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On Another Skill Falling to Technology

OceansOfThought @ April 30, 2008 # 3 Comments

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ -Abraham Lincoln Another skill of general society is falling to the […]

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On Why Open Source, Open Access, Open Anything, is Good

OceansOfThought @ April 29, 2008 # Comments Off on On Why Open Source, Open Access, Open Anything, is Good

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.-Abraham Lincoln Open source. The very term sends people executives running, thinking of dropped profit margins. A threat they cannot deal with, when in truth, there is lots of money to be made with open source. Many programs and […]

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On Parents and Future.

OceansOfThought @ April 28, 2008 # Comments Off on On Parents and Future.

May our children and our children’s children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country,-Abraham Lincoln On the best of days my parents are difficult. Amung people i know, there are those that depend on their parents, and often times get along with them. Amung others, there […]

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On the Loss of Being Reasonable

OceansOfThought @ April 25, 2008 # 4 Comments

“There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future.” -Abraham Lincoln As I am wont to do, I tend to look over old posts for other idea’s or maybe looking for something to […]

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On Radical Islam and the Green Movement

OceansOfThought @ April 24, 2008 # Comments Off on On Radical Islam and the Green Movement

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln In one of those laws of unintended consequences(a simple system cannot effectively control or predict a complex system), the green movement will pretty much define and complicate our interaction with the Middle East, […]

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On Why You Really Hate Math and Economics

OceansOfThought @ April 23, 2008 # One Comment

“Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. […] The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.” –Abraham Lincoln Economist are driven crazy by humans, and math doesn’t help. In a most amazing testament to the past strength […]

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On Being Green (Hulk Style)

OceansOfThought @ April 22, 2008 # 3 Comments

… no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture.- Abraham Lincoln On this Earth Day I’d like to ask a question. How green are you? Me? I’m green with anger and resentment that i keep being asked how green i am. […]

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On Race Relations, and the URL

OceansOfThought @ April 21, 2008 # 2 Comments

I shall try to correct errors where shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views. –Abraham Lincoln And now, race. You ever notice that when you run across something on the internet, it’s a buzz. You suddenly start to notice it everywhere, it […]

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The Thick System of Change in the Japanese Economy from 1950 to 1999

OceansOfThought @ April 18, 2008 # 3 Comments

Executive Summary During the period of the 1950 to 1999 the Japanese culture went through a period of change and/or prosperity which many contributed to Japan moving away from its central control structure under the Zaibatsu and the Keiretsu. However, using Gordon Reading’s thick description system of business analysis I will attempt to show that […]

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On Curbing the Power of Multi-National Corporations

OceansOfThought @ April 17, 2008 # Comments Off on On Curbing the Power of Multi-National Corporations

 The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. -Abraham Lincoln Multi national is the new monopoly. Traditional […]

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