I got tired of sitting for long periods of time years ago and made myself a stand-up desk. Now I work at both a regular sit down desk and my stand-up desk. I just swivel the monitor and have an extra keyboard and like to change back and forth as it suits me. Sitting is much worse for circulation than standing in my experience. I have been told by those in the know that standing and moving around while you work helps the legs return blood to the heart. Just my two cents.
Remember that guy in Washington State who obtained the names, addresses and social security numbers of everyone who worked for law enforcement, the courts and other dept. of justice personel and published them on a web site? The site is now down but as far as I have been able to determine it was not because of any legal ruling. Now think about the recent debacle with Choicepoint and Lexis-Nexis. How would the officers and employees of those companies like it if the people collected their personal information and made it available to anyone? The watchers ARE THE PARANOIDS and history shows they cannot be trusted. Combine this with greedy corporatism and you have a recipe for the recent disasters. Any revolutionary/.ers feel free to get hold of me.
Actually it's just the corporations. Most people, if they attain any degree of financial sucess, invest in something. It's capitalism and it works. Governments, by definition, do the controlling. That is why that government is best which governs least. The corporations can be controlled much more easily. They will do whatever a sufficiently large group of investors or customers tell them to do.
Would that we had a mind so acutely full of vision and truth that it were necessary to publish them anonymously. Our "intelligencia" are for the most part dull and docile. In the former Soviet Union their fear was not counterfeiters but people whose ideas were contrary and or threatning to the established order. In Russia on occasion, there appeared men who understood Conrads dictum about wanting to win an argument. "Put your faith not in the right argument but the right Word for the power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense" sic. Sadly that remains the condition here today, witness our last election.
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I got tired of sitting for long periods of time years ago and made myself a stand-up desk. Now I work at both a regular sit down desk and my stand-up desk. I just swivel the monitor and have an extra keyboard and like to change back and forth as it suits me. Sitting is much worse for circulation than standing in my experience. I have been told by those in the know that standing and moving around while you work helps the legs return blood to the heart. Just my two cents.
Remember that guy in Washington State who obtained the names, addresses and social security numbers of everyone who worked for law enforcement, the courts and other dept. of justice personel and published them on a web site? The site is now down but as far as I have been able to determine it was not because of any legal ruling. Now think about the recent debacle with Choicepoint and Lexis-Nexis. How would the officers and employees of those companies like it if the people collected their personal information and made it available to anyone? The watchers ARE THE PARANOIDS and history shows they cannot be trusted. Combine this with greedy corporatism and you have a recipe for the recent disasters. Any revolutionary /.ers feel free to get hold of me.
Actually it's just the corporations. Most people, if they attain any degree of financial sucess, invest in something. It's capitalism and it works. Governments, by definition, do the controlling. That is why that government is best which governs least. The corporations can be controlled much more easily. They will do whatever a sufficiently large group of investors or customers tell them to do.
Would that we had a mind so acutely full of vision and truth that it were necessary to publish them anonymously. Our "intelligencia" are for the most part dull and docile. In the former Soviet Union their fear was not counterfeiters but people whose ideas were contrary and or threatning to the established order. In Russia on occasion, there appeared men who understood Conrads dictum about wanting to win an argument. "Put your faith not in the right argument but the right Word for the power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense" sic. Sadly that remains the condition here today, witness our last election.