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| for a long timefor a long time, i suffered from my misunderstanding of the phrase 'work before play' or, similarly, 'business before pleasure'.
i classified work as something i was doing that generally did not much involve other people (homework, research, etc). i classified play as wasted time, time spent having fun with other people, time spent doing anything other than work really. the real message was that 'work' was important and that 'play' (which included people) were not.
but, i was wrong. i misunderstood.
i hope that someone will come up with some catchy phrase that could get across what i want to say...how i want to reconstruct my brain...
'people before everything; everything is for people'
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| on regulationtwo things about the current crisis you may not hear much about are:
1) a few firms (S&P, Moody's or Fitch) had to be the ones that rated debt issuers (AAA, AA, etc). this creates a certain level of group-think among these firms. worse, it leads to the investor not thinking about what they are doing.
2) there was an extended, concerted effort to force banks+other lenders to provide mortgages to subprime borrowers. there were lawsuits, there were protests outside the houses of bank officials; it was intense! it all resulted in regulation that effectively forced banks to give loans to more risky borrowers. ...in part, this would encourage others to 'invent' mortgage-backed-securities, allowing the banks to get rid of the risky loans by selling them to other people.
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none of this explains 100% of what went one, but i'd be careful about supporting regulation OR deregulation.
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| does anyone know a free way to open ost files???
i meant to just delete my connection to Cal email (to stop outlook from trying to check it every time). however, i did a lot more damage than anticipated and my email all disappeared. my last proper backup was months ago...
there is an ost file, but i can't figure how to open it for free... | | |
| single issue votingsometimes i draw criticism for being a 'single issue voter'. sometimes people seem downright outraged about it, actually. that is troublesome for me, but i really don't see any way out of it...
1 million babies a year * 40 years = 40 million babies. innocent babies. another 40 years and it'll be 80 million babies.
not thousands of soldiers who, at one time or another, volunteered to be soldiers. not the families of those soldiers. not thousands of terrorist combatants. not thousands of foreign civilians. not even what might be thousands of foreign civilian babies. not millions who lack basic healthcare. not millions who lack work. not millions who are barely getting by. not millions who aren't getting decent educations. not oil. not food prices. not the economy. not cancer. not AIDS. not infrastructure. not hollywood. not gay marriage. not the environment. no, not MS. nothing that gets any media attention really.
babies. 1 million innocent babies a year. 3 thousand babies a day.
and i don't care if mccain doesn't really care about the babies or not. it is the party platform and it is, at least, something palin seems to care about. plus, anything could happen...palin could actually become president.
i am not a one-issue voter because of the 40 million babies; they are all gone. i'm a one-issue voter because of the 3000 babies that dies today...and will die tomorrow...and the next day...and the next. it's like 9/11 happens every day, but nobody pays attention.
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the best argument against being a 1-issue voter that i can think of is that 'you might as well get something else done if you know that there is no way you can get your 1-issue done'. thought defeatist, i can see the logic there. i ma stubborn, however, and not the type to give up. however, pretending that i were willing to give up, i will describe my next two issues. ...after babies in this country, i care about babies in other countries. i would care about the millions of babies in other countries first (because there are more of them), but i don't have a vote in those countries after all. after those babies, i care about worldwide clean water and water issues...the lack of which kills millions of young children. | | |
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