Mind's Eye Re: Search Engine As God

The bible on white collar crime was written by Sutherland in 1940.  The high level con is that financial services make money.  I did surveillance and undercover handling - the first lesson was that it was very expensive, the second that it rarely produced value for money (one conviction for five or six operations) and the third you couldn't get warrants to follow money.  We must have some records on the financiers and corrupt politicians but this was always beyond my pay grade.  The vast majority of the techniques I did get to see left me in no doubt we could turn the focus onto corruption but even tracking ordinary criminal money they were denied to us.  The criminality in finance is very obvious.  The first claim that money can make money is almost the claim it will breed of you leave it in a shoe-box.  It seems equally obvious that giving up making things and not collecting tax is as dumb-as.

None of our old industrial cities has recovered - the whole of Wales (about 4 million people) became a public sector adjunct.  You don't need hindsight.  There were warnings long before Reagan-Thatcher.  Even now we are hoping for recovery and there is little talk that what has happened is very like the way we once tried to subsidise our old industries.  I'm pretty sure many of our municipalities and banks are broke and pretending to be going concerns.   London is trying to get Euro-Remnimbi business much as it did with the Euro-Dollar trade in the 50's - so I think the City is broke.

On Saturday, 29 June 2013 21:57:58 UTC+1, archytas wrote:

If God did not exist – people would invent one! The development of 

human civilization requires mechanisms promoting cooperation and 

social order. One of these mechanisms is based on the idea that 

everything we do is seen and judged by God – bad deeds will be 

punished, while good ones will be rewarded (or was this Santa?). The Information Age has 

now fueled the dream that God-like omniscience and omnipotence can 

be created by man.

This is an interesting way of thinking about information systems - full free paper at http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.3271.pdf

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