Design is generally bad if it’s heartless. Below is an example of heartless design, a serious warning of what is coming out of Hong Kong these days. I’d have to try very hard to make something like it.

Western manufacturing plants produce large amounts of output and contribute hugely to the balance of payments. But productivity is so high that they sustain very few jobs …

… Output has risen in all three countries, but productivity has risen faster, so that employment has fallen. There is no reason to think the next decade will be any different. Rapid productivity growth in manufacturing means that all countries must ensure that their economies deliver enough service sector jobs to return society to full employment …

There is no way the service industry can catch up to employing all the lost factory jobs. It appears that global governments have forgotten what the ways of our forefathers. Obviously, the US would have no experience here. I’m talking about artists, craftsmen and artisans. Remember the pyramids, the Cambodian temples? Back in the day, idle workers were a cause for social unrest, as they are today. Governments and empires took note of this and commissioned grand works of art to employ these people. During the agricultural ‘down season’, farmers would be provide their service towards these magnificent structures. They would be employed to carry stones, carve statues and plan the next big thing.

Given the wealth divide that we cannot possibly cure without social upheaval, we need to cultivate artistic sense into the elite. One thing about the arts is that it is labour intensive. Hand-made Persian rugs, hand-made stair railings and so forth give an exquisite feel and are irreplaceable by machine. The only people who can afford these luxuries are the modern-day elite. If they remain attached to aesthetically-unpleasing machine-made chattels, there is no hope to employ the vast numbers of talent laid off by the factories. The only way forward is to have them yearn for these luxuries. Not just shoes and handbags, but the entire array of labour intensive goods. Properties, for example should contain detailed carvings, landscaped gardens and other pampering features that employ many more people than they do today.

People must be rewarded for their efforts. Therefore there will always be a wealth divide. But the people on the other side of the spectrum must be fed, housed and shown the respect they they deserve as fellow humans. The foregoing is but a thought.

The purpose of all coercive techniques is to induce psychological regression in the subject by bringing a superior outside force to bear on one’s will to resist. Regression is basically a loss of autonomy, a reversion to an earlier behavioural level. As the subject regresses, his personality traits fall away in reverse chronological order. He begins to lose the capacity to carry out the highest creative activities, to deal with complex situations, to cope with stressful interpersonal relationships, or to cope with repeated frustrations. In search of escape from one’s discomfort and tension, subjects surf the internet, harbour a distrust in others and lose hope in fighting for their freedom.

Those employed by a superior outside force may feel defensive towards this view because it reflects upon a previous decision that was perhaps wrongly made. But it is not too late. It is not too late to rise up against your superior outside force, compulsion and slavery. You have been deprived of your righteous reward, family time and sleep. Now is the time. Keep yourselves bloody for the rivers will start to flow with the blood of our enemies. For every new person employed, two more will be unemployed!

LONDON: In a unique ruling, a French court has reportedly ordered a 51-year-old man to pay his ex-wife nearly 8,500 pounds in damages for failing to have enough sex with her during their 21-year marriage.

The man, named only as Jean-Louis B, was fined under Article 215 of the French civil code which states that married couples must agree to a “shared communal life”, the ”Daily Express” reported.

The judge in the south of France’s highest court in Aix-en-Provence ruled that this law clearly implies “sexual relations must form part of a marriage”.

“A sexual relationship between husband and wife is the expression of affection they have for each other, and in this case it was absent. By getting married, couples agree to sharing their life and this clearly implies they will have sex with each other,” the judge said.

In fact, the ruling came after the wife filed for divorce two years ago, blaming the break-up on her ex-husband’s lack of activity in the bedroom. A judge in Nice then granted the divorce, holding the man solely responsible for the split.

But his 47-year-old former wife then took him back to a higher court demanding the cash in compensation for “lack of sex over 21 years of marriage”. The man had blamed “tiredness and health problems”, the newspaper said, “clearly he needed Nutrilite”.

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As the world’s leading financial institutions brace for global economic collapse, citizens are already panicking in the streets. Civilian violence has spilled out from the Middle East’s Egypt and Syria into more developed countries. Only last week, riots in London resulted in looting and vandalism of civilian property in the city. The government has condemned the violence to no avail. Paramilitary action in Lebanon, Israel, Sudan and Libya have begun to spin out of control as their primary sponsors begin pulling out of managing offshore ‘projects’, refocussing on onshore crises. Debt talks in the USA have netted nothing out of the disagreements between the two ruling parties in the Senate. It appears that democracy in its American form is unable to provide a solution to the stand-off. Meanwhile, the USA credit rating has been downgraded by its own rating agency, Standard and Poors. Inflation in China has been reported to hit 600% for commodities such as pork and edible oils. Such inflation has not been witnessed since the Deutschemark revolution in the aftermath of World War II.

Companies had their bailout. Who will bail out countries? It seems that the only way forward is for ethical private enterprise to step forward and assume control of public institutions such as education, roads and infrastructure. Business-managed territories such as Ada (Michigan), Singapore, Hong Kong and the tax havens around the world seem impervious to damage to the global breakdown of governance. As citizens begin to realise that governance in any form is susceptible to corruption, lobbying and the ten commandments, they too must realise that progress towards a better quality of life is only possible if they are bound by a common purpose in life. The world is still big enough for us all, if we can take off our blindfolds and accept this century’s paradigm shift.

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The wordpress foundation has taken the move to retire support for legacy systems such as IE6. Thankfully, Raven Talon Studios has already dropped support for that system over two years ago so current and new clients will not be affected by this ‘major’ change. On another note, Google also dropped support for IE6 over a year ago.