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Bill Seitz is a Product Manager/CTO with a track-record building agile product-development teams for start-ups, seeking a senior role in entrepreneurial organization building disruptive Internet-driven products.
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by BillSeitz
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Oct 25, 2008 11:27 pm |
Offerings, such as benefits or entertainments, intended to placate discontent or distract attention from a policy or situation. http://www.bartleby.com/61/39/B0463950.html
Juvenal on the Roman Empire: "Two things only the people anxiously desire - bread and circuses." The government kept the Roman populace happy by distributing free food and staging huge Spec Tacle-s.
alternate version: Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2003/02-10-2003/vo19no03_bread.htm
even a Star Trek episode
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog