Scratches to Sketches
http://www.creativecommons.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/pdregistryca-pd_flowchart.pdf
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.
Even in the most favourable of circumstances the fact that your person is winner only increases the probability that movement will be made towards implementing the promised policy.
What people tend to forget is that an election is only one of the many obstacles in the process of implementing policy even if then promise is well intended. The problem with politics is that people make promises they can't keep. This happens for many reasons, but one should always ask the question of a politician in Bayesian terms. You will keep this promise under what conditions? What will you do if you for example your budget has to be trimmed?
The real problems can occur when politicians try to keep promises only to make matters worse, for example in giving free tuition only to have other matters under-financed. In the other words when you take into account the generality of political life consider your winner as only upping the chances of promises being fulfilled. Even when there is will, sadly, there may not be a way.
Example of UK Labour promises not being kept:
Broken savings plan promises in Canada:
http://marshallplan.ca/comments8.html
The shambles of African politics produce many broken election promises:
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_6541.shtml
The extreme expectations of American politics following the Obama win:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=91286
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.
http://dubitoergo.blogspot.com/2010/09/meme-debunking-3-wash-your-damn-hands.html
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.
The above is a stark statement that many farmers in Syria are making following years of deadly drought that has decimated enormous areas of once productive farm lands.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/world/middleeast/14syria.html
Learn more about Syria
http://www.everyculture.com/Sa-Th/Syria.html
http://geography.howstuffworks.com/middle-east/geography-of-syria.htm/printable
There is a need to maintain and collect varieties of wheat so as to protect the source of future wheats that can be grown and to improve stocks and strains of wheat:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y4011e/y4011e08.htm
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/happy-like-god/
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5
Apple and the Ipad are already there:
There are serious concerns about security:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/html_5_youre_not_nearly_fright.html
Yet, more issues:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/business/media/11privacy.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
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.
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.
Anyone who knows me, also knows how much I like to browse fictional bookshelves. This was not always something I would admit. There was a time when I too suffered from the mistaken notion that reading fiction was of somewhat lesser importance to reading fact.
It's now when I know better that I can say that most written material that portrays itself as fact is really fiction, and probably more fictional than those books like my own (now) that claim to be almost totally fictional. I dare anyone to find a real fact in anything I have ever read or written. No, the world of writing is almost always fictional.
That's ok! People can cope with a fictional world. There is no necessity for what you read to be fact, starting with Santa Claus! How boring would life be without this strange man or idea of a man who lives forever.
The Most Amazing Fiction:
Closer to home, we have God, the most mythical being ever and the most fictional character to be found ever. What would our world be like without God?
Even though God as a human being is fiction, we have a very strong sense that God matters, and in that sense God is very real. God is a paradox being fictional and real at the same time. Jesus as a human likewise is fictional and real at the same time.
People could argue to their death that God and Jesus do not and did not ever exist, but they would miss the point. We have the capacity and the potential for God and Jesus to exist in our mind and that is sufficient.
Others will add to the reality of God that was created in the past just as one might create a chair and add legs and cushions. We see a chair and we don't say it does not exist. We experience God and we don't experience that God does not exist. Did we create the chair any more than we created God?
Some readers are now thinking, oops blasphemy, Arthur said that God does not exist! Or, perhaps, they have moved on to another site.
Well, really does it matter what I say, even if I say God is fictional. We all know that there is no human being, God. Thus, God as a human being is entirely fictional since God is not real, reality being material.
Since the past does not now exist then God does not exist as Jesus, even if he was once a human being because Jesus no longer exists as a human being. Jesus is not material. Matter is not reality. Matter is fictional. Now is a fictional notion.
Logic as Serving an Uncertain Purpose:
Should I make my point? Well, it is that we live in a dream world. There is no proof of reality, only our speculation based on what we feel, see, hear, touch, and taste, ... or know about in other ways. God is entirely an abstraction to us. God is not real now because we don't see time as anything but a flow. There is no real present only a stream of presents that make up what we make out to be reality, but which is really fictional, like a dream!
Wait a minute! Is there a flaw in the logic of my logic? If we are not what we think we are, then God may be more real than we think. We should really know ourselves, but we don't, any more than we can claim to know God.
Ask yourself whether God existed before you existed and you will be surprised what you find out.
Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman
http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2268000
(via Instapaper)
http://www.nkpedersen.ca/cfgg-ls/10%2010%2009%20CFGG_Frequently_asked_Questions.pdf
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/opinion/09blow.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
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.
It's not an accident that historically Egypt, Japan, Russia, Iran, Germany and China developed political organisations that we refer to as despotism. All promulgated that key aspects of their living environment required the total management of all aspects of society if that society were to survive in the long term. The costs of bending to public policy in these countries were the loss of individual freedoms and the imposition of a state ideology and ways of thinking that survive in it's many descendants of closed mind behaviourism to this day. Thus, it is that fear of something big is used by leaders to subjugate individuals to a single way of thinking, an ideology that seems paramount.
The reality is that leadership by consultation and openness are almost always better suited forms of organisation against major threats. Without openness one finds leadership by force and low intellect.
Read Vaclav's assessment of the political organisations response to the very abstract idea of global warming. The world can respond to pollution through means other than force though the response may be slower initially as people gradually climb on board to sound logically argued political policy rather than assuming political policy based on fear. Low cost education and openness of information and expression of ideas and opinions are the keys to effective political change and sustenance of a compatible balance of purpose in society with good governance. Science needs to conform to the ideals of open challenges to the authority of theory over fact.
http://www.klaus.cz/clanky/266
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.