Newt to Head PBS. Not. But if he did, the programming might look like the following (see the entire list here):
9:30 pm Washington Week in Review: Guests George Will, Rush Limbaugh, John Sununu, Pat Buchanan, James Kilpatrick, Mona Charen, G. Gordon Liddy, Robert Novak, Bay Buchanan, Pat Robertson, Joseph Sobran, Paul Harvey, Phyllis Schafly, Maureen Reagan, and John McLaughlin discuss liberal media bias.
10:00 pm Adam Smith's Money World: How to Profit from Ozone Depletion
10:30 pm Nightly Business Report: Wall Street celebrates the end of all laws regarding antitrust, consumer protection, work-place safety, environmental protection, minimum wage and child labor.
11:00 pm Insights of Dan Quayle
11:01 pm Sign-Off
Quick Notes
Bob Dole and his blue friend invigorate...<G>
I'm going to be doing a YANTI this morning so I will be off line until lunch time or so (that's noon)
Professors at that the University of Hawai'i may go on strike (the 60 day cooling off period has ended) so I may not have class to go to tomorrow night.
Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of the NASA shuttle Challenger's last flight (STS 51-L). There are a lot of lessons to learn (see the report here). But for now, I want to honor Lt. Col. Ellison S. Onizuka, Mission Specialist, husband, father, and Son of Hawai'i. Aloha Ellison
Top / Home / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / FridayTuesday - 30 January 2001
YANTI. So my PC was doing strange things. And as most Windows users know, when the going gets strange, the strange YANTI. So I reformatted the C: drive and copied the contents of the CD to /options/cabs. But when the transfer was taking place, I noticed that the number of files being transferred per second was slowing down until it almost stopped. Really strange. I don't know what caused that. But eventually, all of the files were copied and I started setup and successfully installed. As I said, strange.
I have to do some research on the history of our statute on jury exemptions. The current statute was enacted in 1972 and has been amended once since then (in 1987). The Judiciary is seeking to delete all exemptions save for those who have served on a jury in the last year. So, I gotta go - Aloha!
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Hump Day Wednesday - 31 January 2001
DNS Unresolved. No, not Microsoft's problems. We have continuing DNS problems right here in River City. If I have the IP address I can get to where I need to go. But if not, forget it. Unfortunately, IT does not seem to know what the problem is. This means this post will not be made until I get full access back. Sigh.
YANTI II. Part of the original strangeness that I was experiencing may have been an interaction between Zonelabs' Zonealarm and Win2K Pro. In reinstalling my software, I noticed Zonelabs had a patch for those using Win2K with the SP1 patch installed (if you already have the latest version of Zonealarm - 2.1.44 you apparently don't need the patch). But if you have Win2K Pro and ZoneAlarm prior to the latest version, and you are experiencing strange things going on, you may want to install the latest version of ZoneAlarm (or uninstall it). YMMV.
Too Much of A Good Thing? The official Hawai'i visitor arrival figures were released yesterday. The year 2000 had just under seven million people visit here - a new record. One of the things I looked at when researching my last presentation for class was the concept of carrying capacity. Some are saying that 7 million people on these small islands in the Pacific are too much. But how to determine how much is too much? You could just let the market decide. Or you could try to figure out the impact of that many people on the environment and then decide if the cost is worth the benefit. An interesting question and one not easily answered.
Mail Call.
From: Gary M. Berg
To: Dan Seto
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 1:57 PM
Subject: YANTIThe copy slowed down because you were copying from plain DOS without SMARTDRV installed. So it slowed down when it had to search the entire directory each time it needed to add another file to the directory. Installing SMARTDRV can make a factor of 10-100 difference in the speed.
It's usually faster to boot the NT CD and install from that than to get in the situation where you have to copy the contents of the CD to the disk under the DOS file system.
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This email was sent without any attachment and should have arrived without any. If there are attachments, DON'T OPEN THEM!----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Seto
To: Gary M. Berg
Subject: Re: YANTI
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:09:52 -1000Gary,
Thanks for the info. As to why I, and others, do it is of course so that I don't have to dig out the CD every time I make a change. Of course, with Win2K, I haven't had to make too many of those changes, but I can remember in Win98 having to search all over the place for my CD every time I made a change in Network Properties.
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From: Gary M. Berg BunkeBerg.com
To: Dan Seto
Subject: RE: YANTI
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:03:03 -0500I believe you can copy the NT CD local after the installation and then change the pointer in the registry to point to the right place. Take a look at this link:
http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=14624
It's for Windows 2000, but I bet it'll work for Win NT too. And if not, I'll bet Bob can tell you.
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Thursday - 1 February 2001
Not much new going on so this will be a short post.
One of the things we are working on in class is what role government should have in the economy. Some would say no role at all. Other would say government should be very active in intervening and controlling the economy. While I am certainly no expert in the field, it does appear that there is a role for government to play, the problem is figuring out what that role is.
Public Goods. For example, who should pay for the cost of a lighthouse? Or a Fourth of July fireworks display? Two examples of things that have value to some people, and meet the two definitional requirements of a "public good." That is, it is to some degree indivisible in that one person's consumption of the good does not reduce the amount available to another. In other words, one person's viewing of a fireworks display, does not reduce what can be seen by another person standing next to him or her. And secondly, a public good is to some degree non-excludable. More simply put, it is difficult or impossible to exclude individuals from benefiting from a lighthouse (or national defense for that matter) regardless of whether one pays fees or taxes for the upkeep of the lighthouse.
So why would a corporation want to produce a service which meets the two criteria? The answer, of course, is that it probably wouldn't since there is no direct profit in it (and the business of business is to make a profit). But wait a second, you say - what about altruism? What about things like the OpenSource movement ("information is free")? Well, yes. We can debate whether there is such a thing as altruism versus self-interest (Linux may have started with altruistic motives but it did lead to a cushy job in California for its creator).
But the main point is that there is a role for government wherever there is a service that people value, that at the same time the benefits of which can not be excluded from the populace in general. Or more to the point, services which have value, but for which no profit can be derived by corporations.
End of Econ 101. There's more where that came from in tonight's class so I gotta go - Aloha!.
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Aloha Friday - 2 February 2001
It's Friday!
I have a legislative hearing this afternoon to go to on juror exemptions. Before that, I need to review the testimony I wrote yesterday as well as take a look at some of the back-up material on the subject that I wrote two years ago for our jury innovations study.
Essentially, the majority of the states have two or fewer automatic exemptions for people chosen to be prospective jurors in a trial. Of that majority, about 15 of them have no exemptions at all. In other words, everyone gets to share in the responsibility of serving on a jury. Hawaii, uncharacteristically, exempts everyone under the sun, including attorneys, judges, ministers, police, fire, state department heads, physicians, dentists, those in the armed services, and anyone who has already served in the last year.
[Insert Disclaimer Here] However, even though jury service is one of the most important rights people have (equaled perhaps only by voting, and maybe not even that), many people do not want to serve, even though Hawai'i is a one day/one trial state. That is, once you are called, you are there one day, or if picked for a trial, the duration of that one trial. And that's it. One day of service to counter the possible abuses of governmental power. Why wouldn't any citizen want to do this? And yet, each year, people introduce bills to exempt themselves from having to serve on a jury.
This year, it's the college students, professors, and public school teachers. Some of the most important and influential people in society do not see jury service as being critical to preserving liberty and democracy in our country. Very Big Sigh.
Well, I gotta go. Have a Great Weekend Everyone! - Aloha!
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