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Journal Journal: Attempts to "Go Viral."

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 disc
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Journal Journal: The Diamond/Water paradox of Waste;

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
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Journal Journal: "Touched by scandal;" fraternity or office? NSA 03/05/08

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
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Journal Journal: The reason Of Sen. Nunn's knowledgeability

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
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Journal Journal: American Foreign Policy in context of POTUS post Carter; 2

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 "j
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Journal Journal: The "No Delete" lifestyle;

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 s
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Journal Journal: Phased light, Blu-Ray, and the Luddite fear of the unknown;

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' c
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Journal Journal: A cavalier attention to definitions;

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 t
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Journal Journal: On IQ testing and measures of intelligence.

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
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Journal Journal: Maturity in an Educational context;

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 po
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Journal Journal: Preemptive strike discussed;

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 no
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Journal Journal: Governmental Rules of Thumb

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 pe
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Journal Journal: SDJP Experimental process explored

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

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