I have enjoyed watching, and re-watching, a great Pixar movie called The Incredibles, with my 5 year old son.
A verbose villain, named Syndrome, is bent on destroying our animated superheroes in a for-profit scheme to eliminate all superheroes...
Syndrome: ...I'll sell my inventions so that *everyone* can have powers. *Everyone* can be super! And when everyone's super--
[chuckles evilly]
--no one will be.
Syndrome's statement is rooted in an ideology known as Communism.
The same force drives comfort out of the hammock market.
An enormous industrial complex fuels the explosion of cheap shammocks flooding the hammock market. Google, with interests in China, holds the floodgates open for a fee.
Communism seeks to destroy individualism (i.e. intellectual property rights), and in doing so, destroy any unique strength or superiority that any individual might claim alone.
The theory is that the greater good will be served by sharing everything, allowing no one to (visibly) rise above his peers. Somehow this is supposed to allow everyone to rise.
At the core of Communism, is this lie, that by making everyone and every thing visibly equal on the surface, everyone can share wealth and comfort equally.
We know this concept is fatally flawed. The result is shared failure on a mass scale, a vast displacement of wealth and comfort, and a hidden realm of lies and deceit where lives and dreams are shattered and fortunes are secretly hoarded.
The same forces applies to hammock manufacturing and related intellectual property.
Thanks to The Comfort Compromise of The HammockSource, there are now thousands of factories in China churning out hammocks, the same as they make any other item, shaving it down by the cost model, to be as cost competitive as possible.
In China factories, hammocks are just another "item" thrown in the mix. The same mega-factory making hammocks also makes toilet plungers, ice scrapers, curtain rods, wrist watches, and literally hundreds of other "items."
There is no specialization, and no optimization of comfort built into that model.
Ten years ago, there were virtually no hammocks coming from China.
Central planners in China spread the word to every factory that can make a hammock - "this type item is very profitable! . . . 70 million baby-boomers are retiring. Hammock is in their future!"
Today, the Hammock Gold Rush is in full-swing and thousands of Chinese factories make hammocks because they top the list of "must have items" that Americans desire.
So what you, the hammock consumer, are now faced with, is a vast sea of choices.
It's ironic - choices are good right? Very capitalistic!
And yet most of these choices are shammocks.
Not surprisingly, a "Communist hammock" a.k.a. "shammock" is not comfortable.
These are Syndrome hammocks (remember our villain?) ...
You won't see a difference because now everyone is super (everyone makes and sells shammocks), and soon no one will be (comfortable).
A true hammock provides the highest level of human comfort.
However, shammocks now prevail, thanks to the Communist version of equality in the hammock market.
All products are treated equally. All products are down-graded as the shaved-down cost model is applied.
No China factory stands to make a profit manufacturing a quality hammock alongside a toilet plunger.
Every factory can make shammocks because they are nothing special.
Every factory moves some product, China moves forward.
Every China factory that can make a shammock, does so by mandate. No single factory holds a great portion of the overall manufacturing business.
The result is that there are thousands of "hammocks" for American retailers to buy direct from China at dirt cheap prices.
And there are now thousands of new retailers buying and selling them online.
Thousands of distinctions without differences:
thousands of distinct shammock models, made from dozens of materials, with dozens of print patterns, fibers, and colors, in hundreds of configurations. Comfort subtracted.
NO DIFFERENCE, no comfort, same shammock!
Think about the consequences of displacing and destroying easy access to comfort.
It's an invisible but insidious shift going on right now.
The integrity of the hammock market is in the hands of a very few people who care about comfort, and the consumers who educate themselves and talk to one another about the facts.
We work without a net so you don't have to. Keep talking, keep rocking.
www.hammocks.org
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Big Brother Googleshammock
Well, well!
My recent discoursing on the subject of rope hammocks has sparked a response from Google.
Google earns tens of thousands of dollars each day from people advertising sham hammocks through the Adwords program.
If you didn't know by now, the ads you see in the right hand side bar, as well as the top 3-5 listings when you search any term on Google, are paid advertising.
Our domain "ropehammocks.com" has held an organic rank (not paid for) at the very top of page one when you search rope hammocks, for the last year an a half.
Suddenly, it's too much negativity for the Googoobots to handle. We're driving more and more traffic to ropehammocks.com , thanks to our blogs and links from our other sites.
Threat perceived, action taken:
As of September 3, Google search shows a modified snapshot ropehammocks.com.
Now, when you search 'rope hammocks' on Google, a snapshot of the SECOND line of text on our page replaces the first line.
We did not change it!
The first line still says (quite appropriately)
ROPE HAMMOCKS = ZERO COMFORT CREDIBILITY
That was too straightforward and to the point, reflecting poorly on Google advertisers in the ad-bar, who pay to play, perpetuating the rope hammock scam.
* So Google manually revised the content snapshot for ropehammocks.com! *
Effective censorship of organic search results that conflict with paid ads.
This meshes nicely with the fact that Hayneedle, their largest hammock advertiser, has hired Google executives to run their online ad campaigns.
If the largest online "hammock retailer," Hayneedle, can't make money selling shammocks, they can't continue to pay money to Google for advertising them, and Google can't keep raking it off the top of this perpetual shammock scam (which is in end-stage collapse, by the way)
Google offers what appears to be a legitimate advertising service called Adwords.
Adwords is purportedly separate from its organic search content.
Adwords is used by online shammock retailers to such a degree that the value of hammocks being advertised must perpetually decrease as the number of advertisers increases.
Is censorship how Google handles conflicts of interest at the crossroads of organic domain listings and paid advertising?
Naturally.
Google is the willfully blind straight-man in todays shammock scam . . .
Google is not dumb.
It's not profitable for Google to let truth accumulate organically, or allow information to spread freely.
It's not enough for Google to control the advertising on its search engine.
Google will intervene on behalf of Googlebuddies in any lucrative industry to tamper with so-called "organic" search results when the revenues of both parties are at stake.
Googlebuddies should be able to build their empire however they choose, right?
But by this model, "Paid Information" is being consolidated on a cost model, is controlled centrally, and at every level.
"Free information" hinders paid information, and doesn't stand a chance.
In order that this can continue, Search must appear neutral, as a platform for freely distributed information.
This points out a disturbing conflict of interest (otherwise, it would seem to me that Google should be able to do anything it pleases with its search results):
1. "Free Information," is being reined in and filtered out by Google. Whether it be truth, facts, lies or opinions -Google (and Bing, Yahoo, and anyone who provides search) aims to consolidate and manipulate it for their own benefit.
2. The money for online ads funneling to Google must come from somewhere.
The fact is, that the value of the products built for and sold to Americans is in a death spiral and we're paying Google to help us enrich a Chinese Industrial Complex that supports a cheapening of all consumer products.
If the online hammock business is any indication, the products and services offered by most online retailers can hardly be any less. They pull a shoddy foreign product off a shelf in a warehouse, slap a label on it and ship it.
The buy low sell high mantra is more crucial to online sales than anywhere.
The vast preponderance of online retail startups have no allegiance to quality. They REQUIRE inputs to go down as they seek to increase profits, and with that goes quality of everything we buy, whether in stores or online.
Traditional bricks and mortar retailers have to compete with the pressure brought by online retailers. This means they offer cheaper and cheaper goods, of lesser and lesser value.
Add to this, an ever growing competitive pressure for costly on-line ads, and the model naturally drives DOWN the quality of goods available.
The scary part of it is, that as online sales explode, replacing a larger part of traditional shopping, the value of the products we buy is in free-fall.
How long until the empty images we buy online become just that? How long until that little 2" product picture you bought on the internet shows up on your door as a well-wrapped photo in a box?
The folks at Google will increasingly manipulate "organic search" for the sake of profits among paid advertisers, and in so doing, protect their bottom line.
We have come to a place in the story of capitalism where the end result of unregulated competition is a complete reversal of quality once found in the goods Americans buy and sell each other.
This is thanks in large part to a consolidation of "information" at the hands of corporate giants like Google an their alliances.
It is not free.
The Adwords slot machine where competing vendors apparently stand side-by-side with un-paid, "organic" search results, pumping in millions for the virtual attention of online shoppers, throwing adbucks at "clicks" instead of putting mortar between the bricks.
Meanwhile, manufacturers of quality goods close their doors one by one thanks to the influx of junk from abroad. Reputable retailers offering quality goods can't offer shoddy product in real-time and still keep their customers. The internet age of empty images is upon us.
THANKS Google!!
Clicking around under the foundation of a shaky structure just doesn't make sense to me, brothers and sisters.
See this for what it is and do your homework carefully:
The bigger it is, the harder it falls, the worse it gets.
Click! Click! Click! Click! Click! . . . .
Crash!!!!!!
www.hammocks.org
My recent discoursing on the subject of rope hammocks has sparked a response from Google.
Google earns tens of thousands of dollars each day from people advertising sham hammocks through the Adwords program.
If you didn't know by now, the ads you see in the right hand side bar, as well as the top 3-5 listings when you search any term on Google, are paid advertising.
Our domain "ropehammocks.com" has held an organic rank (not paid for) at the very top of page one when you search rope hammocks, for the last year an a half.
Suddenly, it's too much negativity for the Googoobots to handle. We're driving more and more traffic to ropehammocks.com , thanks to our blogs and links from our other sites.
Threat perceived, action taken:
As of September 3, Google search shows a modified snapshot ropehammocks.com.
Now, when you search 'rope hammocks' on Google, a snapshot of the SECOND line of text on our page replaces the first line.
We did not change it!
The first line still says (quite appropriately)
ROPE HAMMOCKS = ZERO COMFORT CREDIBILITY
That was too straightforward and to the point, reflecting poorly on Google advertisers in the ad-bar, who pay to play, perpetuating the rope hammock scam.
* So Google manually revised the content snapshot for ropehammocks.com! *
Effective censorship of organic search results that conflict with paid ads.
This meshes nicely with the fact that Hayneedle, their largest hammock advertiser, has hired Google executives to run their online ad campaigns.
If the largest online "hammock retailer," Hayneedle, can't make money selling shammocks, they can't continue to pay money to Google for advertising them, and Google can't keep raking it off the top of this perpetual shammock scam (which is in end-stage collapse, by the way)
Google offers what appears to be a legitimate advertising service called Adwords.
Adwords is purportedly separate from its organic search content.
Adwords is used by online shammock retailers to such a degree that the value of hammocks being advertised must perpetually decrease as the number of advertisers increases.
Is censorship how Google handles conflicts of interest at the crossroads of organic domain listings and paid advertising?
Naturally.
Google is the willfully blind straight-man in todays shammock scam . . .
Google is not dumb.
It's not profitable for Google to let truth accumulate organically, or allow information to spread freely.
It's not enough for Google to control the advertising on its search engine.
Google will intervene on behalf of Googlebuddies in any lucrative industry to tamper with so-called "organic" search results when the revenues of both parties are at stake.
Googlebuddies should be able to build their empire however they choose, right?
But by this model, "Paid Information" is being consolidated on a cost model, is controlled centrally, and at every level.
"Free information" hinders paid information, and doesn't stand a chance.
In order that this can continue, Search must appear neutral, as a platform for freely distributed information.
This points out a disturbing conflict of interest (otherwise, it would seem to me that Google should be able to do anything it pleases with its search results):
1. "Free Information," is being reined in and filtered out by Google. Whether it be truth, facts, lies or opinions -Google (and Bing, Yahoo, and anyone who provides search) aims to consolidate and manipulate it for their own benefit.
2. The money for online ads funneling to Google must come from somewhere.
The fact is, that the value of the products built for and sold to Americans is in a death spiral and we're paying Google to help us enrich a Chinese Industrial Complex that supports a cheapening of all consumer products.
If the online hammock business is any indication, the products and services offered by most online retailers can hardly be any less. They pull a shoddy foreign product off a shelf in a warehouse, slap a label on it and ship it.
The buy low sell high mantra is more crucial to online sales than anywhere.
The vast preponderance of online retail startups have no allegiance to quality. They REQUIRE inputs to go down as they seek to increase profits, and with that goes quality of everything we buy, whether in stores or online.
Traditional bricks and mortar retailers have to compete with the pressure brought by online retailers. This means they offer cheaper and cheaper goods, of lesser and lesser value.
Add to this, an ever growing competitive pressure for costly on-line ads, and the model naturally drives DOWN the quality of goods available.
The scary part of it is, that as online sales explode, replacing a larger part of traditional shopping, the value of the products we buy is in free-fall.
How long until the empty images we buy online become just that? How long until that little 2" product picture you bought on the internet shows up on your door as a well-wrapped photo in a box?
The folks at Google will increasingly manipulate "organic search" for the sake of profits among paid advertisers, and in so doing, protect their bottom line.
We have come to a place in the story of capitalism where the end result of unregulated competition is a complete reversal of quality once found in the goods Americans buy and sell each other.
This is thanks in large part to a consolidation of "information" at the hands of corporate giants like Google an their alliances.
It is not free.
The Adwords slot machine where competing vendors apparently stand side-by-side with un-paid, "organic" search results, pumping in millions for the virtual attention of online shoppers, throwing adbucks at "clicks" instead of putting mortar between the bricks.
Meanwhile, manufacturers of quality goods close their doors one by one thanks to the influx of junk from abroad. Reputable retailers offering quality goods can't offer shoddy product in real-time and still keep their customers. The internet age of empty images is upon us.
THANKS Google!!
Clicking around under the foundation of a shaky structure just doesn't make sense to me, brothers and sisters.
See this for what it is and do your homework carefully:
The bigger it is, the harder it falls, the worse it gets.
Click! Click! Click! Click! Click! . . . .
Crash!!!!!!
www.hammocks.org
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