I'm sorry, how does saying that ISPs can't throttle based on the end point giving the government MORE control? It sure sounds like it gives them less control. When DPI tools are no longer in place it becomes increasingly difficult for the government to control who has access to what. You might want to check on your definitely of net neutrality.
You're funny, you were insightful until you started calling the President a liar. How do you reconcile that despite Goldman Sachs people being brought in, that the President actually did propose to congress what he promised while campaigning and he's met nothing but staunch opposition from Republicans who's stated goals are to make him, the President of the United States fail. You should probably look at the number of proposals the executive office has put forward to the legislators only to have little to no progress in return even when it is their own proposals.
So rather than trying to portray the issue as black and white and cloud the problems with the banking industry by blaming government maybe you should realize that both are messed up and in need of serious reform, reform that McCain as a Republican proposed during the Clinton years with compaign finance reform. Then there is the need to put taxes back to where they were in the Clinton era, then put Glass Steagel back in for regulation of the financial sector and you start the process of developing a sane road to real recovery.
I look forward to the day when we can have rational debates that don't involve Republican versus Democrats and instead revolve around actual problems that need solving, like alternatives for oil, infrastructure rebuilding, energy generation, healthcare, and the myriad of other actual problems.
I suggest you try some of the real enterprise alternatives. vCenter is a great product I'll admit but it's definitely not worth the price and the licensing ridiculousness from VMWare. I migrated to XenServer and XenCenter has indeed caught up. Of course I find it hard to imagine a scenario where anyone is so dead set on a platform that they would make comments such as your's.
Worth nothing that Linux is now a supported guest in Hyper-V. I agree though, Citrix XenServer or Xen in general is a much better way to go these days given the associated costs and the robustness of "cloud" management products for said platforms. I migrated away from VMWare a long time ago, I've never felt like it was a bad decision. KVM seems to make the most noise these days but everything I've seen suggests that it is only good for low-end deployments so for now, the big players will probably still be on Xen.
I was in the same boat, went to Citrix and Xenserver and never looked back. I have a few servers that I even paid for, at less than a quarter of the price of VMWare and with much simpler licensing it was definitely one of the easier decisions I've made.
VMWare licensing is so bad that I bought a HP blade enclosure and filled it with 12 servers. The VMWare representative couldn't even get the licensing right. After the third time I sent it back to him I discovered XenServer, had it installed with a 12 node pool in less than two hours. It definitely lacked a lot of the polish I was used to with VMWare but that polish has come back in a big way especially since the Xen kernel images have caught up with mainstream Linux kernel releases.
You're humorous. I actually did read the parent and even in your quote it doesn't say it's not useful, parent said there are inherent limitations, Siri of today can't really progress very much further, hence the dead end which does NOT mean it's not useful. Latin is a dead language, that doesn't make it not useful as it's used in chemistry all the time.
Second, I don't just use Exchange, I am an Exchange admin, I don't know how your organization works but when I have a meeting with the CEO I don't get to propose a new time, what if there is a conflict? Now you have to react further, so it's not nearly as simple as saying "Siri, change my appointment." In the real world you have to coordinate, some meetings can't be moved, how would Siri know this? Do you really want your phone automatically proposing new times? I'm not sure again how it works in your world, but in mine a new proposal time comes with explanation otherwise it looks like you're wasting everyone's time. Additionally, I have conflicting appointments on my calendar, how would siri know which one I'm talking about?
Lastly, I don't think the word unrelated means what you think it means as a comment about Apple and the iPhone is actually quite relevant to the discussion at hand. You also again tried to inject your own viewpoint into my words, Apple's initial offering was indeed far more advanced than Android, guess what? It caught up. Deal with it. As someone that manages cross-platform apps I have to support all sides. Guess which platform I have to work with the most? The lovely iPhone doesn't even do calendaring correctly causing intense battery drain forcing you to change it to pull instead of push. This has not been an issue on any other platform including BB, WP7, or Android. The issue is even more lovely because some phones can go for months or years without a problem and then all of a sudden they start getting hot, you become lucky if your battery lasts two hours.
All over this board I see you openly hostile to anyone that disagrees with you, rather than calling people ignorant you might find there are multiple viewpoints and usage scenarios at play. Your short-sightedness only serves to display your own ignorance.
Which could have happened years ago or yesterday, talking on a bluetooth headset is will still get you funny looks. Not that it really matters, I just have a hard time believing that any voice recognition can function effectively in the loudness of a lot of public spaces which is the reason a lot of us don't use voice commands on our phones currently. I'm had voice search functionality for a few years already on my Android devices but I hardly ever use it since it's easier to just type exactly what you mean especially when it comes to proper nouns.
Except that no one said it was never useful. That was created by you.
Your example was highly flawed though, you can't just tell Siri to change your appointment unless you've made the appointment with yourself. Otherwise you have to communicate with someone else to change an appointment, does the doctor have an opening at 2:30? Siri will not know this anytime soon. I'm not sure you'd want it automatically communicating with the outside world either.
It remains to be soon if Siri will be useful 5% or 0% or even 50% of the time. With further development I'm sure it will become more useful but so far the only uses that are obvious are related to searching or the usual voice commands on a cell phone at which point Siri basically just added voice search to the iPhone, a feature that has been in Android phones since 1.6. Also, not something you would be doing in a car or while running. The car scenario would be more about navigation where again you have similar Android features already deployed since 1.6 as Google has had navigation down for quite a long itme.
From my perspective the iPhone 4S is about Apple catching up with Android rather than Android now needing to catch up with Apple. I'm actually rather open minded, as I play with Siri more my mind can certainly change, there are far too many variables to consider at this point.
Apple's commercials show Siri only used for voice searching and mainly by little kids so we'll see how it turns out. That S.O.B. is right, it's more likely to end up somewhere in between the two fanboy extremes demonstrated.
The problem with the example is that it's not realistic. I'm not sure what world exists where you can just move appointments without writing an email or calling someone, it is not as simple as saying "Siri, move my next appointment. "
Also worth noting that no one said Siri was a bad thing, people are just questioning how useful it is and they have a point. Only time will tell if Siri will become a killer app, out of the gate it is not, but neither was the original iPhone so speculation at this point doesn't accomplish much.
The Apple board member was over the top is saying it will take two years to come up with a solution that Google has already deployed and only needs to polish. Remember, Apple over the last decade has been about changing the UI to make complex tasks simpler. When it comes to software Apple is never the first to do something, they are merely the first to make it easy which is still a significant contribution. It by no means that Google couldn't fire back appropriately although I prefer some of the other advances in Androind 4.0 with facial recognition unlock and some other cool new features. A lot of these features with new smart phones are simply that, cool, it remains to be seen how useful a lot of these new features will become.
I only see cops pull people over for turn signal violations when they suspect it's a drunk driver. I have only seen one case where they did anything about tailgating and that was because some chick was tailgating and undercover cruiser.... that was kind of humorous.
Here is Arizona you will get a photo radar ticket for 3mph over if you're in a school zone. If you're on a road under 45mph you'll get 7mph over and if you're going over 45 you'll get 11mph. There is also the problem with speedometers requiring certain amounts of tire inflation which people routinely under inflate or over inflate their tires. My G37 speedometer always matches the public safety radar systems which display my speed. That's actually one of the ways I make sure my tires are inflated properly.
Example: Paradise Valley, Arizona. They reduced their roads from 45mph to 40mph because the law states that speed cameras do not have to post warnings at speeds below 45mph.
Yep, that one bit me personally, you're used to 45mph, so you go 50mph, whoops, the road is 40 so you're now doing 10 over despite the fact that the same road goes back up to 45 when you exit the city which since it's Phoenix is just Scottsdale, you don't even necessarily know you left PV.
Also, I fail to see how red light camera manipulation is irrelevant when it stands to reason that a city will rig traffic laws to ticket more people when it deems it good for the treasury. If they rig one system why wouldn't they limit another?
Terms like better are obviously subjective, my Infiniti G37 is a hell of a lot safer than the Dodge Neon I drove before it, I can stop faster, I can corner with better control, I have actual traction control, I have far better tires and brakes. All cars are not equal when it comes to navigating the highways. All of this is in combination with better airbags and improved frames, your 89 Civic CRX is going to kill you if you get t-boned. With a 2010 Impreza you'll not only live, but you'll probably be able to walk away.
But ultimately you're right, the driver plays a huge part in all this.
From the assumption that an employment contract is different from a project contract. Just because one project is over doesn't mean the contractor is out of work. We're talking about government IT, there are always other projects to work on.
Ya, I did run out, three months ago, who cares? I've been busy at work so I haven't gotten anymore. There were no withdrawal symptoms beyond the fact that I coughed less and enjoyed better lung capacity. This is not THC withdrawal, it is merely the fact that I'm not breathing in smoke. Nobody smokes pot to feel normal, they smoke pot to relax at the end of the day. I don't think you realize how many people smoke. We're not all slackers without day jobs. Most of us are pretty "normal" people holding all kinds of jobs.
Additionally your ignorance is showing when you say the munchies go away in people that are "addicted." It is a physical reaction to certain levels of THC in your body, you will get them if you smoke certain strains whether you smoke ten times a day or only on weekends.
All addition talk related to pot is about psychological addition which as you're aware has no bearing on why it is illegal. If addictive properties alone were enough Alcohol and tobacco would have been criminalized a long time ago. Look up the history of prohibition of weed. A single puritan set out to demonize it and his research still has roots in the opinions of people today.
It can certainly be abused, but some people even abuse access to porn, or watch too much Fox News, or eat too much pizza, is this really good enough reason to make criminals out of millions of people?
All of your statements show a frightening amount of ignorance as to the status of business in 1912. America would gain nothing by doing that beyond handing money over to people that already have more money than they know what to do with. The level of greed at play here is astonishing. How did you arrive at 1/100th the size of current government? What is that based on? Is it a number you picked out of your butt?
Your idea that states can cause less damage is also astounding given the status of the union in these romantic times of the 1910s where plague and poverty ran rampant. My grandfather's entire family died because of how poorly the states handled the crisis.
I think the main issue you have above all else though is your assumption that there can and should be a market for everything including human life. The end game of capitalism is one giant corporation, how is this somehow different than one giant government? Because the all mighty dollar drives them? Not when there is only one left. Microsoft had a small monopoly compared to the colluding power of high finance.
As I see it, the only people that think the federal government is too big are people that think they should pay even less in taxes than their parents and grand parents before them. This drive to have a few extra bucks in your pocket for what? What can't you afford that lifting all taxes would allow? Given all the environmental disasters of the past one hundred years, all of the people that died needlessly through lack of building codes and fire infrastructure, given that just 10 years ago we all paid higher taxes and all enjoyed incredible prosperity while balancing our budget with record low unemployment, how can you advocate for doing more of the same shit that has caused this very same crisis? How many deregulation horror stories do you need to hear before you start to realize that doing a job once at a national level is actually a good idea for a great many aspects of our lives. I think we all agree that the federal government has had a bad track record, this is our fault for voting in career politicians that don't look out for the country or the people that vote for them.
To that end, Ron Paul has stated few things I can stand behind, getting us out of Iraq makes a whole lot of sense, guess what? It's already happening too! Switching BACK to the gold standard is asinine and only serves to line the pockets of those that have been investing heavily in gold for the last decade. There are problems with the system yes, let's fix the problems instead of destroying all we've built over the last 200 years.
Out of curiosity given that the United States can't do anything about International corporations, what special powers do you think local governments have to deal with the same companies more effectively? It is orders of magnitude easier to move HQ to another state than another country, you seem to be advocating the dissolution of the United States. If the Federal government doesn't exist to provide aid in times of need, to regular intra and international commerce, then what are they for?
The assumption is that my liberty ends where your's begins. If you have far more resources than me then you have quite an ability to infringe on my rights. If you control every job in the United States what does that do to my right to the pursuit of happiness? It is the job of Government to control and balance the powers of individuals for the good of all citizens, not just a small majority with all the money.
I'll agree some issues are best handled at the state level, but this idea that states can do everything better than the fed is so beyond ignorant I don't even know where it started. You ever think about why the federal government took over certain responsibilities? How local governments in New Orleans during Katrina failed so miserably to help their own people? Regulation isn't a bad thing as long as it is good regulation. The argument shouldn't be about regulations or not, it should be about which regulations make sense and help even the playing field, and which regulations only cause harm. In my experience most regulations err on the side of caution however so the only harm is to corporate profits which caused a great many house fires before building codes rendered any new structure safe even though the cost of construction is higher.
History is an important teacher, please don't lose sight of how things became the way they are.
Maybe you forgot the part where we paid for telco lines and cable lines to be run to these people's houses to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in straight tax money in addition to the fund that the article is talking about.
You clearly don't see Internet access as a basic human right, much like richer people did when phone lines were first getting laid. When you realize that digging trenches and laying conduit is actually really expensive you start to see why it is smart to have one cable plant to each house rather than having a hundred different providers fail as they can't scale out beyond office buildings.
I also find your linked article highly dubious calling running multiple gas and water lines from different providers an inconvenience. Not only can it be dangerous but it's also really really really expensive to do.
You are also confused as to what the parent was suggesting, when government owns the wires they can subcontract out to multiple providers in each pop leveling the playing field for competition and ensuring that funds are used for the most public good. The forced sharing of lines is what allowed DSL to become a real technology instead of staying on the fringes. You had multiple providers using the cable plant to individual houses which allowed for real competition instead of private companies charging disproportionate amounts to lease lines that tax payer money helped lay.
I think you'll find that the 21 email systems do currently work for the people that use them. They will see no benefit in a minor reconfiguration. You'll also have to work with the people that currently run the 21 other email systems who may not be receptive to losing their jobs.
This would make me laugh if I didn't think so many people believed it. You think public schools were great in the 60s? Really? What are you basing this on? How many uneducated soldiers fought in Vietnam? I don't know where you get your facts from, certainly not from any history books.
Way to prove his point. You're talking about a specific city while he's talking about an entire state which had a rather large debate over whether creationism was science. Hint, it's not.
Furthermore, the parent was illustrating that individual states can and will do things dramatically different. If the people of Missouri are uneducated through lack of investment or more likely lack of money to invest in education that can and will spill over into Kansas. It is not a bad thing to ensure that your neighbors are doing alright. When you all watch out for each other you'll find you have a much stronger community than trying to go at everything yourself. This is why a federal government was created to begin with.
Perhaps because that bridge in Alaska would never get built otherwise? The whole purpose of forming a country is to share resources to help everyone grow. When you build up Alaska eventually they start producing oil in more quantity which helps out Florida. Or citizens of Alaska start buying goods as they have infrastructure necessary to create jobs and either vacation in Florida or buy something from there.
I'm not sure where this hatred of the Federal government comes from. The majority of the issues seem to be related to people re-electing representatives that don't represent their interests, not any kind of structural issue with having a federal government at all.
Then there is the realization that Ron Paul is advocating we return to the good ole days of robber barons which doesn't really impress me. When you take a look at history you see that these things were created for a reason. I have no problem with evaluating that reason and ensuring structurally the departments actually take care of what they are mandated to take care of. Axing things like education is so far beyond brain dead I don't even know where to begin with the argument. My grandfather dropped out of school in 4th grade, this is not possible in this day and age. He was a product of the depression. More kids are far far more educated today in our current flawed system than were ever educated before the federal department of education was established to unify standards across the country.
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I'm sorry, how does saying that ISPs can't throttle based on the end point giving the government MORE control? It sure sounds like it gives them less control. When DPI tools are no longer in place it becomes increasingly difficult for the government to control who has access to what. You might want to check on your definitely of net neutrality.
You're funny, you were insightful until you started calling the President a liar. How do you reconcile that despite Goldman Sachs people being brought in, that the President actually did propose to congress what he promised while campaigning and he's met nothing but staunch opposition from Republicans who's stated goals are to make him, the President of the United States fail. You should probably look at the number of proposals the executive office has put forward to the legislators only to have little to no progress in return even when it is their own proposals.
So rather than trying to portray the issue as black and white and cloud the problems with the banking industry by blaming government maybe you should realize that both are messed up and in need of serious reform, reform that McCain as a Republican proposed during the Clinton years with compaign finance reform. Then there is the need to put taxes back to where they were in the Clinton era, then put Glass Steagel back in for regulation of the financial sector and you start the process of developing a sane road to real recovery.
I look forward to the day when we can have rational debates that don't involve Republican versus Democrats and instead revolve around actual problems that need solving, like alternatives for oil, infrastructure rebuilding, energy generation, healthcare, and the myriad of other actual problems.
I suggest you try some of the real enterprise alternatives. vCenter is a great product I'll admit but it's definitely not worth the price and the licensing ridiculousness from VMWare. I migrated to XenServer and XenCenter has indeed caught up. Of course I find it hard to imagine a scenario where anyone is so dead set on a platform that they would make comments such as your's.
What showstopping features are you referring to with Xen? As someone that migrated away from VMWare to XenServer I'm definitely confused.
Worth nothing that Linux is now a supported guest in Hyper-V. I agree though, Citrix XenServer or Xen in general is a much better way to go these days given the associated costs and the robustness of "cloud" management products for said platforms. I migrated away from VMWare a long time ago, I've never felt like it was a bad decision. KVM seems to make the most noise these days but everything I've seen suggests that it is only good for low-end deployments so for now, the big players will probably still be on Xen.
I was in the same boat, went to Citrix and Xenserver and never looked back. I have a few servers that I even paid for, at less than a quarter of the price of VMWare and with much simpler licensing it was definitely one of the easier decisions I've made.
VMWare licensing is so bad that I bought a HP blade enclosure and filled it with 12 servers. The VMWare representative couldn't even get the licensing right. After the third time I sent it back to him I discovered XenServer, had it installed with a 12 node pool in less than two hours. It definitely lacked a lot of the polish I was used to with VMWare but that polish has come back in a big way especially since the Xen kernel images have caught up with mainstream Linux kernel releases.
What? You don't like trying to understand dozens of different thick accents and new support reps every month?
You're humorous. I actually did read the parent and even in your quote it doesn't say it's not useful, parent said there are inherent limitations, Siri of today can't really progress very much further, hence the dead end which does NOT mean it's not useful. Latin is a dead language, that doesn't make it not useful as it's used in chemistry all the time.
Second, I don't just use Exchange, I am an Exchange admin, I don't know how your organization works but when I have a meeting with the CEO I don't get to propose a new time, what if there is a conflict? Now you have to react further, so it's not nearly as simple as saying "Siri, change my appointment." In the real world you have to coordinate, some meetings can't be moved, how would Siri know this? Do you really want your phone automatically proposing new times? I'm not sure again how it works in your world, but in mine a new proposal time comes with explanation otherwise it looks like you're wasting everyone's time. Additionally, I have conflicting appointments on my calendar, how would siri know which one I'm talking about?
Lastly, I don't think the word unrelated means what you think it means as a comment about Apple and the iPhone is actually quite relevant to the discussion at hand. You also again tried to inject your own viewpoint into my words, Apple's initial offering was indeed far more advanced than Android, guess what? It caught up. Deal with it. As someone that manages cross-platform apps I have to support all sides. Guess which platform I have to work with the most? The lovely iPhone doesn't even do calendaring correctly causing intense battery drain forcing you to change it to pull instead of push. This has not been an issue on any other platform including BB, WP7, or Android. The issue is even more lovely because some phones can go for months or years without a problem and then all of a sudden they start getting hot, you become lucky if your battery lasts two hours.
All over this board I see you openly hostile to anyone that disagrees with you, rather than calling people ignorant you might find there are multiple viewpoints and usage scenarios at play. Your short-sightedness only serves to display your own ignorance.
Which could have happened years ago or yesterday, talking on a bluetooth headset is will still get you funny looks. Not that it really matters, I just have a hard time believing that any voice recognition can function effectively in the loudness of a lot of public spaces which is the reason a lot of us don't use voice commands on our phones currently. I'm had voice search functionality for a few years already on my Android devices but I hardly ever use it since it's easier to just type exactly what you mean especially when it comes to proper nouns.
Except that no one said it was never useful. That was created by you.
Your example was highly flawed though, you can't just tell Siri to change your appointment unless you've made the appointment with yourself. Otherwise you have to communicate with someone else to change an appointment, does the doctor have an opening at 2:30? Siri will not know this anytime soon. I'm not sure you'd want it automatically communicating with the outside world either.
It remains to be soon if Siri will be useful 5% or 0% or even 50% of the time. With further development I'm sure it will become more useful but so far the only uses that are obvious are related to searching or the usual voice commands on a cell phone at which point Siri basically just added voice search to the iPhone, a feature that has been in Android phones since 1.6. Also, not something you would be doing in a car or while running. The car scenario would be more about navigation where again you have similar Android features already deployed since 1.6 as Google has had navigation down for quite a long itme.
From my perspective the iPhone 4S is about Apple catching up with Android rather than Android now needing to catch up with Apple. I'm actually rather open minded, as I play with Siri more my mind can certainly change, there are far too many variables to consider at this point.
Apple's commercials show Siri only used for voice searching and mainly by little kids so we'll see how it turns out. That S.O.B. is right, it's more likely to end up somewhere in between the two fanboy extremes demonstrated.
The problem with the example is that it's not realistic. I'm not sure what world exists where you can just move appointments without writing an email or calling someone, it is not as simple as saying "Siri, move my next appointment. "
Also worth noting that no one said Siri was a bad thing, people are just questioning how useful it is and they have a point. Only time will tell if Siri will become a killer app, out of the gate it is not, but neither was the original iPhone so speculation at this point doesn't accomplish much.
The Apple board member was over the top is saying it will take two years to come up with a solution that Google has already deployed and only needs to polish. Remember, Apple over the last decade has been about changing the UI to make complex tasks simpler. When it comes to software Apple is never the first to do something, they are merely the first to make it easy which is still a significant contribution. It by no means that Google couldn't fire back appropriately although I prefer some of the other advances in Androind 4.0 with facial recognition unlock and some other cool new features. A lot of these features with new smart phones are simply that, cool, it remains to be seen how useful a lot of these new features will become.
I only see cops pull people over for turn signal violations when they suspect it's a drunk driver. I have only seen one case where they did anything about tailgating and that was because some chick was tailgating and undercover cruiser.... that was kind of humorous.
Here is Arizona you will get a photo radar ticket for 3mph over if you're in a school zone. If you're on a road under 45mph you'll get 7mph over and if you're going over 45 you'll get 11mph. There is also the problem with speedometers requiring certain amounts of tire inflation which people routinely under inflate or over inflate their tires. My G37 speedometer always matches the public safety radar systems which display my speed. That's actually one of the ways I make sure my tires are inflated properly.
The more you know...
Example: Paradise Valley, Arizona. They reduced their roads from 45mph to 40mph because the law states that speed cameras do not have to post warnings at speeds below 45mph.
Yep, that one bit me personally, you're used to 45mph, so you go 50mph, whoops, the road is 40 so you're now doing 10 over despite the fact that the same road goes back up to 45 when you exit the city which since it's Phoenix is just Scottsdale, you don't even necessarily know you left PV.
Also, I fail to see how red light camera manipulation is irrelevant when it stands to reason that a city will rig traffic laws to ticket more people when it deems it good for the treasury. If they rig one system why wouldn't they limit another?
Terms like better are obviously subjective, my Infiniti G37 is a hell of a lot safer than the Dodge Neon I drove before it, I can stop faster, I can corner with better control, I have actual traction control, I have far better tires and brakes. All cars are not equal when it comes to navigating the highways. All of this is in combination with better airbags and improved frames, your 89 Civic CRX is going to kill you if you get t-boned. With a 2010 Impreza you'll not only live, but you'll probably be able to walk away.
But ultimately you're right, the driver plays a huge part in all this.
From the assumption that an employment contract is different from a project contract. Just because one project is over doesn't mean the contractor is out of work. We're talking about government IT, there are always other projects to work on.
Ya, I did run out, three months ago, who cares? I've been busy at work so I haven't gotten anymore. There were no withdrawal symptoms beyond the fact that I coughed less and enjoyed better lung capacity. This is not THC withdrawal, it is merely the fact that I'm not breathing in smoke. Nobody smokes pot to feel normal, they smoke pot to relax at the end of the day. I don't think you realize how many people smoke. We're not all slackers without day jobs. Most of us are pretty "normal" people holding all kinds of jobs.
Additionally your ignorance is showing when you say the munchies go away in people that are "addicted." It is a physical reaction to certain levels of THC in your body, you will get them if you smoke certain strains whether you smoke ten times a day or only on weekends.
All addition talk related to pot is about psychological addition which as you're aware has no bearing on why it is illegal. If addictive properties alone were enough Alcohol and tobacco would have been criminalized a long time ago. Look up the history of prohibition of weed. A single puritan set out to demonize it and his research still has roots in the opinions of people today.
It can certainly be abused, but some people even abuse access to porn, or watch too much Fox News, or eat too much pizza, is this really good enough reason to make criminals out of millions of people?
All of your statements show a frightening amount of ignorance as to the status of business in 1912. America would gain nothing by doing that beyond handing money over to people that already have more money than they know what to do with. The level of greed at play here is astonishing. How did you arrive at 1/100th the size of current government? What is that based on? Is it a number you picked out of your butt?
Your idea that states can cause less damage is also astounding given the status of the union in these romantic times of the 1910s where plague and poverty ran rampant. My grandfather's entire family died because of how poorly the states handled the crisis.
I think the main issue you have above all else though is your assumption that there can and should be a market for everything including human life. The end game of capitalism is one giant corporation, how is this somehow different than one giant government? Because the all mighty dollar drives them? Not when there is only one left. Microsoft had a small monopoly compared to the colluding power of high finance.
As I see it, the only people that think the federal government is too big are people that think they should pay even less in taxes than their parents and grand parents before them. This drive to have a few extra bucks in your pocket for what? What can't you afford that lifting all taxes would allow? Given all the environmental disasters of the past one hundred years, all of the people that died needlessly through lack of building codes and fire infrastructure, given that just 10 years ago we all paid higher taxes and all enjoyed incredible prosperity while balancing our budget with record low unemployment, how can you advocate for doing more of the same shit that has caused this very same crisis? How many deregulation horror stories do you need to hear before you start to realize that doing a job once at a national level is actually a good idea for a great many aspects of our lives. I think we all agree that the federal government has had a bad track record, this is our fault for voting in career politicians that don't look out for the country or the people that vote for them.
To that end, Ron Paul has stated few things I can stand behind, getting us out of Iraq makes a whole lot of sense, guess what? It's already happening too! Switching BACK to the gold standard is asinine and only serves to line the pockets of those that have been investing heavily in gold for the last decade. There are problems with the system yes, let's fix the problems instead of destroying all we've built over the last 200 years.
Out of curiosity given that the United States can't do anything about International corporations, what special powers do you think local governments have to deal with the same companies more effectively? It is orders of magnitude easier to move HQ to another state than another country, you seem to be advocating the dissolution of the United States. If the Federal government doesn't exist to provide aid in times of need, to regular intra and international commerce, then what are they for?
The assumption is that my liberty ends where your's begins. If you have far more resources than me then you have quite an ability to infringe on my rights. If you control every job in the United States what does that do to my right to the pursuit of happiness? It is the job of Government to control and balance the powers of individuals for the good of all citizens, not just a small majority with all the money.
I'll agree some issues are best handled at the state level, but this idea that states can do everything better than the fed is so beyond ignorant I don't even know where it started. You ever think about why the federal government took over certain responsibilities? How local governments in New Orleans during Katrina failed so miserably to help their own people? Regulation isn't a bad thing as long as it is good regulation. The argument shouldn't be about regulations or not, it should be about which regulations make sense and help even the playing field, and which regulations only cause harm. In my experience most regulations err on the side of caution however so the only harm is to corporate profits which caused a great many house fires before building codes rendered any new structure safe even though the cost of construction is higher.
History is an important teacher, please don't lose sight of how things became the way they are.
Maybe you forgot the part where we paid for telco lines and cable lines to be run to these people's houses to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in straight tax money in addition to the fund that the article is talking about.
You clearly don't see Internet access as a basic human right, much like richer people did when phone lines were first getting laid. When you realize that digging trenches and laying conduit is actually really expensive you start to see why it is smart to have one cable plant to each house rather than having a hundred different providers fail as they can't scale out beyond office buildings.
I also find your linked article highly dubious calling running multiple gas and water lines from different providers an inconvenience. Not only can it be dangerous but it's also really really really expensive to do.
You are also confused as to what the parent was suggesting, when government owns the wires they can subcontract out to multiple providers in each pop leveling the playing field for competition and ensuring that funds are used for the most public good. The forced sharing of lines is what allowed DSL to become a real technology instead of staying on the fringes. You had multiple providers using the cable plant to individual houses which allowed for real competition instead of private companies charging disproportionate amounts to lease lines that tax payer money helped lay.
I think you'll find that the 21 email systems do currently work for the people that use them. They will see no benefit in a minor reconfiguration. You'll also have to work with the people that currently run the 21 other email systems who may not be receptive to losing their jobs.
This would make me laugh if I didn't think so many people believed it. You think public schools were great in the 60s? Really? What are you basing this on? How many uneducated soldiers fought in Vietnam? I don't know where you get your facts from, certainly not from any history books.
Way to prove his point. You're talking about a specific city while he's talking about an entire state which had a rather large debate over whether creationism was science. Hint, it's not.
Furthermore, the parent was illustrating that individual states can and will do things dramatically different. If the people of Missouri are uneducated through lack of investment or more likely lack of money to invest in education that can and will spill over into Kansas. It is not a bad thing to ensure that your neighbors are doing alright. When you all watch out for each other you'll find you have a much stronger community than trying to go at everything yourself. This is why a federal government was created to begin with.
Funny, I work for a private company and each department works on the exact same principle. What's your point?
Perhaps because that bridge in Alaska would never get built otherwise? The whole purpose of forming a country is to share resources to help everyone grow. When you build up Alaska eventually they start producing oil in more quantity which helps out Florida. Or citizens of Alaska start buying goods as they have infrastructure necessary to create jobs and either vacation in Florida or buy something from there.
I'm not sure where this hatred of the Federal government comes from. The majority of the issues seem to be related to people re-electing representatives that don't represent their interests, not any kind of structural issue with having a federal government at all.
Then there is the realization that Ron Paul is advocating we return to the good ole days of robber barons which doesn't really impress me. When you take a look at history you see that these things were created for a reason. I have no problem with evaluating that reason and ensuring structurally the departments actually take care of what they are mandated to take care of. Axing things like education is so far beyond brain dead I don't even know where to begin with the argument. My grandfather dropped out of school in 4th grade, this is not possible in this day and age. He was a product of the depression. More kids are far far more educated today in our current flawed system than were ever educated before the federal department of education was established to unify standards across the country.