First censorship /// and last post here.
Looks like I'll have to move this blog elsewhere. For the first time in 16 years, somebody is complaining about "misleading content" and forcing Blogspot to "unpublish" posts that tell too much truth. From email this morning:



Statcounter shows what happened. All of these posts were viewed yesterday by one reader, who is not in USA.

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Judging by the experience of other familiar bloggers, Wordpress seems to have a better record of openness. It's also a paid subscription, which establishes a two-way obligation. Customer, not product. So I've started a new blog at Wordpress, as Polistrasmill.com. It starts with a repetition of this item.

Fortunately I made a firm habit of storing all archived content offline, so I can eventually restore the lost items to the new blog. No point in copying all of this content. I can still link to it when needed.

Okay, inquisitor, burn as much as you want. You can't touch my truth, you can only strengthen my resolve.

I'm sure as fuck not going to fall for the 'appeals' routine. That's a trap. I'll never revise the truth to satisfy an inquisitor. When I determine FROM MY OWN OBSERVATION AND EXPERIENCE that I've been wrong, I do retract and revise.

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12/1 After a week to organize the new blog and regather courage, the new blog is public. It's still a little crude in format, but I had to 'get back on the bicycle' fast.

Labels: Jackboot stomping forever, storage

  ¶ 6:00 AM

  Chancy niche
Pointed by UncommonDescent, a truly weird creature....



Triops is a mini-trilobite. In a larger size it would be scary as hell, but at this size it's sort of cute.

It's weird in two ways.

1. The eyes themselves are not weird. They're typical arthropod eyes, two big compound eyes with one or more light-sensors between them. (Note that the AI generating the synthetic speech in the video doesn't know the word 'ocellus'.) The mounting is weird. Normally arthropod eyes would be on the sides of a very small head, surveying all directions at once. On Triops the eyes are inside the huge shield, pointing only forward. This defeats the advantage of compound eyes without adding any obvious counter-advantage.

2. It emerges from eggs only in an uncertain and brief environment. Dry lakes may go for many years without enough rain to be worth hatching, and only last a few days or at most weeks when they do get wet. Many insects have a long larval or non-reproductive stage and a brief flying or swarming stage. For example, the aphids who swarmed here last week. But the Triops pattern is more like plants than animals. Purely dormant for years if necessary, emerging into life only when conditions are just right.

The uncertain environment has one obvious advantage: Predators can't depend on Triops as a food source, and can't develop strategies for hunting it.

I guess Triops is just an extreme example of the Booker T rule. Find your niche and stick to it. Store your skills and amortize. In this case we have 350 million years of amortizing.

Sidenote on AI: A human announcer hired to do a voiceover would rehearse the script first, catch the unfamiliar word, and look it up. In the age of radio, announcers were expected to be thoroughly versed in the phonetics of most languages, and expected to have serious dictionaries on hand for unfamiliar words. The AI didn't bother to look up the unfamiliar word. It wasn't in the standard database, so the AI guessed badly, not following the normal phonetic semi-rules of English.

Labels: AI point-missing, Carver, storage

  ¶ 11:31 PM

  Reprint on skills and deltas
Ran across this from 2017, and it seems to be worth reprinting again. Vaguely related to this week's topic of rentalizing and one-way obligations.

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Returning again to Graybill's Law:

The people of Free-Trade countries are therefore driven into the few occupations which are left, by reason of the destruction of their formerly more varied pursuits. Hence those diversified talents with which men are endowed are not developed but remain latent and unused, an incalculable detriment to the prosperity of their respective countries.

Let's try to expand the notion of skill-estate.

News item about the alleged developer of Bitcoin got me thinking about Gresham's Law.

The last time we had two INDEPENDENT AND COMPETING currencies was before 1870. Since then we've had one currency .... until Bitcoin. I had a hard time grasping Gresham until Bitcoin.

What Gresham really says is this: If two items both claim to be currency, and one of the items becomes much more valuable, the valuable item will NO LONGER BE A CURRENCY. It will become a COLLECTIBLE like vintage wine or classic cars. And that's Bitcoin. It claimed to be a currency until its value rose quickly. At that point it became Picassos.

But the current Bitcoin system doesn't even qualify as a collectible asset, because it requires ALL OF THE HOLDERS of the asset to give permission for every transaction. The permission is automatic through computers and nets, but it's still permission.

Bitcoin is not a thing you can buy or sell openly and freely. Thus it's not even PROPERTY. More like a trust-based inheritance.

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Now think of currency in a dynamic way.

A coin represents a DELTA of value. If you have HONESTLY acquired a coin, it means you have INCREASED THE VALUE of something. You have cut down a tree, or turned the tree into paper, or helped to print a book with the paper, or arranged books attractively in a store to raise the sale price.

We can apply Gresham as a verb to the Graybill world of SKILLS as delta-makers.

The skill that yields the greatest number of coins for a given amount of effort will become a collectible, no longer freely transferred.

What's the highest-value skill? Counterfeiting. Money as pure numbers. What's the SKILL or EFFORT that creates counterfeit money? No skill at all, just access to the treasury. If you belong to the correct tribe you have access to counterfeit money. It's an inherited trust from the start!

Among other traditional skills, what's the lowest-value? Farming. Requires long ownership of property and generations of skill development. Payoff depends on weather, speculators, and the actions of other farmers. BUT farming is critically important to the existence of civilization, so a sane civilization takes steps to subsidize farmers.

Most other skills are in the middle. Pottery, welding, weaving, programming, cooking, selling. These are available to anyone with some innate talent, but the genetic aspect is non-exclusive. Doesn't depend on your name. You can learn them in a year or two of apprenticeship.

These skills qualify as currency. They can be transferred freely to anyone who can use them, and they can be used freely by the recipient. The resulting delta of value depends on all sorts of internal and external factors that don't apply to simple coins, but the basic idea is still the same.

Because these skills can be acquired (comparatively) easily, they don't need subsidies... BUT a sane civilization will take steps to maintain their value, just as it maintains the value of coins.

And there's the link between Gresham and Graybill. Our insane "civilization" is depriving ordinary skills of all value. Hyperinflation of skill currency, leaving ONLY ledger money, aristocrat money, vintage money, with any value. The only skill that counts is the skill of being born into the correct ethnic group.

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Labels: skill-estate, storage

  ¶ 12:19 AM

  Mathematicians don't learn or teach
I like to salute and thank the people who do the hard work of real archiving. Preserving the past is the MOST IMPORTANT duty of scholars in a time of Room 101 and Github.

Bitsavers is a comparatively small but excellent archive of documents from the early years of computing, from 1950 to 1990. As I model the 1957 IBM RAMAC system, I've relied heavily on Bitsavers.

Most of these manuals were printed in offset form, using regular typewriters or Varitypers to lay out the pages. IBM had the budget for proper linotype and hot-lead printing, but most of the upstart companies and academic writers didn't.

From a 1962 Burroughs manual, a mix of typewriter



and Varityper.



These instructions are hugely complex and detailed, but everything is in normal English, so you can read it unambiguously.

When mathematicians wrote manuals, they continued their blackboard habits of mixing Greek and Hebrew and Roman and Fraktur and made-up symbols, scrawled loosely and sloppily.

From a MANIAC III manual written at Univ of Chicago in 1962:





Can you tell the difference between the alpha and gamma? And what is that symbol for Tag? Is that a tau or a iota with an acute accent over it?



Note the beta superscripted by a capital R which is subscripted by 11, or is it [1 sub 1] or [1 in the first category and 1 in the second category]? No, it's not any of those things. It's the fucking RIGHT QUOTATION MARK for the sentence.

More to the point, they had just defined specific WORDS for their concepts. Operation, tag, information, left designator, right inflector. THEY DIDN'T NEED THE GREEK. The entire discussion would have been clearer using the ACTUAL FUCKING WORDS.

Do an Operation, in a manner specified by the left and right Inflectors, on information designated by left Designators and modified by left Modifiers; and on information designated by right Designators and modified by right Modifiers.

Even when they accidentally used only Roman letters, the blackboard habit of supersubsuperscripting continued.



The limited character set on keypunch keyboards FORCED programmers to talk English.



No Greek, no math symbols, no subs and supers. Just uppercase Roman, numbers, and a few bookkeeping symbols like dollars and percent. COBOL was written on and for keypunches, and it originally had no symbols at all.

DIVIDE NUMA BY NUMB GIVING RES-DIV.

Naming variables in English was the biggest contribution of programming.

Later keyboards and languages made longer names possible, and introduced more symbols, but never dropped to the level of mathematicians.

Those academics at Chicago had been using computers and keypunches for several years, and still hadn't learned English. Modern mathematicians still insist on a tangled jumble of Greek, Hebrew, supersubsupersubscripts, and an occasional SINGLE letter of English. Never never never allow a word to contaminate the purity of obfuscation.

Labels: Real World Math, storage

  ¶ 10:49 PM

  Y no amortize? 2
In previous item I noted that Nash had built a water-cooled boxer six in 1948, then abandoned it. The engine would have been just right for the 1975 Pacer, but instead AMC designed the Pacer around a Wankel rotary, a totally un-Nashian engine. Rotaries are intrinsically wasteful and short-lived. Even worse, it was going to be outsourced from GM, leaving AMC vulnerable to shutoff at any time.

And the shutoff came just before production, forcing AMC to hastily reshape the Pacer for its own long inline six. The Pacer was a totally awful idea, but it might have been marginally less awful with a squared-off boxer six that didn't crowd the passenger compartment.

Well, the answer to the puzzle is clear. By the '70s the amortizing and saving and HUMAN spirit of Mason and Romney was long gone. Abernethy had mistakenly tried to be GM. When you ARE the big cat, you can make mistakes like Pacer and go unpunished. The mouse can't afford to make such stupid errors, and certainly can't afford to rely on the cat for supplies.

Here's an even bigger Y no amortize question, with the same answer.

From 1959 to 1962, AMC built its own Jeep for the government.

The Mighty-Mite was shorter than the Willys Jeep, and shorter than the Metropolitan. Wheelbase was 65 inches, and total length was 107 inches. It had an air-cooled V4 engine. It had independent suspension on all four wheels, and the 4WD transfer case was sync'd so you could shift in and out of 4WD without stopping. It had a light rustproof aluminum body, and was designed to wade through high water without stalling or damage.







AMC did briefly discuss using this engine in the Metropolitan to copy VW, but at that time they didn't really need an extremely small car because the halfway small Rambler was gaining ground fast. So they phased out the Metro. Just as well. Air-cooled engines are a bad idea, and GM lost ground by attempting to copy VW.



The Mighty-Mite wasn't a prototype. AMC built 3000 of them for the military, which is enough to debug and improve manufacturing methods.

So. Why did AMC need to REINVENT those features for the Eagle in 1980? The Eagle had IFS but not IRS, and switchable 4WD. Those were advertised as 'new' features.

Tech historians bemoan the not invented here syndrome, rejecting an invention because it would require paying royalties. After Mason and Romney were gone, AMC suffered from invented here syndrome, forgetting and rejecting its OWN earlier developments.

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Later thought on GM tactics: GM loved playing cat games with its mousy competitors. The fake development of a Wankel was clearly a game to force AMC into a fast fix. Earlier, GM famously forced Chrysler into a last-minute downsizing by letting Chrysler's CEO "accidentally overhear" a discussion of GM's "planned" downsizing.

Mice need to be maximally paranoid. Don't listen to what the cat says or promises. Watch what the cat does, and act accordingly.

THEY KNOW IT'S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY CREATED THE HOAX.

Labels: skill-estate, storage

  ¶ 5:16 AM

  Rentalization 2
After my old computer crashed suddenly in July (my own damn fault) I quickly rigged up a computer that had been in storage. This proved to be inadequate, so I ordered a refurbished Lenovo. This is an excellent computer, QUIET and fast.

Courseware was carefully backed up, so nothing was lost in that department. But I'd been sloppy about things like web bookmarks and my 'amusement' stuff, so I've been rebuilding those.

Yesterday I decided to recapture my local copy of the images for this blog, which had only been backed up from 2005 to 2015. I needed to FTP about 1GB from my web storage to the computer. First I tried to do it in Firefox, which had previously contained its own FTP system. Immediately ran into a prime example of INSANE NANNY-STATE CYBERSECURITY.

From Firefox's announcement:

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has long been a convenient file exchange mechanism between computers on a network. While this standard protocol has been supported in all major browsers almost since its inception, it’s by now one of the oldest protocols still in use and suffers from a number of serious security issues.

The FTP protocol itself has been disabled by default since version 88 and now the time has come to end an era and discontinue the support for this outdated and insecure protocol — Firefox 90 will no longer support the FTP protocol.

If you are a Firefox user, you don’t have to do anything to benefit from this security advancement. As soon as your Firefox auto-updates to version 90, any attempt to launch an attack relying on the insecure FTP protocol will be rendered useless, because Firefox does not support FTP anymore. If you aren’t a Firefox user yet, you can download the latest version here to start benefiting from all the ways that Firefox works to protect you when browsing the web.

Public Health. Nurse Ratched all the way. You don't need to do anything to BENEFIT from losing half of your data forever. As soon as we GITHUB-LOBOTOMIZE** you forcibly and automatically, you will lose half of your data and you will BENEFIT.

Jesus.

This is an integral part of the RENTALIZATION of the world. You're not allowed to have your own house or your own computer or your own software or your own books or your own data or your own skills or your own mind. Everything must be rented from Lord Bezos, ON CONDITION OF OBEDIENCE AND ORTHODOXY.

And best of all, you will BENEFIT from letting us control your mind and property entirely. You'll never have to worry about being ATTACKED by your own data. You'll never worry about the threats we create, like "hacking" and "terrorism" and "misinformation" and "viruses". You will love Big Sibling Of Indeterminate Gender.

The rulers, of course, don't need security. They don't need muzzles and distancing and lucite and SSL and anti-FTP nurses. They can live normally and breathe normally and use IBM tape drives for storage because they're IN CHARGE OF THE HOAX.

Fortunately there are still some non-Ratched humans in the world. After trying FileZilla, which refuses to do its own fucking job because of "security", I found WinSCP, made in Czechia, which performs perfectly without any quibbles about TLS or other shit. Even better, the UI is rigged in Norton Commander style for easy keyboard use. WinSCP flawlessly transferred six years of MY work to MY computer where I can OWN it and amortize it and gain inspiration from it.

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** Protecting you from your own data IS a lobotomy. That's exactly what it does.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, skill-estate, storage

  ¶ 10:16 AM

  Grandpa said it
Continuing from previous item.

1. The sequence of events is a good example of evolution by subtraction, which is the way Nature, language, and human inventions work. The first genome, or the first language, or the first version of an invention, has all the features it needs. As the genome spreads into different places and creatures, or the language spreads to different people with different tendencies, or the invention tries to seek a global audience, the product simplifies.

My 2004 loader had all the features needed. Some of them were later incorporated into Poser itself, and some of them were copied in the plagiarizer's loader.

2. Fast change destroys creativity. When rules and programs and browsers are constantly changing, you have to carve away pieces of your product or mind or soul on each side to remain alive. Adapting to all possible countries and all possible users forces rigid conformity.

3. Rentalism is an alternate form of globalism. When you don't have direct control of the product or house or life, you can't learn or create effectively. Learning and creativity require a STABLE SITUATION so you can distinguish between constants and variables. When the machine or culture is constantly stealing control from your own hands, you eventually give up and stop trying to create.

Reminds me of what my dying grandpa tried to tell me in 1962.

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This line of thought originated from a specific conversation with Grandpa in 1962. Grandpa was dying early from alcohol and tobacco, and the family went to visit him one last time. As we hung around Grandpa's house, or visited nearby parks, Grandpa kept saying true things, and parents kept trying to Rectify him, nervously painting over the facts with conventional leftist crap. I wasn't sure what to think. Grandpa's observations matched what I saw with my own eyes, but didn't match what I'd always heard from parents and TV and books.

I think Grandpa got tired of being painted out. At one point he decided to go for beer and cigarettes (yeah, those were killing him, but it was too late to stop) and took me along. No parents, just me. I don't remember most of the conversation but I remember one emphasized item that seemed to summarize his intentions.

We were talking about his old '52 Ford Mainline. I must have been asking why anyone would want a plain car with no power steering, no radio, no automatic, none of the 'exciting' stuff that 'everyone wanted' in 1962.

Grandpa pointed to the manual choke. He told me that Ford was the only car that still offered a manual choke. He said it was important to have a simple car that you could understand and fix by yourself, and it was important to have direct control over the car.

Extend car to life, and there's the message.

Same as Carver's message.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Talk to them. Let them talk to you.

Dying old engineer trying to pass the key to young potential engineer. He succeeded. I've done a shitty job of following his advice, but I've always remembered and tried.

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Labels: Carver, defensible cases, defensible times, Grand Blueprint, storage

  ¶ 2:10 PM

  Finally reading Machiavelli
I've been recommending Machiavelli for a long time. I've been hammering repeatedly that "civics" classes and political thinkers shouldn't waste time on bizarre mythical delusions like constitutions and laws and elections. Instead they should use and modernize sources of hardass reality like Machiavelli and Parkinson.

I've read Parkinson deeply and repeatedly, but I've never read Machiavelli aside from citing some already cited familiar pieces.

Finally settled down to read the Prince. I skipped his specific personal advice to specific real princes, and stuck with the general parts.

Unsurprisingly, he's absolutely realistic and objective. He wastes no time on ideologies and laws and organization charts.

I was surprised by the SCIENTIFIC METHOD of the book. Machiavelli starts by tossing out the constants like ideology and religion and systems. Then he separates out all the real variables of PERSONALITY and runs a separate 'experiment' on each variable. What happens when a prince is more lenient or more strict with the people? More lenient or more strict with the courtiers? More generous or more stingy with the people? More generous or more stingy with the courtiers? More aggressive or more businesslike with foreign nations?

He forms a verbal graph or transfer function for each variable on its own.

The concluding chapter hasn't been overquoted, so maybe it's worth a quote. In this chapter he treats the biggest variable of all, the rotations and variations of the universe, aka Fortune.

It is unknown to me how many believe that worldly events are so governed by fortune and by God, that men cannot by their prudence change them, and that on the contrary there is no remedy whatever, and for this they may judge it to be useless to toil much about them, but let things be ruled by chance.

This opinion has been more believed in our day, from the great changes that have been seen, and are daily seen, beyond every human conjecture. [SOUNDS FUCKING FAMILIAR, DOESN'T IT?]

When I think about them at times, I am partly inclined to share this opinion. Nevertheless, that our freewill may not be altogether extinguished, I think it may be true that fortune is the ruler of half our actions, but that she allows the other half or a little less to be governed by us. I would compare her to an impetuous river that, when turbulent, inundates the plains, ruins trees and buildings, removes earth from this side and places it on the other; every one flies before it, and everything yields to its fury without being able to oppose it.

And yet when it is quiet, men can make provision against it by dams and banks, so that when it rises it will either go into a canal or its rush will not be so wild and dangerous.

It happens similarly with fortune, which shows her power where no measures have been taken to resist her, and turns her fury where she knows that no dams or barriers have been made to hold her.

But limiting myself more to particular cases, I would point out how one sees a certain prince today fortunate and tomorrow ruined, without seeing that he has changed in character. I believe this arises in the first place from the causes that we have already discussed at length; that is to say, because the prince who bases himself entirely on fortune is ruined when fortune varies.

I also believe that he is happy whose mode of proceeding accords with the needs of the times, and similarly he is unfortunate whose mode of proceeding is opposed to the times. For one sees that in those things which lead them to the aim that each one has in view, namely, glory and riches, men proceed in various ways; one with circumspection, another with impetuosity, one by violence, another by cunning, one with patience, another with the reverse; and each by these diverse ways may arrive at his aim. One sees also two cautious men, one of whom succeeds in his designs, and the other not, and in the same way two men succeed equally by different methods, one being cautious, the other impetuous, which arises only from the nature of the times, which does or does not conform to their method of proceeding.

HARDASS and perfectly accurate.

Expressed in my peculiar language: When you've built enough dams and stored enough material and human capital, you're free to act more impetuously. When you tear down dams and grain elevators, when you operate on debt and JIT, the floods of fortune will always be in control, and you won't be free to improvise or think or create.

Thinking of balances and bridges, it would be interesting to see a counterpoise book written as advice for peasants. Separate out the same variables and graph the same transfer functions for the opposite side of the balance. When the prince is generous with the peasants, how should the peasants behave to maximize the generosity and encourage the prince? When the prince is murderous, how should the peasants minimize the damage and discourage the prince? Machiavelli sometimes describes how the peasants typically respond to the ruler's behavior, but he's not on our side.

Labels: Constants and Variables, Equipoise, Parkinson, storage

  ¶ 6:56 AM

  Reprint on storage
Following on previous item about Toyota's learning, here's a reprint from 2019. The reprint is especially relevant in light of this year's idiotic repetition of fake "power outages".

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Noticed a badly done graph on corporate bankruptcies at ZH. The graph doesn't adjust the assets for inflation, so it's useless.

There's an even stupider description on a currently relevant item. One of PGE's bankruptcies happened in 2001, as a result of "drought that decreased hydroelectric output."

No. Southern California is ALWAYS in a drought, some years worse than others. When your CONSTANT CONDITION is low rainfall, you need to add ENOUGH reservoir capacity to keep your generators going.

PGE failed to do that. They chose** Gaian craziness over civilization. Instead of building more dams, they REMOVED some of the existing dams, pretending to replace the input with wind and solar.

Wind and solar CANNOT power civilization because they aren't steady. Wind is actually COUNTER-steady. Wind is weakest exactly when you NEED extra electricity.

Civilization requires steady and reliable power sources.



I've made this point before. Storage is the heart of civilization.

When you have a steady supply of power and material and labor, you can start building a SURPLUS of value. A good season can be stored to get you through a bad season. Grain elevators, oil storage tanks, dams, savings accounts.

In basic economic terms, civilization happens when you have a reliable SURPLUS of value. The SURPLUS can be used to build new farms and factories, and to build better and more beautiful cities and parks and schools. Without the SURPLUS, civilization collapses.

When you're constantly behind the curve, living hand to mouth or deep in debt, every slight perturbation kills you.

Western debtism guarantees that the whole system is constantly on the negative side of the ledger, constantly relying on bankers to supply loans or the central bank to print money. Just-in-time inventory, wind and solar "power", zero interest on savings, arbitrage instead of grain storage. Civilization is impossible, and independent decisions are impossible. NYC controls everything.

Sharia and Soviet systems are firmly planted on the SURPLUS side, with government taking part of the surplus to fund its operations. Monopolizing the surplus is prohibited. In Sharia the prohibition is cultural and legal; in Soviet the stock traders simply don't exist so they can't slaughter the world.

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** Footnote on chose Gaian craziness. PGE can't claim that it was meekly obeying EPA genocide. PGE is big enough to buy regulators and break rules with impunity. It breaks all other rules all the time. When it follows Gaia instead of rationality, the choice is voluntary and intentional.

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New sidenote: PGE has been operating in gangster mode for a long time. When Kucinich faced down an attempt to privatize Cleveland's municipal power system in 1977, the buyer and blackmailer was PGE.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, endless hell, storage

  ¶ 10:23 PM

  EXPERIENCE SURVIVES. THEORY KILLS.
Wolf Richter shows what happens when one company LEARNS FROM EXPERIENCE:

The problem wasn’t lack of demand, but lack of supply. At the end of April, Ford announced that it would likely cut global production in Q2 by half. The entire first half was marred by production cuts at various plants. On June 30, Ford announced further production cuts for July and August. The culprit is the same every time: semiconductor shortages and parts shortages.

Toyota, paragon of just-in-time inventory, blew everyone away by having stockpiled chips.

Following the Fukushima disaster in 2011, which massively tangled up its just-in-time supply chain, Toyota demanded from its suppliers that they stockpile two to six months of semiconductors of all kinds for Toyota.

We "learned" from Toyota's JIT crap and turned JIT into an axiom. Any company that wanted to RAISE SHARE VALUE had to eliminate every aspect of normal business. No storage, no savings, no learning, no experience, no factories, no production, no profit, no employees. Just raw abstract math and infinite debt.

Will we learn from the lockdowns? No.

EXPERIENCE SURVIVES. THEORY KILLS.

Labels: Experiential education, storage

  ¶ 10:18 PM

  Reshoring
The latest podcast from the Collectible Auto website includes an interview with Harry Moser. He's an industrial engineer who is running an initiative to help companies bring back American jobs.

His website is Reshore Now. He's talking to companies, not to the general public, and offers 'tools' and services to determine whether reshoring is worthwhile.

In the interview he hit all the important points, including the fact that the 2020 holocaust exposed the utter failure of JIT. When one point on the supply chain is locked down, the chain stops, and it's hard to get it restarted. Moser also emphasizes the importance of switching from college to trade schools, and the MOST IMPORTANT POINT OF ALL: SKILLS.

I'm rooting for him! Seems thoroughly practical and engineerish, not idealistic or ideological.

Labels: Experiential education, skill-estate, storage

  ¶ 4:48 PM

  From bikini to martini to NFTni
[Couldn't resist the stupid pun.]

Normal people correctly associate heft with value. This makes sense in most real products. A car or house built with thicker materials and bigger beams WILL last longer, and WILL be more resistant to rust and rot and fire.

The correlation continued in analog electronics and mechanical appliances. Heavier chassis, bigger transformers, larger shafts, more shielding. All contribute to better performance, longer life, better cooling, and less unwanted noise and vibration.

A contrary movement started in the 1880s with minimalist art, which has expanded into all areas of products and food.

Rich assholes want less heft and less material. The movement penetrated ordinary life around 1950 with Loewy, bikinis and martinis.

Loewy's slogan was "Weight is the enemy." Bikinis gained value as they lost material and became more like dental floss. Martinis were allegedly best when the vermouth was reduced to exactly one molecule.

Nouvelle cuisine reduces food to a random splash of dots on a plate.

Now rich assholes buy only supersuperabstract 10th derivatives of reality like NFTs, which are a weightless digital package representing some kind of art, gaining "value" by a meaningless association with Holy Bitcoin.

The Dow absolutely HATES real material. No products, no factories, no employees, no customers, and above all NO STORAGE OR STABILITY. Only PURE MATH has Share Value.

As a formula:



Real value varies linearly with heft, up to an asymptotic limit where the heft becomes impractical for its purpose. Tanh as always.

Asshole value is the reciprocal of real value. As real heft goes to zero, asshole value increases (as always) exponentially.

Labels: Real World Math, storage

  ¶ 12:27 AM

  Random skill-estate thought
I'm studying the old science of astro-meteorology in my usual way, by trying to animate a machine that performed the function. There are several clear books about the various systems, differing in details and agreeing in broad outline.

As I start to understand the systems and their experimental basis, I'm starting to imagine the analog computer that would have implemented them.

It turns out that I 'built' a similar machine a few months ago as a branch of the bridges and balances theme, but didn't use it in those blogposts. It didn't quite fit the theme.

Lesson, which isn't surprising by now: Never discard a more or less finished idea or product. Keep it around, and keep enough documentation so you can return to it with some understanding.

This is the skill-estate version of STORAGE.

The modern psychopaths, the Innovative Disruptors, consider 'sunk cost' to be absolute anathema. They tell us to pull away from every experimentally proven skill or workflow or thought or device or invention. Amortization is a mortal sin.

EXPERIENCE SURVIVES. THEORY KILLS.

Labels: Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law, skill-estate, storage

  ¶ 11:44 PM

  Copyright violates natural law
Convective counterintuitive thought:

If you want to leave a legacy, don't copyright your work.

After previous item on Aberree and astrology, I was thinking again about Alphia Hart's uniquely CONFIDENT view of copyright:

Copyrighting everything you write is a confession that you have little faith in your ability to continue producing salable stuff -- and that there may come a time when you'll have to fall back on your own, protected material to make a living. When we can't produce new copy for The ABERREE, The ABERREE ceases to exist, because we're certain no one wants to read tomorrow what we said yesterday and today.

I reached a similar conclusion a long time ago in making courseware. The restrictions of 'digital rights' get stricter and more tangled every year, but they don't bother me because I have CONFIDENCE in my own ability to produce new images and animations.

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Despite his probably fake modesty, Hart did leave a legacy. His work is still eminently worth reading 60 years later.

BUT: If he had copyrighted his work, or even failed to EXPLICITLY turn off the copyright, his legacy would be GONE.

Thanks to recent anti-Hubbard types who found the collection and scanned and uploaded it, all of Hart's work is readable. If he hadn't made a point of turning off the copyright, those blessed preservers couldn't have done their job, and his work would be lost.

A similar situation exists in the recordings of old-time radio. The obscure syndicated shows are better preserved and more available than the big network shows. Why? Because the networks still exist, so a copyright could be enforced. This makes it possible for one of the OTR vendors to play copyright troll games, forcing the other vendors and the free service at Archive.org to delete items it wants to sell. Even though the one trollish vendor has no inheritance rights to the recordings, the potential of a copyright makes the big network shows harder to find and hear. And because they're less widely distributed, they're likely to disappear when that one trollish vendor goes out of business.

A much more important application of this principle was already operating at the time when those radio shows were made. Local stations and small syndicates and small civic orchestras were able to play live music as long as it was classical. Modern copyrighted music could only be played by networks who had enough money to pay the royalties. THEREFORE: Classical music has been performed and enjoyed and remembered much more widely than modern copyrighted music.

We have a dense and constantly performed legacy from composers who worked before copyright laws. Similarly with literature and visual art.

Not everything is great, but some work that was considered trash when written has been appreciated later because it was PRESERVED in some form. PRESERVED work can be revived and re-judged.

When the work is copyrighted, it has much less chance of being preserved and reprinted or replayed, no matter how good or mediocre it is.

Natural law and Sharia law agree: Use it or lose it. Everything in nature is meant to be useful, meant to serve. Copyright prevents use, so copyright guarantees loss.

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Later addition: I was forgetting one specialized but important form of loss. Forgetting is peculiar because I've personally experienced this form!

When a publisher owns exclusive copyright, the publisher may go bankrupt or merge, or it may simply decide to stop selling the item. At that point there's no automatic procedure to revert the item to public domain, or to return it to the author's possession. Sometimes a revert contract is written, but big corporations don't obey laws. They can and will prevent ANYONE from using the material, even though they're not using the material either. Total and permanent loss.

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See also storage vs JIT.

Labels: Aberree, From rights to duties, Natural law = Sharia law, skill-estate, storage

  ¶ 10:43 PM

  Nature stores SKILLS.
As usual, stupidly pondering the crucial importance of STORAGE vs Just-In-Time Desperation.

I hadn't stopped to ask what Nature thinks.

Nature stores nutrition in various ways, mainly as fats. Every species has a different form and place for storage. Some (eg whales and camels) have large specialized storage, some don't have any storage at all, some store fats for the next generation in seeds and eggs. Overall, Nature doesn't think storing nutrition is tremendously important.

Nature believes storing INFORMATION is vastly more important. DNA/RNA is the core of life, in both hardwired genes and semi-variable epigenes. DNA is skill info, not fact info. Each gene tells the developing organism where and when to make specific types of cells, where and when to fold, where and when to stop or delete.

Nervous systems devote most of their space and energy to SKILL storage. 80% of all our neurons are in the cerebellum where they gather, store and revise SKILL information. The parts of the brain that we usually associate with IQ and fact knowledge are much smaller and weaker.

Our immune system is a separate store of INFORMATION, gradually accumulating through life and using induction to generalize from each learned microbe to similar microbes. Needless to say, the muzzles and distancing of the current holocaust are precisely and fiendishly designed to stop the immune system's learning.

Our human technologies, from speech to books to art to computers, mainly store fact knowledge. We didn't have a way of storing SKILL info until motion pictures and videotape came along, and both of these are much less effective than internal experience and apprenticing.

Wildly speculative question: Did earlier civilizations find other ways to store and pass along skills, aside from the obvious drawings and maps? Did some pots and arrowheads and cooking utensils serve as non-verbal self-explanatory templates? Start cutting here, turn the flint here? Fill with water to this line, boil as long as you'd normally boil barley, then add the next ingredient? Some of these stones marked with patterns might fill the bill if we understood them.

Labels: skill-estate, storage

  ¶ 5:58 AM

  Ears were made for sounds like these
In 1970 GenRad published a lively little handbook of sound measurements.



IETlabs continues to make and calibrate derivatives of GenRad products, and performs a tremendous service by maintaining old GenRad publications online. Maintaining old records of old technology is an even more important form of calibration in an era of Github memoryholing. Clearly they were using the original booklet from GenRad files, not one of the 20,000 printed copies that were ordered by the original form. Calibration at all levels! Thanks, IETlabs.

The book was aimed at industrial tech types who were suddenly required to deal with noise measurements by new OSHA regs in 1970. GenRad's simple sound level meter at that time (the 1565A) looked like this:



The artist took full advantage of the meter's face, turning it into a character.



Decibels don't add like apples and oranges.



Meters and humans don't work the same way. Human hearing is totally oriented toward filtering OUT stuff that doesn't matter, and bringing IN new information in the strict sense. If a sound is meaningful and new, we focus on it, starting with the remarkable tip-link mechanism in the cochlea, and continuing all the way into the higher language centers.

The meter has no idea which sounds are meaningful. It just picks up waves of air pressure and filters them by frequency.

Here's how the GenRad book balances out the human and meter perceptions:

You have been told, correctly, that measurement is the first step in the solution of a noise problem, and you have made your measurements. The noise, meanwhile, continues, apparently unintimidated by your bulging data book. But your day is near; you have the facts you need to act intelligently. An effective noise-reduction program requires careful planning. The man who finds a noise level too high and immediately says, "We'll just slap some acoustical tile here and there; that ought to take care of it," will probably be disappointed at the results.

Not that acoustical tile isn't a good way to reduce noise - it often is. But this approach is like shooting a person full of penicillin at the first sign of a cold.** The more prudent course is to analyze the noise (either roughly with the sound-level meter, as discussed on page 74, or in detail with a sound analyzer), decide from this analysis what to do about it, and check results by further analysis. This procedure ensures that you're reducing the noise at the frequencies you're most concerned with - usually, those frequencies that are about the same as speech frequencies.

The meter can filter by freq, so you have to use those filters as a crude approximation of our PURPOSE filters. The A-weighting filter is closest to the spectrum of speech, so the A is the best setting to measure interference with meaningful communication. The B weighting tends to focus on the upper freq range that is likely to cause damage to the cochlea. C is broadest, covering the whole range of hearing while ignoring freqs that don't affect the ears at all.

The handbook ends with a poem!

With so much sound-measuring equipment and counsel available, there is no longer any need to suffer the annoyance and hazards of excessive noise. Ry acquiring a sound-level meter, you will take the first step on that golden stairway to the promised land where ...

Like beacons on a sea of silence
Life's silver sounds invade the air:
The wind plays tunes upon the trees,
The stream sighs and from the mountain flees,
The rain's beat, the phoebe's call -
Ears were made for sounds like these.

The author isn't credited, and I can't find the text online, so it might have been written at GenRad. Do any modern industries have poets on staff, or use poetry in their handbooks? Especially poetry that says ears were MADE? Not even worth asking.


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These unannoyable meters need to be calibrated in an unemotional way. GenRad's own calibrator was electronic, designed to produce the usual audiometer frequencies in the glottal range. (125, 250, 500, 1k, 2k). Because it was electronic, it wasn't an absolute or definitional calibrator. It wasn't controlled by a crystal or tuning fork, so its output depended on the quality and aging of the transistors and speaker.



For absolute calibration, acoustics uses a pistonphone. The pistonphone is both absolute and definitional. It produces waves of air pressure with a permanent and unalterable amplitude, at a mostly consistent frequency.



Here Polistra is using a Bruel & Kjaer pistonphone to calibrate her 1565A.



The BK pistonphone produces an absolute 124 dB at standard barometric pressure, and comes with a barometer to calibrate the calibration more precisely.



Here's the pistonphone as seen from the business end. The black plastic part fits over the standard microphone, forming a closed chamber between the pistons and the mic.



Here's the innards. When I worked in an acoustics lab at Penn State, I opened up a pistonphone to replace the batteries and saw this mysterious setup. I ass-u-me-d that the big silver thing was the piston, which seemed logical. It must push and pull directly in and out toward the mic.



Logical but wrong. As I learned just now from the manual, the big silver thing is the 'engine block', and the little 'pins' in its sides are the actual pistons. The motor turns a cam, and the pistons ride in and out in a guaranteed sinusoid pattern with a guaranteed amplitude.



The frequency wasn't guaranteed, but BK had a clever bit of analog design to regulate it almost precisely. There was a centrifugal pusher on the same shaft with the cam, and it would break the circuit to the base of the transistor when the piston frequency went above 250 cps. This didn't turn off the motor because current still flowed around the transistor through R1; but the reduced current allowed the motor to slow down to 250 cps.

Just as the design of the human sensory system can't be reduced to software, this type of elegant analog feedback loop can't be reduced to software.

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** Shoot everyone full of penicillin at the first sign of cold: Neanderthal primitive analogy. As we know now, the CORRECT SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL approach is to shoot everyone full of fear and panic and isolation and depression and starvation and darkness and unemployment and screeching hopeless desperation, and then strangle them to death, in order to PREVENT people who were already dying from catching colds in the middle of dying. This is SCIENCE. Back in those primitive Neanderthal times, the primitive Neanderthal knuckle-draggers called our modern progressive methods "human sacrifice" because they were completely uneducated and stupid.

Labels: Equipoise, metametrology, Metrology, storage

  ¶ 10:17 AM

  Reprint on Anticipation
I was going to link this 2017 item in the previous rant about stories and anticipation and purpose. Instead, I'll reprint it.

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Deutsche Welle, normally more Soros than Soros, has a remarkably objective article on Wilders and populism. Objective except for this.....

The number of asylum seekers to the Netherlands dropped by nearly a half last year to about 30,000, in part due to an EU refugee deal with Turkey and the closure of the Balkan route used by migrants to reach Europe.

The latest influx of migrants - mainly from the Middle East and Africa - accounts for only a small fraction of the non-Western population in the country. This suggests that the backlash against immigration is not only about new arrivals.

This is a constant misunderstanding, even by good objective analysts. Common in discussions of regular crime, now appearing again in migrant crime. Analysts assume that people who are currently besieged by a problem must be the most strongly opposed to the problem. Life doesn't work that way.

Who wants the harshest punishments for criminals? Who wants the biggest walls against migrants?

Not people who have never been exposed to crime. If you've always lived in good neighborhoods or had private security services, you don't know what criminals are.

Not people who live in permanently crime-ridden neighborhoods. They've given up.

Harshites are people who ESCAPED from bad neighborhoods, and now see their blessed escape zone turning bad. People who used to be involved in crime and got out.

Life is all about anticipation. Life is about the future. Everything we do and think and feel involves a HUGE helping of anticipation. We understand speech and writing, and we appreciate music, because we're forming templates several phrases ahead of the speaker. We walk and drive by anticipation of future steps and streets. We reproduce and work and plan and save because we are looking at the future for ourselves or our descendants.

If you've never experienced X you can't anticipate X, so you can't spot the initial signs of X creeping into your life. If you've always been flooded with X, anticipation is pointless. You can't see a life without X.

Comrade O'Brien and his followers, and the Innovative Disrupters of the tech-tyrant world, are killers. Anticipation depends on a PERMANENT or at least slowly-changing baseline. When the cultural baseline is constant, we have infinitely detailed templates for every aspect of life, enabling us to get along on sparse perception and minimal conscious thought. We have space and energy for more interesting thoughts or pursuits. When Soros and Bezos yank the ground from under us 100 times in every step, we have to devote ALL our energy and perception to basic survival.

Permanent morality and slow-changing technology are like a savings account. Sorosian picosecond change is like hopeless debt. Needless to say, Soros hasn't missed this analogy; eliminating savings and burning cash are major parts of his omnicide project.

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Labels: Jackboot stomping forever, Sorosia, storage

  ¶ 6:53 AM

  Silly expectation
This episode of Can You Imagine That features a long-term bet. In 1932, two Louisiana dudes made a bet about the newly built state capital in Baton Rouge. One said it wouldn't hold up, the other went along with the public promise that it would last 500 years. Each of them put down $2.50, and went to the trouble of registering the bet formally in an escrow account at the bank. The bet was to accumulate interest at 4%, and would be payable to the heirs of the winner in 2432.

The bank figured out that the winner would theoretically receive $2,084,495,605.22 in 2432.

First, the typical interest on savings in previous years is surprisingly hard to find. I've often looked in various bank and census publications, but it's not listed. So this provides a useful datum that 4% was standard and expected at the low point of the Depression. Many of those publications implied that interest had hit zero around then.

Second, of course interest DID hit zero in 2008, and will never rise above zero again. The dudes and their banker and the program's writers automatically assumed that interest on savings was a necessary and permanent part of banking. Wrong.

So the real payoff would have stopped gaining in 2008, and would have stuck at 91 dollars from 2008 to 2432. Assuming the two dudes were about 20, there's a slight chance that they were still alive in 2008, and their sons or daughters would very likely be alive in 2008. They should have canceled the bet and collected the 91 dollars.

(The building is still serving as the state capitol now. 90 years down, 410 to go.)

Labels: Alternate universe, storage, the broken circle

  ¶ 10:31 AM

  What happens when you remove STORAGE
Wolfstreet, the only objective observer of economic trends, has been breaking through the partisan fake "sides" in many ways.

Wolf's most important focus is the incomprehensible NUMBERS of debts and stimulus. A classic Shared Lie. Both "sides" consider the numbers to be genuine. One "side" thinks we should do infinitely more, the other thinks we should only do 99.999% of infinitely more. This is seen as a DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE, worth fighting over.

Wolf makes it clear that we aren't really DOING those huge numbers. Most of the movement of money by the Fed isn't actual loans or payments, it's just creating a huge number and moving it between columns in a ledger, then erasing it. And some of the debt and stimulus isn't even creating numbers, it's just TALKING ABOUT creating numbers.

The Fed’s super-hyped, glorified, deified, and ballyhooed $750-billion buying-program of corporate bonds and bond ETFs, including junk bonds and junk-bond ETFs, had triggered one of the most magnificent credit-market rallies ever. And then the Fed hardly bought anything. Now the Fed is touting its success in jawboning the markets into a frenzy without having to do hardly any actual purchases.

This is parallel to the fake "terrorists" and fake "emergencies" and fake "foreign attacks" and fake "viruses" created by other parts of the goverment. Write a story about a threat, tell the story loud and clear, generate mass panic and mass hysteria, then steer the energy of the hysteria to create a public "need" for more tyranny and a "need" for more bailouts to NYC.

It's more than just parallel. All of these fake stories, economic and political, have the same RESULT in real terms AND economic terms.

Millions of real people and real businesses and real schools and real skills are destroyed. A few psychopathic plutocrats gain trillions in new wealth and infinite new power.

In the realm of war, the trick is as old as organized governments. Fake "attacks" or fake "insults" are the cause of nearly all wars. In other areas the trick is relatively new, or newly reinvented and perfected.

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Fresh thought:

INERTIA is the best protection against demons.

Nature has two ways of creating inertia.

In simple inanimate objects, it's just good old Newtonian mass.

In living things, inertia is created by NEGATIVE FEEDBACK plus MEMORY. We hold onto a template of previous conditions or previous limb positions, and use NEGATIVE FEEDBACK to resist EXTERNALLY FORCED changes. When we're pushed or yanked around by external forces, physically or mentally, a healthy system uses T-cells or muscles or perceptual shifts to COUNTERACT the external push and restore EQUILIBRIUM.

Psychopaths HATE inertia and equilibrium. Everything they do is exquisitely calculated to BREAK our natural stability and leave us PERFECTLY VULNERABLE to the microsecond-scale commands of the demon.

The Federal Reserve can play this game easily now because the MONEY INERTIA of savings has been wiped out by ZIRP. All investors have been trained to rely on the microsecond-scale Github of IPOs and Share Value.

The psyops monsters of Deepstate can manipulate masses easily now because the NEUROLOGICAL INERTIA of long-term memory has been wiped out by Room 101 via TV and social media.

Warmakers can respond instantly to fake "attacks" because the BUREAUCRATIC INERTIA of a large drafted army has been wiped out.

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How does this apply to the "virus" fake emergency? Not clear. Actual immunity hasn't changed. The number of people who understand immunity has decreased by attrition because the last real epidemic in USA was in 1968. Oldies who remember '57 and '68 aren't fooled by this fake "epidemic". The "social" "scientist" psychopaths definitely recognize this and are focusing specifically on oldies, trying to break through our mental immunity. So far they haven't succeeded.

Still, this doesn't feel like the main variable. Is there some loss of inertia or storage in the medical system? I'm not seeing it, but maybe insiders recognize it. Until the holocaust started in March 2020, most real doctors and hospitals were still cautiously resistant to change. A new treatment needed to prove itself thoroughly by EXPERIENCE before being adopted. Then on March 1, ALL EXISTING SCIENCE was flipped upside down in a Github instant, and ALL EXISTING KNOWLEDGE was memoryholed.

A system with functioning inertia can't be turned 180 degrees in one picosecond. An inanimate object like a building or a battleship will simply break up when you try such a maneuver with sufficient applied force. A living system with negative feedback will resist and overshoot, creating a powerful REVERSE turn that will smash the attempted turner. Neither of those responses happened. The entire system was weightless and lifeless.

The countries and states that have entirely or partly resisted the holocaust have cultural and industrial inertia. The countries are compact, ethnically uniform, and economically 'flat'. Belarus is Tanh, the essence of NEGATIVE FEEDBACK inertia. The resistant states in Dixie have real industry and strong cultural MEMORY. Significantly, they still REMEMBER and retain a MENTAL IMMUNE RESPONSE to a genocidal invasion and occupation by Wall Street in 1861.

Labels: Equipoise, Jackboot stomping forever, Shared Lie, storage

  ¶ 6:34 AM

  Turning blackouts to light
When you know nothing will affect the psychopathic demons, you shouldn't waste time gathering facts or supporting candidates or protesting. Those actions are completely futile and often sponsored by Satan.

In the first month or two of this holocaust, the total waste wasn't yet clear, so gathering and spreading facts** seemed worthwhile. Now it's clear that nothing but personality counts. Sane leaders remain sane until the end, demons continue killing everyone until the end.

Peasants and intellectuals in the 1500s understood that there was no way to change the insane inbred infantile monsters who were permanently in charge. If you were lucky enough to get a sane monarch for a while, you enjoyed it. Otherwise you just tried to serve God as payment for the miracle of life, and PRAYED HARD for an end to the monster.

The best thing you can do is to flip the ugliness of war and evil into practical and beautiful creations. Raise good crops or good children, make good furniture, do good science, write good music. This is what God expects of us.

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American Radio Library added a 1942 issue of Westinghouse Engineer with an apt example of turning the exigencies of war into beauty and practicality.

WW2 was a necessary and justified project, like all of FDR's projects. But blackouts were a fake exigency. They weren't needed, and most people understood they weren't needed. Bombers could find targets without streetlights. Still, most people obeyed.

Westinghouse was trying to find solutions to retain more of normal life while lights were forced off:

If a military blackout consists merely in discontinuing past methods of illumination, it well may delay and confuse the defenders as well as the enemy. If unmodified darkness should interfere radically with necessary traffic movement, or if it should cripple production, facilitate sabotage or lead to panics, then its result would be much the same as if the enemy actually destroyed property and morale by bombing. But since blackouts seem necessary under present conditions, it is comforting to know that through the development of new luminous materials it is possible to alleviate some of the inconveniences and hazards of complete darkness; it is possible to provide "storage batteries" of light as substitutes for lamp bulbs, luminous signs, or the usual signals and markers during emergencies. Incited by the impact of blackouts and stimulated by wartime needs, phosphorescent materials have developed rapidly and are now becoming useful tools in the lighting art.

Generally speaking, these materials are zinc and cadmium sulphides in one group (greens, yellows) and calcium or strontium sulphides (blues) in another, with traces of other inorganic compounds.

Phosphorescence didn't really catch on, and certainly didn't continue, except in watch dials. We've gained the false impression that phosphorescence is always radioactive, but most of the compounds are natural and 'organic'.

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** How futile is gathering facts? The futility can be proved by simple logic.


The CDC doesn't listen to the CDC's own facts.


From the fucking start of the holocaust, CDC's own published numbers have shown clearly that the "virus", if any, is NOT AN EPIDEMIC. From the fucking start, the deaths in CDC's own published data have been almost entirely among people in nursing homes and hospices, people SCHEDULED TO DIE. When the monsters won't listen to their OWN facts, there's no purpose in trying to bring EXTERNAL facts to their attention. They know the truth by fucking definition, and they continue to murder the world in direct contradiction to their own published data.

Why do they publish data that disagrees with their actions? Sucker filter. Cults and scams always do this. If you want to select the craziest and fiercest adherents for your cult or fraud, you want ONLY the people who refuse to believe their own senses.

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Later thought: Phosphorescent paint didn't gain popularity because blackouts were temporary, and electric power was reliable after WW2 thanks to FDR's hydro dams and infrastructure projects. Now electric power is no longer reliable, thanks to EPA's destruction of dams and nuke plants and coal plants and grids and forests. So phosphorescent paint might be worth trying again on the west coast where power has reverted to third world standards with government-forced blackouts.

Labels: 2000=1000, Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law, storage, Sucker Filter

  ¶ 2:40 PM