As a chemist, may i remind/.ers that "inert" is a relative term.
You can certainly get nitrogen gas to react; I think that is what causes serious pollutants like nitrogen oxides.
of course, really inert gas - "noble" gases like Helium, Argon, Neon, Xenon, Krypton - are $$ and probably not available in sufficient quanty; in the old days, you would make nitrogen by simply chilling air; a nitrogen generator is a big honkin' machine iwth a little spout; you turn it on and liquid N2 starts pouring out the spout; I think the more modern technology is a sheet that is permable to only oxygen or nitrogen; since air is mostly N2 or O2, simply pushing air against the sheet means that you can generate relatively pure N2 easily and cheaply.
I live in Boston, in a crowded neighborhood of old houses.
My new neighbors, up on the hill, have put in a super powerful wifi that drowns out the old G wireless point I have in the basement.
I now have to go out and spend money to fix this
PS: at most, I can see 8 of my neighbors, but one of my co workers say he can see more then 10 on a good day
large scale rape in the Congo/Zaire, etc
thousands of arsenic contaminated wells in Bangladesh
thousands of drug deaths and kidnappings in mexico
(next 100 omitted for clarity)
got give it to that Timlee dude, he has his prioritys in the right place
(cant resist) a country where Jersey Shore is the top rated show...and D Trump is taken seriously
of course not.
the ceo will, after wasting 600 million or so of the shareholders money on a flashy product with no future, will get a bonus for shutting it down.
the shareholders put up with it, they deserve what they get.
lets consider the avg entrepreneur, one of those dynamic, ultra competitive individuals who are wealth creators.
the gov't raises the income tax (or more precisely, the marginal rate on "high" earners, like our dynamic wealth creator)
According to the supply side, our dynamic individual, who has overcome incredible obstacles, and worked like a dog for years to make his business a success, faced with this new obstacle....gives up and goes home.
In the real world, the competitive fellow works harder.
so raising taxes CREATES wealth, cause it makes competitive people try harder...it's no more looney then supply side economics.
Anyway, the other problem with supply side is that is is totally dishonest accountings; it counts as a 100% benefit if a millionaire gets a tax break, but values at zero the person who doesn't get health care at a public hospital; this person's poor health, due to lack of tax revenue, should be a huge negative number...it is the same as the totally dishonest accounting in the deregulation fantasys; lower air fares are counted as a good thing; suicides in air industry employess who loose their jobs are not counted....
Since the quoted clause talks about "Ports" does this mean it only applys to stuff coming off a ship ?
I highly recommend a visit to the custom house at Salem, MA
At one point, before deep draft ships made Salem Harbour obsolete, the Salem, MA custom house was responsible for a significant portion of the Revenues of the US govt'
the point is, at the time the founders wrote, customs duties - stuff coming off a ship- were a much, much larger part of the economic scene then today.
so maybe this clause only refers to ships and ship cargo.
the right wing has been funding some articles in scholarly journals suggesting that if you do a real, honest accounting the difference is not as large as that.. do you have any up to date, accessible articles to support your numbers ?
I suppose by my own stds I should find the right wing articles, but I'm to lazy....
Am I missing something, or are you really a logical ?
The gov't is stifling innovation when it treats internet stores and brick mortar the same (add tax on internet, so every one is the same), but it is a "level" playing field when the gov't gives an edge (no sales tax for internet) to one side ?
is that really your posistion ?
as to the supposed complexity...BS; when everyou do an internet order, you have a ship to address; I can't imagine it is that hard for someone to maintain a database of sales tax rate/zipcode, and some software to add it in... I mean really, how hard is that ? you got, what, a couple thousand taxing entities ? they all send in their rate to a database ? How on earth is that complex ?
In any event, you don't like taxes, tell me, what exact gov't programs are you going to cut ? And if they are programs that affect other people, do you expect me to take you seriously ?
how many actual dollars go to crack whores getting abortions ?
And how many actual dollars go to def contractor rip offs, or to hedge fund millionaires who pay something like a 15% marginal rate ?
sure, none actually likes paying for some deadbeat (well, maybe a few into S&M) but in the real world there are in efficiencys - you gotta do stuff you don't like. a
and please,
don;t give me that tired BS about how you don't like abortions and therefore don't want to pay them Ain't no one happy with everything.; suck it up and worry about stuff that actually cost money
we are supposed to pay sales tax on out of state purchases
in fact, if you use turbotax (yeah, i'm a schmuck for paying a lot for crappy software..) there is actually a question in the state form, do you have any out of state purchases.....
Its just hard to enforce, waddya do, have staties at the state line, stopping every car coming over the border from NH to MA ?
I am a PhD molecular biologists with expertise in areas like gel electrophoresis, PCR, etc
I no longer contribute to wiki for two reasons:
1) because of the license, people can take my work and resell it for a profit; I don't mind people reusing it, but the thought of some biz marketing type making (probably a right wing free market wierdo) making money off of my work seems just wrong
2) I am tired of morons editing my work, and making it worse; for instance, the article "dna sequencing" has gotten worse over the last year or so - things I put in, that were correct, and (immodestly) not to bad, were changed to things that were incorrect and poorly written, wit serious spelling and grammar errors (not like this email which i am dashing off quickly)
Orwell examined why he thought the earth was round, and concluded that most of the reasons he had, reasons given by most educated english people of the time, were unreliable, and therefore his belief that the earth was round was just superstition.
however, orwell did find one good reason that every educated (5th grade above) person should be able to understand (scroll down)
pilots of ships and planes travel great distances, accurately, with a model that the earth was round. a plane flying from sydney AU to NYC USA would n't make it if the model wasn't accurate
As it is currently practiced, biology science at the phd level is a ponzi scheme.
Research is $, and mostly - almost entirely- paid for by the Fed Gov't either directly thru the NIH/NSF/DARPA, or indirectly via tax welfare for the wealthy (aka tax code, such as the koch brothers giving MIT 100 million for a cancer center.
Most funding is via the "principal investigator" route: the funding agency identifies an *individual* who gets the money and is responsible for it; normally this is a faculty member at a university
Biology is also labor intensive; experiments take a lot of hands on time.
the way it works, professors have slave labor - graduate students, who , relative to their hours and training, are paid peanuts (they are also totally dependent on their professors letter of recomendation for a job)
The carrot is that after you graduate, you get your own faculty position.
anyone on/. should easily see this is an exponential growth type of situation: you start with x professors, they graduate y students/year, who in turn become professors.....like most exp growth situations, the crash comes suddenly.
the clearest evidence of this is that every 20 years or so, the leading PhD nobel laureates go to congress and say, OMG, we have a crisis in funding: there are more PhDs then grant money. And congress, not wanting to see re elections ads with "voted against funding for cancer", obligingly ponies up more money. the last cycle was under clinton; the budget for the NIH, which is the bulk of funding, was doubled
when this happens, all of the Universitys go out and build huge new research buildings, and hire lots of new profs, cause NIH funding is a profit center for the university (or at least the CEO of the university, since university presidents are now paid like ceos, their salary is tied to total university budgets, so simply to hike their own salary, a univ pres will get a huge new RnD building built to increase unive revenues by 100 MM a year....)
call me cynical, but that is life
for those of you who have some familiarity with the system, the postdoc was invented in the 60s, to deal with the 1st glut of phds, and it was for 2 years.... think about that
great post
what about the role of visicalc in transforming pcs from toys for hobbyists into an industry ?
could it be that all of gates and allen's money is based on the work of two ivory tower academics ?
also, didn't gates not pay his temps health insurance for many years ? sort of detracts from the charity bit, as a pope remarked, when raising hte pay of vatican workers and cutting back on aid to the poor, justice before charity
Stuff never broke, you knew that your neighbor wasn't getting a better deal, and you didn't have to worry about sevrice or dropped calls; ma bells team of engineers and workers kept stuff running smoothly
And, as anyone who travels abroad knows, the supposed "benefits" of competition don't seem so good: in those awful socialist countrys like france, they have, and have had for many years, superior telecoms.
Of course, when the CEO of Verizon makes 18 or 20 million dollars a year, he has an incentive to hire (on Verizon's nickel) economists and journalists to tell the world how great competition and the unbridled capitlism are...
while you are correct that the plethora of choices makes choosing a laptop hard (r u listening, linux fork people ?) the key, as with any purchase, is to try and define what it is you want the product to do.
Also, since wintel boxes are so much cheaper then macs, for running the software you want, you can afford to buy two, so, rather then thinking of them as super $ things that have to last a long time, a wintel box is something you can throw out every few years; sounds strange but it works
If you just want email and an occaisional word doc, then go light with good battery life.
If you want to run complex solidworks models, go hog wild on the latest ram and ssd
do spring for more HD then you think you need; HD space is always precious.
Get at least 3 gig ram
Most "features" are just not that important; sure, you will be slightly annoyed if you don't have this or that, but that is true for any laptop; there is always something the other guy has; thats life.
If you are not sure, the almost invariable rule of thumb, which works for laptops, toasters and cars, is to pick the middle of the market; that is where volume gives good value. If you go to cheap, you get less per dollar (why, I'm not sure, but cheap crap is cc) and if you go $ you are paying more for the same features with some bells and whistles (look at performance of a 20K camry vs a 40K lexus or 80K BMW - really 2X or 4X car there ? even more pronunced in stereo equipment)
right now, the sweet spot is about 500-600 bucks/laptop, maybe 700 if you really want light weight - and check staples, their instore closeouts are reasonable.
I was to lazy to log in...
So I'm far left - HOW
Do you dispute that a majority of people in the country are against the recent law in WI ?
Do you dispute that a majority of guests on C Rose are corporate/mainstream types ?
Do you dispute that the supposedly liberal NPR frequently makes statements that are right wing (eg, a recent aside that deficits are a problem that pre occupies most people in this country; typical right wing BS; deficits rank way below jobs, and , anyway, aside from medical costs, short term deficits are not a problem, at least if we repeal bubama tax cuts )
And we all know that long term deficits are mostly medical; bowles erskine are, by def, loosers as they did not address this
Do you dispute that the right wing gop AZ legislature has instituted death panels - aka medicare restrictions organ transplants ? that GOP law allows faceless beauracrats in AZ to decide if granny lives ?
Do you dispute that banks, led by places like WAMU, but aided and abetted by others, engaged in fradulent practices ?
It is true that ordinary people did a lot of really stupid and crazy things in the housing boom. And they have paid; you should go and read the Times piece on a cul de sac in CA [it is interesting how right wingers think "n y times" is a synonym for liar, yet when they (R Limbaugh) need some news they cite times articles, and assume the articles are correct - listen to limbaugh if you don't believe me)
the point is, ordinary people have paid a huge price; ruined neighborhoods, lost jobs, etc
and the bankers who engaged in fradulent loan practices (when i say fradulent, i mean that, not sloppy) ? Obama says the "deserve" their salaries , and the bankers whine about how taxpayers are unwilling to cough up enough to keep their bonuses at pre boom levels
On what planet do you think the liberals have any influence in this country ? NOT ONE, NOT ONE crimminal indictment has been issued against a senior banker; marzillo got a wrist slap fine from some agency, and a lot of the fine was paid by his employer (ok a multi millon dollar fine, but fo rmarzillo a wrist slap).
Do you remember the original TARP proposal - H Paulson, former CEO of Sachs, says congress should give him a trillion dollars, with no strings (do you remember that the arrogant Paulson asked that the law be written so that appropriations were deemed lawful ?) ?
and do yo remember that the supposedly liberal democrats - led by my rep, B Frank, - aquiesced ?
What a sight; the "liberal" B Frank giving a trillion tax dollars to wall str with no quid pro quo, and outrage forcing him add some pretend restraints to the law ?
ON what planet are liberals powerful, when the defense budget grows and grows and grows ?
on what planet are liberal powerful, when Nuclear Power gets money, while wind and solar don't (and don't give me that right wing BS about power density or load mismatch....)
I could go on, but the right wing - the corporate reptiles who run this country - buy politicians and get, repeatedly, laws passed that are opposed by a vast majority of people in this counrty.
I am not left wing; I am moderate !!
how many times before people get the message , if you want privacy, don't do it electronically ?
Actually, if you want privacy, write it on a single sheet of rice paper, on a glass sheet, with destatic sizer, in a room with variable lighting to fool cameras, in a dead language known only to you and your intended recipient
as a parent of MA teenagers, who are getting solid educations with strong science components, including a thorough (AP biology - amazing course here in MA) background in evolution, I say
Encourage the Bastards !!
If what Obama and Clinton and Bush are always saying about the 21st century is true - that we need a highly educated workforce to be competitive - I say it is great that TX is doing this, as kids in MA will be head and shoulders above them int eh competition for good jobs
How do you say "will you have fries with that"
Answer: A degree from Texas
PS: the U of TX lured the nobel prize winning Harvard physicists steven weinberg to austin with, among other things, a promise that he would be the highest paid faculty on campus.
weinberg gets there, and finds that he is the 2nd highest paid faculty
any guesses?
the football coach, of course,,,
As someone who is ultra liberal, I think the original times piece is one of the most arrogant pieces of crap that i have ever read.
Its not that I think the republicans are right; Its rather that liberals, to my knowledge, indulge in fact free thinking just as often; it just takes a different slant.
its part of being human
if it is really interesting, you don't need the word "interesting" - your writing should demonstrate that
in any event, why would you have a/. article on a non interesting thing ?
in many prev/. stories in this area, there have been numerous, angry, assertive posts that (fill in your favorite renewable) is bunk.
I wonder how many of those people will, if not today, someday realize that not only were they wrong to dis solar, wind , conservation, etc, but they did so in typical blog manner - overbearing and pompous.
Note that the press release is poorly formatted for web, mixes equally things with 50 million dollar and 1,600 million dollar cuts, and gives no relative scale (% of total budget, % of program) and in many cases the acronyms are unitelligble
what a disgrace for our public servants to communicate in this manner.
and the only contact is a phone number
what a joke
1) cost
so what if if costs 500 to 800 billion dollars
we spent way more then that in Iraq - 500 billion is quite reasonable for a good high speed rail system if we can spend more on Iraq
2) Traffic congestion
true, we have to create destinations at each end, but this is doable
3) Costs
Typical dishonest right wing BS; he doesn't mention the huge huge huge cost subsidys to cars - have you ever heard of something called the mideast ? and how much we spend on the military to defend oil there ? you did any sort of honest analysis - includuding loss of public land for cars, cost to the environment to get fuel for\ cars, etc etc etc, I bet the current subsidys for cars are higher then rail
4) Cars, and everything about them, suck; they are inherently evil
see suburban nation
see people in cities who walk, like NYC, are healthier then suburbanites who drive
(probably an urban legend...)
Guy is going on a 2 week biz trip; as he leaves the apt, he says to his live in girl friend, I want to break up, when I get back I want you and your stuff outta my apt.
(silence)
Guy comes back, place is spotless, all her stuff is gone.
He notices phone is off the hook
What does he hear ??
At the tone, the time in Tokyo is..
(for you young'uns, it used to be really $$ to make a call overseas, like dollars a minute.....)
Slashdot Mirror
As a chemist, may i remind /.ers that "inert" is a relative term.
You can certainly get nitrogen gas to react; I think that is what causes serious pollutants like nitrogen oxides.
of course, really inert gas - "noble" gases like Helium, Argon, Neon, Xenon, Krypton - are $$ and probably not available in sufficient quanty; in the old days, you would make nitrogen by simply chilling air; a nitrogen generator is a big honkin' machine iwth a little spout; you turn it on and liquid N2 starts pouring out the spout; I think the more modern technology is a sheet that is permable to only oxygen or nitrogen; since air is mostly N2 or O2, simply pushing air against the sheet means that you can generate relatively pure N2 easily and cheaply.
I live in Boston, in a crowded neighborhood of old houses. My new neighbors, up on the hill, have put in a super powerful wifi that drowns out the old G wireless point I have in the basement.
I now have to go out and spend money to fix this
PS: at most, I can see 8 of my neighbors, but one of my co workers say he can see more then 10 on a good day
large scale rape in the Congo/Zaire, etc
thousands of arsenic contaminated wells in Bangladesh
thousands of drug deaths and kidnappings in mexico
(next 100 omitted for clarity)
got give it to that Timlee dude, he has his prioritys in the right place
(cant resist) a country where Jersey Shore is the top rated show...and D Trump is taken seriously
of course not.
the ceo will, after wasting 600 million or so of the shareholders money on a flashy product with no future, will get a bonus for shutting it down.
the shareholders put up with it, they deserve what they get.
lets consider the avg entrepreneur, one of those dynamic, ultra competitive individuals who are wealth creators.
the gov't raises the income tax (or more precisely, the marginal rate on "high" earners, like our dynamic wealth creator)
According to the supply side, our dynamic individual, who has overcome incredible obstacles, and worked like a dog for years to make his business a success, faced with this new obstacle....gives up and goes home.
In the real world, the competitive fellow works harder.
so raising taxes CREATES wealth, cause it makes competitive people try harder...it's no more looney then supply side economics.
Anyway, the other problem with supply side is that is is totally dishonest accountings; it counts as a 100% benefit if a millionaire gets a tax break, but values at zero the person who doesn't get health care at a public hospital; this person's poor health, due to lack of tax revenue, should be a huge negative number...it is the same as the totally dishonest accounting in the deregulation fantasys; lower air fares are counted as a good thing; suicides in air industry employess who loose their jobs are not counted....
Since the quoted clause talks about "Ports" does this mean it only applys to stuff coming off a ship ?
I highly recommend a visit to the custom house at Salem, MA
At one point, before deep draft ships made Salem Harbour obsolete, the Salem, MA custom house was responsible for a significant portion of the Revenues of the US govt'
the point is, at the time the founders wrote, customs duties - stuff coming off a ship- were a much, much larger part of the economic scene then today.
so maybe this clause only refers to ships and ship cargo.
the right wing has been funding some articles in scholarly journals suggesting that if you do a real, honest accounting the difference is not as large as that.. do you have any up to date, accessible articles to support your numbers ?
I suppose by my own stds I should find the right wing articles, but I'm to lazy....
Am I missing something, or are you really a logical ?
The gov't is stifling innovation when it treats internet stores and brick mortar the same (add tax on internet, so every one is the same), but it is a "level" playing field when the gov't gives an edge (no sales tax for internet) to one side ?
is that really your posistion ?
as to the supposed complexity...BS; when everyou do an internet order, you have a ship to address; I can't imagine it is that hard for someone to maintain a database of sales tax rate/zipcode, and some software to add it in... I mean really, how hard is that ? you got, what, a couple thousand taxing entities ? they all send in their rate to a database ? How on earth is that complex ? In any event, you don't like taxes, tell me, what exact gov't programs are you going to cut ? And if they are programs that affect other people, do you expect me to take you seriously ?
how many actual dollars go to crack whores getting abortions ?
And how many actual dollars go to def contractor rip offs, or to hedge fund millionaires who pay something like a 15% marginal rate ?
sure, none actually likes paying for some deadbeat (well, maybe a few into S&M) but in the real world there are in efficiencys - you gotta do stuff you don't like. a
and please,
don;t give me that tired BS about how you don't like abortions and therefore don't want to pay them
Ain't no one happy with everything.; suck it up and worry about stuff that actually cost money
we are supposed to pay sales tax on out of state purchases
in fact, if you use turbotax (yeah, i'm a schmuck for paying a lot for crappy software..) there is actually a question in the state form, do you have any out of state purchases.....
Its just hard to enforce, waddya do, have staties at the state line, stopping every car coming over the border from NH to MA ?
I am a PhD molecular biologists with expertise in areas like gel electrophoresis, PCR, etc
I no longer contribute to wiki for two reasons:
1) because of the license, people can take my work and resell it for a profit; I don't mind people reusing it, but the thought of some biz marketing type making (probably a right wing free market wierdo) making money off of my work seems just wrong
2) I am tired of morons editing my work, and making it worse; for instance, the article "dna sequencing" has gotten worse over the last year or so - things I put in, that were correct, and (immodestly) not to bad, were changed to things that were incorrect and poorly written, wit serious spelling and grammar errors (not like this email which i am dashing off quickly)
Orwell examined why he thought the earth was round, and concluded that most of the reasons he had, reasons given by most educated english people of the time, were unreliable, and therefore his belief that the earth was round was just superstition.
however, orwell did find one good reason that every educated (5th grade above) person should be able to understand (scroll down)
pilots of ships and planes travel great distances, accurately, with a model that the earth was round. a plane flying from sydney AU to NYC USA would n't make it if the model wasn't accurate
As it is currently practiced, biology science at the phd level is a ponzi scheme. /. should easily see this is an exponential growth type of situation: you start with x professors, they graduate y students/year, who in turn become professors.....like most exp growth situations, the crash comes suddenly.
Research is $, and mostly - almost entirely- paid for by the Fed Gov't either directly thru the NIH/NSF/DARPA, or indirectly via tax welfare for the wealthy (aka tax code, such as the koch brothers giving MIT 100 million for a cancer center.
Most funding is via the "principal investigator" route: the funding agency identifies an *individual* who gets the money and is responsible for it; normally this is a faculty member at a university
Biology is also labor intensive; experiments take a lot of hands on time.
the way it works, professors have slave labor - graduate students, who , relative to their hours and training, are paid peanuts (they are also totally dependent on their professors letter of recomendation for a job)
The carrot is that after you graduate, you get your own faculty position.
anyone on
the clearest evidence of this is that every 20 years or so, the leading PhD nobel laureates go to congress and say, OMG, we have a crisis in funding: there are more PhDs then grant money. And congress, not wanting to see re elections ads with "voted against funding for cancer", obligingly ponies up more money. the last cycle was under clinton; the budget for the NIH, which is the bulk of funding, was doubled
when this happens, all of the Universitys go out and build huge new research buildings, and hire lots of new profs, cause NIH funding is a profit center for the university (or at least the CEO of the university, since university presidents are now paid like ceos, their salary is tied to total university budgets, so simply to hike their own salary, a univ pres will get a huge new RnD building built to increase unive revenues by 100 MM a year....)
call me cynical, but that is life
for those of you who have some familiarity with the system, the postdoc was invented in the 60s, to deal with the 1st glut of phds, and it was for 2 years.... think about that
great post what about the role of visicalc in transforming pcs from toys for hobbyists into an industry ?
could it be that all of gates and allen's money is based on the work of two ivory tower academics ?
also, didn't gates not pay his temps health insurance for many years ? sort of detracts from the charity bit, as a pope remarked, when raising hte pay of vatican workers and cutting back on aid to the poor, justice before charity
Stuff never broke, you knew that your neighbor wasn't getting a better deal, and you didn't have to worry about sevrice or dropped calls; ma bells team of engineers and workers kept stuff running smoothly
And, as anyone who travels abroad knows, the supposed "benefits" of competition don't seem so good: in those awful socialist countrys like france, they have, and have had for many years, superior telecoms.
Of course, when the CEO of Verizon makes 18 or 20 million dollars a year, he has an incentive to hire (on Verizon's nickel) economists and journalists to tell the world how great competition and the unbridled capitlism are...
while you are correct that the plethora of choices makes choosing a laptop hard (r u listening, linux fork people ?) the key, as with any purchase, is to try and define what it is you want the product to do.
Also, since wintel boxes are so much cheaper then macs, for running the software you want, you can afford to buy two, so, rather then thinking of them as super $ things that have to last a long time, a wintel box is something you can throw out every few years; sounds strange but it works
If you just want email and an occaisional word doc, then go light with good battery life.
If you want to run complex solidworks models, go hog wild on the latest ram and ssd
do spring for more HD then you think you need; HD space is always precious.
Get at least 3 gig ram
Most "features" are just not that important; sure, you will be slightly annoyed if you don't have this or that, but that is true for any laptop; there is always something the other guy has; thats life. If you are not sure, the almost invariable rule of thumb, which works for laptops, toasters and cars, is to pick the middle of the market; that is where volume gives good value. If you go to cheap, you get less per dollar (why, I'm not sure, but cheap crap is cc) and if you go $ you are paying more for the same features with some bells and whistles (look at performance of a 20K camry vs a 40K lexus or 80K BMW - really 2X or 4X car there ? even more pronunced in stereo equipment)
right now, the sweet spot is about 500-600 bucks/laptop, maybe 700 if you really want light weight - and check staples, their instore closeouts are reasonable.
I was to lazy to log in...
So I'm far left - HOW
Do you dispute that a majority of people in the country are against the recent law in WI ?
Do you dispute that a majority of guests on C Rose are corporate/mainstream types ?
Do you dispute that the supposedly liberal NPR frequently makes statements that are right wing (eg, a recent aside that deficits are a problem that pre occupies most people in this country; typical right wing BS; deficits rank way below jobs, and , anyway, aside from medical costs, short term deficits are not a problem, at least if we repeal bubama tax cuts )
And we all know that long term deficits are mostly medical; bowles erskine are, by def, loosers as they did not address this
Do you dispute that the right wing gop AZ legislature has instituted death panels - aka medicare restrictions organ transplants ? that GOP law allows faceless beauracrats in AZ to decide if granny lives ?
Do you dispute that banks, led by places like WAMU, but aided and abetted by others, engaged in fradulent practices ?
It is true that ordinary people did a lot of really stupid and crazy things in the housing boom. And they have paid; you should go and read the Times piece on a cul de sac in CA [it is interesting how right wingers think "n y times" is a synonym for liar, yet when they (R Limbaugh) need some news they cite times articles, and assume the articles are correct - listen to limbaugh if you don't believe me)
the point is, ordinary people have paid a huge price; ruined neighborhoods, lost jobs, etc
and the bankers who engaged in fradulent loan practices (when i say fradulent, i mean that, not sloppy) ? Obama says the "deserve" their salaries , and the bankers whine about how taxpayers are unwilling to cough up enough to keep their bonuses at pre boom levels
On what planet do you think the liberals have any influence in this country ? NOT ONE, NOT ONE crimminal indictment has been issued against a senior banker; marzillo got a wrist slap fine from some agency, and a lot of the fine was paid by his employer (ok a multi millon dollar fine, but fo rmarzillo a wrist slap).
Do you remember the original TARP proposal - H Paulson, former CEO of Sachs, says congress should give him a trillion dollars, with no strings (do you remember that the arrogant Paulson asked that the law be written so that appropriations were deemed lawful ?) ?
and do yo remember that the supposedly liberal democrats - led by my rep, B Frank, - aquiesced ?
What a sight; the "liberal" B Frank giving a trillion tax dollars to wall str with no quid pro quo, and outrage forcing him add some pretend restraints to the law ? ON what planet are liberals powerful, when the defense budget grows and grows and grows ?
on what planet are liberal powerful, when Nuclear Power gets money, while wind and solar don't (and don't give me that right wing BS about power density or load mismatch....) I could go on, but the right wing - the corporate reptiles who run this country - buy politicians and get, repeatedly, laws passed that are opposed by a vast majority of people in this counrty.
I am not left wing; I am moderate !!
how many times before people get the message , if you want privacy, don't do it electronically ? Actually, if you want privacy, write it on a single sheet of rice paper, on a glass sheet, with destatic sizer, in a room with variable lighting to fool cameras, in a dead language known only to you and your intended recipient
as a parent of MA teenagers, who are getting solid educations with strong science components, including a thorough (AP biology - amazing course here in MA) background in evolution, I say
Encourage the Bastards !!
If what Obama and Clinton and Bush are always saying about the 21st century is true - that we need a highly educated workforce to be competitive - I say it is great that TX is doing this, as kids in MA will be head and shoulders above them int eh competition for good jobs
How do you say "will you have fries with that"
Answer: A degree from Texas
PS: the U of TX lured the nobel prize winning Harvard physicists steven weinberg to austin with, among other things, a promise that he would be the highest paid faculty on campus. weinberg gets there, and finds that he is the 2nd highest paid faculty
any guesses?
the football coach, of course,,,
As someone who is ultra liberal, I think the original times piece is one of the most arrogant pieces of crap that i have ever read.
Its not that I think the republicans are right; Its rather that liberals, to my knowledge, indulge in fact free thinking just as often; it just takes a different slant.
its part of being human
if it is really interesting, you don't need the word "interesting" - your writing should demonstrate that in any event, why would you have a /. article on a non interesting thing ?
in many prev /. stories in this area, there have been numerous, angry, assertive posts that (fill in your favorite renewable) is bunk.
I wonder how many of those people will, if not today, someday realize that not only were they wrong to dis solar, wind , conservation, etc, but they did so in typical blog manner - overbearing and pompous.
Note that the press release is poorly formatted for web, mixes equally things with 50 million dollar and 1,600 million dollar cuts, and gives no relative scale (% of total budget, % of program) and in many cases the acronyms are unitelligble what a disgrace for our public servants to communicate in this manner. and the only contact is a phone number what a joke
1) cost
so what if if costs 500 to 800 billion dollars
we spent way more then that in Iraq - 500 billion is quite reasonable for a good high speed rail system if we can spend more on Iraq
2) Traffic congestion
true, we have to create destinations at each end, but this is doable
3) Costs
Typical dishonest right wing BS; he doesn't mention the huge huge huge cost subsidys to cars - have you ever heard of something called the mideast ? and how much we spend on the military to defend oil there ? you did any sort of honest analysis - includuding loss of public land for cars, cost to the environment to get fuel for\ cars, etc etc etc, I bet the current subsidys for cars are higher then rail
4) Cars, and everything about them, suck; they are inherently evil
see suburban nation
see people in cities who walk, like NYC, are healthier then suburbanites who drive
(probably an urban legend...) Guy is going on a 2 week biz trip; as he leaves the apt, he says to his live in girl friend, I want to break up, when I get back I want you and your stuff outta my apt. .....)
(silence)
Guy comes back, place is spotless, all her stuff is gone.
He notices phone is off the hook
What does he hear ??
At the tone, the time in Tokyo is..
(for you young'uns, it used to be really $$ to make a call overseas, like dollars a minute