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On Internet Trolls, and the (Hurt) Masses

OceansOfThought @ November 2, 2009 # Comments Off

“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 more of [...]

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On Pretending to be a Democracy

OceansOfThought @ June 22, 2009 # Comments Off

“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 [...]

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Understanding the Current 2.0 Moniker

OceansOfThought @ May 7, 2009 # Comments Off

Web 2.0 is itself a meme of the internet age, but it has spawned many others- Government 2.0, and Industry 2.0- which, as defined above, is a transition from the before to something new.  But there is a greater definition which can be surmised and will be defined in this article.
The Innovation Life Cycle[1]  [...]

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On Technology Destroying the Court

OceansOfThought @ March 18, 2009 # Comments Off

 
“When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted.” Abraham Lincoln
 
There seems to be a problem with phones, and information in the courts. 
 
This article is astounding, more so I’m astounded by the silliness and stupidity of the courts.  Let’s go back to oh, 1980. I [...]

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On Bailouts and More Bad Laws

OceansOfThought @ March 17, 2009 # Comments Off

 
“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 simple solution to fix [...]

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On The Death of the Newspaper

OceansOfThought @ March 16, 2009 # Comments Off

 
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read - Abraham Lincoln
 
There are many news paper who are dying,
 

“Hearst is threatening to close the San Francisco Chronicle – and on Monday said it would make the Seattle Post-Intelligencer an online-only publication. Gannett, owner [...]

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On Giving New Graduates Opportunities

OceansOfThought @ October 14, 2008 # One Comment

“The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.” – Abraham Lincoln
 
I’ve been kicking it around in my head.  There are programs for students in school (internships and the like) where they can get [...]

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The Will of the Voter and Credit Crisis

OceansOfThought @ October 1, 2008 # Comments Off

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of [...]

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Is the Market working? Yes, Unfortunately.

OceansOfThought @ September 30, 2008 # Comments Off

 
 I’ll glad you pay you Tuesday, for a hamburger today. – Whimpy
 
Intervention in Markets, with artificial price controls (high or low) taxes and regulation is never pretty when things revert back to their natural state, but a purely capital society cannot be left to itself without some regulation.  Monopolies are bad for competition, Trickle down [...]

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On the Coming Change in America

OceansOfThought @ September 21, 2008 # Comments Off

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God…. God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party – and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose. – Abraham Lincoln
My My, how our country has changed. [...]

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