Why low priced oil is not good

Recession is a word that today has almost more importance than birth or death.
Those two are just MOMENTS of our life, they lasts a few seconds, while the average duration of an average life is around 80 or a little less.
Life and the way we live it is much more important.
That is why ALL commercials and commercials products are for the living persons and for life.

Sometimes the way we see life is even more important than the way we actually live it, so much that, even though we are in a recession, and even though the recession at now didn't hit the whole of the population, the feeling and the belief that we are actually IN RECESSION has spread an atmosphere of pessimism that drives all what we do, all what we think of doing.

If there is a recession and if we have to find a way out of it, I do not think that what they are doing is exactly what they should do.
Let's look at the car industry.
There is a brilliant way in which all the problems of car producers' would be solved.
And it is not even far from reality (or realisation).
If they would finally produce a car that doesn't need oil and saves the environment, they would sell so many of it that they wouldn't be able to produce.
It is several years now that they promised the hydrogen car and they already proved it works and it is feasible.

Second issue.
The wind power, the solar power, they are feasible too.
Right now they are a little bit more expensive than oil at$48, but the investment would have a very high return, bringing the energy independence West needs more than anything, the security to have an available and cheap (the more you produce, the cheaper it gets)energy.
So, why suddenly oil gets so cheap and the States find money Just to rescue criminals, to go on in an irrational run toward destruction, towards dependence and following wars and instability?

Because the State IS the BIG OIL CORPORATIONS.

They do not WANT people producing and consuming alternative energy.
They do not want cars that consume something different from oil...

WHEN will we see the truth and REALLY begin to build something new?

Too big to fail SHOULD mean too big for life support

That is what Tom Evslin is writing today and I couldn't agree more than what I do.
Helping the economy is wrong as much as it is doing something AGAINST it.
Economy has its rules, just as life has.
The weak dies and the strong (of course strong doesn't mean powerful because corrupted) survives, while the weak dies.
And weak includes also the ones who are too corrupted or unable to play the roles they are supposed to.
When you give your money to a Bank is because you trust them, because you are sure they will do the best with it.
And of course the best doesn’t mean to play with it in risky enterprises, exchange of debts that are worth the paper they are written on.
It doesn't mean to pay millions to the wrong people.
When an engineer builds a bridge that falls he will be personally responsible for it. (besides of course loosing his job)
Why doesn't the same apply to THOSE managers?

How a small company can do great things

Most of what was once individual work has turned into a team work.
Individualism is not dead, but a new way of cooperation is born.
I do a part and you do the other part, so that together we will be able to do what we wouldn't be able to do by ourselves.
This is the secret behind small companies that do great things.
The other secret is that now a days it is much easier to work in a group, while working individually.
For that you need just the right project management software.
A software that can integrate data from all parts of your business and making it available to everyone who touches your projects.
It is like all for one and one for all.
This is valid since the early stage till the final point.
In order to fulfil all requirements a web-based software must include integrated time sheets, that allow you a real-time awareness of resource investment in every project, and which deliver status reports automatically updated.
And the multi tasking project can begin in the early stages of project, managing task assignments, resource availability, roles and rates, and later monitoring due dates, tracking performance while precisely estimating time and hours per employee in order to maximize resource utilization.

Future goes faster

"Ray Kurzweil sees a radical evolution of the human species in the next 40 years. The merger of man and machine, coupled with the sudden explosion in machine intelligence and rapid innovation in gene research and nanotechnology, will result in a world where there is no distinction between the biological and the mechanical, or between physical and virtual reality."

Computer will be the natural elongation of our brains.
There will be a moment in which biological and technological will be so close that it won't matter what is what.
Not only, it won't be possible survival without the combination of both.
At the same way virtual and real will be so interconneted that life will be both.

"World hunger and poverty will be solved, and pollution will vanish. Human existence will undergo a quantum leap in evolution. We will be able to live as long as we choose. "
"The nanotechnology revolution will enable us to redesign and rebuild—molecule by molecule—our bodies and brains and the world with which we interact, going far beyond the limitations of biology."

"By the year 2020, the full effects of the genetic revolution will be felt across society. We are rapidly gaining the knowledge and the tools to drastically extend the usability of the “house” each of us calls his body and brain."

"In the next 25 years, we will learn how to augment our 100 trillion very slow interneuronal connections with high-speed virtual connections via nanorobotics. This will allow us to greatly boost our pattern-recognition abilities, memories, and overall thinking capacity, as well as to directly interface with powerful forms of computer intelligence. The technology will also provide wireless communication from one brain to another."

My ultimate question is: what happens if somebody unplugs the machines for lack of energy?

The terrible monsters our society produces

"How could anyone do those unimaginably cruel, inhuman things?
That is the question that, to most people, immediately flows from hearing the ghastly details of both the Sheffield man who fathered nine children by raping his two daughters and, of course, the tragic story of Baby P."

Those are the monsters that our society creates.
First the lack of education.
Children very often are brought up in the belief that they are entitled to all or almost, that every wish is a get.
Since we have less children or none, the few that are born look so special that they deserve everything.
While it is wrong to maltreat children it is equally wrong non putting limits, better, not teaching that nothing comes free and life is getting AND giving.

Selfishness and overrating oneself is the common trait of today's children and tomorrow's individuals.
Being human is being humble, seeing one own limits and others' rights.
The feelings for the others is not something we are born with.
We are utmost selfish in our first years of life.
The only things which interest us is having food for growing and a shelter to live in.
It is education that makes a good individual, somebody who knows how and cares to live with others, in mutual respect.