Martha Stewart is home now. It does not seem that her image has been tarnished much. She may not have been so nice to perceived underlings. That may have been what put her in jail, but I see her as more of a judiciary scapegoat. The world’s attention was riveted to Martha’s transgression while trillion-dollar anti trusts crimes went un-investigated.
Corruption today seems as grate as it has ever been; it’s just a whole lot more sophisticated. Soft money has become freedom of speech, and legislators happily pocket this newfound freedom of speech and support the spoon fed pro monopoly legislation offered to them by the very monopolies that commit the crimes. I am of course referring to the telecommunication/media cartel. Both IBM and Gates may have been judiciary scapegoats as well. While Martha had nothing to do with access to bandwidth both IBM and Microsoft were fooling around with telephone access and peripheral routing of digital information, which threatened the monopolistic control held by the incumbent players. It is interesting that both backed off their telephone adventures. Sorry Netscape, Oracle and Sun, but all five of you should have recognized the international telephone cartel for what it was, a committed roadblock to anything threatening the communication monopoly. Moor’s Law stops here.
With computers, the Internet and private networks, productivity has been growing like the railroads of an Industrial Age. Moor’s Law, most everyone knows, describes the phenomena of rapid growth in techno-capacity concomitant with falling prices. The engineered scarcity of bandwidth and connectivity by the telecommunication cartel caused the Information Age economy to derail. The growth stops here! Not surprising, yesterdays 4th quarter productivity growth report was an anemic 2.1%. If I remember it was earlier reported as 0.8%; this in face of a past growth rate of as much as 8%. Productivity gives us our standard of living. No wonder we can’t afford health care, but then again that is another illegal cartel that goes unprosecuted. The lines are blurred because in both areas the bueaurocracies are involved in the anti trust activity. I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that we have too much politic and not enough justice in the judiciary.
Corruption today seems as grate as it has ever been; it’s just a whole lot more sophisticated. Soft money has become freedom of speech, and legislators happily pocket this newfound freedom of speech and support the spoon fed pro monopoly legislation offered to them by the very monopolies that commit the crimes. I am of course referring to the telecommunication/media cartel. Both IBM and Gates may have been judiciary scapegoats as well. While Martha had nothing to do with access to bandwidth both IBM and Microsoft were fooling around with telephone access and peripheral routing of digital information, which threatened the monopolistic control held by the incumbent players. It is interesting that both backed off their telephone adventures. Sorry Netscape, Oracle and Sun, but all five of you should have recognized the international telephone cartel for what it was, a committed roadblock to anything threatening the communication monopoly. Moor’s Law stops here.
With computers, the Internet and private networks, productivity has been growing like the railroads of an Industrial Age. Moor’s Law, most everyone knows, describes the phenomena of rapid growth in techno-capacity concomitant with falling prices. The engineered scarcity of bandwidth and connectivity by the telecommunication cartel caused the Information Age economy to derail. The growth stops here! Not surprising, yesterdays 4th quarter productivity growth report was an anemic 2.1%. If I remember it was earlier reported as 0.8%; this in face of a past growth rate of as much as 8%. Productivity gives us our standard of living. No wonder we can’t afford health care, but then again that is another illegal cartel that goes unprosecuted. The lines are blurred because in both areas the bueaurocracies are involved in the anti trust activity. I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that we have too much politic and not enough justice in the judiciary.
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