Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Gates Foundation and Fossil Fuel Plundering

Today's WSJ carried a news article concerning Bill Gates pledging nearly $800 million to combat tropical diseases. I want to link this effort to my singular and penny pinching endeavor to try to stop the world from plundering planet Earth's non-renewable resources, especially the fossil fuels.

My theme has been to utilize mankind's knowledge explosion of the last 200 years to finally realize that God's one-time-only gift of fossil fuel is meant also to test the sanity of Homo sapiens by observing the rate of consumption we actually decide on. The G & R (government and religion) leadership has not addressed the problem of rate control---we're free to use it up at the highest possible rate that technology will allow! This is insane.

I must also point out that the bacteria or parasites that cause the diseases were also created by God. It was an effort to control a population explosion in Africa, perhaps. Are we challenging or declining God's help to a better world? Let us follow through what Bill's $800 million will do. About half of the total has been spent for delivery of the drugs to the stricken people. But every activity, from drug development to delivery, depends on using down non-renewable energy resources. The world is already in economic crisis because mankind is still trying to increase energy supply to meet the galloping increases in demand of out of control life style and population growth. (The correct conduct is to determine the total available energy resources we are reasonably allowed to use, and cut demand to that number. More on this later...)

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Political Misstep Can Lead to Commercial Success

Today's headlines pay homage to Apple's past CEO Steve Jobs. The global sales of iPhone and iPad has set historic success in terms of revenue and profit. I would like to point out that these products are no more than expensive toys for the struggling adults of the middle class. These people need temporary escape from the stresses of a collapsing financial world, and these products are just cheap enough (through Taiwan and PRC labor cooperation) to become affordable. What is ironic is that all this is made possible by the engineering breakthroughs of the USA space programs which got a huge boost in funding because of a political failure by JFK.

President Kennedy received faulty information from the CIA concerning an invasion of Cuba by its immigrants in Florida. When the Bay-of-Pigs operation failed, JFK sought to divert attention of the people by announcing an ambitious moon-landing program. Although he did not live to see the fruits of his decision, it was his program that enabled live broadcast of the astrounauts stepping on the moon. Later on a network of synchronous satellites orbiting the Earth was established to facilitate the IT revolution. Jobs was a smart business man who realized this global network could be utilized at very little cost to Apple to sell his toys.

How do you like my new format?

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

On Dying

No one can claim to be an experienced "dyer", because death happens only once to each person. I want to make this a topic of today's blog, to explain why I'm trying to change my format of making entries to my postings. Being a perfectionist, I waste far too much of my precious remaining moments of life on trival presentation details. As I watch my mind rapidly declining in its ability to analyze and pinpoint the blundering mistakes of human leadership, I am alarmed by the passage of time---will the human race lose my considerable yet-not-understood point of view to procrastination of old age?

I still have flashes of inspirational perception. Sometimes I jot it down on a piece of paper (my notebook was filled to the last page about 6 months ago), but when I opened my computer to the "new posting" page, composing became difficult---ending in nothingness. So today I must resolve to kill the perfectionist, and let my ideas be recorded, in pigeon English if necessary, on the internet.

This is the end of my first "desparate" entry. See you tomorrow, if I'm lucky.