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Piracy is the enemy of many people mainly software companies and people from the music industry and movie industry. They earn money from selling their music, selling the movies, selling their software on digital storage media, CDs, DVDs, or sometimes online downloadable goods. And it is very well known in many countries, that some people even manufacture pirated CDs and DVDs and sell them at a very cheap price, way lower than the current market value. Even if they may be lower in quality, to the consumer, nothing beats a real cheap price. And there are companies that have been profitable in this illegal business that has greatly affected the movie industry, music industry and software industry.

But with the current trend of P2P softwares coming out, from Kazaa, Morpheus, Limewire, Ares, BitTorrent and all these other P2P softwares which most were inspired by the old Napster, one of the first music file sharing software. With these softwares which have always been the enemies of the RIAA and MPAA, are not only ruining the music industry, movie industry and software industry, but they are also actually affecting the CD and DVD piracy duplicators. Since why do you need to pay if you can get them for free? Oh well, I guess P2P will not stop and if I were in these industries, I guess I would evolve into try and make new revenue streams from this system. I really do not know how yet, but there should be a way.

This is just actually only my own term for what is happening. What is actually burning out is me, due to so many technical problems with a super long to-do list. I can barely finish due to physical exhaustion. I have a web hosting, design and development business I can barely manage with the lack of the proper tool and with the presence of continuous growth. With this continuous growth I decided to make my 2007 a passing selling year and just concentrate on my systems.

• My Billing System - I am buying AccountLabPlus, It can easily integrate with my whole hosting business, domain business, has a good trouble ticket system and will solve many of the billing headaches I have.
• My Project Management System - I will working a lot with ActiveCollab, since this is powerful and fully opensource and will get my whole team on the learning curve of using this.
• My Customer Support System - Although AccountLabPlus has a good trouble ticket system included with it, I will signup with a good VOIP company which I am undecided yet who I am going to sign up with and activate a 1-800 number and employ a home-based techsupport chick in the Philippines. Don’t know who yet also. And she will work on working hours of Pacific Standard Time.

Since I also work full time and I also do business full time after work, this is a real burnout. But what the heck, I need to face it. I’m just really burned out and working like a robot right now. Wish me luck with my managing efforts.

As I was driving home, I passed by Paseo Cardiel and I found it nice to see a lot of homes lighting up this Christmas Season. And it seems to be something common on that street as neighbors are all lighting up their houses. All for the spirit of Christmas and they do no mind spending a bit more on electricity. And if you are on a tight budget and wants to keep a good watch on your electrical usage and cannot afford the extra bills to light up your house with Christmas lights, can you imagine all the electricity consumed by Las Vegas? How much electricity are they spending? I myself have no exact value for that, but with all the electricity they spend, it actually generates even more money for the city’s main income, from the tourism and convention industry. It generates a lot that businesses do not have city or state income tax since the state pays for this from these industries. It has attracted many business to set up Las Vegas companies and even people has seriously looked into Las Vegas real estate that has boomed not so long ago with an increase of population of 83% from April 1990 to April 2000.

This once was vast land with nothing on it and today it is one big booming cities with lights that go on and on every night. Most of America’s power supply is generated by power plants based on oil, using fossil fuels unless the area is geographical ideal for alternative sources of power. And Las Vegas just seems to be in a very ideal area.

Just by the border of Nevada and Arizona, is where the Colorado river passes and this used to overflow after the winter season as snow melts from the rocky mountains and causes problems to farming communities below. But this problem was solved into an opportunity to make used of hydro-electrical power and the Hoover dam was constructed . Construction started in 1931 and finished in 1936 and just looking at the vast large size of the dam can put you in awe. But this is also a technology marvel as well as an economy booster. When the Nevada legislature has legalized gambling in 1931, in it’s efforts to lift the state from the Great Depression, this amazing technological construction has aided the area economically. Currently the Hoover Dam powers Arizona, Nevada, and many areas of southern California, 23.4% of Hoover Dam’s electricity generated is consumed by Nevada.

The Colorado River has a portion that was like a funnel where both sites where solid rock mountains and this small area seemed to be perfect for building a dam. And when the dam sa created, it created also the largest man-made lake because of the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead.

Photo: Wikipedia - Lake Mead

In the image above is a very far image where this big river, Colorado just looks like a thin line, and with the Hoover Dam that you can not even see well in the photo above has controlled the flow of the river making the large lake. Below is a closer satellite photograph of Lake Mead but the dam still barely visible.

Photo: Gateway to Astronaut Photography posted on Intute: Science, Engineering, Technology

You can see that large body of water all going through that small funnel like a geographical masterpiece for a hydro-electric plant.

Photo: Google Maps

Here is the Hoover Dam. You can see the 4 intake towers where water flows in. Then they go through very large tubes running inside the sides of the mountain rock and is distributed flowing downward to the power turbines below. Although the flow still has to be controlled, depending on weather conditions, there are diversion tunnels that can adjust the flow. Below is the plan of the Hoover Dam when it was constructed.

Photo: Wikipedia - Hoover Dam

Image below of the top of the Hoover Dam, which is also a bridge for automobiles.

A very big dam, can generate large amounts of electrical power. And this power plant generates power supplied to Arizona, Nevada and several parts of Southern California and imagine the power Las Vegas Nevada needs. Excellent Engineering.