I lost objectivity and spent a while dealing with paranoid theories. The proof is in the pudding. Don't neglect to write. I know I didn't. http://impengo.blogspot.com/2009/03/official-list-of-navel-gazing.html Has the listing of my "publications." Top entry at http://impengo.blogspot.com/ explains the stuff that http://phoenixreplicant.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-think-slashdot-got-hammered-silly.html does not. I'm not sure how I will proceed, but I hope we part on reasonably good terms - fence mending efforts include suggesting Las Vegas server farms if needed.

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My patriotism has been checked by humor and vocabulary in this much - My temper has rarely flared to such extremes that I have been apprehensive of law enforcement. In a personal admission that I _have_ one, I wonder if the 'Third Time Pays for ALL' convention will satisfy me. I have gratified myself in the following ways: 1. I attempted to open Organized Evolution up to predictable decredentialling. 2. I have deliberately polluted RSA 1024 keyspace, obfuscated Carnivore and introduced a discussion on direct democracy un-invited or regulated by oversight AND 3. I recently attempted to either break Carnivore politically or so 'prang' the terrorism aspect of the threat indication system that it was temporarily WORTHLESS. I fear Russian, Chinese AND Al Quaida aggression LESS than stupid Carnivore's available abuses. End-Numbering. I will document each following this POST, but I close with this:

IF it is a propogator's intent is to make his efforts subject to filtering, a characteristically named attachment is possible

- I hope I don't forget in future.

Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk is in our news. He and Laura Miller have been good to Dallas, before Tom Lephert came to the fore. Trade Representative could possibly be a national position, like Secretary of State; if so, I'll expect national stories to name him specifically. If the pragmatism of designating South East China, v a World Wide Jaw-cracker for one individual makes (ex)Mayor Kirk a member of a team or pool, I hope that Economy of Scale and Comparative Advantage become the pocket knife and matchstick of his globalist survivalism. If the benefits of Comparative Advantage of geographic location assist Countries in profiting by trade, the costs of transportation can squander them away. Tempus Fugit occasionally defines distance better than Yardsticks - on those occasions, optimizations on money rule the preservation of this condensate of value. If we optimize for time, we economize on lifetimes. Nevertheless, inasmuch as the law of chemistry "Extent of subdivision increases rate of reaction," applies to world consumption of resources, the fragmentation of economies increases the rate of global resource consumption and potentially WASTE. The improvements to the bottom line of "built in obsolescence ," are reflected in waste; The percentage of value retained in banks and durable goods is amortized over a greater expanse of raw material, and the mass production of waste does not make it clear at all how this is LESS economical unless the waste is in your LAP. A pragmatic Honda used a Nissan patent to improve high-beam indicators near 2002. I look for them to likewise employ Mercedes research in ceramic brakes to improve stopping power and durability, without any fading by improving brakes with oil radiation. Economy of fuel usage is likely available by the JTEC (Johnson Thermo-Electric Converter,) using engine heat for electric power instead of mechanical alternators - the Arizona Electric farm in which Spain invested, circa (?) near 2007(?) came out around the time of JTEC, and may represent a good pilot experiment for evaluation of Mean Time to Failure, and durability. I cannot hope for Detroit to capitalize on such things because built in obsolescence is so intrinsic to their systems, that the intention of improving them would result in inconsistent product - their "5 year [Wonderful One Hoss Shay]s" are "Deacons Masterpieces" of 5 year event horizons. The remarkable engineering innovation in design and production is obscured by the application of a jaded intent to serve; a servant to a venal capitalist master. To regain my courage to hope for their usefulness, they must observe an unlikely competitor - Tata of India. Tata cannot begin to meet production schedules or demand, but they have taken the reality that worldwide most countries do not NEED a 65 mph capability, and designed a suitably inferior product that meets a different market. If the "Big Three" lower themselves to compete before India can acknowledge the reality of inferior production practices and remedy them, Detroit can supply the vehicles for a generation of Chinese middle class that have never before commanded the resources. This use of oil and pollution credits is subject to its own evaluation, and there is no incentive to compromise profit to waste the world better. Waste is optimized mostly in the presence of maximal financial interest.

The Skulls fraternity has been touched by scandal as much as any last century. I appealed to Peter Jennings' on air comments to say that the Skulls are an historically influential fraternity. The movie "The Good Shepherd," documents their influence in founding CIA. I append my observations to NSA on this topic below - dates unedited. While I have observed that Dick Cheney probably used and was used by them, I cannot say this is without precedent. The US Diplomatic Corps member who returned from China in politically good health, became a notable DCIA, and later was influential in affairs with Russia historically, was named the same as the Baked Bean king before he became neauveau riche with Barbara Walker Bush. His Diplomatic abilities cannot have hurt his efforts, but history veils the story of his father in law, Prescott Walker. Unclear to me are details available to journalist or editor at Huffington Press, but the story published on July 4th of 2008 made it clear that Bush 43's grandfather had been a Skull. Without being clear if he used Skull connections or if the Skull name was tarnished by mere association, the article clearly shows that treason caused scandal to touch Prescott Walker. My point is this; Peter Jennings stated that Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43, John Kerry and Bill Clinton were all members of a fraternity that should be regarded as historic. Cheney is likely knowledgeable of them, and Obama cannot be one since he has never attended Yale. I have no access to membership records, but Kennedy names should also be available. Letter to NSA is dated and appended below ---------------------NSA 03/05/08 ----------------SIC-----------------------Robert B Johnson [address deleted] 03/05/08 Dear Mr. McClellan: Your address is not easily available online. I have never avoided government service, not even getting out of jury duty, but childhood injuries and failing to obtain a Four Year degree ruled out a career with the government for me. I imagine that it is a requirement to work in your office that one be able to recognize a conspiracy. I know that these are not all organized to harm, but are generally thought to be sinister. An example of an elitist conspiracy that was not organized to harm, is that of the founding fathers in 1787. I am thinking of our current written Constitution, not the Articles of Confederation. These were patriotic and God fearing men, and their efforts are historic. Likewise, I think the Masons, de-mystified by the "National Treasure," movies were a patriotic lot. As such, I am going to embark on a discussion of the Skulls, de-mystified in "The Good Shepherd," with some respect and admiration. I know that your organization competes with CIA, but I am not trying to play one off against the other. I would be quite comfortable sharing information like this with them, and I sometimes write them directly. The Skulls is a Yale fraternity. It's membership may or may not be public, but I note that the late Peter Jennings took the trouble to verify that our Presidents for very many years have come from among their ranks. I do not know if Vice President Cheney was ever tapped, but I expect he knows of the existence of this fraternity, and that it represents an exclusive alumni network even among Yale graduates. I suspect that the members of the Skulls would find their reputations subject to vilification if they were accused of conspiracy. Since the Skulls are historically influential, it is worth bringing to the attention of the NSA. I can postulate a comical theory that might trammel the proliferation of no-bid contracts from our current Whitehouse: people who want to vilify the Skulls are blackmailing Vice President Dick Cheney. He is loyal and patriotic, and I do not see how he could speak against them without gravely offending the President. Some jokes are funnier than others, and I would tell that one freely in an airport. Since our debt now approaches 9.4 trillion dollars http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ (the largest debt since the invention of money per Craig Kilburn,) I am concerned that this has become a matter of National Security. If Mr. Cheney were supplied with a whistle blower, I am sure he would be more than happy to right size our government's spending on the Iraq war, particularly if this were accompanied with documentation. I can clearly see that the war is not an option, and we must maintain a credible threat to Iran as well, or we lose all credibility in the Middle East. In order to maintain a credible deterrent to Iran, I would observe that the comparative advantage of the US over Iran lies in food production and water. If they moved to sow our land with salt, it would be bad for the global food supply, not just Iran's or ours. The Middle East draws its water from the Tigris and Euphrates whose headwaters are in Turkey, and our ally Israel buys part of it. Since I am talking about the debt please also consider the National Security consequences of China refusing to renew all the Treasury Bonds it buys. One day we are paying interest, the next we stop paying the military and start paying China. That makes an excellent credible deterrent against US, not against THEM! In response to this I suggest that we enlist Chinese co-operation in the war on terror. They are constitutionally opposed to Hegemony. Make the case that Iran's "world wide Caliphate" a Hegemon. If this can be documented I expect that Robert Spencer, who wrote "The truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World's most intolerant religion," http://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Muhammad-Intolerant-Religion/dp/1596985283/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204819925&sr=1-2 would be able to do so. We are constitutionally opposed to piracy. I believe that all terrorists, those who commandeer ideology, airships and spaceships, are all pirates. I do not think that anyone who laughs at the constitution is worth worrying about. On the opposite side of the argument, it's pretty hard to prove an ideology has been commandeered, much less arrest someone for doing so. I have no reservations about sharing this information with you, and hope it comes to your personal attention. Yours Sincerely, Robert B Johnson

Senator Nunn received no messages from me, but I wrote CIA email division 12/22/08 (near X-mas) in hopes of having the relevant report reviewed by others for timely proactive efforts: ________________________ All following subject to -SIC- ______________________________Last night I was up till the less than wee hours trying to make heads or tails of The CSIS commission on Cybersecurity. Link http colon slash slash media.csis.org slash isf.pdf for a copy. Just like the Chinese constitution, my eyes glazed over at some of it. The salient information I got was that Sam Nunn and John Hamre are likely the ones who have the 'internet patriot act,' in a drawer ready to go. This is a conspiracy theory of mediocre acceptance, but I may have made the purchase. Below are observations I made at 0230 hrs; page 2. (document is indexed by page number.) 1st page is indexed by words regulate cyberspace paragraph (unpopular with me) AVOID; - prescriptive mandates - unnecessary costs - stifling innovation - over-reliance on market forces (low price?) Acquisitions Policy to improve security RECOMMEND; - by ONLY secure products and services (mandate?) - develop standards in partnership with industry (over reliance on market forces?) Authenticate digital identities paragraph mandate (ok by me but impractical) strong authentication (RSA) for ACCESS to critical infrastructure. (my suggestion - control USE, not access) certifying sender ID is hard. certifying source is (hashing) easy. To factor RSA I need four PCs. One to look thru 10 exponent 30 or so. One to hit mid-range for selectively chosen keys. One looking higher, one looking lower (sic - rule is check only up to square root.) Does this affect signing? I never really mastered digital sigs. Capabilities: educate to research train to competence R&D will build capabilities for cyberspace - I'd say arena, they said domain. Bush 43 Administration introduced Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. (CNCI) CSIS commission 'shared info' with CNCI and saw relevant changes. If there is substance ask for a list of them.

I have written before on the relative virtues of Bush 41. In the 5ts I have denoted him as EEEPOTUS, which make me laugh, because of the historic IEEE. Useful in this nomenclature is the observation that, like dental plaque, each after-market machination of intrigue (aka conspiracy) must re-organize every 4 years. Wiki and Academia have no need to change their convention - Adams will always be the best 4th President we have ever known. Since his son had long since set precedent of hating "junior," I differentiated between them from the start; I initially used his honorary doctorate from Yale, and prefer it. I now approach the idea of documenting more generally the virtues of POTUS's since the Iranian Embassy days, following the Shah's depose. Carter was a Peanut farmer. His administration was despised historically for having 'no element of surprise.' His peace making efforts deserve their appellation legendary, however efficacious they are. He has employed the 'lack of surprise,' like a Federal Judge, inviting scrutiny of Justice in his own way over time. If the proceeds of farm labor are more visible, they are popularly called perishable; the relative value in an eternal perspective of his efforts in the merchandise of wisdom are no easier to know now than they will be after 50 years of history. Judgment day should be interesting for me in that regard personally. Despite Carter's unavoidable work ethic, overseas his Pacifism was regarded as license, and the Actor Reagan brought a John Wayne quality to the discussion of the Red Phone and 'the button,' that made the Ayatollah order the release of the subjects of the Yellow Ribbon song the day of Reagan's election, if not 30 seconds before. [My first experience of the communication available by Rock Stars and music artists as individuals, was a John Denver monologue containing the phrase 'literally ached for people to sing to.' More on Denver later - I think Reagan himself called upon the Yellow Ribbon vehicle.] Reagan's Rapturist fatalism stood him in good stead as he faced down the Khrushchev type adherents of Leninism and Stalinism. Bush 43s has not been so well employed by history. My thoughts on the cold war ending are (here.) They both seem to have been the type to keep a diary, not a journal (historical tip of the hat to Dr. Dobbs. Don't know who started the "peer reviewed" custom.) Reagan used the cliche wisdom of "surround yourself with capable people," in the capacity of a VERY able judge of character. His choice of VP was perhaps more luck than inspiration, and qualified as one of his more considered and defensible decisions. I have often laughed about the reputation of Bush 41's Quayle. Bush 41 as noted above, bringing us to EEPOTUS, Arkansas' Bill Clinton. [I call "Double E's" "Lighting Jocks" as much as anything.] If Arkansas lacks refinement in its culture, they may assist me in re-wording the observation that the Rodham fortune joined those of Heinz and Walker in political and patriotic duty when he married. [I'm told his VP's room-mate was the same Jones as we know from the 5ts as a law grad Texan, if thespian enough.] In terms of neaveau riche, (sp?) Clinton did not do as well as Bush 41 at etiquette, and excelled because of efforts poured into his education overseas. He Politically cherry picked oxford and Cambridge, collecting the Rhodes scholarship along the way (no doubt to pay the bill, as most will do,) doing in England what is more commonly attempted (done?) in the US Ivy Leagues by playing Harvard off against Yale (Bush 43.) Clinton's economic successes may be attributed as much to his comprehension of the Keynesian system, as anything else. I named the 5t 'ASK' protagonist Adams Smith_Keynes to counterpoint (music term) the apparent poles in Economic thought there - Smith is far more intuitive. Clinton's VP was Gore, who loved the ARPANET/DARPANET 'thing,' so much he raised money for it in political ways that defy all other convention. If the internet (or affectionately "teh interweb,") cannot actually surmount a nuclear blast, it can credibly attempt it, by lying in the shadow of the earth's curvature for EM pulses and glass lakes. VPs win elections less than most classes statistically - Senators don't fare much better. Since we have talked about politically active fortunes, it is appropriate to note others who "are commended to a certain attention by their command of resources." Bill Gates is not only in a class with Dick Cheney by being perpetually half-way through academia (I am but another,) He is notable as having "almost as much money as the Prince of Monaco." He should not be regarded as alone; The Waltons and the Buffets of the future will be influential too (subject to interest and aptitude.) I'll contemplate an entry on the "Trumps" of the world later. Clinton was succeeded by Bush 43. It is hard to say authoritatively that he will be the worst President in US history, but his debt exceeds Reagan's without commensurate compensation. I suppose that Republicans wanted Bush 41s successes to be repeated so much that Jeb and George were equal choices in the class, and George won out by Texas Governor credentials. Cheney was Bush 41s Secretary of State or Defense (crs?) and a "known good Machiavel." As noted by Peter Jennings (most influential Canadian ever?) before his passing, the time of Yale frat Skull credentials had not passed, and Cheney probably had Skull credentials just like W. Without other status, he was reduced (by this theory) to passing out no-bid contracts to various Skull beneficiaries/benefactors, and Reagan's observation that wartime biases political influence to the executive (war on drugs - Harvard "long war" standing,) was employed slavishly [passive voice?] Mistakes were made. W was too peripheral in his attentions to the constitution, and the "Straight Shooter" reputation he enjoys in Europe may be a charitably abbreviated "Straight Shooting simpleton." I estimate that by not keeping his oath, troth or vow to "defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic," knowledgeably (or at all?) W failed to retain respect in person, possibly damaging the dignity of the office so profound was the ignominy. To suggest that ANY politician could have withstood INACTION after 9/11/2001 would be irresponsible. Time and place do not allow good analysis; Dr. Ross Anderson was able to state that we should give attention to Piracy law before the attack on Iraq, but I am unable to prove time and venue, or satisfactorily infer audience. For my own part, I am sure that I could be relied on for an authoritative "I do not know," for a long time thereafter. If our intention was to frame a war on terror and not a Protestant Crusade, all Terrorist States were legitimate targets - Libya was legitimate, and has bureaucratically stipulated co-operation since. Bush 43 went back to "finish the incomplete nature of his father's efforts," is a valid constituency. These overlook the disparity in territorial area of Kuwait and Iraq, disregard the defensive v naked aggression discussion, and fail to acknowledge Shia/Sunni differences - Kurds are a political convenience to them. Iran/Iraq "balance," should probably attempt to learn lesson from the nearly forgotten "Iran/Contra" _affair_ and determine before proceeding further exactly who and what is an ally. The Oil finance motive is a stereo-typical red-herring to me. I simply can't use it effectively to improve my understanding on the situation. Beyond that, "if something is Political, and you add _more_ Political, it's still _Political_." :-) Oil as an industry has not profited from the conflict - Halliburton profited spectacularly (from Skull connections?) from a conflict they didn't START. The Patriot Act was probably written by NSA politicos who doubted Orwell's sanity, pre-issue. Sen Sam Nun can speak authoritatively on efforts to duplicate the feat in an internet context (in my opinion.) I may not find his agenda agreeable (wse have never spoken,) but he is knowledgeable. The unwarranted wire-taps will likely fail muster under Supreme Court spotlight, if ever their constitutionality is questioned. Mathematically, they proliferate haystacks, and are more appropriate for use in localized Narcotics investigations and Mafia trials. [trivia; codes fall to statistical analysis and serve their purpose in an electronic context when used in _conjunction_ with cipher based encryption. Mafiosa (?) use codes to distraction, and a few cribs should make old Mafia trial transcripts VERY informative under that magnifying glass. Pranksters can well envision hilarity for Politicos who must decode a truly controversial message from a source. Ciphers prevent wide distribution, and they are "off the ether" so badly that they need newsprint both to know and tell after that :-)] [SSL is easily turned on. Any server on earth can "entropically enhance" packet content if they choose - password protection is for tables and databases, not data streams.] I mention these things not entirely at random - they are important aspects of the Bush 43 administrations. I'll owe "dear journal" a Political run-down of the second 43 later - I have notes from Sen Hitchison's voting record. Write one and owe two more? I better quit digging.

I am not sure when I first came to contemplate what I now refer to as the "no delete" lifestyle. I know this much, that it was chronologically near the time I contemplated the exhaustive algorithm that there is no God. By referring back to my efforts (defined in technical terms as "aplogetics," by Webster's,) we can see that I was also aware that the exhaustive algorithm is one way to refute espionage charges. Another illuminating illustration in email was that in which "the crime committed shall have been committed in Montana, and I have never _been_ to Montana." Montana is the State where the speed limit is "reasonable and prudent." It is not politically possible to speed on the open highway there, without having an accident. Other than that, it is known for its irreverent (if patriotic,) militias. I have never actually been to Big Sky Country, but it ought to give me a good idea of "how to truly _appreciate_ rural Texas:-)" The idea was original with me that long ago. It has curious applications. I am not sure how, but the most recent thing it has taught me is that Sam's gift of Terra byte Hard Drives to Travis was not a waste... he was simply avoiding being a Guinea Pig - if Travis has good success with them, Sam will adopt them later, when the "early adopter tax" (for that article) is revoked. Random bullet points would be: - There is a high qualification of ethics and moral character on all communications if the intention is NEVER to delete. - There is a certainty that the recipient cannot misrepresent my content (potentially not even my intentions) if I keep time and date stamped records. - There is certainty that (if I keep all electronic responses) I will be sure of the context of the conversation. - Snail Mail is easily maintained if Word Processed originals are kept in a marginally organized file system, even when hard copies are printed and mailed. - There is an Open Source application available that makes a printer available that merely converts the potentially printed output to a (link-less and flat) PDF. Saved as a .pdf file, this will do for online receipts, online statements, one-off miscellany etc. - There should be a sanguine acceptance that otherwise "normal" friends can review my intentions as a "Weasel." - Backups on a schedule are an obligation. Media and off site storage can be creatively (safety deposit box for example) maintained, but data sections of HDD become importantly different from program and cache areas. - Open Source makes applications available that capture and index ALL WEB pages viewed by a given _browser._ Different instances of the same browser continue to collect, but necessary privacy can be maintained by using varied browsers. Ex. Security professionals recommend a "prudish" browser for Banking and VPN accesses, where the common browser is reviewed as "promiscuous" by choice.These capture files may be stored in "hidden" files on HDD. Back up these files pre-indexing - They are gold-mines on occasion. - Bookmark files are worth backing up - restoring them is child's play, and bookmark lists are as individually useful as a personal library or a personal list of known local vendors; the yellow pages should be a SECOND choice. - A tour of bookmarks might give you an idea of what your online mall looks like when you are bored. EX; News - Abcnews, BBCnews, CNN might be my news outlets of choice. I should not conclude anything about a reader simply by observing them - intent does not follow observation. However, if the website for Houston ABC affiliate is not on the list, you can reasonably conclude that Mr. X does not go there more often that convenient google search can serve. - Privacy becomes _not_ LESS important, but MORE so - google searches become limited and confined if online preferences are too closely collected, mentally similar to having roadblocks put up at non-arterial roadways in a city, if I do not use them for a year. By having strongly developed identity, I find I want it to leak less, and have well discovered boundaries. - Identities can proliferate. I used to attempt to be rigorous that I did not give out any "valuable" email address from my promiscuous browser - only the "spam" account. Loosely developed, I have an email address for church and close acquaintance, friends and professional obligations. I match this flagship id with name on spam account, differing only by domain. Other ids include - school account, google alert account (these alerts can collect unmonitored for weeks if necessary - I don't want them to confuse my personal stuff.) There is a limited effect of desiring to use my school and flagship interchangeably, commonly answered by forwarding relevant emails from one to the other before proceeding. Separate from google alert account (but possibly _unnecessarily_ so,) I have a subscription account.) Beyond this I maintain some idea of copyright by keeping my (Dallas County registered) "Sole Proprietorship," name as an email address. Gmail provides its service free of charge, but ethics demand that I make responsible use of the ~7 GB of disk space. For my spam account, I employ the Hotmail domain, for the consideration of a fee - this absolves me of guilt for using it solely for spam, and frees me from checking it AT LEAST ONCE every 30 days or it closes by default. Gmail's rule on this is more generous at 90 days, and monthly backups of POP3 files adequately answer this consideration. Gmail provides a blog along with the email - (probably within the same disk space.) Yahoo does not, but offers so-called "throw-away" accounts for paying members. Gmail answers this with "+ operator" accounts. To employ a +-operator accounts, use flasgship+_xyz_@gmail.com as the address you provide. Best applied this might take the form of jack.spratt+amazon_spam@gmail.com when signing up at an amazon.com affiliate. The filter "amazon_spam" sorts all the relevant "incoming" out, and can be told to delete, bypass inbox, forward, mark as read or other creative things. The effect is that I can research at the time of my choosing all vendors to whom amazon.com has passed/sold my email address. In the end, this can be an empty accomplishment - junk mail is junk mail however personalized. Among friends, +-operators are better employed in the capacity of "distinctive ring." Yahoo domain free accounts do not appear to "die" on the schedule of the others. Hotmail does not make itself available for offline backup - possibly by the theory that if I cannot back it up I will use it MORE? They compensate with online storage for paid accounts, if bandwidth considerations are not a problem. - Bandwidth considerations mean that BLOGs will -always- be most recent entry at the top. If they were to be presented like a book, chronologically ascending EVERY request would NECESSITATE exhaustive download - this is possible to a fee based service, but not rational for a free one. - Gmail also provides a service such that emails originating in the flagship account may be arbitrarily portrayed as coming from any email account of my choosing. Since other accounts can be forwarded to this flagship in the first place, this allows me to "dump in," but _NOT_ later "undump" other stuff, if I want to make it searchable by my google online engine - this is their bread and butter, I expect that it is the best there is. Since the other account can have "from" names (both given-name and sir-name) changed upon presentation of password, the other account can be named "noreply," or "other random name." - NOTE: This is not an anonymizer, and should not be confused with one. Anonymizers are a service industry and good ones are available - don't reinvent the wheel. - Mozilla browser has an Open Source facility _plug-in_ called "Enigmail" available. If you have an adventurous friend who consents to do so, encryption is conveniently available; you simply must consent to learn the ropes. I have personally "fubar-ed" mine - oh, well :-| - Apple's "Safari" browser has a Windows version that makes its browser history very searchable, if the "ctrl-L" "wonder-bar" of Firefox is not to your taste. It also has a "privacy" mode that stops collection/recording on demand, temporary to the end-of-session. I am not sure how to force it to make itself available offline for backup. - XP has made th "Outlook Express" email management system available as part of the OS to make backups of POP3 stuff - NOTE: It's practically a HACK to find the Outlook Express file for backups. I personally have never used Open Source "Thunderbird," but I hear good things. Some day maybe I'll be between streams for that one :-) I think both "email CLIENTS" (as they are called,) make alternate "profiles" available. I usually use this to keep separate accounts separate - OS _profiles_ are sufficient to keep users from getting mixed up. - Data wrangling is not a wasted skill - 2GB of data (even at 100Mbps - the common HDD data transfer rate,) is nothing to sneeze at. Duplicate email attachments and non-ascii data can build up faster than you might prefer. A DVD burner is a good thing to have around, keeping in mind that you don't "zip" more than 2GB at a time, or it won't address correctly. MP3s don't zip worth cussing about, neither do .jpgs. Other things vary for mathematical reasons - zip many files together anyway, if its merely an organizational thing. - For encryption if it is available (I use all open source.) AES is slow, but Govt standard. Blowfish is fast, but nobody uses it - it and Twofish are used by applications more than individuals. 1024 RSA is no longer for a war - short term it's as good as any, and worth polluting keyspace by my estimation. As Jesus said - he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. - For Word Processing, Open Office (GL) is available and works with most formats. It provides for free PDF generation, including "padlock" capability, on the "security" tab. Any convention will work - a "cheap" one is "filename sans extension=password." - Passwords are worth proliferating - a "green install" of "Password Safe" on a thumb drive makes the program available on ANY Windows platform - I use it easily at FedEx-Kinkos. Others are available Open Source is platform independence is an issue - perforce database becomes independent of application. Online IF you use grouped passwords THEN these groups compartmentalize. Like the Titanic, compartments must be kept intact, but if Human Memory must be relied upon, total fragmentation is not a requirement. The principle applied by the interloper is to "try" each successfully compromised password on all uncompromised accounts, in efforts to identify patterns and redundancies. NOTE: Thumb drives have taken the place of Floppies - sneaker net still works, and keeping empty thumb drives around could be electronic paper clips. 2GB are 4 for $25 at Fry's very recently. Liquid Paper is as good as Sharpie if black will not mark one - the oldest economy for floppies was blank labels. ----------------Brain dump = too tired to taz-------------------------

Phased Light has always fascinated me. The original theory that a silver-nitrate substrate could successfully record an interference pattern such that the same frequency would reproduce the image in 3d space, given a 'bath' of phased light to interact within, has led my mind to theorize a moving picture in a cinematic camera. This holographic scene is colored by pixelation of red, green and blue lasers. LEDs can generate the colors and wave lengths, and reality might be that phased light's' cannot coexist without interference perforce :-( LCDs could still display monochromatic holograms like the vaunted Princess Lea special effect, IF the relevant twisting could recreate the interference pattern. In regard to Data-storage, we could look at DVD as a modified very data-dense 'Redbook' format. Under these conditions, 8GB DVD is a two-layer DVD. Blu-Ray has taken the Red frequency and refined its exactness with shorter frequencies of blue, and added the sophistication (sophistry?) of ~8 layers. As such, I expect Blu-Ray Disks to be more vulnerable to scratching than Redbook DVD, all parity checking being equal. Intuitively, the 'masses' of tyrannical wisdom may adequately infer this from increased data density. For phased light imaging, we should invent the racially neutral photo 'phit,' to go with the magnetic 'bit' and the quantum 'qbit.' Pixels are still pixels. If Blue light is useful when phased, don't overlook that ultra-violets are also phased. X-rays were phased during the Reagan administration, all in aid of 'Star Wars.' While their use in holographically imaging bone cannot be arranged, they would save conventional bullets in a devastating conventional war with India or China (India currently surpasses China in population, if not in area.) The relevant lasers cannot save time, but serve to re-enforce the older MAD discussion. I understand micro-waves to be light energy in a frequency that exactly matches the characteristic wavelength between two 'H' atoms in a water molecule. "Phasing that (in a standing wave,) for fun," might result in imaging something we have not yet imagined, or heating with an exactness unavailable before the present. Adhering to any philosophy in the face of a perceived 'event horizon,' is morally trying. I humorously ask "When we were about to split the 'H' atom, the theists were taking odds... what were the atheists doing?" Presumably cursing the folly of the theists as usual. In that context, we have now had THREE experiments in the face of extinction. The 'A' bomb, the 'H' bomb and the recent attempts at a localized black hole. Since the probability is remote, by all means hazard the risk as needed for research, but please don't make a small black hole a goal so near us... it's not unreasonable to suggest moving our legitimate investigations into the chances of folding space just beyond the orbit of Neptune and Pluto. In re that discussion, there are two problems that impel us to better science for CO2 processing: 1. If folding space at a distant point takes energy at all, can an adequate amount be derived from a given planet or star? 2. Should this transit become possible, is the local heat situation bearable, AND is the distant point itself accessible for practical experiment? To test your the rational nature of your humor: If you calculated Avogadro's number to 23 decimal places, you should rationally be wondering if mensuration is the problem, or counting. If you are more concerned with extending the decimal count, please take a pill... the fractional molecules will become fractional atoms, with catastrophic results.

A definition of Hyper-rational: The emotional equivalent of using LOGIC to bend your emotional elbow backward 12 1/2 degrees. 12 1/2 degrees is the angle of the Parthenon away from true orthogonal normal. Egalitarianism is a better form of Government than Academia. Conspiracy can be bad. Elitism likewise can be a scourge when abused. despite this, judgment must allow that the "Founding Fathers" were an elitist conspiracy that saw the value of egalitarianism to improve Government, despite the fact that egalitarian Academia suffers qualitatively. Elitist Academia educates with Darwinian success, and the egalitarian quality of the admissions process may be the best line of demarcation. Null Hypothesis: Square distributions are the product of intelligent design. As such, I am interested in the generalized form of the equation "%G%, %T% sided dice deterministically roll %fomulaQ% with standard deviation of %formulaMSD%."

IQ stands for "Intelligence Quotient." The test is usually given as a series of multiple guess questions, with the instruction to go with your first response when in doubt. It measures pattern recognition in ratio and proportions to time needed to evaluate, the final result being determined by dividing by a number based on age. As such, a person of high IQ at age six would be at some pains to make the same score at the age of 47. To reiterate, IQ is a function of Pattern Recognition. Since all good scientific theories are subject to controversy, we should take a moment to observe that there are other ideas about measuring Intelligence. For example, Jocks may do badly at 'official' pattern recognition, but exhibit high 'Spatio-Relational' intelligence by timing and aiming a long bomb down field to a wide-receiver. This same measuring stick (could we but devise it,) would apply equally well to two other groups. 1. Mechanics, who must optimize, (for instance,) access to a water-pump on a car, without a) breaking it down to individual nuts and bolts, b) fixing the water pump by replacement, and then c) reconstructing the entire vehicle. 2. Cabbies, who daily optimize routes from random locations in the city to other locations. If guessing an answer to an old (NP-Complete) Traveling Salesman Problem was my Herculean task, I would consider it a good trade to have a cabbie guess on my behalf. To further investigate the IQ phenomenon, spatio-relational intelligence is not alone in being different. There is also Social Intelligence and (more recently identified) Emotional Intelligence. The relationship of Social Intelligence to Pattern Recognition IQ, is illustrated by Penny versus the Fab Four on the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory." Since Sheldon compulsively wins all possible arguments, paying the associated social penalty without regard to "human cost," it is humorously absurd to see him bested by a High School drop-out; Penny may well have been Prom Queen at her Alma Mater's homecoming instead of Chess Club Prince. Emotional intelligence is so new that the very name is subject to discussion, but might be observed to be more pronounced among the religious and those who excel at Martial Arts. Sam must wait for his own comment on "the marital arts," until 5t Syndicate transits this territory naturally. That's all I know about shrimp for today...

In High School and in College, the second year is so prominently known for its sophistry, that its attendees are called by the appellation "Sophomore." I surmise that this observation is illustrative of a maturation process that goes on universally in education. Whereas in High School rules of grammar, algebra and mechanics of study, are being investigated by book learning AND practice, College is attuned to a mastery of content to which the other is prerequisite. In both circumstances, and possibly in all of education, keeping curiosity alive and virile is paramount. However, curiosity will perforce wander into unnecessary and dangerous territory on occasion. A good rule of thumb to keep it alive when it has been subjected to discipline is the scripted discussion "Curiosity KILLED the Cat!" "Did the Cat _have_ nine lives?" "That's cliché!" "Very well then; Stay Curious." By the time of graduation from University, whatever College one has chosen, it could be expected that the given individual has learned to govern their curiosity in areas that should be left alone by that discipline. To be incurious is currently thought to be symptomatic of abuse. To test this theory, it is a simple matter to begin changing subjects until the point of interest is found. Self consistent with the current theory that incuriosity is unilaterally bad, is the premise that "If an individual fails to find employment in that very field of interest, then that individual defines himself as lazy." It is statistically the case that most people do not end up employed in their field of study. PhD's notably skew away from this, but the PhD degree is not remunerated proportional to its cost as much as BS and MS. Returning to high schoolers (aka scholars,) as a group. Emotional and moral lessons are under their first investigation at this time in life. Most students make maturity a goal, and the fact that the race to maturity has the linear quality that there are no shortcuts, is rarely well articulated. The other quality of the race to maturity that I can observe here is that, like certain video games, the highest scores may be obtained by getting at least one object from every arena and venue. In the emotional and moral curriculum, certain lessons have a dance like quality like the Charleston, analogous to learning to factor a number. The amateur, if asked, reliably comes up with the idea of checking every odd number up to half the dividend _first_. The next optimization is usually to restrict the inputs to primes less than half. Since this can be done is a recursive way, it makes programs that are not optimal, but teaches ingenuity in return. The authoritative result is all primes up to the square root of the dividend, and Erasmus' sieve is learned. I have personally never written a good Erasmus' Sieve, but I understand the principle, and its extension to elliptic curves. In addressing High School students, I acknowledge that I reliably fail to communicate by choice of vocabulary, (this selective process also disqualifying me as a threat to the populist.) It is the case that I believe their characteristic suicidal sorrows would be much alleviated by the understanding; there is no way to skip to the end of the book and be mature simply by reading the answers to the odds found in the back. You have to give it time and effort. I close with this observation: Disabuse is an excellent word for politics, like flam, and irregardless. The dictionary game didn't unthaw my wits yet, and I'll have to list it as a separate entry. The comment "Good Day," has come to mind; as we observe the "thought for the day," tradition employed by some, my thought for the day will be the answer to this question: "How did old Paul Harvey stay substantive so often and for so long."

In looking for a 5t connection from The Enquirer to Scientology, I chased a rabbit down the trail of the name of POTUS e 29, James Buchanan's intended. Her name was Ann Caroline Coleman, but the in situ rough diamond of knowledge I marked on my map was that the Premier discussion on Preemptive strike is called 'The Caroline Affair.' I approach this information with caution in my person, since preemptive strike as a discussion avails nothing in hunting and fishing, but is otherwise quite controversial. My own thoughts on the matter are as follows. In a time of world peace, one nation must necessarily be first to move to rekindle the fires of world conflict. "Maintaining this is readiness," is one way to define preemptive strike. If I wanted neither USSR nor China to maintain this in readiness, a certain fairness of mind admits neither of them regard this as desirable in US. Rather than attempt to time share the coop, I prefer the available compromise of deeding and ceding this to Israel as right. Switzerland is an available alternative to the perverse of mind, the devil and his advocates. Israel is 'a dot on the map and can't hurt nobody.' They have used it well in past, and arguably need it to survive. Easier for them to maintain it themselves than for us to fight, continually, for the right to defend them. If being first at SOMETHING is politically required, it is allowable to any to attempt to be first in PEACE. Other than that, there is courage in merely standing sentinel, as Canada's National anthem adjures, justifying all Americans equally in the last bar of our own. In closing, it is well to observe the historical attitude of Israel herself: Ps 127:[1] Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. God bless America in preemptive strike.

Experimental "rule of thumb," definitions to assist my dictionary comprehension of these words: Sacred: set apart to or for a purpose (specific?) Holy: (Virgin?) untainted and unimpeachable usually in a religious sense or context. Prude: A person who is so affected by sexuality that they cannot evaluate it level headedly. Compared to (and from the viewpoint of) this person others are usually farther down the road to jading. Since maturity requires time and experience, the efforts of a person to change the case of being a prude are contemporarily outpaced by the maturing and jading of his peers such that to actually stop being a prude is a departure from the expected norm. Disingenuous: When smart people pretend to be dumb (at whatever level they are capable of performing.) Alternatively this could be bridged to other contexts by suggesting that there should be a word to describe competent people pretending to be incompetent. The true statement of Sam Waterston onscreen (Law and Order franchise) that "All Cliches are True," is not itself cliche... it is a rule of thumb. This incidentally fails it on the test of being false by paradox (I personally subscribe to the school of thought that defines "paradox is by definition false.") Other than pure falsity, a circuit of a paradox requires more than two dimensions, and makes a frequency generator. If this frequency generator is employed in a task of mensuration, this fails to offend propriety by itself, (subject to decorum :-) As discussed before that an untrained Machiavel shows up in office with more regularity than an already made Machiavel (OJT being required,) the available comments are: Politically - - virgin - never did nothin' - chaste - never left his party (skirts?) Wives are expected to be chaste, if passionate. - profligate - went beyond bi-partisan or "opponent politicking," and pretty much was a whore about it. Whatever the case, legislative congress is to office what sexual congress is to marriage. In context of prudes, chastity and whoredom, I have characterized NSA as "virgins and prudes," and CIA competing as patriotic whores. To mitigate the discussion, I used the phrase "Inter-agency co-operation" in context of Bureaucratic intercourse/congress. Otherwise, it has also amused me to us the word "commit" (as in offense) with regard to both "learning behavior" and "inter-agency co-operation." If inter-agency co-operation is too readily observable, it manifests as Governmental eupraxia, and calls for investigation into conspiracy, by RICO; if "criminal" qualifies it, penalties should attach with all deliberate speed, whether the aims and goals are patriotic or not. Of Machiavels in the world, one might put Chinese Machiavels is a distinctive class, suggesting generalized classes if necessary. Machiavelli's name can never be redeemed for all generations; competence implies potential for abuse. Nonetheless, appropriate attention on a generational basis should probably not forget his work, lest his adherents rise unobserved to abuse again - we just don't burn books in the US of A.

Incremental observation on Square Distribution Justice (People.) SDJP seem to be monitoring behavior is the workplace (sexual harassment for example,) in a way analogous to a GFA BASIC Compiler I owned for an old Atari 520ST. You could not leave a line without perfect syntax. In the same way, SDJP seem to be making sure that as we proceed, we ALWAYS dot our i's and cross our t's correctly as we go. In writing cursive this is pre-requisite behavior, and we are more surprised to be asked to do so in a Semiotic context of minding "p's and q's" than in the original context of handwriting. As such SDJP regulation is confining even for the lax applier, and downright restrictive for the close applier. My question and concern recently has been, "Does SDJP allow anyone to leave a line at all?" By observing that "Enlightened self-interest" is the main SDJP rule for exceptions in their system. (I haven't observed others readily.) This hampers altruism, and raises another question. "Is their system workable at all, using just this one exception, AND IF so, is it good enough to merit universality?"