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8/22/17
8/21/17
Was an Interesting Eclipse; Not Hale-Bopp Though
The eclipse was interesting...something less than totality here although it darkened enough that the birds started singing as it became lighter.
I took a few poor photos covering the lense with my eclipspe glasses. That distorted the photos and produced interesting images.
It's possible Democrats will blame Pres. Trump for the sky darkening. At least the event suggest that global cooling might be achieved in a real emergency with some sort of adjustable screen serving to partially block out sunlight.
I took a few poor photos covering the lense with my eclipspe glasses. That distorted the photos and produced interesting images.
It's possible Democrats will blame Pres. Trump for the sky darkening. At least the event suggest that global cooling might be achieved in a real emergency with some sort of adjustable screen serving to partially block out sunlight.
8/20/17
Politics of Blocking Social Media Trolls
The politics of blocking social media supposedly is a gray
area. Like the national debt, the lack of quality dental service for the poor,
and preventing the U.S.A. from evolving to no more than a cheapest labor, no
corporate tax zone for global plutocrats as an equivalent to airport duty-free
shops. Government has trouble in deciding how to handle trolls attacking its
social media web sites.
The fault lies mostly with Twitter, Facebook and others that
allow hostile posts to co-exist with the good. If the primary page user is to
really ‘own’ his page he or she needs the ability to edit what appears there or
deny it altogether as any newspaper or magazine editor would.
The primary user generally does not have the ability to sort
all posts into good input or troll- the equivalent of spam. Politicians need to
be sensitive about the right of people to express their true opinions to those
in political office-or even to political offices and departments, yet primary
page user politicians also need to keep bad trolls from taking over the primary
user page. The easiest and most democratic thing to do would be for Twitter and
Facebook to create different streams of comments paths that the primary user
may sort comments into if he wants, rather than to just delete them.
http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Alaska-Legislature-looks-into-social-media-blocking-441151523.html
How Would a Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Bruce Lee Fight Have Gone?
Mayweather's March 26 opponent has said that for Mayweather to train against a martial arts opponent as good as he is he would have to resurrect Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was a great Wing Chun kung fu figher of course, yet if restricted to nothing beyond legal boxing rules could he have survived seven rounds with Mayweather, Marvin Haglar, Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns or Sugar Ray Leonard? I am skeptical about that.
WIng Chun kung fu controls the center line and moves forward to attack as a defensive method.One drives one's opponent backward off-balance and counter-punches a lot. Yet kung fu evidently uses a lot of different parts of the body to strike including elbows, knees, back hands etc. None of that is permitted in boxing, and neither are rabbit punches or intentional head buts.
One of the best things about wing chun fighters are chain punches with real speed. I doubt if that happens much even in MMA events though. Maybe Conner McGregor can execute one of those back flips with a heal strike on the top of Mayweather's head- who knows? It is certain that it would be an illegal kick however, as would be all of those brilliant Bruce Lee kicks. That style never caught on in professional boxing.
http://mmajunkie.com/2017/08/conor-mcgregor-floyd-mayweather-cant-train-for-me-without-resurrecting-bruce-lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mILPqwesNE Hagler vs Hearns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nf-i-V6HGU Hagler vs Duran Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHpqGaU_uI Leonard vs Hagler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_RPg9gRkVA 50 Best Mayweather punches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXATamxkUUA Mayweather vs. Leonard theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsrTEi_DLbM Bruce Lee Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6n-BbXk488 McGregor Highlights
WIng Chun kung fu controls the center line and moves forward to attack as a defensive method.One drives one's opponent backward off-balance and counter-punches a lot. Yet kung fu evidently uses a lot of different parts of the body to strike including elbows, knees, back hands etc. None of that is permitted in boxing, and neither are rabbit punches or intentional head buts.
One of the best things about wing chun fighters are chain punches with real speed. I doubt if that happens much even in MMA events though. Maybe Conner McGregor can execute one of those back flips with a heal strike on the top of Mayweather's head- who knows? It is certain that it would be an illegal kick however, as would be all of those brilliant Bruce Lee kicks. That style never caught on in professional boxing.
http://mmajunkie.com/2017/08/conor-mcgregor-floyd-mayweather-cant-train-for-me-without-resurrecting-bruce-lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mILPqwesNE Hagler vs Hearns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nf-i-V6HGU Hagler vs Duran Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHpqGaU_uI Leonard vs Hagler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_RPg9gRkVA 50 Best Mayweather punches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXATamxkUUA Mayweather vs. Leonard theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsrTEi_DLbM Bruce Lee Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6n-BbXk488 McGregor Highlights
My Gestalt (a poem)
My
Gestalt has everything just so
figures
of dreams
conversations
of creation
white
supremists struggling
blacks
with machine guns killing for Congo
drums
from every continent
incessantly
beating a rhythm of life
Arranged
valleys and hills on the becrusted world
aged
beyond the molten stage
phenomenal
fields of quarks strung along
ideas
of existential analysis
Moons
awaiting drone probes
and
4-D print-out cities
My
Gestalt has infinite parts
though
the whole is greater than their sum
God
with one Universal field-mind
One
with three persons
and
17 trillion billion zero-dimensional points
some
place where angels dance and sing
selects those He would save.
selects those He would save.
Two Minor Issues with E-Bay
Chinese producers evidentally are haters of Alaska and Hawaii since they won't mail anything there from e-bay commonly. For decades the U.S. postal service have delivered packages to Alaska via dog sled and to Hawaii via Polynesian catamaran, so why do the Chinese exclude those two states in the back of beyond and include the 48 states and District of Columbia.
The Trump administration Justice Department might want to start a hate crimes investigation on China policy at e-bay.
The other issue is with the sorting gap. With thousands of Chinese producers listing their products that won't ship to Alaska and Hawaii, it would be helpful to be able to sort by country of product origin to find U.S. producers- that needle in a haystack effort, who can actually send a product to Alaska.
THere are Chinese producers with forwarding offices in China and Arizona that also won't mail anything to Alaska and Hawaii, and they definately should be included on the hate crimes investigation roster.
The Trump administration Justice Department might want to start a hate crimes investigation on China policy at e-bay.
The other issue is with the sorting gap. With thousands of Chinese producers listing their products that won't ship to Alaska and Hawaii, it would be helpful to be able to sort by country of product origin to find U.S. producers- that needle in a haystack effort, who can actually send a product to Alaska.
THere are Chinese producers with forwarding offices in China and Arizona that also won't mail anything to Alaska and Hawaii, and they definately should be included on the hate crimes investigation roster.
8/19/17
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