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Carly Fiorrina on What Rich Conservatives Believe

Carly Fiorina's statements were only gaffe's in that they lifted the curtain to show the wizard.

As evidenced by Carly her comments, the conservative elite actually hold the government in very, very low regard.  It is their position that the role of government is to be punks, to be puppets, stooges.  She clearly states that NONE of those running for the president of the United States of America are capable of running a corporation.  This is what she believes.  And, I think this is what the conservative elite believes.  They believe that they are the engine that makes the world go round.  They believe that the roll of the government is to let them do what they do, how they what to do it and when they want to do it.

As I write this I am realizing it is not even a very radical statement.

Carly Fiorina's statements were only gaffe's in that they lifted the curtain to show the wizard.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com September 16, 2008, 1:43 pm Fiorina: Palin Is Qualified for Oval Office, Not Corner Office   Susan Davis reports on the presidential race. McCain campaign economic adviser Carly Fiorina offered a blunt assessment of John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, when asked if she thought the Alaska governor was qualified to run a major company, such as Hewlett Packard, were Fiorina was once CEO. “No, I don’t,” Fiorina responded. “But you know what, that’s not what she’s running for.” UPDATE: In a subsequent appearance on MSNBC, Fiorina was asked about her Palin remark. “I don’t think John McCain could run a major corporation. I don’t think Barack Obama could run a major corporation. I don’t think Joe Biden could,” she said,

Internet Music

I am a music Snob.  I listen to music constantly and almost exclusively I listen to music streaming over the web. So, I thought it might be interesting to others to see what tools and services I use.

Slacker, Rhapsody, Mp3Tunes, Last.fm, Logitech SqueezeBox, MusicBrainz, MusicIP...

Teach A Man To Fish

I read an interesting blog post on the now tired Teach A Man To Fish paradigm recently and found myself spending enough time on the comment on that blog to merit a blog post on my own site.  So...

The Teach-A-Man-To-Fish paradigm is a mess. First, it concentrates on the Man when many studies show that women are better entrepreneurs. Second, people know how to fish. The assumption that you are “helping” by telling some one everything you know is more ego stroking than anything. There are lot’s of people who fish much better than I do. Said another way, knowledge or Intellectual Property, is a fish. In an information economy teaching people to fish equates to a vibrant education system. It also requires that this vibrant education system focuses on critical thinking and the skills necessary to create intellectual property as opposed to a list of history's tired informational detritus. (That is stuff for another post.) 

In an information economy, IP is a commodity. Knowing how to fish is the ability to innovate, to apply insight to opportunity and then operationalize.

Open Everything ?

I just spent three days with 30ish very smart, very dedicated people exploring the concept of openness.  The meeting was held at Hollyhock on Cortez Island in British Columbia.  Hollyhock is very, very beautiful. This meeting/retreat was part of the OpenEverything series.  I was eager to attend in a effort to

1. understand how to build an open development community on top of a proprietary platform (salesforce.com)
2. abstract and apply the methodology of open source development to solving the world's most intractable problems.