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Testing a new format.

What I want to do when I grow up....

I think I have found what I want to do when I grow up; affiliate marketing and lead generation. I have had several conversation recently about how you can seem much larger than you really are with all the business tools that exist now. You can set up a domain, emails, faxes, etc all electronically within minutes. Accounting, paying taxes, setting up thing online are so automated now you can create systems that do all the heavy lifting if you can create the vision on what you want to create. The beauty of all of this is you can run your empire from a computer with internet access. I think the idea is pretty neat. I have always held myself out as pretty intelligent, I guess this will be the litmus test. Can I learn how to do this with little formal instruction, the way the real world operates?

Technology in Society

Who would have imagined that people would be willing to spend $530 for a Google Nexus One Superphone?? I want one though. The G1 has worked well over the last year until I dropped it one to many times and the screen broke.

It is amazing how much cheaper laptops, LCD TV and other consumer products have gotten in the last couple years. AMOleds are going to be come the norm in at least most portable consumer devices if not in TVs.

Hopefully I can earn enough in ads to buy a Nexus One at some point, $530 is a little much to spend right now.

The Dangerous Road we travel

I am very fearful of the road our country is traveling. Huge bailouts of private companies, Health Care "Reform", mortgage assistance are just the top of the mountain.

We already have Medicare and Social Security, welfare, food stamps, etc. that everyone has to pay for. Now the powers that be want us to fund a universal health care plan. Government has gotten too big for its britches. We are becoming a nation that expects everything. Where have the consequences gone?? The way I understand it if I stop paying my mortgage at some point I will be removed from my house. If I don't pay for my utilities I will have no water, lights, etc. I don't pay my car payments, credit cards etc. I will have consequences.

Why is it different for major companies like GM, Chrysler, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, etc. Let me get this straight. If enough large companies all make the same stupid decisions then we will uniformly bail them out. Same for individuals, if most regular people buy more house than they can afford, lets bail them out. Where is the incentive to make smart decisions???