Right Wing Hate Getting Out of Control

I think the right wing slimeb@lls aren't quite as sophisticated as the cited, paraphrased author seems to portray. I don't think they are intentionally trying to get certain people killed.



I don't think they are smart or introspective enough (a lacking that is required, basically, for being a fan of those shows - or hosting them) to be that specific. I think they are the absolute embodiment of "loose cannons." That is not to belittle the damage they do, just as an actual loose cannon would absolutely do tremendous damage in its own right.



I just doubt their ability to aim. Aiming takes intelligence, logic, and planning. Their only strength is being determined, which overpowers their stark lack of cognitive ability. Their audience isn't sharp enough to see through the streams of nonsense, and you get what you get.



If someone has inside information where there is a deliberate, collusive relationship between the handlers for the big hate players, THEN you've got a blockbuster book... or perhaps a blockbuster hate crimes indictment. Until then, I for one am skeptical that this effect is deliberately systemic and the cited book is just a good post mortem that simply connects the dots between very angry, scared, hateful people and shared delus1ons.
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Ensuring Investment in Healthcare Information Technology Does Not Flatline

++ Evaluate the efficacy of the VA and Medicare systems for deployment as public plan infrastructure.

++ Adopt the one that will be most able to be extended.

++ Reject fadism-driven solutions. They are great in a company carrying a few thousand transactions a day. For something this scale, it will be beyond the breaking point and become too hard to manage. **

++ Put management and code evolution of the basic infrastructure up for bid every 7 years. No offshoring.

++ Keep the source code - all must be government-owned.



** - VLANs and networking are example. 15 years ago when FastEthernet switches became affordable, you could just plug in machines and get to work. Your system admin could handle it all. Not optimal, but functional. But now, you're not cool if you're not running a dozen VLANs in your network and you need a full time admin. Then expand your network to multiple campuses and now you need 7/24 teams of highend engineers to deal with the hundreds of scattered VLANs - not to mention edge hardware that costs a bloody fortune. Cisco and Juniper will tell you with a straight face that VLANs scale to as large as you want - because the answer is always finished with, ".. if you use the most expensive hardware." (which doesn't mean that VLANs are bad, BTW!).



Realize that fadism is used by vendors to sell more hardware and licenses - NOT to solve problems that actually inhibiting productivity. They
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Ensuring Investment in Healthcare Information Technology Does Not Flatline

The next multi-agency SOA architecture that is successfully and cost-effectively deployed will be the first one successfully and cost-effectively deployed. For that matter, how many true CORBA (or similar OO solution) architectures have been cost-effectively implemented to serve multiple organizations?



After all, SOA is basically just a re-marketing of the same old ideas that sounded absolutely awesome in doctoral dissertations and self-adulating IT academics. But when it comes time to implement outside a lab, these architectures become immensely complicated to manage, spawning cottage industries (like SOA's wonderful three-headed spawn, UDDI - how much does a commercial UDDI v3 server license cost, hmmm?), and forcing programmer retraining (ah hell, let's just off-shore it instead!) to deal with a maze of concepts that are really just the same as older concepts, but have to be renamed so that there is an appearance of some sort of improvement from the older concepts.



Please, let's step away from the altar of fad technology and just put together something simple that works.
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ACES is Not a Victory for the Environmental Movement

This whole bill smacks of a total capitulation to the Rs (and campaign financiers). I think the only reason there is ANY legislation on this front is that it was driven by the Dem's desire to offer a marketable "accomplishment" to voters next year.



I can't help but think that if this topic was cast as a critical national security pursuit (armies grind to a complete halt without oil, factories can't build tanks without electricity, etc.) all the important goals could be achieved.
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