Wisdom Quarterly: Computers

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Apple's newest release: The "iQuit"

Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS)

The Steve Jobs and Apple Story (Telegraph.co.uk). "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" - George Orwell author of 1984.

Jobs quits. (Steve Jobs is the face and founder of Apple Computers). That was his latest bombshell announcement for Apple, a company with more discretionary cash than the United States and almost as much as oil industry giants. Some reports say more than them, too. Apple stock was down 5% on the news -- and this creates a great opportunity.

With new iPhones everyone must have, apps, new modes of computing, and above new ways of looking cool in a down economy, Apple is set to rise. The stock is expensive, but when it corrects, it will be an easy profit of at least 5 percent. Technology, style, iTunes, eBooks, and Apple are not going anywhere but up. Jobs' replacement has already been at the job since January.

And Jobs is not leaving completely but will still be hanging on advising and trying to spend his hundreds of millions to get his health back, what with a recent liver replacement and pancreatic cancer and helping the CIA/NSC/TSA defeat the concept or possibility of "privacy" in the Orwellian world of today. Remember, new investors, "Buy low, sell high." That's all one needs to know to capitalize on stock trades. Lows only come on bad news or when things are new. And one never really knows when the high has been reached (until after the fact with 20/20 hindsight).

CIA illegally helps NYPD become "Big Brother"

Friday, July 8, 2011

Is Porn Driving Men Crazy?

Text by english.aljazeera.net

Some experts speculate that pornography is making men more interested in perversity and less interested in their own partners.

It is hard to ignore how many highly visible men in recent years (indeed, months) have behaved in sexually self-destructive ways. Some powerful men have long been sexually voracious; unlike today, though, they were far more discreet and generally used much better judgment in order to cover their tracks.

Of course, the heightened technological ability nowadays to expose private behavior is part of the reason for this change.... What is driving this weirdly disinhibited decision-making? Could the widespread availability and consumption of pornography in recent years actually be rewiring the male brain, affecting men's judgment about sex, and causing them to have more difficulty controlling their impulses?

There is an increasing body of scientific evidence to support this idea. Six years ago, I wrote an essay called "The Porn Myth," which pointed out that therapists and sexual counselors were anecdotally connecting the rise in pornography consumption among young men with an increase in impotence and premature ejaculation...

The hypothesis among the experts was that pornography was progressively desensitizing these men sexually. Indeed, hardcore pornography's effectiveness in achieving rapid desensitization in subjects has led to its frequent use in training doctors and military teams to deal with very shocking or sensitive situations.

[The military "trains" teams using "hardcore porn"? Might that have something to do with the outrageous rates of rape and sexual assault against fellow soldiers, both male and female, in today's military?] More

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