Scratches to Sketches
The weaknesses in the Microsoft strategy to meet the challenges of the new age in computing reflect the problems of any overgrown organization languishing in the world of it's past successes, which incidentally we have all suffered through.
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Put another way, however, that banking systems allowing hedge funds to determine which innovators succeed may not be the best way to promote effective competition.
As regards the economics, one of the major weaknesses in Keynes General Theory was that it failed miserably on the question of innovation. Schumpeter's theory of innovation and business cycles equally failed miserably on the question of credit and banking within a managed economy that has an effective central bank.
Today, economics as a field and central banking as a subset of this field has failed miserably to understand the complex processes of growth, innovation, competition and inflation.
It is no good governments or central banks throwing more credit into a system or doing what is called financial easing. This process of reflation does not help create jobs, nor improve the chances of innovation, nor reduce the risks of inflation. What it does do is take the politicians off the hook. It seems like a solution, but it is a pipe dream of weakly understood economics. We are thrown into a destructive world of economics that the political do not really understand and follow accounting conventions rather than the economics of business cycles under the unsound influence of central bank credit creation weakly understood.
The economic policies during the past decade of Gordon Brown, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Bank were seen in hindsight to have been massively destructive. Rather than money going into job creation money went into the most destructive aspects of capital financing, over-investment in the business of speculation in property and stocks, highly suspect hedge operations that reduced effective competition and forced the closure and relocation of real economic activity much sooner than it would have occurred.
The reality is that credit creation and lax competitive policy spawned by poor understanding of risk financing can accelerate all the negative aspects of an economy at the expense of jobs and security. We see it with the ownership and fortunes of Manchester United football club and Harrods. Do we have to watch the economy micro-self destruct over and over again?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023804575565712776857050.html?mod=djemalertDEALS
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The world in effect has become much busier and we have become busier. People are more actively engaged as a whole whether peacefully or not.
In addition, we are communicating more and more through travel and for want of a better words, what I would call interpersonal presentations: talking, writing, painting, fighting, and a multitude of interpersonal behaviors, such as smiling, chatting, laughing, stroking, dancing, bumping, viewing, touching and so on.
The number of medias for communication has grown rapidly as has our incentive to communicate.
To enable us to be busier, our per capital incomes have also grown, nevertheless, there are enormous gaps between what the fortunate are enjoying compared with the unfortunate.
Our business is directly related to the access that we have to incomes and credit directly and indirectly. The influence of banks has grown in our lives both directly and indirectly.
The world because it is busier has a more direct dependency on banking as an institution. Thus, it is ultra important that we make sure our banking institutions are sound and our deposits with banks are both secure and valued.
The key word here is valued.
One of the big problems the world faces is the undervaluation of deposits. This happens when the amount of credit has grown too rapidly relative to our joint busy ness or business. When credit grows too rapidly business rather than growing slows down. The reason is because too much credit leads to lower valuation of savings, and lower valuation of savings leads to unproductive and wasteful investment or to ballooning of the valuation of goods relative to money.
This running away from the appropriate valuation of money is our major problem. It happens because credit growth in the past has been too rapid and as a result money has lost it's value and people buy stuff instead of money, and the stuff they buy is not real stuff but imaginary stuff, dreams that cannot be fulfilled.
Gambling is a direct result of the loss of value of money. When people decide to gamble they are taking a risk based on an imaginary payoff and winning more money. The money they already have is devalued to the point that the imaginary wealth arising from the dream of winning is more important than the building of sound deposits in a bank.
What has happened is the lower valuation of saving relative to gambling. It's not that risk taking per se is something we should not do, but risk taking is destructive if it is not based on an appropriate valuation of the odds. The problem is compounded when the mathematics of risk taking bear no relation to the taking of the risk and the risk taking is just a bad habit.
Habitual risk taking is not healthy and is destructive in a world where people are already struggling to make ends meet.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html
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Here are some pointers to the memory....:
http://www.picstop.co.uk/memory-cards/sdxc-memory-card
Here are some pointers to the new Canon Camera....:
http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Press_Release-v1_0_tcm14-779253.pdf
http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Specification_Sheet-v1_0_tcm14-779254.pdf
http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Technologies_Explained-v1_0_tcm14-779255.pdf
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Camera ....
http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Technologies_Explained-v1_0_tcm14-779255.pdf
Memory cards ....
http://www.lowpricememory.co.uk/sdxc-memory-cards-c-48
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http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4209734/Intel-confirms-new-Oregon-R-D-fab
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304510704575561732291300398.html?mod=djemTEW_h
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http://www.naute.com/stories/mananddog.phtml
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We need solar energy desperately and look what it takes:
Shooting for the Sun
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/shooting-for-the-sun/8268/
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Since Dick Cheney Shot Him, Harry Whittington's Aim Has Been to Move On
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101307173_pf.html
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/10/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_see_were.html?wpisrc=nl_tech
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http://www.economist.com/node/17295600
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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://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303496104575559991011808002.html?mod=djemITPE_h
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Well, how does one travel anywhere? One needs a medium for any travel. Walking across a room doesn't seem like much, but it is rather extraordinary. To do it one must manipulate within what is called space. Perhaps, you don't manipulate within, but rather, manipulate what is space.
Did you ever consider that space is a translation of yourself, a translation permitted under the rules of the medium, fermions that we call space and which are manipulated by forces that we recognize as energy. What if space is moving and energy is constant within space? What if light energy is the force of something remaining still while all around it is moving? Does light move in time?
Space and time move, and because space creates time, it is space that is moving.
In my view, in my humble opinion, light does not move.
It is revealed as existing in space where space allows it to appear. You see light when you take the cloud of space away. Use light to travel through space and all is possible across all time and space!
What do you think? Are you in another dimension of understanding?
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http://www.wikio.co.uk/blogs/top/general
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http://e-blogs.wikio.co.uk/internet-giant-facebook-creates-a-diaspora
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From: Laurent Delpit <laurent.delpit@wikio.com>
Date: 22 July 2010 11:27:26 GMT+01:00
To: ipadsketch@gmail.com
Subject: Summer reading: discover European blogs!
Reply-To: Laurent Delpit <laurent.delpit@wikio.com>
In July and August, British blogs are often on vacation or update less frequently... Why don't you take this opportunity to discover bloggers from Continental Europe?
At Wikio, a team of editors and translators have launched Eblogs, the European review of blogs, powered by Wikio. Every day, we select the best posts from 5 different countries - France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Great-Britain - and we translate them into 5 languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, English).
Among the latest articles published, you may enjoy:
- Is Diaspora the next rival to internet giant Facebook?
- Italy: hands off the Nutella!
British bloggers listed in the Wikio Top 1000 bloggers list in each country can apply to be translated and published on our five sites. If you have not yet been contacted and if you're interested, send us a message ! You can also help us improve translations. If you spot an error, do not hesitate to report it.
Feel free to send us comments, suggestions, and your opinion at large!
See you on E-blogs!
Laurent Delpit,
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For many decades US economist have preached restraint and paying ones way, but when the crunch came to follow that policy themselves they have entered the world of the 1930's with beggar thy neighbour policies and arguing about what other countries are doing because America has caused yet another economic crisis and looked the other way. How many economic crises do the lax procedures of US economics need to spawn.
The bitter exchanges with China should warn us all of a very harsh solution to the present economic crisis which is compounding into the major calamity it once promised to be because America is sucking away all the resources of others in order to save it's own skin. Does it not see where these policies will lead?
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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http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_politicalticker/~3/UaXNbhOOxz4/
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.economist.com/node/17254504
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http://www.creativecommons.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/pdregistryca-pd_flowchart.pdf
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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
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http://dubitoergo.blogspot.com/2010/09/meme-debunking-3-wash-your-damn-hands.html
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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
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http://www.iiss.org/recent-key-addresses/iain-lobban-address/
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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That's a bold speculation...
G is for Goldilocks
http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/g_is_for_goldilocks/
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Some people are responsible for more misery and pain than any of us can ever imagine. More so than many current terrorists...
Trapping the Lord of War: The Rise and Fall of Viktor Bout
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-721532,00.html
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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.
I'm, like many people, very curious to see the world go in the right directions. I know beauty and pretty things and balance and I like to think positively about how the creatures on our planet will fare. Global warming is in my opinion a bit of blurred pseudoscience written bold well before it's due. As Michael shows in his book, the jurying still very much out. Perhaps, the emphasis is wrongly placed if we think of global warming as a single effect of man's passage on the earth. Sure the globe will get warmer than it otherwise would because we burn stuff in a net sense. We burn and heat things up and the great old earth cools things down again to bring all into balance. That's GAIA, a subtle process of self or cybernetic correcting that the earth as a balancing organism engages in.
Michael conceives of demons and good guys in battle to understand how misfitting it can be to go overboard in any one direction, either abusing the earth or trying to help it too much. We need to recognise that we are part of the problem and part of the solution and the mix is not necessarily balanced.
Hopefully, people can reach into their philosophical beings to devise the energies need to understand better how our world can be made a better place. It's no good believing in myths, such as economic equilibrium or environmental balance. There are many directions that major environmental changes can push people. We need a form of collective wisdom that provides a cushion against the extremes.
As an idealist, I would like to see lushness in the environment and appreciate what Crichton is saying when he points out that our predecessors engineered our present environment much more than we can realise without consideration of the possibilities. He is referring not to the last several hundred years but to millenia. Yes, we are recipients of many cumulative streams of effort going back a very long time.
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Whether you believe in global warming or not, something is amiss and it may surprise you!
On Thin Ice
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/208775?RS_show_page=0
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http://www.howlifeworks.com/business/wi-fi_hotspot
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
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The world is full of uncertainties and rarely do political leaders anticipate major events and changes in time to avoid them. We are thus continually in the position of seeing the late resolution of crises and disasters.
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It's not easy, trying to understand the change going on around one at the present time. It's eerily dangerous and yet the destructive forces are not unleashed building up within many minds. People are seething, angry and frustrated. Time will tell how this anger will express itself, but the danger is that it will affect the youth, who do not know history and who will take matters into their own hands. The consequences will be the "smushing" of our fragile streams of independent thought and the foreshortening of our temporary period of democracy.
Finanical crisis! What is that? What just happened to the world economy? Who understands the political economy and sociology of what just happened, the irreversible bit, the bit that changes country topographies and the fortunes of large groups of people permanently? Why did it happen? Can it happen again? Can we trust our political leaders to correct the momentum of the financial changes that are now hitting everyone?
It's a double edged sword. The economy, I mean. On the one hand it promises so much and on the other there are conditions to it's working evenly. It never works fairly, but it should work evenly. I can voice the opinion that the workings of an economy is generally unfair. It is because every so often it follows a mind of it's own and takes away the vast amount of more evenly distributed wealth through hard work and technical progress and gives that wealth to a few who own key assets that produce very little wealth, but represent long term values.
The economy gives wealth to asset owners, a special group of asset owners normally, but occasionally a group that produces nothing other than the legalities of ownership. We have seen the social destruction in history before. did not understand it, and our predecessors came unstuck in revolution and violence. Yes, the cycle of history moving away from democracy to authoritarianism and power in the hands of a few. Yes! There is a cycle in the fortunes of man as Shakespeare wrote and we are but players on that great stage of social transformation.
Our world economy is being transformed by the consequences of American social change, the great striding forth of individualism that produced a strong cycle of political change, a great wind blowing democracy and then will blow centralism and control, as the fear and social pressures mount. What is happening is not a US-China process, but the effects of the great 2000 wind of US social change world wide. It is like a hurricane on hot seas that is sweeping the globe.
There is no real balance in a society or an economy, but rather numerous streams of processes of change, sometimes rapid and visible, and sometimes rapid and invisible. What we are presently experiencing is a mix of many very strong and very rapid powerful streams of change. We are seeing an attack on democracy unlike ever before.
Well, it would be more balanced to say that we never had so much democracy before. We never had so much technology racing away putting pressure on manufacturing processes. We never had so much pollution. So what can we make of it all? Do we see the emergence of anti-democratic forces and streams of negative social thought? What do you see around you? You are in the midst of an extraordinarily dangerous period of history, but you are sleepwalking through your chance to protect yourself!
We have large economies, many being poles apart in terms of their resources and social fabrics expreriencing rapid social and economic transformation. We have America, that great engine of technology creation chugging away happily and it's domestic finances in utter chaos. The world currency, the US dollar is still happily moving business along, but it is not business as usual. Why? Well, it is a world with too much unresolved debt and it is the outstanding debt that is mucking things up. By solving the debt crisis, we are engineering a reversal of democracy in that we are redistributing ownership of wealth way from the vast majority to the very few. This is a long term asset exchange driven economic transformation unlike the normal short term asset driven exchange economy that we are used to. That is why it's social consequences will be server and the pressures for bloodshed it will produce will be also so severe.
America is playing economics at the long end of it's asset portfolio and rather than build democracy when technology is pushing forward for democracy, it is building centralism and control of people. Anti-democratic forces constructed and given power through the rapid redistribution of legal wealth during the American melt down's refinancing operations threaten global security more than we see on the surface.
Our fragile democracies are based on a social contract of fairness. What we are seeing big time is an erosion of that social contract's validity.
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.
We learned from the Apple iPhone 4 discussion that the performance measures we see on devices of our communication instruments can be not a mechanical result but a software one.
What we need is transparency, honesty, and return for our money in the form of standards that cannot be fiddled. Thus, if we do not receive service we don't have to pay for what we did not receive and the information on poor performance should be available for comparison purposes...no algorithms for service providers to fiddle.
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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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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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/science/earth/29fossil.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.
Am I strange to think that even McCafe coffee tastes better than the
local standard? Not at all!
People ask me what I think of the world financial crisis. My answer is that it still is a hoard of very kind people sleepwalking into disaster. Read the vanity fair article below and you get a glimpse of the depth of the problem.
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds | Business | Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/greeks-bearing-bonds-201010?currentPage=all
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When we think back on the progress that President Obama has achieved, we will realise that America, the huge America has a momentum of it's own that once moving in a certain direction cannot be easily manoeuvred without great cost. Just shifting America's direction of technological focus ever so slightly can cost billions. In the late 1960's, America had the Thaliomide crisis which resulted from a company good at one technology, that of manufacture, trying to break into a market where another technology, that of detecting issues with drug use, came unstuck along with much of the US pharmaceutical industry. We encouraged companies to engage in more basic research and found them wanting. Very few major drug innovation came along after the 1960's. The era of miracle drugs had passed and firms concentrated more on marketing and minor improvements and copy catting. We are still in the doldrums. When law and drug innovation intersect, we find that it is easier to forego the real sacrifice that true innovation requires. Thus don't expect a revolution to come from stem cell research. There are too many alternative less risky avenues that the drug companies can pursue and bad laws give them every excuse to stay with the status quo while racking up billions in profits just marketing me too or little risk products with dubious benefits. Patents will be filed, but little innovation will come from American firms. They are risk averse because the laws and judges encourage laziness. We, in turn, feel protected by the 'do nothing much' evolution of the industry for even though the profits to the drug companies are much too high and they spend far too much marketing surpriseless products, we have our own solution. What we do is take all the risks ourselves experimenting with all the herbs and religious notions, and quantum magical solutions to what ails us medically. We pass new laws to prohibit bad chemistry and we feel great comfort in slowing things down. Well, things are evolving too fast aren't they. So let's us take the risks, grandmother's way, use voodoo and yoga. We will find the miracle approaches on our own. We don't need innovative drug companies and doctors, heaven forbid, to tell us the way.
The Covenant
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/06/100906fa_fact_boyer?printable=true
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When we think of the internet, we increasingly wonder how we survived without it. Just deprive yourself of access for a week or more and you notice how much you have become emotionally attached. The links of the Internet are like a family, a social grouping by which we can order our lives, feel good about ourselves, and participate meaningfully in a world that is evolving rapidly, perhaps too rapidly.
We use the Internet to change ourselves emotionally. Seeing images, communicating, actualising our talents for speech, art, writing, and gaming. There is so much that the Internet provides that we assume that we are still detached.
Occasionally, we may think of the Borg community of Star Trek, and for a moment realise that the Internet is evolving in the intensity as well as variety of personal experience that it generates and transfers.
The Internet is more than exchange. It is a medium of influence through which those groups who have influenced our thinking in the past will want to influence our thinking in the future. Thus it is that that the Internet presents us with many challenges.
A Virtual Counter-Revolution
http://www.economist.com/node/16941635/print
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