Monday, March 19, 2012
Smooth as satan
PM Cameron's proposal to redefine marriage as farriage is running into multi-culti opposition.
Sentamu, probably the next head of the Anglicans, has come out against it, and Roman leaders have been refreshingly solid. Now the Sikhs and Muslims are speaking:
Both are rigorous and clear. The state can give welfare benefits to any combination of people and pigs if it wants to; but marriage is a religious concept that has helped to build civilization, and the state is not free to alter it.
Breaking into religion is pure dictatorship.
The Satanic Quakers, as usual, show us how to break in without a baseball bat.
Pure single-malt Satan. Quakers "affirm and celebrate" all sorts of civilization-wrecking deviancy. Quakers were the first Leninists.
If that's as far as it went, it would just be private devil-worship.
The second sentence is where the batless burglary happens.
"We are clear that we can't impose our beliefs on others."
Sounds good until you think about it.
By officially forcing the pro-civilization faiths to abandon their foundations, the Brit government is specifically and explicitly imposing its beliefs on others.
What the Quakers really mean, of course, is "We can't allow the government to impose civilized beliefs on us, and on our fellow mass-slaughering destroyers. Wacked-out genocidal maniacs like us must be free to SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH normal culture and decent people. KILL! KILL! KILL!" ¶ 5:17 PM
Sentamu, probably the next head of the Anglicans, has come out against it, and Roman leaders have been refreshingly solid. Now the Sikhs and Muslims are speaking:
Farooq Murad, Secretary General of the MCB, said: “Whilst we remain opposed to all forms of discrimination, including homophobia, redefining the meaning of marriage is in our opinion unnecessary and unhelpful.
“With the advent of civil partnerships, both homosexual and heterosexual couples now have equal rights in the eyes of the law. .... In common with other Abrahamic faiths, marriage in Islam is defined as “a union between a man and a woman”, he said. “So while the state has accommodated for gay couples, such unions will not be blessed as marriage by the Islamic institutions.”
Lord Singh, head of the Network of Sikh Organisations, said the proposed reforms represented “a sideways assault on religion”.
“It is an attempt by a vocal, secular minority to attack religion,” he said.
Both are rigorous and clear. The state can give welfare benefits to any combination of people and pigs if it wants to; but marriage is a religious concept that has helped to build civilization, and the state is not free to alter it.
Breaking into religion is pure dictatorship.
The Satanic Quakers, as usual, show us how to break in without a baseball bat.
However, Rachel Muers, a Quaker theologian and senior lecturer in Christian studies at the University of Leeds, said Quakers wanted to “affirm and celebrate” same-sex couples in a religious context.
“We are clear that we can't impose our beliefs on others.”
Pure single-malt Satan. Quakers "affirm and celebrate" all sorts of civilization-wrecking deviancy. Quakers were the first Leninists.
If that's as far as it went, it would just be private devil-worship.
The second sentence is where the batless burglary happens.
"We are clear that we can't impose our beliefs on others."
Sounds good until you think about it.
By officially forcing the pro-civilization faiths to abandon their foundations, the Brit government is specifically and explicitly imposing its beliefs on others.
What the Quakers really mean, of course, is "We can't allow the government to impose civilized beliefs on us, and on our fellow mass-slaughering destroyers. Wacked-out genocidal maniacs like us must be free to SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH normal culture and decent people. KILL! KILL! KILL!" ¶ 5:17 PM
Sunday, March 18, 2012
'Deep pipes'
This 'study' is all over the media. Nothing new about the subject, and as far as I can tell from the writeups, this 'study' partly misses the point.
Correlations between authority and speech patterns have been studied for a LONG time in speech research circles.
What's known: Authority correlates with low FORMANTS, not with a low PITCH.
The larynx creates the basic pitch: about 120 cycles per second for most males, about 180 for most adult females, about 300 for young kids.
But the laryngeal wave is not a simple sine wave by any means. The larynx opens briefly to let air through, then slams shut for most of the cycle.
Here's a schematic of larynx action with the resulting waveform below:
These repeated openings create pulses of pressure in the mouth; each pulse 'rings' the air cavities of the throat, nose and mouth. Those 'rings' are the real carriers of both meaning and feeling in speech.
Consider a woodwind instrument like a saxophone. The reed, like the larynx, makes a buzzing sound that has no particular character. The reed isn't what you hear; it only triggers vibrations in the tube and bell. The valves change the dimensions of the tube, which changes the note and timbre of the resultant sound.
Each person has a default pattern of those 'rings', based on the dimensions and shapes of your mouth, nasal cavity and throat. This default pattern is constant whether you pitch your voice high or low. When you move your tongue and lips into various positions for vowels and consonants, you're making further adjustments in the 'rings', technically called formants.
Easy proof: Whispering is just as understandable as voiced speech, even though a whisper has no pitch at all. (Or more precisely, it's white noise with all pitches mixed together.) And you can distinguish a male whisper from a female. It's all in the shaping by the mouth; the pitch of the larynx is just one way of triggering the formants.
Our perception of authority also comes from the shaping of those formants. If the formants indicate a large or loose cavity, we associate it with maturity and confidence. If the formants indicate a small cavity with high muscle tension, we associate it with youth and nervousness.
NPR finishes off their piece with a brief sample of Obama singing an Al Green song in a high voice, with the implication that this tends to disprove or counter the 'study'. Not at all. Obama has confident formants, and those formants still come through when he tunes his larynx to a high note.
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Bit later: After writing the above, I was looking for more good stuff by George Shepardson, whose 1901 'Electrical Catechism' inspired me a few weeks ago. I bought the printed version of that book and have been hungrily reading it, and now I want more! The first thing I found in Google ebooks was his 'Telephone Apparatus' from 1917. Started reading, and sure enough....
Shepardson's description of the speech mechanism is precisely accurate, beautifully clear, and superior to most modern descriptions. He got the pressure-based operation of the larynx exactly right. Most of the 'real' speech scientists at that time pursued a provably false theory that the vocal folds were directly vibrated by muscles; they didn't fully abandon the bad theory (i.e. they didn't all die) until 1970. Later, on p. 27, Shepardson covers the connection of emotional content with formants. Precisely right again.
Why did Shepardson disappear into obscurity? Well, I don't need to answer that, do I? Because he was correct and brilliant.
= = = = =
Later followup here.
Correlations between authority and speech patterns have been studied for a LONG time in speech research circles.
What's known: Authority correlates with low FORMANTS, not with a low PITCH.
The larynx creates the basic pitch: about 120 cycles per second for most males, about 180 for most adult females, about 300 for young kids.
But the laryngeal wave is not a simple sine wave by any means. The larynx opens briefly to let air through, then slams shut for most of the cycle.
Here's a schematic of larynx action with the resulting waveform below:
These repeated openings create pulses of pressure in the mouth; each pulse 'rings' the air cavities of the throat, nose and mouth. Those 'rings' are the real carriers of both meaning and feeling in speech.
Consider a woodwind instrument like a saxophone. The reed, like the larynx, makes a buzzing sound that has no particular character. The reed isn't what you hear; it only triggers vibrations in the tube and bell. The valves change the dimensions of the tube, which changes the note and timbre of the resultant sound.
Each person has a default pattern of those 'rings', based on the dimensions and shapes of your mouth, nasal cavity and throat. This default pattern is constant whether you pitch your voice high or low. When you move your tongue and lips into various positions for vowels and consonants, you're making further adjustments in the 'rings', technically called formants.
Easy proof: Whispering is just as understandable as voiced speech, even though a whisper has no pitch at all. (Or more precisely, it's white noise with all pitches mixed together.) And you can distinguish a male whisper from a female. It's all in the shaping by the mouth; the pitch of the larynx is just one way of triggering the formants.
Our perception of authority also comes from the shaping of those formants. If the formants indicate a large or loose cavity, we associate it with maturity and confidence. If the formants indicate a small cavity with high muscle tension, we associate it with youth and nervousness.
NPR finishes off their piece with a brief sample of Obama singing an Al Green song in a high voice, with the implication that this tends to disprove or counter the 'study'. Not at all. Obama has confident formants, and those formants still come through when he tunes his larynx to a high note.
= = = = =
Bit later: After writing the above, I was looking for more good stuff by George Shepardson, whose 1901 'Electrical Catechism' inspired me a few weeks ago. I bought the printed version of that book and have been hungrily reading it, and now I want more! The first thing I found in Google ebooks was his 'Telephone Apparatus' from 1917. Started reading, and sure enough....
Shepardson's description of the speech mechanism is precisely accurate, beautifully clear, and superior to most modern descriptions. He got the pressure-based operation of the larynx exactly right. Most of the 'real' speech scientists at that time pursued a provably false theory that the vocal folds were directly vibrated by muscles; they didn't fully abandon the bad theory (i.e. they didn't all die) until 1970. Later, on p. 27, Shepardson covers the connection of emotional content with formants. Precisely right again.
Why did Shepardson disappear into obscurity? Well, I don't need to answer that, do I? Because he was correct and brilliant.
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Later followup here.
Labels: 1901, 20th century Dark Age
¶ 8:16 AM
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Btfsplk'd
Big Niña pranked me today.
Normally I do my walks, both purposeful and random, between 8 and 11 in the morning. After three days of nearly continuous rain I was getting unsure. No actual rain this morning, but it felt like it was ready to roar at any moment. At 1 PM nothing was visible on the Weather.com radar, and a sunbreak was peeping through the clouds. Good enough. Out the door.
Three steps off the front porch, a raindrop. The rain increased, then turned to painful graupel; but I kept to the usual route. As home came back into view, the graupel stopped; and the last raindrop fell as I opened the door.
Gee thanks, Ma Nature. What was the lesson? Don't walk in the afternoon? Don't trust radar? Or were you just having a laugh?
[More likely, the sunbreak provided just enough energy for a tiny convective burst. I should have treated the absence of sunbreaks as a sign of safety!] ¶ 8:01 PM
Normally I do my walks, both purposeful and random, between 8 and 11 in the morning. After three days of nearly continuous rain I was getting unsure. No actual rain this morning, but it felt like it was ready to roar at any moment. At 1 PM nothing was visible on the Weather.com radar, and a sunbreak was peeping through the clouds. Good enough. Out the door.
Three steps off the front porch, a raindrop. The rain increased, then turned to painful graupel; but I kept to the usual route. As home came back into view, the graupel stopped; and the last raindrop fell as I opened the door.
Gee thanks, Ma Nature. What was the lesson? Don't walk in the afternoon? Don't trust radar? Or were you just having a laugh?
[More likely, the sunbreak provided just enough energy for a tiny convective burst. I should have treated the absence of sunbreaks as a sign of safety!] ¶ 8:01 PM
Two-way redundant acronym
Grammar freaks often bitch about redundant acronyms, where the word you say after the acronym is also the last word inside the acronym.
A few examples among many:
ATM machine = Automatic Teller Machine machine
PIN number = Personal Identification Number number
RAM memory = Random-Access Memory memory
CD disk = Compact Disk disk
GIF format = Graphics Interchange Format format
ISBN number = International Standard Book Number number
UNFCCC Climate Change Secretariat = United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Climate Change Secretariat
Triple-A Auto Club = AAA Auto Club = American Automobile Association Auto Club
The bitching of the grammarrhoids is stupid because people are fully capable of deciding whether a word is redundant. In the above cases the last word needs to be explicit because the acronym no longer represents separate words; it's simply an adjective or descriptor. When you talk about a CD disk, you're not thinking Compact Disk disk, you're only distinguishing a CD disk from a DVD disk or a floppy disk or a USB disk. All four of those descriptors fit into the same mental slot :) though CD and DVD are redundant acronyms, floppy is a plain word, and USB is a non-redundant acronym in this context.
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Today I heard the first two-sided redundant acronym, which is also the first fully redundant acronym:
"Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network cancels Rosie's show."
Expanded:
Oprah Winfrey's {Oprah Winfrey's Network} Network cancels Rosie's show.
In this case the grammarrhoid bitching is probably right, since OWN is still felt to mean Oprah Winfrey's Network, if anyone even thinks about it at all.
A few examples among many:
ATM machine = Automatic Teller Machine machine
PIN number = Personal Identification Number number
RAM memory = Random-Access Memory memory
CD disk = Compact Disk disk
GIF format = Graphics Interchange Format format
ISBN number = International Standard Book Number number
UNFCCC Climate Change Secretariat = United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Climate Change Secretariat
Triple-A Auto Club = AAA Auto Club = American Automobile Association Auto Club
The bitching of the grammarrhoids is stupid because people are fully capable of deciding whether a word is redundant. In the above cases the last word needs to be explicit because the acronym no longer represents separate words; it's simply an adjective or descriptor. When you talk about a CD disk, you're not thinking Compact Disk disk, you're only distinguishing a CD disk from a DVD disk or a floppy disk or a USB disk. All four of those descriptors fit into the same mental slot :) though CD and DVD are redundant acronyms, floppy is a plain word, and USB is a non-redundant acronym in this context.
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Today I heard the first two-sided redundant acronym, which is also the first fully redundant acronym:
"Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network cancels Rosie's show."
Expanded:
Oprah Winfrey's {Oprah Winfrey's Network} Network cancels Rosie's show.
In this case the grammarrhoid bitching is probably right, since OWN is still felt to mean Oprah Winfrey's Network, if anyone even thinks about it at all.
Labels: Language update
¶ 11:05 AM
The sun RISES on the British Empire!
News in UK Guardian:
Finally.
Sounds like they're not slowing down the Carbon Crime yet, but all of these changes are still important.
Needless to say, the ecowackos are screeching. Good. About fucking time for them to screech. There will never be justice for the millions they've killed, but at least their genocide is losing some of its official support.
Finally.
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Couple days later: Wonder if the sanity is spreading to BBC? They ran a lengthy feature on Australia's switch from drought to flood, and DIDN'T MENTION CARBON EVEN ONCE! Instead, they did something wildly radical for any media and strictly unprecedented for BBC: they simply told us what's happening! Can't draw conclusions from a few absences, but lately I'm getting the sense that the Cult is losing its force in media. I find myself screaming at the radio much less often than before.
And again: More evidence that the British media is lurching into lucidity, while America's Satanist Poison Vendors are still locked in lethal lunacy. Daily Mail reports on the failure of wind turbines in Hawaii and California. Last I looked, those places were part of America. Last I looked, none of America's Satanist Poison Vendors had noticed this problem. ¶ 4:50 AM
Scores of environmental regulations are to be slashed under government plans to be announced on Monday, the Guardian has learned.
The rules affected include controls on asbestos, invasive species and industrial air pollution; protection for wildlife and common lands; as well as restrictions on noise nuisance and deadly animal traps.
The impending announcement follows intense pressure from David Cameron and George Osborne to remove what the chancellor has called the "ridiculous costs" of "endless social and environmental goals".
Finally.
Sounds like they're not slowing down the Carbon Crime yet, but all of these changes are still important.
Needless to say, the ecowackos are screeching. Good. About fucking time for them to screech. There will never be justice for the millions they've killed, but at least their genocide is losing some of its official support.
Finally.
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Couple days later: Wonder if the sanity is spreading to BBC? They ran a lengthy feature on Australia's switch from drought to flood, and DIDN'T MENTION CARBON EVEN ONCE! Instead, they did something wildly radical for any media and strictly unprecedented for BBC: they simply told us what's happening! Can't draw conclusions from a few absences, but lately I'm getting the sense that the Cult is losing its force in media. I find myself screaming at the radio much less often than before.
And again: More evidence that the British media is lurching into lucidity, while America's Satanist Poison Vendors are still locked in lethal lunacy. Daily Mail reports on the failure of wind turbines in Hawaii and California. Last I looked, those places were part of America. Last I looked, none of America's Satanist Poison Vendors had noticed this problem. ¶ 4:50 AM
It never stops.
BBC runs a serious and troubling piece on the use of music as interrogation and torture.
My first thought: We should be worrying instead that so much of our popular "music" is so perfectly suited for torture.
What's happening to the youngsters who listen to it voluntarily and constantly, with permanently attached earphones? Of course we already know. They become riotous idiots.
But that's not really the main point.
As usual, the Experts are furrowing their brows about MEANS when they should be worrying about ENDS.
If we forbid the MEANS, if we forbid effective torture and interrogation, we will be helpless against real enemies.
We should be focusing on the GOAL question: Are these enemies real? Is this whole war real? Or is it an intentional misdirection?
And the BBC utterly fails there. While they're furrowing about musical torture, they're enthusiastically pushing for MORE WAR! MORE WAR! MORE WAR! ATTACK LIBYA! ATTACK SYRIA! ATTACK PERSIA!
In other words, the worry about MEANS is itself a misdirection to prevent us from thinking about the main misdirection.
It never stops. ¶ 4:27 AM
My first thought: We should be worrying instead that so much of our popular "music" is so perfectly suited for torture.
What's happening to the youngsters who listen to it voluntarily and constantly, with permanently attached earphones? Of course we already know. They become riotous idiots.
But that's not really the main point.
As usual, the Experts are furrowing their brows about MEANS when they should be worrying about ENDS.
If we forbid the MEANS, if we forbid effective torture and interrogation, we will be helpless against real enemies.
We should be focusing on the GOAL question: Are these enemies real? Is this whole war real? Or is it an intentional misdirection?
And the BBC utterly fails there. While they're furrowing about musical torture, they're enthusiastically pushing for MORE WAR! MORE WAR! MORE WAR! ATTACK LIBYA! ATTACK SYRIA! ATTACK PERSIA!
In other words, the worry about MEANS is itself a misdirection to prevent us from thinking about the main misdirection.
It never stops. ¶ 4:27 AM
Stealing and stealing and..... 2
News item:
Needless to say, there's nothing new about amorphodites and fairies and babyrapers being placed in protective custody while in jail. When I was in Mansfield there was a whole floor (3NE) reserved for such types.
What's new is two things: (1) LEGALLY REQUIRED RESPECT for amorphodites. (2) Now that the Donna/Douglas thing is going to be in jail for a while, we can be sure that it will get a state-paid operation to finish and refine its "transition".
Stealing and stealing and stealing. Aristocratic privilege trumps law.
Jesus save us. Allah save us. One of you guys, get cracking. Now. ¶ 3:21 AM
The Spokane woman arrested in a federal raid Wednesday made her first court appearance Friday.
Donna Perry is being held at the Spokane County Jail, where a complication concerning her gender has her isolated from other inmates.
She’s listed on the jail roster by the name Douglas Perry, but her gender is listed as female. Perry underwent a gender change which now means she has to be kept separate from the rest of the jail population.
Authorities say people who are transgender, transsexual, intersex or transitioning are kept separate from the population for their own safety.
Perry was taken into custody Wednesday on a federal criminal complaint as a felon is possession of a firearm. Agents pulled ammunition and weapons from her Spokane home.
Needless to say, there's nothing new about amorphodites and fairies and babyrapers being placed in protective custody while in jail. When I was in Mansfield there was a whole floor (3NE) reserved for such types.
What's new is two things: (1) LEGALLY REQUIRED RESPECT for amorphodites. (2) Now that the Donna/Douglas thing is going to be in jail for a while, we can be sure that it will get a state-paid operation to finish and refine its "transition".
Stealing and stealing and stealing. Aristocratic privilege trumps law.
Jesus save us. Allah save us. One of you guys, get cracking. Now. ¶ 3:21 AM
Stealing and stealing and stealing and stealing.
News item:
The Wall Street Mafia never stops stealing and stealing and stealing and stealing and stealing.
The poor have already paid to SUBSIDIZE the prices of these extravagant fucking useless toy "cars". Now the poor are paying to RUN the "cars".
Everyone is required to support Conspicuous Consumption so the mass-murdering criminals can get to their next criminal destination without ever having to pay anything.
Jesus save us. Allah save us. Either one will do. Get on with it. ¶ 2:56 AM
Following a trail blazed by Indians and pioneers in covered wagons, electric car drivers hit the road Friday to inaugurate the first major section of a West Coast “Electric Highway” dotted with stations where they can charge up in 20 minutes.
The stretch of 160 miles of Interstate 5 served by eight stations marks the next big step in developing an infrastructure that until now has been limited primarily to chargers in homes and workplaces.
Spaced about every 25 miles, the stations allow a Nissan Leaf with a range of about 70 miles to miss one and still make it to the next. Electric car drivers will be able to recharge in about 20 minutes on the fast chargers, which are free for now.
The Wall Street Mafia never stops stealing and stealing and stealing and stealing and stealing.
The poor have already paid to SUBSIDIZE the prices of these extravagant fucking useless toy "cars". Now the poor are paying to RUN the "cars".
Everyone is required to support Conspicuous Consumption so the mass-murdering criminals can get to their next criminal destination without ever having to pay anything.
Jesus save us. Allah save us. Either one will do. Get on with it. ¶ 2:56 AM
Friday, March 16, 2012
Wakeup time!
Looked closely at my roses and lilacs a few days ago. They weren't starting to bud yet.
Yesterday we had a date-record rainfall: 1.2 inches in 24 hours. La Niña is finally getting in her whacks, after giving us a dry winter. Can't really complain, though; if the same precipitation had come in December per the usual Niña plan, it would have been two feet of snow!
Today the lilacs and roses are enthusiastically budding. Did the deluge give them a wakeup call?
¶ 1:40 PM
Yesterday we had a date-record rainfall: 1.2 inches in 24 hours. La Niña is finally getting in her whacks, after giving us a dry winter. Can't really complain, though; if the same precipitation had come in December per the usual Niña plan, it would have been two feet of snow!
Today the lilacs and roses are enthusiastically budding. Did the deluge give them a wakeup call?
¶ 1:40 PM
Could get interesting
According to UK Telegraph, John Sentamu is the most likely successor to Rowan Williams as head of the Anglican church.
I've mentioned Sentamu before, hoping he'd end up in a leadership position.
He's a hard man with a hard sense of morality, who has earned the privilege of talking about morality.
Under the modern system of censorship by genes, only a real African like Sentamu can talk sense into the niggers who are besmirching their African heritage, and the idiot wiggers who are mindlessly emulating the niggers. Remains to be seen whether he can do anything about the relentless "Personal Journey" of fags and bulldykes into total power; they grabbed most of the Anglican hierarchy a long time ago, and he doesn't have the genetic privilege to criticize them. ¶ 7:46 AM
I've mentioned Sentamu before, hoping he'd end up in a leadership position.
He's a hard man with a hard sense of morality, who has earned the privilege of talking about morality.
Dr Sentamu, the sixth of 13 brothers and sisters, and a former barrister and judge, came to the UK in 1974 having fled Uganda where he was a critic of the dictator Idi Amin.
The Archbishop has gained a reputation for supporting the armed forces - sky-diving to raise money for families of servicemen wounded or killed in Afghanistan - and for speaking out against bankers and traders responsible for the financial crisis.
He has called for the English to mark St George's Day properly on April 23, warning that the failure of England to rediscover its culture would lead only to greater political extremism.
As Bishop of Stepney in east London, Dr Sentamu acted as an adviser to the inquiry into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. He has also campaigned against guns, knives, drugs and gangs.
More recently, he attracted controversy - and racist emails - when he spoke out against gay marriage. Dr Sentamu is married with two grown-up children and two grown-up foster children.
Under the modern system of censorship by genes, only a real African like Sentamu can talk sense into the niggers who are besmirching their African heritage, and the idiot wiggers who are mindlessly emulating the niggers. Remains to be seen whether he can do anything about the relentless "Personal Journey" of fags and bulldykes into total power; they grabbed most of the Anglican hierarchy a long time ago, and he doesn't have the genetic privilege to criticize them. ¶ 7:46 AM
Lethal optimism
Big examples:
(1) American economists like Jeffrey Sachs get involved in Russia, trying to turn it into a Young Democracy. Result: Tragedy.
(2) Grotesque Idiot Soviet Agent Bush The Son gets involved in Iraq, trying to turn it into a Young Democracy. Result: Tragedy.
(3) Grotesque Idiot Soviet Agent Bush The Son gets involved in Afghanistan, trying to turn it into a Young Democracy. Result: Tragedy.
= = = = =
One small example:
In Spokane, a good samaritan who feels temporarily responsible for a neighbor's rental house hears a drug party with dozens of jungle-bunnies. He gets involved in the party, trying to make the niggers act like humans. Result: Tragedy. The niggers remain niggers and the good samaritan dies.
= = = = =
Solution:
Stop being an optimist. Get rid of the delusion that you can "make a difference". Stop believing that your own private idea of goodness is shared by all humans. Stop believing that all humans can be converted to your own private form of goodness. Understand that people are different in deep and innate ways, and have unbreakably different notions of goodness. Understand that these differences cannot be resolved by smooshing people together into an amorphous blob. Understand that Nature invented cell walls, organisms, boundaries and borders for a good reason. Understand that Nature gave all living things a miraculous power to distinguish and discriminate for a good reason. Eliminate the monstrous genocidal world-destroying concept of "democracy".
Above all, learn when to say
(1) American economists like Jeffrey Sachs get involved in Russia, trying to turn it into a Young Democracy. Result: Tragedy.
(2) Grotesque Idiot Soviet Agent Bush The Son gets involved in Iraq, trying to turn it into a Young Democracy. Result: Tragedy.
(3) Grotesque Idiot Soviet Agent Bush The Son gets involved in Afghanistan, trying to turn it into a Young Democracy. Result: Tragedy.
= = = = =
One small example:
In Spokane, a good samaritan who feels temporarily responsible for a neighbor's rental house hears a drug party with dozens of jungle-bunnies. He gets involved in the party, trying to make the niggers act like humans. Result: Tragedy. The niggers remain niggers and the good samaritan dies.
= = = = =
Solution:
Stop being an optimist. Get rid of the delusion that you can "make a difference". Stop believing that your own private idea of goodness is shared by all humans. Stop believing that all humans can be converted to your own private form of goodness. Understand that people are different in deep and innate ways, and have unbreakably different notions of goodness. Understand that these differences cannot be resolved by smooshing people together into an amorphous blob. Understand that Nature invented cell walls, organisms, boundaries and borders for a good reason. Understand that Nature gave all living things a miraculous power to distinguish and discriminate for a good reason. Eliminate the monstrous genocidal world-destroying concept of "democracy".
Above all, learn when to say
Labels: defensible spaces, Grand Blueprint
¶ 3:17 AM
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Blago
As the inimitable Blagojevich heads for jail, just one thought.
Business and politics have the same goal: sell goods or services to customers.
In business, it's normal for the customer to pay for what he receives.
In politics, it's abnormal for the customer to pay for what he receives.
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Normal business: I order a pair of shoes from LL Bean. I send them $70 and in return they send me shoes. Nobody else pays.
Abnormal business: LL Bean sends me a pair of shoes and tries to get $70 from everyone except me. (This is so bizarre that it isn't even a crime, because nobody tries it!)
= = = = =
In politics normal and abnormal are reversed.
Normal politics: Soviet Agent Bush The Son sells a Medicare Prescription drug program to 700 widows in Palm Beach in order to gain their votes, because those 700 widows are the only real voters. Everybody else pays $1 trillion for those 700 votes.
Abnormal politics: Blago sells a Senate office to one man who wants it. In return the man pays Blago $100k. Nobody else pays.
= = = = =
The same rule should apply to both situations. You receive a thing or a service, you pay for it. Nobody else pays for it.
Blago is being punished for honest dealing. ¶ 7:35 AM
Business and politics have the same goal: sell goods or services to customers.
In business, it's normal for the customer to pay for what he receives.
In politics, it's abnormal for the customer to pay for what he receives.
= = = = =
Normal business: I order a pair of shoes from LL Bean. I send them $70 and in return they send me shoes. Nobody else pays.
Abnormal business: LL Bean sends me a pair of shoes and tries to get $70 from everyone except me. (This is so bizarre that it isn't even a crime, because nobody tries it!)
= = = = =
In politics normal and abnormal are reversed.
Normal politics: Soviet Agent Bush The Son sells a Medicare Prescription drug program to 700 widows in Palm Beach in order to gain their votes, because those 700 widows are the only real voters. Everybody else pays $1 trillion for those 700 votes.
Abnormal politics: Blago sells a Senate office to one man who wants it. In return the man pays Blago $100k. Nobody else pays.
= = = = =
The same rule should apply to both situations. You receive a thing or a service, you pay for it. Nobody else pays for it.
Blago is being punished for honest dealing. ¶ 7:35 AM
Good sign for the future!
AP item:
Note the all-encompassing Stalinist 'we' from the psych prof.
As usual, when experts use a despite construction [as in "go against widespread belief..."] the truth is really because.
Teens are naturally inclined to rebel against the beliefs of the previous generation. When the previous generation treats the young with arrogant condescension and officially censors all unorthodox thoughts, the rebellion gets vastly stronger. Kids want to know what the adults are hiding, and since the advent of the Web, it's much easier for them to find out.
This applies to all the pseudosciences of the modern Establishment: Environment, Evolution, Economics, Cosmology, and Psychology. In all those areas, only one opinion is permitted in mass media and schools. In Environment and Evolution, heresy is officially prohibited in the schools.
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Sidenote for fairness: In each of those areas some honest science does exist, but the officially approved theories are fraudulent. The public spokesmen, the people who control the discussion and grants, are pushing provably wrong pseudotheories. ¶ 5:33 AM
An academic analysis of surveys spanning more than 40 years has found that today's young Americans are less interested in the environment and in conserving resources — and often less civic-minded overall — than their elders were when they were young.
The findings go against the widespread belief that environmental issues have hit home with today's young adults, known as Millennials, who have grown up amid climate change discussion and the mantra "reduce, reuse, recycle." The environment is often listed among top concerns of young voters.
"I was shocked," said Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University who is one of the study's authors. "We have the perception that we're getting through to people. But at least compared to previous eras, we're not."
Note the all-encompassing Stalinist 'we' from the psych prof.
As usual, when experts use a despite construction [as in "go against widespread belief..."] the truth is really because.
Teens are naturally inclined to rebel against the beliefs of the previous generation. When the previous generation treats the young with arrogant condescension and officially censors all unorthodox thoughts, the rebellion gets vastly stronger. Kids want to know what the adults are hiding, and since the advent of the Web, it's much easier for them to find out.
This applies to all the pseudosciences of the modern Establishment: Environment, Evolution, Economics, Cosmology, and Psychology. In all those areas, only one opinion is permitted in mass media and schools. In Environment and Evolution, heresy is officially prohibited in the schools.
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Sidenote for fairness: In each of those areas some honest science does exist, but the officially approved theories are fraudulent. The public spokesmen, the people who control the discussion and grants, are pushing provably wrong pseudotheories. ¶ 5:33 AM
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Intuition
Sometimes I start thinking that my minimalist lifestyle is unusual, and then sometimes I realize it isn't.
This morning I went to Safeway on one of my regular MWF store trips. The list was a bit shorter than usual. The checkout lady said: "Load's a little light this morning. Gets you out of the house, eh?"
Yup. She's got me pegged!
When I picture the usual set of customers at that hour of the morning, they fall into two categories:
(1) 300-pound single moms with food stamps and toddlers.
(2) Compact oldsters, most of whom act well-exercised and alert but not athletic or wealthy.
I probably fit into (2) pretty well, which means the checkout lady knows my type thoroughly!
Makes me wonder. Will the 300-pound single moms ever get to be oldsters? Or will they be finished at 45?
How did so many in that generation grow so heavy? ¶ 7:39 PM
This morning I went to Safeway on one of my regular MWF store trips. The list was a bit shorter than usual. The checkout lady said: "Load's a little light this morning. Gets you out of the house, eh?"
Yup. She's got me pegged!
When I picture the usual set of customers at that hour of the morning, they fall into two categories:
(1) 300-pound single moms with food stamps and toddlers.
(2) Compact oldsters, most of whom act well-exercised and alert but not athletic or wealthy.
I probably fit into (2) pretty well, which means the checkout lady knows my type thoroughly!
Makes me wonder. Will the 300-pound single moms ever get to be oldsters? Or will they be finished at 45?
How did so many in that generation grow so heavy? ¶ 7:39 PM
Process again
Two especially egregious examples of Process over Fact.
(A) After the Sergeant carefully demonstrated the utter insanity and futility of our presence in Afghanistan, the Army and the administration are setting up 4,674 new Task Forces, which will give lifetime employment to 57,212 lawyers, to Investigate This Heinous And Unprecedented And Unthinkable Action. Same old Lone Gunman shit, as always. Meanwhile, it's forbidden to move or touch anything while an Investigation is underway, so we'll stay in Afghanistan forever.
Correct response: If we were sane, we would listen to what this desperate Sergeant is telling us. We'd hear his message loud and clear: "You have given your soldiers an absolutely impossible job. There is no mission. There is no goal. There can never be a mission or goal. It is logically and physically impossible. All we can do is mindlessly kill or be killed." And we would respond to his message by GETTING THE FUCK OUT. NOW. NOW. NOW. THIS SECOND. OUT. OUT. OUT. OUT. NOW. NOW. NOW.
(B) China is keeping its minerals to itself. Nothing wrong with that; the advantage of being a nation is that you can decide what to sell and what to keep. We don't like this particular keeping because we've been too fucking stupid to keep or develop our own minerals. Our initial response to China's economic normalcy is process. We're begging various international agencies, owned by China, to investigate China's actions and reach a conclusion.
Correct response: We must recover our own nationhood, which was lost 23 years ago. An actual nation would respond to China's move in one of two ways: (1) Cut off all trade and outsourcing that benefits China. Buy back their bonds so they don't have a handle on us. Resell the bonds at a profit, by force if necessary, to the traitorious corporations that have served China, and require those traitors, by force if necessary, to keep the bonds until maturity. Or (2) devote a huge crash program to developing our own minerals. Eliminate EPA. Open all Federal land to exploration and mining. Redesign our idiot shit so it doesn't need any exclusively Chinese materials. This will require us to give up some of our idiot shit entirely, which will be a pure gain for Americans. And it will also reduce our dependence on the Chinese slaves who make our idiot shit, and provide an ancient unknown thing called "work" to skilled Americans. ¶ 5:04 AM
(A) After the Sergeant carefully demonstrated the utter insanity and futility of our presence in Afghanistan, the Army and the administration are setting up 4,674 new Task Forces, which will give lifetime employment to 57,212 lawyers, to Investigate This Heinous And Unprecedented And Unthinkable Action. Same old Lone Gunman shit, as always. Meanwhile, it's forbidden to move or touch anything while an Investigation is underway, so we'll stay in Afghanistan forever.
Correct response: If we were sane, we would listen to what this desperate Sergeant is telling us. We'd hear his message loud and clear: "You have given your soldiers an absolutely impossible job. There is no mission. There is no goal. There can never be a mission or goal. It is logically and physically impossible. All we can do is mindlessly kill or be killed." And we would respond to his message by GETTING THE FUCK OUT. NOW. NOW. NOW. THIS SECOND. OUT. OUT. OUT. OUT. NOW. NOW. NOW.
(B) China is keeping its minerals to itself. Nothing wrong with that; the advantage of being a nation is that you can decide what to sell and what to keep. We don't like this particular keeping because we've been too fucking stupid to keep or develop our own minerals. Our initial response to China's economic normalcy is process. We're begging various international agencies, owned by China, to investigate China's actions and reach a conclusion.
Correct response: We must recover our own nationhood, which was lost 23 years ago. An actual nation would respond to China's move in one of two ways: (1) Cut off all trade and outsourcing that benefits China. Buy back their bonds so they don't have a handle on us. Resell the bonds at a profit, by force if necessary, to the traitorious corporations that have served China, and require those traitors, by force if necessary, to keep the bonds until maturity. Or (2) devote a huge crash program to developing our own minerals. Eliminate EPA. Open all Federal land to exploration and mining. Redesign our idiot shit so it doesn't need any exclusively Chinese materials. This will require us to give up some of our idiot shit entirely, which will be a pure gain for Americans. And it will also reduce our dependence on the Chinese slaves who make our idiot shit, and provide an ancient unknown thing called "work" to skilled Americans. ¶ 5:04 AM
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Smart kids!
From Northwest Public Radio:
Those kids, presumably led by their parents, are EXACTLY RIGHT. They see how their future can be successful. They're returning to the pre-1970 secret of American success, which is the only way America will succeed again. Good technical training will serve those kids well for a lifetime, and will also serve the whole country.
Sounds like the educrats in Oklahoma (no surprise!) and Idaho (slight surprise!) are on the right track. Let's hope educrats in other states can see this trend and adjust accordingly. Cut colleges to the bone, strip out the pointless college orientation of high schools. Focus entirely on getting the kids into a job with the best possible training! ¶ 5:03 PM
An over-enrolled technical high school opening for the first time this fall in north Idaho indicates an unmet hunger for practical job training. The multi-district collaboration in Rathdrum doesn’t even have a roof yet, and enrollment already exceeds capacity. Now, the school is on the hunt for more instructors.
The Kootenai Technical Education Campus, or KTEC, is due to open this fall. Enrollment is offered to public school students from around the Coeur d’Alene area. Those lucky enough to be admitted will spend half-days learning in-demand skills like welding, computer repair or diesel mechanics. The school was originally designed to have 280 students, but 900 have signed up.
KTEC director Mark Cotner says when it comes to hiring instructors, these courses require a higher level of expertise than the shop class you might remember from school. “These programs are really based on industry certifications," Cotner explains. "So that when a student comes out of say the welding program, they are already certified for the welding industry.”
North Idaho voters approved a property tax levy in 2010 to build the Kootenai Technical Education Campus. It uses an Oklahoma model that bases technical curriculum on the needs of the regional economy. Another similar school was built in Wilder, Idaho.
Those kids, presumably led by their parents, are EXACTLY RIGHT. They see how their future can be successful. They're returning to the pre-1970 secret of American success, which is the only way America will succeed again. Good technical training will serve those kids well for a lifetime, and will also serve the whole country.
Sounds like the educrats in Oklahoma (no surprise!) and Idaho (slight surprise!) are on the right track. Let's hope educrats in other states can see this trend and adjust accordingly. Cut colleges to the bone, strip out the pointless college orientation of high schools. Focus entirely on getting the kids into a job with the best possible training! ¶ 5:03 PM
Monday, March 12, 2012
2 down, a few dozen to go
Mass murderer Stephen Schneider blessedly died last year. Now mass murderer F. Sherwood Rowland has blessedly died.
Two criminal monsters down, but a whole lot still unfortunately living and slaughtering.
Thousands of people are unnecessarily starving, dying in coal mines, dying in biofuel plant explosions, freezing because heat is unaffordable.
Please, O Kuhnian Gods, speed up the process!
Two criminal monsters down, but a whole lot still unfortunately living and slaughtering.
Thousands of people are unnecessarily starving, dying in coal mines, dying in biofuel plant explosions, freezing because heat is unaffordable.
Please, O Kuhnian Gods, speed up the process!
Labels: Carbon Cult
¶ 6:34 AM
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Infill
Since December I've doubled my weekly exercise, infilling between the usual M-W-F trips to the store. Walking every day makes a noticeable difference in mood and health.
These infill walks required fighting two old internal rules made by my Kraut chromosomes.
Rule 1: «Achtung! Valk must haff Purpose! No Valk mitout Utility!»
This rule never made any sense. In younger years I felt free to drive or bike without a destination, but walking has always needed a firm reason. No idea why. Breaking this rule was easy; just one pleasant random walk deconditioned it.
Rule 2: «Achtung! All Valking Routes must be Maximally Efficient! Cut all Corners, never go around Unnecessary Block!»
This rule does make sense for a lifetime pedestrian, and I've learned quite a few tricks to find the shortest possible path. But it's completely wrong for a random walk, where the only destination is Back Home, and the purpose is to maximize distance without getting overly tired. Because it's logical, this rule is harder to break, and still requires some Strangelovian internal slapdowns.
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Useful walks always head south and east from my house, because that's where the stores and bus stops are. So the random walks have headed north and west, to explore unfamiliar territory. And there's a surprising amount of unfamiliar stuff within a one-mile radius, because I simply never looked in those directions before!
Earlier I noted a 'locus of new growth' that seems to be propagating from the city's beautiful repaving of Wellesley. Flips, sales, existing remodels, and new construction. Infill as usual in Spokane, the Infill Capital of the West. Nevertheless, an indication of positive economic activity in this part of town. The new construction is on lots that have been vacant for a hundred years!
Now I'm noticing a 'locus of decay' in the other direction, propagating from the only apartment building in the neighborhood. This apt is a two-story wood structure, possibly a WW2 barracks extensively remodeled. It's been decaying for a long time and fully abandoned for a couple years. The apt seems to be infecting nearby houses with Who-Gives-A-Fuck-Itis. Near the apt are several collapsing failed remodels, mixed as usual in Spokane with beautiful and elegant 1930's cottages.....
These infill walks required fighting two old internal rules made by my Kraut chromosomes.
Rule 1: «Achtung! Valk must haff Purpose! No Valk mitout Utility!»
This rule never made any sense. In younger years I felt free to drive or bike without a destination, but walking has always needed a firm reason. No idea why. Breaking this rule was easy; just one pleasant random walk deconditioned it.
Rule 2: «Achtung! All Valking Routes must be Maximally Efficient! Cut all Corners, never go around Unnecessary Block!»
This rule does make sense for a lifetime pedestrian, and I've learned quite a few tricks to find the shortest possible path. But it's completely wrong for a random walk, where the only destination is Back Home, and the purpose is to maximize distance without getting overly tired. Because it's logical, this rule is harder to break, and still requires some Strangelovian internal slapdowns.
= = = = =
Useful walks always head south and east from my house, because that's where the stores and bus stops are. So the random walks have headed north and west, to explore unfamiliar territory. And there's a surprising amount of unfamiliar stuff within a one-mile radius, because I simply never looked in those directions before!
Earlier I noted a 'locus of new growth' that seems to be propagating from the city's beautiful repaving of Wellesley. Flips, sales, existing remodels, and new construction. Infill as usual in Spokane, the Infill Capital of the West. Nevertheless, an indication of positive economic activity in this part of town. The new construction is on lots that have been vacant for a hundred years!
Now I'm noticing a 'locus of decay' in the other direction, propagating from the only apartment building in the neighborhood. This apt is a two-story wood structure, possibly a WW2 barracks extensively remodeled. It's been decaying for a long time and fully abandoned for a couple years. The apt seems to be infecting nearby houses with Who-Gives-A-Fuck-Itis. Near the apt are several collapsing failed remodels, mixed as usual in Spokane with beautiful and elegant 1930's cottages.....
Labels: infill, Shack people - Cottage people
¶ 1:58 PM
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Electric day
Today is the first sunny warmish day of the year. The plants know it, the squirrels know it, and the electric cars know it.
(1) I got out into the yard with a rake and started fiddling around.
Since last year's reclaiming, I've made a firm practice of walking in the back yard once a day, if only for a moment, to maintain the sense of possession. Like a dog patrolling its territory. Now that I've retaken the yard from trees and trash and wind-fear, I'm not going to slack off. This year's task: smooth out the humps and dips and replant where needed; maybe build a tiny deck to sit on.
(2) A new generation of squirrels is also reclaiming this block. Their parents wisely abandoned the area last year after a hawk ate one of them. I was curious to see if the parents would somehow pass on the warning to the next generation, but apparently not.
(3) This morning I saw a Nissan Leaf and a Tesla for the very first time. What's more, I saw them at the same time in the same intersection. Amazingly the Tesla was moving!
This indicates the permanent niche for the pure electric car. Rich boy's toy to be displayed in warm sunny weather, like an Avanti or a Nash Metropolitan. You don't start it in winter or drive it in snow. ¶ 5:09 PM
(1) I got out into the yard with a rake and started fiddling around.
Since last year's reclaiming, I've made a firm practice of walking in the back yard once a day, if only for a moment, to maintain the sense of possession. Like a dog patrolling its territory. Now that I've retaken the yard from trees and trash and wind-fear, I'm not going to slack off. This year's task: smooth out the humps and dips and replant where needed; maybe build a tiny deck to sit on.
(2) A new generation of squirrels is also reclaiming this block. Their parents wisely abandoned the area last year after a hawk ate one of them. I was curious to see if the parents would somehow pass on the warning to the next generation, but apparently not.
(3) This morning I saw a Nissan Leaf and a Tesla for the very first time. What's more, I saw them at the same time in the same intersection. Amazingly the Tesla was moving!
This indicates the permanent niche for the pure electric car. Rich boy's toy to be displayed in warm sunny weather, like an Avanti or a Nash Metropolitan. You don't start it in winter or drive it in snow. ¶ 5:09 PM
Separation anxiety
A local public radio program discusses movies. The regular panelists are just what you'd expect: elite-bubble academics, confirmed leftists.
Today they had to confront their prejudices in an unusual way. They were discussing the Persian movie 'Separation', which has gone international. Everything about the movie was shocking to them: the Western attitudes of Persians, the educated and lively women, the contrast between sophisticated upper-class and strict lower-class. To their credit, they were trying to absorb the reality instead of blindly rejecting it.
These progressives had exactly the same biases about Persia as any Repooflican. You can see the same shared idiocy among the Israel-enslaved media on both "sides": Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, NRO, NPR, all agree that "Iran" is an insane backward pile of 5th-century primitives. All agree that "Iran" is an "existential threat" to the world, and must be EXTERMINATED EXTERMINATED EXTERMINATED!
Fucking stupid bigoted Yankee shitheads.
Okies understand the situation better because we've known Persians for a long time. Persians have been part of Oklahoma since the '60s, mainly because of oil connections. Nothing in that movie would surprise an Okie. ¶ 4:08 PM
Today they had to confront their prejudices in an unusual way. They were discussing the Persian movie 'Separation', which has gone international. Everything about the movie was shocking to them: the Western attitudes of Persians, the educated and lively women, the contrast between sophisticated upper-class and strict lower-class. To their credit, they were trying to absorb the reality instead of blindly rejecting it.
These progressives had exactly the same biases about Persia as any Repooflican. You can see the same shared idiocy among the Israel-enslaved media on both "sides": Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, NRO, NPR, all agree that "Iran" is an insane backward pile of 5th-century primitives. All agree that "Iran" is an "existential threat" to the world, and must be EXTERMINATED EXTERMINATED EXTERMINATED!
Fucking stupid bigoted Yankee shitheads.
Okies understand the situation better because we've known Persians for a long time. Persians have been part of Oklahoma since the '60s, mainly because of oil connections. Nothing in that movie would surprise an Okie. ¶ 4:08 PM
