http://www.americans4katrina.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:56:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-the-ipad-2-better-design-speed-and-power-but-cameras-are-mediocre/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-the-ipad-2-better-design-speed-and-power-but-cameras-are-mediocre/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:56:50 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-the-ipad-2-better-design-speed-and-power-but-cameras-are-mediocre/ I'm with you in that I like people who actually invent things to get credit, but Robert is correct here in that the technology business (maybe more than any other industry) is full of examples of other people taking an idea, improving it in some way, and making allot of money where the original inventor was unable. Mobile devices, operating systems, user interface concepts, etc., etc., etc., too many examples where the original inventor is simply a foot note, but not the financial beneficiary. Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-the-ipad-2-better-design-speed-and-power-but-cameras-are-mediocre/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/analysis-on-new-york-city-crane-operators-top-500000-in-pay-benefits/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/analysis-on-new-york-city-crane-operators-top-500000-in-pay-benefits/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:56:22 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/analysis-on-new-york-city-crane-operators-top-500000-in-pay-benefits/ Susheel, CEOs are accountable to their boards, who in turn are accountable to the pension funds that manage our retirement money. There are incestuous relationships, but ultimately there is some accountability. GM gave in to most UAW demands and passed the bill along. Since there were a lot more needy participants in that league, than there are in the CEO league, the dollar bill was a lot higher. High CEO pay did not put GM nor Chrysler out of business, the cost of doing business did. The market Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/analysis-on-new-york-city-crane-operators-top-500000-in-pay-benefits/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-china-starts-aircraft-carrier-sea-trial/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-china-starts-aircraft-carrier-sea-trial/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:49:42 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-china-starts-aircraft-carrier-sea-trial/ Hi, has anyone heard of this thing called 50c-club? Is this something coined by the anti-Chinese bashers, or something else? But I think it is the bashers who make things up. I have noticed a pattern or two that when the truth prevails, the bashers alway turned to attacks, calling the truth telling people names, accusing them of working for fifty cents, and other bad things. One can tell these bashers are from a society in which the economy is to spend others' money, sort of like Ponzi schemes, Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-china-starts-aircraft-carrier-sea-trial/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-is-harry-reid-un/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-is-harry-reid-un/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:42:23 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-is-harry-reid-un/ Everyone, Republican or Democrat, who understands the constitutional question agrees that Muslims have the right to build a mosque wherever the law otherwise allows. But that is so not the question. The question is this: Will building this mosque at this place cause non-Muslim Americans to like and trust Muslims less than they do already? Certain Muslims throughout the world give non-Muslim Americans lots of reasons to mistrust and dislike them, of which terror attacks are one of the most compelling. Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-is-harry-reid-un/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/views-on-vatican-in-bold-bid-to-attract-anglicans/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/views-on-vatican-in-bold-bid-to-attract-anglicans/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:36:27 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/views-on-vatican-in-bold-bid-to-attract-anglicans/ I did not know, but learned recently, that married clergy would be allowed in the Anglican rite even after the 'merger'. I was thinking that while there are a great number of Anglicans everywhere, finding a career celibate ministers going forward would be a problem. If non-celibate ministers are allowed, and it looks like they will, there should be no problem. The RCC is having a hard time finding ministers in the US due, I believe in part, to the celibacy requirement. I foresaw the possibility Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/views-on-vatican-in-bold-bid-to-attract-anglicans/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/commentary-on-japans-opposition-calls-for-kan-to-resign/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/commentary-on-japans-opposition-calls-for-kan-to-resign/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:33:36 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/commentary-on-japans-opposition-calls-for-kan-to-resign/ I know that the Japanese opposition has been calling for Kan's resignation for quite some time, but I don't really think it would be wise to change leadership characteristics in the middle of disaster clean up and containment. There is still a long road ahead of containing the future effects of the disaster and it just seems hasty to change leadership in the middle of the situation. I know that the shelf life of Prime Ministers in Japan is very short, but I think Kan should be given a chance to Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/commentary-on-japans-opposition-calls-for-kan-to-resign/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-not-my-job/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-not-my-job/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:57:51 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-not-my-job/ There is a big difference only if there is an agreement (preferably in writing) specifying that difference. Circumstances change, personnel adapt -- or don't. If circumstances (and your incompetent boss) require you take on tasks of an unusual or mundane sort that you do not like, you have the choices that are the bottom line of the article: Refuse, because it is not part of the job. Accede, and do the job. Look for another job. The boss is not always right, but he is always the boss. If he pays Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-not-my-job/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/a-response-to-mcgurn-when-big-government-goes-to-college/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/a-response-to-mcgurn-when-big-government-goes-to-college/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:53:30 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/a-response-to-mcgurn-when-big-government-goes-to-college/ My recent readings would indicate that GPA may be a poor indicator of actual learning do to prevelant grade inflation. As regards to your other comments, I believe you are right on the mark on focusing Pell Grants where society gets the best bang for the buck. If English major actually were effective language in teaching students to write readable sentences, their value would be substantial to society. Unfortunately, most concern themselves with obscure critique of English writers and not in the Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/a-response-to-mcgurn-when-big-government-goes-to-college/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/opinion-on-why-chinese-mothers-are-superior/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/opinion-on-why-chinese-mothers-are-superior/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:53:06 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/opinion-on-why-chinese-mothers-are-superior/ We are not really a great country now. Not great for everyone. Never has been. We rely on opportunity intrinsic and extrinsic motivation individual motivation. Not a monolithic national culture. Look where the Chinese are coming from. Two or three decades ago, China had a problem with starvation and empty rice bowls. Hunger is stlll a problem in the interior of China. With that kind of recent background, one can understand the extreme motivation to avoid hunger and poverty. We need, and will continue Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/opinion-on-why-chinese-mothers-are-superior/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-roger-scruton-memo-to-hawking-theres-still-room-for-god/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-roger-scruton-memo-to-hawking-theres-still-room-for-god/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:49:41 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-roger-scruton-memo-to-hawking-theres-still-room-for-god/ Excellent article. And scientists who speak with such confidence and arrogance about things which, in the final analysis, aren't knowable (particularly not with such confidence) unknowingly undermine the credibility of science. That's what happened with Anthropogenic Global Warming. The scientists who were so rock-solid-confident in the theory, and WANTED it to be true, and proclaimed it in the name of science (and all dissenting views were heretical...) undermined the credibility of the science Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/criticism-on-roger-scruton-memo-to-hawking-theres-still-room-for-god/feed/ 0