About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
This country is vast. “Miles and miles of little more than telephone line”, I wrote last summer after half-cross country road trip. The costs of providing and maintaining that infrastructure miles and miles between neighbors is baffling to me. Let along the fact we electrified the cornfields 70 years ago. But, unlike energy – we …
Continue reading “In Need of a Rural Internet-ification Administration”
“The 9/11 reaction that sent us into Iraq was based on our need to kick the dog after a bad day at the office. The war never made any sense and the new Secretary of Defense always knew it. – brittb”
“Highly-skilled labor is very mobile in this global economy” – Thomas P.M. Barnett Something to keep in mind when drafting legislation on what people can and can’t do in your state. To Madison and Milwaukee, I’m sorry.
“Since he can’t defend the real world created by his policies and his decisions, Mr. Bush is inventing a fantasy world in which to campaign on phony issues against fake enemies.” – New York Time Editorial 02 Nov 2006
This topic came up in a lunch conversation today, and I wanted to confirm I still accurately understood the FCC’s current position: “That being said, the F.C.C. has no jurisdiction over what content an individual broadcasts over the Internet, assuming it is legal.” Looks like the recently ratified Cybercrime Treaty is the closest to internet …
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Just got off the phone with my dad who recommended not to visit the TA truckstops in Ontario, California. I’m going to heed his suggestion. Though, I’m not sure where that leaves for dinner.
Last year’s Katrina disaster in New Orleans is a far more important event in our nation’s history than today’s date. Katrina told us we’re unprepared for predictable, frequent, and common events. That’s bad. Nothing wrong with being unprepared for rare and spectacular events. “In many ways, the success of 9/11 was an anomaly; there were …
Continue reading “I’ve Never Been to New York or New Orleans”
Over the past 17 days I’ve received 19 calls from this same unknown number. No message, no nothing. Some where in there, I found out it was the DNC calling (presumably for money) and well, I don’t have time for that right now. They just kept calling, and calling, and I just kept hitting ‘Ignore’. …
The reason America has so many illegal immigrants is the same reason America (and any other country) has immigration. Same reason young Americans flee the Dakotas. Those places suck. Building a fence between the US and Mexico won’t make Mexico suck less (or NoDak) – illegal workers sending money to their home country just might. …
Continue reading “End Illegal Immigration – Send More Jobs to Mexico”
We’re watching some Degrassi Junior High tonight and a bit about the U.S. invading Canada came up. Now, it may surprise you that my public school education didn’t discuss the multiple times we invaded (War of 1812, Fenian Raids of the 1860s), or planned to, our northern neighbors. First I heard of an invasion was …