The big problem with entitlements is medical care.
Wouldn't dispute that, though the Social Security Administration also looms large.
The problem I have is that no one seems to ask the question: "What is the appropriate level to address the problem?"
Putting policy at the Federal level makes it very, very hard to change, which is either a feature or a bug, depending upon your audience.
Sure would like to have the opportunity to opt out in some way short of emigrating, though.
Furthermore, there is a freely-available fix, which I pulled down and installed easily, has a look-ma-no-manual-needed interface, and a convenient means to tip the developers for a job well done.
Mad Propz.
Road or bridge, I'm still working hard trying to understand the cost difference between you paying for required infrastructure, or having taxes extracted from you to pay for them by the fed. Certainly the edge cases of crossing the Mississippi are bigger than one state, but that still need not mean that Washington, DC has to foot the bill.
Have you trundled up to Mass. to enjoy the Big Dig? You certainly paid for enough of it.
While you can likely slice the data any number of ways, keep in mind that the government, and its vast staff, ain't poor.
Keeping the conversation balanced, there are certainly economies of scale.
Running all the loot through DC certainly does support a lot of resource leveling across the country.
However, the barriers to entry for the political process seem high and thick.
The whole situation, I'm suggesting, may take more than it gives.
I submit that the fundamental problem with the United States is excessively concentrated power.
This is played out in both domestic and foreign arenas.
If there are indeed infrastructure problems within a state, why is the state impotent incapable of fixing them, instead relying on federal handouts?
Federal handouts put more layers in between the taxpayer and the civil servants managing the projects.
Thus, the real place to begin the reform is to avoid giving the nearly 1 trillion dollars to the Fed.
This simple logic can then be applied to the vampiric parade of entitlements currently sucking your wallet, and your future, dry.
Or is pointing out the elephant in the room unforgivably unfashionable in these United States?
Or maybe you could step beyond the anonymity to describe how
being dictated to by a monopolist substantially differs from
being dictated to by a nanny-state:
in either case, you're told exactly how much cash to kiss goodbye, at exactly what frequency.
There simply isn't a good case, technical or otherwise, against ODF.
Some find the vampire-on-vampire action strangely...interesting.
Regret if the sarcasm tags blew by you. I was agreeing with your point by attacking the attackers. OpenID sounds like a genuinely good idea. The problem with good ideas is that they are often "loved to death", a passive-agressive attack wherein simply beauty gets so tarted up with paint an polish that Natalie Portman becomes Tammy Faye Bakker.
Oh, well, if it's designed to solve a specific problem with well-thought out requirements, then it must be totally limited, b0rken, teh sux0rz, and it will never work.
It has to have universal acceptance, be all things to all people, completely simple and yet so secure that Schneier worships it, or it will get no traction in the market.
</sarcasm>
"Mr. Ballmer, I'd like to release some code for the new MS Office
under the GPL.
It's some of the UI code that people might really enjoy being able to,
you know, work with a little better."
No doubt you will chairish the moment.
Never use smart tool for dumb job: Lynx Edition.
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Fun until you realize that the argument is a giant distraction. Time spent fretting about "Linux" (a kernel project) vs Microsoft (a full-on company with products in pretty much every category) really only functions as life support for a dying FUD-pony.
According to reports, the internet blackout, which has left 75 million people with only limited access, was caused by a ship that tried to moor off the coast of Egypt in bad weather on Wednesday.
Promises to be an interesting trip to the long green table, especially with the repair costs involved. Most stories I've heard of sailors and the LGT have a heavy Greek tragedy feel to them, even when the sailors are in the right.
They go over your bottom with a fine tooth comb and a magnet, and they Will Find Things. Oh yes, they will.
The hope is that constructive criticism would drive improvement.
The truth is that the TSA is a bureaucracy, where bureaucracy is a three-way-cross of kudzu, humans, and sloths.
I would have given you all of my packet
But there's someone who's decided to jack it
And she's taken just all that I had
But if you want, I'll try to ACK again
Baby I'll try to ACK again but I know
The third cut is the deepest, baby I know
The third cut is the deepest
When it comes to being lucky she's cursed
When it comes to ACKin' me she's worst
But when it comes to being ACKed she's a thirst
That's how I know
The third cut is the deepest, baby I know
The third cut is the deepest
I still want you by my side
Just to help me with the anchor I've pried
And I'm sure gonna give you a try
And if you want, I'll try to ACK again
Baby, I'll try to ACK again, but I know
The third cut is the deepest, baby I know
The third cut is the deepest
'Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed
When it comes to ACKin' me she's worse
But when it comes to being ACKed she's a thirst
That's how I know
The third cut is the deepest, baby I know
The third cut is the deepest
Altering the culture is certainly necessary, but is it sufficient?
Not to say that any of the Office apps are trivial, but, do they even begin to compare with the actual kernel/filesystem/windowing environment for sheer nastiness?
Clearly Sinofsky isn't himself a coder, and maybe he's got the ammunition supply to reign in the "cowboy culture".
If he does, there should be a trail of corpses in his wake, and some announcements of reduced backwards compatibility, as long-overdue trimming gets underway.
The Open Source realm enjoys more clearly defined layers, leadership that is ruthlessly committed to technology for its own sake, and increased stress-testing, since, for example, X has to build against Linux and OpenBSD. Quite a crucible.
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The problem I have is that no one seems to ask the question: "What is the appropriate level to address the problem?"
Putting policy at the Federal level makes it very, very hard to change, which is either a feature or a bug, depending upon your audience.
Sure would like to have the opportunity to opt out in some way short of emigrating, though.
Furthermore, there is a freely-available fix, which I pulled down and installed easily, has a look-ma-no-manual-needed interface, and a convenient means to tip the developers for a job well done.
Mad Propz.
Road or bridge, I'm still working hard trying to understand the cost difference between you paying for required infrastructure, or having taxes extracted from you to pay for them by the fed. Certainly the edge cases of crossing the Mississippi are bigger than one state, but that still need not mean that Washington, DC has to foot the bill.
Have you trundled up to Mass. to enjoy the Big Dig? You certainly paid for enough of it.
While you can likely slice the data any number of ways, keep in mind that the government, and its vast staff, ain't poor.
Keeping the conversation balanced, there are certainly economies of scale.
Running all the loot through DC certainly does support a lot of resource leveling across the country.
However, the barriers to entry for the political process seem high and thick.
The whole situation, I'm suggesting, may take more than it gives.
I submit that the fundamental problem with the United States is excessively concentrated power.
This is played out in both domestic and foreign arenas.
If there are indeed infrastructure problems within a state, why is the state impotent incapable of fixing them, instead relying on federal handouts?
Federal handouts put more layers in between the taxpayer and the civil servants managing the projects.
Thus, the real place to begin the reform is to avoid giving the nearly 1 trillion dollars to the Fed.
This simple logic can then be applied to the vampiric parade of entitlements currently sucking your wallet, and your future, dry.
Or is pointing out the elephant in the room unforgivably unfashionable in these United States?
Well said. Just ask Peter Quinn.
Or maybe you could step beyond the anonymity to describe how
being dictated to by a monopolist substantially differs from
being dictated to by a nanny-state:
in either case, you're told exactly how much cash to kiss goodbye, at exactly what frequency.
There simply isn't a good case, technical or otherwise, against ODF.
Some find the vampire-on-vampire action strangely...interesting.
What if the people taking the quiz think it pure idle crap and afford it retarded answers?
Regret if the sarcasm tags blew by you. I was agreeing with your point by attacking the attackers. OpenID sounds like a genuinely good idea. The problem with good ideas is that they are often "loved to death", a passive-agressive attack wherein simply beauty gets so tarted up with paint an polish that Natalie Portman becomes Tammy Faye Bakker.
Oh, well, if it's designed to solve a specific problem with well-thought out requirements, then it must be totally limited, b0rken, teh sux0rz, and it will never work.
It has to have universal acceptance, be all things to all people, completely simple and yet so secure that Schneier worships it, or it will get no traction in the market. </sarcasm>
Wood knot.
"Mr. Ballmer, I'd like to release some code for the new MS Office under the GPL.
It's some of the UI code that people might really enjoy being able to, you know, work with a little better."
No doubt you will chairish the moment.
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http://www.amazon.com/Power-Game-How-Washington-Works/dp/0345410483/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202232934&sr=8-1 and, if you need tragi-comic relief:
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Summary: government may not be the oldest profession, but it could be the oldest business.
Fun until you realize that the argument is a giant distraction. Time spent fretting about "Linux" (a kernel project) vs Microsoft (a full-on company with products in pretty much every category) really only functions as life support for a dying FUD-pony.
They go over your bottom with a fine tooth comb and a magnet, and they Will Find Things. Oh yes, they will.
The hope is that constructive criticism would drive improvement.
The truth is that the TSA is a bureaucracy, where bureaucracy is a three-way-cross of kudzu, humans, and sloths.
Concur wholeheartedly.
She is certainly lowering her contribution footprint among tech companies, which will help the economy:
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/2008/02/hellary-comes-courtin.html
Or you could maintain your commitment to Blutarsky-ism and slouch your way to D
This outburst of cynicism might indicate that you've never tried Web Services.
...and they will listen.
New, here?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/the_blameamericafirst_crowd.html
The Third Cut Is The Deepest
I would have given you all of my packet
But there's someone who's decided to jack it
And she's taken just all that I had
But if you want, I'll try to ACK again
Baby I'll try to ACK again but I know
The third cut is the deepest, baby I know
The third cut is the deepest
When it comes to being lucky she's cursed
When it comes to ACKin' me she's worst
But when it comes to being ACKed she's a thirst
That's how I know
The third cut is the deepest, baby I know
The third cut is the deepest
I still want you by my side
Just to help me with the anchor I've pried
And I'm sure gonna give you a try
And if you want, I'll try to ACK again
Baby, I'll try to ACK again, but I know
The third cut is the deepest, baby I know
The third cut is the deepest
'Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed
When it comes to ACKin' me she's worse
But when it comes to being ACKed she's a thirst
That's how I know
The third cut is the deepest, baby I know
The third cut is the deepest
Altering the culture is certainly necessary, but is it sufficient?
Not to say that any of the Office apps are trivial, but, do they even begin to compare with the actual kernel/filesystem/windowing environment for sheer nastiness?
Clearly Sinofsky isn't himself a coder, and maybe he's got the ammunition supply to reign in the "cowboy culture".
If he does, there should be a trail of corpses in his wake, and some announcements of reduced backwards compatibility, as long-overdue trimming gets underway.
The Open Source realm enjoys more clearly defined layers, leadership that is ruthlessly committed to technology for its own sake, and increased stress-testing, since, for example, X has to build against Linux and OpenBSD. Quite a crucible.
I voted for YaMicro, but they should just shorten it to YaMi, and then have some soothing New-Age start-up music.
That would so !rock.