I think a more interesting question is, why aren't they as expensive anymore? The Mac Tax was real when they had a small market share and low cash flows. Now the iPod sales have flushed them with cash and they can offer the Mac at a discount. Not a huge "loss leader Xbox below cost discount" but more of a "thank god we don't have to gouge the fuck out of our loyal fans price." Once we throw the iPhone money hose into the mix and we might even see price parity, oh wait, we do.
The wonderful long awaited days of Intel givith and Microsoft can no longer taketh away are here! Long live choice in operating systems! Long live BSD and its pretty Aqua face job! Death to X and its needless complication!
Wait a second? Price parity from a Mac... oh no! This can't be! If my calculations are correct... someone pass me some purple kool-aid, the aliens are definitely landing and the four horsemen draw neigh.
The Economist Has No Clothes Unscientific assumptions in economic theory are undermining efforts to solve environmental problems By Robert Nadeau
The 19th-century creators of neoclassical economics--the theory that now serves as the basis for coordinating activities in the global market system--are credited with transforming their field into a scientific discipline. But what is not widely known is that these now legendary economists--William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras, Maria Edgeworth and Vilfredo Pareto--developed their theories by adapting equations from 19th-century physics that eventually became obsolete. Unfortunately, it is clear that neoclassical economics has also become outdated. The theory is based on unscientific assumptions that are hindering the implementation of viable economic solutions for global warming and other menacing environmental problems.
The physical theory that the creators of neoclassical economics used as a template was conceived in response to the inability of Newtonian physics to account for the phenomena of heat, light and electricity. In 1847 German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz formulated the conservation of energy principle and postulated the existence of a field of conserved energy that fills all space and unifies these phenomena. Later in the century James Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann and other physicists devised better explanations for electromagnetism and thermodynamics, but in the meantime, the economists had borrowed and altered Helmholtz's equations.
The strategy the economists used was as simple as it was absurd--they substituted economic variables for physical ones. Utility (a measure of economic well-being) took the place of energy; the sum of utility and expenditure replaced potential and kinetic energy. A number of well-known mathematicians and physicists told the economists that there was absolutely no basis for making these substitutions. But the economists ignored such criticisms and proceeded to claim that they had transformed their field of study into a rigorously mathematical scientific discipline.
Strangely enough, the origins of neoclassical economics in mid-19th century physics were forgotten. Subsequent generations of mainstream economists accepted the claim that this theory is scientific. These curious developments explain why the mathematical theories used by mainstream economists are predicated on the following unscientific assumptions:
The market system is a closed circular flow between production and consumption, with no inlets or outlets. Natural resources exist in a domain that is separate and distinct from a closed market system, and the economic value of these resources can be determined only by the dynamics that operate within this system. The costs of damage to the external natural environment by economic activities must be treated as costs that lie outside the closed market system or as costs that cannot be included in the pricing mechanisms that operate within the system. The external resources of nature are largely inexhaustible, and those that are not can be replaced by other resources or by technologies that minimize the use of the exhaustible resources or that rely on other resources. There are no biophysical limits to the growth of market systems. If the environmental crisis did not exist, the fact that neoclassical economic theory provides a coherent basis for managing economic activities in market systems could be viewed as sufficient justification for its widespread applications. But because the crisis does exist, this theory can no longer be regarded as useful even in pragmatic or utilitarian terms because it fails to meet what must now be viewed as a fundamental requirement of any economic theory--the extent to which this theory allows economic activities to be coordinated in environmentally responsible ways on a worldwide scale. Because neoclassical economics does not even acknowledge the costs of environmental problems and the limits to economic growth, it constitutes one of the grea
According to SciAm economics is not in fact a science at all because the current economic models are based on invalidated physics equations. In addition generalizing physics to economics has no experimental basis in fact. Also economic models are not historically accurate when using after casting. And let's not even get into the basic fact that modern economics gives no economic weight to the environment and assumes that all natural resources are infinite.
I.e. economics is a load of bullshit that only has value because it gives us a place stand when observing the economy. Unfortunately one distorted vantage point is not enough to produce an accurate or precise model of the economy and produces irrational faith in pseudoscience. Economics is no better than intelligent design.
25% ??? Are you smoking crack while eating crack-berry ice-cream with crack flakes on top??? Ani DiFranco was at one point the highest paid musician in America per album earning (I can't remember exactly but something like) $1.50 on a $15.00 CD. She owns her own record label. Hootie and the Blowfish at the time were the second and earned something like $1.30. For $3.25 and album is probably more than 300% more than almost any signed band gets and more than enough for a band to pay for some quality studio time where the engineer works for them instead of making the recording AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE.
Oh yeah modular replaceable HDs so when it is on the desk its got a couple 500gb's I like the idea of HD sized batteries, that way when everything is out you could just have a slimmer back panel. Hell you might even be able to run them off the same plug as a sata. Big bay: Graphics, batteries, DVD, CD, BD, & other big stuff. Small bay HD, battery, etc. Really small, PCMCIA, PCI express etc.
1. I want a removable battery sized graphics card that has a PCI-E x16 slot at the back. Hell maybe two in the front or side of the laptop. I would like an ultra-low power graphics card on the motherboard as well. So when I am done playing Crysis at 1600x1200 I can pull the cards, set them in their velvet lined mahogany box and stick in two battery packs.
2. I want 2 CPU's. One quad-core for when its plugged in and one ultralow voltage so when I unplug my baby goes ultra miser. What does an atom retail for? Another $80 is not going to annoy me if I just bought two 9800gtx cards. Basically if I am moving with my laptop it needs to be a web browser and MS Office and that's it for me. Hell my Nokia e71 can do both those jobs and its the size of an ipod and lasts for 4 days without a recharge.
3. I want flexible e-paper multi-touch screen that deforms on command to create a keyboard on the bottom of the laptop or a flat textured wacom stlye tablet. Kind of a cross between the Art Lebedev keyboard and those useless laser projection keyboards but the the added benefit of tactile feedback. This ones is obviously a pipe dream but what the hell you asked what I want.
4. I want the the center hinge to allow me to have the e-paper out as a tablet or the LCD. Even if both sides are clunky thick as long as they are hollow and light with the graphics card and maybe even the magnetic hard drive out of the case.
5. Up top I want a nice LED lit 1600x1200 17" LCD on top with a transflective backing.
6. I want the whole back panel behind the screen to be a fractal antenna that is massive and broadband.
6. I want either: Four CF slots with a hardware raid, e.g. 4 x 32gb @ ~$70 each: 128gb SSD with replaceable memory for $280.00, or a thinner solution of 8 SD slots, e.g. 8gb @ ~$8 each: 64gb SSD with replaceable memory for $64.00. Imagine a redundant array of inexpensive disks!
I am sure that man of these ACs are paid trolls by the Republicans spreading FUD. If they are willing to pay reporters to fluff No Child Left Behind do you think they wouldn't pay the moral equivalent of script kiddies to put out shit like this? Once you know that someone is a liar, e.g. Bush, why would you ever believe anything they say?
This post was not "for cars only" by the way. You'll note a huge number of posts over the years about UPSs for telco, celular towers, and data centers where everyone pisses and moans about lead acid. Either way EMBs, even big ones, are great for transport in a limited set. Currently in Portland, OR. they have an old electric train that tows a diesel generator. They might as well tow a EMB of the same weight. It could recharge at stops or have one charging at each end of the line and couple/decouple the EMB at each reverse. Wow a hydro-powered train imagine that. Also EMBs are probably way better for GE's new hybrid locomotive or for the Navy hybrid destroyers than any chemical battery. Buses, tractors, heavy equipment & etc. all seem like great applications for large EMBs. Charge your tractor over night when power is cheap, don't hay that day becasue its raining, re-power the grid off the EMB.
You saying these numbers are overoptimistic is less trustworthy to me than published report by scientist at a national laboratory. The designs talked about here for EMBs are using carbon not steel.
As long as the failure is non-threatening to the bystanders of an accident who cares if its failure is catastrophic? A head on collision is catastrophic to a V8 so why should it be different for a battery? Some EMBs are lined with nylon so that a unbalancing creates a stringer of nylon the seizes the EMB. Cars are shocking dangerous thing in any respect, add a couple of shit for brains teenagers talking on cell phones and drinking lattes and you have a poorly guided 2000 lbs. munition. What it really comes down to is where should we make trade offs in safety and efficiency. For argument's sake If we had a 90% efficient gasoline motor that was 20 times more dangerous than today's engines would that be a legitimate trade off? Life isn't safe, hell, life is in fact terminally unsafe by design.
Multiple solutions have been offered over the years. One is to coat the inner surface of the housing with nylon, if the rotor comes off true even by a few microns it pulls a bead of nylon and seizes the battery. Not pretty but not as bad a 200k rpm hunk of tungsten spinning off on its merry way. Second most designs call for fiber rotors instead of heavy metal which tend to disintegrate in a catastrophic failure. The third is just a strong housing. It takes a incredible amount of force to breech the housings on these things. Also most of them are for stationary installations, think data center, Telco, or even sub-station level UPSs. They can be buried ten feet underground if you want in which case it would take a bunker buster to open the shell. The GM electric Le Mans car was supposed to have used multiple flywheels for its energy storage.
By contrast six advantages of EMBs (Electromechanical Batteries) or Flywheel Batteries have over both lead acid and ultracapacitors are that they have the highest power density of any energy storage system currently available, thye are so reliable they can be buried or even sent into space, they hold huge amounts of power, they can be recharged very quickly, they do not burst into fire, they are not hazardous and you can even buy them today.
Specific Power
EMB (5-10kW/kg)
Lead Acid (0.1-0.5kW/kg)
ULTRACAP (6kW/kg) Energy Recovery
EMB (90%-95%)
Lead Acid (60%-70%)
ULTRACAP (95%) Specific Energy
EMB (100 Wh/kg)
Lead Acid (30-35 Wh/kg)
ULTRACAP (.5-10 Wh/kg) Service Lifetime
EMB (>10 years)
Lead Acid (3-5 years)
ULTRACAP (millions of cycles) Self Discharge Time
EMB (Weeks/months)
Lead Acid (variable)
ULTRACAP (?) Hazardous Chemicals
EMB (none)
Lead Acid (toxic)
ULTRACAP (?)
Data from "A new look at an Old Idea the Electromechanical Battery" Science and Technology Review April 1996 by Richard F Post and Wikipedia.
Thanks but my Mom figured this one out in the early 90's when she asked me why he wireless phone couldn't become a cell phone when she left the house. I already have a cognative radio, its called a Nokia e71 and OMG it has Wifi and it is not asscrippled by Apple so it can have Skype, Google Chat, and putty all running at the same time.
Lets ask the second why. OK not only do we not have to have single channel devices we now have fractal antennas and multi band chip sets and even peer to peer mobile devices that can daisy chain. Put all these together and we could have no more channels. Imagine one cloud of spectrum where you could negotiate with any peer or base or tower around you to find the right mix of bandwidth and price back to the fiber of your choice. Sure we leave a slice or the FAA and the military (or just give them a competitive bidding rate) and make the whole thing one free market.
Oh wait, I forgot America is based on having senators bough and sold by oligopolies while people hammer on the table and talk about free markets. Wake up and smell the fact that it costs more to text message with ATT then to send data to the Hubble telescope. Free market my shit covered ass.
By the way don't bother looking for my phone at the local cell phone store because you can't buy something in the US that doesn't suck.
Not the chanting. Slint is not a Gregorian style it is a punk style. Interesting side not the ablum Spiderland made a cameo in Gilmore Girls; (wife loves the show) the characters are in NY record store where the owner is famous for being all knowing, one character pulls it from the bin and asks what it is. Just goes to show there is more to that show than banter and boobs.
One description of the chants is that they are based on mathematics. If this is interesting to you, you might want to check out a band call Slint. They tried to create a kind of fractal timing where different threads would converge and digress over time. Dark intense and interesting music.
Failed to get anything important done? Like completely restructuring education and health care? Um sorry but that's not "anything" that's "paradigm shifting" legislation.
A balanced budget with a surplus was a major achievement that was archived by, get this... doing exactly nothing.
Our government works best when it does nothing. Most major legislation recently has been bad. No Child Left Behind, DMCA, energy deregulation, banking deregulation, the Patriot Act, even Sarbanes Oxley. None of these did what they thought they would or they lied about it. We have a massive quantity of legislation out there already, we should only be able to pass it when it A. its really really important, and B. torn the fuck apart for holes for years by the other side of aisle, the other side of the hill, and the other house of congress.
My friend's dad has signed his "Buck Rodgers" complete with a small rocket ship drawing for well over 10 years. He is now concerned that it may be his legal sig.
Well the 2 Ohio poll workers who went to prison for the 2004 presidential election were apparently too lazy to risk having to do a manual recount of the whole state, so they did statistical recounts until they found enough counties that were within the limit to hand recount. The result had nothing to do with party affiliation (if you believe that the prime motivator was laziness.) In the end we do live in a political system based on antagonistic party rule and when it works its pretty good e.g. Newt and Bill hated each other, were both personally lewd, but together in their mutual hate they balanced the budget.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. Please clarify.
I think a more interesting question is, why aren't they as expensive anymore? The Mac Tax was real when they had a small market share and low cash flows. Now the iPod sales have flushed them with cash and they can offer the Mac at a discount. Not a huge "loss leader Xbox below cost discount" but more of a "thank god we don't have to gouge the fuck out of our loyal fans price." Once we throw the iPhone money hose into the mix and we might even see price parity, oh wait, we do.
The wonderful long awaited days of Intel givith and Microsoft can no longer taketh away are here! Long live choice in operating systems! Long live BSD and its pretty Aqua face job! Death to X and its needless complication!
Wait a second? Price parity from a Mac... oh no! This can't be! If my calculations are correct... someone pass me some purple kool-aid, the aliens are definitely landing and the four horsemen draw neigh.
Grow a pair, stop thinking that your service provider should help you pay for your device, and buy a real hunk of technology.
The Economist Has No Clothes
Unscientific assumptions in economic theory are undermining efforts to solve environmental problems
By Robert Nadeau
The 19th-century creators of neoclassical economics--the theory that now serves as the basis for coordinating activities in the global market system--are credited with transforming their field into a scientific discipline. But what is not widely known is that these now legendary economists--William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras, Maria Edgeworth and Vilfredo Pareto--developed their theories by adapting equations from 19th-century physics that eventually became obsolete. Unfortunately, it is clear that neoclassical economics has also become outdated. The theory is based on unscientific assumptions that are hindering the implementation of viable economic solutions for global warming and other menacing environmental problems.
The physical theory that the creators of neoclassical economics used as a template was conceived in response to the inability of Newtonian physics to account for the phenomena of heat, light and electricity. In 1847 German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz formulated the conservation of energy principle and postulated the existence of a field of conserved energy that fills all space and unifies these phenomena. Later in the century James Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann and other physicists devised better explanations for electromagnetism and thermodynamics, but in the meantime, the economists had borrowed and altered Helmholtz's equations.
The strategy the economists used was as simple as it was absurd--they substituted economic variables for physical ones. Utility (a measure of economic well-being) took the place of energy; the sum of utility and expenditure replaced potential and kinetic energy. A number of well-known mathematicians and physicists told the economists that there was absolutely no basis for making these substitutions. But the economists ignored such criticisms and proceeded to claim that they had transformed their field of study into a rigorously mathematical scientific discipline.
Strangely enough, the origins of neoclassical economics in mid-19th century physics were forgotten. Subsequent generations of mainstream economists accepted the claim that this theory is scientific. These curious developments explain why the mathematical theories used by mainstream economists are predicated on the following unscientific assumptions:
The market system is a closed circular flow between production and consumption, with no inlets or outlets.
Natural resources exist in a domain that is separate and distinct from a closed market system, and the economic value of these resources can be determined only by the dynamics that operate within this system.
The costs of damage to the external natural environment by economic activities must be treated as costs that lie outside the closed market system or as costs that cannot be included in the pricing mechanisms that operate within the system.
The external resources of nature are largely inexhaustible, and those that are not can be replaced by other resources or by technologies that minimize the use of the exhaustible resources or that rely on other resources.
There are no biophysical limits to the growth of market systems.
If the environmental crisis did not exist, the fact that neoclassical economic theory provides a coherent basis for managing economic activities in market systems could be viewed as sufficient justification for its widespread applications. But because the crisis does exist, this theory can no longer be regarded as useful even in pragmatic or utilitarian terms because it fails to meet what must now be viewed as a fundamental requirement of any economic theory--the extent to which this theory allows economic activities to be coordinated in environmentally responsible ways on a worldwide scale. Because neoclassical economics does not even acknowledge the costs of environmental problems and the limits to economic growth, it constitutes one of the grea
According to SciAm economics is not in fact a science at all because the current economic models are based on invalidated physics equations. In addition generalizing physics to economics has no experimental basis in fact. Also economic models are not historically accurate when using after casting. And let's not even get into the basic fact that modern economics gives no economic weight to the environment and assumes that all natural resources are infinite.
I.e. economics is a load of bullshit that only has value because it gives us a place stand when observing the economy. Unfortunately one distorted vantage point is not enough to produce an accurate or precise model of the economy and produces irrational faith in pseudoscience. Economics is no better than intelligent design.
Dost think in a moment of anger
'Tis well with thy seniors to fight?
They prosper, who burn in the morning,
The letters they wrote overnight.
Buy a SHO.
Note: Do not drive into a bull at 140mph as this can cause permanent brain damage.
25% ??? Are you smoking crack while eating crack-berry ice-cream with crack flakes on top???
Ani DiFranco was at one point the highest paid musician in America per album earning (I can't remember exactly but something like) $1.50 on a $15.00 CD. She owns her own record label. Hootie and the Blowfish at the time were the second and earned something like $1.30. For $3.25 and album is probably more than 300% more than almost any signed band gets and more than enough for a band to pay for some quality studio time where the engineer works for them instead of making the recording AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE.
Oh yeah modular replaceable HDs so when it is on the desk its got a couple 500gb's I like the idea of HD sized batteries, that way when everything is out you could just have a slimmer back panel. Hell you might even be able to run them off the same plug as a sata. Big bay: Graphics, batteries, DVD, CD, BD, & other big stuff. Small bay HD, battery, etc. Really small, PCMCIA, PCI express etc.
1. I want a removable battery sized graphics card that has a PCI-E x16 slot at the back. Hell maybe two in the front or side of the laptop. I would like an ultra-low power graphics card on the motherboard as well. So when I am done playing Crysis at 1600x1200 I can pull the cards, set them in their velvet lined mahogany box and stick in two battery packs.
2. I want 2 CPU's. One quad-core for when its plugged in and one ultralow voltage so when I unplug my baby goes ultra miser. What does an atom retail for? Another $80 is not going to annoy me if I just bought two 9800gtx cards. Basically if I am moving with my laptop it needs to be a web browser and MS Office and that's it for me. Hell my Nokia e71 can do both those jobs and its the size of an ipod and lasts for 4 days without a recharge.
3. I want flexible e-paper multi-touch screen that deforms on command to create a keyboard on the bottom of the laptop or a flat textured wacom stlye tablet. Kind of a cross between the Art Lebedev keyboard and those useless laser projection keyboards but the the added benefit of tactile feedback. This ones is obviously a pipe dream but what the hell you asked what I want.
4. I want the the center hinge to allow me to have the e-paper out as a tablet or the LCD. Even if both sides are clunky thick as long as they are hollow and light with the graphics card and maybe even the magnetic hard drive out of the case.
5. Up top I want a nice LED lit 1600x1200 17" LCD on top with a transflective backing.
6. I want the whole back panel behind the screen to be a fractal antenna that is massive and broadband.
6. I want either: Four CF slots with a hardware raid, e.g. 4 x 32gb @ ~$70 each: 128gb SSD with replaceable memory for $280.00, or a thinner solution of 8 SD slots, e.g. 8gb @ ~$8 each: 64gb SSD with replaceable memory for $64.00. Imagine a redundant array of inexpensive disks!
Ever read any Noam Chomsky?
I am sure that man of these ACs are paid trolls by the Republicans spreading FUD. If they are willing to pay reporters to fluff No Child Left Behind do you think they wouldn't pay the moral equivalent of script kiddies to put out shit like this? Once you know that someone is a liar, e.g. Bush, why would you ever believe anything they say?
This post was not "for cars only" by the way. You'll note a huge number of posts over the years about UPSs for telco, celular towers, and data centers where everyone pisses and moans about lead acid. Either way EMBs, even big ones, are great for transport in a limited set. Currently in Portland, OR. they have an old electric train that tows a diesel generator. They might as well tow a EMB of the same weight. It could recharge at stops or have one charging at each end of the line and couple/decouple the EMB at each reverse. Wow a hydro-powered train imagine that. Also EMBs are probably way better for GE's new hybrid locomotive or for the Navy hybrid destroyers than any chemical battery. Buses, tractors, heavy equipment & etc. all seem like great applications for large EMBs. Charge your tractor over night when power is cheap, don't hay that day becasue its raining, re-power the grid off the EMB.
You saying these numbers are overoptimistic is less trustworthy to me than published report by scientist at a national laboratory. The designs talked about here for EMBs are using carbon not steel.
As long as the failure is non-threatening to the bystanders of an accident who cares if its failure is catastrophic? A head on collision is catastrophic to a V8 so why should it be different for a battery? Some EMBs are lined with nylon so that a unbalancing creates a stringer of nylon the seizes the EMB. Cars are shocking dangerous thing in any respect, add a couple of shit for brains teenagers talking on cell phones and drinking lattes and you have a poorly guided 2000 lbs. munition. What it really comes down to is where should we make trade offs in safety and efficiency. For argument's sake If we had a 90% efficient gasoline motor that was 20 times more dangerous than today's engines would that be a legitimate trade off? Life isn't safe, hell, life is in fact terminally unsafe by design.
Its funny because its true.
Multiple solutions have been offered over the years. One is to coat the inner surface of the housing with nylon, if the rotor comes off true even by a few microns it pulls a bead of nylon and seizes the battery. Not pretty but not as bad a 200k rpm hunk of tungsten spinning off on its merry way. Second most designs call for fiber rotors instead of heavy metal which tend to disintegrate in a catastrophic failure. The third is just a strong housing. It takes a incredible amount of force to breech the housings on these things. Also most of them are for stationary installations, think data center, Telco, or even sub-station level UPSs. They can be buried ten feet underground if you want in which case it would take a bunker buster to open the shell. The GM electric Le Mans car was supposed to have used multiple flywheels for its energy storage.
By contrast six advantages of EMBs (Electromechanical Batteries) or Flywheel Batteries have over both lead acid and ultracapacitors are that they have the highest power density of any energy storage system currently available, thye are so reliable they can be buried or even sent into space, they hold huge amounts of power, they can be recharged very quickly, they do not burst into fire, they are not hazardous and you can even buy them today.
Specific Power
EMB (5-10kW/kg)
Lead Acid (0.1-0.5kW/kg)
ULTRACAP (6kW/kg)
Energy Recovery
EMB (90%-95%)
Lead Acid (60%-70%)
ULTRACAP (95%)
Specific Energy
EMB (100 Wh/kg)
Lead Acid (30-35 Wh/kg)
ULTRACAP (.5-10 Wh/kg)
Service Lifetime
EMB (>10 years)
Lead Acid (3-5 years)
ULTRACAP (millions of cycles)
Self Discharge Time
EMB (Weeks/months)
Lead Acid (variable)
ULTRACAP (?)
Hazardous Chemicals
EMB (none)
Lead Acid (toxic)
ULTRACAP (?)
Data from "A new look at an Old Idea the Electromechanical Battery" Science and Technology Review April 1996 by Richard F Post and Wikipedia.
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Wow that's a shit storm of truthiness right there. Can someone out there DDoS the fuck out of it while they're at it?
Thanks but my Mom figured this one out in the early 90's when she asked me why he wireless phone couldn't become a cell phone when she left the house. I already have a cognative radio, its called a Nokia e71 and OMG it has Wifi and it is not asscrippled by Apple so it can have Skype, Google Chat, and putty all running at the same time.
Lets ask the second why. OK not only do we not have to have single channel devices we now have fractal antennas and multi band chip sets and even peer to peer mobile devices that can daisy chain. Put all these together and we could have no more channels. Imagine one cloud of spectrum where you could negotiate with any peer or base or tower around you to find the right mix of bandwidth and price back to the fiber of your choice. Sure we leave a slice or the FAA and the military (or just give them a competitive bidding rate) and make the whole thing one free market.
Oh wait, I forgot America is based on having senators bough and sold by oligopolies while people hammer on the table and talk about free markets. Wake up and smell the fact that it costs more to text message with ATT then to send data to the Hubble telescope. Free market my shit covered ass.
By the way don't bother looking for my phone at the local cell phone store because you can't buy something in the US that doesn't suck.
Real nerds support Microvision's projector because they want virtual retinal displays.
Not the chanting. Slint is not a Gregorian style it is a punk style. Interesting side not the ablum Spiderland made a cameo in Gilmore Girls; (wife loves the show) the characters are in NY record store where the owner is famous for being all knowing, one character pulls it from the bin and asks what it is. Just goes to show there is more to that show than banter and boobs.
One description of the chants is that they are based on mathematics. If this is interesting to you, you might want to check out a band call Slint. They tried to create a kind of fractal timing where different threads would converge and digress over time. Dark intense and interesting music.
Failed to get anything important done? Like completely restructuring education and health care? Um sorry but that's not "anything" that's "paradigm shifting" legislation.
A balanced budget with a surplus was a major achievement that was archived by, get this... doing exactly nothing.
Our government works best when it does nothing. Most major legislation recently has been bad. No Child Left Behind, DMCA, energy deregulation, banking deregulation, the Patriot Act, even Sarbanes Oxley. None of these did what they thought they would or they lied about it. We have a massive quantity of legislation out there already, we should only be able to pass it when it A. its really really important, and B. torn the fuck apart for holes for years by the other side of aisle, the other side of the hill, and the other house of congress.
Don't bother I am sure that AC was a paid troll by the RNC.
My favorite was the unfounded assertion that "...schools love no child left behind..." what an ass-clown.
My friend's dad has signed his "Buck Rodgers" complete with a small rocket ship drawing for well over 10 years. He is now concerned that it may be his legal sig.
Well the 2 Ohio poll workers who went to prison for the 2004 presidential election were apparently too lazy to risk having to do a manual recount of the whole state, so they did statistical recounts until they found enough counties that were within the limit to hand recount. The result had nothing to do with party affiliation (if you believe that the prime motivator was laziness.) In the end we do live in a political system based on antagonistic party rule and when it works its pretty good e.g. Newt and Bill hated each other, were both personally lewd, but together in their mutual hate they balanced the budget.