ZDNet UK - News - Internet telephony 'is not telecommunications'
An entrenched industry is now open to competition.
Telecos have had a monopoly on voice communications for decades. Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) is a new technology that uses the internet to deliver telephony services. The Telecos see this as danger to their collective bottom line, because VoIP is significantly less expensive than their own offerings.
This will run and run. No incumbent power will relinquish it willingly -- especially when there are hoards of unseen investors demanding a return on their investment of capital (not their investment of labour.)
Everything is impermanent. Desire is the root of all pain.
When will we collectively decide we have had enough of pain and move into a productive, fulfilling and Human existence.
Sunday, October 19, 2003
Thursday, October 16, 2003
None of the Above
by Duran Duran, 1993
"I am I
Myself Alone
Realize I never need to use no one
Money, Power, Holy Roads
Freedom puts my faith
in None of the Above"
"I am I
Myself Alone
Realize I never need to use no one
Money, Power, Holy Roads
Freedom puts my faith
in None of the Above"
Insight: Knowledge as the enemy of Power
It's no wonder that the intellectual is always the first target of an incumbent power.
Knowledge is the enemy of power, there for the wielder of knowledge, the intellectual, is the enemy of Power.
These are the people who see things for what they are: "The emperor is not wearing any clothes!"
To combat this, Power limits the opportunities of the intellectual to offer an effective alternative view.
Power drip feeds the masses with comforting trinkets to keep them from thinking: saccharine mass media, Organised Sport in fact anything the masses can submerge themselves in rather than actually seeing things for what they are.
Knowledge is the enemy of power, there for the wielder of knowledge, the intellectual, is the enemy of Power.
These are the people who see things for what they are: "The emperor is not wearing any clothes!"
To combat this, Power limits the opportunities of the intellectual to offer an effective alternative view.
Power drip feeds the masses with comforting trinkets to keep them from thinking: saccharine mass media, Organised Sport in fact anything the masses can submerge themselves in rather than actually seeing things for what they are.
Where is Reason?
BBC NEWS | Americas | US is 'battling Satan' says general
Western Christian Fundamentalism versus Eastern Islamic Fundamentalism?
The further human society progresses, the more it is swamped with information (Not knowledge, which is justified true belief in a concept), the more there is a tendency to shrink back, to wrap ourselves up with a blanket of group identity: Gender, Race, Religious or Nation.
Where is the rationality?
It starts with the right of the idividual to know. This is attained by the fulfillment of society's duty to freely educate it's constituents and provide it with free access to untainted information.
We must work to attain our rights and duties.
Western Christian Fundamentalism versus Eastern Islamic Fundamentalism?
The further human society progresses, the more it is swamped with information (Not knowledge, which is justified true belief in a concept), the more there is a tendency to shrink back, to wrap ourselves up with a blanket of group identity: Gender, Race, Religious or Nation.
Where is the rationality?
It starts with the right of the idividual to know. This is attained by the fulfillment of society's duty to freely educate it's constituents and provide it with free access to untainted information.
We must work to attain our rights and duties.
Hate, Love, Rights and Duty
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Mahathir 'hate' tirade condemned
When the history of this now comes to be written, it will no doubt contain a lot of references to hate.
Those future historians may indeed know more that new do. That there is a secret conspiracy running the world. Or that there isn't: that we are just self-obsessed children, incapable of seeing beyond ourselves.
We have become obsessed with Identity: Gender, Racial, Religious, National.
Yet we have not grasped our own Identity.Who am I?
When we know who we are as individuals, Love ourselves then the artificial divisions between the peoples of the world will dissolve. It's a mindset issue.
When we realise that rights and duty are two sides of the same coin, we will have chance.
When the history of this now comes to be written, it will no doubt contain a lot of references to hate.
Those future historians may indeed know more that new do. That there is a secret conspiracy running the world. Or that there isn't: that we are just self-obsessed children, incapable of seeing beyond ourselves.
We have become obsessed with Identity: Gender, Racial, Religious, National.
Yet we have not grasped our own Identity.Who am I?
When we know who we are as individuals, Love ourselves then the artificial divisions between the peoples of the world will dissolve. It's a mindset issue.
When we realise that rights and duty are two sides of the same coin, we will have chance.
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