Too many people think Microsoft is the devil and consider it to be the symbol of corruption and evil. People complain about how Microsoft is a monopoly. A monopoly is a market structure in which a single seller of a product with (1) no close substitutes serves the entire market. To maintain a monopoly a [...]
According to the Webster Dictionary, greed is “an excessiveness of desire for wealth or gain”. However I believe that Webster left this definition incomplete. Perhaps if we change the definition to “an excessiveness of desire for wealth or gain for ones self” then we can see more of the true meaning. Greed has been with [...]
I still consider my self to be agnostic, meaning that I believe there is no definite way to know if God exists or doesn’t. Imagine being told to go find the “missing chick” at the beach. “What does she look like?” you ask. “Never mind that. Just find her” you are told. You cannot possible [...]
Why is it that we, as people constantly try to simplify life? Life is complicated, life is unexplainable, and life is always changing. Each day, we watch the blueprints of our surroundings put into neat little equations of our textbooks. As I say to many of my friends, if people could, they would simplify all [...]
Late last night (around two) I was flipping channels thru all the paid programming junk that’s played after midnight. I happened to come across something called “Fire-Walking”. I had heard about it before but never really knew about it. The documentary was on how this guy Anthony Robbins devised a scam about it and made [...]
Need: 1. A condition or situation in which something is required: crops in need of water; a need for affection. 2. Something required or wanted; a requisite: “Those of us who led the charge for these women’s issues… shared a common vision in the needs of women” (Olympia Snowe). Necessity; obligation: There is no need [...]
As we all know we have just recently discovered a new “planet-et” on the outer reaches of Pluto, but this is not what I want to talk to you about. Something more controversial has entered my mind. The integration of human and machine. Technology has brought us a far ways from the original striking two [...]
Most people think big business is the devil. “The problem with this country is corporations.” “Big business is sucking the money from the unfortunate.” “They get richer, while we get poorer.” This according to me these are false statements often used by Democrats to win the support of the under classes and average people who [...]
You hear it everyday, in every newspaper, and on the television channel, the earth is deteriorating right before our very eyes. But, what does this mean to you and me? How often do we actually take the time to assess the damage of our own gluttony and greed? Not that often, as it seems the [...]
“WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush plans to announce Friday that he is directing 500,000 members of the U.S. military to receive vaccinations against smallpox, a senior administration official said Wednesday.” found here. As you’ll read that article, you’ll go on to find that it makes a hard pressed point that the U.S. is in a [...]
In essence, do human beings require a rational mode of communication to express their ideas to themselves? I believe that they don’t. A 13-year-old child was found in the outskirts of a Kenyan village, separated from his parents at the age of 3, with no learned language or method of communication. He raised himself over [...]
pa-ter-nal-ism n. A policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibility. That is the definition of paternalism, which I believe is a mindset that American government follows too often. Laws that force individuals to do something that is in [...]
New online movie service that’s legit. Its called Movielink, allows people to download films thru broadband. It is the industry’s alternative to the distribution of pirated films over peer-peer clients such as Kazaa. Movielink was formed last year and is owned equally by Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros. Movielink [...]
I read a different article with the same concept as the following but about business and found it fascinating. This is a make of it, and completely fictional of course. One cold Saturday evening, instead of going and partying, John and Smith decided to rob a gas station. So they grab a gun (an illegally [...]
They are all around us and have always been around us. I don’t believe them. There have been conspiracy theories about every branch of government and about “big business”. Theories about who assassinated JFK, Lincoln, etc. Also about how business and government work together to make the “common” man suffer. My statement: The more complex, [...]