Leave it to the Law

At one point a group of ethical men created a constitution for the country.  After hours of grueling work and a lifetime of preparation, our nation's people receive a sort of "code of conduct" to help us remain ethical.  As time has gone on people have become less ethical, thus causing more laws to come about.  Laws are created by lawyers.  Lawyers aren't always ethical.  The result?  We can be following all of the laws as best we can and not be ethical.  Example, I used Napster way back in there day before there were any laws against downloading music.  To truly remain a person of high ethics one must turn to themselves and to God. Sadly, the world is headed towards the lawyers.

Fake Identities In Actuallity

While on my mission I saw people get baptized and then proceed to miss church because their gild was fighting a major battle.  Eventually they stopped coming all together.  I've seen the pernicious effects of addicting online gaming behavior with several people in my life.  Gaming doesn't attract me so it's easy for me to refrain from it, so I've needed to put forth effort to understand those overcome by its addictive nature.  On the flip side we have social norms and certain cultures that prevent people from expressing their true identity when they are dying to.  We are so quick to condemn those living a fake identity in cyberspace and never think that maybe we are causing those around us to actually live a fake identity.  It looks like people need to put forth some effort to understand these people's true identities.

Family History Still For Old People

Previously family history work took a lot of time, hence old people dominated the field.  But in recent years the time needed to accomplish any family history work has greatly been diminished, though people's mindset hasn't changed much.  Sadly, the time I was most exited about doing family history work was when I was a missionary teaching weekly classes about it.  This is sad because as a full-time missionary we couldn't do family history work.  But now I can!  Yet I don't.  Why?  Well I have an aunt or two that is crazy about family history work and it's gotten to the point that I once again must spend a lot of time to find out anymore information about my ancestors.  There is still plenty of work to do like indexing, but general indexing doesn't bring the same kind of thrill as researching your own ancestors.  I know I don't stand alone here.  In my mind I can't help but thing that family history is still for old people.  Will family history ever be as thrilling to me as it has been to my aunts?

Here Comes Me!

    "It wasn't until the student's writing assignments became blog posts did the quality of their writing increase dramatically" -Dr. K..
    People, writing music, recording music, making videos, and dancing.  These are all things I love.  The fact that the time and effort I put into the things have a guaranteed audience greatly enhances my desire to continually stay involved in such activities.  What would I be doing at my age had I been born 10 years prior?
    Networking has brought about justice.  Before now a person had to get past the men wearing suites who "know what people like" in order to do what they love.  But now that unofficial monopoly can be bypassed, giving opportunity to anyone that wants to be seen and heard.  Anyone can share anything they feel anytime!  Knowledge about anything is at everyone's fingertips, something the world didn't see coming.
    Does having all information at everyone's fingertips introduce danger into society?  I don't think so.  Within modern day networking we are seeing the formation of several connected graphs incomprehensibly large in size.  The connections being added to these networks cause a true exponential growth in complexity.  These complexities are what's protecting us; they're what make our passwords and other forms of encryption safe.  Social media, and other cyber-networks, simulate a non-deterministic Turing machine, a device that is believed impossible to exist.  But such complex data structures can not efficiently be processed, or traversed, in a reasonable amount of time even by the world's fastest super computers.  Such networks are only as dangerous as are the methods used to traverse them which is significantly lowers the chance of information being used to resurrect Big Brother.
    Of course networking has brought about justice assuming people are truly free to express themselves.  What about China?  The largest population simply being restricted from the planet's greatest sources of information:  Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, Google, etc..  This is only damaging.  True dead-weight-loss.

Symbolizing China'a Great Firewall

    Having information at our fingertips is a new concept and the potential it gives the human race has not even come close to being breached.  We are now living in a modern-day Renaissance.  Previous obstacles that prohibited so much creative expression have disseminated, leaving behind doors of opportunity that can be opened by a person's effort alone.  So how are you taking advantage of what is no longer holding you down?

Steve Was Inspired

New technology is created when God needs it to be.  Technology has only enhanced the world's opportunity to receive the gospel; it speeds up the work.  I'm not an Apple fan, but I don't necessarily hate Apple either, but I often surprise people when I say, "I believe that Steve Jobs was inspired."  I believe the time came that God wanted iPads (tablets) on the earth and Steve Jobs was the one chosen to receive the proper inspiration to bring them about.  Were Henry Ford or the Wright brothers not inspired either?  Ironic how hordes of people obsess over their little gadgets,  loving them more than they love God.  What did their little gadgets ever to for them?

"Happy Birthday to Yo....." Oh Wait, That Song is Copyrighted

    An individual lawyer does his best to win a case because:  1)  They'll make more money.  2)  Their reputation will go up which will make them worth more.  3)  They might actually care about the case.  Because of these lawyers' behaviors we have had numerous court cases finish with the bad guys winning.  Over time these types of lawyers have brought about an incapacitated patent system.  They only care about winning their care no matter if it's ethical or not.  Patent laws kill creativity and turn the American dream into a nightmare.  Excessive amounts of time and money are wasted in the many patent related cases instead of being invested into business/family productivity.  The Happy Birthday song is copyrighted, hence you only hear it in big time movies that can afford paying for usage rights.  The "Happy Birthday" song is a huge part of our culture, but at one point some lawyer won a case which allowed that song to be copyrighted despite it being created long before and in turn thrashing that part of our culture in our media.  Have you ever wondered why we don't see more foreign films brought to America?  They simply can't afford our copyright laws.

Piracy Is Wrong! However... (vlog)

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