I can't beleive they're actually going through with this. It'll look cool anyway.

27 Live Action Weta Workshop Produced Designs For EVANGELION

Is that our productivity is up but we aren't producing enough.

We've got all of these people who are unemployed or underemployed or who've exited the market. We have all of this potential energy that we aren't applying.

At the same time we're operating a dangerous trade deficit. The world doesn't want what we're selling. Not enough of it anyway. Read Buffet and Gross.

And we're exporting jobs, good ones, which is only going to contribute to that trade deficit.

Economists have been saying throughout the downturn that its not as if consumers are being stingy. If consumers reacted to this crash as the last one we'd be in another depression. We're not, because people are confident in general. What economists are saying is lacking is corporate investment. Companies are not building for the future. They're not creating new products.

Venture Capital is a wasteland. Years later they are still in maintenance mode. They aren't investing in new companies. They are trying to keep their present ventures afloat. No new companies. No new innovation. The VC are trying to give money back to their investors.

Steve Roach responded to discussions about outsourcing by specifically saying that it is critically important that we determine where the growth is going to come from.

Said another way, we're not growing.

Our productivity is up. We're cutting the bottom lines. Everything is on the up and up for business owners, but not in a real positive way. Saving money is only useful if you have a way to apply it. Money is a means and not an end. Money that isn't moving doesn't exist. Economic success is a measure of the velocity of money. Depressions in history were created by individuals who hoarded money. Today it is the leadership who is doing it. The outcome is the same.

Eventually the bottom is going to fall out of this thing. Everyone who should know is saying it. This is not sustainable.

There is but one reasonable way to address this problem, and that is to innovate. We need people who are offering a vision of a better future. There are many technologies we ought to pursue. There are great ideas from the dotcom boom that were run into the ground by people who tried to crunch ten year business plans into 2 years. There are new possibilities in the fields of robotics, new networking technologies, and new biotech. Right now Japan is blowing our doors off in pursuit of two out of three of those things. They are going to end up with a lot of people who know an awful lot about two very important industries in a few years, and we're going to be buying it all from them. They have the patience to see these things through even if they don't have an "exit event" in the extreme short term.

What are we focused on? Healthcare. Yes. Very important. I don't want to disparage that at all. But all this focus on it is rooted in our narcissism. *WE* having an "aging population" but the WORLD does not!!! T... [ Read More (0.1k in body) ]

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Warren Miller Television

] The United States is overextended, not just militarily
] but economically. We are trying to do too much, borrow
] too much, spend too much, and sooner or later we will
] have to suffer the consequences. We are a country in the
] beginning stages of what can best be described as
] hegemonic decay. Empires take decades if not centuries to
] wither, a process more clearly viewed through a rearview
] mirror; Edward Gibbon's masterful account of the decline
] and fall of the Roman Empire is perhaps the greatest
] example of this truth. But here and now, we're much less
] inclined to Gibbon's viewpoint than we are to Alfred E.
] Newman's. "What, we worry?" is pretty much the national
] motto when it comes to our finance-based economy and its
] future prospects.

Another major investment guru weighs in on the trade deficit.

What, We Worry? Yes. (washingtonpost.com)

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One of Rattle's friends does interesting things with krylon...

Doug Z Art Gallery

] In a forceful preview of the Bush administration's
] expansionist military policies in this election year,
] Vice President Dick Cheney Wednesday painted a grim
] picture of what he said was the growing threat of a
] catastrophic terrorist attack in the United States and
] warned that the battle, like the Cold War, could last
] generations.

Cheney's grim vision: decades of war

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Here it is, as promised, the video of the last Flipside gig.

I have the feeling that the site is slammed. I was unable to download it for awhile.

(Could someone please recommend a reliable public tracker? I can generate a torrent..)

Sunshine Flipside Last Show

] Now, this would leave you wondering, why on earth does
] anyone use this restrictive technology? The usual,
] superficial -- and incorrect -- answer is that it
] alleviates a shortage of public IP addresses caused by
] the original 32-bit address space conceived in an era
] before the Internet exploded in popularity. This has been
] repeatedly shown as bunkum.

The IETF anti-nat crowd has always struck me as odd. If you had IP6 you'd have real IPs in your internal network, which would mean that you won't have to think in order to manage IP allocation in a VPN. Thats nice. No one is going to replace the internet for it though. You're still going to have a firewall. People don't WANT end to end connectivity. Not even at home. It means you've got to lock down the security of every computer you own.

Why NAT Isn't As Bad As You Thought

] The brand new HOPE site has begun to take form. Our fifth
] conference is scheduled for July 9th through 11th in New
] York City at the Hotel Pennsylvania (where the last
] conference was).

Anyone want to hit a hacker con in NYC this summer?

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