It's absolutely amazing how many people the 'Product of USA' label has fooled. I've met some really intelligent people who argue that the item is made in the USA and haven't stopped to think yet that this means it's imported into the USA most likely from China. --------- In reality sex is work. Take away the work and you have fantasy and fiction that corrupts the ideology of a society. ---------- Abandoning tradition is an attack on your heritage. ---------- Society is far more paranoid than we give it credit for. There is a lot of misinformation because of paranoia and suspicion that is not broadly interpreted but focuses on individuals and ruins lives. ---------- If someone has something they put a price on it. ---------- Chasm of trust. Can we reach out to each other over the chasm of mistrust? ---------- I think big business and big government is just becoming enamored with the way they can coerce the public using media. The missing element is time. Keep telling people something long enough and they'll believe it. What's worse is big business and government starts believing it. ---------- In the interest of procrastination I've studied all I can find on the subject. ---------- America is tearing itself down and you can see it on the street where people tear each other down. While in other countries people embrace each others talents and contributions Americans are arrogant. ---------- The more big business and government tries to control technology and the internet, the worse the economy gets. ---------- You can't control an infinite number of monkeys but that is what public safety is trying to do. It's reasonably affordable to control the first eighty or ninety percent, but after that the law of diminishing returns takes over. That's what's bankrupting America and making free enterprise impossible. We try and protect everyone and the implementation costs prohibit innovation and commerce. ------------ Are the days of starting a software company on the back of napkin over? ------------ I don't believe I've ever heard a discussion that separates natural selection from evolution. Could natural selection be an aspect of life without or separate from evolution? ------------- I would gladly work harder to pay more taxes, except for the regulations. I can't sell bread on the street corner with a licensed commissary, state bookkeeping reports, L & I mandates, transportation laws, etc. I can't manufacture in my backyard without a million dollar insurance policy. Regulations that were originally intended to target big business seem to be aimed at the micro businesses. If we can free up the individual to produce we will create a strong economy. ------------- Do you really believe the talking heads? -------------- There was a saying that made the rounds in the early days of computers: "the computer will do to the intellect what the six gun did to the big man in the wild west." Little did we expect the internet would be the source of all that information. The information has blossomed beyond just facts and figures that could empower the individual. The momentum of information gathering today appears to be about controlling, monitoring and manipulating people and the public has little interest in the facts. --------------- Wordpress templates are beautiful, but I believe they're robbing people of their creativity. Back in the html days you had an incredible explosion of enthusiasm, creativity and original thinking. --------------- People and institutions are not handling information responsibly. --------------- Regulations create criminals. --------------- It's the curiosity seekers who are causing all the injustices. --------------- Forgive me for my political incorrectness, but it seems to be the conspiracy theory mentality in men takes the shape of government incursions or military takeovers while in women its the cult or 'waco' hiding in the bushes abducting people. There's a real difference between men and women here and how is it manifesting itself in policy, politics and the workplace? --------------- Public safety, to most bureaucrats, is making things idiot proof. Consequently they loose value and competitiveness. --------------- The absolute core of evil, in America, is that people, especially the yuppies and their yuppie dribble, pull away when someone is in need. They back off, like they don't want to get involved and they try and disappear into the crowd. These are evil, self centered people. Unfortunately I'm no better and I must work to fight this temptation all the time, but I do sometimes and I'm proud of the times I can reach out. That's something, isn't it? --------------- America has to be about aspiration. We need the opportunity to be the best we can be and attain a rich and full life. The price in the long run may be that only the rich can afford a cat scan, but why should we take it away from everyone in the name of socialized medicine. --------------- When a women is demure it's like creating a vacuum that attracts everything around it. It's like a black hole that all the empty space moves towards. It's like turning on an electromagnet and all the nuts and bolts are attracted to it. Demure is a powerful force. How come some women learn to use this force? --------------- What did Yahoo do with all the geocities hard drives. All the incredible and valuable information that was on geocities was switched off one day when Yahoo discontinued offering free web hosting. Just about everytime I did a search on a subject in the late nineties or early oughts, a geocities site was returned with valuable and well researched amateur infomation by people who loved the subject matter and were dedicated to working with it. -------------- I used to marvel at an entertainer's ability to get up in front of an audience and perform but now I think it's just silly. This is a measure showing I've lost an important flavor of life. --------------- It's not possible to achieve family in the workplace. --------------- Is the loss of discovery the loss of life and if so is society trying to take it away from us, discovery? ---------------- 'Out of sight out of mind' is a natural barrier used by people for peaceful and aggressive reasons. This barrier no longer exists. The information age requires an explanation for everything. ---------------- The system is anxious to process people but it won't listen to them. ----------------- Regulations will get nowhere unless we empower the people to take responsibility. ------------ Under the scrutiny of regulation. Zap! You've been digitized. All your records, all your information. It's been stored and now you have to fight to claim your identity. ------------- The municipal, county, state and federal government's main priority is public safety. Well you're protecting me to death. Public safety's main priority seems to be to protect us from ourselves, and thereby our rights, freedoms to live, grow and self actualize. Face to face, the citizen with the bureaucrat, public safety is a menace. -------------- Once they put a label on it, it's going to cost you money. --------------- Public safety, a federal and state priority, is forcing the government to put a value on human life. --------------- I want to be part of society but you won't let me. I want to build, create and discover, but you restrict me. My intentions are to help the poor, the hurt, the weak and the hungry but you refuse my service. I am not alone in this rejection. You have restricted living to rules and regulations that apply to the aggregate. Whatever we do or say must apply to all and many of those rules impede those who want to reach out and serve. Society has gone wrong. It has become institutionalized and many feel the pressure to restrict their participation. I see the lost spirit of people around me, who once had vision, hope and desire. That, is what has been taken away from people in this information age. -------------- What are your politics? Are you compassionate or vindictive? --------------- We've nailed down the curmudgeon economy with regulations. We can't advance, be nimble, adapt quickly, competitively in order to incorporate new trends , techniques or materials because we're restricted to the old with regulation. More nimble competitors move fast, boldly and take chances. It's the chances that are holding us back. We have a set of over protective regulations that protect everyone and won't allow them to take the chances to be competitive in the marketplace. --------------- Credit is a false government. ------------- Aggregate is not cool anymore. PayPal just sent out their annual privacy agreement with the following phrase: We do not consider personal information to include information that has been anonymized ... -------------- Time is the great fulcrum. --------------- We see this devotion to Christianity, God and Jesus, yet I never really understood it. I couldn't understand why people were so committed. they would close their eyes, put their hands in the air and praise the Lord. After experiencing the loss of a loved one I can really understand now. The pain is so great and life is so meaningless our hope is in a God who created a World where human kind could have lived forever and through sin we turned it down and brought death upon ourselves. ----------------- Insurance companies are holding America hostage. They've elevated the liability so honest people can't do an honest job anymore. ------------------ From instructables.com under how to sew: sewing is an extremely useful skill it can be used for a variety of different activities. To fix clothes make plushies and much much more. [What's a plushie?] -------------------- The key to information technology, anymore, is not creating and collecting new information, but managing it. ------------- We live in a society that is just dead from its paranoia. -------------- The disturbing thing is how the EPA has worked so hard to shake the public from viewing its rad net. They've changed the links, discontinued data feeds and now they're calling Fukushima monitoring 'historical data'. It's obvious we can't rely on the EPA for radiation data. How about the ARRL. Is this something they could take on? --------------- There's a glue and adhesion to society that makes it work and it's called kindness. --------------- The innuendos of biology speak are crafted to produce hysteria through titillation. The trouble is not all of us understand how to communicate in this method, some of the time, and if someone does not speak biology speak they lack a level of communication people expect. This lack of communication, or willingness to participate in the innuendo, offends people. So my question is: when people don't participate in biology speak are they more likely to be the targets of rumor and innuendo? ------------------- I just want what's good. I want everyone to have an opportunity to contribute, to do something beneficial, to make a positive or even valuable social contribution, but unfortunately the bureaucracy gets involved and it's get to expensive. ------------------ Good leadership knows how to ask for assistance. --------------- I wonder if news agencies breath a collective sigh of relief when large news events start repeating themselves. It seems news agencies are starting to report news about Fukushima erroneously. They reported yesterday, August 22, that for the first time contamination was found in rice. Back in April rice contamination was a major news event. Today, Aug.24th, NHK is reporting Tepco knew about the possibility of a large tsunami. Previously they had a news blurb on how Tepco was shoring up sea water walls for the larger tsunami events at a nuclear facility to the south of Fukushima with plans to eventually shore up Fukushima's sea walls. What am I missing here? It seems like they've given up keeping up with the facts. -------------- In case anyone's interested it took four hours to get USGS online after the August 24th earthquake event. That's my current estimation of how fast we can expect disaster information to be updated. -------------- People get mad at the unemployed for the politics they have to face in their workplace. ------------------- Paranoia. Mass hysteria. suspect your neighbor. Report anything suspicious. Community is dead. Our social fabric is shredded with no chance for cohesion. Divide and conquer is a military strategy yet we squabble over petty differences and trust no one, not even our neighbor as we draw and fortify boundaries. Does anyone else see this happening in America? ----------------- The ideal job: testing reverse breakdown voltages on semiconductor devices. Who does this anyway and what kind of safety equipment to they wear? ----------------- People tear down. They don't build up. People tare down. They don't add up. ----------------- 11-Jul-26 Anybody who uses the word 'community' has an agenda. ------------------ 11-Jul-26 I'm sick and tired of all the fear and suspicion people have towards one another. Let's call what it is; 'rampant paranoia'. ------------------- 11-Jul-21 It's not as simple as throwing up a piece of paper anymore, as a web page. The beauty of the internet, originally was that you had your own printing press with free paper and distribution. Now you have to compete with the hype invisting huge amounts of time in script, coding and graphics. -------------------- 11-Jul-19 We live in anticipation. -------------------- 11-Jul-16 Is there any room for good in a paranoid society? -------------------- 11-Jul-12 Dear Mr/Ms Government. Bank on the resilience of the public. Deregulate America and it will work. I want to build, I want to create, I want to sell, I want to fulfill. Just let me and I will make America great. Regulate resources deregulate small business. ------------------- 11-Jul-07 The smart man about town, one hundred years ago, used to have a tool box on his running board of his 1911 Packard. ------------------- 11-Jun-30 You know it's funny. You used to be able to talk to the author of a web site directly. Now you're talking to some employee who doesn't care and has little or no control of content. Sure there are a few owner operator web sites left, on the internet, but they're toothless. ------------------- 11-Jun-23 How many Bachs and Einsteings are living on the streets homeless just because society doesn't have a stereotype that fits them? --------------------- 11-Jun-19 "Irrational attitudes of submissions to authority." Noam Chomsky speaking of sports. "... way of creating adhesion behind positions of authority." ----------------------- 11-Jun-07 I'm experiencing no humantiy. Are you? ---------------------- 11-Jun-03 In order for a society to survive all of its members must take responsibility for their own actions. They must be empowered to take responsibility for their own actions. --------------------- 11-May-29 The seeds of a lynching, i.e. mass hysteria, are in rumors and innuendo. Comments like 'I knew there was something about the guy I didn't like', quickly turn into 'do not trust anyone', 'everyone's a suspect', and 'security is the priority'. Thus our rights are taken away and the slaughter begins, all justified of course for the good of the many. --- My research has become so simple minded now. I simply type something into a search engine(Yahoo or IXQuick not Gargle) and read the results. In the past I'd spend many hours down at the library going through card catalogs, reference material, and books with a note pad handy to jot down important or interesting data and references. I don't do that anymore. ------------------------ 11-May-17 The eyes in the skies now also shoot missiles. So when they finally reach American soil, when it's final approval is given by the FAA, will drones be armed? ------------------------ 11-May-16 As this vast instrument of free speech and free expression, the internet, starts to be regulated it's like flies to honey. We now rely on this medium to exchange ideas and progress information, but the government, institutions and corporations are moving fast to banish expression of the individual and expand control, influence and profits. ------------------------ 11-May-14 If you've ever worked behind the counter you'll probably appreciate the fact that 'clerk' and 'clerical' come from the same word. ----------------------- 11-May-10 The EPA has fewer test stations than there are nuclear reacors. -------------------- 11-May-09 The problem with smugness and arrogance is that it does not foster communication. Most devastating in the work environment is training. A new employee walks in and other employees are put off that they have to explain where everything is, but that's part of the job, in a humble environment. Where smugness and arrogance pervade it's a tool employees use against their employer. ---------------------- 5/8/11 It bother me that people aren't interested in the history of a property when they buy it, only their new beginning. Kids play, dogs run but when property is sold new fences go up. ---------------------- 5/7/11 jQuery has made my JavaScript skills obsolete, and they were pretty good. So now I have to do it somebody else's way, the jQuery way. JQuery is cool though. Scratch that. It's amazing. --------------------- There's enough information online now, to keep us trained monkey's busy for eons. --------------------- I see the political conflict in America as this. If you're a doctor, lawyer, accountant, or nurse the liberals will let you in. If you're a scrapper, a logger, or you work on your own car, you can't have a piece of the American pie if the liberals get their way. It's not a battle of corporations verses politicians and the environment, it's a battle for the little guy's rights, the working man. We no longer can produce and sell our goods on the street corner as it's been regulated out of the country. ---------------------- The solution to the economy is right in front of us: untethered Laissez-faire free enterprise. Let anybody sell anything antime anywhere. Don't regulate, don't restrict. Let consumers use common senses and guide the market. The only thing that needs to be regulated are resources and they've all been snatched up by big business. --------------------- Save tax dollars, make response to anonymous complaints voluntary for government agencies. Let them decide on the validity of the complaints they get. It's their job. --------------------- You know how you wake up in the morning and everything seems crystal clear and all the problems of the world could be solved if that one idea could become a reality. Then I figure I'd better write it down, but by lunchtime that thought that I thought could change the world seems, well pretty ludicrous. But what the hay. Here they are anyway. You change the world. The arrogance of the computer industry breeds incompetence. ---------------------- How in the world do people survive? They're always taking things down to the lowest common denominator. You try and introduce prosperity and hope, inventiveness, creativeness and they immediately tear it down. ---------------------- The trouble is, everybody watches TV and that makes them an expert. -------------------- Doing without striving, you rarely get the job done, but striving to do can always get the job done. -------------------- The truth is fiction in this information age. -------------------- If information is power then there certainly are a lot of people arming themselves with the Internet. -------------------- The joy of discovery, the power of motivation is undermined by certification. -------------------- If I could just tell you what I know then I know you'd know what I know. -------------------- Wait! Didn't Rumsfeld try and tell us what we know that we know that we don't know. That took guts.