How do the other conventions differ greatly? They all follow the same process. If you want something else, move to a caucus state, join a party, go to caucus. It really works to follow the process in caucus states. This is why the bosses are trying to end caucus in general - Nevada GOP recently tried to end it, but the grassroots kept it.
Sure, I thought caucus looked totally corrupt and made for the insiders. And it is! I learned the rules, showed up with dozens of friends, and we controlled a block of delegates at the state convention. Caucus really works if you get involved and work the rules.
The state order is controlled by the bosses. It does change a little every cycle. For example, GOP bosses changed the order of states to put Romney's strongest states first and his weakest states last, in an effort to make it look "inevitable" that he would be the GOP candidate. Democrats also manipulate the state line-up to favor the corporate-controlled darling of the year.
INTRO: Money and lobbyists in politics is the symptom, not the solution. Federal Constitution specifies a census to count people to expand the number of seats in House of Representatives. This was capped in 1913, which allowed lobbyists and money to increase influence. We should have ~80,000 or less people per representative, so each person could conceivably have a group lunch with their rep. Now there are over 1 million people per representative, so only those with money (lobbyists) get access.
QUESTION: Instead of focusing on the symptom of money in politics, why not focus on returning to representative government by allowing the House to grow with population?
Before smart-guys-and-gals say "30,000 people won't fit", consider meeting in a stadium once a year with tele-conferences the remainder of the sessions. Real representation, and the follow-on impotency of money and lobbyists, is worth the additional cost of paying 30,000 representatives.
The rise in tuition rates are the big issue. Without gov't sponsored loans, colleges wouldn't have as many customers who could pay the bills. The loans allow college prices to rise much faster than general inflation.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a.VIge7LL0e0&refer=us
College Tuition Rises Faster Than Inflation Yet Again
"Costs rose 5.9 percent this year at private four-year colleges in the U.S., outpacing the biggest gain in inflation in 17 years and increasing the demand for financial aid."
The entire loan program is riddled with fraudulent activity including payoffs and kickbacks for the schools, school administrators, and alumni groups. This fraud is real, as detailed in a hundred page sealed indictment against some of the lenders for "defrauding the United States government".
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sealed_complaint_against_JP_Morgan_Chase,_Citigroup_and_Nelnet_for_defrauding_the_United_States_government,_19_May_2008
"bad code led the credit rating agencies to give"
This shifts the blame to the computer guys.
I expect the same "blame the coder" excuse will be used when the public stops trusting electronic voting machines.
I'm consulting for a 17,000 person multi-national firm. Most of the the internal infrastructure, including email, is outsourced to HP India. It is my experience that HP India is staffed by diploma mill graduates. These are the people reading your email.
Today I received a new price list from Oracle. Enterprise edition is LISTED at $10K per CPU. RAC has dropped by half to $20K per CPU. This price list can be and should be negotiated lower. No one should pay $40K per CPU.
>>4) $40,000 per processor: Oracle enterprise edition. No limits.
This is MSRP. Who pays sticker price?
A good negotiator can get Oracle Enterprise for about $10K per CPU.
Big database shops don't run their Oracle on x86. Solaris on Sparc is very common, attached to SAN such as EMC Symmetrix. HP-UX is still a good Oracle host, though it has a foot in the grave in terms of new OS features.
This is mostly about censorship. Content filters and firewalls to the West will always have some holes, so overlaying dot.com with a Chinese controlled dot.com will make content suppression much easier technically.
Additionally, this is a business issue of consuming and potentially paying for web services from the West. If Chinese can't get to the web services (and consumer advertising), they will rely on what is available in China. This allows Chinese entrepreneurs a nice sandbox with a large number of users who will consume what is available. It may become an easy path to observe web services in the West and then clone it for the Chinese internet - no competition from the West!
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Hunstman skipped doing work in Iowa, which explains why he scored last in Iowa. http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
How do the other conventions differ greatly?
They all follow the same process. If you want something else, move to a caucus state, join a party, go to caucus. It really works to follow the process in caucus states. This is why the bosses are trying to end caucus in general - Nevada GOP recently tried to end it, but the grassroots kept it.
Sure, I thought caucus looked totally corrupt and made for the insiders. And it is! I learned the rules, showed up with dozens of friends, and we controlled a block of delegates at the state convention. Caucus really works if you get involved and work the rules.
"Why do we let ..."
The state order is controlled by the bosses. It does change a little every cycle. For example, GOP bosses changed the order of states to put Romney's strongest states first and his weakest states last, in an effort to make it look "inevitable" that he would be the GOP candidate. Democrats also manipulate the state line-up to favor the corporate-controlled darling of the year.
INTRO: Money and lobbyists in politics is the symptom, not the solution.
Federal Constitution specifies a census to count people to expand the number of seats in House of Representatives. This was capped in 1913, which allowed lobbyists and money to increase influence. We should have ~80,000 or less people per representative, so each person could conceivably have a group lunch with their rep. Now there are over 1 million people per representative, so only those with money (lobbyists) get access.
QUESTION: Instead of focusing on the symptom of money in politics, why not focus on returning to representative government by allowing the House to grow with population?
RESEARCH LINKS:
424 seats in small state of New Hampshire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Federal House seats capped in 1913 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
435 Representatives Can Not Faithfully Represent 300 Million Americans http://www.thirty-thousand.org...
Before smart-guys-and-gals say "30,000 people won't fit", consider meeting in a stadium once a year with tele-conferences the remainder of the sessions. Real representation, and the follow-on impotency of money and lobbyists, is worth the additional cost of paying 30,000 representatives.
The Pentagon has been subject to malware-related cyber-attacks... To clarify, it's a credit union and not the actual DoD Pentagon.
The rise in tuition rates are the big issue. Without gov't sponsored loans, colleges wouldn't have as many customers who could pay the bills. The loans allow college prices to rise much faster than general inflation.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a.VIge7LL0e0&refer=us College Tuition Rises Faster Than Inflation Yet Again "Costs rose 5.9 percent this year at private four-year colleges in the U.S., outpacing the biggest gain in inflation in 17 years and increasing the demand for financial aid."
The entire loan program is riddled with fraudulent activity including payoffs and kickbacks for the schools, school administrators, and alumni groups. This fraud is real, as detailed in a hundred page sealed indictment against some of the lenders for "defrauding the United States government". http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sealed_complaint_against_JP_Morgan_Chase,_Citigroup_and_Nelnet_for_defrauding_the_United_States_government,_19_May_2008
"bad code led the credit rating agencies to give" This shifts the blame to the computer guys. I expect the same "blame the coder" excuse will be used when the public stops trusting electronic voting machines.
I'm consulting for a 17,000 person multi-national firm. Most of the the internal infrastructure, including email, is outsourced to HP India. It is my experience that HP India is staffed by diploma mill graduates. These are the people reading your email.
Today I received a new price list from Oracle. Enterprise edition is LISTED at $10K per CPU. RAC has dropped by half to $20K per CPU. This price list can be and should be negotiated lower. No one should pay $40K per CPU.
>>4) $40,000 per processor: Oracle enterprise edition. No limits.
This is MSRP. Who pays sticker price?
A good negotiator can get Oracle Enterprise for about $10K per CPU.
Big database shops don't run their Oracle on x86. Solaris on Sparc is very common, attached to SAN such as EMC Symmetrix. HP-UX is still a good Oracle host, though it has a foot in the grave in terms of new OS features.
This is mostly about censorship. Content filters and firewalls to the West will always have some holes, so overlaying dot.com with a Chinese controlled dot.com will make content suppression much easier technically.
Additionally, this is a business issue of consuming and potentially paying for web services from the West. If Chinese can't get to the web services (and consumer advertising), they will rely on what is available in China. This allows Chinese entrepreneurs a nice sandbox with a large number of users who will consume what is available. It may become an easy path to observe web services in the West and then clone it for the Chinese internet - no competition from the West!