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A bit ago, I wrote a blog entry titled “If it’s not worth your time, change what you do“.  Such is the situation for individuals in the Nation.  Not so for our Nation’s government.  They apparently have the power to redefine whatever they want.

As the government wrangles over how to reign in the insane national deficit, so that it stops adding so much to our national debt, they just aren’t able to agree on changes to make it happen.  That irritating effect of compound interest and inflations makes every plan fail in a few years.  So.. I guess.. we’ll change the definition of inflation!

Wall Street Journal, Wednesday 22, 2011, page A4, “One idea under consideration is to change the way inflation is measured..”  The idea is they tweak the definition so that inflation indexed benefits go down while they can say they didn’t cut the benefits.  What smoke and mirror childishness.  It’s like your child negotiating that his room is clean by raising the number of shirts and socks he can leave strewn all over.  What a joke.  Does it need to be pointed out that how they define it has nothing to do with what it feels like to experience it? 

It appears they simply have no spine to stand up and say, “Enough! We have to stop spending money!”  — or (sadly), the constituents are too naive so as to simply vote a person out of office unless they contort some way to keep the government free trough in place.

Kazakhstan is the largest of the Central Asian nation states that broke away from Russia in the early 1990s.  As reported in the WSJ, the Kazakhstan government has ordered that all Kazakhstan domains route traffic to servers in country. The assumed reason is so they can evesdrop on all traffic. Technically, this seems strange. One could register a .kz domain and host a website on servers in North America.  Someone from the state of Kentucky could query the page.  Traffic would never visit Kazakhstan. Is the government requiring that all traffic be routed in country first?

I don’t think this directly affects Google’s search functionality.  It’s not filtering or blocking like China tried to accomplish.  Instead, it would require the round-about circuitous travel of packets once someone tries to read a .kz web  page.  Google stopped routing traffic to it’s google.kz server and instead dumped all the traffic onto it’s normal google.com server bank.

In Google’s words, “creating borders” on the internet is problematic in many ways.  They’re afraid of a Balkanized internet and isolated islands of the internet in disparate countries.  I wonder if this is why Google is hiring a Business Operations creative thinker to work on such problems.