Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.
Scratches to Sketches
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
The Revolution in Television is ON!
Think TVs are clearer and brighter. That's only the start of the visual revolution under way. You might say that we have not seen anything yet!
The Threats from Anti-social Nations to Internet Security are Very Real
We often hear how some nations may use cyberattacks as a way to disrupt efforts of benign communication. Many times we have our computers fail without knowing why!
http://www.iiss.org/recent-key-addresses/iain-lobban-address/
Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.
Who benefits from the present method for solving the enormous existing mismatch between spending and saving?
The economy has become an impoverishment trap for the majority.
It's not something that is difficult to figure out. Firstly, many people still have dwellings that are overvalued that taxpayers are funding. Secondly, the financial sector is receiving a windfall in capital and income from transfers to it and lower interest rates.
All in all, the speculators have had a windfall and the next generation of kids who don't inherit that windfall from their lucky parents, they, will pay for it through a massive transfer of wealth away from their bank accounts via taxes. In the end, the distribution of income will be skewed much further to those that control economies of scale.
People will get upset!
The imbalance has been struck and who cares as those in the minority that immediately benefit will prosper as will their progeny!
The others in the majority will just be outraged that we have let it happen this way and now!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/davehillblog/2010/oct/13/boris-johnson-government-housing-benefit
Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.
So you thought there was no real long term recession, but wait education might be the answer .. Sadly no!
The enormous cost of bank liberalisation and demolition of British Building Societies as the prime lenders to the housing market is coming home to roost within the pillars of what makes a democracy work ... educational costs.
By making banks into building societies, or rather by not understanding the economics of and necessity for long term saving, and through the last decades mismatching of the costs of housing over time, our present generation of 'poor' economists have doomed another generation to the high costs of education and to a slower population growth rate. The latter is obviously a good thing, so there is no need to take sides, just observe the logical drift of the changes underway in so-called advanced economies.
But wait, perhaps universities where people go to learn will fade out of popular support and only the rich children will residence themselves in a university. It seems logical that universities as an institution are obsolete given the many possibilities of free education via the Internet. In fact, the www will, must, become the avenue of choice for the so called advanced economies. Not by fees will such education be provided but by volunteers.
That we are are witnessing the democratisation of education worldwide should be apparent as we begin to educate our grandchildren in China and India. The rush for cheaper education is on, and it will only be branding that attracts cost conscious kids to the likes of Oxford and Cambridge.
Do you not agree that logic says that by raising the cost of upper level schooling, we are giving away our competitive advantage of our educational systems to India and China? Before long Britain might as well send kids to school in India where the costs of education will be more affordable.
Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.
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Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth.
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