YAHOO ANSWER: Ideas Please

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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Ideas Please

QUESTION

Asked by “MASTER”

I need Ideas Please!!?

I am a really creative writer except I dont know any good topics could you guys and gals please help me?

ANSWER

Dear “MASTER”:

Well, ideas are a dime a dozen. Unfortunately, good ideas are priceless. I’ll give you a couple. You’ll have to decide which is what!

As I understand it, you’re looking for fodder that you use as grist for your mill.

If you’re interested in creating systems that will spew out ideas, then you need to read the Edward De Bono sites (main link cited) about lateral thinking, paradigms, memes, and a lot of other strange ideas.

If you’re interested in having people bring interesting ideas to you, start a free blog at wordpressdotcom. (I would suggest that you spend the 15$ and get your own domain names. You might get lucky and hit the next meme buster, ebay, or pet rock dot com. If you do, that 15$ will allow you to move easily.

Hope this helps. I’m interested how it works out for you. Drop me a note sometime. My blog may have helpful “stuff”.

Ferdinand J. Reinke
Kendall Park, NJ 08824

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UPDATE

Another answer was picked by the asker as “best”. I don’t agree and I’m disappointed but life goes on!
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RANT: involuntary servitude

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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Jul 10, 8:24 AM EDT
Jury Duty Excuses Could Bring Charges

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BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — A Cape Cod man who claimed he was homophobic, racist and a habitual liar to avoid jury duty earned an angry rebuke from a judge on Monday, who referred the case to prosecutors for possible charges.

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Why the nerve of that peasant! Who does he think his is? The owner of his own body. The custodian of his time. A sovereign individual. Failing to kowtow to the power of the gooferment!

Maybe when I have time to tilt at windmills, I can throw some sand in the gears.

My argument would be “involuntary servitude”.

From the Thirteenth Amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

I can not be compelled to serve on a jury!

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INTERESTING: Balancing Church and State

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

FROM AN EMAIL IN MY HIGH SCHOOL FORUM

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Between their violence (as a generic proxy for all the “violence” in Catholic schools), and the later priestly pedophilia scandals, the Church in the USA is a mere shell of it’s former glory. I also made a similar observation in my blog of how the Church has lost the youth.

And, in a sense, the global Church has fallen away from whatever role it had in balancing the power of the State. The Church versus godless Communism probably freed Poland, and definitely had a lot to do with the fall of the USSR. It created the tipping point. Too bad. We could use and ally in wresting the American Gooferment from the current Socialists (both D’s and R’s) that are destroying Liberty here.

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Yes, the Church offset the power of the Kings of old to oppress the people. One has to wonder. Was it a direct conspiracy of the Socialists to destroy the Church? Anyone who studys history can see the classic role of the Church as the arbiter of good and evil. Was it necessary to destroy the Church, all Churches, as a refuge of oppressed people? So let’s examine what the Social Progressives have done.

  • Catholic Schools, gone, a casualty of gooferment education.
  • Catholic and Christian family solidarity anchored by grandparents in or near the family, gone, a casualty of Social Security checks.
  • Catholic and Christian family solidarity anchored by mothers in the home raising children, gone, a casualty of high gooferment taxes and “women’s liberation”.
  • Catholic Charities, gone, a casualty of gooferment welfare.
  • Catholic Hospitals, gone, a casualty of gooferment health care.
  • Catholic Moral Leadership, gone, a casualty of “Catholic in name only” politicians.
  • Catholic traditional marriage, gone, a casualty of the “free love” “let’s just shack up” trend.
  • Catholic Sanctity of Life, gone, a casualty of “women’s rights”, “reproductive freedom”, and “privacy rights”.
  • Catholic Missions to the Poor, gone, a casualty of the gooferment’s high taxes and “foreign aid”.
  • Catholic doctrine of the “Just War”, gone, a casualty of the “War on Terror”.
  • Catholic & Christian Christmas, gone, a casualty of the gooferment’s “winter solstice holiday”.
  • Catholic & Christian Easter, gone, a casualty of the gooferment’s “spring fling”.
  • Catholic, Christian, and Black Churches with their strong emphasis on Family and community, crippled, another casualty of the gooferment welfare.
  • Catholic protection to “illegal” immigrants, gone, a casualty of the War On Immigration.
  • Catholic Fraternal Orders, gone, a casualty of gooferment regulation on insurance and Social Security.
  • Catholic Churches (the buildings themselves), gone, a casualty of gooferment “social engineering” cause wholesale demographic changes.
  • Catholic financial support of the Church as an institution, gone, a casualty of the gooferment high taxes including inflation.
  • Catholic endowments, shrinking, a casualty of inflation.

To steal Walter Williams formulation, “if the Head Socialist wanted to completely destroy the Church — a generic label for all the moral institutions regardless of denomination Catholic, Christian, Jewish, Pentecostal, or any other intuitions that believes in absolutes like good and evil — as a counterbalance to the power of the oppressive State, then they could not have designed a better system to do it than the out of control gooferment of the USA.”

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TECHNOLOGY: THINKFREE blurs the lines

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

http://product.thinkfree.com/products/

ThinkFree Online

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ImageManage, access, and edit documents over the internet. Get the best Microsoft Office compatibility available. Share and get everyone’s input on your story, schedule, or marketing materials.

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THINKFREE is messing with my neatly laid out paradigm (i.e., consultant speak for how one looks at the world).

In the beginning, there was the (big mainframe) computer and it had input devices (i.e., punched cards) and output devices (i.e. printers). And after that everything got complicated. IBM’s SNA allowed intelligence and processing power to escape from the mainframe datacenter and go “native”. Then came IP and someone eventually hung one of them new fangled personal computers and there was a paradigm shift.

So we now have a zero footprint web browser, a thin client (i.e., gotomypc and it’s ilk), a fat client like some of the universal instant messengers or Microsoft Outlook, and (obese) clients that are servers like SBS that can do everything with or without the network.

THINKFREE has ONLINE (zero), DESKTOP (fat), SERVER (obese), and (now) PORTABLE (that acts like my uninstalled life).

You have to dig for pricing, but it looks like $50 except for server where they don’t tell you the price. (Always a bad sign.)

The free online will have premium options as yet unpriced. (Always a bad sign).

And, it still doesn’t integrate email.

I’d classify it as Zoho’s stupid brother!

Except for the blurring of the lines between online and offline. In that sense, it’s innovating. (IMHO)

You really want to be able to work without having to think about your connectivity status or what hardware you have available.

Looking at the DESKTOP minimum requirements, it’s very hefty.

In summary, it’s an interesting dead end that could be expensive.

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TECHNOLOGY: update your web pages quickly

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/07/eleven-lessons-.html

Eleven lessons learned about blogging, so far
* Marc Andreessen
* Jul 10, 2007

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Fifth, writing a blog is way easier than writing a magazine article, a published paper, or a book — but provides many of the same benefits.

I think it’s an application of the 80/20 rule — for 20% of the effort (writing a blog post but not editing and refining it the quality level required of a magazine article, a published paper, or a book), you get 80% of the benefit (your thoughts are made available to interested people very broadly).

Arguably blogging is better because the distribution of a blog can be even broader than a magazine article, a published paper, or a book, at least in cases where the article/paper/book is restricted by a publisher to a limited readership base.

This of course assumes that you’re not trying to make a living writing magazine articles or books, or you’re not trying to get tenure as a professor by publishing peer-reviewed research papers.

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Clearly, a blog is a light weight way to update your web pages quickly. Stale content on a web page is the kiss of death. Blogs are really nothing more than a web page with content rolling out like “toilet paper”. (A deliberately chosen metaphor.)

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