tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174728.post7549653559484449009..comments2008-07-21T11:37:28.633-05:00Greg Glatz (Rock 'n' Roll Preacher)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17783495356838517253revgregglatz@rocknrollpreacher.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174728.post-57809165832357219212008-07-21T11:37:00.000-05:002008-07-21T11:37:00.000-05:00Having lost $12000 in the stock market since December 2007, it's hard not to be enticed by the impressive investment strategy Einstein suggests! 7.00%!?!? Wow! <BR/><BR/>(And boy, that $12000 could have bought a lot of guitars.)<BR/><BR/>Nevertheless, I will continue to do my duty by investing in technology products. I have an ulterior motive: if I keep buying Apple gadgets, I'm hoping Steve Jobs will create a device that ensures the only colonoscopy I ever receive is "virtual". It could be the killer iPhone app!The Rock 'n' Roll Preacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783495356838517253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174728.post-22651224749653147042008-07-20T08:58:00.000-05:002008-07-20T08:58:00.000-05:00There are alternatives to being torn apart by the urge to get that Iphone . Starbucks and Iphones seem so natural together.<BR/>In fact they would seem preferrable to ..... but on the other hand <BR/>is there any alternative to <BR/><BR/> $ 90./ Month Iphone <BR/> $ 150/ Month Starbucks<BR/> = $2880/ year <BR/><BR/> Invested @ 7% for a young fellow like you this would mean $615.195 when you are in your early eighties. You could then withdraw this ( $300.000 adjusted for inflation@ 3%)...... $180-250,000 depending on taxes and give it to the first person you see walking down the street.<BR/><BR/> Now if every Winnipeger did this then every Winnipeger would get a stranger giving them $200,000 for no apparent reason.I wonder how this woudl impact them?<BR/><BR/> Having no phone or Starbuck's bill to pay each recipient would be able to give this money to their local church. Even the modest 50 person church would get a windfall<BR/>50x 200000 = $10,000,000 (Ten Million dollars) offering and their local pastor could abandon the tithe for several weeks. As a tax deduction on their income tax this gift tax refund would fund their coffee and fellowship with their neighbor at McDonalds for the rest of their lives.<BR/><BR/> Neil Postman in the 1980's suggested that schools should ban electronics so that children could see talk and interact with real teachers, real secretaries and real students. He reasoned that outside of school there were electronics galore and school provided an opportunity to live and teach the humanities for perhaps the only time in their lives.<BR/><BR/> Pain can lead to gain. Going through the stages of death and dying of the Iphone urge lead to Stage 5 of KR's scheme..... a peaceful life-long acquiescence to the non digital person to person contact. Enslaved Digital Immigrants and Citizens could be freed Digital Deportees . <BR/><BR/> Unplug those guitars and Iphones and save your local church.<BR/><BR/><BR/> Respectfully<BR/><BR/><BR/> E=Mc**2 <BR/><BR/>P.S. McLuhan was right ... invention is the mother of necessity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com