You'll know when we get into a real war. You'll know when we're all called to sacrifice, to give up our trappings of wealth, to rearrange all our lives' priorities, from the elderly to the smallest child, for the duration. When you're called to sacrifice as Roosevelt did, you'll know.
The leaders of this time and most of the winners of this year will be transitional figures. The open source belief system which will replace Nixonism is still gestating, here, in this medium, and its troops are mainly flexing their muscles stage left.
Open source politics, in the end, is about putting the values of the Internet into action. You start with issues directly impacting the Internet. But in dealing with those issues, which are otherwise intractable, and where the open source side has not previously been heard, you also create new coalitions which can be used to tackle bigger, harder issues.
What Democrats are lining up to do, now that they feel brave (due to the President's declining poll numbers) is to say, like Republicans did 40 years ago, that "we all agree on the objectives of the War on Terror, we merely disagree on tactics."
The unlicensed frequencies are not a "franchise" that can be given away on an "exclusive" basis.
The purpose of a corporate database is to serve your customers better. It's not to keep your computer people employed. It's not to spy on your customers, but to serve them. If you're not doing that, you are wasting your money.
Ritalin, and other drugs which act on the mind, should never be prescribed without accompanying psychotherapy. Ever. With ADHD kids this therapy should be of a different type than it is with other problems. That is, you need a coaching style, where the therapist is making active suggestions for behavioral change. A lot of these suggestions are simple ideas for organizing time, organizing stuff, and organizing thoughts.
Are we more fascist than before? Yes. Are we fascist? No. But the border is murky. The real question is, how much further toward that border do you want to go?
More-and-more "businesses" are dealing with off-the-balance-sheet assets, like credibility and volunteer time. Most are not yet following the obvious implication that these assets, like any assets, deserve attention and management.
The way is now clear for Dunn and Hurd to appoint cronies and yes-men of their choice to these board seats, which would allow them to engage in all sorts of self-serving financial manipulation. This is how crooks have been gobbling up America's best companies from the inside for over 30 years, but I always thought tech moved to quickly for it to happen here.
