I always have lots of ideas. New products. New movie scripts. Etc. However, I just never write them down or do anything with them.
Well, hopefully I can reduce the 1st problem a bit. So I’ll place some of my ideas out here for public viewing.
My only request: If you take any of my ideas and expand upon them to the point of profiting, I do expect some monetary reimbursement. Just consider this my “poor man’s patent/copyright.”
OK, on to the ideas:
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There is a huge, massive amount of debate about Capitalism and Communism. You can find all sorts of debates, arguments, charts, etc. showing the goals, similarities, differences, pros and cons of both these diverse concepts.
Part of the problem is that most of these arguments are philosophical and not really dealing with the real-life uses of these systems. Or if they do touch on the real-life aspects, it is only to point toward some example of why the other side is wrong.
“The fall of the USSR proves Communism is wrong.”
“No, the failure of Enron, etc. prove Capitalism only brings disaster.”
So which is right? Well ironically, there’s one major part of each system that is always hinted at, yet never used as a basis for making a decision.
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This is a fairly old subject, however, I was thinking of it the other day and decided to discuss it. The situation is this: Wynn Resorts instituted a controversial tip pool program. All the tips from each shift are pooled and a percentage of it are given to the supervisors.
The tip pool was declared legal according to the Nevada State Labor Commissioner. (Local news article giving details here.) However, what’s legal and what’s right aren’t always the same, so that brings up the question: Who do the tips really belong too?
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With businesses starting seasonal sales earlier and earlier, I’m just waiting for the 5th of July Christmas sale.
Can we predict the future? Can we determine exactly what awaits in the forward portion of time? Can we make the unknown completely knowable? There are some who say we can not. They say the future is random, ever changing & unknowable.
The answer is:
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The concepts of age, growing old, etc. can be summed up in two simple words:
Cumulative damage
The ability to exchange information is truly a fascinating issue.
To help explain, I’ve made two symbols for this article.
= Understand
= NOT understand
Pretty simple, yeah? Do you or do you what these mean?
And with this, we hint at the simple, yet hard to grasp fundamental of communication:
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The term “conspiracy theory” is meant to be used as a semi-derogatory description of an unlikely explanation about a specific event. The term literally means a theory about a conscious plot to produce specific actions usually undetected by “the average person”.
For example, there are many conspiracy theories about who killed JFK. The lists include the FBI, Cuba (on Castro’s orders), Russia, etc. Yes he was killed, and Lee Harvey Oswald is implicated in the action, but depending which story you hear, he was either a patsy, a decoy, or under orders via whichever specific organization the story calls for.
There’s conspiracies about the Pearl Harbor attack, secret organizations (which everyone seems to know about), connections with space aliens, secret plots from almost every organization, political group, business, actor/actress, alive or dead, etc., etc., etc. The only real connecting factor is that they are almost all fanciful and wrong.
Skipping the details, the question I want to discuss is: How do these types of stories get started to begin with?
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I love the show Mythbusters. I’ve loved them ever since they started.
Well why wouldn’t I? The whole concept of the show is the study of Reality.
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This article isn’t about that old question, “What is love?”. This article is about certain aspects of love that are often misunderstood or forgotten. We won’t deal with issues of love for inanimate things. Loving your country or your motorcycle is fine, however, for this, we’ll discuss love between humans. Specifically we’ll focus on romantic love.
However, just so we’re on the same page, I’ll post one of the best quotes I’ve ever read answering that first question. From Jubal Harshaw in the book Stranger in a Strange Land:
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
