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July 13, 2014
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Found a really good article to scare everyone with

http://www.theguardian.com/com.....on-control

I'm just trying to clean out someone's lifetime of file collection, understandably my dad had to keep much of this stuff to run an architectural profession and business, but the mass of data is overwhelming. He didn't use this stuff, he just hauled it around when he moved, and filled up rooms with it.

Now if the NSA is storing things like our posts on here, or our phone calls or texts etc etc.... they must have some way to organize it, RIGHT???? Or is our tax money going to just store all the random, disorganized insane incoming data? The massive.......... MASSIVE amounts of incoming data???

a few weeks ago, Facebook admitted they had been able to control the direction of information flow on their site by selective information sharing. It's a fact that the Obama campaign group was able to work statistics and target certain areas and groups for selective campaigning. This IS the wave of the future. Statistics are being worked with the raw data of everyday media.

My son claims there is so much information, you have no reason to be scared unless you're a criminal (depends on your definition of criminal naturally) you're just one more tree in a very very large forest and won't be noticed. Thoughts?

July 13, 2014
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I'm not veering off-topic, but I posit that submission, not the love of money, is the root of all evil.

July 13, 2014
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Oh, why not:

To Prove: Times Square is evil.

Given: Time = Money
Money = (All Evil)^0.5

Square both sides of the latter:
Money^2 = (All Evil) = Evil
Substitute
Time^2 = Evil
Q.E.D.

July 13, 2014
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leslee said

I'm not veering off-topic, but I posit that submission, not the love of money, is the root of all evil.

I was thinking of personal problems, but since posting that, I have had this nagging, sinking feeling that for the first time in 51 years I had written something totally wrong. May the trend not continue.

July 13, 2014
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the equation is fascinating..........

I'm going to write a "new utopia" book someday......... only it's going to have Oz characters in it.

There's a song in a Clint Eastwood movie that goes "the bad guys always claim both sides are the same"................ and others also feel that "evil" is a matter of perspective. I disagree. I think there ARE certain forms of evil that are totally unacceptable. Some would argue that a central authority should control society so that things run smoothly. Others completely reject this idea. (We are seeing this play out in extreme forms in the Middle East right now.... don't press my buttons or I'll rant)

I think you need to lend your mathematical expertise to some campaign group somewhere, leslee, and offer to do their statistics for them. You would then be in a perfect position to 1) spy on their methods and 2) sabotage said methods from the inside. Peaceful anarchy.... that's the key to everything.

The phrase that has given me the most mirth in recent years has been "obstructionist Congress"................. that really IS sad for anyone to buy into such a comment. Our government is set up to OBSTRUCT POWER. Congress is doing their job right when they oppose the executive branch.

I think that submission* is appropriate in certain settings, but government is not one of them. Nor is public opinion, or other political settings. Go forth, study Machiavelli, take two aspirin and call me in the morning. (I just smacked my head really hard, wrestling the dog trying to doctor his bad ears... my thinking isn't really clear yet.....)

*Inclusive: good manners

July 13, 2014
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I have this problem of preferring to assert my independence more than I want to love. Mr. Stalker left a raft of presents at the piano today. A couple friends are now ready to call the scene "stalking." One asked what I was going to do with them. I said, "Justin leaves them for the roadies" - not actually knowing what he does with his gifts. I need to love everybody, but this one I would prefer to love from a distance. He does not understand where he ends and I start. He has the vision and the plan, and I am supposed to comply.

Next subject, I do not do statistics. I have called it the black art for some time. Stochastics is swell when dealing with dead matter, but anybody pretending to apply them well to people is automatically a charlatan. Am I going to be wrong for the second time today? I think so. I am an automatic sabateur. I just go places, and their computers go on the fritz. If I intentionally try to sabotage something, which I would in that situation, I would sabotage the sabotage and be a great asset.

I was actually looking for work yesterday. I was going down a short list of corporations who were very libertarian and market oriented. I checked the job postings, and would be live they are hiring payroll tax specialists and Washington boys? Speaking of the worst of two worlds, what do you get when you combine statistics with government? ISO! Noooooooooo!

July 14, 2014
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LaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughBlack arts!!!!!!!!1LaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh

Thank you, you made my day!

When it comes to cash flow, I embrace the dark side.... inherently remember, evil is stupid. I think that's straight out of Ayn Rand. Smile, take your pay check, and go home to a gated community where stalkers can't find you.

When I do genealogy I find the same principle with my family. One batch of Scots came over, worked for the English government (their alternative was to starve to death in the Scottish highlands where there was rampant unemployment), but by their actions, it's plain they were thinking of family first, and didn't give a hoot about the Crown.... it was a job and opportunity.

So what were the gifts? My understanding is, with the road show, anyone who likes something just takes it and they leave the rest. Food goes to the Green Room etc.

July 14, 2014
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There was once a TV series called "Killing for a Living." It was on predatory animals, but it made me think that we are all here by killing, whether it be carrots or elves. Elves! As a child, I was plagued by thoughts of morbidity.

Changing the subject, I did not touch the gifts. I do not care what was in them, only that he spent taxpayer dollars to potlatch a libertarian journalist with a raft of gifts. I refuse to submit to my stalker. He wants a piece of my mind and a piece of my life, and people can't just go around demanding that of each other. That's the Randian in me; but Jesus taught love. What is love? Peace is the absence of fear, and love is probably something like that. I am my brother's keeper to an extent, and so I called his "home" today. He's unstable, and I don't want him emailing me as a confident when what he sends is going straight to spam. I cannot read it. It has that same creepy draw as porn. But what if he was reaching out for help? I thought I could possibly inform somebody at the "home." The person with whom I spoke said I should call the police. He identified the suspect before I named him and said he had heard something about something that sounded like stalking over the weekend. For all I know he decided if he were to get me pregnant I'd have to marry him. Or, he could kill me and marry me posthumously - except I've told my best friend she is not to let that happen. Maybe I should put it in writing.

As I said before, I'm gonna let him do his thing, and I'll do mine. With Taverner and Newton I'm returning to who I want to be. (Thanks for the lead, luna.) I feel like I could walk into heaven today and not skip a heartbeat - not that that's where I'd go, but that's how I feel reading Newton's "alchemy" to Taverner. It's quite the good day. It's like I've been delivered by grace from evil. The evil is still out there, but my soul is now refusing to play with it.

So much to learn! So much to do! But first! I must fill out all these forms for the boss' trip to the hospital. I asked him how people who are really sick are supposed to look up all these dates of treatment for themselves and their relatives. Leave it to those powermongers to make more bureaucracy to mess my mind when their supercomputers are supposed to be handling this stuff, per a previous lunar post.

July 14, 2014
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Sounds like their computers are outdated. Our computers have Dad's whole medical history at the touch of a button, pretty amazing. Don't beat yourself up over it. Do your best, and go onward.

Call the police. "Unconditional positive regard" is a nice thing for the people on the receiving end, and a nice thing if you have the resources to give. Male stalkers are dangerous. That is a professional statement.

It was considered good manners by Native Americans to thank an animal that had been killed for food. The circle of life continued, with respect. I haven't gotten around to thanking the chicken I cooked up tonight, so that may be the source of my problems. The chicken is putting a hoo doo on me from the Afterlife.

In Biology, those creatures who consume other organisms (yea even carrots) are called consumers. Those organisms who make food (ie photosynthesis) are called producers. You may refer to Ayn Rand now, yes.

July 15, 2014
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O to be a tree, so kind, so beautiful, so giving. Some of the local vegans are so green they may be photosynthesizing. I never thought of that.

No. If you had read the article I was trying to write when the hotel computer went berzerk, you would have known, which you probably do, that transition to the ACA marketplace has been horrible here. People have to go through the Obamacare web site before they can get any kind of welfare. Well, you're heard what happened with that. Supposedly the group that was going to set the system up for social services was only supposed to modify a program used in northern Europe somewhere. The program was so good, it mailed out the Social Security numbers of a lot of children to the wrong addresses. Then, people weren't getting their food stamps on-time. County governments were buying gift cards from local grocers and working with food banks to cover the mistakes. The problem persists. The program is supposed to create a megadatabase where service providers no longer work in silos, but the state and federal government keep changing guidelines, necessitating serious overhauls in the tons and tons of code. Just changing an age of eligibility introduced a new round of glitches. Perhaps the cronies, which the Huffington Post claims the software team was/is, never heard that bit about defining variables once and referencing the definition so as to avoid nightmares like this.

And so, yes. Every time the boss has to see a doctor, we are filling out the same forms with the same information, having to present his card, etc. As they say, a life without bureaucratic headaches is a life. Nobody said that. I was trying to be a jerk.

July 15, 2014
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Here's what me mum said about the stalker:

I hope XXXX isn't hiding in the bushes. Remember -- you have a powerful, strong voice. If you don't want to yell, just sing our all-time favorite - "Jean" - loud!!! If no one wants to save you, they might throw a shoe and hit your assailant by mistake.

July 15, 2014
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Good point, the heels on your shoes are pretty lethal weapons. Use them.

The point being when a large central government tries a power grab like this, they bleep and fall back in it........ because it's too big to handle. Smaller local government is better because it's smaller and easier to handle. Oddly, I've wandered into the veteran's medical website a few times, and found it very easy to handle! Go figure.

The Huffington Post is even criticizing The Big Cheeze? I'm in shock!!!

July 16, 2014
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One good person in the worst of systems can still be a force for good.

July 16, 2014
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Thought I'd put this up in case you hadn't read it. I read one of his books.... I think *Roots of Obama's Rage* and while I think D'Souza was a tad rabid (I'm much nicer myself, give people benefit of doubt), I did think he made quite a few valid points.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion.....w-america/

July 16, 2014
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Thanks. I must return to it. I can't watch D'Souza's movie, because the rating is too high.

July 17, 2014
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I'm confused. Anyway if you've read any of his other books and recommend any, let me know. One was plenty.... best political book I think I've read so far was the one on John Adams. Really enjoyed that, I like the 18th century anyway.

July 18, 2014
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As you know, I only read for review purposes, so I'm stuck reading the sixth-grade-level stuff one gets at Barnes & Noble. One day . . .

July 18, 2014
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I read anything I can get my hands on if it's interesting. Tech manuals were the worst. I absorbed the diagrams first, then went back and dissected the writing. I very much enjoyed quoting right out of the manual and giving references to the Top Gun pilots when they wrote up stuff... I distinctly remember a standby gyro that locked during those ACM maneuvers.... taught those stuck up jet jocks a thing or two about electronics. Laugh "Please turn to NATOPS section Iv pg 213 "Standby gyro gymbel lock in greater than 45* bank at greater than Mach 1" hehehe

July 20, 2014
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That's amazing. I could never do that, but my sister could. Could you, perchance, recite today by memory the content of page 212?

July 21, 2014
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No of course not. That stuff is all classified. I'd have to lock you up for 20 years if I told you.

(I never did figure out why they tried to make access to schematics for the A4F classified... man were they old piles of JUNK. Turning that stuff over to the Soviets would have been a strategic advantage, since it would have confused the holy hades out of them!!!)

I think I do need to take more time to just sit down and read. Taran and Jill popped up a whole bunch of stuff about Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 on MBA it's really good stuff, but so far I've just looked at the pictures. Gosh 45 years since the Moon landing. And now we've descended to the point that we must rely on the Russians to get back and forth to the ISS, and they're in political disarray from the Crimea and a small matter of a civilian airliner shot down by some trigger happy nuts.... Frown

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