Some of the tangible accomplishments of the President's plan over the next six years include: ROADS: Rebuild 150,000 miles of roads - renewing our commitment to the backbone of our transportation system; RAILWAYS: Construct and maintain 4,000 miles of rail - enough to go coast-to-coast; RUNWAYS: Rehabilitate or reconstruct 150 miles of runway - while putting in place a NextGen system that will reduce travel time and delays.
Some of the tangible accomplishments of the President's plan over the next six years include:
David Brooks gets his facts wrong on a regular basis and not just on side matters. Often the mistake is on an issue that is the central point of his column. He gave us a beautiful example today. He told readers that the United States had decided to go the big government route to recover from the downturn whereas Germany had gone the austerity route. Brooks tells readers: "This divergence created a natural experiment. Who was right? The early returns suggest the Germans were." He then points to Germany's 9.0 percent growth in the second quarter compared to the near stagnation in the U.S. economy. Brooks is good enough to note that, "results from one quarter do not settle the stimulus/austerity debate," but let's ask if they show anything. The chart below shows the OECD's estimates of real government expenditures for Germany and the United States since the third quarter of 2008.
He gave us a beautiful example today. He told readers that the United States had decided to go the big government route to recover from the downturn whereas Germany had gone the austerity route. Brooks tells readers:
"This divergence created a natural experiment. Who was right? The early returns suggest the Germans were."
He then points to Germany's 9.0 percent growth in the second quarter compared to the near stagnation in the U.S. economy.
Brooks is good enough to note that, "results from one quarter do not settle the stimulus/austerity debate," but let's ask if they show anything.
The chart below shows the OECD's estimates of real government expenditures for Germany and the United States since the third quarter of 2008.
Can we please stop with the "Europe does austerity" thing? With the automatic stabilisers and policy decisions of the past 2 years, there has been a decent amount of stimulus in Europe. Maybe not enough, and they're lowing down too early, but we have to remember that it's a slow down from a trend which in Europe naturally goes more easily toward spending than in the US. Wind power
a friend booted up my mac from a ubuntu cd to show me around the system, and i told it to from mac system prefs, boot drive.
now when i boot up without the cd, it gives me some command line telling me to put in the cd and press any key, instead of reverting to the mac OS, as my friend assures me happens in windows. he's never done this on a mac before.
is there some key combo i can hold down to get it to default, as i checked the menus of ubuntu and found nothing i can discern as useful to changing boot prefs.
help!
ps ubuntu looks really easy on the eye, if i could get itunes d/loading podcasts automatically, and a good mail grabber, i might switch... right now i want to work on a tune in digital performer/mac so...
any tips for good audio/midi multitrack software for ubuntu/linux?
tia ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Restart your Mac while holding the Option key on your keyboard until boot options are displayed.
press holding X during startup, as it apparently "Force Mac OS X startup (if non-Mac OS X startup volumes are present)"
Does anything here help?
iTunes is Mac/Win only. The only to run it under U would be inside an emulator.
thanks for the tips, guys. we resolved it eventually by leaning on the eject button while rebooting. whew. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Windows has a default driver, which means you can copy photos from the iPhone without using iTunes/iPhoto.
But you certainly can't access the rest of the file system without jailbreaking the phone. There used to be apps that allowed this, but Apple killed them.
Sync Your iPhone Wirelessly in Linux
Apple may open up its iPhone and iPod touch devices to third-party apps next month, but the chances that Linux users will get invited to the party are slim at best. That hasn't stopped some intrepid hackers from coming up with a better music-syncing solution than the one Mac and Windows users have--a two-way wireless transfer, from almost any music organizing app you like, no wait for iTunes or USB cable required. Linux users, let's take a look at how to set up your iPhone or iPod touch for any-time wireless access after the jump
Today the German government passed key measures in its austerity package first announced back in June. The stated aim is to ensure compliance with the bizarre new constitutional clause - the so-called debt-brake - requiring a balanced (structural) budget by 2016 at the latest and to get below the Maastricht 3% deficit limit by 2013. It is a sad day for the already disadvantaged in Germany and also for Europe. The measures (here in English, hier auf deutsch) will bring about cuts totaling EUR80 billion in 2011 to 2014, of which 11bn take effect next year. That is wrong in cyclical terms. Germany may have had a spectacularly good second quarter, but the growth outlook will certainly deteriorate and is highly uncertain going forward. Even in purely national terms discretionary tightening starting in just a few months time of around 1/2% of GDP is the wrong policy. The measures are disproportionately targetted at the weakest in society, notably recipients of social benefit (Hartz IV), who bear almost half the burden in the first year (4.3 bn). The meanness of spirit is exemplified by the abolition of an allowance paid for two years to unemployed persons after the initial benefit period (at a relatively high replacement rate) runs out: this will save just 200m (that's about 0.008% of GDP!) a year, but will mean considerable additional hardship for the (approx. 100,000) people affected; these are workers made redundant 1-2 years ago, i.e. the most obviously blameless victims of the crisis. Not only do such policy choices offend normal ideas of social justice, they will maximise the negative demand effects.
Today the German government passed key measures in its austerity package first announced back in June. The stated aim is to ensure compliance with the bizarre new constitutional clause - the so-called debt-brake - requiring a balanced (structural) budget by 2016 at the latest and to get below the Maastricht 3% deficit limit by 2013. It is a sad day for the already disadvantaged in Germany and also for Europe.
The measures (here in English, hier auf deutsch) will bring about cuts totaling EUR80 billion in 2011 to 2014, of which 11bn take effect next year. That is wrong in cyclical terms. Germany may have had a spectacularly good second quarter, but the growth outlook will certainly deteriorate and is highly uncertain going forward. Even in purely national terms discretionary tightening starting in just a few months time of around 1/2% of GDP is the wrong policy.
The measures are disproportionately targetted at the weakest in society, notably recipients of social benefit (Hartz IV), who bear almost half the burden in the first year (4.3 bn). The meanness of spirit is exemplified by the abolition of an allowance paid for two years to unemployed persons after the initial benefit period (at a relatively high replacement rate) runs out: this will save just 200m (that's about 0.008% of GDP!) a year, but will mean considerable additional hardship for the (approx. 100,000) people affected; these are workers made redundant 1-2 years ago, i.e. the most obviously blameless victims of the crisis. Not only do such policy choices offend normal ideas of social justice, they will maximise the negative demand effects.
