maandag 27 juli 2009

Ethics policy US and the Netherlands

Sarah Palin last year was republican candidate for the vice-presidency. Yesterday she resigned, there was discussion about her ethics policy.

It is a fact that in the Netherlands in the 80s, feminist groups organized discussion about abortion. Much less known is that also the famous Madonna song "Papa don't preach" originates from Holland. Pictures of a pigeon in Amsterdam start the video, for which I designed the story. There is nothing wrong about Sarah Palin being a supporter against abortion. The dismissal of father Mike Wooten was wrong and also non-trooper fathers need protection. Last year it is deeply felt that Palin needs to evaluate her view on both parents right and duty to raise children after a divorce.

Dutch Christen democrat prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende visited the US eleven days after Sarah announced resignation as Governor. He has busy times answering many questions from Dutch civil organizations. Prime minister Wouter Bos became father of his third child, a son, at April 19th this year. Daily politics and lives makes it difficult to give the attention Alaska needs. But we want to let know that the achievements of Palin with oil tax increase and environmental issues are in line with social democratic good governance.

The Dutch democrats support the US Democrats campaign for presidency. Despite Palins family background, it is our belief that Sarah will come along with the Government administration. Because of her openness and honesty to my opinion she deserves a proper place. Now Sean Parnell is appointed to Governor. More Dutch interests are needed for Alaskans. Our suggestion that she can be a good fundraiser, cannot wait any longer.

Fundraiser for Alaska Sarah Palin

woensdag 15 juli 2009

Auto industry, economic growth and human rights

Here additions to the press conference that President Obama and Prime Minister Balkenende gave today.

The President says that the Dutch have taken strides on issues of clean energy.

All that is done is commenting on a Dutch blog Carwoman.nl about electric and hybride cars: Driving in the city on electricity is inexpensive, because when using the break, energy is returned to the batteries. Cars that entirely ride on electricity, so without fuel, have less power and in general are smaller. By lacking a fuel motor, the range is smaller. Customers want to bridge large distances and need space for children and luggage. So energy efficient cars need to have both an electric and a fuel motor. These cars are suited for people that have to be in the city and/or living at the country side and/or want to enjoy weekend tours and/or holiday travel.

Another issue is that these cars are so silent, that they are dangerous to pedestrians and bikers that do not take visual notice.

The President mentioned the recovery act and generating enough good jobs that pay good wages is needed to keep up with population growth. Michigans endured a battered state for years leading up to this recession. The Prime minister talked about innovation ('we can do things in another way') in the economic sphere and also in health issues.

This is discussed July 9th with journalist Richard Quest of CNN International in London. A spasmodic retention of a marriage-only family system leads to complacency, unilateral toll of laborers and personal depressions. Victims place a drag on the health care system. Governance means that communities have to adapt to people with energetic lifestyles. Parents that experience more loves in their lives are not that bad, things are not black and white. Scientists, developpers, innovators, creative people with a large social infrastructure having strong involvements, often maintain warm relations with colleges and friends. Protecting rural families is not enough to generate social and economic transitions. Flexibility and adaptability to earthly chances will arise from new human capital notions. Improvements in the education system in cities and rural areas as well, will give attention to divorced children and more chances to boys. Revamping the upbringing and education system is critical to model growth. The private sector is an issue of corporate social responsibility.

Al Gore did some statements tuesday July 7th in Oxford, for the Smith school world forum on enterprise and the environment. While waiting for him to proceed in neuroscience theory, in the netherlands some work is underway developing a new accounting scheme for the balance of social economic and sustainable growth. Household statistics and measures for masculine upbringing are needed. An urgent quest is for co-parenting so that children are brought up by both parents after a divorce. Both parents and children needs protection. That will give breathing space for a generation of people that brought the world internet communications, free music video, mobility and divorced children. Human fysical arts, health industry and permanent education at the workplace will benefit.

There were reflections last week about the insurance statistics needed, together with an associate working in the dutch census bureau.

The Prime minister emphasizes that freedom and human rights are common responsibilities worldwide. The President argued that vulnerabilities to terrorist attack in Europe are at least as high as they are here in the United States.

In May a discussion was opened also in Europe about the human right to communicate freely instead of having a family filter and adult supervison. Anti-terror measures are taken for business people in Amsterdam. They now can safely take a taxi ride. In addition the insurance of legal aid with family law practices regarding fatherhood after divorce is needed. I promise to come back later on the issue of protecting merchant shipping in the Gulf of Aden by the Dutch marine.

Piraten van nix

It is not clear what the President and the Prime minister decided on 'the process of the issue of Guantanamo bay'. I'm sure prime minister Wouter Bos wants to state that the Netherlands is able to gaol several prisoners from Quantanamo bay. The village of Veenhuizen (province of Drenthe, south of Groningen) not only houses the Dutch national prison museum, but also has an overabundance of empty cells.

July 14th 2009, Hoekstra for Senate:
Bert,
Thank you very much for your emails.
-Team Hoekstra

woensdag 8 juli 2009

A mobile creators vision for Google Chrome OS

  • For most netbooks, with the current most popular OS (Win-XP), starting up from sleep lasts up to 30 seconds. The patience of people to who you want to give information is limited, so a better start up time enables the presentation of your work in many more occasions.
  • In some traditional legalistic and medical affairs, often printed material is asked for. Printing from browsers at the moment gives messy output. For that reason, computer users become underprivileged. Please set up an orderly printing feature.
  • When you are a mobile reporter or blogger, you might need to capture audio and video material. Buy devices that do not need additional drivers. For loading in pre-recorded material, look for devices with a standard mass-storage USB drive interface. For real time broadcasting, you need drivers.
  • Mobile phones offer a lot of functionality to people for consuming information ('lurking'). Netbooks, with a more confortable screen size and keyboard, are more targeted to creators of information. Many times creators need to sort out fragments of audio and video, summarizing and making a conclusion. So player software is not enough, we need editing features in the OS. A solution is to make the netbook multi-bootable. Then you can choose to quickly go to the browser, or start up Win-XP for editing purposes.
  • The Google docs features do not display the document formats exactly. Many times you need to see these docs as they are ment when created, with original viewers. Especially the PPS format (power point presentations). Maybe integration with the Symbian OS viewer software will give the Chrome OS an extra boost.

Mark, Brian, Darin and Ben, go ahead on the Chrome OS road, with the mobile creators vision !!

Also posted on Wired gadget lab, 2009-07-08, comment 11:37am NY time