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The job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct sales.
Their dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
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The contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales provide the profits.
They will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and a thousand other products and services.
Also some new technology may come along to change all the rules
The new world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of our times -
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The Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
Fate; destiny. One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence: “At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold” (Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling: “
The queer stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations. But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/ http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/ articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money -- and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html ).
The Movie the Matrix is much better than one would suspect from the promotion of the violence and special effects. Life as we think we know it is an illusion.
The heroes break loose from the "Matrix" and with some difficulties destroy the agents of the force, save the world and restore freedom to the planet. Some people prefer dreams to reality and ally themselves to the forces of control and domination. In the Truman Story the forces of control is a Television production company.
The Sufi teaching has the same two principles - we are living as in our sleep - sleep walking - in a dark room where we don’t really know where we are or who we are.
The forces of control come from socialization, social and cultural conventions, religious and political dogma, and our fear of freedom.
There is evidence of Phi or extra-sensory perceptions and precognition but it is a weak force. Oriental crafts of Volition:
The exercise of the will: Antagonism: RESISTANCE art of self-defense, judo, jujitsu, judo, aikido, karate, kyokushinkai, tae-kwan-do, kung fu, ninjutsu have a important mystic or mind over body element that clearly helps.
They have been told that you have to be very smart and fast in the new global information knowledge economy.
The AOL - Time Warner deal puts great pressure on the Fox - NEWS corp., GE - NBC - Disney ABC - CBS and other media companies. If the business is direct sales via interactive systems then where is Microsoft - NBC - GE ? It also puts pressure on retail systems - already trying to figure out on-line sales. What if AOL - ( with or without Amazon etc ) does an end around and begins to really sell directly on the huge network it now controls with both feet in Europe, Japan, and All Other Lands.
The question of being fast enough - smart enough - Netscape AOL have it - Sears didn’t but could have, maybe GE doesn’t, what about MS - they have shown the ability to catch up quickly when they have to - they will have the hardware in space soon and the connection to GE NBC. Excite and Yahoo are sometimes smart and could connect with Disney - but the times are changing quickly and time gets faster and faster.
The Internet developed into a big business since 1996 so in less than 5 years.
The nature of the infrastructures are different - railroads are steel, bridges and tunnels. Electric power and Telephone requires wires on poles, substations etc. Radio has wires, towers and stations. TV required thick cables and microwave towers. Now satellites connect cable systems and super-stations, the Internet uses optic fiber backbones, so ...
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The WWW ( wait, wait, and wait ) is gringing away on the site - THANKS I will wait and be back after I have seen it - but it points out the core problem - little copper wires set up for voice - on a basic technology pushing 100 years will not make it even under the DSL ( a system that could have be used several decades ago. So light the way - light is lighter and faster and generates more light and less heat
Therefore a massively parallel and cheap supercomputer can be designed. http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/eee2proj/ll197/Memory/Processors2.htm
The capabilities of DOCII is that it is a fully programmable, 32-bit digital optoelectronic processor which operates in a UNIX environment running RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Code) at peak speeds which depending upon the instruction being executed can perform between 10 million and 12.8 billion, 32-bit operations per second. Because the machine operates at the 5,000 photon per gate level, or 1.2 femtoJoules (fJ) per bit, a reduction in power consumption of approximately three orders of magnitude can be realized with respect to semiconductor implementations.
The very small ( nano ) works by most extraordinary rules - objects have properties that allow them to move from here to there without going through the intermediate space. Time is not linear and space bends. Objects themselves appear, take on properties, and then change their character and reappears in a different form or place but only in certain quantum leaps.
The batter swings before his eyes has sent the message to the brain so the batter had not really seen the ball. He reacts before the information has been received.
There is precognition of some sort - a time warp of a few nano seconds - this short time phase maybe the key to the general field theory - it exists as short bursts not as a steady stream or solid state.
The nano computer ( quantum machine ) will have to fall between the cracks of time - to be stable enough to avoid external noise. Time fractions and division and their codes - seem very interesting along with the big bursts of data - really a far cry from the machine age
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The nature of matter at this level is little energy spots rather than matter as we experience it, energy that change quantum states - transform from one state to another instantly.
The history of computer technology has involved a sequence of changes from one type of physical realization to another --- from gears to relays to valves to transistors to integrated circuits and so on ...
The point is, however, that quantum technology can offer much more than cramming more and more bits to silicon and multiplying the clock-speed of microprocessors. It can support entirely new kind of computation with qualitatively new algorithms based on quantum principles!
The smallest class of elementary particles is that of the massless bosons, which comprises the PHOTON, gluon, W AND Z PARTICLES, and the hypothetical graviton.
The lepton class contains twelve particles: ( six of one and a half dozen of the other) the electron, muon, tauon, and their antiparticles, and the neutrino or antineutrino associated with each.
The QUARKS, the third class, also number twelve: the whimsically named up, down, charm, strange, top (or truth), and bottom (or beauty) quarks and their antiparticles. Quarks are always found in pairs or triplets with other quarks or antiquarks to form particles called hadrons.
Then all was dark for awhile.
The force of gravaty produced matter and stars and light. Most of the stuff remained dark with antimatter and antigravity.
The mind of the universe moves from simple to complex, in a pattern of relationships too complex to happen purely by chance.
The system desired to become aware of itself or there would be no point in the exercise.
The system desires to become aware of itself or there would be no point in existence. Such a system has a planner or architect, producer, creator, maker, mastermind, Nature the Creator, the Master Builder, THE DEITY originator, inventor, discoverer, mover, prime mover, instigator, MOTIVATOR founding father, founder, founding member, establisher, CAUSE begetter, PARENTAGE creative worker, poet, writer, AUTHOR as our founding freemason fathers drew as this symbol:
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The strong interaction is responsible for the structure of the atomic nucleus, and only hadrons participate in it.
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The very small ( nano ) works by most extraordinary rules - objects have properties that allow them to move from here to there without going through the intermediate space. Time is not linear and space bends. Objects themselves appear, take on properties, and then change their character and reappears in a different form or place but only in certain quantum leaps.
The batter swings before his eyes has sent the message to the brain so the batter had not really seen the ball. He reacts before the information has been received.
There is precognition of some sort - a time warp of a few nano seconds - this short time phase maybe the key to the general field theory - it exists as short bursts not as a steady stream or solid state.
The nano computer ( quantum machine ) will have to fall between the cracks of time - to be stable enough to avoid external noise. Time fractions and division and their codes - seem very interesting along with the big bursts of data - really a far cry from the machine age
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The nature of matter at this level is little energy spots rather than matter as we experience it, energy that change quantum states - transform from one state to another instantly.
The history of computer technology has involved a sequence of changes from one type of physical realization to another --- from gears to relays to valves to transistors to integrated circuits and so on ...
The point is, however, that quantum technology can offer much more than cramming more and more bits to silicon and multiplying the clock-speed of microprocessors. It can support entirely new kind of computation with qualitatively new algorithms based on quantum principles!
The smallest class of elementary particles is that of the massless bosons, which comprises the PHOTON, gluon, W AND Z PARTICLES, and the hypothetical graviton.
The lepton class contains twelve particles: ( six of one and a half dozen of the other) the electron, muon, tauon, and their antiparticles, and the neutrino or antineutrino associated with each.
The QUARKS, the third class, also number twelve: the whimsically named up, down, charm, strange, top (or truth), and bottom (or beauty) quarks and their antiparticles. Quarks are always found in pairs or triplets with other quarks or antiquarks to form particles called hadrons.
Then all was dark for awhile.
The force of gravaty produced matter and stars and light. Most of the stuff remained dark with antimatter and antigravity.
The mind of the universe moves from simple to complex, in a pattern of relationships too complex to happen purely by chance.
The system desired to become aware of itself or there would be no point in the exercise.
The system desires to become aware of itself or there would be no point in existence. Such a system has a planner or architect, producer, creator, maker, mastermind, Nature the Creator, the Master Builder, THE DEITY originator, inventor, discoverer, mover, prime mover, instigator, MOTIVATOR founding father, founder, founding member, establisher, CAUSE begetter, PARENTAGE creative worker, poet, writer, AUTHOR as our founding freemason fathers drew as this symbol:
The strong interaction is responsible for the structure of the atomic nucleus, and only hadrons participate in it.
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The job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct sales.
Their dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
http://www.wiredbrain.com/NEXUM.htm a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
The contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales provide the profits.
They will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and a thousand other products and services.
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The Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
The integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images, formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
There are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need some basic tools
- the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why not both ? ) Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.com/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO networks engine is too unstable
and has banners and ads that get in the way but some people may find it
useful and they may fix the problems.
After you have downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the sites and back.
MSN
now does the best search
Individual development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
The updates guides is on guides.html
http://www.wiredbrain.com/synergy.htmThe idea as always been to learn how to learn - be a fisherman and catch your own fish. Now I don’t know what people know or care to know.
The web has become a huge commercial market place doing mostly mundane things - group building and actual synergy is rare. Maybe after all the hype and special effects some people will return to the promise of new communities - EPCOT was designed to be an experimental community of the future and ending up as an amusement park. Don’t we have enough phony experience, virtual reality is everywhere.
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http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~skarsten/community5.html Rheingold's Brainstorms: Virtual Worlds Linklist
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There is a lot of chat - in many
forms -
The auto, sex, talk games shows, entertainment, guns, et al media politics complex is about commercial values and false choices but .. values must be attached to universal reality not ancient myths, bibles, the holy father is in heaven and can’t be asked directly for answers.
If we have a meaningful relationship with spirits of the universal - big old fellows that can be trusted then we can agree on merit and good action - otherwise it's every person for themselves.
Sorry about the arbitrary choice of subject title. I should have referred to the web page in question, I see that now.
I will continue what has begun, though I am not sure what it means:
Follow the color codes? But I will make every effort to make this clear to myself.
I so appreciate your feedback. It's like finding water when you're very thirsty.
I feel so all alone in my studies, and as you say, how does one tell the gold from the fools gold until he actualy can. I have poked my nose into many rabbits dens and foxes holes trying to discover what's going on?
What am I doing here? Who am I? who are you? etc. And I feel the constant sting of my own stupidities along the way.
I'm not sure if I've really discovered anything , but sometimes I feel so ignorant that the world and everyone in it may as well be one gigantic being playing tricks on me sometimes, and caring for me at others.
I once found a fossil, of some kind of berry I think. It was severed perfectly in half, and illustrated well what reality seems to me:
In the center of the berry is a ''U'' shaped center suspended like a spinning arrow, and all around the perimeter of the inside skin are little nodes aimed at the centerpiece. I imagine the centerpiece as myself, and the surrounding bubble of possibilities, contact points, as the many or multiple impressions I interact with, of one being that is not me, but that surrounds me. And somehow, everyone I meet, or interact with, or every event, is really just one of these apparently separate extensions of this ONE being.
It isn't always just a metaphor. Sometimes, it feels like that; That everything and everybody is/are parts of God around me, and I float suspended in his middle. So what am I etc.
Well there is only so much use for such musings, and one climbs back down the ''Birch'' tree, and concentrates on living, though still tormented inside by the question: Why?
I hope and pray it is not improper to note this here; but the moon at night, once became two crescents, one over the other, like a bowl withiin a bowl, and waved at me. Ordinary life can become quite contaminated after something like that.
Hallucination or not, they say that an experience vividly imagined can have the same effect on the nervous system as one that actualy happens. I ran that night. I ran and ran and ran, for days.
I cut myself with a knife. My business fell apart, and I didn't care. I tried talking with priests, holy shmollys, read books etc, yet nowhere did I ever find a satisfactory explanation for these experiences, and others, just as inexplicable.
It is possible that I am merely insane, or brain damaged. etc. But I keep looking toward that day when it will all make sense.
Thank you for existing Peter.
I'm very grateful to know that Sufi Thinkers arn't just a myth. I don't see how, but if I can help out, I will.
Mike
The Surgeon General has reported that 1/5 of us are suffering from mental illness.
The evidence is that talk does little or no good. 1/3 get better, 1/3 stay the same, 1/3 get worse with or without psychoanalysis. Now drugs do help and maybe safe and effective - but psy-babble is not. Political babble maybe just as dangerous.
The answer is ( open the envelope please ) have uniform national standards that can be enforced.
Their kids know the times tables or they don’t leave 4th grade. It’s not always fun to multiply and use correct forms but it need to be done, regardless of sex, race, national origin or economic background. We create excuses, ADD is not common elsewhere ( a phantom aliment - attention disorders ) reading disorders, learning disorders, behavioral disorders - and we spend up to 3 X more money than on average or talented. ( also a special education category )
The system may drive people crazy. Some are born crazy, some are driven crazy and some achieve madness on their own.
The fundamental things apply,
The world will always welcome lovers,
There is gambling going on !
The solution, as I see it, is first to locate, if one exists, perhaps in the past, a model for societal co-operation, without dominion of the bullies, and instill this into the next generations.
The problem is that responsibility is so divided to defend liberty that resolution of conflicts becomes very long and complex. Any real conflict is endless postponed until a crisis forces action or a civil war. Not everything can be done by consensus or overwhelming majorities. Well placed "veto" groups can block necessary efforts at reform.
The system is corrupted, dismissed, deserted, rejected and sick.
The party in power has a program and a majority to carry out that program. What we call a platform or the English call a manifesto.
The myth of the "individual" and frontier capitalism - anti-government passions comes form the nature of emigration and the pressures of conformity in a small town society. Babbitry becomes Rush Limbough.
There is a ruling class. Ronald Reagan spread the popular myth of individualism and free market capitalism because it makes "them" feel they deserve what they have, justifies their lack of interest in the welfare of others, and prevent the majority from coming together. Popular democracy would be a threat to the "establishment". Racial, ethic, regional differences keep people apart and prevent popular democracy taking over.
The constitution helps.
The government was designed to be a Republic but not a democracy.
The money interest were meant to rule. It has worked.
The emigrants are more pushed than pulled. My experience is poor rural peasant villages suggests the important role of synergy. Benedict suggested that some cultures are more pleasant, friendly, happier, supportive, than others which are nasty, unpleasant, cruel, uncooperative.
The America described by Tocqueville was where
The pattern of emigration remains the same. Someone goes ahead - young men - makes a beachhead and then the women and children follow. From the wars in Lebanon, from India, for Asia, Haiti, Latin America poor villages send out their young men to seek better opportunities. With many the idea is to make some money and return.
The same pattern applied to Italy and central Europe, Russian Jews, Scotland and Ireland during their periods of emigration. Money not freedom is the goal. Tight negative groups against the world, which hates them, in the experience of most immigrants.
The myth is of the Ayn Rand type strong individual who did it all on their own. Daniel Boone was not an emigration but an explorer. He than was followed by organized settlements supported by developers who needed people to made their property worth something and railroads that needed traffic.
The new world was socially nastier than the old.
There was less social support and you could only count on your own family and relatives. Suspicion of Government was in the bones of the Scott - Irish, others who had suffered under misrule or foreign occupation. In the new world government was in the hands of others. First a planter aristocracy, then natives, where the last wave is hated and dismissed as aliens .
Then they support the popular myth of individualism and free market capitalism because if the majority came together they would be a threat to the "establishment". Racial, ethic, regional differences keep people apart and prevent popular democracy taking over.
The constitution helps.
The government was designed to be a Republic but not a democracy.
The money interest were meant to rule. It works. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59), French social philosopher. Democracy in America, vol. 2, Appendix 5, "Democracy" (1840).
The last important improvement was Kettering, 1876-1958 American electrical engineer and manufacturer who developed the first electric cash register (1905) and numerous automotive improvements, such as an electric ignition system (1912) the self-starter in 1930’s Maybe ( the Francis Ford Coppola’s ) Tucker:
The Man and His Dream with Jeff Bridges - the TUCKER car had safety glass ( resisted by the industry ) and disk brakes. ( only 100 made ) 1948
The catch-on factor is the ability to learn from experience and others. It designees our species from other humanoids. For 300 thousand years, stone age men made the same crude tools.
There was no progress.
There were less than a million on the planet.
Then a new group came on the scene with well made tools, and in a few thousand years took over the planet. 500 million Y1, 1,000 Million before 1900, 2 in 1930, 4 in 1970, 6 in Y2K.
They could learn from others and listen to instructions.
The argument that a ineffective government is good because it can’t do much harm, is an argument against progress and reason.
The value of land depends on location, which is derived from a social benefit. ( Roads, utilities, schools, planning, parks, etc.) Russia is an example where there is little synergy and much greed with the inability to share. Any social infrastructure depends on laws, courts, contracts but all that depends on civic virtue and the ability to get along. Greed is not good in itself and some level of good public citizenship is required. Otherwise you get the junk along A1-A and tick tack signs and sprawl and ugly unproductive evil fallen values of Daytona Beach, Panama City, Jersey City, Calumet City, South Chicago In. Need I say more.
They can live in gated communities with private guards and walls.
The poor will depend on others for almost everything. BUT remember - God so loves the poor, she made a lot of them. With one person one vote, the barriers to private services will create tensions.
There is a high price for deadlock. National test scores in education are 13 Th. in the world - our health care costs twice as much as most and doesn’t cover 46 million people. Our infrastructure - transport ( when was the last time you were on a bullet train ? ) , urban parks, open space, land use, ( SPRAWL) We spend 2 years an a few billion dollars selecting a president who is no different from the other person and can’t do much in any case except kill foreigners.
The Social Security system is broken and can’t be fixed - instead of a rational tobacco tax we have a crazy number of lawsuits, instead of a gas tax we have traffic jams, we don’t have the level of honest and efficient public services of a modern society. Out tax system is a collection of abuses of special interests, when we should go VAT and be competitive in a global economy - THERE IS A HIGH COST TO BAD GOVERNMENT.
The despotism of gridlock - frustration - incompetence - alienation - crime and sickness and ugliness with non-rational passions taking the place of reasonable debate. Come on we can do better -
The quality guy )
"Fix the problem, not the blame" Mostly it's good people caught is a bad
system - teachers - congress people, health care providers, land use developers,
T.V. news people, the criminal justice system - all stuck with systems
that don't work very well.
Partly it's just the iron law at work. ( Michaels ) All big organizations
must have bureaucracy - then system tends to serve those in charge - they
forget the general interest in their struggle to maintain their role positions.
In education and many other problems - SMALL, smart, stable systems work
better.
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The road
to Life " an epic of education ( and a real alternative to boot camps )
about social dynamics that work.
Regional government is a basic solution to public administration. Units
of 25 million work better than huge units of 100's of millions. Smaller
countries don't feel the need to run the world.
We need initiative, referendum, as part of the process for political and
constitutional reform.
The people, the states, or the congress should be
able to put issues to the people for a 2/3 vote as they now can in many
states. To get the power to get the power to have initiative, referendum,
and other changes we must have a constitutional convention called by the
states. ( Since it will not be done by congress )
One suggestion to the people is a single ballot where people vote every
four years for a party - the President and congress person at the same
time with one vote for both combined.
The party that wins then has a clear
mandate to do what it promised.
You see I am interested in systems change.
There are system flaws that make reform impossible. This is after 40 years of work on school reform - it should be clear the system CAN NOT be reformed using the current system.
The devil we know is more popular than the angel we don't know. ( To reflect on Jefferson's preamble on stability and change )
The resistance is not coming from the public, but rather from the teachers' union. You see, the same thing happens whenever there are dues involved.
The implementation of standards and testing of teachers by student performance causes teachers to be placed in categories of good or bad.
These categories would extend the RANGE of pay based on performance.
The goal of every union is socialistic: to give everyone the same, high pay scale, so that more dues are paid to the union. Unions don't like low wages for poor work.
The only thing worse than doing a union man's job for him, is to make him do it himself.) You see, whenever you have a large group of people, they begin to act as a herd, and the voice of the group is determined by the voice of the leaders of the group. In the case of the unions, it is usually the ones collecting the dues that make the statements.
Therefore, you may have many good teachers who agree with performance-based evaluations of students and teachers, but the voice of unity will never let that fact become common knowledge to the public.
The media will always approach the union leaders for an 'official' stance on any issue, and that is what the public will hear.
The solution, I think, is to have public (state or national) standards and testing (determined by PTAs, university admissions boards, and hiring executives, not government studies), but have no public school funding. An education can be thorough without a building. Especially now, with the availability of internet access to libraries and communities, and cheap computers. If a community wants to have a sports team, they can arrange it without a school. If a child wants to learn physics, it can be done online or at the library (the world is a physics lab). If parents don't have the time to homeschool, they can join with others locally to hire a teacher for a few students. This can be done in rural or urban environments. Large buildings in NY may have as many as a dozen teachers hired just for themselves.
The requirements on individual teachers is large, but also on the parents.
The savings in administration and public funding would be tremendous.
These are the system to use.
The
eradication of specialists as teachers should begin immediately!
Dan Conine
----- Original Message ----- From: Dr. Peter E. Pflaum
They may actually have to teach something and students will have to know something in order to pass. http://www.wiredbrain.com/answer.htm
There is no substitute for discipline, standards, expectations, rules, order, attention to details, leadership, and other ancient virtues.
They say they want them but when they have uniform requirements a significant number complain and the systems gives up - backs down at the first real test. National standards are the only way - maybe state by state - but national goals and requirements.
The British? O.k. You had me for a
while, but I don't know your sense of humor.
There are a lot of exile in Canada - about 20 % of the people in the 18th century really wanted to stay with the empire. I think Franklin was on both sides. My man Rumpford stayed with the empire. Franklin's idea was to move the center from London to Philadelphia and rule England from the new world - good idea but unlikely. Anyway, Canada, did OK and was independent after they had learned to govern.
The founding fathers were teen ages with
an excite passion for independence and a childish belief in logic and reason.
iN ANOTHER 100 years the nation would have been ready for self government
- except Chicago and Berkley.
PeP
If the colonies hadn't revolted, the British empire would have been quickly
devoured by the distances involved. It was one thing to imagine a king
presiding over some bluebloods pontificating and kissing his butt from
the east coast. It is totally another to imagine Dan Boone putting up with
a remote king. Or, to try and tell a rancher that he has to pay half his
cattle in homage to some Lilly white prick in England. Would never happened.
The French would have eaten up the rest of the north, along with Spain the west. You can't believe that the lumberjacks would have put up with the hardships of the -60° winters in the upper midwest to give half of their property to the redcoats.
The largest exported commodity from England is ENGLISH, and the people who speak it!
Their graduates are teaching people all over the world in universities and research organizations. Why? Because they don't have any more jobs at home.
They don't want some government to come in and dictate how much they should eat, or have.
The only thing we need a federal government for is to stabilize communication (this includes barter, money, language, etc.) between the states and other countries. Welfare is up to the individual.
There is no such thing as "the good of the many", or "the general welfare". ,
We are individuals, meant to seek our own way, benefited by forming alliances for protection, but not joined at the hip.
We are not supposed to be in the Away Plan, following some demented leader and his cronies to the ends of the earth until buyout by the next leader.
BUT that was the 18th century ! Things have changed
We are supposed to HUNT and FIGHT,
constantly, for the right solution to problems. Not compromises that lead
to more compromises which dilute the efforts of the very best minds. No,
I don't trust the media, the system, or the government, but I know we need
to educate people before anything will happen.
They let themselves be taken care of by anyone willing to do so
for a dollar or two. They think that because they pay for a little service,
they are supposed to get everything forever. Look at the recent airline
"Bill of passenger rights". What the hell is THAT for, except to treat
everyone like a baby. I say "Let them take care of themselves !" Spend
the money to MAKE SURE THE AIRPLANE WORKS. Some things are just obvious,
you know? Sorry, I am ranting. Do I sound cynical to you? I just came from
the dentist. :-;)
Americans are soft, stupid and
squishy.
Dan Conine P.S. Bullet trains are
an expensive, government subsidized PR stunt, like the Concorde and NASA.
They are inefficient, lose money, and suck resources. If you want to use
trains as an example, look at India. We only hear about the accidents they
have, but they run more passenger miles at lower cost than anywhere else
in the world.
We don't need mass transit in the
U.S. anymore, because we don't need cities or the high numbers of warm
sweaty bodies. Our products can be produced by machines, and meetings can
be held without travel. (the factory of the future only has two employees:
A man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there
to keep the man away from the machines) It (insert anything here) can always
be done better in America because of free minds, we just choose not to
sometimes.
Mandating something only creates
an agency to oversee it, it never actually gets the job done until it becomes
more profitable for a business (or municipality) to take action. The end
moral of the story is: Keep it free, keep it simple, make people responsible
for their lives (forward thinking), not just their actions (backward thinking).
I think the best way is the RANDOM PARTY. Vote for no more voting.. ..YOU
could be the next sleazeball in the Whitehorse, so do your government homework.
Well, it sounds heavenly...only, we live in a world (cyber or otherwise) filled with not-so-heavenly types. I want to live what you describe, and I trust a large percentage of the population enough to shout, "Brave New World, Here I Come!" But then I watch what pretends to be the news; the hypocritical ranting of yet some new demigogue...etc. And I think, "What about the 5-10% of humanity whom I do not trust?"
This discussion is on http://www.wiredbrain.com/webmaster.htm
There is http://www.wirdbrain.com/epcot.htm
and I have tried to set up communities in several places - but I don't
think any of them worked.
The Last Wave and the Seneca book
are "very" great ways - portals - The issue is "reality" and "values" the
current political fad ( without any depth in the public debate )
For the tribal people of Australia and the native tribes of North America - the world ( their being in a culture ) faced death -
The connection between being on
this planet is a connection between human culture - what we are and the
meaning of human being in this world -
Because we are not paying attention -
Notice that the white Europeans
in Peter Wier's film ( The last Wave ) are indifferent or give "off the
wall" explanations to the signs of the coming crisis -
The anthropologist in the museum
says the critical lines - They believe in the dream time - a form of reality
different from everyday life from which comes the "law", the way of life,
the path, the foundations of the life of value.
Handsome Lake enters the dream time
for critical knowledge. This is where meaning comes from - the only place
where "values", guides and common traditions can come from. They can not
be manufactured by mass media or political speeches - or found in authority,
or bibles, or any "human" connection but the endless cycles of the universes
-
In meeting with remarkable men - the Sufi tradition of direct contact with the dream time is brought into the modern world.
How do you know if such "experience" is real or fancy ? You have to have experience with guides - Mirs - but what guides are real - or false guides ?
A few thousand years of the "brotherhood" should help but there are many wayward souls - Rumi is right on - follow the color codes Let me know how it goes -
Angelotus1@aol.com wrote:
Peter, This Epcot page is covered with the announcement,''We've moved''. Where? How do I get there?
I'm a newbie, code white, I think. But I'm not a part of any community or group. I think I could learn the ropes faster with ''heros'' to consult with. Am I off base?
I have located and familiarised
myself with Peter Weirs '' The Last Wave''. I'm beginning a second read
of ''Death and Rebirth of the Seneca''.
Any directions? Hints? I'd like to contribute something. What?
I will continue to try and figure out what in the heck is going on in the meantime by more random skipping around and reading the wiredbrain pages.
But I sure could use a push in the right direction. Yours;
Mike
Angelotus1@aol.com To:
wiredbrain@earthlink.net Peter,
I’ve been concentrating on understanding the color codes, and traveling outbound from there. I have not read, yet, the logos, pathos, ethos documents, of which there seem to be a daunting number, but I’m working round to it.
I’m interested to find a commercial place in all of this too. I’m thinking maybe graphics to start?
I came across IIOP on a little tributary jump while trying to fathom the ‘’start your own web page’’. You know , the one that is so EASY? And while there I encountered the idea of GRAPHIC INTERFACES .Interesting.
Later, on your home page; I encountered : INTERFACE protocols. ‘’ Hmmm.’’
As you may know, I am a newbie, and barely computer literate(in fact I may be being too kind to myself with such a tag.), and the PC on which I am learning, primarily by wandering through files, programs, and your web pages, belongs to someone else, who is also a newbie.
I hate bugging you with simpleton questions, perhaps When I identify a group to work with, I can bug them. But in the meantime, I feel all alone, and not very smart.
Perhaps if I could get some of my visual stuff to you, or someone in your global village, they could sense quickly whether I have anything to offer anyone, or not, in that area. I’m a fair wordsmith, and pretty good at paraphrasing between highbrows and the lower classes, (my origins) But is that worth anything to anyone?
I am trying hard to find something I have to offer, in order to produce a reasonable income. I know that is up to me, but the truth is, most every new thing I ever learned came from someone else who already knew how to do it.
I’m looking for my place Peter, if there is one for me.
You’ve already identified what I’m like, better than I could have guessed, as demonstrated by the humorO1 page linked to my original e-mail to you. I see you have my number.
Be persuaded by me Peter. I’ve lost track somehow, with myself. Play the mentor with me once, and aim me in a productive direction. I know how much that is to ask, and I wouldn’t blame you if you simply deleted this novella. But you see, I sit and sit, and think and think, and then I sit and don’t think, and then I walk or drive, and still my brain is empty.????????????
I get the idea sometimes, that our brains are like computers. And at some earlier phase of programming, I clicked into some fatal error, deleted, or failed to load critical programs or something. And now, just like being stuck in a window you can’t get out of, and you can’t shut the computer down without crashing everything, or wiping out valuable data collected over the years, here I am! Non productive, doublebound, and too something or other for my own good. Maybe I’m a comic?
I see by the massive amount of work you have done over the years on Wiredbrain, that your assignment isn’t to mother and father me or all the other head injured survivors who can’t get going in the right direction. But Peter, I havn’t found anyone else, I know of, to ask.
I seem to be so talented, and yet unable to do anything at the same time. What the *@!&\%! IS GOING ON? I ask myself.
I’ts as if some part of me is holding it’s hands over the eyes of some other part of me. Actually, it’s as if every part of me has its fingers and toes stuffed into the perceptive orifices of every other part of me, until I’m ready to just give up and stop trying.
I’ve already done the blow up, get angry thing, etc. It doesn’t lead anywhere. I;ve already tried the bible belt churches and COURSE IN MIRACLES DISCUSSION GROUPS, where my questions just seem to shock and upset everybody. If you are familiar with the story ‘’THE AIM’’, which was sent to me by the S.S.S., which probably sums me up pretty good, then you know the rest.
I seem to be this incredibly delightful/ dislikable fuck, who can set fire to the most placid of smiley faced UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TALKERS, who are actually power players behind all their smiles faced talk.(Hard-core closures were my gods and teachers for awhile. It’s hard to run a sale on me, and not get caught.) At the same time, I’m interesting, in a roughish way to them, like an uncut diamond or an unmade sandwich. An entertaining freak. A problem.
No, it’s either independence, or the social welfare programs for me. I don’t get along well with bully bosses who think they own me for a pay check, and I’m too aware of my kinship to them, to take advantage of innocent fools for very long. What to do? What to do? Well...perhaps an organized, rigidly structured technical school? Learn a new trade at forty seven? Computer programming maybe? But. then there’s the net.
There’s you , Peter Pflaum. Sometimes
I think I’ve been on my way to you and your friends my whole life, without
knowing it. I’ve acquired a copy of ‘’THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF THE SENECA’’.
I’m a third of the way through my first read. I’ve yet to locate a copy
of Weirs LAST WAVE, but I’m looking. I may have to purchase a copy. Having
no money, this will slow me up considerably. I’m sorry this letter is so
long. I hope you are either, not offended, or are at least seven skins
thick.
Mike
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