INTERESTING: Translating the “silent revolution” to what you see

Thursday, July 12, 2007

http://changethis.com/36.05.Dramatic
http://changethis.com/pdf/36.05.Dramatic.pdf

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Dramatic Impact: The Effect of “The Silent Revolution”
By You, our ChangeThis readers

We asked you, our ChangeThis readers, to submit brief manifestos of 250 words to describe the impact of “The Silent Revolution” as defined in Elizabeth Haas Edelsheim’s earlier manifesto on the continuing influence of Peter Drucker on business.

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This is a slap upside the head, harder than any V8 commercial, that the rules are again changing silently. Right under our feet. People rule! The value of intelligent cooperation in the creation of value should be what we are seeking. Objections will consign organizations to the dust bin of progress.

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LIBERTY: tax-funding laws mandating education

Thursday, July 12, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north546.html

Cartels: Economists and Central Bankers
by Gary North

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You will search in vain for a chapter on education as an oligopoly within the context of tax-funding, laws mandating education up to age 16, and government licensing of college-accreditation agencies. Somehow, economics textbook authors skip over any analytical discussion of this, the largest sector of the American economy.

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This skewers the blindspot of economists. And, politicians depend upon people to overlook the essential question.

Why do we have the gooferment funding, operating, and regulating so many things best left to the free market?

Education, banking, medicine, drugs, farming, … .. the gooferment has it’s nose in everything!

That needs some debate!

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YAHOO ANSWER: Ideas Please

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

http:// answers.yahoo.com/question/
;_ylt=Ajc.cSp3s66dlx8NU73r
fQ7CxQt.?link=answer&qid=20070711174844AARCARa

http://tinyurl.com/2673ua

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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http://wordpress.com/
http://www.edwdebono.com/
http://tinyurl.com/lxu93
http://www.reinkefaceslife.com/…

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RANT: involuntary servitude

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_RELUCTANT_JUROR?S
ITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-
07-10-08-24-18

http://tinyurl.com/2b9spf

 

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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YAHOO ANSWER: payment from a deadbeat

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

http:// answers.yahoo.com/question/
index;_ylt=AlOVOvqTuYWX2IG
1H.3X4lCTxQt.?qid=20070710084124AAgp4XQ

http://tinyurl.com/2hrg3p

payment from a deadbeat

QUESTION

Asked by “euroteacher0”

Try to get payments from a student or give up?

I teach private lessons and have a student that is 3 months late on paying me for the lessons. I know, you’re thinking why did I let her go 3 months without paying, but she’s a member of the Mormon church that I sometimes go to and thought she’d be reliable. Anyway, she stopped taking lessons, hasn’t paid, won’t respond to my emails or phone calls, and the only time I did get through to her, she was on a trip to the mormon temple and said she’d pay me when she got back (ie she can go on temple trips but she can’t afford to pay me.) I’m getting to the point where I want to write her a nasty email but perhaps it’s just better to let it go and count my losses…

ANSWER

Dear “euroteacher0”:

Well, getting money out of a deadbeat is often compared to getting blood out of a stone. Frankly, I think the stone is easier.

Let me make sure I understand the question. You have a deadbeat student of an undescribed age. This person owes you an unenumerated amount of money. You think she’s a Mormon. But, she’s not acting like any Mormon I’ve ever heard about. And, you’ve tried to collect nicely. But are up to launching a nasty email. Is that about right. (All subsequent advice rests on these assumptions.)

How much is involved? Not the specific amount, but does it really matter in the grand scheme of things? Have you ever heard of the concept of a Pyrrhic Victory? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

Be careful you don’t fall afoul of some federal or state law in attempting to collect this debt. See the ftc site cited.

On the other hand, no one likes to be taken advantage of. So let’s do some self-examination of our own state of affairs. Now I’m no Judge Judy — not a lawyer — nor do I play one on TV, but do you have a contract? How will you prove by a preponderance of the evidence that you have a valid claim? Is this person over 18 or 21? If you have no contract, you really have no case. imho.

Assuming you have no written contract, then my suggestion is to regard this as tuition in the school of hard knocks. You should get a lawyer to draw you up a contract for ALL students going forward. You should also change your payment terms. CIA (Cash in advance) is good. Certainly, a credit hold policy, no lessons if you’re in arrears. Good customers can go bad, but I’d cut good old customers a little slack. I think you have to be harder on yourself, no more nice guy.

Assuming that you DO have a written contract, then you have to decide if it is worth the time, money, and attention to enforce it. If it’s big buck or you need it to eat, then go to Small Claim Court.

I’d caution you, if you don’t have a written contract, to be careful what you say or write. You could get hooked for slander or defamation. That could be expensive.

Even if you don’t have a written contract, and if you are sure that she’s a Mormon, and assuming that you need the money or want to teach her a life lesson, then I would very carefully consider approaching the Mormon Church Hierarchy. I’d seek out one of their Bishops and ask him to mediate the dispute. I’d call it a misunderstanding. I’d reign in all the assertions and stick to the facts. You gave this Mormon lessons believing that Mormons were scrupulously honest. Be prepared you may find that this person is not a Mormon. I’d try to use the power of their community to settle the matter to everyone satisfaction.

I’d forget about nasty emails because they can be used against you in court. All emails you be personal and sad (i.e., I’m sorry that we have this disagreement, but I need to eat.)

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

SOURCE
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/fdc.shtm

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RANT: If this be treason, then sir make the most of it

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/
ny-etliveus085286071jul08,0,3908150.story?coll=ny-music-print

http://tinyurl.com/3a7cj7

U.S. leg of Live Earth hits key notes
BY GLENN GAMBOA
July 8, 2007

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However, Etheridge aside, it was nonmusicians at this concert who made the most passionate pleas about demanding action for the environment. “Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmentalist author, president of Waterkeeper Alliance and Robert F. Kennedy’s son, who grew hoarse from shouting. “This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors.”

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Sorry, but I don’t buy it. Global warming, action on “the environment”, and more force applied to people.

You, sir, are a poltroon. Attempting to manipulate the mob into a frenzy. By your name, you have been born into a clan that seeks to lead the people. And, if they won’t be led, then they will be frightened. And, if they still won’t be led, then they will be forced by the guns of gooferment.

A crass solution at best. Heavy handed at worst.

The Kings of France used force to oppress the people. The people rose up instigated by “leaders”. The French nobility was fed to the guillotine. And, when the “leaders” couldn’t do better, they too were fed to the guillotine. Eventually the mob was ruled by a tyrant.

Force begets force.

I often blog that the hallmark of a bad idea is when you have to force people to do it.

In the madness of crowds, we see people do all sorts of absurd things. Their paradigms (i.e., how they see things) and their memes (i.e., the concepts they have) are flawed. The Egyptians had no zero. The Romans no numerals. The Chinese no alphabet.

Over time, with a great deal of pain, bloodshed, and sorrow, we have found that freedom and liberty “unlock the atom” of human ability.

Conversely, there is no way to force a human to do what they want. They can be a stubborn as the most uncooperative donkey. More dangerous than a spitting camel. And more treacherous than any other animal known. You may beat them into submission, you may force them into submission, you may tax their meager possessions. But be careful, you’d be better off killing them. Because when you push them over that imaginary line, when they have nothing left, or you’ve rendered the ultimate insult, then you will have no other course but to kill them. And, you best do it quickly. Like a wounded bear, you don’t want to have to track them down. They can turn in an instant. With lightening quickness, the strength of a Hercules, and the merciless ness of Attila the Hun.

And, you’ll have deserved every iota. Because you initiated force. Like begets like.

Now I disagree that we have rotten politicians. We have the best politicians that money can buy. And, who put us on this path, your figurative and literal progenitors. Who promised the mob something for nothing to vote your ilk into office.

See government is a meme. And a dangerous one at that. It only exists in the people’s mind. And, once they change their minds and see you and your ilk for what you are — aggressors — you’ll never be able to hide again.

So what exactly are these traitors betraying?

Till you can mount an indictment, this is just playing to the mob.

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TECHNOLOGY: More on Seattle taxpayers

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

CONTINUING THE DISCUSSION ON MLPF

>But, I say pity the poor soul who thinks that America’s only wealth is
>measured in tax dollars.

It’s not that I think America’s wealth is measured in tax dollars. That’s a negative measure; it’s the load on the vitality of Americans. The sand in the economic engine. The friction. Tax dollars are a measure of how much is REMOVED from some American’s investment account. Taxes are opportunities that can never be taken by the original earner. If you earn 100k from MLPF or Alba earns his 100k from JibberJobber AND you each lose 50k to taxes, then you and he can NOT invest in my latest get rich scheme — color coded name tags for families at wakes to tell who’s from what side of the deceased’s family. It’s a real winner!

Seriously, taxes deprive you and Jason from using your 50k as you see fit. Invest it, spend it, throw a party for all the MLPFers, or give it to your favorite charity. It’s YOUR money. It’s STOLEN from you at gun point. It’s nothing more than other people robbing you to use the sweat of your brow to feather their nests, reward their friends, and punish their enemies. The “good works”, that incidentally they use the illusion of legitimacy to do, hides the fact that they are using the proceeds of theft. Why if I steal your 50k and give it to the Salvation Army, do I go to jail? But the gang in DC steal your 50k, call it taxes, give a bureaucrat a job, throwing a bone to some purpose or other, and we’re all supposed to applaud them for the “service”? The hidden problem is that whatever you were going to do with your profits doesn’t get done. It right out out the Economics 101 “the broken window” fallacy. Society is a net loser when wealth is used to fix the broken window because it was NOT available to do something else. We see the window, but we don’t see all the effects of the action precluded. So too, we see “Seattle” but we can’t see what it precluded!

There’s a reason that taxes are compulsory. No one would pay them if there weren’t.

Gooferment “sells” us “services” that we don’t want at prices we can’t afford. Compare it to the “free market”. Not some of the nonsense where an industry is “regulated”, but a real free market, like the computer hardware market. If you want to “sell” me a service, then you have to satisfy my needs. If I’m in the least way dissatisfied, I have choices. If the gooferment “sells” me a service and I’m not satisfied, there’s nothing I can do.

>America’s greatest asset is attitudinal.

America’s greatest asset is the liberty that allows us to “be all that we can be”. We are the beneficiaries of a lucky happenstance of the American experiment. The Classical Liberals have freed us from oppression by Kings, Churches, and random gangs of thugs. They given us the “invisible hand of the marketplace”, the “division of labor”, and “all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights”. They weren’t perfect by a long shot, but they gave us a huge start. We’ve, like the Prodigal Son, squandered or birthright by being lazy. Lazy in our thinking; that gooferment could give us something for nothing. Lazy in our complacency; that we need to always reinvent ourselves to take advantage of opportunity. Lazy in our faith; faith in our own abilities, the honesty of our fellow men, faith in the universe that gives us all we need. We’ve allowed gooferment to take over charity (i.e., welfare), education (i.e., indoctrination), and basic slew of other stuff!

Sorry, but we’ll have to disagree agreeably on the value of Seattle’s innovation. I’d be looking for the “hidden opportunities” that the “Seattle innovation” precluded.

fjohn

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