This seems a new concept, where you must pay a life-long price if you are situated in a posh locality. For example Eggs which are normally RS. 20-22/dozen elsewhere are sold at RS. 30/dozen in places like Korengaon Park or Kalyani Nagar. It is not possible to shop for everyday needs far away from residence, so one ends up paying higher prices each. Why this lack in equilibrium? Why aren't these retailers questioned for such hierarchy? Can they do just what they like? Talk about MRP which is more known as "Multiple Retail Pricing" rather than "Maximum Retail Price" You all must have read articles in newspaper and seen commercials on TV highlight the matter. PRINTED MRP on products differ location wise, let alone products like EGGS, RICE, DAL (Pulses) which don't carry MRP on them and can be called an any price by the different retailers.
When there is no longer control on PRINTED MRP, what can anyone say to these small locality retailers?
Are we consumers being taken for a ride? Are we losing the original concept of MRP which was made to protect us consumers from being over priced or cheated by different retailers? Please stop by and drop in your comments on the issues. It is high time we together put a stop to this hierarchy.
Saturday, 10 June 2006
Sunday, 2 April 2006
Community Portal Pages a powerful outreach strategy
Touching your state, city, town or region
Community pages are an amazing strategy for online outreach which very few people are yet using. The concept is to create a site based on the local community – town, local area/county, state, even a small country. The site must offer the best secular links for the community in a range of categories. It must be a genuinely useful resource at this level. But it also contains appropriate local links in various categories. The more comprehensive it is, the more that people in the area will use it as their one-stop local neighborhood site, maybe setting it as a 'start page' in their browsers, and become frequent return visitors. This portal concept can also be applied to other subjects.
Use a search engine to check on your town name – you will probably be surprised at how many local organizations and groups have sites which could be part of a Community Portal.
A community site can offer links, news and features, in categories such as:
- local shops and businesses
- local entertainment
- restaurants
- schools and education
- tourism
- weather
- local organisations
- transport timetables and information
- women and teens areas
- health
- sport
- spirituality
- local Temples
- religion
There are many other creative ways that a Community Portal could genuinely serve people in its catchment area and build popularity:
- Feature short stories from local writers
- Showcase work of local photographers
- childrends and competitions
- Online Games
- Chat rooms and bulletin boards on specified topics
- Host announcement pages for local organizations if they don't have their own pages
- Sales, wants, and swaps bulletin board
- Local news – though don't overlap with local newspapers if you want their co-operation
- Two-way email discussion lists on matters of local interest
- So please send your feedback in http://www.bangkokscoop.com
Monday, 17 January 2005
Society cannot tolerate somebody who is rebellious, because he will destroy the whole structure
Society cannot tolerate somebody who is rebellious, because he will destroy the whole structure.
He may be right: Athens could not tolerate Socrates, not because he was wrong -- he was absolutely right -- but Athens could not tolerate him because if he had been tolerated then the whole structure of the society would have gone, been thrown to the dogs; then the society could not have existed. So Socrates had to be sacrificed to society.
And Jesus was crucified, not because whatsoever he was saying was wrong -- never have such true words been asserted on this earth -- but he was sacrificed to the society because the way he was talking, the way he was behaving, was dangerous to the structure.
Society cannot tolerate this so it will punish you.
But it also rationalizes: it says this is just to put you right, it punishes you for your own good.
And nobody ever bothers whether that good is ever achieved or not. We have been punishing criminals for thousands of years, but nobody bothers whether those criminals are ever transformed through our punishment or not.
Criminals go on increasing: as prisons increase, prisoners increase; the more laws, the more criminals; the more courts, the more punishments.
The result is absolutely absurd -- more criminality.
What is the problem? The criminal can also feel that it is a rationalization, that he is punished for doing wrong -- really he is punished because he has been caught.
So he also has his rationalization: next time he has to be more cunning and more clever, that's all.
This time he has been caught because he was not alert, not because he has done wrong.
Society proved more clever than him, so next time he will see -- he is going to prove himself more cunning, clever, intelligent, and then he will not be caught. A prisoner, a criminal who is punished always thinks that he is punished, not for the thing he has committed, but because he has been caught.
So the only thing he is going to learn from the punishment is not to be caught again. So whenever a prisoner comes out of prison he is a better criminal than ever: he has lived with experienced people inside the prison, with more advanced adepts who know much, who have been punished much and who have suffered long -- who have been caught -- and who have been deceiving in many, many ways; who are very advanced on the path of crime. Living with them, serving them, becoming a disciple to them, he learns; he learns through experience that next time he is not to be caught.
Then he is a better criminal.
Nobody is stopped by punishment, but society goes on thinking that it is because the wrong has to be stopped that we punish. Both are wrong: society has some other reason -- it takes revenge.
And the criminal, he also understands -- because egos understand each other's language very easily, howsoever unconscious -- the criminal also thinks, "Okay, I will take revenge when my time comes, I will see." Then a conflict exists between the criminal's ego and society's ego.
OshO
He may be right: Athens could not tolerate Socrates, not because he was wrong -- he was absolutely right -- but Athens could not tolerate him because if he had been tolerated then the whole structure of the society would have gone, been thrown to the dogs; then the society could not have existed. So Socrates had to be sacrificed to society.
And Jesus was crucified, not because whatsoever he was saying was wrong -- never have such true words been asserted on this earth -- but he was sacrificed to the society because the way he was talking, the way he was behaving, was dangerous to the structure.
Society cannot tolerate this so it will punish you.
But it also rationalizes: it says this is just to put you right, it punishes you for your own good.
And nobody ever bothers whether that good is ever achieved or not. We have been punishing criminals for thousands of years, but nobody bothers whether those criminals are ever transformed through our punishment or not.
Criminals go on increasing: as prisons increase, prisoners increase; the more laws, the more criminals; the more courts, the more punishments.
The result is absolutely absurd -- more criminality.
What is the problem? The criminal can also feel that it is a rationalization, that he is punished for doing wrong -- really he is punished because he has been caught.
So he also has his rationalization: next time he has to be more cunning and more clever, that's all.
This time he has been caught because he was not alert, not because he has done wrong.
Society proved more clever than him, so next time he will see -- he is going to prove himself more cunning, clever, intelligent, and then he will not be caught. A prisoner, a criminal who is punished always thinks that he is punished, not for the thing he has committed, but because he has been caught.
So the only thing he is going to learn from the punishment is not to be caught again. So whenever a prisoner comes out of prison he is a better criminal than ever: he has lived with experienced people inside the prison, with more advanced adepts who know much, who have been punished much and who have suffered long -- who have been caught -- and who have been deceiving in many, many ways; who are very advanced on the path of crime. Living with them, serving them, becoming a disciple to them, he learns; he learns through experience that next time he is not to be caught.
Then he is a better criminal.
Nobody is stopped by punishment, but society goes on thinking that it is because the wrong has to be stopped that we punish. Both are wrong: society has some other reason -- it takes revenge.
And the criminal, he also understands -- because egos understand each other's language very easily, howsoever unconscious -- the criminal also thinks, "Okay, I will take revenge when my time comes, I will see." Then a conflict exists between the criminal's ego and society's ego.
OshO
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