... weimar 2001 ...

-E' difficile sempre dare pareri dall' esterno delle aree di potere, ma le similitudini storiche ed i precedenti sono troppi, per concedere il beneficio del dubbio.
-Informatevi sui seguenti argomenti:
--Haliburton, nota ditta al servizio degli affari di governo, che costruisce e dirige campi di concentramento in america e nel resto del mondo, inclusi quelli piu' recentemente divenuti famosi.
--I progetti speculativi dell' industria volti a destabilizzare il pianeta, come per esempio il progetto americano-canadese di rendere potenze nucleari l'india ed il pakistan allo stesso tempo.
--Zero, libro che evidenzia le menzogne governative su cosa e' realmente successo, insieme a spiegazioni ufficiali che qui notoriamente usano sempre modelli fisici e matematici contrari ad ogni possibile legge conosciuta in fisica o matematica, apparentemente un vizio "storico" per questo paese dove i proiettili girano di novanta gradi agli angoli di strada.
--La storia della teoria della eugenetica, inventata in america ed applicata in tutte le piu' feroci dittature nella storia recente, molte delle piu' recenti finanziate dalla cricca degli strozzini locali
--La storia della sussidiaria ibm ag farben ed i profitti americani generati rendendo la shoah piu' efficiente.
-La realta' e' che questa e' una economia di cartapesta dove ogni cosa diviene casus belli per guadagnare tre denari.
-Per i motivi sopra penso che l'unica salvezza dell' europa nel prossimo ventennio possa consistere in una politica di neutralita' sul modello del generalissimo durante la seconda guerra.
-E' pertanto necessario revisionare tutti gli accordi bilaterali di paesi membri, ove venga a sussistere, in caso di degenerazione della situazione statunitense, una esposizione che metta a rischio i diritti dei cittadini dei paesi membri della communita' europea.

... cheap accounting ...

Results of my quick testing in search of the cheapest possible accounting software for small businesses:

Ten solutions (order has no meaning, read notes and find out yourself what you
like)

1) turbo cash:
main page http://www.turbocashuk.com/
specifics http://www.turbocashuk.com/accounting-software-features.html
forum http://www.turbocash.net/index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&Itemid=239
wine compatibility http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=383552
environment windows, source, wine emulator
download http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86088
tested on fedora core 6 with wine windows emulator
notes:
xml import-export
multiple companies supported
open software, free, low cost of original media and support
multiple branches (location) available in beta test

2) gnu cash:
main page http://www.gnucash.org/
specifics http://www.gnucash.org/features.phtml
environment windows, linux, source
download http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192
tested on red hat 9
notes:
QIF interface
no multiple companies, but can be set up for multiple providers and payees
no multiple locations

3) nola (web based, commercial with open software):
main page http://www.noguska.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
specifics http://www.nolapro.com/business.htm
howto http://linux.sys-con.com/read/32742.htm
press http://www.ofb.biz/article.pl?sid=13
download http://sourceforge.net/projects/nola/
tested on untested
notes:
web based php application

4) quasar (commercial with open software):
main page http://www.linuxcanada.com/
features http://www.linuxcanada.com/quasar.shtml
environment windows, linux, source
press http://www.linux.com/articles/42442?tid=74&tid=132
download http://www.linuxcanada.com/
tested on untested, linux versions binaries too old for my systems (newest fedora available is 4)
windows version would not run on wine
notes:
xml import-export
multiple companies supported
low cost or free open software version available
multiple branches (location) available

5) myob (commercial, low cost)
main page http://www.myob-us.com/
features http://www.myob-us.com/products/compare_all_products.htm
comparison http://www.myob-us.com/products/dare_compare_ae.htm
environment mac osx 10.39 up, windows 98 up
download (trial) http://www.myob-us.com/downloads/
tested on tried before older version, mac os8.5
notes:
no multiple companies, but can be set up as multiple payables and receivables
no multiple locations
easy, well documented

6) accountpro (shareware)
main page http://www.accsoft.ch/index.htm
features http://www.accsoft.ch/apw407.htm
faq http://www.accsoft.ch/faqeng.htm
download (trial) http://www.accsoft.ch/downacc.htm
environment windows, wine emulator
other environments dos (free)
dos download http://www.accsoft.ch/free.htm
tested on fedora core 6 with wine windows emulator
export to plain ascii files
no multiple companies, but can be set up for multiple payables and receivables
no multiple locations

7) medin accounting (shareware)
main page http://www.medlin.com
download (trial) http://www.medlin.com/download.htm
faq http://www.medlin.com/faq.htm
documentation http://www.medlin.com/medlin.pdf
environment windows, wine emulator
tested on fedora core 6 with wine windows emulator
notes:
multiple companies and sets of books
multiple locations can be setup trough multiple companies and sets of books

8) money smith (shareware)
main page http://www.moneysmith.net/
download http://www.moneysmith.net/products.htm
environment windows, wine emulator
tested on fedora core 6 with wine windows emulator
notes:
copy/paste to excel or other spreadsheets
no multiple companies, but can be set up for multiple providers and payees
no multiple locations

9) dynacomm (basic, free)
main page http://www.dynacom.com/accountingsoftware/homeandsmall/Start.aspx
download http://www.dynacom.com/downloads/FreeVersion.aspx
environment windows
tested on untested, won't run on wine, runs only on windows

10) owl basic bookkeeping (shareware)
home page http://www.owlsoftware.com/bbk.htm
download http://www.supershareware.com/download/basic-bookkeeping.html
info page http://www.supershareware.com/preview/basic-bookkeeping.html
environment windows, wine emulator
tested on fedora core 6 with wine windows emulator
notes:
multiple folders can be used as multiple accounts
no multiple locations

... from my new book, "tracking impact" ...

The specific war use of all c3 equipment, will require such equipment to be bonified, scanned and xrayed, to make sure no RFID has been built in. It is most certaintly better to lose some equipment to a potential ennemy, than compromising the position of all the equipment at once, in the c3 chain.

Deterrence from theft or embezelment in peace time, should be built in the systems in such a way that it would use only specific, monitored, and non-civilian emission frequencies, so that the identification of the position would be limited to a signature on the utility lines or a radio-goniometric plot of the single unit missing.

Passive or semi-active systems, like RFID tags, could signal or confirm presence, and therefore may cause great loss. We suggest such technology never be used on operational materials, nor on operational personnel.

Combining RFID technology with cellular phones becomes the ultimate weapon for killers planet wise, hard to miss somebody that has the right cell phone, and the right RFID tag.

Given the above, we suggest updates of international treaties, whereas allied countries promise each other not to infest with bugs allied equipment and personnel, and modification of the national penal codes of war, permitting the trial for treason of such crimes and criminals.

... i diritti dei lavoratori in amerika ...

... prima ti riducono la salute a pezzi ...
... poi ti riducono il reddito a nulla ...
... e alla fine sei in mezzo ad una strada ...
... malato e senza mezzi per curarti ...
... vai a chiedere invalidita' ...
... ed hai a che fare con una lista di cialtroni ...
... alla amministrazione pensionistica ...
... che guadagnano otto mila euro al mese ...
... per essere arroganti ...
... e trattarti come spazzatura ...
... chi in europa pensa positivimente di questo paese ...
... deve provare a lavorare per questo popolo ...
... io sono venuto qui' da illuso ...
... e presto saro' un barbone in mezzo alla strada ...
... e un giorno venderanno i miei organi al miglior offerente ...
... questa e' la vera amerika, non quella che credete voi ...
... state lontani da questo paese ...
... non venite qui ...
... lasciate che l' amerika vada per la sua via ...
... referendum subito ...
... uscire dalla nato ...
... chiudere le basi ...
... fine della propaganda ...
... i pali carichi di salcicce qui' non esistono ...
... la guerra fredda e' finita ...
... non c'e' piu' alcuna ragione di essere "occupati" ...
... chiudere il capitolo ...
... loro sono cow boys ...
... lasciateli andare a giocare con gli indiani ...
... amen ...

... i latitanti ...

... scrivo ad ambasciata e consolato ...
... nessuno risponde ...
... un servizio eccellente, per una "repubblica" centrafricana ...
... povera italietta ...

... spaghetti or fried rice ...

... "i'll tell you the trout"
said the cretese chef
"all salmons are lawyers" ...

... and the turtle ? ...
"soup, please"

:)

... injustice ...

What would you think of a public agency (whereas public means SUPPORTED BY TAXPAYERS MONEY and, it should mean, but it seems it does not, IN BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE) that has:
-violated it's own chain of custody rules on publicly owned (means CITIZEN's OWN) materials
-refused to take corrective measures when confronted on the issue from union members
-made the issue into a "personal" one, discriminating against the people aware of the situation

What would you think of a public agency that is MISSING 20% of the materials on it's chain of custody and refuses to take any measures, except persecuting its employees ?

... I personally think that were right the romans, that were writing on marble ... the tables of roman law are still there, in the forum ...

may you all live interesting times

modesto, california, USA this 7/14/2007

... about political propaganda ...

Sometimes I read with interest moveon.org.

I ordered and displayed on my car the "GRAND OIL PARTY" sticker back the times.

I signed the petition for the end of the war in the middle east, they got the martyrdom they wanted, George feels he is the real cowboy that "smoked" them, but thats the never ending story like the USSR invasion in Afghanistan, or like the adventure in Viet Nam, so is time to pack and go, since things are only getting worse, AMEN.

Anyways, tonite I deleted their email on the "do something for the greenhouse effect, blah blah blah"

.. the issue is simple, RATIFY THE KYOTO AGREEMENT PERIOD .. or you REALLY think everybody in the planet is stupid except the US and Australia ? ..
.. no need of hearing more bull ..
.. also, kind like sadly it reminded me when Clinton campaign was promising a public medical system, have you seen it ? ..

I think this country really needs a third party, that can cut off on the chitchat and deliver on what it promises.

... just my five cents ...

... the incompetents in office ...

-I keep reading on the news of a certain country I won't mention (as the vatican suggests never mix the sin with the sinner) of a generalized national waste emergency.
-Over ten years ago I suggested the people in charge of environment of a county there, to acquire shredders for tires, used to cut used tires into chips to be burned as combustible in ventilated bed power plants. Most of americans probably have never heard of MAC SATURN, Company producing the best tire shredders in the world, here, in america, you can even find them used on Ebay.
-The next reform in the school system and in politics should require a degree in "common sense".

... what do you want to do, I am the joker ...

shortage of degreed people in california

Let's see:

-Workers not willing to work "off the clock" (read unpaid)
-Fair labor practice and unions rights non-existent
-A spaniard-victorian system of ethics and laws
-More illegal workers than legal
-Almost highest crime rate in the nation
-Racist and discriminative legislation, non-us citizens can not buy guns
-Cost of life crazy
-Highest public red tape in the country

... hey, make sure the last one turns off the lights ...

the hypocrites

Obviously, while cigarette smoke is not healty, is economically healty to cash 80% of taxes on cigarette packs, and smoke which comes from factories, power plants and car's exhaust must be healty , therefore the need of not signing the Kyoto agreement.

So, americans have the right to be free from second hand cigarette smoke, but they don't, AND NEVER WILL have the right to be free from second hands Hummers smoke.

something does not sound right, I tought I was the joker
:)

from my book, comments welcome

Appendix II - Open software and public administration

The public administration mission consists, in time of peace, on providing a military system capable of protecting the country, providing law and public order, and taking care of the welfare and well-being of the nation. In a time of war, public administration has to be able to furnish maximum support to the military machine, battlefield damage repairs in the home country and the basic needs of population.

Consequentially, being high paying war targets the industrial military economic complex, while generally other governments targets are not that high of a priority, the public administration has also the duty of providing supplemental services like communications, engineering, civil protection and support to reconstruction to the industry and the population, and to provide for its own survivability capacity, including all major services to the population.

In the above light, and from the standpoint of the highest public deficit in history, it appears obvious that the resources for this enormous challenge have to come from “self financing” instead than from the usual, and so loved by all economists, symbolic cow of public debt, that may end up not working as well for times of war, or times with an exceptional number of catastrophic events like the Katrina hurricane.

To help accomplish the above goals without adding burdens on budget, few logical solution appear obvious:

• Deferring operational life of equipment can save precious funds to redirect to different contingent priorities, as an increasing number of national emergencies will arise off of a cycle of warming affecting the Atlantic regions.

• Open software has today the capability of using 1998 and sometimes even older hardware, with comparable performances in terms of speed and products with today machines loaded with today's proprietary operating systems and applications, even if giving up a few 'modern' multimedia features, (which most public offices should not have anyway, unless they are the Press Information office or Public Relations office).

• Telecommuting capacity of government agencies is also a very important step toward reduction of public spending (reducing cost of maintenance of real estate and operational fixed costs like energy and equipment).

• Recent statistics in Canada show that 50% of public servants would choose to work from home if they could:

http://www.telcoa.org/id179.htm

• However, no additional financial burden should be expected, like “double taxation” in interstate transactions, or specific software requirements. YOU CAN NOT IMPOSE YOUR EMPLOYEES TO USE A CERTAIN BRAND OF SOFTWARE AT THEIR HOME, IS UNFAIR AND IS UNCOSTITUTIONAL.

• Telecommuting will also increase the survivability of government agencies (and private as a matter of fact, if they just would like to listen for once), if designed right. For example, the agencies in the WTC would have suffered much less of a loss if they had been dispersed on a company P2P network, with 50% telecommuters.

• Proprietary software, primarily that written by Microsoft, is the target of most malaware, viruses and spy ware on the Internet. Generally speaking people at home have kids downloading all day junk from the Internet, and will never have firewalls costing ten thousand dollars each or more (they pay out of pocket for their equipment, not via the cash cow of government agencies).

• Consequentially, the reality of telecommuting in government requires employers to step away from proprietary software, toward a software anybody can afford, that performs regardless of hardware, and offers maximum un-compatibility with malicious software. The software that meets these requirements at this time is open source-based.

• Profound changes on legislation will be needed to make telecommute a reality in the government sector:

  http://www.telcoa.org/id179.htm

• Public administration should go toward open software anyway, because it has the constitutional duty to be inter-operable with all systems and to serve all citizens, not only those who choose to run a particular operating system. Government, being neither church nor a private company, should not be exempt from applying non-discrimination rules. Failure to provide cross-platform services equates to discrimination against those impacted.

• A large number of experts agree to this day that open software is better than proprietary. Would it not seem logical after institutions like the Parliament of France have adopted Linux as their operating system of choice, giving more consideration to open operating systems ?

• Open software can cost anywhere from nothing to 10-20% of the price of corresponding proprietary products.

• Why the migration to open software is not happening fast enough in the US, should be object of a congressional investigation, and politicians in Washington should explain why government on-line services are discriminatory towards citizens not using Microsoft or Apple products.

• The web is full of forms on plenty of Government sites, whereas the only way to get the information, is trough the use of proprietary code or programs. Citizens are discriminated on the access of public services, on the base of what operating system, browser and media player they use.

• The private industry is following the above (bad) examples, due to proprietary software's ubiquity One ironically is even to fill up the on-line application for the Geek Squad using a “non-Microsoft” OS (seems to work on Linux with Netscape 7.2, however the unsupported OS notification on the page prevents users from certainty that their application may be actually filed).

• Here some interesting considerations on browsers from 2001, the situation does not seem to be any better now:

http://www.strum.co.uk/webbery/browser.htm

• The matter of a 'one and only choice' is serious, and is impacting both national productivity and security. The possibility of a net “infection” / “poisoning”, causing most or all systems of a certain kind to be down for an indefinite period, should be enough of a reason to start considering the maximum redundancy of products, instead of restricting the choice to one provider.

• Because of the taxpayer's interest in efficient government spending and the need of interoperability of software and equipment, open software, as well as open hardware, should be a mandatory requirement for appropriation for any government agency.

• Finally, open software opens the road for the government agencies to generate their own operating system and applications. “Government edition” versions of applications and operating systems can be royalty free, and can be distributed with no licensing charge in unlimited quantity, to employees, suppliers, contractors and citizens, maximizing standardization and compliance.

Here are few examples comparing cost of operating systems applications:

Operating systems, Office software and browsers:

	x86	mac	Sparc/x86
Prop. OS	Vista $250	osx $199	free Solaris 10
Live OS	limited	limited	supported
Linux/bsd	Free	Free	free
Live OS	included	included	included
Prop. Office suite	Office $550	Office $ 199	25 star office
Open Office	FREE OO	FREE OO	FREE OO
Prop. browser (different)	Free explorer	Free safari	Free java
Mozilla – firefox netscape	Free – same	Free – same	Free - same

Other issues arise when talking about programming tools and environments, where also open software plays an interesting role. This is the higher portability of code across platforms, and consequent reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of development.

Open Source Development Tools:

	x86	mac	Sparc/x86
Prop. Devel 3gl	Microsoft .net full $600	Free Xcode limited	Developer suite ($?)
Proprietary open software java	Free	Free	Free
Gnu – eclipse	Free	Free	Free
python – eclipse	Free	Free	Free
Prop. Database	SQL Server $500	none	Adabas (included with Star Office)
Proprietary database oracle express	Free	unavailable	Not Free ($?)
Proprietary open source Ingres	Free	Free	Free
Postgres	Free	Free	Free

Finally, costs can be reduced using many open source free or low-cost specialized applications rather than proprietary from software houses. For example:

Specialized applications:

	x86	mac	Sparc/x86
Proprietary photo	Photoshop $839	Photoshop $719	Photoshop ($?)
Open software gimp	Free	Free	Free
Proprietary CAD	Autocad $399	Autocad $399	Autocad ($?)
Open Software US Army BRL CAD	Free	Free	free
Proprietary ERP/CRM	MS CRM $405 MS ERP $2,200	Daylite $145 Open MFG free	($?)
Open Software ERP/CRM ERP5 - Compiere	Free	Free	free

Several open software projects are not yet at maturity but are expected to be in the years to come.

Open software is being looked upon by many government agencies as a way to reduce operating costs. As a backlash against proprietary software deepens, open-source software is gaining acceptance in the world community.

Open software is a big player in the United Nations project related to the Millennium Development Goals. The US Department of Defense is already highly involved in open software, and so are agencies like the NASA and its European equivalent, the European Space Agency (ESA).

http://directory.fsf.org/

http://www.ony.unu.edu/seminars/2006/opensource/

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=89668DCF-D287-48E3-93F0-A0AB7DED24F7

http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMDV1T4LZE_index_0.html

Kansas City, Paris France, Schoten in Belgium, Gwangju in Korea are running their administration on open software:

http://www.bensoft.com/kansas_city_open_source_systems.html

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1941298570;fp;16;fpid;0

http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/5178/470

http://www.zdnet.co.kr/etc/eyeon/enterprise/0,39

Several libraries are now running on on open software:

http://www.greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library?e=p-en-home-utfZz-&a=p&p=factsheet

http://www.oss4lib.org/

http://www.koha.org/

The state of Georgia is running 256 libraries on open software, with a long list of others:

http://www.open-ils.org/

Also, the first indications that at a certain point the use of Open Software may become mandatory in specific Countries, is indicating that compatibility to open software is something governments can not afford to ignore any longer, as indicated in the article below:

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-272299.html

All the above leads to believe that closed proprietary software is on the way of estinction, like the dinosaurus, and further public spending in it, with very few exceptions of highly specialized software, is a symptom of poor managerial decision capability at the best, or conflict of interest at the worse.

Note: All prices are approximated, and obtained with “best price” query on google, choosing the lowest offer for full edition products (non academic, OEM, demo's or 'not for resale')

a joke called government social security

-I am starting thinking just as in Justice, in Amerika "almost" equal for all, so is everything else government organized.
-They take your contributions out of your paychecks, and you can do nothing for it.
-They waste your money on useless public expenses.
-Look at the employees that take your applications, they make 7-8k bucks a month, working in pharaonic buildings YOU PAID FOR
-Then when you are sick and you can't work, they won't even give you an answer on your medical conditions, nor they may even give you a visit that lasts more than 15 minutes, nor they may explain you why they are denying you any service after all the contributions you paid for 30 years.
-They will also stay away from creating a public medical system, that touches the pocket of the big money makers health corporations, who would otherwise replace the profits they make in one of the most liberalized markets for human organs in the world ? So, Amerika is for profits, whats wrong with the picture of parting almost-dead semi-alive corps to make a buck ?
-Obviously there is something wrong in this picture of "civilized" Amerika teaching the world.
-What can we, poor "uncivilized" species, learn more from Amerika ?, what is next, after the genocide of the natives, centuries of slavery, the biggest financial fraud in human history (read gold standard, and silver standard), medical nuclear "experiments" on unaware citizens, a number of executions second only to africans "banana republics" and the most liberalized human organ market in the world...
-Oh I forgot, Amerikans are all rigorously "christians", so keep on paying as you pray, and praying as you pay, DoG will take care of you, "eine nazion unten gott"->l ol

a great disgrace for humanity named morals

-If there were two categories of humans, whereas the first the ones using somebody elses brain and the second the ones using their own it would be easy to define positives and negatives. Reality is more fuzzy, we all use a pecentage of both whereas in the first case sometimes could be a reference to theoretical knowledge, some other times could be a reference to historical or logical considerations.
-The part of our reasoning centered in our own brain, is unfortunally limited by the fact that all things in the universe transform by evolution and randomness we can not fully depict, and is therefore limited on conceiving solutions by engineering, wich brings us, for higher numbers of variables we can not mathematically analyze, to empiric models, thus to the basic concept of any historical model.
-The unfortunate part is that progressing by experience is slow, costly, and unmeasurable on a universal scale we have hard time to understand.
-The second unfortunate effect is that it creates a theorized model of anti-progress applying erroneous empiric models to the human animal istincts. The extreme conclusion of this is very sad. Humans are the only animals capable of genocide and humans that look for solutions in the past rites and "morae" are the most likely ones preparing another genocide or worse.
-The third unfortunate part is the trend. If in evolution the human animal evolved from murder to high efficiency systematic murder (genocide) then would it not make logical sense that humanity 'trends' finally to biocide, whereas biocide could be defined as highest efficiency conceivable genocide ? In this case there is no need to wait for the end of the solar system, we could just press the right button and start the self destruction of the earthlings civilization.

... comments welcome ...

about genetic engineering

Here is the issue:
-I am reading science and industry telling us we need genetic engineering to make human life better, using nano agents to protect and repair vegetal and animal species including humans from effects of diseases, and to obtain more efficient crops and species, including humans.
-Nothing wrong with that, "fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza", as the Poet said. But all that, if and only if, we had started this path from the beginning, if and only if, we were living in "the best possible world" as per Pangloss in Voltaire Candide. Then it definitivelly would look like a "step forward for humanity", like the Guy said in the 60's, when this was the case in America, in a society where progress was just the natural evolution of a generalized and planned well being.
-Now somebody here has forgotten reality:
--"In 2005, there were 46.6 million people in the U.S. without medical insurance"
--I could not find the number of chromosomic maps for the purpose of control of genetic defects made on US pregnant women per calendar year, I would be curious to know a percent number versus pregnancies (maybe the kristian koalition is hiding the numbers, ... just joking ...).
--Nobody knows how the Corp of Engineering will find the founds to fix all the levi that would prevent another katrina-like disaster to occur.
--We live with a medical system with the highest percentage of administrative costs and profits in the world, and the lowest percentage of budget going towards actual medical treatment costs
--Without even mentioning how "deregulated" the human organ market is in amerika.
--Nobody knows if we may have viable bridges or roads in ten years.
--Nobody can estimate the exact date when the Social Security Administration may collapse or break down to who knows what.

The question I'm asking myself, is why Tutankamon and his party in DC are doing everything possible to transform him into Atahualpa and the US into the Inca empire ?

Maybe "When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is" as per Robespierre ? Is sad to admit than "the greatest power in the world" does not have a way to take care of human deseases, when people need it the most, that is when they are so sick that they can't work.

As stated, I identify myself into libertarian theories, and I believe in free enterprise, but from what I remember from the classes of Economics, you need to shave the sheep, not kill her, you can only kill the sheep once, and after that you will be naked by winter, and out of cheese.

Albert Einstein apparently believed in the power of stupidity: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

... comments welcome as usual, should say again also, last november post was an exception, but was about beliefs and spirituality, and those should remain subjective choice ...

... as said "libera chiesa in libero stato" (Camillo Graf Von Cavour) ...

... considerations ...

Few considerations, as i repeatedly said, I don't have nearly as many answers as I do have questions, please follow my links and meditate. This post is not looking for comments or suggestions from strangers, therefore they would not be welcomed, unless we know each other in an intimate way. This post gives questions to the ones that have questions, and gives sources of reflection to the ones who want to use their own brain. Weather you think you know the answers in your mind, or you may think you have better theories than I do, or whatever, I do not need your feedback on this. In my philosophy the questions are my answers, if you don't like them, go read somebody else blog and have a good day.

-reincarnation - DNA - physical - parallel lives - global consciousness - universal consciousness - sync - DNA re ocurence - could be a law of nature empirically verified ?

-effects of going from large number logic in re-generation to bio-genetics - alters natural selection - can be damaging ? - yes and no - postmortem cloning - rules ? - need of new legislation ? - can catastrophe be avoided re-engineering the dead ? - who is the judge of this judgment ?

-soul - aggregated function - life - consciousness - occurs after birth - ends at death - harmonics floating in a time-space could be perceived-captured ? - vibrations - waves - hope somebody may build me a brain recorder so that i could store souls

-biggest human evil - genocide - unique to humans - dominance - right/wrong - comes from fanaticism - fanaticism requires a theory and power - so it requires public power and ideology - humanism is the source of most ideologies - socialism and religions are an example of humanist ideology - ideology produces ethics whereas what is not convenient to the ideology is repressed

-human ethics have a major problem, because the nature of good and evil is discriminatory, where what is right for one is evil if applied to his enemy - whatever perpetuates its status quo is perceived as good, whatever subverses its dogmas is perceived as evil - humanism substitutes to natural selection, the social selection of the compliant thus producing boneless and mindless humans, ready to perpetrate the destiny of the clan, and to curse the ones that are not part of it

-the only alternative to humanism and ethics is universalism - under universalistic view winners and losers are still a bunch of uncivilized and ignorant animals in the hands of superior forces they can not control - the society can suppress the individual universalist, and it does frequently because his presence reminds their giant egos that there are things they can not control - the society, religious or governmental, can do nothing to suppress universal forces and universal laws - money can not buy slower melting of the poles, or milder earthquakes - and military or political power neither

-universal forces are driven by relations of cause-effect that are not linear - can a flap of a butterfly in California cause a tsunami in Thailand ? - somebody may bear control of the greatest forces in loneliness and in loneliness can alter the paths of universal forces ? - universal forces don't have preferences - universal forces don't differ between good and evil - they are an equal opportunity constructor and destroyer

-history teaches that winners are right - winners destroy the losers and their culture - history requires friends and enemies - when there aren't any, has to make them up with excuses - the absence of right and wrong makes humanistic toughts, and therefore ideologies, and therefore churches and governments, shallow and useless, "actors", prima-donna extorting natural rights from humans to feed their selfishness

-may the great gardener bring you all an interesting life

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about public spending

With all the shortage of budget in any Country and any Public Agency, why not make "mandatory" for any public Agency, the use of open Source Software.

Also, whenever "non-open-source" projects are proposed, why not make "mandatory" and require publication on the newspapers of the jurisdiction, a copy of Total Cost of Ownership and Life Cycle Cost Analysis, of the solutions proposed.

The required exceptions, regarding "mission-critical" systems, could be adressed by a separate process of appropriation, similar to the one in use for matters of urgency.

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about privacy

I remember an old say, aproximatelly sounds like "those who priviledge safety over freedom end up to have neither"

Therefore I would suggest any writer, to make multiple copies of their scripts under different jurisdictions, and publish them instantly on websites worldwide.

For somebody that wants to think with his own mind, nothing is more valuable than freedom of expression.

For somebody that values the search of the truth, over the "officially or heavenly given truths" censorship is an offense that hurts in the deep of their heart.

about deregulation

... online, online, online ...
... less people in government, less buildings, less waste, less maintenance, less useless agencies, less utility bills, less energy wasted, less politics, less useless people ...
... less fixed costs ...
... less, less, less ...

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the information revolution and education

Home schooling is the model for the future, all the ingredients are in place, in a few years the type of school we grew up in, may be limited to exist in the realm of special education, lab hours and finals.

The education revolution is coming, whereas this baby boomer generation who became the highest educated generation in the history of humanity, has given back to humanity an information revolution of which the students of the generations to come will learn of on their online classes and e-books of history :)

The absence of distractions in front of a terminal, make concentration and focus easier for the students, while the predominance of visual signals over voice should increase retention of subjects.

The absence of clutter in the virtual world makes possible for a number of educators to control the shared desktops of large numbers of students per class, in favor of standardization, whereas in the future is not to be excluded the participation of a number of instructors as a crew, with specialized duties, in even larger education "session" or "events", even on worldwide "live" scale, in a completelly interactive manner.

The bottom line of the concept, is more spending bucks in education, and less in real estate and maintenance, with equal quality of education from the ghetto to the Los Altos Hills neighborhoods, from the favelas in Brazil to the left side of Zurich lake, a profound goal for humanity, 100% doctorate level by 2050.

The virtual access opens a school system to the world education market, more access is equal to more customers, a more liberal and libertarian education is going to have indirect effects on the world society of the future, whereas this young students one day will apply what they learned in managing their own countries, when the time comes, to the benefit of all.

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