Much has happend to me in a short period of time. My knowledge and perspective have grown significantly. Hardware is not as important, and PCs are as common as lightbulbs. So hardware differentiation is not as significant anymore, and is in fact counterproductive. I have learned mountains of software production skills, and I don't want to fight large companies anymore.

Globalization is unstoppable at this time, and I think that it's my turn to join or become a big company.

Why you may ask?

The haves and havenots are moving away from each other at such a rapid pace, that those who do not take advantage of every skill that they possess are doomed to a life of mediocrity and poverty.

This does not mean that I abandon the efforts of fairness, kindness, and generosity that my father taught me so many years ago when I thought of myself of as a “worker.”

It simply means that I have learned a most valuable lesson: Toot your own horn, or the next person will use it as a spittoon. If you are a super genius, yet do not communicate this to others, then you are on the same level as the lowest slave imaginable. (You decide the vocation.)

I am brilliant, and yet I have worked at insignificant, meaningless jobs for most of my life. Yet, in private, have developed fantastic skills in design, programming and engineering, that cover every aspect of hardware and software development. And I would like the oppourtunity to further develop thise skills. And I will.

Life is too short for conflicts that interfere with personal and professional growth. And I yield to the great forces that are unifying this world. And intend on joining them in their quest for greatness. I don't see this as netagive anymore. Why bother. It is inevitable that we are all part slave and master, under and over something or someone. It is the nature of society, and it will progress despite idealistic resistance.

If Gene Roddenberry were alive today, I'm not sure the Star Trek Federation would have been portrayed with such positive tone, rather a realistic one.

In any event. Having discovered that America was founded in 1774 by euntrepreneurs of large corporations, and not workers in 1776 with only the dream of freedom, independence, and liberty, I have decided that Capitol Hill is not such a bad place after all. The bills have to be paid somehow and this is usually done, behind the scenes, by business leaders.

And I like the Commodore too; Perhaps software developers could get together and revive the artistic quality found in the original Amigas.

There's the commercial. ;)

It actually convinced me to buy a Commodore product back then since William Shatner was my idol back then.

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