Sunday, October 09, 2016
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Political Technology Imagining #1 - Reality step #1 - Google PlayStore: VDP_Prototype_001
First I present a partial vision of a front-end.
Features or functionality has not been defined completely.
I know that there will be a tech language format not unlike the Health Industries HL7 file format. The communication mechanisms/relationship between many patients and a Doctor bears resemblance to a patient voter and elected official that think they can fix things.
More than willing to discuss this is a direction.
I know there will be a data exchange of those messages - as there are to HL7 messages.
For today, for those with current Android phones - I created a - do nothing/"Hello World" app and published it to the Google Playstore. It is free and available now. This is the first step. I now have the capability to publish to the Phone form factor world.
I used Android Studio and a YouTube tutorials.
The buttons do nothing - but I have control to create and publish
Reality step #2 is to start experimenting - This coming weekend or maybe even tomorrow, I will publish a functional buttons. - Hey what do you want for doing something before work.
Features or functionality has not been defined completely.
I know that there will be a tech language format not unlike the Health Industries HL7 file format. The communication mechanisms/relationship between many patients and a Doctor bears resemblance to a patient voter and elected official that think they can fix things.
More than willing to discuss this is a direction.
I know there will be a data exchange of those messages - as there are to HL7 messages.
For today, for those with current Android phones - I created a - do nothing/"Hello World" app and published it to the Google Playstore. It is free and available now. This is the first step. I now have the capability to publish to the Phone form factor world.
I used Android Studio and a YouTube tutorials.
The buttons do nothing - but I have control to create and publish
Reality step #2 is to start experimenting - This coming weekend or maybe even tomorrow, I will publish a functional buttons. - Hey what do you want for doing something before work.
Saturday, March 05, 2016
Poltical Technological Imagining #1
Here is the proposal. This is not all - just the tip of sword or iceberg
Imagining #1:
Setting #1: Your smartphone - to match my mental image - an Android Galaxy Note 5
Application #1: Pandora-like - Thumbs up/Thumbs Down as the platform.
Content#1: Public Political Snippets on the order of 2-3 min.
User Story #1: The User has 3 options when presented a question at the bottom (much like the title of a song - but longer) and the audio/visual is a candidates response to the question. The 3 options are No-Response, Yay, Nay. This is information about this is processed for consumption
The information is saved in an HL7 styled message. More on this later...
The end result is data can allow anonymous communications between the individual voter and then Candidates, Elected Officials, Medias, Lobbyists.
It is a form of a personal virtual debate forum that enables voter to track response and a personal platform of specific issues with responses.
Objective: Provide a political device to disable unproductive political rhetoric - like obstrsuctionism and confrontationalism. Putting power in the actual/physical hand of "We the People"
Remember this is an imaging of an undiscovered country.
See a mock ups below:
First a screen scrape from my phone - of Pandora
Then
1) Replace image of Jim Croce Album with a Candidate image
2) Note the functionality and placement of Advertisement for future reference
3) Replace "Time in a Bottle" with a question from a Reporter or a public Debate
Note: Both Republican and Democratic contenders are presented below:
Imagining #1:
Setting #1: Your smartphone - to match my mental image - an Android Galaxy Note 5
Application #1: Pandora-like - Thumbs up/Thumbs Down as the platform.
Content#1: Public Political Snippets on the order of 2-3 min.
User Story #1: The User has 3 options when presented a question at the bottom (much like the title of a song - but longer) and the audio/visual is a candidates response to the question. The 3 options are No-Response, Yay, Nay. This is information about this is processed for consumption
The information is saved in an HL7 styled message. More on this later...
The end result is data can allow anonymous communications between the individual voter and then Candidates, Elected Officials, Medias, Lobbyists.
It is a form of a personal virtual debate forum that enables voter to track response and a personal platform of specific issues with responses.
Objective: Provide a political device to disable unproductive political rhetoric - like obstrsuctionism and confrontationalism. Putting power in the actual/physical hand of "We the People"
Remember this is an imaging of an undiscovered country.
See a mock ups below:
First a screen scrape from my phone - of Pandora
Then
1) Replace image of Jim Croce Album with a Candidate image
2) Note the functionality and placement of Advertisement for future reference
3) Replace "Time in a Bottle" with a question from a Reporter or a public Debate
Note: Both Republican and Democratic contenders are presented below:
Thursday, March 03, 2016
In the coming weeks I am going to continue a thought experiment involving the technology in or at your hands and governing. It is time to see who is interested in finding an undiscovered country and being a pioneer. It is about a alternative that is not direct democracy. It does not involve me or anyone I know running for public office. A requirement involves using technology to govern in fashions or methods not yet publicly demonstrated...more to come in small portions (that's all that I have time for before work)
Sunday, February 28, 2016
After the last republican or conservative debate a couple of thoughts come to mind.
As surely as the Neo-Cons of the late 90's early 2000's were not my parents Republican party - seeing and hearing Donald Trump with Chris Christie make me half expect to see Snooki and JWoww come walking on stage.
Mind you - I am saying that Mr Trump, Mr Christie, Ms Snooki, Ms. JWoww have a place in American Pop Culture and I wish them well and all the best in their lives.
But it is hard not to think Republicans have traded "Neo-Cons" for the characters from the reality show "Jersey Shore".
They have traded "Darth Vader" (aka Dick Cheney) for "The Situation".
Perhaps the party has traded Republicans for Convervatives.
Let's be clear - we are talking about the "Anti-Politic" as per traditional conservative David Brooks.
Hillary may not be a better choice, but presidential campaign season is to be a season of articulation not entertainment. It is a season of "What If's".
If there is to be fiction and comparisons to TV genre's then we need political speech writer to create text that a society can say why not. Science Fiction at least gave us tech toys. Other than providing snippets for AFV - what has WWE or the "Jersey Shore" reality show inspired folks to do?
As surely as the Neo-Cons of the late 90's early 2000's were not my parents Republican party - seeing and hearing Donald Trump with Chris Christie make me half expect to see Snooki and JWoww come walking on stage.
Mind you - I am saying that Mr Trump, Mr Christie, Ms Snooki, Ms. JWoww have a place in American Pop Culture and I wish them well and all the best in their lives.
But it is hard not to think Republicans have traded "Neo-Cons" for the characters from the reality show "Jersey Shore".
They have traded "Darth Vader" (aka Dick Cheney) for "The Situation".
Perhaps the party has traded Republicans for Convervatives.
Let's be clear - we are talking about the "Anti-Politic" as per traditional conservative David Brooks.
Hillary may not be a better choice, but presidential campaign season is to be a season of articulation not entertainment. It is a season of "What If's".
If there is to be fiction and comparisons to TV genre's then we need political speech writer to create text that a society can say why not. Science Fiction at least gave us tech toys. Other than providing snippets for AFV - what has WWE or the "Jersey Shore" reality show inspired folks to do?
Thursday, October 29, 2015
There will come a time when existing technology is re-engineered to enable the power individual voter in ways not currently imagined. It will eliminate all of the worst characteristics of politics and preserve the best of the process. It will be a new layer. It will be - local, county, state, federal, media and then...?
We use technology to select mates. We let technology entertain us.It empowers us to manage our personal finances. Why not our voting/election process? Is it not a logical and reasoned progression?
There will come a time when political disagreements - large and small will be settled with emotional satisfaction for all participants. Future voters will effortlessly know history as surely as a NFL fan knows the trail their team got to the end of the season - Superbowl or not.
It will be standard and local. It will utilize personal hardware.
It will be recognized that the political attacks will done in the context of a competition that is standard and local.
It will allow for the presence and contributions of political parties and special interests/lobbyist as surely as sports require the contributions of non-players in the field of play.
It will be recognized that this age of politics will be considered medieval or dark ages in grand scale of maturation this young nation called America.
A time will come when we the people will say with a collective sigh of relief and acceptance and agree -- watch this space more to come
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Donald J Trump vs James T Kirk
Is it only obvious to me? There is a reason James T Kirk remained a Captain until this fictional char died.
There is a reason that the Rockefellers, Carnegie, Fords did not trade their chairs for one in the oval office.
They ultimately enjoyed what they were doing.
And a lesson repeated in fiction...absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Does Donald J Trump think the oval office as an ultimate or absolute power?
Is it possible Donald Trump no longer enjoys being a builder/businessman?
Sunday, November 02, 2014
With election day coming in a couple of days. I am inspired to write again. I have additional ideas. These are not new ideas or concepts. None of my suggestions have been. If there is a method or style I am simply looking at existing ideas with the intent to see it in a different perspective..
I have always like the use of the phrase "logic and reason". It was a way to understand a sequence in life or society. Even today's political process has a logic and reason to it's processes. Recently I have been listening to an audio version of Walter Isaacson's book "Innovators" during my 4:30 am 6 mile walks. I'm loving it. Mr Isaacson has eloquently captured how innovation works and is never actually one man. The innovations that he tracks, follows the growth of computers, internet and smartphones.
Success of a given innovation is marked by waves of agreements by populations. Almost word of mouth.
Perhaps with time, I will find more eloquent rhetoric to set the stage for the following suggestion.
For now I feel time is running short. Or perhaps it is a sensation time is being wasted and it can be seen in the political polls. There is going to be gridlock for the foreseeable future.
The Tea Party is fond of thinking "what would the founding fathers do?" How would they be handling today's environment. They are put on pedestals as if ordinary folks should not dare think like they did.
I focus on Ben Franklin. I try to think what would he have suggested had he read Walter Isaacson's "Innovators" And recently, one idea has presented it self. Data Exchanges are not new ideas to the information technology. However, I have been introduced to a particular form of data exchange that when I think of the nature of the sociology of the involved I find parallels in political terms. I try to "free associate" or improvise on the relationships between a Doctor, patient and others into political terms of power, control.
Is not the relationship between Dr/Patient have parallels to a Congressperson/Voter? In the end the Voter and the Patient have the power? Do not labs/hospitals have a parallel function as lobbyist/special interest groups?
Walter Isaacson pointed out that in the section about the internet and packet switching innovations was that it was a design that inherently resolves problems with data transmitting by make far more choices and decisions.
Let me repeat, and rephrase. No webpage hits 2 computers in the same path through the internet. It breaks it up and in the end resolves disputes to deliver the same messages to 2 computers.
For our political system do we all not want a process\system that does just that? Congress has bills that it votes on and the ordinary voter can't touch the process or easily influence it. A legislative bill is very similar to the same process of a webpage being broken into packets and being assembled into the final product.
What if the ordinary voter had access to a "something" that could be broken down into packets until such time as the proper numbers of voters assemble it. Imagine such a file layout protocol that has different sections. As the HL7 has a section for Patient information and then other sections for "Observations" or lab tests and results.
In a political edition, imagine a section that would start with FIS for fiscal impact.Within the one line,separate locations within for the different republican and democratic estimations and reasoning. Imagine every bill structured in the same way. Imagine a section for JUS or social justice?
Dr Ben Franklin (albeit an honorary title) might have seen the value to such a file had he known of the power internet to resolve issues during communication.
Now this is just the file layout. Go another step of imagination. Accept for a moment, as one suspends disbelief while watching science fiction character "Teleport" somewhere, that the layout is universal and common knowledge. In order for the process to work as the internet, that file will require small communities make adjustments to the file and the different sections. This a market and jobs are created to enable that manipulation and final assembly into a product to be accepted by traditional Congress or other legislative body
That's enough for now...As this is a blog I will follow on as life permits
I have always like the use of the phrase "logic and reason". It was a way to understand a sequence in life or society. Even today's political process has a logic and reason to it's processes. Recently I have been listening to an audio version of Walter Isaacson's book "Innovators" during my 4:30 am 6 mile walks. I'm loving it. Mr Isaacson has eloquently captured how innovation works and is never actually one man. The innovations that he tracks, follows the growth of computers, internet and smartphones.
Success of a given innovation is marked by waves of agreements by populations. Almost word of mouth.
Perhaps with time, I will find more eloquent rhetoric to set the stage for the following suggestion.
For now I feel time is running short. Or perhaps it is a sensation time is being wasted and it can be seen in the political polls. There is going to be gridlock for the foreseeable future.
The Tea Party is fond of thinking "what would the founding fathers do?" How would they be handling today's environment. They are put on pedestals as if ordinary folks should not dare think like they did.
I focus on Ben Franklin. I try to think what would he have suggested had he read Walter Isaacson's "Innovators" And recently, one idea has presented it self. Data Exchanges are not new ideas to the information technology. However, I have been introduced to a particular form of data exchange that when I think of the nature of the sociology of the involved I find parallels in political terms. I try to "free associate" or improvise on the relationships between a Doctor, patient and others into political terms of power, control.
Is not the relationship between Dr/Patient have parallels to a Congressperson/Voter? In the end the Voter and the Patient have the power? Do not labs/hospitals have a parallel function as lobbyist/special interest groups?
Walter Isaacson pointed out that in the section about the internet and packet switching innovations was that it was a design that inherently resolves problems with data transmitting by make far more choices and decisions.
Let me repeat, and rephrase. No webpage hits 2 computers in the same path through the internet. It breaks it up and in the end resolves disputes to deliver the same messages to 2 computers.
For our political system do we all not want a process\system that does just that? Congress has bills that it votes on and the ordinary voter can't touch the process or easily influence it. A legislative bill is very similar to the same process of a webpage being broken into packets and being assembled into the final product.
What if the ordinary voter had access to a "something" that could be broken down into packets until such time as the proper numbers of voters assemble it. Imagine such a file layout protocol that has different sections. As the HL7 has a section for Patient information and then other sections for "Observations" or lab tests and results.
In a political edition, imagine a section that would start with FIS for fiscal impact.Within the one line,separate locations within for the different republican and democratic estimations and reasoning. Imagine every bill structured in the same way. Imagine a section for JUS or social justice?
Dr Ben Franklin (albeit an honorary title) might have seen the value to such a file had he known of the power internet to resolve issues during communication.
Now this is just the file layout. Go another step of imagination. Accept for a moment, as one suspends disbelief while watching science fiction character "Teleport" somewhere, that the layout is universal and common knowledge. In order for the process to work as the internet, that file will require small communities make adjustments to the file and the different sections. This a market and jobs are created to enable that manipulation and final assembly into a product to be accepted by traditional Congress or other legislative body
That's enough for now...As this is a blog I will follow on as life permits
Thursday, July 04, 2013
A Flash of a....
But
when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right,
it is their duty, to throw
off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Pasted
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence>
"If there is
something wrong those who have the ability to take action have the
responsibility to take action". -
character Ben Gates/Actor Nicholas Cage - National Treasure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPiXax0S3vY
From: Voter Decision
Project
To personally: Former Congressman James C. Greenwood, Dr James R Greenwood, Dr. Scott Robertson of Drexel author of " Voter-centered design: to a voter decision support system", Ramy Hasan
To:
CEO Zain Khan of IConstituent, CEO Keya
(Jayaram) Dannenbaum of NextElect and President Barack Obama
A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create
a new market and value network, and
eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few
years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. The term is used in
business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a
product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by
designing for a different set of consumers in the new market and later by
lowering prices in the existing market.
Pasted
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation>
A
proposition: Initiate a sequence to develop a "government-to-constituent communications and citizen
engagement" via technology to be sponsored by the People of Egypt and of
the People of the United States for the future security of the People. Whether
Egyptian or American - a technological voter centered designed can be created
to develop a new market.
A currently
hypothetical Bill of Rights in Egypt and the American Bill of Rights can be
different in content.
They can utilize a
common technological open source platform to be developed without giving up
sovereignty or disrupting current governance until ready.
The need is to
create a new business/corporate citizen and marketplace and technological tools
for the People to develop the content of
governance - like a Bill of Rights
The act to sign on
to such an effort is an act of a volunteer to be a pioneer and explore an
"undiscovered country"
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Here is the Drudge headline: Yelling "Fire" or Opening "Fire" - Choice for politicians?
I am not as smart as
James
Holmes based on academic records.
There is a value there that I believe cuts across political spectrums.
The extremes of conservatives and liberals know this value
The extremes of those who say yes and those who say know
The extremes of those who for us and against usThere are restrictions on the 1st Amendment.
100 years ago changes
to the body politic and law were starting due to the sinking of the Titanic -
1500 lives were lost.
The changes made were considered irrelevant because the body politic did not make a decision about the reasonablness of "Unsinkable"
Waste is defined in terms of time, energy, money lives lives to name a few.
I want to ask the question why can't we find a method of body politic change and law change to think in advance?
Unfortunately I have known the answer - it is the refusal to compromise.
We all know it and it happens on both sides of all political spectrums.
We have video-gamers that are doing this very kind of thing in virtual worlds.
Perhaps society can do more to enable good things to cross over from virtual or movie realms into common-sense reality.
I only achieved a BA
and do not have a masters.
I am a student of
politics and the body politic.
I am a student of
technology,
Can we allow
ourselves to find a good from this horror?
Yes.
Everytime a
plane crashes for reasons not immediately apparent and hundreds of lives are
lost, much time and effort is put into finding the cause and repairing the
technology, changing the flight rules or the business policies. Those subsequent
changes are "Good". They will and do prevent future loss of life and pain. There is a value there that I believe cuts across political spectrums.
The extremes of conservatives and liberals know this value
The extremes of those who say yes and those who say know
The extremes of those who for us and against usThere are restrictions on the 1st Amendment.
One cannot yell
"Fire" when there is no danger, in a crowded movie theatre.
This is a "Good"
thing
The founding fathers should have written
this out. They knew of theatres.
There probably were horrorific fires in
crowded early American theaters.
But they didn't write it in the constitution
or even as an amendment.
So is this
relevant?
There have
changes in the body politic and laws made from such
events.
The changes made were considered irrelevant because the body politic did not make a decision about the reasonablness of "Unsinkable"
New Jersey made changes for Megan Kanka - or known as
Megan's Law.
The changes made were
considered irrelevant because the body politic did not make a decision about how
to treat sex offenders.
This
sequence or horror then law does not have to be a status
quo.
There is a
common-sense about the illogic of waste. Waste is defined in terms of time, energy, money lives lives to name a few.
I want to ask the question why can't we find a method of body politic change and law change to think in advance?
Unfortunately I have known the answer - it is the refusal to compromise.
We all know it and it happens on both sides of all political spectrums.
It stems from a fear
of the unknown. Change is the nexus of "before" and "after".
There is also a
common-sense about fixing things that are not broken - don't do
it.
The only salve for
the tension that comes with change is the common-sense about the reversal the
change - going back to the way things were.
They say Thomas
Edison didn't fail many times to invent the light bulb.
The folktale is that
he found 2000 ways NOT to make a light bulb - in addition to the one that
worked.
They say that it
takes 10,000 hours of practice and literally anyone can be a virtuoso
musician,
Is there a number of
hours or a number of political choices to make a virtuoso American
citizen?We have video-gamers that are doing this very kind of thing in virtual worlds.
Perhaps James Holmes
enabled evil to cross from a virtual or movie realm into a common-sense
reality.
Perhaps society
enabled James Holmes at different stages of his life - it only seems possibly.
Remember,
I'm not an expert on much.Perhaps society can do more to enable good things to cross over from virtual or movie realms into common-sense reality.
Is there some kind
of combination of historical sequence, technology, blogs, political talk, radio
opinions, laws and common behaviors that can be developed such that it allows
2nd Amendment but prevents James Holmes.
Is this something we are going to leave to
our politicians and political pundits to resolve?
There are tools, method and technology that
are developing. Voter centered decision support is one concept among many.
Only if the body politic allows itself to
visualise the future can it learn from the past. Only if the body politic
allows itself to learn from the past, decide when it is time to change, can it
visualise the future.
Remember, we
are the country that put Armstrong on the moon, invented the
internet.
American politics needs an inventive mindset in approaching thoughts and
discussions of James Holmes and firearm
Friday, June 29, 2012
A opportunity to look for understanding between right and left
The decision by the Supreme Court on ObamaCare is an opportunity for both the right and left to find out how to think like the other side. It may sound stupid. The value in such an excercise is to look for a way to share political power rather than gain a monopoly in political power.
This right/left split is getting very boring and predictable. While no one may have expected Justice Roberts to have been the swing vote, it is possible that he felt it was in the best interest of the court and the nation that such a split decision break on his opinion rather than one of the associate justices.
Justice Roberts decision suggests to this slightly educated but observant student of politics that he sought a middle ground as much as anything.
The hypocrisy that comes from this desire for monopolistic political power is blinding the body politic. In listening to the rants about "deception" by the administration on the issue of a tax versus a mandate, made those on the left think about deception by another administration on the issue of war.
The cry for war by the right is once again growing. This will leave the left in the position of needing to use the same tactics as the right so as to maintain a balance or worse yet pursue a political power at all cost, thus continuing the cycle.
We need a political and economic middle class to absorb or blunt the shots given/taken by both sides of the political spectrum.
The kind of social order that both sides enjoy in the same period of history does not grow in the grinding heat. It can only blossom in a Spring/Fall like kind of political temps.
The body politic enjoy's it's tech - perhaps tools can be built to create an ointment to easy the chaffing.
This right/left split is getting very boring and predictable. While no one may have expected Justice Roberts to have been the swing vote, it is possible that he felt it was in the best interest of the court and the nation that such a split decision break on his opinion rather than one of the associate justices.
Justice Roberts decision suggests to this slightly educated but observant student of politics that he sought a middle ground as much as anything.
The hypocrisy that comes from this desire for monopolistic political power is blinding the body politic. In listening to the rants about "deception" by the administration on the issue of a tax versus a mandate, made those on the left think about deception by another administration on the issue of war.
The cry for war by the right is once again growing. This will leave the left in the position of needing to use the same tactics as the right so as to maintain a balance or worse yet pursue a political power at all cost, thus continuing the cycle.
We need a political and economic middle class to absorb or blunt the shots given/taken by both sides of the political spectrum.
The kind of social order that both sides enjoy in the same period of history does not grow in the grinding heat. It can only blossom in a Spring/Fall like kind of political temps.
The body politic enjoy's it's tech - perhaps tools can be built to create an ointment to easy the chaffing.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Caught a couple of segments of Part 1 of 4 of the Frontline series:Money, Power and Wall Street It was preceeded by a presentation of the "American Experience" on the particulars of the '29 crash and the lead up to the great depression. It is a thought provoking set of programs. It is actually painful to be a citizen who worked for a large Bank's operations that had manipulations and accounting of the products mentioned in the piece. Credit Default Swaps and Direvatives were small parts of my job. I was not a executive, just a software engineer that built tools for management.
As a culture, we learned absolutely nothing from the "Greatest Generation" that we let it happen and that we have allowed ourselves to be so divided that to fix it will require things different that great plans. It will require some form of submission on one side and/or an acceptance of those submitting. Loosely analogous to the civil war reconstruction, or loosely analogous to the pattern of Christ and the Roman Empire. Perhaps that of the acceptance of Neo of the virus from Agent Smith in the final Matrix: Revolutions or better yet that of Washington's farewell to the troops and leaving the Presidency.
We need to be a whole again. The Red and Blue states need to let the purple bruising of coming together to heal.
As a culture, we learned absolutely nothing from the "Greatest Generation" that we let it happen and that we have allowed ourselves to be so divided that to fix it will require things different that great plans. It will require some form of submission on one side and/or an acceptance of those submitting. Loosely analogous to the civil war reconstruction, or loosely analogous to the pattern of Christ and the Roman Empire. Perhaps that of the acceptance of Neo of the virus from Agent Smith in the final Matrix: Revolutions or better yet that of Washington's farewell to the troops and leaving the Presidency.
We need to be a whole again. The Red and Blue states need to let the purple bruising of coming together to heal.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
The Price of Gas!!!!
It truly pains me. It hurts my head for any political or financial analyst to explain what goes into the price of gas. Recently I heard that 22% is due to speculation. Another portion is due to refinery's seasonal change in the blends. Others allocate an undefined portion to a lack of drilling.
But when the price of gas jumps 10 cents in less than 2 minutes, live on the evening News - something is wrong! This is not a function of supply and demand.
It is a strain to believe that there are simplistic or small set of reasons. The national AVERAGE rose some 3 cents over night!
Is it possible that there are too many layers of different kinds of market driven forces? Perhaps it is along the lines of a several bubbles, within a one of several larger bubbles? And these larger bubbles are in a still larger bubble.
And yet there is one undeniable, irrevocable constant to the economic of the price of gas. The Supply of Gas will run out! The timeframe we are talking about is not in terms of epoc's. Even if it is a 200 years, it will run out!
Even if we drill baby drill - and then drill some more - the wells will run dry!
What is also insulting is that those who lived throught the gas-lines of the late 70's are expected to believe the non-sense about gas prices, as if something has changed!
Something was either broken then, or it is broken now. Logic suggests that it cannot be the same thing both times. There is logical disonance when I relive that period in my mind as the gas pump poking my car stops at 75 dollars because they have not been programmed for higher totals.
The issue is not Republican or Democrat. It is a national security issue, only because there is not even a cabal of business or corporate executive that are control it. The market forces are outstripping the corporation/citizen ability to cope - they can only profit - regardless of the supply.
I am missing something - there is something wrong with the picture at the pump - and God-dammit - I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S WRONG!!!!
Keep the prices high
- just tell me an explanation of the price of gas that is more concrete than an explanation about UFO's!
Hell, jack the price up another nickle if the explanation can allow the individual to research and understand the true costs of a gallon of 1970's gas compared against 2012 gas. It is not simple inflation.
Why?! Why not??
It truly pains me. It hurts my head for any political or financial analyst to explain what goes into the price of gas. Recently I heard that 22% is due to speculation. Another portion is due to refinery's seasonal change in the blends. Others allocate an undefined portion to a lack of drilling.
But when the price of gas jumps 10 cents in less than 2 minutes, live on the evening News - something is wrong! This is not a function of supply and demand.
It is a strain to believe that there are simplistic or small set of reasons. The national AVERAGE rose some 3 cents over night!
Is it possible that there are too many layers of different kinds of market driven forces? Perhaps it is along the lines of a several bubbles, within a one of several larger bubbles? And these larger bubbles are in a still larger bubble.
And yet there is one undeniable, irrevocable constant to the economic of the price of gas. The Supply of Gas will run out! The timeframe we are talking about is not in terms of epoc's. Even if it is a 200 years, it will run out!
Even if we drill baby drill - and then drill some more - the wells will run dry!
What is also insulting is that those who lived throught the gas-lines of the late 70's are expected to believe the non-sense about gas prices, as if something has changed!
Something was either broken then, or it is broken now. Logic suggests that it cannot be the same thing both times. There is logical disonance when I relive that period in my mind as the gas pump poking my car stops at 75 dollars because they have not been programmed for higher totals.
The issue is not Republican or Democrat. It is a national security issue, only because there is not even a cabal of business or corporate executive that are control it. The market forces are outstripping the corporation/citizen ability to cope - they can only profit - regardless of the supply.
I am missing something - there is something wrong with the picture at the pump - and God-dammit - I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S WRONG!!!!
Keep the prices high
- just tell me an explanation of the price of gas that is more concrete than an explanation about UFO's!
Hell, jack the price up another nickle if the explanation can allow the individual to research and understand the true costs of a gallon of 1970's gas compared against 2012 gas. It is not simple inflation.
Why?! Why not??
Saturday, January 08, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1DuBesGYM
Well Said!!!! Now let's do this with Governance - perhaps the rules of the House and Senate for the purpose of correcting negative aspects of partisanship in favor of productive partisanship - aka cooperation
More on this later...
Sunday, November 21, 2010
There is "Anger Management". There is "Conflict Management" which is different from "Conflict Resolution". Different from them is "Conflict Transformation". I am not an expert in any of these specific subjects or concepts.
However, conflict and anger are a constituent part of every day life and the everyday part of a citizen role in American's life.
I am conflicted and troubled by the partisanship of our American system of governance.
As an additional piece of information to be used later in this piece, I have developed software for the past 30 years. I have first hand stories of conversions one generation of software to the next generation. Much of that has been in the financial realm. These translations are constants and it even involves conservative vs progressive perspectives. Even in the past 10 years there has been evolutions from Email to Facebook to twitter and smart phones.
Since the beginning of this system of governance has been the postal service. This module of our system is becoming obsolete. It is becoming a fiscal burden. The bricks and mortar infrastructure is running the risk of becoming physical eye-sores if the USPS goes out of business. It is an illogic of waste. This is a conflict in terms of utility and history.
There is also a jobless issue that is a part and a problem of the fiscal system for our current system of governance. From where I sit, a significant component of this joblessness is the technological advancement of society. Things have become more efficient and at the sametime requiring fewer citizens to do more work in the business realm.
There have been mind bending changes in terms of person-to-person communication and in terms of social communication or "social networking".
Folks interested in following Professional sports invented the "Fantasy League". Utilizing technology, a segment of humanity known for physical confrontations (and I'm talking about the fans - especially here in Phila) has found a personal and different way to decide the question "my team is better than your team" that does not involve territory. Is this a form of a societal "conflict transformation"?
Yet for all of these kinds advancements, we are not a happier society - why? Why has there not been a parallel advancement in the system of governance and making social decisions? It can be argued that all or most of our social or governance ills are based on our inability to make decisions.
If it is possible, I would suggest that American Citizens are overwhelmed by the amount of information at hand to make choices - so they opt for "none of the above". We opt for the convenience because so much of the information on both sides are similar, delineation is not easy and show we end up becoming unhealthy. We the people need "a something" to make the best decisions and a lot of them.
We the people need a production line system of governance decisions, that is capable of being scaled for the large and small as needed.
Ok enough already, let's get to punchline.
For consideration: A constitutional amendment proposal to formalize a "confrontation transformation" mechanism to address these temporary periods of partisanship caused by social overwhelm.
In this particular period, 3 element be combined in an Manhattan Project scale. Utilize imagination to envision the following:
A "fantasy league" with a purpose. A "Fantasy Congress"
A system of governance is created in parallel to our current system
The purpose of the "Fantasy Congress" is to develop and create a complete and comprehensive parallel system of governance.
When I do this with a piece of software I call the process "clone and modify". In the software realm this has the advantages of maintaining the existing system and also providing a baseline to gauge the development.
At a very specific moment of conditions, and very high levels of certifiable consensus or agreement, the "big Switch" is made, just as software is "Released", updated or generationally improved. The proposed constitutional amendment is passed and accepted.
The ascent of the currently powered , not just "We the people", will be acquired by the quality and nature of the new version and not before.
Just as Twitter on smartphone can't exist without the histories of Alexander Graham Bell and the Internet, the "big Switch" would include the very best of all our American history and governance.
As a specific timeline of "big Switch" is undefined, a sense of anticipation is built into the process. Much as the "Man landing on the moon" effort. Much of engineering is a theory, that is only proven when complete. Also not unlike the saying from Football - "on any given Sunday".
We can start with a basically clean slate.
The "Fantasy Congress" would take a very under utilized governance component (the USPS) and re-purpose it. They would legislate the local rules of the local level "Fantasy Townhall" and facilitate the translations into the "Fantasy State Legislature".
Individuals would form the "Fantasy Congress" in there homes based on the rules from the local zip code provider. Just as in a "Fantasy League", the commissioner determines the nature of points and when they are awarded.
Jobs across the country could be created to develop and maintain the infrastructure of the "Fantasy Congress".
Participants would be charged fees, that could be made tax-deductible or returned after the "big Switch".
Individuals would get pay outs from those fees as various point constructs are acheived by their slate of players on there team of "Fantasy League"
Political Action Committiee or Groups pushing an agenda would advertise to and financially support leagues that seem to ally and therefore refine the specifics of their "message"
Player's or the Elected and Candidates could get points for financial transparency and other condoned behaviors.
The rosters of "players/elected" available to the individual would not be limited to local folks.
The political election season would parallel sports league that ends with a championship game when the "one" who represents the best of the league is determined by the game.
Media and talking heads on both sides of political spectrum could earn money from advertising for adding relevant point changes just as ESPN does for Fantasy Football.
The reader of this will bring their own personality into the imagination elements. Some items will cause more angst then others. It will be easy to dismiss as the components do not intuitively lead to all of the others initially. As a software developer, of many years that is exactly how we have gone from A. Bell to Smartphones and from the earth to moon.
Now is as good a time any to go into the "undiscovered country" and find the American Government of the next iteration. It may take a period of time. It may take a generation. However it is measured, and as surely as time has a direction, the American system of that undefined period will be different. As surely as there are 50 states now compared to the 13 the founding fathers started.
Change is a constant. It is time for We the people to change back into Pioneers (the imagery Sarah Palin might like) and go into the undiscovered country of the future America and build to the "Switch". Today's step is tomorrow's footprint and the futures path from history.
However, conflict and anger are a constituent part of every day life and the everyday part of a citizen role in American's life.
I am conflicted and troubled by the partisanship of our American system of governance.
As an additional piece of information to be used later in this piece, I have developed software for the past 30 years. I have first hand stories of conversions one generation of software to the next generation. Much of that has been in the financial realm. These translations are constants and it even involves conservative vs progressive perspectives. Even in the past 10 years there has been evolutions from Email to Facebook to twitter and smart phones.
Since the beginning of this system of governance has been the postal service. This module of our system is becoming obsolete. It is becoming a fiscal burden. The bricks and mortar infrastructure is running the risk of becoming physical eye-sores if the USPS goes out of business. It is an illogic of waste. This is a conflict in terms of utility and history.
There is also a jobless issue that is a part and a problem of the fiscal system for our current system of governance. From where I sit, a significant component of this joblessness is the technological advancement of society. Things have become more efficient and at the sametime requiring fewer citizens to do more work in the business realm.
There have been mind bending changes in terms of person-to-person communication and in terms of social communication or "social networking".
Folks interested in following Professional sports invented the "Fantasy League". Utilizing technology, a segment of humanity known for physical confrontations (and I'm talking about the fans - especially here in Phila) has found a personal and different way to decide the question "my team is better than your team" that does not involve territory. Is this a form of a societal "conflict transformation"?
Yet for all of these kinds advancements, we are not a happier society - why? Why has there not been a parallel advancement in the system of governance and making social decisions? It can be argued that all or most of our social or governance ills are based on our inability to make decisions.
If it is possible, I would suggest that American Citizens are overwhelmed by the amount of information at hand to make choices - so they opt for "none of the above". We opt for the convenience because so much of the information on both sides are similar, delineation is not easy and show we end up becoming unhealthy. We the people need "a something" to make the best decisions and a lot of them.
We the people need a production line system of governance decisions, that is capable of being scaled for the large and small as needed.
Ok enough already, let's get to punchline.
For consideration: A constitutional amendment proposal to formalize a "confrontation transformation" mechanism to address these temporary periods of partisanship caused by social overwhelm.
In this particular period, 3 element be combined in an Manhattan Project scale. Utilize imagination to envision the following:
A "fantasy league" with a purpose. A "Fantasy Congress"
A system of governance is created in parallel to our current system
The purpose of the "Fantasy Congress" is to develop and create a complete and comprehensive parallel system of governance.
When I do this with a piece of software I call the process "clone and modify". In the software realm this has the advantages of maintaining the existing system and also providing a baseline to gauge the development.
At a very specific moment of conditions, and very high levels of certifiable consensus or agreement, the "big Switch" is made, just as software is "Released", updated or generationally improved. The proposed constitutional amendment is passed and accepted.
The ascent of the currently powered , not just "We the people", will be acquired by the quality and nature of the new version and not before.
Just as Twitter on smartphone can't exist without the histories of Alexander Graham Bell and the Internet, the "big Switch" would include the very best of all our American history and governance.
As a specific timeline of "big Switch" is undefined, a sense of anticipation is built into the process. Much as the "Man landing on the moon" effort. Much of engineering is a theory, that is only proven when complete. Also not unlike the saying from Football - "on any given Sunday".
We can start with a basically clean slate.
The "Fantasy Congress" would take a very under utilized governance component (the USPS) and re-purpose it. They would legislate the local rules of the local level "Fantasy Townhall" and facilitate the translations into the "Fantasy State Legislature".
Individuals would form the "Fantasy Congress" in there homes based on the rules from the local zip code provider. Just as in a "Fantasy League", the commissioner determines the nature of points and when they are awarded.
Jobs across the country could be created to develop and maintain the infrastructure of the "Fantasy Congress".
Participants would be charged fees, that could be made tax-deductible or returned after the "big Switch".
Individuals would get pay outs from those fees as various point constructs are acheived by their slate of players on there team of "Fantasy League"
Political Action Committiee or Groups pushing an agenda would advertise to and financially support leagues that seem to ally and therefore refine the specifics of their "message"
Player's or the Elected and Candidates could get points for financial transparency and other condoned behaviors.
The rosters of "players/elected" available to the individual would not be limited to local folks.
The political election season would parallel sports league that ends with a championship game when the "one" who represents the best of the league is determined by the game.
Media and talking heads on both sides of political spectrum could earn money from advertising for adding relevant point changes just as ESPN does for Fantasy Football.
The reader of this will bring their own personality into the imagination elements. Some items will cause more angst then others. It will be easy to dismiss as the components do not intuitively lead to all of the others initially. As a software developer, of many years that is exactly how we have gone from A. Bell to Smartphones and from the earth to moon.
Now is as good a time any to go into the "undiscovered country" and find the American Government of the next iteration. It may take a period of time. It may take a generation. However it is measured, and as surely as time has a direction, the American system of that undefined period will be different. As surely as there are 50 states now compared to the 13 the founding fathers started.
Change is a constant. It is time for We the people to change back into Pioneers (the imagery Sarah Palin might like) and go into the undiscovered country of the future America and build to the "Switch". Today's step is tomorrow's footprint and the futures path from history.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
A thought from the early morning.
I want a political party that is able to resolve all disagreements and issues that includes the people.
I want a political party that has a process or mechanism for resolving all disagreements and issues that include the people.
My interpretation of the GOP of Lincoln, Eisenhower and my Father were not of confrontation first with control a high priority.
I will stipulate that this can be reasonable challenged.
The adage of united we stand, divided we fall is clear, observable, accurate and I believe indisputable.
It is a fact of history, that no dynasty, method of governance has lasted but more than a 1000 years or so.
So the premise, the question at hand - how can America survive without technological or social processes that enable the quick and decisive resolutions between any 2 individuals or parties?
How can America survive when there is profit to be made from the activity of division?
"We the People" are not solving, with satisfaction and a peace in heart, issues between people - either as individual or as groups/parties.
I will stipulate that conflict happens and should not be avoided.
Tensions have a way of clarifying thought.
The fight or flight feature of human nature is an fundamental instinct.
It results in a decision.
We are not making satisfying decisions quickly enough.
More later involving the Tennessee Firefighters, those who say they did what Jesus would do and the illogic of waste...
I want a political party that is able to resolve all disagreements and issues that includes the people.
I want a political party that has a process or mechanism for resolving all disagreements and issues that include the people.
My interpretation of the GOP of Lincoln, Eisenhower and my Father were not of confrontation first with control a high priority.
I will stipulate that this can be reasonable challenged.
The adage of united we stand, divided we fall is clear, observable, accurate and I believe indisputable.
It is a fact of history, that no dynasty, method of governance has lasted but more than a 1000 years or so.
So the premise, the question at hand - how can America survive without technological or social processes that enable the quick and decisive resolutions between any 2 individuals or parties?
How can America survive when there is profit to be made from the activity of division?
"We the People" are not solving, with satisfaction and a peace in heart, issues between people - either as individual or as groups/parties.
I will stipulate that conflict happens and should not be avoided.
Tensions have a way of clarifying thought.
The fight or flight feature of human nature is an fundamental instinct.
It results in a decision.
We are not making satisfying decisions quickly enough.
More later involving the Tennessee Firefighters, those who say they did what Jesus would do and the illogic of waste...
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Observations:
Haiti suffers from a 7.0 Earthquake. Thousands are dead.
Pat Robertson - Former Republican Presidential candidate - allegedly blames the people of Haiti of making a pack with the devil to get the French out.
NBC News has Brian Williams on the ground in Haiti
CNN has Anderson Cooper on the ground in Haiti
CBS has Kaite Couric on the ground in Haiti
ABC has at least Robin Roberts on the the ground in Haiti - Perhaps Diane Sawyer
FOX News has an unknown staffer reporting via Skpe or other internet connections.
The top 3 stories yesterday afternoon on CNN website related to Haiti
The top 3 stories yesterday afternoon on MSNBC website related to Haiti
Only 1 top story yesterday afternoon on FOX website related to Haiti
Within the past week Republican pundits on Fox and else where were indicating that the Democratic party was being Hypocritical and having a double standard over Harry Reid's comments about Barrack Obama.
Analysis:
Without a more detailed investigation or more digging - it is possible the following analysis is imperfect.
Each of the following groups are separate. However, there are significant, influential and vocal elements of these groups that overlap.
The pattern of Fox and Pat Robertson is consistent with the most negative characteristics of the Republican party, Neo-Conservatives, the Religious right and the Bush administration. There may be others to be added.
There is an consistency in this groups logic. The plausible pattern does not indicate - "Fair and Balanced" - but rather a bias and fear stoking. These elements would rather have control by use of fear.
Haiti suffers from a 7.0 Earthquake. Thousands are dead.
Pat Robertson - Former Republican Presidential candidate - allegedly blames the people of Haiti of making a pack with the devil to get the French out.
NBC News has Brian Williams on the ground in Haiti
CNN has Anderson Cooper on the ground in Haiti
CBS has Kaite Couric on the ground in Haiti
ABC has at least Robin Roberts on the the ground in Haiti - Perhaps Diane Sawyer
FOX News has an unknown staffer reporting via Skpe or other internet connections.
The top 3 stories yesterday afternoon on CNN website related to Haiti
The top 3 stories yesterday afternoon on MSNBC website related to Haiti
Only 1 top story yesterday afternoon on FOX website related to Haiti
Within the past week Republican pundits on Fox and else where were indicating that the Democratic party was being Hypocritical and having a double standard over Harry Reid's comments about Barrack Obama.
Analysis:
Without a more detailed investigation or more digging - it is possible the following analysis is imperfect.
Each of the following groups are separate. However, there are significant, influential and vocal elements of these groups that overlap.
The pattern of Fox and Pat Robertson is consistent with the most negative characteristics of the Republican party, Neo-Conservatives, the Religious right and the Bush administration. There may be others to be added.
There is an consistency in this groups logic. The plausible pattern does not indicate - "Fair and Balanced" - but rather a bias and fear stoking. These elements would rather have control by use of fear.
Friday, July 10, 2009
A variation of Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 for Sarah Palin -
...But that the dread of something after [resignation],
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry...
Somewhere along the line I got the notion that this
leader was not talking of "death" but the idea of presenting
new concepts and ideas never before discussed in a setting.
The notion is that one idea can make one a pioneer in an
undiscovered country filled with ordinary people.
Right now you are one such pioneer because your vision
is unclear to the "natives" of the discovered country and
their media.
You indicated your resignation was for the benefit of the people.
An act that is similar to that of George Washington when
he gave up the Presidency after 2 terms.
Test that by asking yourself about how you feel about
voter or constituent centered decision support systems.
Is governance failing because the Leaders are not leading?
Or is it that "We the People" are not adequately exercising
power?
Perhaps in a "Republic" it is not the task of the elected to "lead"
but rather to gather and collate all constituent choices of
public concern into a single voice and decision.
The problem is that those with power do not like to give up power.
But you have already done this, just as George Washington.
Would you be willing to explore an idea of undiscovered digital country?
Would you be willing to bring the fruit of that exploration to the natives of the known country - America?
...But that the dread of something after [resignation],
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry...
Somewhere along the line I got the notion that this
leader was not talking of "death" but the idea of presenting
new concepts and ideas never before discussed in a setting.
The notion is that one idea can make one a pioneer in an
undiscovered country filled with ordinary people.
Right now you are one such pioneer because your vision
is unclear to the "natives" of the discovered country and
their media.
You indicated your resignation was for the benefit of the people.
An act that is similar to that of George Washington when
he gave up the Presidency after 2 terms.
Test that by asking yourself about how you feel about
voter or constituent centered decision support systems.
Is governance failing because the Leaders are not leading?
Or is it that "We the People" are not adequately exercising
power?
Perhaps in a "Republic" it is not the task of the elected to "lead"
but rather to gather and collate all constituent choices of
public concern into a single voice and decision.
The problem is that those with power do not like to give up power.
But you have already done this, just as George Washington.
Would you be willing to explore an idea of undiscovered digital country?
Would you be willing to bring the fruit of that exploration to the natives of the known country - America?
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