JLP's built in term limits

[Muadib]

3 Letters..

NDM

Stop being a a$$.

[Don1]

Truth be told the internet is not private.
Many are deluded into thinking that they own a private space on the net.
How can you privately own a virtual space when the server could be halfway around the world? (own space one someone else's hard drive)

Nothing, save serious encryption is priavte on the net. The minute you are on, you are in a public domain. I leave it to others to research what I have said. Privacy on the internet is an oximoron; if you don't know this then you don't really know about the net and computers.

You are a real simpleton, aren't you. What you say is common knowledge.

The fact is while info on the internet is accessible - there are barriers to acquiring personal info - effort and some measure of expertise is required.

In that respect the internet is fundamentally different from other media like newspapers, radio and especially television - people exercise extreme care using these media because the information is much more open and any man in the street can acquire it.

This is why racists and other mental incompetents feel comfortable expressing their views online and are more restrained in other media.

Which is why one readily sees statements like this on this forum:

If you are a Monkey, it does matter what kind of suit yuh put on.. yuh just a Monkey in a suite.. or is that Black Dawg ?

I doubt that individual would make that statement on any radio or TV channel or put his name to it in a newspaper, but he is comfortable stating it online .... just another coward with a keyboard.

Get it?

[Jawge]

I must confess that I am not
skilled in mind as yourself or anyone on this board. Suffice to say ; your argument about measure of expertise would hold up in the early 90s.
Today; the age of script kiddies and hacking software, I don't think so.

I will say it again: Without strong encryption schemes, the net is not private.

I think it would take more expertise to learn of the material that's not printed or said over radio and TV. The net; run a software.

[Don1]

The world IS flat fella

Well, I was of the impression that those that believed that the earth was flat no longer existed. You haven't pointed out anything other than your cultist stance for the PNP.

You need to read more - start with this:


The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century


Original 1st edition cover
Author Thomas L. Friedman
Country United States
Language English
Subject(s) Globalization
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date April 5, 2005
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback) and audio-CD
Pages 488
ISBN ISBN 0-374-29288-4

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is a national bestseller book by Thomas L. Friedman, analyzing the progress of globalization with an emphasis on the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as flat or level in terms of commerce and competition, as in a level playing field —or one where all competitors have an equal opportunity. As the first edition cover indicates, the title also alludes to the historic shifts in perception once people realised the world was not flat, but round and how a similar shift in perception —albeit figurative— is required if countries, companies and individuals want to remain competitive in a global market where historical, regional and geographical divisions are becoming increasingly irrelevant.

The book was first released in 2005, was later released as an "updated and expanded" edition in 2006, and yet again released with additional updates in 2007 as "further updated and expanded: Release 3.0." The title was derived from a statement by Nandan Nilekani, the former CEO of Infosys.
Contents
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* 1 Summary
o 1.1 Ten flatteners
o 1.2 Triple convergence
* 2 Criticisms
* 3 Editions
* 4 References
* 5 External links
o 5.1 Reviews

[edit] Summary

In the book, Friedman recounts a journey to Bangalore, India, when he realized globalization has changed core economic concepts.[1] He suggests the world is "flat" in the sense that globalization has leveled the competitive playing fields between industrial and emerging market countries. In his opinion, this flattening is a product of a convergence of personal computer with fiber-optic micro cable with the rise of work flow software. He termed this period as Globalization 3.0, differentiating this period from the previous Globalization 1.0 (which countries and governments were the main protagonists) and the Globalization 2.0 (which multinational companies led the way in driving global integration).

Friedman recounts many examples of companies based in India and China that, by providing labor from typists and call center operators to accountants and computer programmers, have become integral parts of complex global supply chains for such companies as Dell, AOL, and Microsoft. Friedman's Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention is discussed in the book's penultimate chapter.

Friedman repeatedly uses lists as an organizational device to communicate key concepts, usually numbered, and often with a provocative label. Two example lists are the ten forces that flattened the world, and three points of convergence.

[edit] Ten flatteners

Friedman defines ten "flatteners" that he sees as leveling the global playing field:

* #1: Collapse of Berlin Wall--11/'89: The event not only symbolized the end of the Cold war, it allowed people from other side of the wall to join the economic mainstream. (11/09/1989)
* #2: Netscape: Netscape and the Web broadened the audience for the Internet from its roots as a communications medium used primarily by 'early adopters and geeks' to something that made the Internet accessible to everyone from five-year-olds to eighty-five-year olds. (8/9/1995)
* #3: Workflow software: The ability of machines to talk to other machines with no humans involved. Friedman believes these first three forces have become a “crude foundation of a whole new global platform for collaboration.”
* #4: Open sourcing: Communities uploading and collaborating on online projects. Examples include open source software, blogs, and Wikipedia. Friedman considers the phenomenon "the most disruptive force of all."
* #5: Outsourcing: Friedman argues that outsourcing has allowed companies to split service and manufacturing activities into components, with each component performed in most efficient, cost-effective way.
* #6: Offshoring: Manufacturing's version of outsourcing.
* #7: Supply chaining: Friedman compares the modern retail supply chain to a river, and points to Wal-Mart as the best example of a company using technology to streamline item sales, distribution, and shipping.
* #8: Insourcing: Friedman uses UPS as a prime example for insourcing, in which the company's employees perform services--beyond shipping--for another company. For example, UPS itself repairs Toshiba computers on behalf of Toshiba. The work is done at the UPS hub, by UPS employees.
* #9: In-forming: Google and other search engines are the prime example. "Never before in the history of the planet have so many people-on their own-had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people", writes Friedman.
* #10: "The Steroids": Personal digital devices like mobile phones, iPods, personal digital assistants, instant messaging, and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

[edit] Triple convergence

In addition to the ten flatteners, Friedman offers "the triple convergence," three additional components that acted on the flatteners to create a new, flatter global playing field.

1. Up until the year 2003, the ten flatteners were semi-independent from one another. However, around the year 2003, all the flatteners converged with one another. This convergence could be compared to complementary goods, in that each flattener enhanced the other flatteners; the more one flattener developed, the more leveled the global playing field became.
2. After the emergence of the ten flatteners, a new business model was required to succeed. Instead of collaborating vertically (the top-down method of collaboration, where innovation comes from the top), businesses needed to begin collaborating horizontally. Horizontalization means companies and people collaborate with other departments or companies to add value creation or innovation. Friedman's Convergence II occurs when horizontalization and the ten flatteners begin to reinforce each other.
3. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, countries that had followed the Soviet economic model—including India, China, Russia, and the nations of Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Central Asia—began to open up their economies to the world. When these new players converged with the rest of the globalized marketplace, they added new brain power to the whole playing field and enhanced horizontal collaboration across the globe. In turn, Convergence III is the most important force shaping politics and economics in the early 21st century.

[Don1]

I must confess that I am not
skilled in mind as yourself or anyone on this board. Suffice to say ; your argument about measure of expertise would hold up in the early 90s.
Today; the age of script kiddies and hacking software, I don't think so.

I will say it again: Without strong encryption schemes, the net is not private.

I think it would take more expertise to learn of the material that's not printed or said over radio and TV. The net; run a software.

I think you miss my point ... but that's OK.
I merely want to say that people feel freer in expressing themselves on the internet than in other more traditional media... that's all. Therefore there is a greater chance in them revealing their true feelings.
Since they don't have the courage of their convictions to openly state their views in the traditional media ... I regard them as cowards... with keyboards.

If you disagree .... that's OK as well.

[Lazie]

I see yuh like play Dandy shandy.

[Jawge]

I certainly agree; on the net you get to know people than
you would if you met them in person.

I won't live to see it but it will even get better when mind is blended with
the net.

[Don1]

I certainly agree; on the net you get to know people than
you would if you met them in person.

I won't live to see it but it will even get better when mind is blended with
the net.

Sorry... I part company with you here.... nothing beats face to face.

[Jawge]

face to face they can put up a veil or wall that you
cannot penetrate.

[Muadib]

You would be one of di b@ttyman dat get beaten in public cause yuh wear a dress.. Well Done !

Sir Don1 the Lionhearted !

LOL !

[Don1]

face to face they can put up a veil or wall that you
cannot penetrate.

That's true but it's still my preference.

[Jawge]

Ben behave an mine mi have call truth to yuh. arite?

[Muadib]

Truth ?

Heh, heh.

Truth back under medication.

[Lazie]

Man a dance bout who win more election .... yet ...

25 years of PNP rule ... or is it ruin ..... overall we grew 13%
20 years of JLP rule ... overall we grew 84%

Ah guess some nuh too interested in that ... lets just focus on who win more elections.

[Don1]

Does your opinion factor in something called the NDM ????

"JLP overt racism and ethnic insensitivity" ?

LOL !! WHOEEE !!

If you don't know ask... it will save embarassment.

Try to follow logical reasoning fella - I stated that one of the factors in JLP failure is poor leadership and mentioned Seaga and his pathetic people skills. His failure to rein in or neuter the Gang of Five or whatever number - was the spark behind the animal called the NDM.
That's a failure in leadership and completely covered in my analysis.

Surely even you now can understand...... uhh ... somehow I doubt it.