My topic for the second blog assignment is about one thing that I think is really unnecessary and something that most people probably will not even use once they have received it. I am talking about the huge waste of paper that is occurring as soon as we make a purchase and we receive a receipt.
Imagine this, we buy something and take the receipt just in case something will happen but the tendency is that the receipt will get thrown away in the litter bin within the next 24 hours or be in our wallets until it is time to throw away all receipts that are there due to the lack of space. Even if we do not want to have the receipt, they will still be printed and thrown away by the clerk but to what use, none that I can see. Are we not using enough paper as it is or do we really have to waste this much where the receipt will be thrown away without being used? But the receipt is the proof that you have purchased something in the store but if we do not want the receipt, why do they have to print it out? Even though that it is written in the law book that a receipt must be printed it is totally useless at some points. A receipt should be optional and if you want to have it they should print it out but otherwise they should not print it.
Grocery stores are one good example where the receipt is useless as we seldom exchange products that we purchased there. Besides, you do not need a receipt if you want to change a product if you made the purchase by card and not by hard cash. That transaction works as a receipt in itself but there are many people that are unaware of this. But there are some situations where a receipt is necessary to have, for example when gambling to prove that you are the winner and companies must keep receipts in order to strengthen their auditing.
We should make the receipt optional and not standard as we seldom use the receipts. Many trees could be saved and this could help against the global warming as more trees are there to protect us. At the moment I think that it is totally useless to receive something that you will throw away shortly after you got it. With the reduction in chopped down trees, this could also mean that the company has the chance to save money as they will print less receipts, thus reducing the waste of paper.
torsdag 12 april 2012
fredag 2 mars 2012
Blog Assignment 1
i) One aspect about daily life that I hope will disappear altogether in the near future is the use of overhead pictures during classes. As a student, classes are a part of daily life and with a constant development of projectors, the usage of overhead pictures is becoming more old fashioned and belongs to a time before we could fully utilize projectors and power point slides. The use of overhead pictures is already at this point experiencing a diminishing in use which is why I think they will disappear in the near future.
ii) Another aspect of daily life that I think will decrease in usage or disappear altogether within the coming 6-50 years is the use of hard cash. We can already see this happening in some of the Swedish banks as they have removed the use of hard cash in order to avoid money laundering and robbery. More transactions are now done over Internet and/or by card and stores have implemented specific check outs where the only available payment is done by card. In some stores, the only way to pay is by card so there are many indications that we are going towards a hard cash free living.
ii) Another aspect of daily life that I think will decrease in usage or disappear altogether within the coming 6-50 years is the use of hard cash. We can already see this happening in some of the Swedish banks as they have removed the use of hard cash in order to avoid money laundering and robbery. More transactions are now done over Internet and/or by card and stores have implemented specific check outs where the only available payment is done by card. In some stores, the only way to pay is by card so there are many indications that we are going towards a hard cash free living.
söndag 8 maj 2011
Blog assignment 3
I have read the book The Exorcist written by William Peter Blatty. The story takes place in Washington where the main character has moved to finish her latest movie. Blinded by her career she does not notice that her 12-year old daughter is being possessed by a dark presence. Every attempt to uncover the mysteries of her behavior leads to a dead end and her final hope lies in a doubt-ridden priest and his elder companion. Will they succeed in repelling the presence before it grows too strong or will eternal darkness haunt them all?
After I finished reading the book a question rose to my mind. Does supernatural activity exist or is it all some kind of illusion to our minds. I think we all have experienced some things that we just can’t explain why it happened or what is was. But do these things have a natural explanation that we didn’t see or are they supernatural? I have experienced this myself and still have no explanation of what happened that night. I was sleeping at a friend’s house when the speakers of the computer suddenly came to life and started playing music in the middle of the night. I rushed up to turn them off when I noticed that everything was turned off and still the music were playing. Was this supernatural or just a technical error, still doesn’t know.
If you watch TV today there are several shows “trying” to find an answer to if supernatural activity exists or not. The question is, should we believe them or not? It somehow feels like they making everything up to make us believe that these things exist. But our belief for supernatural things has always been with us, like the roman’s believed in their gods we believed in ours. The church’s hunt for witches during the 15th and 17th century is another example of supernatural belief. Today we have all kind of horror and fantasy movies were we explore our imagination of how supernatural activities can happen. Can we say that it’s our imagination that creates our belief in these activities? Because most of the times when we don’t know how things happened, we can always believe that supernatural activity is the answer. To be honest with you I think that we’ll never find an answer to the question if these activities exist. We don’t have the technology to prove it and no matter what, we will always believe in higher powers.
After I finished reading the book a question rose to my mind. Does supernatural activity exist or is it all some kind of illusion to our minds. I think we all have experienced some things that we just can’t explain why it happened or what is was. But do these things have a natural explanation that we didn’t see or are they supernatural? I have experienced this myself and still have no explanation of what happened that night. I was sleeping at a friend’s house when the speakers of the computer suddenly came to life and started playing music in the middle of the night. I rushed up to turn them off when I noticed that everything was turned off and still the music were playing. Was this supernatural or just a technical error, still doesn’t know.
If you watch TV today there are several shows “trying” to find an answer to if supernatural activity exists or not. The question is, should we believe them or not? It somehow feels like they making everything up to make us believe that these things exist. But our belief for supernatural things has always been with us, like the roman’s believed in their gods we believed in ours. The church’s hunt for witches during the 15th and 17th century is another example of supernatural belief. Today we have all kind of horror and fantasy movies were we explore our imagination of how supernatural activities can happen. Can we say that it’s our imagination that creates our belief in these activities? Because most of the times when we don’t know how things happened, we can always believe that supernatural activity is the answer. To be honest with you I think that we’ll never find an answer to the question if these activities exist. We don’t have the technology to prove it and no matter what, we will always believe in higher powers.
måndag 4 april 2011
Story of stuff
That the government should be off the people, by the people and for the people, I say good luck with that. The government only work for themselves to earn more money with no regards towards the people in that country. They are greedy and will try almost everything to make a bigger profit, even if it means to desolate the nature in other countries. This is really wrong. The nature can’t repair itself, at least not in this pace that we drain its resources. We have to make an end to this soon. All the pollution we release into the nature only harms us in the long run. I mean the distance each good travels as the different pieces are assembled is way too far to be acceptable. Don’t we have factories in each country that is capable of creating the different pieces or is the cost to high?
We have gone from having no material need to be obsessed with it. I don’t know why it has become like this. We know it’s wrong, but do we have the guts to stop this behaviour? I’m not sure but we have to try. Do we even need everything we buy? I would say without a doubt no, we don’t. Most of the things we buy will be disposed without being used and the golden arrow has become a power unknown to man. The only problem is that this is the sole purpose of all sales, namely to sell everything as fast as you can. Unfortunately if we stop buying the companies will lose money and eventually fire people. This leads to a loss in profit and the circle moves on with more people getting fired. We need to find a solution to this problem; otherwise we won’t have any work to go to or planet to live on.
Our main goal should aim towards reducing our materialistic need and the amount of pollution we release into the nature. We need to find ways to minimize the need of buying new things all the time. If we keep this pace it won’t take long until the resources are fully drained and bigger problems will occur. Why don’t we start today, it’s not that hard to buy things you don’t need or am I wrong?
We have gone from having no material need to be obsessed with it. I don’t know why it has become like this. We know it’s wrong, but do we have the guts to stop this behaviour? I’m not sure but we have to try. Do we even need everything we buy? I would say without a doubt no, we don’t. Most of the things we buy will be disposed without being used and the golden arrow has become a power unknown to man. The only problem is that this is the sole purpose of all sales, namely to sell everything as fast as you can. Unfortunately if we stop buying the companies will lose money and eventually fire people. This leads to a loss in profit and the circle moves on with more people getting fired. We need to find a solution to this problem; otherwise we won’t have any work to go to or planet to live on.
Our main goal should aim towards reducing our materialistic need and the amount of pollution we release into the nature. We need to find ways to minimize the need of buying new things all the time. If we keep this pace it won’t take long until the resources are fully drained and bigger problems will occur. Why don’t we start today, it’s not that hard to buy things you don’t need or am I wrong?
måndag 21 februari 2011
Snooping bosses
After reading the article I’m not sure where I stand in this question. Truly, it’s good to know if your employees are doing what they are supposed to do, but this problem could be solved by adding more small scaled dead-lines. This will create opportunities for the manager to monitor their employees without snooping, as long as they complete their tasks. But a person simply can’t work eight straight hours and thereby need a break now and then. They might use this break to send private e-mails or surf the Internet. Everyone should be allowed to have some kind of privacy at work and not be monitored all the time. I know I wouldn’t like to be monitored all the time because it sends signals that the company doesn’t trust you, making it less fun to work.
The increasing surveillance of the contemporary society is developing in a bad way. It seems that our freedom to do whatever we want is being questioned/at stake. If we can’t do whatever we want, then where is our freedom? Thanks to the development in technology it is easier for companies to follow every movement we make and the websites we visits. If this surveillance increases there will be no real free world, life will turn into something that looks like a prison. This is not what I want. Surveillance should be used in acceptable levels where you still feel that you’re allowed to do whatever you want, not to follow your every move. Even though security is important it should never attack a person’s integrity. Security has gone too far when someone’s integrity is threatened. What you think and believe is not important when it comes to security.
The increasing surveillance of the contemporary society is developing in a bad way. It seems that our freedom to do whatever we want is being questioned/at stake. If we can’t do whatever we want, then where is our freedom? Thanks to the development in technology it is easier for companies to follow every movement we make and the websites we visits. If this surveillance increases there will be no real free world, life will turn into something that looks like a prison. This is not what I want. Surveillance should be used in acceptable levels where you still feel that you’re allowed to do whatever you want, not to follow your every move. Even though security is important it should never attack a person’s integrity. Security has gone too far when someone’s integrity is threatened. What you think and believe is not important when it comes to security.
söndag 12 juli 2009
Da weekend
Så vad har man gjort denna helg då...
Har haft besök av brorsan och hans familj så det har varit fullt liv här fredag till söndag, de växer upp snabbt de små liven. Nu är de tre med så har fått hålla i lilla Ida några gånger med.
På fredagen bar det iväg till Sara och grillning med kladdkaka och ultrastar, var riktigt roligt :)
Lördagen bjöd på barn passning vid datorn och tvn, såg på Wall-e och gamla filmer på projektorn, kvällen bjöd på pizza och sedan kom My över och vi såg på The Replacements och Under The Tuscan Sun. Två bra filmer med mysigt sällskap, så söt var du när du somnade :)
Söndagen försvann som en nål i en höstack, trodde jag iaf. Trots att man tror att tiden inte går snabbt så gör den det, nu är det redan måndag. Benen känns goa efter en 1½ timmes tur med inlinsen, var riktigt gott att få komma ut alltså :D
Nu blir det sängen för sedan ska det spelas dator med jonas och per :D
Har haft besök av brorsan och hans familj så det har varit fullt liv här fredag till söndag, de växer upp snabbt de små liven. Nu är de tre med så har fått hålla i lilla Ida några gånger med.
På fredagen bar det iväg till Sara och grillning med kladdkaka och ultrastar, var riktigt roligt :)
Lördagen bjöd på barn passning vid datorn och tvn, såg på Wall-e och gamla filmer på projektorn, kvällen bjöd på pizza och sedan kom My över och vi såg på The Replacements och Under The Tuscan Sun. Två bra filmer med mysigt sällskap, så söt var du när du somnade :)
Söndagen försvann som en nål i en höstack, trodde jag iaf. Trots att man tror att tiden inte går snabbt så gör den det, nu är det redan måndag. Benen känns goa efter en 1½ timmes tur med inlinsen, var riktigt gott att få komma ut alltså :D
Nu blir det sängen för sedan ska det spelas dator med jonas och per :D
torsdag 9 juli 2009
En bra vecka
Så vad har hänt denna vecka, varit på ice age 3 två gånger, måndag och tisdag. Måndagen var med vännerna och tisdagen var en dejt :) Var en trevlig dejt med en trevlig person där vi efter bion drog ut till donken där vi satt i ungefär 1 ½ timme och pratade. En lyckad dag :)
Onsdagen bjöd på gräsklippning, musikspelande, målning, handling och allmänt vilande. På kvällen kom personen från igår över lite snabbt och fick några filmer som jag hade på datorn och fick några filmer av henne :) Att det tog över en kvart från det att man kommit utanför dörren tills dess att man gick in igen var trevligt, en kram fick man med :)
Idag bär det av till hättan för gubbspel, ska bli roligt och imorgon blir det grillning hos Sara och kanske en till dejt på West coast motor show :)
Helgen återstår att att se vad som sker
Onsdagen bjöd på gräsklippning, musikspelande, målning, handling och allmänt vilande. På kvällen kom personen från igår över lite snabbt och fick några filmer som jag hade på datorn och fick några filmer av henne :) Att det tog över en kvart från det att man kommit utanför dörren tills dess att man gick in igen var trevligt, en kram fick man med :)
Idag bär det av till hättan för gubbspel, ska bli roligt och imorgon blir det grillning hos Sara och kanske en till dejt på West coast motor show :)
Helgen återstår att att se vad som sker
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