Quick Hits

Stuff going on in the blogosphere:

Update: Phil has more on the Miller amendment, which was voted down along party lines. And DarkSyde has his own report on the science events at YearlyKos, including a link to a transcript of Wesley Clark’s speech.

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  1. No takers yet Sean?

    The government could invest in NASA ad infinitum, who or what is stopping them.

    You invest in missiles, you have to empty old stock on Afghanistan & Iraq, to keep the production line and arms industry in business.

    Switch the funding to NASA. If you achieve nothing else, better to dump old shuttles on Iraq than more firepower than was used in the whole of world war II. Incidentally was that a fact or a ‘metaphor’?

    Never mind Star Wars go for Star Trek, you certainly need no weapons, the only aliens I’ve seen were humans wearing masks in hollywood movies, or ironically star trek conventions. lol!

  2. Off-topic?
    Dave Burstein at dslprime.com

    Editorial: Research, nurture and grow
    Condemning Asian growth solves nothing

    I buy shirts made in China, and AT&T buys Alcatel DSLAMs from China as well. Although I care about the future of my country, it would be total hypocrisy for me to advocate “buy American” or advocate protection for Lucent. It’s a tragedy for the U.S. to lose our once great telecom industry, especially for my neighbors in New Jersey. Bell Labs is the symbol of American engineering, a source of pride in decline for two decades and soon mostly a shell.

    Condemning the Chinese and Koreans is no answer however. They are just hardworking people doing their best to win economic battles and make a living. Huawei’s government helps some, especially with easy credit, but Western companies receive government favors as well.

    The only way for countries like the U.S. and Germany to maintain a high standard of living is efficiently produce better goods. We can’t do that in telecom when research and development has been cut 60% in the last four years. There’s an incumbent subsidy of $10-15B buried in “USF,” “ICC” and other programs beyond the actual cost of universal service and connecting schools to the Internet. Switching even a quarter of that to restoring the U.S. to excellence would be a smart move. Some of the best engineers in America, some with 20 years of experience, haven’t been able to find a job amidst the cutbacks.

    Companies that only think of the next quarter ultimately suffer. So do countries who don’t build for the future.

  3. I just visited “How to write Screeenplays Badly” The dialog between the exec and author on the “Rapebear” screenplay was one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time. Go check it out for a good laugh.

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