An old maxim of engineering: You can have it fast. You can have it cheap. Or you can have it good. Pick two.
The internet: email, this blog, that blog, those news sites; emphasizes immediacy. Now.
But even the most fluent, of which I am not, produce dreck when they hurry. So we waited for useful analysis of the attack on Mumbai. And still wait for consideration of the implications.
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