Some men, faint-hearted, ever seek Our programme to retouch, And will insist, whene’er they speak That we demand too much. ’Tis passing strange, yet I declare Such statements give me mirth, For our demands most moderate are, We only want the earth.
“Be moderate,” the trimmers cry, Who dread the tyrants’ thunder. “You ask too much and people By From you aghast in wonder.” ’Tis passing strange, for I declare Such statements give me mirth, For our demands most moderate are, We only want the earth.
Our masters all a godly crew, Whose hearts throb for the poor, Their sympathies assure us, too, If our demands were fewer. Most generous souls! But please observe, What they enjoy from birth Is all we ever had the nerve To ask, that is, the earth.
The “labour fakir” full of guile, Base doctrine ever preaches, And whilst he bleeds the rank and file Tame moderation teaches. Yet, in despite, we’ll see the day When, with sword in its girth, Labour shall march in war array To realize its own, the earth.
For labour long, with sighs and tears, To its oppressors knelt. But never yet, to aught save fears, Did the heart of tyrant melt. We need not kneel, our cause no dearth Of loyal soldiers’ needs And our victorious rallying cry Shall be we want the earth!
does anyone know what the following phenomenon is called (other than growing old).
Brian b.1969 Time conciousness
I think of 1969 - 1978 as an eternity not 10 years I think of 1979 - 1988 as half an eternity I think of 1989 - 1999 as quarter eternity about 10 years i think of 1999 - 2011 as about about 5 years it has whizzed by so fast.
The younger I was the slower time ticked. The older I get the faster it goes. A week now seems like 2 days. Here I compare what is 7 days on the calendar to a time period I think it is, 7 full days & nights against what it actually seemed, 2 days, I got little done and my in tray grew in height and my to do list grew even though I did things... but I did so many things .. I don't see them as a series of events but a motion blur.
How much of this is email / IT / pace of the world (stop I want to get of the merry-go-round) How much is this due to growing old and wasting time when I was young when I could have been doing more. :)
Its my personal concept of time past & time present. But at this rate in a few years a week will be a day, a year will be a season and I will have lots to do and no f'ing time left to do it.
Its the weekend, more and more work impacts my weekend and I am not a shift worker. I take Fridays off office duty to do a radio show. This week I did a day at home to avoid travel and I did 1 day out of the office. Which means I did 2 office days and next week I play catch up on top of dealing with all of next weeks new issues as they arise.
At the moment I am doing some overdue credit control and some large outstanding payments are over 12 months due. I think this is an unusual situation but to think of it in terms of time, I think 13 months to be chasing payment is a long time but it seems like the work was only done a few months back (it wasn't).
Should I be trying to alter this concept of time, slow things down? coz I sure can't imagine that speeding things up will help my situation. I have read that as we get older our brain function switches from fast at learning to deeper understanding. I would have to agree, but pitted against the law of accelerating returns / Moore's law etc. and this human brain getting older I think I should have a planned exit from the arms race that is the global thermonuclear war information overload merry-go-round, I would rather that exit, than be thrown off the merry-go-round to a crash landing.
What will be my exit - from this rat race
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height, down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
8 years ago I left NTL. Why? because they applied and were granted by the ODRT / ComReg two massive price hikes with in a year that were self justified to roll out digital services in analogue Ireland.
My basic take on it at the time and since was, if people want digital then charge them for it. DO NOT CHARGE the analogue customers (100% of base 8 years ago) >100% more in fees for a service the company can't afford to roll out with its own profits.
8 years later my home is still not NTL (now UPC). But neither is my area digital. UPC seem to sweep through communities in a very uneven way.
Does ComReg know that they are very sporadic in neighbourhood roll out? What is their record of rolling out fibre to younger more upwardly mobile estates while passing through a post code and leaving older (pre 1970 build) working class estates behind in a deliberate digital divide?
Fibre broadband trumps >2mile from exchange copper broadband by a factor of about 20-100 Mbps.
Was granting a commercial organisation these large increases in regulated fees a wise move if they are cherry picking areas based on Age or Class? I think this highlights the fear that a privatised CableLink could and most likely would cherry pick the market.
My area was due for upgrade Jan 2011. This got shelved and now there is no date on offer to upgrade the first soviet of pensionsville on the Northside of Dublin.
Terrestrial analogue TV signal closedown is less than 1 year away (October 24th 2012). What shall become of analogue cable areas? will upgrading be completed by then? why is it so slow? Haven't all the customers of UPC been funding this for years? Will the minister for communications direct the players involved to not create a digital apartheid in the urban & suburban cities where the phrase 'he who pays the piper calls the tune' rings a bit untrue as the piper was paid (albeit not with my stake-holding) for a service the piper has yet to provide.
