd.
that's atypical. Most people lost upwards of ten years of growth.
That was before the anti nuclear lobby.
That particular dream died when those yahoos got so powerful.
exactly there's no way around that.
People keep passing regulation thinking it's free because someone else is paying. They never grasp that the buck gets passed around until the public pays. The public always pays.
Jack up taxes on corporations for example and unemployment goes up.
Look at california... they had a 22 percent decline in state revenue THIS YEAR. Why? They're driving business out of the state and possibly out of the country. Unemployment is going up and they're talking about increasing corporate taxes further. Which will lead to only more revenue decline and more unemployment.
It all costs in the end.
The amount that has to be paid in at intervals however is pre-stipulated as is the final amount that must be in the account adjusted for inflation.
If I say there has to be 1000 USD and then half way through the process I say it has to be 10,000... who is at fault here? Why is it my fault that there isn't 10k in there? I had no way of knowing people would change the rules like that. I was saying to 1k as stated in the initial legislation, license, and other associated contracts. I did my part. The money is there. It's just you want more now. Well, I can build that up in that account... it just will take a long time.
You can either lower the amount you want, you can pony up the difference, or we can all wait.
Those are your options. Act now and we can serve any of these combos with fries and a shake.
They were AAA rated which treasury bonds are not anymore. Just FYI... treasury bonds are now AA rated.
You say they should have put their money where people retiring put their money... well, they did. Which is why at the same time their accounts got nailed lots of retirement accounts were wiped out.
It's bad all around. These people are not wizards. Big firms on wall street went bankrupt. You're expecting a nuclear power company to be better at managing their money then a wall street investment bank? That's like expecting the investment bank to be better at managing a nuclear power plant then the nuclear power company.
Have fun with that.
Crony capitalism is neither conservative nor libertarian.
It's just corrupt. Look at the Solyndra scandal and the dozens of other examples with "green" companies. Was that libertarian? Nope. Was it conservative? Nope. Was it socialistic? Possibly. Was it corrupt? Yes.
Really, it's just corruption. And I don't think any ideology really is corrupt on purpose.