• From Boston Legal S3e12

    Alan Shore: (He pats Denny then gets up.) Some of the new iPods, you can load up to twenty thousand songs on them. Streams of videos, pictures, all on a thing this big. (He indicates about four inches.) The technology in this country is staggering! And yet, the Government can’t get their computers to erase my client from the No-Flylist. Even though they admit he shouldn’t be on it. Instead, anybody named Denny Crane can’t fly. Now! Mr Winchell is correct, he doesn’t need me to indict Homeland Security, the 9/11 commission already did that. The American public certainly doesn’t need to hear it from me. No! What Homeland Security could really use from me or others, preferably others, is a little help. Why not get it? I’m sure Tom Ridge is a very nice man, capable too, as is Michael Chertoff. But I can get twenty thousand songs on my iPod! We have geniuses in this country.True pioneers of innovation. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steve Ballmer, If we could just round up some of our best Steves. We’ve got kids in garages inventing Google and YouTube. Jets can not only fly by computer, but they can now take off and land on auto pilot. Should we truly be stumped by this No-Fly computer list? How about something so simple as issuing a flyer's license? It could have your picture, fingerprints, you show it, scan the card and your fingers at the gate, if it’s a match you get your aisle seat! This can’t be undoable. Expensive? Maybe. But judging from recent spending patterns we’ve got billions to throw around. Halliburton alone has profited ten billion from the war, maybe we could get them to kick in? Why is it our Government leaders only tap 9 into the private sector for campaign contributions or to pass out contracts to cronies? Bill Gates is out there! Paul Allen! Has anybody called them? I bet Mark Cuban would personally fund the computer upgrades if you gave him free publicity. Is it really against national policy to think outside the box? This isn’t about beating up on Homeland Security. Everybody knows they’re trying, I’m sure they’re good people, but they simply cannot dispatch a representative to this courtroom to say the problem isn’t fixable, while thousands of Americans are being denied due process. It so easily has to be fixable. And in the meantime my client sits here today, a lawabiding man, grounded! While Bella lays writhing in Maui!
    (Judge Webb tries to hide her smirk.)
    Alan Shore: (He goes to sit down. To Denny.) Too long? (Denny gives him a ‘Who knows?’ look.)

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    不是因为Steve Jobs,不是因为Mark Cuban(啥?...),只是觉得这段话非常非常地,呃,正确(乃敢用个更高级点的词么....)。
    Alan在这集的最后说,希望政府能雇佣那些天才、思想家,而非那些有钱拉选票的人,呵呵。其实都是一样的。按照道理来说政府需要那些天才,思想家,而不是那些糊涂的政客。我于是突然想起来之前一次关于中国08年的通货膨胀的谈话中说到美联储,其实中国很多的官员根本不知道美联储到底是个什么东西(我当时吃惊了,然而这是个事实没什么好吃惊的),但是他们是政府的一员,他们也许和不久之后的经济政策有关。那场谈话以我们的哈哈大笑结束。没有办法,官场向来是这样。
    于是我又想起来不久前克鲁格曼获炸药奖经济学奖之后,某篇文章说的关于经济学家和政客们的矛盾关系……似乎看起来更像一个哲学话题= =||||。于是想到中国90年代初的通货膨胀的解决方式……呃,想歪了想歪了想歪了……

    也许我还是应该多进行有意义的谈话。这样课题也许就能更轻易地……定下来了吧?(叹气)
    又,虽然我是金融小白,但是为什么还是要那么执着于通货膨胀之类的课题= =||||||貌似现在选的题都是金融领域泛金融邻域的吧……灵异了。

    好了,摘抄&胡扯结束。