Copyduty, beautyduty
Going back to Alphia Hart's attitude about copyright, which started my thoughts about the need to switch from "rights" to duties. When I wrote this a few months ago I hadn't quite assembled the theme:

= = = = = START REPRINT:

Reviewing Hart's view of copyright, which was unique in 1954:

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

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

= = = = = END REPRINT.


Now framing it as "rights" to duties: The newer Disney versions of copyright law show the insanity of "inherent rights" more perfectly than other applications. In this dyslogical delusion, every "creative" product has the "inherent right" to be held and sold. When everything is automatically "protected" without any form of registration or payment for title, raw force is the only determinant of title. In plain reality, the Disney law gives total freedom to the mafia with the largest army of consiglieri, which mysteriously and astonishingly turns out to be Disney.

When you start with the GOD-ASSIGNED DUTY to create order and value, the selling is secondary. You can try to sell your created products for money, and customers can buy them. You can't transfer the DUTY OF CREATION to a publisher because the publisher didn't create the item. You can pay the publisher to disseminate your product, or you can persuade the publisher to bet on your product, splitting the profit by negotiation. The publisher is not the owner, it's just providing a service for you. (This is parallel to the sharia paradigm of capitalism, which STRONGLY encourages you to USE your capital instead of hoarding it. Land should be USED for growing crops. Money should be USED to make products for people to USE. Skill should be USED to invent and develop more products and services for others to USE.)

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An excellent essay by Gregory Wolfe published this week in Imaginative Conservative brings beauty into the realm of duty:

Whereas I once believed that the decadence of the West could only be turned around through politics and intellectual dialectics, I am now convinced that authentic renewal can only emerge out of the imaginative visions of the artist and the mystic. This does not mean that I have withdrawn into some anti-intellectual Palace of Art. Rather, it involves the conviction that politics and rhetoric are not autonomous forces, but are shaped by the pre-political roots of culture: myth, metaphor, and spiritual experience as recorded by the artist and the saint.

No argument with the above. Some argument with this part:

Thus I was forced to account for the fact that many conservatives had succumbed to philistinism. Why did they utter these blanket condemnations of “modern art”? Why would anyone demand that art—a subtle medium, characterized by the indirections of irony, ambiguity, and hidden meaning—preach the “truth” directly? Why categorize artists and writers as good or bad in terms of ideology, rather than of imaginative vision?

The root of the problem, I believe, is a misunderstanding of, or aversion to, the nature of the imagination itself. Part of this can be traced to the Puritan and pragmatic strains in the American character. Conservatives have, by and large, focused their energies on political action and the theoretical work necessary to undertake action. The indirection of art, with its lack of moralizing and categorizing, strikes the pragmatic mind as being unedifying, and thus as inessential. Insofar as the great artists and writers of the past are admired, it is for their support of some idea, rather than for the complex, many-sided vision of their art.

Here Wolfe is short on knowledge. Part of the Repoof condemnation of "modern art" was specifically GENERATED by CIA as part of its campaign to use chaos as a universal smasher and wrecker of civilization. CIA's salesmen to conservatives (eg Buckley and Skousen) made sure that conservatives spent lots of energy attacking COOL shit. When everyone sees that Repooflicans are UNCOOL and Democrats are COOL, Deepstate wins public support.

On the question of indirection and subtlety, there's no difference between the sides. Since the '70s, ALL publicly visible "art" has been moralistic and preachy, devoted solely to political action. Nearly all of this comes from the Left because the Left owns all the media. There are a few equally preachy and clunky productions from the non-Left (eg Christian movies and Christian rock music) but those preachy and clunky productions lack the quality and punch of the Left's preachy and clunky productions, so the Left wins it all.

Above all, I don't buy the basic assertion that art is supposed to have "irony, ambiguity, and hidden meaning", because I don't buy the implication that only trained and professional artists can produce art.

Everyone can produce beauty. Everyone is MEANT to produce beauty.

A janitor who buffs a tile floor to a mirror finish every night produces INFINITELY more beauty than any professional artist of any description. His beautiful floor allows YOUR imagination free rein to see the sun and the furniture and the people from a new angle. A car body man or a house renovator who restores order after the chaos of a crash or a flood is generating INFINITELY more beauty than the TV "comedian" demon who mocks the car body man for being UNCOOL. The repaired house or car grants you the ambiguity and indirection of USING the house or car to satisfy your own creative ends. Before the repair the house or car was incapable of serving your desires.

Life is purpose. We are indescribably complex artworks, created directly or indirectly by an indescribable source of purpose and order. Our DUTY is to make more life, more order, more value, and more BEAUTY.

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A later and perhaps more useful thought along the Hart lines.

Labels: Aberree, From rights to duties, Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 11:44 PM

  Se-lu 18, insolvent edition
Headlines in the 'econ' websites: Bulgaria confiscated a large amount of Bitcoin in a raid on criminals last year, and now the Bitcoin is "worth" enough to pay off a meaningful fraction of Bulgaria's national debt.

Let's return to the definitions of solve and solvent:

I always pay paper cash in stores now, partly because it's fast and certain, partly to remind myself that I'm firmly SOLVENT and don't need the bad old credit.

SOLVENT. Seems like a completely inappropriate word for 'got money'. How did that happen?

The etymology is beautiful.

The original Latin solvere meant 'loosen, untie knots, split apart.'

The most common meaning is untying the knot of a problem. Latin solve = Greek analyze = determine where to cut the rope. Slightly less literal but still easy.

Solvent as 'got money' was later and more metaphorical. Around 1600 when banks and currencies started to branch away from gold, solvent came to mean able to cut the ropes of debts, able to clean up obligations.

Is Bulgaria more solvent now? No, because trying to "sell" 3 billion at once will mess up the wildly swinging "market" for Bitcoin. The value will drop in the middle of the transaction.

Same thing happens when gov't confiscates old-fashioned criminal assets like heroin or stolen jewels. The heroin can only be sold on the criminal market, so it has no value in legit circles. The gov't is obligated to return the stolen jewels, not fence them.

Therefore: Bitcoin is not an asset for people who are operating legally. It doesn't make you more solvent because it can't be used reliably to untie or loosen the ropes of debt. The Bulgarian government is stuck with an "asset" that it can only hold and watch. Unlike heroin and jewels, it doesn't even have direct sensory enjoyment value.

Labels: se-lu

  ¶ 11:07 AM

  The only peacemaker
Putin goes to Syria and declares peace. The war is mostly finished, and Russia is pulling out most of its troops.

If the world had a Peace Prize, he should get it. The Nobel monstrosity is the exact opposite of a peace prize, so he shouldn't get it and he won't.

Since Nobel's death in 1896 there have been exactly two intentional and successful PEACEMAKINGS. WW2 was finished by Russia, US, and Britain working together. This action by Russia alone is the second peacemaking.

All the other wars in those years ended without a deliberate and successful effort to end the war. Most ended in a forfeit when one of the warring parties simply gave up. Some (eg Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq) never properly ended.

THIS IS A MASSIVELY IMPORTANT HISTORICAL EVENT. THE BIGGEST POSITIVE EVENT OF THE DECADE.

Will we hear about it through our mediademons? No. It doesn't exist. It didn't happen.

Instead, we are still hearing about the witch hunts pursuing absolutely nothing and ruining millions of lives for absolutely no purpose.

We are pure crime. We are pure evil. We are pure sin. We deserve to be removed from the universe.

Labels: imprecatory psalm, infinite evil

  ¶ 4:20 AM

  Lost Shepardson
Shepardson in 1901 discussed feeding plants with electric charge, treating the subject as common knowledge. It's not common knowledge now!



How long had it been common knowledge?

Here's an enticingly brief description of a French application in 1755.



Transcribed: In the apparatus illustrated below, a hydraulic motor was employed to drive two frictional electrical machines which supplied electricity to the flower stand mounted on insulators. The apparatus was built in 1755.

The "hydraulic motor" is an unclear term, and the picture doesn't help. The static generators look like Vandegraaff types, apparently charging up the entire base for the potted plants, thus creating a strong field between the plants and the ambient air.

But what happens when the shoppers touch the railing? More likely the static machines were 'sprinkling' charge over the plants. The picture lends some credence to this guess.

From a newly posted Gernsback mag at American Radio History.

= = = = =

Later: Immediate answers to the questions posed by Shepardson, and to the practicalities of 'electric cultivation', in another issue of the same newly posted Gernsback mag. See p 39 of the PDF for a detailed set of experiments and answers.

Labels: 1901, Alternate universe, Answered better than asked

  ¶ 3:43 AM

  Deliver us from bad metrology
The latest idiocy from Antichrist Bergoglio shows that he is a perfect source of error and falsehood and evil on all subjects.

When he spews fashionable ratshit in secular areas, like "global warming" or "nuclear proliferation", we can sort of halfway understand why he's wrong but we can't forgive the constant spewing of AUTHORITATIVE AND INFALLIBLE LIES from an alien monster who is still unfortunately obeyed by millions of useless idiots. He should MIND HIS OWN FUCKING BUSINESS.

This one is NOT understandable, because it's a falsehood at the precise base of his authority. Unlike Bergoglio, Jesus didn't give a lot of direct orders. One of his few direct commands is to pray in the form that we typically call the Lord's Prayer.

Bergoglio wants to authorize a mistranslation of a text that has been carefully translated by sane and godly people over the ages.

When Bergoglio gives commands on shit that he doesn't know at all, Roman writers respond in typical partisan fashion. The Sorosian bishopdemons and their Sorosian sycophantdemons agree ferociously with Bergoglio, so they cheer. The few remaining Christians in the "church" disagree cautiously, basically saying that he should mind his own fucking business.

In this case the response from Roman writers is especially strong and consistent, because this IS his business.

Jason Bermender clears the question with pure metrology. Know your baseline, calibrate your instruments, know the limits and faults of your instruments. The baseline is the Jewish and Greek traditions that JC was trying to reform. The instruments are the original texts. The limits and faults are the translators and translations in various languages.

To render the main verb of the sixth petition as “fall” is not only a mistranslation of the Latin and Greek texts but also an imposition of an improper theological viewpoint without trying to understand the meaning of εἰσενέγκῃς/inducas in its proper context. In other words, understanding εἰσενέγκῃς/inducas as “fall” is based upon a reaction to the modern understanding of the word “lead” apart from its proper theological context. It is better to try to understand what εἰσενέγκῃς means in its context instead of trying to change a theological phrase or notion that is uncomfortable to us because Job’s sufferings permitted by God, a virgin giving birth, a man coming back from the dead, and God becoming man are all just as jarring.

Good work. Spiritual metrology.

Labels: Language update, Metrology

  ¶ 1:29 AM

  Ante visum II
Tech tyrants constantly use buggy whips as an example of industries that needed to go away. I've already debuggied the idea.

Well, what about buggy whip litigation?

From the wonderfully clear and cogent Thomas Atkins Street, 1906:



Summarizing: The defendant advertised his horse as docile and well-behaved, and by all accounts his belief was correct when he owned the horse. For some reason the horse didn't like the purchaser. He behaved wildly when pulling the purchaser's buggy, leading to injury.

Hopelessly old-fashioned? Can't happen with cars? Cars are mere machines, incapable of personal bias?

Nope. CAN HAPPEN EASILY with cars driven by Google. What if your autonomous car doesn't like you? Given the source of the "moral codes" implanted in their software, it's GUARANTEED that autonomous cars will dislike some passengers and pedestrians.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter

  ¶ 4:13 AM

  Ante visum






Suff dict.

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Footnote in English: Granted, all political assholes deserve to be removed from office, and all of Hollywood deserves to be removed from positions of power and influence, and some of McCarthy's Soviet agents deserved to be removed from government, and some of the heretics in the 1500s deserved to be excommunicated. But those removals need to occur for the right specific reasons, not as part of a frenzy that ruins millions.

Labels: constants and constants

  ¶ 3:12 AM

  Were Canadians stockier than Americans?
As long as I'm doing odd bits of history today...

A Collectible Auto article on the Canadian versions of Ford and Mercury mentions:

In his announcement at the 1946 shareholders meeting (Ford of Canada stock was publicly traded on the Toronto exchange, something no other Canadian carmaker could claim) company president Douglas Greig said etc.

In USA the situation was reversed. There were 10 significant and separate automakers at that time. Ford, GM, Chrysler, Nash, Hudson, Willys, Studebaker, Packard, Crosley, Kaiser. Ford was the only company that was NOT stock-based. Ford didn't "go public" until 1956, and even now a member of the Ford family is still on the corporate board.

How did Ford of Canada end up as a separate corporation with a separate form of ownership, while the other Canadian divisions were just divisions?

From wikipedia:

The Ford Motor Company of Canada [founded in 1904] was not a subsidiary or a branch plant of Ford Motor Company - rather, it was a separate organization and had its own distinct group of shareholders. At its formation, Ford Motor Company was not a shareholder of Ford Canada, but its twelve founding shareholders directly held 51% of Ford Canada's shares, and Henry Ford himself owned 13% of the new company. The Company had gained all Ford patent rights and selling privileges to all parts of the British Empire, except Great Britain and Ireland.

Okay, but still doesn't explain why Henry decided to leave it separate, while GM and others turned their Canadian operations into divisions. GM's northern branch started as an unrelated company using Buick engines in its cars, then merged.

Labels: Asked and badly answered

  ¶ 5:16 PM

  Injun QC
Latest item at KSHS opens a piece of history you don't normally think about. The picture isn't interesting, just some fragments of ceramic. The caption is interesting:

These pipestone elbow pipe fragments were excavated in 1986 during a highway salvage project at the Mem site, undertaken by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and Kansas Anthropological Association volunteers. The Mem site, in Marion County, is a Great Bend aspect, protohistoric Wichita village site. The soft fine grained material of pipestone enabled the pipe's maker to carve it into its elbow-like shape. The three pipe fragments on the top row were manufactured on Kansas Pipestone. Pipes were used during trade negotiations and to mark special occasions. In Kansas, these pipes are generally made by American Indians between 1650 to 1850. However, all of these pipes were broken during manufacture and were never smoked.

When we think of Injuns making pots and pipes and arrowheads, we don't think of factories with QC inspectors! We're wrong.

Labels: Answered better than asked, tonto

  ¶ 2:24 AM

  GRRRR.
Via Sputniknews:

The United States Department of Homeland Security is going to conduct a test for the kind of biological warfare that might be used during a wide-scale terror attack on a city in Oklahoma. However, the residents of Newkirk, OK were only notified of their town’s guinea-pig status by local newspaper ads. The test will involve a "low-level outdoor release of inert chemical and biological simulant materials," the notice reads. The notice provided no other explanation, but rather led readers to a science-heavy website.

With a notice like this, what could possibly go wrong?

GRRRRR.

More complete story from KAKE in Wichita: The tests won't be in Newkirk; they will be on the campus of the former Chilocco Injun School, which is north of Newkirk close to the Kansas border. Given prevailing winds, the toxins will mainly affect Ark City.

The Abandoned Okla site has this warning:

WARNING: Chilocco Is heavily guarded by both 24/7 security as well as a large pack of guard dogs. This is not a place for you to get in you car and go visit. This is for your online viewing pleasure only. Because this land is being used by law enforcement as practice and training grounds, it is governed by federal police; not local police. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO VISIT CHILOCCO INDIAN SCHOOL.

Isn't it just sweet and wonderful to know that """"law"""" """"enforcement"""" has its own concentration camps?

GRRRRRRRR.

I know Newkirk fairly well. Used to drive through there often, did some repairs on the local grain elevator when I was working in Ponca.

Unlike Ponca, Newkirk is NOT an oil town. Unlike Blackwell, Newkirk is NOT a factory town. It's not accustomed to thinking of pollution as a necessary compromise. Ark City is less 'virgin', with a large meatpacking plant that smells like a meatpacking plant.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, defensible spaces

  ¶ 1:59 AM

  Insatiables vs Deplorables from the start
An interesting bit of history from the Lea book on the Inquisition that I was citing earlier. This part isn't emphasized in conventional wisdom nowadays.

Before the Inquisition ran wild and expanded into an all-consuming pogrom of Deplorables, it began as an academic fight between Rome and one specific heresy. Why was Rome so concerned with this one heresy? Because Rome, then as now, was filthy rich and massively corrupt; and because Rome, then as now, felt the need to rape logic by retrofitting its peculiar evils into the Bible.

Rome insisted that Jesus and the disciples were rich, thus requiring the successors of Jesus to be rich.

The heretics (including the Franciscans and my old friend Billy Ockham) insisted that Jesus and the disciples were poor, which is pretty fucking clear** from the written record. Ockham continued fighting for sola scriptura and rationality, and wasn't imprisoned or burned. (The barbecue grills didn't run at full speed until the next century.)

This issue served as the theoretical springboard for larger questions of state vs church, especially in France. Luther and Hus were picking up the rational side of this same dispute.

In other words, Rome invented the Prosperity Gospel.

= = = = =

**The later apostles included some influential and rich men. It's fair to say that Christianity wouldn't have taken root without the money and status of men like Luke and Paul, but that doesn't affect JC himself. Scripture clearly depicts his family as middle-class artisans of low status.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter

  ¶ 11:31 PM

  Volney and cockatoos
I've been enjoying some clips about a Russian 'office cockatoo' who is the ruler of the roost. He has complex moods, sometimes luxuriating in affection and sometimes grouchily striding down the hall barking orders to the help.

This clip incidentally shows something else, clearly a machine in regular and unremarkable use:



Is that a modern digital version of the Mathison E-Meter? The grips are nearly identical to Volney's originals. The machine isn't just holding the fingers apart while the cosmetologist does the nails; the client is clearly getting some kind of treatment via the machine.

Labels: Aberree

  ¶ 4:01 AM

  False binary
Subhead on a ZH article boosting Bitcoin:

Good ideas don't require force. That describes the Internet, mobile telephony and cryptocurrencies.

Cute misuse of logic. You're supposed to think "Bitcoin is an idea that was spread without force, therefore it's a good idea."

No. Stop.

Which innovations required force to spread? None.

Are all unforced innovations good ideas? Not by a fucking country mile. The vast majority of unforced ideas are stupid or trivial or fraudulent. The fact that Bitcoin spread without force doesn't separate it from hula hoops or Cosmic Disks or Segways or goat gland transplants.

Which ideas DO require force? Force.

The only idea force can spread is force.

When we invade a country that didn't attack us, we're NOT spreading "capitalism" or "democracy" or Bitcoin or the internet. We're spreading bullets and bombs and misery and starvation and disease and death. Force.

Or witch-hunts, as I've been discussing lately. The idea of executing an innocent person because the Bureau of Inquisition wants to execute the innocent person was new at one time. It wasn't an innovation in the same category as wheels or clocks or steam engines. It was just murder. Just force.

= = = = =

Footnote for clarity after rereading: I'm not saying that force is always bad. Sometimes it's necessary to protect your life or your family from the EFFECTS of bad ideas. I'm only talking about how ideas and concepts are propagated.
  ¶ 12:20 PM

  Parkinson and witch-hunts
News: The Church of Zuckerberg has appointed TEN THOUSAND inquisitors.

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Let's look back at another time when the dominant church had a similar number of inquisitors, using a detailed 1887 book by Henry Lea.

= = = = =

How did the practice of witchcraft spread? By Inquisition.



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How did the trials run?



Sounds familiar, because our Secular Bureau of Inquisition has generously preserved and maintained the fine old classical methods. Pope Zuckerberg doesn't need to reinvent; he can just copy modern Best Practice.

= = = = =

And now the fun part! From Turberville, 1921: After you set up the assembly line for accusation, torture, confession, and execution, you can boost your budget and workforce TO INFINITY by a neat bit of magic, similar to QE or MMT.



Anyone you suspect is automatically jumped forward to execution, because being suspected is identical with committing the heresy. An action by the Inquisitor magically switches to an action by the accused. Again our Secular Bureau of Inquisition has sharpened this technique to a fine art. When the Bureau decides you're a heretic, you're automatically barbecued. From the feedlot to the grill without a hitch.

= = = = =

How did it end? I noted earlier that the English version of the Inquisition faded after a judge turned out to be the source of one witch's power.

In France, it ended when too many of the Correct People were being burned. Share value (or in those days the value of nobility) was starting to drop. As long as the Insatiable inquisitors were burning Deplorables, other Insatiables admired the purpose of the project. When the limited assets of Deplorables no longer satisfied the Insatiable greed, a few People Who Counted were starting to burn.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter

  ¶ 11:11 PM

  Capitolism
This morning's fake "news" appears to be about a peculiar bit of cartographic redefinition. The leader of Country 1 has declared that the capital of Country 2 is in the wrong place and needs to be moved to a different city. Country 2 agrees, and in fact Country 2 has been wanting to redefine its capital for a while.

Normally this sort of thing happens after Country 1 has DEFEATED Country 2. After WW2, Country 1 redefined the capital of Germany from Berlin to Bonn.

In this case Country 2 is the owner and Country 1 is the slave. So why does Country 2 need to have approval from the slave? Why doesn't it just move its own capital?

= = = = =

Come to think of it, remote-control capitolism could be a good idea.

For instance: Country 3 could decide that the capital of Country 1 should be in Coyville



instead of DC. Coyville has streets named after states just like DC, so it should be a plug-n-play replacement. Country 3 would demand that Country 1 must move its government out of DC and into all the existing government buildings in Coyville immediately. If Country 1's government can't fit into the existing Coyville buildings as shown above, Country 3 would then remove DC from the planet so that Country 1's capital would be the null set and the world would be saved from infinite evil forever.

Consummation devoutly to be wished. I pray for it every hour.
  ¶ 12:59 PM

  Have a frosty Corona!
Freezing fog can take all sorts of forms, but this morning's version is unique. Every blade of grass, every plant stem, and every chainlink fence, is coated with half-inch long frost thorns. Flat surfaces like cars and streets and trashbins have a light patchy coating of flat frost.





Is it the smallness of the objects? No, it's exactly the curvature that matters. I noticed this neatly on a neighbor's Xmas decorations. The annoying display includes a giant fake 'ribbon' tied in a bow with several sharp bends and several flat areas. The flatter parts of the ribbon were uncoated, and the fake wrinkles had thorns. Good experiment.



Here's a less impressive picture, taken at 11AM after it started to melt. You can see the thorns on the edge of the trash bin, and none on the flat or curved parts. The rule seems to be that every curve with a radius less than 1/2 inch gets thorns.

It's a frost corona!
  ¶ 11:43 AM

  Missing title
A 1933 broadcasting trade magazine was discussing a pointless squabble between the old wire services and the new radio news. AP and UPI were blocking radio from using their bulletins, forgetting that many radio stations were owned by newspapers. The bulletins still got out. The article mentioned that FDR's May 7 speech thanked radio for providing an immediate channel to the public, thus scoring a point against the papers. Or at least that's how the radio trade journal chose to see it.

His May 7 speech was described as the 2nd Fireside Chat and also as an "account of stewardship".

"Account of stewardship" has completely disappeared from online references. It's a good title with constitutional resonance, so it needs to be represented online, which I just did.

The speech itself is worth reading. It shows a determined problem-solver enlisting the nation's help with his solutions. He explains the problems accurately and honestly, lists his intended solutions, and repeats often that the solutions will require considerable trial and error. The entire New Deal is there in a few paragraphs. All of it was achieved, by hook or by crook, and ALL OF IT WORKED, thank God.

Step by step, sentence by sentence, the correct solution is there. Step by step, sentence by sentence, FDR's administration applied the solution and eliminated the problems. Step by step, sentence by sentence, later presidents faced with the same problems applied DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE answers, which predictably made the problems worse. Genocidal monsters.

Labels: Zero Problems

  ¶ 3:50 AM

  80/20? More like days/minutes.
A good example of the old 80/20 thing. Up till now my current courseware project hasn't required any new JS/HTML/SVG programming. I've been able to use the control modules I built for an earlier project, which means I've been doing FUN stuff. Making 3d pictures and animations, fitting them into the given text, rewriting the text where needed to amplify the animations. Definitely fun. Constant forward movement, constant creativity with satisfying results.

Now the author wants to incorporate some full-fledged videos and audios in a separate 'case study' chapter. The videos and audios need to be interleaved and segmented, with text and images in between.

Programming needed. Never fun to enter the overgrown jungle of JS/HTML/SVG, but initially looked like a one-day task. Three stages: Embed the video, make the video turn the page automatically when done, do the same for audio. The stages looked about equal in difficulty.

They weren't equal. Organizing the material and embedding the video took 30 minutes. Making the video turn the page when done took SEVEN DAYS. After the solution was established, doing the same for audio took SEVEN MINUTES.

Anyway, now I can get back to the fun part.

Labels: se-lu, TMI

  ¶ 3:24 AM

  Gold to gold 2
Looked at a 1968 issue of PopTronics from American Radio History.

The issue contains an article that runs directly into previous item, where I proposed that Russia should do for the Olympics what it's already doing for economics. Reinvent, secede from EU/US/UK.

The 1968 article focuses on Soviet electronics.

First, this is a good example of another point I made recently...

Especially among techies, Cold War I was distinctly different from the current Cold War II. Tech types had strong reservations about going to war. Why? Biggest reason is obvious. Older tech types in the '50s had served in WW2 and knew what war was like. They didn't want another war. War experience didn't affect the younger tech types, including me. Why were 1967 techies so much less SWARMY than 1917 and 2017 techies? Best guess: Shortwave. Hams and SWLs had direct contact with foreigners, including Soviet Bloc foreigners. We knew that Russian techies didn't get to "vote", but we also knew that Russian techies got more respect and better treatment than our techies. We also knew that Russians were not ferocious war-seeking monsters, which made us wonder about the standard depiction by our mass media.

From the article: Russia doesn't need to reinvent the proper Olympic spirit. Russia was already there. Here's a Russian techie sport pursued with the same national pride and pro-am approach as the Olympic sports:



Radio fox-hunt. Geocaching before GPS. Note that the participants were not locked into gulags; they were rolling their own transmitters, wandering around fields, and transmitting without a license. American techies knew that this sort of thing was common, so we were immune to the Deepstate media portrayal.

Since I'm packing all of my recent themes into this item, let's add the rights to duties theme.

Instead of begging for the "right" to participate in IOC, Russia should be carrying on its own traditional DUTY of sports. The PURPOSE of sport is to prepare men for war. In a technical era, war requires a wide variety of skills. Direction-finding is a radio skill that played a major part in both WW1 and WW2. Turning it into a sport helps to select and develop a group of youngsters who are ready for DUTY when real war comes.

Labels: From rights to duties, Гром победы

  ¶ 5:16 PM

  Gold to gold
RT has been focusing today on the latest bear-baiting by EU/UK/US, the ban from Olympic competition.

They're missing an opportunity.

Economic sanctions against Russia were an opportunity for Russia to strengthen its own skills and industries, and to link more closely to China. Breaking Graybill's Law.

A secondary result of economic sanctions is the formation of an alternate currency system, linking rubles and yuan and based on GOLD, unlike the EU/UK/US system which is based on Goldman.

Here's your chance. Why would anyone even WANT to be associated with the IOC, which is made up of the same power-mad senile monsterblobs as EU/US/UK? You can restart the original Olympic idea, getting somewhat closer to proper amateurism. Base the competition on skills instead of advertising dollars.

You've got economic gold, now go for Olympic gold.

Labels: skill-estate, Zero Problems

  ¶ 12:11 PM