Blubs of Verbs, Thought Crime
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Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.-Abraham Lincoln
New ways of tackling Cancer are always being highlighted, -See below- but, there have been no advanced changes in the fight of this disease. One thing that has been identified at contributing to this slowness is the funding process (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/health/research/28cancer.html?em ). We think there is something else, we think capitalism wide, there is no real incentive to cure cancer. It’s not a conscious focus, it’s just the situation we’ve worked ourselves to.
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Blubs of Verbs, Life Lessons
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“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.” - Abraham Lincoln
Iran with its unrest here in the June 2009 is learning a lesson that oppressive regieme seem to never learn, what those drunk on power never seem to grasp. If you are going to pretend to give people the right to vote and chose their own way, you cannot also treat them like complete sheep and idiots.
People will accept their injustice, their oppression to a degree, but they will not accept a shell game. What do i mean?
No Choice.
Back in the Old Soviet union (and lots of dictatorships like Iraq) people were given the right to vote. There was one candidate and he generally won with 99% of the vote (and most of the population), even when most people stayed home. The election was a sham, everyone knew it, and that was the state of things, you went on with your life.
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Executive Papers
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What is Web 2.0 ?
Web 2.0 is more than technology; it’s about openness, sharing and relinquishing control. It is a fundamental way of thinking about data, in that the owner of the data, cannot possibly think about all the ways –good or bad- that data can be used, but with enough users, force more good than bad effects from the data source.
Social networking is a very small part of the Web 2.0 schema. For instance, Social networking is mainly about socializing. While all data sharing has a social concept; the Department of Defense forum for Lessons Learned for Officers serving in Iraq isn’t about dinner and wine, it is about keeping soldiers alive. Likewise, the interactive latitude and longitude map of known improvised Explosive Device (IED) locations in Iraq is Web 2.0 application which focuses on not losing vital Intel when solders go off duty and rotate back to the United States.
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