Error, not error
I was thinking about cars named after people and animals. Read an article about Pininfarina's 1961 dream car, the Jacqueline. Pininfarina was trying to get Cadillac to make the car, and the name (as in Jackie Kennedy) was meant to be part of the appeal.



It was a DAMNED PRETTY car, but GM didn't bite. It's clear from actual results, if not from written history, that AMC did bite on the styling. The perfectly pretty 1963 Rambler clearly follows the same lines, and the timing is about right. Ed Anderson gets full credit for the '63. I doubt it. His previous "own" designs were clumsy, and his previous designs with official help from Pininfarina were pretty. So the influence, official or otherwise, seems like a good bet.

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Naming cars after people other than the company founder has always been a jinx, so it's easy to see why nobody picked up the name.

Around 1930 Marmon named its sub-luxury car the Roosevelt, after Teddy. Just in time for the other Roosevelt to become a hissing and a byword to Marmon customers. A little later Studie named its new cheap car the Rockne, after Knute. Just in time for Knute to get killed in a plane crash.

This should have been an obvious marketing error. Politics and football are team sports, with passionate fans and anti-fans for each politician or coach. When you pick one side you automatically lose the anti-fans as customers, even though they might have liked the car.

So we don't have a Cadillac Ivanka or a Chevy Nixon or a Ford Paterno.

Naming after the company founder is not a marketing error. If you don't like Henry Ford, you aren't going to buy his products no matter what they're called, so you're not a potential customer repelled solely by the name.

But in fact Ford made a personal-name error later without realizing it. Starting in 1960, Ford ran wild with wild animals. Romantic-sounding animals. No plain domestic names like Dog or Cat or Horse or Fish. Ford wanted Mustangs, Cougars, Lynxes, Panteras, Pintos, Mavericks.

Pinto was a partial mistake. The name must have seemed wild and romantic to Ford's NYC marketers, but in fact pinto is just a color scheme for horses, like tabby or brindle. Considering the fashion for strange color schemes in the '70s, it's odd that Ford didn't make any pinto Pintos; though many Pintos ended up as pintos because their owners didn't feel like repainting repaired fenders.

Maverick was a complete mistake that came full circle, accidentally becoming the most appropriate name ever for a Ford. Those NYC marketers were apparently thinking that a Maverick was a wild Texas Longhorn. In fact Maverick was a rancher who was famous for not branding his cattle, which is not a good omen for brand-conscious marketers. And Maverick's grandson Maury was famous as a Left Populist politician in the '30s.

Full circle. Unfortunately the car wasn't wild or populist or anything special at all. It was durable and domestic and uncomfortable and inefficient. Should have been called Turtle.

Later thought: Lincoln is a major exception to the rule. I guess the jinx doesn't apply with people who are far enough in the past that they have fossilized into household words. It certainly applies to people who are alive at the time of the naming, because living people can surprise you.
  ¶ 5:13 PM

  Where's the real value?
Still trying to scratch the electronics itch. Decided to return to a speech-related project that I'd started last year, then got derailed by surgery and WINTER. Looking through a Bell System journal from 1940, got derailed again by an interesting chart.

Phones per capita sorted by cities. 1939 was a good time to run such a chart, since the trend for phones was in mid-climb. Phones became practical in 1910 and pretty much universal by 1970. Early and late don't tell you much; mid-slope is where you can see the variability.



Where's New York? I figured that NYC, with all those stockbrokers holding ten phones at once and shouting SHORT CONSOLIDATED! CLOSE DOWN AMALGAMATED! RUIN ACME! would be a solid and decisive NUMBER ONE for phones.

Nope. NYC is down at 14. Where's Boston? Not there. Where's Philly and Hartford and Miami? Not there. The East Coast isn't a major phone user. Instead, the major phone cities are inland. Omaha, Minneapolis, Denver, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Chicago.

Mapping the cities shows the worldwide pattern:



Government capitals are there, as you'd expect, but the hot zone for phones is INDUSTRY AND SHIPPING. Real value economy. Göteborg, Danzig, Riga, Kaunas, Hamburg = Baltic Phone Index.

Later thought: This fits the observation I've made several times that the middle part of the country wasn't badly hurt by the 1930 Depression. NYC bankers were ruined but oil and cattle and manufacturing kept going. The current Depression is opposite. NYC bankers are getting hyperexponentially hyperricher, and the middle part is starving and overdosing and jumping from bridges.

Labels: the broken circle

  ¶ 8:49 AM

  Countervailing trend
Most parts of the DC bureaucracy grudgingly and snottily obeyed the Trump admin agenda for about three weeks, then returned to Sorosian normality.

VOA seems to have gone the other way. Before the election and for several months thereafter, VOA was sticking with Soros, sounding just like CNN or BBC. Now they are starting to treat Americans more objectively. This feature listens to several actual Americans without insulting or eviscerating them. And this item on Rick Perry's actions as head of DOE is neutral, even a little bit positive.

Somebody in Trump's inner circle must be continuing to work for America, despite all indications of Sorosian surrender from the top.

  ¶ 3:15 AM

  Perfect parallel
2017 = 1955.


On page 6 of this RCA publication, Sarnoff lays out his strategy for the information side of the Cold War. It's identical to current proposals from Apple or Google, with the same aggressive hatred of Russia.

RCA in 1955 was somewhat comparable to Apple. A provider of entertainment devices AND a controller of entertainment content, closely tied to government and intel. RCA owned NBC and sold the color TVs to receive NBC. Apple owns iTunes and sells the iPhones to receive iTunes. Both provided communication equipment and communication services to government. Strictly speaking RCA was broader than Apple, so maybe RCA = Apple + Tesla.

I'm not going to cite the whole article since it's thoroughly familiar to modern ears. Just one carefully worded paragraph:



Was the Cold War about communism? No, it was about Soviet-based communism. Our system was good because it was ours. Russia's system was bad because it was Russia's. We started this war between NATIONS in 1946, and we called it a war of ideology because our propaganda was more effective that way.

The current Cold War has a more genuine ideological basis. Our economic system, though NOT soviet or communist, is totally anti-capitalist and anti-natural law and anti-human. Our system aims to destroy all REAL business, leaving all money and power in the financial realm. Russia is defending itself against financialism with real-value capitalism, based on industry and agriculture with banks serving as helpers.

= = = = =

The next article in the same RCA journal shows the Globalist Tripod clearly.



There's the tripod. Sarnoff representing intel and tech, LBJ representing leftist politicians, Baruch representing bankers. Modern equiv would be Musk, Obama, Soros.

[I tried to find more recent Williamsburg Settlement Awards, but no luck. The Williamsburg Settlement was a Quaker organization in Brooklyn. The award seems to have been short-lived, maybe from 1949 to 1957? The '49 award went to Baruch, then nothing else visible online until several separate refs to this 1955 event. Very little after that.]

Labels: switchover

  ¶ 1:33 AM

  Yes! Do it!
Macron invites American lunatics to France.

Yes! Do it! Please! GO NOW!

They won't, of course. Killing HERE AND NOW is urgently required for a psychopath. When you have total control of Country A, there's no point in risking a trip to Country F where unknown factors may get in your way sooner or later.

After all, Country F came much closer to electing a GENUINE NATIONALIST than Country A did. We barely and marginally "elected" a faker, with many voters knowing full well that he was a faker serving Goldman.
  ¶ 2:13 PM

  Can Morse carry intonation? No.
A couple days ago I was thinking about the restrictions placed on symbols....

When printing came along in 1400, symbols had to freeze in place so that printers could rely on a standard typecase. When telegraphs arrived in 1830, the restriction got even stronger. Typewriters in 1880 tightened the grip more.

We stayed in typewriter mode from 1880 to 2000, so we couldn't properly imagine an unlimited symbol set. Restriction was the default, the water in the fishbowl. Now Unicode is opening the bowl slightly; emoticons are pulling in the direction of ideograms; an expansion of SVG could break the bowl, but it looks like SVG isn't growing or flourishing.

Two of those points mixed to form a strange question. We're just now opening up the ASCII limits on computer symbols. Would it be possible to open up Morse? Can keying be expressive? Can Morse have intonation?

I tried it with my practice key, which I keep close to the computer and use several times per day to keep skills running. The practice key has a beeper with a knob for pitch. I tried sending with right hand and controlling pitch with left. Complete fail. Ended up 'stuttering' with the key, so the result was garbled. In theory the left brain, controlling right hand, should be in charge of the letters, while the right brain, controlling left hand, should be in charge of the music. Nope. Theory blows.

So I created the result with software. Modified my nice little Morse sender python to include intonation, by treating numbers as pitch commands.

Tried it with a dumb bit of text, as follows:

5hi 4cla3ra. 5how 4was 4your 5trip 4to 4the 6co4ast? 4do 6you 5want 4to 3come 4wi5th 6m7e?

The result in MP3 form does what I told it to do, but it still fails.



Mixing pitch with a code that isn't built from real laryngeal waves and formants just doesn't work.

Since Morse is a time-duration code, it's possible that pulling durations may be a more fitting form of expression. Modern English doesn't use duration phonemically, so a native English speaker isn't tuned to small variations. Many languages do use duration. For some reason the agglutinators like Finnish and Japanese and Hungarian are strong on distinctions in length and weak in pitch distinctions. Anglo-Saxon formerly used length phonemically; we still incorrectly use the terms Long and Short, but the "Long" vowels in Modern English have become diphthongs unrelated to the original. Length seems to be a factor that comes and goes over centuries, which means it's always "available" to some degree.

Later: Tried duration instead of intonation, and it works!

Labels: Asked and answered, Language update

  ¶ 6:33 AM

  Can Morse express emotion via duration? YES.
Following previous item, a failed attempt to add expression to Morse via pitch intonation.

Repeating last paragraph:

Since Morse is a time-duration code, it's possible that pulling durations may be a more fitting form of expression. Modern English doesn't use duration phonemically, so a native English speaker isn't tuned to small variations. Many languages do use duration. For some reason the agglutinators like Finnish and Japanese and Hungarian are strong on distinctions in length and weak in pitch distinctions. Anglo-Saxon formerly used length phonemically; we still incorrectly use the terms Long and Short, but the "Long" vowels in Modern English have become diphthongs unrelated to the original. Length seems to be a factor that comes and goes over centuries, which means it's always "available" to some degree.

So let's try it. Again modified the Python morse-sender to vary duration. Numbers are treated as duration pullers. 0 = shortest, 5 = default, 9 = longest.

Switched my brain back to Okie mode and said a sentence with plenty of variation, then tried to write it with corresponding duration numbers.

5ok8ay 4now 4th7is 5is 4get3ting 3clos2er 5to 5the 7des8ired 6res3ult

And here's the desired result in MP3 form.

Success! Expressive Morse!



Best of all, this can be done in plain old hand-sent CW without any special knobs or modulation tricks. Normal senders undoubtedly do it to some extent without trying, but "proper" sending is supposed to be precise, so nobody practices this form of expression deliberately. If you're using a bug or a digital keyer, precision is the only choice.

Labels: Asked and answered, Zero Problems

  ¶ 6:00 AM

  Distinction disappeared
Traditional propagandists made a distinction between two types of takeover.

When the conqueror wanted the takeover to be peaceful, propaganda extolled the advantages of joining the conqueror and painted a rosy picture of our lifestyle, so that you would be inclined to adopt it without resistance. In the 60s USA and USSR used this approach in opposite directions.

When the conqueror was just about ready to roll in the tanks, propaganda was hateful and contemptuous, ordering immediate surrender and promising death for resisters.

Parallel to courtship vs rape or con-game vs armed robbery.

Modern Sorosian propagandists have abandoned the first form entirely. When speaking to Deplorables or to Russia, there is no attempt to create a pleasant picture of life for obedient subjects. It's a simple promise of genocide. You will die. That's all.

Labels: defenestration / depontication

  ¶ 2:23 AM

  Language update for June


Professor Polistra has been focusing on language in several recent posts, but failed to load up her usual bucket of wordshit. She apologizes.

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Blowhorn:

Another good malaprop from Spokane-News.

Corner of Standard & Sanson Ave, 2 police cars w lights flashing, using blow horn talking to resident

The bull in bullhorn comes from an old and forgotten slang term for cops. Blowhorn makes more direct sense. Parallel to blowhard.

= = = = =

Aspired:

Fake word to make you think 'conspired'.

Headline at VOA:

US Intelligence Charges Russia, Putin Aspired to Help Trump Win

Sort of like Hong Kong knockoff brands.

= = = = =

Insouciant:

Getting a lot of hard mileage lately, and the meaning is starting to spread out.

Etymologically insouciant means not caring or worrying.

Traditionally insouciant has meant something like flippant or sassy. Doing your own thing with a bit of style, not bothered by hard stares from the bluenoses.

She had short dark hair, a pretty heart-shaped face, and an insouciant, slightly reckless air...

The typical new use returns to the literal origin, basically apathetic.

When the gullible and insouciant American public and the presstitutes who participate in the deceptions permitted the Deep State to get away with the fairy tale that a few Saudi Arabians under the direction of Osama bin Laden, ...

Some new uses move toward a harder form of uncaring:

Dreher did not read Secularization and Moral Change, and we know this from the potted history he gives us as when, e.g., he insouciantly claims that "the loss of the Christian religion is why the West has been fragmenting for some time now...

Here insouciant seems to mean cynical. The author thinks that Dreher knows he's engaging in false representation.

= = = = =

Migrating background:

This atrocious euphemism began in Krautland, specifically at Deutsche Welle. Now it's spreading through all of Sorosia. RFI is interviewing a supporter of Macron, running the usual Robust Debate in which ONLY ONE VIEW IS POSSIBLE and the only permissible disagreement is HOW FAR WE GO in obeying Soros and the "disagreement" MUST lead in the direction of MORE PERFECT OBEDIENCE OF SOROS. In other words, an auction to maximize genocide and chaos and blood and guts. The "announcer" and the "advocate" are both using "of a migrating background" to mean Arabs.

= = = = =

Supersonic heterodyne:

This doesn't belong in a list of new words, but Prof Polistra was impressed by its appearance in one old radio magazine. It reveals two word histories at once.

First the true origin of superhet. Superhet isn't super because it's wonderful, it's supersonic because the heterodyned wave is above human hearing. Heterodyning is always a common phenomenon in radio; you can still hear it often on the AM band. But the heterodyning that you hear is by definition NOT supersonic. The key to the superhet circuit was producing a heterodyned product wave up in a range where it can be filtered and processed by fixed-tuned resonant circuits of a practical size. (Resonant circuits for audible waves are BIG.) After the processing, the wave can then be rectified and detected as if it's a regular radio signal.

The phrase also reveals a second change in terminology. In 1925 airplanes that could exceed the speed of sound were fictional, so we didn't need a word to describe them. Supersonic and ultrasonic both meant waves above the audible frequency range. When jet planes exceeded 1100 fps, supersonic became standard in that context, so ultrasonic had to specialize on waves over 30kc.

Labels: Language update

  ¶ 1:35 AM

  Wrong assumption. Why?
Got the electronics itch again, so I was looking in some Soviet electronic mags from the 1920s. I was thinking that recent Russian circuits and programs are clever and ELEGANT, so earlier Russian electronics must also be elegant.

I was wrong. The 1920s Russian circuits were unoriginal and clumsy.

Why was I wrong?

I should have been thinking of another comparison that I'd noticed in auto engineering. In discussing Ford's attempt to build a plant in Leningrad, I ran across this analysis:

The social-political climate in the Soviet industry was a mix of enthusiasm and fear. The political police, local Communist party structures and union leadership were very influential, and their suspicion towards engineers, as a part of intellectual class, “intelligentsia”, was evident. Moreover, strong professional jealousy had risen between Russian and American engineers. The Russians were proud of their theoretical knowledge, while Americans stressed the importance of practical experience.

At that time Russian intellectuals, including engineers, were heavily influenced by Kraut culture. They emphasized theory over practice. At that time American intellectuals but NOT American engineers were also Teutonic. American engineers followed the British practical tradition and became even more practical from frontier experience.

Now it's backwards. Americans are all theory, and Russian engineers since ~1960 are practical and creative. What made the difference?

I'm always ready to blame genes, but can't blame genes for a variable!

Best guess: Soviet education made the difference. After 1920 American education became purely rote and theoretical, and got even worse after Sputnik. Russian education was moving in the opposite direction, and by the time of Sputnik was strongly EXPERIMENTAL AND EXPERIENTIAL.

Post-switchover Russians are the product of GOOD education. Post-switchover Yanks are the product of ATROCIOUS education.

Labels: Experiential education, switchover

  ¶ 5:28 PM

  Good old symmetrical scapegoating
At some point in late 2016 it looked like the tradition of Symmetrical Scapegoating had disappeared, because the two "sides" in politics were actually seeking DIFFERENT goals for the first time in many decades.

Good old SS is back.

On one "side" we have an idiot Hollywood satan staging a realistic assassination and then blaming Trump when people ON HER OWN "SIDE" find assassination distasteful enough to fire her.

On the other "side", we have Repooflicans blaming Obama for Trump's FAILURE to do his job.

Headline: BREAKING: Obama Holdovers Sabotaged Trump’s Plans

Well, why were those holdovers still there? You supposedly represent a change of leadership, and therefore your JOB, BY FUCKING TAUTOLOGICAL DEFINITION, is to REPLACE the old leadership with new leadership. You made a constant point of saying "You're fired." Now you're blaming the old monsters because YOU didn't fire them.

Perfect symmetry. Griffin is fired by people on her own side and blames Trump. Trump FAILS to fire people on Griffin's side, and blames people on Griffin's side for his failure to fire them.

Meanwhile, outside of the symmetry but even crazier, Hillary blames RUSSIANWIKILEAKS and RUSSIANMEDDLING for the results of HILLARYMEDDLING. The Clintons ACTUALLY meddled and hacked the DNC, preventing DNC from picking Bernie who could have defeated Trump easily.

Means, motive, opportunity. In an all-hacked world, everyone has the means, so that's a null question. Russia's MOTIVE doesn't fit. Russian media clearly and openly wanted to see Bernie win. They didn't trust Trump, and they were right. Why would Russia corrupt the primaries to defeat Bernie? Only the Clinton Mafia had the MOTIVE to defeat Bernie, and only the Clinton Mafia was already in the middle of DNC with the OPPORTUNITY to cheat Bernie.
  ¶ 3:26 PM

  Constants and variables, squatting edition
Following on yesterday's note about squatting or adverse possession of dynastic traits.

"Trans" things are squatting in the higher-status gender. Act female, wear female things, use female pronouns, and sooner or later you are treated as female. The current version takes the ADVERSE part too far, making FORCIBLE DEMANDS on ordinary people. Ordinary people rebel against FORCIBLE DEMANDS, and the current "government" then imprisons them for rebellion. Adverse possession is not automatically evil, but the current FORCED ACCEPTANCE is evil.

Gene squatting belongs in the same broad category as three other terms, and it's fairly easy to confuse or conflate them. Let's see if we can parse the distinctions.

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SQUATTING:

Taking the names and superficial qualities of the higher-status group, gradually being SEEN as a member.

Here's an interesting history of how the Irish Travellers squatted in Gypsy territory:



Gypsies were initially seen as entertainers until their natural and universal criminal qualities were observed. Low-status vagabonds noted that Gypsies were more successful at thieving, partly because of the initial positive impression; vagabonds started to adopt the language and habits of Gypsies and soon became SEEN as identical to Gypsies.

= = = = =

PASSING:

If your ACTUAL PHYSICAL APPEARANCE is close to the higher-status group, you can generally become part of the group without fakery or forgery. All genetic groups have 'error bars' which overlap to some extent. People who fall into the overlapping zone can pick either side unless there's a peculiar legal restriction based on careful registration of genealogy.

= = = = =

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION:

Modern intentional misperception of ASSIMILATION, qv below.

= = = = =

ASSIMILATION:

The oldest and most natural of these phenomena. When a kitten is raised by a mama dog, it naturally learns dog speech and behavior patterns, but it's still a cat. When a white Southerner was raised by a colored nanny, he naturally learned African speech and behavior patterns, but he was still Caucasian. When a group of Italians and Poles moved to New York in the 1890s, they naturally (and unfortunately) learned New York speech and behavior patterns, but they were still Italians and Poles.

= = = = =

Now here's the constants and variables question, which popped up and surprised me.

Okay. Assimilation is natural. Why did those Italians and Poles assimilate, while post-1990 Muslim migrants in EU/US/UK are NOT assimilating?

It has NO FUCKING THING to do with Islam, because lots of Persian immigrants to oil states have always assimilated nicely.

It's a perfectly simple rule.

When you leave a country in turmoil and go to a country that DID NOT CAUSE the turmoil, you are a refugee.

When you leave a country in turmoil and go to a country that DID CAUSE the turmoil, you are a captive.

Refugees can and do assimilate. Captives may pretend to assimilate but they're always ready for the prison break.

Post-1990 immigrants from the Middle East are going to countries that CAUSED the current wars, thus they are captives ready to rebel.

Labels: Asked and answered, Constants and Variables, Language update

  ¶ 8:18 AM

  One real move
In the first few days Trump somehow managed to make one or two REAL moves toward sanity, perhaps by accident. REAL moves are FAITS ACCOMPLIS, starting a PHYSICAL PROCESS that is PHYSICALLY AND FINANCIALLY difficult to shut down. Fake moves are WORDS that vaguely imply future action. Words enable Satan to keep the caldrons of insanity boiling for decades.

One fait accompli:

The controversial, $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline began pumping oil on Thursday, even as Native American tribes that have long protested its construction vowed to continue the fight. The DAPL moves oil from North Dakota into South Dakota, Iowa and ultimately Illinois for distribution. It is part of the $4.8 billion Bakken Pipeline system operated by Energy Transfer Partners, which is expected to move about 520,000 barrels of light crude oil daily. Four Sioux tribes in the Dakotas are still appealing to a federal judge in Washington, DC to shut down the line.

Though the Injun Mafia and their Sorosian supporters will never admit it, pipelines are better for the actual environment than the alternative. Satan wants oil to be moved by trains so it will create constant spills that give Satan an excuse to enrich lawyers.

Labels: Zero Problems

  ¶ 2:03 AM

  Stupid me
Rereading yesterday's scream, I can see that I did EXACTLY what Deepstate wants.

Over and over it's the same. Deepstate agent Trump emits meaningless words, CAREFULLY crafted to make zero change in real policy while giving Satan a reason to KILL even more billions. Normal humans then respond to Satan's real omnicide with thoughts of revenge. And that's the purpose of Deepstate agent Trump. Riling up the anti-Satan forces so we can be seen and recorded and slaughtered more efficiently.

And I walked right into the mousetrap.

Oh well. Fuck it. All you can do in a situation like this is save your soul. Silence does not save your soul. Let's go ahead and make our allegiance PERFECTLY FUCKING CLEAR yet again.

Labels: Make or break

  ¶ 12:43 AM

  Habemus presidentam?
Since I'm in a Latin mood today.

Not gonna get highly excited by a move that may prove to be the usual fakery, but at least on the surface it appears that Trump has finally taken the oath of office. Finally did something potentially meaningful.

Treaties are important but indirect and slow-moving.

Cutting the budget and demonforce of EPA to zero would be TRULY AND CONCRETELY meaningful. As long as EPA exists and has even one satanic demon, it WILL continue to destroy the country.

In plain English, shut'n'shoot.

Later: ZH points out that the ACTUAL withdrawal won't start until after the next election. So this is normal after all. Just another pointless piece of verbiage that charges up Satan to a trillion volts without the tiniest femtospeck of counter-Satan ACTION.

We need a leader infinitely more courageous and steady than Trump. We need Duterte to the Duterte'th power. A leader who will bring all the troops home and aim their weapons internally. Obliterate DC and NYC. Remove them from the planet.
  ¶ 2:19 PM

  VVhy vvere scribes so vnimaginative?
The Catholic aggregator Big Pulpit has started using real Latin, and Latin orthographic habits, for subject headings:



Cute idea. Grabs your attention and makes the point that Latin is the universal language of Catholic Christianity.

Seeing the VV thing led to a question.

Why were Romans unwilling to create new symbols? When they colonized areas that had non-Latin sounds, and later when Latin itself adopted some of those sounds, the scribes refused to make new symbols. They simply overloaded existing symbols, or used arbitrary combinations of existing symbols. Same with numbers. They stuck with I V X L C D M for numbers; using separate number symbols might have opened minds to place notation earlier.

Big point: THERE WAS NO REASON to restrict the symbol set. Roman scribes from 300 BC to 1400 AD used pens. A pen can draw any symbol you want, limited only by time and efficiency.

When printing came along in 1400, symbols had to freeze in place so that printers could rely on a standard typecase. When telegraphs arrived in 1830, the restriction got even stronger. Typewriters in 1880 tightened the grip more.

We stayed in typewriter mode from 1880 to 2000, so we couldn't properly imagine an unlimited symbol set. Restriction was the default, the water in the fishbowl. Now Unicode is opening the bowl slightly; emoticons are pulling in the direction of ideograms; an expansion of SVG could break the bowl, but it looks like SVG isn't growing or flourishing.

Labels: Asked and unanswered, Language update

  ¶ 7:28 AM

  Egypt out of Sorosia
Continuing to watch the breakup of Sorosia.

My map only shows known CHANGES. Green is OUTWARD moves, purple is INWARD moves. Most EU countries are solidly Sorosian, most Orientals are solidly NON-Sorosian, so no deltas needed.

I'd been seeing some indications that Egypt was moving OUT. Now we have official word from the beast himself:

“Externally the EU is now surrounded by hostile powers: Putin’s Russia, Erdogan’s Turkey, Sisi’s Egypt and the America that Trump would like to create but can’t,” Soros said.



So the map is updated.

The beast uses an interesting phrase: "The America that Trump would like to create but can't."

More accurate but convoluted: "The America that America THOUGHT Trump would like to create but didn't."

Labels: Make or break

  ¶ 6:54 AM

  Gene squatting
Our current situation is an OLD story in nature and culture. A morbidly ill civilization relies on static tribal hierarchies (royal families, corporate monopolies) and loses its modularity and feedback loops. All normal civilized processes disappear, replaced by brute force.

In a healthy civilization with multi-layer modules and no static dynasties, small differences in talent and effort yield noticeable improvements in status. Incremental competition brings out the best in everyone who is willing to make the effort. Feedback is present and visible.

When modularity is replaced by globalism, small differences are no longer visible and meaningful. You have to beat the superstars to gain status. In practice there is no way to beat the superstars because the superstars own all the paths to power. Competition no longer functions.

When dynasties are based solely on family connection, there's no point in striving for improvement. The dominant tribe owns everything. If you're not in the dominant tribe you're permanently stuck. Competition no longer functions.

We're there. For most of us, effort no longer yields improved status. Only brute force counts. Only total destruction of the dynasty works.

BUT:

With ordinary property, brute force is not the only way to get stuff. Fraud and adverse possession often work, with less cost than brute force.

Dolezal and "trans" are the equivalents of fraud and adverse possession against dynastic privilege.

Dolezal accurately perceived that the black dynasty had higher status than the white dynasty, so she tried to crash the black party with forged credentials. It worked for 10 years, then it stopped working.

"Trans" things are attempting to move into a perceived higher status by adverse possession or squatting. Take a female name, use female pronouns, and sooner or later your "femaleness" is recognized.

Followup and expansion on the topic here.

Labels: Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 2:37 AM

  Why is Corbyn still around?
I'm constantly noting the superiority of Parliaments over our intrinsically insane system. The post-Brexit functioning of the British mechanism is a beautiful example.

But there's still an odd clinker. Corbyn. Why does Labour ALLOW him to lead? Normally the party in opposition takes advantage of the non-powerful interval to find and cultivate good leaders. The party builds a shadow cabinet that will attract voters, so that the party will be ready to run the country if the voters like what's offered. Corbyn doesn't fit the pattern. Brexit was passed by voters who SHOULD have been Labour voters, but Corbyn was half-heartedly for remaining.

Now he's pushing a national property tax that will unquestionably hit middle-class people hardest. You could make a case for a special tax on rich foreigners holding vacant mansions as a hedge tactic. This is a problem in London, where top neighborhoods are vacant and decaying in real value, while the price has been jacked up to unaffordable levels. Corbyn's tax seems calculated to serve the interests of the super-rich, who can buy up large areas after the middle-class owners are unable to pay the tax.

Serving the super-rich should be the job of Tories, but only Labour is doing it. (Unlike the USA STRONG setup where BOTH parties serve only the super-rich.)
  ¶ 1:17 AM

  Here's why
Here's why all media outlets need to be shut down and AT LEAST jailed for life.



Note that Dolezal is getting appropriate justice for her crimes. Even the commies who run "book festivals" have figured out that she's a faker, a professional perpetrator of hate hoaxes and false accusations. She has been shunned and banished. Nobody is listening.

But at the SAME TIME and on the SAME PAGE, the idiot "journalists" are still busy ginning up hate hoaxes, still punishing honkies for "crimes" that are obvious frauds in the Dolezal tradition.

Labels: Emersonian justice, NOT Emersonian justice

  ¶ 12:31 AM

  snxʷ meneʔ and balances!
Earlier this year the alien demonic entities illegally and criminally and murderously occupying the "city" "council" of what used to be called the "city" "of" "Spokane" but now is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hades criminally approved a proposal by the snxʷ meneʔ Tribe to build a giant new snxʷ meneʔ casino which is SOLELY AIMED at destroying and cancelling the EXISTING casino owned by the Kalispel Tribe.

Now the LEGITIMATE County Commissioners of the LEGITIMATE County of Spokane are filing a lawsuit challenging Federal approval of the new snxʷ meneʔ casino.

The "city" aliens are so far beyond the realm of legality and sanity and humanity that there's no point in trying to countermand their actions. Any unfortunate innocent sound waves or photons or electrons directed toward snxʷ meneʔ will be hopelessly contaminated and sullied.

Possibly the BIA was acting on insufficient information, or perhaps BIA was just ordinarily corrupt. In either case their actions can at least be dealt with normally via normal legal procedures. Checks and balances may be functional with BIA.
  ¶ 1:41 PM

  Is Trump getting ready to TAKE OFFICE?
Various sources claim Trump's admin is preparing to withdraw from the Paris Crimate Crime. If this is true, it will be the FIRST ACT OF HIS PRESIDENCY, the first true fulfillment of a promise. Up till now he has done nothing but tweet nonsensical crap that starts unwinnable fights and gives his enemies beautiful ammunition.

Earlier he took a few steps that APPEARED to be meaningful actions, but on close examination were meaningless. Canceling Obama orders that never actually took effect, or issuing an order on religious freedom that was carefully calculated to do exactly nothing.

Labels: Asked and unanswered

  ¶ 6:22 AM

  Burger came before bread?
Reviewing an earlier thought and adding more....

= = = = = START REPRINT:

We generally assume that humans picked up the idea of fire from BIG lightning-caused wildfires. Good old Guk and Ik wandered BAREFOOT through the burned savannah, smelled the cooked sabertooth tiger, sampled it, and then figured out how to "store" fire. The "storing" is the hard part. Guk picks up a branch that's still burning and takes it home. Guk says to Ik: "Hmp. Me like hot sabertooth. Me makeum TEDX clip. Show other tribe how makeum hot sabertooth."

Doesn't make much sense when you examine it.

Wouldn't it make more sense if we learned cooking as part of fermentation? We were definitely fermenting stuff from the start. Fermentation can EASILY get hot enough to spontaneously combust. It's a serious problem in grain elevators.



What do you have then? It's ALREADY food, already in the context of preservation, and it's a controlled smolder in the food itself. To remake the fire, you don't need to wait for a T-storm. In any season, just reproduce the way you fermented the barley. Same size of pile on same stone: presto!

= = = = = END REPRINT.

Now add another step:



Here Guk has placed a strip of Sabertooth meat on the fermenting barley. What happens? The fat melts down into the barley, and the top layer of barley fries and solidifies.

What do you have then? SANDWICH. And if Guk uses the stick to turn the Sabersteak over for more complete heating, the barley will grease up and fry up on all sides of the Sabersteak.

What do you have then? Pita or pierogi or pasty. The universal meat-inside-frybread envelope with universal bilabial name.

So I'd argue that barley gave us everything that makes us human. Fire, beer, bread, pita, money, measurements. All from barley.

Labels: Asked and sort of answered, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 3:50 AM

  Carving IKEA
An Italian investigator working on behalf of Assange filed a FOIA request to the Swedish "government" and received a file consisting of nothing but blacked-out lines. It's funny and/or frustrating for sure.

Call it the IKEA approach to information, and you start to get somewhere. The redaction tells you MORE than the unredacted lines would. An official file is going to contain nothing but officially permitted jargon. The facts never make it into an official file. The blacked-out lines tell you that Sweden KNOWS it's on shaky ground, KNOWS it has no evidence. You wouldn't get that information from the official jargon.

In any type of analysis, whether it's medicine or police work or Intel or electronics or car mechanics, you have to PAY ATTENTION to ALL of Carver's rules.



LOOK ABOUT YOU.

DON'T look INSIDE you. Don't look at your preconceptions or theories or delusions. Focus OUTWARD on the THINGS THAT ARE HERE. Then,

TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.

Use your hands or tools to EXAMINE the THINGS THAT ARE HERE. Don't pay any attention to NON-THINGS like theories or delusions or dark matter or math. Grab onto PHYSICAL REALITY so that you can....

LET THEM TALK TO YOU.

Listen to what the THINGS have to say. Watch them as they go about their daily routine or their motions or cycles or growth patterns or whatever is appropriate. And finally and MOST IMPORTANT,

TALK TO THEM.

Useful analysis always ends up in a loop of Talk To Them / Let Them Talk To You.

In medicine, the doctor has to poke and prod and wiggle you. In electronics, you have to apply a signal to see how the circuit responds. In auto repair, you have to hit the gas and brake, or pull a spark plug, to see how the engine responds.

And in Intel, you have to send out signals to see how the enemy responds. This will tell you FAR MORE than years of passive attempts to decode the enemy's intentions or ciphers. You don't have to know WHAT the enemy is saying if you know HOW it's responding to your pokes and prods.

The Italian investigator TALKED TO the Swedish "government". The "government" then TALKED TO HER, far more loudly and meaningfully than the usual press release.

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 8:07 AM

  Meanwhile, NOT annoying........
Watching PM May in England tends to clarify just how totally fucked our system is. May was chosen BY THE TORY PARTY after Cameron failed. She was chosen specifically to take on board the demonstrated results of the Referendum. She has been DOING HER JOB ever since. Not as fast as I'd like, but clearly FAST ENOUGH. Cautiously but RELENTLESSLY she pushes back the internal Remainers and the EU hypersatans. Both sets of bullies have come to realize that she WILL NOT BE ROLLED.

She had the confidence and guts to call an election, which will happen next week. Polls (FWIW!) indicate that the Tories will win nicely, BECAUSE the Tories have responded to a REAL NATIONAL PROBLEM by actually SOLVING THE PROBLEM.

This is exactly how a negative feedback system works. Not quite sharply or precisely, but the desired tendency constantly pulls the system toward the desired result.

Our system continues to fail dramatically and lethally over and over. I'm still puzzled by the odd difference between RNC and DNC in the 2016 election. DNC followed normal practice, ignoring votes and nominating the dynastic successor. RNC apparently violated normal practice by allowing votes to count, but was it really a violation? Or were both parties simply obeying the Clinton mafia? Wikileaks offers some hints about DNC's intention to control both "sides", but we don't have leaks from RNC that would tell us whether RNC was obeying the Goddess or just incompetently failing to cheat.
  ¶ 3:13 AM

  Why is it so annoying?
I may have said this before in a more implicit way, but it struck me sharply today.

Even after plenty of SHOULD-BE LESSONS, Trump continues blogging instead of ruling. He comments that people are leaking, but he doesn't arrest them or fire them. He comments that Germany is Very Bad, but he doesn't solve our own end of the Very Badness. He bashes the fake media but hasn't revoked any licenses or arrested or shot any "journalists". (The minimal correct solution is to shoot ALL "journalists.") He says that his own press agent Spicer is "getting beat up" but doesn't replace Spicer.

Ordinary competent adults DO THE JOB. We may bitch and groan WHILE we do our jobs, and we may not do our jobs well or eagerly, but we don't bitch and groan INSTEAD of doing our jobs.

I don't see any indication that Trump is DOING the job he was hired to do. EPA is still ruining entire cities because of bizarre delusions. The Weather bureau is still praising Gaia. Black-robed monsters are still committing mass murder on civilization. The military is still bombing every country except Israel. The Federal Reserve is still holding interest rates at zero. No bankers have been punished. Only a couple dozen federal employees have been fired. Goldman is still in charge of the economy, Soros still runs our culture, and Saudi still runs our foreign policy.

The rest of us are bitching about the situation because we CAN'T DO A FUCKING THING ABOUT IT. We tried to do the job assigned to us as "citizens" in a "democracy". We tried to "vote". It didn't make any fucking difference. Now the ONE MAN who could actually DO THE JOB is just sitting back and bitching along with the rest of us.

It's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond crazy.

Labels: Loughnerian Logic

  ¶ 12:10 PM

  Woodpecker work schedule
Do woodpeckers work a regular daily route? I've been hearing a woodpecker every day at 4:45 AM sharp (heh). During this morning's walk I watched him drilling a phone pole at 5:15, a half mile from my house and definitely not audible at my house. So I'm deducing that he doesn't necessarily "start work" at 4:45, but always hits a pole near my house at 4:45.

More research is needed, as they always say in grant proposals. I'll see if he's working the same pole at the same time tomorrow.

Next day: Nope. He punched in at 4:57 near my house, but I didn't see or hear him anywhere else during the walk. Obviously woodpeckers work a fixed territory like all non-sessile animals, and it's a safe bet that they move around the territory in a habitual pattern, but not rigidly scheduled.

Labels: Asked and sort of answered

  ¶ 10:06 AM

  Real estate swarmers
Spokane's real estate heat is bringing out many houses that have been vacant or slowly flipped. Among them are three that I've been noticing and writing about and "drawing"...

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1. An excellent but misplaced remodel of an old Avista substation. These old streetcar-era substations were held and maintained by Avista for many years and finally sold around 2000. One of them was turned into a house with slight modification, and it's been occupied solidly since. The other was super-architected into a super-showplace in 2008. The owners occasionally tried to sell it, but without success until now.

My version of the original substation was incorporated in the Electric Village scene:



Zillow's pix show what I mean by super-architected:



An impractical SHOWPLACE house designed for super-rich display, but this area is emphatically NOT a showplace neighborhood. Nevertheless, somebody finally bought it for $180k two weeks ago.

= = = = =

2. The house that I've memorialized as Bad Flip. In the earlier boom of 2007, an owner took a small house and added a GIANT McMansion back wing, but didn't finish the process before the bust of 2009.

My stylized version:


Googlestreet's pic in 2013, just before the windstorm forced action to resume:



This year the remodel is finally finished. During those years the McMansion fashion blessedly faded, so the remodelers revised the back wing to a more suitable 'vernacular' style. It's not shown on Zillow just yet. My pic as of this morning:



Nice and tasteful. Big front porch, windows matching original. Now it's a GOOD FLIP.

July 9 update: Finally has a for sale sign, through Gladhart Realty. Not up on Zillow yet.

Aug 25 update: Sold and occupied! Curtains in the window and cars in the driveway.

= = = = =

3. Biggest of all: the vacant apartment at 4001 W Crown that I've shown in stylized form many times:



This building has been vacant for 20 years, and was squatted and vandalized in the last 5 years.

Zillow's pic:



Zillow's advertisement is more of an avertissement:

Approximately 8 units in disrepair. Needs to be redeveloped if building is to remain multi unit zone. Buyer to complete any and all of their own investigation as to codes and condition. The 8 unit may not be Grandfathered in. Owner to verify.

In other words, you're basically buying the lot and the zoning, but you can't count on the zoning to stay multi. Doesn't sound like a good deal for $150k, but this year I'm sure it will get snapped up. The building may be savable. The shingles have crumbled with age but the roof looks intact and straight, miraculously unhurt by the windstorms in recent years.

A few days later, Zillow no longer shows the for-sale indication for the apt, and it doesn't even show the Zestimate. All houses not currently for sale have a Zestimate, and all give a basic set of Zinformation when you Zclick. Not this one. It has become a Zunproperty.


June 15 update on vacant apt 4001 W Crown: MAJOR ACTION, comparatively speaking. A little barbecue grill that has been sitting at one corner of the building for 20 years has been moved out to the curb. The two old trucks at the back of the property (one a '61 Chevy panel truck) are gone. The manhole for the water meter is uncovered.

July 9 update on 4001 W Crown: Looks like the action indication was false. The barbecue grill is back where it was, and squatters have opened the doors again.

Aug 27: 4001 W Crown Getting worse. All the first-floor windows are boarded, and now for the first time a couple of the upstairs windows have been broken FORCEFULLY. Looks like someone heaved a brick from the ground, which takes serious strength and intent.

Oct 4: Looke like the demonic city has purchased 4001. They're repaving Crown right now, among the thousands of blocks that were ruined by last winter because the demonic city failed to use

The crews are using 4001 as a base of operations, covering the lot with big cement vaults and equipment and porta-potties. I don't think they'd feel free to do that on non-demonic-city property. This would also account for the abrupt disappearance from Zillow listings.

Labels: Heimatkunde, infill

  ¶ 3:10 AM

  Old forgotten roads
Listening to a '30s novelty song about ghosts and such. The song includes a wonderfully evocative line:

...On an old forgotten road....



First thought: Hey! Is that possible now? In the era of total satellite mapping, are there any forgotten roads? Is there anything anywhere that isn't fully recorded?

Second thought: No, that's the wrong question. Ever since airplanes became practical, official maps have included 'casual' and unofficial roads. Full recording is nothing new.



This 1950 USGS map of an area I've discussed before includes lots of forgotten roads.

The right question is:

Who does the forgetting?

In the era of paper maps you could buy a map from USGS and OWN the map. You could use it for exploration; you could make corrections or add houses that weren't on the map.

In the era of DMCA restrictions and 'cloud' storage, you can't OWN any information. Everything is RENTED, and everything must be used exactly as the author created it. When Googlemaps decides that a place doesn't exist, it doesn't exist. You may have printed off an earlier version of the map, but your printed version doesn't count. Only the version in the cloud counts.

In the last three years the information in online maps has been diminishing. The official Spokane GIS map formerly had an overlay showing a 1958 aerial map. Now it's gone. Even on the part that remains, information about each property no longer includes the date of construction. A paper map or paper book that you OWN can't be forcibly diminished. You can tear out pages or burn the book, but the PUBLISHER has no power over the book.

The answer then: Deepstate does the forgetting. The past is illegal.

Labels: Patient things

  ¶ 1:27 AM

  Salute to DRY


This isn't meant to be meaningful. Pretty much the same as the top icon. Polistra and friends hadn't been visible for a while, so they just wanted to restfully and calmly salute WARM DRY WEATHER AT LAST. The plants are doing the same. After growing wildly for a month to suck the oversaturated water out of the soil, they're settling down to wild blooming.

Labels: Heimatkunde

  ¶ 3:39 PM

  Trend that never started
Two page ad in a 1968 issue of Record World:



Hip pocket records? I wasn't into pop music, but I was heavily into electronic stuff at the time. Never heard of hip pocket records, never saw one. The player looks like a nice gadget ... radio and 33/45 turntable, highly portable, similar to the Longines Symphonette. The record appears to be SLIGHTLY smaller than a 45, not small enough for a hip pocket. Even if you could fit it in, it would break when you sat down. No advantage or purpose.

The true advantage of 45s was not the small OD but the large ID. The big hole allowed the centerpost of a changer to do all the work of holding and dropping, so you didn't have to fiddle with the extra arm or flopper thingamajig needed on a 33 or 78 changer. You could grab a stack of 45s, slap it down on the changer and start listening.

This "innovation" lost the big hole, so it lost the easy changer action.

= = = = =

Well, I had to get technical. Looked it up. The extra arm thingamajig was called, reasonably enough, the overarm. The flopper thingamajig, which I remembered as fairly common, was apparently a Garrard specialty as seen here, but I can't find a proper name for it.

= = = = =

Later: Still no decisive or universal name for the flopper thingamajig. Closest I can get is this diagram from a Rider manual in 1941. This is an earlier Garrard, not the same as the popular RC-80 series, but the same functional mechanism.



In this diagram the flopper thingamajig is called the platform clip.

= = = = =

While searching through these sources I noticed that RCA was still making a completely non-electric windup phonograph in the mid-50s. Got me thinking about patient things.

A physical record, especially the big-grooved 78s, is the only advanced technology that can be played with the previous recording technology, namely pen and paper. I used to do it often. Place a ball-point pen through the hole in the record. Stick the pen through something like a spool or a properly-sized box with holes on top and bottom. Now you've got the turntable. Wrap a piece of paper into a cone, scotchtape it in place, and glue a pin or sewing needle through the sharp end of the cone. Now you've got the cartridge. Spin the record with one finger and hold the cartridge with the other hand. Now you've got a phonograph. The paper is flexible enough to let the groove hold the needle, so your cartridge arm doesn't need to be highly precise.

Labels: Alternate universe, Patient things

  ¶ 3:52 AM

  Who's VERY BAD?
Trump, attempting in his dim vacant way to make a point that he's heard from other people, says Germans are 'very bad' because they export cars.

Missing every possible point.

Germans are bad in MANY ways. They try to conquer the world every chance they get. We haven't given them a chance since 1945 because we've been filling the Kraut/Jap genocidist niche perfectly. No room for the traditional genocidists.

BUT. German INDUSTRY is VERY GOOD, in exactly the ways that a true Populist should be IMITATING, not criticizing. German industry pays its workers well, doesn't overwork them, puts tremendous amounts of money and effort into APPRENTICE TRAINING, and focuses on quality. The German government has carefully cultivated German industry with tariffs and trade policy.

We are VERY BAD because we have let our own industry collapse. We are VERY BAD because we have focused on finance and debt instead of REAL VALUE MANUFACTURING. We are VERY BAD because we have heavily subsidized mind-crushing universities and downgraded apprentice training. Above all we are VERY BAD because we let EU and WTO and NAFTA and Germany and Japan and China control our trade instead of controlling our own borders and imports.

Labels: Experiential education, Make or break

  ¶ 2:59 PM

  More looniloonilooniloonilooniness
A black-robed loony has decided that Lee Boyd Malvo needs to be resentenced.

If we start with the bizarre loony malassumption that Federal psychosis is "law", then this decision makes a sort of mechanical sense by the terms of the psychosis. The top-level black-robed demons restricted sentencing guidelines for juveniles after Malvo was first sentenced, so the new restrictions must be followed despite the clear prohibition of ex-post-facto "laws" by the obsolete "constitution". This decision probably won't change anything in reality; Malvo will still end up spending life in prison.

I'm more bothered by one bit of memory-holing in the article.

Malvo was 17 when he was arrested in 2002 for a series of shootings that killed 10 people and wounded three in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, causing widespread fear throughout the region. The attacks brought worldwide press coverage amid concern that the hit-and-fly attacks — many carried out from a sniper's nest hidden in a modified car trunk — were possibly carried out by terrorists.

Concern that the attacks were possibly carried out by terrorists?

By your OWN definition Malvo and Muhammad were "terrorists". They were unquestionably Muslim, and they were unquestionably acting explicitly on behalf of Islam, and they unquestionably killed several people. So what's the problem?

Two possible answers. (1) M and M cannot be "terrorists" because they're black. (2) M and M were not operating under orders from the Federal Bureau of Instigation, so they are not officially licensed "terrorists". They're just criminals.

I can't begin to figure out which answer applies, because I'm not crazy.
  ¶ 6:34 AM

  Two indirect proofs
British politicians are arguing about blowback wrt the latest "terrorist" attack. The concept of blowback is

and all proper politicians must reject it. Corbyn, who is unfortunately stupid in many ways, is factually correct about blowback. The current wave of "terrorism" started AFTER we began making unprovoked wars against Muslim countries in 1990, and all of its leaders state openly and clearly that they are seeking revenge and justice for our unprovoked attacks. If we will stop bombing innocent Muslim countries because they are Muslim, then Muslims will stop attempting to defend their people from our unprovoked wars. This is a fact.

= = = = =

Indirect proof #1:

Okay then. Let's take your premise as given. Blowback doesn't exist. An unprovoked attack must be allowed to proceed without any defense by the attacked people. The attacked people must be abolished and obliterated because the attacker wants to abolish and obliterate them for no particular reason except RAW UNMITIGATED EVIL.

And let's take your OTHER premise as given. You say that Russia is attacking us without provocation. You say that Russia wants to obliterate us because Russia is evil. Let's take that nonsensical counterfactual assumption as a fact as well.

If Russia is attacking us AND if blowback is physically impossible, then our ONLY POSSIBLE ACTION is to surrender and let Russia have its way. We shouldn't be bothering to investigate and prosecute people who want to make peace with the attacker. We should instead be prosecuting all the people who express a dislike for Russia. Disliking the attacker is terrorism by definition. YOU SAID IT YOURSELF, FUCKHEADS.

= = = = =

Indirect proof #2, meta:

If logic still existed, the above sequence would be persuasive. Since nobody can possibly understand the above sequence of facts and logic, facts and logic no longer exist.

Labels: Askedanswered

  ¶ 1:49 AM

  Why do tech-tyrants love globalism?
Tech-tyrants, who call themselves Libertarians, are the wildest and harshest Globalists of all. This is especially STUPID because techies SHOULD understand better than anyone else why GLOBAL is bad and LOCAL is good.

Basic point: Primitive algorithms and primitive computers (both mechanical and electronic) are purely GLOBAL. Sophisticated algorithms and computers are ABLE to be sophisticated because they apply MODULARITY and LOCAL STORAGE and LOCAL MEMORY. Without modularity and reliable internal storage you can't do much.

= = = = =

This little mechanical computer



is all GLOBAL. It has one line of computation, with no separate sub-actions or separate memories.

This slightly more sophisticated computer



has one subroutine and one memory. When you set the X switch down, your entered number stays in place so you can add it repeatedly (loop) to form a primitive type of multiplication. The subroutine and memory are GLOBAL because the whole machine has access to the memorized number.

Better adding machines have several automated subroutines for mult and div, and several registers to hold numbers for loopy usage.

= = = = =

It's the same with programming. Early BASIC and FORTRAN had no provision for modularity or local storage. All variables have to be declared at the start of the program, and any subroutine can use and CHANGE the global variables. No subroutine has any form of SECURITY or PRIVACY because all activities are VISIBLE to every other subroutine, and all numbers can be CHANGED without notice.

After 1980 or so, all computer languages have provisions for LOCAL memory and storage. Numbers or words or arrays are usable and changeable ONLY by the module that creates them. Each separate operator can store its own needed numbers or words, and can rely on them to remain in place until the next time it needs to work on them. You can set up global variables, but the language deliberately makes it HARDER to go global.

= = = = =

Life works the same way, except that life departed from primitive global forms so long ago that none of them survive. Everything from viruses to parrots is almost infinitely modular, with strong borders and boundaries at each level. Each module has its own internal organization and communication. Borders can be opened to let nutrients or signals in and out, but ONLY at the command of the cell or organ or creature INSIDE the border. All border decisions are LOCAL.

= = = = =

Tech-tyrants understand all of this in the context of technology. WHY do they want a PRIMITIVE NON-FUNCTIONAL world without borders, a world without savings, a world without privacy?

Because they're more tyrant than techie.

A better question: Why don't we hear more from tech-loving people who CONSISTENTLY appreciate localism and modularity in everything? They do exist, but it feels like a losing fight.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Asked and unanswerable

  ¶ 1:17 AM

  Probably not quite the same thing
"News" item with good advice for once.......

According to WSU veterinarians, while bunnies, fledgling owlets, squirrels, fawns, and others may tug at our heart strings, they don't usually need our help. Their advice to the public remains the same every year, which is to leave all young wildlife alone regardless of whether or not you think they are abandoned by their mothers.

Most young animals do not need human help unless they are obviously injured. ... Fawns are left alone for long periods of time while the doe goes out to feed so she can maintain her milk supply.

I was thinking about turning on the air conditioner for the first time this year, so owlet merged into something else in my senile mind...



How often do two words look the same AND describe objects that also look the same?

Labels: coot-proofing, Language update

  ¶ 8:57 AM

  Gresham vs Graybill vs Bitcoin, reprinted.
Looking at the latest shit about Bitcoin, I thought "Hey, I should write about this in terms of Economics As A Verb." Then I realized I'd already done it. So I'll just republish or pop the earlier item as is.

= = = = = START REPRINT:

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.

= = = = =

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.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

Labels: Make or break, skill-estate

  ¶ 7:59 AM

  Good, by god.
Good news:

Republican multimillionaire Greg Gianforte won Montana's only U.S. House seat on Thursday despite being charged a day earlier with assault after witnesses said he grabbed a reporter by the neck and threw him to the ground.

Instead, the win reaffirmed Montana's voters support for Trump's young presidency in a conservative-leaning state that voted overwhelmingly for him in November.

Gianforte dropped out of sight after he was cited by police and ignored calls on Thursday by national Republicans for him to apologize to the reporter.

GOOD, by fucking god.

Not despite, because.

The AP "reporters" couldn't allow themselves to understand the real reason for the victory. It's not primarily about Trump, because most Trump supporters now understand that Trump is not a Trump supporter. It's mostly about "reporters". We're onto your infinite infinite wickedness and your depravity beyond all conceivable bounds. We LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE to see you slammed to the ground. As you might say in a different context, slamming you to the ground is only a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny baby step in the correct direction.

Labels: NOT Emersonian justice

  ¶ 12:58 AM

  Won't happen but should
The Bureau of Instigation is refusing a subpoena from Congress. Normal and predictable. FBI's sole mission for 80 nasty slimy grotesque years is to create and commit crimes, and this is a crime. Doing their job as usual.

But this particular crime SHOULD be the final justification to execute the agency. Eliminate its budget, eliminate all "laws" that justify its existence, bomb its buildings, and shoot all of its employees.

In other words, treat FBI the same way it treats Americans. This would not be mere Emersonian justice. This would be



Won't happen, but we can always dream wonderful heavenly dreams.

Labels: NOT Emersonian justice

  ¶ 12:03 AM

  Thanks, Ralph 460
Emersonian justice at its finest.

A couple of headlines as seen at ZH:



Trump didn't really intend to change anything, and his ACTUAL executive orders wouldn't change anything if allowed to take effect. They are continuations of current policy with minor adjustments in language.

But the Globalist monsters saw their opportunity to use the hologram of KKK HITLER MUSSOLINI KKK HITLER TRUMP TROLL HITLER HITLER HITLER as a weapon against Deplorables. They want to make DEAD SURE that no action REMOTELY RESEMBLING SANITY has the TINIEST PICOCHANCE of success. In the process of fighting and publicizing the "Trump" nationalist that DOESN'T REALLY EXIST, they persuaded many people around the world that "Trump" was planning to do the right thing.

So people elsewhere are responding properly to a nationalist policy, even though the actual Trump had no intention of making the slightest move toward nationalism.

Thanks, Ralph!

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Emersonian justice

  ¶ 1:01 PM

  Cocky Bachy? Nope.
Yesterday I got cocky about sticking with Bach in the '60s while other hippies were guzzling CIA-sponsored musical chaos-toxin.

Decided to check the cockiness. What was CIA pushing in the classical realm? Tried a few keywords. Mostly consistent with the jazz and art preferences. Modern chaOS is good, classical structure is bad. Pierre Boulez was among their favorites, unsurprisingly paired with Leonard Bernstein.

Baroque as a search term didn't yield much, which is sort of reassuring. In the period covered by these Wikileaks documents, CIA was clearly sponsoring 'Crofut & Cooper Folk & Baroque', apparently an academic duo that tried to corrupt Baroque music into folk shit. Lots of attention to this one group, very little else under 'baroque'.

This paucity is especially notable in baseline terms. The 70s, though reputedly bad for pop music, were a GOLDEN era for Baroque. Pinnock, Hogwood, Ehmann and others were restoring crystalline order and precision to the performance of Baroque after a century of muddy blurry variable-rhythm Brahmsian performance.

Seems to be a pattern in CIA's special cultivations. In jazz they were sponsoring Dick Goodwin and the Millikan University Lab Band, in semi-classical they had this Crofut & Cooper. Obscure and academic. In the commercial world sponsors want big audiences, but CIA clearly wasn't looking for maximum propaganda output. Was CIA more concerned with input? Was one of the performers paid to develop contacts with members of the small audiences in various countries?
  ¶ 5:13 AM

  Metrology day 3
I won't try to fudge the date on this one to May 20, but it still follows directly from Metrology Day 2, where I observed that cultures GROUNDED to Natural Law are immune to Sorosian confusion.

The previous observation is a definite correlation. Here's a more hazy and less obvious correlation.

= = = = =

Grounded cultures are unafraid of closeness and touch. If people want to hold hands, fine. A certain amount of rough stuff and horseplay is also fine among friends.

Ungrounded cultures are SCARED SHITLESS of all contact. The digital principle of leverage applies. One touch and you've crossed the line.

= = = = =

Think of Africans, Persians and Russians. All grounded in Natural Law, and all comfortable with closeness.

US/UK/EU: all deathly afraid of any touch.

= = = = =

Okay, got the correlation.

How about causation? Which comes first, grounding or comfort? I think both are parallel results of a single underlying tendency toward connection. Like all human traits, talents and tendencies, this is about half innate and half learned. Genes are part of it but genes can be overcome by training. Russians and Swedes are genetically similar but opposite in grounding and coziness.

USA STRONG and Brazil are a good test case. Both contain a similar mixture of Euro and native and African genes. Brazil is solidly cozy, and USA STRONG is solidly isolated.

Before 1946 we were more comfy but never as tight as Brazil. The change started in '46 when we ceded control of culture to Globalist Experts. The Experts (authors, doctors, psychiatrists, lawyers, "judges") worked together to break loose all ties to the ground of God, and to treat all normal contact as crime.

Globalism requires USA STRONG to be the Consumer and Debtor. We can't be perfect Consumers and Debtors unless we're starved of all contact with reality, morality and emotion.

Casual contact provides a steady slow discharge of both affection and anger. Productive MANUAL jobs channel emotions into the satisfaction of completion. Zero contact and zero production: all emotions build without discharge. Result: Violent unsatisfied desires. The unsatisfied affection is channeled into consumption; the unsatisfied anger into violent crime and permanent wars, both justifying STRONG tyranny.

Labels: Make or break, Natural law = Sharia law, STRONG!

  ¶ 2:18 AM

  Price != value 2
I wonder if the sudden jump of prices around here has made realtors complacent. Checking Zillow again, I noticed this house is for sale. I see it constantly on walks, and had sort of kept it in mind. The price, like all prices this year, is out of my range. Too bad.

It's a solid house, not deteriorated by winter. Roof and siding and windows are all good.

The inside pics by Zillow show that the interior is equally solid and straight.... BUT you have to look twice to figure out that the house is solid, because tenants or squatters left a horrible mess inside. No damage, not even major spills or dirt; just a whole bunch of STUFF scattered around.

I'm a grubby old bachelor with no housecleaning skill. I could make that house presentable in about one hour of tossing and vacuuming.

WHY didn't the realtor hire a cleaner who could toss and scrub everything up to spotless condition in 30 minutes? Complacency.

[The dirt is so visually dramatic but superficial that it raises the possibility of DE-staging, intentional temporary lowering of value????? The asking price on this one is well below the county's assessed value, while all other houses are asking WAY above the assessed value. I can't see any proper reason for the distinction.]

Labels: Heimatkunde

  ¶ 11:18 AM

  O'Scrip just like Scrip
BBC has a feature on an Irish bank closure in 1970. Bank employees went on strike for 6 months, but commerce continued normally because pubs organized to clear checks without banks.

Sounds remarkably similar to the 1933 bank closure here. FDR closed all banks for 3 months so his regulators could sort out the solvent and insolvent banks. I've discussed how businesses developed ways to print and handle scrip (which was basically fixed-value checks); and I've noticed that the change had no visible impact on ordinary commerce.

Do we need banks at all?

Labels: scrip, Zero Problems

  ¶ 2:09 AM

  More pied pipers
Seems to be an epidemic of FAST bait-n-switches lately. Trump was the biggest, promising to fight globalism, then turning into Hillary after two weeks of faint verbiage in the right direction.

Now the New Zealand self-promoter Kim Dotcom promises a BIG REVEAL about the Fortmarcying of Seth Rich, then gives us a meaningless contentless statement.

Trump's motive is still a mystery to me, but Kim's motive is clear now that the action is done.

He's in legal trouble, and the persecutors offered him a break if he would help them pull more Deplorables out of the basket so we can be slaughtered.

Classic FBI trick, going back 80 years. FBI generally "forgets" the promise to the low-level thug, pulling its own bait-n-switch. Sane thugs have figured out that it's better for soul and survival to hold firm and take the full jail sentence.
  ¶ 12:09 PM

  Trademarks
I see Trump has followed the standard stupid line, calling "terrorists" losers.

What's the best way to turn losers into "terrorists"?

Call "terrorists" losers.

More importantly, it DOESN'T MATTER what you call them. Completely null point. We are actively GENERATING "terrorists" by bombing Muslim countries. That's why we bomb Muslim countries. We are actively funding and organizing and planning "terrorist" actions in Muslim countries through CIA, and in America through the Federal Bureau of Instigation.

Maybe these terminological distinctions matter to New Yorkers. New Yorkers seem to be extraordinarily fussy about using properly registered trademarks like Coward and Loser and RadicalIslamicTerrorism. Trademarks aren't important to humans. Revenge and justice are important to humans.
  ¶ 4:50 AM

  Random antiquity
Old TV and radio shows often featured an 'intellectual bum' character who spoke precise antique English when he wasn't too drunk to say anything at all. I've never met any examples of this type. The 'outlaw intellectual' was common in Okla, and I probably fit the template ... but none of us talked like King James.

I wonder if anyone still speaks antique English in public and gets away with it? Not just in semi-private contexts like blog posts and sermons, but in business meetings and restaurants?

"Now, Robert, prithee vouchsafe unto us thy meditations upon the KerMac SuperCenter account, if thou wilt."

For many years Quakers had their own peculiar pronouns, which sounded antique but weren't proper grammar of any era. I'm pretty sure they gave up the practice.
  ¶ 3:52 AM

  Selling chaOS
Reprinting part of a note from two months ago:

= = = = = START REPRINT:

There's plenty of evidence that "modern" "art" was used as a cultural weapon by CIA. Several CIA-owned foundations helped to fund the "artists" and helped to spread their "work" to Europe and the Soviet Bloc.

Jazz was used similarly without any pretense of secrecy. (See Willis Conover.) Not surprising that "modern" "art" would run the same way.

Many Americans considered "modern" "art" to be a Commie tool. Cleon Skousen included it in his list of Commie attempts to break down American society. He was right about the Commies but misattributed the source to Russia. (And I was dumb enough to go along with him.)

Commies in America were always working primarily for OSS/CIA/FBI. It's the good old Globalist Tripod. Banks, Intel, Leftists. Some were also working with Russia at times, because Russia has always been happy to help weaken America. But Russia was not the source of these ideas. CIA and internal Leftists have been the CONSISTENT source of chaos.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

This picture of the Monterey Jazz Festival appeared in a 1964 issue of Billboard mag:



See it? The attractive chaos of _jAZz was clearly indicated and sold by the marquee. A 1964 audience was still orderly, but they were making the largest chaotic gesture permissible within their gradient limits. All had removed their gray flannel suit jackets to reveal (shock!) shirt sleeves and uniformly narrow ties. Oooooh!

CIA's masters** of chaos must have been impatient to move the needle faster, but they had to work with the human material at hand. Now, of course, thanks to Apple and Tesla and Google, the material itself can be uniformly chaotized.


= = = = =

** Footnote: Who were they? Today we can identify the prime movers of omnicide easily because everything is a monopoly. It wasn't so simple in the '50s and '60s. There were many centers of business power and cultural power. Presumably CIA had a designated department of artistic and musical destruction.

Aha. Searching Wikileaks archives for jazz yields a cornucopia from the '70s. The bureaucratic center of these activities was the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in Dept of State. At that time CIA/State was clearly running the Dick Goodwin Quintet and the Millikan University Lab Band. Both ensembles have dozens of reviews and progress reports. Every international festival gets close attention. Fifth Dimension was happy to do a concert for CIA. Even in 2007, CIA was still organizing jazz festivals with 'cool' outfits like Playboy.

= = = = =

Personal note: In the hippie era I never understood the appeal of rock-n-roll or jazz. I stuck with Bach and Schütz. Other hippies chided me for unprogressive pro-Establishment tastes. (Where's that at, man?) Now I get the last laugh. They were slurping up CIA's toxins without knowing it.

Labels: switchover

  ¶ 2:10 AM

  KEYBOARD WEARING OUT
MY KEYBOARD INFORMS ME THAT I'VE BEEN USING THE CAPS LOCK KEY AND THE BOLD AND BIG TAGS TOO OFTEN LATELY.

TOO BAD. THESE ARE CAPS LOCK TIMES, AND THE KEYBOARD WILL JUST HAVE TO GET USED TO IT.
  ¶ 2:50 AM

  Steady
In general anti-satan writers don't last long. They turn insipid or flip to Satan or just fade out.

The anti-satan satirists at Babylon Bee have NOT faded or flipped. They continue to poke barbs at boring Christian types like Calvinists or Prosperity Gospelers, and occasionally fire high-velocity silver bullets at real Satans.

One of those silver bullets makes a SERIOUS point that nobody else has hit before.

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit Thursday against longtime florist Willie Pace for refusing to openly weep tears of joy at the mere thought of a same-sex wedding after a lesbian couple came into his shop to order flowers for their upcoming ceremony.

Satan Ferguson hasn't actually filed this specific lawsuit as of this morning. He will soon. Guaranfuckingteed.

The serious point: We have reached EXACTLY the same level of tyranny as Dear Leader Kim, who arrested people for crying an INCORRECT NUMBER OF TEARS at his father's grand public funeral. Merely assenting to evil is NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH. Quoting evil verbatim is only a TINY TINY TINY TINY BABY STEP. The only BARELY SUFFICIENT action is to allow EVERY SYNAPSE OF YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM, AND MORE, to perform EXACTLY the assigned pattern of electrochemical zips and zaps, accurate to the nanosecond. Your brain is Soros's brain. Brains that are not Soros's brain are EXTERMINATED.
  ¶ 2:02 AM

  Now you can impeach him.
If you want to impeach Trump for COLLUDING with a hostile power, fine. AS OF YESTERDAY you finally have a case on those grounds. Trump has now JOINED the last 8 Presidents in colluding MASSIVELY with a hostile power.

Saudi is a hostile country. Saudi ACTUALLY ATTACKED US AND BOMBED US on September 11 2001. All recent presidents have COLLUDED with Saudi in the deepest possible ways, both before and after Saudi ATTACKED US. Nixon started the trend, then Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush The Father, Clinton The Husband, Bush The Son, Obama, and now, as of yesterday, Trump.

If you want to impeach Trump for colluding with Russia, you have no case at all. Russia is NOT a hostile nation. RUSSIA HAS NEVER FUCKING ATTACKED US. RUSSIA HAS NEVER DROPPED ONE FUCKING BOMB ON US. RUSSIA HAS NEVER HIT ANY OF OUR FUCKING BUILDINGS OR NAVAL BASES. RUSSIA HAS NEVER FIRED ONE FUCKING BULLET AT US.

We invaded Russia in 1918 and occupied it briefly. If being invaded by USA is the definition of a hostile country, then just about every country except Israel counts as hostile.

The only countries that have DIRECTLY ATTACKED US are as follows: Britain, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Saudi. That's it. We are actively COLLUDING with all of those countries now, and nobody is punished or criticized for those collusions.
  ¶ 10:23 AM

  Peculiar assumption
For many years the coverage of malware and spyware in ALL media, both techy and mass, has COMPLETELY IGNORED the best solution. A good anti-virus system, especially a paid subscription, NEARLY ALWAYS handles NEARLY ALL malware without any effort on your part. If you have AVG or Norton or McAfee or several other systems, you will automatically be protected. You don't need to wait for Microsoft or Sun to handle the latest problem, which will always be too late. [In my experience AVG is best, but all are better than relying on Windows.]

Why is the obvious solution TOTALLY MISSING? All articles assume that the ONLY way to protect your system is through the OS maker.

This is like discussing flat tires without EVER mentioning that you can get a tire fixed at a service station or a tire store. All media, car-fancier magazines and TV, would uniformly assume that the only way to fix a flat tire is by sending your tire directly to the headquarters of Toyota or GM or Ford, where they would apply the patch and send it back.

Labels: Asked and unanswered

  ¶ 5:20 AM

  Parkinson answers the question as always
"Science" media is getting screeched out by the failure of the Arctic seed vaults.

Question: Supposedly the whole point was to preserve the seeds against "global warming". So why didn't you build the vault to withstand "global warming"? Engineers can't foresee all problems, but engineers must provide for the problems that get top billing in the project's specifications.

Parkinsonian answer: Failure was the purpose. The vault was NOT meant to solve a problem. "Science" is NOT meant to solve problems. The sole purpose of "science" is to create disasters that justify more funding for "science".

Labels: Askedanswered

  ¶ 2:44 AM

  It's all about PURPOSE
The American Radio History site has a section for promotional brochures issued by major stations.

Two of these brochures look remarkably similar, and the automatic first impression is that they are related. Maybe branches of the same operation, or maybe one was a later location of the same operation.

KTNT in Muscatine Iowa, and KFNF in Shenandoah Iowa. Similar call letters, similar towns.

Each brochure shows the radio facilities and personalities. Each shows the vast grounds around the station, with crowds of tourists happily wandering and buying merchandise. Each shows the vast mail-order business selling merchandise of all sorts.

Under the surface KTNT and KFNF are PERFECT OPPOSITES.

KTNT was run by Norman Baker, who was in fact a perfect parallel to JR Brinkley. A carnival barker who loved to start new carnival-style enterprises, and loved to skirt the law. Like Brinkley, Baker ran a fraudulent medical clinic. Like Brinkley, he soon scurried across the border into Mexico where radio regulations and fraud laws were looser.

KFNF was run by the Fields Seed Company, which had been selling seeds to farmers and gardeners since 1892, and is STILL selling seeds to farmers and gardeners. The mail-order business and catalog printing plant had been there before radio was invented. Radio was a useful advertising tool for a while, with programs of gardening and cooking hints encouraging people to buy and use Fields Seeds.

In terms of PURPOSE, KTNT was the WORST possible type of business. Medical fraud.

In terms of PURPOSE, KFNF was the BEST possible type of business. Real products serving agriculture. Can't get better than that.

Labels: Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 6:47 AM

  Pluponents again
Earlier I discussed the peculiar modern plague of pluponents. In sane eras OPponents opposed crimes and atrocities because crimes and atrocities are bad. Now we have PLUponents who oppose crimes and atrocities because they want MORE crime and WORSE atrocity.

Here's a classic case.

Oddly enough, I find myself sort of backhandedly sympathizing with Bill Nye The Omnicide Guy. He's been working ASTONISHINGLY HARD to replace all facts and logic with inconceivably hyperpsychotic hyperdelusions. He's been pouring out MEGASWEAT AND MEGATEARS to KILL ALL THE UNIVERSES as fast as possible AND MORE.

All for naught. Professional "scientists" are mocking him for being INSUFFICIENTLY CRAZY and NOWHERE NEAR OMNICIDAL ENOUGH. His feeble attempts to obliterate all of existence AND MORE are only a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny baby step in the correct direction.

Labels: Carbon Cult, Pluponents

  ¶ 6:07 AM