Monday, February 23, 2009

Econimic Spin (aka Bull Shit)

The recession that the United States is currently experiencing, is actually making it a stronger country. On the surface it may appear that nothing good will coming will come from this crisis, but there are a lot of positive things that will come as a result of this recession. When times are good in America, there is often waste. Waste that gets ignored because of the plentiful recourses that this country enjoys. Yet, when things go bad in this economy, it is the greed of capitalism that will be the saving grace.
Capitalism is a system of government that depends on the accumulation of wealth by individuals to be the catalyst for the economy. So when the profits of those people start to wane, they are the ones who must find the answer. Not the government. One of the ways in which the people find ways to solve this problem is by eliminating waste within the society. One way that this is done is by streamlining production lines. This may eliminate some workers in that production line, but the end result is cheaper production of the same product. Couple that with the same action in many other industries and the cost of living will be driven down overall. Lower living costs make the money that employed workers still make more valuable. This in effect is another way of generating more wealth for Americans as a whole.
The main draw back for this, is that often when business owners are trying to streamline their business they try to lower the wages of the people they still employ. The best way to address this is the forming of unions. Unions have the power to keep wages up even in harsh economic times.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Some love for my boy Sonic.

The 1991 Sega Genesis game Sonic the Hedgehog, is still considered one of the most popular video games of all time. After this release, the writers at Sega were faced witht the task of meeting growing expectations. In order to meet these expectations, the writers at Sega just decided to build off of the privious success of Sonic. So they created Sonice the headgehog 2.
In the second instalement of the series, the creators gave sonic new capabilities upon which to comlete his all new mission. An example of one of the improvements was new spin camabilities that Sonic possesed. In the first gam Sonic was limmited to just running jumping and spinning. Yet in order to spin in the first game, sonic was forced to build up speed before he cold tuck and roll into his spin. So to fix this, the creators gave Sonic the ability to croutch and wind up into his spin. This simple change gave sonice much more freedom to speedily move about his world; and helped Sonic the Headgehog 2 decome even more of a success than its predisesor.