OceansOfThought @ August 11, 2011 # Comments Off on On Google+ Being Sharing+
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. – Abraham Lincoln Many Many articles on Google+ (at Techcrunch.comand ArsTechnica.co ) made me think a bit. I’ve come to the realization that google+ is the next evolution of sharing+; I mean, […]
OceansOfThought @ November 2, 2009 # Comments Off on On Internet Trolls, and the (Hurt) Masses
“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.” -Abraham Lincoln The Masses, those who have come to the internet now, the late adopters have recently run into something us long time users know: their are trolls amung us. I bring this up because i’m starting to see more and […]
OceansOfThought @ June 29, 2009 # Comments Off on On Cash Cows and Cancer
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 […]
OceansOfThought @ June 22, 2009 # Comments Off on On Pretending to be a Democracy
“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 […]
OceansOfThought @ March 17, 2009 # Comments Off on On Bailouts and More Bad Laws
“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law” – Abraham Lincoln Congress is pissed about the AIG bonuses (March 17, 2009), so am I. You should be pissed too, but let us be clear: The law of unintended consequences states clearly; (paraphrasing) if you use a […]
OceansOfThought @ July 15, 2008 # One Comment
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.– Abraham Lincoln We in America, a society often so prudish we still we can get swift action on cursing TV but still can’t get the EPA to approve rules the court has approved to go forward. We have thought police and […]
OceansOfThought @ July 14, 2008 # One Comment
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. – Abraham Lincoln Let us speak of protesting. Protesting is a something i believe in as strongly as breathing, just as a believe some of the things people in protesting are just plain dumb. I believe i have a right to this opinion […]
OceansOfThought @ July 3, 2008 # One Comment
God must love the common man, he made so many of them. – Abraham Lincoln In my job, I believe strongly in the “teach a man to fish” principle, and this is how i generally deal with computers and computers users. People, because of the connivence of technology have worked out all manner of things that […]
OceansOfThought @ June 26, 2008 # Comments Off on On Our Goverment Acting like a Spoiled Child
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 exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. – Abraham Lincoln I hope you remember this post, It’s about the EPA not enforcing a court […]
Skavian @ June 24, 2008 # One Comment
This might seem like I’m waxing sentimental. It could also be viewed with a certain amount of derision from readers of a particular age category (namely those twice my years). However, here’s what I think about the habit of writing about music artists from the “underground” as it were: it’s a slew of bullshit. Whatever […]