The Cathedral And The Bazaar - Part 3 of 4
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THE OBSERVER - CONT'D
Self-criticism
Politicians do not practice self-criticism because it is useless. In a discipline where lying is at the heart of what they do and the principal tool, they have no other option. However, what politicians do is to keep their options open as to their next political manoeuvre. Many good political moves originate in the realization that the previous one was an error. However, due to the…
The Cathedral And The Bazaar - Part 2 of 4
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THE OBSERVER - CONT'D
Listen and change
During electoral campaigns politicians listen to feedback from polls and change their messages accordingly. However, this process is a finely tuned feedback cycle where only selected people are allowed to be part of. Only the "inner circle" within a politician is accepted as the purveyor and synthesizer of feedback conclusions. Politicians want to know exactly what they need to change in order to…
The Cathedral And The Bazaar - Part 1 of 4
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A few days back we published the article titled The Hierarchy And The Networkwhich described the differences between one and the other while clarifying the true nature of the struggle between people and politicians. Today we are going to look at the operational differences between one and the other. This is important because although it is true that politicians control our lives through the "Principle of Authority" regardless of how…
Those Evil Evil Pinball Machines
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GOVERNMENT STUPIDITY THROUGHOUT THE AGES
Pinball machines are the precursors of computer games. A photo of such a device can be seen in the picture. The pinball machine was invented around 1700's but its modern version had its peak acceptance between late 50's and early 70's. Many people throughout the world are not too familiar with it because it was mainly a US/Canada phenomenon that never had widespread acceptance throughout…
Don't Worry, Be Happy!- Part 2 of 2
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OR WOULD YOU PREFER TO KNOW THE TRUTH? - CONT'D
The GDP mystery
The GDP has been in use for so long that people believe it. Yet, the GDP is a deeply flawed number (for an explanation see GDP Keynessians Vodoo Economics). The GDP is not a measure of wealth, is a measure of theoretical wealth contaminated by government taxing, borrowing and printing. If we take the simple step…
Don't Worry, Be Happy!- Part 1 of 2
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Feeling depressed yet? Tired of the rat-race that your life has become? Working on a dead-end job with no prospects and no future? Constantly chasing meagre amounts of cheese that are barely sufficient for you and your family? Worrying all night and even more during weekends? No rest, no future and no retirement? Don't worry! Be Happy! The statistics so indicate and as you know, statistics never lie! We are…
The Hierarchy And The Network - Part 2 of 2
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IN SEARCH OF THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT
Do we have a problem here?
We intuitively know that a conflict does indeed exist. We know this because we are not free and the limits imposed to our freedom are not voluntary. Take for example taxes. Very few -if any- person would pay taxes voluntarily if the government would not have people with badges and their corresponding guns pointed at you. But…
The Hierarchy And The Network - Part 1 of 2
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INTRODUCTION
There have been quite a few articles published "out there" with this title or something similar. The general idea is that governments (i.e. the "state") are hierarchical in nature while plain "people" operate on a network basis. A hierarchy is simply a collection of layers piled up where every layer controls all the ones below it until one reaches the top which represents the supreme controller. In a government, this…
Decoding Government IFF Signals
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The Identification Friend of Foe (IFF) system is a communication system designed to identify vehicles as friendly or unknown. This system is incapable of identifying any vehicle as foe because if the system does not receive the correct answer or receives no answer at all, the vehicle cannot be positively identified and it is thus labelled as unknown.
We people send out IFF interrogation signals all the time. We do…
