"Bandwidth efficiency" for RSS has come and gone as an issue, but it will come again; all improvements on the last pass were linear in nature, meaning that as more people come online the problem will rear its head again later. And next time, the "low-hanging" fruit will be gone. There are two basic, fundamental problems with the current system: When an RSS file changes, the entire RSS file is transferred.

I was just seeing somebody on CNN pontificating on the "Roadmap to Peace" and once again it struck me how little I can stand the standard "network" news. The "standard" media take such an infuriatingly naive view of events. They take everything anybody says at face value, from right-wing wackos and left-wing wackos, and everything in between. They live in a strange little fantasy land where only first-order effects matter and where everybody always says exactly what they are really intending.

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"Artists have been deluding themselves for centuries with the notion that they create. In fact they do nothing of the sort. They discover. Inherent in the nature of reality are a number of combinations of musical tones that will be perceived as pleasing by a human central nervous system. For millennia we have been discovering them, implicit in the universe—and telling ourselves that we `created' them. To create implies infinite possibility, to discover implies finite possibility.

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