If space travelers can consume recycled urine, then is it okay to consume quantities of bladder output "recycled" as frozen snow decoration?
The future is interesting and always descriptive. After all, what do fish encounter every day - past, present or future, particularly pluperfect participled?
Are more of your friends cartoon/TV characters than real people? Would you know or care if more of your friends in social media were fictional?
Some analysts say that our species is divided into the firstborn getting the spoils of the previous generation and everyone else fighting over what's left.
In other words, sibling rivalry.
Is life that simple to you?
Would you see the states of energy in totally different terms?
Are you ready to read the story of our lives that requires a...well, I'm not supposed to tell you right just yet.
You'll "see."
Is a Bitcoin equivalent part of that picture?
Transitionally, yes.
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Orange You Glad?
I'm thinking out loud here, letting thoughts flow through fingers on a non-designed course.
I woke up this morning with the word "stasis" and the word "status" competing to become "statice," "statics," or "state." Too bad I don't remember the dream associated with the words at play.
Duck hunting, blinds, and camo in Scottsboro, along with Ann at Walmart, Gail at UBC and Karli at Krystal.
By keying in all the groups in concert with and opposition to one another, we get to see why seven billion can resolve issues together, including peacelike negotiations and warlike fighting.
Humour does not mean peace or war. For many, the daily struggles omit all three.
I am a lazy guy, about as demotivated as a person can get who knows his lifelong dream will not be realised in his lifetime.
But I continue on. Hope is a stronger word than despair.
A messenger carrying a fraction of a message multiple generations in length knows that the game is neither won nor lost in a single generation.
I live as if my life never began and never ends, every action of mine making a significant difference, no matter how seemingly insignificant - an eternal symphony by a faceless/nameless composer, conducted by an invisible concertmaster.
My teachers guaranteed that the responsibility of freedom is not easy to handle. Every person adjusts according to individual capabilities.
I use humour, the sharpest, strongest, fiercest and gentlest talent I have.
I have no enemies but there are those I watch carefully, because I know many take advantage of the fact life as we know it is inherently not fair.
I live here and now, no when/where else.
Some would give corporations a corporeal reality but people run corporations. Corporations don't live and breathe except as memes in our shared social interactions. They are means for people to pay mortgages and raise children. Not an end in themselves.
As long as corporate officers and shareholders proport (and purport) job creation as the fuel for corporations, then I'll focus on the byproducts and waste that make corporations inefficient in the larger ecosocioeconomic picture.
We can talk all day about hierarchies, matrices and flat organisations laid bare by social media but at the end of every workday most people are heading back to their home lives dominated by a separate set of social media dominators.
Which one of the following would you call the most normal family situation?:
a. An Amazonian tribe isolated from modern society,
b. An Amish community living and working on farms insulated against the modern society around them,
c. An extended family living in a set of high-rise flats and working in the middle of a large metropolitan area fully participating in modern society.
What you say against a group or idea perpetuates that group or idea. The best way to oppose something is through silence.
Better yet, build a positive alternative that attracts people away from supporting the group or idea you oppose.
Negativity is a means to a dead end (and there will always be those who build a detour that avoids a dead end as long as possible, in order to extend their negative message pathway as long as they can before their untimely end is met).
Am I auditory or visual by default? I'm not sure. These words imply otherwise.
Thanks to Lamar and those who demo'd the color Nook at B&N in Choo-Choo city; Oh Henry's restaurant; the Times-News for local sports coverage.
I woke up this morning with the word "stasis" and the word "status" competing to become "statice," "statics," or "state." Too bad I don't remember the dream associated with the words at play.
Duck hunting, blinds, and camo in Scottsboro, along with Ann at Walmart, Gail at UBC and Karli at Krystal.
By keying in all the groups in concert with and opposition to one another, we get to see why seven billion can resolve issues together, including peacelike negotiations and warlike fighting.
Humour does not mean peace or war. For many, the daily struggles omit all three.
I am a lazy guy, about as demotivated as a person can get who knows his lifelong dream will not be realised in his lifetime.
But I continue on. Hope is a stronger word than despair.
A messenger carrying a fraction of a message multiple generations in length knows that the game is neither won nor lost in a single generation.
I live as if my life never began and never ends, every action of mine making a significant difference, no matter how seemingly insignificant - an eternal symphony by a faceless/nameless composer, conducted by an invisible concertmaster.
My teachers guaranteed that the responsibility of freedom is not easy to handle. Every person adjusts according to individual capabilities.
I use humour, the sharpest, strongest, fiercest and gentlest talent I have.
I have no enemies but there are those I watch carefully, because I know many take advantage of the fact life as we know it is inherently not fair.
I live here and now, no when/where else.
Some would give corporations a corporeal reality but people run corporations. Corporations don't live and breathe except as memes in our shared social interactions. They are means for people to pay mortgages and raise children. Not an end in themselves.
As long as corporate officers and shareholders proport (and purport) job creation as the fuel for corporations, then I'll focus on the byproducts and waste that make corporations inefficient in the larger ecosocioeconomic picture.
We can talk all day about hierarchies, matrices and flat organisations laid bare by social media but at the end of every workday most people are heading back to their home lives dominated by a separate set of social media dominators.
Which one of the following would you call the most normal family situation?:
a. An Amazonian tribe isolated from modern society,
b. An Amish community living and working on farms insulated against the modern society around them,
c. An extended family living in a set of high-rise flats and working in the middle of a large metropolitan area fully participating in modern society.
What you say against a group or idea perpetuates that group or idea. The best way to oppose something is through silence.
Better yet, build a positive alternative that attracts people away from supporting the group or idea you oppose.
Negativity is a means to a dead end (and there will always be those who build a detour that avoids a dead end as long as possible, in order to extend their negative message pathway as long as they can before their untimely end is met).
Am I auditory or visual by default? I'm not sure. These words imply otherwise.
Thanks to Lamar and those who demo'd the color Nook at B&N in Choo-Choo city; Oh Henry's restaurant; the Times-News for local sports coverage.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Hot Air Cools Off And Falls Back Down
In the subcurrents, I catch films like The Shock Doctrine (based on Naomi Klein's book) and a refutation of the same at reason.com.
After all, I'm still looking at the whole species here, using local subcultures as examples of the bigger trend's effects.
I ask myself if an aggressive/nonviolent member of our species, who accumulates wealth through insight and hard work, is responsible to other members of the species. You know, the "Atlas Shrugged" mentality.
I ask myself if our species is, in fact, a species at all.
All answers are valid until proven otherwise.
These thoughts and investigations, interesting though they may be, do not get me much closer to getting off this planet.
However, one must keep one's eyes open to untold futures, even if one must repeat oneself for clarity and boring accompaniment basslines.
Keep the opposition feeling important with their protests so they don't do any serious damage.
But you don't know what those with whom I liaise call the opposition, do you?
You just think you do.
It's more simple and more complicated than you think.
If you think.
I like my emotional states but cooler heads prevail, as if logic, a tiny part of our species, is the only part of thinking that matters. They're wrong. They don't think enough.
Humour is part logical and part emotional.
China has one more opportunity to get this right. If it doesn't, then some want to take 'em out the old-fashioned way, dragging India, Pakistan and southern Asia down with 'em. I'm computing the odds to see if I should increase my military-industrial complex investments or buy some quiet countryside far away from the action and let the situation play out the way the Committee of 7.5 prefers, no matter what that is.
Either way, I and my family will profit.
Like I say, my family is you - seven-billion strong - some will profit and some will lose. That's just the way it is.
Even backyard streetball has winners and losers. Choose your teams carefully - a true leader finds strength in every team member. Can you?
After all, I'm still looking at the whole species here, using local subcultures as examples of the bigger trend's effects.
I ask myself if an aggressive/nonviolent member of our species, who accumulates wealth through insight and hard work, is responsible to other members of the species. You know, the "Atlas Shrugged" mentality.
I ask myself if our species is, in fact, a species at all.
All answers are valid until proven otherwise.
These thoughts and investigations, interesting though they may be, do not get me much closer to getting off this planet.
However, one must keep one's eyes open to untold futures, even if one must repeat oneself for clarity and boring accompaniment basslines.
Keep the opposition feeling important with their protests so they don't do any serious damage.
But you don't know what those with whom I liaise call the opposition, do you?
You just think you do.
It's more simple and more complicated than you think.
If you think.
I like my emotional states but cooler heads prevail, as if logic, a tiny part of our species, is the only part of thinking that matters. They're wrong. They don't think enough.
Humour is part logical and part emotional.
China has one more opportunity to get this right. If it doesn't, then some want to take 'em out the old-fashioned way, dragging India, Pakistan and southern Asia down with 'em. I'm computing the odds to see if I should increase my military-industrial complex investments or buy some quiet countryside far away from the action and let the situation play out the way the Committee of 7.5 prefers, no matter what that is.
Either way, I and my family will profit.
Like I say, my family is you - seven-billion strong - some will profit and some will lose. That's just the way it is.
Even backyard streetball has winners and losers. Choose your teams carefully - a true leader finds strength in every team member. Can you?
An Island All My Own
In this alternate storyline about real life, I feel like China is expressing its feeling of being boxed in by the rest of the world through the aggressive behaviour of its puppet empire, the DPRK.
I prefer gentle humour but I can be cruel at times. It's that smugness showing through a lot lately, knowing more than I think I should know about what's going to happen next.
It would be easy to use the death of a few South Koreans to pit humanity against itself again. Our species has shown the willingness to go to global war for lesser reasons.
Look at how dark North Korea has appeared.
Is Ireland far behind?
There is a war already taking place. Hillary knows what I'm talking about. She knows when to back off and let the tide of war wash over the land.
Makes me want to visit Germany and understand more about the background of Der Hetzer, Joseph Goebbels, and the exhibit on Hitler.
History is history, if not historic.
A drop of dew. A drop of sap. A solid piece of amber.
Das ist richtig!
Was ist das?
To tell a true story, one must sometimes take us through the dark forest of history to better demonstrate where the future of the tale may take us.
Now that I own Ireland (by extension, of course, through this story), I have a whole culture's history with which to play. Global anthropological monopolising, one country at a time.
In theory, to reduce the value of foreign ownership of your treasury, you reduce your government down to a minimal size, declare your government bankrupt and make the foreign owners poor once again.
I'm going to practice with Ireland to see if that theory'll work and then apply it to other countries of greater strategic interest.
I'm sorry, my South Korean friends and colleagues, but the DPRK is not worth bothering with. Economic war is much more fun to me right now.
Thanks to Neosha, Dallas and Starr at Honeybaked Ham along with the Hsv PD officer standing duty over the free samples of smoked turkey.
I prefer gentle humour but I can be cruel at times. It's that smugness showing through a lot lately, knowing more than I think I should know about what's going to happen next.
It would be easy to use the death of a few South Koreans to pit humanity against itself again. Our species has shown the willingness to go to global war for lesser reasons.
Look at how dark North Korea has appeared.
Is Ireland far behind?
There is a war already taking place. Hillary knows what I'm talking about. She knows when to back off and let the tide of war wash over the land.
Makes me want to visit Germany and understand more about the background of Der Hetzer, Joseph Goebbels, and the exhibit on Hitler.
History is history, if not historic.
A drop of dew. A drop of sap. A solid piece of amber.
Das ist richtig!
Was ist das?
To tell a true story, one must sometimes take us through the dark forest of history to better demonstrate where the future of the tale may take us.
Now that I own Ireland (by extension, of course, through this story), I have a whole culture's history with which to play. Global anthropological monopolising, one country at a time.
In theory, to reduce the value of foreign ownership of your treasury, you reduce your government down to a minimal size, declare your government bankrupt and make the foreign owners poor once again.
I'm going to practice with Ireland to see if that theory'll work and then apply it to other countries of greater strategic interest.
I'm sorry, my South Korean friends and colleagues, but the DPRK is not worth bothering with. Economic war is much more fun to me right now.
Thanks to Neosha, Dallas and Starr at Honeybaked Ham along with the Hsv PD officer standing duty over the free samples of smoked turkey.
The Championship Club
I ran into the homeless guy who bought the Book of the Future from me.
Turns out he hasn't burned all the old pencil shavings and wanted to trade them for a rainproof tent-in-a-parka-in-a-heated-grocery-cart.
Thus, because I still have the pencil sharpener, I can combine the old with the new to accurately see the future again!
Glory be! Hallelujah! The South shall rise again!
Oops, sorry. Wrong song. That's what I get for believing Daniel Day-Lewis is the perfect Lincoln. He's a better dentist portrayer.
Some say Hendrick is ruining the sport of racing by dominating for so long. I still wonder about his so-called cancer recovery, conveniently letting him off the hook for financial obligations. Can't have everything, I guess. I love NASCAR but it continues to be an insider's semi-regional sport. Support your local track.
Back to the main storyline.
Now that we accept the fact that the public dole is no longer the status quo, will we begin to eliminate otherentitlements obligations, doing away with social support networks altogether?
In other words, if you can't make your own mini-empire the hard way, you don't get to suck off the pig of a public teet, no matter how hard your luck or case may be.
It's an interesting experiment we're conducting, forcing people to do away with creature comforts at the lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder in order to focus on their future through making wise investments instead of buying quasi-luxury goods.
That is, if people want to climb the ladder.
Otherwise, it's a simple task to keep them fat, dumb and happy amassing stuff that depreciates and deteriorates quickly, increasing the wealth of those building and selling the cheap goods to the socially unmotivated masses.
Life is what it is. I'm not here to change it.
Observe and report.
Meanwhile, ensure that my wife and I are increasing our holdings while satisfying the cheapest of our desires in the moment (i.e., a practical form of delayed gratification). Also, while on holiday, buying more than one of items we like so we can share them with others in the future.
Like the old saying goes, "Jesus saves. Moses invests." It's never too late to have the best of both worlds.
Turns out he hasn't burned all the old pencil shavings and wanted to trade them for a rainproof tent-in-a-parka-in-a-heated-grocery-cart.
Thus, because I still have the pencil sharpener, I can combine the old with the new to accurately see the future again!
Glory be! Hallelujah! The South shall rise again!
Oops, sorry. Wrong song. That's what I get for believing Daniel Day-Lewis is the perfect Lincoln. He's a better dentist portrayer.
Some say Hendrick is ruining the sport of racing by dominating for so long. I still wonder about his so-called cancer recovery, conveniently letting him off the hook for financial obligations. Can't have everything, I guess. I love NASCAR but it continues to be an insider's semi-regional sport. Support your local track.
Back to the main storyline.
Now that we accept the fact that the public dole is no longer the status quo, will we begin to eliminate other
In other words, if you can't make your own mini-empire the hard way, you don't get to suck off the pig of a public teet, no matter how hard your luck or case may be.
It's an interesting experiment we're conducting, forcing people to do away with creature comforts at the lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder in order to focus on their future through making wise investments instead of buying quasi-luxury goods.
That is, if people want to climb the ladder.
Otherwise, it's a simple task to keep them fat, dumb and happy amassing stuff that depreciates and deteriorates quickly, increasing the wealth of those building and selling the cheap goods to the socially unmotivated masses.
Life is what it is. I'm not here to change it.
Observe and report.
Meanwhile, ensure that my wife and I are increasing our holdings while satisfying the cheapest of our desires in the moment (i.e., a practical form of delayed gratification). Also, while on holiday, buying more than one of items we like so we can share them with others in the future.
Like the old saying goes, "Jesus saves. Moses invests." It's never too late to have the best of both worlds.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Routers Root for Reuters
Fuzzy math? You make the call:
Makes me wonder who's going to get what really has to be done about so-called tax cuts in America. I'm going to think about it over the weekend. Not an easy answer.
Meanwhile, Llosa asks who's going to keep paying to keep his house, not him, a museum.
Taxpayers fed exhaust smoke of GM bailout
Makes me wonder who's going to get what really has to be done about so-called tax cuts in America. I'm going to think about it over the weekend. Not an easy answer.
Meanwhile, Llosa asks who's going to keep paying to keep his house, not him, a museum.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Easy Peel-and-Stick Mailing Labels
Are you spending or investing?
How many jobs does your debt create?
Humour is my cause célèbre but only because I take my/your/our lives seriously.
I'm getting older and the older I get, the more I understand about what I know about what I don't know.
It's good to question authority but only as long as you question those in authority as if you plan to take (or have taken) an authoritative position yourself.
In other words, responsibility.
My wife and I are in the bottom of the top 1% of the wealth of America. We don't own a lavish mansion or shopping malls across the world.
We're frugal. We make sure our investments (our assets) exceed our expenditures/debts (liabilities).
Now some will tell you you have to take on debt to grow your investment portfolio or your business(es). And I don't doubt the validity of their statements (unless it's a loan officer telling a newlywed couple that it's okay for them to exceed their debt ratio to get the house they really can't afford now or in the foreseen future).
You can follow many paths - Donald Trump or Meg Whitman, for example - to get into the megamillionbillionaire club.
You can let your family and friends ride your coattails to the top.
Your definition of wealth is up to you. After all, I'm not a radio talk show host telling you the way you should live your life to the detriment of the rest of our species.
Instead, I'm looking back at us from ten 100-year periods later than today.
How do you want our social hierarchies to look in a thousand years? Do you want me to say we're a feudal society in desperate times depending on dwindling resources? Or would you rather hear me say we're still promoting the rights of the individual to succeed because sufficient social resources are available to all citizens to improve their lives through hard work and dedication to education (self-directed and/or formal) because we had the foresight to protect ourselves from our worst hoarding behaviours?
Our world economies have faced some rough times, both regionally and globally. As you have seen, when that happens, those with money tend to find ways to ensure there are artificial barriers to protect their wealth. We don't want rogue traders or overzealous predatory bankers to bring down the system, for instance.
What do we with wealth do to protect our investments while stabilising society at large in the long run?
One person thinks our banana republic attitude is fixable. I agree.
It starts with changing our attitudes. Rather than saying we're countries at odds with each other, let's look at ourselves as a species with members who have various levels of understanding the complexities involved in how social interaction works, some looking at life from a more emotional level and some from a more logical level.
We can agree to disagree about our fundamental emotional beliefs and still engage in business transactions that benefit us individually and as a species.
It starts today. Right now. Not yesterday or in some idealistic future.
The turkey buzzard riding thermals over my house doesn't know what any of this means and I'm glad for that. A fresh perspective and nonunderstanding about my views make my life worthwhile.
That's why I take my humour seriously. Why my wife and I live frugally. We see the big picture.
None of us get out of here alive, no matter how much wealth we accumulate. Isn't it worth spending a little time and money on each other while we're here?
How many jobs does your debt create?
Humour is my cause célèbre but only because I take my/your/our lives seriously.
I'm getting older and the older I get, the more I understand about what I know about what I don't know.
It's good to question authority but only as long as you question those in authority as if you plan to take (or have taken) an authoritative position yourself.
In other words, responsibility.
My wife and I are in the bottom of the top 1% of the wealth of America. We don't own a lavish mansion or shopping malls across the world.
We're frugal. We make sure our investments (our assets) exceed our expenditures/debts (liabilities).
Now some will tell you you have to take on debt to grow your investment portfolio or your business(es). And I don't doubt the validity of their statements (unless it's a loan officer telling a newlywed couple that it's okay for them to exceed their debt ratio to get the house they really can't afford now or in the foreseen future).
You can follow many paths - Donald Trump or Meg Whitman, for example - to get into the megamillionbillionaire club.
You can let your family and friends ride your coattails to the top.
Your definition of wealth is up to you. After all, I'm not a radio talk show host telling you the way you should live your life to the detriment of the rest of our species.
Instead, I'm looking back at us from ten 100-year periods later than today.
How do you want our social hierarchies to look in a thousand years? Do you want me to say we're a feudal society in desperate times depending on dwindling resources? Or would you rather hear me say we're still promoting the rights of the individual to succeed because sufficient social resources are available to all citizens to improve their lives through hard work and dedication to education (self-directed and/or formal) because we had the foresight to protect ourselves from our worst hoarding behaviours?
Our world economies have faced some rough times, both regionally and globally. As you have seen, when that happens, those with money tend to find ways to ensure there are artificial barriers to protect their wealth. We don't want rogue traders or overzealous predatory bankers to bring down the system, for instance.
What do we with wealth do to protect our investments while stabilising society at large in the long run?
One person thinks our banana republic attitude is fixable. I agree.
It starts with changing our attitudes. Rather than saying we're countries at odds with each other, let's look at ourselves as a species with members who have various levels of understanding the complexities involved in how social interaction works, some looking at life from a more emotional level and some from a more logical level.
We can agree to disagree about our fundamental emotional beliefs and still engage in business transactions that benefit us individually and as a species.
It starts today. Right now. Not yesterday or in some idealistic future.
The turkey buzzard riding thermals over my house doesn't know what any of this means and I'm glad for that. A fresh perspective and nonunderstanding about my views make my life worthwhile.
That's why I take my humour seriously. Why my wife and I live frugally. We see the big picture.
None of us get out of here alive, no matter how much wealth we accumulate. Isn't it worth spending a little time and money on each other while we're here?
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
A Connection Between Adversity, Diversity and University - Versatility!
The other day, while Conan was letting a bunch of neighbours take his Veyron for a spin around the playground, I stopped snapping photos to consider what it's like to be a frugal millionaire.
Then, after watching Leno crash his electric Sparrow at the sight of his protege having more fun fans than he, I knew what it was that perplexed my complexion.
There are only two people on this planet who know what's really going on and I can't tell you their names.
Sitting on a secret is liking sitting on a flight from Yemen to the UK or the US - the seat cushion's hot for no apparent reason, except for that teeny-tiny lipo battery installed in your posteriour that keeps your pacemaker and you alive.
What if they accuse you of being a living version of a box of toner?
Even worse, what if you have no effect on the economic recovery of your favourite country?
For me, it's a dream come true. I always wanted to be an unknown nobody and if I don't spend my uncounted millions, nobody'll know who I am 'cause I won't change the engine of growth we call the bartering society.
I leave it up to my colleagues and associates to decide how to conduct business like a symphony, causing mass movements for both fun and profit. Seven billion people to have fun with, joke with and siphon off legal gains in public and other laundromat material out of the public eye.
I got an invitation to a museum opening. The director wanted me to see the new works of art. When I look in them galleries, all I can see are those transactions of my friends that have to be covered by purchasing overhyped splotches of paint on canvas or wire and sticks stuck together in so-called sculptures. But, hey, if it keeps the creative types occupied, you know how I am - don't let the idle curiosity seekers poke into my business and I'll pay to have them dedicated to esoterica.
Besides, I've got friends with billions to spend on founding colonies off of this world. It ain't art but it should make us a pretty penny, what with the adverts we'll sell along the way. That, and the film tie-ins promoting trinkets all the kids'll want. We'll make the Star Wars franchise look like a rank-and-file amateur production.
Then, after watching Leno crash his electric Sparrow at the sight of his protege having more fun fans than he, I knew what it was that perplexed my complexion.
There are only two people on this planet who know what's really going on and I can't tell you their names.
Sitting on a secret is liking sitting on a flight from Yemen to the UK or the US - the seat cushion's hot for no apparent reason, except for that teeny-tiny lipo battery installed in your posteriour that keeps your pacemaker and you alive.
What if they accuse you of being a living version of a box of toner?
Even worse, what if you have no effect on the economic recovery of your favourite country?
For me, it's a dream come true. I always wanted to be an unknown nobody and if I don't spend my uncounted millions, nobody'll know who I am 'cause I won't change the engine of growth we call the bartering society.
I leave it up to my colleagues and associates to decide how to conduct business like a symphony, causing mass movements for both fun and profit. Seven billion people to have fun with, joke with and siphon off legal gains in public and other laundromat material out of the public eye.
I got an invitation to a museum opening. The director wanted me to see the new works of art. When I look in them galleries, all I can see are those transactions of my friends that have to be covered by purchasing overhyped splotches of paint on canvas or wire and sticks stuck together in so-called sculptures. But, hey, if it keeps the creative types occupied, you know how I am - don't let the idle curiosity seekers poke into my business and I'll pay to have them dedicated to esoterica.
Besides, I've got friends with billions to spend on founding colonies off of this world. It ain't art but it should make us a pretty penny, what with the adverts we'll sell along the way. That, and the film tie-ins promoting trinkets all the kids'll want. We'll make the Star Wars franchise look like a rank-and-file amateur production.
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