What I wonder but am not quite ready to worry about is the income inequality issue in this country.
Are we prepared to visualise a peasant uprising in this nation?
And peasantry is not pleasantry and it's not unpleasant, either.
Feudalism by another name, perhaps, but still the same.
I could encourage revolutions in China and Iran, knowing that the spillover into this country is inevitable, but I don't, or haven't, obviously.
I'm waiting.
Watching.
Ever vigilant.
Are the "haves" going to take social services away from the "almost have-nots," finally reducing (or returning, if you will) our class structure to the filthy rich and the filthy?
It is in the 1000-year projection at this time that a revolution will sweep over this country.
I am only the projectionist, not the film producer or director.
However, some have accused me of being writer and actor in a minor role.
We are willing to recompute the current projection if you are willing to change current sociopolitical tactics.
Otherwise, BAM! BOOM! Francis Scott Keysha Martinez will be writing a new national anthem before you can say what the hay happened to my side of grass-fed beef?
I miss the days of farming, living off the land, having 12 kids because half of 'em will die of diseases I can't afford to cure, little worry about global anything, except maybe the weather.
And Berlusconi thinks he has nothing to worry about? Where's Übermensch Sarkozy when we need him? Protecting his wife Carla from the Italian, I'm sure.
Congrats to Discovery for a beautiful liftoff. It was a great show and we'll miss having more 1970s technology wrapping reengineering stuffing floating around the planet.
I'm a tired, middle-aged guy but I'm here to hear myself observe what's going on so I have nothing to complain about.
This parallel blog keeps me sane, if sanity is helping our ecosystem push itself to the brink of unfixable invincibility. The pundits are taking bets on whether it'll be the roaches who eventually win. What exactly are the meek and if they inherit the planet, what then?
Somewhere, the owners of the rights to "Wag The Dog" are asking themselves what they got themselves into themselves.
Greed and gluttony - the seven deadly sins always get you in the end.
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Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Index Finger
While I'm working through the issues that the computer programmers don't know will be presented to them in printed reports they haven't been assigned to generate, I'll give you the following.
To the folks in the Middle East and Africa.
To the folks in North Korea, Cuba, China, Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
To those who are under the impression they are under persecutory regimes of any kind...
This is the future: franchising.
So, I suggest to you that you get with your friends and family, pool your resources, get microloans, if you have to.
And then work with your political friends to enact laws that protect intellectual property and freedoms of expression.
Finally, after all is set up, build yourself a brand image that you can sell to others.
Sell processed food or clothing lines.
If you cannot dream up your own brand, buy into the brands that already exist.
And, if you're smart, you'll negotiate deals where your brand(s) will feed the malnourished and starving in the world.
Instead of delivering bags of rice and flour to places that don't have cooking fuel or safe drinking water, airdrop in crates of Pringles and Coca-Cola.
Make the world's greatest falafel and open Falafel Bazaar eateries all around the world.
Span the globe with spanakopitas.
Serve lamburgers with children's toys.
Stop the slaughter of endangered animals by showing that bush meat is not the ultimate free range food - your product is.
Sure, petroleum jelly is the best ointment for superficial wounds but doesn't the name Vaseline or Neosporin sound more scientifically safe?
Do you speak a 16-bit language?
Do you believe we are an ignorant species?
Do you write blog entries that invite insight in order to increase readership because you know, and your audience knows, you have only one goal in mind - to save the species from itself, but in the long, drawnout process of doing so, killing us with obesity to get us to another place in time that's better for the total population as a whole?
Would a blog supplement, "as read by the author," a podcast (or perhaps an open source sound file) be a bestseller? Could I pull a Paul Newman and put the profits to universal improvement?
My inventor friends are begging me not to give up, that we together are building a better world, despite repetition that gives me severe migraines which block my thought patterns. "Don't confuse yourself over the normal issues of deteriorating tissue, blood and bones," they whisper in emails.
As I say, I am here with you and thank you for sharing your time with me. I am not perfect and sometimes it shows more obviously on days when I can't stop being a normal person with everyday aches and pains.
One of my friends recommended I look into Autodesk's free animation program for kids. I will, I promise.
The placebo effect of a large tablet of aspirin is often the best elixir for an ol' skeptic like me (and cheaper than a six-pack which would inhibit my driving to the store to buy a box of premixed fudge brownie ingredients to surprise my wife with hot brownies for the surprises she made/bought for me).
To the folks in the Middle East and Africa.
To the folks in North Korea, Cuba, China, Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
To those who are under the impression they are under persecutory regimes of any kind...
This is the future: franchising.
So, I suggest to you that you get with your friends and family, pool your resources, get microloans, if you have to.
And then work with your political friends to enact laws that protect intellectual property and freedoms of expression.
Finally, after all is set up, build yourself a brand image that you can sell to others.
Sell processed food or clothing lines.
If you cannot dream up your own brand, buy into the brands that already exist.
And, if you're smart, you'll negotiate deals where your brand(s) will feed the malnourished and starving in the world.
Instead of delivering bags of rice and flour to places that don't have cooking fuel or safe drinking water, airdrop in crates of Pringles and Coca-Cola.
Make the world's greatest falafel and open Falafel Bazaar eateries all around the world.
Span the globe with spanakopitas.
Serve lamburgers with children's toys.
Stop the slaughter of endangered animals by showing that bush meat is not the ultimate free range food - your product is.
Sure, petroleum jelly is the best ointment for superficial wounds but doesn't the name Vaseline or Neosporin sound more scientifically safe?
Do you speak a 16-bit language?
Do you believe we are an ignorant species?
Do you write blog entries that invite insight in order to increase readership because you know, and your audience knows, you have only one goal in mind - to save the species from itself, but in the long, drawnout process of doing so, killing us with obesity to get us to another place in time that's better for the total population as a whole?
Would a blog supplement, "as read by the author," a podcast (or perhaps an open source sound file) be a bestseller? Could I pull a Paul Newman and put the profits to universal improvement?
My inventor friends are begging me not to give up, that we together are building a better world, despite repetition that gives me severe migraines which block my thought patterns. "Don't confuse yourself over the normal issues of deteriorating tissue, blood and bones," they whisper in emails.
As I say, I am here with you and thank you for sharing your time with me. I am not perfect and sometimes it shows more obviously on days when I can't stop being a normal person with everyday aches and pains.
One of my friends recommended I look into Autodesk's free animation program for kids. I will, I promise.
The placebo effect of a large tablet of aspirin is often the best elixir for an ol' skeptic like me (and cheaper than a six-pack which would inhibit my driving to the store to buy a box of premixed fudge brownie ingredients to surprise my wife with hot brownies for the surprises she made/bought for me).
Monday, February 7, 2011
I Can See Commerce From My Backyard
Currency from my family's travels:
Where are you spending your time?
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Does Chattanooga have the same school problems as Huntsville?
Why am I living in Rocket City when it's Chattanooga that has the high-speed Internet, VW plant, cool downtown and other amenities that the former cotton capital doesn't?
Time to shop for jobs near Rock City, considering the fact that the U.S. Congress is putting military budget cuts in the spotlight.
Time to shop for jobs near Rock City, considering the fact that the U.S. Congress is putting military budget cuts in the spotlight.
Blind Spot Monitoring
In a time where the post-recessional recovery, fiscally, physically and mentally, displays a series of forward-pushing and delayed wavelike effects, looking for patterns in the actions of families, including religious practices/beliefs/renewals and a sense of relief that the world is not ending, much is worth thinking about.
Unfortunately, I am too tired to comment on what my programmers have reported.
Time is on our side - that's enough for now.
More tomorrow.
Unfortunately, I am too tired to comment on what my programmers have reported.
Time is on our side - that's enough for now.
More tomorrow.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Good news for modern mandible exercisers
My wife and I do not have a regular, or rather, favourite produce market.
By way of convenience, we purchase most of our food products at either Publix or Walmart but we make sure we visit farmers' markets and make the occasional tour through Earth Fare or similar specialty stores for variety.
We were glad to hear that Walmart and the Housewife of the White House (a/k/a the First Lady; a/k/a the White Housewife (sorry, Mickie, I couldn't resist the juxtaposition)), Mrs. Barack Obama, announced the industry-leading effort to make healthy food choices more affordable.
On a separate note, the Conglomerate today announced that in order to increase profits and prevent retail businesses from having to put all their sales in one seasonal basket, Christmas season is being split in half.
Those born on odd days - 1, 3, 5, etc. - will celebrate Christmas on its regularly scheduled day in December (or January in the Orthodox system).
Those born on even days - 2, 4, 6, etc. - will celebrate Christmas on 25th June, or its equivalent in your local calendrical system.
Those taking exception to this new system will have to petition the Conglomerate for permission to switch from one day to the other.
Families or coworkers caught casually celebrating the holiday together, or more specifically, accepting gifts on the day for which you and/or they are not permitted to celebrate, will be barred from giving or accepting gifts for a period of years determined by the level of expense associated with your and/or their celebration.
In a related note, birth centers are now scheduling specific times and dates to accommodate pregnant women who choose to go through the natural birth process. Births may be arranged so that all family members are born on odd or even days. They may also be arranged to occur within the range of newly-organised signs of the zodiac.
Kodiak bears with Kodak cameras will not be accommodated, however much they want to participate in this joyous new celebration of All Things Commercial.
The Conglomerate is taking the bears' request under consideration and seeking advisement about other species being allowed to shop for Christmas now that they have a level of self-awareness nearly the same as ours.
The Conglomerate continues the ban on advertisements directed toward nonhuman species, giving the other species the opportunity to educate themselves about common fallacies, tautologies and illogical suppositions buried in many adverts.
Veterinarians for Equal Access to Life (VEAL) applauded the Conglomerate's stand on this important issue of species equality, despite hoping that the Conglomerate would issue a Universal Rights of Species proclamation.
Thousands of comedians died today but no apocalyptic group took notice and sounded the alarm that the end is near. Satirists and satyrs are rolling over in their eternal sleep to keep from getting cloud or brimstone sores, as the case may be.
It was fun to watch Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune over the past few weeks to observe the time-delayed buildup and release of tension associated with the midterm Congressional elections.
Sociology of the Future is also sociology of the nearterm past. My Futurists University will issue you a bachelor's degree if you can give us all the correct answers (or at least 56% of them (+/- 5%), if you pay us enough), without knowing the questions, of course, or the courses' syllabi.
By way of convenience, we purchase most of our food products at either Publix or Walmart but we make sure we visit farmers' markets and make the occasional tour through Earth Fare or similar specialty stores for variety.
We were glad to hear that Walmart and the Housewife of the White House (a/k/a the First Lady; a/k/a the White Housewife (sorry, Mickie, I couldn't resist the juxtaposition)), Mrs. Barack Obama, announced the industry-leading effort to make healthy food choices more affordable.
On a separate note, the Conglomerate today announced that in order to increase profits and prevent retail businesses from having to put all their sales in one seasonal basket, Christmas season is being split in half.
Those born on odd days - 1, 3, 5, etc. - will celebrate Christmas on its regularly scheduled day in December (or January in the Orthodox system).
Those born on even days - 2, 4, 6, etc. - will celebrate Christmas on 25th June, or its equivalent in your local calendrical system.
Those taking exception to this new system will have to petition the Conglomerate for permission to switch from one day to the other.
Families or coworkers caught casually celebrating the holiday together, or more specifically, accepting gifts on the day for which you and/or they are not permitted to celebrate, will be barred from giving or accepting gifts for a period of years determined by the level of expense associated with your and/or their celebration.
In a related note, birth centers are now scheduling specific times and dates to accommodate pregnant women who choose to go through the natural birth process. Births may be arranged so that all family members are born on odd or even days. They may also be arranged to occur within the range of newly-organised signs of the zodiac.
Kodiak bears with Kodak cameras will not be accommodated, however much they want to participate in this joyous new celebration of All Things Commercial.
The Conglomerate is taking the bears' request under consideration and seeking advisement about other species being allowed to shop for Christmas now that they have a level of self-awareness nearly the same as ours.
The Conglomerate continues the ban on advertisements directed toward nonhuman species, giving the other species the opportunity to educate themselves about common fallacies, tautologies and illogical suppositions buried in many adverts.
Veterinarians for Equal Access to Life (VEAL) applauded the Conglomerate's stand on this important issue of species equality, despite hoping that the Conglomerate would issue a Universal Rights of Species proclamation.
Thousands of comedians died today but no apocalyptic group took notice and sounded the alarm that the end is near. Satirists and satyrs are rolling over in their eternal sleep to keep from getting cloud or brimstone sores, as the case may be.
It was fun to watch Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune over the past few weeks to observe the time-delayed buildup and release of tension associated with the midterm Congressional elections.
Sociology of the Future is also sociology of the nearterm past. My Futurists University will issue you a bachelor's degree if you can give us all the correct answers (or at least 56% of them (+/- 5%), if you pay us enough), without knowing the questions, of course, or the courses' syllabi.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Market Potential
Is it possible that the U.S. is the equivalent of a "niche" market now?
If so, is American English still the world's best language for universal communications?
If yes to both questions, then do I pay more attention to developments in China/India and less to the U.S. in creating the storyline that walks/surfs the front wave of our species' changes, chronicling them on a site like baidu but using my subcultural language that is easily translatable to Mandarin?
Pause for thought processing on this subject overnight...
If so, is American English still the world's best language for universal communications?
If yes to both questions, then do I pay more attention to developments in China/India and less to the U.S. in creating the storyline that walks/surfs the front wave of our species' changes, chronicling them on a site like baidu but using my subcultural language that is easily translatable to Mandarin?
Pause for thought processing on this subject overnight...
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Matter and Antimatter
While the Fermi satellite verifies positronic thunderstorm activity, we have to ask, what's going on here:
- Anti-investment: Solar going Chinese
- Investment: Chinese going German
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