Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Hilarity -- pro and con

San Francisco, CA, is hosting the Oracle computer-software company annual conference (see http://www.topix.net/, San Francisco, CA). Other links with the descriptive entry at Topix describe Oracle's "acquisition" of BEA software applications.

From an archaelogical point-of-view, this entire business enterprise domain has become hilarious. Influence-network telephone reply-demand calls in the past elicited from me the possibility that a special computer program can be set up to contain and analyze all the data collected and inputted during a formal archaelogical investigation of an oracle-bead chronicle (artifact) and limestone roadside-rest/monument site in Degolia, PA.

That the verbal articulation that a computer program will be helpful to the investigation has mushroomed into a multi-national 'firm' busy expanding ("elasticity") their operations into any software domain possible using computer electronics -- to the extent that annual conferences are scheduled and big-time employee payrolls are maintained, as well as company performance citations.

The Oracle company in no way addresses the intent to have archaeological data-input from the Degolia site professionally aggregated and collated, just as the 'Balco' company also did not address intent to interpret oracle-bead content-imagery (such as uses of idols in the jungle and also the purposes of ball-handling activities) and distribute educational materials, nor did the 'Enron' company set-up in any slight way comprehend the intent to interview people who reside very close to the Degolia site (someone named 'Ron Knott' as example).

These huge companies have been set up using a few telephone reply-demand calls and the words and phrases elicited during such replies demanded, without any comprehension whatsoever about the archaeological purpose intended. The hilarity does not include the fact that many tonnages of food energy were expended and wasted, often using animals/plants that have been killed to fuel the corporate undertakings. Complaints to police about the influence-networking were completely disregarded among business-domain investors, "movers and shakers".

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