Ricochet was great if you stayed put, but in a moving vehicle it had great trouble microcell-hopping. I find CDPD, as implemented as a virtual NIC by the Sierra Aircard 300, to be much more useful in mobile environments. It is even usable on most of the Amtrak trip between Washington, DC and NYC.
Thus my contention is that it isn't free trade that will "save the world", but equitable trade -- for example, that allows a well run farm in Iowa to get a fair price for his products without requiring that a well run farm in France go out of business.
Well, here is the point, while people are running socialist-supported farms in Iowa and France, people in Africa who could be farming are living in squalid poverty because of trade barriers.
Infact, people in France have the "gaul" to complain about globalization when it is these trade barriers that are keeping an incredible trade in foodstuffs from Africa to Europe from happening. Screw them!
Maybe the people in Iowa and France should go work doing infosecurity or something. Why the hell should our tax dollars go to support inefficient family farms? We don't support the family automobile maker any more.
A relative of mine built a plastic bag company in El Salvador from the ground up. Now that the damn government there has finally woken up to the fact that it is good for him to export, he's able to expand and hire workers. These people would be toiling in the fields or just walking around San Salvador aimlessly if it wasn't for his factory.
Most anti-globalists have no clue about business or economics. Profit is good for everyone, it means that value is being created.
Every economic exchange is positive, it means that both sides are getting something more from the deal. Otherwise, it wouldn't happen.
This comes from the same group of thinkers that think:
(car (cdr (car (cdr (cdr (car "x y m q")))))))))))
Is cool - and thus, we have editors that automagically balance parenthesis. But don't get me wrong, I have a real appreciation for people that can do "real programming" (like video codecs) in Lisp.
I defy you to name a middle-eastern country whos leader was installed by the US.
1947 - CIA backs Gen. Husni Za'im coup in Syria.
1952 - CIA backs coup of Gammal Abdel Nasser in Egypt.
1953 - CIA backs coup of Reza Shah (aka "Shah of Iran) to avoid full nationalization of US oil interests in Iran.
1957/58 - US and Britain thwart popular uprisings against King Hussein of Jordan.
1958 - Washington installs a client regime in Lebanon, which then dutifully calls for US troops. Beginning of Lebanon's 35 years of instability and civil war.
1960 - Anwar Sadat goes on CIA payroll. After Nasser's death, CIA puts Sadat into power in Egypt.
1963 - General Kassim of Iraq is overthrown by a bloody coup d'Etat instigated by the CIA. CIA support for the Ba'ath party eventually leads to Saddam Hussein taking power.
1969/70 - Muammar Khadaffi of Libya supported by US after taking power in coup.
And these are only the "successful" operations.
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Last time I checked www was a thing that came out Switzerland
Yeah, but the VC for Netscape came from the US...;)
"In early June 1927, rocket and space enthusiasts in Germany founded the Verein fuer Raumschiffahrt (Society for Space Travel). Some members experimented with black powder rockets.
Automobile manufacturer Fritz von Opel piloted his own rocket glider, Opel Rak.1, in tests near Frankfurt on 30 September 1928. Its 16 rockets, each producing 50 pounds of thrust, were build by Friedrich Sander a pyrotechnics specialist. The propulsion system combining high-thrust, fast-burning powder rockets for initial acceleration with lower-thrust, slower-burning rockets to sustain velocity.
Opel approached Alexander M. Lippisch, a young designer working at the Rhon-Rossitten-Gesellschaft, who had already displayed a penchant for the unorthodox in airplane configuration, with the proposal that he, too, design a glider for rocket power.
Max Valier and Alexander Sander also succeeded in arousing enthusiasm for rocket propulsion in a twenty- seven-year-old aircraft designer, Gottlop Espenlaub. His E 15 tail-less design was of interest as a rocketplane.
On 11 June, Fritz Stamer effected the first rocket- propelled flight in Lippish's glider. The glider had been dubbed Ente, or Duck. That lead later to the Lippish's Komet - the Messerschmitt Me 163, liquid rocket manned interceptor."
"The kill is swift
It makes no sound
Aggression take its toll
Rhythm of violence
Cuts through the air
There's no more control
The sky turns brighter, a evil red
Missiles fly through the air
Shattered dreams
Shattered hopes
There's bodies everywhere"
Oh wait, no radio stations play FLA anyway. Damn! I want my XM Radio!
I can assure you that there is a market for most disease curing drugs (at least diseases in the West, I'll admit that;)
Metformin cures infertility associated with polycystic ovary disease...Glivec cures a type of stomach cancer...Viagra comes damn close to curing impotence...Antibiotics cure ulcers, gonorrhea, and a host of other infectious diseases. Chances are that you would be dead right now without antibiotics.
Now it is true that there are high market barriers to becoming a drug company. A typical drug developed today has a development cost of $500-$800 million.
There are currently 402 new medicines under development for cancer, 122 for heart disease and stroke, 103 for AIDS, and 205 for childhood diseases (such as with hypertension, congestive heart failure, high cholesterol, diabetes, epilepsy, eye disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, sickle cell disease, Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, staph infections, ear infections, pneumonia, meningitis, hepatitis, cerebral palsy, Tourette's syndrome, and autism).
So you know what, I think pharmaceutical companies are doing OK. A recently developed drug (motilium) allows my wife to sleep at night, and another one (tegaserod) is on the way to further normalize her life after getting gastroparesis (if Public Citizen stops fucking with its FDA approval...)
In reference to the AIDS plague, no one is talking about taking away all patient privileges for all pharmaceuticals...large number of people that will die fullfills the burden of proof on the side of reducing the privileges
Why stop at AIDS? A "large number of people" are going to die from heart disease, cancer, and infectious diseases in "poor" countries (BTW, there are really "poor" African countries, Brazil is Latin America's leading economic power).
But why pick a particularly disease? You could nationalize all medicine and save everyone!
These are the questions that poor countries are going to have to ask. They are going to have to balance the temporary benefits from ignoring global IP laws against the damage it will do to the countries own future economy. I'm sure many won't give a damn, and will do whatever is politically expediant.
Note that nothing is stopping Brazil from taxing its richer inhabitants to pay for AIDS drugs (the top 10% of Brazilians earn nearly 50% of all income), or moving money from its $13 billion/year armed forces budget into public health.
pharmaceutical companies spend more money on advertising than they do on R&D
Marketing makes both health care consumers and providers more familiar with new drugs, encouraging their use. Without the level of marketing of pharma companies, many drugs would not reach the people they are intended to help. For example, in the two years that ads for a medicine for erectile dysfunction have appeared, millions of men have seen their doctors to request the drug. And for every million men who asked for the medicine, it was discovered that an estimated 30,000 had untreated diabetes, 140,000 had untreated high blood pressure, and 50,000 had untreated heart disease.
Also, drug companies would not be as profitable without the marketing. We need to keep in mind that the high profitability of drug companies comes with immense risks. Most drugs never make it to becoming a product. And a single class-action lawsuit can wipe out a company.
If it you really want to repeal intellectual property laws on drugs, you are going to have to answer this question: Where are new drugs developed, in countries with secure IP laws, or in countries with lax IP laws? Where would you rather live?
Anyway, if you think marketing is "Candy," have you ever run a retail business??
I've got no problem when it comes to paying my 30% income tax that's being used to pay for the excellent public health care, public transportation and public services. As a result there's no population living below the poverty line, the unemployment level is 5.7%, literacy out of total population is 100%
Where the heck do you live where the income tax rate is only 30%?
In the US, I (now) pay 35% federal income tax, 13% social security tax (a regressive and partially hidden income tax), and about 8% more in state and local income taxes, for a total of 56% income tax. Yet the US poverty rate is still 13%, and despite universal free education, there is 3% illiteracy.
For the record, I like HP desktop PCs...when you're in too much of a rush to build one yourself, you can go down to Office Depot and snag a reasonably working HP PC in under 20 minutes.
I hate "out-of-the-box" Compaq desktops, because they have way too much pre-loaded software, and just don't seem solid.
WRT the so-called "third world" you are right, if the Western style patent system is allowed to reign supreme over the entire planet then all of these publicly funded areas of research (as well as any privately funded areas of research, of course) will be patented by universities and private corporations and any treatments developed will remain out of reach of most westerners and virtually everyone in the "third world."
Two caveats:
1) Patents have a limited life span - 20 years. Maybe we should reduce that slightly, but the point is that all IT eventually becomes available to all.
2) "Third World" countries are free to do their own R&D to develop and patent new drugs, and sell them to the US.
Right, the clock accuracy implies bandwidth limitation. If you can only accurately clock to 1/10 of one second, your method can maximumly send ~10 pieces of data per second (flag up, flag up, flag up, etc.)
Indeed, bandwidth limitations are usually due to clocking accuracy due to intersymbol interference and clock skew.
Is it right for them to give drugs to the people who need them
This decision to ignore patents will hurt investment in the pharma sector. It looks like every third-world government will step in and "nationalize" patents of life-saving medicine when politically beneficial to them. The medicine will invevitably get back to the US, and dillute the market here, dilluting returns, dilluting investment, dilluting R&D and FDA mandated testing.
If these governments were not already overwhelmingly socialist, the countries might have their own drug companies by now, or at least their people could afford the drugs...
If I had AIDS, I'd be very scared that future drugs will become economically unfeasable because of this.
My wife has a condition that requires a drug for which there is not enough market support in the US for payback on FDA trials. I'd hate for anyone else to be in our shoes.
I've done all my video editing on Windows boxes. In the age of ultra-ATA and software disk striping, it is pretty trivial to put together a hardware solution for DV.
I'll admit that there are a lot of people using Mac based systems, especially with Media 100 and uncompressed video, but there are probably more people (especially at the "wedding/event videographer" DV level) using PCs today, because the PC solution is cheaper.
Check out DV 411 for examples of DV level NLE systems.
I am pleased to see that the libertarian-minded slashdot readership has joined the other ideological groups already opposing the FTAA in its current form.
This move is clearly an EFF pander to the newfound popularity of anti-capitalist, anti-free-trade gtoups. The DMCA sucks, and I'm sure the "I'll argue gold standard all night" libertarians don't like the FTAA, but the truth is that the FTAA is one of the planks of freeing hemispheric trade, and overall is a good one for economic development of Latin America (why are all those democracies participating?)
Copyright is not going away, but hopefully the DMCA will look a bit more reasonable after some court cases, but let's not join with the anti-capitalists that are trying to take us back to the last millenium.
Canada's socialized medical system is less expensive to run (ie. it costs less to deliver equivalent services) than America's private for-profit system
I think a great deal depends on what you mean by "equivalent services," including access to high-tech tools and lack of waiting lists for major operations.
As of 1990, for example, Canada has only 12 magnetic resonance imaging units, compared to more than 900 in the United States. There are 2.5 times as many CAT scanners in Seattle as in the entire province of British Columbia. Canada has only 11 open-heart surgery centers, compared to 783 in the United States. The United States has six times as many lithotripsy units as Canada.
Of course, half of health care dollars in the US come from the US Government, so we're 50% socialized anyway...
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Ricochet was great if you stayed put, but in a moving vehicle it had great trouble microcell-hopping. I find CDPD, as implemented as a virtual NIC by the Sierra Aircard 300, to be much more useful in mobile environments. It is even usable on most of the Amtrak trip between Washington, DC and NYC.
I've used CDPD to build a portable webcam.
Thus my contention is that it isn't free trade that will "save the world", but equitable trade -- for example, that allows a well run farm in Iowa to get a fair price for his products without requiring that a well run farm in France go out of business.
Well, here is the point, while people are running socialist-supported farms in Iowa and France, people in Africa who could be farming are living in squalid poverty because of trade barriers.
Infact, people in France have the "gaul" to complain about globalization when it is these trade barriers that are keeping an incredible trade in foodstuffs from Africa to Europe from happening. Screw them!
Maybe the people in Iowa and France should go work doing infosecurity or something. Why the hell should our tax dollars go to support inefficient family farms? We don't support the family automobile maker any more.
A relative of mine built a plastic bag company in El Salvador from the ground up. Now that the damn government there has finally woken up to the fact that it is good for him to export, he's able to expand and hire workers. These people would be toiling in the fields or just walking around San Salvador aimlessly if it wasn't for his factory.
Most anti-globalists have no clue about business or economics. Profit is good for everyone, it means that value is being created.
Every economic exchange is positive, it means that both sides are getting something more from the deal. Otherwise, it wouldn't happen.
This comes from the same group of thinkers that think:
(car (cdr (car (cdr (cdr (car "x y m q")))))))))))
Is cool - and thus, we have editors that automagically balance parenthesis. But don't get me wrong, I have a real appreciation for people that can do "real programming" (like video codecs) in Lisp.
I defy you to name a middle-eastern country whos leader was installed by the US.
1947 - CIA backs Gen. Husni Za'im coup in Syria.
1952 - CIA backs coup of Gammal Abdel Nasser in Egypt.
1953 - CIA backs coup of Reza Shah (aka "Shah of Iran) to avoid full nationalization of US oil interests in Iran.
1957/58 - US and Britain thwart popular uprisings against King Hussein of Jordan.
1958 - Washington installs a client regime in Lebanon, which then dutifully calls for US troops. Beginning of Lebanon's 35 years of instability and civil war.
1960 - Anwar Sadat goes on CIA payroll. After Nasser's death, CIA puts Sadat into power in Egypt.
1963 - General Kassim of Iraq is overthrown by a bloody coup d'Etat instigated by the CIA. CIA support for the Ba'ath party eventually leads to Saddam Hussein taking power.
1969/70 - Muammar Khadaffi of Libya supported by US after taking power in coup.
And these are only the "successful" operations.
Last time I checked www was a thing that came out Switzerland
;)
Yeah, but the VC for Netscape came from the US...
Hmm, maybe you could paint a bardcode of a daily digital signature on your face...
Boardwatch is indeed still arround, however it has little to do with BBS's now. It's all about running small ISPs.
Here is a link to the September issue table of contents.
The Me 162 was actually not the first rocket plane. From Black Powder Solid Propellants:
"In early June 1927, rocket and space enthusiasts in Germany founded the Verein fuer Raumschiffahrt (Society for Space Travel). Some members experimented with black powder rockets.
Automobile manufacturer Fritz von Opel piloted his own rocket glider, Opel Rak.1, in tests near Frankfurt on 30 September 1928. Its 16 rockets, each producing 50 pounds of thrust, were build by Friedrich Sander a pyrotechnics specialist. The propulsion system combining high-thrust, fast-burning powder rockets for initial acceleration with lower-thrust, slower-burning rockets to sustain velocity.
Opel approached Alexander M. Lippisch, a young designer working at the Rhon-Rossitten-Gesellschaft, who had already displayed a penchant for the unorthodox in airplane configuration, with the proposal that he, too, design a glider for rocket power.
Max Valier and Alexander Sander also succeeded in arousing enthusiasm for rocket propulsion in a twenty- seven-year-old aircraft designer, Gottlop Espenlaub. His E 15 tail-less design was of interest as a rocketplane.
On 11 June, Fritz Stamer effected the first rocket- propelled flight in Lippish's glider. The glider had been dubbed Ente, or Duck. That lead later to the Lippish's Komet - the Messerschmitt Me 163, liquid rocket manned interceptor."
Opel Rak.1 picture here
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They forgot Front Line Assembly Mindphaser:
"The kill is swift
It makes no sound
Aggression take its toll
Rhythm of violence
Cuts through the air
There's no more control
The sky turns brighter, a evil red
Missiles fly through the air
Shattered dreams
Shattered hopes
There's bodies everywhere"
Oh wait, no radio stations play FLA anyway. Damn! I want my XM Radio!
I can assure you that there is a market for most disease curing drugs (at least diseases in the West, I'll admit that ;)
Metformin cures infertility associated with polycystic ovary disease...Glivec cures a type of stomach cancer...Viagra comes damn close to curing impotence...Antibiotics cure ulcers, gonorrhea, and a host of other infectious diseases. Chances are that you would be dead right now without antibiotics.
Now it is true that there are high market barriers to becoming a drug company. A typical drug developed today has a development cost of $500-$800 million.
There are currently 402 new medicines under development for cancer, 122 for heart disease and stroke, 103 for AIDS, and 205 for childhood diseases (such as with hypertension, congestive heart failure, high cholesterol, diabetes, epilepsy, eye disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, sickle cell disease, Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, staph infections, ear infections, pneumonia, meningitis, hepatitis, cerebral palsy, Tourette's syndrome, and autism).
So you know what, I think pharmaceutical companies are doing OK. A recently developed drug (motilium) allows my wife to sleep at night, and another one (tegaserod) is on the way to further normalize her life after getting gastroparesis (if Public Citizen stops fucking with its FDA approval...)
In reference to the AIDS plague, no one is talking about taking away all patient privileges for all pharmaceuticals...large number of people that will die fullfills the burden of proof on the side of reducing the privileges
Why stop at AIDS? A "large number of people" are going to die from heart disease, cancer, and infectious diseases in "poor" countries (BTW, there are really "poor" African countries, Brazil is Latin America's leading economic power).
But why pick a particularly disease? You could nationalize all medicine and save everyone!
These are the questions that poor countries are going to have to ask. They are going to have to balance the temporary benefits from ignoring global IP laws against the damage it will do to the countries own future economy. I'm sure many won't give a damn, and will do whatever is politically expediant.
Note that nothing is stopping Brazil from taxing its richer inhabitants to pay for AIDS drugs (the top 10% of Brazilians earn nearly 50% of all income), or moving money from its $13 billion/year armed forces budget into public health.
pharmaceutical companies spend more money on advertising than they do on R&D
Marketing makes both health care consumers and providers more familiar with new drugs, encouraging their use. Without the level of marketing of pharma companies, many drugs would not reach the people they are intended to help. For example, in the two years that ads for a medicine for erectile dysfunction have appeared, millions of men have seen their doctors to request the drug. And for every million men who asked for the medicine, it was discovered that an estimated 30,000 had untreated diabetes, 140,000 had untreated high blood pressure, and 50,000 had untreated heart disease.
Also, drug companies would not be as profitable without the marketing. We need to keep in mind that the high profitability of drug companies comes with immense risks. Most drugs never make it to becoming a product. And a single class-action lawsuit can wipe out a company.
If it you really want to repeal intellectual property laws on drugs, you are going to have to answer this question: Where are new drugs developed, in countries with secure IP laws, or in countries with lax IP laws? Where would you rather live?
Anyway, if you think marketing is "Candy," have you ever run a retail business??
I've got no problem when it comes to paying my 30% income tax that's being used to pay for the excellent public health care, public transportation and public services. As a result there's no population living below the poverty line, the unemployment level is 5.7%, literacy out of total population is 100%
Where the heck do you live where the income tax rate is only 30%?
In the US, I (now) pay 35% federal income tax, 13% social security tax (a regressive and partially hidden income tax), and about 8% more in state and local income taxes, for a total of 56% income tax. Yet the US poverty rate is still 13%, and despite universal free education, there is 3% illiteracy.
For the record, I like HP desktop PCs...when you're in too much of a rush to build one yourself, you can go down to Office Depot and snag a reasonably working HP PC in under 20 minutes.
I hate "out-of-the-box" Compaq desktops, because they have way too much pre-loaded software, and just don't seem solid.
WRT the so-called "third world" you are right, if the Western style patent system is allowed to reign supreme over the entire planet then all of these publicly funded areas of research (as well as any privately funded areas of research, of course) will be patented by universities and private corporations and any treatments developed will remain out of reach of most westerners and virtually everyone in the "third world."
Two caveats:
1) Patents have a limited life span - 20 years. Maybe we should reduce that slightly, but the point is that all IT eventually becomes available to all.
2) "Third World" countries are free to do their own R&D to develop and patent new drugs, and sell them to the US.
Some video of: Fun with Liquid Nitrogen and Fun with High Voltage Electrical Discharges
Right, the clock accuracy implies bandwidth limitation. If you can only accurately clock to 1/10 of one second, your method can maximumly send ~10 pieces of data per second (flag up, flag up, flag up, etc.)
Indeed, bandwidth limitations are usually due to clocking accuracy due to intersymbol interference and clock skew.
Brazil can no longer afford to blow massive amounts of money on an AIDS drug that they need desperately
Brazil spends $7 BILLION a year on its defense budget. Now, imagine if they spent that money on AIDS drugs instead of ripping off US patents.
This is EVERYTHING to do with POLITICS and LITTLE to do with ECONOMICS.
Is it right for them to give drugs to the people who need them
This decision to ignore patents will hurt investment in the pharma sector. It looks like every third-world government will step in and "nationalize" patents of life-saving medicine when politically beneficial to them. The medicine will invevitably get back to the US, and dillute the market here, dilluting returns, dilluting investment, dilluting R&D and FDA mandated testing.
If these governments were not already overwhelmingly socialist, the countries might have their own drug companies by now, or at least their people could afford the drugs...
If I had AIDS, I'd be very scared that future drugs will become economically unfeasable because of this.
My wife has a condition that requires a drug for which there is not enough market support in the US for payback on FDA trials. I'd hate for anyone else to be in our shoes.
I've done all my video editing on Windows boxes. In the age of ultra-ATA and software disk striping, it is pretty trivial to put together a hardware solution for DV.
I'll admit that there are a lot of people using Mac based systems, especially with Media 100 and uncompressed video, but there are probably more people (especially at the "wedding/event videographer" DV level) using PCs today, because the PC solution is cheaper.
Check out DV 411 for examples of DV level NLE systems.
The new Microsoft DRM uses _real_ encryption. But it doesn't work for live content yet...
Could these problems be, perhaps, due to a government monopoly on education?
I am pleased to see that the libertarian-minded slashdot readership has joined the other ideological groups already opposing the FTAA in its current form.
This move is clearly an EFF pander to the newfound popularity of anti-capitalist, anti-free-trade gtoups. The DMCA sucks, and I'm sure the "I'll argue gold standard all night" libertarians don't like the FTAA, but the truth is that the FTAA is one of the planks of freeing hemispheric trade, and overall is a good one for economic development of Latin America (why are all those democracies participating?)
Copyright is not going away, but hopefully the DMCA will look a bit more reasonable after some court cases, but let's not join with the anti-capitalists that are trying to take us back to the last millenium.
Canada's socialized medical system is less expensive to run (ie. it costs less to deliver equivalent services) than America's private for-profit system
I think a great deal depends on what you mean by "equivalent services," including access to high-tech tools and lack of waiting lists for major operations.
As of 1990, for example, Canada has only 12 magnetic resonance imaging units, compared to more than 900 in the United States. There are 2.5 times as many CAT scanners in Seattle as in the entire province of British Columbia. Canada has only 11 open-heart surgery centers, compared to 783 in the United States. The United States has six times as many lithotripsy units as Canada.
Of course, half of health care dollars in the US come from the US Government, so we're 50% socialized anyway...