Archive for March, 2009

Everybody has one.  Nobody’s is the same.

Some say let the sun shine in.  Others don’t

want anything more than a single ray to get

through their filter.

So what happened?  Who won?  I guess you

could say two opposites developed. Google,

on one side, said give me all your mail, spam

and all.  I’ve got storage for everything.

AOL, on the other hand, said they needed

permission from their client’s to forward anything

at all to their inboxes.  “Unless you, the sender,

are white-listed by our client, your mail will be

forwarded to the trash can”.

Every other mail service like Yahoo, MSN, AT&T,

etc. all have different tolerance levels.  This

spawned a whole bunch of bad grammar. All of a

sudden money became mo*ney, and free became

fr*e or fr.ee.  I am an agreeable guy but I don’t

like my lexicon mangled.

Here is my open letter to my provider:

Dear filter screen thwarter,

I like reading the Queen’s English.  I like to

connect with what I am reading and I don’t

connect with fr.ee, or fr*e or some other spam

filter frustrator abomination of the English

language.

If what you are trying to sell me you need to

sneak past my filter, I want your message to be

screened. If you can state your pitch clearly and

I like don’t like your pitch, I want you to be

spammed, damned, and banned forever more!

If, on the other hand, I like your message, I want

to be connected immediately to your server, so my

order can be processed without delay. 

And I expect you to know the difference.

Any questions?

President Obama and Prime Minister Brown touched upon the need to create a world regulating agency which would oversee all financial institutions — banking — everything, tracking all money moving anywhere.

So the bankers really blew it for themselves this time. No more international safe havens. No more protection from prying eyes.

What if all of a sudden, follow the money actually lead somewhere?

What if we could see the red stain of cash making a trail all the way from our pile in the desert back through Halliburton to Dick Cheney’s pocket? But that will never happen. Who would be brave enough to dip his toe in that river of molten lava. For all we know the last guy to disagree with Dick got his face shot off.

But maybe big oil, and big money, and the big guns got too big for their britches. (I hope — I don’t want this to pi** off anyone still important) Just maybe world government is the only way to effectively regulate big world-wide businesses.

Let’s see; from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. I make $18(average country wage) and the guy responsible for losing trillions received just shy of a half a million for that same hour. Assuming we both have weekends off, of course.

Yeah, right, I want protect this guy’s right to put all that money into his pocket at the expense of my kids education, health care, clean air and the environment. Or do I?