simply won't happen until they become a force at the local, regional and state level. When you see more tea-partiers, libertarians, greens, constitutionalists, progressives, etc.at the local level, then the two party system will be ready for a change. There is simply too much money stacked against the average Joe or Jane regardless of their favorite political ideology to see any dramatic change at the national level. Indeed, perhaps that is how it should be, since these parties really have to prove themselves.
Ironically, Europe has been way ahead of the US in this regard for years. In Germany the Greens are poised to take over having clearly demonstrated what sensible support for solar and wind energy can do for their economy.
You would think that the extreme left and the extreme right would be smart enough to recognize that they both are being screwed by the corporatists, who in total control and can play one side off against the other. Sadly, money talks better than people can think, so get used to it. America is now privatized.
the chances of Ralph Nader getting elected to any office, much less the presidency, is about as likely as being hit by lightening.
Change will come only when there is broad recognition and agreement on a suitable course of action. I doubt that will come until after the republicans finish off the American economy, labor, consumers and the environment once and for all.
Knowing republicans it won't take them long. They work fast. In just 30 years of Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and goons like Gingrich, McCaine, McConnell,... America is now just a shell of its former self. Hollowed out to satisfy whatever some greedy corporate tycoon wanted to put in his pocket in exchange for a political contribution kickback.
What a quaint and obsolete idea that is. When was the last time anyone heard of that being a primary consideration of anything except for the PR department to worry about?
You would just like to think that your private information is not on sale to the highest bidder. It may make you feel more comfortable with yourself, but it really doesn't have much to do with the kind of corporate, government security state we live in now.
Most Americans are still living under the delusion that America is still a lot like the late 1700's and that 18th century ideas still predominate in the 21st century, mostly because Fox News shows them lots of pictures of folks wearing 3-cornered hats and beating drums. The reality is something that can no longer be discussed in public and hence our politics has come to mirror the mindset of our security state, where no one but a few players really know what deals have already been made and who the real players actually are. Most Americans are simply too busy eating up the PR they watch on Fox, which makes its money by buying and selling coverage to other corporate interests, who then actually feed on Fox's media consumers. Only a fool would wonder where the middle-class has gone.
You have it exactly right, I'm afraid to say. Now its the tea-partier's turn to get sold a bill of goods.
Corporatists have Americans right where they want them. Its getting so bad that corporations can even foreclose on your house or your car even if you have paid the bills. The police and the courts are now staffed by corporate shills who will do their bidding and a SCOTUS that essentially walks away from the concept of justice any time political expediency is required.
The America that so many once knew and loved is no more.
The irony is that this weakness in the American system was noted by the famous logician Kurt Goddel and why Einstein and his other friends were worried that his excitement about bringing this to the attention of authorities might actually cost him his bid for citizenship in the US.
Gridlock, rather than being good will be very, very bad. Just because we aren't solving our problems and building our economy and our infrastructure doesn't mean that are competitors are not fixing and building theirs. Frankly, on a global level, the US is having its clock cleaned as Americans are hung up on political ideology.
Keep an eye on the dollar. A nation's currency is very much like its blood pressure, as it lets everyone know what people think of its value at any given point in time.
republicans are gearing up a major new housing initiative, a substantial expansion of private prisons. Good to know you will have a roof over your head and a meal at least.
I guess the alternative of standing in line at a soup kitchen appeals to you more than it does to me.
But get ready, as republicans start to cut a lot of spending in the economy will disappear along with jobs and income. Credit will become even harder to get and expect unemployment to exceed 15-20% (which is actually what a number of US counties are already experiencing, even ignoring the fact that the government statistics upon which these numbers are based don't even bother to count those who have given up looking for jobs that don't exist).
Just out of curiosity, how does the company that employs you make its money. Will it be making as much money should the single largest consumer in the economy the US government disappears?
The real questions is just how small do the republicans and teabaggers want to shrink America? You seem to think that no government at all is the best, so I take it you mean down to non-existence. I'm sure many in China will thank you for your position.
"Remember that warships, tanks, and airplanes are made in the US by US workers."."
You seem to have the same delusions as David Broder. All we have to do is build warships, tanks, and airplanes and all will be well.
Sadly, those things cost a lot of money and our Chinese and other foreign financiers won't sit idly by and do nothing about it. The last thing we need to do is get into an arms race with the Chinese, who are are among our largest creditors, otherwise we will suffer the same fate as the former soviet union, which went bankrupt in the process of trying. We would have the obvious disadvantage of starting such a race already in debt and our debt being funded by the very country we owe a lot of money to.
While a rapidly falling dollar is great for Wall Street and some exporters, it also means dramatically higher prices at Walmart and the Dollar Shop, the primary source of goods for many poor in the US, and sets up US multinationals for takeover by foreign corporate competitors, who are seeing the values of their currencies rise as the value of our own plummets. Dollar down almost 2% during the course of a single days trading these days is no longer uncommon. Just think about what that will mean in just a few months. Virtually everything at Walmart will double in price in less than a year.
If people are angry now, just think how they are going to feel when they have neither a home or food. With some republicans threatening to eliminate the food stamp program entirely, things are starting to look very ugly indeed.
but why is it that the republicans who love the argument "but its my money" when it comes to taxes, seem to be hell bent on ignoring their own reasoning when it comes to social security?
Republicans have been able to use PR to skate over this inconsistency for years, now it looks as if they own it and will have to face up to it. Its about time even though reasoning is never a primary motivation for republicans as fear and hate are.
Nouriel Roubini, who predicted the crash nearly a year ahead of time, now predicts a massive "fiscal train wreck" is on the horizon next year, because forces determined to cut government spending are now in control of the budget process. He now predicts a double dip recession (technically we are currently out of recession, although thats little consolation to folks who have been wiped out and re now unemployed), probably of longer duration and of greater severity than the last one (read depression levels folks).
Republican representative Issa has already stated that he intends to spend his time investigating Obama, rather than the financial service industry, which at this point is a huge collection of zombie banks that are so insolvent that the only way they operate at all is by direct handouts by the federal reserve, who now gives the 0% loans (tanking the dollar) the exact same program as instituted by a long series of Japanese governments in the 1980's and 1990's and 2000's. Sadly, for us the Japanese actually owed the money to themselves, rather than to foreigners like we do (should anyone be surprised that Saudi money carried the day in Missouri and elsewhere?). So any sensible betting person familiar with the data will be betting for longterm stagnation of the US economy.
Note that foreclosuress are again rising dramatically and most of the stimulus money that has been propping up the economy to this point are or have already expired. Bankruptcy's are not, only because republicans made it virtually impossible to declare bankrupcy.
The election is probably the only significant tech news for a while and sadly it doesn't really look good for American tech. Leading edge university tech programs are bracing for massive republican cuts. Many tech CEO's are scrambling to figure out how to limit the damage republican cuts to spending will have on their domestic sources of income.
The guy that proposed TARP was Henry Paulson, Bush's Treasury Secretary.
Ironically, with all the tea-baggers complaints about TARP they just reelected Roy Blount, the republican that led the successful effort to get it passed. Word has it, he's busy at work planning for the next one.
While your delusion may seem comfortable, it really affords you no place to hide.
But maybe its just your memory is faulty. Don't you remember John McCain suspending his campaign so he could come back to Washington and meet with Bush to take control over the financial collapse (and wound up showing what a complete idiot he was in the process, by really accomplishing nothing at all in the process costing him the election)? Maybe the memories are so painful, you just block them out instead of remembering.
Don't worry John McCain just got reelected so you can expect him to fix it now (LOL).
Obama was only able to grab the helm as the ship had already hit the rocks at the bottom of the falls and had split into several pieces, not all of which have been yet been found.
Don't worry though, Boner has a plan to patch the hole with a tax cut that will benefit the rich. As Rand Paul said last night "we all work for rich people anyway".
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Boehner doesn't get a stiff challenge right out of the box as the scrabble for positions 3 - 20 heat up. Bachmann is pushing to be No. 3, so the insane wing will be well represented.
By nearly filibustering the thing to death at every step. The last congress saw more filibusters than virtually all the other sessions of the Senate put together and all were republican led. Republicans didn't get the moniker of the party of "No" for nothing.
The problem with most Americans is that they are so poorly informed as to how the system actually works. They seem to think that Fox News coverage tells them the story, which is about as laughable as it comes. New Corp almost always has an army of lobbyists on every issue working to coordinate coverage and messaging to leverage their political contributions and business agenda, which is total monopolistic control of world media.
is health care plans from out of state players. Otherwise, you will almost certainly get a Mississippi style plan, which is just another way of saying you pay premiums and then when you file a claim, insurers of any kind can pretty much tell you to take a hike and to make matters worse, your state legislators, insurance commissioners, or governor could do absolutely nothing about it (the real benefit of privatization).
Haley Barbour for President He kept Mississippi on the Bottom and He Can Do the Same for You.
China is set to pass the US in virtually every measure within about 10-15 years. They are not on a war footing, yet their Navy, heavy with misslle launch cruisers, has grown 40% larger in the last 3 years alone, their army is over 3,000,000, they now have a network of killer satellites ready to take out our own, and perhaps has many as 500 nuclear warheads that can be delivered to every city in the US. Sad to say, but the truth is United States couldn't defeat North Vietnam, or totally stop the terrorists in Iraq or Afghanistan and is currently stretched to the breaking point and leaving tens of billions in equipment in Iraq that it can't afford to bring back as it leaves. To make matters worse, many high-tech weaponry components are manufactured in China or are controlled by business that would literally go out of business overnight if it weren't for their Chinese subsidiaries production capabilities. To make matters work, the only reason we can field a military this large, is because Chinese investors are providing the liquidity for our massive debts. They stop and we would have to start paying for those bombs and planes ourselves. It would be the height of insanity to try to pick a war with China. Get realistic.
As far as conserving our resources, fat chance. Republicans would never stand for that, they hate the environment anyway, and besides, China's influence on world markets is now so large that we would likely get squeezed out economically of places where we still have much of a presence, particularly now that a primary republican agenda is to reduce foreign aid, thereby assuring that our businesses will be second class citizens abroad, where as everywhere money talks. The US is rapidly loosing Africa to Chinese businesses, where most of the few remaining uncharted riches remain. Their investment in Africa is already on par with ours, or greatly exceeds it in some areas such as solar power production.
You must have been not paying attention, or perhaps listening too much to talk radio as part of your political indoctrination.
The real question is just how small do republicans want to shrink the US, with their smaller government is better mantra?
If the last 10 years are a guide, the US won't be in a position to take on China anytime soon, we are falling further behind in that effort every day, particularly as republicans target science and education spending and where republicans investing in tech primarily in consumer oriented technology and this is heavily dependent on Chinese manufacturing since their efforts primarily provide tax credits to companies that off source their work to China.
If you want to take on China, I suggest a crash course in how the world actually works, rather than what you hear on republican talk radio and Fox News (which also happens to be, surprise, surprise, heavily invested in and working closely with China (Ruppert Murdoch's wife is Chinese).
Red states are really going to take a hit when they start cutting defense spending. With Taylor out of the house now, Mississippi looks particularly vulnerable. Obama has the cards here, since he can just issue orders to move military spending around to suit his purposes. Its going to be a real show to watch republicans come to grips with their contradictory messages of cut taxes to provide the rich with tax cuts and to spend more on defense no matter what.
You obviously know very little about the rules of the Senate.
I suspect a lot of republicans are going to learn though, as it will be their turn to watch their favorite ideas die and all they will be about to do is flail.
For democrats bipartisanship will be waiting until the republicans agree to do things their way. There aren't enough Blue Dogs left for republicans to play that game effectively any more, especially now that they are in charge and have to make the government work or it collapses. They went for the collapse the government tact once, and it worked out rather badly for them before. With so many hurting so much as it is, the screams that will commence if republicans try to shut things down will be much louder and set the stage for a 2012 wipeout (when the >50% of the democratic voters actually return to the polls).
Boner says his primary goal is to destroy the health care bill just passed. With one chamber, he's going to have his work cut out for him, particularly since he will be kicking a lot of kids out of cancer therapy and onto the curb to do it.
Anyone who buys anything from Ruppert Murdoch is just committing suicide slowly. Its easy to spot them. First they seem normal, reasonable, then after awhile they become cranky, angry and judgmental, then then the mental decline steps in and they become incoherent, confused and their morals deteriorate. Its just down hill from there. Their future has been taken from them and they never quite figured it out.
Death will come with the advent of HTML5, when text and video can be inserted into Webpages that could look every bit as good as any publication, while being "published" by the kid next door, who chances are is much smarter, although certainly a lot less rich, than Ruppert Murdoch.
Java itself will be soon abandoned as a platform and a product f interest to the broader development community. They still have the chance to do the right thing, but for the life of me, with all the talk of their "astute business sense", its hard to imagine anyone handling this transition more badly.
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simply won't happen until they become a force at the local, regional and state level. When you see more tea-partiers, libertarians, greens, constitutionalists, progressives, etc.at the local level, then the two party system will be ready for a change. There is simply too much money stacked against the average Joe or Jane regardless of their favorite political ideology to see any dramatic change at the national level. Indeed, perhaps that is how it should be, since these parties really have to prove themselves.
Ironically, Europe has been way ahead of the US in this regard for years. In Germany the Greens are poised to take over having clearly demonstrated what sensible support for solar and wind energy can do for their economy.
You would think that the extreme left and the extreme right would be smart enough to recognize that they both are being screwed by the corporatists, who in total control and can play one side off against the other. Sadly, money talks better than people can think, so get used to it. America is now privatized.
the chances of Ralph Nader getting elected to any office, much less the presidency, is about as likely as being hit by lightening.
Change will come only when there is broad recognition and agreement on a suitable course of action. I doubt that will come until after the republicans finish off the American economy, labor, consumers and the environment once and for all.
Knowing republicans it won't take them long. They work fast. In just 30 years of Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and goons like Gingrich, McCaine, McConnell, ... America is now just a shell of its former self. Hollowed out to satisfy whatever some greedy corporate tycoon wanted to put in his pocket in exchange for a political contribution kickback.
What a quaint and obsolete idea that is. When was the last time anyone heard of that being a primary consideration of anything except for the PR department to worry about?
You would just like to think that your private information is not on sale to the highest bidder. It may make you feel more comfortable with yourself, but it really doesn't have much to do with the kind of corporate, government security state we live in now.
Most Americans are still living under the delusion that America is still a lot like the late 1700's and that 18th century ideas still predominate in the 21st century, mostly because Fox News shows them lots of pictures of folks wearing 3-cornered hats and beating drums. The reality is something that can no longer be discussed in public and hence our politics has come to mirror the mindset of our security state, where no one but a few players really know what deals have already been made and who the real players actually are. Most Americans are simply too busy eating up the PR they watch on Fox, which makes its money by buying and selling coverage to other corporate interests, who then actually feed on Fox's media consumers. Only a fool would wonder where the middle-class has gone.
You have it exactly right, I'm afraid to say. Now its the tea-partier's turn to get sold a bill of goods.
Corporatists have Americans right where they want them. Its getting so bad that corporations can even foreclose on your house or your car even if you have paid the bills. The police and the courts are now staffed by corporate shills who will do their bidding and a SCOTUS that essentially walks away from the concept of justice any time political expediency is required.
The America that so many once knew and loved is no more.
The irony is that this weakness in the American system was noted by the famous logician Kurt Goddel and why Einstein and his other friends were worried that his excitement about bringing this to the attention of authorities might actually cost him his bid for citizenship in the US.
Gridlock, rather than being good will be very, very bad. Just because we aren't solving our problems and building our economy and our infrastructure doesn't mean that are competitors are not fixing and building theirs. Frankly, on a global level, the US is having its clock cleaned as Americans are hung up on political ideology.
Keep an eye on the dollar. A nation's currency is very much like its blood pressure, as it lets everyone know what people think of its value at any given point in time.
republicans are gearing up a major new housing initiative, a substantial expansion of private prisons. Good to know you will have a roof over your head and a meal at least.
I guess the alternative of standing in line at a soup kitchen appeals to you more than it does to me.
But get ready, as republicans start to cut a lot of spending in the economy will disappear along with jobs and income. Credit will become even harder to get and expect unemployment to exceed 15-20% (which is actually what a number of US counties are already experiencing, even ignoring the fact that the government statistics upon which these numbers are based don't even bother to count those who have given up looking for jobs that don't exist).
Just out of curiosity, how does the company that employs you make its money. Will it be making as much money should the single largest consumer in the economy the US government disappears?
The real questions is just how small do the republicans and teabaggers want to shrink America? You seem to think that no government at all is the best, so I take it you mean down to non-existence. I'm sure many in China will thank you for your position.
"Remember that warships, tanks, and airplanes are made in the US by US workers."."
You seem to have the same delusions as David Broder. All we have to do is build warships, tanks, and airplanes and all will be well.
Sadly, those things cost a lot of money and our Chinese and other foreign financiers won't sit idly by and do nothing about it. The last thing we need to do is get into an arms race with the Chinese, who are are among our largest creditors, otherwise we will suffer the same fate as the former soviet union, which went bankrupt in the process of trying. We would have the obvious disadvantage of starting such a race already in debt and our debt being funded by the very country we owe a lot of money to.
While a rapidly falling dollar is great for Wall Street and some exporters, it also means dramatically higher prices at Walmart and the Dollar Shop, the primary source of goods for many poor in the US, and sets up US multinationals for takeover by foreign corporate competitors, who are seeing the values of their currencies rise as the value of our own plummets. Dollar down almost 2% during the course of a single days trading these days is no longer uncommon. Just think about what that will mean in just a few months. Virtually everything at Walmart will double in price in less than a year.
If people are angry now, just think how they are going to feel when they have neither a home or food. With some republicans threatening to eliminate the food stamp program entirely, things are starting to look very ugly indeed.
but why is it that the republicans who love the argument "but its my money" when it comes to taxes, seem to be hell bent on ignoring their own reasoning when it comes to social security?
Republicans have been able to use PR to skate over this inconsistency for years, now it looks as if they own it and will have to face up to it. Its about time even though reasoning is never a primary motivation for republicans as fear and hate are.
Nouriel Roubini, who predicted the crash nearly a year ahead of time, now predicts a massive "fiscal train wreck" is on the horizon next year, because forces determined to cut government spending are now in control of the budget process. He now predicts a double dip recession (technically we are currently out of recession, although thats little consolation to folks who have been wiped out and re now unemployed), probably of longer duration and of greater severity than the last one (read depression levels folks).
Republican representative Issa has already stated that he intends to spend his time investigating Obama, rather than the financial service industry, which at this point is a huge collection of zombie banks that are so insolvent that the only way they operate at all is by direct handouts by the federal reserve, who now gives the 0% loans (tanking the dollar) the exact same program as instituted by a long series of Japanese governments in the 1980's and 1990's and 2000's. Sadly, for us the Japanese actually owed the money to themselves, rather than to foreigners like we do (should anyone be surprised that Saudi money carried the day in Missouri and elsewhere?). So any sensible betting person familiar with the data will be betting for longterm stagnation of the US economy.
Note that foreclosuress are again rising dramatically and most of the stimulus money that has been propping up the economy to this point are or have already expired. Bankruptcy's are not, only because republicans made it virtually impossible to declare bankrupcy.
Fortunately, ignorance is bliss.
The election is probably the only significant tech news for a while and sadly it doesn't really look good for American tech. Leading edge university tech programs are bracing for massive republican cuts. Many tech CEO's are scrambling to figure out how to limit the damage republican cuts to spending will have on their domestic sources of income.
The guy that proposed TARP was Henry Paulson, Bush's Treasury Secretary.
Ironically, with all the tea-baggers complaints about TARP they just reelected Roy Blount, the republican that led the successful effort to get it passed. Word has it, he's busy at work planning for the next one.
While your delusion may seem comfortable, it really affords you no place to hide.
But maybe its just your memory is faulty. Don't you remember John McCain suspending his campaign so he could come back to Washington and meet with Bush to take control over the financial collapse (and wound up showing what a complete idiot he was in the process, by really accomplishing nothing at all in the process costing him the election)? Maybe the memories are so painful, you just block them out instead of remembering.
Don't worry John McCain just got reelected so you can expect him to fix it now (LOL).
Obama was only able to grab the helm as the ship had already hit the rocks at the bottom of the falls and had split into several pieces, not all of which have been yet been found.
Don't worry though, Boner has a plan to patch the hole with a tax cut that will benefit the rich. As Rand Paul said last night "we all work for rich people anyway".
Evidently, he was quite hung over this morning.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Boehner doesn't get a stiff challenge right out of the box as the scrabble for positions 3 - 20 heat up. Bachmann is pushing to be No. 3, so the insane wing will be well represented.
By nearly filibustering the thing to death at every step. The last congress saw more filibusters than virtually all the other sessions of the Senate put together and all were republican led. Republicans didn't get the moniker of the party of "No" for nothing.
The problem with most Americans is that they are so poorly informed as to how the system actually works. They seem to think that Fox News coverage tells them the story, which is about as laughable as it comes. New Corp almost always has an army of lobbyists on every issue working to coordinate coverage and messaging to leverage their political contributions and business agenda, which is total monopolistic control of world media.
is health care plans from out of state players. Otherwise, you will almost certainly get a Mississippi style plan, which is just another way of saying you pay premiums and then when you file a claim, insurers of any kind can pretty much tell you to take a hike and to make matters worse, your state legislators, insurance commissioners, or governor could do absolutely nothing about it (the real benefit of privatization).
Haley Barbour for President
He kept Mississippi on the Bottom and He Can Do the Same for You.
China is set to pass the US in virtually every measure within about 10-15 years. They are not on a war footing, yet their Navy, heavy with misslle launch cruisers, has grown 40% larger in the last 3 years alone, their army is over 3,000,000, they now have a network of killer satellites ready to take out our own, and perhaps has many as 500 nuclear warheads that can be delivered to every city in the US. Sad to say, but the truth is United States couldn't defeat North Vietnam, or totally stop the terrorists in Iraq or Afghanistan and is currently stretched to the breaking point and leaving tens of billions in equipment in Iraq that it can't afford to bring back as it leaves. To make matters worse, many high-tech weaponry components are manufactured in China or are controlled by business that would literally go out of business overnight if it weren't for their Chinese subsidiaries production capabilities. To make matters work, the only reason we can field a military this large, is because Chinese investors are providing the liquidity for our massive debts. They stop and we would have to start paying for those bombs and planes ourselves. It would be the height of insanity to try to pick a war with China. Get realistic.
As far as conserving our resources, fat chance. Republicans would never stand for that, they hate the environment anyway, and besides, China's influence on world markets is now so large that we would likely get squeezed out economically of places where we still have much of a presence, particularly now that a primary republican agenda is to reduce foreign aid, thereby assuring that our businesses will be second class citizens abroad, where as everywhere money talks. The US is rapidly loosing Africa to Chinese businesses, where most of the few remaining uncharted riches remain. Their investment in Africa is already on par with ours, or greatly exceeds it in some areas such as solar power production.
You must have been not paying attention, or perhaps listening too much to talk radio as part of your political indoctrination.
The real question is just how small do republicans want to shrink the US, with their smaller government is better mantra?
If the last 10 years are a guide, the US won't be in a position to take on China anytime soon, we are falling further behind in that effort every day, particularly as republicans target science and education spending and where republicans investing in tech primarily in consumer oriented technology and this is heavily dependent on Chinese manufacturing since their efforts primarily provide tax credits to companies that off source their work to China.
If you want to take on China, I suggest a crash course in how the world actually works, rather than what you hear on republican talk radio and Fox News (which also happens to be, surprise, surprise, heavily invested in and working closely with China (Ruppert Murdoch's wife is Chinese).
in his explanation of what republicans have to do last night, as he noted "everyone works for the rich", so we have to get to work.
Red states are really going to take a hit when they start cutting defense spending. With Taylor out of the house now, Mississippi looks particularly vulnerable. Obama has the cards here, since he can just issue orders to move military spending around to suit his purposes. Its going to be a real show to watch republicans come to grips with their contradictory messages of cut taxes to provide the rich with tax cuts and to spend more on defense no matter what.
You obviously know very little about the rules of the Senate.
I suspect a lot of republicans are going to learn though, as it will be their turn to watch their favorite ideas die and all they will be about to do is flail.
For democrats bipartisanship will be waiting until the republicans agree to do things their way. There aren't enough Blue Dogs left for republicans to play that game effectively any more, especially now that they are in charge and have to make the government work or it collapses. They went for the collapse the government tact once, and it worked out rather badly for them before. With so many hurting so much as it is, the screams that will commence if republicans try to shut things down will be much louder and set the stage for a 2012 wipeout (when the >50% of the democratic voters actually return to the polls).
Boner says his primary goal is to destroy the health care bill just passed. With one chamber, he's going to have his work cut out for him, particularly since he will be kicking a lot of kids out of cancer therapy and onto the curb to do it.
Anyone who buys anything from Ruppert Murdoch is just committing suicide slowly. Its easy to spot them. First they seem normal, reasonable, then after awhile they become cranky, angry and judgmental, then then the mental decline steps in and they become incoherent, confused and their morals deteriorate. Its just down hill from there. Their future has been taken from them and they never quite figured it out.
Death will come with the advent of HTML5, when text and video can be inserted into Webpages that could look every bit as good as any publication, while being "published" by the kid next door, who chances are is much smarter, although certainly a lot less rich, than Ruppert Murdoch.
Java itself will be soon abandoned as a platform and a product f interest to the broader development community. They still have the chance to do the right thing, but for the life of me, with all the talk of their "astute business sense", its hard to imagine anyone handling this transition more badly.
Simple addition and subtraction seems to pose an intractable problem for the majority of people'
Not to mention computers capable of only finite precision.