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Category Archives: Cynical conspiracy theories

Economic downturn – where’d that come from?

In case you haven’t noticed, there was – and still is to an extent – an economic downtorn almost all around the world. Everybody was broke, nobody had any money, companies went bankrupt, people lost their homes. In general, it was not nice. But wait a minute! How is that actually possible. Isn’t the amount [...]

| Posted 21 June 2010 | Antti | Old crow whining | Comments (0) |

You get what you pay for, big time

There’s been a huge boom to privatize all sorts of services in our country during the past decade or so. We’ve done what others have done before, and not even bothered to check how well it has worked. Needless to say, we’ve fallen in the same pits as others, just because of our own stupidiy [...]

| Posted 12 March 2010 | Antti | Old crow whining | Comments Off |

Perpetual growth paradigm

In another news this morning there was talk about the economic situation. Some all-important pompous ass was saying something along the lines of, now that the worst would appear to be over we need to focus on strengthening the economy, and to bring it back on a growth track. Can’t say I agree with that. [...]

| Posted 12 January 2010 | Antti | Old crow whining | Comments (1) |

Peace – blech, that’s not cool

If we were to prepare for peace with as much money and resources as we prepare for war, this would be a peaceful planet. But, alas, we do not. How sad we are.

| Posted 10 August 2009 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

What’s yours is really not yours anymore

All this fancy pancy talk about cloud computing lately has left me wondering why so few understand the real implications of leaving your software, your data in the hands of others. So many embrace google for all their offerings like google docs, google mail and what not, without ever considering that if it’s free, there [...]

| Posted 20 July 2009 | Antti | Books, Flicks and Music | Comments Off |