I worked up from the bottom of the list.
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Are Research Papers a Waste of Time? - Room for Debate
Has the Internet made research papers a useless exercise for college students? Is there a better way to assess knowledge?Actions will assess knowledge every time. Research papers are useful tools to drive understanding. -
Kare Anderson
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In Deficit Plan, Taxes Must Rise, President Warns
“Obama to Republicans: "need to do their job" in raising taxes to cut deficit - http://nyti.ms/j0oImO”There has been and will be no progress until the next election.
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Mass Evacuations for Hurricane Irene, and More to Come - Room for Debate
Remember the evacuation gridlock in Houston before Hurricane Rita? That's just the beginning.Why bother? Politically we must make the effort but the gesture will be the action. Saving people from their foolishness can only be an attempt in a free society.We must concentrate on saving people from others' foolishness. -
Hurricane Irene's Hidden Costs, Still Piling Up - Room for Debate
Our population’s relentless march to the coast is putting more people and their built environment in harm’s way."Just say no."Coastal development must stop. That area is now committed to destruction by submergence.Palliative care is all that we can give it.Federal flood insurance in the coastal zone must buy the properties as the buildings are destroyed.Zoning must prevent further development other than public recreation. -
The 'Cry Wolf' Effect After Hurricane Irene - Room for Debate
Everyone working in emergency preparedness need to counter the complacency that will surely arise after the hurricane.
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The 'Cry Wolf' Danger
Randy Burnside, political scientist
"We can do this by continuing to insist that all citizens have an emergency preparedness plan and by providing adequate resources to assist in this process. If we do not remain vigilant, we run the risk of losing more lives to future hurricanes."Useless effort.People only seem learn when other people they care about die.New York City cannot be protected or moved. We will just have to try to clean up the mess after the event. -
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Manufacturing as a Driver of Employment Is Wishful Thinking - Room for Debate
Manufacturing will always add a lot of value to our economy, but as a share of the labor market it has declined for several decades.-
Wishful Thinking
Stephen J. Rose, economist, Georgetown University
Professor Rose is a Republican. He does not understand that the economy is demand driven.
Gains in productivity are contractionary. They remove spendable cash from the bottom of the economy. This shrinks the system.
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What Did We Learn From Irene? - Room for Debate
Most residents of New York City's flood-prone areas defied evacuation orders. Were they prepared anyway?"New York City's residents learned that “transit is the economic life, the cultural life of the city,” as summed up by Mitchell Moss, director of the Rudin Center at New York University. The M.T.A.'s subway trains and buses are parked in areas prone to flooding, a problem long recognized by task forces on climate change and by emergency planners, but apparently not yet solved. Yellow cabs came to the rescue of some evacuees in Lower Manhattan.
But most residents who were ordered to evacuate from low-lying areas like Battery Park City and the Rockaways did not comply with the order to leave. It could turn out that New York had a worse evacuation record than New Orleans did before Katrina, whose sixth anniversary was this week."
Not much was learned.
Mayor Bloomberg likes to do his job.
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JBI
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Tell-All Generation Learns to Keep Things Offline
Members of the under 30 tell-all generation are rethinking what it means to live out loud.
More of them must get smarter sooner
if kiddy browsers are to be avoided.
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Exxon Reaches Arctic Oil Deal With Russians
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Where Are the Women in Wikipedia? - Room for Debate
Why are there so many more men than women contributing to a
The Wikipedia has no sex preference.The problem must be in ourselves, not in our stars.
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The HP TouchPad
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/h-p-plans-to-make-a-few-more-touchpads/
For $100 it might be worth it. You will have to decide if it is flexible enough for you.
Not for me. This will be an orphan operating system. I do not want to write code for it.
H.P. Plans to Make a Few More TouchPads
By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF6:48 p.m. | Updated Adding pricing information.
Noah Berger/Bloomberg News Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad tablet did not sell well until it was discounted.
Hewlett-Packard says its tablet liquidation sale was such a hit that it is making some more tablets to liquidate.
The tablet, the TouchPad, is getting a brief reprieve from its death sentence. H.P. said on Tuesday that it swas planning to produce one last run of its would-be iPad competitor.
Consumers shunned the TouchPad when it was introduced two months ago, and H.P. quickly said it would stop production as part of a broader overhaul. But the remaining tablets went quickly after their price was discounted 80 percent. So many people wanted them, in fact, that H.P. could not fill all the orders.
“Since we announced the price drop, the number of inquiries about the product and the speed at which it disappeared from inventory has been stunning,” H.P. said in a blog post. “I think it’s safe to say we were pleasantly surprised by the response.” Read more… -
Philippe Couve
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Crowdsourcing a Better World
“Crowdsourcing a Better World - http://nyti.ms/hHnI5y”Looks like e-bay is my showroom/gallery.I should have thought of that.
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The Haimish Line
I wondered how David Brooks was distorting the world this time.Lying is so easy and comforting. Most people prefer it. (2) -
Falser Words Were Never Spoken
Lying is so easy and comforting. Most people prefer it. (1) -
davidnour
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In Deficit Plan, Taxes Must Rise, President Warns
“Obama to Republicans: "need to do their job" in raising taxes to cut deficit - http://nyti.ms/j0oImO”The congressional Republicans continue to bet their existence on no increase in revenues.They are attempting self destruction.
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Gerd Leonhard
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Twitter Co-Founders Start (or Restart) a Company
Two of Twitter’s co-founders and its former product chief have joined forces to work on a new start-up, the Obvious Corporation, they said on Tuesday.This is an operation to promote product without production.The results will have no physical existence.
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Up and Down From Ground Zero
Charging failed. Arbitrary power down.
This project is of technical interest only.
The buildings are boring. -
Shiv Singh
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Hulu, Billed as Tomorrow’s TV, Looks Boxed In Today
“Hulu, Billed as Tomorrow’s TV, Looks Boxed In Today - http://nyti.ms/nHEW7i”Add a vote for a better deal. Get a receiver card.Blockbuster has died. Cable is in trouble. Netflicks looks to be most of the paid business.Broadcast, DVD and internet are the game.The attempt to get and protect multiple income streams seems to be the problem.The management eventually will go to optimal income - best cash yield per production dollar - which looks to be add supported free distribution. They will sell adds around the content.Infomershals are unbearable.
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Walking on Air
The Highline was better once. Still good.
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leparisdechine
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Crowdsourcing a Better World
“Crowdsourcing a Better World - http://nyti.ms/hHnI5y”Do it if you can.
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