This guy decided to build a centrifuge to see if a lava lamp would work on Jupiter. Did he build it in a warehouse? Nope! He built it in his living room!  

No, I am not kidding.

The guy has guts I'll give him that.

While reading this post on TUAW I discovered this James Cameron quote.

"I don't feel that I'm making movies for iPhones. If someone wants to watch it on an iPhone, I'm not going to stop them, especially if they're paying for it, but I don't recommend it. I think it's dumb, when you have characters that are so small in the frame that they're not visible."

"Now if you're playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film. You'll think you have experienced it, but you'll be cheated. It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on yourf---ing telephone. Get real!"

This level of arrogance can only come from someone who is so deeply involved with his craft that he assumes everyone on the planet experiences his work like he does.  It is ridiculous to assume that everyone experiences movies with the same depth as an award winning director.  So much so that I feel a need to parody the sentiment.

Discovered this in the break room this morning.

I didn't know this was possible!

I am not saying bureaucracy by itself is good or bad. I am saying that Government bureaucracy is bad. For everyone. Why? Because Government bureaucracy has no competition.

You see bureaucracy is prevalent in large Capitalist companies as well as Government. However, when you find a bureaucracy in a Capitalist company you will find it is doing it's best to compete with other bureaucracies in it's market segment. This competition is what keeps businesses healthy and profitable.  Competition also allows these companies to provide better services for less money. Simply put, competition is vital to giving the customer more of what they want for less money.

The problem arises when you assign a segment of the economy that was previously controlled by a competitive, Capitalist bureaucracy to a Government bureaucracy. When the Government controls a market segment they make competition illegal. This means that the service you receive, and the price you pay for that service, is no longer controlled by the customer, it is controlled by the bureaucracy.

Say what you will about how politicians will be responsible to the citizens, and that through elections we will be able to control the level of service, as well as the prices, in a Government bureaucracy. The truth is that one of the principle tenants of any bureaucracy is politics. If you have worked in a large bureaucracy, whether it be Governmental or not, you know that politics make the bureaucracy run. And the one thing you can say about politicians is that they only look out for themselves. Oh, and they lie, cheat, steal, etc to do so.

So, with the recent passage of the Government Health Care Bill we have given 1/6th of our nations economy, as well as the Capitalist bureaucracies that make up our current health care system, over to a non-competitive Government bureaucracy. (It's going to be a Government run health care bureaucracy, regardless of what the pundits are saying.) And that means that we have given up our right as consumers to tell the health care system what we want.  

We have given up choice.  

We have given up freedom.  

We have given up the power we wielded as consumers.  

...and we will be worse off for it.

Just thought you would like to see what my computer desk top looks like when I am writing a blog post.  In this case I am writing a five part series titled "Success!".  It may seem like mass confusion, but in reality this method allows me to work on the story as a whole while still retaining it's individual components. 

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