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Archive for August, 2009
Just give our infrastructure to private management that will actually be held accountable for keeping things in repair, already!
NASA won an emmy for their technical achievement of filming a man landing on the moon.
Upon flying in a U2 to 70,000 ft, “If everyone could have such an experience, the world would be a changed place“
Tesla’s new vehicle almost makes electric cars look good enough for the mainstream. Drop the price tag another 20k, and let’s talk.
If the private sector can do it, why not let them, instead of government?
I’ll note that that question extends far beyond just space policy.
Ann Brill at Kansas University thinks journalism requires creativity, whereas engineering does not. Maybe the type of journalism she teaches and practices does - but having done both blogging and software engineering, I can vouch for software engineering requiring far more creativity than any sort of journalism.
Be back married.
Because the universe keeps on getting modified by time machines until they’re never invented… On the other hand, I’ve heard some physicists explain time travel rules as you can time travel, but you can’t change anything. Essentially, what’s happened has happened, but we may not necessarily accurately know what happened. We know WW2 happened and Hitler killed millions of people, but we don’t necessarily know if WW2 was swarming with time travelers trying to kill Hitler, and failing, or not. This view boils down to being able to time travel, but not to change history, which would create paradoxes. Black Projects, White Knights manages to convey this view pretty well, along with it’s prequel.
And our President. Not really anything new, I suppose…the pervasivity with which the KGB succeeded in their propaganda efforts is incredible.
I switched off of Windows several years ago in frustration at how horrible so much of Microsoft’s operating systems tend to be, but Wired has a review of the new windows 7 that is astoundingly positive. Maybe the competition is finally actually forcing Microsoft to bring Windows to decent levels of usability and run-ability.
Do you still think that U.S. tax policy isn’t the biggest barrier to economic growth in the U.S.? Well get this: universities are advising businesses to hire foreigners, because the taxes that the businesses have to pay on them are lower.
Look, the math is very simple: high taxes cause absolutely every sort of institution, agency, or individual they apply to to seek ways to mitigate that tax expense. Sometimes that means operating less to be taxed less, and sometimes that means moving elsewhere, where the taxes are better. And the groups with the most money to be taxed have the most money to try and escape that tax regime. So lower taxes to be competitive, already!
The public now trusts Republicans again on all major issues.
Yes, the Republicans were getting bad – but even when they were being tossed out in 2006 the Democrats were already worse in practically every respect. If people really want clean and respectable government, they can’t just look at the two big tickets at the end of the process: you have to run nominees that are actually worth something much earlier.
Sarah Palin’s been staying pretty vocal on the healthcare bill, particularly calling out the “end-of-life” advisory panels. So much in fact that Dr. Emanual (who advises Obama) called her out on it – even as Democrats were busy removing that section of legislation from the bill. Meanwhile, Palin gave back a pretty strong rebuttal: Isn’t it convenient that he chooses to denounce things only when they come to light and prove unpopular?
It’s estimated that there will be 7 billion of us in 2011. That’s why fighting malaria and other diseases, for clean water, and against corruption and poverty are so important. The potential that 7 billion people have under liberty is staggering.
As should software. They’re all mathematics. It’s just one more way in which the patent system is broken, and desperately needs to be updated to deal with today’s society.
Popsci has an article on the most recent legal challenge to gene patents.
If the French are any indicator. As you politicize more things, people get more political.
