Dump that car now.

I now realize that the earth is warming towards a cataclysmic endpoint. No. I did not realize it yesterday. I still don't realize it now. I am told. Yes, everywhere you go, you are reminded to do your part. What part, you might ask? Global warming.....yes, we are constantly reminded that we have lead a spoiled life. We have over burnt! We have designed our lives around comfort, we drove in comfort, worked in comfort, lived in comfort.........and the bill goes on and on...And in the process, burnt away all those fossils that nature took millions of years to bake. Perhaps now, we are reaching towards irreversible self destruction? I prayed not, otherwise, others (those who came before us and those who are supposed to come after us) will blame us for the debacle! Where will we be able to hide then?

Here are some somber stats that might say something. Americans spent one third of their total fuel consumptions on using their cars and trucks. If they were to be deprived of using their vehicles just for twenty four hours, the gas that is saved will amount to 8 million barrels, capable of meeting the fuel needs for the whole population of Laos (population of 7 million).........for 7300 year! Is it necessary then to reluctantly wake up to the tune of our alarm clock in the early morning, washed and draped in expensive colognes, rush through bacon and eggs, plunged our bottom in the driver's seat, zoomed through traffic lights and clocked in at our office with just one minute to spar.

That is work you said, with a tinge of pride. Mind you, mankind (the modern type), have been doing it for hundreds of years. Oops....sorry, mankind was on the wrong path for hundreds of years.....and still is. So now, we ought to do something about it yeah before it is too late to do anything. Looking hard at it, I still could not fathom why we should be doing those silly things that we have been doing for hundreds of years, in the name of work? And this driving to work thing is really stupid, to say the least. Starring at the other frustrated guy during traffic crawls is even more stupid. But it is certainly not true that the whole world is doing such stuff. Just for want of an example, look no further than this Shangri-La place called Bhutan. Nestled somewhere between the Himalaya mountains and India, Bhutan does not have highways (those that allowed autos to speed at one hundred over miles per hour). Oh no...it’s incorrect, it does have highways, but those that straddles up high mountains and serviced by horses and mules.....Yes, this Bhutan and many other less known places don't have this thingy thing called driving to work. Their work place is their farm, situated very close by their homes. They don't need cars and they don't burnt fossils to clock in to work. And when they do go to work, their faces project those smiles that you so seldom see among our office slaves! They really enjoy live, and in the comfort of fresh mountain air to boot. Looking back at those office calisthenics and back stabbing that is too common in our perverted societies, I would like to just ask...wtfiiaa..(sorry for the unspoken expletives)? Can't we just stay at home ....and do our work from there? By doing so, we could have saved loads of fossils and most certainly averted global warming, and there might not been an Iraq war....shhhhh. Just imagine, with all these new fangled devices and crack berries, we should take a holiday in Bhutan and still finish our work from up those sweet mountain air and send it back via satellite connections. We do need a portable battery though! And not to forget mentioning plenty of blessings from our neglected loved ones still staying put pushing those clunky (yah, you are right, even President Obama calls them that) jalopy that sucks in earth's juices just to go to work. If it is anything, we should have good reasons to re-architect our way of doing the 'political right thing' before we stand accused of bringing down mother ship.

Think of intellectual property as Noise: The more the Better.

So you don't believe?
Well, to most people, when the topic of intellectual property is mooted, they will usually withdraw from giving any opinion or worse, they feign total ignorance. The reason I found out was because intellectual property is a heavy word. Certainly they did not learn it in school. And they probably first come across it reading the news papers. But being the less intellectual types, they probably will not go any further to find the actual meaning from the dictionary (small dictionaries usually don't have the term). Asking Mom or Pop about the meaning probably gets them a vague answer. So as time past, people will just grab the meaning from thin air. And it is usually the wrong one.

Soon enough, they will knock unto a story in the news that some big shot is suing somebody for 'infringing their intellectual property', and since it is a good talking point, the topic was passed around at the coffee table. There, more opinions was traded, but still, no body knows exactly what is that infringement thing is all about. Then, someone asked in a toned down voice does illegal downloads get tracked by big brother? Obviously they were referring to stories of illegal downloads of music as intellectual property infringements. Now, the number piles up here. Big companies filing suits against small little guys for stealing their music (and videos as well). This is noise to be sure, and the bigger it is, the better! People like to add to the noise and want to be in the know. But seriously, when asked what is intellectual property infringement, nobody knows exactly what it is. These things are best left to your lawyers!

And not any lawyers at that, only intellectual property attorneys know what is intellectual property infringements. So for the rest of us, intellectual property means being sued for something. Intellectual property itself don't mean anything. But because of these high profile cases, like the case of Microsoft suing people for using pirated software, and the fact that average Joe could be a victim, people learn more about what constitutes an intellectual property. And being hauled to court for infringement makes a big noise. The bigger the noise, the better the topic, and lives goes on.