Here's a radical idea: Establish a free market in public transportation. Consider the results in Indianapolis:
The impact of the new Indianapolis ground transportation ordinance, which also abolished the official minimum fare, allowing taxis to charge as little as they like for a ride, even surpassed our own expectations. In the first month, the number of licensed taxi operators rose an amazing 60 percent, from twenty-eight licensed companies to forty-five. In addition, the new competition dropped fares among the new licensees almost 7 percent. But perhaps even more impressive than reduced fares and increased competition is the effect that the new market system has had upon the drivers themselves.
Nearly overnight, the dress code for taxi drivers went from ripped T-shirts to collars and ties. Cabs are noticeably cleaner, cabbies are friendlier and their vehicles are more visible on our streets.
That's fine, but the source is typically a Microsoft Office document, which has the problem of being proprietary and requiring an expensive piece of commercial software to handle.
We need to get all the legal entities (of which government is just one) to agree on an open standard document format like that of Open Office, so the public can easily process those documents.
No, the patch fixes the overrun in JBIG2 decompression. The workaround if you don't apply the patch is to disable JavaScript, either with a registry hack or through the Reader Preferences dialog.
I need to fill out a form from a local government office to get some information from them. They email me a PDF of the official form.
The form is a pure document, so I have to print it out, scribble answers on it (or feed it into a typewriter; remember those?), then either scan and email it back to them or jam it in a paper envelope, stick a stamp on it, and drop it in the snail mail.
How much nicer it would be if I could fill in what I needed using my computer keyboard and email it back.
I don't want to do this with Word, as that's a proprietary format, and the resulting document may not image in a way that makes it legally valid. (This is where we start pushing the Open Office formats.)
Even "smart" users don't read. Don't even attempt to put text in a dialog in front of them. Just put a pair of graphics illustrating the choice. I'm sure my fellow Slashdot readers can come up with ideas for suitable graphics. Some might even be safe for work!
I've found that all MS products are easy to install and run, as long as nothing goes wrong. The moment something fails, you've got major pain to deal with. You're going to have to bring in someone with lots of acronyms after their name.
It's like a modern luxury car: Pretty and comfortable, but when it breaks, you're looking at an expensive visit to the dealer.
Good catch. Looks like even those claiming to be libertarians are subject to a desire to run the lives of others. Yet another reason to lose hope in the ideal of individual liberty.
Ron Paul probably has a similar record trying to pass pro-liberty legislation. Success at getting legislation through the gauntlet is not a measure of the quality of the legislation.
House Speaker Pelosi lauded the panel's effort to "modernize the antiquated franking regulations to address the realities of communications in the Internet age."
Congressmen like to use government funds to push their next campaigns, and the campaigns of allies. Franking regulation is needed to stop such abuses.
If administration is not permitted on the Internet-facing side, you can use the MAC of the Internet interface. That limits your vulnerability to web servers on the local segment. Or use the internal MAC address. But that exposes you to hostile scripts that can ARP.
Elected representatives are motivated by a Superman Complex. They want to "save" everybody and are hyper-sensitive to requests from those who will contribute to their campaigns and keep them in the position that allows them to "do something" about their constituents' fears.
Make it the MAC address and you don't need a separate unique part to install on the circuit board. The ROM with the MAC address need be the only custom device.
Why not go to the top? Pay it to the UN. The dictators there need the money to gild their toilets anyway, and if the point of the ticket is punishment, there's no need to send the money back to any particular local venue as incentive for more entrapment.
Before understanding the bills, the politicians need to read them first. If you'd like to see a bill to make that happen, check out DownsizeDC's "Read the Bills Act" (RTBA). They're also working on a project to require only one subject per bill, and to prevent delegating the job of creating legislation to the unelected bureacracy (the "Write the Bills Act").
This only works if you have time before or after a lecture to network, and if you're the social type who easily connects with others. At MIT I typically had 5 minutes to get from one lecture to another at the far end of a large and crowded campus. And I have a terrible time socializing, even with other nerds. If a lecture was just a rehash of a textbook, I skipped it. But I still attended plenty of lectures run by interesting and charismatic professors. I'd have loved to have those lectures on video, especially those of professors no longer with us. (Need I remind everyone of the Feynman physics series?)
DownsizeDC is working on a separate solution to the problem of rule by the bureacracy, but it was felt that including it in RTBA would dilute support. You can read about the decision here.
One way to deal with excess pork deniably buried in huge bills is to force elected officials to read the bills in their entirety prior to voting, and requiring a "cooling off" period for public review. It's too easy for Congressmen to claim that they didn't know what was in a bill.
The Read the Bills Act is one proposal to enforce this. Congress has been working to avoid acknowledging this proposal, but it seems that everyone else who finds out about it loves it.
Perhaps we have different definitions of "monopoly". I use the term to refer to the only source of a product in a given market.
Perhaps you add additional qualifiers to that definition, such as legislative measures to insure that no competition takes place. But then we no longer are talking about a free market. For a market to be free, upstarts must be free to enter. But no competitors actually have to be present. The threat of competition is sufficient to hold the price down.
Al Capone was not in a free market. Organized crime can hardly be considered "free", given the violent coercion involved.
Capatialism only works when there is competition, and the only way for there to be competition is to mandate competition.
Free markets work fine with monopolies. The "competition" to a monopoly in a free market is the threat of a new entry into that market. A monopoly can't raise its profit much above that of the overall economy or investors move in to reap the excess and bring it back down to the prevailing value.
The problems start when a monopoly declares itself "natural" and demands that the government protect it from competition.
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I just installed Tomcat from JPackage on Fedora and it was painful because Sun makes it difficult to automate the installation of the basic Java foundation. I have to click through a license to download it, then click through it again to unpack it, then assemble an RPM, then install the RPM. And I have to repeat this for multiple packages (eg. Javamail) before I have enough that I can let the rest of the open source packages from JPackage download and install on top without further interaction.
Then Sun fails to structure its Java to fit the Linux Standard Base (LSB) Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) so JPackage must provide an adapter package that symlinks all the Sun files to the correct locations.
Sexy doesn't always mean "big-breasted". People like Keira Knightley and Calista Flockhart have been on plenty of magazine covers.
Right. Where are the games that cater to those of us who prefer small-breasted women? HL2 was a good start. Let's see more games that feature the figures of gymnasts and dancers.
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See my link in this post for how this fared in Indianapolis.
Here's a radical idea: Establish a free market in public transportation. Consider the results in Indianapolis:
That's fine, but the source is typically a Microsoft Office document, which has the problem of being proprietary and requiring an expensive piece of commercial software to handle.
We need to get all the legal entities (of which government is just one) to agree on an open standard document format like that of Open Office, so the public can easily process those documents.
No, the patch fixes the overrun in JBIG2 decompression. The workaround if you don't apply the patch is to disable JavaScript, either with a registry hack or through the Reader Preferences dialog.
In case you failed to read the article, here's the blog entry with the patch , not the workaround.
I need to fill out a form from a local government office to get some information from them. They email me a PDF of the official form.
The form is a pure document, so I have to print it out, scribble answers on it (or feed it into a typewriter; remember those?), then either scan and email it back to them or jam it in a paper envelope, stick a stamp on it, and drop it in the snail mail.
How much nicer it would be if I could fill in what I needed using my computer keyboard and email it back.
I don't want to do this with Word, as that's a proprietary format, and the resulting document may not image in a way that makes it legally valid. (This is where we start pushing the Open Office formats.)
Even "smart" users don't read. Don't even attempt to put text in a dialog in front of them. Just put a pair of graphics illustrating the choice. I'm sure my fellow Slashdot readers can come up with ideas for suitable graphics. Some might even be safe for work!
Here's another one:
OFBiz (previously known as Open For Business)
I've found that all MS products are easy to install and run, as long as nothing goes wrong. The moment something fails, you've got major pain to deal with. You're going to have to bring in someone with lots of acronyms after their name.
It's like a modern luxury car: Pretty and comfortable, but when it breaks, you're looking at an expensive visit to the dealer.
Good catch. Looks like even those claiming to be libertarians are subject to a desire to run the lives of others. Yet another reason to lose hope in the ideal of individual liberty.
Ron Paul probably has a similar record trying to pass pro-liberty legislation. Success at getting legislation through the gauntlet is not a measure of the quality of the legislation.
Congressmen like to use government funds to push their next campaigns, and the campaigns of allies. Franking regulation is needed to stop such abuses.
If administration is not permitted on the Internet-facing side, you can use the MAC of the Internet interface. That limits your vulnerability to web servers on the local segment. Or use the internal MAC address. But that exposes you to hostile scripts that can ARP.
Elected representatives are motivated by a Superman Complex. They want to "save" everybody and are hyper-sensitive to requests from those who will contribute to their campaigns and keep them in the position that allows them to "do something" about their constituents' fears.
Make it the MAC address and you don't need a separate unique part to install on the circuit board. The ROM with the MAC address need be the only custom device.
Of course you can "kick the shit" out of an online bully. Just not physically. Wit and communication skills hold the upper hand in this medium.
... you've already paid! Now if they ran you through security before you paid, they might lose some serious business.
Why not go to the top? Pay it to the UN. The dictators there need the money to gild their toilets anyway, and if the point of the ticket is punishment, there's no need to send the money back to any particular local venue as incentive for more entrapment.
Before understanding the bills, the politicians need to read them first. If you'd like to see a bill to make that happen, check out DownsizeDC's "Read the Bills Act" (RTBA). They're also working on a project to require only one subject per bill, and to prevent delegating the job of creating legislation to the unelected bureacracy (the "Write the Bills Act").
This only works if you have time before or after a lecture to network, and if you're the social type who easily connects with others. At MIT I typically had 5 minutes to get from one lecture to another at the far end of a large and crowded campus. And I have a terrible time socializing, even with other nerds. If a lecture was just a rehash of a textbook, I skipped it. But I still attended plenty of lectures run by interesting and charismatic professors. I'd have loved to have those lectures on video, especially those of professors no longer with us. (Need I remind everyone of the Feynman physics series?)
DownsizeDC is working on a separate solution to the problem of rule by the bureacracy, but it was felt that including it in RTBA would dilute support. You can read about the decision here.
One way to deal with excess pork deniably buried in huge bills is to force elected officials to read the bills in their entirety prior to voting, and requiring a "cooling off" period for public review. It's too easy for Congressmen to claim that they didn't know what was in a bill.
The Read the Bills Act is one proposal to enforce this. Congress has been working to avoid acknowledging this proposal, but it seems that everyone else who finds out about it loves it.
Perhaps we have different definitions of "monopoly". I use the term to refer to the only source of a product in a given market.
Perhaps you add additional qualifiers to that definition, such as legislative measures to insure that no competition takes place. But then we no longer are talking about a free market. For a market to be free, upstarts must be free to enter. But no competitors actually have to be present. The threat of competition is sufficient to hold the price down.
Al Capone was not in a free market. Organized crime can hardly be considered "free", given the violent coercion involved.
Capatialism only works when there is competition, and the only way for there to be competition is to mandate competition.
Free markets work fine with monopolies. The "competition" to a monopoly in a free market is the threat of a new entry into that market. A monopoly can't raise its profit much above that of the overall economy or investors move in to reap the excess and bring it back down to the prevailing value.
The problems start when a monopoly declares itself "natural" and demands that the government protect it from competition.
I just installed Tomcat from JPackage on Fedora and it was painful because Sun makes it difficult to automate the installation of the basic Java foundation. I have to click through a license to download it, then click through it again to unpack it, then assemble an RPM, then install the RPM. And I have to repeat this for multiple packages (eg. Javamail) before I have enough that I can let the rest of the open source packages from JPackage download and install on top without further interaction.
Then Sun fails to structure its Java to fit the Linux Standard Base (LSB) Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) so JPackage must provide an adapter package that symlinks all the Sun files to the correct locations.
Sexy doesn't always mean "big-breasted". People like Keira Knightley and Calista Flockhart have been on plenty of magazine covers.
Right. Where are the games that cater to those of us who prefer small-breasted women? HL2 was a good start. Let's see more games that feature the figures of gymnasts and dancers.