So China is building infrastructure that will let them transport goods throughout Asia and Europe very quickly and cheaply. Meanwhile, here in the US, people are fighting against the idea of building highspeed rail even between a handful of cities that are right next to each other.
Hey, you must be talking about Cal HSR! The amount of absurdity when dealing with NIMBYs in the supposably progressive Bay Area never ceases to amaze.
You're right that the US has let our infrastructure fall behind. The North American electric grid can be taken out by a squirrel. Our roads are in desperate need of repair. Our telcom networks are behind Europe and Asia. Quite honestly, we've rested on our laurels for 50 years, and we've seen that national infrastructure is too important to be left to Wall Street. (Indeed, it always has been.)
I, for one, cannot read the document, as I no longer hold a clearance, and am legally obligated not to read or download it.
Are you sure about that? All the instances I've heard about criminal prosecution were against the leaker, no the leakee. Thus, Scooter Libby was found guilty of telling Bob Novak the identity of a spy, but Bob Novak wasn't prosecuted for publishing that identity. Novak was sworn to secrecy. Libby was.
Now if you don't have clearance, you're not supposed to read it. That is true. (I've worked at a national lab, we went through Handling Classified Material 101, but after you no longer have clearance and are no longer an employee, I think the law is different.
Newsflash: torture doesn't prevent and hasn't prevented any terrorist attacks since 9/11.
Prove the above with references from reputable, neutral sources.
Oh yeah. prove a negative. Prove that it has. But let's remember this, Israel -- which doesn't care what anyone thinks -- doesn't torture people.
Find an example of the mythic "ticking time bomb" scenario. They don't exist.
Tell me why, in a ticking time bomb scenario why you wouldn't just feed misinformation to stop the torture (since there is no evidence for its effectiveness. Case in point, every forced confessions ever. Oh how we forget all the Vietnam POWs and their videos. Unless of course, you believe that John McCain really did mean that he was "a black criminal and [...] performed the deeds of an air pirate."
I remember when the fact that United States proudly defended human rights, rule of law, and fair and open trials was a symbol of our strength. It showed that we could not only defeat those that would enslave and terrorize, not only through our strength, but more importantly, through the power of our ideas. It wasn't torture and fear that allowed us to defeat fascism, to defeat communism. It was our ideas. But now, those that most loudly say they "love" America, are the ones saying that we are weak. They say we're cowardly. They say we are about to be destroyed. No. No one can destroy us, but ourselves.
You sir, not only have no understanding what makes this country great. What leads to our American Exceptionalism. What makes us the indispensable nation, that City upon a Hill. No. You, and those that think like you, would tear us down and make us no better than a a third world dictatorial regime.
So I say to you: Why do you hate America?
Moreover, terrorist attacks and public torture executions only weakens the image of Al Qeda and the other terrorist organization in the world, probably provoking MORE attacks.
I'm sure you're trying to make a point here, but it's lost on me.
Can the editors PLEASE fix the icons? This isn't Sun Microsystems. This is about a star. This is as bad as Enlightenment being used to refer to metaphysics rather than an old window manager.
Wow. Next you'll be talking about the FEMA black helicopters, and UN Peacekeepers invading and making Americans dig their own mass graves before machine gunning them.
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A friend of mine was at Intel at the time. He says when the bubble burst, literally overnight it went from catered dinners with all the booze you could drink, to only being allowed one pen a week. He says he remembers going to the supply closet for a pen, found it locked, and when he asked for the key, was challenged with, "Didn't you get a pen yesterday?"
You took the naive analysis and screwed it up. No one lives 100 miles north of the 49th parallel. No one lives in the Rockies. Look at the map. You wire up the cities, and you have most of the population. It's as if you said, "Well Austrialia only has a population density of 7.3/sq miles!" and conveniently neglect to mention that almost everyone lives in either Sydney or Melbourne.
Take a look at Manhattan. AT&T can't even support the iPhone there. Sure AT&T says the problems with the iPhone aren't due to their network, but rather the phone itself, but if that was true, then we'd see the same problems outside the US, and we don't.
The infrastructure of the US sucks, and it's because neither the corporations nor the government is putting money into it. Well let me rephrase that. The government, thanks to the stimulus plan we're starting to see some investment in that. But damnit, I want my smart grid, but I'd settle for US 101 to be paved.
Quite frankly the in a country of more than 300 million losing the half million people that live in isolated mountain shacks surrounded by barbed wire isn't that much of a loss on the national scene.
Nice try. Not only did you manage to bring in brown people for no reason, but you brought up the same damn canard that the providers always do. You don't have to wire up the the land. You have to wire up the people.
None these inefficiencies have anything to do with the size of the government, but rather has everything to do with inadequate funding of government. I'm serious. Let's say the USPTO came to congress and said, "We need $200 million to modernize our system, after two years of installation and training, we'll have a system that can cut the approval process for patents down to six months, and can also decrease the number of invalid patents." Antigovernment groups would be up in arms. "Oh no! An expansion of government! Too inefficient! Government it is axiomatically bad at everything! The horror! The horror!" But no, they don't actually want to fix the problems (because that would run counter to their belief that everything government ever does is bad, regardless of the facts).
All this "starve the beast" mentality is, as Reagan's Chief of Staff, Bruce Bartlett said, "simply unrealistic to think that tax cuts will continue to be a viable political strategy."
You lose, by the the old playground rule: your-own-guy-says-so.
After all, we all know what type of job they guy that sits around complaining about how he doesn't want to do the job does right? He does a crappy job. We all know this. We know this from childhood. We've all done it ourselves. So what type of government do you think you're going to get from people that don't like government? A crappy one of course. Only now that same malingerer turns around says, "Gee, government sure does suck now doesn't it?" No, you're intentionally doing a shitty job.
I work in academia, which is in many ways culturally similar to working in government. I wonder how many of these inefficiencies persist in order to placate an aged workforce that refuses to embrace technology and learn to do anything in a new way.
I see a lot of people around here just sort of "running out the clock" - I can't imagine we're unique.
Yeah, because none of those people exist in the private sector.
But you missed the fact that you already are paying for someone else's health care in both taxes that go to public hospitals, and in higher premiums. The fact is that with universal coverage, premiums *should* go down due to market forces since the pool of sick people gets diluted with healthy people. Now given that health insurers have an antitrust exemption, have no competition in each state (thanks to collusion) and increase premiums to boost profits (“The average increase is 23 percent and is intended to return California to a target profits of 7 percent, versus 5 percent this year.”), don't bet on it without real competition. Competition driven simply to lower rates, a public option.
sounds pretty anti-authoritarian-mob justice to me...
or authoritarian mob justice
totalitarian states usually want the monopoly on exacting punishments.
Clearly you've never heard of the Basij, or any of the many other "patriotic" volunteer groups. When you have groups brought up in your ideology, whatever that ideology is, you're going to have large segments of that society (the conservative segments that is) to support that ideology because their natural tendency to support the status quo, support the hierarchy, support the nation, (i.e. patriotism and the fear of the other)
Actually this sounds quite a bit like, Texas's own,Repent Amarillo (A self described, "Army of God," or in Arabic "Hezbollah.")
I bet you have an 8 player and a carberator too. As electronic fuel injection is for wimps.(/sarcastic)
That's an 8 track player you insensitive clod!
A friend of mine bought a 73 Lincoln, that came with an 8 track. He found some old 8 tracks in his grandfather's closet and tried out the player. The player worked, but it played everything too fast. Looking inside, he found that the player had eaten the last tape it played, and so there were pieces of tape wrapped around one of the spools. This made increased the diameter of the spool, and in turn increased the angular velocity of the spool, which in turn increased the speed that the tape slid over the head. He ripped out the old tape, put the new tape back in, and it played perfectly ever since.
God bless analog.
Merecedes was the first car company to ship air bags standard. If you want to see what will be in the next decades ever one elses vehicles look at Mercedes. I follow them not because I can afford one but because ford and nissian will soon be duplicating those features.
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And this different from the old points system, how?
And when Microsoft wanted to do this, everyone cried foul. Now that Google wants to do this, it must be good, because they're not Evil(tm).
No thank you. I want a future not dominated by one company bent on tracking and selling me.
Perhaps, but everything old is new again. Would you have thought back in 1999 that we would be sending messages to each other using a proprietary centralized system with 140 statically allocated character arrays? I don't think so.
So China is building infrastructure that will let them transport goods throughout Asia and Europe very quickly and cheaply. Meanwhile, here in the US, people are fighting against the idea of building highspeed rail even between a handful of cities that are right next to each other.
Hey, you must be talking about Cal HSR! The amount of absurdity when dealing with NIMBYs in the supposably progressive Bay Area never ceases to amaze.
You're right that the US has let our infrastructure fall behind. The North American electric grid can be taken out by a squirrel. Our roads are in desperate need of repair. Our telcom networks are behind Europe and Asia. Quite honestly, we've rested on our laurels for 50 years, and we've seen that national infrastructure is too important to be left to Wall Street. (Indeed, it always has been.)
That said, China might also be broke.
I, for one, cannot read the document, as I no longer hold a clearance, and am legally obligated not to read or download it.
Are you sure about that? All the instances I've heard about criminal prosecution were against the leaker, no the leakee. Thus, Scooter Libby was found guilty of telling Bob Novak the identity of a spy, but Bob Novak wasn't prosecuted for publishing that identity. Novak was sworn to secrecy. Libby was.
Now if you don't have clearance, you're not supposed to read it. That is true. (I've worked at a national lab, we went through Handling Classified Material 101, but after you no longer have clearance and are no longer an employee, I think the law is different.
And St. Reagan ran away when the Marines were murdered in Beirut. What's you're point?
Newsflash: torture doesn't prevent and hasn't prevented any terrorist attacks since 9/11.
Prove the above with references from reputable, neutral sources.
Oh yeah. prove a negative. Prove that it has. But let's remember this, Israel -- which doesn't care what anyone thinks -- doesn't torture people.
Find an example of the mythic "ticking time bomb" scenario. They don't exist.
Tell me why, in a ticking time bomb scenario why you wouldn't just feed misinformation to stop the torture (since there is no evidence for its effectiveness. Case in point, every forced confessions ever. Oh how we forget all the Vietnam POWs and their videos. Unless of course, you believe that John McCain really did mean that he was "a black criminal and [...] performed the deeds of an air pirate."
I remember when the fact that United States proudly defended human rights, rule of law, and fair and open trials was a symbol of our strength. It showed that we could not only defeat those that would enslave and terrorize, not only through our strength, but more importantly, through the power of our ideas. It wasn't torture and fear that allowed us to defeat fascism, to defeat communism. It was our ideas. But now, those that most loudly say they "love" America, are the ones saying that we are weak. They say we're cowardly. They say we are about to be destroyed. No. No one can destroy us, but ourselves.
You sir, not only have no understanding what makes this country great. What leads to our American Exceptionalism. What makes us the indispensable nation, that City upon a Hill. No. You, and those that think like you, would tear us down and make us no better than a a third world dictatorial regime.
So I say to you: Why do you hate America?
Moreover, terrorist attacks and public torture executions only weakens the image of Al Qeda and the other terrorist organization in the world, probably provoking MORE attacks.
I'm sure you're trying to make a point here, but it's lost on me.
Can the editors PLEASE fix the icons? This isn't Sun Microsystems. This is about a star. This is as bad as Enlightenment being used to refer to metaphysics rather than an old window manager.
Wow. Next you'll be talking about the FEMA black helicopters, and UN Peacekeepers invading and making Americans dig their own mass graves before machine gunning them.
Go back to infowars.
ANYONE that knows anything about firearms already knows that you store unloaded, with a trigger lock or in a locked box and with the safety on.
Unless you're the NRA.
A friend of mine was at Intel at the time. He says when the bubble burst, literally overnight it went from catered dinners with all the booze you could drink, to only being allowed one pen a week. He says he remembers going to the supply closet for a pen, found it locked, and when he asked for the key, was challenged with, "Didn't you get a pen yesterday?"
Especially since it's a conspiracy to destroy evidence.
You are my hero. It's a cypherpunk's dream come true.
Yeah webvan. I thought it was stupid. It folded. YET, Safeway delivers.
I saw webvan trucks in the wild. I even had a roommate a few years ago have groceries delivered from Safeway.
Has the kozmo.com domain come up for renewal yet?
I love that the pets.com puppet is now hawking high interest auto loans ("Everyone deserves a second chance!")
And this is why don't provide any site any more information that the bare minimum that it needs.
Nah. Facebook is a scam.
Now excuse me, I've got to update my status.
You took the naive analysis and screwed it up. No one lives 100 miles north of the 49th parallel. No one lives in the Rockies. Look at the map. You wire up the cities, and you have most of the population. It's as if you said, "Well Austrialia only has a population density of 7.3/sq miles!" and conveniently neglect to mention that almost everyone lives in either Sydney or Melbourne.
Take a look at Manhattan. AT&T can't even support the iPhone there. Sure AT&T says the problems with the iPhone aren't due to their network, but rather the phone itself, but if that was true, then we'd see the same problems outside the US, and we don't.
The infrastructure of the US sucks, and it's because neither the corporations nor the government is putting money into it. Well let me rephrase that. The government, thanks to the stimulus plan we're starting to see some investment in that. But damnit, I want my smart grid, but I'd settle for US 101 to be paved.
Quite frankly the in a country of more than 300 million losing the half million people that live in isolated mountain shacks surrounded by barbed wire isn't that much of a loss on the national scene.
(And yes, I did grow up in the rural midwest.)
Nice try. Not only did you manage to bring in brown people for no reason, but you brought up the same damn canard that the providers always do. You don't have to wire up the the land. You have to wire up the people.
Go back to glen beck.
None these inefficiencies have anything to do with the size of the government, but rather has everything to do with inadequate funding of government. I'm serious. Let's say the USPTO came to congress and said, "We need $200 million to modernize our system, after two years of installation and training, we'll have a system that can cut the approval process for patents down to six months, and can also decrease the number of invalid patents." Antigovernment groups would be up in arms. "Oh no! An expansion of government! Too inefficient! Government it is axiomatically bad at everything! The horror! The horror!" But no, they don't actually want to fix the problems (because that would run counter to their belief that everything government ever does is bad, regardless of the facts).
All this "starve the beast" mentality is, as Reagan's Chief of Staff, Bruce Bartlett said, "simply unrealistic to think that tax cuts will continue to be a viable political strategy."
You lose, by the the old playground rule: your-own-guy-says-so.
After all, we all know what type of job they guy that sits around complaining about how he doesn't want to do the job does right? He does a crappy job. We all know this. We know this from childhood. We've all done it ourselves. So what type of government do you think you're going to get from people that don't like government? A crappy one of course. Only now that same malingerer turns around says, "Gee, government sure does suck now doesn't it?" No, you're intentionally doing a shitty job.
I work in academia, which is in many ways culturally similar to working in government. I wonder how many of these inefficiencies persist in order to placate an aged workforce that refuses to embrace technology and learn to do anything in a new way.
I see a lot of people around here just sort of "running out the clock" - I can't imagine we're unique.
Yeah, because none of those people exist in the private sector.
Yeah, I don't want a faceless government bureaucrat to get in between me and my doctor. That's what private sector bean counting bureaucrats are for!
Unfortunately for you, the facts about socialized medicine are in. They're in from Canada, Europe, Asia, even right here in the USA with Hawaii ("This is a state where regular milk sells for $8 a gallon, gasoline costs $3.60 a gallon and the median price of a home in 2008 was $624,000 — the second-highest in the nation. Despite this, Hawaii’s health insurance premiums are nearly tied with North Dakota for the lowest in the country, and Medicare costs per beneficiary are the nation’s lowest. Hawaii residents live longer than people in the rest of the country, recent surveys have shown, and the state’s health care system may be one reason. In one example, Hawaii has the nation’s highest incidence of breast cancer but the lowest death rate from the disease."), and the facts are that it costs less and improved access to healthcare improves the health of the population.
Meanwhile, the status quo has lead to us having the highest spending in the world, yet getting nothing for it.
The current system is fundamentally broken and doesn't achieve it's social purpose. Scrap it.
But you missed the fact that you already are paying for someone else's health care in both taxes that go to public hospitals, and in higher premiums. The fact is that with universal coverage, premiums *should* go down due to market forces since the pool of sick people gets diluted with healthy people. Now given that health insurers have an antitrust exemption, have no competition in each state (thanks to collusion) and increase premiums to boost profits (“The average increase is 23 percent and is intended to return California to a target profits of 7 percent, versus 5 percent this year.”), don't bet on it without real competition. Competition driven simply to lower rates, a public option.
sounds pretty anti-authoritarian-mob justice to me...
or authoritarian mob justice
totalitarian states usually want the monopoly on exacting punishments.
Clearly you've never heard of the Basij, or any of the many other "patriotic" volunteer groups. When you have groups brought up in your ideology, whatever that ideology is, you're going to have large segments of that society (the conservative segments that is) to support that ideology because their natural tendency to support the status quo, support the hierarchy, support the nation, (i.e. patriotism and the fear of the other)
Actually this sounds quite a bit like, Texas's own,Repent Amarillo (A self described, "Army of God," or in Arabic "Hezbollah.")
I bet you have an 8 player and a carberator too. As electronic fuel injection is for wimps.(/sarcastic)
That's an 8 track player you insensitive clod!
A friend of mine bought a 73 Lincoln, that came with an 8 track. He found some old 8 tracks in his grandfather's closet and tried out the player. The player worked, but it played everything too fast. Looking inside, he found that the player had eaten the last tape it played, and so there were pieces of tape wrapped around one of the spools. This made increased the diameter of the spool, and in turn increased the angular velocity of the spool, which in turn increased the speed that the tape slid over the head. He ripped out the old tape, put the new tape back in, and it played perfectly ever since.
God bless analog.
Merecedes was the first car company to ship air bags standard. If you want to see what will be in the next decades ever one elses vehicles look at Mercedes. I follow them not because I can afford one but because ford and nissian will soon be duplicating those features.
Tis true.
So long to the Bing hype done at TED this yearl.
So the headline is "Google plays catchup to Bing"?