I do not wish to overly upon the philosophical concepts of Taoism to metaphorize the watercourse way of flowing social and empirical events. It is merely convenient to borrow the metaphor of a continuum of change; of force flowing, in order to describe the interactive phenomena of pacifist actions in a phenomenal world of force.
Social and worldly change is about force and of course violence is regarded by some as the use of force. Flowing water has force only in relation to other objects-for-themselves, and also when the water is confined to a finite area from which it seeks to release or be renormalized to a state of non-force equilibrium.
The universe is a phenomenality of force fields and elements in deteriorating states of equilibrium. The tremendous mystery is how the initial state of the Universe began in perfect order without entropy only to expand and decay toward a new equilibrium at the lowest, coldest energy state at some future time not yet achieved. Us Christians believe that God spoke the Word and the Universe began ‘let there be light’, and there was light’. Well, that is a more parochial topic for the time being.
If one philosophically is in opposition to violence on moral grounds, perhaps reasoning that violence is stupid because there are many smarter things to do in life, should one then choose to act upon others and force one’s belief in the use of non-force upon the unwilling, predatory and ignorant hordes?
Perhaps acting within the world-for-others or within the dialectical social materialism of the era one might divert violent actions and policies toward non-violent, more productive applications of force. Human dynamics are within a violent continuum in-themselves and simply direct action to stop violence tends to produce violent such as in particle accelerator collisions at CERN.
Obviously redirecting violence to non-violent directions within a real social environment with semi-autonomous, moderately intelligent persons being the context of violent action, secular hypocrisy, deceit and so forth might require that one be as wise as a serpent and as gentle as a dove. Well, that worked for Jesus Christ until the arrest, trial and suffering unto death of The Lord.
Even if only God could divide the waters allowing the Jews to flee Pharaoh’s secular violent cavalry and power of slave-owning, pacifists today might moderate the social flow indirectly putting intention to transition states of affairs into non-violent contexts. It wouldn’t be easy I would think.
2/14/12
Obama 2012 Budget-Chinese 2012 Budget-Pres Obama Meets Vice President Xi (pronounced She?)
President Obama's 2012 budget has been criticized for kicking the debt further down the road and borrowing money to squeak through a second term. The 'after me the deluge' approach worked for President Bush II so why not for Obama I?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/14/us-usa-china-idUSTRE81D08R20120214?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
Of more interest is the Chinese 2012 budget that was released in December. It has an anticipated GDP growth of 8%, and as the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business advertised in The Economist 'A new world operating system is now running.'
What that means for Americans in effect is that China has a moderately effective one-party political system that plans and structures its national economy much better than America's polarized democracy that has substantively schizoid political philosophy underwriting it . American democracy is owned by the rich from Super Pacs to ordinary run of the million dollar congressional campaign seats, and the populous is about ass incompetent as it could get with all of the confused, incompetent ideas from their leaders even about what the U.S. economic goals should be. Rush Limbaugh is perhaps the roll model for Lenin's notion that 'capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with'..
America's democracy in head to head competition with China's one-party system may lose the economic race because the middle class and rich are just too damn comfortable to think about political philosophy enough to do the nation any good.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/14/us-usa-china-idUSTRE81D08R20120214?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
Of more interest is the Chinese 2012 budget that was released in December. It has an anticipated GDP growth of 8%, and as the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business advertised in The Economist 'A new world operating system is now running.'
What that means for Americans in effect is that China has a moderately effective one-party political system that plans and structures its national economy much better than America's polarized democracy that has substantively schizoid political philosophy underwriting it . American democracy is owned by the rich from Super Pacs to ordinary run of the million dollar congressional campaign seats, and the populous is about ass incompetent as it could get with all of the confused, incompetent ideas from their leaders even about what the U.S. economic goals should be. Rush Limbaugh is perhaps the roll model for Lenin's notion that 'capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with'..
America's democracy in head to head competition with China's one-party system may lose the economic race because the middle class and rich are just too damn comfortable to think about political philosophy enough to do the nation any good.
Eureka! Wall Street and the U.S. Economy
It is well known that the modern quantitative trading programming of elite Wall Street firms began in the 1960s with the adaptation of a Monte Carlo algorithm invented by John Von Neuman in the 1940s to winning at Black Jack by card counting and calculating odds (How to Beat the Dealer) to stock trading. in the 1960s Actual gambling casinos soon learned to recognize and ban card counters from playing yet free enterprise continued in I Vegas. On Wall Street alternatively quantitative computer managed ‘card counting’ was allowed and invested in heavily with supporting government deregulation. The result is the national concentration of wealth.
http://www.columbia.edu/~mh2078/MCS04/MCS_framework_FEegs.pdf
When ordinary free enterprise risk is submerged within a meta-structure of quantitative trading gaming of the system capitalism has become detached from its incidental role of building up as a result of meritorious free enterprise. The house loses when quantitative trading card counting’ quality trading programs skim vast amounts of investments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhC1Qb-PQ5Q
http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/eureqa_download
There are new artificial intelligence algorithms emerging these days that will also affect Wall Street and reinforce new ‘card-counting’ players. I would like a word processing program that respond to my verbal instructions to insert page breaks or headers wherever I say, such as at any words in bold type, yet that kind of word processing though resembling A.I. would have none of the deeply analytical quality of Eureqa-a new program to distill equations for physical systems such as gravity.
Governments should at least be cognizant of the .A.I. gaming potential for economics and instead of degrading citizens to abstract units while raising the value of elite Quantitative programmers of wealth concentration it should detach ordinary business and citizen capital from subjection to the pervasive, networks and predatory traders.
New Science ran an article on Eureqa in January and reported that the free to download program has been downloaded more than 25,000 times. It is a first rate program that could be tasked by people for purposes of forming analytical structures and equations able to game up Wall Street better indirectly dumping more disadvantage on the mere inventive enterprisers with a streak of Thomas Edison in their spirit.
Evidently Eureqa can be given select parameters and select data and calculate what equations would represent the relationships amidst the data accurate. In time such programs as Eureqa might allow development of artificial intelligence computer viruses able to adaptively conceal their existence within a data structure perhaps arriving in bits to infiltrate firewalls and reassemble before dispersing for cellular community organizing of guerrilla insurgencies.
Adaptive artificial intelligence systems for quantitative gaming of Wall Street might be a logical step beyond the next step of predation upon traditional capitalized business structures listed electronically on Wall Street. Trading structures for quantitative artificially intelligence directed leveraging for arbitrage is one possibility for the too rich to govern and too politically challenging to regulate corruptions of democracy in the U.S.A. along with the primary institution of independent, home free enterprise.
When the card-counters enter the game all of the house mortgage holders lose.
http://www.columbia.edu/~mh2078/MCS04/MCS_framework_FEegs.pdf
When ordinary free enterprise risk is submerged within a meta-structure of quantitative trading gaming of the system capitalism has become detached from its incidental role of building up as a result of meritorious free enterprise. The house loses when quantitative trading card counting’ quality trading programs skim vast amounts of investments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhC1Qb-PQ5Q
http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/eureqa_download
There are new artificial intelligence algorithms emerging these days that will also affect Wall Street and reinforce new ‘card-counting’ players. I would like a word processing program that respond to my verbal instructions to insert page breaks or headers wherever I say, such as at any words in bold type, yet that kind of word processing though resembling A.I. would have none of the deeply analytical quality of Eureqa-a new program to distill equations for physical systems such as gravity.
Governments should at least be cognizant of the .A.I. gaming potential for economics and instead of degrading citizens to abstract units while raising the value of elite Quantitative programmers of wealth concentration it should detach ordinary business and citizen capital from subjection to the pervasive, networks and predatory traders.
New Science ran an article on Eureqa in January and reported that the free to download program has been downloaded more than 25,000 times. It is a first rate program that could be tasked by people for purposes of forming analytical structures and equations able to game up Wall Street better indirectly dumping more disadvantage on the mere inventive enterprisers with a streak of Thomas Edison in their spirit.
Evidently Eureqa can be given select parameters and select data and calculate what equations would represent the relationships amidst the data accurate. In time such programs as Eureqa might allow development of artificial intelligence computer viruses able to adaptively conceal their existence within a data structure perhaps arriving in bits to infiltrate firewalls and reassemble before dispersing for cellular community organizing of guerrilla insurgencies.
Adaptive artificial intelligence systems for quantitative gaming of Wall Street might be a logical step beyond the next step of predation upon traditional capitalized business structures listed electronically on Wall Street. Trading structures for quantitative artificially intelligence directed leveraging for arbitrage is one possibility for the too rich to govern and too politically challenging to regulate corruptions of democracy in the U.S.A. along with the primary institution of independent, home free enterprise.
When the card-counters enter the game all of the house mortgage holders lose.
2/11/12
Santorum Finishes 3rd in Maine Without Campaigning
Rick Santorum's 18% of the vote was not too bad for a candidate that did not campaign in the state. Mitt Romney and Ron Paul who did actively seek after Maine support finished with 39% and 36% respectively.
Arizona and Michigan are the next stops on the Republican primary battleground. February 28th will determine if Santorum or Romney are equally popular in t state two non-partisan North and Southwest.
Arizona and Michigan are the next stops on the Republican primary battleground. February 28th will determine if Santorum or Romney are equally popular in t state two non-partisan North and Southwest.
Mediterranean-Dead Sea Canal Update
For generations visionaries have sought to bring the Dead Sea back to life.
With a 1200 foot difference between sea level in the Med and Dead seas the concept of filling the 1200 feet below sea level canal has been considered at least since 1855. The most recent idea is to exploit the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway tunnel to run a pipeline.
Some objections to resurrecting the declining Dead Sea might be made by the lucrative brine to sodium, potassium, magnesium chloride businesses as well as others.
It is hard to guess what archaeological treasures might be lost forever if the water level is raised 1200 feet; maybe ancient scrolls?
If the project could help Mediterranean tuna recover to robust numbers the canal route might be better. First though, the depths need to be scoured for artifacts by drone submersibles until nothing could be overlooked including evidence of the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah though there may be nothing at all left of those best forgotten settlements of reprobates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean%E2%80%93Dead_Sea_Canal
With a 1200 foot difference between sea level in the Med and Dead seas the concept of filling the 1200 feet below sea level canal has been considered at least since 1855. The most recent idea is to exploit the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway tunnel to run a pipeline.
Some objections to resurrecting the declining Dead Sea might be made by the lucrative brine to sodium, potassium, magnesium chloride businesses as well as others.
It is hard to guess what archaeological treasures might be lost forever if the water level is raised 1200 feet; maybe ancient scrolls?
If the project could help Mediterranean tuna recover to robust numbers the canal route might be better. First though, the depths need to be scoured for artifacts by drone submersibles until nothing could be overlooked including evidence of the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah though there may be nothing at all left of those best forgotten settlements of reprobates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean%E2%80%93Dead_Sea_Canal
Quantum Simulations Study Hydrogen Under Pressure
Hydrogen is the simplest known element. One might argue that fields-even dark energy fields and gravity comprise different kinds of elements I suppose. Hydrogen with a single proton and neutron and one electron per valence shell was the basic element of matter generated through the particle-wave zoo at the start of the present phase of the known Universe. Scientists have simulated how hydrogen behaves under intense pressure and increased heat...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100623165125.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen
Hydrogen behavior under pressure is interesting because as large clouds of hydrogen drew together under gravity pressure increased perhaps as in the simulation. Large gaseous planets may have formed and used similar phase transition processes.
Electrical exchanges increased under pressure and maybe that generates heat (the physics report did not explain, although sometimes electrical wires get warm with a lot of flow through too small of a wire).
I should mention that hydrogen has more than one form. With exchanges or loss of particles such a a neutron the charge of hydrogen can change. If deuterium forms then helium and fusion may occur with enough material and of course if stars form and nova in time other elements are produced that can go into the formation of different clumps of matter.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100623165125.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen
Hydrogen behavior under pressure is interesting because as large clouds of hydrogen drew together under gravity pressure increased perhaps as in the simulation. Large gaseous planets may have formed and used similar phase transition processes.
Electrical exchanges increased under pressure and maybe that generates heat (the physics report did not explain, although sometimes electrical wires get warm with a lot of flow through too small of a wire).
I should mention that hydrogen has more than one form. With exchanges or loss of particles such a a neutron the charge of hydrogen can change. If deuterium forms then helium and fusion may occur with enough material and of course if stars form and nova in time other elements are produced that can go into the formation of different clumps of matter.
2/10/12
Smart Pebbles Developments For Anti-Aircraft Evolving?
The smart pebbles Star Wars anti-missile development program may have evolved a modern high-speed direct-fire kinetic anti-aircraft weapon trend for shooting at aircraft with a muzzle velocity of 20,000 M.P.H. -who can say what government and industry spend money on?
http://www.9abc.net/index.php/archives/7369
The electro-magnetic anti-aircraft gun isn't like the WW II Bophurs anti-aircraft cannon. Anti-aircraft weapons were largely replaced by anti-aircraft missiles after the Korean War. The newer era of anti-aircraft weapons may be another reason why conventional human-piloted aircraft are slowly being replaced by drone aircraft and stealth; they are smaller and less valuable and easier to conceal from ground crews.
The entire issue of proliferation of electro-magnetic 'cannon' is one that should concern civilians as it could be a future inter-continental ballistic 'stone' technology able to hit cities with conventional sabots. It human beings were as smart at reforming capitalism, communism and other global networks of power that inhibit individual free enterprise as they are at weapons development they would have a better chance for survival beyond a few decades on Earth.
I would guess that for the defense industry finding enemies may be an essential part of the dialectic of defense weapons development. Without credible enemies the rationale for developing large scale weapons programs is difficult to politically justify.
The possibilities for direct electro-magnetic kinetic weapons uses in space may be a driver for the future development of mass-driver accelerators of sabots to supplement the usual laser 'speed of light' technologies.
http://www.9abc.net/index.php/archives/7369
The electro-magnetic anti-aircraft gun isn't like the WW II Bophurs anti-aircraft cannon. Anti-aircraft weapons were largely replaced by anti-aircraft missiles after the Korean War. The newer era of anti-aircraft weapons may be another reason why conventional human-piloted aircraft are slowly being replaced by drone aircraft and stealth; they are smaller and less valuable and easier to conceal from ground crews.
The entire issue of proliferation of electro-magnetic 'cannon' is one that should concern civilians as it could be a future inter-continental ballistic 'stone' technology able to hit cities with conventional sabots. It human beings were as smart at reforming capitalism, communism and other global networks of power that inhibit individual free enterprise as they are at weapons development they would have a better chance for survival beyond a few decades on Earth.
I would guess that for the defense industry finding enemies may be an essential part of the dialectic of defense weapons development. Without credible enemies the rationale for developing large scale weapons programs is difficult to politically justify.
The possibilities for direct electro-magnetic kinetic weapons uses in space may be a driver for the future development of mass-driver accelerators of sabots to supplement the usual laser 'speed of light' technologies.
President Obams's Effort to Force Prophylaxis On Church Organizations and Schools Fails
President Obama's effort to force churches and schools to provide free birth control to employees has failed for now. One wonders about the idea that birth control is a health issue at all.
Certainly food is a health issue; without food one dies. Without intercourse one can survive indefinitely-even sailors adrift in lifeboats at sea have been known to survive several weeks.
A legal problem may exist in government regulations to require that anyone supply birth control paraphenalia to minors for whom sex is probably illegal in many circumstances. So the issue is actually reducible to sex between married couples. The Government might give a few free rubbers to adults, yet on a sustainable basis they should get rubber stamps or something to ditto the decrease of population from the I.R.S. as a tax rebate or give one dollar to a Presidential campaign fund.
I really don't know if birth control pills require a prescription. If they are available over-the-counter then married couples should get rubber stamps generically useful for pills if they can prove they are very poor and don't want to have kids, or more kids. Perhaps the Obama administration will next also seek to legalize happy suicide pills eventually as health care for society to reduce over-population.
Unmarrried should be able to afford birth control for-themselves for a quickie or two, and for protracted fornication they should really not expect taxpayers to supply the condomnations.
Actually men's gas station restrooms sell rubbers for 50 or 75 cents. Maybe women's restrooms should have those to so females can whip out a rubber from their purses when they feel the need to liberate their libido with close contact of the sexual kind.
If minors want to perpetrate sexual activities leading to pregnancy and gestation plainly they should expend on a super-deluxe rubber if they don't want to make the spring planting a family thing in the future.
It is good that the President has rolled back his decretal that a saturation of church groups and organization with rubbers and whatever to stop births. Maybe a new committee can be formed to investigate the several important issues in Congress.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/10/us-usa-contraceptives-idUSTRE8181MX20120210?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
Certainly food is a health issue; without food one dies. Without intercourse one can survive indefinitely-even sailors adrift in lifeboats at sea have been known to survive several weeks.
A legal problem may exist in government regulations to require that anyone supply birth control paraphenalia to minors for whom sex is probably illegal in many circumstances. So the issue is actually reducible to sex between married couples. The Government might give a few free rubbers to adults, yet on a sustainable basis they should get rubber stamps or something to ditto the decrease of population from the I.R.S. as a tax rebate or give one dollar to a Presidential campaign fund.
I really don't know if birth control pills require a prescription. If they are available over-the-counter then married couples should get rubber stamps generically useful for pills if they can prove they are very poor and don't want to have kids, or more kids. Perhaps the Obama administration will next also seek to legalize happy suicide pills eventually as health care for society to reduce over-population.
Unmarrried should be able to afford birth control for-themselves for a quickie or two, and for protracted fornication they should really not expect taxpayers to supply the condomnations.
Actually men's gas station restrooms sell rubbers for 50 or 75 cents. Maybe women's restrooms should have those to so females can whip out a rubber from their purses when they feel the need to liberate their libido with close contact of the sexual kind.
If minors want to perpetrate sexual activities leading to pregnancy and gestation plainly they should expend on a super-deluxe rubber if they don't want to make the spring planting a family thing in the future.
It is good that the President has rolled back his decretal that a saturation of church groups and organization with rubbers and whatever to stop births. Maybe a new committee can be formed to investigate the several important issues in Congress.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/10/us-usa-contraceptives-idUSTRE8181MX20120210?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
PDF/EPUB Computer Program Upgrade Criteria?
I saw a woman using American sign language to talk with someone else today via the internet camera. That makes me wonder if there are visual sign language translators to change that into synthetic speech.
Adobe's speech synthesizer in version nine reads well enough yet still sounds rather flaky. I hope they can improve it.
One place they can definately improve things is in adapting PDFs to become EPUB files more easily than the present EPUB format that is not at all friendly for poetry and books that aren't written with just chapters such as in prose fiction. If one wants a chronlogical order without conventional chapters to use custom line indentations it is difficult.
A writer should not need to adapt his book to a computer language format designed for programmers instead of literary needs, and PDF should be able to let simple conformal criteria for placing breaks in existing PDF files enable PDF files to meet EPUB logic for book sales purposes.
Adobe's speech synthesizer in version nine reads well enough yet still sounds rather flaky. I hope they can improve it.
One place they can definately improve things is in adapting PDFs to become EPUB files more easily than the present EPUB format that is not at all friendly for poetry and books that aren't written with just chapters such as in prose fiction. If one wants a chronlogical order without conventional chapters to use custom line indentations it is difficult.
A writer should not need to adapt his book to a computer language format designed for programmers instead of literary needs, and PDF should be able to let simple conformal criteria for placing breaks in existing PDF files enable PDF files to meet EPUB logic for book sales purposes.
Reasons Why (a poem)
If wind is a metaphor of illimitable change
through which appearances in existence of crumbling shadows
arising as so many dawns and dusks structured
with nothingness transformed into colors
for moments and nothing else
buildings moved through paper
cast within history's stream
of ticking clocks
Adjusting to the adjustments of gravitational compaction
drawing substance dispersed to a membrane of ever
itself a contingency in timelessness
events and space crashing before time
changes micro-data bits to things with wings
The One is before and immediately for the appearances
standing upon eternity's edge
every transcending beingness collecting the waters of time flowing with the amazement of change
reduced to everywhere.
through which appearances in existence of crumbling shadows
arising as so many dawns and dusks structured
with nothingness transformed into colors
for moments and nothing else
buildings moved through paper
cast within history's stream
of ticking clocks
Adjusting to the adjustments of gravitational compaction
drawing substance dispersed to a membrane of ever
itself a contingency in timelessness
events and space crashing before time
changes micro-data bits to things with wings
The One is before and immediately for the appearances
standing upon eternity's edge
every transcending beingness collecting the waters of time flowing with the amazement of change
reduced to everywhere.
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