Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
Jeez man, SKL you are on a roll...Another starred and flagged thread!!
This is absolutely CREEPY.
The implications behind this type of stuff are something straight out of a combination of an Orwell novel and a Stephen King Horror novel.
Humans are being touted as being "cattle-like" here...This has made my stomach turn.
I'm sure there will be folks who see the positives of this type of stuff, but with the way things are going on this planet right now, I can't help but get a dreadful feeling from this...
[edit on 22-5-2008 by DimensionalDetective]
Originally posted by nine-eyed-eel
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
I bought Digital Angel, another subcutaneous ID chip play, for like three bucks per share 14 months back or maybe it was a buck fifty per, no biggie...it's been down or flat ever since... they got merged upon by some other corp in the meantime, but they used the Digital Angel name for the offspring...
This is another case where the cool factor keeps me in a low-performer...years ago I had another such called GZTC, Genzyme Transgenic, with no profits and whose only assets were like 975 mutated gene-spliced goats that were supposed to excrete pharmaceuticals or spider silk or whatnot into their milk...pharm goats, kept in Framingham Massachusetts, probably listening to Camper Van Beethoven...
Sadly maybe I'm a fool for such stocks that work better as science fiction cliches than as investments...heehee and oh well...oh yeah and I had likewise 400 shares of Cray Computer when they went completely out of business and all I got to show was the paper stock certificate...I figured, you had to believe in the genius of Seymour Cray, and no way could a computer be too super, too fast, too parallel too deluxe too expensive for the market, somebody will buy the quality product...but not so much...they were reduced to lending the computers for free to NOAA so they could do that complicated atmosphere modelling...
So maybe Verichip and DIGA are still a little ahead of the curve to be proper little investments, yet, hmm...
Originally posted by nine-eyed-eel
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
Yeah, I should know, since I own it...the name of the company that lumped up with Digital Angel could have been Verichip, I misremember, I fail in diligence since I already own the dog... all I know is that the ticker symbol for it in my TDAmeritrade account still comes up as DIGA.
I got the Etrade accounts, too, and actually I own some of it, ETFC, as a stock, too. I figure it's been beaten down enough to cover all their billions of bad mortgage debt...plus their TV commercials are less stupidly tedious than the TDAmeritrade or Scottrade ones...that Sam Waterston dude should only be employed sparingly like to sell prepaid funerals, Metamucil, and similar dire and unappealing products.
Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
HA! I won't be suprised if the Amero does come out soon, with the way the dollar has turned into A-wipe in recent months. I wonder how the Amero would fare for purchasing power on the world front?
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This book is quite literally a tell all of all the names of who financed Adolph Hitler's rise to power by financial means. The man didn't get into power just by his lies, but by lies of other men too, the men with power, with money, and influence, and the access to Wall Street. You would be surprised to see the names within this book that financed "the funny little man, with the funny little mustache" that almost took over the entire world.
I will not ruin the book for you by telling all the names in it, but I will tell you two men's name I know you will instantly recognize.
Henry Ford & Edsel Ford. Yes, those "Ford's", from Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford even got the highest award the Nazi's could give to a foreigner, in recognition of his assistance to Adolph Hitler, and his picture hung in Hitler's office.
Just so you know, I am not a fan of the Nazi's, nor am I a racist of any kind, nor a fan of Adolph Hitler. I'm following a papertrail to find out all the names of who helped the man get into power to begin with, because I am someone who knows there's more to history than what they teach you in school. It doesn't just come down to the lies a politician tells the people who put them in office, but to the power-brokers who finance the man. Adolph Hitler was a politician, plain and simple. He knew how to lie to the people and give them comfort through manipulative persuasion and then when the people willingly gave him the power he went for the throat of the world.
Another good book that tells the details of who assisted Hitler that you may be able to find here on Amazon is, "IBM and the Holocaust."
Yes, I am talking about that "IBM" here too. They helped Hitler track down the Jews and other "undesirables" (Hitler's words, not Mine) through the use of the census and the Hollerith Card Sorting Machine.
Information must be managed in order to keep your business in order and running smoothly. It is an important resource to keep things on track towards making money for you and keeping the consumer happy.
Managing information can be seen in many different ways, from time clocks to ordering product to who is currently dispatched on a delivery. For time clocks, it is important to know exactly who is on the clock, so people are not getting paid that are not currently there. A labor saving tool, if you will. If you do not have control of who is getting paid through information management, then your business is not being run efficiently.
For ordering products, you must know exactly what product is on hand, so you know what to order for the next delivery you will be receiving. If you know you need a certain amount of product for a special holiday, then you can stay ahead of the demand and stay ahead of the competition. Keeping your product in the store and in the displays is a major necessity to keep the customers happy and to make sure you are not falling behind on orders.
Information management towards delivery dispatching is important, because if you do not know what driver is dispatched on which delivery, you do not know where your employees are. On top of this, you need to know what delivery is already on its way in case a customer calls up wanting to add to the delivery, or wants to cancel the order and you can call the driver to catch them before they get to the customers door.
The internet is a major player in today’s society towards keeping track of information management. If you have e-mail currently you know how this works already. You receive an e-mail from a co-worker at home, telling you the guys are going out tomorrow night after work, asking if you want to come along. The same goes for business too. You can e-mail someone across the business world, or even a few offices down who may be on the phone, or in a meeting and you need to make sure you remind them of something important you just remembered.
Keeping in contact is important, and e-mails are just one way to do it. If Bob wants Julie to know they are having problems with a certain item, then he just e-mails her the information, with an item number, a brief description of the problem and asks for her help, possibly including a picture in a document. Another way of using the internet for information management is for the offices that have employees who work at home. When the employee wants to begin work, they log-in to the jobs website, kind of like we do for this school. The manager or owner sees who clocked in and what they are working on. It can be a dual-edged sword too. You will see exactly who is not doing what they are supposed to be doing, example : surfing websites that are off limits to employees while at work, or racial jokes towards certain employees, which could be a potential for harassment that you can head off in advance.
Using tracking devices that work in conjunction with the internet is another way to keep track of what is going on. Every time an employee walks through the door, their identification badge can be used to log them into the building or out of, depending on which way they are going. This can also be used to know who is doing what, or who is on the clock and who is not. If you have not given a certain employee permission to have a smoke break yet, but their badge just registered that they went out the back door where the smoke breaks are allowed, then you know that you have to do something about it when they get back, or even go talk to them immediately.
The intranet is another means of keeping the employees focused on the work at hand and not surfing the internet. The intranet is an internal network, similar to the internet but it has limitations. You can not go anywhere you want with the intranet, only where the company allows you and to do what your clearance level is allowed, thereby keeping security at a maximum for the company. This is done through networking all of the company computers together with network cards and cables connecting them. Using a LAN, or Local Area Network enables you to also share programs between certain security level employees or all of the employees, depending on what you want to set up.
If you know you are not allowed to access a certain program, but do anyway, then you are flagged as a potential problem employee and can be dealt with accordingly. This is something that has become a major necessity for employers to keep the employees in check, or on the task that they were assigned.
Using the internet can also be effective towards keeping track of the competition without tipping your hand to them. Example : your competition has a website and you want to know if they are offering comparable rates to you, but you do not want to physically go to their store or send one of your employees who may give away what you are doing. Keeping your prices comparable to all of your competition is something you must do to keep the customers coming back to you, or your customers coming back to your website.
The internet can also be used for marketing information, to keep track of the trends of certain items ordered or for a specific holiday trend. If you know a certain type of gift basket is ordered on a select holiday, having that product on hand or having more than normal on hand in the stock room to keep ahead of demand.
Having a wireless internet uses electronic signals for linking network appliances together. This can lead to less wiring and more mobility for you and your employees. If Johnny has an internet wireless resource, then he can be notified immediately of a traffic jam through a set up traffic program he has running on his laptop in the car, or even using a GPS, or Global Positioning System. The use of wireless applications can save both time with installing the wiring, which costs money, and saving space and not needing to have wires stuffed in the walls of your building which can be accidentally broken or melted over time and cost more money in the long run.
Keeping your customers security with crucial or sensitive information is another way of using information management. If you know your customer has a time sensitive meeting through an e-mail and the competition attempts to contact you, keeping this information to yourself is important. If you break your customers trust with this type of information can cost you a long term customer and word of mouth about a company that leaks information can cost a lot more than money, it can cost your reputation as a business and put you out of business.
If you keep track of your product on hand, the employees currently on the clock, your competition, you keep your business in order and running properly while making money and attempting to get ahead in the business world. Looking ahead is something you must always do in the business world, along with looking back to see both where you were and what you were doing. You can always learn from the past to move ahead in the future when it comes to business and information technology and information management.
