I don't know that I follow this argument at all... first of all, there is a practical objection: what should Google index on Altavista.com? All of it?
If someone is searching for search engines, then google seems to provide lots of help:.../search_engines/
What other searches should return other search-site results? Google has no obligation to take into account the links systems and interconnections that other search directories use.
Hey, thanks! It's the HST or GST depending on where you visited. We used your money to fill the nasty pothole in front of my house.
You spent the bill with the goose on it? Hey, technically that is a voucher for "one goose", and only redeemable for a Canada Goose. We don't use it much up here. All our visitors get one in the hopes that they will eat one of our billions of annoying geese.
I was only slightly joking about the colours making people spend. We are used to the money, so the effect is minimal on us, but I honestly think that tourists spend more coloured money than the would green money. I wonder if there is an actual study on this?
It would work perfectly: introduce the coloured money in the US, citizens get a little looser with their money for about 6 months, and boom!...economic recovery. After that, only the tourists "over-spend", which is what you want.
Don't worry about the climate... we have two tricks: a giant bit of land that is more southerly than a quarter of the continental US (Southern Ontario) and then when people get too old for the cold we ship them to Florida.
Hey, for once we Canadians are way ahead of the American! We did the colour thing ages ago, and are slowly working towards making -everything- a coin. No one dollar bill, no two... just larger and larger coins. I figure eventually we will have a $100 bill that is the same size and shape as a normal bill, but made out of solid nickel with a hinge in the centre. Nevermind hard to counterfeit, hard to carry.
The "foreign confusion" argument is truly terrible, but there are some excellent pros:
Searching: In Canada, when you open your wallet, you can tell what you have right away. Just as books have spine labels, making stacked bills easy to read is helpful. It may be my lack of experience with American bills, but it always feels like I am looking through index cards. Hardly a huge complaint, but no Republican could resist the chance to make money easier to spend.
Boredom: I would imagine that working in an American mint is currently the most boring job in the world.
Excitement: American money looks so somber... like it should be neatly stacked somewhere. Coloured money looks like it is dressed up with nowhere to go... it seems like a shame not to spend it.
Exotic Dancers: Currently look out to see men or women waving green at them... wouldn't it be nice to know right away what table to dance on first? Someone just has to take out an orange and wave it around and you get first service.
And lastly;
Capitalism: America is supposed to be the home of the red, white and blue... freedom and individualism, and over the top spectacle. Meanwhile, all your money looks like it was dressed in olive drab by Chairman Mao.
Blue wavelength is tremendously smaller then red, and that is the entire developement here, right? I mean, yes they have to master details like light production, focus, etc... but blue leds have been around for ages.
Am I missing something, or should this have been invented, like, 5-10 years ago? What has been holding it back? Anyone know? And why are we stopping at blue? Is UV not feasable?
The wavelength difference between blue and UV isn't as large as between red and blue, but if you make 2.7x10^10 (is that right?) blips incrementally smaller, you gain a lot of space.
Anyone else see an article like this in another 20 years claiming to use UV to fit 1300Mb onto a bit of wedding confetti?
After that try getting land to do it and getting the environmentalist to allow you to put in the tracks and zip along at a high speed.
Two quick points: Take a look at the land that already exists as part of rail systems in the US. Presuming you want to connect major centres with new rail lines, there are thousands and thousands of miles of conventional track routes for you to start with. Land aquisition is always tough, but fortunately the US took care of most of that 100+ years ago. Up here in Canada, we have so much unused track allowance that we pulled up hundreds of miles of it for hiking trails and bike paths. What else can you do with a piece of land 4 meters wide and 5000km long?
Second point, environmentalists -like- mass transit. You think that given a choice between a train track and a 6 lane freeway they would pick the freeway? If you gave that choice to an environmentalist they would probably go out and help you build the track. There are entire groups of environmentalists that focus on lobbying for transit systems.
There is no question that the freedom point is a big factor in the success of American mass transit. However, anyone who regularly commutes (especially in big cities) is unlikely to consider it "freedom".
The reason that commuter trains work in New York isn't because New York is "liberal", but because commuter trains provide -more- freedom than cars in that situation. Try commuting into Manhattan everyday at rush hour... and then parking all day downtown. Freedom? If you get on a commuter train it might be crowded, but you get there on time (usually) and you can read a paper on the way. No gridlock, no parking woes.
You think that all of those bankers and stock brokers take the subway because they are communists? No, because mass transit provides them with freedom.
The popularity of mass transit relates directly to the population density of an area, and the resources of the average citizen. Japan has insane population density; mass transit popular. China the average citizen can't afford a car; mass transit popular. Socialism doesn't play a role.
I think that I heard an argument like this recently... what was it? Oh yes, if DeCSS was legitimate, it would have a corporation behind it.
As we all know, the good guys always have bank books.
Last I checked, terrorists and industrial spies were the ones who had money. My university newspaper did some undercover work in local restaurants... think that they had money?
I don't understand how someone can say "financial backing == valid" and not get laughed out of the place.
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I don't know that I follow this argument at all... first of all, there is a practical objection: what should Google index on Altavista.com? All of it?
If someone is searching for search engines, then google seems to provide lots of help: .../search_engines/
What other searches should return other search-site results? Google has no obligation to take into account the links systems and interconnections that other search directories use.
Hey, thanks! It's the HST or GST depending on where you visited. We used your money to fill the nasty pothole in front of my house.
...economic recovery. After that, only the tourists "over-spend", which is what you want.
You spent the bill with the goose on it? Hey, technically that is a voucher for "one goose", and only redeemable for a Canada Goose. We don't use it much up here. All our visitors get one in the hopes that they will eat one of our billions of annoying geese.
I was only slightly joking about the colours making people spend. We are used to the money, so the effect is minimal on us, but I honestly think that tourists spend more coloured money than the would green money. I wonder if there is an actual study on this?
It would work perfectly: introduce the coloured money in the US, citizens get a little looser with their money for about 6 months, and boom!
Don't worry about the climate... we have two tricks: a giant bit of land that is more southerly than a quarter of the continental US (Southern Ontario) and then when people get too old for the cold we ship them to Florida.
Hey, for once we Canadians are way ahead of the American! We did the colour thing ages ago, and are slowly working towards making -everything- a coin. No one dollar bill, no two... just larger and larger coins. I figure eventually we will have a $100 bill that is the same size and shape as a normal bill, but made out of solid nickel with a hinge in the centre. Nevermind hard to counterfeit, hard to carry.
The "foreign confusion" argument is truly terrible, but there are some excellent pros:
Searching: In Canada, when you open your wallet, you can tell what you have right away. Just as books have spine labels, making stacked bills easy to read is helpful. It may be my lack of experience with American bills, but it always feels like I am looking through index cards. Hardly a huge complaint, but no Republican could resist the chance to make money easier to spend.
Boredom: I would imagine that working in an American mint is currently the most boring job in the world.
Excitement: American money looks so somber... like it should be neatly stacked somewhere. Coloured money looks like it is dressed up with nowhere to go... it seems like a shame not to spend it.
Exotic Dancers: Currently look out to see men or women waving green at them... wouldn't it be nice to know right away what table to dance on first? Someone just has to take out an orange and wave it around and you get first service.
And lastly;
Capitalism: America is supposed to be the home of the red, white and blue... freedom and individualism, and over the top spectacle. Meanwhile, all your money looks like it was dressed in olive drab by Chairman Mao.
Blue wavelength is tremendously smaller then red, and that is the entire developement here, right? I mean, yes they have to master details like light production, focus, etc... but blue leds have been around for ages.
Am I missing something, or should this have been invented, like, 5-10 years ago? What has been holding it back? Anyone know? And why are we stopping at blue? Is UV not feasable?
The wavelength difference between blue and UV isn't as large as between red and blue, but if you make 2.7x10^10 (is that right?) blips incrementally smaller, you gain a lot of space.
Anyone else see an article like this in another 20 years claiming to use UV to fit 1300Mb onto a bit of wedding confetti?
After that try getting land to do it and getting the environmentalist to allow you to put in the tracks and zip along at a high speed.
Two quick points: Take a look at the land that already exists as part of rail systems in the US. Presuming you want to connect major centres with new rail lines, there are thousands and thousands of miles of conventional track routes for you to start with. Land aquisition is always tough, but fortunately the US took care of most of that 100+ years ago. Up here in Canada, we have so much unused track allowance that we pulled up hundreds of miles of it for hiking trails and bike paths. What else can you do with a piece of land 4 meters wide and 5000km long?
Second point, environmentalists -like- mass transit. You think that given a choice between a train track and a 6 lane freeway they would pick the freeway? If you gave that choice to an environmentalist they would probably go out and help you build the track. There are entire groups of environmentalists that focus on lobbying for transit systems.
There is no question that the freedom point is a big factor in the success of American mass transit. However, anyone who regularly commutes (especially in big cities) is unlikely to consider it "freedom".
The reason that commuter trains work in New York isn't because New York is "liberal", but because commuter trains provide -more- freedom than cars in that situation. Try commuting into Manhattan everyday at rush hour... and then parking all day downtown. Freedom? If you get on a commuter train it might be crowded, but you get there on time (usually) and you can read a paper on the way. No gridlock, no parking woes.
You think that all of those bankers and stock brokers take the subway because they are communists? No, because mass transit provides them with freedom.
The popularity of mass transit relates directly to the population density of an area, and the resources of the average citizen. Japan has insane population density; mass transit popular. China the average citizen can't afford a car; mass transit popular. Socialism doesn't play a role.
I think that I heard an argument like this recently... what was it? Oh yes, if DeCSS was legitimate, it would have a corporation behind it.
As we all know, the good guys always have bank books.
Last I checked, terrorists and industrial spies were the ones who had money. My university newspaper did some undercover work in local restaurants... think that they had money?
I don't understand how someone can say "financial backing == valid" and not get laughed out of the place.
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