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I'm just two generations removed from Germany and so is my wife. We still have "folks" of the Austrian and Bavarian persuasions so let's just say we have some mildly vested interest in this situation. UPI reports that violent protests have broken out last week in Germany amid massive peaceful assemblies that sought to derail the G8 summit in the city of Rostock. It seems that although many "leaders" of the demonstrations have attempted to quell the passions of their followers, those efforts have been at least temporarily futile.

It is no surprise to me that certain of the demonstrators have become majorly unglued. When one considers that the protest movement itself is so heavily left leaning, it's surprising to me that they have retained any order and control of themselves at all. Socialists, liberalists, anti-capitalists and anarchists, that's who most of these rioters are. I can almost hear them from here saying, "We don't like what we have so chaos is our last vestige of control."

I don't stand in the way of any person's right to protest, in fact, the democratic nations of the world have made provision for that. What I can't seem to bring myself to grips with is this wimp-like, face hiding, hood raised, pansy-assed style of rock throwing, car burning protest. What a bunch of puppies they are. They're all full of big words of hatred and world upheaval, but they choose to deliver their message from behind goofy masks. Back in my day, if you had a message to deliver to the establishment, you got right in a cop's face, close enough so he could smell your breath, you locked eyes with him and delivered your message firmly and in person within earshot of the press. If the cop was a man (or lady), they'd accept your message straight-faced and wait for you to move on. If the cop was an establishment fascist, you generally got grabbed by the collar, were given a set of stainless steel bracelets and spent the night in the tank. Either way, your message got through and there was no measurable property damage.

Protests can be the vehicles of change. Riots are just plain blatant stupidity. Anonymous rioters are criminals of the worst sort. Common sense and history dictate that peaceful demonstrations have the greatest effect over time. I have no other more effective solutions than that to offer.

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I'm up late watching Charlie Rose's taped interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. In raving about Google's 20% rule -- that engineers can spend 20% of their time on projects of their own choosing -- Schmidt says that all of their new products come from that 20% "free time." Charlie asks an obvious question, one that's been bugging me for months: "why not make it 50%?"

Schmidt doesn't answer the question, really (he is a CEO after all), basically saying that, although it's a great idea, and they should do it, anarchy would prevail.

Why would anarchy prevail if 50% of a creative worker's time was spent doing creative, independently-chosen work? I think it's a fantastic idea and one that many companies should employ. If workers are selected for their extreme intelligence and ability to innovate, why not have them create the products they wish existed? We'd all be better for it.

Google's 20% rule: why not make it 50%? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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