Ted,
I am sorry that you have such biased view on public solutions. It seems you have come to believe that only the private sector can perform a useful service and closed off to any other possibility.
I don't think I said that. Just this weekend I was in the park with my wife and my daughter, we were wondering how the private sector would handle the need for parks.
The world is waiting; actually has been waiting for some time now. [for fission and fusion]
Fission is here, and the only reason we have the acid rain / asthma from burning coal with traces of sulfur is because of environmentalists, short sighted pandering politicians and scaremongers in the media. Because of this, there is a belief that nuclear energy is at a dead end, and not enough resources are being allocated to perfecting it.
With fusion, it just depends how urgently we need it. Just add 10 years to the time the urgent need materializes.
You don't think we are capable of making good mass transit but we accomplished the above so easily....spoken liken a visionary scientist, right?!!
The difference is there is money to be made (doing what I described). Mass transit is a non-profit zone, and as long as it is, the odds for improvements are against it. At least in America. The US government at all levels seems to have this unusual ability of attracting the worst employees.
Providing services to government is an absolute nightmare as well. Our company was invited to submit a bid for a government contract, and after reading about all of the paperwork needed, about invading the privacy of our employees in order to satisfy all the racial / ethnic reporting that the idiots in the governmetn requires, we determined that the additional overhead was more that the value of the contract, and we did not bid.
In order to get a contract from this particular government, you had to sign that you deplore the current government of Burma, and that, in case you open a branch in Northern Ireland, you will give some special treatment to Catolics. I didn't know if I should laugh or cry as I was reading this.
They are wonderful but they seem to be mostly focused on creating more exotic toys.
Well, the future generation of AMD toys will be low power, so both of us will be happy. <g>
I am too....especially those people who think humanity is all powerful and can heal the wounds inflicted on our ecology with the wave of a semi chip. <g>
I think there is a "dirty" industrial stage that economies need to go through to become rich and clean. The US is past that stage, and we are increasingly richer and cleaner. I just don't know how the poor countries can make the leap without going through the dirty stage.
Joe |
