So what would be the solution. Simple, try to keep certain core industries and research in the country, and do moderate outsourcing which opens the doors for the wealth of everybody. But for heavens sake, keep some industries and research in the country or at least in the monetary zone.
I don't know how "simple" that will be. In the past, the US has always accomplished this through innovation, by breaking into new industries (cotton, guns, tobacco, cars, aircraft, computers, telecom, genetics) and markets (the Wild West, countries we've beaten in wars, countries that haven't caught up to us technologically) before other countries can get up to speed in those industries. Without that edge, there's no pressing reason for an industry to stay in a country where wages are high (unless maybe if the difference in wages is offset by the difference in shipping costs). The question is - can this continue? What is the Next Big Thing for us to capitalize upon?
Cingular or TMobile may has cooler phones, with better features, but their coverage areas are far weaker that Verizon's.
And therein lies the rub. When it comes down to it, the reason for having a cell phone is to place and receive phone calls. All the wizzy-bangy features in the world don't mean jack when you can't get a signal. That's why I'm a Verizon sheeple, with a no-frills phone and basic service.
Does any of the Canadian Shield extend in to the U.S.?
Parts of it do extend into northern New York and Michigan. New York may not be such a great choice, though - after all, the Hudson River Valley is a (not particularly active) fault line.
I still don't get how anybody can even THINK of abandoning manned space travel. Sure, humans are fragile and expensive. Sure, it's cheaper to send robots. But CRIPES, people. It's an adventure! It's a new experience for the human race. That, IN AND OF ITSELF, is more than enough justification for continuing.
I don't think the question is "should we have space travel?". I think the question is "should government be taking our tax dollars to send a few guys up into space?". There are private concerns out there willing to spend money on spaceflight. I say we let them. It's not the government's job to come up with "new experiences for the human race".
Ya but no one seems to mind the latest Corvette being called a Corvette even though the main thing it has in common with the original is 4 wheels and a gas engine.
It is about TERROR! It is about emotional manipulation. I'm sorry, but no matter how financially devastating a loss of internet might be, it really doesn't compare to the emotional effect of watching two towers in New York getting hit by jumbo jets
You're speaking from the point of view of an individual. I would imagine that a complete loss of internet connectivity and/or security for an extended period could be pretty terrifying to the bigwigs at a lot of America's corporations, which as we know have more influence in Washington than us peasants.
After all their failed, unpopular, and (worst of all) notoriously defective products, it amazes me that anyone would still trust an Iomega product for anything more important that downloaded pr0n.
Those are called 'ransom strips'. They hold you to ransom for access to your own property by controlling a small strip of land around it.
And if you don't like it, then you can choose not to buy the house. Just like you can choose not to use MS products. There's no "ransom" involved in either case.
Both camps (Japan and France) have offered to take up half the costs to build in their locale. Answer is obvious. Take the original planned investment, and give half to each camp, and build 2.
A lesson we learned from Haddan in Contact: "Why settle for one, when you can have two at twice the price?"
It won't take long to exceed that limit. An average student: Winamp, a word processor, a web browser. If the student needs to use his email for a moment, he'll have to close something. This will only encourage users to get a copy of the full Windows version so that they won't be limited in what they can do.
Or maybe it will spur the hobbyist/enthusiast community to develop all-purpose apps that roll Winamp, a word processor, and a Web browser (among other things) all into one. Or to develop a "framework" type app that accepts plugin DLLs for MP3 playing, word processing, etc.
Libertarians are just republicans who are even more selfish than those who actually call themselves republicans.
Utterly ridiculous. The "just republicans", part, I mean. The most important difference is that libertarians believe in a truly free market, not the corporate-welfare fascism of the Republicans.
What are the libertarian views on...
Well, "libertarian" is actually a fairly large tent, and you may find people who call themselves libertarians who sit on either side of these issues. I'll give my own personal answers.
welfare?
Government-operated welfare, paid for by confiscatory taxes on the productive? Against. Of course, this is not the only form that welfare could take.
Gay marriage?
To the extent that government ought to involve itself in the domestic affairs of mutually consenting citizens at all (which IMO should be very, very little) I don't see why sexual preference should be a discriminating factor.
Foreign policy?
We wouldn't want other countries messing in our internal affairs, so why do we think it's OK to mess in the internal affairs of other countries?
Nuclear non-proliferation?
See above. I don't like the idea of other countries possessing nukes, but hey, we've got 'em. If we're worried about it, maybe we should pump more research money into that missile defense system and try to make it work.
Environment?
As much as I favor laissez-faire capitalism and private property, like it or not there is a commons - the atmosphere, the groundwater, the oceans, etc., and if we all own it in common, then we all have a right to see it protected.
SEC?
Corporations are an artificial construct of government power, and should not exist in the form in which they do today. The idea of a corporate entity being a legal "person" is ridiculous and contrived, and only serves to separate power from responsibility.
FCC?
Obsolete given the advent of technologies like CDMA.
NRA?
Its existence is justified by both the First and Second Amendments.
Well, unless the Japanese can automate retraction of the sails, it wont reach any stars. While it's powered by solar wind, it will slow down and reverse as it gets farther from the original star and closer to the destination star.
Does that mean what I think it means? Would this thing ultimately be pushed in a direction directly away from the site of the Big Bang, i.e. toward the edge of the (expanding[?]) universe? That could be kinda cool in and of itself for exploration purposes...
I'm confused - you submit a post entitled "CS accreditations are worthless anyway", and then do not mention CS accreditations once. Oracle or Microsoft certification are not the same as being accredited by a body like ABET, etc.
Of course not, but that's really not necessary since we are a democracy and all that we have to do is come up with a compromise that is supported by the majority.
I take it, then, that you are satisfied with the present tax structure, given that it was legislated by the majority (or the majority of elected representatives, at least)?
The nuclear genie is out of the bottle and here to stay, and there is NO WAY that we should give up our nuclear systems while certain elements of the third world continue to work on theirs.
True enough, but do we really need 10,700 warheads?
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So what would be the solution. Simple, try to keep certain core industries and research in the country, and do moderate outsourcing which opens the doors for the wealth of everybody. But for heavens sake, keep some industries and research in the country or at least in the monetary zone.
I don't know how "simple" that will be. In the past, the US has always accomplished this through innovation, by breaking into new industries (cotton, guns, tobacco, cars, aircraft, computers, telecom, genetics) and markets (the Wild West, countries we've beaten in wars, countries that haven't caught up to us technologically) before other countries can get up to speed in those industries. Without that edge, there's no pressing reason for an industry to stay in a country where wages are high (unless maybe if the difference in wages is offset by the difference in shipping costs). The question is - can this continue? What is the Next Big Thing for us to capitalize upon?
Cingular or TMobile may has cooler phones, with better features, but their coverage areas are far weaker that Verizon's.
And therein lies the rub. When it comes down to it, the reason for having a cell phone is to place and receive phone calls. All the wizzy-bangy features in the world don't mean jack when you can't get a signal. That's why I'm a Verizon sheeple, with a no-frills phone and basic service.
Does any of the Canadian Shield extend in to the U.S.?
Parts of it do extend into northern New York and Michigan. New York may not be such a great choice, though - after all, the Hudson River Valley is a (not particularly active) fault line.
What is the resonant frequency (or range of frequencies) which causes the pneumothorax?
It's just about the same frequency as the much-fabled "Brown Noise", AIUI...
The reactors are to be pebble bed reactors, in which helium replaces radioactive, pressurized water.
God damn it, we (um, that would be the US) should be building 30 new pebble-bed reactors! Why are we so crazy and stupid on this subject?
At best hydrogen is a fairly clean way of storing energy
Clean maybe, but not particularly efficient, given that at human-compatible temperatures, hydrogen is a gas with a rather low density.
I'm not worried. If that day comes, we'll just invade you.
I'll bet that's what the Soviets thought, once upon a time...
I still don't get how anybody can even THINK of abandoning manned space travel. Sure, humans are fragile and expensive. Sure, it's cheaper to send robots. But CRIPES, people. It's an adventure! It's a new experience for the human race. That, IN AND OF ITSELF, is more than enough justification for continuing.
I don't think the question is "should we have space travel?". I think the question is "should government be taking our tax dollars to send a few guys up into space?". There are private concerns out there willing to spend money on spaceflight. I say we let them. It's not the government's job to come up with "new experiences for the human race".
Ya but no one seems to mind the latest Corvette being called a Corvette even though the main thing it has in common with the original is 4 wheels and a gas engine.
There's also the fiberglass body...
Making them work for 800 seconds a pop without destroying themselves is just good engineering practices and quality control.
Uh, yeah... "just". Man, I hate when that word gets used in an engineering context.
It is about TERROR! It is about emotional manipulation. I'm sorry, but no matter how financially devastating a loss of internet might be, it really doesn't compare to the emotional effect of watching two towers in New York getting hit by jumbo jets
You're speaking from the point of view of an individual. I would imagine that a complete loss of internet connectivity and/or security for an extended period could be pretty terrifying to the bigwigs at a lot of America's corporations, which as we know have more influence in Washington than us peasants.
After all their failed, unpopular, and (worst of all) notoriously defective products, it amazes me that anyone would still trust an Iomega product for anything more important that downloaded pr0n.
Those are called 'ransom strips'. They hold you to ransom for access to your own property by controlling a small strip of land around it.
And if you don't like it, then you can choose not to buy the house. Just like you can choose not to use MS products. There's no "ransom" involved in either case.
Both camps (Japan and France) have offered to take up half the costs to build in their locale. Answer is obvious. Take the original planned investment, and give half to each camp, and build 2.
A lesson we learned from Haddan in Contact: "Why settle for one, when you can have two at twice the price?"
Brunner also foresaw the computer virus (he even called it a "worm" IIRC) and the laser printer. Not too shabby.
It won't take long to exceed that limit. An average student: Winamp, a word processor, a web browser. If the student needs to use his email for a moment, he'll have to close something. This will only encourage users to get a copy of the full Windows version so that they won't be limited in what they can do.
Or maybe it will spur the hobbyist/enthusiast community to develop all-purpose apps that roll Winamp, a word processor, and a Web browser (among other things) all into one. Or to develop a "framework" type app that accepts plugin DLLs for MP3 playing, word processing, etc.
Libertarians are just republicans who are even more selfish than those who actually call themselves republicans.
Utterly ridiculous. The "just republicans", part, I mean. The most important difference is that libertarians believe in a truly free market, not the corporate-welfare fascism of the Republicans.
What are the libertarian views on...
Well, "libertarian" is actually a fairly large tent, and you may find people who call themselves libertarians who sit on either side of these issues. I'll give my own personal answers.
welfare?
Government-operated welfare, paid for by confiscatory taxes on the productive? Against. Of course, this is not the only form that welfare could take.
Gay marriage?
To the extent that government ought to involve itself in the domestic affairs of mutually consenting citizens at all (which IMO should be very, very little) I don't see why sexual preference should be a discriminating factor.
Foreign policy?
We wouldn't want other countries messing in our internal affairs, so why do we think it's OK to mess in the internal affairs of other countries?
Nuclear non-proliferation?
See above. I don't like the idea of other countries possessing nukes, but hey, we've got 'em. If we're worried about it, maybe we should pump more research money into that missile defense system and try to make it work.
Environment?
As much as I favor laissez-faire capitalism and private property, like it or not there is a commons - the atmosphere, the groundwater, the oceans, etc., and if we all own it in common, then we all have a right to see it protected.
SEC?
Corporations are an artificial construct of government power, and should not exist in the form in which they do today. The idea of a corporate entity being a legal "person" is ridiculous and contrived, and only serves to separate power from responsibility.
FCC?
Obsolete given the advent of technologies like CDMA.
NRA?
Its existence is justified by both the First and Second Amendments.
Well, unless the Japanese can automate retraction of the sails, it wont reach any stars. While it's powered by solar wind, it will slow down and reverse as it gets farther from the original star and closer to the destination star.
Does that mean what I think it means? Would this thing ultimately be pushed in a direction directly away from the site of the Big Bang, i.e. toward the edge of the (expanding[?]) universe? That could be kinda cool in and of itself for exploration purposes...
I'm confused - you submit a post entitled "CS accreditations are worthless anyway", and then do not mention CS accreditations once. Oracle or Microsoft certification are not the same as being accredited by a body like ABET, etc.
Does this situation sound familiar to any US-based people?
It should also sound familiar to any Heinlein readers out there. Look out for falling rocks!
But then again, how far can you drive a ball with a segway? Wouldn't standard clubs work better?
I'll bet it's great for running over your partner's ball if he starts beating you too badly.
Of course not, but that's really not necessary since we are a democracy and all that we have to do is come up with a compromise that is supported by the majority.
I take it, then, that you are satisfied with the present tax structure, given that it was legislated by the majority (or the majority of elected representatives, at least)?
I want everyone to pay their fair share, not just those with a conscience or sense of decency.
And I'm sure you can settle once and for all the issue of what constitutes a "fair share"...?
The nuclear genie is out of the bottle and here to stay, and there is NO WAY that we should give up our nuclear systems while certain elements of the third world continue to work on theirs.
True enough, but do we really need 10,700 warheads?
I've heard that at 80kph (which is exactly 50mph for those of us in the States)
Well, actually, 80 km/hr is 49.71 mi/hr.