Picoftheweek

Picoftheweek
Waaaaaaaay too many to count...

My Statement

"Let me emphatically say that I am not anti-Facebook (Fleecebook), anti-smart phone, anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple, anti-Google or anti-Internet. I do believe, though, that the consumer is being ripped off of his privacy, identity and purchase history. We are being herded into a Facebook corner where what we "Like" and where we go physically and on the net will be scrutinized and sold numerous times to actually corrode and erode our culture while tempting us only with convenience, high tech and flashing video screens. The unsuspecting consumers need to be aware..." - Gary Lapman

Quote of Note

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”-W.C. Fields

"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling
"Common sense is not so common. " -Voltaire

“Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, but only character endures.” - Matthew McConaughey
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him"

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason" - Jerry Seinfeld

"Fleecebook is free, you (and your identity) is the product!" - Gary Lapman

"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." - Eric Sevareid

"'Smart' phones are only smart for the cell phone providers!" - Gary Lapman

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.” -Albert Einstein

"Technology creates the illusion of companionship without the intimacy of friendship." - unknown

"No worry, there's an app for that..." - Gary Lapman

Friday, July 25, 2014

The Latest Outrage... When will we learn?

Let me say that I share the outrage regarding the last execution in Arizona.  Were it not for the 29 years that this convicted killer were kept in prison previous to his execution, I would feel as though his victims were vindicated.  Unfortunately, the victims' family had to wait so long for an attempt at closure.

 Why do we attempt to make an execution sane or easy for the convicted?  Is this further evidence of the unraveling of society? Why is it important to our society to make the execution easy?

 We spend a literal and vast fortune to keep the convicted in prison for tens of years awaiting execution, and then thousands of dollars to purchase and administer a death cocktail that doesn't work.  A judge recently expressed his opinion that we should return to the use of a firing squad, which is quick, doesn't fail and can be utilized publicly as a crime deterrent. 

IMHO, I think we should go back in history even further to the guillotine, to get the most "bang for the buck"!  And why wait so long to do the deed?  Pick a time interval, say one year for example.  If there is no "activity" on a convicted killer's re-defense in one year, "off with his head"!  That seems so cruel, but what about their victims?

 What about their victims?
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