lmoorman

Would love to see it - for cloud files - and all swift deployments (the whole cloud files source is open sourced as part of openstack). let us know if we can help in any way.

That's like saying do you remember how hard it was to use a PC before Windows came around? The problems solved yesterday do not give you a pass today.

ec2 and cloudservers/slicehost = apples

appengine and cloudsites = oranges

1password. A must that makes your life much easier.

baby boomers hit the 60-80s. and most healthcare costs are in your later years.

The whole point of the post is I don't have solutions.

Try to refute the point that healthcare is the massive piece of our unfunded liabilities. You can't. Good resource: http://www.pgpf.org/

What I am concerned with is I don't think the coming debate will get very far. We have a visceral fear of change in this arena and it will hurt us.

The GOP has already targeted "rationing" as the evil word of the debate. Any talk of it will be demonized. I still have no clue what the answer is, but you are right, at some point we have to make calls at what point in the exponential cost curve do we say, "it is time to die." that is a tough one.

Added the link to my list of reading. Looks very interesting. I do share your cynicism that we have no tolerance for real change politically. The charge of socialism meets every single proposal that involves a little more government involvement.