No.2: On doing 'Business' Online (continued) !

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The online world is as cosmopolitan as it will ever be. Globalization has pretty well peaked. To save money and stay within budgetary restraints many of us little pisher folk, including the large companies, continue to seek more affordable off-shore talent to aid us in bringing our projects to fruition. 

This ought to be a well-functioning marriage, but often, including in my case, it turns in to a societal dichotomy of purposes!

I share with you my North-American Western experience with a purportedly awesome East Indian web-development Company.  
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Hello Chennai, India: 

I have come to realize that since we are all different, motivated by our own circumstances and hardships, we tenaciously hold on to whatever is important to us as individuals. 

As an elder's last stand to make a difference to my society, for many years now I searched for a project whose TIMING was right!  Although I feel I found that with the gocascadia.com website, ! have additionally experienced that life on the purported ONLINE FAST LANE is actually strife with its own - at times nefarious - needs to slow the process DOWN ! 

If professional Marketing would indeed function as self-promoted perfect, based on its promises, all should be completed efficiently and early, with results $$$$ potential intake garnered are ultimately held at a minimum! 

This is in reality contradictory to, and by FACT, defeating the purpose of life! 

I have eluded many a time now to the potentials of down-the-road work for (Name Withheld), when - after having been presented with a professionally acceptable site - my Marketing strategy should bring many Communities on board, with in turn their various needs for, and, hence, your participation therein with additional website creation.

Since it has taken us some 14 months to get to this stage, with my paying you some $4,500 CAD, I can only surmise you are milking me best you are able! Or is it instead your combined talent being incapable of rendering me what is ultimately professionally acceptable? 

Ready to quit, I have been up and down with you numerous times now. Had I more financial capacity, I would clearly have moved on! I am not speaking of acceptable ins and outs of trying various items that over time require adjustment. These are all acceptable with a larger project such as ours. 

My fears are now based on the actual solid efforts of your in-house talents! 

Items that worked fine before are presently breaking down!  

I repeat what I have learned to trust:
"Coding either works 100% perfectly, or it doesn't! 

There is NO ROOM FOR ERROR!"

Our demise is definitely imminent, but, to show good faith, please bill me for another 10 hours.

 Sincerely,

Jan Steen   

NO.1 On Doing 'BUSINESS' ON-line!

From VIEWS @ 23694 on legal matters,  to a new CHAPTER! 

The full realization of Canadian Marshall McLuhan's 1960's prediction of the Global Village is presently hot and heavy in is aftermath. Having gone full rounds with multiple Eastern Countries, importing their once upon-a-TIME cheaply laboured goods, the West is slowly coming to its senses.

Although disgraceful sweat-shops continue to exist, much of life in the East is in far better shape now. With the introduction of the Internet, and most all the world having access to online service, much of Industry and work-space is intelligently shifting from saturated down-town city-clog, to more home-based industries. I am on to it, working anxiously to being a part of it.

Go Cascadia here we come.... ??!!

Like British resident and global observer George Monbiot suggesting we start 'Suing for Survival',  with some status quo judges promising responses to annihilate some gargantuan projects, these, as I interpret and agree are potentially positive changes!
We must begin looking inwards again! And though we are all guilty of a certain amount of hypocrisy  (me on this machine; me driving a Smart Car; me...ETC.)

We must STOP looking to others for easy survival: we must STOP the insane distant tanker and freighter traffic! And look to re-discover our insides, and relearn to make existence function from within our immediate community. ....

Yeah, all well and good you'll say, but were will I buy my figs and Bananas? Well, Okay! A couple of banana freighters allowed.  There are ground-swells afoot of individuals expressing themselves by becoming home-grown entrepreneurs. All this is aiding the move towards greater self-sufficiency and less reliance on long distant distribution.

GoCascadia.com here we come!

However, that said, there's other distant niches been created, that are now questionably in-our-face.
Doing 'BUSINESS' on line runs strife with 'WHO ARE YOU ACTUALLY DEALING WITH?'
Representatives of the resources required to integrate into your online completion may be folk hired from far a field - many do not have English as their mother tongue. Individuals who mean well, but live a day ahead of you, and often in dire straights. So while working on re-interpreting the tactile world, the intangible wanne-rear-its-online cobra-head is nibbling at us!

The Internet phenomena, while serving you at nano-second speed, when touching base to do business with those who 'SERVE' and accommodate the nets allowances, can be painstakingly SLOOOOOW!

Succinct and clear communication runs secondary to keeping you on their payroll!
Wherever she/he is located, LORD knows, paying the rent, means tenaciously holding on to a client, with all the prescribed rhetoric at their disposal. "We are so sorry! We will fix this. Check it now! You like? Is better now, OK?"

There's the rub - a dichotomy between a speedy, yet often hugely in-efficient world. Is it a mere FLASH in the pants .... this quasi affordable, distant and foreign intangible High-Tech battle between man's Innovation and practically doable sensibilities?
 
Growing up in the back-to-the-land world of the sixties and seventies, I have come to experience that unless you have plenty of bucks to hire your locals at their voluptuous rates, plus have the additional luxury of sitting it out with them face-to-face, you are a mere pawn in their proverbial chess match!

Though multiple up-front online promos tout "We are the VERY BEST at what we do!" and try suck you in with clarion efficiency, once on board, most probably the honeymoon proves to be short-lived indeed! The online ethic is to haul you in, withdraw your money, and keep at it.

Trust and Honesty, whatever little we had of it, have flown the coop!They CAN NOT be afforded.

It brings me all back to my line:

"At the foundation of a society runs its legal system. When it is corrupt, so will be all its other departments!"

BOOHOO!

 

318. Every SUBSTANCE has its own property presence!

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GUESS I FOOLED YOU!  Did not mean to do this, but, overwhelmed by a - for me somewhat fresh thought - felt motivated to put this down to share....

Every substance has its molecular representation; whether a materially solid Counter-Top or Trash-Can, a Human thought or attitudinal idiosyncratic behaviour, all have their own essence of expression in the realm of 'being.'  It comprises limitless existence by creating its own INFINITE realities!

I continue to be in awe of our differences. Each exists, best able to function, during the TIME  allotted in the 'Here and Now.' Unlike Plastic, Counter Tops, or other myriad more-firm materials, Human-Beings, created over time to become a questioning and 'clever' species, are made of more vulnerable flesh and blood.

Regardless our innovative, more complicated and often clever appearing manipulations, multiple more basic elements whose structures are more set and simple - unless challenged with an opposing element - our Human consistency renders us more vulnerable during our existence.

Unpredictable and CURIOUS* by nature, our niche is one of the few biological expressions that by  questioning existence, positions us in a classification of 'entities' to dare disturb the otherwise natural unfolding evolution.

However, with that opinion, we are clearly PART OF EVOLUTION?! - GOD, or NO GOD!
While our foot-print is effecting the atmosphere, The MYSTERY UNFOLDS.....:)>

May connect in 2020!
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* curious |ˈkyo͝orēəs| 
adjective1 eager to know or learn something. 

317. COMING TO A CLOSE...

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Can you figure an eighty year old?  
Life is a onetime allowance! Do with it best you are able!
I have decided to shut this down, cause I realize I am primarily talking to MYSELF! 

Though it has served as a certain release, it has mostly been a one-way rhetoric. And, while appreciating the 'readership,'  it is no longer sufficing!
I now seek more immediate feedback with a platform that allows for personal interaction. 

I began this 'blog' hoping to share my experiences with others. It never happened! 
That said, I am not sure WHERE I will sojourn to find this allowance, but, my number 317 entry, may well be my last post here!   

Wherever you are? Thank you for your anonymous beings.... Russia? North America... et  all ....Aurevoir!

Evert JAN Steen

PS: Still you can follow my 'hands-on' travels in my online efforts with a website I feel can make a difference:  go-cascadia.com  

316. When cunning DEMOCRATICALLY TRAINED manipulators grab your attention....

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The following is a throw back; apologies to former readers/ I just could not help myself! 

On being in a SUPREME court as an SRL in a well-established Democracy..... (several years ago)
When cunning DEMOCRATICALLY TRAINED, LEGALLY positioned manipulators, representing a purportedly 'JUST' society,  grabbed my attention and spat me out like so much fodder!.....

Below is quoted text (with my inserts) from an article written by a British Columbia, Canada, young Defence Counsel, who sat in a Supreme Court session representing the Ministry of 'Justice,' with myself as SRL, and a Supreme Court Judge overseeing my CLAIM, employed by the self-same institution.

I was holding the Province responsible for one of their Provincial Judges earlier erroneous dismissals, of a perfectly legitimate Claim I had filed, based on using the Province's allowable secondary 'OR' Rule of filing a Claim against an extra provincial party.  

This Ministry of Justice's employee and representative (Defence Council) in an earlier article had written the following:

"I believe that, for the most part, the law emanates from the life that we give to it. Sometimes, however, I also believe that the law breathes with a life of its own in order to serve a purpose higher than what we may be prepared for. In these cases, there is always a tension between what the law is trying to tell us and how we interpret this message to suit our purposes in the moment. "

Picking out the following sentence: "the law breathes with a life of its own in order to serve a purpose higher than what we may be prepared for."

OH YES, I agreed: the law DEFINITELY breathes with a life of its own! 

"in order to serve a purpose higher than what we may be prepared for."

Here, this lawyer, and Ministry of Justice Defence Counsel's employee, as a learned legal entity, segues into his own legally tainted nomans-land. With his usage of the words 'purpose higher'... 

Our Democratic Courts have indeed been cunningly designed! Like impressive Theatres, Judges are positioned at the high triangle, looking down on us plebeians they are about to shred; and when required  - in black Robes. The purpose 'higher' is played out like a second to GOD scenario.  

....the defence council's wrap up phrase: "than what we may be prepared for."  
With his added: "there is always a tension between what the law is trying to tell us and how we interpret this message to suit our purposes in the moment." 

What the "law is trying to tell us," is that it, ITSELF, is up for interpretation. The law, as expressed by those who implement it, is, in fact there to "SUIT OUR PURPOSES IN THE MOMENT." 
     The Court has cleverly determined legalese, construed in ENGLISH verbiage, it tends to leave the general public baffled by its actual meaning! Still, this is what is taught the Law student. You may not understand it NOW, but THIS IS the rhetoric of 'LEGAL SPEAK' IN COURT! ... It is, in truth, TWISTED DOUBLE SPEAK!

I.E: 'WE', those employed in this purported 'Democracy,'  ARE HERE TO BAFFLE you, the claimant CLIENT, with our learned legal rhetoric! WE ARE ULTIMATELY SUPERIOR, SINCE WE KNOW the LAW!  THAT"S what WE, or our government, paid for, to be taught to do! This, in every legitimate way, got us our diplomas from University!  

Hallelujah this Demo has surely gone CRAZY!  Democracy is a fallacy! 

I apologize for this reaching back at lunacy.... Maybe our recent Canadian voting forced me to look back..... who  knows....  

BOOHOO to all its REALITY silliness ..... 
PS: additional apologies for the awkward visuals, showing my own text, as if it were the Defence Council's ...... Such are the idiosyncratic software allowances.  There is no perfection (unless of-course it's my own failings! ....Go figure...
PS: The looks of this page is NOT WHAT UPLOADS. ... Free, but wanting software I guess....  

315. Life is still a TRIP @ 80 !

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Is Mankind essentially gone awry as an unstoppable wayward invasive species? 

It is clear that Nature allows room for 'being,' when an existing hybrid or new off-shoot species discovers an uninhabited niche. Only TIME will then tell whether it manages to fully fill the space, or find an early demise, based on its incapacity to fend off immediate competitors.

So, each of us 'humans,' is allowed a passage of TIME in our various environments as living creatures on this planet earth... to configure how best to cope and express ourselves within our given parameters. As such, our habitat and circumstance ultimately dictate what is tolerated and achievable.

In many less liberal societies, chaos ensues when upcoming generations of insistent youth demand more freedom of expression to exist and be wholesome in their representation.

Since chaos creates mayhem, to maintain a certain balanced order, most societies are strictly defined. In the West these characteristics continue to be interpreted by a Conservative - RIGHT and its  usually younger and challenging  Liberal - LEFT 'wing'.
Much of the East and South America, being less 'Liberal' in its allowances, tend to resort to brute FORCE in its controls.

Somehow, after a rough early going, I am fortunate to have managed to end up owning several acres of undulating treed rocks on a small Island in British Columbia. I recognize my TIME in History: 1939 - > (?) > (presently 2019). I  KNOW that I have lived most of my years in a comparatively sparsely inhabited, geographically large, and quasi Democratic country; a country known as 'Canada'.

However, now at 80, and having put to rest a fair number of younger partners, friends and acquaintances, I continue to appreciate my TRIP in this LIFE - as we know it as Earthlings.
I continue to be curious; continue to appreciate by being positive; though knowing we are all creating our foot-print, I continue to seek ways to contribute to our environment, in my inimitable ways.

Likely TIME - ahead of my generation - will tell the ultimate toll we have created on this, our Mother Gaya Earth!

Still, as explained by experts, I have learned this (our) PLANET has gone through many earth-shattering changes before!
So, allow ME then not to feel so personally GUILTY, if I, as a representative of my abusive Species managed to make enough of a difference to drive this EARTH into another one of its many drastic changes.      

Under the circumstances, as a 21st Century Human, I continue to try my very best at 'being' as conscientious as I can! .... And YES!.... I am on a Mac here; and YES, I still use electricity (Last bill? at $0.69 cents Per Day!) and yes I drive my Smart Car!  

HAPPY THANKS GIVING from this WESTERN located Octo-pushing Genarian.

314. Is Less > More!

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On being Self-Absorbed!  
long time - no see Zero followers...

Affecting multitudes of other species negatively, while creating mayhem all around itself, mankind appears to be the most rapidly evolving species. Like an invasive run a way train -  it is on a rampage.

Many years ago a former friend opined: "We are a failed species." I responded: "I don't think Mother Nature works that way." When a species, or hybrid, detects a potential niche, they'll check it out.  And if it can adapt to its defined circumstances, happenstance and TIME will allow it duration. Compare our couple of hundred thousand year fresh faces to the 70+ million years of the dinosaurs! WOAH!

Consider me, at 80 beans, blinkers on, determined to complete my interactive website, with continued intentions on making a positive difference (whatever the concept?). As a still 'failed' entrepreneur (failed to the extent none of my ideas ever made ME any 'money') I am dead set on completing my Go-Cascadia.com.

Frugally living in the woods on a basic $1,400 a month pension. How did I 'deserve' this (?)
I afford some $500 CAD monthly to my cause of 'making it happen.' Thank you for that part of living in an elderly caring Canadian Democracy.

But when URBAN reality speaks,  $1400 a month barely covers rent. Whereas in India it would be an all-around living wage for a seasoned Coder.  Where their DEV costs are set @ circa $10 USD an hour, here, in North America  that same qualified Coder demands $80 or $110.00 or more CAD an hour.
...This is called: Standard of living!

My present Bottomline Counting Question is? (BCQ)
When said and Done/ At the End of the Day, .....HOW MUCH is accomplished in anyone's hour? 

So OFF to the other side of the world I go looking for my budget affordable talent, and potential TEAM. In the end - at the 'End of the Day',' it  is easier said than done. This 'DONE' is achieved by  not necessarily-understanding, but accepting our cultural differences.  

As such, our differing mindsets are playing the field of humanity in every nook and cranny!

'Mother' Gaya has seen a lot of shit before;
not having any say in the matter she will keep turning.

How will the game unfold?
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

It's a no followers dilemma.