User interface to specify time using a mouse.

Similar to the way that users are prompted with a calendar when they need to enter a date, users are presented a standard clock. Clicking on the location of the “little hand” sets the hour and approximates the minute. Then users can drag the minute hand for more accuracy.

You could use a 24 hour clock if AM pm can’t be guessed. Within “business hours” we know which are AM and PM.

-sh

The problem we have fallen into is the statement that “there are a lot of things that the private sector can do more efficiently” without asking ourselves, “Why can they do it more efficiently?” It has become fairly common to ask or at least imply the question “When can they do it more efficiently?” But if we don’t address the source of that efficiency we cannot predict before we sell a contract.

Notes: The main difference between a nation and a corporation is HR. Corps can choose who they hire to a greater degree than most Nations, but not much. If we look at full blown dictatorships, they can “fire” unproductive or uncooperative “employees”. They can recruit immigrants. They suffer from competition with other countries, so their biggest constraint is often public opinion and the willingness of the best workers to join them. If we look at the failed dictatorships, you will find that they lose more of their skilled workforce than they can recruit. The ones that haven’t failed, we don’t think of much, because they maintain a positive outward appearance. Those dictatorships can recruit enough skilled labor, because they pay them.

The Axis are:
Individualism vs Communalism
Anarchy vs Totalitarianism

All “Ultra” governments tend toward totalitarianism.

Left would be Communalism and Right would be Individualism, in a sensible world, but you might notice that we don’t have that clear of a definition in practice.

It’s probably important to note the difference between communalism and communism. Communism would be Communalist Totalitarian.

Corporatism is actually the most interesting variant, because it is a group acting like an individual for the exclusion of other groups and actual individuals. So the groups are Communalist-Totalitarian internally, supporting Individualist-Anarchy externally.

The problem of course is that this preference for belief can be and has been perverted. Sociopaths who believe only in scoring points for themselves, have literally challenged themselves to find out how far they can push the beliefs of others. Societies problem is that it is very hard to discriminate between a believer and a con man.

Now, If Congress is trying to decide upon how to progress with the Endangered Species Act, and they need more information to make those decisions, That is what earmarks ARE FOR. Congress wants an answer, so congress pays for it.

Maybe they didn’t need to earmark $3million. Maybe $2million would have been enough. Maybe they really needed $4million in order to develop a comprehensive method of answering more than just bears. I don’t know. I can’t answer that question. What I can say is that if the question is $700 Billion and your only solution is $3million, you have a problem of scale.

Let me put this into perspective that my brain can actually hold. Because million and Billion are kinda hard to keep straight.

Imagine my fifteen-year-old son wants to buy a broken down Ford for $7,000, and I ask him, “Does it have an engine?” If his response to me is that I spent three cents discovering if my dinner chicken has food poisoning, he has a problem with scale.

This is the scale we are talking about here. A seven-hundred-thousand difference between the question and McCain’s petulant answer.

If McCain wants to micromanage the Senate Appropriations committee, then he should stay in the Senate. His complain that he wasn’t able to actually succeed in controlling spending, when that was his job, is not a reason for us to give him a more important job that he can fail to do.

Yes, Americans are hard-working and they deserve better than to have their jobs shipped overseas.

Argh!