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Comment on Failure to Lead: An Explanation by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:47:00 +0000

” It is an old and a true maxim, that a “drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.” So with men.”

But Congressional Republicans are not “men”. They are, each and every one, liars and hypocrites. EVERY SINGLE ONE has “government-run” health care — and it’s fine for them but not for their constituents.

Obama has tried persuasion. Again and again. And the liars and hypocrites have just lied about him not doing so.

Comment on Another Opportunity to Govern (updated) by Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:29:36 +0000

Obama had a Q&A with the slime today. Did the Deciderer ever have such a conversation with the Dems (who never voted to protect rapists!)?

Comment on The Democrats worst nightmare, Themselves by Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:47:18 +0000

[[false brandishing of the hand across the aisle]]

After years of calling those who disagreed with them “traitors”, the slime now say that not agreeing with them 100% is “false brandishing of the hand across the aisle”.

Yay, slime!

Comment on Another Opportunity to Govern (updated) by Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:45:41 +0000

[[President Obama needs to lead the discussion by passing a full olive branch across the aisle. ]]

Every single Republican voted in favor odf aiding and abetting rapists (see the Frankin Amendment). Not one repudiated the stupid repitition of “death panels”. Obama got into this mess by reaching out to Republicans (does the name Olympia Snowe ring a bell?). Pardon my bluntness but f*ck the slime.

Comment on An Opportunity to Govern: The Obama Healthcare speech (Updated) by Another Opportunity to Govern « Now, A Different View

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Comment on Frantically False Innovation by martygl

martygl — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:38:03 +0000

“for the record, google made their fortune through a simple but important insight about searching documents for relevance to a query, and by finding pragmatic, effective solutions to a variety of problems having to do with scale.”

I agree on Google. They created an important step forwrad in search, I use them as a reference only to point out how hard it is to maintain that innovation process.

I also agree that incremental improvements provide value.

I clearly believe that much of what is hyped as innovation is not, it is me too or recycled ideas. It is a broad brush, I admit, the exceptions, as pointed out by others, seem to me to support the point.

Comment on Frantically False Innovation by russell

russell — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:05:50 +0000

i’m generally in agreement with the idea that real value, and the growth and economic health that comes from it, is rarely the result of just packaging old stuff in a shiny new wrapper.

that said, a couple of comments.

for the record, google made their fortune through a simple but important insight about searching documents for relevance to a query, and by finding pragmatic, effective solutions to a variety of problems having to do with scale.

they are in a kind of “hey, me too” mode now but that’s not what made them what they are.

really game-changing innovation happens when it happens, and is hard to predict. most times, innovations happen as solutions to specific problems that exist in the here-and-now.

because it’s driven by issues presented by, and occurs in the context of, existing technologies and practices, innovations are by nature most often incremental. and quite often, there’s real value to be found there.

Comment on Frantically False Innovation by martygl

martygl — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:15:31 +0000

Turbulence,
The key to this, from my standpoin,t is the hyping of minor steps forward at the expense of potential real innovation. I see many things get cheaper and faster. I think VMWare is great, it is just not a new idea. I think an understanding of the history of these technologies is a good thing to have. Most important, to me, is that we aggressively search for new things rather than new ways to package old things.

I have only browsed through the Vertica website, but like Wolfram Alpha, I do find it intriguing.