One of the 1st things I was taught as part of a critical thinking course was to ask the question: 'who is saying this?' In other words, what is the motivation behind the person writing the piece. It got me to thinking further - not just who, but what are they defending?
When you look at regulation - and the current reaction to mark-to-market is a great example - we find it is the Fed that's slinging its weight. And who is behind the Fed? Not the government as you might expect but private banking interests.
Take that thought and apply to the notion of regulation and you quickly conclude that regulation is a matter of what suits the interests of those who regulate at any point in time.
Now look at the Fed's balance sheet and you also see that it has become the biggest hedge fund of all time in the last year. No wonder they don't want mark to market. If they did then they'd be well and truly up shit's creek without a paddle.
Mike - don't be naive - they're not independent anymore than any of the consulting crews are. That went out the window around 2001 when they all realised there was no point in competing with themselves. In the releases, there's plenty of talk about their Microsoft relationship as well.
Those who pillory others do so from a position of ignorance. Plenty of people - like the majority - are not attuned to the online world. The rags could use this medium to seed online efforts so fair play to them.
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Who?
One of the 1st things I was taught as part of a critical thinking course was to ask the question: 'who is saying this?' In other words, what is the motivation behind the person writing the piece. It got me to thinking further - not just who, but what are they defending?
When you look at regulation - and the current reaction to mark-to-market is a great example - we find it is the Fed that's slinging its weight. And who is behind the Fed? Not the government as you might expect but private banking interests.
Take that thought and apply to the notion of regulation and you quickly conclude that regulation is a matter of what suits the interests of those who regulate at any point in time.
Now look at the Fed's balance sheet and you also see that it has become the biggest hedge fund of all time in the last year. No wonder they don't want mark to market. If they did then they'd be well and truly up shit's creek without a paddle.
And replace with...
Mike - interesting idea but without a replacement proposal it sounds faintly hollow.
I am so glad...
Someone recently looked sniffy at me when I said we're using Rackspace instead of Amazon. Now who's going to look sniffy back?
A neat idea
Well done Mike - disrupting the incumbent fat, happy and lazy Gartners of this world represents serious goodness IMO.
Duh?
Mike - don't be naive - they're not independent anymore than any of the consulting crews are. That went out the window around 2001 when they all realised there was no point in competing with themselves. In the releases, there's plenty of talk about their Microsoft relationship as well.
CDs - could be good
Those who pillory others do so from a position of ignorance. Plenty of people - like the majority - are not attuned to the online world. The rags could use this medium to seed online efforts so fair play to them.