I'm thinkin, is this a random mistake or the start of the attack?...This puts a whole new light on "The Red Balloon." It might have been an evil red balloon attacking the kid...
While I certainly had my initial reservations about Dean (he is, after all, something of a moderate on gun control, fiscal policy, and health care while I tend to be further to the left) I decided to support fully and even started a forum which is now fairly active.
For those who have not been following the election carefully so far, Dean first distinguished himself by opposing the war in Iraq. This position is looking rather good now that the Yellowcake scandal is brewing in the media. Yesterday he made the particulaly astute move of calling for those responsible for inserting the false claim into the Presidents State of the Union to resign. He is also backing up his claims with some excellent research on his website:
For a long time I have been impressed with Dean's use of the internet which includes the much publicized meetup (slashdot story). Dean now has by far the largest meetup with over 60,000 signed up: Dean Meetup
Dean's fundraising over the internet has also been exceptional - he raised over 800,000 in one day at the end of the last quarter. In addition the campaign manager, Joe Trippi, frequents the blogs - he will surely read this so be aware that any advice will be noted - and seems to have a keen vision and sense for how the internet can help the campaign.
Even if you don't agree with Dean's policies, it is probably worth watching just to see how political campaigns of the future might change with the internet.
One of the big, still mostly unanswered questions about the dam is whether the principal goal is to generate power or to reduce the risk of catastrophic floods. The Chinese government says that they intend to do both. However, often these two objectives clash - you are inclined to take more risks in order to generate more power.
Also, in either case there are better alternatives. If you want power, it is cheeper to just build a bunch of nuclear plants. If you want flood prevention, a large series of smaller projects on tributaries would be more effective, would avoid the catastrophic risk, and would have a smaller environmental, social, and cultural impact.
The only conclusion one can draw from this is that the CCP wants this because it will be impressive in traditional Chinese "big projects" style. This is probably also a large part of the motivation for their space program. They want desperatly to see themselves as a great modern power. The history of this goes back to the building of the Great Walls (there were several, built at different times) and massive flood prevention projects which often were the basis for the legitimacy of an emperor/dynasty.
You just quoted the reason:
"to protect past investments"
They have to make money too, and in their case they had a piece of software that was not particularly viable except as an open source program. If you read the forums linked from the blender site you will find that most community members consider the 100k offer to be fair or even generous.
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I'm thinkin, is this a random mistake or the start of the attack? ...This puts a whole new light on "The Red Balloon." It might have been an evil red balloon attacking the kid...
For those who have not been following the election carefully so far, Dean first distinguished himself by opposing the war in Iraq. This position is looking rather good now that the Yellowcake scandal is brewing in the media. Yesterday he made the particulaly astute move of calling for those responsible for inserting the false claim into the Presidents State of the Union to resign. He is also backing up his claims with some excellent research on his website:
Then and now quotes
A timeline
A chart contrasting claims with evidence (pdf)
For a long time I have been impressed with Dean's use of the internet which includes the much publicized meetup (slashdot story). Dean now has by far the largest meetup with over 60,000 signed up: Dean Meetup
Dean's fundraising over the internet has also been exceptional - he raised over 800,000 in one day at the end of the last quarter. In addition the campaign manager, Joe Trippi, frequents the blogs - he will surely read this so be aware that any advice will be noted - and seems to have a keen vision and sense for how the internet can help the campaign.
Even if you don't agree with Dean's policies, it is probably worth watching just to see how political campaigns of the future might change with the internet.
One of the big, still mostly unanswered questions about the dam is whether the principal goal is to generate power or to reduce the risk of catastrophic floods. The Chinese government says that they intend to do both. However, often these two objectives clash - you are inclined to take more risks in order to generate more power. Also, in either case there are better alternatives. If you want power, it is cheeper to just build a bunch of nuclear plants. If you want flood prevention, a large series of smaller projects on tributaries would be more effective, would avoid the catastrophic risk, and would have a smaller environmental, social, and cultural impact. The only conclusion one can draw from this is that the CCP wants this because it will be impressive in traditional Chinese "big projects" style. This is probably also a large part of the motivation for their space program. They want desperatly to see themselves as a great modern power. The history of this goes back to the building of the Great Walls (there were several, built at different times) and massive flood prevention projects which often were the basis for the legitimacy of an emperor/dynasty.
You just quoted the reason: "to protect past investments" They have to make money too, and in their case they had a piece of software that was not particularly viable except as an open source program. If you read the forums linked from the blender site you will find that most community members consider the 100k offer to be fair or even generous.