Too often we enjoy the com­fort of opin­ion with­out the dis­com­fort of thought — JFK

In a great state­ment my Eli­jah Cum­mings (via BBC) he explains exactly what the recent “bailouts” feel like to the gen­eral pub­lic. It’s funny. He is express­ing the out­rage the Sen­a­tors feel over AIG’s treat­ment of the “free” money they received. The gov­ern­ment, the very peo­ple who put this lame pro­gram in place, are get­ting a taste of their own med­i­cine. In a way I’m glad AIG did this to them. Cause it’s exactly what the gov­ern­ment did to us.

Demo­c­rat Eli­jah Cum­mings was equally incensed: “It’s like, OK, you got to help me screw you. And by the way I’m going to take your money and I’m going to slap you with it.”

In case you haven’t noticed, the econ­omy is really slow­ing down. The BBC says that in Jan­u­ary of 2009 there were only 477,000 new homes built in the US, the fewest in 50 years! At least Feb­ru­ary was better.

In Jan­u­ary, the annual rate to fell to 477,000 homes, the fewest in 50 years…The Jan­u­ary rate was the low­est since the US Com­merce Depart­ment started keep­ing records in 1959.

1. It’s too inex­pen­sive. In fact, pay­ing is only an option & I don’t feel com­pelled to pay for it. It’s just not as fun own­ing an oper­at­ing sys­tem I don’t have to pay for.
2. It’s too pretty. The abil­ity to apply any theme, or build my own, ruins my sense of cama­raderie with my fel­low OS users. Where’s the sense in com­plete personalization?
3. It’s too fun. Com­put­ers were never meant to be fun. When they become fun they become dangerous.
4. It’s updated too fre­quently. All those updates are just pesky. Do we really need the bleed­ing edge all the time?
5. The com­mu­nity is too active. They’re just too help­ful. I miss that sweet, sub­tle music while I’m on hold with tech sup­port in India.
6. There’s too much soft­ware to choose from. Who needs choices when I can just by the stuff rec­om­mended and pre-installed by the OEM?
7. The hard­ware it sup­ports is too mod­ern. It cre­ates that uncon­trol­lable urge to upgrade my hardware!
8. It does too much. If only my oper­at­ing sys­tem allowed me to do less, I’d feel less inclined to be pro­duc­tive with it.
9. It’s too friendly with other oper­at­ing sys­tems. I want my oper­at­ing sys­tem to play in its own sand­box with like minded kids. None of this shar­ing and mingling.
10. It’s too pro­duc­tive. Can’t I just have an excuse to play games?

A friend of mine wrote this awe­some post ask­ing the ques­tion “Why focus on space travel when we have so many con­cerns to address within our Earth Com­mu­nity?” Check out her post to see why :)

Pub­lic­ity is the act of get­ting ink. Pub­lic­ity is get­ting unpaid media to pay atten­tion, write you up, point to you, run a pic­ture, make a com­mo­tion. Some­times pub­lic­ity is help­ful, and good pub­lic­ity is always good for your ego.

But it’s not PR.

PR is the strate­gic craft­ing of your story. It’s the focused exam­i­na­tion of your inter­ac­tions and tac­tics and prod­ucts and pric­ing that, when com­bined, deter­mine what and how peo­ple talk about you.

Source

The cur­rent global cool­ing “is noth­ing like any­thing we’ve seen since 1950,” Swan­son told Dis­cov­ery News. Yes, global cool­ing: 2008 was the coolest year of the past decade — global tem­per­a­tures have not exceeded the record high mea­sured in 1998, notwith­stand­ing the carbon-dioxide that human beings con­tinue to pump into the atmosphere.

Orig­i­nal source.

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