Only true in strict essays. In a slashdot thread? Come now. Be reasonable... or you're unreasonable.;)
That's two statements. I'll provide evidence that the best special needs care is private. I'm actually shocked you're questioning that one. This is going to be easy.
I have to wonder, what would you consider as evidence here? Do you honestly think the federally mandated programs at the public school serviced by teachers with no special training in dealing with such children is going to compete with institutions that are set up from the ground up to address the problem?
You're basically arguing McDonalds is better at making sushi... then a sushi chef. I don't know if there is a study for that either I could quote, but it seems like a hard argument to argue.
The private schools hire specialists and have customized programs.
Another thing that is great about private schools is that they're incredibly diverse. None of them are the same. They're all different. And rather then a weakness that's a strength. Because while ALL public schools seem capable of showing degeneration the private schools have successes and failures. And that's something we can learn from. IF everyone fails that doesn't tell us very much. It just tells us what we're doing isn't working. But if we have successes and failures then clearly we need to stop doing what the failures are doing and do more of what the successes are doing.
Ultimately, I like the voucher system because it gets the government out of education, gives parents more how their kids are taught, makes the parents more active in the child's education, and solves all the silly political battles we've been having over education for years.
If we go full voucher then all the political problems with education are gone. Pick the school you want. Don't like that school? there are five more to take its place. And unlike the existing system where they won't let you leave and will keep bad schools on life support. In the Voucher system bad schools that no one likes die. No life support. Dead. And from the ashes new schools... hopefully wiser then their predecessors.
She gave birth to all of that. If you need a non-cisco replacement for your cisco router... mother will provide. It won't grow on a tree... but a factory somewhere can give you what you need.
Challenge one argument I made. Try to keep it simple. If you make it complex it will require disproportionate effort on my part and I have no interest in that game. I'm not writing a ten page essay for every sentence on your part.
We can go point by point. You can challenge something I said and I'll back it up or admit I've got nothing.
All you're doing is screwing poor kids by trapping them in a failed system. You're giving them no way out and you're not holding their schools accountable for failure.
Vouchers would give you both. Will the rich kids go to a nicer school? Maybe. They also might go to the same school only the rich family gave an endowment so all the kids enjoy a nicer education.
Don't think that can happen? There are a lot of schools back east that are private and are in small towns. The local town kids can't afford to pay for the private school. So what they do is charge out of town people a typical private school price and they ask the town to subsidize locals at a rate that public school typically pays. It works fine.
All the problems you have with it have been tested in the real world and it works... BETTER then the pure public system.
This is what some of the probes need to do that are sent to the moon and mars.
Dig out facilities. Assemble structures underground.
It could be tedious and take many years to finish but the robots have time. Who cares how long it takes. If it takes them ten years for a few dozen robots to build a moon base then so be it. And then we can send astronauts there and they can move right into a fully assembled and functioning habitat.
Ideally, we should give the machines the ability to manufacturer some of the building materials from local resources. But even if we have to send them everything it's a job best done over time by robots.
First, some public schools are the same way. There are science magnets that only accept bright kids and are public.
Second, private and voucher schools have the best special needs education in the world. Their care far surpasses anything you'll find in public school. They also have the best schools for troubled children that have obedience issues.
You're addicted to force. Just because a school isn't forced to take certain kids doesn't mean that there won't be a private school that will take them. Maybe the troubled child won't get into the school that is designed around high achieving children. Maybe instead he'll get into a school meant for troubled children. And is that bad? No... they're getting exactly what they need rather then trying to jam everyone into a one size fits all system that is failing millions.
The existing system is a disgrace and vouchers could save the kids.
Stone culture can maintain a horse stock without a lot of trouble.
What level of sophistication is required to maintain an automotive industry?
One person can master everything they need to know to keep their "village" or whatever with a supply of horses forever.
Think one person could master what is needed to keep a supply of cars happening? No.
Cars are only reliable within the context of our economic system which is itself incredibly sophisticated.
Can a horse die if you feed it poison? Yeah... ever consider what you're feeding the car? Did it come from a mountain stream or did it come from a giant industrial factory/lab that specifically designed fuel for your type of engine?
Did the water you're talking about have to be made specially in a factory lab? What about the hay?
There is no comparison... it's hilarious that you'd even try.
The stupid horse can survive wild and take care of itself in many places.
There's no reason why VOIP can't be just as reliable.
In any case, I'm sure a telegraph line is more reliable then a telephone line... and I know a horse is more reliable then a car.
So... choose.
Which century do you want to live in?
I'll take my car which at some point here is going to have an electric drive that doesn't suck. And stick as much as possible to digital communication systems.
The internet network is still relatively new at least in the mind of the telecommunication's industry. They first need to gear up to give everyone enough bandwidth. Then they can start building in more redundancy and more reliability.
It solves practically every issue you could name with public schools.
A comprehensive voucher program that ensured that every child got a free education at a private school would solve pretty much everything.
Many states spend a LOT of money on public education. It's hard to see all the money because it's spread around in lots of different accounts that are rarely all taken together. But it's big money. And private schools designed to operate on that budget are very practical and would be superior in every way.
Parents don't like the school? In big cities there should be a dozen other options and in small towns there should be at least two alternatives. It's not a big deal. it's not that hard.
What we're suffering from here is over centralization. Well meaning people make up a bunch of rules from some central planning office and then force everyone else to follow them with no discretion. The larger a system gets the less efficient centralization becomes. Fragment the system and all those problems go away.
Rather then having huge school boards or state education programs. Break it down so that every school manages itself. Make them accountable for what their students achieve. And if they don't achieve make it very clear that parents can take the kids out at will and put them in a competing institution... leaving the first school starving.
Do that and schools will compete with each other for students. Teachers will compete with each other. And that competition will make our schools better.
Think about the real world. Where does competition not make people and companies better at what they do? Basically nowhere. Make this part of the system and this sort of mindless incompetence will vanish.
From the blocked caller ID to the robo calls. I'm just over it.
We should shift everything to some kind of VOIP system entirely bypassing the whole network while giving everyone superior service. it's not like the telephone company isn't already doing VOIP internally to move calls around. And this way instead of having stupid phone numbers we can have more recognizable screen names... caller ID that can't be blocked... and ideally a call filtering system that lets people get calls they want reject those they don't and send everything else to sorted voice mail.
This is the 21st century. Phones were great in the 20th. Enough. Same thing with the postal service. Deliver at most once a week. Anyone that needs mail delivered more often then once a week can fedex it.
1. market then is not market now. 2. obviously technology now is not technology 11 god damn years ago. 3. I didn't say make it a clunky WindowMobile clone.
They can very easily squeeze a full PC into an inexpensive tablet. It might mean MS gets serious about streamlining the OS but they should do that anyway. If not for tablets and smartphones then simply so more powerful computers aren't wasting so many resources just maintaining the OS.
It should instead bring the PC to the tablet and the phone.
We like PCs. That's why we bought them in the first place.
Give us all the power we have at the desktop at our fingertips. And make RDP better... so it can truly bring everything at the desktop to a less powerful item.
Part of the issue with outsourcing the manufacturing is that they won't innovate in manufacturing anymore. many companies have gotten a leg up on the competition by figuring out a new way to make the same thing. You don't do that unless you actually make it and are familiar at a visceral level with how it is built.
I'm not saying have a huge factory. Just something large enough that they're still doing a little manufacturing. Enough to understand it. enough to play with it. enough to innovate with the materials. And if they do that, they could come up with something new. And then the chinese competitors don't matter because they don't have the new thing.
I think we can build in the US. We just need to automate a lot more. I've seen a lot of impressive robots that are very dextrous. I see no reason why we couldn't replace those hands with US robots. It's not as sexy as trying to get the jobs in US hands directly. But a factory in the US will require techs to keep them working. And will need supplies which will need to be trucked into the factory. And all sorts of stuff. All of that will bleed into the community. Maybe the local restaurants get a little more business. Maybe a few more homes sell. Maybe a little more tax money comes into a small town. We could do that across the US. Automate.
I know its an investment and the foreign labor is dirt cheap. But it gives the company something they don't have now... Control. They used to have that. They used to have some control over the stuff they made and now... it's all off in some foreign factory where nine times out of time we're just teaching a new competitor how to make our high tech stuff on OUR dime. It's like sending your competition to school and paying for it. I'm happy giving the chinese low tech factories but we were mad to outsource the high tech stuff.
the more I learn about the justice system, the more I know them to be as much victims of this nonsense as anyone. The whole institution is like a temple turned into a whore house... and very much against the will of the judges. There's just nothing they can do about.
It's the politicians and the politicians only do that because the people put them there to do it.
This is actually what the people want. They want to stop everything. Not because they want to starve in the dark like rats but because they're ignorant as chickens. They just don't know what the hell they're doing. They've lived in these wonderful cities all their lives. Their parents live in them. Their grand parents. There has been no one in their lives they trust to ever impress upon that there is a world beyond the city that the city depends upon for EVERYTHING. They don't grasp that the city produces nothing it needs. It depends on everything from somewhere else. They have no idea what that means.
I don't really believe in one shot fixes to complicated problems. But the closest I could get to a solution would probably be stranding everyone in the woods totally alone for one week every year or every couple years. Maybe just a few times. However many it takes to get explain the point. If you just made that a social custom or a law that everyone had to spend time in the middle of no where... in a place where you "can" survive and they had to make it happen on their own. Make it somewhere with water. But if they want to eat they're going to have to try catching something, starting a fire, etc. I'm not giving them a bunch of fancy camping equipment.
The point is that after you do that, you appreciate what the city is and all the things it provides that everyone just takes for granted. The food. The water. The heat. The light. The safety. The information. The entertainment. The comfort of a pillow suddenly becomes a luxury when all you've got is a pile of possibly tick filled leaves.
You come back from something like that and I would hope people understand. All this wonderful modern stuff we have is great. It's a great accomplishment. But it isn't magic. It's real stuff that comes from real places and has real costs.
Dicking with the farmers because they need water to grow crops is just nutbar crazy especially when the cities could very easily get plenty of water by doing as their grand fathers did and building something. Hell, forget taking water from the farmers. Find a way to give them more so they can grow more food. Those cities don't just need more water.
I don't know what to call that... is it fraud? I'm not sure. They honestly thought they did have it but at what point in smartphone sales did it occur to them "you know we've sold more of these then we have data capacity to support!" I don't believe that didn't occur to them. And despite their statement about too many smart phone buyers are they still selling more?
The whole thing seems odd. I don't know... ATT has always had a crap network.
Happily a sprint customer. I don't know what people's experience is with it where ever... but where I live, rock solid on all counts. ATT doesn't work in half my city.
birth rate in the first world has already tapered off naturally.
We're not rodents. We're human beings. Japan and Italy for example are looking a huge population implosions. Really most of the first world. The only exceptions are countries with high immigration and that's just the immigrants offsetting the reduction in the birthrate. If the whole world were first world we might be looking at a halving of the global population.
So need or more importantly justification for some horrible government body that has civil liberty violating power to determine who can and cannot have children.
It's unnecessary and I would hope we're not so stupid as to trust you or anyone else with that kind of power. I'd frankly rather bring civilization to it's knees that live under that crap. A big war would be better. Anything.
If you press many environmentalists they eventually will get to the "over population" portion of their little religion. It's always pretty horrifying. I first heard it from my college environmental studies professor. I just couldn't believe the crap coming out of his mouth. He was all kittens and sunshine most of the time. Really he was one of the nicest guys you've ever seen in your life. Just warm and friendly. And then at the risk of invoking Godwin's law he started spouting genocidal stuff like forced sterilizations and limits on numbers of children... etc. It was very fairly traumatic. I didn't even argue against it. There was nothing you could say. It was just mad foaming dogma in a university classroom. I just sat there with my book... took notes and passed the make work test.
They're going to scream libel or whatever, but they're pretty clueless to how brainwashed they are... so right after protesting the accusation you should be able to get them to effectively admit it. Just get them talking about over population. They'll out themselves. I've been able to consistently get them to do that AFTER they denied and they didn't even realize they had done it. it's a little surreal.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for protecting the environment. I breath the same air, drink the same water, and walk upon the same earth feeling the soil through my toes. It's just some of their ideas are psychotic.
There are more then a few doctors out there with struggling practices. I suspect you could very easily make yourself a pretty successful business out of simply not firing the patient.
This is effective at getting patients you don't like to go away and not be a part of your practice. I don't know if it will accomplish anything else.
I can certainly empathize with disliking a customer/client and firing them. I've fired a few clients in my time. Mostly for attitude issues. But I've never thought that firing them changed that person. I just thought they'd go on to the next person and act the same way. And eventually, someone would accept it or not care or whatever.
I also find it highly improbable that they won't find a doctor to serve them. Possibly they'll get a lower quality doctor. Anything is possible.
Getting specific is not useful in the context of this discussion. Furthermore, rationing the water indifferent to your objective of being efficient will cause a large decrease in productivity.
Farmers are very cautious by nature. They've got Murphy's law beaten into them through generations of improbable things going wrong. Farmers worry about everything. They worry about the weather. Every day. They worry about the price of their product. They worry about disease. They worry about pests. They worry about poison. It just goes on and on. But farmers have ulcers from all the things they worry about.
If you give them a strict water limit based on the number of live stock or the acreage they're going to cut back production so they have a fat surplus of water. In their mind they're going to think "what if I need it." In their world that could happen. They could have a situation where maybe it was a little hotter for a few days and that caused additional evaporation and that evaporation dried the soil out and the soil can't be too dry or it damages the plant. And if the plant is damaged we could lose the whole crop, everything could die, and months of hard work and worrying will come to nothing.
Farmers worry.
If you tighten their belts they'll going to find ways to stick their thumbs between the straps so they have a little room.
Please don't try to judge and regulate a very complicated and sophisticated business without any experience in it. It's as complicated as anything else we do today. This isn't farming like the Egyptians 4000 years ago. Lots of people like to think that farming is just people screwing around in the dirt. Any moron can stick a seed in the ground and get a shoot to come up. We did that in pre-school. Every kid was given a radish seed, we stuck our seed in our cup with our little names on it. And then couple weeks later out shoots this little stem from the cup. Amazing... miracle of life.
That's about as much like farming as putting a band aid on is practicing medicine.
The farmers are not stupid, ignorant, or especially in California "hillbillies"... They've more college education then most of the people that presume to be superior to them.
I don't mean to come off strong here. I'm just saying... don't presume you can come in with no knowledge of a very sophisticated business and correct all their obvious mistakes. That's about as likely as looking at the blueprints of a satellite and determining the flaw in it's design without in fact any experience or knowledge of the field.
And if you read my post, you'd realize that my idea actually accomplishes that.
They can't give everyone pat downs. It's like trying to arrest everyone at a riot. You can't do it. There are 10,000 people there. You can throw a couple hundred in a wagon but that's about the limit.
Do you have any idea how many people flow through an international airport every day? Okay... imagine every one of them opting out of the scanner and going for the pat down.
What would happen? the airport would lock and it would stay locked.
The scanners would be totally useless because no one would use them. So they're dead right there.
And the pat downs can't be given to everyone so they'd have to give them either selectively or not at all. Not everyone.
We win then.
if you respond again demonstrating that you clearly didn't read anything I wrote... it will make me sad.
First to have a market you have to have property rights. That is ownership.
Without ownership how do you have a market?
Second, they're more then happy to sell water to each other at fair market value. Unfortunately, that is very high.
There are farmers that sell water to each other and to the cities. But it's like buying bottled water and putting it in the tap. It's very expensive because they don't have to sell it and the only people that buy are people that REALLY need it.
There is a shortage. It is more demand then supply. The cities sell the water to residents at a VASTLY discounted price. The cities don't have to pay for most of it because the cities also have water rights. So they don't buy most of the water either. They own it. They use it. They can buy the water from the farms if they want. But if you're shutting down production of a profitable farm to give water to the city you're going to want to make AT LEAST as much in profit as you would by growing a crop with that water and then selling it on the open market. Think they use a lot of water? Wait until you see how much money they make using it. And that's what buying water from the farms costs. Minimum. Lots farms would rather grow something and remain active then shut down. It's what they do. They like farming. So you often have to pay them even more then what they'd make. And it's theirs. It's their water. if they don't want to sell they don't have to sell. It's like your car. If came up to you on the street and offered you the value of your car in cash would you accept that and let me take your car? Probably not. You'd want more then it was worth because then you don't have a car and you need new one. And there is inconvenience in the transaction. And of course I look like I really want the car so you might as well charge me extra just because you can.
That's all that's going on here and that's an entirely healthy and normal market.
I think you're upset that the government doesn't own all the water. I think your notion of a market might be the government just dolling water out to whomever it deems is worthy and charging a fee it finds reasonable. That isn't a market. That's a monopoly... and that is dysfunctional.
I prefer to turn the power off and leave the little babies to cry in the dark. They'll wander around and wonder why the magical power isn't coming from the mystical socket. if the believed in electrisity they'd believe in power plants. And since they clearly don't believe in power plants they must think power comes from mystical fairies in never never land. Same place the water and food comes from. They just go to the store, pick up their packaged whatever and have no conception that all of it had to be produced somewhere by someone. And maybe... just maybe f'ing with their livelihood will have consequences like... food being twice as expensive as suddenly we're importing it all from mexico by truck.
think the mexicans won't exploit the hell out of that? Hey gringo, what would happen if we cut off your food? Who wouldnt' use that in a trade negotiation. The Russians do that all the time with the Europeans and their natural gas pipeline. Which is also stupid because the euros have plenty of domestic power and resources for heating. And that's the only really critical thing they import from the Russians.
being dependent on any nation for something you cannot live without is a crazy. This is especially true if you're a giant country like the US can easily source just about any good domestically.
True... of course, the catch is that you're building it for the chinese by the chinese. This is a painful lesson many corporations have learned over there as factories they built to pump out goods suddenly turned into competitors.
Dell was nearly killed outright by that mistake. Asus was one of their suppliers. Started out making just one tiny bit of the computer. Then they offered to make a little more. They mastered that bit. Then a little more. Dell kept feeding them the next bit and helping them build it. It was great on their balance sheets. They were making more and more of the computer for a cheaper price. And then one day Asus was making the whole computer and they asked themselves... why do we need dell anymore? And right there Dell almost died.
They'll never recover from that. It's a pattern.
Smart companies will retain something difficult to duplicate and scrupulously make that themselves even at a premium. It's that or your supplier becomes your competitor.
We'll see if Boeing is going to make the same mistake by teaching the chinese to build jet engines.
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Only true in strict essays. In a slashdot thread? Come now. Be reasonable... or you're unreasonable. ;)
That's two statements. I'll provide evidence that the best special needs care is private. I'm actually shocked you're questioning that one. This is going to be easy.
From google...
All private in dallas... at least according to ehow :D
http://www.ehow.com/info_7899398_schools-learning-disabled-dallas-texas.html
schools explicitly for learning disabled kids...
http://privateschool.about.com/od/schoolsneeds1/tp/toplearning.htm
I have to wonder, what would you consider as evidence here? Do you honestly think the federally mandated programs at the public school serviced by teachers with no special training in dealing with such children is going to compete with institutions that are set up from the ground up to address the problem?
You're basically arguing McDonalds is better at making sushi... then a sushi chef. I don't know if there is a study for that either I could quote, but it seems like a hard argument to argue.
The private schools hire specialists and have customized programs.
Another thing that is great about private schools is that they're incredibly diverse. None of them are the same. They're all different. And rather then a weakness that's a strength. Because while ALL public schools seem capable of showing degeneration the private schools have successes and failures. And that's something we can learn from. IF everyone fails that doesn't tell us very much. It just tells us what we're doing isn't working. But if we have successes and failures then clearly we need to stop doing what the failures are doing and do more of what the successes are doing.
Ultimately, I like the voucher system because it gets the government out of education, gives parents more how their kids are taught, makes the parents more active in the child's education, and solves all the silly political battles we've been having over education for years.
If we go full voucher then all the political problems with education are gone. Pick the school you want. Don't like that school? there are five more to take its place. And unlike the existing system where they won't let you leave and will keep bad schools on life support. In the Voucher system bad schools that no one likes die. No life support. Dead. And from the ashes new schools... hopefully wiser then their predecessors.
You know what necessity is the mother of right?
She gave birth to all of that. If you need a non-cisco replacement for your cisco router... mother will provide. It won't grow on a tree... but a factory somewhere can give you what you need.
I'll back up one thing at a time.
Challenge one argument I made. Try to keep it simple. If you make it complex it will require disproportionate effort on my part and I have no interest in that game. I'm not writing a ten page essay for every sentence on your part.
We can go point by point. You can challenge something I said and I'll back it up or admit I've got nothing.
I'm game if you are...
that's already happening...
Think only rich kids go to private schools?
All you're doing is screwing poor kids by trapping them in a failed system. You're giving them no way out and you're not holding their schools accountable for failure.
Vouchers would give you both. Will the rich kids go to a nicer school? Maybe. They also might go to the same school only the rich family gave an endowment so all the kids enjoy a nicer education.
Don't think that can happen? There are a lot of schools back east that are private and are in small towns. The local town kids can't afford to pay for the private school. So what they do is charge out of town people a typical private school price and they ask the town to subsidize locals at a rate that public school typically pays. It works fine.
All the problems you have with it have been tested in the real world and it works... BETTER then the pure public system.
This is what some of the probes need to do that are sent to the moon and mars.
Dig out facilities. Assemble structures underground.
It could be tedious and take many years to finish but the robots have time. Who cares how long it takes. If it takes them ten years for a few dozen robots to build a moon base then so be it. And then we can send astronauts there and they can move right into a fully assembled and functioning habitat.
Ideally, we should give the machines the ability to manufacturer some of the building materials from local resources. But even if we have to send them everything it's a job best done over time by robots.
First, some public schools are the same way. There are science magnets that only accept bright kids and are public.
Second, private and voucher schools have the best special needs education in the world. Their care far surpasses anything you'll find in public school. They also have the best schools for troubled children that have obedience issues.
You're addicted to force. Just because a school isn't forced to take certain kids doesn't mean that there won't be a private school that will take them. Maybe the troubled child won't get into the school that is designed around high achieving children. Maybe instead he'll get into a school meant for troubled children. And is that bad? No... they're getting exactly what they need rather then trying to jam everyone into a one size fits all system that is failing millions.
The existing system is a disgrace and vouchers could save the kids.
Stone culture can maintain a horse stock without a lot of trouble.
What level of sophistication is required to maintain an automotive industry?
One person can master everything they need to know to keep their "village" or whatever with a supply of horses forever.
Think one person could master what is needed to keep a supply of cars happening? No.
Cars are only reliable within the context of our economic system which is itself incredibly sophisticated.
Can a horse die if you feed it poison? Yeah... ever consider what you're feeding the car? Did it come from a mountain stream or did it come from a giant industrial factory/lab that specifically designed fuel for your type of engine?
Did the water you're talking about have to be made specially in a factory lab? What about the hay?
There is no comparison... it's hilarious that you'd even try.
The stupid horse can survive wild and take care of itself in many places.
There's no reason why VOIP can't be just as reliable.
In any case, I'm sure a telegraph line is more reliable then a telephone line... and I know a horse is more reliable then a car.
So... choose.
Which century do you want to live in?
I'll take my car which at some point here is going to have an electric drive that doesn't suck. And stick as much as possible to digital communication systems.
The internet network is still relatively new at least in the mind of the telecommunication's industry. They first need to gear up to give everyone enough bandwidth. Then they can start building in more redundancy and more reliability.
Vouchers.
It solves practically every issue you could name with public schools.
A comprehensive voucher program that ensured that every child got a free education at a private school would solve pretty much everything.
Many states spend a LOT of money on public education. It's hard to see all the money because it's spread around in lots of different accounts that are rarely all taken together. But it's big money. And private schools designed to operate on that budget are very practical and would be superior in every way.
Parents don't like the school? In big cities there should be a dozen other options and in small towns there should be at least two alternatives. It's not a big deal. it's not that hard.
What we're suffering from here is over centralization. Well meaning people make up a bunch of rules from some central planning office and then force everyone else to follow them with no discretion. The larger a system gets the less efficient centralization becomes. Fragment the system and all those problems go away.
Rather then having huge school boards or state education programs. Break it down so that every school manages itself. Make them accountable for what their students achieve. And if they don't achieve make it very clear that parents can take the kids out at will and put them in a competing institution... leaving the first school starving.
Do that and schools will compete with each other for students. Teachers will compete with each other. And that competition will make our schools better.
Think about the real world. Where does competition not make people and companies better at what they do? Basically nowhere. Make this part of the system and this sort of mindless incompetence will vanish.
I hate them.
From the blocked caller ID to the robo calls. I'm just over it.
We should shift everything to some kind of VOIP system entirely bypassing the whole network while giving everyone superior service. it's not like the telephone company isn't already doing VOIP internally to move calls around. And this way instead of having stupid phone numbers we can have more recognizable screen names... caller ID that can't be blocked... and ideally a call filtering system that lets people get calls they want reject those they don't and send everything else to sorted voice mail.
This is the 21st century. Phones were great in the 20th. Enough. Same thing with the postal service. Deliver at most once a week. Anyone that needs mail delivered more often then once a week can fedex it.
blue tooth and a single micro USB port should be fine... a micro HDMI would also be advisable.
MS Just needs to make a version of windows that will run on these limited devices while still being windows.
1. market then is not market now.
2. obviously technology now is not technology 11 god damn years ago.
3. I didn't say make it a clunky WindowMobile clone.
They can very easily squeeze a full PC into an inexpensive tablet. It might mean MS gets serious about streamlining the OS but they should do that anyway. If not for tablets and smartphones then simply so more powerful computers aren't wasting so many resources just maintaining the OS.
It should instead bring the PC to the tablet and the phone.
We like PCs. That's why we bought them in the first place.
Give us all the power we have at the desktop at our fingertips. And make RDP better... so it can truly bring everything at the desktop to a less powerful item.
Part of the issue with outsourcing the manufacturing is that they won't innovate in manufacturing anymore. many companies have gotten a leg up on the competition by figuring out a new way to make the same thing. You don't do that unless you actually make it and are familiar at a visceral level with how it is built.
I'm not saying have a huge factory. Just something large enough that they're still doing a little manufacturing. Enough to understand it. enough to play with it. enough to innovate with the materials. And if they do that, they could come up with something new. And then the chinese competitors don't matter because they don't have the new thing.
I think we can build in the US. We just need to automate a lot more. I've seen a lot of impressive robots that are very dextrous. I see no reason why we couldn't replace those hands with US robots. It's not as sexy as trying to get the jobs in US hands directly. But a factory in the US will require techs to keep them working. And will need supplies which will need to be trucked into the factory. And all sorts of stuff. All of that will bleed into the community. Maybe the local restaurants get a little more business. Maybe a few more homes sell. Maybe a little more tax money comes into a small town. We could do that across the US. Automate.
I know its an investment and the foreign labor is dirt cheap. But it gives the company something they don't have now... Control. They used to have that. They used to have some control over the stuff they made and now... it's all off in some foreign factory where nine times out of time we're just teaching a new competitor how to make our high tech stuff on OUR dime. It's like sending your competition to school and paying for it. I'm happy giving the chinese low tech factories but we were mad to outsource the high tech stuff.
Well, I failed to explain how the system works since you don't understand. I'm sorry I explained it badly.
I don't think I'm skilled enough to make it clear. Sorry.
it's not the justice system's fault...
the more I learn about the justice system, the more I know them to be as much victims of this nonsense as anyone. The whole institution is like a temple turned into a whore house... and very much against the will of the judges. There's just nothing they can do about.
It's the politicians and the politicians only do that because the people put them there to do it.
This is actually what the people want. They want to stop everything. Not because they want to starve in the dark like rats but because they're ignorant as chickens. They just don't know what the hell they're doing. They've lived in these wonderful cities all their lives. Their parents live in them. Their grand parents. There has been no one in their lives they trust to ever impress upon that there is a world beyond the city that the city depends upon for EVERYTHING. They don't grasp that the city produces nothing it needs. It depends on everything from somewhere else. They have no idea what that means.
I don't really believe in one shot fixes to complicated problems. But the closest I could get to a solution would probably be stranding everyone in the woods totally alone for one week every year or every couple years. Maybe just a few times. However many it takes to get explain the point. If you just made that a social custom or a law that everyone had to spend time in the middle of no where... in a place where you "can" survive and they had to make it happen on their own. Make it somewhere with water. But if they want to eat they're going to have to try catching something, starting a fire, etc. I'm not giving them a bunch of fancy camping equipment.
The point is that after you do that, you appreciate what the city is and all the things it provides that everyone just takes for granted. The food. The water. The heat. The light. The safety. The information. The entertainment. The comfort of a pillow suddenly becomes a luxury when all you've got is a pile of possibly tick filled leaves.
You come back from something like that and I would hope people understand. All this wonderful modern stuff we have is great. It's a great accomplishment. But it isn't magic. It's real stuff that comes from real places and has real costs.
Dicking with the farmers because they need water to grow crops is just nutbar crazy especially when the cities could very easily get plenty of water by doing as their grand fathers did and building something. Hell, forget taking water from the farmers. Find a way to give them more so they can grow more food. Those cities don't just need more water.
I don't know what to call that... is it fraud? I'm not sure. They honestly thought they did have it but at what point in smartphone sales did it occur to them "you know we've sold more of these then we have data capacity to support!" I don't believe that didn't occur to them. And despite their statement about too many smart phone buyers are they still selling more?
The whole thing seems odd. I don't know... ATT has always had a crap network.
Happily a sprint customer. I don't know what people's experience is with it where ever... but where I live, rock solid on all counts. ATT doesn't work in half my city.
birth rate in the first world has already tapered off naturally.
We're not rodents. We're human beings. Japan and Italy for example are looking a huge population implosions. Really most of the first world. The only exceptions are countries with high immigration and that's just the immigrants offsetting the reduction in the birthrate. If the whole world were first world we might be looking at a halving of the global population.
So need or more importantly justification for some horrible government body that has civil liberty violating power to determine who can and cannot have children.
It's unnecessary and I would hope we're not so stupid as to trust you or anyone else with that kind of power. I'd frankly rather bring civilization to it's knees that live under that crap. A big war would be better. Anything.
If you press many environmentalists they eventually will get to the "over population" portion of their little religion. It's always pretty horrifying. I first heard it from my college environmental studies professor. I just couldn't believe the crap coming out of his mouth. He was all kittens and sunshine most of the time. Really he was one of the nicest guys you've ever seen in your life. Just warm and friendly. And then at the risk of invoking Godwin's law he started spouting genocidal stuff like forced sterilizations and limits on numbers of children... etc. It was very fairly traumatic. I didn't even argue against it. There was nothing you could say. It was just mad foaming dogma in a university classroom. I just sat there with my book... took notes and passed the make work test.
They're going to scream libel or whatever, but they're pretty clueless to how brainwashed they are... so right after protesting the accusation you should be able to get them to effectively admit it. Just get them talking about over population. They'll out themselves. I've been able to consistently get them to do that AFTER they denied and they didn't even realize they had done it. it's a little surreal.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for protecting the environment. I breath the same air, drink the same water, and walk upon the same earth feeling the soil through my toes. It's just some of their ideas are psychotic.
There are more then a few doctors out there with struggling practices. I suspect you could very easily make yourself a pretty successful business out of simply not firing the patient.
This is effective at getting patients you don't like to go away and not be a part of your practice. I don't know if it will accomplish anything else.
I can certainly empathize with disliking a customer/client and firing them. I've fired a few clients in my time. Mostly for attitude issues. But I've never thought that firing them changed that person. I just thought they'd go on to the next person and act the same way. And eventually, someone would accept it or not care or whatever.
I also find it highly improbable that they won't find a doctor to serve them. Possibly they'll get a lower quality doctor. Anything is possible.
Anyway, the whole thing is unfortunate.
Getting specific is not useful in the context of this discussion. Furthermore, rationing the water indifferent to your objective of being efficient will cause a large decrease in productivity.
Farmers are very cautious by nature. They've got Murphy's law beaten into them through generations of improbable things going wrong. Farmers worry about everything. They worry about the weather. Every day. They worry about the price of their product. They worry about disease. They worry about pests. They worry about poison. It just goes on and on. But farmers have ulcers from all the things they worry about.
If you give them a strict water limit based on the number of live stock or the acreage they're going to cut back production so they have a fat surplus of water. In their mind they're going to think "what if I need it." In their world that could happen. They could have a situation where maybe it was a little hotter for a few days and that caused additional evaporation and that evaporation dried the soil out and the soil can't be too dry or it damages the plant. And if the plant is damaged we could lose the whole crop, everything could die, and months of hard work and worrying will come to nothing.
Farmers worry.
If you tighten their belts they'll going to find ways to stick their thumbs between the straps so they have a little room.
Please don't try to judge and regulate a very complicated and sophisticated business without any experience in it. It's as complicated as anything else we do today. This isn't farming like the Egyptians 4000 years ago. Lots of people like to think that farming is just people screwing around in the dirt. Any moron can stick a seed in the ground and get a shoot to come up. We did that in pre-school. Every kid was given a radish seed, we stuck our seed in our cup with our little names on it. And then couple weeks later out shoots this little stem from the cup. Amazing... miracle of life.
That's about as much like farming as putting a band aid on is practicing medicine.
The farmers are not stupid, ignorant, or especially in California "hillbillies"... They've more college education then most of the people that presume to be superior to them.
I don't mean to come off strong here. I'm just saying... don't presume you can come in with no knowledge of a very sophisticated business and correct all their obvious mistakes. That's about as likely as looking at the blueprints of a satellite and determining the flaw in it's design without in fact any experience or knowledge of the field.
I'm just saying... it's complicated.
And if you read my post, you'd realize that my idea actually accomplishes that.
They can't give everyone pat downs. It's like trying to arrest everyone at a riot. You can't do it. There are 10,000 people there. You can throw a couple hundred in a wagon but that's about the limit.
Do you have any idea how many people flow through an international airport every day? Okay... imagine every one of them opting out of the scanner and going for the pat down.
What would happen? the airport would lock and it would stay locked.
The scanners would be totally useless because no one would use them. So they're dead right there.
And the pat downs can't be given to everyone so they'd have to give them either selectively or not at all. Not everyone.
We win then.
if you respond again demonstrating that you clearly didn't read anything I wrote... it will make me sad.
dysfunctional market?
First to have a market you have to have property rights. That is ownership.
Without ownership how do you have a market?
Second, they're more then happy to sell water to each other at fair market value. Unfortunately, that is very high.
There are farmers that sell water to each other and to the cities. But it's like buying bottled water and putting it in the tap. It's very expensive because they don't have to sell it and the only people that buy are people that REALLY need it.
There is a shortage. It is more demand then supply. The cities sell the water to residents at a VASTLY discounted price. The cities don't have to pay for most of it because the cities also have water rights. So they don't buy most of the water either. They own it. They use it. They can buy the water from the farms if they want. But if you're shutting down production of a profitable farm to give water to the city you're going to want to make AT LEAST as much in profit as you would by growing a crop with that water and then selling it on the open market. Think they use a lot of water? Wait until you see how much money they make using it. And that's what buying water from the farms costs. Minimum. Lots farms would rather grow something and remain active then shut down. It's what they do. They like farming. So you often have to pay them even more then what they'd make. And it's theirs. It's their water. if they don't want to sell they don't have to sell. It's like your car. If came up to you on the street and offered you the value of your car in cash would you accept that and let me take your car? Probably not. You'd want more then it was worth because then you don't have a car and you need new one. And there is inconvenience in the transaction. And of course I look like I really want the car so you might as well charge me extra just because you can.
That's all that's going on here and that's an entirely healthy and normal market.
I think you're upset that the government doesn't own all the water. I think your notion of a market might be the government just dolling water out to whomever it deems is worthy and charging a fee it finds reasonable. That isn't a market. That's a monopoly... and that is dysfunctional.
I prefer to turn the power off and leave the little babies to cry in the dark. They'll wander around and wonder why the magical power isn't coming from the mystical socket. if the believed in electrisity they'd believe in power plants. And since they clearly don't believe in power plants they must think power comes from mystical fairies in never never land. Same place the water and food comes from. They just go to the store, pick up their packaged whatever and have no conception that all of it had to be produced somewhere by someone. And maybe... just maybe f'ing with their livelihood will have consequences like... food being twice as expensive as suddenly we're importing it all from mexico by truck.
think the mexicans won't exploit the hell out of that? Hey gringo, what would happen if we cut off your food? Who wouldnt' use that in a trade negotiation. The Russians do that all the time with the Europeans and their natural gas pipeline. Which is also stupid because the euros have plenty of domestic power and resources for heating. And that's the only really critical thing they import from the Russians.
being dependent on any nation for something you cannot live without is a crazy. This is especially true if you're a giant country like the US can easily source just about any good domestically.
True... of course, the catch is that you're building it for the chinese by the chinese. This is a painful lesson many corporations have learned over there as factories they built to pump out goods suddenly turned into competitors.
Dell was nearly killed outright by that mistake. Asus was one of their suppliers. Started out making just one tiny bit of the computer. Then they offered to make a little more. They mastered that bit. Then a little more. Dell kept feeding them the next bit and helping them build it. It was great on their balance sheets. They were making more and more of the computer for a cheaper price. And then one day Asus was making the whole computer and they asked themselves... why do we need dell anymore? And right there Dell almost died.
They'll never recover from that. It's a pattern.
Smart companies will retain something difficult to duplicate and scrupulously make that themselves even at a premium. It's that or your supplier becomes your competitor.
We'll see if Boeing is going to make the same mistake by teaching the chinese to build jet engines.