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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Identity & boundaries
This might be of interest:
http://mashable.com/2010/02/25/dont-friend-your-boss-on-facebook/
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Josh sent me this quote, it came up in our conversation.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.
Here is the Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
Five emotions you never knew you had
Five emotions you never knew you had – life – 13 January 2010 – New Scientist
The International – Another Movie
The International ***1/2 Only just. It annoyed me in many ways, esp Clive Owen’s monotone, the muddled plot line. But the role of banking in war seems realistic, shocking.
Just checked: It is based on a true story. (Make that ****)
Poster follows:
Four Movies I’ve seen Recently
I liked them all, **** , none get five stars though. All forgettable, or is that my age?
Nothing but the Truth, Shutter Island, 500 Days of Summer, The Edge of Darkness
Images and very biref comments and links to IMDB follow.
Walking home from the movies in Wellington
Dedicated to making New Zealand worse for people and better for OS Corporations!
Scoop: ACC clients ‘swamp-dwellers’ under new policy:
“The reports, prepared for the new ACC board last year, say ACC had ‘moved too far towards customer focus’ and needed to begin ‘tightening the gateway by reducing the level and costs of treatment provided – especially rationalising the range of services available’.“Perhaps the most disturbing example of the callous new approach however is the phrase used in the Morrison Low report to the ACC board which talks about the need to ‘significantly cut back to essential and core (services) – effectively draining the swamp,” Maryan Street says.
“So ACC staff are now being encouraged to view ACC clients as swamp-dwellers? It’s not only offensive, it’s a very disturbing example of the type of culture now pervading ACC. “And what happens if staff fail to adopt the new ‘tough love’ approach (another phrase being used)? The reports make that clear. If they don’t turn down enough claim applications they will get the sack.
“One report says ‘there is a need for ACC to adopt more business/insurance-like behaviours…this may mean changes in the staffing and skills mix’ and ‘the introduction of stronger performance management mechanisms’.
ThinkTank – a development in Cyberspace (like it ot not)
One day soon I’ll write something about this.
Big! Exciting! News: ThinkTank Is Now at Expert Labs | Smarterware:
When I got back 243 informed opinions by savvy netbook owners, I knew I needed a way to easily parse and share the most useful replies–and ThinkTank was born. ThinkTank is a work-in-progress web application that archives your conversations and social graph on Twitter (and eventually beyond). As you tweet, ThinkTank captures, filters, and ranks responses to those tweets so you can see the most useful responses first. In other words, ThinkTank makes it easy to ask your contacts a question and find meaning in a high volume of responses. That’s what makes it a perfect fit for Expert Labs. Expert Labs’ goal is to make government run better by helping policy makers take advantage of the same kinds of crowdsourcing tools that the rest of us take for granted. Expert Labs is also part of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), the world’s largest general scientific community. While you and I can use social networks to figure out what kind of netbook to buy, policy makers can use social networks to tap the expertise of scientists and technologists and inform decisions on how to govern. ThinkTank’s goal is to facilitate that.
Reciprocal influence
Stumbled on this scrap: Jung wrote that
For two personalities to meet is like two different chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed. In any effective psychological treatment the doctor is bound to influence the patient; but this influence can only take place if the patient has a reciprocal influence on the doctor. You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.
(C.G. Jung, CW, vol. 16, para. 163)
This is close to describing Moreno’s Tele with the emphasis on reciprocity, ie a flow both ways.