eds.com: IT for America's Homeland Defense: "Freedom is not free
I watched the flag pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze
A young sailor he saluted it, and then
He stared at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years,
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many ships now gone?
No freedom, it is not free
I heard the sound of taps one night
When everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill
I wondered just how many times
The taps had meant 'amen'
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend
I thought of all the children
Of the mothers and the wives
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives
I thought about a graveyard at the
Bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington
No freedom . . . it is not free!!*"

From a Homeland Security document at EDS. If only all corporate documents were interesting...

Human's wont eolve any more.

The basic tenet of evolution is changing to suit the condition, the situation and the nature.
Human evolution's basic tenet: Change the circumstances to suit yourself.
So we are doomed to be just the way we are.

Do I hear sombedy saying, whats wrong with what we are today?
Nothing. May be thats why we wont evolve.
Our evolution will remain restricted to improving from Intel P3 to P4 (When read after a few years, people say, shit! those guys worked on those) or from Microsoft 2000 to XP, or from 25 inch to 29 inch, from clubs to guns to walking to carts to polluting cars to electric vehicles to nature walks.
From meat to cooked meat to stoves to microwaves to vegans. From caves to thatched huts to bricks to concrete.

After all that how much have we changed in the last 2000 years: Not much (I dont really know how we were 2000 years ago and all that bull archeology about looking at bones and where they lie and "guessing" life styles and mating habits of animals sounds absurd to me)

Do I hear somebody exclaim: 2000 years is but a blip on the time scale. Just look around and see how much has changed around us in the blip and look unto yourself as to how much you have changed under veneer of "Civilization"

Vice President-at-Large
Fred Foulkes, D.B.A.
Professor of Organizational Behavior, School of Management
Boston, MA 02215
ffoulkes@acs.bu.edu

vp@large.com?
He teaches OB as well. Hmm interesting.

Korea Closes Shutters on Public Camera Phones - Computer Business Review: "The Korean government has struck a blow for its citizen's privacy - or at least their right not to be embarrassed. The country's Ministry of Information and Communications has ordered camera phone makers to program their devices to emit a 65 decibel beep whenever they snap a picture or record video. The beep must be setup so that users cannot deactivate it. The ministry said the new rule was voluntary, and that it superseded its earlier plan to ban camera phones from public places such as swimming pools."

Think about it, I want to take a picture of little baby (not that I have one) sleeping peacefully holding on to her favorite soft kangaroo and I I take out my camera and point and adjust the lighting, adjust my position to get little arms and the folded fingers around the kangaroo tail and click. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! Followed by BAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! Thwaaaaaaaaaack from My my wife (now that one I have). Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccch.
(P.S. I move to Korea sometime in the future)

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Sri Lanka peace talks postponed

Update to a comment on my blog on the Sri Lankan peace process.
Humans have a tendency to make their lives exciting.

"Being president is like a running a cemetery: you’ve got a lot of people
under you, and nobody’s listening" The source claims that its Bill Clinton.

"How many people are employed within your Division? How many of these are Virgin employees and how many are external suppliers/contractors?"

Hmm, Just wondering about the company in question.
This is what happens if you have generic words as names of companies?
Think about going to Richard Branson and asking him "How many Virgin employees work late nights?

Lafz= Words
Beautiful.
There's a dude called Wordsmith called Anu Garg, he coined the word Linguaphile.
I think there should be a word for "beautiful words' which look good and which have a certain lilt to them.
Any Suggestions?
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