Obama's Financial Reform

After 30 years of honing the craft of reforming world economies in crises for the benefit of large multinational corporations, the United States finds itself suffering from the same results of these devastating reforms, which have been applied here while the country has been dealing with its financial crises as well as the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

There should be little surprise that democracy has failed here, free-market ideologues have made an art of using financial blackmail to coerce democratic governments to act against the interests of the people who elected them. The same techniques have been applied with great success here. Banks and private wealth have been saved while states and cities have been doomed. All with the consent and assistance of our democratically elected and populist government.

Priorities

The more I learn about history and political economy, economics in general, and technology, and try to apply this knowledge to understanding our current situation, the more obvious it becomes that what we have is problem of priorities.

Whether because of the "tyranny of small decisions" or outright self-interested manipulation (greed), we are in a unique situation. We are in a disjointed paradoxical society that is spiraling further out of our control as size and speed reduce our capacity to understand, study, plan, and direct our course.

iPad - My Review

It's been a while since my last post, and I've been meaning to write this review for some time now, but wasn't able to because I was traveling. The delay has given me even more time to play with my iPad, and I feel even better prepared.

Firstly, has anyone noticed that a lot of the "bad" iPad reviews have faded out? Perhaps the haters got tired of spitting into the wind, or they actually got to play with one and decided it wasn't awful after all. Whatever the reason, the noise seems to have subsided substantially, maybe the messages will be clearer now.

iPad Problems: Users' BIGGEST Complaints So Far (PHOTOS)

I haven't had any of those problems, except for the charging. It needs more power than most laptop USB ports can provide, and should be charged with it's power supply, which is significantly smaller than the one used by the laptops. The user manual does specify this.

Syncing 64 GB of data over USB is time consuming on most devices. It's a lot of data.

Many users have posted that typing is excellent on the device, and while I'm not the most adept typist, it works fine for me. My neighbor tried it and banged out a couple of sentences (touch-typed) in no time with no errors.

I may be a fanboy, but I believe this is the future as well as the bridge to the future.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke
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