We are currently at a bad time. HOWEVER, the economy IS improving, so now is the time to get our budget under control and then keep it there. If we do not, then America will not go down the path of Greece. We we ill be in far worse shape.
First, the military is NOT the only department with waste. They ALL have it. Lots of it. Take the example of Ag. reagan promised to get rid of the subsidies for the ag market. Instead, he raised it. Same with W. And that is just for starters. There are plenty of examples.
Secondly, you are right that Congress foists large systems on the DOD (and NASA, BTW). Far too many in Congress consider all of these depts. to be their personal bank/job's bills. It needs to stop.
And as to F-22, it will not be seeing action in any of these wars. It was not designed for these. These are designed to defend against China. All of the studies show that our next major war will be China unless we stay far enough ahead of them that they will chose to not get into it. The F-22 is night and day above all others (at this time). That is also why we are not exporting to other nations. Personally, I think that we should export to UK and Australia (proximity to China), but the fear is that some of the unknown tech will end up in China's hand. As it is, China has a massive spy network all over the world working hard to steal as much military/space tech as possible.
Eisenhower and DOD created DARPA as a way to guarantee that we had fundamental RD being done. That group has been responsible for keeping American military on the cutting edge. W converted it from a mix (basically university, business, etc) to a great deal of money to just business esp. into Texas. That has come at the cost of long range basics. That needs to be changed back. We do need a better way to get our RD into the field, but not at the cost of the future. In addition, more of the RD needs to funnel back to either American business, or at least Western business, with all of the work in America/West.
The man is awesome. He cares for America. Basically, another Eisenhower. Obama has a group working on figuring out how to cut the deficit and balance the budget. That group needs to have EVERY head of each dept. tell them how to cut waste for each. Finally, that group needs to push for a balanced budget amendmendment that will block the running of deficits during good times. Right now, the majority of our unneeded debt is from 1982-1990, and from 2002-2007. That accounts for about 8 trillion dollars of a time when we had a decent economy and had ZERO reason to run a deficit.
Personally, If Robert Gates was to run for president (or even replace Biden) , I would vote for him.
If Alliance is smart, they will hook up with the professionals that have been laid off and create a company to compete against IBM. In particular, Geithner is suppose to deliver a report on countries that manipulate their money. When that comes out, it SHOULD implicate China, but if honest, it will also point to India, AND for that matter, most of the Asian countries. As such, the new company (MBI?) could make an argument to feds to exclude IBM from all contracts, OR to simply make sure that all IBM contract are below the floor of the lowest country that manipulates. For example, if China has the lowest, right now, most economist are saying that China has their money devalued 50%. As such, IBM's contract would have to be below 50% of the next highest to win.
Cloud computing is old now. Many companies are on it. So, having a company like IBM jump so late in the game is no big deal (they are ran by totally worthless trash). His point is that IBM is moving their operations ELSEWHERE, and he is very correct. IBM is being dismantled and put in Asia at a quick pace.
But I agree with you. I wish that I could have modded you down.
Palmisano and Loughridge are gutting that company. It is time for American Feds to cut their losses and kill all contracts with this worthless company.
Fox "News" are a bunch of partisan frauds who are paid to lie through their teeth, and they are very good at it.
Many catch them lying ALL the time. About the only ones that think they are "fair and balanced", or even honest, are those that watch them exclusively. So, no, they are really not that good at it.
Actually, 'Texas' does not understand that oil is or is not forever. The truth is that Texas was the largest builder of Coal plants when they were bought out by an east coast company that pushed AE and nukes. More importantly, many of the other companies are simply chasing what they should: Profit. The fact is that Wind is about the same cost as Natural Gas and Nuke power, so it is a good bet for them (plenty of wind power in texas; The place sux). Likewise, texas is now exploring the idea of doing geo-thermal in their many dead DEEP oil wells. Now, THAT will bring them a lot of CHEAP power. Cheaper than Coal.
The problem that we have is multi-fold. America used to be the PREMIER RD country. Sadly, reagan destroyed all that (what a crime). But that was followed by the drug companies realizing that they made more money by treating symptoms than the diseases. There is a good example of this: Psoriasis. Right now, drug companies are running around screaming that it is genetic (just like the ulcers). Yet, if you look at the incident rate, it is growing leaps and bounds inside of America. It is growing much faster than genetics would explain it. Yet, all of the treatments are for the SYMPTOMS.
BTW, my bet is that this is a bacteria, not a virus. I wish that some RD bacteriologist would focus on this. I could even provide a simple set of tests to show it.
If we are going to find solutions for things like Psoriasis or even a good understanding of our genetic evolution, we have to get back to fundamental RD. My understanding is that Obama has bumped it up, but even here, I have yet to have heard what happened with DARPA. It used to do loads of fundamental RD, but W/Cheney forced them to drop that and focus on giving money to corporations (very short term goals) rather than the universities (long term fundamental goals). And even finding virus that are carrying genes is an easy, though long term issue. Basically, create 4,6,8 clone dogs, freeze several of the embryo's, and have them be around the same person(s) for the rest of their lives. At end of life of the dogs, start up again with another 2 clones. Finally, check for the difference in the DNA. It is highly likely that several (or more ) of the differences were caused by virus that were transmitted either between the dogs, OR between humans/dogs. Well, if the same sequence is in 1 or both of the first dogs, show up in the next set of dogs, then almost certainly, they were exposed to the same item. Easy, and relatively cheap to do. Of course, it will be a long experiment, but that is needed now to figure out what crosses. Do note that we could try the same with other species such as cats, mice, etc. Of course, the longer the species lifetime, the better the chance of getting multiple transfers.
Hmmm. HIV? Swine and Avian Influenza? Swine and Avian comes to mind REAL quick. But that is simply because they cause a large amount of symptoms in multiple species. Likewise, HIV is certainly interesting to me, Personally. The reason is that I worked for CDC in 1980-81. I got to see ground zero of 'the homosexual disease' (and have to say that it played a major part in my switching careers to CS. 'The band played on' as well as the current written history, miss so many important thing from those early days). The reason why we know about certain virus/bacteria/parasites is because we went looking for things causing symptoms. We do not go simply trying to isolate virus. And these days we do not do that. Heck, look in on the history of the duodenal ulcers and H. pyroli (spelling?).
Once we start exploring for asymptomatic virus, like we used to do for bacteria, then we will see a whole new and surprising world. I believe that we will re-write out understanding of evolution. Hopefully, somebody will be bright enough to realize the importance of species diversity and the fact that we need a large number of species to be close to us.
So, you do not think that virus work their way back into germ cells? Hmmm. What exactly do you think feeds those? Do not think that blood is involved? Something new? And by what mechanism are virus blocked from entering germ cells?
Now, if you have solutions for those (a different form of circulation other than bood and lymphatic that isolates the germ cells; and a means of blocking all virus from germ cells), then please share with the world, since you will win an INSTANT nobel prize.
BTW, back in 77-81, I was used to taking hits by my profs. Back then, I was arguing that DNA/RNA HAD to do work (like a protein). Why? Because Life assumes the lowest level of energy possible. It will excise an extra RNA/DNA that is not needed. Carrying that around is VERY expensive. Yet, it does carry it around. Interestingly, Tom Czech got a nobel prize for paying attention. This is the exact same thing.
It is only a matter of time before our genes make their way back to other species due to virus. Likely it will be short lived species that is in constant contact with us and mosquito's. I would suggest that Canine evolution is still on-going with dogs getting brighter and brighter possibly due to our genes being slowly transferred to them
There are a LOT more virus running around and we have very little appreciation for what they (and the lowly mosquito) do. Basically, as biologists continue to explore and some more get a bit of logic, they will realize that the vast majority of virus are asymptomatic (at least in a short term). Oddly, it will take time for ppl to accept the fact that virus do the majority of gene transfer (iow, it is not from mutation). Several interesting implications for this is that bio-diversity is conferred by bird/mosquito's/virus vectors moving from one SPECIES to another.Most will be in the same area, though some will travel. So, what this means is that as we wipe species, we will lose OUR evolution. In addition, as we grow larger and larger in density, then it is only a matter of time before we see another species acquire intelligence. We will credit it to Darwinian evolution, when in fact, it will be simply that virus carrying OUR genes, took enough snippets to enable it.
IOW, Virus is the 3'rd major form of genetics (sex/mutation) that does more introducing new genes into a species than another other form.
BTW, if you are talking about the H2S problem, that is a minor problem. Iceland has been running their system as a straight pull. All they have to do is turn them into a re-injection and the issue is solved. To be honest, they will FIRST want to look at the output. There are loads of minerals that can be pulled prior to re-injection.
I totally agree with you. But it does not chnge the fact that ppl buying it are fools. The sad thing is that the more than it is bought by these sheeple, the sooner that DVD will be killed. IOW, I am hoping that ppl will slow that down.
Well, Netflix is out for me. I rip my movies and watch them from a mythtv set-up. However, I believe in that I am moral about it, by buying the movie and owning the DVD. Yeah, I know, I know: DRM. However, that law is totally bogus.
Avatar plays on my 1996 (5?) Phillips-Magnavox DVD player. It also plays on our 3 year old Toshiba, 5 year old Sony, and 2 month old phillips, made in china, cheapo. It will be interesting to see why ppl are having issues with the DVD's.
As to Blu-Ray, only total idiots pay the high prices and allow somebody else to kill your movies. The fact that you might upgrade your player and it PURPOSELY kills your encoding MAKES ZERO SENSE WHY ANYBODY WOULD BUY IT. And if you check the license, it is not only legal, but you have ZERO RECOURSE. IOW, you do not own the movie. They own you.
This is about surgery; Cutting. No physiological work needed. My guess is that vet work will start in this decade and human trials will start by 2030, possibly 2025.
Simply put, they are building the machinery to allow the cutting, but the next step will be to replace the physical ppl.
What that translate into, a guaranteed job USE to be a medical doc. The future says no.
Actually, most states require some form of ID. As in Drivers License. This law is not a big deal (and will do a lot of good) EXCEPT that it allows police to stop somebody 'for looking illegal'. Once you can define how somebody looks illegal vs. legal, then I am fine with this law. Until then, it is is dead wrong.
The law's intention is good and needed. If you live in the west and see what illegals are doing to our states, and how much they are costing us the state, and realize that illegals are a HUGE part of why we are not automating anymore, then it will make sense.
Actually, most nations require that foreigners carry IDs. Only in the west is it not as big a deal. But when in Africa, South America, Most of Asia, Russia, etc. if you do not carry IDs and you are obviously not part of that nation, you will likely end up somewhere that you really do not want to be.
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We are currently at a bad time. HOWEVER, the economy IS improving, so now is the time to get our budget under control and then keep it there. If we do not, then America will not go down the path of Greece. We we ill be in far worse shape.
First, the military is NOT the only department with waste. They ALL have it. Lots of it. Take the example of Ag. reagan promised to get rid of the subsidies for the ag market. Instead, he raised it. Same with W. And that is just for starters. There are plenty of examples.
Secondly, you are right that Congress foists large systems on the DOD (and NASA, BTW). Far too many in Congress consider all of these depts. to be their personal bank/job's bills. It needs to stop.
And as to F-22, it will not be seeing action in any of these wars. It was not designed for these. These are designed to defend against China. All of the studies show that our next major war will be China unless we stay far enough ahead of them that they will chose to not get into it. The F-22 is night and day above all others (at this time). That is also why we are not exporting to other nations. Personally, I think that we should export to UK and Australia (proximity to China), but the fear is that some of the unknown tech will end up in China's hand. As it is, China has a massive spy network all over the world working hard to steal as much military/space tech as possible.
Eisenhower and DOD created DARPA as a way to guarantee that we had fundamental RD being done. That group has been responsible for keeping American military on the cutting edge. W converted it from a mix (basically university, business, etc) to a great deal of money to just business esp. into Texas. That has come at the cost of long range basics. That needs to be changed back. We do need a better way to get our RD into the field, but not at the cost of the future. In addition, more of the RD needs to funnel back to either American business, or at least Western business, with all of the work in America/West.
The man is awesome. He cares for America. Basically, another Eisenhower. Obama has a group working on figuring out how to cut the deficit and balance the budget. That group needs to have EVERY head of each dept. tell them how to cut waste for each. Finally, that group needs to push for a balanced budget amendmendment that will block the running of deficits during good times. Right now, the majority of our unneeded debt is from 1982-1990, and from 2002-2007. That accounts for about 8 trillion dollars of a time when we had a decent economy and had ZERO reason to run a deficit.
Personally, If Robert Gates was to run for president (or even replace Biden) , I would vote for him.
if it only costs $2, I will happily buy it. As it is, something like gum just to get to leo will cost a lot more than $2.
If Alliance is smart, they will hook up with the professionals that have been laid off and create a company to compete against IBM. In particular, Geithner is suppose to deliver a report on countries that manipulate their money. When that comes out, it SHOULD implicate China, but if honest, it will also point to India, AND for that matter, most of the Asian countries. As such, the new company (MBI?) could make an argument to feds to exclude IBM from all contracts, OR to simply make sure that all IBM contract are below the floor of the lowest country that manipulates. For example, if China has the lowest, right now, most economist are saying that China has their money devalued 50%. As such, IBM's contract would have to be below 50% of the next highest to win.
Cloud computing is old now. Many companies are on it. So, having a company like IBM jump so late in the game is no big deal (they are ran by totally worthless trash). His point is that IBM is moving their operations ELSEWHERE, and he is very correct. IBM is being dismantled and put in Asia at a quick pace.
But I agree with you. I wish that I could have modded you down.
Palmisano and Loughridge are gutting that company. It is time for American Feds to cut their losses and kill all contracts with this worthless company.
Fox "News" are a bunch of partisan frauds who are paid to lie through their teeth, and they are very good at it.
Many catch them lying ALL the time. About the only ones that think they are "fair and balanced", or even honest, are those that watch them exclusively. So, no, they are really not that good at it.
Actually, 'Texas' does not understand that oil is or is not forever. The truth is that Texas was the largest builder of Coal plants when they were bought out by an east coast company that pushed AE and nukes. More importantly, many of the other companies are simply chasing what they should: Profit. The fact is that Wind is about the same cost as Natural Gas and Nuke power, so it is a good bet for them (plenty of wind power in texas; The place sux). Likewise, texas is now exploring the idea of doing geo-thermal in their many dead DEEP oil wells. Now, THAT will bring them a lot of CHEAP power. Cheaper than Coal.
The problem that we have is multi-fold. America used to be the PREMIER RD country. Sadly, reagan destroyed all that (what a crime). But that was followed by the drug companies realizing that they made more money by treating symptoms than the diseases. There is a good example of this: Psoriasis. Right now, drug companies are running around screaming that it is genetic (just like the ulcers). Yet, if you look at the incident rate, it is growing leaps and bounds inside of America. It is growing much faster than genetics would explain it. Yet, all of the treatments are for the SYMPTOMS. BTW, my bet is that this is a bacteria, not a virus. I wish that some RD bacteriologist would focus on this. I could even provide a simple set of tests to show it.
If we are going to find solutions for things like Psoriasis or even a good understanding of our genetic evolution, we have to get back to fundamental RD. My understanding is that Obama has bumped it up, but even here, I have yet to have heard what happened with DARPA. It used to do loads of fundamental RD, but W/Cheney forced them to drop that and focus on giving money to corporations (very short term goals) rather than the universities (long term fundamental goals). And even finding virus that are carrying genes is an easy, though long term issue. Basically, create 4,6,8 clone dogs, freeze several of the embryo's, and have them be around the same person(s) for the rest of their lives. At end of life of the dogs, start up again with another 2 clones. Finally, check for the difference in the DNA. It is highly likely that several (or more ) of the differences were caused by virus that were transmitted either between the dogs, OR between humans/dogs. Well, if the same sequence is in 1 or both of the first dogs, show up in the next set of dogs, then almost certainly, they were exposed to the same item. Easy, and relatively cheap to do. Of course, it will be a long experiment, but that is needed now to figure out what crosses. Do note that we could try the same with other species such as cats, mice, etc. Of course, the longer the species lifetime, the better the chance of getting multiple transfers.
Hmmm. HIV? Swine and Avian Influenza? Swine and Avian comes to mind REAL quick. But that is simply because they cause a large amount of symptoms in multiple species. Likewise, HIV is certainly interesting to me, Personally. The reason is that I worked for CDC in 1980-81. I got to see ground zero of 'the homosexual disease' (and have to say that it played a major part in my switching careers to CS. 'The band played on' as well as the current written history, miss so many important thing from those early days). The reason why we know about certain virus/bacteria/parasites is because we went looking for things causing symptoms. We do not go simply trying to isolate virus. And these days we do not do that. Heck, look in on the history of the duodenal ulcers and H. pyroli (spelling?).
Once we start exploring for asymptomatic virus, like we used to do for bacteria, then we will see a whole new and surprising world. I believe that we will re-write out understanding of evolution. Hopefully, somebody will be bright enough to realize the importance of species diversity and the fact that we need a large number of species to be close to us.
So, you do not think that virus work their way back into germ cells? Hmmm. What exactly do you think feeds those? Do not think that blood is involved? Something new? And by what mechanism are virus blocked from entering germ cells?
Now, if you have solutions for those (a different form of circulation other than bood and lymphatic that isolates the germ cells; and a means of blocking all virus from germ cells), then please share with the world, since you will win an INSTANT nobel prize.
BTW, back in 77-81, I was used to taking hits by my profs. Back then, I was arguing that DNA/RNA HAD to do work (like a protein). Why? Because Life assumes the lowest level of energy possible. It will excise an extra RNA/DNA that is not needed. Carrying that around is VERY expensive. Yet, it does carry it around. Interestingly, Tom Czech got a nobel prize for paying attention. This is the exact same thing.
It is only a matter of time before our genes make their way back to other species due to virus. Likely it will be short lived species that is in constant contact with us and mosquito's. I would suggest that Canine evolution is still on-going with dogs getting brighter and brighter possibly due to our genes being slowly transferred to them
There are a LOT more virus running around and we have very little appreciation for what they (and the lowly mosquito) do. Basically, as biologists continue to explore and some more get a bit of logic, they will realize that the vast majority of virus are asymptomatic (at least in a short term). Oddly, it will take time for ppl to accept the fact that virus do the majority of gene transfer (iow, it is not from mutation). Several interesting implications for this is that bio-diversity is conferred by bird/mosquito's/virus vectors moving from one SPECIES to another.Most will be in the same area, though some will travel. So, what this means is that as we wipe species, we will lose OUR evolution. In addition, as we grow larger and larger in density, then it is only a matter of time before we see another species acquire intelligence. We will credit it to Darwinian evolution, when in fact, it will be simply that virus carrying OUR genes, took enough snippets to enable it.
IOW, Virus is the 3'rd major form of genetics (sex/mutation) that does more introducing new genes into a species than another other form.
BTW, if you are talking about the H2S problem, that is a minor problem. Iceland has been running their system as a straight pull. All they have to do is turn them into a re-injection and the issue is solved. To be honest, they will FIRST want to look at the output. There are loads of minerals that can be pulled prior to re-injection.
Do you have links for that geo-thermal comment?
I totally agree with you. But it does not chnge the fact that ppl buying it are fools. The sad thing is that the more than it is bought by these sheeple, the sooner that DVD will be killed. IOW, I am hoping that ppl will slow that down.
Well, Netflix is out for me. I rip my movies and watch them from a mythtv set-up. However, I believe in that I am moral about it, by buying the movie and owning the DVD. Yeah, I know, I know: DRM. However, that law is totally bogus.
Avatar plays on my 1996 (5?) Phillips-Magnavox DVD player. It also plays on our 3 year old Toshiba, 5 year old Sony, and 2 month old phillips, made in china, cheapo. It will be interesting to see why ppl are having issues with the DVD's.
As to Blu-Ray, only total idiots pay the high prices and allow somebody else to kill your movies. The fact that you might upgrade your player and it PURPOSELY kills your encoding MAKES ZERO SENSE WHY ANYBODY WOULD BUY IT. And if you check the license, it is not only legal, but you have ZERO RECOURSE. IOW, you do not own the movie. They own you.
This is about surgery; Cutting. No physiological work needed. My guess is that vet work will start in this decade and human trials will start by 2030, possibly 2025.
Simply put, they are building the machinery to allow the cutting, but the next step will be to replace the physical ppl. What that translate into, a guaranteed job USE to be a medical doc. The future says no.
Of course, that explains why SF is now wanting to punish Az for this. Amazing how often politicians have OTHER self-serving motives.
Actually, most states require some form of ID. As in Drivers License. This law is not a big deal (and will do a lot of good) EXCEPT that it allows police to stop somebody 'for looking illegal'. Once you can define how somebody looks illegal vs. legal, then I am fine with this law. Until then, it is is dead wrong.
The law's intention is good and needed. If you live in the west and see what illegals are doing to our states, and how much they are costing us the state, and realize that illegals are a HUGE part of why we are not automating anymore, then it will make sense.
Actually, most nations require that foreigners carry IDs. Only in the west is it not as big a deal. But when in Africa, South America, Most of Asia, Russia, etc. if you do not carry IDs and you are obviously not part of that nation, you will likely end up somewhere that you really do not want to be.