obviously I didnt go back and publish the unfinished posts

rant: credit scores.

I just heard somebody on a news program, obviously talking about personal financial responsibility/success, say that they thought it was a shame that you have to pay to see your credit score, but that at least you can see your credit history and if you can clean that up your score should get better. and another commentator made the comment wouldnt it be great if the government could give you that number.

my eyes went red with rage.

My first thought was, no, it would be great if there wasnt an artificial monopoly in the space of credit scores and if another company could come in and create a score that more accurately predicted the rate of defaults.

My next thought, was, why does anybody think that the government should be involved with lending money to the general populace.

My next thought was, why does our government operate at a significant deficit. and then I just closed my eyes, wrote a few sentences and got back to work. Let the world work its magic.

I have an assload of old unfinished posts

so, at some point, there may be a flurry of random not polished not complete statements just to clear out the edit posts page.

I was planning on writing a tirade about fiat money and the world economy and things, but I will let it ruminate.

progess

lets assume we have exponential growth, and that as we grow we put safegaurds in place as we realize flaws and risks associated with our growth. growth drives growth. safegaurds are behind by some time, lets ignore that most safegaurds are legislative and thus naturally wouldnt be able to keep up as bottlenecks clog. Even permitting that there will still be a lag of time between preventing catastrophe.

this is something Ive thought much about, and yet another things Ive just determined is a risk we have to live with for progress. at some point risks arise, and there is no ideal way to mitigate them. so we live with it. its funny.

side by side comparison of facebook to google. thought it would be at least mildly interesting to think about since with buzz google is now trying to link in all their services which compete directly with facebooks features.

facebook photo albums, versus picassa

facebook events versus google calendar

facebook news feed versus buzz

facebook notes versus blogspot

facebook chat versus gchat

facebook has applications, but the internet has better applications, and google owns search. ... not to mention that google has app engine http://code.google.com/appengine/

now, facebook has a more tightly integrated set of features, but google has an advantage in that it obviously leads as a mail and search giant.

what does facebook do that gives it the advantage. What aspects of the social network are better? what aspects of the search giant are better

had more to write up about this, but ended there and dont mind it as is.