Snap , Crackle, And Pop

            Hello again,

    
            There's a lot of written content today. Looks as if the tendency is going to be to post less often with larger amounts. Plus we may finally be getting some MP3's online - you know I'm beginning to wonder if people don't like us. Could it actually be that despite protestations to the contrary the large media content providers are not actually interested in increasing competition?
         It's just a thought - which leads to the problems with Megaupload and Google. The reason persons such as myself and P. Diddly and others like Megaupload is it's convenient  and it's immediate. We use the service in an entirely legal way.  Quite frankly there's not a lot of contemporary pop I'd care to DL because the business sucks so bad.
           Still it's an interesting business practice. What's next? Maybe Yahoo can get the Feds to shut down Google because a percent of content there is definitely illegal.  The CBS can get the Feds to shut down NBC for some equally bogus reason.
         And practical topic Number two I still can't make heads or tails of WTF Google is talking about viz privacy.
Traditionally on the net firms start with a certain amount of good will, which in time they squander in the great quest for revenue.Waiting for them to come to their senses is a little like waiting for that girl that left you to come back to you. The little slut has made her decision.
      Speaking of which I should probably say something about Apple, but what is there to say - they have made their decision. The numbers don't lie. It's still a good product but it may be more appropriate to think of the overall market as multi- sourced. One company makes the software,  another the hardware another the telecom, etc.
       
          In many ways the many questions about techonlogical firms all boil down to one thing - propriatary usage. It's a very broad topic as we know. Teknos is a broad subject. At it's worst it is the basis of the totalitarian state - and the only way a true totalitarian state can be administered.

      We know that a modern totalitarian state requires advanced technology. The question is now - "Can we have advanced technology and resist the lure to totalitarianism?

      The Jury is still out  but I think it's a good idea to develop alternative social and economic resource distribution systems  "just in case" things go south.

   Were it not for President Obama I'd feel much stronger about this  but it's still not easy to forget the madness of the administrations preceding his and wonder what will follow his.