USA Doesn't Need A Large Military Base in Poland

 Poland has apparently nothing better to do than throw money away on the solicitation of a new U.S. military base. Two billion dollars is a nice chunk of change to entice the U.S.A. to build a fortress in Poland right on the border with sharp sticks in the ground pointing at where the Hun will attack. With 21 U.S. Army bases in Germany already, and the Rammstein concern, why bother?

Air power probably would solve the next war (and who can wait for that!). If not drone aircraft perhaps drone water-to land breathing vehicles with A.I. to attack from under the sea at points unknown before the amphibs arrive. Poland should spend two billion dollars on good weapons for the people's militia home defense forces and Bibles.

When the Huns attack from Russia in their bizerker mode hyped up on hip-hop dope in the tanks with the shark-teeth paint jobs the U.S. and the NATO partners will catch them in a pincers movement attacking from the East and South until the Brits arrive via air drop to surprise the opposition forces.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poland-seeks-permanent-us-troop-presence-to-deter-russia/ar-AAxW1Yx?ocid=spartanntp

What would Martin Van Creveld have to say about it?

Musk's News Rating Site Pravduh com Has No Content Yet

  Billionaire entrepreneur/Ceo Elon Musk indicated he would create a web site to rate journalists on truth content and in effect chastise them with low ratings for resembling a propaganda service equivalent of organized crime with misleading disinformation . He bought the url pravduh.com for the service. I checked the site and it is blank. He is welcome to rerun my blog posts at his site until he has content worth publishing. (with an rss feed).

 http://pravduh.com/

https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-rss-2483592

 I suggest that Musk may want to use a quantitative approach until he can rate individual journalists.

For instance he can give a broadcast network anywhere from -4 to +4 stars. CNN for example, could be a -2.3 and Fox News a +2.3.

It might be useful for the journalist rating service also to evaluate federal politicians qualifications if a candidate and job performance if an office holder. Corporations also might be rated for ecospheric economic value.

Putin's Leadership Isn't the Worst Case for Russia

 Crimea became Russian in 1783; for years before the U.S. Constitution was signed into law. It remained part of Russia even after the Soviet Union took over and made it a semi-autonomous oblast yet still within national law. The Crimea has been a part of national Russia for as long as the existence of the U.S.A. and in fact even before. In the middle ages before the Mongol and Muslim invasions the Crimea was part of Russia.

 Europe has looked toward invading Russia for more than a thousand years. It is true that Europeans such as the Germans, French and Polish were not the only invaders for those came from the east and south as well. Even the United States sent 2000 soldiers to fight in Russia during the Russian civil war of 1917. Alternatively besides the perennial Polish-Russian fighting over land (Poland has extended its power all the way to Moscow in the past), the defeat of Sweden’s King Carl Gustav and the Finland issue, Russia has never really been an aggressor against Europe.  Russian President Vladimir Putin has continued the tradition of Russian being a non-aggressor against Europe.

 Some point to the history of Red Army forces rolling up the German Army and other military forces occupying Eastern Europe during the Second World War as an example of Russian aggression, and that’s just wrong. Russia lost more than 20 million dead because of the German war against it and Stalin’s bad leadership. Russia fought for its survival and won and 50 years after liberating Eastern Europe gave those lands it had liberated independence. Unfortunately the west levered some of Russia too for itself as a kind of bonus. Of course I mean the Crimea and Ukraine.

Former world champion chess grand master Garry Kasparov recently twitted about French President Macron to the effect that he was like Petain cooperating with Hitler.  In my opinion if Mr. Kasparov’s rating at historical analysis were given a chess rating equivalence he would be at best a 1500 player.

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1000765693317603328

President Putin has been a comparative island of stability during his lengthy period of public service transitioning Russia out of potential anarchy, chaos or even fascist leadership or a return to communism and into a reasonably solid state. Russia can stand a lot of improvement. Make no mistake though, Russia could easily have got a lot worse leadership, and after President Putin completes what is likely his final term, possibly worse leadership.

American government cannot usually run balanced budget, eliminate poverty or public debt, and get copyright registration forms to accept credit cards with an expiration date beyond 2025 or secure the real property rights and interests of ordinary American citizens. Its leaders tend to enjoy the high life of diplomacy and glory while scotching important issues of security and environmentalism. Blaming people and pouting are traditional U.S. government foreign policy methods rather than getting things done.

Believe me- Vlad Putin isn’t the worst case scenario. I hope he can pick a successor as good as Boris Yeltsin did.

Pluto Was Major Ice Collector in Early Solar System

Scientists have long known that Pluto had a lot of ice. Now they are calling it a large ice comet. Pluto was probably a large collector of water-ice of the early Universe and holds within its core many secrets of that ancient era. It is quite possible that frozen alien beer remains frozen within (joking that).

https://www.space.com/40687-pluto-formation-1-billion-comets.html

In the early formation of the Universe a lot of water molecules were about. God separated the waters above from those below. Gravity sweeping things around the solar system let myriad snowballs roll up into large things too; such as planet sized objects. If Nibiru exists- planet X, it may be a very large snowball so great in size that if it were to approach the sun, the sun light would be extinguished (joking again).

Genesis 1-6" And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."

That process was probably replicated across the Universe.

A giant snowball planet X could be the key to interstellar secrets and possibly frozen artifacts of star formation. It would be fun to look inside and possibly mine it for pure drinking water.

US Copyright Office Fakes

  In trying to register an electronic copyright application I used a valid AMEX cash card with an expiration date of 2026. The Copyright Office only accepts card to 2025, unlike most businesses online that actually want the consumer's money, so my application was rejected.

 I wrote asking the Copyright Office to upgrade their online application process to at least accept valid cards that expire in 2026 and they wrote back; 

"We would like to continue to process your copyright, but it seems your credit card was declined.  Please advise proper payment information including theexpiration date, CVV, and billing address as that maybe the explanation.   

The total charge is $135.00 plus a $35 filing fee for a single author, same claimant, one work, not for hire or $55 all other filing including more than one work or more than one author."

In other words they asked for an extra $135 dollars for nothing! Authors actually care about registering works in a timely way, and not all people have spare cash to throw away on B.S. I can't wait to see how this resolves.

It turned out that it was a fake U.S. Copyright office web site that I logged in to. That was the reason for all of the problems. After contacting the authentic U.S. Copyright office the situation was satisfactorily resolved.

Musk Media Theory and Supercharger Locations

Elon Musk's excellent model 3 Tesla that goes 0 to 60 M.P.H. in 5.1 seconds with a top speed of 140 M.P.H. and other Tesla plug and play electric powered cars will have super-chargers all over the U.S.A. It is said they can recharge a Tesla in fewer than 30 minutes. So will there be a good coffee station at each location along with highest speed Internet connectivity?

https://www.inverse.com/article/45265-elon-musk-responds-to-complaints-with-global-map-tesla-superchargers

Musk is having some problems with the news media these days as they go on about company cash problems and the late and/or slow delivery date of model 3's. Those things happen. It doesn't mean he will have to sell to Warren Buffet and get a Chinese communist partner or something like that.

Mush should just move up and buy his own media outlet that puts out Musk news with support for his own perspective on the world. Jeff Bezos of Amazon bought the Washington Post. Broadcast news outlets with a little window in the top left corner such as MS Explorer has after the April update to Windows 10 would allow a small, ubiquitous advertisement of the Model 3 while other stories on the media, politics and environmental issues were running. News broadcasting owning is an opportunity to advance your own corporate interests and ideas before those of rivals.

News media today is nothing more than putting out the most glaring, loud opinions about things that will influence the watcher/viewer/receiver of the broadcast as possible. If you are rich and snooze you lose. It is those that cannot afford the loudest media that are suffering. The downtrodden masses yearning to own CNN and agitate propaganda for-themselves and for-others with the true facts about Aunt Mabel’s apple pie can only wait and wonder why Elon Musk, billionaire at large, has to free ride tweets instead of creating his own Internet ranting place where even billionaires can enjoy the phreedom.

The Disquotation Theory of Truth

The disquotation theory of truth basically says that saying that something is true is redundant, yet it saves restating all of the statements about a state of affairs that would be necessary to explain that something is so.

For example; Sally, Jane, Princess, Harry, Jewel and Spike all hate Dickie. All of the preceding people except for Dickie are math students at the Hill School. If someone were to ask if the math students hate Dickie, the easiest answer would be to say that; "Yes, it is true". The alternative would be to say that Sally hates Dickie and Jane hates Dickie and Harry hates Dickie and Jewel hates Dickie and Spike hates Dickie. The disquotation theory comprises a disquotation of the full, formal expression required to explain a state of affairs.

Another example is that of a computer programmer with a list of all of the phone numbers in a city. If someone asks if it is true that all of the numbers have area codes for London the programmer may answer yes it is true or alternatively read out all of the numbers to prove the point is in agreement.

One could call up a a fellow shooting billiards and ask if it is true that all of the balls are round. Instead of saying that the cue ball is round, the 1 ball is round etc . enumerating and confirming that each ball in the rack is round, the billiard player could say; 'it is true'. Truth in a way is a subject-predicate verification of conformity. Truth for humans is a word about words.

Truth theory that is disquotation theory simply means that the reference point questioned about being true or false is in agreement with the conditions that would make it true rather than false. Truth is still about words rather than things in themselves. A description of what things-in-themselves are is also a matter of words. People tend to forget or overlook the fact that all words about anything remain a matter of words and word structures rather than things-in-themselves. People are free to correspond words to objects after deciding what objects are, yet the objects or reality remains imbued with Kant's noumenal reality. That is the field objects in the Higgs field are elements of a Universal for-itself existing independently of human labels.

The Apostle John wrote that “1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God.3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” 

Only God transcends the gulf or ditch between words and objects implicitly. Truth or the coincidence of Word and Objects correspond perfectly solely for God for there is no difference for God, while for humans, they are always on the outside of the perceived objects and Higgs field that they comment about, and about its operations and configurations. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy say that; “The simplest formulation {of disquotation theory} is the claim that expressions of the form ‘S is true’ mean the same as expressions of the form S. “

There isn't a Platonic aspect to truth, unless one refers to God and John's statements about the Word. Truth doesn't exist independently outside human language except for God. That doesn't mean that Platonic forms don't exist; I believe that the forms of force comprising particles are a reasonable facsimile of Plato's ideas applied within a modern and upgraded context.

Will Wal-Mart Make Task Chairs High-Tech?

Ordinary office task chairs run toward variegated degrees of comfort. There are plush leather and pseudo leathers and woven cloth covers over various kinds of comfort foam. Where are the weight scales, time-in-use record keeping, body-temperature and pulse measuring features I wondered. How many technical features could be packed into an office task chair I wonder. Ergonomically speaking the humble task chair is underutilized in nearly every office.

Obviously computers and networking could be built into task chairs. That might be useful for medical devices, management information systems and translating language capabilities or even break entertainment. There must be many things easy to imagine that are far more useful. Perhaps cooking recipe mentoring or Bible scripture verse look-ups.

NFL Player Spies, Seditionists and Canadians Shouldn't Stand for National Anthem

There is no reason why Chinese Communist NFL players and Russian citizens or the broadcast media should stand for the national anthem of the United States. Nor for that matter should any NFL player who is loyal to a hostile foreign government, spying for pay for a foreign entity or devoted to a terrorist organization. Any really weird foreign citizen should take a seat during the playing of the Star Spangled banner and hum along respectfully.  Unreasonable expectations of support for the national anthem should not be taken too far.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/23590560/president-donald-trump-says-nfl-doing-right-thing-anthem-policy

The N.B.A. have a phrase for going to the hoop; they say going to the cup. A cup with as many holes as an N.B.A. hoop and net wouldn't hold a drop of liquid. To a certain extent N.F.L. players taking a knee for the national anthem are equally spaced.

Why should NFL players show any loyalty to the U.S. national anthem when they are playing in the United States? Why not the Russian anthem or that of Botswana? When American football fans pay, cumulatively, billions of dollars to see NFL stars get concussions and brain damage, why should they demand that the players be patriotic? 

When NFL players are getting millions and millions of dollars for sport, why should they care about national and economic interests of ordinary Americans that buy tickets for their games?

Epistemology and Language

Contextualism probably should not be transformed into empirical realism (an oxymoron). Words ought to be used for pragmatic purposes rather than for theoretical juxtapositions and relationships as if they were mathematical entities of Platonic realist states. Skepticism is great. Everyone in the 20th century offered refutations of Descartes it seemed, for one reason or another. Descartes' method was a correct tool for the day to get people thinking about the nature of things and it worked quite well. It still is useful.

Skepticism vs Certainty in language and the correspondence to word and objects. With Pierce one might use language trielectically to attempt to discover new things and it potentially could be productive; at least for an A.I. constructing with tremendous power a vast number of theoretical propositions about the unknown.

https://www.iep.utm.edu/contextu/#SH6c

I have been influenced quite a lot by the linguistic philosophy of W.V.O. Quine, Saul Kripke, P.F. Strawson and others. Word and Object by Quine and Individuals by Strawson consider subjective epistemology vs empiricism. Quine  wrote The Two Dogmas of Empiricism that invalidated the empiricist outlook  convincingly. The boundary between intentional and extensional thought and words are never concisely delineated as empiricists prefer. Words and knowledge about 'external objects' are made from thought too.  One cannot just speak about external objects as if were not also defined  with the mind. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle regarding the observer effect on quantum states is consistent with the ambiguous linguistic paradigm for epistemology.

Quine's 'Ontological Relativity and Other Essays' describe language lexicon-Universes existing each within their own ontology. Each lexicon or ontology is self-standing and the terms are not imbued with an element of Platonic realism about them. To a certain extent words and word phrases in some epistemological debates chase around lexical meanings and agreements. A goldfinch or any other perceptible bird-as-an-object is what it is regardless of what it is perceived One may use Sartre's terms well here about objects in-themselves, for-themselves and for-others. Two philosophers perceiving an elephant each might believe it either a goldfinch or a woodpecker variously, and be wrong about the object in-itself though in agreement that they are correct..

Language truth values in corresponding words to objects have functional accuracy value rather than truth for-itself. A truth theory such as correspondence theory wherein accurate and commonly associated word relations to objects determine the truth of propositions about actual objects perceived, has pragmatic communication value instead of transcendent accuracy. Who wants to name an iceberg the Rub al Khali desert? That is only right considering the paradigm of humanity existing within a quantum Higgs field wherein Adam was given to assign names to everything for-himself.