National conformity by Computer - good or bad?.

While PM Brown promotes a SPEND, SPEND, SPEND culture Councils are adopting a SAVE, SAVE, SAVE culture in promoting services using technology by way of Computer Software and call centres. Historically paper...

5 Ways to CRUSH CONFORMITY this Holiday Season

Esteemed readers, as of November 1 consumer confidence in these United States has plunged at the greatest rate in over 30 years. It is my contention that in recent economic quarters citizens who were once malleable and obedient have become accomplices in dragging down the...

A new OpenSource approach to Standards

A new standards organisation has been launched. WikiNörm is a Standards Development Organisation, or SDO, created by the Leger Research Foundation (a Non-Profit Organisation from Montréal, Québec, Canada). It promotes free and open standards, principally but not limited...

Rollo Tomasi and the Age of Empire

"...These past seven years have been a watershed in teaching Americans what much of the world has known for many years--that rulers, more often than not, simply Do Not Care What You Think. They will punish their enemies, reward their friends, enjoy the privileges of power,...

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