More Game Theory
More Game-Theory crap. The same nonsense that ruined Greece's chance to get out of EU. These Danes --- Well, I could just stop there, couldn't I?

but I won't. These Danes "analyzed" the behavior of lines or queues that start moving at a specific time, like theater tickets or sports games or the latest Apple Deviltool. This was NOT for constant queues like grocery checkouts or bank tellers.

Alleged solution: The line moves faster if you do LIFO instead of FIFO. Give the first ticket to the last person who arrives.

Well, I'll grant that SOMETHING would happen faster if you did that. You'd have a riot, with everyone jumping through the ticket window and squashing the clerk.

Unusually for Game-Theory idiots, these "researchers" acknowledged that LIFO might not work in such situations but should work in non-physical computer-based lines where people can't see how many are in front, and can't tell how many "clerks" are working.

Nope. Even in that situation, with most of the human aspects eliminated, the "researchers" have still ignored one basic human fact.

People who arrive early KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING. They KNOW what the line is for. They are organized and have their money or tax info or whatever READY TO GO.

People who join a line late are less organized and less prepared. They may not even know what the line is for. It takes MORE TIME to handle them, so the organized people are delayed even more than they would be by a LIFO with equal people.
  ¶ 5:48 PM

  Three levels, none should have been needed.
KREM has stories about three levels of courage in the face of fire.

(1) A man who didn't evacuate but stayed to defend his own property. Gutsy but basically normal. I might do that ... in fact I did that in the 1991 firestorm. Evac was encouraged, but I stayed and sprayed. It made a difference.

(2) A man who didn't evacuate, and is patrolling the streets to help his neighbors. Gutsy and beyond normal. I couldn't do that. In a small town it's not quite so abnormal; everyone is accustomed to doing a little of everything; still tremendously courageous.

(3) A man who didn't evacuate, bought a firetruck that wasn't being used, gathered a crew, and went out to fight fires. WAY beyond normal. Superhero is the only word. Admittedly it took some existing 'superpowers'. He's a lawyer who had enough money to afford a firetruck and enough influence and connections to gather the crew.

If the idiot state and evil feds had been taking the necessary steps to PREVENT explosive fires for the last 30 years, we wouldn't need a superhero. If normal logging had been allowed, the forests wouldn't have built up to explosive density. If we had prevented developers from putting cedar-roofed McMansions in the middle of the forest, we'd have more room for the small fires that Nature needs. If we hadn't placed banks of wind turbines in the forest, the bats would have killed the bugs, and the trees would have been healthy. If we hadn't busted down dams to avoid embarrassing the earthworms, there would be more moisture in the air.

We are doing everything wrong.

Superheroes are wonderful, but they can't really fix 30 years of evil.

Labels: Carbon Cult, defensible spaces, STRONG!

  ¶ 7:04 AM

  This is why
Kasich soils his own nest:

"If I were not president, but if I were King of America, I would abolish all teachers' lounges, where they sit together and worry about 'woe is us,'" Kasich said at an education conference in New Hampshire sponsored by education group The Seventy-Four and The American Federation for Children. The comment drew a few laughs from the crowd, which is spending the day hearing from Republican presidential candidates.

Kasich is known for being blunt and direct [WHAT?], but earlier in his talk, he noted some times where he had worked with the teachers' unions in Ohio before.

Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said that the governor didn't mean literally replacing teachers' lounges in schools and said he using a metaphor.

This is why Trump keeps winning. Other Repoofs delicately dance around the facts and end up saying shit that hurts without helping. Kasich managed to repel anti-union teachers who might have supported him otherwise. He didn't bother the union at all.

Kasich was daintily pirouetting around the OBVIOUS FUCKING FACT that we need to ELIMINATE TEACHERS UNIONS.

If that's what you mean, then FUCKING SAY IT. If you can't bring yourself to STATE THE FUCKING FACTS, go home and get out of the way. Take a nap or something.

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Semi-relevant sidenote: I was thinking about teachers lounges yesterday after reading this account of how doctors behave when the patient is knocked out. Raw evil. Astoundingly evil. Schoolyard bullies at their worst.

I asked myself if teachers did the same thing in the teachers lounge. At least during the years when I was teaching, the answer is No. We did cuss and discuss problem students, but it was always in a context of sharing useful info. Jeff is a violent dickhead; I couldn't get the admin to do anything about him; maybe you'll have better luck this semester. Watch out! Or, JoAnn tries hard but probably doesn't have the basic skills. Give her some room, but don't expect too much.

We never sang 'La Cucaracha' with our hands stuffed into a student's cunt. Only doctors do that.
  ¶ 4:52 AM

  Constants and variables 31
Speaking of unspoken expertise, and speaking of defensible spaces, here's an unorthodox view from a real expert.

Spokane Valley Fire Marshal Greg Rogers said it doesn’t make much difference whether the lot is mowed or not when it comes to how fast a fire spreads.

“An overgrown lot may produce bigger flames, but the wind determines how fast the fire spreads,” Rogers said.

Rogers is much more worried about potential ignition sources than the size of the weeds. And the most common igniters aren’t surprising: children with matches and lighters, cigarette butts thrown out of car windows or off hiking trails and cigarettes put out in dry potting soil.

Though he didn't say it (or at least wasn't quoted as saying it) this obviously applies to urban situations, not the big forest fires.

Most experts will emphasize the defensible space vastly more than the igniters. With good reason, I guess; the difference is real and dramatic out in the forest. You don't want to confuse the public.

Still, this don't confuse approach has led to a lot of bad advice in other situations. People who deal with prisons and insane asylums know with certainty that tobacco controls impulses and keeps inmates calm. Despite this, they go along with prohibitions of smoking based on "second-hand smoke" crap, causing unneeded problems inside the walls. Diet experts have known for a long time that animal fats and cholesterol were not the main problem, but they went along with the nonsense, causing a lot of unneeded deaths.

Looking at the fire starts in recent days, temperature is the ONLY relevant variable within Spokane. Wind doesn't count. During several days with T>90 and ZERO wind, we had a barrage of little brush fires. Today, 72 degrees with wind in the 20s, absolutely NO new fires in town.

Using the Rogers assumption: Is this difference a temperature gradient on combustible materials? Does it take 90 instead of 70 to get a fire going? Or is it a gradient on combustible humans? It's unquestionably true that assholes like it hot. Assholes go out and break things when T>90. Assholes do NOT like cool or rainy or weird weather, and today's dense smoke is definitely weird.

Labels: Constants and Variables, defensible spaces

  ¶ 5:11 PM

  Wildcatter vs wildcatter
I've constantly used E W Marland as an icon of Social Economics. He wasn't as important as Henry Ford, but I've lived in Marland's world and have direct knowledge of his accomplishments.

What did he accomplish? Conoco. A company that took care of its loyal employees. Ponca. A beautiful city with excellent parks and schools, and a lingering tone of solid civilization. 50 years of prosperous living for 20,000 people.

The prosperity is gone now, after many layers of LBOs that finally removed all of Conoco from Ponca, but the beauty remains.

That's an accomplishment by any definition. You won't find modern capitalists setting the tone for a city.

Now a different comparison pops up. Marland was originally a wildcatter. He must have been a sharp operator because he succeeded. But the modern definition of Sharp Wildcatter is somewhat different, just as the modern definition of Industrialist is different.

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For an icon of the Modern Sharp Wildcatter, let's take James Henrikson.

What did he accomplish? Massive fraud, at least four murders, two escape attempts, heroin peddling.

Conoco's upper-level employees lived in neighborhoods like this:



Conoco's lower-level employees lived in neighborhoods like this:



Henrikson's employees live in neighborhoods like this:



Marland had to negotiate with Indian tribes for the best oil land. Result: The Osage got rich, with individual incomes well above Conoco's upper-level employees.

Henrikson had to negotiate with Indian tribes for the best oil land. Result: The Mandan chief got rich but the tribe gained nothing.

Marland's most famous legacy:


Henrikson's most recent legacy:


A failed escape attempt yesterday.


Yes, we are indeed fortunate to live in Progressive Times, when Market Efficiency has conquered all. Chiefs get everything. Negative Externalities get graves.

Labels: Carbon Cult, the broken circle

  ¶ 1:30 AM

  Not predicting
A cute video of dogs waking up a few seconds before a quake hits.

The article says the dogs are predicting the quake. Nonsense. Even my dull old tinnitus-ridden ears can detect the sounds of a quake a few seconds before it hits. That's not predicting, it's just sensing the actual event.

This misuse of prediction devalues the much more interesting, and much more valuable, EARLY predictions by many animals and humans, including dull old me. From a week to a day before the quake, SOMETHING happens that can be sensed, especially by ground-dwellers like frogs. If we can pin down this SOMETHING, we'll have a lifesaver.

Labels: Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 9:12 AM

  A prayer
One 'Strange as it Seems' episode dramatized an unusual prayer for rain that supposedly worked. In July 1934 a classified ad appeared in a Missouri newspaper. Two days later, rain finally arrived.

Polistra and friends decided to try a modified version of the ad.



As a prayer it's a little unfair, because the real weather problem was in June. August weather is normal. We're abnormally fiery because the soil and plants were pre-baked in June. Also unfair because idiot Gaians have been stacking the deck FOR fire by removing dams, and by forbidding logging during the last 20 years.

Nevertheless, one solid rain would solve the problem. Perhaps the weather gods will have mercy, understanding that the people who are suffering and dying are NOT the Gaian fuckheads who created the problem. The Gaian fuckheads won't learn no matter what happens. They need to die in extreme agony. But of course they won't. They will keep killing the rest of us. Genocide is our product. Our most important product.

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Update 8/30: Prayer answered. Not speedy service, but shouldn't complain. As abovementioned, this is a normal summer-ending pattern; June was the abnormal part.

Labels: Carbon Cult, defensible spaces

  ¶ 1:42 AM

  Would be
China's QE-by-infrastructure is coming to an end, which means that prices for all sorts of commodities are dropping back to pre-bubble levels. It also means that DEMAND for commodities and 'intermediates' like refined steel and concrete is dropping back to normal levels. China is no longer buying up all the available STUFF.

If USA STRONG had a functioning government or functioning businesses, this would be a great opportunity to resume building our own infrastructure. Necessary materials are cheap and available, interest is low.

It might even be an opportunity to resume manufacturing. (Yeah, I know it's an arcane obsolete word. Look it up.)

Won't happen. USA STRONG does not have business or government. We only have STRONG.

Labels: STRONG!

  ¶ 3:30 PM

  What's missing is what's missing
Nothing can save us from the Tech Tyrants. They will continue to automate everything and eliminate useful work. Starve the poor, enrich the rich.

But at some point in each area of invasion, Nature will fight back. There's something missing in any Google operation, and there's a type of question that search engines or 'machine intelligence' can't answer.

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In returning to active fiddling with electronics, I'm aiming to get relicensed as a ham. The first time I got licensed was in 1965. I didn't do a lot of actual operating; shortly after getting the license, hippie shit grabbed my life. Stupid. Should have stayed with electronics and enlisted in the Navy. But I didn't. Still, I kept the '64 ARRL Handbook (the 50th Anniversary Edition) for many years, and kept the knowledge and the Morse fairly active.

Resumed electronics from a digital angle in the late '70s and turned it into a career, which I should have done the first time. Started programming in the '80s, which gradually pushed out the hardware in terms of fun and profit. After 1990 it's been all graphics and software, and my electronics tools and junkbox got tossed.

Now I'm pushing back into electronics with a specifically non-modern intention. Sticking with analog. Working up code and theory toward a ham license again, though the code is no longer required. Getting back in touch with ARRL, buying books, finding that the Handbook is now the 100th anniversary edition. I'm old!



Lucky Polistra! Cartoon characters don't get old unless they want to.

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While looking up some obscure Morse punctuation, I bumped into this discussion of codes in general. It focuses on what's called the 'prefix property', which Bell Tel had to handle in creating an international system of phone numbers. The problem arises when you have a code with variable-length chunks. Before mechanical dialing, phone numbers could range from two to seven digits within the same city. Bell was able to standardize somewhat but ran into legacy resistance in towns that were accustomed to dialing only 5 digits. How do you know whether the first digit is an area code, the two-letter prefix, or the 5-digit part after the prefix? How do you separate the segments? Bell solved it by restricting the available digits in each position. If you wanted long distance (or Bell internal service numbers) you started with 1. None of the area codes or prefixes could start with 1 or 0, and the letters for prefixes enforced this restriction. (Strowger solved the problem more directly with an "I'm Done Dialing" button on the base of the phone!)

The article mentions Morse as a variable-length code, but misses the point badly:

You can see from figure 6 that the code words used in Morse code don't possess the prefix property: the code word for 'A', for example, is a prefix of the code word for 'J', and for 'L' (and others). This leads to some interesting questions for you to ponder:

In transmitting Morse code messages, telegraph operators left a time gap between letters (and a longer gap between words). Why do you think they did this?

Well, okay ... but the gap between letters is NOT just something you do because it's convenient. It's PART OF THE CODE. There are standard lengths for the inter-pulse interval, the inter-letter interval, and the inter-word interval. When representing Morse in computer form, each of these intervals requires a distinct symbol. When the program hits the IPI or ILI symbol, it adds a one-beat pause or a three-beat pause to the sound it's outputting. These actions are on the same level as dots (one-beat beep) and dashes (three-beat beep).

Result: No prefix problem at all, because each element always has a determinate POSTFIX.

Because the author didn't have Morse in her muscles, she didn't know what was missing in her understanding.

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Another code-like example in today's "science" news about the whistled version of Turkish. Though this is actually an old subject that has been studied before, it's getting studied again with the help of MRI. Unsurprising result: whistled languages require both the language and music sides of the brain.

What's missing? I wanted to know if the whistling was arbitrary or a direct output of the formants in the vowels. The writeup doesn't tell us, because the writer didn't know it was missing. The author clearly wasn't familiar with linguistics.

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Third example: It's clear that Wash state Destroyer of Natural Resources (DNR) has completely failed. Last year they were actually PREVENTING farmers and citizens from fighting fire on their own property. This year DNR didn't fight FOR the fire, but obviously botched the response on the big fires. (Smaller fires are still being handled well, which indicates that the equipment and personnel are not the problem.) Now, after several deaths, idiot governor Inslee is finally taking things out of DNR's hands and calling in the National Guard.

What's the problem? Not visible from anything you could look up on Google. Clearly visible to everyone who lived in Spokane in 2008. Mary Verner was mayor in 2008. She completely failed when the Supersnow hit, and FAILED IN A FIRE as well. The governor (at that time the highly competent Gregoire) had to fly in and take over in both situations. Now Verner is head of DNR's wildfire response. Failing in an emergency just as she did before.

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Every discipline and every human action, all the way down to turning a doorknob or putting on a shoe, has these undescribed depths. Because these deep points are contained in muscle memory or intuition, experts rarely discuss them in public. They don't get expressed in a format where search engines can find them. Google can't tell you what's missing.

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Of course none of this will slow down the Tech Tyrants. They are psychopaths. Sharks. Keep moving forward, eat all obstacles. When the Negative Externalities start to get smelly, Tech Tyrants will simply process the Negative Externalities into 3D-printed Soylent and keep moving forward forward forward.

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Footnote for clarity: I'm not blaming Verner for the failure. Steering a bureaucracy through an emergency is a rare talent. You don't know who will succeed until the emergency actually happens. She tried in 2008, but she didn't have the special talent. Not her fault. I am specifically blaming Inslee for appointing Verner to an EMERGENCY-HANDLING job after her lack of EMERGENCY-HANDLING talent was ALREADY KNOWN.

Labels: 20th century Dark Age, Language update

  ¶ 4:51 AM

  Thanks to the sane parts
Another brush fire started in one of the usual places just west of Spokane. The various city, county and state forces, including county inmates from nearby Geiger, organized quickly and attacked it, stopping it at 60 acres and squashing it in three hours.

Good work! Even while the upper levels of government go totally crazy, the lower parts are still functioning properly.

At any rate, big thanks to the quick-moving forces.

These fires starting in the usual places are NOT natural. They're caused by human idiocy or malice, and the usualness implies the latter.
  ¶ 3:02 AM

  Excellent question
Jamie Bartlett at UK Telegraph asks a deeply important question. Why do radical politicians like Corbyn and Sanders completely ignore the problems of technology? Bartlett includes the more obvious stuff like self-driving cars, and names several that we don't normally worry about:

The rise of machine learning algorithms that, according to author Andrew Keen, will soon replace a huge amount of skilled middle-class jobs like teachers, lawyers and authors – decimating what he calls "the 20th Century Meritocracy", that has been the backbone of modern democratic societies.

Or the fact that information of all types – secrets, copyright, creative content, illegal images – is becoming increasingly more difficult to contain and control.

Or the dangers of the centralisation of power of the internet into the hands of a very small number of large companies based overseas, and what that might mean for job opportunities, access to information or who controls the public space.

Well, the last item answers the question. Fans of Corbyn and Sanders include lots of Luddite Localists and lots of Tech Tyrants. Luddite Localists don't have millions. Tech Tyrants have millions. And Tech Tyrants are not going to oppose the listed tendencies because Tech Tyrants ARE the listed tendencies.

Corbyn and Sanders know where their money comes from.

This goes beyond technology itself. Corbyn and Sanders are not going to oppose immigration and outsourcing because Apple and Google depend on cheap Hindoo programmers and Bangladeshi slave labor.

Tech wouldn't exist without slavery.

Meanwhile, Corbyn and Sanders join All Respectable Humans in tearing down Confederate flags and statues of anti-slavery Robert E. Lee and every word that might possibly contain the evil letters S-O-U-T-H. Like Lincoln, the modern industrialists need to eliminate all traces of Slavery Conducted By The Wrong Sort Of People, in order to clear the scorched earth for Slavery Conducted By The Right Sort Of People.

No, wait. A minute ago I wrote 'Tech wouldn't exist without slavery.'

Dead wrong. Exactly diametrically wrong. Railroads, Lincoln's bosses, used Chinese slaves to build their tracks. Just like Lincoln's modern admirers. But after railroads we have a long string of new technologies that grew and developed WITHOUT slavery and exploitation. Telegraph, telephone, automobile, radio, petroleum, aircraft, and pre-PC computers grew explosively and PROFITABLY without any Chinese or Hindoo slaves.

In precise fact those industries were FAMOUS for GOOD WORKING CONDITIONS AND GOOD WAGES. Henry Ford, John Patterson, E.W. Marland. All were advocates of Social Economics, now abandoned in USA STRONG but moved to Korea and Japan with great success.

Constants and variables. It's not TECHNOLOGY that depends on slavery. It's GOOGLE AND APPLE AND AMAZON that depend on slavery. Their share-value model requires zero labor costs.
  ¶ 6:36 AM

  You need to understand the situation
The mayor of Airway Heights, after trying to hold firm, has resigned. This comes from a really dumb and unnecessary joke.

I can't defend him. If we still had a normal sane country, you would be able to say dumb things without Gulag. We no longer have a normal sane country. We no longer have a country. We have a monstrous alien indescribable unnameable _______ that has eviled out beyond all possible words in all possible languages. We have lost our tickets to Hell.

This has been true for at least 40 years and obvious for at least 20.

If you want to exert power, you need to avoid certain kinds of jokes and words. This has always been good advice, but it's INFINITELY true now. Even now, it's not a huge burden. Not doing a thing takes less work than doing it.

Yes, it's grossly unfair. Yes, all journalists and politicians on the other side made the exact same joke about Bush and got rewarded with Pulitzers and billions for making the exact same dumb joke.

You are not on the other side. You are not the Right Sort Of People. You can't make jokes. Before the joke you could steer a few things in the right direction. Now you can't.

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Part of the problem is the usual Repooflican establishment fags and hags, who continue chirping and squealing and prancing about Happy Warrior and Morning In America and Best Education In The World and Best "Justice" In The World and Best Economy In The World and Best Health Care In The World and Best Freedom In The World and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi and Benghazi.

A lower-level Repoof who listens to these bizarre hyperfreaks can gain a false picture of the situation.

Trump gets it right. We are doing everything wrong. Everything must change. Maybe he doesn't mean it, but at least his words are accurate.

Labels: STRONG!

  ¶ 4:07 AM

  Thank you.
Trump says "Everything we do is wrong."

Exactly.

I've been waiting 65 years to hear a politician say the truth.

Trump hasn't yet proposed ACTIONS on most of Everything, but his proposals on immigration are specific and comprehensive and perfectly correct. BUILD A FUCKING WALL AND USE IT.

If his proposals on the rest of Everything are equally solid, we'll finally have a valid candidate.

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In case the meaning of ACTION isn't clear, let's contrast Trump with the other Repoofs. The others are proposing the following ACTIONS:

(1) Benghazi.

(2) Hillary's email server.

For any political proposal, exactly one question suffices to test its validity.

HOW WILL YOUR PROPOSED ACTION IMPROVE THE LIVES OF ORDINARY AMERICANS?

Applying this to the other Repoofs:

How will ordinary Americans benefit from more Benghazi? Or how will ordinary Americans benefit from less Benghazi?

How will ordinary Americans benefit from more Hillary's email server? Or how will ordinary Americans benefit from less Hillary's email server?

These questions are total and complete nonsense, which tells you that the words of other Repoofs are total and complete nonsense.

Applying it to Trump:

How will ordinary Americans benefit from building a fucking wall and using it?

The question makes perfect sense, and the answer is perfectly clear. Ordinary Americans will have more jobs and better wages. The improvement won't be universal, but it will be REAL in some jobs and some states.

Labels: defensible spaces

  ¶ 5:01 AM

  Radar mystery
Weather.com radar shows a fairly decent amount of rain over eastern Wash this morning. Doesn't act like a glitch; the clouds seem to move properly through an hour of recording.



Wunderground shows nothing for the same period:

Normally Wunderground's radar is considerably too sensitive, showing green in many places where no rain is falling, while Weather.com is close to perfect. These two seem to be backwards today.

No raindrops here, but looks cloudy (no stars visible) and the wind is variable and restless like something is about to happen.

Hope it's real; those areas around Colville NEED some rain.

Labels: Metrology

  ¶ 4:29 AM

  Rich world problem 2
Finally two blessedly COOL days after way too many hots.

Weather Bureau shows the extent.... from 102 to 38.

During hot periods I skip some weekly-type chores like cleaning the stove, and skip some fun stuff like electronics. No extra brainpower available. Air conditioner maintains a 20-degree delta, which is fine when the outside hits 95 but not fine when the outside hits 100 repeatedly.

When the outside finally gets cool I think OH BOY! Now I can enjoy the fun stuff!

Nope. I do get the weekly-type chores done. But instead of fun stuff I just sleep extra.

Annoying but revealing. What I'm REALLY missing in the heat is not fun but proper sleep.

After the cool continues for more than two days, the fun can resume.

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Later thought: The curve is interesting. It's not a sine. More like an RC with a time constant around 18 hours, charging and discharging in response to a square-wave input.

Labels: TMI

  ¶ 4:15 PM

  Transing the wrong things
Lately we're all trans-y about qualities that can't be transed.

Gender is binary and permanent. You're either male or female from birth, and there is NO way to change it. This is simple straightforward biology.

Race or ethnicity is much less binary** but equally permanent. You may be born 1/16 Cherokee, 3/16 North German, 5/16 West African, and 7/16 Celtic. If that's how you were born, that's how you'll die. No way to change it. Plain biology.

We suffer from the bizarre delusion that these permanent qualities can be changed at will, but only by people with the correct ideological credentials, which is even more bizarre.

At the same time we FAIL to allow trans-ing of qualities that are purely nominal and purely temporary, like some occupations.

Most people voluntarily trans their occupation several times through life. Nothing special or remarkable.

Trans-occupationing can also happen involuntarily. If you throw a hamburger at a customer instead of serving it to him, you have transed out of waitressing. If you burn down a building instead of dousing it, you are now a trans-criminal with a fireman background. If you steal the company's checking account instead of auditing it, you are a trans-criminal with a bookkeeper background.

Perfectly well understood for waitresses or firemen or bookkeepers.

Why don't we understand it when it happens to judges?

The 9 humans who sit in the room labelled as "US Supreme Court" ceased to be judges in 1803 when they stole the power of the legislature. At that point the Constitution that had given them specific limited authority ceased*** to exist, and the humans in that room ceased to be judges. They trans-ed into criminals with a judge background.

The 9 humans who sit in the room labelled as "Washington State Supreme Court" ceased to be judges in 1978 when they stole the power of the legislature. At that point the Constitution that had given them specific limited authority ceased to exist, and the humans in that room ceased to be judges. They trans-ed into criminals with a judge background.

This should be obvious in the same way as the fireman burning down the building. Instead we treat judging the same way we SHOULD treat gender and race. We blindly obey black-robed criminals when they commit blazingly obvious crimes, because Judging is the only permanent quality in the world.

We're fucked.


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** Much less binary: In mathy terms, gender is a one-digit binary fraction and race is a more fine-grained binary fraction. In theory it could have as many binary digits as the generations since start of Homo sapiens. In fact it rarely needs more than 10 digits because ethnic groups tend to remain pure and stable for centuries. Outside of professional genealogy, we typically run back 6 generations = 6 binary digits = denominator of 64.

*** Ceased to exist: May not be clear. Go back to the restaurant. Let's say a restaurant had 9 waitresses, and all of them permanently transed into food-throwers instead of food-servers. The place itself might continue to do business but it wouldn't be a restaurant. You'd have to call it a fight club or an Avant-Garde Art Installation because its license to serve food would be revoked. So: when the 9 judges permanently trans into mass-murdering criminals with a judge background, a major part of the constitution is no longer implemented. The building now falsely labelled "Supreme Court" continues to operate, but it's no longer a court. You'd have to call it a Criminal Syndicate or a Gang. The Court assumed by the constitution has disappeared, so the constitution is no longer valid.
  ¶ 10:10 AM

  Drive American = Drive 1970s
Apple and Google and others are moving FAST to develop self-driving cars. Honda and Apple have rented the abandoned Concord Naval Weapons facility........

The 5,000-acre site has 20 miles of paved roads, including overpasses, tunnels and railroad crossings, according to the agency’s website, which calls it “the largest secure test facility in the world.”

GoMentum Station already has an agreement with Honda, which plans to test automated vehicle systems there. Hall said his agency hopes to partner with other companies for testing self-driving cars and “connected vehicles” — cars that use the Internet and local networks to exchange a variety of information with other devices and vehicles.

The tech giant’s interest in the facility was first reported by the Guardian newspaper, which cited email correspondence obtained under a public-records request. The newspaper also quoted another official at the transportation authority who said Apple insisted on a non-disclosure agreement which barred him from saying any more.

I've already noted the importance of 1970's American household items. They weren't the best of American-made, but they were the last of American-made. The best products from the '30s through the '60s are fragile and rare, but '70s stuff is still usable and still CHEAP. Electronics was strictly analog with no CPUs, using discrete and sturdy transistors. Control was strictly manual, with feedback done by bimetal thermostats and centrifugal governors instead of optical sensors feeding CONNECTED software.



The '70s rule also applies to cars. Not the best but the last. Unconnected. Still cheap. Pay attention.

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From the Guardian article:

However, when engineers from Tesla Motors tried to tour GoMentum Station in April, armed soldiers at the base refused entry to foreign-born workers and a manager who would not divulge his social security number. “At this point, I’ll retract our interest in this test site until the process is worked out,” he huffed in an email to GoMentum Station’s Jack Hall.

Wouldn't it be strange and maybe even interesting if armed soldiers would protect something other than Apple from FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS? Or protect something other than Apple from ANY FUCKING THING AT ALL? Nah. Completely crazy thought. Something other than Apple is a bizarre impossible concept. Apple is all, all is Apple.

Labels: defensible spaces

  ¶ 2:35 AM

  UFFO
Via Science Codex:

If an unidentified flying object suddenly appeared in the sky, it's likely your heart would beat faster. Now, researchers have found that the same is true for bears.

The UFOs in this case are actually unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which have become increasingly valuable to wildlife researchers, allowing them to observe animals, including endangered species, in their natural settings from long distances and over difficult terrain. It had appeared as though the animals were taking these encounters in stride. For instance, American black bears rarely seem to startle or run away when a UAV comes near. But the new study reveals that despite the bears' calm demeanor when in the presence of UAVs, their heart rates soar, a sign of acute stress.

The researchers fitted free-roaming American black bears living in northwestern Minnesota with Iridium satellite GPS collars and cardiac biologgers. The collars sent the researchers an email with each bear's location every 2 minutes while the biologgers captured every heartbeat. Then Ditmer and his colleagues programmed a UAV to fly to the bear's most recent location.

"Some of the spikes in the heart rate of the bears were far beyond what we expected," says Mark Ditmer of the University of Minnesota, St. Paul. "We had one bear increase her heart rate by approximately 400 percent--from 41 beats per minute to 162 beats per minute."

AmazonGoogAppleNSA's researchers will not be surprised by this transhuman replication of their own studies. What's the overall purpose of AmazonGoogAppleNSA? To keep humans scared shitless, helpless and obedient. What's the best way? Constant exposure to new and unknown and threatening objects and actions. A new threat every second.

Tyrants have known this for a long time. Maintain the fight-or-flight reaction, in a situation where fighting and fleeing are impossible. Perfect way to pulverize the human soul.



Danbo continues to attempt quiet decoupling, without much success.

Labels: 20th century Dark Age, defensible spaces

  ¶ 4:32 PM

  Constants and variables 30
This summer is horrendously fiery. Early heat set up a constant ready-to-flash condition that normally wouldn't happen until mid-August (ie just about now). After the extreme heat in June, the weather pattern returned to normal, but the soil and plants are NOT normal.

The constant hair-trigger reactivity has allowed a couple of variables to stand out clearly.

In short: Humans cause most fires, and humans stop most fires.

In Spokane we've had a constant barrage of small fires started by stupidity or malice, but all of them were caught and extinguished quickly because people were watching.

Until this week, we didn't see the usual number of wildland fires. Most wildland fires are caused by lightning, which didn't happen until this week. Now that some storms have passed through areas like Chelan, those fires are growing huge because nobody was around to catch them.

Watching can go too far.... maybe. Firemen have responded to some 'alarms' where people were spotting smoke from a distant fire that was already being worked.

I suppose this item from last night was too far, but it's not the sort of alarm you'd want to punish. Somebody saw a porch light through the overall smokiness and haze, and thought it was a new flare.

Better safe than sorry. Doesn't apply in all situations, but definitely applies to fire.

Later thought: Another variable. This year the state Destroyer of Natural Resources (DNR) hasn't yet intervened on the side of fire. Last year the Pateros fire exploded because DNR was preventing people from defending their own property. Ruined farmers and property owners filed a lawsuit, which is still grinding through the system. I don't know if DNR is slowed down by the processes of the lawsuit, or simply doesn't feel ready to commit murder yet.

Labels: Constants and Variables, defensible spaces

  ¶ 4:09 AM

  Maybe there is a 'next step'
It's obvious that polygamy is NOT the 'next stage' after same-sex "marriage". I further assumed that the whole idea of 'next stage' was wrong. I assumed that the sole purpose of this atrocity is to build the foundation for a total pogrom against Christians and Muslims.

Pogrom is undoubtedly underway, which means (by inferred intent) that pogrom was unquestionably ONE purpose. Maybe it's not the SOLE purpose.

There is a fairly clear 'next stage'....

Religious teachings that elevate suffering and pain as something “sacred” should not be used to prevent terminally ill people taking their own lives, leading Christian and Jewish clerics have insisted.

An alliance of bishops, priests and rabbis have broken ranks with the religious establishment to voice support for plans to change the law to allow a form of assisted suicide in the UK for the first time.

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, they argue that far from being a sin, helping terminally ill people to commit suicide should be viewed simply as enabling them to “gracefully hand back” their lives to God.

These particular demons aren't breaking ranks, of course. Breaking ranks would mean following the laws of God and Nature, which is physically impossible for demons. They are simply the officially assigned Vanguard, the Early Adopters, laying down the path for other demons to roar through, smashing and obliterating everything except the Chosen.

The pattern of change in so-called "laws" also reflects this, as a couple of states and countries have been leading the way toward total ETHICS. Kill everything but the Chosen.

Labels: Ethics

  ¶ 2:11 AM