Fear inflasion
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
O Friend, Where Art Thou
If you have any ideas of how to make long-term friends with someone, do tell! I've done it all. I collected DVDs, Bluray, anime and videogames and it is supposed to work like it has for everybody else. That's all I heard for a few years, everybody playing some game. To everybody I talked too, TV shows in general are uninteresting except for the occasional anime out there. I own the X-files boxset, the Star Trek Voyager boxset, and the Star Trek The Next Generation boxset for there superb sci-fi storylines. The camping trips are ok, but you just cannot make any friends there either. You talk to people in camping trips, but its a once in lifetime and you never see them. I've been on facebook, yet they just don't answer. For example, most people feature all my comments using that checkbox and never ever answer so I delete them. My parents keep telling my dilemma is not a bourgeois vs. petite bourgeois vs. the proletariat class struggle and I'm not poor.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Adventure game downloads - best Abandonware ever
Indiana Jones and the Fate of atlantis download
Day of the Tentacle
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PS The Monkey Island abandonware is in the December 2008 catalog.
Star Trek TNG - The Unity 8.0 Abandonware can't go wrong accept some wasted bandwidth.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Day of the Tentacle
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PS The Monkey Island abandonware is in the December 2008 catalog.
Star Trek TNG - The Unity 8.0 Abandonware can't go wrong accept some wasted bandwidth.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Capitalist healthcare great / nationalized healthcare very bad
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) was passed. In addition to adding the prescription drug plan, MMA links premiums to beneficiary income. An increase in government spending, however, will primarily pay for this expansion of Medicare. "third rail" is what the politicans call it.
Since the Seniors will fight to the end on medicare if any politican dares touch it and its bankrupted though as symamental value to it than don't do nationalized healthcare. Barack Obama is starting the administration out like Adolf Hitler in 1933 which he got elected, the German jugistral branch didn't indite him at the golden opportunity, and Adolf changed the rules to his far right communist liking and that's what is happening now in 2009 in America. The President taking the exact same steps as Hitler has done in 1933 - 1936. Nazis started executing anyone who dared go against him much like the driveby media does now. Silencing everyone. We all know that nationalized healthcare is instead of starting at retirement age of 65, it starts at birth. The USSR communists were like a left-wing Nazi party. To make it braindead simple for you all, nationalized healthcare doesn't work with 306 million people with 8% unemployment and the baby-boomers passing over. The 40 million illegal aliens in this country aren't taxed on tax day nor are they paying for healthcare. That alone makes capitalist heatlhcare far better than doomsday.
Adolf Hitler's Speech to the German Nation, Berlin
http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/speeches/1933-02-01.html
FEBRUARY 1, 1933
Page 1
MORE than fourteen years have passed since the unhappy day when the German people, blinded by promises from foes at home and abroad, lost touch with honor and freedom, thereby losing all. Since that day of treachery, the Almighty has withheld his blessing from our people. Dissension and hatred descended upon us. .
The misery of our people is horrible to behold! Millions of the industrial proletariat are unemployed and starving; the whole of the middle class and the small artisans have been impoverished. When this collapse finally reaches the German peasants, we will be faced with an immeasurable disaster. For then not only shall a nation collapse, but a two-thousand-year-old inheritance, some of the loftiest products of human culture and civilization.
President-Elect Barack Obama's Speech
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 , Chicago, Illinois
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/obamas_speech_as_prepared.php
Page 1
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.
Adolf Hitler's Speech to the German Nation, Berlin
FEBRUARY 1, 1933
Page 2
All about us the warning signs of this collapse are apparent. .And as leaders of the nation and the national Government we vow to God, to our conscience, and to our people that we will faithfully and resolutely fulfill the task conferred upon us.
The inheritance which has fallen to us is a terrible one. The task with which we are faced is the hardest which has fallen to German statesmen within the memory of man. But we are all filled with unbounded confidence for we believe in our people and their imperishable virtues. Every class and every individual must help us to found the new Reich.
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life....
Turbulent instincts must be replaced by a national discipline as the guiding principle of our national life. All those institutions which are the strongholds of the energy and vitality of our nation will be taken under the special care of the Government.
The National Government intends to solve the problem of the reorganization of trade and commerce with two four-year plans:
President-Elect Barack Obama's Speech
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 , Chicago, Illinois
Page 2
There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you — we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
What began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek — it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you.
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers — in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.
Adolf Hitler's Speech to the German Nation, Berlin
FEBRUARY 1, 1933
Page 3
The German farmer must be rescued in order that the nation may be supplied with the necessities of life....
A concerted and all-embracing attack must be made on unemployment in order that the German working class may be saved from ruin....
The November parties have ruined the German peasantry in fourteen years. In fourteen years they have created an army of millions of unemployed. The National Government will, with iron determination and unshakable steadfastness of purpose, put through the following plan:
Within four years the German peasant must be rescued from the quagmire into which he has fallen.
Within four years unemployment must be finally overcome. At the same time the conditions necessary for a revival in trade and commerce are provided. The National Government will couple with this tremendous task of reorganizing business life a reorganization of the administrative and fiscal systems of the Reich, of the Federal States, and the Communes.
Only when this has been done can the idea of a continued federal existence of the entire Reich be fully realized....
Compulsory labor-service and the back-to-the-land policy are two of the basic principles of this program.
The securing of the necessities of life will include the performance of social duties to the sick and aged.
In economical administration, the promotion of employment, the preservation of the farmer, as well as in the exploitation of individual initiative, the Government sees the best guarantee for the avoidance of any experiments which would endanger the currency.
As regards its foreign policy the National Government considers its highest mission to be the securing of the right to live and the restoration of freedom to our nation. Its determination to bring to an end the chaotic state will assist in restoring to the community of nations a State of equal value and, above all, a State which must have equal rights. It is impressed with the importance of its duty to use this nation of equal rights as an instrument for the securing and maintenance of that peace which the world requires today more than ever before.
President-Elect Barack Obama's Speech
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 , Chicago, Illinois
Page 3
For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you — we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I .. This victory alone is not the change we seek — it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you.
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers — in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.
Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
Adolf Hitler's Speech to the German Nation, Berlin
FEBRUARY 1, 1933
Page 3
May the good will of all others assist in the fulfillment of this our earnest wish for the welfare of Europe and of the whole world. Great as is our love for our Army as the bearer of our arms and the symbol of our great past, we should be happy if the world, by reducing its armaments, would see to it that we need never increase our own.
If, however, Germany is to experience this political and economic revival and conscientiously fulfill her duties toward the other nations, one decisive step is absolutely necessary first: the overcoming of the destroying menace of communism in Germany. We of this Government feel responsible for the restoration of orderly life in the nation and for the final elimination of class madness and class struggle. . Reich's präsident von Hindenburg has called upon us to bring about the revival of the German nation. Unity is our tool. Therefore we now appeal to the German people to support this reconciliation. The National Government wishes to work and it will work. It did not ruin the German nation for fourteen years, but now it will lead the nation back to health. It is determined to make well in four years the ills of fourteen years. But the National Government cannot make the work of reconstruction dependent upon the approval of those who wrought destruction. The Marxist parties and their lackeys have had fourteen years to show what they can do. The result is a heap of ruins.
Now, people of Germany, give us four years and then pass judgment upon us. In accordance with Field Marshal von Hindenburg's command we shall begin now. May God Almighty give our work His blessing, strengthen our purpose, and endow us with wisdom and the trust of our people, for we are fighting not for ourselves but for Germany.
President-Elect Barack Obama's Speech
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 , Chicago, Illinois
Page 4
...And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn — I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.
And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world — our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those who would tear this world down — we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security — we support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright — tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.
For that is the true genius of America — that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. . America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves -if our children should live to see the next century what progress will we have made?
This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time - to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth — that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people:
Since the Seniors will fight to the end on medicare if any politican dares touch it and its bankrupted though as symamental value to it than don't do nationalized healthcare. Barack Obama is starting the administration out like Adolf Hitler in 1933 which he got elected, the German jugistral branch didn't indite him at the golden opportunity, and Adolf changed the rules to his far right communist liking and that's what is happening now in 2009 in America. The President taking the exact same steps as Hitler has done in 1933 - 1936. Nazis started executing anyone who dared go against him much like the driveby media does now. Silencing everyone. We all know that nationalized healthcare is instead of starting at retirement age of 65, it starts at birth. The USSR communists were like a left-wing Nazi party. To make it braindead simple for you all, nationalized healthcare doesn't work with 306 million people with 8% unemployment and the baby-boomers passing over. The 40 million illegal aliens in this country aren't taxed on tax day nor are they paying for healthcare. That alone makes capitalist heatlhcare far better than doomsday.
Adolf Hitler's Speech to the German Nation, Berlin
http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/speeches/1933-02-01.html
FEBRUARY 1, 1933
Page 1
MORE than fourteen years have passed since the unhappy day when the German people, blinded by promises from foes at home and abroad, lost touch with honor and freedom, thereby losing all. Since that day of treachery, the Almighty has withheld his blessing from our people. Dissension and hatred descended upon us. .
The misery of our people is horrible to behold! Millions of the industrial proletariat are unemployed and starving; the whole of the middle class and the small artisans have been impoverished. When this collapse finally reaches the German peasants, we will be faced with an immeasurable disaster. For then not only shall a nation collapse, but a two-thousand-year-old inheritance, some of the loftiest products of human culture and civilization.
President-Elect Barack Obama's Speech
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 , Chicago, Illinois
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/obamas_speech_as_prepared.php
Page 1
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.
Adolf Hitler's Speech to the German Nation, Berlin
FEBRUARY 1, 1933
Page 2
All about us the warning signs of this collapse are apparent. .And as leaders of the nation and the national Government we vow to God, to our conscience, and to our people that we will faithfully and resolutely fulfill the task conferred upon us.
The inheritance which has fallen to us is a terrible one. The task with which we are faced is the hardest which has fallen to German statesmen within the memory of man. But we are all filled with unbounded confidence for we believe in our people and their imperishable virtues. Every class and every individual must help us to found the new Reich.
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life....
Turbulent instincts must be replaced by a national discipline as the guiding principle of our national life. All those institutions which are the strongholds of the energy and vitality of our nation will be taken under the special care of the Government.
The National Government intends to solve the problem of the reorganization of trade and commerce with two four-year plans:
President-Elect Barack Obama's Speech
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 , Chicago, Illinois
Page 2
There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you — we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
What began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek — it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you.
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers — in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.
Adolf Hitler's Speech to the German Nation, Berlin
FEBRUARY 1, 1933
Page 3
The German farmer must be rescued in order that the nation may be supplied with the necessities of life....
A concerted and all-embracing attack must be made on unemployment in order that the German working class may be saved from ruin....
The November parties have ruined the German peasantry in fourteen years. In fourteen years they have created an army of millions of unemployed. The National Government will, with iron determination and unshakable steadfastness of purpose, put through the following plan:
Within four years the German peasant must be rescued from the quagmire into which he has fallen.
Within four years unemployment must be finally overcome. At the same time the conditions necessary for a revival in trade and commerce are provided. The National Government will couple with this tremendous task of reorganizing business life a reorganization of the administrative and fiscal systems of the Reich, of the Federal States, and the Communes.
Only when this has been done can the idea of a continued federal existence of the entire Reich be fully realized....
Compulsory labor-service and the back-to-the-land policy are two of the basic principles of this program.
The securing of the necessities of life will include the performance of social duties to the sick and aged.
In economical administration, the promotion of employment, the preservation of the farmer, as well as in the exploitation of individual initiative, the Government sees the best guarantee for the avoidance of any experiments which would endanger the currency.
As regards its foreign policy the National Government considers its highest mission to be the securing of the right to live and the restoration of freedom to our nation. Its determination to bring to an end the chaotic state will assist in restoring to the community of nations a State of equal value and, above all, a State which must have equal rights. It is impressed with the importance of its duty to use this nation of equal rights as an instrument for the securing and maintenance of that peace which the world requires today more than ever before.
President-Elect Barack Obama's Speech
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 , Chicago, Illinois
Page 3
For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you — we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I .. This victory alone is not the change we seek — it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you.
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers — in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.
Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
Adolf Hitler's Speech to the German Nation, Berlin
FEBRUARY 1, 1933
Page 3
May the good will of all others assist in the fulfillment of this our earnest wish for the welfare of Europe and of the whole world. Great as is our love for our Army as the bearer of our arms and the symbol of our great past, we should be happy if the world, by reducing its armaments, would see to it that we need never increase our own.
If, however, Germany is to experience this political and economic revival and conscientiously fulfill her duties toward the other nations, one decisive step is absolutely necessary first: the overcoming of the destroying menace of communism in Germany. We of this Government feel responsible for the restoration of orderly life in the nation and for the final elimination of class madness and class struggle. . Reich's präsident von Hindenburg has called upon us to bring about the revival of the German nation. Unity is our tool. Therefore we now appeal to the German people to support this reconciliation. The National Government wishes to work and it will work. It did not ruin the German nation for fourteen years, but now it will lead the nation back to health. It is determined to make well in four years the ills of fourteen years. But the National Government cannot make the work of reconstruction dependent upon the approval of those who wrought destruction. The Marxist parties and their lackeys have had fourteen years to show what they can do. The result is a heap of ruins.
Now, people of Germany, give us four years and then pass judgment upon us. In accordance with Field Marshal von Hindenburg's command we shall begin now. May God Almighty give our work His blessing, strengthen our purpose, and endow us with wisdom and the trust of our people, for we are fighting not for ourselves but for Germany.
President-Elect Barack Obama's Speech
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 , Chicago, Illinois
Page 4
...And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn — I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.
And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world — our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those who would tear this world down — we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security — we support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright — tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.
For that is the true genius of America — that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. . America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves -if our children should live to see the next century what progress will we have made?
This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time - to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth — that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people:
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Instructor gave me a 114% for being a libertarian in Business Ethics:Test Answers
Example of how Socialism will run out of rich people's money and leave UK bankrupted (Gordon's fault) and why capitalism is the best platform ever made. Most people wish they were us obviously so they attack us. And that constitution for the rest of the world and not the American people ideology is more stupid than the libertarian view. I can see through it. Republicans know what libertarians are good for the country and the President's Cabinet has no libertarians. Libertarians actually know that they're doing. Rein Capitalism in Germany, works, 3rd largest economy in the world..Libertarians run amuck...awesome example. I got 100% on this assignment which is about the fraud ponzi schemes. deontelelogy...not totalitarian views work better.
1.)
Today businesses operate in a very complex world; whereby, decisions they make today may have repercussions on changes they need tomorrow. The fact is the world is changing and so are ethical issues. I believe ethical training starts with our youth; where the family and experiences we encounter along the way, provides us with our values; however, our values are only an imprint on us. In the business world, our value imprint takes on another dimension that revolves on ethical standards in the parameter of business. A business ethics program provides a business person with a foundation or decision-making process to identify ethical issues which he/she may face. It also provides the business person with avenues or approaches he/she would take to resolve those issues. In other words, knowledge on ethical issues helps one identify, analyze and resolve ethical issues while promoting ones ethical behavior. An example would be social engineering involving computers. A representative who says he is an outsourced IT repair person and asks for PC specs so he can fix the network problem. The issue taking place here is social engineering; whereby, an attack that relies on deception in order to access a system. The man representing himself as a technician only wants PC specs for unauthorized access to the system. To resolve this situation, the employee must divert the call to the IT center or a simple “no” response would also do the job. Essentially what the employee did for the company was to prevent a breach in business’s computer system and comply with the company’s policy which says any person who performs system analysis must be redirected to the Information Technology employee in order to prevent phishing. This employee also protected the company from losing the customer’s trust which would have a great impact on the company itself.
An ethical business environment needs to have trust established from top management down to every aspect of company’s stakeholders. The company should have a pulsating message which encompasses the concept of integrity and honesty that not only provides the benefits for the company, but also for their stakeholders and society as well. Enforcing a positive ethical culture will do the following: Improve day to day operation, increases employee commitment, promotes investors’ loyalty through dependability, trust and commitment, and lastly it provides a better profitable picture while establishing a relationship with society. Why study Ethics? An important reason is a good ethical program can enable a business person to make a ethical ‘right’ choice instead of an unethical ‘wrong’ choice when confronting an ethical issue and embraces the ideology that the person is responsible for his/her actions which can have an ethical or legal impact on their company as well on how the society views the organization. Another impact on why to study ethics is that it also provides the business person knowledge in order to cope between our personal values and the values of the company.
2.)
A stakeholder is anyone who may have a stake or claim in a company, products, operations, markets, industry and outcome. Stakeholders have the ability to influence a company as well as a company has the capability to influence them. Stakeholders can apply their values and standards to many complex ethical issues such as: 1.) working conditions for example health and safety issues, wage issues, sexual discrimination issues. 2.) Consumer rights and product safety, where there may be an issue with safety and quality of a product; where products are recalled or how a customers complaint is handled; therefore, is there a procedure in answering complaints. 3.) Environmental conservation where the issue could be that the company isn't recycling enough or how they are managing their waste or use of electricity that supplies the company. These issues may directly or indirectly affect individual stakeholder’s own interests. The company has to maintain a continual open relationship with the stakeholders. Stakeholders can provide resources that give weight to a company's long term success. These tangible or intangible resources are as following: supply of capital from shareholders, materials resources or intangible knowledge from suppliers, revenue supplied by the customer who also may supply loyalty and good advertisement for the company, infrastructure that is provided by the community that the company resides in and the media which may promote a positive image for the company. Stakeholders encourage companies to be accountable, transparent and responsible in the company’s day-to-day activities. These interactions between the company and its stakeholders cut both ways. Stakeholders have the ability to withdraw their support or resources and that gives them strength over a business by giving the company negative exposure through media source such as the news, podcast, or withdrawal of financial support.
There are two types of stakeholders that have influence on a company. Primary stakeholders have a direct impact on the viability of a company success which includes the following: employees, customers, investors, government regulatory bodies, community, suppliers, and shareholders. Secondary stakeholders engage with the company indirectly such as special interest groups (GreenPeace, National Labor Union ), trade association (Aerospace Industries Association, Airports Council International - North America, American Society of Travel Agents, Nuclear Energy Institute), media (newpapers, radio, TV), and competitors (Pepsi vs. Coca-Cola, Intel vs. AMD, Microsoft vs. Nintendo)
A company, depending on its size, dictates who they believe is primary vs. secondary. Both primary and secondary stakeholders do have an impact on company’s ethical decision making process. Corporate government
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It should be a requirement for any organization to promote its positive attributes on a stakeholder and to curtail the negative impact. Rather then just thinking and serving the shareholder about profits and delivering profits, I believe businesses today should take a holistic view on how they conduct their businesses. They should also think about the employee, the customer, the supplier and even the environmental activist. The pubic is looking at a company more holistically; whereby, the character and the quality of the leadership provide more of an impact than the business itself. An example of this holistic view is Home Depot which promotes community volunteer work and provides pay supplements to any employee that goes into the military; whereby, any employee who spends time in the service will always have their job waiting for them when they return. Home Depot believes that is an investment and a responsibility to their employees. They also supplied building materials and volunteers to assist rebuilding the area destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. This company strategy involves the board, senior management, and the employees in the company. Their belief system is to give good will to society for it is just the right thing to do. Business ethical concerns should be part of their foundational values and incorporate their business strategy. Most companies have developed formal systems of accountability, oversight and control known as corporate governance. It is a check and balance system that limits employees and mangers opportunities to deviate from policy and strategies and prevent unethical and illegal activates. It provides integrity to the corporate culture. Directors and officers of corporations are both fiduciaries for the shareholders. Their duty is to provide leadership in prudent decisions that prevent unethical conduct not only in themselves and employees of the organization.
There are four levels of social responsibility which are economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic. Economic responsibility is to be profitable so in order to maximize the stake holder’s wealth and value by providing jobs in the community and contributing goods and services for the economy. The next level is legal; whereby, the company establishes compliance to government law and regulations. The third level is ethical where the company follows standards for acceptable behavior as judged by the stakeholder. Finally, the fourth level is philanthropic where the company gives back to society.
Reputation can be the greatest asset to any company in order to sustain a relationship with its investors, consumers, financial analyst, media, and government watchdog groups. Their reputation is created by their actions, choices, and behavior that are consequentially viewed through the stake holder’s eyes and to earn their trust. Oil companies may have a negative view by the public, because of the recent gas hikes that happen in the latter part of 2008. People believed they were ‘price gouging’ the public.
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Ethical intensity is the importance of an ethical issue of the eyes of the individual or workgroup in the organization. It is personal, temporal in character to accommodate values, beliefs, needs, perception of a situation. Senior employees and executives have a major role in resolving ethical issue intensity, because they usually take a stance on ethical issues to control these ethical issues until it’s a nonissue. The importance of this is unless individuals in a company share a common ground about issues. Top management can affect how an individual perceives an ethical issue. This can be done through rewarding or punishing unethical acts. Individual factors include education, age, and locus of control. It may be perceived that the higher education, the better judgment I have. This may be possible; however, I believe it is the exposure to ethical challenging decisions that make one capable of making a better ethical decision. Age can be a factor. How does one expect a younger employee to make a prudent decision without an experience employee’s guidance? Locus of control is either external or internal. It is how one sees himself. External control, the person believes the events of their lives are from uncontrollable forces. In external control these people in this category are the followers. They believe that other situations that luck and chance and powerful people control them. People who use internal control believe their lives are controlled by their own effort and skill and that they influence their environment. The debate is who is more ethical? The followers or the person who forms his/her own destiny. An example is followers who follow the rules and code of conduct. Are they more ethical for decision making? Leadership. The person who forms their own destiny. The Independent. Is it possible that they reinforce the rules of conduct and provide a better decision making policy to enforce ethical standards? Will he/she believe he/she is above it all and believes he/she is entitled to his/her own needs vs. the company. The corporate culture and obedience to authority makes up the organization factors. Corporate culture can be defined as a set of values, beliefs, goals, norms, and a way of solving problems, the members of an organization share. It is the corporate culture of an organization that breeds ethics. It tells its members what the company’s vision, values, and goals are and it incorporates policies and rules for ethical behavior in decision making. It also can be said that significant others or coworkers are the major forces in guiding employees in making either an ethical or unethical decisions or behavior in their day-to-day activities. When an employee sees other employees disrespecting rules or policy by getting away with it; is it possible that the employee will see the unethical display as acceptable? Another example is the environment that displays an ethical code of conduct and employees abiding by the rules and management enforcing these rules. The chances are the employee sees his company as more ethical; therefore, the culture improves the ethical standards and the employee is more compliant to those rules. The examples above also open the doors for opportunity factors. The question that needs to be asked regarding as opportunity is the companies’ top management enforces the company’s policies, rules, and formal codes to the workforce. If the answer is yes then I believe the chances of an employee becoming more ethical are great. Leadership is the answer to ethical conflicts and issues. Leaders need to believe in these vision or goals and they need to believe in their employee’s ethical standing. Leaders needs to be ethical themselves and they need to provide good ethical decision making policies, rules, and formal codes and they are the ones that channel it down through managers, supervisors in order to enforce the codes. They also need to provide knowledge to all employees on what they expect from the employees. They are the enforces of the code. A good example would be an insurance adjuster taking bribes from a company that is breaking environmental codes and the adjuster allows them to do business by covering up evidence that could be harmful like chemical spill. If the knowledge of the insurance adjuster behavior is exposed, his or her company should terminate him, because he exhibit unethical behavior and good leadership should expect employees to abide by the rules.
Good leaders should be transparent and actively involved in all theorganization’s decision making. They should be role models for the organization values. They should have integrity and character in order to be good leaders. As I mentioned earlier in question 2, Home Depot is a good example where leadership has dictated excellent ethical decision making, because their leaders takes on a holistic view and have a passion to do right.
5. Moral philosophies are guidelines to determine how conflicts and human interest is to be settled while optimizing mutual benefits for business people as they form business strategies and resolve ethical issues. It also refers to principles people use to decide what is right and what is wrong. Individuals learn decision making approaches through their cultural and social development. These values are dependent on the ability to think critically and accept responsibility for his/her decision. This includes economic value orientations where the act produces more value than its effort. Idealism is a philosophy that has special values of ideas and ideas are products of mind where it refers to a higher order of existence. Realism is a theory is where a person is always guided by his/her own self interest. This theory believes that actions are self motivated have a tendency towards negative ethical decision making. Ethical decisions are guided in the workplace by the company’s culture and are influenced by others such as co-workers and superiors. People usually don’t think of their moral philosophies when making decisions; however, their moral philosophies can be interchanged depending on if they’re making a decision in their personal life or in their job. Rules, personalities in the job, may promote an individual to change their moral philosophy to what is compatible in the work environment; where moral rights, fairness, justice, and common good come into play. A company’s core values on how it is to make decisions will determine how the individual will use his/her moral philosophy. Most employees don’t have the power to use their personal philosophies, because most of these decisions are formed in the complex work environment. An example of cognitive development is the Kohlberg’s model which explains how people make different decisions in similar ethical situations dependent on the stage of moral development they’re in. The following are the six cognitive moral development stages: 1.) Stage of punishment and obedience. This is the person’s response to rules and labels of good and bad which is dependent on a person who has power. For example, a company that requires employees not to receives gifts from others because of their performance. A person may just deny the gift, because of company rules. Another person may take the gift, because he/she believes he/she can get by with it or there is no consequence. 2.) The stage of individual instrumental purpose and exchange is where a individual makes moral decisions based on fairness to him/her. It is a stage where rules and authority figures are no longer relevant. In the US, bribery is against the law; however, in another country such as Russia, bribery is a commonplace; therefore, an individual who wants to start up a company may believe in order to be successful; he will offer money to a official in order to get there. This may be unethical to United States standards; however, in other countries it is a part of entitlement. 3.) This is the stage of mutual interpersonal expectations, relationships, and conformity. In this stage the individual considers the well being of others; where the fairness to the individuals is one of the ethical motives. An example of this is a manufacturing job such as an auto worker where the middle manager obeys the goals of the company and the controls the work force in a fair way in order to achieve productivity. 4.) For the stage of social system and conscience management, the individual determines what duty to society is right due to his/her by respecting authority and maintaining social order. An example is security personnel monitoring a store via camera. They have a duty to protect the store, but they also have a duty to society in who monitors the dressing rooms. It usually is a female monitoring a female dressing room and a male monitoring a male dressing room. 5.) In the stage of prior rights, social contract or utility, the individual is concern all with upholding the basic rights, values, and legal contracts of society. In this level, the business may promote ethics training for its employees in order to promote good ethical behavior and decision making, thereby, being responsible to society. The final stage is the stage of universal ethical principles which come into play. In this final stage, the individual believes there are inalienable rights which are universal in nature with consequence. A good example of this is Ford making a vehicle called a Pinto in the early 1970s. It had a manufacturing flaw that caused the gas tank to explode in rear-end collisions. This case would argue discontinuing this product, because the public has an inalienable right to life without the fear of injury due to this flaw. In this case, profit doesn’t justify the continuation of manufacturing this vehicle.
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There are two moral philosophies, teleology and deontology that one may use to evaluate activity of his or her ethical actions. Teleology is an act that is morally right if it produces some desired results. The consequentialist is a today's form of teleology which hold “the consequences whereby the end justifies the means.” a particular action that forms a basis for any valid moral judgment for action; whereby, the weight given to the consequences and evaluating the rightness and wrongness of the action.
Egoism is the segment of teleology. Egoists believe that they should make decisions that maximize their own self interest. Their slogan is “Do whatever it takes to help one self.” An excellent example of this is Bernie Madoff with his $50 billion dollar ponzi scheme.
Enlightened egoism is taking a long range prospective and allows for the well being of others although their own self interest remains paramount on the hierarchy tree. This category is where whistle blowers. Some whistle blowers report misconduct to the government regulatory agency in order to make themselves look as if he/she are caring people looking out for their company, when in fact they’re looking for self interest. It’s a double edged sword.
A Utilitarian is also concerned with consequences; however, the utilitarian searches for the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Utilitarian decision making relies on comparison to cost and benefits to all affected parties. A good example of a utilitarian is the animal rights group (PETA). PETA convinced Mobil, Texaco, Pennzoil, Shell and other oil companies to cover their exhaust stacks, after showing how millions birds and bats had become trapped in the shafts and burned to death.
Rule utilitarianism would calculate the costs and benefits in society at large if everyone acted in a particular way. A good example is Ford Motor Company in the 1960s which I mentioned earlier using the cost benefits over safety. They manufactured the Pinto fuel tank knowing it had potential to explode when rear ended. Another example if rule utilitarian is that bribery is wrong where under no conditions would bribery be accepted even if that means a lost of jobs. The act utilitarian uses a specific action itself rather then the general rules governing it, in order to assess the greatest utility. Here, in this example, an act utilitarian would agree that bribery is wrong, but only under certain circumstances. Like I mentioned before, bribery in Russia is a commonplace. Some businesses would be comfortable using the bribery in order to establish their business there or to survive in that society.
Deontology refers to moral philosophies that focuses on the rights of individuals and on the intentions associated with a particular behavior rather than on its consequences. Rule deontologists believe that rules dominate decision making; so his/her team is just as important. Rule deontology is to carry out the duty according to the rules created even if the conclusion is wrong. Act deontologists believe that rules are useless from particular experiences and that that deciding on particular situations as they show up is best. Act deontology requires a person to use equality, fairness and impartiality when making decisions. They believe rules are only guidelines; whereby, past experience weighs more than rules when making decisions. They also are well aware that some of their actions may be perceived as right or wrong. Their act takes precedence over any rule or another way to say it, their actions promotes the greatest balance of good vs. bad. Many internet websites track users while online. This practice offends the public, because they view it as an invasion of privacy.
Nonconsequentialist focus their rightness on the individual, not society. An example of this would be an Admiral of the US Navy telling the truth about a design failure in torpedoes. This man used truth over consequences which eventually relieved him of his command.
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Corporate culture can be defined as a set of beliefs, goals, norms, and problem solving methods that employees of an organization share. Corporate culture also involves values and rules that prescribe the behavior for organizational members. Ethical culture reflects whether they have an ethical conscience. Some of the factors in ethical culture include corporate policies on corporate ethics, leadership abilities on top management on ethical issues that influences co-workers and ethical or unethical behavior. The more ethical employees perceive an organizations culture to be, the less likely they are to make unethical decisions. Companies that promote ethical values to enhance the employees experience usually has positive support on the employees commitment to the firm. Obedience to authority is usually why employees resolve ethical issues by simply following their superior. There are two major factors that keep a corporation ethical. Companies produce an ethical climate; whereby, they focus on issues of right and wrong. The ethical climate is the organization’s conscience. Organizations can manage their culture with employees who match their own. Together, the influence of organizational culture and their employees may limit misconduct; however, there are two essential factors to promote a positive organization culture; the board of directors and leaders who have character, integrity, honesty, and value the company’s mission.
A leader is a person with the ability or authority to guide others towards achievement of a goal and has significant impact on ethical decision making, because he/she has the power to motivate others and enforce the organizations rule and impact. Leadership styles of an organization influence how an employee acts. A leader also should have the firm’s vision and values in mind. He should also be concerned about the welfare of the shareholders as well as the employee. Good leaders can promote and achieve positive climate and strong ethical leaders have courage, and knowledge to make decisions that are best in the long run. There are six leadership styles coercive leader, authoritative leader, affiliative leader, democratic leader, pacesetting leader, and coaching leader. Leaders will alternate the style depending on the risk and desire to achieve positive climate. The seven habits of a strong ethical behavior are the following: 1.) strong personal character 2.) Passion to do right. 3.) Proactiveness 4.) Consider stakeholder’s interest. 5.) Good role modeling for organizations values. 6.) transparent and active decision making 7.) taking on a holistic view for the firm’s ethical culture. An example of a good leadership is a man named Robert Nardelli, CEO of Home Depot, who runs the business in a holistic viewpoint. He believes that all stakeholders are important and they all contribute to the success of the company.
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There are two kinds of organizational structures that are important in business ethics, centralized organization and decentralized organization. Centralized organization is what General Motors and Internal Revenue Service use. A decision making authority and responsibility is all top level management. A little authority is delegated to lower levels. Usually centralized organizations are used in routine and efficiency production process. Each worker knows his/her job and has a clear understanding on how to carry out assignments. This kind of organization has formal rules, policies and procedures that are backed to elaborate control systems. In other words, flexibility, adaptability, problem recognition is not emphasized. This kind of structure can lead to unethical acts, because the communication is limited between the employee and top management. A disadvantage to centralized organizations is if there is great risk in the top of the hierarchy that risk may ultimately result in incapacity in leading an organization. The employees will feel less motivated to perform if they cannot share their ideas on how to improve the organization; thereby, becoming more frustrated. This can cause a lack of connectedness, because employees don’t understand the overall ramifications of their behavior. Employees may try to transfer blame for their actions on others who are not guilty. You can have decentralization so that this formula will share decision making and overall this is an advantage. Employees can have impact on improving their productivity and lowering inefficient habits. A decentralized structure will free up time as well. Decentralized areas have one weakness which is opposing points-of-view leading to delays. Decentralized organizations could have too many employees handling whatever needed to be done resulting in overstaffing and loss of revenue.
Do I think a person’s status within an organization creates an opportunity for unethical behavior…my answer is yes. I have done a good deal for research on CEOs and found that because of their power and flexibility in the company they have more advantage than others in providing unethical behavior such as the ponzi schemes that Bernie Madoff and Tom Petters used to promote their financial status at the expense of others. Another example for unethical behavior is the two CEOs, Thain and Fuld Jr., who used their executive power to promote bonuses and wealth for themselves and others in top management. I also believe they prevented the stakeholders from being knowledgeable of the negative financial status that brought their company to bankruptcy. This was called transparency avoidance. I believe it is the CEOs job to promote an ethical climate in their company for employees to follow; however, their unethical imprint has left their company and their stakeholders with mistrust in big corporations. Having said this, I also believe the little man or employee that has less status has room to make their unethical imprint on a company. This is largely due to the work environment in which he works. If his co-workers get by with little white lies or taking shortcuts when they shouldn’t be and it becomes a norm for the environment, then the employees believe they can get away with that sort of thing too. In this case, you have a recycling of unethical behavior that will continue until a manager or supervisor puts a stop to it by relocating or terminating the bad apples. My conclusion to this question is people with power such as top management have more freedom to do unethical behavior if that is what they intend to do; however, every employee can be seen as having potential for unethical acts if the climate is right.
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Organizations which develop an effective ethics program have a a written code of conduct, an ethics officer to oversee the program, careful delegation of authority, formal ethics training, rigorous auditing, monitoring, enforcement and revision of program standards. For example in Argentina, only 26% of CEOs use value system of the founder resulting in the most problems. The code of conduct will not solve all the ethical issues; this is left up to the corporate culture to problem-solve. An ethics program can help avoid legal problems with the Federal Guidelines for organizations. The seven minimum requirements for ethics and compliance are as follows: 1.) standards and procedures, 2.) high-level personnel are responsible for an ethics and compliance program 3.) no substantial discretionary authority given to individuals which do misconduct. 4.) Establishment of systems to monitor, audit, and report misconduct, 5.) standards and procedures communicated effectively via ethics training programs. 6.) consistent enforcement of standards, codes and punishment. 7.) continuous improvement of the ethics and compliance program.
An ethics program can require federal judges to increase fines for companies which tolerate misconduct. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has new requirements for corporate governance to prevent fraudulent behavior. The accounting oversight board establishes financial reporting requirements for instituting a code of conduct. The compliance orientation teaches required conduct while the values orientation sharpens shared values that the corporate culture identifies with.
The code of conduct reports violations, disciplinary action for violations, and structure of the due process. The code of conduct is more akin to the regulatory set of rules and tends to elicit less debate about specific actions. The suggested code of ethic standards that should be included are trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. The support of management, training and distribution are the only ways to have success with these codes of ethics requirements. The people who manage ethics programs are called ethics officers. Ethics officer is a person who has knowledge and experience and helps foster positive ethical values and standards, and assists the leadership and employees of the organization in living up to such standards. They are responsible for assessing the needs or risks, developing and distributing a code of conduct/ethics, conduct training programs, monitoring conduct, taking action on violations, and reviewing and upgrading the code to society standards. They also assist in an organizational culture in which the ‘right thing’ is frequently communicated and reinforced. Their job is to integrate their organization’s ethics and values, compliance, and conduct practices into the everyday decision-making process at all levels of the organization. Ethical officers help organizations see the ethical standards, communicate those standards, integrate into the culture of businesses and hold individuals accountable to those standards. The ethics officer should have direct access to the ultimate leadership of an organization. The ethics officer is the ultimate leader of an organization. In the ideal ethics office structure, the ethics officer would report to the board of an organization with an administrative reporting relationship to a board of directors. High end executives do not have the time to emulate an ethics officer. Two-thirds of ethical officers are full time. Sometimes you want to bring an independent perspective to the culture of the organization. A good ethical officer is a great communicator and a trusted employee who maintains credibility well.
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We live in a global economy. In business today, the companies are expanding branches outside their home countries where there are different cultures, values, laws and ethical standards. Cultural differences can be perceived from country to country such as language, communication, body language, timing of an encounter such as setting time limits for meetings vs. being laid back and not setting any specific time in a length of a meeting and finally the laws of their land.
I guess the ethical question that can be asked for any global business is to which country’s ethical standard should a business adhere to promote their values, ethic standards, and even laws on members of the other culture? Should it be their own values, standards, and laws from which is formed from their own country or should it be with the country which they are doing business? I believe this issue in itself can make it sometimes hard for companies to establish what is right or wrong in the decision making process. There seems to be an universal concept that honesty, charity, virtue, and beneficence. Some companies such as General Motors, Shell Group, Propter and Gamble had agreed to abide by the Global Sullivan Principles; whereby, these principles encourage social responsibility. I will highlight some of the Global Sullivan Principles which are the following: a business will support universal human rights which includes their employees, the community, where they operate, and to whom they do business with; promote equal opportunity at all levels of the company regardless race, gender, age or religious belief, and operate without unacceptable worker treatment such as the exploitation of children, female abuse; physical punishment; provide a safe and healthy work place; promote fair competition that respects intellectual and property rights; and work with government and communities in which they do business in order to improve the quality of life in those communities.
Public companies that operate on a global scale without any one tie to any one nation or region are called multinational corporation (MNC). Examples of some of these companies are include Shell Oil, Ford Motor Company, Nike, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems. The ethical issues arise, because these companies have a lot of financial power and in many countries, power may take precedence over the country’s well being. A good example of the above is a Unocal Oil Corporation, also known as Union 76, that established a natural gas pipeline in Myanmar in Southeast Asia. They were accused by human rights activists who claimed that the company was responsible for forced labor, rapes, and murder that were committed by the soldiers that were assigned to watch the gas pipeline. Unocal’s defense insists that they are not guilty, because they should not be responsible for the deeds of the soldiers; however, the company realized that the soldiers had a role in securing the pipeline. In June 2004, the US Supreme Court filed the Alien Tort Claims Act ruling that foreigners could file lawsuits in US Courts to address human rights abuses overseas. Some other human rights suits pending against multinational companies involve abuses in Colombia, Indonesia, Nigeria with poor human rights records such as sweat shops, unfair pay, etc.
Even when MNCs try to make ethical decisions that achieve their own objectives and try to benefit the countries where they manufacture/market their products, they still can be vulnerable to ethical issues. An example of this is when Ford Motors faced liability, because of the Bridgestone/Firestone “assassin tires” have injured and killed Venezuelans. It caused economic damage and 400 Venezuelans wanted repaid damages. The Venezuelans wanted full reimbursement on any tire made by Bridgestone or Firestone.
In Russia, bribery affects multinational corporations. Corruption is 20% of the country’s grouse domestic product and 80% of businesses are involved with some kind of bribery. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act addresses these issues with the transparency requirements of Securities Exchange Acts and bribery itself. Violators may be disqualified from doing business with the United States government. As a result of FCPA only regulating American businesses, it can put them at a disadvantage in competitive edge of their ladder ranking in the global economy. The best way to avoid FCPA termination is learning and implementing the country’s culture and national laws very well national laws. The World Trade Organization is a regulator for many countries which give a common international law to member states and set policies on social issues like banking (to prevent money laundering), food sanitation, and agriculture requirements and indirectly enforce, ISO14001, an international fossil fuel pollution law with controls and limits. The Omnibus Trade and Competiveness Act enhanced the FCPA so no loopholes remained in the prosecution of bribery. The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development is a treaty that has consequences for offering fake advantages to foreign businesses. However, giving bribes is a legal practice in countries like Mexico, South Africa, Middle East, India, and Pakistan. Bribery is wide spread or normal occurrence in the developing nations such as Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Costa Rica, Bolivia, and Venezuela.
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Today businesses operate in a very complex world; whereby, decisions they make today may have repercussions on changes they need tomorrow. The fact is the world is changing and so are ethical issues. I believe ethical training starts with our youth; where the family and experiences we encounter along the way, provides us with our values; however, our values are only an imprint on us. In the business world, our value imprint takes on another dimension that revolves on ethical standards in the parameter of business. A business ethics program provides a business person with a foundation or decision-making process to identify ethical issues which he/she may face. It also provides the business person with avenues or approaches he/she would take to resolve those issues. In other words, knowledge on ethical issues helps one identify, analyze and resolve ethical issues while promoting ones ethical behavior. An example would be social engineering involving computers. A representative who says he is an outsourced IT repair person and asks for PC specs so he can fix the network problem. The issue taking place here is social engineering; whereby, an attack that relies on deception in order to access a system. The man representing himself as a technician only wants PC specs for unauthorized access to the system. To resolve this situation, the employee must divert the call to the IT center or a simple “no” response would also do the job. Essentially what the employee did for the company was to prevent a breach in business’s computer system and comply with the company’s policy which says any person who performs system analysis must be redirected to the Information Technology employee in order to prevent phishing. This employee also protected the company from losing the customer’s trust which would have a great impact on the company itself.
An ethical business environment needs to have trust established from top management down to every aspect of company’s stakeholders. The company should have a pulsating message which encompasses the concept of integrity and honesty that not only provides the benefits for the company, but also for their stakeholders and society as well. Enforcing a positive ethical culture will do the following: Improve day to day operation, increases employee commitment, promotes investors’ loyalty through dependability, trust and commitment, and lastly it provides a better profitable picture while establishing a relationship with society. Why study Ethics? An important reason is a good ethical program can enable a business person to make a ethical ‘right’ choice instead of an unethical ‘wrong’ choice when confronting an ethical issue and embraces the ideology that the person is responsible for his/her actions which can have an ethical or legal impact on their company as well on how the society views the organization. Another impact on why to study ethics is that it also provides the business person knowledge in order to cope between our personal values and the values of the company.
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A stakeholder is anyone who may have a stake or claim in a company, products, operations, markets, industry and outcome. Stakeholders have the ability to influence a company as well as a company has the capability to influence them. Stakeholders can apply their values and standards to many complex ethical issues such as: 1.) working conditions for example health and safety issues, wage issues, sexual discrimination issues. 2.) Consumer rights and product safety, where there may be an issue with safety and quality of a product; where products are recalled or how a customers complaint is handled; therefore, is there a procedure in answering complaints. 3.) Environmental conservation where the issue could be that the company isn't recycling enough or how they are managing their waste or use of electricity that supplies the company. These issues may directly or indirectly affect individual stakeholder’s own interests. The company has to maintain a continual open relationship with the stakeholders. Stakeholders can provide resources that give weight to a company's long term success. These tangible or intangible resources are as following: supply of capital from shareholders, materials resources or intangible knowledge from suppliers, revenue supplied by the customer who also may supply loyalty and good advertisement for the company, infrastructure that is provided by the community that the company resides in and the media which may promote a positive image for the company. Stakeholders encourage companies to be accountable, transparent and responsible in the company’s day-to-day activities. These interactions between the company and its stakeholders cut both ways. Stakeholders have the ability to withdraw their support or resources and that gives them strength over a business by giving the company negative exposure through media source such as the news, podcast, or withdrawal of financial support.
There are two types of stakeholders that have influence on a company. Primary stakeholders have a direct impact on the viability of a company success which includes the following: employees, customers, investors, government regulatory bodies, community, suppliers, and shareholders. Secondary stakeholders engage with the company indirectly such as special interest groups (GreenPeace, National Labor Union ), trade association (Aerospace Industries Association, Airports Council International - North America, American Society of Travel Agents, Nuclear Energy Institute), media (newpapers, radio, TV), and competitors (Pepsi vs. Coca-Cola, Intel vs. AMD, Microsoft vs. Nintendo)
A company, depending on its size, dictates who they believe is primary vs. secondary. Both primary and secondary stakeholders do have an impact on company’s ethical decision making process. Corporate government
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It should be a requirement for any organization to promote its positive attributes on a stakeholder and to curtail the negative impact. Rather then just thinking and serving the shareholder about profits and delivering profits, I believe businesses today should take a holistic view on how they conduct their businesses. They should also think about the employee, the customer, the supplier and even the environmental activist. The pubic is looking at a company more holistically; whereby, the character and the quality of the leadership provide more of an impact than the business itself. An example of this holistic view is Home Depot which promotes community volunteer work and provides pay supplements to any employee that goes into the military; whereby, any employee who spends time in the service will always have their job waiting for them when they return. Home Depot believes that is an investment and a responsibility to their employees. They also supplied building materials and volunteers to assist rebuilding the area destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. This company strategy involves the board, senior management, and the employees in the company. Their belief system is to give good will to society for it is just the right thing to do. Business ethical concerns should be part of their foundational values and incorporate their business strategy. Most companies have developed formal systems of accountability, oversight and control known as corporate governance. It is a check and balance system that limits employees and mangers opportunities to deviate from policy and strategies and prevent unethical and illegal activates. It provides integrity to the corporate culture. Directors and officers of corporations are both fiduciaries for the shareholders. Their duty is to provide leadership in prudent decisions that prevent unethical conduct not only in themselves and employees of the organization.
There are four levels of social responsibility which are economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic. Economic responsibility is to be profitable so in order to maximize the stake holder’s wealth and value by providing jobs in the community and contributing goods and services for the economy. The next level is legal; whereby, the company establishes compliance to government law and regulations. The third level is ethical where the company follows standards for acceptable behavior as judged by the stakeholder. Finally, the fourth level is philanthropic where the company gives back to society.
Reputation can be the greatest asset to any company in order to sustain a relationship with its investors, consumers, financial analyst, media, and government watchdog groups. Their reputation is created by their actions, choices, and behavior that are consequentially viewed through the stake holder’s eyes and to earn their trust. Oil companies may have a negative view by the public, because of the recent gas hikes that happen in the latter part of 2008. People believed they were ‘price gouging’ the public.
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Ethical intensity is the importance of an ethical issue of the eyes of the individual or workgroup in the organization. It is personal, temporal in character to accommodate values, beliefs, needs, perception of a situation. Senior employees and executives have a major role in resolving ethical issue intensity, because they usually take a stance on ethical issues to control these ethical issues until it’s a nonissue. The importance of this is unless individuals in a company share a common ground about issues. Top management can affect how an individual perceives an ethical issue. This can be done through rewarding or punishing unethical acts. Individual factors include education, age, and locus of control. It may be perceived that the higher education, the better judgment I have. This may be possible; however, I believe it is the exposure to ethical challenging decisions that make one capable of making a better ethical decision. Age can be a factor. How does one expect a younger employee to make a prudent decision without an experience employee’s guidance? Locus of control is either external or internal. It is how one sees himself. External control, the person believes the events of their lives are from uncontrollable forces. In external control these people in this category are the followers. They believe that other situations that luck and chance and powerful people control them. People who use internal control believe their lives are controlled by their own effort and skill and that they influence their environment. The debate is who is more ethical? The followers or the person who forms his/her own destiny. An example is followers who follow the rules and code of conduct. Are they more ethical for decision making? Leadership. The person who forms their own destiny. The Independent. Is it possible that they reinforce the rules of conduct and provide a better decision making policy to enforce ethical standards? Will he/she believe he/she is above it all and believes he/she is entitled to his/her own needs vs. the company. The corporate culture and obedience to authority makes up the organization factors. Corporate culture can be defined as a set of values, beliefs, goals, norms, and a way of solving problems, the members of an organization share. It is the corporate culture of an organization that breeds ethics. It tells its members what the company’s vision, values, and goals are and it incorporates policies and rules for ethical behavior in decision making. It also can be said that significant others or coworkers are the major forces in guiding employees in making either an ethical or unethical decisions or behavior in their day-to-day activities. When an employee sees other employees disrespecting rules or policy by getting away with it; is it possible that the employee will see the unethical display as acceptable? Another example is the environment that displays an ethical code of conduct and employees abiding by the rules and management enforcing these rules. The chances are the employee sees his company as more ethical; therefore, the culture improves the ethical standards and the employee is more compliant to those rules. The examples above also open the doors for opportunity factors. The question that needs to be asked regarding as opportunity is the companies’ top management enforces the company’s policies, rules, and formal codes to the workforce. If the answer is yes then I believe the chances of an employee becoming more ethical are great. Leadership is the answer to ethical conflicts and issues. Leaders need to believe in these vision or goals and they need to believe in their employee’s ethical standing. Leaders needs to be ethical themselves and they need to provide good ethical decision making policies, rules, and formal codes and they are the ones that channel it down through managers, supervisors in order to enforce the codes. They also need to provide knowledge to all employees on what they expect from the employees. They are the enforces of the code. A good example would be an insurance adjuster taking bribes from a company that is breaking environmental codes and the adjuster allows them to do business by covering up evidence that could be harmful like chemical spill. If the knowledge of the insurance adjuster behavior is exposed, his or her company should terminate him, because he exhibit unethical behavior and good leadership should expect employees to abide by the rules.
Good leaders should be transparent and actively involved in all theorganization’s decision making. They should be role models for the organization values. They should have integrity and character in order to be good leaders. As I mentioned earlier in question 2, Home Depot is a good example where leadership has dictated excellent ethical decision making, because their leaders takes on a holistic view and have a passion to do right.
5. Moral philosophies are guidelines to determine how conflicts and human interest is to be settled while optimizing mutual benefits for business people as they form business strategies and resolve ethical issues. It also refers to principles people use to decide what is right and what is wrong. Individuals learn decision making approaches through their cultural and social development. These values are dependent on the ability to think critically and accept responsibility for his/her decision. This includes economic value orientations where the act produces more value than its effort. Idealism is a philosophy that has special values of ideas and ideas are products of mind where it refers to a higher order of existence. Realism is a theory is where a person is always guided by his/her own self interest. This theory believes that actions are self motivated have a tendency towards negative ethical decision making. Ethical decisions are guided in the workplace by the company’s culture and are influenced by others such as co-workers and superiors. People usually don’t think of their moral philosophies when making decisions; however, their moral philosophies can be interchanged depending on if they’re making a decision in their personal life or in their job. Rules, personalities in the job, may promote an individual to change their moral philosophy to what is compatible in the work environment; where moral rights, fairness, justice, and common good come into play. A company’s core values on how it is to make decisions will determine how the individual will use his/her moral philosophy. Most employees don’t have the power to use their personal philosophies, because most of these decisions are formed in the complex work environment. An example of cognitive development is the Kohlberg’s model which explains how people make different decisions in similar ethical situations dependent on the stage of moral development they’re in. The following are the six cognitive moral development stages: 1.) Stage of punishment and obedience. This is the person’s response to rules and labels of good and bad which is dependent on a person who has power. For example, a company that requires employees not to receives gifts from others because of their performance. A person may just deny the gift, because of company rules. Another person may take the gift, because he/she believes he/she can get by with it or there is no consequence. 2.) The stage of individual instrumental purpose and exchange is where a individual makes moral decisions based on fairness to him/her. It is a stage where rules and authority figures are no longer relevant. In the US, bribery is against the law; however, in another country such as Russia, bribery is a commonplace; therefore, an individual who wants to start up a company may believe in order to be successful; he will offer money to a official in order to get there. This may be unethical to United States standards; however, in other countries it is a part of entitlement. 3.) This is the stage of mutual interpersonal expectations, relationships, and conformity. In this stage the individual considers the well being of others; where the fairness to the individuals is one of the ethical motives. An example of this is a manufacturing job such as an auto worker where the middle manager obeys the goals of the company and the controls the work force in a fair way in order to achieve productivity. 4.) For the stage of social system and conscience management, the individual determines what duty to society is right due to his/her by respecting authority and maintaining social order. An example is security personnel monitoring a store via camera. They have a duty to protect the store, but they also have a duty to society in who monitors the dressing rooms. It usually is a female monitoring a female dressing room and a male monitoring a male dressing room. 5.) In the stage of prior rights, social contract or utility, the individual is concern all with upholding the basic rights, values, and legal contracts of society. In this level, the business may promote ethics training for its employees in order to promote good ethical behavior and decision making, thereby, being responsible to society. The final stage is the stage of universal ethical principles which come into play. In this final stage, the individual believes there are inalienable rights which are universal in nature with consequence. A good example of this is Ford making a vehicle called a Pinto in the early 1970s. It had a manufacturing flaw that caused the gas tank to explode in rear-end collisions. This case would argue discontinuing this product, because the public has an inalienable right to life without the fear of injury due to this flaw. In this case, profit doesn’t justify the continuation of manufacturing this vehicle.
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There are two moral philosophies, teleology and deontology that one may use to evaluate activity of his or her ethical actions. Teleology is an act that is morally right if it produces some desired results. The consequentialist is a today's form of teleology which hold “the consequences whereby the end justifies the means.” a particular action that forms a basis for any valid moral judgment for action; whereby, the weight given to the consequences and evaluating the rightness and wrongness of the action.
Egoism is the segment of teleology. Egoists believe that they should make decisions that maximize their own self interest. Their slogan is “Do whatever it takes to help one self.” An excellent example of this is Bernie Madoff with his $50 billion dollar ponzi scheme.
Enlightened egoism is taking a long range prospective and allows for the well being of others although their own self interest remains paramount on the hierarchy tree. This category is where whistle blowers. Some whistle blowers report misconduct to the government regulatory agency in order to make themselves look as if he/she are caring people looking out for their company, when in fact they’re looking for self interest. It’s a double edged sword.
A Utilitarian is also concerned with consequences; however, the utilitarian searches for the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Utilitarian decision making relies on comparison to cost and benefits to all affected parties. A good example of a utilitarian is the animal rights group (PETA). PETA convinced Mobil, Texaco, Pennzoil, Shell and other oil companies to cover their exhaust stacks, after showing how millions birds and bats had become trapped in the shafts and burned to death.
Rule utilitarianism would calculate the costs and benefits in society at large if everyone acted in a particular way. A good example is Ford Motor Company in the 1960s which I mentioned earlier using the cost benefits over safety. They manufactured the Pinto fuel tank knowing it had potential to explode when rear ended. Another example if rule utilitarian is that bribery is wrong where under no conditions would bribery be accepted even if that means a lost of jobs. The act utilitarian uses a specific action itself rather then the general rules governing it, in order to assess the greatest utility. Here, in this example, an act utilitarian would agree that bribery is wrong, but only under certain circumstances. Like I mentioned before, bribery in Russia is a commonplace. Some businesses would be comfortable using the bribery in order to establish their business there or to survive in that society.
Deontology refers to moral philosophies that focuses on the rights of individuals and on the intentions associated with a particular behavior rather than on its consequences. Rule deontologists believe that rules dominate decision making; so his/her team is just as important. Rule deontology is to carry out the duty according to the rules created even if the conclusion is wrong. Act deontologists believe that rules are useless from particular experiences and that that deciding on particular situations as they show up is best. Act deontology requires a person to use equality, fairness and impartiality when making decisions. They believe rules are only guidelines; whereby, past experience weighs more than rules when making decisions. They also are well aware that some of their actions may be perceived as right or wrong. Their act takes precedence over any rule or another way to say it, their actions promotes the greatest balance of good vs. bad. Many internet websites track users while online. This practice offends the public, because they view it as an invasion of privacy.
Nonconsequentialist focus their rightness on the individual, not society. An example of this would be an Admiral of the US Navy telling the truth about a design failure in torpedoes. This man used truth over consequences which eventually relieved him of his command.
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Corporate culture can be defined as a set of beliefs, goals, norms, and problem solving methods that employees of an organization share. Corporate culture also involves values and rules that prescribe the behavior for organizational members. Ethical culture reflects whether they have an ethical conscience. Some of the factors in ethical culture include corporate policies on corporate ethics, leadership abilities on top management on ethical issues that influences co-workers and ethical or unethical behavior. The more ethical employees perceive an organizations culture to be, the less likely they are to make unethical decisions. Companies that promote ethical values to enhance the employees experience usually has positive support on the employees commitment to the firm. Obedience to authority is usually why employees resolve ethical issues by simply following their superior. There are two major factors that keep a corporation ethical. Companies produce an ethical climate; whereby, they focus on issues of right and wrong. The ethical climate is the organization’s conscience. Organizations can manage their culture with employees who match their own. Together, the influence of organizational culture and their employees may limit misconduct; however, there are two essential factors to promote a positive organization culture; the board of directors and leaders who have character, integrity, honesty, and value the company’s mission.
A leader is a person with the ability or authority to guide others towards achievement of a goal and has significant impact on ethical decision making, because he/she has the power to motivate others and enforce the organizations rule and impact. Leadership styles of an organization influence how an employee acts. A leader also should have the firm’s vision and values in mind. He should also be concerned about the welfare of the shareholders as well as the employee. Good leaders can promote and achieve positive climate and strong ethical leaders have courage, and knowledge to make decisions that are best in the long run. There are six leadership styles coercive leader, authoritative leader, affiliative leader, democratic leader, pacesetting leader, and coaching leader. Leaders will alternate the style depending on the risk and desire to achieve positive climate. The seven habits of a strong ethical behavior are the following: 1.) strong personal character 2.) Passion to do right. 3.) Proactiveness 4.) Consider stakeholder’s interest. 5.) Good role modeling for organizations values. 6.) transparent and active decision making 7.) taking on a holistic view for the firm’s ethical culture. An example of a good leadership is a man named Robert Nardelli, CEO of Home Depot, who runs the business in a holistic viewpoint. He believes that all stakeholders are important and they all contribute to the success of the company.
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There are two kinds of organizational structures that are important in business ethics, centralized organization and decentralized organization. Centralized organization is what General Motors and Internal Revenue Service use. A decision making authority and responsibility is all top level management. A little authority is delegated to lower levels. Usually centralized organizations are used in routine and efficiency production process. Each worker knows his/her job and has a clear understanding on how to carry out assignments. This kind of organization has formal rules, policies and procedures that are backed to elaborate control systems. In other words, flexibility, adaptability, problem recognition is not emphasized. This kind of structure can lead to unethical acts, because the communication is limited between the employee and top management. A disadvantage to centralized organizations is if there is great risk in the top of the hierarchy that risk may ultimately result in incapacity in leading an organization. The employees will feel less motivated to perform if they cannot share their ideas on how to improve the organization; thereby, becoming more frustrated. This can cause a lack of connectedness, because employees don’t understand the overall ramifications of their behavior. Employees may try to transfer blame for their actions on others who are not guilty. You can have decentralization so that this formula will share decision making and overall this is an advantage. Employees can have impact on improving their productivity and lowering inefficient habits. A decentralized structure will free up time as well. Decentralized areas have one weakness which is opposing points-of-view leading to delays. Decentralized organizations could have too many employees handling whatever needed to be done resulting in overstaffing and loss of revenue.
Do I think a person’s status within an organization creates an opportunity for unethical behavior…my answer is yes. I have done a good deal for research on CEOs and found that because of their power and flexibility in the company they have more advantage than others in providing unethical behavior such as the ponzi schemes that Bernie Madoff and Tom Petters used to promote their financial status at the expense of others. Another example for unethical behavior is the two CEOs, Thain and Fuld Jr., who used their executive power to promote bonuses and wealth for themselves and others in top management. I also believe they prevented the stakeholders from being knowledgeable of the negative financial status that brought their company to bankruptcy. This was called transparency avoidance. I believe it is the CEOs job to promote an ethical climate in their company for employees to follow; however, their unethical imprint has left their company and their stakeholders with mistrust in big corporations. Having said this, I also believe the little man or employee that has less status has room to make their unethical imprint on a company. This is largely due to the work environment in which he works. If his co-workers get by with little white lies or taking shortcuts when they shouldn’t be and it becomes a norm for the environment, then the employees believe they can get away with that sort of thing too. In this case, you have a recycling of unethical behavior that will continue until a manager or supervisor puts a stop to it by relocating or terminating the bad apples. My conclusion to this question is people with power such as top management have more freedom to do unethical behavior if that is what they intend to do; however, every employee can be seen as having potential for unethical acts if the climate is right.
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Organizations which develop an effective ethics program have a a written code of conduct, an ethics officer to oversee the program, careful delegation of authority, formal ethics training, rigorous auditing, monitoring, enforcement and revision of program standards. For example in Argentina, only 26% of CEOs use value system of the founder resulting in the most problems. The code of conduct will not solve all the ethical issues; this is left up to the corporate culture to problem-solve. An ethics program can help avoid legal problems with the Federal Guidelines for organizations. The seven minimum requirements for ethics and compliance are as follows: 1.) standards and procedures, 2.) high-level personnel are responsible for an ethics and compliance program 3.) no substantial discretionary authority given to individuals which do misconduct. 4.) Establishment of systems to monitor, audit, and report misconduct, 5.) standards and procedures communicated effectively via ethics training programs. 6.) consistent enforcement of standards, codes and punishment. 7.) continuous improvement of the ethics and compliance program.
An ethics program can require federal judges to increase fines for companies which tolerate misconduct. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has new requirements for corporate governance to prevent fraudulent behavior. The accounting oversight board establishes financial reporting requirements for instituting a code of conduct. The compliance orientation teaches required conduct while the values orientation sharpens shared values that the corporate culture identifies with.
The code of conduct reports violations, disciplinary action for violations, and structure of the due process. The code of conduct is more akin to the regulatory set of rules and tends to elicit less debate about specific actions. The suggested code of ethic standards that should be included are trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. The support of management, training and distribution are the only ways to have success with these codes of ethics requirements. The people who manage ethics programs are called ethics officers. Ethics officer is a person who has knowledge and experience and helps foster positive ethical values and standards, and assists the leadership and employees of the organization in living up to such standards. They are responsible for assessing the needs or risks, developing and distributing a code of conduct/ethics, conduct training programs, monitoring conduct, taking action on violations, and reviewing and upgrading the code to society standards. They also assist in an organizational culture in which the ‘right thing’ is frequently communicated and reinforced. Their job is to integrate their organization’s ethics and values, compliance, and conduct practices into the everyday decision-making process at all levels of the organization. Ethical officers help organizations see the ethical standards, communicate those standards, integrate into the culture of businesses and hold individuals accountable to those standards. The ethics officer should have direct access to the ultimate leadership of an organization. The ethics officer is the ultimate leader of an organization. In the ideal ethics office structure, the ethics officer would report to the board of an organization with an administrative reporting relationship to a board of directors. High end executives do not have the time to emulate an ethics officer. Two-thirds of ethical officers are full time. Sometimes you want to bring an independent perspective to the culture of the organization. A good ethical officer is a great communicator and a trusted employee who maintains credibility well.
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We live in a global economy. In business today, the companies are expanding branches outside their home countries where there are different cultures, values, laws and ethical standards. Cultural differences can be perceived from country to country such as language, communication, body language, timing of an encounter such as setting time limits for meetings vs. being laid back and not setting any specific time in a length of a meeting and finally the laws of their land.
I guess the ethical question that can be asked for any global business is to which country’s ethical standard should a business adhere to promote their values, ethic standards, and even laws on members of the other culture? Should it be their own values, standards, and laws from which is formed from their own country or should it be with the country which they are doing business? I believe this issue in itself can make it sometimes hard for companies to establish what is right or wrong in the decision making process. There seems to be an universal concept that honesty, charity, virtue, and beneficence. Some companies such as General Motors, Shell Group, Propter and Gamble had agreed to abide by the Global Sullivan Principles; whereby, these principles encourage social responsibility. I will highlight some of the Global Sullivan Principles which are the following: a business will support universal human rights which includes their employees, the community, where they operate, and to whom they do business with; promote equal opportunity at all levels of the company regardless race, gender, age or religious belief, and operate without unacceptable worker treatment such as the exploitation of children, female abuse; physical punishment; provide a safe and healthy work place; promote fair competition that respects intellectual and property rights; and work with government and communities in which they do business in order to improve the quality of life in those communities.
Public companies that operate on a global scale without any one tie to any one nation or region are called multinational corporation (MNC). Examples of some of these companies are include Shell Oil, Ford Motor Company, Nike, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems. The ethical issues arise, because these companies have a lot of financial power and in many countries, power may take precedence over the country’s well being. A good example of the above is a Unocal Oil Corporation, also known as Union 76, that established a natural gas pipeline in Myanmar in Southeast Asia. They were accused by human rights activists who claimed that the company was responsible for forced labor, rapes, and murder that were committed by the soldiers that were assigned to watch the gas pipeline. Unocal’s defense insists that they are not guilty, because they should not be responsible for the deeds of the soldiers; however, the company realized that the soldiers had a role in securing the pipeline. In June 2004, the US Supreme Court filed the Alien Tort Claims Act ruling that foreigners could file lawsuits in US Courts to address human rights abuses overseas. Some other human rights suits pending against multinational companies involve abuses in Colombia, Indonesia, Nigeria with poor human rights records such as sweat shops, unfair pay, etc.
Even when MNCs try to make ethical decisions that achieve their own objectives and try to benefit the countries where they manufacture/market their products, they still can be vulnerable to ethical issues. An example of this is when Ford Motors faced liability, because of the Bridgestone/Firestone “assassin tires” have injured and killed Venezuelans. It caused economic damage and 400 Venezuelans wanted repaid damages. The Venezuelans wanted full reimbursement on any tire made by Bridgestone or Firestone.
In Russia, bribery affects multinational corporations. Corruption is 20% of the country’s grouse domestic product and 80% of businesses are involved with some kind of bribery. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act addresses these issues with the transparency requirements of Securities Exchange Acts and bribery itself. Violators may be disqualified from doing business with the United States government. As a result of FCPA only regulating American businesses, it can put them at a disadvantage in competitive edge of their ladder ranking in the global economy. The best way to avoid FCPA termination is learning and implementing the country’s culture and national laws very well national laws. The World Trade Organization is a regulator for many countries which give a common international law to member states and set policies on social issues like banking (to prevent money laundering), food sanitation, and agriculture requirements and indirectly enforce, ISO14001, an international fossil fuel pollution law with controls and limits. The Omnibus Trade and Competiveness Act enhanced the FCPA so no loopholes remained in the prosecution of bribery. The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development is a treaty that has consequences for offering fake advantages to foreign businesses. However, giving bribes is a legal practice in countries like Mexico, South Africa, Middle East, India, and Pakistan. Bribery is wide spread or normal occurrence in the developing nations such as Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Costa Rica, Bolivia, and Venezuela.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
3 stages of Antigravity fields.
The most primitive antigravity technology is electrogravitic. This involves using voltages in the millions of volts to disrupt the ambient gravitational field. This results in an 89% reduction in gravity’s hold on airframes in such vehicles as the B-2 Stealth Bomber and the TR3-B Astra triangular craft. And given the considerable ambient ionization field I observed around the X-22A, it is reasonable to assume that extreme-voltage electrogravitics is also employed with these craft.
The next level up of sophistication is magnetogravitic. This involves generating high-energy toroidal fields spun at incredible rpm’s, which also disrupts the ambient gravitational field, indeed to the extent that a counterforce to Earth’s gravitational pull is generated. The early British aeronautical engineers called this dynamic counterbary. This may have been used in some earlier American saucers and prototypes, but I have only been told that the secret Nautilus spacefaring craft uses magnetic pulsing , which appears to utilize this technology.
The third level of sophistication, that used in the more modern American antigravity craft, is direct generation and harnessing of the gravitational strong force. Such a strong-force field extends slightly beyond the atomic nucleus of Element 115, an exotic element donated by Star Visitor scientist-consultants to human scientists at S-4, a secret base south of Area 51. By amplifying that exposed gravitational strong force, and using antimatter reactor high energy, and then directing it, it is possible to lift a craft from the Earth and then change directions by vectoring the shaped antigravity force field thus generated. Important information about this third technology is available on Bob Lazar’s website. (1) This information is also described on the Bob Lazar video. Lazar worked on extraterrestrial technology at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Area 51’s Site S-4. (2)
The next level up of sophistication is magnetogravitic. This involves generating high-energy toroidal fields spun at incredible rpm’s, which also disrupts the ambient gravitational field, indeed to the extent that a counterforce to Earth’s gravitational pull is generated. The early British aeronautical engineers called this dynamic counterbary. This may have been used in some earlier American saucers and prototypes, but I have only been told that the secret Nautilus spacefaring craft uses magnetic pulsing , which appears to utilize this technology.
The third level of sophistication, that used in the more modern American antigravity craft, is direct generation and harnessing of the gravitational strong force. Such a strong-force field extends slightly beyond the atomic nucleus of Element 115, an exotic element donated by Star Visitor scientist-consultants to human scientists at S-4, a secret base south of Area 51. By amplifying that exposed gravitational strong force, and using antimatter reactor high energy, and then directing it, it is possible to lift a craft from the Earth and then change directions by vectoring the shaped antigravity force field thus generated. Important information about this third technology is available on Bob Lazar’s website. (1) This information is also described on the Bob Lazar video. Lazar worked on extraterrestrial technology at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Area 51’s Site S-4. (2)
Monday, April 20, 2009
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
TR3-B 'Astra'
The TR3-B 'Astra' is a large triangular anti-gravity craft within the U.S. fleet. Black projects defense industry insider Edgar Rothschild Fouche wrote about the existence of the TR3-B in his book, Alien Rapture.
The TR3-B does not depend solely or principally on its hydrogen-oxygen rockets. It is a highly reduced-gravity aerospace craft manufactured in secret "black programs" by Humans. The antigravity field produced reduces the vehicles weight by about 90% so that very little thrust is required to either keep it aloft or to propel it at Mach 9 speeds, or higher.
The TR-3B vehicle's outer coating is electro-chemical reactive and changes with electrical RF Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This is also the first US vehicle to use quasi-crystals in the vehicle's skin. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder - or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations.
A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology. Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin, and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption [reduction of almost all of the pull of gravity and effects of inertia].
The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth's gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. The current MFD in the TR-3B causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light, and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed - except, of course, those back-engineered total-antigravity craft which the government does not admit exist. To see the 13 known antigravity craft of US manufacture
The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesn't take much propulsion to maintain altitude.
With the vehicle mass reduced by 89% the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%. The crew of the TR-3B should be able to comfortable take up to 40Gs.
The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet - then who knows how fast it can go!
The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen/oxygen propulsion. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell.
Could it be something more exotic? of course, something far more refined than mercury vapor at hundreds of thousands of atmospheres of pressure spinning at ridiculous speeds? yes.
Something like harnessing energy from the vacuum, complete localized control of gravity and intertia?
The bigger question is how could they keep this a secret for so long? for some answers and compelling thought on this question see the video below which discusses UFO’s and the national security state, how extensively important the deepest parts of the government consider this technology and the UFO issue to be despite their continued denial of being interested or having any knowledge at all, all the while having perfected gravity control since 1955 or 56.
NOTE: In 1965 the NSA had Computers with a clock speed of 650mhz, computer technology of that level was not available commercially until 2000, 35yrs later!
NOTE: Some key aspects of Maxwell’s Equations were wrong! Video Below
If this is true as it seems to be, a good deal of the physics people use to discredit the possibility of these technologies may be rendered invalid!
This is Richard Dolan Speaking on the U.S. Government’s Secret Space Program and mentions specifically the craft in this article
The TR-3B is Code named Astra. The
tactical reconnaissance TR-3B first operational flight was in the early
90s. The triangular shaped nuclear powered aerospace platform was
developed under the Top Secret, Aurora Program with SDI and black budget
monies. At least 3 of the billion dollar plus TR-3Bs were flying by
1994. The Aurora is the most classified aerospace development program in
existence. The TR-3B is the most exotic vehicle created by the Aurora
Program. It is funded and operationally tasked by the National
Reconnaissance Office, the NSA, and the CIA. The TR-3B flying triangle
is not fiction and was built with technology available in the mid 80s.
Not every UFO spotted is one of theirs.
This Video goes the operational
details accessed from many sources, although the ARV (alien
reproduction vehicle) is the main subject of this video it is also most
likely highly relative to the TR-3B.
The TR-3B vehicles outer coating is reactive to electrical Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder–or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations. A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology.
Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The government will go to any lengths to protect this technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption. The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent.
Do not misunderstand. This is not antigravity. Anti-gravity provides a repulsive force that can be used for propulsion. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth’s gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. This causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed–except, of course, those UFOs we did not build.
The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesnt take much propulsion to maintain altitude. At Groom Lake their have been whispered rumours of a new element that acts as a catalyst to the plasma. With the vehicle mass reduced by 89%, the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%.
The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet–then God knows how fast it can go! The 3 multimode rocket engines mounted under each corner of the craft use hydrogen or methane and oxygen as a propellent.
In a liquid oxygen/hydrogen rocket system, 85% of the propellent mass is oxygen. The nuclear thermal rocket engine uses a hydrogen propellent, augmented with oxygen for additional thrust. The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can; operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen\ oxygen propulsion.
What you have to remember is, that the 3 rocket engines only have to propel 11 percent of the mass of the Top Secret TR-3B. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell. Many sightings of triangular UFOs are not alien vehicles but the top secret TR-3B. The NSA, NRO, CIA, and USAF have been playing a shell game with aircraft nomenclature – creating the TR-3, modified to the TR-3A, the TR-3B, and the Teir 2, 3, and 4, with suffixes like Plus or Minus added on to confuse further the fact that each of these designators is a different aircraft and not the same aerospace vehicle. A TR-3B is as different from a TR-3A as a banana is from a grape. Some of these vehicles are manned and others are unmanned.
The TR3-B does not depend solely or principally on its hydrogen-oxygen rockets. It is a highly reduced-gravity aerospace craft manufactured in secret "black programs" by Humans. The antigravity field produced reduces the vehicles weight by about 90% so that very little thrust is required to either keep it aloft or to propel it at Mach 9 speeds, or higher.
The TR-3B vehicle's outer coating is electro-chemical reactive and changes with electrical RF Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This is also the first US vehicle to use quasi-crystals in the vehicle's skin. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder - or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations.
A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology. Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin, and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption [reduction of almost all of the pull of gravity and effects of inertia].
The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth's gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. The current MFD in the TR-3B causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light, and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed - except, of course, those back-engineered total-antigravity craft which the government does not admit exist. To see the 13 known antigravity craft of US manufacture
The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesn't take much propulsion to maintain altitude.
With the vehicle mass reduced by 89% the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%. The crew of the TR-3B should be able to comfortable take up to 40Gs.
The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet - then who knows how fast it can go!
The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen/oxygen propulsion. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell.
A friend said, he would never forget the
sight of the alien looking TR-3B based at Papoose. The pitch black,
triangular shaped TR-3B was rarely mentioned–and then, only in hushed
whispers–at the Groom Lake facility where he worked. The craft had flown
over the Groom Lake runway in complete silence and magically stopped
above Area S-4. It hovered silently in the same position, for some 10
minutes, before gently settling vertically to the tarmac. At times a
corona of silver blue light glowed around the circumference of the
massive TR-3B. The operational model is 600 feet across.
Ok, admittedly the physics discussed in the video above is just
speculation, speculation based on “Known” physics, primarily inside the
box.Could it be something more exotic? of course, something far more refined than mercury vapor at hundreds of thousands of atmospheres of pressure spinning at ridiculous speeds? yes.
Something like harnessing energy from the vacuum, complete localized control of gravity and intertia?
The bigger question is how could they keep this a secret for so long? for some answers and compelling thought on this question see the video below which discusses UFO’s and the national security state, how extensively important the deepest parts of the government consider this technology and the UFO issue to be despite their continued denial of being interested or having any knowledge at all, all the while having perfected gravity control since 1955 or 56.
NOTE: In 1965 the NSA had Computers with a clock speed of 650mhz, computer technology of that level was not available commercially until 2000, 35yrs later!
NOTE: Some key aspects of Maxwell’s Equations were wrong! Video Below
If this is true as it seems to be, a good deal of the physics people use to discredit the possibility of these technologies may be rendered invalid!
The TR-3B vehicles outer coating is reactive to electrical Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder–or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations. A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology.
Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The government will go to any lengths to protect this technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption. The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent.
Do not misunderstand. This is not antigravity. Anti-gravity provides a repulsive force that can be used for propulsion. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth’s gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. This causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed–except, of course, those UFOs we did not build.
The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesnt take much propulsion to maintain altitude. At Groom Lake their have been whispered rumours of a new element that acts as a catalyst to the plasma. With the vehicle mass reduced by 89%, the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%.
The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet–then God knows how fast it can go! The 3 multimode rocket engines mounted under each corner of the craft use hydrogen or methane and oxygen as a propellent.
In a liquid oxygen/hydrogen rocket system, 85% of the propellent mass is oxygen. The nuclear thermal rocket engine uses a hydrogen propellent, augmented with oxygen for additional thrust. The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can; operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen\ oxygen propulsion.
What you have to remember is, that the 3 rocket engines only have to propel 11 percent of the mass of the Top Secret TR-3B. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell. Many sightings of triangular UFOs are not alien vehicles but the top secret TR-3B. The NSA, NRO, CIA, and USAF have been playing a shell game with aircraft nomenclature – creating the TR-3, modified to the TR-3A, the TR-3B, and the Teir 2, 3, and 4, with suffixes like Plus or Minus added on to confuse further the fact that each of these designators is a different aircraft and not the same aerospace vehicle. A TR-3B is as different from a TR-3A as a banana is from a grape. Some of these vehicles are manned and others are unmanned.
TR3-B 'Astra'
9) the TR3-B 'Astra' is a large triangular anti-gravity craft within the U.S. fleet. Black projects defense industry insider Edgar Rothschild Fouche wrote about the existence of the TR3-B in his book, Alien Rapture.
The TR3-B does not depend solely or principally on its hydrogen-oxygen rockets. It is a highly reduced-gravity aerospace craft manufactured in secret "black programs" by Humans. The antigravity field produced reduces the vehicles weight by about 90% so that very little thrust is required to either keep it aloft or to propel it at Mach 9 speeds, or higher.
The TR-3B vehicle's outer coating is electro-chemical reactive and changes with electrical RF Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This is also the first US vehicle to use quasi-crystals in the vehicle's skin. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder - or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations.
A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology. Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin, and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption [reduction of almost all of the pull of gravity and effects of inertia].
The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth's gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. The current MFD in the TR-3B causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light, and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed - except, of course, those back-engineered total-antigravity craft which the government does not admit exist. To see the 13 known antigravity craft of US manufacture
The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesn't take much propulsion to maintain altitude.
With the vehicle mass reduced by 89% the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%. The crew of the TR-3B should be able to comfortable take up to 40Gs.
The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet - then who knows how fast it can go!
The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen/oxygen propulsion. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell.
The TR3-B does not depend solely or principally on its hydrogen-oxygen rockets. It is a highly reduced-gravity aerospace craft manufactured in secret "black programs" by Humans. The antigravity field produced reduces the vehicles weight by about 90% so that very little thrust is required to either keep it aloft or to propel it at Mach 9 speeds, or higher.
The TR-3B vehicle's outer coating is electro-chemical reactive and changes with electrical RF Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This is also the first US vehicle to use quasi-crystals in the vehicle's skin. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder - or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations.
A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology. Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin, and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption [reduction of almost all of the pull of gravity and effects of inertia].
The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth's gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. The current MFD in the TR-3B causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light, and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed - except, of course, those back-engineered total-antigravity craft which the government does not admit exist. To see the 13 known antigravity craft of US manufacture
The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesn't take much propulsion to maintain altitude.
With the vehicle mass reduced by 89% the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%. The crew of the TR-3B should be able to comfortable take up to 40Gs.
The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet - then who knows how fast it can go!
The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen/oxygen propulsion. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell.
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Greatest Movies of all time
1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. 12 Angry Men (1957)
7. Schindler's List (1993)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
9. The Dark Knight (2008)
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
11. Inception (2010)
12. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
13. Seven Samurai (1954)
14. Fight Club (1999)
15. Goodfellas (1990)
16. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
17. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
18. City of God (2002)
19. Casablanca (1942)
20. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
21. The Matrix (1999)
22. Rear Window (1954)
23. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
24. The Usual Suspects (1995)
25. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
26. Psycho (1960)
27. Se7en (1995)
28. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
29. Forrest Gump (1994)
30. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
31. Memento (2000)
32. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
33. Leon: The Professional (1994)
34. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
35. Apocalypse Now (1979)
36. American History X (1998)
37. Toy Story 3 (2010)
38. North by Northwest (1959)
39. Citizen Kane (1941)
40. American Beauty (1999)
41. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
42. Taxi Driver (1976)
43. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
44. Alien (1979)
45. Spirited Away (2001)
46. Vertigo (1958)
47. Amélie (2001)
48. The Shining (1980)
49. City Lights (1931)
50. Paths of Glory (1957)
51. The Pianist (2002)
52. WALL•E (2008)
53. M (1931)
54. Double Indemnity (1944)
55. The Lives of Others (2006)
56. The Departed (2006)
57. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
58. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
59. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
60. Aliens (1986)
61. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
62. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
63. Das Boot (1981)
64. Modern Times (1936)
65. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
66. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
67. The Third Man (1949)
68. Back to the Future (1985)
69. L.A. Confidential (1997)
70. Chinatown (1974)
71. The Prestige (2006)
72. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
73. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
74. The Green Mile (1999)
75. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
76. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
77. Raging Bull (1980)
78. Rashomon (1950)
79. Amadeus (1984)
80. Some Like It Hot (1959)
81. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
82. The Great Dictator (1940)
83. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
84. All About Eve (1950)
85. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
86. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
87. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
88. Gladiator (2000)
89. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
90. Braveheart (1995)
91. The Apartment (1960)
92. Metropolis (1927)
93. Oldboy (2003)
94. Downfall (2004)
95. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
96. Unforgiven (1992)
97. The Sting (1973)
98. The Elephant Man (1980)
99. Gran Torino (2008)
100. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
101. Up (2009)
102. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
103. Princess Mononoke (1997)
104. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
105. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
106. On the Waterfront (1954)
107. Rebecca (1940)
108. Die Hard (1988)
109. The Great Escape (1963)
110. The Seventh Seal (1957)
111. Sin City (2005)
112. Black Swan (2010)
113. Batman Begins (2005)
114. Drive (2011)
115. Yojimbo (1961)
116. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
117. Heat (1995)
118. Fargo (1996)
119. Blade Runner (1982)
120. The General (1926)
121. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
122. The Lion King (1994)
123. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
124. The King's Speech (2010)
125. Snatch. (2000)
126. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
127. Jaws (1975)
128. Ran (1985)
129. No Country for Old Men (2007)
130. Wild Strawberries (1957)
131. Touch of Evil (1958)
132. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
133. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
134. The Big Lebowski (1998)
135. The Deer Hunter (1978)
136. The Sixth Sense (1999)
137. Toy Story (1995)
138. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
139. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
140. Annie Hall (1977)
141. Strangers on a Train (1951)
142. It Happened One Night (1934)
143. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
144. Platoon (1986)
145. Donnie Darko (2001)
146. High Noon (1952)
147. Scarface (1983)
148. Into the Wild (2007)
149. Trainspotting (1996)
150. The Gold Rush (1925)
151. Ikiru (1952)
152. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
153. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
154. There Will Be Blood (2007)
155. Gone with the Wind (1939)
156. Notorious (1946)
157. The Kid (1921)
158. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
159. The Wages of Fear (1953)
160. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
161. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
162. District 9 (2009)
163. Amores Perros (2000)
164. Groundhog Day (1993)
165. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
166. Ben-Hur (1959)
167. Life of Brian (1979)
168. The Graduate (1967)
169. Casino (1995)
170. The Big Sleep (1946)
171. The Terminator (1984)
172. Finding Nemo (2003)
173. The Thing (1982)
174. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
175. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
176. Stand by Me (1986)
177. Diabolique (1955)
178. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
179. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
180. V for Vendetta (2006)
181. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
182. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
183. The Wrestler (2008)
184. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
185. Gandhi (1982)
186. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
187. Good Will Hunting (1997)
188. Network (1976)
189. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
190. 8½ (1963)
191. Avatar (2009)
192. Ratatouille (2007)
193. The 400 Blows (1959)
194. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
195. The Princess Bride (1987)
196. Mary and Max (2009)
197. The Killing (1956)
198. The Hustler (1961)
199. Dial M for Murder (1954)
200. Star Trek (2009)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. 12 Angry Men (1957)
7. Schindler's List (1993)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
9. The Dark Knight (2008)
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
11. Inception (2010)
12. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
13. Seven Samurai (1954)
14. Fight Club (1999)
15. Goodfellas (1990)
16. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
17. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
18. City of God (2002)
19. Casablanca (1942)
20. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
21. The Matrix (1999)
22. Rear Window (1954)
23. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
24. The Usual Suspects (1995)
25. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
26. Psycho (1960)
27. Se7en (1995)
28. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
29. Forrest Gump (1994)
30. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
31. Memento (2000)
32. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
33. Leon: The Professional (1994)
34. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
35. Apocalypse Now (1979)
36. American History X (1998)
37. Toy Story 3 (2010)
38. North by Northwest (1959)
39. Citizen Kane (1941)
40. American Beauty (1999)
41. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
42. Taxi Driver (1976)
43. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
44. Alien (1979)
45. Spirited Away (2001)
46. Vertigo (1958)
47. Amélie (2001)
48. The Shining (1980)
49. City Lights (1931)
50. Paths of Glory (1957)
51. The Pianist (2002)
52. WALL•E (2008)
53. M (1931)
54. Double Indemnity (1944)
55. The Lives of Others (2006)
56. The Departed (2006)
57. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
58. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
59. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
60. Aliens (1986)
61. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
62. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
63. Das Boot (1981)
64. Modern Times (1936)
65. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
66. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
67. The Third Man (1949)
68. Back to the Future (1985)
69. L.A. Confidential (1997)
70. Chinatown (1974)
71. The Prestige (2006)
72. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
73. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
74. The Green Mile (1999)
75. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
76. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
77. Raging Bull (1980)
78. Rashomon (1950)
79. Amadeus (1984)
80. Some Like It Hot (1959)
81. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
82. The Great Dictator (1940)
83. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
84. All About Eve (1950)
85. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
86. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
87. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
88. Gladiator (2000)
89. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
90. Braveheart (1995)
91. The Apartment (1960)
92. Metropolis (1927)
93. Oldboy (2003)
94. Downfall (2004)
95. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
96. Unforgiven (1992)
97. The Sting (1973)
98. The Elephant Man (1980)
99. Gran Torino (2008)
100. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
101. Up (2009)
102. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
103. Princess Mononoke (1997)
104. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
105. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
106. On the Waterfront (1954)
107. Rebecca (1940)
108. Die Hard (1988)
109. The Great Escape (1963)
110. The Seventh Seal (1957)
111. Sin City (2005)
112. Black Swan (2010)
113. Batman Begins (2005)
114. Drive (2011)
115. Yojimbo (1961)
116. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
117. Heat (1995)
118. Fargo (1996)
119. Blade Runner (1982)
120. The General (1926)
121. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
122. The Lion King (1994)
123. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
124. The King's Speech (2010)
125. Snatch. (2000)
126. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
127. Jaws (1975)
128. Ran (1985)
129. No Country for Old Men (2007)
130. Wild Strawberries (1957)
131. Touch of Evil (1958)
132. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
133. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
134. The Big Lebowski (1998)
135. The Deer Hunter (1978)
136. The Sixth Sense (1999)
137. Toy Story (1995)
138. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
139. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
140. Annie Hall (1977)
141. Strangers on a Train (1951)
142. It Happened One Night (1934)
143. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
144. Platoon (1986)
145. Donnie Darko (2001)
146. High Noon (1952)
147. Scarface (1983)
148. Into the Wild (2007)
149. Trainspotting (1996)
150. The Gold Rush (1925)
151. Ikiru (1952)
152. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
153. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
154. There Will Be Blood (2007)
155. Gone with the Wind (1939)
156. Notorious (1946)
157. The Kid (1921)
158. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
159. The Wages of Fear (1953)
160. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
161. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
162. District 9 (2009)
163. Amores Perros (2000)
164. Groundhog Day (1993)
165. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
166. Ben-Hur (1959)
167. Life of Brian (1979)
168. The Graduate (1967)
169. Casino (1995)
170. The Big Sleep (1946)
171. The Terminator (1984)
172. Finding Nemo (2003)
173. The Thing (1982)
174. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
175. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
176. Stand by Me (1986)
177. Diabolique (1955)
178. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
179. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
180. V for Vendetta (2006)
181. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
182. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
183. The Wrestler (2008)
184. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
185. Gandhi (1982)
186. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
187. Good Will Hunting (1997)
188. Network (1976)
189. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
190. 8½ (1963)
191. Avatar (2009)
192. Ratatouille (2007)
193. The 400 Blows (1959)
194. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
195. The Princess Bride (1987)
196. Mary and Max (2009)
197. The Killing (1956)
198. The Hustler (1961)
199. Dial M for Murder (1954)
200. Star Trek (2009)
Friday, April 10, 2009
SHMUPS
I downloaded some Saturn SHMUPS after playing Radiant Silvergun including Donpachi, Dodonpachi, Soukyugurenta (Terra Diver in United States), and Battle Garegga off Megaupload. Track 5 of Battle Garegga is great. You can play these games in your CD Player, because they're red book WAV! I have it 'modded' for open region play. The best looking one is Radiant silvergun, but Soukygurenta comes in 2nd. DoDoPachi comes in 3rd place graphically. It's old school! I wanted to play more after Gradius V and R-type Final, because they're all pretty good.
Soukyugurenta story line
After exhausting the Earth's resources, particularly fossil fuel, innumerable trade companies team up with NASA and begin initiating space programs dedicated to finding resources outside the planet Earth. Mining facilities are established in different areas outside of Earth, particularly on large asteroids near the Moon and most especially on Mars. Various resources are found from these areas and distributed to Earth which aid in the world economy. The largest company that is established from this is the Jin-Sei (Exhausting Star) Corporation set in Japan which is worth 1 trillion in New Yen investments, founded by the Miama family.
However, after years of space resource distribution, the separate companies started initiating attacks that would dominate other company's resources. Coupled with this, eco-terrorism was on the rise as out-spoken ecosystem protectionism groups opposed the company's outsourcing of materials. The strongest of these attacks started on Martian colonies established by the second largest company on Earth, Eight Luck Interstellar Development Inc. which banded with smaller companies across Earth including ones in China, England and America. Eight Luck planned on claiming Mars for its own so as to monopolize on the outsourcing of minerals as well as developing terra-formed areas.
In response to these attacks, the Jin-Sei formed a union with the JSDF (known in the future as JDF) and began working on a space fighter program organized by the Defensive Section 2 of the JDF known as the Red Lotus Team (SOQ for short) which utilized a unique laser technology fighting system known as NALS (Non-blind spot All range Laser System) in combat.
Comprised of the best fighters adapted to this combat system as well as innumerable stamina strengthening tests for space travel, the SOQ are sent in to defend company territory from rival companies on Earth and space at all costs.
PS3 or xbox 360 desperately need a SHMUP anthology including:
Radiant Silvergun
Ikaruga
Mars Matrix
Raiden I
Raiden II
Raiden III
Gradius III
Gradius IV
Gradius V
R-Type Delta
R-Types
R-Type Final
Silpheed - The Lost Planet
Zaniac X Zaniac
Einhinder
Pulstar
Blazing Star
Thunder Force III
Lightning Force
Thunder Force for SNES
Thunder Force V
Aero Fighters
Aero Fighters II
Aero Fighters III
Battle Balkraid
Zero Gunner II
Hyper Duel
Raystorm
Ray Crisis
Castle of Shikigami 2
Castle of Shikigami 3
Psyvariar
Psyvariar II: The will to Fabricate
Shienryu
Shienryu II
Dodonpachi
Soukyugurenta (Terra Diver in United States)
Battle Garegga
Ibara
battlegaregga
border down
donpochi
dodonpochi
soukyugurenta
espgaluda
mushihime-sama
Found the first one on Megaupload. Latest version of PCSX2 running on WinVista.
Gigawing Generations (3rd game in series)
Gunbird 1 and 2.
Psvariar 2: Ultimate Final
RAIDEN III
Ibara (PS2)
^ Yes I downloaded it~ Don't ask. ;P
Soukyugurenta story line
After exhausting the Earth's resources, particularly fossil fuel, innumerable trade companies team up with NASA and begin initiating space programs dedicated to finding resources outside the planet Earth. Mining facilities are established in different areas outside of Earth, particularly on large asteroids near the Moon and most especially on Mars. Various resources are found from these areas and distributed to Earth which aid in the world economy. The largest company that is established from this is the Jin-Sei (Exhausting Star) Corporation set in Japan which is worth 1 trillion in New Yen investments, founded by the Miama family.
However, after years of space resource distribution, the separate companies started initiating attacks that would dominate other company's resources. Coupled with this, eco-terrorism was on the rise as out-spoken ecosystem protectionism groups opposed the company's outsourcing of materials. The strongest of these attacks started on Martian colonies established by the second largest company on Earth, Eight Luck Interstellar Development Inc. which banded with smaller companies across Earth including ones in China, England and America. Eight Luck planned on claiming Mars for its own so as to monopolize on the outsourcing of minerals as well as developing terra-formed areas.
In response to these attacks, the Jin-Sei formed a union with the JSDF (known in the future as JDF) and began working on a space fighter program organized by the Defensive Section 2 of the JDF known as the Red Lotus Team (SOQ for short) which utilized a unique laser technology fighting system known as NALS (Non-blind spot All range Laser System) in combat.
Comprised of the best fighters adapted to this combat system as well as innumerable stamina strengthening tests for space travel, the SOQ are sent in to defend company territory from rival companies on Earth and space at all costs.
PS3 or xbox 360 desperately need a SHMUP anthology including:
Radiant Silvergun
Ikaruga
Mars Matrix
Raiden I
Raiden II
Raiden III
Gradius III
Gradius IV
Gradius V
R-Type Delta
R-Types
R-Type Final
Silpheed - The Lost Planet
Zaniac X Zaniac
Einhinder
Pulstar
Blazing Star
Thunder Force III
Lightning Force
Thunder Force for SNES
Thunder Force V
Aero Fighters
Aero Fighters II
Aero Fighters III
Battle Balkraid
Zero Gunner II
Hyper Duel
Raystorm
Ray Crisis
Castle of Shikigami 2
Castle of Shikigami 3
Psyvariar
Psyvariar II: The will to Fabricate
Shienryu
Shienryu II
Dodonpachi
Soukyugurenta (Terra Diver in United States)
Battle Garegga
Ibara
battlegaregga
border down
donpochi
dodonpochi
soukyugurenta
espgaluda
mushihime-sama
Found the first one on Megaupload. Latest version of PCSX2 running on WinVista.
Gigawing Generations (3rd game in series)
Gunbird 1 and 2.
Psvariar 2: Ultimate Final
RAIDEN III
Ibara (PS2)
^ Yes I downloaded it~ Don't ask. ;P
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Neo Geo games I've played
Neo Geo games I Played
by DarthLefein on December 6, 2011 0 Comments
Dec 6 2011
- King of Fighters 94
- King of Fighters 95
- King of Fighters 96
- King of Fighters 97
- King of Fighters 98
- King of Fighters 99
- King of Fighters 2000
- King of Fighters 2001
- Blazing Star (Best game)
- Pulstar
- Metal Slug
- Metal Slug 2
- Metal Slug 3
- Metal Slug 4
- Metal Slug 5
- Metal Slug X
- Fatal Fury 2
- Fatal Fury Special
- Last Resort
- Last Blade
- Aero Fighters
- Aero Fighters 2
- Aero Fighters 3
- Garou: Mark of the Wolves
All stored on the Caanoo! Kind of a bragging rights. Who has a Neo Geo or even heard of it? Nobody! My point.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/neo/916385-neo-geo/reviews/review-74110
Monday, April 06, 2009
Tea Party Grows
Seattle on Monday. Denver on Tuesday. Mesa AZ on Wednesday. Overland Park, Kansas today. What a week, huh? We got the anti-stimulus, anti-entitlement protest ball rolling — and now the movement, spurred further by CNBC host Rick Santelli’s call for a “Chicago Tea Party,” is really taking off.
David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily has a nice piece out today spotlighting the growing taxpayer revolt the rest of the MSM won’t cover. He interviewed our registered commenters Liberty Belle Keli Carender, who spearheaded the Seattle anti-pork protest, and HuskerGirl Amanda Grosserode, who organized today’s anti-stimulus demonstration against Democrat Rep. Dennis Moore in Overland Park, KS.
I’m happy to report on several new protest events now on the docket.
My friend Michael Patrick Leahy of Top Conservatives on Twitter and his crew are spearheading “simultaneous local tea parties around the country, beginning in Chicago, and including Washington DC, Fayetteville NC, San Diego CA, Omaha Nebraska, and dozens of other locations” for next Friday.
Time: February 27, 2009 from 12pm to 1pm
Location: Chicago, Washington DC, other cities, Twitter
Go to OfficialChicagoTeaParty.com for all the info.
Co-sponsors of the events with #TCOT include #DONTGO, Smart Girl Politics, Americans for Tax Reform, Heartland Institute, and American Spectator Magazine. The tea parties will be “simultweeted” with the hashtag #teaparty. You can find me tweeting here.
There’s a Facebook page here for the DC Tea Party. I hear that PJTV will also be stepping up to the plate.
If you are in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, reader Mark Christopher Frimmel has come forward to put a Tea Party ‘09 event together. He put up an ad on Dallas Craigslist, has contacted local radio and TV, and wants you to be there. The protest will be held on the outside stage at The Cowtown Bar & Grill on Friday, Feb. 27, from 3pm to 7pm, located at 7108 Camp Bowie Blvd Fort Worth, TX. Music, food, and great fiscal conservative company guaranteed.
Are you in Georgia? Reader Patrick e-mails that he’s “getting a tax protest off the ground in Atlanta. I’d appreciate it if you’d pass on the word. The blog is http://atlantataxprotest.blogspot.com.” He needs your help. Calling Neal Boortz!
Here’s a snippet from Hogberg’s IBD piece to get your motors running:
As unemployment soars and anger over Wall Street bailouts mounts, public outrage will seek an outlet. Populism could go in many directions — and could easily ebb when the economy revives. But if it takes shape as an anti-spending movement, it could revive conservatives much as the 1970s tax protests did.
To be sure, the protest sizes so far are a far cry from the left’s anti-globalization and anti-war demonstrations of the past decade. But they appear to have grass-roots origins. The organizer of the Kansas protest, Amanda Grosserode, calls herself a home-schooling mom who is “fed up” with the spending in Washington. She has been a member of Fair Tax Kansas City since last fall.
“My husband and I were feeling frustrated that the stimulus had passed with very little debate and no one had read it,” she told IBD. “I said, ‘We need to do something.’ ” She began contacting family and friends, and eventually received attention via Fair Tax Kansas City and local talk radio.
Grosserode received considerably more publicity after e-mailing popular conservative commentator and blogger Michelle Malkin.
“I think the taxpayer revolt is the new counterculture,” said Malkin, who has been publicizing the protests on her blog. “People want to stand up and say, ‘Hey, I’m paying for that, I do not support that.’ “
Brendan Steinhauser has a terrific set of detailed tips on how to organize your own tea party protest.
Don’t wait for someone else to do it.
Don’t make excuses.
Don’t think you can pull one off because you’ve never done it before? Look at mom-bloggers Liberty Belle and HuskerGirl.
Yes, you can!
***
I’ve put together a playlist of tunes for Tea Party USA — and several parodies submitted by commenters and readers. Bailoutmania is apparently bringing out the songwriters in you, too.
My favorite Schoolhouse Rock Tea Party song, “No More Kings:”
And check out my second Schoolhouse Rock classic, rewritten by the fabulous Jim Treacher and Batton Lash: How a “stimulus” bill became law.
George of EU Rota reminds me of the perfect Spinal Tap song for the cult of entitlement, “Gimme Some Money:”
Royce Dunbar produced “The Subprime Mortgage Blues.”
Reader L.C. e-mails:
I made this up as I watch[ed] the ridiculous, sad, terrifying vote on the Stimulus Package! Thanks for your good work on covering it all!
Sing to “American Pie”
A long, long time ago…
we can still remember
How Ronald Regan made us smile.
And we knew if we had a chance
we could make those Democrats dance
And, surely we’d be happy for a while.But this February should makes us shiver
With every promise Nancy delivers.
Bad stimulus on the doorstep;
We shouldn’t take one more step.We will remember when we cried
As we read Harry’s big fat lies,
But something is foul deep inside
The day responsibility died.So bye-bye, to our kids piece of the pie.
Obama Drives us to the brink,
will leave us all high and dry.
Coburn and the boys were tryin’ all they could think
Singin’, “You’re making our economy die.
you’ve taken our kid’s piece of the pie.”Can we still trust in our gov,
We will need our faith in God above,
If we want to make them go.
Do we believe in principles,
Can we be saved from those liberals,
And can Mitch and John keep their troops in tow?Well, the Unions are in love with them
`cause they read the same liberal hymm.
They change all the rules.
Now we got those stimulus blues.We’ll end up lonely and without a buck
Just a Green job and a hybrid truck,
Right now, we are out of luck
The day responsibility died.We started singing,
“bye-bye, our kid’s piece of the pie.”
Obama drives us to the brink,
will leave us all be high and dry.
Coburn and the boys trying all they could think
singing “You’re making our economy die.
you’ve taken our kid’s piece of the pie.”
Now for two months we’ve been on our own
Ried, Nancy and Obama have clearly shown,
Their way is how it’s gonna be.
They’re jesters, jokes and drama queens,
Throwin’ cash around like they’re seventeen
Not listening to the voice of you and me,
And while they read a book of Marx,
We praise Friedman in the dark
The day responsiblity died.We were singing,
“bye-bye, our kids’ piece of the pie.”
Obama drives us to the brink,
will leave us high and dry.
Coburn and the boys were tryin’ all they could think
singin, ” You’re making our economy die.
you’ve taken our kid’s piece of the pie.”But we can not sign the blues
We will work for happy news,
Freedom is 21 months away.
We must go to the roof and shout “no more,”
Like we did 15 years before,
It is time to put an end to the Lib’s day.For today believers in responsibility screamed,
Conservatives cried, But we still will dream.
Loud words must be spoken;
“Our Liberal government is broken.”
And three men to whom we could turn:
Pawlenty, Jindal and Coburn,
From their leadership we can surely learn.Today, responsibility died.
‘Til then we will be singing:
“bye-bye, our kid’s piece of the pie.”
Obama drives us to the brink,
will leave us all be high and dry.
Coburn and the boys were trying all they could think
singing “You’re making our economy die.
you’ve taken our kid’s piece of the pie.”
From mm.com commenter Mark x, sung to the tune of Janis Joplin:
Oh Barry, wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So lord, wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?Oh Mr. President, wont you buy me a color tv ?
Dialing for dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Barry, wont you buy me a color tv ?Oh Messiah, wont you buy me a night on the town ?
Im counting on you, Messiah, please dont let me down.
Prove that you love me and buy the next round,
Oh Messiah, wont you buy me a night on the town ?
Reader Barry e-mails:
I wrote this parody of “Dixie” to protest the socialistic programs hidden in the stimulus bill…
NIX-FREE VS. FIX-ME LAND
I wish I was in the land of bought ‘n’
Sold; times there were not so rotten.
Congress say, no delay, take away Nix-free land.
In Nix-free land that I was born in,
Clearly I was not forlorn in,
Made my way, saved my pay, had a say, Nix-free land.Chorus:
Now I wish I was in Nix-free like yesterday!
In Nix-free land I took my stand to live and vie in Nix-free.
Could pray or stray with wayward mouth un-P.C.
If they hold sway, they’ll stay my mouth from D.C.Obama’s massive bill was eager;
Billions cost but jobs were meager.
Cooked entree books flambe, took away Nix-free land.
Just try to get your arms around it;
Miles of paper haven’t yet bound it.
Ev’ry way, give-away, to create Fix-me land. (Chorus)Our bucks he takes and brings to scatter;
Makes you mad but it doesn’t matter.
Took away, won’t repay, it’s new day, Fix-me land.
Then slow it down and hatch your babble;
To Nix-free land we’ll rouse the rabble,
For the range of the change makes a strange Fix-me land. (Chorus)
And here’s Woody Guthrie’s remake of Tom Paxton’s “I am changing my name to Chrysler,” which he updated to “I am changing my name to Fannie Mae.”
Oh the price of gold is rising out of sight
And the dollar is in sorry shape tonight
What the dollar used to get us now won’t buy a head of lettuce
No the economic forecast isn’t right
But amidst the clouds I spot a shining ray
I can even glimpse a new and better way
And I’ve devised a plan of action worked it down to the last fraction
And I’m going into action here todayCHORUS:
I am changing my name to Fannie Mae
I am going down to Washington D.C.
I’ll be glad they got my back
‘Cause what they did for Freddie Mac
Will be perfectly acceptable to me
I am changing my name to Fannie Mae
I am headed for that great receiving line
So when they hand a trillion grand out
I’ll be standing with my hand out
I’ll get mineWhen my creditors are screaming for their dough
I’ll be proud to tell them all where they can go
They won’t have to scream and holler
They’ll be paid to the last dollar
Where the endless streams of money seem to flow
I’ll be glad to tell them all what they can do
It’s a matter of a simple form or two
It’s not just remuneration it’s a liberal education
Ain’t you kind of glad that I’m in debt to youChorus
Since the first amphibians crawled out of the slime (of the slime!)
We’ve been struggling in an unrelenting climb
We were hardly up and walking before money started talking
And it’s sad that failure is an awful crime
It’s been that way for a millennium or two
But now it seems that there’s a different point of view
If you’re a corporate titanic and your failure is gigantic
Down in Congress there’s a safety net for youChorus
Rock on.
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