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Happy Friday.
Happy Friday.
Thanks to the Bush/McCain policies of trying to have the housing/lending business prop up this failing economy, millions of senior citizens are at risk.
The house of cards built by Bush/McCain has crumbled this week on Wall Street.
Now only imagine if Bush/McCain had been successful in privatizing Social Security.
Those millions of seniors would really be screwed. (But not McCain and his rich 2nd wife's 7 houses)
4 more years of this we CAN NOT afford.
How does Congress who has the sole authority to authorize the buy outs of this disaster decide to walk away and go on vacation? Pelosi is obviously unqualified. Forget about Palin the Speaker of the house is insane.
This crisis is not all on Bush Gary, its on all the thieves in Washington just proving my point that there is no difference between Republican or Democrat. All incumbents need to go.
One last point this mess was caused by big Government ignoring the Constitution, electing Obama would only fuel this disaster. We need less Government!!
Paterson has TOTALLY alienated his base. The cuts he made when he asked the "bloodsuckers" to come back from "vacation" was a tough pill to swallow. Cuts to mostly the poor and children, cuts to education to the tune of a staggering $180 million dollars, cuts to HIV/AIDS programs etc. while leaving empty youth detention facilities open! This "democrat" must want us to put our children in there; We know with the cuts he made he obviously doesn't expect them to stay in school!
After the financial mess in Wall Street this week, what is the first thing he wants to do – cut more! He said "We may have to cut spending and we may have to go into areas we never thought we would." WHAT!? Thank goodness for Mayor Bloomberg who said this week, "We cannot balance the budget just by cutting more." This week our "democratic" Governor advocated to cut additional programs and services to working families and bail out a giant corporation. He finally addressed the high cost of fuel and energy after the Republicans in the Senate came out with a plan (energy) to try and address the problem.
I'm disappointed the Senate chose to pass a property tax cap bill which the Governor made a priority. What has economist after economist said about tough fiscal times and a property tax cap – bad news for the people of the State. Everyone knew we were headed for difficult times but the Republican Senate (I thought they were more savvy in business/economics as oppose to the Dems who are more savvy in social/health issues) drawing praise from the Governor, passed his bill. Thank goodness for the Assembly who saw the forest from the trees!
As a lifelong democrat I will NOT vote for David if he chooses to run for Governor. His leadership is taking me places I don't ever want to go. Bloomberg we need you now more than ever! Stop toying with term limits in NYC; New York needs you in a greater capacity. We need you CEO of this state! We cannot afford this "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" that we have as Governor.
Memo to: OBAMATRONS
Re: Talking Points for Friday, September 19
From a campaign stop in Elko, reading off the cuff comments from his teleprompter, likely populated with verse by his team of 300 advisors who pump out daily briefings, Obama tried to anticipate his critics and called on the crowd of about 1,500 to sharpen their elbows, too.
"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face," he said.
"And if they tell you that, 'Well, we're not sure where he stands on guns.' I want you to say, 'He believes in the Second Amendment.' If they tell you, 'Well, he's going to raise your taxes,' you say, 'No, he's not, he's going lower them.' You are my ambassadors. You guys are the ones who can make the case."
BHO believes in the 2nd amendment says we do not have the right to bear arms.
BHO will lower our taxes with his left hand, right before and all the while he is raising them with right to the tune of trillions.
Remember Obamabots, it is only a lie if you believe its a lie
Memo to: OBAMATRON HQ
Re: Albany Bot Recall
You may want to recall your Albany Area Bots. They seem to have lost their gusto. Repeated copy and past efforts failing. May have been distracted by 9/11 anniversary and their previous programming to declare it a conspiracy.
Recommendation: "teach-in". same location, change password to word of the day for 9/26/08
Signing off.
Last time that we had such trouble
Was '29 when broke the bubble.
Wall Street laid a great big egg
And erstwhile moguls learned to beg.
Many a player — abruptly flat –
Jumped out his window and landed — "Splat!"
Fast forward to the present day.
Will those who did this have to pay?
Our corporate bigs don't give two hoots.
They've got their golden parachutes.
Look up and see those good ol' guys
Come floating down from stormy skies.
Fleets of corporate jets take off
Bearing them to landings soft.
It's jubilee and giving thanks;
Their money's safe in off-shore banks.
Since when is it "Patriotic" to pay higher taxes? Senator Biden – you're out of touch just like your running mate…300 economic advisors assigned to your campaign and all you can say is raise taxes???
Since I pay too much in taxes as it is I will be voting for McCain/Palin and for the NY Senate GOP since they've articulated effective tax reductions for small business owners (the heartbeat of America) just like me…
Clearly, the financial crisis was the legcy of the CLinton administration and the forced easing of credit to people who simply did not qualify.
When the housing bubble burst these folks defaulted in record nuumbers and Invesment Bnaks now hold worthless paper.
The fact that Hillary and Schumer are blaming Bush is perhaps the biggest joke. There is a provable paper trail where Bush predicted this 5 years ago and the DEMOCRATS refused to admit the problem and adapt his plan to fix it – instead the Dems and Fannie Mae worshipped the CB Caucus and here we are today.
#5. Much much better than my attempt at topical wit.
Michelle says don't vote because she's cute. Well isn't that equal to don't vote because he's black. The Messiah has successfully planted the seed for a race war and now her Highness wants to plant the gender battle. Will they ever stop trying to divide this country. They are pure haters of America and continue to show it daily.
Now The Messiah and the Pelosi/Reid Congress refuse to deal with Wall Street saying they can't fix it. WOW!
Wow, just what we need, a lot more people "getting in each other's faces". This whole, "If I don't get my way, I'll throw a hissy-fit" attitude is a large part of why we have been doing a lot more complaining and a lot less fixing in recent years.
Obama may be all for change, but the question remains is it good change, sensible change, positive change or just more focus on whining about what we want rather than what we're willing to actually do?
Not a good day for Charles Rangel…Where is the poor guy gonna park
#7 – "Clearly, the financial crisis was the legcy of the CLinton administration…"
Funny, I was thinking that clearly it is the legacy of Ronald Reagan's voodoo economics.
#10 – "Obama may be all for change, but the question remains is it good change, sensible change, positive change or just more focus on whining about what we want rather than what we're willing to actually do?"
Bottom line, as long as Obama pursues governance in a way that is different from George W. Bush, ANY change he institutes will be positive.
I mean heck, even McCain will be a president than W.
Wags and pundits claim to know
That Albany's a horror show.
Strangely, it's begun to seem
That there's some truth to this weird theme.
After dark the governor prowls
The Capitol's attics and its bowels
Armed with garlic, cross and stake
To nail those vampires on the take.
Jim Tedisco's seen a sight
That gives us all a dreadful fright:
Commissions bill us, so he's said,
Though they're among the living dead.
Where's Charlie Rangel gonna live-in which of 5 domiciles? No opponent in the Fall-only in NYS. Well Joe Biden surfaced again yesterday with foot planted firmly in mouth. He is the gift that keeps on giving. Plenty of patriots here in Upstate NY? Did you hear the one about Obama's economic team? Experience you can't trust.
The comparisons by the left to 1929 are funny. Foggy thinking to trick some into voting for no change actors. Then 50% of homes were foreclosed-now 2% in default. Senator Schumer also back in the news. He knew this was coming weeks ago! So why didn't he or House Banking Chair Barney Frank {really} do something besides push for more risky loans? He might have lost a partisan talking point.
#10, that was an attempt at satire. See #8.
If the economic problem was created by Clinton (I was not a fan of a bunch of Clinton's economic policies and I voted for him), Bush and republicans had the chance to fix it while the controlled congress.
Deregulation doesn't work, and has forced the hand of a supposedly anti-government administration to socialize huge sectors. They had eight years to warn, seek to avert and demand change to prevent this. But they'd rather dig us into debt with lame pro-consumerist rebate checks to the public while ensuring their buddies are safe. #5, I love the poem. How true. And frankly, it's our current administration that let this continue.
Is it too much to ask for an end to the racist anti-Muslim ranting? Is it possible to have an intelligent political conversation? Lately it all devolves into name calling, mudslinging and regurgitating false information or half truths. Name calling is what children do because they lack the maturity to express themselves. People are not stupid because they disagree with you. People, I urge you to check out non-partisan sites like Factcheck.org and stop relying on the media for all of your information. They want the top story. They don't care so much about the facts.
As for Bush, being the president is like being a quarterback; you get too much credit for the win and too much blame for the loss.
You want real change? Vote out every party affiliated incumbent and replace them with non affiliated new comers. Good or bad, it would be a change.
All politicians are ego driven because politics is ego driven. You can't run for an elected office without an ego. McCain and Obama are both self-centered enough to believe that they will be able to change the course of this nation. I pity whomever wins this election. That's going to be a tough 4 years!
Another one for the "You can't make this stuff up folks" category.
The follies of the "The economic fundamentals are sound"/"I can see Russia from my house" disaster ticket continues …..
Politico's Jonathan Martin reports:
At a rally outside Youngstown, Ohio, Tuesday night, dozens of attendees left while McCain was still speaking.
I caught up with a few of them. Some explained that the airplane hangar where the rally was being held had grown crammed and uncomfortable. Others said they had other events or commitments to get to.
Notably, though, the exodous had only begun after Palin spoke.
Now, the same thing has happened again.
"I look up, about five minutes into McCain's address and see a steady stream of people walking out of the rally," writes Radio Iowa's Kay Henderson from a McCain-Palin event in Cedar Rapids.
The rallies are nothing but a bunch of ultra-conservative wackos that only show up to see their clueless caribou barbie spew a bunch of well documented LIES and then leave without listening to mcBush??? ….. Which party's followers are promoting some modern day messiah???
Funny how REALITY always seems to have a liberal "bias"
Thank God these incompetents will never make it to the White House!!!
Charlie Rangel parked his Benz
Where other Members must pay rents.
He walked away and then forgot
His car was in that parking lot.
Give him a break. He's earned a pass.
At least he's not out guzzling gas.
Can you say TRAINWRECK???
Classic McCain
John McCain will tell you that if you're against government bailouts of the private sector, he's your man. But check out McCain's track record on the three major bailouts engineered by the Fed this year alone:
John McCain, on the Bear Stearns bailout (March 2008):
"Asked whether the Fed went too far in helping Bear Stearns, McCain said: "It's a close call, but I don't think so." He said he doesn't support federal bailouts unless it has catastrophic effects on the entire financial marketplace and there were indications that a Bear Stearns failure would have rippled across the entire economy."
McCain, on the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae bailout (July 2008):
"With combined obligations of roughly $5-trillion, the rapid failure of Fannie and Freddie would be a threat to mortgage markets and financial markets as a whole. Because of that threat, I support taking the unfortunate but necessary steps needed to keep the financial troubles at these two companies from further squeezing American families."
McCain, earlier this week on the AIG bailout:
"Now on the bailout itself, I didn't want to do that. And I don't think anybody I know wanted to do that. But there are literally millions of people whose retirement, whose investment, whose insurance were at risk here. They were going to have their lives destroyed because of the greed and excess and corruption."
Fair enough. But here's what McCain had to say about bailouts just this morning:
U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain admonished the Federal Reserve Friday to get out of the business of bailouts and get back to managing money supply and protecting the purchasing power of the dollar.
"The Federal Reserve should get back to its core business of responsibly managing our money supply and inflation," the Arizona senator told a group of business leaders in Wisconsin, an electoral battleground state.
"It needs to get out of the business of bailouts."
Once the Fed gets through with all these bailouts McCain is supporting, it better get back to its real business!
–David Kurtz
Holy crap! I, along with 138 million other U.S. taxpayers, now own a piece of approximately $1.2 TRILLION worth of real estate, banking and insurance 'instruments' (for lack of a better term).
Good things come to those who wait ……
Flash ahead ten to fifteen years when these 'instruments' are worth double, triple or possibly more, and the federales sell them back to the businesses they bought them from in 2008.
How could they've known this would correspond with my retirement?
Was this a planned investment for the 138 million folks that 'volunteered' to fund it at today's low cost of a paltry $8,675 each?
That's it, that must be it – RIGHT?
If that's it, then a huge thank you to all involved – to the financial wizards, the insurance and banking geniuses, along with all their dedicated lobbyists. But most of all, thank you to all our professional politicians (from both sides of the aisle) for helping us get such a bang out of the taxpayer buck!
What the fluff, let's tack another half a million and buy some nice Cuban cigars for all those responsible – job well done!
And the beat goes on: Today, per Bloomberg News, Warren Buffett's MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. agreed to buy Constellation Energy Group Inc. (a FORTUNE 125 company with 2007 revenues of $21 billion) for about $4.7 billion, snapping up the one of the largest U.S. power marketers at less than half of its market value prior to this week. The rich get richer and the rest HH.
It's getting better all the time ………
Three Cheers for #3!!! …… Couldn't agree more!!!
Time for Governor Cuomo!!! A man for working people, not corporate thugs and inheritance babies….
#22 – "Time for Governor Cuomo!!! A man for working people, not corporate thugs and inheritance babies…"
Um, you're not talking about Andrew Cuomo are you? I mean, he kind of is those things…
Question to the gop out there ….
So just what does it feel like knowing your party is about to fold like Bear Sterns and disappear like the whigs???
Just curious.
SmokinJoe — unlike Obama whose ego prevented him from sharing a platform with Hillary Clinton, McCain's ego is intact. Do you think it bothers McCain that people come to hear and see Palin? I can't tell you who is going to win — I think McCain. But I can tell you that Obama-Clinton was a sure win. If Obama loses — he can blame himself for choosing the wrong VP. You can come back and say McCain picked the wrong VP or he's a bad candidate and continue to repeat yourself from now until election night. However — Republican's aren't concerned that Palin is the draw.
Sheila (#25) -
I agree that an Obama / Clinton ticket would have been a slam-dunk.
But I honestly don't believe Obama passed her over. I think she was quietly given the first shot at V.P., but politely told him to stick it. Hillary (and millions of others) thought she was a "sure thing," and did not expect to be upset. But she doesn't take defeat and humiliation lightly.
So now she's content to lurk in the shadows, waiting for Obama's campaign to fall apart — ready, of course, to step back in and "help," any way that she can.
"Me? You want MEEEE??
A nice, quiet weekend sure fits nicely here — timing is everything, after all.
I wonder what government-born economic miracles await us come Monday morning. (And at what cost?) Gotta keep those Dow numbers in the black, right?
Sleep well, all you jugglers.
#24. GOP, Whigs, DEMS, Torries, who cares?
No party is the people, the people however, are the parties.
Becuase of your rabid need to find the means to being noticed by any means possible you have given yourself up to radical mindset that will only serve to further the polarity of our society.
I am sure it titilates yourself and the folks you hang with as you worship the likes of Moveon and DailyKos. They are by and large evil, America hating, short selling (in one case) movements bent on destruction of our societal norms they oppose. There is no dialogue, no agreeing to disagree, just a rigid aliegence to a radical view of the world.
How will I feel if BHO wins, sad. Not mad, not ranting, not raving, not making racist accusations (though you certainly could be construed as one at times IMHO), not working to further the divide between those who are left and who are right… Sad because it will take a long time for the vast majority of productive people in our country to rebuild the mess that would have been made over the past 12 or 16 years. Sad because my hard work will not benefit my kids in the way my parents did. Sad because, the very few depraved lunatic leftists amongst us, will feel a sense of victory and they/you need not more false hateful bravado to fill your sails.
BHO could very well have been a decent President. I was excited about him early on… go ahead and search CAPCON, but once I did the grown up thing and researched him, learned of his influences, learned of his efforts in the Senate and followed the incredible amount of monies that have flowed his way, it is clear to me that he is THE Manchurian candidate, a person controlled by a few, indebted to the same few, and will work to benefit the same few… he lacks the substanative experience to lead and the strength to fight for ALL of us…. when push comes to shove, he will choose the few.
Harry Reid Doesn't Know What to Do about Wall Street
Today, Harry Reid said this about the current turmoil on Wall Street: "No one knows what to do. We are in new territory here. This is a different game. We're not here playing soccer, basketball or football, this is a new game and we're going to have to figure out how to do it."
The RNC pounced:
"Harry Reid's despair and Barack Obama's failed leadership is what's wrong with Washington. Since crisis hit Wall Street, Obama has offered partisan attacks in lieu of fresh ideas or leadership. No wonder his party's leaders says they don't know what to do. If Harry Reid and Barack Obama don't know what to do, they should not be so dismissive of a bipartisan commission tasked with discovery and reform." – Alex Conant, RNC Spokesman
Reid's statement will undercut whatever the Democrats say to attack McCain's plans–whatever they may be–to deal with the situation on Wall Street. But since there isn't any indication that Republicans, or anyone else, know what to do, I think it goes a bit too far to attack Harry Reid's "despair." As much as I'd love to rip anything Harry Reid says, his statement seems more like a breath of fresh air.
When all else fails, blame the past administration.


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Camp Director's Work Is Never Done
For summer camp directors, there is no off season.
Once the campers have hugged everyone goodbye and promised to keep in touch over the school year, camp directors begin tackling a long list of jobs.
From cleaning up camp and packing away supplies to networking with other camp professionals to planning next summer's menus, there is plenty of work to be done.
Check out this blog from Maine's Camp Laurel South to see what the "off season" is like from one camp director's perspective: http://blog.camplaurelsouth.com/?p=440
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Marvel Comics and Alamo Drafthouse's Mondo art imprint have revealed a series of seven limited edition character prints based on the upcoming The Avengers film, with the first in the series -- a stunning Black Widow print designed by Olly Moss -- released today in a run of 320 and sadly already sold out.
But six additional designs await, with the next one -- a run of 240 prints of Hawkeye designed by Tom Whalen -- debuting tomorrow morning. The other prints have yet to be revealed, but we're sure to see some inventive takes on the likes of Captain America, Thor, and The Hulk over the next couple weeks prior to the film's release on May 4.
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Is there any accountability in American politics for being completely wrong? Is there any cost to those who say things that turn out not to be true and then, when their fabrications or false predictions are exposed, calmly move on to concocting new claims as if they had never made the old ones?
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The Supreme Court is pondering Hobby Lobby's argument that Obamacare unlawfully burdens its corporate religious freedom by requiring it to offer employees health insurance coverage for certain forms of contraception.
If the Republican Tea Partiers get their way this nation will soon be by the rich for the rich with no place for the poor. As if the minimum wage was not hurtful enough a national survey has now found that many in the ever popular fast food industry are not even getting that for all the hours they put in. Then there is the latest national budget proposal from Representative Paul Ryan (R. Wis).
There is something truly spectacular about Sheldon Adelson. Witness the parade of Republican supplicants paying tribute in his Las Vegas lair. They would include Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
As chief justice, I have no doubt that John G. Roberts' number one goal is to turn this democracy into a plutocracy. And he's well on his way to doing so.
The last time Congress convened hearings on an automotive safety scandal, during the early 2010 furor over sudden unintended acceleration in Toyotas, the crucial takeaway was how little members of Congress understood cars or the car business. This week, when General Motors Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra testified before committees about her company's safety scandal, the major impression was of how little she seemed to know about her own business.
Michael Lewis' "Flash Boys," his takedown of high-speed stock trading, may be making headlines this week, but it's just one of two books on our economic dysfunctions that are flying off the shelves. While "Flash Boys" explains how the fastest-growing form of trading enriches the few at the expense of the many, the other book, Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," provides a more fundamental and disquieting explanation: how capitalism itself enriches the few at the expense of the many.
Holy 7 million, Batman! The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, has made a stunning comeback from its shambolic start. As the March 31 deadline for 2014 coverage approached, there was a surge in applications at the "exchanges" - the special insurance marketplaces the law set up. And the original target of 7 million sign-ups, widely dismissed as unattainable, has been surpassed.
Here's the latest life lesson from the campaign trail: If you are, say, making a home movie about how great your family is, try to remember to use pictures of your actual relatives, and not random attractive strangers.
Forty years ago, Congress enacted sweeping limits on political campaign spending in the wake of a shocking disclosure that one man -- Chicago insurance executive W. Clement Stone -- had given more than $3 million for the 1972 reelection of President Richard M. Nixon.
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Espi, Jorge and Atkinson, R.C. and Harle, D.A. and Andonovic, Ivan (2010) An optimum network selection solution for multihomed hosts using Hopfield Networks. In: Ninth International Conference on Networks, 2010. IEEE, pp. 249-254. ISBN 978-1-4244-6083-0
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The New American Way of War
Some of this can be dismissed as "threat inflation," the useful term of the journalist Ken Silverstein in his book Private Warriors for the way Washington defense intellectuals magnify dangers abroad in order to sus-tain unnecessary defense expenditure. Simon Pearson's novel Total War 2006 —which begins with an Iranian midget submarine attack on US aircraft carriers off San Diego—is a lurid but farcically implausible example of such inflation. More plausible examples of threat inflation would include the warnings circulated by the Committee on the Present Danger, which was created in the 1970s by Eugene Rostow "over a couple of Bloody Marys" to warn Congress and the public about the Soviet missile threat. The committee may have exaggerated for effect, but the threats it publicized, especially after the heavy deployment of Soviet SS-20s in Europe, were not imaginary. Countering them effectively helped to bring the Soviet Union crashing down. Threat inflation can create paranoia, but even paranoids may turn out to have something real in mind.
Compared to the dangers of the 1980s, the current campaign to establish a US missile defense looks like a tendentious exercise designed to stampede Congress and the competing presidential candidates into systems the country doesn't need. North Korea and China may have the technological capacity to strike the continental US, yet those who claim they pose a threat have not been able to produce a credible political analysis showing how that threat could be exercised. America's existing retaliatory capacities, including its Asian fleet, should be capable of deterring even the most deluded "rogue state." Even supposing a rogue state would risk annihilation by a pre-emptive launch on the continental United States, there is so far no reliable way such a missile could be shot down before impact, even though defense scientists have already spent $60 billion of public money trying.8 The New York Times has recently reported that in their haste to get national missile defense approved, the Pentagon experts have been rigging their own flight tests in order to hide a still-fundamental flaw: the system cannot adequately distinguish between enemy warheads and decoys.9
"National" missile defense may not make sense, but it is popular because it concentrates the defense debate on the continental United States and appeals to Americans who are irritated at having to defend everybody but themselves. As America's allies never cease reminding US leaders, however, not all threats to American national security are national. There are potential threats to vital interests overseas—the protection of oil supplies in the Middle East and of Japan and Taiwan in Asia are prominent examples—and to the American forces deployed to protect these interests. Is America adequately prepared to meet such threats?
Paul Bracken's Fire in the East argues vehemently that America is faced the wrong way, bogged down in the post-cold war transition in Central and Eastern Europe, when the real security threats are in Asia. Citing the emergence of Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons and the developing missile capacities of China, Bracken writes:
The world is in a second nuclear age, an Asian nuclear age. It is a second age because it has nothing to do with the central fact of the first nuclear age, the cold war. For China, Israel, India and Pakistan, the cold war is an antiquated irrelevance. It is only in the notoriously provincial West that the collapse of international communism was seen as the great dividing line of history.
The chief long-term strategic challenge facing the United States, Bracken argues, is the decline of five centuries of North Atlantic military dominance over the world and the rise of Asian nationalist regimes, committed to extending their regional power through the acquisition of nuclear and chemical and biological weapons. Emerging Asian military power increases the vulnerability of US forward bases, which stretch from Turkey through the Persian Gulf to Korea and the Pacific. These forward bases have made America the dominant military power in Asia. But not for much longer, Bracken argues. These bases will soon be vulnerable to highly accurate conventional missile attacks from China and other countries.
This threat—to the hundreds of thousands of Americans deployed in forward bases abroad, whether in Turkey or Okinawa—will hardly be countered by a national missile defense shield for the continental United States. Nor, Bracken argues, can the threat be met by "theater missile defenses" in each of the Asian regions where America has bases, for such missile defenses are likely to be both expensive and ineffective. The right response, he argues, is to reorganize the American military so that it "can operate at greater distances from home and [be] less reliant on vulnerable forward bases." This would be difficult to do. Bringing the boys home, or at least most of them, begs the question of whether America possesses the logistical ability to send them back into a theater of conflict quickly enough should the need arise. In 1991, it took America and its allies six long months to build up the force sufficient to defeat Iraq. No really astute enemy is going to allow America that kind of time in the future.
If, as Bracken argues, developing theater missile defense to protect its forward bases is ruinously expensive, then America's only alternative is to manage its relations with the new Asian power brokers, India and China, in such a way that they do not challenge either its bases or its interests. Defenders of existing international agreements against nuclear proliferation will be unhappy at Bracken's suggestion that America might in fact benefit from the emergence of nuclear powers in the region, since they could inhibit further spread of weapons to other states and might take over some of the American responsibility for regional security. On the contrary, if the current antiproliferation arrangements break down, America's presence in the region will become even more essential: to prevent China from having a free hand to take Taiwan and intimidate Japan; to stop India from dominating Pakistan; and to keep North Korea from marching south, though that threat now seems momentarily to have receded.
In containing these threats, America ought not to succumb to the illusion of basing its power on military technology alone. The disturbing lesson of Anthony Cordesman's Iraq and the War of Sanctions, an authoritative study of American bombing of Iraq's chemical and biological and nuclear installations after 1991, is that using high-tech weaponry merely slows down, but cannot halt, a determined attempt by a rogue nation to create deadly arsenals. In December 1998, President Clinton ordered raids on Iraq after it refused to comply with UN weapons inspectors. Four hundred and fifteen cruise missiles were fired at Iraqi targets, together with raids by B-1 bombers, British Tornados, and American F-16s. Cordesman concludes that the raids did damage Iraqi command and control and antiaircraft systems, but they did not put Iraq's chemical and nuclear warfare research establishments out of business. America's military power can only reduce rather than eliminate new threats. Hence in the post-cold war era as in the cold war itself, the most that American military power can achieve is containment, and the human costs of such a military strategy to America's enemies may be high.
Both Bracken's and Cordesman's books are about containing the threats that have emerged since the end of the cold war: new competitors in Asia, defiant states capable of making chemical and nuclear weapons. William Owens, in Lifting the Fog of War, addresses the vexed question of whether America's huge defense establishment is actually up to the job.
His answer is a decisive and deeply alarming "No." If the weapons systems purchased during the Reagan era build-up are not replaced, Owens warns, America faces "a total collapse of its military capability" within fifteen years. His devastating criticism of American military readiness gains persuasiveness from his record: he is a former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in effect, America's second-highest military officer.
Owen concedes that America did much to rebuild the confidence of its military forces after Vietnam and that its leaders embraced the revolution in military technology. But from 1992 onward, he writes, with the cuts initiated by the Clinton administration, the defense system became weaker. As vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Owens struggled both to trim expenditure while also improving readiness through a determined use of new technology and the savings it made possible. But he was frustrated, he writes, by the resistance of the three services and he was passed over for the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs. He is now a CEO of a high-tech company near Seattle.
One simple story helps to explain why Owens wants to sound an alarm. In 1991, when he was commander of the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, he ordered a test of his ships' capacity to communicate with Army combat units based in Europe. The Navy communicates with the Army all the time, but through a convoluted routing process, involving switchboards and operators. Owens wanted to prove that in an emergency the Navy could bypass this circuitous route and reach combat units directly.
We tried to do it. We tried—for six months—to make the connection. And we never could link up with the Army. There was always something wrong. The Army and Navy units used different frequencies. The communications protocols employed by the Army and Navy were different. The communications personnel had never been trained to do this. And so on.
This inability to communicate cost lives. In Desert Storm, friendly-fire incidents, in which US aircraft killed US and other allied ground forces, accounted for 24 percent of all allied casualties. Owens had to console families who had lost sons and daughters to friendly fire, and he found it hard to explain how the most powerful military machine in the world could make such mistakes. The authoritative Gulf War Air Power Survey confirms many of Owens's criticisms. Even when the services did manage to run a joint air campaign over Iraq, communications problems hampered their operations. The Navy, for example, did not install terminals for the Air Force's Computer Assisted Force Management System. This meant that the "air tasking orders" for naval operations had to be carried by hand to the aircraft carrier Blue Ridge. The joint air defense system was not as joint as it seemed: there were, in effect, holes between the zones protected by the Marines and the Navy, and an Iraqi jet made it through one of these holes into Saudi airspace.
In the Kosovo air war, the US military services continued to have problems working together. The Army sent an elite force of Apache helicopters to Albania and then refused to integrate them into the Air Force targeting system, which ran the air campaign. The Army objected to using its Apaches in an air campaign divorced from a ground operation. It wasn't until the end of the war that these differences were resolved, but even then the helicopters never saw action. The only contribution of the Army task force in Albania turned out to be its radar systems, which earned their keep at the very end of the war only by locating Serb artillery locations for NATO pilots overhead.
Interservice rivalries and failures of coordination are always a standard source of recrimination in defense debates. In fact, competition between services has had a function: the rivalries create unit cohesion and boost morale. It's not for nothing that "Beat Navy" is plastered over every flat surface at West Point. Owens argues that by now service rivalries are a luxury America can no longer afford, because they are standing in the way of achieving the efficiency and synergy made possible by the revolution in military affairs. As he puts it, "By failing to work jointly to apply the new technology, the four services are digging themselves four separate, low tech graves."
Current service demands for huge new spending appropriations may only increase waste and reduce preparedness. Owens is particularly concerned with the "teeth to tail ratio," the amount of logistics and civilian support required to back up each combat unit in the field. In World War II, each combat soldier required sixty pounds of food, water, fuel, and ammunition per day. By the time of Desert Storm, the "logistics tail" had soared to four hundred pounds. This is one reason why Eric Shinseki, the secretary of the Army, conceded after Kosovo that the Army requires excessively heavy support and is too slow in deploying its forces. Behind each warrior, there now stands logistical or civilian support staff of twelve people. A study for Business Executives for National Security argued in October 1999 that if the military used modern inventory management and delivery systems of the kind pioneered by companies like FedEx and Microsoft, it could divert between $20 billion and $30 billion a year—now used for salaries and warehouses—toward new weapons systems.10
Owens's main concern is not just cutting waste but conserving America's lead in military technology. New computer and communications technology, he argues, make it possible to lift "the fog of war," Clausewitz's famous phrase for the chaotic uncertainty of battle. Computerized systems, he argues, enable the US to link together all four services into a single combined fighting machine. While still in the Navy, Owens advocated a "system of systems," which would integrate all battlefield and intelligence information so that the commander of the future would be able to achieve dominance of the battle space. Until his retirement, Owens was the most insistent and utopian advocate of RMA in the US military, and his views inevitably aroused fierce resistance.
The debate over RMA, which has been intense in military circles since the end of the cold war, is not between those in favor of technology and those against. Both sides accept that new technology can vastly improve communications, coordination, and logistics, and both sides believe that military institutions are excessively conservative and slow to reform. The real debate is between "historicists," who believe that, as in the past, military conflict will be won by traditional warrior skills, and "technicists," who believe that superior military technology is decisive. The Navy and Air Force have a high proportion of technicists, while the Marines and the Army have a high proportion of historicists. Flyers and sailors believe in the promise of their machines; soldiers necessarily believe that wars are won by blood and guts.
The historicists—Williamson Murray would be one such—evoke the battlefields of the past and conclude that Gettysburg, Antietam, and Omaha Beach were not won by technology but by impalpable factors like leadership and valor and were lost by chance, accident, and mistakes. Technicists—Owens would qualify as one—believe that warfare need not be constrained by these factors. It's not that they ignore history: they concentrate instead on the history of decisive technical change—the introduction of gunpowder, the repeater rifle, the machine gun—and conclude that the nations that first made use of them gained mastery on the battlefield. At root, the RMA debate is between men like Owens, who believe that technology can take tragedy out of warfare, and those who believe that tragedy is intrinsic to the military art.
It is his adamant refusal to admit the presence of tragedy in warfare—the inevitability of mistakes, unintended consequences, and terrible accidents—which undermines the credibility of Owens's belief in technology. America has the most advanced intelligence-gathering system in the world, yet was unable to predict Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. It was equally incapable of predicting that Milosevic would resist for months the limited bombing campaign initially planned. Some American leaders thought the war would be over within a week. Advanced intelligence technology did not even enable US intelligence to correctly identify the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Human fallibility will undermine any technological advantage, and where violence is used, what can go wrong usually does.
In an earlier book, High Seas: The Naval Passage to an Uncharted World,11 Owens gave a reassuring picture of the way the Navy managed both to make use of new technology and to scale down the fleet after the end of the cold war. His new book reflects the frustrations he encountered at the Joint Chiefs, trying to deal with competing claims for resources among the services at a time when Pentagon budgets were being cut by a quarter. In Lifting the Fog of War, his overall message is that America is frittering away its lead in the revolution in military affairs. Each armed service has used new technology to conserve its separate service identities, traditions, and ways of war. In reality, Owens argues, the technological revolution challenges the very identity of the separate services. It calls into question the rationale for the units into which military force has long been organized. For Owens, the army division—18,000 strong—no longer makes sense in an age of humanitarian interventions and peace enforcement operations. It no longer even makes sense for high-intensity combat, since battles have ceased to be encounters between massed fielded forces. They have become skirmishes between dispersed combat units that call in support from weapons platforms hundreds if not thousands of miles from the battlefield. Owens associates himself with Army reformers like Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Macgregor, whose book Breaking the Phalanx12 proposed a radical reform of the Army's divisional structure in order to create smaller, combined units, capable of missions as various as humanitarian rescue and medium-scale combat.
Unless the separate services shed their conservatism, Owens asserts, America faces a "general collapse of its ability to execute the requirements of the current—or any future—national military strategy." Most of the equipment the Army uses—the Abrams tank, for example—dates back to the 1960s. The bill for replacing all of the aging equipment in the armed forces might run as high as $100 billion a year for a decade, an amount that Congress would not appropriate. To keep costs down, Owens argues, the services will have to eliminate duplication—combining their medical services, logistics operations, and redundant bases. But combining facilities will not be enough. Each service will have to learn to train and fight with each other. At present, each service jealously guards its right to train its officer class separately.
If the future lies in joint operations, then each service will also have to surrender its chief prerogative, control over its own procurement budget. As Owens discovered to his astonishment, the Joint Chiefs lacked the power to impose rational standards on the procurement decisions made by the services. They could not order the Army and the Air Force to use compatible equipment. This sort of problem led the defense analyst Edward Luttwak to conclude that the American defense department was "quite incapable of reform." Owens wants to believe that reform is still possible; his main proposal is to centralize procurement in a "joint requirements committee," consisting of the secretary of defense and the Joint Chiefs. The services would lose all their "existing power to set military budget requirements independently."
Lifting the Fog of War makes a brisk and convincing case for this kind of radical reform; when a former admiral attacks the services for promoting waste and duplication, his argument may have wide appeal. Owens's message is also seductive because it implies that, thanks to new technology, America can maintain military strength without spending a high percentage of GDP. But Owens doesn't make specific estimates of the savings he proposes or the investments he believes the military should make. As a result, he does not really prove his case that America can contain the size of its military budget while simultaneously improving its efficiency, all at the same percentage of national expenditure.
Owens wants a national debate on defense, particularly in this election year. But in reality, public support for defense reform is weak. Whatever the threat, and no matter how wasteful its military expenditure, America outspends friend and foe alike, at relatively little sacrifice in national income. American citizens barely feel the pinch of a huge defense budget, while millions of them benefit directly from the jobs it provides. So the constituency for military reform is always going to be small, while the constituencies against cutting back military waste—defense contractors, lobbyists, and log-rolling congressmen—are always going to be large. Getting the defense America needs is one of the toughest challenges for American democracy, especially in an election year. In Owens's view, the first step will be the most difficult: to persuade the four services that they will hang separately if they do not hang together. Even more difficult for Americans will be recognizing that American power is deeply vulnerable because of the contradiction between high moral goals—commitment to human rights and humanitarianism—and military means that are concerned, above all, to avoid risk.
Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (Simon and Schuster, 2000).↩
William J. Broad, "Antimissile Testing Is Rigged to Hide a Flaw, Critics Say," The New York Times, June 9, 2000.↩
Briefing Note, "Tooth to Tail Commission," Business Executives for National Defense, Washington, D.C., October 1999.↩
Naval Institute Press, 1995.↩
Praeger, 1997.↩
Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (Simon and Schuster, 2000).↩
William J. Broad, "Antimissile Testing Is Rigged to Hide a Flaw, Critics Say," The New York Times, June 9, 2000.↩
Briefing Note, "Tooth to Tail Commission," Business Executives for National Defense, Washington, D.C., October 1999.↩
Naval Institute Press, 1995.↩
Praeger, 1997.↩


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Marketing is the art of getting two sides happy: one with a brand new game, another one with pocket full of money.
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Today I got a phone call from some guy who was asking for the person who "is in charge for marketing" in my company. At that point my brain told me to click the red button to end the call, but of course I didn't do that… the guy started saying that he just needs to update my information in their website catalog.
I managed to ask their site URL, and checked it (looked ok). Again I thought that there's something fishy, but the guy just kept saying how he'll just want to make sure the information is correct. He mentioned my company name, street address, phone number etc. and I said that all seemed to be correct. I even gave site URL, and finally… just before the was about to end the call he said. "We charge 40 euro for updates, have a nice…" – to which I interrupted by saying "I'm not going to pay that".
His tone of voice changed a bit and he asked me "What, so you are going to stay outside this?". I said "That's right Watson" (okay, I didn't say "Watson" but I now I hope I had). Then he started saying how they are getting "click tracking and whatnot and then he repeated if I really want to miss this opportunity". I said "Yep, that's correct" (I wish I had said "Yep, that's correct grasshopper").
Then he hang up (not sure if we said "bye") to which I said "(poo)hole" out loud. (I wish I hadn't…).
Anyway, I think there's lessons here:
1) I actually think that this type of "hide the fee in the end" will increase their conversion rate. People who bother to take time to give their details feel like "I have wasted my time if I don't pay this now" (I felt like "I have wasted my time, and am I about to waste my money too?"). I think it's ugly tactic, but I could estimate that this works better than saying in the beginning "We have this 40 eur program, are you interested?". Might work better in terms of conversion, but gives an ugly feeling. It's almost like scamming people to buy.
2) I'm going to ask "are you trying to sell something?" whenever somebody calls me…
How to Use YouTube To Track Information About Who Has Viewed Your Videos
I've been embedding more videos about my zombie game's progress. I was adding my latest video (see below) and clicked it (which lead me to the video page), I noticed an interesting button in YouTube.
After I clicked the embedded video, I got to the video's homepage and noticed control panel for "owner" (notice: you can only see this if you are the author of the video – in other words: have uploaded the video in your youtube account).
There I saw the button "insight":
I moved on and started checking what other stuff could be found behind the "Insight". There was some information about the demographics (for one of my zombie game videos): 83% male, 17% female have been watching the video. Most of them are within 18 to 34 years, but there's also quite many 13-17 years old (20+%) and also 35 to 54 years old (25%).
There was also other information such as discovery (which sounds how people found the video: embedded on a site, external links, through youtube's "relevant videos" link etc.), popularity, hot spots and views. You can also see from which countries people have watched the video.
I found this to be pretty nice addition for tracking information about who is watching your game videos.
Your Game's "Useless Tiny Details" Might Help Promote Your Game Big Time
Have you seen this video where somebody is presenting how World of Warcraft character animations offer variety of ways for dancing. In terms of gameplay, something like "dancing animation" might have close to zero gameplay value (after all, it doesn't give you points or rewards when you cycle through these animations), they can be valuable for both entertaining the player – and of course they make a good videos.
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At the time of writing, this specific video has a view count of 11,161,676. 11 million views. That must be close to a youtube view count record or something. These kind of videos make great viral marketing vehicles, and they help make the game more popular.
When thinking of small details in your product's game play, it might be worth remembering that the sum of all those tiny features might end up being pretty big.
The Wickest Marketing Plot I've Ever Done
I was playing a match of Half-Life 2 Zombie Master mod, and noticed that some people were spraying walls and stuff. I thought that I want to do that too.
And then it strike to me… that I might as well do my own spray. I took my Dead Wake banner, imported in the game (Valve has done great job doing this, it was matter of couple of clicks) and then I continued playing and sprayed the banner.
It was fun to watch seeing one or more players stopping near the banner and looking downwards. (But maybe not so fun to see them starting to shooting the banner…)
Here's couple of screenshots: my Dead Wake banner in Half-life 2. Now I just need to convince every Dead Wake fan to do this when they are playing…
Indie Life Wasn't Supposed To Be Easy…
I got this post from one of you readers, and I think there's valuable questions and ideas worth considering here. I'll go the post step by step and answer as well as I can.
I know very well what constrains me, and do not know HOW to make it work – doubt there is a way btw…
Somebody has said that Where there's a will there's a way and I 100% agree with the statement. I do realize that some things don't work for everybody all the time, so sometimes you need to stop wondering how to go through a dead end and simply turn back and find some other route. But often, there's a way.
Let's see if we can come up with a solution – but for starters, I think it's hugely important to make sure you concentrate on thinking about the solution rather than thinking that there's no way to make it work.
The problem is, the type of game I make is true RPGs… and big, thriving portals all says it's not the kind of game that clicks to their target audience…
Yes, that's a fact of life. Portals won't sell certain kind of games, so it's waste of time trying to sell them anything they don't want. It's bit like the story about banana farm for monkey.
so how can i rival Azada when Azada is so much promoted and I get nothing but my own site and a couple others?
A simplified answer is that "you can't". If you are doing an RPG game that portals don't want (unless it's a 'casual RPG'…), then I don't see how you could 'compete with Azada'.
The good news are, that you don't need to.
When you are creating a game that cannot go through portals, then you gotta find some alternative routes. For starters, there's sites such as Kongregate.com that can help promoting your game. You can simply approach different publishers and make deals with them. Reflexive is another good choice: they take indie games too.
Or, look what one Finnish game company did with their Shadowgrounds game: they have several purchase places (and they published through Meridian4).
Simply put: if you cannot go through portals, then use something else.
HOW can I make THIS work? Seems to me there is no answer, as I cannot force the portals to promote my stuff – if they dont want, they dont want…
You said something really important: you can't force other people to promote your stuff. It's the old saying about getting horses to drink: you can lead them to a river, but they'll make up their own mind about drinking water.
If you think you are not going anywhere with your game (even after trying several publishers, like mentioned above), then at some point you gotta ask if you could change your approach. Perhaps it could make sense to do a market research where you'll go through various stages to find out if there's market for your game. If RPG genre isn't getting you where you want, perhaps you can try something different ('casual RPG', 'Puzzle RPG', 'Adventure RPG',, Puzzle games and so on). Something that you might have better chances in getting to portals.
That was the hopeless message of the day… one of your writings says, "dont give up, business could start the month after"… how can you see it coming when the main actors of the indie scene clearly states they have no interest in the type of game you do…
There's a chinese proverb that says: "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." If you think it cannot be done, then you perhaps could get motivation from watching how others are doing it.
Our games should not try to please everybody on the planet all the time. If your game can please some audience, for some time – then you'll done your part (and can reap the rewards).
If portals don't want your game then you have (close to) two options:
1) Either you create a game that portals want
2) Or you try some other ways to promote your game.
Also remember that selling isn't the only option for promoting and generating revenue. There's plenty of practical marketing tips and business insight available that can help you getting ideas on how to get forward with your game.
If you really enjoy doing games, and really think you have a good game – then go forward. Find somebody who can help you. Ask from others who have done RPG games earlier. Ask in different forums. Make a plan and go boldly forward.
Make things happen.
Witty Way to Get Publicity For Your Game: Screenshot Contest
Developers of the World of Kung Fu game have announced a screenshot contest. The players of the game need to take screenshots, and the best shots win prizes.
World of Kung Fu is free-to-play 3D MMO/MMORPG game that offers something for all different types of gamers, from social gamers to hard-core gamers. World of Kung Fu is a virtual world set in ancient China (one of my personal favorite themes by the way). Originally, World of Kung Fu is made for Chinese audience, but recently the development team launched an English version.
The screenshot contest uses several elements worth mentioning (and learning):
- Partnership: They are partnering with other organization to do the contest. Getting help is a nice idea and can help with prizes and publicity.
- Press release: They created a press release to promote the event. Contest alone does little good if nobody hears about it.
- Players (and the game) involved: I like how they tied the contest around their game. People need to actually play the game and use the game's functionality to participate.
- Easy for players: Taking screenshots can be (relatively) easy! Everybody who is capable of playing the game, can most likely take screenshots (if there's a button that takes screenshots). This means it's more likely to get people to participate.
- Prizes: every contest needs them. In World of Kung Fu, the prizes are mainly about getting new specialties in the game (that's quite interesting way to give prizes I think) rather than some giving away other games or gadgets or something (which can also be good)
I suggest checking out the World of Kung Fu and learning more about the game and the contest (I'm benchmarking their efforts in order to "borrow" this marketing idea for marketing my own game).
I don't use this word often, but the artwork is breathtaking (the below video is quite blurry, you should check out the screenshots or try the game on your own to get a better picture).
More videos, screenshots and a free playable game at the World of Kung Fu website.
There so many opportunities to learn about marketing by simply watching what kind of stuff other people are doing.
The Tao of Backup (And a Nice Lesson About Marketing)
The Buddha way into backing up stuff.
It's a fun read. Useful too (both in terms of backups and how to market your product: write a witty & funny story that promotes your product and let people share it with others).
Beginners Guide to Recording Game Videos and Showing Them on Your Website
This article shows you what tools I've used to create game videos, and how I've embedded them in my website. You'll need couple of tools that are either free or inexpensive to get.
Recording videos
I've mentioned this earlier, but I'll mention this again to make this guide as complete as possible. I use Fraps for recording game videos. Fraps is inexpensive and provides easy-to-use recording of your games. Fraps has everything you need for recording sound and video.
Editing your video
I actually haven't done much video editing (and have survived pretty well without editing), and don't know many of them but somebody mentioned Sony Vegas Movie Studio which might be handy. (If you have any more recommendations on video editing, please feel free to suggest)
I haven't used Sony, so can't personally recommend it – but it seems to be pretty feature rich tool. If you don't need to edit your videos, then you can skip this phase and just move to the next step.
Converting AVI to MPG
Fraps records movies in .avi format, so it's a good idea to compress them to MPG (I usually convert to MPG1 instead of MPG2 format to make sure it works as many place as possible). MPG videos are much smaller than AVI files, yet they can provide good quality. (Those who want to have HD quality videos need to find some other tutorial though… I'm not covering those here)
I tested a loads of different AVI-to-MPG tools and there were some free, some expensive and many, many crap ones. Finally I found WinAVI which does everything I need (and I only need to convert AVI to MPG). It's inexpensive tool and worth checking out. I personally like the simplicity of the tool. It does what it's supposed to do.
Update: Toni and Stoper recommended VirtualDUB – it's free converter.
Uploading your video
I've used mainly YouTube to upload videos, but some other places worth checking are for example WeGame and Vimeo.
Showing videos on your website
Google YouTube API provides some tools that you can use to show videos on your website. Recently I discovered the Videobar which I've used in Dead Wake game website to show latest videos I've uploaded to YouTube. Basically I just used the wizard and wrote my YouTube username to "Youtube Channels:", unchecked the "Most Viewed Videos" and the widget provided the code to use in my website.
If you have a WordPress blog, you can google for various plugins that help showing uploaded videos on your blog. I haven't used those, but they seemed to look pretty easy way to publish videos.
Naturally you can embed videos (they give you code after you've uploaded videos) on your site using HTML. That's very easy way to upload videos as well.
That's it folks
This is how I've recorded and published videos, and even though there's several steps I think overall it can be quite easy to get game videos on your website.
And gamers love seeing videos.
How to Turn Piracy Into a Sales Machine
Software piracy is a hot topic: use it for your marketing
Cliff Harris has made an excellent marketing campaign for his game: he opens a can of worms and then uses it to generate publicity for his game. Here's how he did it.
You cannot change anybody else, you can only change your own behavior
This is pretty simple principle in life that has worked to me. Whether it's friends, relations, teamwork, bosses or piracy. It's pretty much wasted effort to try to change others. Sure, you can try come up with motivational bonuses for your team members. You can try to threat them to work harder, but in the end it's up to them to decide.
You cannot stop piracy, but you can use it to generate interest and promote your games.
So, how does piracy can bring more sales?
Cliff Harris is has developed Kudos 2 game – a sequel to his popular Kudos game (Kudos Rock Legend sales statistics here).
He crafted a nice marketing plan to get publicity for the game: (not actually sure if he knew what would happen, but I have a feeling that he did)
#1 – First he made a post about "I wanna hear from the pirates"
He wrote a post asking reasons why people pirate his games. He posted the article to various other places such as slashdot, penny arcade forums, digg , arstechnica and bnet.
#2 – That topic took fire
Talking about piracy is a hot topic. It's something that generates interest. No matter what you say, there's always somebody against it when it comes to piracy.
Cliff's blog was flooded with traffic (at the time of writing, I think his blog got too much traffic and could not be reached).
#3 – Then the next step: answers and the game sales page
After the topic caught fire, the natural next step was to reveal the answers. Cliff posted a lengthy post with answers, and provided some links to Kudos 2. He was answering to the questions and saying that he will do some changes to Kudos 2, so that players would be more inclined to buy the game.
We'll wait and see if that helped
His site got flooded with traffic, and I really hope they convert to sales.
I know that Cliff is really wanting to negotiate with the
terrorists pirates, but I'm pretty sure he is also doing this to drive traffic to his site and get more sales.
I think the campaign concept is brilliant.
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Hi,just tiled a floor with porcelain tiles on top of underfloor heating,but one tile has been chipped, so when i was replacing the tile, i have cut in half one bit of the wire in the underfloor heating,so my question is can the spark fix this?Cheers, Andy Reid.
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In general, ice is not as soothing as heat. However, it does have the advantage of being an analgesic: It can provide a mild numbing effect, which can relieve pain. Ice is also anti-inflammatory, meaning it helps reduce swelling. This can be useful if your hands or feet are prone to edema (fluid buildup), which can increase sensations of pain. Ice may also be the key for someone whose pain does not respond to heat.
Using ice is as simple as going to your freezer: Fill a large freezer bag about halfway with ice cubes and seal it. Place a doubled-up towel over the area you are treating, then mold the bag of ice to the area and keep it in place for no more than 10 minutes. Some people prefer using bags of frozen vegetables such as peas, which are easy to shape to various body parts and can simply be thrown back into the freezer when done to reuse later. Just be sure to label your "cold pack" so that no one cooks it for dinner. You can also buy different sizes of reusable cold packs — filled with gel or pellets — at a drugstore and keep them in your freezer; having options can be helpful if you use ice frequently or for more than one area of your body.
Contrast baths
Contrast baths are a little messy, but they may offer some relief from both pain and swelling in the hands or feet. Start with two basins: one filled with ice water, the other with warm water. Starting with the ice water, submerge your hand or foot for 30 seconds — if you can tolerate it — and then immediately switch to the warm water for 2 minutes. Repeat the process about five times. If you can't tolerate the entire 30 seconds of cold, you can cut the time for each bath in half.
Contrast baths are nice for people who get good results from ice but cannot tolerate using it for long periods of time. Like ice, contrast baths can keep edema under control. If you decide to try this method, be sure to keep several towels handy — no matter how careful you are, water tends to get everywhere.
Have you ever had a headache or some other kind of pain, then forgotten about it? Later you might realize the headache or pain has gone away or is less bothersome somehow. Sometimes you only notice the pain again when you remember that you felt it before. Did your pain actually go away and then come back? Probably not; more likely, you were just distracted.
Distraction works under the principle that pain is all in your head. It's not that you are imagining your pain; it's that your brain — where feelings of pain are processed — only has so much attention to give. The more it focuses on pain, the less likely it is to notice much else. The flipside, however, is that if you can direct some of that attention elsewhere, your brain will have to turn down the "noise" caused by the pain.
Anything can be grounds for distraction: music, a good book, television, calling up a friend to chat. Whatever you enjoy and can focus on, do it. Distraction can be especially helpful when your pain is holding you back from a task that needs to be done. This applies most often to physical tasks such as exercise or mundane housework — although if a mental task does not demand all of your focus, it may benefit from distraction, too.
Minimizing effort
Sometimes the pain caused by peripheral neuropathy gets worse with overuse of the affected area. Just as your body would ache after a heavy workout, your hands may ache when you demand too much of them. But how to avoid this? Can you name a household activity that doesn't use your hands? Most likely, you have a daily routine that includes holding, lifting, and carrying objects. If you can find a way to make those tasks easier, it might lessen the burden on your hands and spare you some pain. There are two ways to approach reducing the physical burden of tasks: joint protection and work simplification.
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