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- December 20, 2018
- 5 More Days Til Christmas
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As I putz around into the evenings on my server array after hours I take pause to consider all the benefits this has given me. That ecstatic acquisition of technological informaton once unknown to me is internalized.
Whereas I had superficial comprehension in two areas critical to my now ... there is virtually complete understanding.
So Christmas finds me really wanting to do a lot of shopping.
I can't get Mama to tell me what she wants. All I can do is get her something I think she can use and call it a day. We will be visiting some of the children in the clan either shortly before or thereafter and therein lay the bulk of my shopping duties.
Then there is the workaday world and that different set of duties which take precedent in my life.
All in all this Christmas season has me feeling grateful. I'm appreciative of those problems I have solved. I'm thankful for those challenges which remain. Mostly, I just want continued growth and health and to be there for those who really need me. That list dwindles every day.
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- December 19, 2018
- I'm NOT a Transhumanist
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That wish to become augmented. To have the addition of genetic modifications, cyborg appliances, and aid the evolutionary process beyond that which Darwin covered so long ago.
While I'm sure there will be a lot in the way of advancements in immunology, genetics, neurology, and most certainly metabolism and other aspects of the living human ... something about genetic editing and the subsequent products are quite the disturbing thought for me personally.
Heck, I won't even (knowingly) eat GMO type foods. That test tube steak they just cooked up recently didn't ever stand a chance landing on my plate.
I just feel there are appropriate venues for meddling with configuations and my food simply isn't one of them.
This is not to say that I wouldn't undergo some genetic editing if I thought there were significant gains to be had.
Unlike the technologists and transhumanists of our era I simply cannot call these interventions in our biological processes "investment in the future".
Surely the life expectancy would have gone up instead of taking the rather precipitous drop it has in the United States of late.
Then you have the ridiculous brigand Obama who single handedly ruined The Republic with that poof he married and now wishes to divorce ... all the while trying to take credit for the successes of the next administration.
We need to avoid more errors of judgement like electing these libtards and progressives. I view some of the things on the agenda of transhumanist progression to be similarly bad for people in general.
We certainly could get the 'natural' person more correct prior to modifying some damaged goods in the name of repairs or augmentation.
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- December 18, 2018
- International Migrants Day
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As is everything else with the United Nations, International Migrants Day — which is a day to mark the plight of migrants internationally is the same farce as everything else they propose like Agenda 21, world depopulation, New World Order, kowtowing to Brussels and the Rothschild cronies, and so forth and so on ...
The day is observed on December 18 in accordance with Resolution 55/93 which was adopted on December 4, 2000 by their General Assembly.
This day may be observed in many jursidictiions in the name of human rights and designed to ensure the migrant protection ... but as usual they don't take into consideration what it's doing to the countries they've influenced to take on these nasty criminal human beings.
Great Britain is all but ruined by Muslim migrants.
France is ruined by Muslim migrants.
Poland and Italy have had quite enough with the problems and crime Muslim migrants have brought with them.
And these fools in the UN think it is their "right" to rule the world by decree.
Get real United Nations. The best thing for the world is to disband you. Personally, I certainly would like you out of the United States.
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- December 17, 2018
- Ladies of the Evening
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When I was a sailor I indulged the sex workers I encountered in various ports. Those experiences ran the gamut of "submediocre" to "cherished memory" and I regret that this is not the only indulgence I have from those days.
I also find myself guilty of mindless swearing which has been a much more difficult habit to shake than indulging those ladies of the evening once a big part of my entertainment scene.
Today is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. It came about as the results of Gary Leon Ridgway, a prolific serial killer called "the Green River Killer" from Seattle Washington who victimized many in his foray into evil.
This is a day to take note of the many hate crimes committed against workers in the sex industry internationally. Also it brings to light a need to eliminate those stigmata associated with being a sex worker because it is felt this contributes to the problem of violence.
One thing to note is the mistake of classifying this day as a "feminist" observance because feminism has done nothing for anyone, male or female alike. Feminists are typically little bitter females pursuant of some revenge against the XY phenotypes of the world for some perceived wrong doing which is typically vague and over generalized to the population they inhabit.
Decrying violence against any group is a function of humanity, not gender ... so shut up and cart your crayola red and blue haired selves on down the road.
Anyway, stop vicitmizing hookers. Everyone needs to earn money. Some people write computer programs. Others have sex for money. Heck, I'd be a whore if I could but I don't think anyone would pay for my services.
When I was a younger man it was all part and parcel to my life. My age and experience has placed it all in that niche called insignificant to my existence. However, I don't begrudge someone from making a living in this day and age.
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- December 16, 2018
- Flu Shots and Us
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It seems that some 40% of us are not bothering with the flu shot this year.
I got one ... and immediately became ill with what I perceived to be a moderate upper respiratory infection.
Began right around the bronchial region and migrated quickly to my sinuses and persisted for about 2 weeks.
Why did I do it ?
It was free and recommended. Besides, with me getting on and all I figured what could it hurt.
Being as suspicious of the medical industrial complex as the next guy I have visions of injections containing mercury and other toxic substances and it's not a far reach for me to expect a surreptitious lethal injection by design as a part of some governmental pursuit of the New World Order population reduction or some radical lefty taking it upon themselves to thin us all out.
I was somewhat surprised to note that almost half of the citizens decline the injection. Do I blame them ? Heck no. I trust their judgement for themselves a lot more than some bung hole in Richland County lying to me and the world.
Too many medical professionals are simply untrustworthy anymore. That's why the thought of going to a hospital staffed by students repulses me to the nth degree.
IMHO you should stay away from Richland Hospital if you value your life. Lexington hospital is just another death trap as well. Providence is a fraudulent rip off as far as I'm concerned.
I just wish these were my only complaints with the local hospitals. However, Richland and Lexington in particular are rife with poor decision makers and equally poor care. Mayo in Jacksonville would be my first choice.
You take your life into your own hands anymore regardless of the providers. My last physician was out to force me to take those pills his pharmaceutical rep was pushing even if it tripled my medication expenses.
This is not a person who cares about my health. It's someone out to make a buck at my expense.
Luckily I'm pretty happy with the medical crew at the employee health center. Unfortunately, I don't know how much longer it will be available to me. They already stripped our health benefits down to the bare bones in the form of the vastly inferior "state health plan" in their pursuit of decreasing expenses. They said that nobody guarantees benefits anywhere and we're just lucky to be employed.
Maybe they're right.
So if you decline a flu shot more power to you. I certainly am one to seriously consider joining your ranks. I'm sorry that I don't trust the local hospitals nor EMS services available ... but I don't for good reason.
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- December 15, 2018
- Zamenhof Day
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So today is Esperanto Day. Esperanto is a language that I once considered taking up in my pursuit of all things communicato ... but gave it up for assembler and the xBase dialects early on in my career.
Whereas Esperanto is a mechnism for people to communicate with each other, those languages I chose were high level mechanisms for communicating with machines.
Suffice it to say I likely will never be that social butterfly of which I always dreamed I'd become.
Esperanto is said to be the most widely spoken of what are known as "constructed international auxiliary languages. It was created ostensibly to foster peace and international understanding.
My personal views remain centric to the fact that I am an US citizen and if you want to communicate with me you better learn English or stay the heck out of my country. Hear that hispanics ?
L. L. Zamenhof was a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist. He created Esperanto in the late 19th century as an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language .
Today is Zamenhof Day, aka Esperanto Day. It is celebrated each December 15th which is the birthdate of it's creater, the late Dr Zamenhof.
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- December 14, 2018
- Monkey Day
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My friends once envisioned themselves as monkeys flinging their poo at each other during the course of their work days.
This comparison, though meant to be self-effacing is a venture into species coping mechanisms.
Sometimes we humans could use a library of coping mechanisms to get through some of our more outrageous timeframes.
Monkey Day is one of those unofficial observances celebrated on December 14 by artists Casey Sorrow and Eric Millikin while they were art students at Michigan State University.
Monkey Day celebrates monkeys and "all things simian" including other non-human primates like the apes and such.
Celebrated internationally, is is also called International Monkey Day and World Monkey Day AND yes ... I DO indeed realize that a chimpanzee is not actually a monkey.
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- December 13, 2018
- The Secret is in the Addressing
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My new mail server had been giving me a fit.
I installed and configured multiple instances to no avail.
I was beginning to think that I was exhibiting early onset Alzheimer's as I had only done the same task successfully so many times it wasn't funny.
Finally, when my frustration peaked I checked the DNS information being propagated on the internet.
Lo and behold ...
The IP address was that of the web server and not the mail server.
YouReekA, there was the answer 6 months later. I could have checked this particular parameter five minutes into the process.
Sometimes I don't know where my mind goes but it obviously went off on a tangent with this petty penny ante mess because now it's all fixed and everything is working.
Sometimes the sideline gets lost in the shuffle of life and the workaday world.
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- December 12, 2018
- Google, the Judiciary, and We Peons
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Sundar Pichai of google attended a congressional hearing and was read the riot act regarding china, data warehousing, and privacy.
He fielded a lot of questions while before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday.
With the crack the tech sector has been in it's surpising to me personally that this would be his first foray into domestic governmental inquiry given google's frank political bias, ad policies, and general sleazy way of doing business.
Mr Pichai is just another overpaid scumbag like Zuckerberg who isn't really accountable to anyone regardless of how they choose to step on the taxpayers because he still gets paid.
What does he care if anyone in congress likes or dislikes him, his practices or that criminal element into which google has devolved since it's incept. Ethics mean little to nothing in the 21st century schizoid world in which we live. He's too busy raking in the cash to worry about ethics or the law.
Boo!
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- December 11, 2018
- Trump Haters Beware
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There is a large contingent of WE, THE PEOPLE who support the President.
I count myself among their numbers.
There is no democrat or so-called "progressive" or other Leftist ANYTHING which can quash the support he has among the voters.
We are the patriots of The United States of America.
We believe in the Constitution of the United States.
CNN, MSN, the main stream media puppets following their deep state string pullers might want to think about history and consequences.
There is no panty waist leftist crook out to monetize government for their own wealth like we've seen in recent history going to prevail.
We've seen what you've done and we know who you are.
Your handlers are not going to be able to save you. Obama is not going to be able to save you. Hillary can't save you either. She's going to need help in that department her own criminal self.
These false characterizations of nothingness and that waste of time which is the Robert Muller taxpayer robbery can't save you either.
You deserve the pie in the sky utopian delusions of Bernie Sanders and the lunatic fringe idiocy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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- December 10, 2018
- Remembering Richard Pryor
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As a young man I enjoyed the work of Richard Pryor. He crossed cultural boundaries and that was one of my favorite passtimes and a recurring thematic element in my own life so I naturally had an affinity for his pushing of the envelope.
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
American stand-up comedian, Actor, Social Commentator
December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005
Many others in my midst were turned off by the vulgarities associated with his material ... but that didn't faze me so much as his choice of white women as consorts but that too was simply my cross to bear and not his.
He would go off on tangents regarding current issues and I was struck by both his insight and witicisms.
I enjoyed his films and though I outgrew some of the humor they remain icons of the times which were theirs.
In a world where he was misunderstood and misconstrued by those in my various circles of interaction, he held a place with me where he was both understood and respected for who he was and what he was doing in those tumultous times he occupied.
His health was affected by his lifestyle diseases and of course the associated drug culture into which he immersed himself.
He had some heart problems and suffered from multiple sclerosis at the end and my heart went out to him for those intense issues and the misery he underwent.
His widow Jennifer said that "At the end, there was a smile on his face" and I suppose that speaks volumes for this man who did a whole lot of things and consistently placed his own spin on every one of them.
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- December 9, 2018
- International Anti-Corruption Day 2018
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Today is a travesty in terms. The United Nations has declared today International Anti-Corruption Day. Quite ballsy for an organization which has authored Agenda 21 and Angenda 30 in their long standing plan for world domination and control under the so-called "globalist" agenda supported by the progressives and the democratic party in general.
International Anti-Corruption Day has been observed annually, on the ninth of December, corresponding to the passage of the UN Convention Against Corruption on Halloween of 2003 ... how apropos for the ghouls out to rule the Earth.
It is stated as a vehicle to raise public awareness for anti-corruption by the very entity providing most of the corruption on the planet.
The UN is the second most corrupt organization on the planet after the banking industry based in Brussels Belgium which would have itself declared ruler of the world because there are insufficent testicles on the world to place them on notice and remove them from the entirety of the business world.
When we as a planet can stop usury as a business practice enriching the coffers of the "globalist" crooks then maybe I can stop scoffing at these utterly transparent seedy notions promulgated by scumbags like the United Nations and their masters the Rothschilds — and that financial mafia which is the banking industry located in Brussels, Belgium who would rule the world if they could.
"The Federal Reserve" of the United States is just as bad. 100 years of money for nothing and stupidity at the helm of our finances. Get rid of those crooks too. They're all part and parcel of the same cancer infecting the world and the United States in particular.
I say "Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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- December 8, 2018
- Deepmind claims Deep AI
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A company called DeepMind has an artificial intelligence called AlphaZero which they claim is showing signs of human like intuition and creativity.
Characterized by their developers as a ‘turning point’ in history, I'm not so akin to the chess player algorithm (or chess players in general) being either creative or intuitive.
You can beat a chess player without any modicum of either by having enough tactics up your sleeve (or in your core) and this simply does not wash for me personally.
However, people may call anything "intuitive" or "creative" if it gives them that business plan edge over the price of stock or foot-in-the-door merger opportunities.
I'll defer further discernment until I see something A LOT MORE impressive than a chess algorithm being portrayed as the "be all" and the "end all" in AI.
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- December 7, 2018
- Pearl Harbor Day 2018
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Today is Pearl Harbor Day.
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, or simply "Pearl Harbor Day" to we Navy brats is an annual observance comemorating the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii which began United States involvement in World War II.
Many service men and women in the military of the United States of America lost their lives or were injured on December 7, 1941 — characterized as a 'Day of Infamy'.
This is also the day my mother chose to inter my late father, MMCM Jim Williamson, Jr who was laid to rest with full military honors at Clinton Methodist Church in Salley, SC on 12/07/2001.
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