http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2007/10/quote-of-day-october-15th-2007.html
Quote of the Day: October 15th 2007
One man with courage makes a majority…
posted by James McGovern
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I love it when some one hits the nail on the head.
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Posted by reinkefj
FROM INPUT TO A STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY PLANNING PROCESS
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I suggest that the strategic plan needs to adapt to some “new” trends:
(1) Zero footprint platforms. Non PCs. Strange forms like PS2, WII, pda, cell phone, kiosk. type technologies.
(2) Low cost storage. Amazon S3 offering might make sense in some scenarios.
(3) The trend towards mashable content impacts direction.
(4) Low cost high speed access; new technologies like wimax could change use and volume.
(5) Nearly ubiquitous access sets expectations in connectivity and service levels.
(6) Vista, linux, and mac may all present unique opportunities.
(7) RIAA has court success; in loco parentis, may get us in the deep end.
(8) Porn and gambling continue to abound; challenge to the … …
(9) Facebook as digital dirt needs to be brought to everyone’s attention.
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Posted by reinkefj
FROM AN EMAIL I WROTE
Meetings without notes are just “campfires”.
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“Campfire” meetings are just like a potlatch which could involve a feast, with music, dance, theatrically and spiritual ceremonies. In it’s simplest form, the campfire meeting is just a gathering that tell stories. Often, promises are made, deliveries scheduled, oaths given. And all is lost when the meeting ends. Even before the last final Kumbaya has been sung, the agreement begins to erode. There needs to be a “totem pole” erected recording who was to do what.
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I like a very structured meeting. Otherwise nothing seems to be accomplished.
The CHAMPION is the one who calls the meeting, ensures attendance, and justifies the effort. The ORGANIZER is responsible for the venue. The ARCHIVIST (the politically correct name for the Secretary) creates the agenda and minutes. The TIMEKEEPER keeps the meeting on schedule. The FACILITATOR moderates the debate with in the rules of engagement.
At the very least, there is an ANNOUNCEMENT, the AGENDA which may be sent with the announcement, and the MINUTES which may be in the form of informal notes.
Without structure, accomplishments are by luck; not design. I used to have a boss, who would announce at the beginning and end of a meeting, how much that meeting could / did cost the organization in salary dollars. It kept meetings short and focused. He made me crazed about meetings.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.mises.org/story/2752
Anatomy of the Ron Paul Nation
By Cyd Malone
Posted on 10/18/2007
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So I sobered up and came back down to earth. In the early stages of the party, before the names and conversations blurred with fun, I spoke to a gentleman from New Jersey — Jason was his name — more of my age and far more sober minded. We both agreed that Ron Paul’s chances of becoming president are slim to none, forget what the Vegas odds makers say. Recognizing him as a Four Figure fellow, I asked him why then did he hand over so much money to Mr. Paul’s campaign.
He thought about it and gave me the answer to the same question I’d been asking of myself: “I’m buying hope,” he shrugged.
As Carl Menger would agree, hope has a price, too. Water can be more costly than a diamond under the right circumstances, and so can hope. Yet, despite a wife who deserves diamond earrings but instead gave them away to the longest of long shots, despite the fact that when I mentioned his name at a business dinner a week prior every single person at the table knew who Ron Paul was, and despite the large chunk of cash I handed over to buy it, I will admit I still don’t have a lot of hope.
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ME2! I’m buying hope. If Ron Paul doesn’t win, then the situation is hopeless. The sheep are unsalvageable. The takers have outvoted us producers. We’ll next need a George Washington.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2007/10/to_keep_and_bea_1.html
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Homeowner ends a string for daylight buglers. No shots fired. None needed. Guess we won’t see this on the nightly news.
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Posted by reinkefj
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Were it not for bad nursing, bad medical attention and bad administration, none of these patients need have died. Indeed, they would not have contracted C. difficile at all unless they had gone into hospital. So, after 150 years’ advance of education, technology, prosperity and science, we have lost what Florence Nightingale taught.
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Here’s a real life anecdote of gooferment healthcare!
We have “our” own VA, British National healthcare, Canadian Nation heathcare that serve as warning signs. Now our current semi-socialistic healthcare system admittedly has problems!
But those problems come from the gooferment involvement in the marketplace. It’s time to try a dose of “freedom”.
End the dole and allow people to be responsible for their own healthcare without gooferment interference.
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Posted by reinkefj
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Dear fellow Americans –
Instead of a nation that manufactures its own goods, the United States has become a nation of service providers, moving production “off shore” and relying on fossil fuel to transport its goods over long distances–an increasingly fragile supply line whether judged from an ecological, social, economic, or political point of view. While exporting jobs, we have also exported the skills and technologies for making the very products we depend on daily.
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Sustainable.
Don’t make me laff!
The various gangs in gooferment has made it impossible to produce anything here.
One wonders how the American experiment will end.
With a hyper-inflation? One thing is for sure, we will have to have an “industrial revolution” to bring good things to our own market. We can’t keep shipping little green pieces of papers for real stuff. That’s not going to work any more. What will?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/#mea=168805
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Jay’s Monologue 10/16
A gift for Ann Coulter
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Now I like Jay Leno. But here’s an example of how the “old media” doesn’t get it.
First there’s a commercial for Intel. OK, have to pay for the clip, storage, and transmission. Then, 90 seconds of snips from his monologue.
Note that the teaser doesn’t say “part of”, or “excerpts from”. It says “jay’s monologue”.
Argh!
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Do they think they are fooling people or that we are stupid?
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Posted by reinkefj
The Geopolitical Foundations of Blackwater
By George Friedman
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Blackwater, KBR and all the rest are the direct result of the faulty geopolitical assumptions and the force structure decisions that followed. The primary responsibility rests with the American public, which made best-case assumptions in a worst-case world. Even without Iraq, civilian contractors would have proliferated on the battlefield. With Iraq, they became an enormous force. Perhaps the single greatest strategic error of the Bush administration was not fundamentally re-examining the assumptions about the U.S. Army on Sept. 12, 2001.
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This is a very fair indictment of the Bush Administration. As is usual, the last war’s assumptions are paid for with a lot of blood and treasure. When the “leaders” are blind to the flaws in the assumptions, people perish.
Perhaps a President Ron Paul will cause a fundamental reevaluation of assumptions. No other candidate promises to do anything other than “more of the same”.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french59.html
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The Fed has been creating money at a phenomenal clip all year with the M-3 (that government no longer reports, but economist John Williams does on Shadowstats.com) growing at a 14-percent rate, a 34-year high.
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Although it appears for now the Bernanke Fed is way behind Mugabe’s Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in the inflation race, the man tracking the numbers at Shadowstats, believes “the onset of hyperinflation [in America] remains most likely at least several years in the future,” an unappetizing prospect.
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Seems like preparing for higher inflation makes sense.
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Posted by reinkefj
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