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Re: Japan is small, that's why..... said by BIGMIKE:Military budget of the United States military-related expenses totaled approximately $626.1 billion Japan $46 billion More money to the people! No, when companies like the original AT&T sold away the transistor for $50,000, Japan got rich. We also rebuilt them after WW2. Europe was also rebuilt by the U.S. for free after Hitler's reign of terror. Japan's military is limited due to losing WW2.
American business should really get together and pay for the FTTH broadband network about 50-50 with Uncle Sam. Then, the Bells new service (same for Cable HSI), HSI, should be regulated the hell out of. HSI really is the new voice. We give ridiculous grants like $100,000 to create a new Rose flower.
Why we still have textbooks in school is beyond me. Just think of our education on steroids. We could save about $70 billion a year on gas alone with a National FTTH network; most jobs are commutable. It's not hard to see the benefits of a tightly regulated FTTH monopoly with non-Bell, non-Cable influences (other businesses).
But, the U.S. will bailout massive frauds like Countrywide and soon Lehman Brothers. Now, after years of mismanagement like still building gas guzzlers, GM and Ford want $50 billion with low interest loans.
Of course, Empires eventually fall. I think we've been on that road for some time. Watching the "educated" graduate from college without any practical experience and common sense but loads of drinking their professors's, too incompetent to be outside a college most of the time, strange ideas about how socialism will solve all makes me sick. If these kids get in-charge of anything, better hope they develop a brain.
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EPS
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Hingham, MA | The original AT&T couldn't take advantage of the transistor itself thanks to the government requiring it to limit its actual business activities on telephone service and telephone service only. If said regulations hadn't occurred, AT&T could theoretically have dominated not only U.S. local and long distance telephone, but Canadian telephone (since they would have kept Bell Canada), wireless, computers, and probably more... Super-Monopoly, here we come!
Most jobs are commutable, but most companies don't want their employees to commute for various reasons... and those that do are cutting back. You can't just add broadband and expect everyone to follow suit. And there are a lot of reasons to keep textbooks in their current form- the paper form is more readable, can be highlighted, and can be resold (the costs of textbooks being what they are, this is significant- eBooks could be slightly cheaper but almost certainly won't be, since there's no competition whatsoever) | |
| said by EPS:And there are a lot of reasons to keep textbooks in their current form- the paper form is more readable, can be highlighted, and can be resold (the costs of textbooks being what they are, this is significant- eBooks could be slightly cheaper but almost certainly won't be, since there's no competition whatsoever) No, textbooks should be free.
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Saving the world keeps me busy. However, I find Earth very primitive from my home planet of Krypton.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Making textbooks isn't free, though... who will pay for the production and effort that goes into making a textbook? (I am aware that many publishers game the system by releasing new editions that just rearrange the homework problems so you can't use used books, but the initial book still had costs) | |
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