Dealing with the death of a pet is, for some people, an event from which they never recover. Where once we just buried pets in the backyard under a foot of dirt — or dumped the carcass in the trash bin like garbage–many now honor their deceased pets with cremation, mausoleums, headstones and other burial rites that were formerly reserved in the domain of people.
Why do so many large businesses forget that people are the key to creating projects that find success and resonance in the marketplace?
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Established mainstream authors like John Updike are furious with Google for scanning books into the public domain and they’re angry with publishers that choose to sell electronic editions of books — any book. We argue authors like Updike are angry because their specialness in publication is being ravaged by the equanimity and the equality of the digital publishing, print-on-demand, business model creeping into the book world.
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Evil propagates the world over via the misled good intentions of honorable people.
We love cats.
We love dogs.
We love all animals.
We do not, however, love all animal owners and in our direct experience and in our non-scientific research, we have come to the following conclusion: Cat People are better than Dog Folk and we’ll tell you why.
Freedom Over Control
Cats love to roam while dogs hang around. Cats are active explorers; dogs merely accompany.
Cats are self-entertaining — dogs need to perform for others to find self-satisfaction.
Independence Over Obedience
You do not tell cats what to do; you only make suggestions. Dogs live to be ordered around.
Cats choose owners that believe in liberty, freedom and The American Way and that means cats are self-providers: They can hunt down and kill their own dinner.
Dogs are bound to those who leash, command, and demand slobbering affection; dogs depend on the kindness of others to have their feed bowls filled twice-a-day.
Cats climb trees and fall from them without getting hurt. Dogs chase cats up trees so they can wonder at the example of “Falling, But Living” in the example of Nine Lives.
Pooping Over Eating Poo
Cats do not eat their own poo — dogs do. Enough said.
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