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A look intothe future by understanding past

2006-11-14T16:16:00.000-02:00

The ongoing persistent social inequalities within the United States and its current yet failed policy of global democracy we see in places in Iraq and Afghanistan will yield more terrorist attacks that happened five years ago. It may also be ones that will have far more casualties and devastation since the 9-11 attacks. The recent Al Queda attacks such as comparative places such as Madrid and London reflects certain realities that must be dealt with when it comes to global politics. The one is that much of the political shifts that we see have been towards the left. It does not mean that left leaning politics is the same as it used to be but it translate into the mere notion that much right wing and neo conservative thinking does not hold much validity in the course of world politics. On the other hand which is equally if not more important is that much of the conventions of the element of free market and capitalism is now defunct and does not hold much use or value when it comes to the debate to relieve the ills of world poverty and creating better economic driven societies. The fundamental goods that constitutes the make up of an economical situation no longer has any valid presence but exist only as memories of what one studies as the relational value of the strong or weak economy. One can take several factors that comes to mind about this. They are labor, education and as mention the previous article the mobility of goods. As stated the mobility of goods since the Post-Soviet Union break up amonts to nothing and that its causation stems from an ideologicals society whose breakdown arrived from the ever increasing presence of the mobility of goods needed in a 'free society.' However a 'free society' only means the antithesis and the reality of a society that existed as long as it did based on idealogy. Yet there is never any claim that there always existed an absolute ideological base society that permeated the USSR for it was one that was a mixture of mainting its historical foundation there and keeping up with the so called of the powers of the state for which its must be the reasons for it own being while it lasted. Certain periods characterized the structure of the USSR such as its being post-totalitarian, the era of glasnost and perestroika and the element of dissident freedoms, herierarchy and libertine ways as one come across in the writing of Vaclev Havel. What became of this so called unwavering mobility in the Post-Soviet Union era became known as globalization, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and a new form and entity though had always been around but because the change and the impact of its essential nature having undergone an unusual and radical transformation-- Al Queda. Lets take the other two factors and try tying things up as far as why Al Queda became as it did and why there is always remains terrorist threat as a result. Labor and education. One of the more interesting things that in the past up until maybe a few years ago is that in order a strong economy to thrive and grow existed a state as a British scholar is perhaps famous remarking is the control of violence. Such control as this scholar pointed out rested in the form of the nation state. There are many facets that formulate a stable and yet powerful nation-state such as Great Britain in the nineteenth century and the US in the twentieth centure were compulsory education and mass conscription. This embodied having large populations and taking advantage of migrant and immigrant cultures. Added to this were the need to build large public schools, large standing armies, a vast military arsenal(for the Cold War was a product of such as opposed to the the War on terrorism) and an industrial base constituting massive factories and plants. Education in the US gain stronger ground after the second WW with the institution of the GI Bill and later on with affirmative action. It can be say that American immigration problems is a result of Eisenhower immigrant policies such as Operation Wetback. The score was settled more precisely with the nation state as being the sole provider of peace and world hegemony when it comes to global stability. The problem arrived when the neo-imperialism became an expensive problem and the evolving of new states and what became to known as proxy wars characterized by certain presidential doctrines from Carter to Reagan(one might add that of Bush Sr as well). As the world became less of a nation state world and one of a global forum. Thus soon became the inherent demise of the nation-state era, modernity as understood, and industrialism. The 1980s may be seen as a last ditched era to hold on to this but the problem with this is that post-nation-state, post modern or post modernity and post industrial age or era did not last that long. For the world economy to survive there must be outsourcing and policies to combat such outsourcing know as maintaining 'comparative advantage.' Then came along something that existed just only in the military and in the universities computers based on p2p or peer to peer technology. As this grew and took place in the 1990s something happend the economy in the US and around the world changed. It was not the same as it was before and never it could go back to its halcyon forms. The way consumers, people, information and goods exchange changed dramatically. This led to the talk of a the 'digital divide' an advance or electronically based economy which will continue to run the economy and maintain certain persistent social inequalities. No one didn't feel it at the time for something else happend the fall of the post -industrial age. As the world becomes more dependent or interdependent on computers and as that technologies increases ever more at such a rapid rate there becomes an unbelievable demand for the raw materials that makes up the components of computers such as sand and the processing of it into microchips. As things heats sort of like an information war or cooking pressure takes place, the mobility of goods and people increases in many dimensions. No longer the nation state can maintain any world peace or assume as the likely arbitrator of solving any type of global conflict. That has to be taken on forms that no one would ever thought of come to the fore front. Thus if one sees the problems in the world as being inimical they have to be taken on that one's own hand. Here steps in Al Queda. What intelligence report about Al Queada, the hijackers of 9-11, were far from what I understood as being something akin to social pariahs or isolated individuals. Some of them were very well educated and had good families. The attacks of the imploding economy of the nation state and a failed values of the ones that existed became a strong reason why Al Queda were somewhat successful in what they did and why any future attacks will no doubt likely occur and become greater than it once was before. As the economy based on p2p increases and the world we live in now is far from a post-industrial age certain energies and element of time continues take place. It took place with the devastation with the September 11, 2001 attack and will the more than likely take place with another greater attack. The reason being that the US is historically a nation with persistent social inequalites and its aim for universal democracy only which strong violence and small periods of peace can tame. If Al Queda won't lay the next great egg to remind us where we are heading there will always be someone or something or some group to let us not forget what this country is heading towards and what this country is. A hellhole, a prison society with no walls and a trash can.
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Five years after 9-11

2006-11-01T15:05:00.000-03:00

As the election year closes ahead with the chance as some put it a defeat of the Republicans in the Congress another issue for some reason has overlapped about what will might see in the outcomes of the polls in the following week and that is the view many politicians, scholars and pundits how in the past five years they think the world has changed but more importantly how those deadly attacks changed their views of the world. Since all that is given are nothing more than opinions some of the solutions that you see sounds as though nothing ever happened since those attacks. We already know with increase terrorist activities that people's rights might be compromised or in the other hand given the nature of the attackers that there are bound to be splinter groups willing to attack the US. So the problem we like to see and even know is what has really changed since September 11, 2001. The fail military and foriegn policy of the US presence mainly in Iraq and the other parts of the world may cut it but such failure or trying to understand those failures doesn't come to grip with certain ongoing reality. For starters, those attacks were based on a declining hold of the nation-state model that has been the the very axis of how and why states behave in such a way. To put it more specifically, previous wars up until the Persian Gulf War were based on what the perfect model of the nation state was. Some would imagine that the empires of monarchs were the best or the ones rooted in democracy should take precedent and yet still those of corrupt dictators telling people with absolute power what is best for them. The decline of the Soviet Union gave way ironically to any form of empires or the so-called hegemonic state. It also downplayed the role in which even though justified on a historical basis that a collection of states sharing in the same belief the value of human rights, democracy, world peace and the free flow of trade can always be achieved either through international diplomacy or military means. What this all adds up to is the value and nature of warring communities that is fast shaping and from what anyone knows in which the world will plunge into. The collapse of the USSR didn't stop war or even contain with the promise of post-Cold War peace or that the US can make the world safe from certain 'evils.' On the contrary the level playing field of war might be greater and far catastrophic than what people think. Throughout history and especially that of the last century the cycle of energy and motion of what shape society and how it relieves enmity between competing factors has grown far more intense than it ever did. It has outpace the conception of what people think of and believe of living in a world or human society. Think of how people get around from one part of the globe to another. They usually do that through flying on airplanes. Think also how goods are transported, mainly the same way including shipping and land vehicles. The problem with creating a correlation from goods and human numbers is that we always don't know what those goods are and who are always traveling from one part of the world for what purpose. Even though one can assume that all goods that are flowing from country to country or continent or continent for some weird notion are able to satisfy the world population or keeping it from growing to a world depression, the satisfaction of those goods cannot explain who and how the major players(assuming that we possibleknow who they are at any given time) might benefit from them. This might seems a bit pedantic but it is not always so. If the world changes more intensely from a historical perspective those goods, numbers and forms of transportation becomes very obscure and even distorted which explains that what kept the former Soviet Union alive at the time it did becomes also another playing field of why it fell and other entities has taken its place. It doesn't explain why not another 'empire' of the sort takes it place which can also be explained that those mobile forces makes statist empires very obsolete or very well exhaust them. However it does not affect the appetites of the major players or the battlefield in which wars are fought and won. The war that engulfed 3 to 4 million lives from 1998-2002 was one that can characterized as a world war because given geographical area it was fought over(the same size of Western Europe) and the amount of intervening countries(unusually a lot for a conflict in Africa) the idea of a world dictator emerging in that world sounds silly and hopeless niave but it doesn't--to make sense of the none believers or those who continues to believe otherwise--that the area becomes a dictatorial playground for state of the art military and scientific technologies and campaigns. Therefore it isn't hard to believe the way things happened until the two airlines crashed and collapsed the the Twin Towers nearly five years ago. So not only the idea and what constitutes war has changed but the conventions that will shape society has dynamically is continuing undergoing a major transformation.

The great build up

2005-10-12T13:02:00.000-03:00

Just saying that it is just another a natural disaster is not always a good way to dismiss no matter how devastating a hurricane, an earthquake or a tsunami that happens to strike somewhere else on this planet. Many arguements has been used to play down the devastating effects of the more recent natural catastrophes that has occured far away and here in the US. Among them were accounts of them that happened in the recent past and that they are what they are mother's nature disturbing effect upon us all or just another part and process of nature correcting itself. Too little has been argued that the these recent tragedies-- and here I am referring to the deadly hurricanes that happened to strike the Southern part of the US, the recent earthquake in Pakistan and the tsunamis that occured in the Far East Asia last December--have in part been caused by humanity impact on the environment whereas left very little any room for the legitimacy of ecological politics at all. To understand the potential devastating and perhaps apocalyptical nature of these natural causes one has to try to look at it from a stronger political perspective and the better way is to start of with the recent tragedy of the World Trade Center. My arguement for the longest time has been that the World Trade Center attacks is a constant surge and release of energy that has been building up and that radical fundamentalism is no more than a de novo and more likley become an ancestral things that has managed to shake things. My arguement goes as forth. With the increasing use and development of computers mainly in the form information is shaped and distributed the more and greater the the pressure it will have to place on the environment and civilization for the matter sort of like a post-institutional effect whereas modern and post modern instutions must adapt by either being replaced by virtual ones or by de novo ones. The internet itself is pretty interesting because despite what everyone believes the internet itself or the way information and commerce is occuring there is one in which going through a post-institutional effect stronger than the ancient ones it is argueably supplanting. The internet more than anything requires a lot of energy and a massive economy for its being, yet like anything for it to survive or for certain corrections to take place the internet more or less must give out to other forms and that would probably be a world like you see in those science fiction movies such as 'Minory Report.' The World Trade attacks represents not only this shortcoming or depend on how you look at it success of the internet but more or less something else poetical and that is the post-institutional effects of the state and I might add the economy itself. One of the more recognizable forms that in which is marked by the collapse of the state is argued by a noted scholar such that the state looses its monopoly of violence and like you see in the recent warlords much of that violence falls into mafias, warlors and ethnic tribes. Another has to do with the economy and that purportedly is the fact that since the fall of the Soviet Union there is not much to add to the decisive arguement that capitalism has triumped over communism or socialism for the matter. It can be viewed that capitalism and the way things are managed offered certain benefits when it comes to price and scarcity but capitalism like everything everybody has missed out is more than certainly a modern and post-modern failure. This does not rule out an economy whereas there is a sort of exchange of goods and services or in one in which economic output, growth and accountabilty may take place but more so that capitalism cannot escape the haunting effect of post-institutionalism. Much not left in the framework of capitalism these days as the poor lost soul of the Soviet man must rekindle his identity with the stuff that is made and sold for centuries when manking discovered and use commerce but in a dynamically politically shaped world we see these days such as again the rise of the electronice economy and its evil twin the post-modern industrial society required to sustain it. At any rate the balance of a rising middle class that existed that managed to stave off the brunt the early countries endured in the earlier twentieth century does not exist any more. The rise of supertechnology among many other things makes the present army that we have sort of obsolete. It is weird to see these days as a high point to fight for one's country or its creed whereas thanks to the likes of Al Queada and the recent Germany election did much away with that. The idea of fighting for democracy and world peace seems pretty much anachronistic and too cling to it by indoctrinating in public institutions that it has much of a world value seems a bit passe. However back to the World Trade Center, the energy that has been unleashed questions much of what that needs to be done in understanding the shape of war and maintaining any reasonable type of political stability. Much of the world politics that has followed those attacks has pretty much that has been defined by post-instituitional forces such as Al Queda such as the sniper shootings, the Madrid bombing, the London bombing and more recently the Bali bombings. The Hurricanes in Louisiana occured in a red state whereas not to take it wrongly there is just not much to be rebuilt or that a conventional approach seems futile and obsolete. The criticism for the recovery effort has been mired strongly and arguementatively so on the charge of racism,such that the president was very reluctant to do anything about it and the more interesting thing about the this recovery whether one like it or not that such an effort of rebuilding that part of the Deep South amounts more strikingly to a Reconstruction effort at a cost to the tune of $40 billion dollars and the idea of less and minimalist government is becoming more or less an endangered idea. what ever the case maybe we see the president approval rating at an all time low and the controlling party in a dissarray. A budget cut to offset the cost of the rescue effort can have nefarious political consequences. Like the tsunamis given so many people even in a post modern world such a natural disaster had an effect similar to a regional war of some sorts and thus it should be treated as such. It is say that only natural calamities are nothing more than an arena for the groups like Al Queda and the stronger post-institutional effects to take place. It wouldn't be hard to grasp the idea that if the US have problems from terrorism that it would unlike the September 11, 2001 originated from the Northern part but of a constant migration from that part of the country.

Understanding nature and politics

2005-09-01T13:16:00.001-03:00

The recent Hurricane that occured in Louisiana only shows what a sham the current political and economic system that we have led to believe on way or another is. In just matters of hours more than a thousand people have been killed, somewhere between 20,000 to 50,000 refugees fleeing to neighboring states such as Texas and damage estimates between $12 to $30 billion dollars.

What to learn about the London attacks

2005-07-09T16:30:00.000-03:00

One minute the world was celebrating that London has become the city to host the Olympics of 2012, an event short of war that supposed to bring nations and people from all over together to compete without shedding any blood. With their guards having been left down and also anything short of irony, a terror attack that left close to sixty people dead and hundreds injured shocked and surpise us all. The culprit as always these day is a wing or in this case a splinter group for the Al Queada movement. So one might wonder why the attacks happened as they did and in essence another question must be raised what do they mean? To answer these two questions one has to look at things from a different perspective. This perspective would mean that what has flowed from the events of 9-11 World Trade Center attacks can not always be resolved by pointing needlessly and aimlessly at a bunch of disgruntled Islamic fundametalist who wants to change and fashioned the world the way they want to. It has more to do with understanding the nature and course of history. As I see it the September 2001 terror attacks is in some bizarre way a manifestation of the fall of the Soviet Empire which in itself a tremendous amount of energy being built up and must be released. It is only with destruction of the Soviet Empire that so much that has characterized the past 2,000 years of history must take place all well within one century. It is too say that with the fall of the Soiviet Union is just only the acceleration of history collapsing and changing at intense speed and pressure. The ten years or so followed it becomes nothing more than just another a millenium sort of speaking. The 1990s as we supposed to believe saw the explosion of the growth of things like the internet and dismantling and creation of states. I would argue that what all this means is tremendous shift of something great such as a post-institutional effect of the world we live in. In effect such a phenomena would have as its criteria several factors. Among them technological growth at intense speed and secondly the use of war to alleviate the tensions brought about this. In fact what makes Al Qeuda interesting not that they are post-post modern entities or embodiment of such intensities but they are embrace something along the line of higher ethics that are far superior to the rest of the world. For the world to catch up would require much transformation and something new to accomodate the post-institutional changes about us. It wouldn't likely ever happened unless of course a global war is induced. All there is a just an increase of the building up of energy and a terror attack to release-- and merely so-- these energies. The outset of any post-institutional society is the idea and notion that physical institutions are just fast being replaced by virtual institutions or in cases de novo ones. A good example of the latter is the internet itself. People might have a clue where it may come from and how it changed society and the way we do things such as commerce and more obviously commmunication and entertainment but no one does not have a clue what it will be in the next ten to twenty years or what form it will take. After all we can't rely on the hardware we see in computers and microchips to keep it going after all the production of such things merely makes ecologically speaking things worse. The next best thing is probably something you see in 'Minority Report' a world run by nannotechnology. With it comes its pressures and the foundation upon which such a thing may lie on. So in a sense a post-institutional society is also one that is a sociey that will be slam with one of supertechnologies one which as I have always stated that mankind's thirst for knowledge of the universe will produce an economy no matter whatever constraints and economic impossibilities there is. If that comes along, there will be rogue individuals, societies, classes of people vying for control not of just the world but the technologies that needed to rule the world. Think of technologies that you see such as warp technology, nanno suits, stuff out of a 'Terminator' movies, hulk like super soldiers, the power of invisibilites and other stuff creating or even awakening anomalies slipping away from the control of the government to some wily individual. Thus you have something like the Al Queda a product of Soviet-American conflicts in places like in Afghanistan that too will transform and propagate into other forms or entities that is unrecognizable. Subsequent of the attack in Madrid which shows due to geopolitical shifts with rising oil prices or such prices about to peak, along with the post-institutional effect of politcs itself; in the case of London, is the ability of Al Queda just setting the ground of another theme by criss crossing what these technologies are in fact becoming that is the elusive nature of technology and the ability for technology to replicate itself to counter it--hence technological advancement incarnate. Just like all you see each day the deterioration of America's power worldwide sort of like a post-institutional effect in foreign policy(making the world safe for democracy or in the London instance peace) just happened to take place in Iraq here you see the rise of the thrills of supertechnologies that is setting the stage for not only a greater conflict that will add a new theme to what is going on but also to just another door in history in a form of a global or another great war.
As it should be understood the Al Queda group is becoming larger not smaller namely on the side of understanding human ethics but that too become irrelevant as the push and built of energy and the way the world is changing setting the battle ground of the ultimo ration of the world to come--War!

Google's Print for Library program

2005-06-22T13:11:00.000-03:00

It is a thought worth thinking but not actually taking seriously about the internet and computers taking over. Is it possible that we can live in a world where there are no books pencils and pens and everything is placed on a computer? If the answer to that question is yes, it is strange for how that will come about. Like anything about the so called virtual world trying to take over we are face with the difficult task of it coming to grips with the usual politics that it has to endure and the trade offs and the way we define the next economic structure.

Here is something interesting to look at. In the June 6, 2005 issue of Business Week in an article written by Burt Helm and Hardy Grove on page 42 titled "Intellectual Property: Google This:'Copyright Laws'" the authors discusses about Google new plans and adventure to scan entire books that might come into conflict with certain copywright laws. According to the authors, already five universities and other libraries including Harvard, Stanfor, Oxford, Michigan and the New York Public Library has already sent in books to be scanned. The endeavor is known as the 'Print for Libraries' program.

The recent Supreme Court ruling on marijuana

2005-06-08T12:36:00.000-03:00

According to the recent decision in the case Gonzales v. Raich state laws does not protect those from being prosecuted from federal law when it comes to growing and using medicianl marijuana even from extreme sick cases such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, glaucoma or otherwise life threatening disease. Under the Supreme Court guidelines the use and involvement of marijuana comes under 'interstate commerce' and hence under the realm and authority of the federal government. Why if there is ever such as ruling has to be in the dissenting arguements in which case no one would argue or even expect to have any meaning any more in American politics-states rights. It was the same reasoning that Southern segregationist used to challenge the overturning of Jim Crow laws. Whatever the case maybe states as I understand it was never meant to have any decisive claim on the politics of American constitution. The debate over who gets what as far as claims of a federal or national authority over local and state jurisdiction ended when the civil war 'ended' and the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment. Liberals in the early part of the 20th Century saw very little in ascertaining state's right but saw state institutions as a forums and mean or what some one would say experiments in garnering national reforms but in any event times have change and that type of thinking as we see with some of the Orwellian reform these days such as the abolition of affirmative action in California or the new wave of social engineering by turning society virtually into a prison makes little sense for the court these days to take seriously these off the wall reform in medicinal marijuana on state level. If anything such legislation recognized by a dozen or so states are nothing but power politicking of the habits and mores of the 1960s ,a fetish if you may so call it. I don't see nothing wrong with legalizing marijuana which at any rate is just two different things--one's view on drug legalization and the rule of law in pertinence to the recent court decision. In fact it would be a very well policy for drugs and narcotics to be legalized. There are many arguements in the way for this one of them is to cut down terrorism as I agree with any one who would argue this point, the second to reduce the incarceration rate and make laws a little bit fairer and thirdly to make a society like the US more laid back and a great country to be in.

Here is an interesting link that you can take a look at

2005-06-01T12:53:00.000-03:00

Discusses the gossips about the current events that is going on constantly at
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Draining politics dry and a side order of fries

2005-05-07T16:48:00.000-03:00

The notion of dissipating states that we are constantly witnessing these days does not mean that we should look at it from an animated view point. That doesn't mean that there is virtually no need for governements or that existing or pre existing institutions might have to always cloned by virtual ones. The whole theory behind the rapidly dissipating state means that both the modern and post- modern concept cannot embrace any quick fix solutions or well planned out policies made by decision makers. War in the past has been more or less an ultimatio ratio on the nature and being of what these states are and how they will come out to be. They are for the most part something that don't leave us anything to work with these days and at times much to work with. Think of the American civil war that took place nearly 145 years ago in which case 1)the issue of slavey unlike ever before is making its headway into the world today on a scale unseen before and 2)an ever increasingly divided American marked by the last wtwo presidential elections of the so caled 'red' and 'blue ' states. At present the need for states to govern society affected by problems that arise and could possibly threatened public safety and health, civil rights, freedom of choice and expression can in one way or another have uncontrollable consequences, especially with the social awareness being sprung forth by the use and growth of the internet. The best example of this would be the case of the woman from Las Vegas, Nevada who claimed she bit into a finger tip while she was eating a bowl of chilli purchased at a local Wendy's in San Jose, California. As it turned out the whole scenario was a fraud and now she is facing criminal charges among them, if I am not mistaken grand larceny charges that resulted in the loss of money and jobs of the initial public threat.Among the strange things about the case is how come such a loss came of the big and even appears irrecoverable. The answer to that is not as difficult as one would think as fast food institutions is perhaps among one of the fastest declining institutions of them all. With the threat of another Mad cow disease or avian bird flu seem to be on the loom means that these very institutions very existence would not have the classic faith as being there or or as any type of integral part of American culture. In other words what one is seeing here are problems that have roots and causes that are not so political but the consequences of them inadvertedly being so--as we can see in this case as nothing more than another scam artist attempt of milking somebody out of a lot of money which ironically ended up jettisoned, shaped and moulded the political structure or outcome of the United Sates and perhaps, argueably the world.*

*The idea of exporting another fast food restaraunt to another part of the world such as Baghdad or Kabul has little or no exemplary or symbolic importance as far as politically, and in some ways, culturally liberating these countries.

Is MSN really a search engine?

2005-04-30T10:13:00.000-03:00

Kicking things off, if you haven't found it, google now has maps.google.com. It is similar to the local one except this one you can even have a satellite view of the places you are looking for all over the country..

I heard that Google is changing up on the its adwords features. It will focus more on clicks and target more so specific webistes.

Now here is an interesting point about MSN according to a writer form webpronews.com states that based on a 1000 keyword test that MSN compared to other major search engines gets more traffic from IIS servers than any other making MSN not a search engine. You can view the article, if you can at this link here

Ecological politics and stray cats!

2005-04-21T13:03:00.000-03:00

Anything that makes national news, however one would look at it, is telling you something how the world is changing. It is also telling the reader why is it necessary for those changes to take place and why they sometimes today may take the foreground. Back in the early 1990s or even the 1980s, it would be absurd to think of as one would read about the Wisconsin Conservation Congress* resolution approved by the county voters there that it is okay to shoot stray cats.

Animal rights activist including myself would think that this disturbing. However the problem with allowing stray cats to run amok is that they are endangering birds and other small prey animal,not to say nationwide there are supposedly 80 million stray cats on the loose.*

The semantics of all this is that the resolution itself is in accordance with most if not all wildlife and animal endangerment laws that would simply designate stray or 'feral' cats as 'unprotected.' That would mean that like places in Minnesota and South Dakota, people will be able to shoot cats that appears dangerous or do not have collars or tags on them. These cats unlike the monkeys that run around the streets and parks of India are merely 'abandoned' creatures, not a 'religous' or 'indegenous' aspect of American culture. That is to say there exists the notion of 'abandonment,'that would nullify anything that would take too seriously people who have claims to treat their pets like humans.** There are believe it or not the growth of 'dog courts' and lavish dog houses on the market.

What all of this is say not to contradict myself above is that one could apply and assess any and all forms of creatures, including human beings, in the way they permeate basic institutions. Like the monkey that roams around the streets in India there numbers have become so much that 1) they are ecological burdens and 2)that they pose as some sort of nusiance.Of course, one would see the idea of a 'let loose' attitude of allowing stray cats being shoot as cruel, whereas a likely and more reasonable remedy would be pet adoption, neutering and in cases, euthenasia.***

For the most part, there is a such thing as ecological politics reaching grassroots and local levels but more importantly to areas to test and measures society ability to take care of their pets and children.
*USA Today April 13, 2005 p.3a

** This term is often referred to as being derivative.

***The Terri Schiavo case in which her husband succeeded in having her feeding tube removed are among the many ethical choice that depsite what the opponents of euthenasia want to believe given massive population growth, an aging population in the US, Japan and parts of Europe and a failed social structure in which prisons and a prison culture are fast replacing what was left of welfare and social institutions not too long ago that society must deal with.

Optimizing your page, increasing your page rank!

2005-04-21T12:56:00.000-03:00

Here is something from seo-news.com

April 24, Issues #64

"Introducing PageRank - Shattering the Myth
By Dave Collins (c) 2005 SharewarePromotions Ltd

" One of the most fascinating aspects of the web is its dynamism. We all know that it develops at an astonishing speed - yesterday's craze is today's old news, and biggër and better things seem to be springing up every few days. Some of them crumble quickly into dust, while others seem destined to tower above the rest.
Naturally, search engines also follow this pattern. Some of the early search engine giants remain with us today, but many of them are gone - and every so often, a new champion seems to emerge. Recent years have seen the growth and development of a search engine that puts all others to shame. It might have once stood at the same level as its rivals, but there is no doubt that for now at least, Google rules the web.

Many of the companies we work with see more traffïc from Google than all the other search engines put together, and there are more than a few Search Engine Optimization services that focus almost exclusively on this one engine.

What is Google's Secret?

So why is Google so successful? The answer is simply that when a user goes searching on Google, they're likely to find what they're looking for, and more quickly than on any other search engine. Exactly how Google manages to do this is trickier to answer, as they tend to guard their secrets well. They don't want us to know too much about how they determine their search results, simply because they don't want anyone to be able to manipulate their own ranking.

Of course, human nature dictates that many of us aren't satisfied with this. We desperately want to be able to affect the ranking of our sites, and some of us will go to great lengths to do so. We work hard to find the perfect keywords, tweak our meta tags and optimize the content of our site to what we hope is Google perfection.

But recently, a new word has entered our vocabulary, and is surrounded by so much hype that very few people actually have a realistic understanding of what it is - or what it isn't. PageRank is where the attention is focused today, and many companies are determined to find a means of improving their magic number. "I want to be an eight," they say, as if PageRank was a dress size that they could grow into with the help of some heavy-duty calorie shots. Unfortunately, it's not quite as easy as that.

So what exactly is PageRank? There's a surprisingly simple answer: it is Google's way of estimating how important a web page is. On a basic level, Google decides that if one page links to another, the second page must be considered important. If one page on one site has 15,000 pages linking to it, it must be for a good reason, right?

Page Rank is About Pages, Not Websites

Let's begin by straightening out a few basic points. First of all, PageRank is assigned on a page-by-page basis. A whole website does not have this score, and different pages within a site can have very different PageRank values assigned. Another important point is that the rating (out of ten) assigned is essentially little more than an approximation of a given page's PageRank. The actual values cover a far greater range than zero to ten.

Before going any further, we should take a look at the most important point of all, often overlooked when we get caught up in the PageRank frenzy. PageRank is only one factor that Google takes into account when displaying the results of a search. There are still other factors of equal significance in performing well on Google - so don't make the mistake of thinking that you would live happily ever after if your PageRank was a little bit higher. Other factors include a page's title, and the use of keywords within the page's text - not in the keyword meta tag.

PageRank is still one of Google's more ingenious strategies, and is certainly one of the many reasons that it stands head and shoulders above the rest. Partly, this is due to a combination of two factors. First is that the very nature of PageRank is difficult (but not impossible) to manipulate, and secondly that the exact details of how the value is assigned is a closely guarded secrët.

However, there is one very useful source of data - an academic paper detailing the formula used to calculate PageRank from Google's early beginnings as a universïty project. This formula will have certainly been altered and expanded over the years, but it is generally accepted that it still represents the essence of their PageRank system.

The Page Rank Formula

The exact details are lengthy, and far beyond what I am capable of dissecting. But the basic formula is as follows:

PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ….. + PR (Tn)/C(Tn))

PR(A) is the PageRank of a particular page (A) - not a website as a whole.

1-d is the dampening factor, as explained below.

PR(T1) is the PageRank of the page that links to our (A) page, and C(T1) is the number of links contained on that same page.

The formula is repeated throughout every single page that contains a link to this (A) page.

Two important points to take into account. First of all, if you're thinking that the formula would in practice be an infinite loop, then you're correct. This is the very nature of the web itself, and is also why Google has introduced the so called dampening factor.

The second point concerns the way that PageRank is awarded by one page to another. The generally accepted means of understanding this is to consider that a given page has, according to its own PageRank, a certain amount of voting power. If the page in question links to five other pages, then each of the pages being linked to receive their PageRank "award" of one fifth of the original page's voting power. It's also worth noting that the number of links on a page includes a website's internal links

Link Farms Don't Work

This makes it quite obvious that the so-called link farms, where each page of a website contains many hundreds of links in an attempt to artificially boost so called "link popularity", are doomed to fail from the start. In addition to this, Google has its own system for not only minimizing the effect that these sites have, but eliminating it altogether. As the formula shows, PageRank works as a multiplier of a site's overall value, so Google has made sure that link farms have their own value of zero - which means that a link from them counts for nothing, quite literally.

There is a scare story doing the rounds which claims that being listed on link popularity sites, or for that matter any site with a large number of links, can get your site penalized or even banned from Google. This is simply not the case. If it were, you'd effectively be able to wipe-out your competition's Google presence with one afternoon's work. It doesn't work that way.

Having links to your web pages on sites with a low page rank and a large number of links means that the benefits are quite effectively minimized to zero. But this will not detract from your current PageRank at all.

Obviously, what people really want to know is whether PageRank can be manipulated. In the past it was often considered impossible to do so, but nowadays this is not always the case. There are two simple factors involved: First: who links to you, and how they choose to do so. Secondly: your own website's navigation and internal links"

More on Cochran

2005-04-15T15:20:00.000-03:00

You might notice on the upper right hand corner a little attachment that you can either click on or off that say something like Instant Buzz. It is a good way to gain traffic and advertise your site since you only have to be able to download that on your computer. If you want an invite email me at matrix700@ureach.com and I will send you one. To get started is through invitation only.

If you haven't seen the latest I ssue of 'Vanity Fair' May 2005 take a look at the excerpt of the epilogue of 'Crimes Against Nature' by Robert F. Kennedy,Jr., in which he talks about the right misleading and distorting information and media coverage on lots of issues and destroying our country. You can see it on pages
pp.212-218 and pp 266-268 under the article titled 'The Disinformation Society'

If you want to see more about the life and works of the later Johnny Cochran Jr. you can check out the April 10th 2005 issue of 'Jet Magazine.'

The Obituaries

2005-04-07T13:39:00.000-03:00

I guess we should all know by now who past away this month including
Johnnie Cochran Jr, the famous attorney during the OJ Simpson case
and

Pope John Paul II

in case you haven't heard the News Anchor for ABC News Peter Jenning disclosed that he as lung cancer.

Is there life after the market retreats PartII?

2005-03-28T18:17:00.000-03:00

Is there life after the market retreats part II?

The element of time and energy plays an important and decisive role in understanding what exactly is a post-institutional effect. A post- institutional effect is one in which institutions that we are strongly accustomed to are fast eroding and being replaced by either virtual or de novo ones. By the latter I mean by forms and structures that we do not and cannot possibly know how it will look like or turn out to be in the near future. In order for a post-institutional effect to take place or to understand why is it taken place at such a stronger rate than ever before we must not overlook certain factors. One of them is that with a post-institutional effect would not mean that the underpinning variables are no longer wanted or needed. For instance, should and indeed it does, applies to states would not mean that there is no need for government or for the markets, the exchange of goods and services, the ethics about the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ social equality and so forth. Another factor it does not mean that there will possible be a reversion of old conflicts or forms but at the same time the change and to say it precisely the dynamic changes of the underpinning values will have from a historical perspective a warped outcome. A good case in example is the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The underpinning value here is the techonology developed by mankind going way out of control. My assertion is that nuclear weapons are highly obsolete these days namely again going to the debate and understanding of technology in this light. For instance what makes technology technology, the use of human invention and the ability of mankind to recreate and redesign nature is based theoretically on his ability to see nature beyond his or her senses. Think of some of the simplest inventions that ran across thousands of year, such as the day mankind invented fire, introduce the bronze and iron chariots, developed irrigation techniques, discovered electricity, then the light bulb, the horseless carriage now referred to as the car, plastic, fission technology and the internet itself(though this last one isn’t so simple). One of the basic premise on the strength and drive of technological innovation is the ability to control and provide for the many. The setback to this however is that like anything else technology despite what anyone would like to believe is the ability of those to elude it. As the elusiveness becomes greater the restraint in which one would allow to be used the fantasies and awesome power there of weakens, the idea that Osama Bin Laden for some bizarre reason is able to elude the US for some time only shows the prospects and intensity of another terrorist strike or war would no doubt diminish the previous ones at the onset at the turn of the century. Where as Bin Laden represents those entities outside the ‘state’ trying to do damage to whatever there is and left of the world order. It is In fact Bin Laden himself who becomes one of the other single actors trying to acquire nuclear weapons himself. How Bin Laden came to be and how the shift from states or empires conflicting itself rest again on the use of nuclear weapons in other conflicts namely in Bosnia (pellets), Iraq(even though they use heavy bombs loaded with over a ton of cement) and Afghanistan(bunker-busters) as they call them. So the idea that the likelihood that the US, some rogue nation or fringe terrorist use some type of nuclear device remaining small and distant is an assessment that is just totally off the mark. Think of the use in urban areas in the US of dirty bombs.

Nuclear weapons itself is perhaps one of the stronger if not the strongest inventions of mankind. However we must not be misled that there isn’t a thousand or perhaps thousands of other inventions on that level that have been created. It is just the level of such an invention in which it has occurred that allows us to understand the function of the elements of time and energy. Dealing with technology only asserts that people are controlled too much and are understood too much on economic factors or at least to understand anything outside of it as being incomprehensive. Therefore we must look at things in the mere factor that states, war, economic achievement, and the notion of what it is to be an individual is shaped by the energetic forces that must be let loose. The civil rights movement is perhaps over the last fifty years in the United States is perhaps the strongest one in which case if anything that should catch up with the way policy makers and activism see things it will be here. The best way to define the civil rights structure in the United States is the level of intervention in which basic human needs and protection of civil liberties is articulated to whatever government structure there is. I would like to agree with any historians and critics that it is in the forms of Reconstruction periods. Here there are perhaps two of them that occurred, the starting points remaining dubious but the end points that many would more than likely agreed upon. The First Reconstruction period can be start anytime from the the beginnings of the civil war or when the South was defeated and the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments was added to the US Constitution and Union military occupation in those states and ended in dreadful election of 1876. The Second Reconstruction can be anywhere from the end of the Second World War or the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1854 to no doubt 1996 when for some weird and strange reason the voters in California voted for the notorious and infamous Proposition 209, outlawing affirmative action and racial preferences in institutional admittance and hiring. It would have gone even crazier with the one I can’t remember it only a few years ago. If there is a Third Reconstruction it will no doubt arise from some bizarre reason out of the World trade Center attack several years ago in which case hate crimes and enmity to foreign born citizens became increasingly prolific. How the World Trade Center attack occurred has to deal with the time of not enough if poorly sought government intervention in the areas of civil rights taken place such as the idea that if we are living in an increasingly mobile society there are definitely be much stronger pressure on societal resources in different and stronger forms. The terrorist who committed the attacks weren’t people who lived in the ghettoes but were attending flight schools, able to wire money into the US. In fact it was learned that the profiles of these terrorist pretty much contradict of what most people thought any terrorist that would likely commit these act to be. Most of them had children, well educated, and by our standards had a profession( I am not too clear on this but the argument would lean towards this way).

The energy assessment apart from the time factor has to do with the insatiable need of society for stronger computers and the post-institutional effect on the economy. As there is a need for stronger computers, there is a need for the basic element in which is processed the main component of the machine, the microchip or sand. As more computers are made, more are simply thrown. This change affects how business is being performed, how people view each other, how class structures are shaped. Sooner or later something have to give, the need for newer and radically different technologies to come take its place-such as nanotechnology. In effect the ability of these terrorist being able to overtake a plane using only boxcutters is the massive force and unleashing of energy being taken place. There is no doubt a strong story line that resulted from this. Of course, the ousting of the Taliban and Hussein from Afghanistan and Iraq respectively is in retrospect one but I would argue that it just reflect the obsolescence of state institution, structures, conventions and mores. I think what you see in Iraq is just a forum that historians would see twenty years from now of the post-instituitional effect and obsolescence of the state itself, free markets, democracy, and so on. The bombing of Madrid, the Virginia Sniper case, Martha Stewart going to prison, the shutdown of the NHL, North Korea having the nuclear bomb , the recent tsunami disaster(which is almost like a small scale world) and stuff like these reflects more of the reality of a post-9-11 world. The post-Soviet man or woman if he or she needs to survive and feel free must somehow or another reflect his or her personality throught these events. If to say the least where does he or she fits in is perhaps much more difficult to explain then to see.

In the March 25, 2005 issue of the Boston Globe(‘Mapping Genes-quickly, ppD1and D4) scientist will be able to do what took well over 10 years and close to 3 billion dollars in be done in as a little within an hour. The gadget is known as the ‘454 Life Sciences Genome Sequencing System’ costing a’ mere $500,000’ in which a technician or scientist is able to place on a very tiny plate the size of the width of the human hair single strands of a DNA sequence in which a special digital camera , along with a chemical reactions, lights is passed and able to take snap shots of each strand or genetic code. This is pretty difficult for me to explain but the level of debate in which things take place and what newer generations must deal with a have certainly been compacted to unreal levels that is groundbreaking and unavoidable. A post-institutional effect wouldn’t just rely on the fact of what new medicines and treatments that will take place but what evils or darkness that lurks outside. Such technological advancement is the equivalent of detonating a nuclear device in one’s room. Not only will government will have to intervene and regulate the matter but there will be others who will use it to seek such tools for their own ends. The world of only one Bin Laden has certainly run its course. The concept of armies and empires will have to be drastically redefined and alas the post-Soviet man in his or her thirst to substitute those household and luxuriant needs in which the market and economy cannot sustained in other forms of slavery or labor exploitation and on the brighter mass entertainment.

Cynicism and skepticism Part II

2005-03-16T12:06:00.000-03:00

Here is another link along the long chain of sites that you might see online that questions and doubts the action of those who are in power and decides to voice their opinion. I am not saying whether or not I endorse anything in this site here but it seems very interesting. Among the things that it discusses the Iraq war, the Iraqi prison abuse scandal, the new world order, and conspiracy theories involving the WTC attacks several years ago. Just go to this site at http://www.angelfire.com/psy/hypnyxia/

From a skeptic or a heretic

2005-03-10T14:15:00.000-03:00

I in particular don't share the same opinion or views expressed by whoever posted this site. It is something interesting that I came across and found it would be rather illuminating to post on my blog. If you ask me whoever produce this site must have extreme skepticism of the events that happened several years ago or just using the media as a form of mass hysteria. Here is the site at http://www.neiu.edu/~ayjamess/hmmm.htm#main

Google has something new!

2005-03-03T15:06:00.000-03:00

You should try local.google.com

Is there a life after the markets retreat?

2005-02-24T12:32:00.000-03:00

One of the more fascination features about the markets today is that one it is stipulated from a weird but also de novo concept of man. I borrow this a lot from Francis Fukuyama's book 'The End of History and the Last Man.'

Basically after the decline of the Soviet Union there has been unleashed and perhaps plummeted unpropel forces that has eroded a lot, included the forms and structures of state institutions, the intensity and probability of wars and above all culture and how that will affect the world we live in today. It is important to note that with each declining of each structure or form out there there still exist perhaps some underlying values that has to be understood as always being pre existent. What I mean by that even if there are declining states that would not rule out the need for governments but the conceptual aspect of government of course would have to take into consideration of ongoing factors. A good way of looking at this in its advance form is the rapid and steady decline of the post-industrial age. That was an age in which industrialism and the remains of the industrial revolution era and New Deal system have come to declining a halt. It was precipetated by the the advancement of the information age but the also the outsourcing of large industries to other countries. Yet one would ask what would make such an era declined was that the ongoing information age and the outsourcing itself though would be thought as two different things were actually not. In fact with the rise and increase for the needs of more computers and the sudden growth of the internet, outsourcing itself has taken on strange shapes and forms. That wouldn't mean that it ceased but its politics has grown just darker. With computers I must add is the ever increasing need for faster and quicker processor thus the need for better microchips and components. That would explain why every 18 months that computers that are constantly being put out on the market are twice as fast the the previous one. Thus the need for giant processing company to build vast plants in the middle of some desert requiring the process of sand as its basic computer for the silicon chip. Yet sooner or later along with other ongoing factors something must breakthrough. So exactly what are these other factors and what is the next breakthrough.

Just like there are really ongoing factors that are quickly shaping the underlying value of the market institution it may as well be argued that the market institutions is serving as an ongoing factor for other things. Namely the basic decline of the Soviet Union has produced what I would like to call a warped historical preconception. What I mean by this is that what must be taken into consideration that any project that has survived as an empire and idealogical force has for the better or worse has left its stamp on history and trying to unravel things is indeed an unwanting failure. Thus the decline of the Soviet Union as mistakenly believed as emulating the triumph of democracy and free markets over communism and centralized society is no more than just a collapse of an empire that cannot go any longer believing like it did. It can be further argued a collapse of an historical ideal that like many other historical ideals would likely to fall.

Thus we are often believe it or not dealing with a post-Soviet individual. This is an individual who is hungry for re asserting his or her identity through products that are no longer sustainable by any maket or market framework or simply put there is no market framework for such thing as the world of spices, textiles and exotic things would like to continue to grow and thrive which is not surprising that such things as slavery is becoming more popular and its opposition to it taken more for granted. One could also argue that rise of industrial sweat shop to levels we see today is itself over the past ten years a recent reaction to the type of economic world we live

Now with this we have so much pressures on states and political system about us. As we see with the increased demand due to a post-post industrial age and the ever unquenchable post-Soviet individual arises that are building are in themselves creating new scenarios and shaping political events.

A look at markets at the turn of the century

2005-02-16T14:43:00.000-02:00

There in fact cannot be a better way to look at what the internet is or what it is finally becoming. The better definition of how to describe the internet is basically a phenomena that occur during the days of the Cold War. It was meant as far as I understand it as a means of sharing information among intelligence and military agency, universities and heavy corporations. Yet such information also relied on a factor known as peer sharing whereas no one party who is partaking in sharing such information is left out and in event of a cataclysmic event such as a nuclear war such forms of communications would still be able to withstand that type of scrutiny and continued. Now the information is fast becoming part of the so called but no longer existed post industrial economy or what is often classified as the information age, in which case that there is no clear definition of what constitutes the typical or standard definition of an information age. An information age can be understood as the economic reliance of livelihoods, and so on on the accumulation and technologies of such institutions relying more on the use of diespensing and accumulatin mass information. The Post World War II scenario followed by the Baby Boom era and the civil rights era can on the positive side be a case in point of a society that has to deal with the realities and consequences of an increasingly based information era. However there is another definition of an information age that I would like to call that 1)give reason to believe that we are no longer living in a post-industrial age and 2) that we are living in a post-institutional and supertechnological society. The information age as I will define it as a ongoing build up of energy that historically and futuristically that cannont give any credence or realization of what forms and roles government and social institutions must take place. The internet itself embodies such built up during and after the Cold War only to take a formation into something else. Along with it will be so called structural changes as we see what we call a post institutional effect as states starts to decline and massive war ensues. In the global economy today as we see was the proliferation over the last decade alone or so of sweat shops in textiles and agricultural products only reflect the deep and scathing reality that there isn't much left of a market institution for them. The only forms of market institutions that are left and left at such a relatively dismal state are electronic and online institutions.

What about death

2005-02-09T13:09:00.000-02:00

I was watching the SuperBowl parade as the floats with all the football players and their family waiting to come down the streets around the Boston Common and saw this weird commercial--casketroyale

What type of world we live in?

2005-02-02T15:21:00.000-02:00

That is not definetely not an easy question to answer. For over the past year I have written some articles on the state of the ever changing world from the perspective of global economy and perhaps a pursuant war. One of the things that I think that drives history is the mobility of goods and labor. This is not far when such mobility is marked from a historic or more precisely from a prehistoric point of view of nomadic tribes and the rise of early civilization. There is not one set theme or thesis as to why nomadic cultures begin to settle down and developed cities and often times revert to a form of nomadism and vice versa. Along came in history the growth of warring cultures and empire. As we have empires there have came about the varying concept of law and justice. Is the applicatiion of the demand for justice is univeral? Is that concept universal a flawed way of thinking? No one for the most part would ever agree or believe that it can happened that way. There are many types of justice as they impart upon ourselves the level of civilization and the way that mankind behave.

Often stated is a certain flow of energy in which all societies must stand by. In fact it is this built up energy that determines societal fate and once unleashed shapes history upon a new course. It could be often argue that the First and Second World War represents this built of energy from the 'enlightenment' and over 'rationalistic' thinkers of most of the 19th Century. It could also be stated and asserted the Cold War was just a slow down of an already melt down and decrepit world that we live in. It wasn't until the birth of the decline of the Soviet Union that despite what others would think meltdown the illusions some would have about the cold war but also history itself.

As the Cold War and the Soviet Union ended, certian historical phenomenas have taken place. We for starters cannot be sure about what they were or certain what shape or form they can be taken place. All we know for starters, the idea that there will ever be a nation state model or system that can keep the world at peace is fast becoming extremely something that can be found only in the past and not much anything of a reality.

Get the latest news on the search engines

2005-01-27T15:25:00.000-02:00

Search engines are becoming if not the most fascinating things on the internet but the most dominating aspect of it. Remember what makes the internet the internet is the ability of competing corporations and companies able to use that information and capitize on it. They say that one of the scary things about today's time is that jobs are fast being replaced by machine. Yet in my opinion that sounds a bit passe and naive because those machines that are fast replacing yesterday and today's job are being replaced by newer 'machines' in the fashion of software and p2p technology. Note here the post-institutional effect. More than likely those software and p2p technological stuff will be replaced by nannotechnological devices that are able to do replication and assembling from the ground up. Anyhow you can check out more the latest on what is going on with the world of search engines at searchenginewatch.com

Update on that tsunami

2005-01-19T14:00:00.000-02:00

The death toll on the recent tsunami tragedy has reached now to 226,000 people. As expected it might surpass other catastrophic events especially the one in China in which 250,000 people were killed back in 1976 in which a magnitude 7.8 destroyed the northern city of Tangshan. Yet things are different today when such an event has engulfed several countries in that region whereas much like China there are expected overpopulation issues and regional conflict. If I am not mistaken, there is believe to be increased fighting in the Kashmir and in Sri Lanka. This is not to say that the world is coming to an end but that there are more issues that must be dealt with in this day and age.

Develop the mindset to make more money

2005-01-10T13:36:00.000-02:00

This service should be some help in making your mind more aware and exposed to why some webmasters out there are just making some more money. I am not saying that once you join this program you will come out a millionare but you probably feel like one. Here it is at thefreeagentpath.com

Looking for luxury real estate

2005-01-05T14:09:00.000-02:00

Now this isn't saying that I am into high price real estate or taking sides on the rent control versus those who oppose it. Here is an interesting site I came across that deals with high price real estate that you will find in areas like Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod and the Timberland places at landvest.com

Get into the Webspirit

2004-12-30T13:43:00.000-02:00

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A Look at the recent Asian tsunami crises

2004-12-28T18:19:00.000-02:00

War and political conflict does not always has to be the main drawing board for cataclysmic event that can change the world. The recent environmental crises in the Fareast has proven so otherwise. If one wonders what is going so far in that region of the world. Accordingly as things stand now, the death toll has reach passed 52,000 people, some of the islands in and around countries such as India are no more and believe it or not the earth axis was tilted a little bit. I don't know how true that last thing is right there is but we should be reminded that this tragic event is the semblance of a small scale world war. The more difficult part about this to grasp is the fact that when you have events like this happening in this day and age is that what stands at greater risk is increased political instability in the part of the world that is bearing some of the brunt of dealing with the likes of Al Queda, international terrorism, nuclear proliferation and ethnic tensions.

I was reading in the paper that one of the trouble that has to be dealt with is that unlike the damage of the Hurricanes that happened in Florida, most of the damage in the Asian tsunami aftermath is unrecoverable through insurance which means that what is head is the movement and shifting of money more so to that part of the world.

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2004-12-15T17:18:00.000-02:00

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Update

2004-12-13T15:48:00.000-02:00
I changed the template to get things running again!

2004-12-11T16:10:00.000-02:00
This sounds really interesting. Margeret Stewart is locked away in some federal prison in West Virginia and when you read articles about her in the newspaper or in People Magazine, she says that the prison she is in is like a college campus! That should tell a lot about the type of society we are living, something that resembles a prison. Scary!

Pic post

2004-12-10T19:43:00.000-02:00
I am going to start something new this time to make this blog more appealing by adding pictures . Just pics of places and events!

2004-11-17T13:33:00.000-02:00
Election 2004 is not much of an election to remember. Despite the fact that the Republicans have reclaimed the Presidency and has a tighter grip on both houses of Congress, it does not add to the notion that the conservative momentum has gain any further ground or that liberals are done for good. In fact things are contrary. Bush's re-election was made possible only because the issue of security in the wake of the World Trade Center attack topped all other issues in this election than in recent past elections. There is no saying that this President will be any better or just good at creating jobs and stimulating the economy but it does not mean on the contrary that President Bush will be worse off or bad as far as some social issues goes such as welfare or civil rights. That is not farfetched as one of the things to remember about the Post 9-11 world is that it reflects a greater phenomenon such as the energies that is associated with technological and market forces is being released in unforeseen forces--shaping and remoulding state institutions and social cohesion to limits that are unspeakable. It could be argued among many things that the terrorist attacks reflects a world that needs more space or perhaps a break from the forms and behaviors of such insitutions or post-institutions. Considering what is going on in the world with the relentless beheading that is making large scale military intervention of outsing Saddam Hussein something of the past and impossible. Yet it does not diminish the fact that we are looming in an era almost close to a massive or global war in which the line of battle remains uncertained and blurred.

One of the consequential factors that is shaping the politcal and even the economic situation around the world is that we are living in what we called a post-institutional society. That is a society in which the fundamental institutions and even 'morals' are fast dissappearing. Among the casualty of the so called post-institutional effect is the decline of the state itself. Some scholars would think that this is manifested in the control of 'violence' as we know it to warlords and mafias. Yet it is not so simple. Just because there is a post-institutional effect doesn't mean everything will be in such a dissaray. What facilitates a post-institutional society is the level of exchange of information in which economies are formed and decided and the way government acts in such forums. As the physical world becomes crowded out to the virtual world the post-institutional effect creeps ups and unravel such forms and institutions such as work, family, the church, and even democracy itself. As that continues to happens energies and forces continues to bubble up and vent itself in anarchic violence and rippling political changes.
News about Russia developing supposedly bigger and more powerful nuclear weapons does not mean that we are returning to a cold war nor is it credible to assume that they are needed to contain terrorism despite terrorism itself is a global threat but because terrorist thrives in a world that is more likened to their existence and growth. Developing nuclear weapons only in short summary points out that the only way terrorist will thrive is in a world in which there are more people living in poorer conditions that legitimizes the former presence.
Geopolitical situations is perhaps the best way to understand where are we heading towards terrorism. Terrorism or how they will be portrayed should there be another World Trade Center attack reflects a world that is dependent on a resource that is heavily prepared and marketed in the Middle East-oil. We hear everyday in the news how the Al-Queda linked resistance is growing in Iraq which has forced Bush to ante up the amount of troops Iraq with 12,000 more.
Even if their is another arms race,a lot which was based on global freedom and world justice whether one is a Marxist or not has very much been upsurped from any realistic political arguement needed to be taken seriously. The element of technology is the ability to map and draw down everything regardless of dimensions. What facilitates technology besides human ethics and law is the ability to elude it. There is no doubt that the use of nuclear weapons supposedly again if there is an arm race will not unlikely occur. There will given the way Bin Laden eluding the US and the unpredictable growth as I continue to argue of the Al Queada not only among the Muslim world but pretty soon splinter off to more 'secular' groups. At any rate Bin Laden, Madrid, and the World Trade center is only the first and primary stage of things yet to happen. As these groups continues to grow the need and hunger for the development of tracking devices and even nuclear weapons(even if they are handheld) increases and the use for them as well. It is sad to say that we have just not kept up with the times as far as how we should set the variables of certain arguements among many issues that society have to face day in and day out. It is because with this and the energies associated with the use of and need for high tech warfare makes certain more terrorist attacks in the US.

2004-11-16T19:50:00.000-02:00
In case you didn't know it, hotmail.com has up the free storage space from 2 MB to 250 MB of free space so if you haven't check your email go ahead and enjoy the extra storage.

Speaking of things getting bigger, google.com market value has surpassed that of yahoo.com to 51 billion dollars whereas Yahoo is at $47 billion dollars.

Finally, just as when you think things are getting real nasty in the search engine market right when Microsoft announced that it has indexed over 5 billion web sites Google.com underscored them by announcing that they have indexed over 8 billion websites. Yet it is too early to tell who is going to be the big winners among the three giants of the internet industry.

On the one hand, I am glad I have more storage in my Yahoo and Hotmail account but there other things,on the other hand, they have improved upon such as eliminating junk and unwanted mail from my email account that has more than made up for things for the extra space. If you try Gmail by Google that offers close to 1000 MB of storage , you would probably like not only the unusally more storage but also what is displayed along its advertisement stuff that is related to what is in your email. The problem with that would be an invasion of privacy due to having the dubious similarity of spyware.

What makes the search engine ticks from what I understand is their services besides just placing a keyword and trying to get one out of eight billion sites out there but there are search engine related services such as this blogger I am using or Deja News both by Google. Either way this would have a lot of effect about other issues such as the job market and government taxing policy. It would be silly and short sighted to assume that any tax policy of either cutting or raising taxes would create or stimulate jobs for those who are in more need of them. Such policies would no doubt have the effect of doing the reverse of what it has normally intended to do so.

Then there is another issue such as p2p. The latest from what I have been keeping up on Kazaa is that there is a problem of the RIAA using the Sherman Network supposedly Fast Track technology and the issue of areas of what constitutes freedom of speech. What about other p2p sources such as xdrive.com* following in the footsteps of the big three companies--Yahoo, Google and Microsoft allows user to upload 5GB of movies, music, doucments, and pictures on to their servers that can be shared virtually throughout the world. These are more tangible things being exchanged on a massive level that no matter how the internet takes over relies on things that we do everyday in the physical world. This does not mean that there is a slow down of the virtual world crowding out the physical one but that such lags are only reminescence of some strange and more advance form of technological innovation that would probably hits the market some time soon.

*What makes using xdrive interesting is that you can use it on your browser you don't have to download it like Kazaa on your desktop.

2004-11-11T11:24:00.000-02:00
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2004-11-11T11:21:00.000-02:00
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2004-10-19T15:27:00.001-03:00
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2004-10-08T14:03:00.000-03:00
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2004-08-25T14:34:00.000-03:00

I am apologizing for not writing anything here on the blog. I have been very busy taking other matters and working very hard on my other web sites. I thought things over and so as not to make myself feel that I am doing too much at one time, I have moved some of the marketing strategies to a new site at http://lists.topica.com/lists/moneyservices

You are more than welcomed to join and post messages if you want to. All messages however at this new site requires approval.

2004-07-08T17:05:00.000-03:00
Becuase they are getting not smaller

Here is a response from the yahoo message boards concerning the story about Homeland Secretary Tom Ridge warning us that there is reliable evidence that Al Queda is mounting an attack to disrupt the upcoming presidential elections atpost.news.messages.yahoo.com

A crude mistake that the US is continuing to make in underming the Al Queda network

Among the reasons:

1.they are stronger in terms of moral ethics. Again this is looked at from a Neitschean perspective

2. They are on the other end of the digital divide-not having been left out. Remember the concept of the digital divide which no one seems to buy is that it overembraces many issues including violence, civil rights, civil liberties, social policy and so on

3. From this is a crowding out of the physical world by the virtual world. One can go on further and say that there is a post institutional effect in which physical instituions are fast being replaced by virtual institutions

4.Another way of looking at things borrowing from Anthony Giddens excellent book 'Beyond the Left and Right' that nature doesn't exist as we know it. To put this all together you have a lot of mobility of labor, people, goods and the like to keep things going. Hence the definiton of what globalization is. The idea that borders can be kept up and maintain secure is naivete in its strongest form.

5. From all of this is borrowing from Isabel Paterson's concept of the 'The God of the Machine' there is just a built of energy that must constantly be release fueling itself into war and catastrophes.

So if the Al Queda or its protege let us say attack the DNC any time soon it would be a matter of underestimating these concepts that influence people to do the things they do. Remember advance technology doesn't always have to developed or perfected in the US and part of the idea of understanding what technology is the forces and the events that reacts against it, fueling the debate and giving added meaning to advance technologies. The ability of Bin Laden to hide and remain elusive towards the US is afterall in some shape or form a technological breakthrough itself. Thus if it can happen in Afghanistan and in Bahdad, then it can easily happens here. Welcome everybody to the 21st Century.

2004-07-02T16:14:00.000-03:00
Why Bill Cosby is wrong!
Bill Cosby made the headlines or at least to say the front page about his ever ongoing and ranting commments about the shortcomings of the black community and why they haven't live up to the ideals of Brown v. Board of Education world*. I am not too sure if what he says is as blunt from the source I have heard and that the sources I heard it from sensationalizes his opinions but I will go on ahead and look at what Cosby has to say face value. According to Cosby it is black's faults for why they are constantly locked up, neglecting their own communities and not working and so on. His recent tirrade was about that the fact that black father's are constantly beating up on their wives and allowing their children growing up illiterate and uneducated. He probably said more but I think this is enought to put here without getting tied down over cliched remarks like this.**

These observations rings some truth but it ignores the heavier deeper and more precise reality about what Cosby is trying to say. It is true that there are social collapse among the black community but how it comes such way is debatable but more importantly it looks at empirical and statistical evidence naively. They only show that these problems exist but they cannot for good or for bad explain the daily lives whatever groups we are approaching with with these statistics their behaviors morally and socially.

A hundred years ago, it would be unheard of to look at the poor as we do today as being living in poverty. It would be foolish back then to assess the needs and shortcomings of the poor and then try to adjust numbers and variables to make what is called ethical and normative decisions. Back then it was thought that the poor had freedom to do what they want to do. The more classic example would be the exercise of 'collective bargaining,' 'free will' or 'asserting their rights' until a more materialistic aspect came into play.

Looking at matters in terms of disparities, income distribution and having legal and social resources changed a lot. It manifested itself in several directions, among them being the fact that the US was embarking on becoming a nation-state and then later on an economic powerhouse and national superpower. Yet there was always one idiosyncracy that was at large with about how the US came to be. Among them as what Cosby has a tendency to overlook is that regardless of race the US always have pressing social inequalities. As the US despite what you read in the history books became bigger the social inequalities became stronger and greater. A lot has to do with another characteristic of the US and that is its ability to overcome the industrial odds. I think, now this from my research that I do, has to do with the US work intensive labor policy. I cannot verify how and where I came about this but it has to come back from reading on an authors comments on the Scottish Enlightment thinkers of either Malthus Smith or Ricardo. Supposedly these thinkers are often times misread and viewed extremely anachronistically but accoringly so it was believed that work makes people have a tendency to forget and for people to explain why they have forget or account for all the things that they have forgotten they developed strong socials ills such as alcoholism and severe drug addiction. Of course this is greater in the black community because this group has often times recieved the lower end of the stick as far as that stuff goes

So to put everything in perspective for Bill Cosby is that there are truth to what Cosby has to say but at the same time those truths are merely also exaggerations. It is so for two reasons like Malthus you have to look at population from an absolute perspective there are more African Americans in the United States compare to thirty years ago much less a hundred years ago. The population among blacks is equal to that of Canada, half of Great Britain and about a third of Germany. In essence we are looking at things the wrong way by ignoring the element of time. The poverty among blacks and African American might believe it or not be relatively as bad as it was thirty or forty years ago(note there are sources that I have read dismisses much of breaking down families and that crap) but the sheer numbers are bigger by volume and perhaps place a wear and tear on our social, political and material resources. I don't think the Founding Fathers ideas and ideals were made for the world we are going to live in the 21st Century.
Then there are other minorities,namely Latinos, who have surpassed blacks and African Americans as being the largest populated minorites and there disparities are similar but is mixed with harsh anti-immigration attitudes. So the world we live in today compare to the 1960s is fundemantally different. We must prepare ourselves to realize that world in the 2030s and 2040s will also be radically different from today.

What also makes Cosby truths seems to an exageration is that he overlooks the shift in debates as far as what constitutes civil rights, social responsibility, and community building. For instance he doesn't mention anything about a white 'underclass' or increase poverty among whites or the fact that social behavior in the form of social responsibility has been dominated by the post-WTC attacks on the intrusions of the Patriot Acts which not only is seen as a setback for protection of civil liberties(which is nothing more than a pessimistic way of looking at things) but also places a limit on how much critics can object on government intervention in terms of welfare policy and the like. Here Cosby statement reflects that we are looking at things from the wrong perspective.

In fact those statements by Cosby are nothing more than propaganda that caters to making further racial exclusions as the future rolls alongs. I guess some white person on Simple Life 2 would be more than ever inclined to take what Cosby as saying as some unwarranted truth and their cult followers as well. I am not saying that there are strange and problematic concerns about the black community but a lotof it has been blown out of proportion and take out of certain social context so that the if a white person who sees a black person who come out of nowhere will believe that he is a wife beater or that she is dope addict and both don't know how to read. These are nothing more than complex social ills that has to looked at from complex eyes as well.

*Of course no one should take into considerations if there is a an ideal of any movement worth be living up to without first ecompassing the world or worlds they will have to thrive and fight for years to come especially if they span the decades and centuries or in this case a half century.. The world and worlds of the Brown v. Board of Education we live in today isn't one that most poeple who were living at that time no matter how extreme their views were can ever imagine such as we see today given the recent terrorist attacks at home.

**His opinion matters more because he actually lived during an age where African Americans were chiefly and perhaps still discriminated in education and entertainment prior to the Brown decision. A change of law doesn't mean a change of heart, neither it should be something anyone should be so concerned about. Here is a site that tells about the career of Cosby himself at africana.com.

2004-06-16T16:25:00.000-03:00
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2004-06-12T18:05:00.000-03:00
A Fresh Look at Social Policy in the Early 21st Century

One of the best ways to look at the era we live in as far as addressing social issues such as poverty, civil rights and equality of all sorts is to realize that we are living in an age that the market frameworks to balance the variables in and out of these conditions just doesn't exist anymore. This trend does not on the one hand dispute the fact that there must be a distributionist goal towards adjusting certain inequalities or disparities but it also on the other hand does not deny the fact that there are underlying distributionist facets well underway. It is just that the way we measure people social conditions in this day and age unlike thirty or forty years ago will altogether no matter what we do be incomprehensive in today's terms.

At the outset of this century welfare or social progress has gotten its noteriety mainly through the chief efforts of the Brandeis Brief which became believe it or not the chief model in which to understand the dimensions of poverty--that is, you have to rely on statistics and numbers. It served as the basis for many a things including the Brown v. Board of Education and even the Great Society Programs. Yet like many sought after policy they too failed the test of time as the supporters of them weren't able to maintain a hold much less a decisive or I should say convincing reason to sustain these programs any further.

Lots of peope were eventually left out especially with the new waves of social reforms that encompassed one of the fallacy of post-modernism: welfare to work programs, empowerment zones, curtailing affirmative action and school choice vouchers. How at any rate these programs are in themselves a stream of works resulting from a fallible grasp of time is that for starters no matter how much any Republican wants to cut taxes and reduce spending to a minimalist state that such a minimalist state under the circumstances that we live in these days will always become larger(as Congress through the US Attorney General was able to pass the Patriot Act future administrations will have to maintain a certain level of welfare spending, reversing the common ideology found in the conservatives camp).

Secondly, as each age characterized of an economic term evolves(such as from an industrial economy to a post-industrial economy) the worth and value of the information at hand intensifies geometrically(which means that if were are now coming out of an post-industrial economy the inequalities pursuant to it if not being accounted for can increase so many folds); thirdly, as a result of such, no matter which direction societal leaning towards greater or lesser welfare and civil rights protection it is bound to be nothing more than a concoction of what a perfect society or way of life people should live in(such as the Proposition 209 might only reflect racial supremacist projecting their viewpoint in that state state's legislature).

Fourthly, with all this comes a post-instituional effect, that is erosion of physical institutions as we know it being replaced with virtual ones--it can even go down the line to having a virtual state or imaginary armies; finally the concept of individuals and humanity will have to be a post-Soviet one, one in which people are viewed not as having souls but trapped in a world where the evils of slavery and neo-imperialism comes in a different guise as in a post- Soviet era whereas there is more impact on our resources(a good distributionist starting point) in using them to re-assert(or how one looks at re-evaluating people's identity) in which case there is no market framework out there to make such a use of these resources 'morally' worthwhile.

What will connect all this is that unlike before where we looked at poverty as a sign of European exploitation but now it will be seen as a mere occurence that has gone out of control merely due to the constraint of the element of time and energy has placed on us. (To look at it completely from the former approach is simply and extremely naive; it overlooks the organic forces or forces that comes about because there is enough energy and substance to create a following or entity of its kind.)

Poverty as I understand it has been looked at from a dichotomotic debate in which on the one hand you have to meet basic needs and on the other hand that you have to take in consideration non-economic or pre-rational incentives in which people have. Even if it wasn't looked at such a straightforward way, the attitudes and approaches would have to embody elements that were unconventional premodern or local. This does not mean that we can't look at poverty from this perspective but it is useless and pointless to carry out a policy with a type of population we have this today and expect to have tomorrow.

One of the controlling factors of poverty these days is the concept of the digital divide. By this I mean the evolving forces of de novo institutions such as the internet having a tremendous effect on people's lives. As the internet itself grows larger, its existence makes them more uncertain as it evolves into something new and different and yet the impact of it makes us rethink basic discussions on areas of freedom of speech and privacy and that this rethinking is just merely a crowding out of the virtual world on the physical.

Even from a international perspective, the causes of wars will be on the reaction and bluntness of advance technology such as the thought of using bunker busters to flush out Bin Laden in Pakistan and the increased use of caves and tunnels to continue to elude the US making Al Queda ever the larger and its protege. Thus making the causes of war more of who has access to information and how they can cause sort of a hysteria.

There is another factor about the digital divide and that has to do with ongoing technological revolution that will not in the coming years bring forth revolutionary household products but also change the way we approach a lot of things and perhaps how we present them. Take cloning for example how we are able to assign clone individuals the same rights as natural born ones; schooling, how we can have a combination of mass schooling with the internet and allow for private/home schooling at the same time(here I am not advocating one or the other I am just saying how there must be a different approach to things); or entertainment, imagine if pop stars and divas like Britney Spears or Jennifer Lopez is replaced with computer generated singers and models.

Imagine an economy in which the revenues comes from the wealth of nannotechonology that have welfare programs resulting from. Imagine the state taking a less derivative approach to families and marriage and just do away with them, afterall they are just institutions and just 'raise' the children by themselves like the Prime Minister in the "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones."

Of course the big question will be where is the normative approach for all this. You can't expect this to happen overnight without anytype of protest or backlash. That is a pretty difficult question to resolve in which case how this will happened is that the debates that warehouses these issues in one way or another will just get trampled and swept under the carpet as others will unfold or posed so as its guise. I don't remember where I read this but as a thinker once said as mankind labor too much they have a tendency to forget. I think not just the labour policy or the mobility of labor will play a role but the forced way we have to reconcile this as the psychological effect on the masses can create some type of 'default' or in G.L. Shackle a 'subjectivity of expectation.'

Applying these two things would mean for the first test as in the case of civil rights whereas negatively a high incarceration rate type culture and 'antinomianistic'(as well libertarian attitudes towards drugs and sex) we live in will forced either various races to start looking at each other as equals or go to some massive race wars. I think the former will happened. You will probably have better days in civil rights only such that those compromises having been made and understood from a rigid test as not be a sell out on either side and allowing things going from there. I am not saying this is my viewpoint on civil rights but it is a worthwhile that should be taken in consideration.

The other sample will be something you read in a amateur newspaper about the effects of being unfair without proving any type of social inequality being there. That is there will be a shift on the model on what the good life assured of the state at hand (i.e. a nation-state) towards one of a post-post-modern ones. Why look at poverty based on the expectation as though everybody supposed to get married and raise a family, even if you really do or don't. This method of looking at things will be looked as being cheap, fraudulent and frivolous. I think the bases in which how we can judge if somebody living in destitution or poverty will(aside from the fact that basic needs having been met) from a Rifkined approach of 'pay per experience' or 'a transformation of ownership to leasing.'

Either way such changes is the result of a lot of things being built up and have at its doorstep long been overdue or overhaul. Pretty much today we are just regurgitating old and passe ways of seeing the world and alleviating its problems. Such a way of percieving and doing stuff makes likely more scenarios such as the World Trade Center and its aftermath more unpredictable and placing a strain on our resources.

2004-06-05T16:03:00.000-03:00
This day and age we look at things from two unique perspectives. Among them is what you call a post-institutional outlook in which we are seeing that basic institutions that we have taken for granted and have become an essential part of our lives for centuries are just withering away. One of the main reasons why institutions as we know them has been around quite for some time is that they embody what is known as a nation-state society. A nation state is one that has at its base or cover a central governement that allows diversity and toleration for different religions and religous beliefs, ethnicities and social classes. Much has been talked and concluded about the setbacks and the benfits of what is the nation-state and exactly for now how long it too will last. The nation-state itself has been a model for what many First World countries like the US model themselves after and tries to spread through out the world. The situation in Iraq only shows that whatever is left of divulging a Post-Saddam Hussein government can easily be up for grabs, much less going back to look at the fruits of what the nation-state in rebuilding Iraq as useless and a waste of time. The two world views that encompassed what is next or what would succeed a post-nation-state order is based on the conversations between two famous writers, they are Samuel Huntington and Anthony Giddens. Huntington believes that the conflict in the world today is between fundamentalist cultures vis-a-vis democratic cultures while Giddens believes that dilemna we live in is between those share a cosmopolitan outlook as opposed to those who shares more of a local view of the world they inhabit. Each views offers a unique perspective and much truth about what is going on in the world today, again especailly in place of Iraq. It is true that there is no perfect concept of democracy and that the type of democracy that is being exported throughout the world is that of the US. Moreover the reason why the US has such a strong edge in doing so is not just only because she is physically a superpower(albeit she ,from a standpoint from moral ethics, isn't one) but more so because her culture is truly democratic in practice and in outlook. Exporting democracy these days in order for it to be successful requires that those cultures as well must be inherently democratic. Here where Huntington is right; the chances that a democracy will thrive in Iraq-- whereas the problems in Iraq is a matter of implementing a rule of law, rebuilding an economy where as I often theorized there is no market framework anything short of a information tech economy, closing the gap on age old rife and enmities that crosses different ethnicities and historocities, and deep political tension due to the war itself--remains next to nothing.

Yet there is a truth to Giddens side of the equation and that has to do that what is damaging American success in Iraq is that Al Queada and her protege are more advance in the cosmopolitan way of things. They are by far apart of the digital divide that is increasingly shaping the world we live and perhaps a basis in understanding the fundamentals of violence, social inequalities and violence. However they are not the ones that have been left out. The chief driving force of the digital divide in a Weberian way of looking at things is the internet. Remeber the internet is the growth or super growth of exchanging of information that can be harness by a small personal computer. Yet this way of exchanging information as we do so now is transitory and will have to be replaced by other means(that is with molecular nannnotechnology--afterall from a perspective borrowed from Isabel Paterson 'The God of the Machine' it is the energy and forces from the World Trade Center attacks is evident of such). From Gidden's perspective there is an overlap how certain cultures and groups are surviving these days. So it will be asserted that 1)the powers that be that are shaping the world is by far much larger and more powerful anything of the nation-state 2) looking at moral ethics has by far shifted with the rise and somewhat strange success of Al Queada being able to shape the outcome of the world and 3) all political and social models that is being taught will have to add these untimely variables. Thus an age of the digital divide does not mean those who are excluded precisely because they are illiterate or lack a cosmopolitan way of approaching matters at hand but it is just a matter who can get access to such a wealth of information and use it to project thier feelings on the world at large. We see that with the recent decapitation of Nicholas Berg which was posted on a pro-Al Queda website.

It can according to a Giddens point of view push things in a more positive and socially progressive light as in the case of the recent election of Spain. It is not here to say whose views are stronger but to shed some light on what is out there for us to use as a basis as far as how to look at the world.

The other factor or viewpoint that is controlling how things being seen in this day and age is a Post-Soviet look at people. One of the mistakes in understanding at how to look at people and to view them in light of the decline of communism and Soviet philosophy is that it must be done so by a pre-Soviet or from a pre-Marxist perspective, such that all religous ways of looking at things must be considered. So it would be assumed that people contrary to Lenin or for that matter Marx, that people have souls and they have lineage and historicity. This sounds great but this way of looking at matters only takes too seriously the nostalgia the critics of Marxism and socialism has long been deep seated. In fact a better approach would be a mixed of a Smithian and a Giddened approach that on the one hand that as times flies or elapses people has a tendency to forget and that how they forget is shaped not necessarily by a labor policy but how fast and astute government and the general opinion can grasp what constitutes a labor policy--among them if we are living in a post-Soviet era the notion that tobacco, rum, cotton, rice and perfumes will make a comeback in its atavistic guise of slavery and labor exploitation as people are being more inclined and feeling more freely to do so, assert or re-examined their own cultural identity--and that the market frameworks for such an economy doesn't exist anymore;but on the other hand, that due to industrialization and conspicous consumption, nature as we see it just doesn't exist anymore. It is these divergent factors makes up a forum how to view people from a post-Soviet light. This I think can applies to all fields. Thus the by product of manking and individuals from this perspective is perhaps the more precise and accurate way of looking at him and her and them.

Either way these two perspectives are in themselves powerful and might explain some of the unforeseeable things you hear in the news such as why is Al Queada is growing larger not smaller, why is there is an impending if not already underway a technological revolution, that will revolutionize the way wars are fought, justice is demanded and implemented and so on.

2004-05-27T16:31:00.000-03:00
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2004-05-20T17:46:00.000-03:00
The prison abuse scandal reflects a bigger problem that is occuring at home but manifested itself abroad. Unfortuanetly, one of them is that it shows that as I have always reiterated is that because of the World Trade Center Attacks itselfs the US is not and has not been keeping as far as the times going in coming to grips in the area of civil rights and civil liberties. Not only is this shortcoming is political by the mere fact that the guards who were accused of human rights abuse Iraq were not trained in handling such situations but also that they were culturally and morally depraved in dealing with their prejudices and opinions in a scenario that tests their sense of judgment and moral astuteness.

All this however comes about as far as what is the US in fact is. The US is by far as we have seen with the sniper shooting in Virginia is a democratic society but more importantly a democratic culture as well. The snipers Malvo and Mohammed were able to shut down a major metropolitan area by going after people who were far from being famous politicians, the affluent or even celebrities. They were just everyday ordinary citizens. Yet this shooting opens the floodgates to other avenues including what I call because as one of the main causes or consequences of the World Trade Center attack a post-institutional effect in which case though the structure might be in place but a society that feeds and builds its identity on the 9 to 5 workday, going to church every Sunday, and what you have. The other factor that plays in what makes a America a democratic culture is her post-Soviet approach to democratic 'equality' is based on the notion of 'democratic talents' as opposed to 'aristocratic talents' from John Rawls famous book 'A Theory of Justice.' When you watch Reality TV shows, all of which is nothing more than a frail attempt to import and remedy societal shortcomings. (You can also read how I will come about this conclusion a'priori speaking in Judith N. Shklar's book "Redeeming American Political Thought" ed. by Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson(1998)Chapter 8 titled 'Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty in the United States'.)

Thus if we can easily assert that not only America is a 'democratic culture' we can go right ahead and look at America foriegn policy as being something that propagates the universality of it. The human rights abuse scandal at any rate comes at a time when the Al Queda movement is growing faster and larger due to a post-institutional structure known as the internet. It is also the fact that Al Queada ability from a Neitschean way of looking at things are able to trounce America morally. Therefore, any factions with in Iraq are bound to grow stronger themselves and undermine what initiative to be taken to consider what 'state' Iraq will be now that Saddam Hussein is no longer in power. The same way that Al Queda is doing damage worldwide in places in Spain and bound as we have seen in Jordan which more than likely be events around the world that will no doubt be greater than that of the September 11th 2001 attack will more than likely occur itself in Iraq and other remote parts of the world. If that is so then there is no reason to deny the fact that faction groups in parts of Iraq will morally and physically to a point defeat, if nor merely drive America out of Baghdad. The reason for this is that one is that the way wars are being fought. Wars of the future will be armyless but be more or less reminiscent of high tech knights;however, with a lot of force to do more damages than any other previous world or global conflict. Think of nanno suits being designed by the army. And the huge proliferation of weapons of mass destruction including chemical, biological and even conventional tools being easily transferred to varying regions of the world. The way wars are being increasingly fought and the way legitamete moral thinking taking place will hit hard the US with the abuse scandal in Iraq.

2004-05-03T17:09:00.000-03:00
A lot has been inquired on this blog about the different types of nanotechnology companies resources available online. What are these companies are doing as far as this stuff goes. I read several months ago that by the year 2012 that nannotechnology will be about a $1.2 trillion dollar industry. That is pretty interesting considering what is nannotechnology and what it can do for you. Rememeber the origins of nanotechnology in theory goes back to the authors like K. Eric Drexler and Buckminister Fuller. What 'nano' means is one one-billionth making 'chips' that is smaller than the width of a hair strand out of the components of molecules stacked in a form known as wafers. The basics behind nanotechnology or nanochips is that these tools work as what is called as 'assemblers.' That is they can replicate, produce and create with these so-called nanoscopic devices. The tall tale sign to look out for is TV commercial or newspaper ads about the microchip companies like Intel developing smaller transistors in the nanno range. Using your imagination the products behind nannotechnology would be self-cleaning floors, tiny robots that can travel through your body and killing cancerous cells, computers that will be as flimsy as paper(if not by today standards no difference could be told), and off the wall stuff like that.

The company that is behind the scenes of making out these nano based products you probaby wouldn't heard of is zyvex.com. Here are some online resources on this stuff at zyvex.com/nano and an older article at search.internet.com. If you want you can try purchasing reading materials on this subject of nanotechnology at amazon.com

2004-04-27T14:11:00.000-03:00
Despite the present administration 'war on terrorism' it appears that the Al Queada network is by far getting larger and even more dangerous. The recent planned yet failed and thwarted attack in the kingdom of Jordan would have been so devastating that as many as 80,000 lives would have been lost and perhaps close to 200,000 injured. Now from all this, that supposed all that we know and hear about Osama Bin Laden is that he is hiding in the mountainous caves and cavern somewhere in Pakistan or Afghanistan and has occassionally sent a video tape of how he likes to destroy and annihilate the West but in particular the United States and Isreal.

The thing that must be realized about the Al Queada movement is that its growth has become bigger more or less because what is in vogue these days in the world of politics is what you call anti-state movements. By that I mean, not only is there fallen or 'deteriorated' states in many parts of the region of the world but for good and for bad, even here in the United States alone, that what is effecting both social and global problems(in the latter case a question of hegemony) exists outside the confinement anything conceivable of the state itself.

Prior to the September 11th attacks the Al Queada network existed side by side or co tangent with the then Taliban regime. Even though the Taliban controlled everything and instituted a strict code of Islam, it was the Al Queada newtork inside that country that used training camps for terrorism that until that fateful day undermine any hopes or glimmer of perceived global peace after the fall of the USSR. It has in essence legitimize to an extent that regime.

Yet with the fall of Afghanistan has come another problem and that is a surplus of cheap heroine that has flooded the world market forcing the price of street heroine to as little as ten dollars which is enough for a good fix. Issues like this has made reconciliation among American domestic problems to be viewed in light of world trade and in cases of the issues of poverty and social justice might have to be remedy in accords with international treaty.

Even this economic age we live in which is not only post-industrial but also a hive of one form of information age dominating the other. (It is crazy to assert that we live in a post-industrial age in the first place as though industry and factories and the vestiges of the past hundred or so years has completey dissappeared. That is perhaps going contrary to what mostly people believe as the information age continues squeeze whatever field or institutional structure there is to have a market and a in loco parentis government to regulate such exchange. In fact the comeback of the past will be stronger and quite a different and evil guise without anything to watch over them.)

The money in this new economy knows very little borders much less faces. Terrorist groups might harbor the West for its educational and economic resources but it can quite easily as I see go elsewhere with thier money as the type of economy we live is co-dependent on the values that makes up what we call a post-Soviet society much less individual. It is here that Al Queada grows stronger by the minute. It is not another from of Hitler or Stalinism for these movements relies on and is strictly dependent on a primordial state. Al Queada goes in and outside the state like we never seen before. In fact states as we know it these days doesn't exist anymore as we can concievably understand it as tecnological advances continues to grow day by day at geometrical and astounding rates so the movement encompassing the Al Queada network does so itself. It is this energy that continues to build up and exhaust itself tht pushes itself into new ages at a faster rates. This explains that these would be attacks if they were ever carried out are much larger and perhaps in some ways more significant than that of the World Trade Center Attacks. Not only again Al Queada grows faster but any arm or political movement that has such a desire against the US grows larger; in other words, wait until this movement spreads to other fringe political groups. Not to mention the terror or harm that will sooner or later embrace the world.

The attacks are largely occuring outside the US mainly for two reasons. One of them is that to weakened the US is to take advantage of frail states by simply destabilizing them to a point that they are being overthrown. The case in Spain masks the same appearance except in the post-institutional age what was hijacked was the political process itself. Once this is done American hegomony is weakend both physically and morally. If America can't fight a war in Iraq or in Afghanistan on principles that appears to the rest of the world that doesn't exist, then it is fair to say that they just don't exist anymore. It is here that America becomes weakened or destroyed for its so called universal democratic society has no roots and its growth depends on its ability to project itself in such a fashion.

The other reason is that the so called technological revolution these days has post-institutional effect on the way war is fought. If wars of the future will be marked by one thing, it will be marked of an armyless society. It will be a reinvigoration of the enchantments of super soldiers or high tech knights. Think of what the US Defense department has lined up with army suits made out of nannotechnology that allows supposedly a soldier to become partially invisible, jump over a 20 feet wall, and being able to heal itself. More recently take the instance of the vestige of whatever is left of conventional warfare how intelligence agancy were able to block the sale of SA-7 that can be carried on someone's shoulder and being able to shoot an airplane or helicopter easily out of the sky. At any rate some dangers has been avoided but others has been re aligned with the past and just goes what unkowingly way it has to go.

Either way the threat posed by Al Queada is pretty interesting. It takes a lot of vision and foresight to see what is going on. The strength of Al Queada what few peoople are able seem to grasp is the internet itself. It is not just that the Al Queada leaves plans to blow up and wreak havoc on a popular chat line or on an online classified ads; it has more to do with what the internet is and what it is about to be. The internet itself serves as a convenient force to disseminate information and to make transactions simpler and perhaps affordable. Yet the information is nothing more than a bloodbath of transferring and storing information in some shape or form that is able to create some type of rift between the real and virtual world. It is here in all of its aspects we have what is known as the digital divide. Al Queada surprisingly isn't on the other end of the digital divide--having been left out. They are the movers and shakers behind the digital divide. As the internet in the name of relieving the pressures of so many people and so many different type of people occupying the same space, it crushes old institutions turning them into dinosaurs(imagine as online shopping and networking gets bigger will happened to the local bookstore or mall, their need will be minimized and even altered to the extent that you will see the post-institutional effect of blight). Yet the internet itself is not completely devoid of the physical world. It has an appetite marked by the computers and microchips that enable people like us to view through a browser what is happening online. It takes huge plants to process these microchips somewhere out West or in some other country. As these computers gets faster the environmental consequences becomes greater and precarious. So the internet by feeding itself in a sense destroys itself in effect becomes something new. There are political consequences as is commonly known as state deterioration. It is here where Al Queda becomes stronger being not just able to utilize the resources associated doing stuff online but being able to get a feel on how to move about the world as though they are online. The more advance and stronger technology is the more we have to change our custom, mores, and beliefs. Yet online activity or the whole technology about itself represents the ability to dispense, organize and distribute information and processes that will take had it been tried in the past generations to accomplish in a relatively shorter period of time. The Al Queada ability even to garner a would be suicidal attack with 20 tons of explosive only shows how from a simpler start of car bombs not only maybe a decade ago be a highly accomplished feat to something extraordinary as anything like this. If what is carried out is by far greater than what it has been so in the past, then what is left out, excluded, contrived, or 'structurated,' is 'by far' being 'zoomed out' having other reprecussions.* So along with the Al Queada increased ability to carry out some attacks comes out the increased dimensions being spread to other forums and areas of the world. So what we have to realize that we are living in an age that we must test how astute we are in a lot of other fields.

So the Al Queda network is growing bigger something that American intellingence and intellect movement haven't foreseen. Among the ways we them is in the case of the Madrid attacks about a month ago in splinter groups who are in themselves share the same purported goal of humiliating and weakened the West with terror; the other is the Al Queada themselves not necessarily in the US or Europe but in parts of the world like the Middle East and Far East Asia themselves: and finally a growth or an offshoot that is at best phenomenonal as the fittest way to vent anger and frustration at such as lackluster world we live in today.

*This is a pretty interesting fact I read in Dr. Gray's article in the New Statesman. According to Gray many of the so 6 billion people in the world are illiterate which as he points out Hell's Angel in Thailand sporting Bin Laden logos. So in essence it doesn't mean that you have to stop the internet or control what people read to deter terrorism. It just that you cannot have a de facto block or population segment that can a priori speaking legitimizes the causes of extremist groups. I guess the best way from all of this it is a matter of how you look at things. In the US case a stringent labor policy and minimalist welfare state can have this same disturbing effect despite all the efforts of the Patriot Act of re inviting terrorist activities unexpectedly back in the US. What should be looked at is the moral and cultural degeneration US labor policy has on the US amidst the Post-September 11th attack.

2004-04-14T16:58:00.000-03:00
After the bombing in Spain, authorities in France and Great Britain were able to avert more terrorist events that would have been worse. One of the lessons to be learned from 9-11 and the Madrid attacks is that we must not forget that the way terrorist acitivities are orchestrated are by far complex and advance, using the internet and high tech means of communicating and leaving its footprints and being able to amass funnel and wire money electronically from place to place.

Of course what is forgotten is a closely watched place and that place is Iraq and sometimes can be argued Afghanistan;borrowing from the tenets of Giddens in his earlier book Beyond the Left and Right, that the advent of industrialization and a' priori speaking globalization diffused the grip that the state has in controlling its borders and making state institutions nothing more than an artificial entity. The question in any type of foreign policy I see would be not necessarily what is the best state but more so what is left of the state and what to call it. This would apply not only to rebuilding of fallen and delapidated regimes around the world such as Iraq but also to the so called First World countries as well such as the United States

Defining the state these days isn't as simple as anyone would like to believe. The first thing that must be made clear of what constitutes a state is the embodiment of the "rule of law' among its institutions and the second is the means in which the state must use to maintain order.

As a noted scholar once wrote:
"It is a phenomenon general enough and distinctive enough to suggest that, what we are seeing is not just another redrawing of the cultural map--the moving of a few disputed borders, the marking of some of a few disputed borders, the marking of some more pituresque mountain lakes--but an alteration of the principles of mapping. Something is happening to the way we thing about the way we think"*

One of the element that controls the order and destiny of the state is the element of time. If we can say that there has been nothing much of a cultural or political revolution until the last days of Dr. King during the 1960s or even FDR's courage and fortitude in shaping a post-Great Depression which hits on both sides of domestic and international identity then how much time is left before a new order of things will take place.

It could be understood that institutions themselves are fast deteriorating and becoming if not anything a memory and a historical annoyance. The internet itself has in the last decade has accelerated the the breakdown of the hopes of religious and social institutions as providing any form of stability and national prosperity unlike before. What underline the institutional order of things which was peaked during the post-Depression era and the Cold War was the structural shifts that entail both its inclusions and exclusions. The success of one form of welfare or social policy hinged on the same underlying arguements that was left out of the previous ones. It is no wonder how such conservative programs such as school choice programs and empowerment zones has made itself to the head of the debate but likewise they too will fall. Not just because there will be bound to have rifts that leaves others out but the base and institutional structure will no longer be there. Three events or factors are perhaps responsible for this. The first two are the more tragic events such as the World Trade Center attacks and the sniper shootings in Virginia. The latter manage to shut down society itself which is ominous to the institutional order of thing and the former was able to show the world how vulnerable in some shape and form the most powerful nation on earth is.

It is the internet itself(the third factor) that is fast placing a more powerful role than ever. The internet does so by the fact by not only as a tool of convenience but also much more so as a tool that alters and very much so destroys physical and real institutions in the hopes of propagating its forms but at the same time destroying itself, radically changing itself to some new form that only years will tell of how the internet will look or how it will be.

The internet acts in harmony and acts dependent of the forces and energy that propagates technoligical advancement. If it is to assert that the rate of technological increase is dependent on the resources and the vast array of knowledge that mankind has understanding the universe which reflects in the way laws are passed, society is governed, how wars are fought, basic needs and wants are met, then it is no telling or even reason to deny that such knowledge brings about advancement that will surpass all other avenues in which mankind affirm and reiterate himself. This is the concept of the Age of Supertechnology. The arguement is the one and the same as the so-called post-institutional effect. The difference however is that the age of Supertechnology only places an arena and obstacles the we must deal with and that a post-institutional effect is the mere convenience that we must find other alternatives as far as things that we must deal with. What runs the course of a post-institutional society is the structuration of the fact that there are those who will find themselves included or better off than before and at the same time worse off and excluded but adding to what Gray say this does not mean that we are living in a zero-sum world in which the trade off stands unrebuked. Just because the structuration exists in a post-institutional society does not mean that is what a post-institutional society. If anything it is just a rejection of such. Take for instance Reality TV. The whole concept of Reality TV is based on as it seems to me on John Rawls concept of democratic talents via of democratic equality as to focus on tapping onto talents that is far removed from aristocratic talent or notions of aristocratic equality. Yet the problem of the fans of the Reality TV might not like to hear is that it is difficult to contend what constitutes aristocratic versus democratic talent. Its effect might be meaningless as you have cultural and population strains to view aristocratic preferences in lieu of protecting an imaginary elite class versus a populist class that has no coherence much less cohesion to invite the word democratic much less popular. The social strains of the future will be more or less internal just because we have that much more people and much more different types of people in whatever certain location or locale. The same contestants and winners from American Idol or a Survivor series who comes out of nowhere which is inconsistent with the 'democratic' and 'liberal' arguements from a universal point of view of maintaining some sort of affirmative action in any types of institution or setting. Indie labels and Kazaa.com will do more to undermine and promote the same point-- if we can decipher what points reality TV is trying to promote--in both cases.

Labour policy is fast changing, as I have often times read, with virtual companies and even virtual forms of making contracts and livelihood that will cause shifts and division in the labor market in years to come, and at the same time making other parts of the country appears backwards and slow with their so called 'redundant jobs.'

What is overlook in both cases is the nature of the institutions and a post-Soviet look at people. The nature of instituions aside from its post-institutional effect is the radical changes in them. Take for instance the internet, the access of the internet is now mostly dial up or DSL or cable modem but the very changing of them to--let us say-- wireless and 'free' wireless connection is bound to catch up in a matter of a couple of years uprooting internet access and for that matter any types of access whatsoever. You can read about this type of stuff in Jeremy RifkinsThe Age of Access. The post-institutional effect would assume that despite the wider access of internet through wireless and 'free' wireless connections and there will bound to be some time in the future an undoing the internet and replace it with something else like the animated world of the motion picture 'Minority Report.'

If anything Reality TV itself will be a relic of the 1990s and the early 2000s that has nothing to say much less to impact anything worthwhile. The only consistent thing about Reality TV episodes is that it is consistent with the Post-Soviet way of looking at people such that there exist a strong need for poeple to assert or re-assert their identity and a forum to have such but a post-Soviet way of looking at people is not the opposite of a Marxist and Leninist way of looking at men in which people might have souls and traditions and a culural heritage. A post-Soviet way of looking at people is one in which it will be useless for good or for ill, to look that way, to leave it alone and realize that to maintain equality and foster social harmony is to leave room for individuals should they or should they not assert their individual identity. If anything a post-Soviet looking at individuals is looking at individuals as a complex part of mankind minus the humanist attachment. Instead of finding things that will nurture the soul it deals with how each individual can walk and thrive in a internet based world or a world where the human soul exist outside itself in energy and time elements embodying among them the internet itself. It must assume certain facts about people and that one of them that they must have equal access to the internet world but if that it is an impossiblity have equal notification that the world they live in is being determined very quickly and at astonishing rates by the amount of information that is being horded by de novo institutions as the internet.

If we can apply this to civil rights we can use a case in point of the arguements in eliminating affirmative action or 'turning back the clock'. First of all, the latter stuff is real. Reducing universities and business roles in having a say as what type of policy to promote diversity is really 'turning the clock' by the decades. More importantly, there is not a world without sometype of affirmative action. Reality TV shows is affirmative action for a lot of non-minorities or alumni scholarships at the university. Everything has its preferences. Yet my arguement inlcuding a post-Soviet look at mankind is that society despite how you measure it in terms of rights or justice can in due course violate sensibilties of 'rule of laws' and pervert 'a reasonable persons sense of fairness' which cannot but help to say that society such as California cannot be excused that its anti-affirmative action laws is not creating a society in the vision of what a few or a harmful fringed groups wants society purposely to be. It also runs against the grain that in a post-Soviet society there exist a post-instituional force or pull that exist outside ourselves and the tradional state.

*Geertz,Clifford Local Knowledge--Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology(Basic Books Inc New York, 1981)

2004-03-23T17:48:00.000-03:00
In the world we live in there is no perfect economy. There is sad to say there is no economy in which we can achieve perfection in understanding human needs and wants and being able to keep up with them given the circumstances of the world. The economy we live in is a post-institutional one. It is one marked by the dissappearance of work and the skewering and distorting of goods, commodities and market forces. The socialist economy of yesterday are by far gone and it does not mean that the so called capitalist one we live in provide any much more relief. It is just that the principles of socialism has reached an epoch of history that is by far crude and naive for any policy maker or activist must cling to.

It is here to examine in some shape and form why socialism is a failure and why we cannot ipso facto claim to any if not most of the values that socialism that was the heart of 1960s and 1970s radical and reformist movement and is not a wise one today. It is not an attempt to concede to the right or anything antipathy towards the left for as I will discuss the energy/time element later on in this essay that it is possible to refashion our values in relation to human understanding, human politics, human equality, and even human welfare without the complication the fact that it is very difficult to engineer principle that might be good for the individual and for the collective whole simultaneously. That is and has always been a difficult task to do.

John Gray, a Professor at the London School of Economics, in his book Beyond the New Right:Markets,government and the common environment(Routledge,1993 New York and London) discusses in the 3rd Chapter titled 'The moral foundations of market institutions' that the main element of a socialist economy is the fact that it is orchestrated by central planning. From what anyone would know about economics, central planning doesn't work without adverse cost. On smaller scales, in terms of local or state government it will have a negative effect on the economy. Yet such intervention is sought for the interest of public welfare and the common good. Yet central planning whatever legitimacy libertarians and the right(here I am argueing from an existentialist view) on human culture and intergenerational skills and so forth is that it is disastrous and non competitive. It is here that Gray states:
"The deeper explanation of the future of socialist central planning is, however, not one that appeals to artificial distortion of incentives, but one that involves instead insuperable limitation of human knowledge"(p.68)

Note how Gray breaks from the traditional concept of incentives and deals with what we call epistemology, the studying of knowing and not knowing. Epistemology practically speaking is also the backbone for the early known forms of government regulating big business, social programs, and even New Deal programs. On the on hand empirical evidence is needed to find inequalities and address ways to correct everything and that other elements like 'intent' and 'prudence' can stand in substitute for what the government does not know.

Gray criticism of socialism and why it could not work comes from the works of Ludwig Von Mises, F. A Hayek, Micheal Polanyi, and Paul Craig Roberts and more importantly the works and arguements of G.L.S. Shackle. Socialism as the early scholars Mises and Hayek notes is that it is an 'epistemological impossibility' and that is always impossible government knows how much of one thing there of in terms of supply and demand without the construct of price or in consideration of human knowledge. Gray talks about the two types of knowledge known as 'articulated' and 'tacit'-knowledge that can be expressed and not expressed but implied or just merely performed. The other authors builds up on the works with the use of scientific experiments and internal competition but it is that of Shackle that interest me the more with as Gray states 'unknowability of the future' and 'subjectivity of expectations'(p.70). That is to say as we see in the recent situation of Spain, the ages that has been accepted by most, comes and go quicker than we expect.

In subsequent pages he talks about the 'mirage of egalitarianism'(p.84-92). If socialism as something that is no longer acceptable with the government owning and planning every corridor of economic life then whatever legitimacy it has on simple paradigms that can be approached in ordinary life in the 'freeer world' is no longer useful much less feasible or for that matter plausible. Gray criticizes the more accepted egalitarian arguements set out by Raymond Plant. In which case Plant's 'normative' arguement 'that people's well being of their lives and liberty could be equalized' Gray here contends that Plant's view is too relational and that Plant's 'empirical' arguements that ' if the good is the empowerment of the needy...if power is positional good...guaranteeing basic need will be zero sum..." using a "rule of equality." Gray's arguement is that such assertion has no empirical bases and that in the business world that there are postivive sum relationships in which it does not always has to be what one loses the other gains(of course I would be guilty of making a false dichotomy if I include externalities or third parties). In Gray's contention that autonomy is satiable because as I understand it most egalitarians or socialists who claims to this belief views things backwards asserting that the 'intrinsic nature' of human being scarced and the natural world around us as not being or that it is farfectched to think so.

Either way the economy that we live in is one that is quickly squeezing anything conceptually of the physical world. To be computer illiterate these days is almost the equivalent to being just illiterate itself. To cling to social arguements or prejudices that was accepted 10 or 20 years ago is a grave mistake and just being misguided today. If anything the way human knowlegde is being shaped and designed with the advent of the internet and the fact that there must exist a certain level of 'openness' in approaching various social and institutional mechanism in order to keep us from lagging too far behind. It is often said that advancement in civil rights might be much better than it was ten years ago, much less twenty five or forty or fifty years ago but it might have not kept up pace with the time as Gray borrowing from Shakle the uncertainty of future and future events such as the September 11th has undone such. It cannot also rule out the ongoing age of Supertechnology, that is putting increasing pressure for us to recognize these happnings

So what propel the economy we live in has been the so-called information age. Why it has done so rests on the one hand, to protect society from massive war a society has to be restructured to maintain social harmony, material distribution and national flourishing and on the other hand the image of what a free society whatever that means must be endured. The sad fact about the information age we live in or perhaps coming out of and going into a more advance age of information society is the way the information is being formatted and its effect on peripheral institutions. This effect can as I see it can be looked at many ways but I prefer to see it as a constant build up of massive energy that must be released and that this energy shapes the concept of what is the very definitive structure of nature.

History itself no matter how people looks at it is a part of nature, for the history of societies is reflected on whether knowingly or not how mankind percieved themselves to be in conjunction with nature. Yet nature itself is just a small part of the universe but being part of a living world where the inhabitants were able at one time send a person to the moon, the role of understanding the universe and cosmos through science and theory complicates the historical trajectory how nature again knowingly or not is perceived through human eyes. This course of history is often described as revisionist or in some cases pragmatic(such as the universality of creeds, ways of lives, political philosophy and free markets from an economic point of view). As our views about the shape of the earth and the boundaries becomes clearer or at least so we think compared to about 500 years ago where the onset of Western imperialism with conquering New Worlds and the idea of slavery began.

This does not mean that there is an end to these Western evils or evils in general as the 'New Economy' being shaped by an exodus of energy and another important factor the element of time. Time itself doesn't standstill. It is dynamic, rather than static, unchanging. Time itself shaped by labor and an anti-rationalist approached set out by Friedriche Neitsche dismantles the 'moral' fibers which makes the criticism of evils a part of our everyday political social membrance and often times resurrect them under other guises. To state that slavery has ended in the United States much less in much of the other parts of the world is an illusion that is reflected in a post-Soviet world of cultures re-asserting their identity in a world that has no room to install traditional concept of 'supply and demand' with factories and the political economy per se that arose over hundred years ago worldwide. The change that wrought by the technology of the internet and pretty soon with its demise or transformation to nannotechnology has pretty much 'crowded out' a corrigible market for worldwide luxuries for stuff like perfumes, exotic foods, silk and so on.

On the other hand the time/energy effect also allows humankind to dissolve older institutions and put up in their place newer radical structures that are able to deal with things that are relevant to our day and age. If there are two things that we must look at in shaping the outcoming of global events today, they are the geopolitical shift when it comes to oil away from the United States to the area of Middle East. Jeremy Rifkin in his other book Hydrogen Economy argues that oil prices are set to peak within the next decade or so. This is reflected as we already have seen in recent years fluctuation of gas prices at high levels as a result of American military intervention in Iraq. It is also reflected in the present administration looking into studies of supporting hydrogen fuel cars. The other factor is more or less a hierarchal approach and that has to do with the shift of from a 'libertarian' point of view of the 'night watchman' state which means that it will shift more towards the left as political events around the world continues to unravel.

This so-called shift of the 'night watchman' state is seen in the so-called Patriot Act in which the US government has almost unlimited access never seen before since the McCarthy hearings or the Red Scare of the 1920s. Yet this shift is unimaginable and might put into some historical and political question that if there were something that gives government near state of emergency powers such as martial law how it would be done with the internet.

The Patriot Act itself could not be accomplished without the internet. The attackers of the September 11th and perhaps the ones in Spain had to have tremendous access to online networking to carry out the attack. Not only they were able to fake passports and other essential documents, they were able to wire illegally or legally money for nefarious purposes. Yet the thing about the September 11th attack was that the conspiracy to carry out the attack itself was advance but the attack itself was simple and crazy. It was only so because of the technologies and the mobility to control it was very sophisticated and have not existed on that level when the WTC was attacked back in 1993.

The recent attack in Spain was on morning commuter lines, that is trains. The attack was simple on how it was carried out as the perpetrators left bags of explosive that left over 200 people dead and close to 2,000 people injured. Unlike the political effects of the US, it upsetted a recent election and shifted the country further left and forced the new government to pull their troops out of Iraq. It has but anything hijacked the political process as we have ever seen before which can be detrimental to the presidential election this fall. Security to shift the government of Spain further left was not something that could be found in the Patriot Act but an economy make up that allows their citizen to be laid open to the remnants of terrorism.

If anything, democracy itself is perhaps one of the more notable creeds and institutions that is suffering from the time/energy changed syndrome. We have yet to see what the effect of the recent terrorist effect that goes hand in hand the September 11th attack which was an attack launched on the ability to be mobile across borders and through electronic means and the sniper shootings that was esoteric and yet a precise attack against society for what it stands for and to the recent attack in Spain that warped democracy as we know it and perhaps accelerated the post-institutional effect to scales unheard of.

2004-03-07T17:38:00.000-03:00
"About the Internet"

In this day and age as I have constantly remarked is that we are living in what we call a post-instituional society. That is a society in which its basic institutions are fast eroding and that to replace it is advance thinking, ingenuity and perhaps a dose of supertechnology. One of the factors that plays a strong role in this called post-instituional effect is the recent sniper shootings in Northern Virginia. The sniper shootings has more or less exacrabated this post-institutional effect by the ability of the snipers to shut down society in one of our stronger and vibrant metropolitan areas, especially in the South. Their targets were out of the ordinary. They weren't famous politicians, wealthy tycoons or even celebrities but ordinary people. What adds more to the recent sniper shooting was that it was depending how you look at it it was an offshoot of the September 11th attack. If we can make an esoteric arguement that the World Trade Center attack represented some release of built up energy ready to be released or implode(depending how you look at it) with the development of faster and faster computers, then the so call social make up that enabled the terrorist to hijack two airliners and crash them into two tall building is the same social make up that led both Malvo and Mahammed to get together to fuel terror on society. What makes this case very interesting is the precision the way they did it. This might be a pun. I am not talking about the accuracy in which they were able to hit physically their targets and were able to elude the authorities for some time but the fact that they were able to hit at the heart of society, and in this case American society. In Judith N.Shklar Redeeming American Political Thought ( Edited by Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson. With a Foreword by Dennis F. Thompson. xviii, 210 p. 1998 ), the author here in the eigth chapter titled 'Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty in the United States' discusses the uniqueness of American society from the perspective that America was a heavily democratic society despite its persistent social inequalites.

How to best start off to make a comparison of Shklar's writing with what is going on today in the US is to take a look at the movie 'Gangs of New York.' Two elements served as a strong motif that carried the movie alive and well. The movie start out in the mid 1850s but takes up most of the time during the civil war at which time 1) the US had its very beginnings of the early waves of immigration and 2) the civil war itself being one of the bloodiest wars in world history. The early waves of immigration took place primarily in the North because like the thinking of the time most newcomers wanted in Shklar's expression be like the aristocrat, free and powerful as them. They didn't find much hope and relief in living in the South because the antebellum South provided too much disillusionment and contradictions for any worthwile pursuit of that dream. As Shklar stated the 'slavemaster' freedom was very limited, they had to be careful what they read or say and maintain a militia also to prevent 'slave rebellion.' As for the slaves themselves, Shklar states brought reproach among the newcomers of the very freedom they even lacked. It sounds odd and perverse but that was how the thinking was reflected at that time. The disdainment and the thinking among the main characters in the movies reflected the attitudes back then .

Shklar also talks about the courts, if you know your rights, you take it to the court and get it relieved and asserted. If anything, America not only is a democratic society but a democratic culture as well. It is from here that the damage if not lately the most damage the snipers has committed. In a sense it has fashioned coup against this cultural structure. If there is anything to say that with a post-instutional society would be a foregone of the 9 to 5 workday*, going to church every Sunday, mass education as we know it or even serving in the military. Government in the future will have to look elsewhere.

A post-institutional society doesn't mean the that society will slip into chaos and civil war**. It means that there will be remaking of society radically that will have to re align itself with the events of the world which is not on the other hand that pretty. What will come of and how it will look like will be a society that although underway, one in the Age of Supertechnologies. If there is a start or the pebble that creates the avalanche that will fall upon us all it is the internet itself.

A noted scholar describes the internet as this:

"The internet started as a conscious project. It was a Cold War project of the United States government. After that it moved into universities and now it has become a universal, more as a universal phenomenon. You couldn't go back to a world without the internet. So the fact, that things sometimes start of as matter of conscious policy does not mean, you can simply go back outside of that world, you cannot any longer. The debate about globalisation is therefore shifted but is no longer a debate between those who are sceptical about it and those who see it as real phenomenon. It is now a debate about the consequences of globalisation and the meetings in Seattle (Washington), where the protesters gathered show that the debate has moved to discuss the consequences of globalisation.Second technological innovation : when you think technological innovation, of course you think of information technology and you see an internet mania in Europe. Europe is kind of caught up so rapidly with the United States, it's a positive mania of the internet. What actually happens is something more profound than just the internet. The application of information technology to production is now already a quarter of a century old. It has already transformed manufacturing industry and the core impact of the internet will be on the so-called old economy, not the new economy. 80 % of new internet business is business-to-business transactions. Some people, and I believe this myself to be true, argue that manufacture in 10 to 15 years time will be a bit like agriculture. Agriculture used to involve some 40 % of the population, now it involves 2 % of the population. It is quite realistic to suppose, that maybe only 5 % of the population, will work in manufacture, some 15 or so years from now on, that 5 % will produce more than the current proportion working in manufacture now. In Germany you have a country with well over 22 % of the working population still involved in manufacture. You compare that with the other EU-countries, where the proportion is about 15, 16, 17 %, than it is easy to appreciate the significance of the new knowledge economy for Germany.Not to be underestimated - changes in everyday life. And it's very easy to underestimate the significance of this. Basically as my fellow sociologist, Ulrich Beck has shown us, we no longer live our lives as fate, tradition, custom. We have to structure our lives much more openly."

Note how here how the author looks at the internet as having 'become a universal, more as a universal phenomenon.' To add to this that why we can't go back is as simple as the next statement he makes that we "You couldn't go back to a world without the internet. So the fact, that things sometimes start of as matter of conscious policy does not mean, you can simply go back outside of that world, you cannot any longer" becasue likewise our concept from the times we even take a look at history will always be clouded and that with or without the internet new ways of thinking no matter how flawed or sophisticated cannot but help cloud our judgement for whatever reason we look at the past. The internet afterall is a form of 'conscious' or 'consciousness' that has been added to the mix. This goes furthermore to another root and that is how we view historical societies as such. Some philosophers would view society as a fixation point to universal human morality; others sees it as a decline and so on. If anything the role the internet plays with shaping our visions of the past and the future does damage when it comes to basic human needs. Some scholars would argue that humans borrowing from another philosopher has 'pre-rational' needs or that takes this even further that such needs are intertwined with nature that their exist 'natural rights.' I would on the other hand would assert that the internet will have a deterministic effect on human nature. Remember as author states above the internet is nothing new. How is that so is that the main element of the internet itself that has existed during the Cold War--p2p or peer to peer--file sharing is the strong arm of the internet that is fast changing society. What makes p2p when one download files like Kazaa pretty soon is the speed in which they are able to download them. Right now large files like movies as I read in the recent People's magazines are still hard to be eluded(in part of copyright laws that can get one in trouble with the Feds but that they can be detected due to large file loads). Some sites and webmasters can get around this and create whay you call 'warez' sites. Warez sites are pirated sites due to the large files that the user who visited their site can download and sometimes upload files. The variatrions of Kazaa such as Kazaa Lite, kazaa.tk, Kazaa Gold are nothing more than the most common pirated site because in the recent retaliaton of Kazaa or more appropriately speaking Sharman Networks countersuits of the RIAA and these 'mirror' sites is the use of its 'fast track' technology. If there were a way to download these files quicker and compressed them the very bare nature of what is exchanged will itself be revolutionized. This is how the internet comes in. There is no borders about the internet and will be frivolous to assert that there should be. The internet relies on technology that for it to be called itself such will soon be old and replaced with newer technologies. The principle of the newer technologies such as nannochips work the same way. If there is ever a way to remake the world from sratch like a new Genesis what will evolve from the internet will be such. ***

One of the changes with the internet we see right now is the use of wireless technology and pretty soon paying for the internet with dial up, DSL or cable modem will be another thing of the past as WI-FI wireless access will take over. If there is such changes in this fashion, imagine the changes as the money being made and the ideas and propaganda being promoted, it will mean again altering the way we live and perhaps accept that freely. Like anything, the world that the internet society promise will always have its very own exclusions..this phenomenon is known as the 'digital divide.' In the global scheme of things it can reshape the fashion of wars as I will describe later the future of warfare in the 21st century, among them the 'internet wars' is one of them, the other as stated in this book by John Aiquilla and David Ronfelt Networks and Netwars pretty soon the internet will evolve where as you have prolific cyberterrorism. If the information becomes so valuable creating not only a cultural and political rift as described in this book but an economic rift as I see it, wars can be easily started over such hording or dissarraying such information. The changes of the internet shouldn't be looked conceptually off the mark. It doesn't as some would assert deny the existence of 'inheritable institutions' but can create cloned instittutions that are unreal in its place.

If anthing the internet is an area that might in the long run that will have at its pleasure the making of virtual states and in cases virtual armies or what I like to term anti-armies. It can create not only barren slave societiey but also have the effect of creating what is called Super-societies as well. Yet the internet is a mere phase, like anything else such as Al Queda that embodies the ephemeral antagonist of Western values incarnate and the war on terrorism are all phases in and of themselves. To put it more clearer, solving social problems would require not only the use of imagination but see things as phase or in part seperate parts that goes through phases as such. This age we live in , the so called Post-modern age is just a phase already passing away. This does not deny the need for law or for the state but the implementation of the forgotten would itself be looked as farfetch but perhaps appropriate--think of the judge in Germany allowing the '20th hijacker' appeal and perhaps even walk free.

*see The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era by Jeremy Rifkin

**this does not mean that the US is already heading that way, civil wars doesn't have to be so decisive, it just have to have one or two factors that gives it a romantic edge such as the fight to end slavey in the US during the American Civil War or converting the animated Christians in the South in Sudan. There are many factors effecting just about every civil war that there has ever been.

***See Anthony Giddens Beyond the Left and Right:The Future of Radical Politics(Stanford University Press, Stanford,CA 1994). Look more specifically in Chapter 8 'Modernity under a Negative Sign:Ecological Issues and Life Politics'. "The ecological crisis is a crisis brought by the dissolution of nature--where 'nature' is defined in its most obvious sense,as any objects or process given independent of human intervention."p. 206. A profound statement that give clarity on what is the big playing field or scene that we live in and more importantly have to deal with.

2004-02-29T18:28:00.000-03:00
The idea of landing on mars or even building a colony may sound strange and often times farfetched but it isn't. The President announced plan for the near future for an eventual 'man mission' to Mars that would take place by the year 2030. Now some would argued that such a mission would be very expensive and would be off the wall as recklessly ignoring valuable social needs. I agree with the latter that it does but what I think critics fail to miss the level of confidence in which the President says. He comes off as being high strung and elusive when he vouches for a mission and exploration to Mars. Here he sounds too often like JKF with the concept of New Frontier in which case landing the man on the moon is one of them the other things I take though one could be only unsure whethere due to his untimely death that he would actually meant it would include more jobs, better education, a stronger national defense in the wake at that time of the USSR, and advancement in civil rights.

Traveling to the moon might be a little bit more realistic and perhaps would offer us a way to get back on track since the recent Space shuttle explosion upon re entry needs some type of redemption. So why is it that such confidence and popularity can be heard among the President's decision to send a planned exploration sometimes in the future.

The more physical and concrete reasoning has to do with the fact that it would probably happened sooner than you think. If it is true as everything can possibly be in this universe it is as things are that with the increased pressure for technology to improve itself a sudden surge and advancement must take place. The internet as I see it is merely a phase or a driving force, only itself only a premature shape of what it will be as an institution in the future. I would like to call this stage especially after the WTC fiasco as the beginning or perhaps even going underway the age of Supertechnology(or a Supertechnological revolution)the whole premise of such a fact finding theory rests on two writers. One of them is Isabel Paterson's classic The God of the Machine in which case the author here uses the comparison of energy and motion to explain history such as war and the birth and destruction of greater and lesser civilization(if such a comparison can be made). The WTC fiasco is explained away from a perspective that with computers and ever increasing faster computers the way they need to made and disposed is fast destroying the environment. It also accelerates the age we live in. Such energy makes us thinks of the internet as taking over but not necessarily true. The internet is taking over only in the forms that what will something like that that destroys older institutions does and never brings them back but the internet itself is being constantly waged under attack as the issue of Kazaa has dried up free speech in the real world but alter the very instituitions of the world associated with free speech. Think of Tower Records going bankrupt and Blockbuster pulling out of Hong Kong and on the other hand the upper hand the federal government can assault freedom of speech when it comes to "decency" on television with the SuperBowl incident with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake and radio waves with Howard Stern. It can also be argued that hypercapitalism makes such restrictions plausible but these are old arguements several years ago when hypercapitalism it critics wouldn't know the greatest job loss here in America than we have ever seen before. It is the internet that too might have to change into something else with the advent of nannotechnology with the ever increasing super powerful but smaller microchips soon in a few years be todays memory and be called nannochips. If society becomes so high tech and animated like you see in 'Minority Reports,' there is no limit what this next phase of SuperTechnological Revolution will do.

The other book or author in which this age is all about comes from Dr. Isaiah Berlin's book The Magus of the North: JG Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism. In other words how technoligical advancement takes place will be based on the premise that mankind's thirst for the knowledge of the universe will outwiegh all other efforts in producing a goods and economy for the future. I guess we can say that we are living in the age of limitations in which case the recent BSE and avian scare only shows the limits there is to our food supply or how we will logically support the human race. Yet the recent BSE is only an obstacle to libertarian thought that argues against the Club of Rome about handling our food supply. Even with the best technologies and constructs, the strain physical and political can grow like a cancer and undo everything. This is what we see in this world today but afterall there is no turning back or submissively bowing to the antics of the past. One of the harm of the recent sniper attacks and the reality not an illusion that we can capture Saddam Hussein but not Osama Bin Laden is that we are going through a post-instituional effect in which case if the snipers out there who were able to shut down society there is no boundaries as to what other would be 'snipers' and 'pervayors' can accomplish to shut America down. The whole aspect of styming and shutting down institutions means in the future their desolation such as those 9 to 5, family and even going to a public shool every day is coming to an end. The recent and mysterious shooting in Ohio will probably overcast a dark fate on America.

Shutting down of societies does not at all deter the shutting down of states. Since the breakdown of the USSR we witness a irreversible trend borrowing from a British scholar the "deterioration' or breakdown of states (Haiti is by far just another casualty) and with this we see genocides in Rwanda and what is left of the former Yugoslavia. We all see a massive war in Africa as some pundits argued due to the geographic space it is contained has the face of another world war. Al Queda and the mere fact that we can't catch Osama Bin Laden shows among other things that it is obvious that such a movement is in the business of shutting down governments. There are tremendous evidence they are shutting down places like Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. It is only a loose philosophy now as post-modern thought and with a taste of the so called 'rule of law' that manages to hold the world together, but not for long.

If the age of Supertechnology takes shape it gives more creed and boost to the President's re-election bid to give him the unintentional consequences of him having vision. With this age we can rest assure that issues like slavery and even her greater evil nuclear weapons will have that much of a romantic arguement for and against itself as the forces of the internet soaks up everything including jobs, style, and even our values. This statement of mine would legitimize or pay deaf ears to such stuff but it means that we are overlooking other things that are coming into fruition...the stuff like tobacco, perfume, even cotton will make a comeback as the increased need for individuals and groups of people to reassert much less re evaluate their identity. With nuclear weapons, there is no stopping the President as being irratational to use bunker busters in Afghanistan. Furthermore it just awakens us to the new technologies out there such as plasma technology like you see in "Star Ship Troopers," virtual reality(here I mean something more interactive), trans warp technology, things you only dream of in sci fi movies. With these advancements will be a play on what is the physical world vis a vis the virtual world.

Another thing that why the President says the thing that he does is as someone I read mentioned is the 'night watchman' states shift further outwards. The President wants to ban gay marriages but even outside of fringe politiking it will take years if not a decade for such a constitutional amendment takes place and like the judge if I am not mistaken says it is also naive and hypocritical not to overlook what harms does gay marriage does, in other words , this view reflects the so called 'coercive' nature of government vis a vis 'absolute free will' or 'negative libery.'

2004-02-18T16:32:00.000-03:00
Freelance writing is a good field these days to make extra money. It is also a good start to a full career path with high paying jobs. Like anything else you have to start at the bottom and work your way up but with the internet access, freelance writing provides avenues such as ad writing and activism a much rewarding field. Here is a site you can try it is called writersmarket.com.

2004-02-15T17:59:00.000-03:00
Good places to store your music if you were downloading from Kazaa.com wouldn't always be on your hard drive or on rewritable CDs. You can try storing your music on streamloads.com. This site is also a good place for storing videos, especially adult videos that is downloaded off the net. If you are looking for places where you can purchase videos online and throw them on kazaa or p2p you can try my adult site at freesex1000.cjb.net. Just surf down the middle of the page and you will see paragraphs introducing you to different types of sites that allows you to do such. Streamloads.com is not free, it allows you a free trial. It is great for storing botrh videos and music. It also allows you to share videos and music with other member accounts at this link without you logging in.

Another good alternative for this-- just for music only-- is from what I read in the compusa.com ad pack is the so called Apple 20.0 and 40.0 GB iPod that stores up to 5,000 and 10,000 songs respectively(product number is 306844). The cost range for this product is $399 to $499 respectively. You can also listen to it like a walkman.

Another hot product that is out there is in the field of wireless modem is what I found in the bestbuy.com ads is the Sprint wireless card, which is kind of interesting.(the product number is PC3200Hk) It is similar to
Ricochet below but it is offered also outside the remote areas of Denver and San Diego. As what the advertisement said, it is like a cellularphone attached to your computer.

2004-02-08T20:44:00.000-02:00
The outcome of battle can have its up and downs but its purpose and meaning can blur the shape of the war at large if there tangibly speaking exists such a war.
Just about every day or at least every other day in the news one will hear about some US soldier getting killed or severely injured by some type of attack in Iraq. The weird thing about all of this is that this has happened at a time when we thought all too well that we have liberated a country from an evil despot whom we found living in a spider hole just as though he was another person. If we can put the pieces together and ask ourselves why after the liberation of Iraq that we have more US casualties and perhaps mounting instability in a region of the world we thought that we have under control. There are several answers to this question but each of them as I will so list will not at make simple a highly complex international situation. The first reason for all this weirdness is that we are living in an age where strategic warfare is simply something no more. With this comes other factors, among them the obselescence of nuclear weapon. Even though in places like North Korea nuclear war or deployment still looms, it is trivial considering the other stuff going on in the world. One would also be surprise to learn that in the coming ages of global wars and stuff refugee migration will have more environmental harm than nuclear weapons. Or as a scientist once states that all the things we do in the world as far as environmental harm is akin to thousands of nuclear bombs being dropped a day. So we need not to be pre-occupied about nuclear war in North Korea. It is only as nuclear weapons being used as tactical targets(ie medium and low range nukes like you see in Iran India and Pakistan plays a decisive role) that would really matter. If nuclear weapons isn't the big fear that haunted us during the cold war, then what is? The demon that is supposedly taunting us as to why is Iraq is becoming an increasing threat in and of itself and why nuclear weapons are obsolete is itself alarming. What makes it so is that we have to take a look at one aspect of global behavior that is becoming the cornerstone in shaping the outcomes of conflict and events and that has to do with the concept of eluding. In liberating Afghanistan we have unveiled a world in which its history and its abiltity to manipulate through the wars and civil wars in part of its geographic distinctiveness. In the case of Afghanistan and Pakistan it is the use of caves and tunnels. Such areas are nothing more than reservoirs for states to maintain its credibility as being rogue states, to traffic narcotics, weapons, and soldiers for wars throughout the region, and to test whatever hold the US have as a major global broker these days. We can take a look at history on two recent events that has shaped American foreign policy. The first is the decline of the USSR and the second is the September 11th 2001 event. The end of the Soviet Union as some would know represents the demise of socialism and communism. However, I would strongly agree with certain critics that it meant the end of anything of Western values in any forms, in this regard of its nature being applied to every country or group of people. In theory we are living in era that capitalism and democracy are values that in essence can be short lived. Whatever that will come in its place may or may not require new philosphy but a new concept of history. The terrorist act that happened two years ago perhaps is a resonance if not a deathro of the Soviet Union decline. For it is in this even much like we shall see in future newsbreaking events on this level of ordinary people though from different lands who just used their smart to wire money attend flight school and use enough wit to hijack and take over our airlines. It is here that it is important to realize that if what defines a culture is to be open to outside influence such as multiculturalism or universal Christianity then it would hold that the state is itself will have to change with that notion. but the state proper will perhaps in itself suffer epileptic political changes. Even if the US supposedly maintained a stronger exclusion and protective approach with the Patriot Act there is nothing to conclude that if there is any cultural convulsions that the Patriot Act will be futile and nothing more than something intrusive of days long ago. It is not here that I should argue the legitimacy of the Patriot Act even though one must questioned the almost unlimited authority the government has and weigh that against protecting national interest versus individual civil liberty. The case in Iraq would be that it too was a despotic state that benefited both ways during the Cold War. Its remaining future must and (consequently had) not necessarily be in a way that it has to disrobe its authoritarian values and adopt the American creed but it has to enter the 'let loose' of the post modern era. One of the consequences of the post modern era is its post industrial base. It is here why states such as Iraq is increasingly dangerous. Let us take an imaginary approach with the World Trade Center and said that the second airplane that crashed into the other tower was caused by a tractor beam or suppose that there is some type of new technology that was out there that aided the terrorist in their quest. If there were something out there like this the reason for it being so has to do with ongoing gowing feeding of computers getting faster, creating waste that harms the environment and developing intense energy that impose some types of unleashing.(This idea is borrowed from Iasabel Paterson's classic the 'The God and the Machine'). In this case it would be the WTC which is one of my theories that I usually argue that there are mere energies at work that has to be developed and vented. It is too here that post-modernism and post-industrialism becomes self-inflicted victims to the extent that any age no matter how loosely and tightly constructed will produce massive amount of energy that would force cataclysmic cultural shifts, geo global war and extreme techological revolutions. It can radically shift paradigms as I keep on reiterating in the case of the Virginia Sniper case in the entry below. It is here why Iraq is dangerous, precisely that the forces of these energies plays a role in the so called imminent age of super technologies and super societies. One of the prerequisites for this is its post-institutional effect that is the destruction and banishment of institutions as we know it. It is strange to promote the fact that the concept of family and family values, work, religion, and the like are fast decaying and in a matter of decades becoming nothing more than dinosaurs. It is very difficult to live with this fact but it is fact worth remembering and not forgetting if we should realize that these are things we are adjusting our daily lives to live by...all we have to do is adjust our world view towards such. A post institutional effect doesn't neglect one other factor and that is the state. The arguement for the desolation of the state comes from notable scholars who argue that the idea of "violence" was monopolized by the nation-state system and that in recent years it has slipped to mafias, warlords, irregular armies and paramilitaries. This has to be one of the most accurate description of the state. Violence as it is so spoken will be monopolized in more or less in other political and social dimensions. These are states or societies that are imaginary and for some bizarre reasons that are breeded on ideas. Western values won't at all disappeared just tamed and categorized as a feature that can be a danger to itself like these crazy ballot and referendums from abolishing rent control and restricting affirmative action and this ridiculous recall election in the state of California or the restriction of punitive awards in medical malpractice in Texas. Technology itself will be so explosive in the up and coming years to manifest these desires. Now it isn't hear to argue whether or not human beings are determinist or not ; though they would look so on the surface however deep down inside philosophical and empirical lenses will prove so otherwise. Clothing fashion, what we read in the magazines or watch on TV or at the movies will perhaps be one of the immediate signs of this backlash whereas to survive in the future we will have to allow for the rushing changes to take us away. This is again nothing more than imaginary stuff. So in the case of Iraq only a state that shares something worth being ideal will survive. Other than that with new forms of weapons that supposedly giving that there exist a middle class educated core in just about every part of the world can make hand held weapons dangerous enough to blow up a tank like paper cups. With nuclear weapons, would be replace by--what?--fusion cannons or plasma technology like you see in the movie 'Starship Troopers.' Hulk like creatures that can act as super commandos or super soldiers, simple creatures that you see like people who walk their dogs or the pigeons gathering around are nothing but robots in disguise, stealth and invisible technologies, imaginary armies, gods and goddesses, and not to forget virtual states. Yet it will be a 'synthesis' of the early half of this century such that those ideal states envisioned by Lenin, Hitler, or Mao will have to come to some type of fruition but without the crazy idea of as Isaiah Berlin describes using humans or groups of people like a canvass or as an "art of free creation." This time it would be probably the reverse.

So what lurks out there? Are there whole states or threats that has been ignored by history? Is there a such of a galactic quest whereas that there might be an alternate earth other civilisations out there? If there are threats of the future can you imagine that the US have anti-armies. More like knights or samauris or even robots something that isn't 'popular' but 'noble and esoteric or perverse' in that nature....Can this be part of the anti-army of the future. Something of Macross or Robotech? Weird thought

2004-01-30T18:45:00.000-02:00
One of the things about the internet that we must worry about is personal spending. Think of how market forces in this country alone is being shaped by paypal.com and its new parent company Ebay.com when for instance you have the state of West Virginia up for sale. The internet itself is growing at a rapid rate that are in and of itself shaping market institutions.

Consider among other things Blockbuster recent decisions to shut down its stores in Hong Kong because more people prefer to purchase pirated Cds than just going to the store and renting a movie. The paradox here is that market structures are being changed in a country where freedom of speech is often stifled.

On the other side of the Pacific this happened only a few months ago. Kazaa.com and its parent company Sharman Networks requested such search engine giants like Google.com to remove kazaalite.com and kazaa.tk from the search engine index under the Digital Millenium Act (1999). Here is a major company the object of RIAA lawsuit copyright infringements asserting its rights within the US.

Then again companies like Playboy settled an undisclosed lawsuit with some of the major search engines over the use of "Playboy" and "Playmate" that inadvertedly generates association of XXX and hardcore porn with these terms. If anything the internet itself is becoming a more powerful force to be reckoned with.

Another matter to look is Bill Gates announcing his plans to eliminate email spam by the year 2006 by making those who sends a recipient spam to pay them for that 'spammed' email. This concept of forcing those who spam paying victims of spamming money on an individual level is known as a form of micropayments. Critics would argue that this is a bad idea and amounts to begging. They can even use my former arguement that even though something is a good idea might not be marketable. Yet this wouldn't prevent somebody from introducing an idea but might help to realize that the internet can quite possible be beneificial and grow with government intervention somewhere down along the lines. Think in the case of Hungary where students can use their debit cards to recieve their student loans. Micropayments not to get off the mark allows users to make smallers purchases online such as selling individual CDs and essays each under a $1 without incurring interest rates and fees from traditional companies that makes such transactions futile.

Among the benfits of micropayments is that allows nuance in market transactions. One of the problems with the recent dot com burst was as some critics state was there was a lack of marketing offline as well as online. Of course ny that assertion one could have only guess where these critics were at that time but nonetheless if anyone lived in a major urban area where the recent dot com took place like here in Boston or out west in Northern California would realize that you saw dot commers competing with each other over the issue of loft(to use their residency as a business establishments to avoid paying commercial taxes); or you heard radio and TV boradcasting that says silly stuff such as 'greed is good' and other forms of catharticism of people writing their websites like graffiti on sidewalks and on buildings. There is nothing to say that the dot com demise because that it didn't focused on offline avenues but rather there was no nuance, it came off as simply being blunt! The reaction to the dot com boom didn't focus on anything as it should be as an economical revolution. Not only poor people being screwed and left behind but it was overthrowing whatever left of the baby boomer middle class with their white collar 9 to 5 jobs. It may explain that with this economic recovery no one can disagree that no jobs are being lost and that such net job loss is worse than the days of Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Or this should be looked at it a little differently that if as understood that jobs are being lose to machines and computers we shouldn't stopped that these job losses are being accelerated by the advent of nannotechnology and the software that goes with computers. It is not just the technology but the technology to hold and dispense information in any fashion those who has the means to dominate and manuever it to their fashion. That is hard to chew either way because the internet itself is a market institution that is kind of sending everything out of control. If there is another dot com revolution the cultural and political shift will be more pronounced from the lessons not learned.

Micropayments from this perspective takes among other things the ability of computers to pinpoint in large numbers of small exchanges that would otherwise seems moot. This seems borish but it isn't. Think of philosophy of Joseph Raz(whom I picked up from studying other philosophers). Ten years ago it would have made little sense(at least economically and politically) if I had purchased a soda or a cookie for 35 cents somewhere in Virginia that it would have at any rate any impact of what somebody thought about me doing that living somewhere in California or in Tibet. Now the only impact there is is that those huge companies who are selling these goods for 35 cents requires people like me to purchase a cookie or a soda every now and then to sell their products. It also requires a lot of people like me to purchase a lot of cookies and sodas to make it work. This is simple macro economics. In micropayments, if I were to sell something for 35 cents and were able to make 35 or 32 cents regardless of the fees, then this is a worthwhile purchase. At hand is useful info of what I like or don't like. It also adds up if using the internet I can sale easily a 100,000 units for 35 cents and make $35,000.

So an advantage of micropayments is that extends further the inclsuion of potential people who can be better off making money than otherwise not. Secondly, this gives large instituitons ideas of people habits and likes. Thirdly, it isn't inconsistent with what is already going in with pre-paid Visas that gives the consumer other options than placing their credit cards online if they feel unsure or using their debit cards which is tied into their checking account. You can check out stuff like this at Four Oaks Bank and Trust Visa® Card and Wired PlasticTM +Rewards Card. It also reduces fraud or what I should say allow government able to counter fraud. Remeber one of the recent viruses in the past six months occured as a result of someone using a stolen credit card to access a newsgroup I think EasyNews to post a virus.

2004-01-27T16:21:00.000-02:00
Imagine if you were to go to a soda machine and you pull out your cellularphone and you enter some digits and presto a soda comes out the machine! With the ever increasing use of integrating computer technology that spreads more from the desk top to your cellularphone and televisions, the internet itself is making a comeback into the wireless world. Yet all this stuff isn't as simple as one would have us to believe. First of all, just because something is a good idea and even efficient doesn't necessarily means that it is marketable. A good example would be the wireless modem known as Ricochet at ricochet.com. It was started by Metricom but later sold to a company known as Aerie Networks. As I understand the reviews has been quite positive, but that is something I couldn't right now back up. The dilemna that is posed is that even though the internet itself is revolutionary and perhaps in the coming years will eventually take over;thus, to market a product online means that you have to be sensitive to local laws, structures and attitudes. The problem from this is that local laws does not have to always be deriviative or self-contained. Think about wireless access that allows users access the internet through the laptops through points from urban institutions which is becoming increasing if not more so popular in smaller cities and rural areas(a good example would be in El Cerrito, CA).

Either way, there is no doubt that the internet will take over but how so and under what guise is a big question. It is a point to remind those that the internet resembles a broader aspect of those who are able as I read somewhere who can utilize and take information to their advantage. The shortcomings will no doubt be 'the digital divide' as you see in authoritarian regimes blocking out some popular sites and class divisions in the areas of civil rights even here in the US. My blog will continue to put all this together and will among other things realize that the market of the internet economy isn't that dreadful and that there is a brighter future with an online community. The hurdle before us that the internet is only a primordial form incomplete of what the future and how it looks out there.

2004-01-25T19:02:00.000-02:00
Hi welcome to my blog. I have try successfully to do a blog that will host the products and ideas I want to sale and/or promote online. It was very difficult since I had to make room for my adult site and some of my other miscellanous stuff which wouldn't be appropriate or professionally looking if you were trying to get people to apply for a credit card or purchase a cellularphone plan. It was also futile since I also wanted to incorporate some of my thoughts here to give poeple a feeling on what I am all about. From time to time not only I will be introducing you to some of my products and try to get you to see what is really out there but also continue with some of my earlier writings which I have temporarily placed a halt on and will eventually transfer some of them to this site.