tax revolt is terrorism

In many cases private ownership is funded by public funds with the idea of protecting the public -- doing the things necessary to ensure energy security, food security, even national security by funding military readiness.

The legacy of the 20th century is that national security and corporate longevity has been placed ahead of the combined intelligence of the public to engage its collective funds in meaningful ways that assist in the welfare of all, including the marginalized and/or disenfranchised 'members' of mainstream society.

To underwrite change without violence, without dictating market activity or interrupting markets that employ caveat emptor as their market viability, or even without directing public money to research and development of technologies for the purpose of transferring new developments to interested parties, even income tax revolt would be ineffective because the tax revenue generated by the public's dependency on non-renewable forms of energy protects government from having to rely on how much each participating member of the public is able to generate in personal revenue.

What we have is not freedom. Freedom is a misnomer that provides no limitation on the individual or the enterprise. Freedom does not include the ideas of interdependence and governance. Contextually, the modern definition of freedom is the right to participate in making change. Once the ability of the individual to participate is compromised by means of financial dislocation this freedom is made inert. The cost/benefit ratio of participation impinges on the ability of the societal dependent to survive within the system.

The connection between capitalism and democracy is the distribution of domination, quite possibly superior to any other system of approach to governance, but one in which the service of upholding and regulating it pander to an elite nonetheless.

Where policy infringes on freedom is its unwilingness to acknowledge the incorporation of social dictums that run contrary to the operation of the government of the day -- communism for instance. The 'system' of government is a social network whose bounds are loosely defined by the longevity of its supporters. As the ability of corporations to promote policy on a timeline that spans generational boundaries and by this token exceeds the system that limits governance it is apparent that it is the corporation that has the greatest influence on government and the spending of public money to its own advantage.

Income tax revolt is therefore an act of sedition or terrorism in the eyes of government that believes the collection of tax is a measure to protect the public from the threats it has studied on behalf of the public.

the passionate pressure seeks reflection

Scouring the Net for pithy commentary I've come across both the elevated and the base.

One slip on the keyboard can trigger something deep and dark to eclipse your horizon or lead you to the passionate embrace of the sublime.

And then it is time to move on.

Whatever your prediliction, there isn't much time to really understand where you've gone without taking the time to reflect on the sights seen on the journey.

May you someday have the time to reflect and build true memories.


-- your conversion has begun --

the state of self-loathing in the realm of discontent

Being an environmentalist does not equate with self-loathing. Nope.

For accuracy's sake let's say you are not an environmentalist.

That'll do.


-- the cryptic is necessary for brevity --

questions I asked today

Electric vehicles in India

Does USAID monitor the involvment of American corporations in developing countries where it concerns the readiness of nations to accept non-traditional technology in a market for which a regulatory environment may not be readily available?

Mission-critical blows away wind power

This discussion occurred on Sunday, April 4th, 2004 commencing at approximately 8:17 p.m. and ending at 8:35 p.m.

Kelly: Hello! My name is Kelly, and I am a (Live) Fanatical Service Specialist with Rackspace. I am here as a site guide to answer any questions you may have about our products and services.
Kelly: Are you researching a new hosting project or looking to replace or upgrade an existing solution?

Guest53215: i was kind of interested to learn a bit about your hosting. I wanted to find some host that is focused on using only renewable energy
Guest53215: hello?
Guest53215: Kelly, are you there?

Kelly: Hello,

Guest53215: hey

Kelly: sorry just got that through, one moment

Guest53215: np

Kelly: Okay I am sorry abou the delay
Kelly: well as to your requirements I think they are wondeful, or your interest

Guest53215: s, ok
Guest53215: thanks

Kelly: I am not aware of any hosting company doing that.

Guest53215: really?
Guest53215: well, that's not good

Kelly: at this time renewable engergy is just not cost effective in a production environment, servers take a lot of power.
Kelly: and they require absolute redundancy

Guest53215: i guess they must
Guest53215: how many do you have on site?

Kelly: even a second of downtime and doctors lose patient records, sytems and applications fail, etc.
Kelly: we have around 9,300 across 4 locations.

Guest53215: so, i guess wind power is out of the question then
Guest53215: you don't suppose I could have you send me an email with this information do you?

Kelly: Yes, well I think there may be a market for mixing in renewable resources with traditional power at some point, but with data centers, they focus more on 100% availabilty, redundant power grids, etc..

Guest53215: i am tim.****@sympatico.**

Kelly: I can send you an overfview pdf.

Guest53215: i can't capture this conversation

Kelly: yes I can send this to you.
Kelly: and an overview.

Guest53215: can you describe the problem with renewables?
Guest53215: ok, that would be great

Kelly: well I think I just did, but I am not an engineer.

Guest53215: i am still interested in your company
Guest53215: is there a way to become a reseller?

Kelly: As I see it, essentially it costs serveal times more to use that type of energy

Guest53215: can you be absolutely sure you are giving me valid information

Kelly: and in a competitive market place that is a difficult number to add to themix.

Guest53215: someone's career may depend on this
Guest53215: not yours

Kelly: I cannot be sure, however I know that we do not have solar powered servers or wind powered servers, and immediate plans for that in the future.
Kelly: Do I know it is more expensive and less reliable at this time, of course that is a given.

Guest53215: what about purchasing electrical power from companies that provide energy from renewable sources?

Kelly: do I know servers take a lot of power and that if they are mission critical, yes.
Kelly: Well I think most providers do that, I know the our local power service uses some wind generatros.
Kelly: generators.

Guest53215: ah, well that's different then

Kelly: not sure of the mix, just that they do R&D and work with renewable resources.
Kelly: as to reseller programs
Kelly: we do not offer them in the commons sense, meaning

Guest53215: do you know the name of your power company?
Guest53215: is it the same for each of the four locations?

Kelly: you cannot buy our servers and reseller them with your own branded name.

Guest53215: oh, ok

Kelly: No it is not, we are based in San Antonio, and that would be City Public Service of San Antonio,

Guest53215: you can just move registered IP addresses then, i guess, right?

Kelly: I have no idea who it would be in Virgina, or London.

Guest53215: London, England?

Kelly: I am not sure what you mean, we assign IP addresses, you move domain names.
Kelly: yes London, England.

Guest53215: whoops, sorry

Kelly: You can resell from our servers.

Guest53215: where is your other location?

Kelly: to smaller webhosting clients
Kelly: we have 2 data centers in San Antonio.

Guest53215: oh, ok. and you are based in San Antonio?

Kelly: our servers start from the low $400's a month.
Kelly: yes we are based in San Antonio.

Guest53215: do you also do development?

Kelly: Is that the kind of price range you were considering?

Guest53215: as in database development and such

Kelly: we do not, we have clients who do that, we do not compete with them.

Guest53215: well, i was hoping for something a little less expensive

Kelly: Typcially hosts who do development either do not do it well.
Kelly: Or they do not host as well as they should

Guest53215: so what's on your typical backend then?

Kelly: yes again we are geared toward mission critical environments, we host for a great number of high profile clients.
Kelly: we have 4-5 Tier providers per data center.
Kelly: Tier1
Kelly: I meant

Guest53215: lol
Guest53215: right
Guest53215: ok

Kelly: AT&T, Spring Qwest

Guest53215: wow
Guest53215: big names

Kelly: no transit stuff like Level 3, Internap, or Abovenet etc
Kelly: and of course Sprint, no spring and TimeWarner, UUnet etc.

Guest53215: so you are a major part of the backbone i would guess

Kelly: anyway, we do have a company loosely affiliated with us
Kelly: www.serverbeach.com

Guest53215: what do they do?
Guest53215: hosting?

Kelly: they start around $100 a month
Kelly: yes, dedicated self-managed servers

Guest53215: that's getting down around my price range...
Guest53215: is it better if I talk to them or can you do that for me?
Guest53215: and are we talking in USD?

Kelly: I would check them out, they do nice work, you would have to contact them.
Kelly: Yes in uSD
Kelly: they were started by our founder
Kelly: but a totally indpendent company

Guest53215: i guess i'll take the recommendation...
Guest53215: can you still send me this conversation?

Kelly: Yes I can do that.

Guest53215: that would be fantastic...


World renowned wind expert Paul Gipe is also making a presentation on wind energy to the Ontario Rural Council at the Holiday Inn in Peterborough on April 6th, 2004 at 1:00 pm.
Mr. Gipe has shown Ontarians how they can win big with wind under advanced renewable tariffs.

-- and my sister-in-law calls ME a shit disturber... where did she come up with THAT!! --