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OK, let's pretend they really bought some quasi-swamp 40 years ago for speculative reasons and not for hunting or whatever. Turns out they speculated incorrectly! -- Virutally all land valuations depend highly on govenment decisions, so that's part of the risk, and always has been. You suggest that government should be the insurance agency for every crackpot land scheme.
It's different, because the land cannot be used for ANYTHING, now that it has wetlands status.
If it cannot be used for anything by the nominal owner, then it has been taken from the owner.
The taking is for a public purpose, supposedly -- protection of watershed, or something. And taking of private land for public use requires compensation to the owner.
Actually, it is worth a lot to whoever uses the water, both people and critters.
The alternative in your view, is that anyone should be able to destroy wetlands whenever they wanted to.
Actually, the alternative is for the government that has taken their land from them to compensate them for the taking.
Please don't argue that the land has not been "taken," because they still have the deed. They cannot use their for the purpose they bought it for, which was legal when they bought it, because of new regulation of that land.
The government has taken the value away from their land, and the family is due payment for it.
Posted 3/7/2002 07:34:46 AM by Glenn Reynolds HOLLINGS-O-RAMA: My FoxNews Column is up, and it's about . . . what a corporate-lackey bozo Fritz Hollings is! Imagine that. Actually, it's about the huge political opportunity that the Democrats' water-carrying for Big Media offers for the Republicans, if they're smart enough to take it.
Democrat Rick Boucher (D-Va) is smart enough to realize this, but it's not clear that any other Democrats -- or Republicans -- are.
I'll vote Libertarian again, but thanks for the recommendation. The Repiblican and Democrats are just the two tits on the body republic, and most companies and other special interest groups are fat dumb and happy to suckle whichever is available at the moment.
/. just gave me this fortune -- a comment on the War On Terror (and drugs, and poverty, and illiteracy, and so forth) from the past.
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain. -- Anatole France
Craig Mundie speaks for one of those manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.
Because "news sources" like EWeek, InfoWorld, etc. are basically industry lapdogs. They hand out free subscriptions to anyone who stands still long enough. Believe me. I don't even fill out those stupid cards, but because I'm in I.T. Management, they lard up my mailbox with them. Their whole game is to influence the buying decisions of the people with the money. And to sell lots of ads. They naturally play games and pump up their sugar daddies -- whoever they are at the moment. Most of their stories read like a press release, and I suspect many of them actually are based on press releases and otehr forms of guidance from their benefactors.
"Trade Journals" are largely crap, and using the term "trade journal" to describe them assigns to them undeserved respectability. If their publications had any true merit they wouldn't have to give them away -- almost force them onto -- I.T. Managers and other techie-managers.
The Wall Street Journal, on the other hand, is a good bit more interested in the truth, with a bottom-line focus. They have no natural allegiance with, say, Microsoft, Sun, IBM, etc. They don't give away their publication to their readers, and don't take essentially unmodified P.R. and print it as "news."
I woudn't say that the WSJ "understand[s] the technical world moreso than Infoworld," so much as the WSJ isn't a suck-up, but InfoWorld is.
How often does slashdot get trolled by hacks writing for InfoWorld, EWeek, ZD-Anything, etc.? All the time. Why? Sell ads.
Check out this advertisement (PDF format for easy printing!) placed by the Libertarian Party in the USA Today and Washington Times.
The ad shows a huge blowup of the face of Drug Czar John Walters, and states: "This week, I had lunch with the President, testified before Congress, and helped funnel $40 million in illegal drug money to groups like the Taliban."
Blah. Do you plan to mandate content rating standards for TV, phones, radio, school texts, magazines, newpapers, books, chewing gum wrappers and owners' manuals as well? Why? Or, why not?
Global trade is the CAUSE of wealth imbalances, not the solution for them
And on the other...
A start to a real solution at eliminating global wealth disparities would be for us to start importing grain and to encourage cooperatives in third world countries which would help the little people sell into the global market.
Trade is not the solution! Trade is the solution! Make up your mind.
The rest of your argument is specious. Trade does help other countries's citizens, as well as our own. This has been established for centuries, if not millenia.
Other countries have internal problems, such as a lack of property law and (therefore) huge underground economies. We can't fix that directly. But if we trade with the citizens of those countries, the underground economies composed of regular citizens will one day become the above-ground economies. It happened in the U.S. It happened in Western Europe. It can happen other places. Read The Mystery of Capital by Hernando deSoto, a Peruvian economist.
economic development and a strong middle class needs to develop in a country before democracy can succeed
Balls. The U.S. was more or less a third world country when it got started, and it succeeded.
A country that believes it must have a controlled society and few freedoms until it can "afford them," will never NEVER be able to "afford" them.
Once they have economic development, if they ever do on a wide scale, they will point to their success under a repressive regime and say, "see, it works!" I don't think it will work.
An interesting project would be repackaging a lot of common applications as ROX AppDirs.
That, combined with a nice replacement for/etc/* (consistency would be nice), would make for a very nice, updated, modern, easier to use and configure, Unix system. Um... like MacOS... but without Aqua.
when the poles shift in 15,000 -20,000 years, killing most life, shifting the Earth's plates, and plunging the planet into an ice age, it won't matter much to us.
Capitalism because its based on people being selfish, causes people and companies to battle with each other, this is fine in most competitive fields but bad for science.
Science is a competitive field, to speak in generalities. Scientists are engaged in constant and direct competition, and continuous revolution. In fact, good science requires competition -- independant verification of results, for example!
Capitalism turns people's selfishness to the "common good" through no action of individuals, but by setting up a system whereby people are paid to do things for other people. Life itself is also about the same kind of "selfishness" -- furthering one's own growth and survival, sometimes at the expense of others, but typically in a non-zero-sum manner.
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If a robot can sing, it's gotta sing "Daisy."
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/subcatalog.gsp?pat
OK, let's pretend they really bought some quasi-swamp 40 years ago for speculative reasons and not for hunting or whatever. Turns out they speculated incorrectly! -- Virutally all land valuations depend highly on govenment decisions, so that's part of the risk, and always has been. You suggest that government should be the insurance agency for every crackpot land scheme.
It's different, because the land cannot be used for ANYTHING, now that it has wetlands status.
If it cannot be used for anything by the nominal owner, then it has been taken from the owner.
The taking is for a public purpose, supposedly -- protection of watershed, or something. And taking of private land for public use requires compensation to the owner.
Don't sell your solution short; that's probably how a CMYK printer that recognizes "black only" prints does it as well.
Actually, it is worth a lot to whoever uses the water, both people and critters.
The alternative in your view, is that anyone should be able to destroy wetlands whenever they wanted to.
Actually, the alternative is for the government that has taken their land from them to compensate them for the taking.
Please don't argue that the land has not been "taken," because they still have the deed. They cannot use their for the purpose they bought it for, which was legal when they bought it, because of new regulation of that land.
The government has taken the value away from their land, and the family is due payment for it.
I'm going out on a limb here, but...
I think you might watch too much TV.
I'll vote Libertarian again, but thanks for the recommendation. The Repiblican and Democrats are just the two tits on the body republic, and most companies and other special interest groups are fat dumb and happy to suckle whichever is available at the moment.
Craig Mundie speaks for one of those manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.
Because "news sources" like EWeek, InfoWorld, etc. are basically industry lapdogs. They hand out free subscriptions to anyone who stands still long enough. Believe me. I don't even fill out those stupid cards, but because I'm in I.T. Management, they lard up my mailbox with them. Their whole game is to influence the buying decisions of the people with the money. And to sell lots of ads. They naturally play games and pump up their sugar daddies -- whoever they are at the moment. Most of their stories read like a press release, and I suspect many of them actually are based on press releases and otehr forms of guidance from their benefactors.
"Trade Journals" are largely crap, and using the term "trade journal" to describe them assigns to them undeserved respectability. If their publications had any true merit they wouldn't have to give them away -- almost force them onto -- I.T. Managers and other techie-managers.
The Wall Street Journal, on the other hand, is a good bit more interested in the truth, with a bottom-line focus. They have no natural allegiance with, say, Microsoft, Sun, IBM, etc. They don't give away their publication to their readers, and don't take essentially unmodified P.R. and print it as "news."
I woudn't say that the WSJ "understand[s] the technical world moreso than Infoworld," so much as the WSJ isn't a suck-up, but InfoWorld is.
How often does slashdot get trolled by hacks writing for InfoWorld, EWeek, ZD-Anything, etc.? All the time. Why? Sell ads.
This about sums it up for me:
The Honorable Senator Earnest Hollings, D-Disney
Fritz just wants to make sweet sweet love to Sonny Bono.
</flame>
Check out this advertisement (PDF format for easy printing!) placed by the Libertarian Party in the USA Today and Washington Times.
The ad shows a huge blowup of the face of Drug Czar John Walters, and states: "This week, I had lunch with the President, testified before Congress, and helped funnel $40 million in illegal drug money to groups like the Taliban."
Right on target.
Blah. Do you plan to mandate content rating standards for TV, phones, radio, school texts, magazines, newpapers, books, chewing gum wrappers and owners' manuals as well? Why? Or, why not?
Boy are you confused. On the one hand, you say:
Global trade is the CAUSE of wealth imbalances, not the solution for them
And on the other...
A start to a real solution at eliminating global wealth disparities would be for us to start importing grain and to encourage cooperatives in third world countries which would help the little people sell into the global market.
Trade is not the solution! Trade is the solution! Make up your mind.
The rest of your argument is specious. Trade does help other countries's citizens, as well as our own. This has been established for centuries, if not millenia.
Other countries have internal problems, such as a lack of property law and (therefore) huge underground economies. We can't fix that directly. But if we trade with the citizens of those countries, the underground economies composed of regular citizens will one day become the above-ground economies. It happened in the U.S. It happened in Western Europe. It can happen other places. Read The Mystery of Capital by Hernando deSoto, a Peruvian economist.
Apache::ASP is a Perl-based system that can work with XML and XSLT. In fact, both the XML and XSLT can be dynamically generated. Pretty cool.
Heavy.
WinceSmartPhone2000 sure is ugly...
And I'm not just bashing MSFT when I say that. It really is hard to look at.
Those "Western Companies" are excersising THERE freedom to MAKE MONEY.
At the expense of the freedom of a nation full of people.
It's enough to make ya turn communist, I swear.
Oh, the irony...
economic development and a strong middle class needs to develop in a country before democracy can succeed
Balls. The U.S. was more or less a third world country when it got started, and it succeeded.
A country that believes it must have a controlled society and few freedoms until it can "afford them," will never NEVER be able to "afford" them.
Once they have economic development, if they ever do on a wide scale, they will point to their success under a repressive regime and say, "see, it works!" I don't think it will work.
Those "Western Companies" should be ashamed of themselves. When they get oppressed by any government anywhere, I hope that no one helps them.
Land of the Free. Home of the Almightly Dollar. Freedom for them is convenient, but they don't really care about it.
An interesting project would be repackaging a lot of common applications as ROX AppDirs.
/etc/* (consistency would be nice), would make for a very nice, updated, modern, easier to use and configure, Unix system. Um... like MacOS... but without Aqua.
That, combined with a nice replacement for
when the poles shift in 15,000 -20,000 years, killing most life, shifting the Earth's plates, and plunging the planet into an ice age, it won't matter much to us.
Capitalism because its based on people being selfish, causes people and companies to battle with each other, this is fine in most competitive fields but bad for science.
Science is a competitive field, to speak in generalities. Scientists are engaged in constant and direct competition, and continuous revolution. In fact, good science requires competition -- independant verification of results, for example!
Capitalism turns people's selfishness to the "common good" through no action of individuals, but by setting up a system whereby people are paid to do things for other people. Life itself is also about the same kind of "selfishness" -- furthering one's own growth and survival, sometimes at the expense of others, but typically in a non-zero-sum manner.
You could run LinuxPPC with SheepShaver or MOL, and have your own "OS 10" ... minux aqua, plus blackbox...