{"id":1075,"date":"2007-12-29T15:14:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T13:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/thought-nuggets-from-twitter-part-3.html"},"modified":"2007-12-29T20:13:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T18:13:45","slug":"thought-nuggets-from-twitter-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"Thought Nuggets from Twitter &#8211; Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>When a successful entrepreneur stops investing and starts donating, paradoxically, he slows down the economy somewhat.<\/li>\n<li>The brits must have done something right cause their ex colonies rule the world&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>If people stop having kids once they realized that they were more of a financial burden than a pension&#8230;why were they having them?<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese Com Pty is hooked on selling goods to USA. US govt is hooked on selling paper to the Chinese Com Pty.<\/li>\n<li>If rich people need poor people to be rich, who r the poor that make the Scandinavians so rich?<\/li>\n<li>Piracy of US content has led to Chinese who want to be &#8220;American&#8221;. The world can&#8217;t afford this.<\/li>\n<li>Will the MBA of the future be a file transfer into our brain?<\/li>\n<li>China is now a nation of lone children.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the GDP of the world is concentrated in 7 times zones out of 24. So r most of the people.<\/li>\n<li>Why r most rich countries socialist at home and liberal abroad?<\/li>\n<li>USA has a very poorly distributed income still it is better distributed than in &#8220;socialist&#8221; Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li>Why do most rich countries support the welfare state but not the welfare planet?<\/li>\n<li>Why don&#8217;t we elect the secretary general of the UN in a global election?<\/li>\n<li>In capitalist NYC the rich pay much higher taxes (48%) than the rich in comunist China.<\/li>\n<li>Land should be taxed if left unused. Patents should be taken away if left unexploited.<\/li>\n<li>They should teach intro to consumer society at schools so kids learn all the tricks that advertisers use on them<\/li>\n<li>Humans r still killed by animals. As we grow smarter our rivals get smaller.<\/li>\n<li>Spain&#8217;s presidents don&#8217;t speak English<\/li>\n<li>education for entrepreneurs should be based on problem solving rather than memorization<\/li>\n<li>Cultures of innovation, homogeneous: Nokia, diverse: Google<\/li>\n<li>To promote organ donation they should give organ priority to those who declare themselves donors<\/li>\n<li>China is the biggest contributor to global warming now, but the one who suffers desertification the most.<\/li>\n<li>As the Chinese go for religion again the poor become christian and the rich budhist<\/li>\n<li>Plug in hybrids has the big advantage that cars are charged at night.<\/li>\n<li>Plug in hybrids are a distributed solution to our inability to store electricity<\/li>\n<li>In the Hudson River they r testing current based electricity generation.<\/li>\n<li>I like novels that manage to explain what science has fail to understand<\/li>\n<li>If knowledge is 100 I think that in 1800 we were at 5 and in 2007 we r at 10<\/li>\n<li>I can understand people who believe in God slightly better than those who believe in any organized religion<\/li>\n<li>Some predict political demands will increase in China if the economy stops growing. I think the opposite.<\/li>\n<li>Jews believe that the world was created 5768 yrs ago. 5.768bn would be almost right.<\/li>\n<li>Now that we have C sections, will brain size continue to grow?<\/li>\n<li>USA co&#8217;s beat other countries because USA&#8217; co&#8217;s can attract best from those countries<\/li>\n<li>A true love story can&#8217;t have a happy ending<\/li>\n<li>Before science was discovered religions used to evolve.<\/li>\n<li>An avatar in Second Life consumes as much electricity as the average Brazilian<\/li>\n<li>Worldwide internet related emissions are now equivalent to those generated by the airline industry<\/li>\n<li>Most marriages fail because being everything to one person is just too hard<\/li>\n<li>The treatment of pedestrians by car drivers says a lot about a culture<\/li>\n<li>Most work a third of the day for a third of the year. Should people be defined by what they do at work?<\/li>\n<li>Is the real death of a person the last time somebody thinks about them?<\/li>\n<li>If u want to go fast go alone if u want to go far go in a group, African proverb<\/li>\n<li>Tutu is the only religious figure who makes me like religion<\/li>\n<li>You Tube should launch You tube Live for people to have live web casts of long tail sports events<\/li>\n<li>Politicians are people who are particularily trained in acting slowly.<\/li>\n<li>The key to successful parenting is that your kids get it by the time u don&#8217;t anymore<\/li>\n<li>Apple proves that decline does not mean extinction and it can be reversed.<\/li>\n<li>all currencies are sinking except the euro and the pound, when are the Arabs going to stop holding dollars?<\/li>\n<li>France still has to do the reforms that Germany did. Without this and with the euro at 1.42&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>All students should have a laptop, but not during class.<\/li>\n<li>The test of self esteem: when you find someone who has done something great, do you feel admiration or envy?<\/li>\n<li>In the US there r more black people in jail than in college<\/li>\n<li>the internet is an extension of our neural system, in a few centuries we will connect ourselves to it<\/li>\n<li>Japan&#8217;s population is aging and shrinking but the Japanese still reject immigration as a solution.<\/li>\n<li>The problem with capitalism and democracy is that capitalism, as China and Russia show, does not need democracy.<\/li>\n<li>The trouble with some journalists is that in their eagerness to tell the truth, they imagine it.<\/li>\n<li>Time mag talks about winning the climate war. Why do Americans think so many problems r &#8220;wars&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>To rule in NYC u need $, in San Fran talent, in Paris elegance, in Madrid humor, in London all of the above.<\/li>\n<li>2 competing urbanization models, downtown vs suburban fight it out around the world<\/li>\n<li>The Holocaust survivors who founded Israel thought that Christians were far more dangerous than Muslims to Jews.<\/li>\n<li>In ancient times kings were very rich, now the very rich r kings.<\/li>\n<li>On the average children are the poorest people in the world. Is that partly because they can&#8217;t vote?<\/li>\n<li>All children of UN countries should have one year of common education around how to get along with each other and the earth.<\/li>\n<li>When will we stop saying that Europeans discovered America and say the simple truth: that they invaded it.<\/li>\n<li>Why does my native Argentina reinvent the wheel when it gets to economics (price controls) and politics (Peronism instead of right and l &#8230; &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>A German Politician is proposing that marriage be a 7 year renewable and not a lifetime committment<\/li>\n<li>if stats show that spaniards read less books, spend less time on the net, see less movies than northern europeans, what do they do?<\/li>\n<li>Divorced parents with kids still have a lifetime relationship in a way.<\/li>\n<li>pinging is so much more energy efficient than crawling!<\/li>\n<li>Dollars r the new pesos! Funny<\/li>\n<li>A historian is a matchmaker of the past and present.<\/li>\n<li>If it wasn&#8217;t for that we still pay for stuff in the real world the ad supported virtual world would cease to exist.<\/li>\n<li>While many worry about Iran going nuclear Pakistan is and it&#8217;s on fire.<\/li>\n<li>high school is the last time in your life in which you are expected to be good at everything<\/li>\n<li>I am frequently surprised how quickly Americans call strangers amigos. Facebook is the $15bn amigo corporation.<\/li>\n<li>The best combination: Europe&#8217;s values, America&#8217;s creativity and Asia&#8217;s drive.<\/li>\n<li>If global warming increases plant mass. Shouldn&#8217;t climate change be self correcting?<\/li>\n<li>Downloading requires a lot of time and hard drive space. Streaming sites are much easier and cheaper to use.<\/li>\n<li>Spanish is an underepresented language on the internet because hispanics love to talk in real life!<\/li>\n<li>We should start a campaign on the internet against the frequent attacks from traditional media. Si a la red! Yes to the internet!<\/li>\n<li>American incomes look very high til you divide it by the amount of hours they work or convert it to euros.<\/li>\n<li>Chavez likes to say that you are either with him or with Bush. Many of us find both pathetic leaders.<\/li>\n<li>At my home streaming sent to the big TV is replacing satellite TV<\/li>\n<li>Marriage&#8217;s challenge: it&#8217;s hard not to underdeliver when u start with such an overpromise.<\/li>\n<li>what goes up must come down&#8230;. unless it goes into orbit<\/li>\n<li>if carriers implemented number portability, google should implement ranking portability so u can take your blog to another platform<\/li>\n<li>my twitter is only quiet when Loiclemeur is asleep in California \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>if internet advertising is so great, why do people dislike mags without ads and instead dislike web sites with ads?<\/li>\n<li>If property is theft&#8230;. what is poverty?<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia is a collective approach to reality.<\/li>\n<li>A living organism is a genetic plan looking for approval<\/li>\n<li>PCs of all kinds should be considered cultural goods and move around the world duty free.<\/li>\n<li>selling marijuana is illegal, selling weapons is legal ??!!<\/li>\n<li>The reason infectious disease does not succeed wiping us out is that we r the pathogens homes. They could but they also need a place.<\/li>\n<li>That the US has not been attacked again proves that civilians at home do a much better job than the military abroad.<\/li>\n<li>For a country having tons of oil is a curse. Hard for citizens to come up with anything that beats money pumped from the ground.<\/li>\n<li>Many foreigners believe that USA is a dictatorship because what they get to see, US Foreign policy mostly is.<\/li>\n<li>Is the US bad loan a 50bn write off or a half a trillion write off?<\/li>\n<li>Charity is not sustainable<\/li>\n<li>Everything changes but flying hasn&#8217;t changed in 30 yrs.<\/li>\n<li>why are internet companies taking over tv and not the other way around?<\/li>\n<li>My dream wifi router would download my favorite movies on its own while I am at work.<\/li>\n<li>judaism does not oppose abortion emphasis is on healthy baby not conception<\/li>\n<li>Populist leaders are bad, but unpopular leaders are worse.<\/li>\n<li>Oil is bad but coal is worse<\/li>\n<li>USA is the only country that supports the death penalty&#8230;.that you would want to live in.<\/li>\n<li>Christmas was invented to get over the depressing winter days, in my native Argentina it comes at exactly the wrong time.<\/li>\n<li>Slim, #1 rich man in the world has wealth equiv to 7% of the Mex GDP. 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