1 day ago: Intercontinental, 1986, Danube, Buda, a good example of acting locally. Now I really doubt it, what with the Hyatt's etc all changing the perception - wants - needs - thru advertising, imports, shiny new things, etc. And they with others too started that back program in '86, trying to make the Intercontinental perceived as old, a dying brand, a dinosaur. I wonder who won. Was it the locals?
1 day ago: No it's not possible for sensitive business practices to conserve local communities and customs, inherently the corp has other goals that it must legally follow for the shareholders.
I'm honestly sorry to disillusion you with such facts, but they are facts.
An example if it were not in the corp interest to have a 'green policy' do you think any would? The reality is they all have because it's now seen in their best interests to have one.. even shell oil has one, and one has to see the irony there. And while the employes of such green departments do go, it's really a pr exercise. You can pollute one country and in another say look we build 4 schools, are we good. The whole has to be measured, not the parts.
DL states it correctly, but I add only small locally owned business can sustain the goals you define. Too often we forget that small business IS the lifeblood, they employ more people, they pay more taxes (by sheer numbers) the deliver what the local communities need every day.
Global business do none of those things, yet people keep believing that they are important. I'd suggest that you look at the top 50 global business's and realize that 50% of them could be wiped out and we'd suffer no loss. There is no way 50% of small business's could be wiped out and the community not suffer a loss.
I fortunately, and simultaneously have lived in some of those places, I'd suggested that you visit, many now I wont go back to, I know it wont be the same, I know culture and traditions will have been lost. I know the diversity that the planet once had with every country being a unique and wonderful experience, is and has been diluted by corp, not only selling their wares, but changing the populations mindset to value and want what they offer. I suggest that in part this is responsible for the Arab Spring, the loss of culture some feel and are fighting tooth and nail to retain, through what ever means they perceive will achieve that goal. Ironically, so are the corps.
1 day ago: Lizanne, wanted to add to my other post, just a question, have you ever just listened in an absolutely quiet room, literally and figuratively where you can actually hear a pin drop, where you can hear your own heart beat, where you can feel more than ever before.
Because of your last kindness, I wanted to and so I thought I'd share this with you.
1 day ago: Here's a fair answer, at least I think, that today, someone was playing 'their' music loud enough for me to hear even when I didn't want to, in side my own home. That I consider an invasion. Too often people just dont "think", hummm maybe other people dont want to hear this.
It's the same for the supermarket, the gym, the elevator, or now the tv's in the bank, post office, it's I believe a way of pacifying people, distracting them. It's like this is a pointless excise waiting in line... so take their mind off it. it's as if we are being treated as children.
Which nicely brings me to the point you made about children and music, I think it's NOT inherently more musical but WE are more inhibited. Thats the huge and biggest difference between adults and children, we've been for want of a better word programmed, we wont embarrass ourselves, or we try not to. We hold on too tight.
I dont have a hatred of music per se, i do have a hatred of it's use as a distraction, and a hatred of people who are not considerate to others.
Now interestingly, I dont know why, but I feel it's more a mathematical ability, I do have the strange ability specially focused on classical (not that i like it more) to actually effectively predict what country the composer is from by the freq used.
I know that the frequencies used in rap music do put me into a severe rage. I figure that must have been the purpose of it, to enrage people to do such things as are done in the worlds slums, such as drive by shootings.
It's just not a emotion nor feeling I want to harbor, nor nurture, nor look forward to, u see I dont want my mind and so my body to go to such a place - not in an elevator or ever
Lizanne I wanted to reply to this comment, not just for the above but the feeling that it gave me of care & consideration that you've shown by taking the time to think about it and write it.
That Lizanne IS what I love about the human race, I dont care if i embarrass myself - that's what I love about you
1 day ago: Inherently there is no such thing as a good judge. A good judge would have to be there when the item to judge was taking place, be in your mindset and know the thing s you were feeling. But realistically thats never going to happen, so more often than not, the letter of the law is applied, not the sense of the situation.
That might seem abstract, so lets assume you were on a plane with terrorists and you stopped them, by killing them, then on the ground when the plane landed you were arrested for murder - as it was a pre-meditated act.
Who would make a good judge? What would be fair? What would be just?
1 day ago: Google Glass HACKED to transmit everything you see and hear. Hackers take control of them then video and audio can be watched from anywhere in the world, the system can even watch people type passwords into other services.
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I'm honestly sorry to disillusion you with such facts, but they are facts.
An example if it were not in the corp interest to have a 'green policy' do you think any would? The reality is they all have because it's now seen in their best interests to have one.. even shell oil has one, and one has to see the irony there. And while the employes of such green departments do go, it's really a pr exercise. You can pollute one country and in another say look we build 4 schools, are we good. The whole has to be measured, not the parts.
DL states it correctly, but I add only small locally owned business can sustain the goals you define. Too often we forget that small business IS the lifeblood, they employ more people, they pay more taxes (by sheer numbers) the deliver what the local communities need every day.
Global business do none of those things, yet people keep believing that they are important. I'd suggest that you look at the top 50 global business's and realize that 50% of them could be wiped out and we'd suffer no loss. There is no way 50% of small business's could be wiped out and the community not suffer a loss.
I fortunately, and simultaneously have lived in some of those places, I'd suggested that you visit, many now I wont go back to, I know it wont be the same, I know culture and traditions will have been lost. I know the diversity that the planet once had with every country being a unique and wonderful experience, is and has been diluted by corp, not only selling their wares, but changing the populations mindset to value and want what they offer. I suggest that in part this is responsible for the Arab Spring, the loss of culture some feel and are fighting tooth and nail to retain, through what ever means they perceive will achieve that goal. Ironically, so are the corps.
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Because of your last kindness, I wanted to and so I thought I'd share this with you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8TFcLgu5Ow
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJD-M2FpKNU
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It's the same for the supermarket, the gym, the elevator, or now the tv's in the bank, post office, it's I believe a way of pacifying people, distracting them. It's like this is a pointless excise waiting in line... so take their mind off it. it's as if we are being treated as children.
Which nicely brings me to the point you made about children and music, I think it's NOT inherently more musical but WE are more inhibited. Thats the huge and biggest difference between adults and children, we've been for want of a better word programmed, we wont embarrass ourselves, or we try not to. We hold on too tight.
I dont have a hatred of music per se, i do have a hatred of it's use as a distraction, and a hatred of people who are not considerate to others.
Now interestingly, I dont know why, but I feel it's more a mathematical ability, I do have the strange ability specially focused on classical (not that i like it more) to actually effectively predict what country the composer is from by the freq used.
I know that the frequencies used in rap music do put me into a severe rage. I figure that must have been the purpose of it, to enrage people to do such things as are done in the worlds slums, such as drive by shootings.
It's just not a emotion nor feeling I want to harbor, nor nurture, nor look forward to, u see I dont want my mind and so my body to go to such a place - not in an elevator or ever
Lizanne I wanted to reply to this comment, not just for the above but the feeling that it gave me of care & consideration that you've shown by taking the time to think about it and write it.
That Lizanne IS what I love about the human race, I dont care if i embarrass myself - that's what I love about you
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That might seem abstract, so lets assume you were on a plane with terrorists and you stopped them, by killing them, then on the ground when the plane landed you were arrested for murder - as it was a pre-meditated act.
Who would make a good judge? What would be fair? What would be just?
Isn't it all just someone's perspective?
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Dont believe me? Go somewhere remote(ish). Then visit the same place 20 years on.
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No joking.
Example:
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Just in case you didn't know.