Where do empires come from?
Somebody starts up a business a business and he is good at it and there is peace so he thrives eventually cornering his market and controlling the commodity he relies on for his line of work. What is wrong with that?
Other people see what he is doing and want a piece of the action. With the world's room there is still no problem, especially as a man can only spend so much. Cliques form and enmities and petty spites but generally the winner overall is the man who doesn't make enemies.
Sooner or later people begin looking to that man and as long as he keeps that course he will do well. But people have weaknesses and if they don't their families will. Eventually a successor is not made of the right stuff. It happens.
Eventually the little people start to take over and the impression is that the once prosperous business is being run by accountants. Accountants don't run businesses. They help keep one going but rot is a constant plague. It tends to happen when a concern is too big to fail. And happens because ground zero is where the customer comes in the door.
This is what happened to AOL and is still happening to American internet providers. They are in a situation where they are no longer providing. Instead they are just selling. You know you can't go wrong if you are making sales.
AOL became the world leader, selling. Their problem was that they were just selling to sell. Their ubiquitous free discs became a plague, the first spam, that was bleeding the company dry. Instead of finding out what the customers wanted to buy (pornography and music) there was no other service just then, AOL's business model became a CD delivery system.
They had a weakness in that their customers did not have any reason to be loyal. AOL were not concerned with selling pornography or music, they were the Internet-people. And haemorrhaging so much so that the management noticed and decided to form a partnership with people who sold music.
Unfortunately the business model that the partnership explooited was not selling pornography nor music. Time Warner had their own echelons of accountants and the accountants were not going to put out. So pornographers took over an empty field that was fertile and burgeoning. I am not sure what happened next but in the war that developed AOL went down the drain. The other large ISPs in America have not learned anything.
The situation is similar in Europe. The problem with Europe is the politics. Politics these days is a mixture of iron and moulded clay, with nobody capable of forging it. The ultimate utility of Iron and clay is reinforced concrete but you can not reuse such a model. It has one design and one objective that is all you can do with iron and clay.
Any goal you use it to accomplish is the end of life for the product then next new invention on the market requires a complete redesign and manufacture from new. You can rarely use the old product and there is no way to store the old system.
Europe is a conglomeration of individual nations that can only work in harmony when everyone is happy with the product. But in its politics a design flaw is that each need is a variable. Each national base is made up of counteractive systems that desire different outcomes or ways of obtaining such.
The two party French system is different or works differently to the British one and the German one is different again. And every international disagreement between them is a flaw in the concretion. When the number of nations involved have enough disagreements the iron is stressed by the bending moment of such schisms.
Enter the Pirate Party or the Climate Control party or the Vehicle Emmissions party. Sooner or later things are going to break. Consider a country that is made up of counties; Britain for instance?
Like France Britain is a country made up of regions once proud of their own language. And its regionality still runs with a weath distribution clearly marked on the old lines. What is binding these groups?
What could possibly alloy any of the constituents?
At the moment it seems that the only solution is not amalgamation but separation. Can you put back a system that has been converted into concrete or is it moribund?
Yes of course you can. I has already been put back together once. Why can't it be put back together again?
In fact things are better now than they have ever been. The last contretemps when it happened battle was begun with horses as the backbone of the military. Today is the era of international communications with satellites beaming down on us, everyone that wants to can drive chariots made of steel. What could possibly go wrong?
Thing go wrong all the time. And for the presiding overseer of a nation the buck stops there. Everything becomes your fault because faults go with the territory. But however wicked, however evil, however insufferable; would you say this:
Didn't wipe their arses on them?
This was an example of New Zealand decency and I am sure if any family of whoever are reading about it they must be feeling warm consolation from the article.
I was looking for news about volcanic eruptions when I came upon this little snippet of rectitude.
Could it get worse?
The period of silence in heaven is just about over. With a rod the commanding general is about to separate sheep from goats. Don't worry, it is not a mortal sin to be a goat or a sheep. It is just a matter of allowing things to see and bee seen for what they really are.
If you have a flock of sheep and goats you are rich, You have a commodity.
But if you are a good shepherd you want to separate them, as they tend to behave differently. And they react differently to threats. If you want to keep them under control you need to care for their differences, especially that difference.
Somebody starts up a business a business and he is good at it and there is peace so he thrives eventually cornering his market and controlling the commodity he relies on for his line of work. What is wrong with that?
Other people see what he is doing and want a piece of the action. With the world's room there is still no problem, especially as a man can only spend so much. Cliques form and enmities and petty spites but generally the winner overall is the man who doesn't make enemies.
Sooner or later people begin looking to that man and as long as he keeps that course he will do well. But people have weaknesses and if they don't their families will. Eventually a successor is not made of the right stuff. It happens.
Eventually the little people start to take over and the impression is that the once prosperous business is being run by accountants. Accountants don't run businesses. They help keep one going but rot is a constant plague. It tends to happen when a concern is too big to fail. And happens because ground zero is where the customer comes in the door.
This is what happened to AOL and is still happening to American internet providers. They are in a situation where they are no longer providing. Instead they are just selling. You know you can't go wrong if you are making sales.
AOL became the world leader, selling. Their problem was that they were just selling to sell. Their ubiquitous free discs became a plague, the first spam, that was bleeding the company dry. Instead of finding out what the customers wanted to buy (pornography and music) there was no other service just then, AOL's business model became a CD delivery system.
They had a weakness in that their customers did not have any reason to be loyal. AOL were not concerned with selling pornography or music, they were the Internet-people. And haemorrhaging so much so that the management noticed and decided to form a partnership with people who sold music.
Unfortunately the business model that the partnership explooited was not selling pornography nor music. Time Warner had their own echelons of accountants and the accountants were not going to put out. So pornographers took over an empty field that was fertile and burgeoning. I am not sure what happened next but in the war that developed AOL went down the drain. The other large ISPs in America have not learned anything.
The situation is similar in Europe. The problem with Europe is the politics. Politics these days is a mixture of iron and moulded clay, with nobody capable of forging it. The ultimate utility of Iron and clay is reinforced concrete but you can not reuse such a model. It has one design and one objective that is all you can do with iron and clay.
Any goal you use it to accomplish is the end of life for the product then next new invention on the market requires a complete redesign and manufacture from new. You can rarely use the old product and there is no way to store the old system.
Europe is a conglomeration of individual nations that can only work in harmony when everyone is happy with the product. But in its politics a design flaw is that each need is a variable. Each national base is made up of counteractive systems that desire different outcomes or ways of obtaining such.
The two party French system is different or works differently to the British one and the German one is different again. And every international disagreement between them is a flaw in the concretion. When the number of nations involved have enough disagreements the iron is stressed by the bending moment of such schisms.
Enter the Pirate Party or the Climate Control party or the Vehicle Emmissions party. Sooner or later things are going to break. Consider a country that is made up of counties; Britain for instance?
Like France Britain is a country made up of regions once proud of their own language. And its regionality still runs with a weath distribution clearly marked on the old lines. What is binding these groups?
What could possibly alloy any of the constituents?
At the moment it seems that the only solution is not amalgamation but separation. Can you put back a system that has been converted into concrete or is it moribund?
Yes of course you can. I has already been put back together once. Why can't it be put back together again?
In fact things are better now than they have ever been. The last contretemps when it happened battle was begun with horses as the backbone of the military. Today is the era of international communications with satellites beaming down on us, everyone that wants to can drive chariots made of steel. What could possibly go wrong?
Thing go wrong all the time. And for the presiding overseer of a nation the buck stops there. Everything becomes your fault because faults go with the territory. But however wicked, however evil, however insufferable; would you say this:
Trump boasts about calling families of slain soldiers, says other presidents didn't
Didn't what?Didn't wipe their arses on them?
This was an example of New Zealand decency and I am sure if any family of whoever are reading about it they must be feeling warm consolation from the article.
I was looking for news about volcanic eruptions when I came upon this little snippet of rectitude.
Could it get worse?
The period of silence in heaven is just about over. With a rod the commanding general is about to separate sheep from goats. Don't worry, it is not a mortal sin to be a goat or a sheep. It is just a matter of allowing things to see and bee seen for what they really are.
If you have a flock of sheep and goats you are rich, You have a commodity.
But if you are a good shepherd you want to separate them, as they tend to behave differently. And they react differently to threats. If you want to keep them under control you need to care for their differences, especially that difference.
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