"It is such a difficult situation because we have just survived the typhoons in October that destroyed 1.5 million metric tons of rice and countless basic infrastructure," Joel Rudinas, an under secretary at the Department of Agriculture, said Friday.
Yes, China can and will throw a lot of money at its economy, with hundreds of billions of dollars in increased and accelerated spending on railroads, airports, highways, power plants, cell phone towers and countless local infrastructure projects, as well as on social programs.
The government is willing to pay for countless loss-making infrastructure projects, most of its citizens worry more about air pollution than nuclear safety and there is no political opposition waiting to sweep to power and mothball the reactors.
Instead of enriching average Chinese, the country's growing wealth has been plowed into countless white elephant infrastructure projects championed by powerful local officials.
Engineers become hobbled by large code bases, bureaucratic processes, countless meetings, common infrastructure, and endless email threads, among other obstacles.
One reason: Entrepreneurs use mobiles to work around the long delays, crumbling infrastructure and countless little Third World frustrations that cut into opportunities.
It makes no sense, especially in a time of fiscal crisis, to forego taxes that can be used for improved public education, renewed national infrastructure, and countless other pressing needs, in order to indulge the individual preferences and personal gratification of the wealthy.
What's different this time is the surveillance infrastructure, plus the countless crimes our lawmakers have invented in federal and state codes.
Attackers may flood a service with requests, inducing the infrastructure, to create countless VMs in response to those requests, thereby exhausting the available hardware resources.
But you need high-speed Internet, wi-fi and affordable cellular service to make that happen, behind which are countless computer servers and network infrastructure.
