Thought. Right? Wrong?

May 17th, 2002

You do not help others learn nearly as much by sharing your answers as you do by sharing your questions.

Wow, actual _good_ advice column on the net.

May 17th, 2002

this is pretty cool stuff.

For those who didn’t get the sarcasm

May 15th, 2002

That last was a bit of it.

A list of defence stocks. Just what we need. ‘buy these, you’ll get rich, and we’ll blow things up’.

I bet they will skyrocket.

Thanks a lot, microsoft.

S.

Isn’t this just great.

May 15th, 2002

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P18602.asp

News from radio, may or may not be true, and my reaction.

May 15th, 2002

I heard a strange rumor on the radio.. that the recent budget approved by the house included a request for the department of defense to research the possibility of using nuclear-tipped intercepters.

This strikes me, if true, as not exactly the safest idea one could come up with.

I mean, we’ve got rockets that _can not find their targets when they are carrying homing beacons_ – and now some crazy (word omitted) wants to strap BOMBS to them???

I guess the theory is that if you make a big enough explosion, it won’t matter if you’re even remotely in the right neighborhood. Never mind what this does to the people under it.

And, to be any good at all, a system like that has to be automated – or run by humans that are awake 24/7 – and frankly I’m not sure which scares me more.

Look, these are the people who spend a billion dollars on ‘stealth bombers’ to spy on the USSR. Like, duh, it’s cold and they’ve got no flipping money!

I mean, how exactly was russia going to ‘take over’ the united states? How do you wipe the people off a country? People, have you ever driven across the US? I have, many times! It’s a BIG country! It CAN NOT BE taken over as long as it has good lines of communication. It doesn’t _need_ a standing army. It certainly doesn’t need 21,000 nuclear warheads. 21,000. THINK ABOUT THAT!

As countries go, we’re assholes. Okay. There’s no other way to say it. Is that what we want to be?

Messages

May 15th, 2002

‘You’re the one who learned my song, I love you’
‘You’re the one who learned my song, I hate you’

‘there is a way for everything to be saved’

Oh, if I could only remember the questions. They rhymed. Bizarre.

Thank you, guardian angel

May 15th, 2002

I turned down enron.

That’s awesome. I never thought about that before. I was handed a situation, I followed my hunches.. and they were right.

Rant

May 15th, 2002

[warning – do not read the below if you do not enjoy seeing ranting]

Memo to the investing public: Investing for the maximum return on investment is not actaully the best way to get a good return on investment, short term.

Hello, people. INVEST IN THE KIND OF WORLD YOU WANT TO SEE!

This is NOT that difficult. when you put money into a company, you are giving a stamp of aproval to, if not neccesarily every little thing that company does, at least their general outlook on life. Hence, with your dollars, you vote for what kind of world we have. Yes, you, the high rollers, too! You’re just as responsable.

If you own a mutual fund, how difficult is that? I think I should sell out of my mutual funds.. that’s like appointing someone else your concience. Do you know what’s in your mutual fund? I don’t know what’s in mine.. I try to find ‘green’ funds, but what can you do in a world where enron would be considered ‘green’?

No, seriously, you are responsable for any company’s actions that you hold stock in. I realize there isn’t actually any law to allow you to suffer for your actions – except in the pocketbook when lawsuits occur, and even then it will only dip into your profits and possibly your stock price – but if you own stock in a corperation, you are saying that it is _right_ to take money for loaning money to this organization.

Funny how no one wants to invest money in the internet any more. Could it be because the companies that were there tried to grow up too quickly?

Anyway, I am guilty for Intel, but I hold more AMD and even more TMTA. I put my support behind the future I want. I hold more EVRC than you’d want to think about, because I beleive in what Evercel is doing. [And because face it, I love having a 100 mile range car]

I won’t bore you all with stock prices and things like that, but I’ll point out that even if doing the right thing costs you in the short run, in the long run it pays off for the human race.

Creepy.

May 15th, 2002





Find your Role-Playing
Stereotype
at mutedfaith.com.
[Angel.]

Yah, I buy that.

Interesting essay on memes

May 15th, 2002

http://www.memecentral.com/level3.htm