I'd suggest you check out IntelliJ's IDEA 8.0. I've been developing interfaces for the web for ten years now, and I've come across nothing with such comprehensive and accurate support for js coding. Both your complaints about code completion and syntax checking are handled by IDEA accurately.
Some other developers in my group swear by MyEclipse's js handling, but I haven't had any personal experience with it in the past couple of years. My last impression of it was that its color-coding wasn't as detailed as IDEA's. Still, MyEclipse is open-source, so check it out first and see if it takes care of your needs.
For debugging, Firebug is still your best bet, though I believe IE's debugger has been making huge strides lately, and is better than Firebug for automatically handling breakpoints--in Firebug, you have to search through your.js files in order to manually place a breakpoint, and then that can get weird if you have iframes to deal with.
Just looking at Britannica.com's home page will reveal why they aren't ranked as well as Wikipedia. Upwards of 90% of the home page content is irrelevant to the majority of users, who are there because they want to look something up, not look at the video of the day, play with the "Featured" flash movie, or read about how Britannica is involved in Advocacy for Animals. This is an excellent example of web design molded around the needs of internal customers and requirements rather than the needs of the end user. The flash movies swoop in as they load, drawing attention away from the user's goal: the search box in the upper-middle of the screen, which itself is visually subservient to the arrogant "Premium Membership - Free Trial" button in the upper-right.
Both google and wikipedia did it right. Give the user a search box, a logo, and some language options. Trust them to explore your system on their own.
I have an iPhone 3g myself, and a few weeks of use got me excited enough about app development to feel truly let down when I discovered I'd have to buy a mac to develop on. Actually pricing one out that I could use for high-end photoshop work in addition to iPhone development was a sobering experience. Add that to the learning curve associated with migrating to OSX from WinXP, and I'm back to Flash development on my PC.
I would be one of the people to vote against a tax increase for municipal wi-fi. Two reasons: first, the control of such systems would fall to bureaucrats, who are notoriously bad at nearly everything they attempt other than getting elected, spending money, and making the government larger. All the usual afflictions of governments would suddenly be transferred onto your internet life, including an astonishly small step to municipal, state or federal censorship.
Second, everywhere I look I see more restaurants, coffee shops and other businesses advertising "free wi-fi!". This trend seems to be accelerating, and as technology improves, I think it would be very easy to see them, in cooperation with another private entity (such as the Colo. entrepreneur above) to offer a better service with more responsiveness to the marketplace--something the government is infamous for being bad at.
So, we should wait until the chances of dying from a terror attack are what, 30000:1? 10000:1? At what point do the deaths make you willing to part with a few of your tax dollars which would have otherwise been spent on supporting politicians' vote-buying social programs and bridges-to-nowhere?
This comment thread is rife with those who it is very clear have never been in a position, nor have had someone dear to them be in a position where a sociopath wants to kill them because they believe differently than the sociopath does.
What were YOU thinking as the World Trade Centers fell? Were you complaining that a small portion of your tax dollars were going to be redirected, or were you pontificating for peace at any cost? Surrender? Complaining that your phone records were being stored by the NSA (like they have been since Carter's day)? Most of the comments in this thread referring to the war would have been flamed mercilessly in the days following that attack, but now, most of you seemed to have forgotten what it felt like to witness the attack of a foreign power (many states openly sponsor terrorism--Iraq (Saddam paid bounties to the families of suicide bombers), Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc.) on your own soil.
How much will it take for people like the author of the previous post to stop complaining and instead take notice? Dirty bomb? Nuclear attack? Virus attack? All of these have been espoused widely and publicly by Islamofascist dogma in all the countries I've already mentioned.
So wrap the comfort of a malcontent-friendly forum around you, bitch and moan some more, and hope those you're trashing are doing their jobs, and the deaths that finally galvanize the ostrich-like trolls of this forum don't include your own.
WebOS's, or Web Desktops, do not accomplish anything that the paired browser/OS cannot accomplish in a more efficient way. Popping open a dhtml window, with or without XMLHttpRequest, can accomplish bypassing pop-up blockers, but in every other way, the client's OS is much better suited to handling any kind of windowing duties.
Allowing the user to manage their windows in an already-familiar OS environment, rather than having to relearn the duplicate controls of a web site is a clear usability win. In my company's usability studies, users are greatly confused by presenting them with a simple web-based tree view, let alone an entire windowing interface. In addition, the more advanced browsers that utilize tabs become crippled when the user doesn't have the option of spawning the dhtml window in a new tab.
I've been down the game addiction road before. I've also known quite a few people who had similar problems. All of us seemed to have the same obsessive/compulsive tendencies. Making that character, game or whatever just a bit stronger, or a little more "perfect" can take over you whole mindset.
I was addicted to FPS's for some time, then when the "buzz" from that wore off, I started getting into modding, which demands an entirely new level of precision and flawlessness to strive for.
It took a divorce from my wife to wake me up, and as I recovered over the past few years, we got back together. Hopefully, your friend won't require anything so severe to slap him to his senses.
My advice is to find something that gives that "buzz" response, but requires being physically around other people. It's very hard to get into that trance-like state of compulsion for just "one more {..x..}" when you have your friends around you. Just something as simple as switching from a PC game to a side-by-side console game you play with your friends next to you on the couch could do the trick.
According to media sources, there are as many as 300,000 bodies buried in 263 mass graves in Iraq. Please give examples of the math you're using to justify your statement that the U.S. has killed enough people in the past 3-4 years that Saddam Hussein would require several decades to equal it. For math purposes i'll even allow that one innocent person's life is equivalent to that of a violent islamofascist.
I know all about being a salaried tech person. I am one. I frequently work more than 40 hours a week, not because my boss is standing over me with a whip, but because I put value in the quality of my work. My employer recognizes that, and values me appropriately when it comes time for raises or promotions. If they didn't I would look elsewhere for someone who would--another thing my employer recognizes.
I, or anyone else, does not need to stand up and demand their "fair share". What they need to do is earn it.
I wasn't insulting anyone. If 98% of people complain about it, and are unwilling to fix it, then can't it be responsibly labelled as a lack of ambition? Perhaps you're looking too hard.
Certainly you can be fired for walking off the job! Why not? The only reason unions hold power over their employers is that they control such a vast amount of the employer's labor force that it would take the employer longer and more money to replace them than it would be to cave into the demands of the union.
If you couldn't get fired for striking, then why work? Just get hired, go on strike, and stay home. This isn't an exaggerated statement to make a point, either. The UAW in this country has a policy whereby members can stay home and draw their full pay indefinitely if a plant in their area shuts down and there is no other operating plant within a certain radius of the closed one.
Things such as a 40 hour work week occur naturally when employers are having to compete for skilled labor.
I certainly agree that current monopoly laws should be in place, and enforced. Allowing monopolies to exist, including government-created ones, undermines the free market.
DARPA certainly had a hand in the creation of the internet, just as it had a hand in the creation of the jet engine, which are obviously both used for non-government purposes now. Just because the government helped to create something doesn't mean they should be able to control it into perpetuity.
Your comment on hydrogen is confusing. Of course hydrogen explodes, and the likelyhood of any device which uses it in its gaseous form exploding is higher than that of current engines. The only exception to this is the experimental solid-state storage device that some old engineer came up with (can't remember his name off-hand. google it) and patented not too long ago. I'd love to see a clean energy source, but it has to be inexpensive enough to avoid adversely impacting our economic growth.
The problem with insurance
programs is that they arn't driven to reduce their cost structures nor
provide better service: they are not in a competive marketplace since
one doesn't usually "shop around" when you're on death's door
You're partially right. The problem is that insurance companies don't have to compete as much as they would have to if individuals could buy a single policy rather than having to rely on their employer's insurance offerings due to government "incentives"(read: interference). You don't always need medical insurance just when "you're at death's door". In its current incarnation, you need it just about any time you visit a doctor; therefore, you absolutely could shop around 99.9% of the time.
No, "Real Securtiy" is keeping our moral rights so that 99.9999% of the
world's population won't give safe-harbor to terrorists. However, as it
stands, far too many of world's population would gladly assist attacking
our contry after witnessing our brazen attack of Iraq and our absolutely
fantastic torture policies.
First, don't exaggerate. Honestly answer to yourself how many individuals would answer, "yes" to attacking innocent citizens of *any* country. I think your figure of "99.9999%" would be inverted. The vast majority of people do not condone cold-blooded murder. "fantastic torture policies"? What, putting panties on the heads of prisoners? Not letting them get enough sleep, or leaving the lights on while they do so? Did you miss the Al Qaeda broadcasts on Al-Jazeera where they sawed off a living person's head with a big knife? Prisoners in our custody are drinking kool-aid and singing along with Barney the Dinosaur tunes by comparison. Saddam Hussein, before being forcibly removed, was fond of gassing his own people and watching his political enemies be boiled in oil. If what we do is "fantastic torture", then WTF do you call that?
I agree that U.S. healthcare needs an overhaul. That overhaul needs to consist of nothing but the government removing all regulations and laws that prevent an individual from finding their own private insurance provider without falling prey to the loss of financial incentives.
The current costs are a result of demand for the most advanced medical procedures (read: expensive) and the latest prescription drugs (read: expensive).
Also, that $3000 MRI you're talking about costs someone $3000, or more. The difference with a socialist state is that you're being taxed at enormously high levels for everyone's MRI's, rather than just your own. In a free economic environment, you have the competitive incentives to keep that $3000 cost as low as possible and to fuel innovations. In a socialist state, those incentives are much lessened or absent altogether.
I could go into an economics lesson here, but the people who need it likely wouldn't read it, or are too tightly bound to their current world-view to make the reading of it useful.
I'm not a Republican, either. This administration has been extremely irresponsible in its spending habits.
There's a glowing recommendation for your own position. The fact that no one wants to change what 98% of them complain about is more an example of British lack of ambition than a supportive argument in favor of Socialism.
That would be socialism. It has delivered the world's best standards of living right across Scandinavia.
I am surprised you are trying to uphold Scandinavian nations as proof of the viability of socialist regimes over a more economically free society, while ignoring the collapse of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the economic wastelands of Cuba, and North Korea, and the despotism of communist China.
Freedom and ownership is what strengthens an economy, not government dictate.
Never, actually. All of those are run by private companies, with the exception of the fire department and "clean air" (who "gives" us clean air? shrug). These require payment from you in order to give you water, electricity, garbage collection and ambulance services.
If you'd like those to all be given to you by the government, there are any number of statist dictatorships you could immigrate to.
1. No tax subsidies to companies which outsource overseas. -- IMO, we ought to do away with all subsidies, period. It is not the governments responsibility to manipulate the free market when it behaves is ways which do not equal votes.
2. Protect "the right of americans to organize", and the "Employee Free Choice Act" -- In other words, they support legalized blackmail as long as you're paying union dues. The "Act" they have drafted would allow employees to force a union on an employer. I wonder if this would make it illegal to fire someone for their participation in a union strike. How about the "free choice" to go get another job if you don't like your current one? After all, Delta Airlines is so grateful for their wonderful union. Remember Eastern Airlines?
3. "universal broadband" -- and when did it become the responsibility of the governement to make sure we all had broadband? I'd rather the government keep from touching the internet any more than it already has. If this happened, how long until the government demagogues its way into monitoring those "guaranteed" connections? What if you don't have a computer? Does this mean that we have to have "universal computers" also?
4. "energy independence" in 5 years -- How? Government regulation? Opening up ANWR to drilling? Oh, wait, Dems won't do that, as caribou might be offended by the sight of a drilling rig. What does that leave? Solar--too inefficient; Hydrogen--unproven tech(BOOM!)and/or too expensive; hybrid cars--anyone ever replaced one of the batteries in these things (estimated costs are between $2000 for a Toyota and up to $6000 for some hondas)? My father has owned an Insight for some years now, and has repeatedly tried to get Honda to give him an official price on a battery replacement, to no avail.
5. Socialized health care -- I can't wait to get in line for 6 months for an MRI. Will we pass out government health insurance cards at the Mexican border? How about deregulating health insurance so that we can buy it from whoever we want instead of being force-fed whatever our company can afford? Ever have a problem getting auto insurance?
6. "Real security" -- Apparently, to Ms. Pelosi this means inspecting 100% of the containers coming into our ports. I'm sure that would be very effective in stopping morons from getting a WMD into our country. I doubt it would be as effective against someone striding brazenly across our ridiculously porous borders.
To sum up: socialism, government regulation, increased bureaucracy, and economic protectionism. Someone please tell me exactly which of these things has historically proven to be successful?
How many cars were belching so-called greenhouse gases across North America in 800 A.D.? Were the theories of man-caused global warming correct, then shouldn't the 20th century be BY FAR the warmest century ever, thanks to car emissions and CFC's?
Perhaps, before they were thinned out, the environment was being catastrophically altered by all the buffalo flatulence.
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I'd suggest you check out IntelliJ's IDEA 8.0. I've been developing interfaces for the web for ten years now, and I've come across nothing with such comprehensive and accurate support for js coding. Both your complaints about code completion and syntax checking are handled by IDEA accurately.
Some other developers in my group swear by MyEclipse's js handling, but I haven't had any personal experience with it in the past couple of years. My last impression of it was that its color-coding wasn't as detailed as IDEA's. Still, MyEclipse is open-source, so check it out first and see if it takes care of your needs.
For debugging, Firebug is still your best bet, though I believe IE's debugger has been making huge strides lately, and is better than Firebug for automatically handling breakpoints--in Firebug, you have to search through your .js files in order to manually place a breakpoint, and then that can get weird if you have iframes to deal with.
Mr. Blunt is just saying that instead we should all show our support and torrent our audiobooks from PirateBay.
Just looking at Britannica.com's home page will reveal why they aren't ranked as well as Wikipedia. Upwards of 90% of the home page content is irrelevant to the majority of users, who are there because they want to look something up, not look at the video of the day, play with the "Featured" flash movie, or read about how Britannica is involved in Advocacy for Animals. This is an excellent example of web design molded around the needs of internal customers and requirements rather than the needs of the end user. The flash movies swoop in as they load, drawing attention away from the user's goal: the search box in the upper-middle of the screen, which itself is visually subservient to the arrogant "Premium Membership - Free Trial" button in the upper-right.
Both google and wikipedia did it right. Give the user a search box, a logo, and some language options. Trust them to explore your system on their own.
I have an iPhone 3g myself, and a few weeks of use got me excited enough about app development to feel truly let down when I discovered I'd have to buy a mac to develop on. Actually pricing one out that I could use for high-end photoshop work in addition to iPhone development was a sobering experience. Add that to the learning curve associated with migrating to OSX from WinXP, and I'm back to Flash development on my PC.
I would be one of the people to vote against a tax increase for municipal wi-fi. Two reasons: first, the control of such systems would fall to bureaucrats, who are notoriously bad at nearly everything they attempt other than getting elected, spending money, and making the government larger. All the usual afflictions of governments would suddenly be transferred onto your internet life, including an astonishly small step to municipal, state or federal censorship.
Second, everywhere I look I see more restaurants, coffee shops and other businesses advertising "free wi-fi!". This trend seems to be accelerating, and as technology improves, I think it would be very easy to see them, in cooperation with another private entity (such as the Colo. entrepreneur above) to offer a better service with more responsiveness to the marketplace--something the government is infamous for being bad at.
So, we should wait until the chances of dying from a terror attack are what, 30000:1? 10000:1? At what point do the deaths make you willing to part with a few of your tax dollars which would have otherwise been spent on supporting politicians' vote-buying social programs and bridges-to-nowhere?
This comment thread is rife with those who it is very clear have never been in a position, nor have had someone dear to them be in a position where a sociopath wants to kill them because they believe differently than the sociopath does.
What were YOU thinking as the World Trade Centers fell? Were you complaining that a small portion of your tax dollars were going to be redirected, or were you pontificating for peace at any cost? Surrender? Complaining that your phone records were being stored by the NSA (like they have been since Carter's day)? Most of the comments in this thread referring to the war would have been flamed mercilessly in the days following that attack, but now, most of you seemed to have forgotten what it felt like to witness the attack of a foreign power (many states openly sponsor terrorism--Iraq (Saddam paid bounties to the families of suicide bombers), Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc.) on your own soil.
How much will it take for people like the author of the previous post to stop complaining and instead take notice? Dirty bomb? Nuclear attack? Virus attack? All of these have been espoused widely and publicly by Islamofascist dogma in all the countries I've already mentioned.
So wrap the comfort of a malcontent-friendly forum around you, bitch and moan some more, and hope those you're trashing are doing their jobs, and the deaths that finally galvanize the ostrich-like trolls of this forum don't include your own.
WebOS's, or Web Desktops, do not accomplish anything that the paired browser/OS cannot accomplish in a more efficient way. Popping open a dhtml window, with or without XMLHttpRequest, can accomplish bypassing pop-up blockers, but in every other way, the client's OS is much better suited to handling any kind of windowing duties.
Allowing the user to manage their windows in an already-familiar OS environment, rather than having to relearn the duplicate controls of a web site is a clear usability win. In my company's usability studies, users are greatly confused by presenting them with a simple web-based tree view, let alone an entire windowing interface. In addition, the more advanced browsers that utilize tabs become crippled when the user doesn't have the option of spawning the dhtml window in a new tab.
The 200 million people having trouble sitting down today would agree with that.
As someone who just wrote a check yesterday for everything he'd managed to save over the last 12 months, I wholeheartedly agree.
Let's see if the hits from Symantec to www.fairtax.org increase at all.
I've been down the game addiction road before. I've also known quite a few people who had similar problems. All of us seemed to have the same obsessive/compulsive tendencies. Making that character, game or whatever just a bit stronger, or a little more "perfect" can take over you whole mindset.
I was addicted to FPS's for some time, then when the "buzz" from that wore off, I started getting into modding, which demands an entirely new level of precision and flawlessness to strive for.
It took a divorce from my wife to wake me up, and as I recovered over the past few years, we got back together. Hopefully, your friend won't require anything so severe to slap him to his senses.
My advice is to find something that gives that "buzz" response, but requires being physically around other people. It's very hard to get into that trance-like state of compulsion for just "one more {..x..}" when you have your friends around you. Just something as simple as switching from a PC game to a side-by-side console game you play with your friends next to you on the couch could do the trick.
According to media sources, there are as many as 300,000 bodies buried in 263 mass graves in Iraq. Please give examples of the math you're using to justify your statement that the U.S. has killed enough people in the past 3-4 years that Saddam Hussein would require several decades to equal it. For math purposes i'll even allow that one innocent person's life is equivalent to that of a violent islamofascist.
I know all about being a salaried tech person. I am one. I frequently work more than 40 hours a week, not because my boss is standing over me with a whip, but because I put value in the quality of my work. My employer recognizes that, and values me appropriately when it comes time for raises or promotions. If they didn't I would look elsewhere for someone who would--another thing my employer recognizes.
I, or anyone else, does not need to stand up and demand their "fair share". What they need to do is earn it.
I wasn't insulting anyone. If 98% of people complain about it, and are unwilling to fix it, then can't it be responsibly labelled as a lack of ambition? Perhaps you're looking too hard.
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Insults and personal attacks, too. How adult.
Shame there's not an "Ironic" label on
Certainly you can be fired for walking off the job! Why not? The only reason unions hold power over their employers is that they control such a vast amount of the employer's labor force that it would take the employer longer and more money to replace them than it would be to cave into the demands of the union.
If you couldn't get fired for striking, then why work? Just get hired, go on strike, and stay home. This isn't an exaggerated statement to make a point, either. The UAW in this country has a policy whereby members can stay home and draw their full pay indefinitely if a plant in their area shuts down and there is no other operating plant within a certain radius of the closed one.
Things such as a 40 hour work week occur naturally when employers are having to compete for skilled labor.
I certainly agree that current monopoly laws should be in place, and enforced. Allowing monopolies to exist, including government-created ones, undermines the free market.
DARPA certainly had a hand in the creation of the internet, just as it had a hand in the creation of the jet engine, which are obviously both used for non-government purposes now. Just because the government helped to create something doesn't mean they should be able to control it into perpetuity.
Your comment on hydrogen is confusing. Of course hydrogen explodes, and the likelyhood of any device which uses it in its gaseous form exploding is higher than that of current engines. The only exception to this is the experimental solid-state storage device that some old engineer came up with (can't remember his name off-hand. google it) and patented not too long ago. I'd love to see a clean energy source, but it has to be inexpensive enough to avoid adversely impacting our economic growth.
The problem with insurance programs is that they arn't driven to reduce their cost structures nor provide better service: they are not in a competive marketplace since one doesn't usually "shop around" when you're on death's door
You're partially right. The problem is that insurance companies don't have to compete as much as they would have to if individuals could buy a single policy rather than having to rely on their employer's insurance offerings due to government "incentives"(read: interference). You don't always need medical insurance just when "you're at death's door". In its current incarnation, you need it just about any time you visit a doctor; therefore, you absolutely could shop around 99.9% of the time.
No, "Real Securtiy" is keeping our moral rights so that 99.9999% of the world's population won't give safe-harbor to terrorists. However, as it stands, far too many of world's population would gladly assist attacking our contry after witnessing our brazen attack of Iraq and our absolutely fantastic torture policies.
First, don't exaggerate. Honestly answer to yourself how many individuals would answer, "yes" to attacking innocent citizens of *any* country. I think your figure of "99.9999%" would be inverted. The vast majority of people do not condone cold-blooded murder. "fantastic torture policies"? What, putting panties on the heads of prisoners? Not letting them get enough sleep, or leaving the lights on while they do so? Did you miss the Al Qaeda broadcasts on Al-Jazeera where they sawed off a living person's head with a big knife? Prisoners in our custody are drinking kool-aid and singing along with Barney the Dinosaur tunes by comparison. Saddam Hussein, before being forcibly removed, was fond of gassing his own people and watching his political enemies be boiled in oil. If what we do is "fantastic torture", then WTF do you call that?
I agree that U.S. healthcare needs an overhaul. That overhaul needs to consist of nothing but the government removing all regulations and laws that prevent an individual from finding their own private insurance provider without falling prey to the loss of financial incentives.
The current costs are a result of demand for the most advanced medical procedures (read: expensive) and the latest prescription drugs (read: expensive).
Also, that $3000 MRI you're talking about costs someone $3000, or more. The difference with a socialist state is that you're being taxed at enormously high levels for everyone's MRI's, rather than just your own. In a free economic environment, you have the competitive incentives to keep that $3000 cost as low as possible and to fuel innovations. In a socialist state, those incentives are much lessened or absent altogether.
I could go into an economics lesson here, but the people who need it likely wouldn't read it, or are too tightly bound to their current world-view to make the reading of it useful.
I'm not a Republican, either. This administration has been extremely irresponsible in its spending habits.
98% of Brits will complain about the NHS
s h.pdf. Its conclusion is that if the EU were a state within the United States, it would be ranked as the poorest in the nation.
There's a glowing recommendation for your own position. The fact that no one wants to change what 98% of them complain about is more an example of British lack of ambition than a supportive argument in favor of Socialism.
That would be socialism. It has delivered the world's best standards of living right across Scandinavia.
Please read this: http://www.timbro.com/euvsusa/pdf/EU_vs_USA_Engli
I am surprised you are trying to uphold Scandinavian nations as proof of the viability of socialist regimes over a more economically free society, while ignoring the collapse of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the economic wastelands of Cuba, and North Korea, and the despotism of communist China.
Freedom and ownership is what strengthens an economy, not government dictate.
Never, actually. All of those are run by private companies, with the exception of the fire department and "clean air" (who "gives" us clean air? shrug). These require payment from you in order to give you water, electricity, garbage collection and ambulance services.
If you'd like those to all be given to you by the government, there are any number of statist dictatorships you could immigrate to.
The basic points of Ms. Pelosi's speech:
1. No tax subsidies to companies which outsource overseas. -- IMO, we ought to do away with all subsidies, period. It is not the governments responsibility to manipulate the free market when it behaves is ways which do not equal votes.
2. Protect "the right of americans to organize", and the "Employee Free Choice Act" -- In other words, they support legalized blackmail as long as you're paying union dues. The "Act" they have drafted would allow employees to force a union on an employer. I wonder if this would make it illegal to fire someone for their participation in a union strike. How about the "free choice" to go get another job if you don't like your current one? After all, Delta Airlines is so grateful for their wonderful union. Remember Eastern Airlines?
3. "universal broadband" -- and when did it become the responsibility of the governement to make sure we all had broadband? I'd rather the government keep from touching the internet any more than it already has. If this happened, how long until the government demagogues its way into monitoring those "guaranteed" connections? What if you don't have a computer? Does this mean that we have to have "universal computers" also?
4. "energy independence" in 5 years -- How? Government regulation? Opening up ANWR to drilling? Oh, wait, Dems won't do that, as caribou might be offended by the sight of a drilling rig. What does that leave? Solar--too inefficient; Hydrogen--unproven tech(BOOM!)and/or too expensive; hybrid cars--anyone ever replaced one of the batteries in these things (estimated costs are between $2000 for a Toyota and up to $6000 for some hondas)? My father has owned an Insight for some years now, and has repeatedly tried to get Honda to give him an official price on a battery replacement, to no avail.
5. Socialized health care -- I can't wait to get in line for 6 months for an MRI. Will we pass out government health insurance cards at the Mexican border? How about deregulating health insurance so that we can buy it from whoever we want instead of being force-fed whatever our company can afford? Ever have a problem getting auto insurance?
6. "Real security" -- Apparently, to Ms. Pelosi this means inspecting 100% of the containers coming into our ports. I'm sure that would be very effective in stopping morons from getting a WMD into our country. I doubt it would be as effective against someone striding brazenly across our ridiculously porous borders.
To sum up: socialism, government regulation, increased bureaucracy, and economic protectionism. Someone please tell me exactly which of these things has historically proven to be successful?
"7th century A.D. found to be warmer than 20th."
Reads a bit differently, doesn't it?
How many cars were belching so-called greenhouse gases across North America in 800 A.D.? Were the theories of man-caused global warming correct, then shouldn't the 20th century be BY FAR the warmest century ever, thanks to car emissions and CFC's?
Perhaps, before they were thinned out, the environment was being catastrophically altered by all the buffalo flatulence.