If we keep spending all of our money on airline risk mitigation rather than science and education, then none of our children are going to be able to afford to fly.

I don't like Hollywood movies post 1980. The stories are insipid and repetitive. There are no surprises. The acting is polished, but without depth. I leave major movies with the feeling that I have been cheated.

This has nothing to do with modern TV choice, competitive media, or the exorbitant price of candy or Cokes at the theater. It is more basic. I do not feel entertained by the shit that Hollywood is pouring out. It is insulting and demeaning.

Other than that, everything is great!!!!
 

I also hear that they have the rights to levy taxes on Tea without representation.

Unfortunately, the guy who came up with this idea isn't the dimmest light bulb in the pack.

Spoken like a coward without insight or knowledge. Your point makes no sense and only further supports my argument. At one time, GM WAS the largest and most successful corporation in the world. I would say that they WERE a good example of a successful company. It took 40 years of decline to drive them into bankruptcy. Wall Street, driven by the institutional investors mentioned above, never stepped up to allow GM to respond to market changes. They remained in the 1970s because investors were unwilling to take the risk necessary to transform them into a 21st century company.

The problem with you is that anyone who comes up with a positive suggestion is a liberal. The most likely means that you believe anyone with no ideas and poor judgement is a conservative. Using your own criteria, I guess you are a conservative?

The arguments that retooling is hard, just doesn't make it. Planned retooling is now designed into the manufacturing process. The U.S. helped develop the the Japanese manufacturing base by ignoring Demming. The Japanese were known for poor quality, so even with their lower labor rates. The Japanese improve their quality by following Demming and eventually overtook U.S. manufacturing and steel production. The remaining U.S. industries learned to focus on statistically analysis integrated quality control, and designed retooling became part of the process. So what drives the decision to outsource: 1) lower environmental standards, 2) lower overall employee costs, 3) tax benefits, 4) economic stability.

I think the underlying article hits the problem straight on. These economic factors are enticing from a cost accounting perspective, but not from a competitive one. Eventually, the knowledge is transferred to the low cost producers and they no longer need the costly U.S. managers to drive the business. We see that now with the rise of Haier and Chinese manufacturers who are beginning to dominate the lower end market. Eventually, they will displace the high margin businesses.

The U.S. main advantage in the past has been easy access to capital via efficient markets. With the current crisis and the idiotic standoff over debt, these markets may give rise to competing capital markets in SE Asia. The Chinese are flush with cash and it won't be long before they start to bypass the Western capital markets.

So what do we do? First, stop letting corporations drive the political agenda, because their short term focus is killing our industry. If we changed our focus to research that will enable lower cost production even with high labor rates, we can pull back manufacturing. This will have to be done at a grass roots level, because Wall Street will not invest in this kind of retooling when they can invest in companies that outsource. This means that we need to stop electing corrupt corporate lackies and uneducated religious nutcases, and change the rules so we encourage companies to invest here. Here a though, remove ALL corporate loopholes, and offer tax incentives only to those companies that in-source production and service jobs. Offer tax breaks to companies who invest in basic research programs that will innovate product and keep the technology here. This incentive can extend to University research which is most corporate funded anyway.

If you believe our problems stem from big government and the fear of socialism, then you are an idiot. Socialism is beating the f..king pants off of us right now, so that can't be the main issue. We as citizens must drive the political agenda and encourage Wall Street to invest in companies who develop our local economies. Otherwise, start learning Chinese because they are destined to be your overlords.

It isn't Unions, socialism, or big government that is killing us. It is the short term thinking of Wall Street. Once Wall Street was temporarily taken out of the picture at GM where they perpetuated a management culture that was adverse to change, the company was able to shed its high cost assets and return to profitability. In essence, it took government action to force the correct change in direction.

Wouldn't it be funny if Google started supporting Qt Quick / QML as an alternative to Davik and then encouraged QML app development? Google would end up fighting Nokia and Microsoft in the market using Nokia's technology.

I know it isn't going to happen, but there is a QML implementation supported on Android.

no offense, you cowardice piece of shit, but what the flying FUCK does this have to do with NetFlix. Seems like you have severe "inherent intellectual disadvantage that you either can't understand the fucking article, or your attention span is that of a warthog.

Or released it on Wikileaks

This looks very similar to the Andrew Messaging System that became the CMU campus wide mail system circa 1985.

I don't know where you shop, but Amazon has 10/100 MBps hubs for less than $20 new.

The Xerox Parc standard was 3 MBps (actually something like 2.96 MBps). The actual throughput was lower because the cards didn't include DMA, and yet this technology sufficed through the early 1980s.

The question of whether network has kept pace with computing is a good one. I would think that the throughput requirements are dependent on the application and not the speed of the computer. Current networking seems to deal fine with high resolution video streaming and application transfer in spite of the speed of the host computer. Yes I have 4 3Ghz cores on my laptop, but most of that is power consumed by compiling and virtual machines. My TV set with its 1 Ghz MHz ARM processor does well with the 150 MBps wireless connection for video and data.

I disagree your with your premise, but only because we are giving extra tax breaks to the wealthy. The whole argument for smaller government and lower taxes for the wealthy is that they will make additional investments in the economy and stimulate jobs. It is true that Google has contributed a lot to the economy, and providing tax credits to stimulate their further investment makes sense. However, providing addition tax breaks to the Google founders so they can burn more miles on their lavish private jets doesn't.

I think you mean December 1999.

I'd rather see Linux drop support for GNOME.