Google……..don’t be evil………what is really true!?

What if all information in the world would be categorised and easy to look for? What if everything that’s written about in the world, the news, all books, texts, photograph and video which be collected exists there at one place in the world, and would be available everywhere? That is exactly the aim of Google, and the company will not do long before realizing that. The search engine, by means of Google Earth, well-known by means of in which all possible information is classified on geographical location. But for example also by means of Google Books, a project where Google digitises complete libraries!!!

A few months ago I allready discussed the case which I saw yesterday in this documentary with Niek Dekker, a classmate of mine. I showed him the movie ‘Google’s Masterplan‘, in which is illustrated the conspiracy theory of Google as the Big Brother of today. After hearing Google is cooperating with governments to censure certain information I really start doubting the complete neutral posture of this ‘great company to work for’!!!

The Egg of de Soto.

Is it really true that third world problems can be solved by creating capital and is the missing law the causer of poverty. I think that pure freedom can lead to a stabel economy. This freedom does not mean there can’t be property and capitalism, but governments must give their citizens freedom of trading and a stabel law to live with. Capitalism is not an Bad thing if you use it right.

This documentary is about a man called Hernando de Soto, who is a major economist and thinks he has found the problem causing poverty in societies all over the world. He wrote the bestselling book ‘The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else’ with the main tenet that people in developing countries lack such an integrated formal property system, leading to only informal ownership of land and goods. He argues that the start of economic success of American and Japanese capitalism relied on a clear system of property rights which was created during the times of the ‘frontier’ in America and in post-WWII Japan. The lack of such an integrated system of property rights in today’s Third World Countries makes it impossible for the poor to make their now informal ownerships into capital, which de Soto claims would form the basis for entrepreneurship. Farmers in much of the developing world remain trapped in subsistence agriculture. As such, he argues that this informal ownership should be made formal, for example by giving official papers for the land they now live on.

Borsten voor je verjaardag!

Niet normaal dit! Meisjes van 19 die voor een borstvergroting gaan. Het zou verboden moeten worden. Eerst waren piercings en oorbellen iets waar je als ouder je kind voor wilde weerhouden, maar nu durft de puberende jeugd zelfs na te denken over deze cosmetische ingrepen. En dan is het enige wat je zegt als huge-money-making-chirurg: deze ingrepen zijn terug te draaien en een piercing laat voor altijd een lidteken achter………….of…………tuurlijk neem ik deze meisjes serieus, anders zou ik de arts-patient-relatie niet serieus nemen ($$$$$$$$$$)!…………..Pffffffff…………flatdrol.