http://cellar.org How humans control the powers that control them en Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:12:04 GMT vBulletin 60 http://cellar.org/images/misc/rss.jpg http://cellar.org http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23451&goto=newpost Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:04:17 GMT My parents were raised on small farms growing vegetables to meet the family needs, selling tobacco, cotton, and a few eggs locally for hard cash. They met, married and moved to Detroit to work for General Motors. WW II ended and along came the Interstate Highway, and K-POW, the world changed. ... My parents were raised on small farms growing vegetables to meet the family needs, selling tobacco, cotton, and a few eggs locally for hard cash.
They met, married and moved to Detroit to work for General Motors. WW II ended and along came the Interstate Highway, and K-POW, the world changed.

My first computer in 1975 cost $3k, had 8K of memory and at each startup the DOS system software had to be loaded from a 3 inch floppy disc.
IBM was the opposite culture with the "big computer in the sky". Along came ethernet, the internet, and K-POW, the world changed.

Many businesses were small, set up as sole proprietorships and partnerships and small corporations that supported our nation's workforce.
Along came the multinational, mega-corporations, and K-POW, the world changed.

So now, we have episodes of contaminations of the entire nation's food chain (e.g., meat, eggs, spinach)
or a single oil spill threatens "just-in-time" inventories and manufacturing, and the polarizing politics brings economic hardships of immense proportions.
Along comes a US Supreme Court decision giving all businesses complete freedom of speech, and K-POW, the world will change.

So what... maybe it all works it's way out in the long run.
But I keep feeling there's a need for better thinking up front.

Isn't there an alternative or an underlying principle hidden in all this "learning by disaster" ? ]]> Politics Lamplighter http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23451 http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23423&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:55:41 GMT http://reason.com/assets/db/07cf533ddb1d06350cf1ddb5942ef5ad.jpg http://reason.com/assets/db/07cf533d...b5942ef5ad.jpg ]]> Politics Pete Zicato http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23423 http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23420&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:22:22 GMT Ambassador of Death Holy Crap... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100822/ts_nm/us_iran_military_drone Ambassador of Death Holy Crap...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100822/...military_drone ]]> Politics JBKlyde http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23420 http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23413&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:32:25 GMT So, yesterday Australians went to the polls in a federal election.

Today, we're facing the likely possibility of a hung parliament which is where neither side has a majority with which to form a government.

We are a divided nation. ]]> Politics Aliantha http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23413