Recently another APLer
mentioned in an email that the
what's new
link is his favorite feature of CoSy.com
. It's
perhaps not a bad way to scan the various fronts I've touched during
the year
tho I'm afraid the Sep 2 updates were due to a wrong click .
#Liberty
It's incredibly frustrating to be living in one of the world's most
expressive
computing environments and find it pointless to make any new words
because only
you will use them and you are doing your damnedest to get the time to
birth its
replacement .
What brings this to mind is working , concurrently with writing this ,
on
cleaning a 14700 record NYS Libertarian Party data base and merging it
with our
Manhattan LP list and eliminating all bad e-addrs .
Ok , I couldn't
avoid making one new word . For any remaining K geeks :
whereachIdxs : { ,/ ( ! # x ) ,/:' x }
whereachIdxs..h : "
for a matrix like &:' returns , returns all address pairs "
( I may have left NYC in body , but I continue to be the Manhattan
Libertarian
Party's manhattanlp.org
webmaster in addition to my own Liberty page . ) Largely
because of its computational notebook
aspect , I don't think there is a system anywhere better able to poke
around
with this info than K.CoSy . While messaging the DB , I inevitably saw
there are
a couple of words like "csv2dic" which would be better named "csv2DT" (
for
DictionaryTable or DatabaseTable ) . But it's not worth tapping a
finger
improving anymore .
In addition to the web
mastering , I wrote an article on The Logic of
Liberty for the upcoming issue of the MLP's Serf
City
and
am also running an ad for in it . ( The
advertising rates are a very
good
deal . )
#4thCoSy
( most teky )
On the 4th.CoSy
front , I've gotten
less done than I had hoped by now . See for one reason .
tax computations , Liberty related work ,
an extended and enlightening quantitative discussion on the NYC
Juntodiscussion
list on the physics of mean global
temperature ,
and a frozen spigot by the corral among others . )
But I expect to have bigger time blocks available the last half of
winter .
The major piece of progress
is really a change to a path even less traveled
than before , in fact , a path only just being broken . Even within the
minimalist FORTH world , I have moved from a commercial version , to a
mature
web community based one , Win32Forth
, and
now to a very small implementation Reva
being created by an
individual , Ron Aaron , in Bellevue WA . There appear to be a handful
of
similarly minded minimalists clustered around RetroForth
each making their own
variations on a theme . Ron is simultaneously producing Windows an
Linux
versions . Ron's Reva.exe has grown to 20KB
creating a
vocabulary approaching 300 words . When I convert and flesh out my
"dynamic
list" vocabulary from Win32Forth I expect to have a very powerful Array
Programming Language in about 50 or 60KB . The small size is not a goal
in
itself , rather the terseness manifests the simplicity and generality
of the
structures and words making up the system . It is possible for an
individual to
get his head around the whole thing .
Unlike traditional FORTHs ,
Reva is built in an external ( free ) assembler ,
FASM
. It's the first time
I've used an assembler in years , but it was surprisingly easy to gain
a
sufficient understanding of Ron's well organized code to make some
simple words
of my own . I think the result of this simplicity of modifying the
source code
itself will be to lead me to ramify this language bush yet another limb
.
It's
apparently a RetroForth tradition to just have the conditionals ( 0if =if <>if <if >if )
which are , in fact , the atomic instructions at the assembly level .
In particular , while apparently convincing Ron to add logical
functions
( > < = )
in
addition to just the logical conditionals , I was figuring out how to
make those
same words in assembly .
I have decided I really want those basic logic functions to follow Iverson
logic ( TRUE ~ 1 )
rather than the Moore
logic ( TRUE ~ -1 )
returned by Ron's
words . In both cases ( FALSE ~ 0 )
. ( In actual fact Moore's
logic is ( TRUE ~ { not 0 } )
so
Iverson logic would seem a restriction . ) But , the thing is , you can
do
arithmetic with Iverson logic . And , when you start wanting to speed
up really
big logical problems , you can bit pack the logic values and get
machine word
size parallelism with algorithms which were worked out in the APL world
decades
ago .
But the arithmetic is the important thing . You must be able to add up
how
many TRUEs
you've got .
Last but most assuredly not
least , as I write this on New Year's eve ,
MidWinter is
just 5 Saturdays away . This will be my 20th MidWinter
Gathering , the
first couple of which were held in Rochester NY before moving down to
Manhattan
in 1984 . To mark the first party back out in the natural world , we'll
do
something that's a little difficult on the 13 mile island ,
particularly on your
own family property .
We'll light up this year's
Christmas Tree one last time at MidNight in
a bonfire celebrating as the sun reaches the zenith in Bangalore .
So , let me invite you out a
midwinter weekend in the mountains . Our neighbors
to the north are a small
Bed & Breakfast
and there are many other accommodations in the area . The major ski
resortsstart about an hour away ,
Cripple
Creek's
casinos are
about 40 minutes ( 25 miles ) down Highway 67 . Here at our miniRanch ,
depending on the weather , and your ability , you might take a horse
into the
national forest , or we could do some target shooting or plinking .
In mid-winter , everything depends on the weather . The average
temperature here
on Feb 4 ranges from a day time high of 40f dropping 36f to a nightime
average low of 4f . Only .3 inches of percipitation
are expected in the month .
Be great if some of you all
can join us !
Note :
I reserve the right to post all communications I receive or generate to
CoSy website for further reflection .
Coherent Systems / 28124 N Hwy 67 / Woodland Park , CO 80863
Freedom
is not suppose to be something one must argue for in this country ;
it's almost supposed to be part of our name . But we know more and more
that the fight , which is by definition , of the individual , does not
end -- and in fact in many ways is more critical than any time in my 61
years .
Freedom
offers great competitive advantage . Nevada's main product may be said
to be Freedom and that is surely a factor in it's
US leading rate of rate of attraction of people and wealth from other
states .
I moved here to Woodland Park
from Manhattan New York six months ago . Among the reasons I'll quote
this from my parting
letter to my City Councilman , Alan Gerson :
Perhaps the first of us
to get out are those like me for whom the
discomfort of not being able to relax with a drink and a smoke as our
fathers did or as George Burns did to the age of 100 is secondary to
our gut level disgust and fear seeing some bullying pisher who was a
junior when we were freshman now have the force of police behind his
assertion of control over details of our peaceful voluntary choices .
I'm referring of course to
Michael Bloomberg who never
jepardized his election by hinting at his plan to extend substance
prohibition to nicotine .
I must confess , the drive to
control other citizen's peaceful
behavior is something I just don't have . But I've seen the glee in the
smiles of tobacco prohibitionists in New York that they get by crushing
your freedom ; they can't hold it in . Of course
they are doing it for our own good . They might as well quote Marx .
It's personal behaviors rather than economic decisions , but the
arrogance is the same .
The decision whether to allow
tobacco smoking in a place of
business does not have to be made at the state level ; it can be made
at the county level and let counties compete with distinct
personalities . Or it can be decided on the town level where towns can
choose their rules . Or , abiding by the founding principles which made
us the envy of the world , these decisions can be made by the Owner of
a business depending on their tastes and goals .
In New York the false claim
was made that there weren't any
non-smoking choices available . That is patently not true here . So
what charitable face can possibly be put on those who want to replace
this freedom of choice with police force ? I see
only arrogance . I hope I won't have this motive to move once again .
Peace thru Freedom ,
Bob Armstrong
Note :
I reserve the right to post all communications I receive or generate to
CoSy website for further reflection .
Coherent Systems / 28124 N Hwy 67 / Woodland Park , CO 80863
Posted
in response
to Scientific Amerian's respone to FDA self serving dismissal of any
medical value of Marijuana :
When you "follow the money" you
don't need to look beyond
the Government itself . It is the State itself which has a drive to
criminalize even the peaceful behaviors of its citizens thus
rationalizing the taking more money for more , and more militarized ,
police and a gulag now number 1 in the world .
Since the substantial collapse of
traditional Marxist economic
socialism , those with the drive to control others have been perfecting
Nanny Socialism based on the same scam that "it is for your own good" .
These NaSi's are more dangerous to our domestic tranquility than
anybody on the other side of the world .
April 23, 2006 @ 17:32
By
17 to 18 in the Senate (link to individual votes below) and signature
by outgoing Governor Owens, on March 27, Coloradans lost a chunk of
their liberty to a well funded in and out of state minority of zealots
so enamored by the drug prohibitions we already have that they have now
succeeded in criminalizing the peaceful relaxation of perhaps a million
of their fellow citizens.
These
zealots are not interested in
health, science, or truth. They are not interested in compromise. They
want to engage the State police, both uniformed and secret, in stopping
any proprietor or any veterans' or other "private" club from allowing
the consumption of nicotine and alcohol together within their doors. I
put private in quotes because that word clearly
means less than it used to.
To
quote one of the most rabid, District 59 Representative Mark Larson:
Absolutism
would be what I would like to do which is make tobacco a Classification
One Controlled Substance, Until tobacco is banned altogether, I guess
we'll just have to make certain that you don't take us along with you
are {as}
you slowly kill yourself."
Hint,
"Representative"
Larson, if you were just one of us ordinary citizens instead of one of
our "more equals", to use Orwell's "Animal Farm" phrase, you would have
the freedom of the market to turn around and walk
out the door
of any individual's business or club which didn't cater to your beliefs
and tastes. That applies whether you are a customer or an employee.
While there are, in fact, a lot of no-smoking restaurants, bars and
clubs around, and non smoking sections in many more, if you feel the
desire for one more your style or closer to you, get together with some
friends and open one up yourselves; apparently there's an under-served
market and some money to be made.
These
neo Carrie Nations are latter day
Marxists. They use the same scam that "it is for your own good". When I
was growing up, "Nazi" referred to Germany's National Socialists. Now
we face our own "NaSi"s, Nanny Socialists who do not believe in the
adulthood of their fellow citizenry, both majority and minority, whose
rights they were elected to defend. With blacks and gays having very
effectively won their civil rights, these "more equals" have found in
smokers a new minority attackable by their own minority while a
majority of bystanders just look on not considering the implications
for all our personal freedoms.
The
United States was founded on the
recognition that Government is one of the most dangerous entities in
our lives. Jefferson's idea of the proper purpose of the State was to
provide a fair court to redress and deter harm of one citizen by
another. The notion of individually owned private property was the
bedrock upon which any decision of who was aggressing or who defending,
who the criminal and who the victim, could be based. And indeed, the
right to make your own decisions about the use of your own property is
the foundation of freedom.
The
State has a natural drive to expand
just like any other monopoly. One method, because the number of true
criminals harming their fellow citizens by force or fraud, while
substantial, is finite, is to criminalize even the voluntary peaceful
behaviors and transactions of the citizenry, thus rationalizing the
taking of more money for more, and more militarized, police and an
expanding prison gulag. Just on the basis of our existing nanny statist
prohibitions, the US now has the number 1 gulag in the world.
It
is no overstatement to describe this
new prohibition as creating a new opportunity for snitches and secret
police to enter private establishments and selectively extort them over
personal choices by owners and patrons which have been legal since long
before any of us were born. "Smoke-easy"s are inevitable and exist
everywhere Governments have embraced these new revenue sources, oops,
prohibitions. (I moved out here from Manhattan, NY last year, in part
because my right to relax with a cigar and a beer among friends had
been criminalized. Still, I can steer you to a number of places on the
Lower East Side where, if you know the right door to go to, you can
light up if you want.)
Last
Tuesday, I got to a
standing-room-only meeting of a newly revived group of bar and
restaurant owners, VFW and DAV representatives, ordinary concerned
citizens like myself, and a couple of courageous House candidates who
believe defense of liberty and property may in fact still be a winning
stance in their districts. The group is raising money to get an
injunction, based initially on the unequal exemption of casinos, which
shows that even for the zealots, "health" is for sale, against the July
1 imposition of the new prohibition.
I
must admit being moved by seeing the
size of the gathering of, perhaps 80% smokers, but 20% not, gathering
their small moneys together to battle the massively funded (largely
with their own taken money) government nanny health lobby.
While
for many of the bar owners, their
potential bankruptcy motivates their donations, the pervading theme and
sense in the room is of a battle for freedom of individual choice
against tyranny no American should countenance. The Colorado Springs
members of their group, "The Coalition for Equal Rights", are holding
meetings every Tuesday afternoon at Walkabout Pub, 1919 E. Boulder.
Details and contacts are on their just set up website stopthebans.com .
Both
Teller County Representative James
Sullivan and Senator Tom Wiens voted against Liberty and for the
extension of the Nanny State.
I'm sure some of the 17 Senators and 24
of 65 representatives who voted to retain our liberty are personally
pissed that their own freedom to relax with a smoke and a brew has been
crushed.
I've been working in a very new and mimimalist FORTH by Ron Aaron named Reva ( hebrew for 1/4 ) running on both Windows and Linux . I've just posted the first code which provides some real utility from the perspective of someone used to working at the FORTH level . Namely , I have reference counted character , integer and float lists in useful form , tho still pretty naked , for someone with an APL headset . I've uploaded some examples at www.CoSy.com/CoSy/CoSy/UserManual.htm which links to further information . My interest is simplicity of expression so it is borrowing a lot from K other than its syntax . It is purely lists of lists ( bushes ) with modulo indexing so there are no notions of dimension per se , and rather than scalar extension , shorter lists are just indexed ( modulo ) to the length of the longer . In a sense , the only multidimensional function is "flip" which transposes 2 dimensions if they are rectangular , ie , all items of second dimension are of the same length . At this point , I could use some help from people who really know how to write an APL as to the best way to structure the overloading words to bury all the type specific verbs and adverbs and implement traditional APL infix . While I am aiming at a more word defined syntax than traditional APL structure , I really need to see how it has been done to see what I need to do . I'm looking , for instance for a copy of Whitney's one page prototype of J . And , of course to pick the brains of the brilliant like Bernecky and Ryan . If Chapman's I-APL is available somewhere , that might be useful to look at too . Since the whole system is going to be open code up to a very high application level , I look forward to input from others . Reva which really became pubic last summer has evolved spectacularly because of contributions from a number of brilliant FORTH/assembly programmers scattered around the globe . The system provides and will provide an APL that is unique in being open and easily customizable right to the assembly language level . Anyway , I invite you to take a look at what I've done so far . I apologize for the script being as messy and unsegmented as it is , but this is the very earliest point at which it's useful and makes sense to invite feedback .
As a born again Libertarian, I
completely
eschew the initiation of the use of force in solving social and
political problems. But, unlike the Christian cant (rarely seen in
practice) I suffer no such inhibition against striking back against
those who have trespassed against me.
I make the modest proposal that those
who are tobacco smokers, or
owners of establishments who will be losing business with the onset of
prohibition, or simply those who feel properly outraged by this blow to
our freedom-plexus, if they happen to know one of the 41
representatives or 18 senators, or the Governor, or if they happen to
have an ersatz friend who welcomes this extension of the nanny police
state, slug 'em.
Just once. Catch them off guard --
like they did us. Give them a
good one. Right in the jaw, or the solar plexus. Make real to them the
damage which they have supported and have done to the lost liberty they
will barbeque in the name of this July.
Give them a sense of what it means to
you to have this one more
reason for secret police and nanny-narcs to enter peaceful private
establishments and potentially seize that property for allowing a
patron, or even the owner him- or her-self, to find some enjoyment or
comfort in the use of one of nature's herbs.
Perhaps most mendacious are those who
are or claim to be fighting
the even more destructive prohibition of marijuana but who fail to
connect the dots (it's really a short line) and support the extension
of the drug war to tobacco. I know these people exist, illogical tho it
is to a Spockian mind. Slug them twice. Once upside each side of the
head. Once to get their attention, and once to make the point.
No, even more mendacious are those
smokers who welcome the police
power of the State to give them the backbone to quit which they lack
themselves. Well, we adults should not be victims of their permanent
infancy.
Last week the greatly outgunned
spontaneously formed coalition of
bar owners, vets, patrons and just plain freedom lovers blew a great
portion of the money they had scraped together in a quixotic attempt to
get a federal injunction against the start of prohibition next week.
U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Babcock said the notion that allowing
smoking is a fundamental right "is far-fetched." What's far-fetched is
the notion that there is anything in the Constitution that permits the
government to interfere with the peaceful assembly of citizens on
private property in such a way. 87 years ago it was recognized that an
amendment was required for such a prohibition.
Will Pelz, one of the activists in the
resistance, probably because
he is a few years older than me having been born slightly before World
War II, had a young guy, a non-smoker, in his place just back from Iraq
who had not heard of the prohibition. The guy was appalled. His
response was "What's Next". Good question. What will be the next excuse
for police to raid private spaces and gatherings, no longer needing to
knock because of, as Justice Scalia has written, their "greater
professionalism" now days.
It's enough to make 60 year old guys
with a history of non-violence want to punch the bullies in their face.
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See all the graffiti ! That could happen here . I think the Netherlands may have the relaxed attitude they do partly because of their history as gardeners in addition to having some of the largest , and therefore hardest to control , ports in the world . Even Antwerpen makes New Jersey look second tier . -- Bob Armstrong -- www.CoSy.com -- 719-337-2733 CoSy NewsLetter 2006 Summer : Presenting 4th.CoSy at APL Moot , Surrey http://www.cosy.com/y06/NL0607.htm Atomium , Brussels : / ================================================================ / Subject: Re: [DrugWar] Flower market in the narco-terrorist capital of the EU Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:44:13 -0600 From: Bob Armstrong Organization: Coherent Systems To: drugwar@mindvox.com CC: lpny_manhattan@yahoogroups.com, LEW - ZZPOPZZ Jack R. Lebowitz wrote: > On Sep 11, 2006, at 19:04 , Bob Armstrong wrote: > >> Got back from a couple of weeks in Europe last week . >> Much of my time in the narco-terrorist capital of the EU , >> Holland . Since there are no longer any border checks >> anywhere I drove , the whole continent is being affected . > > Wonderful photo. Thanks for sharing. The Blumenmarkt is indeed > lovely this time of year. Or any time of year, for that matter. > > I wonder why they hate our freedoms, though. Riiight ... > And use mayo on french fries instead of catsup. I spent most of my time in Middelburg in Zeeland where some APL friends live . Where they took me for mussels , both mayo & ketchup were offered with the freedom fries and do make a fine mixture . > How was the Homeland Security anal probe and strip search at JFK or > whatever your port of entry was? Went out of Newark , came back thru Chicago . As a 61 year old WASP with a blue passport , customs just waved me thru without any inspection even with a bit of a beard and pony tail . I was more concerned when the Paris police pulled my Citroen C1 over in some random road block . I find French most inscrutable but gathered they wanted to go thru everything in the car until I repeated "Gare du Nord" a couple of times and they gathered I just wanted to catch the EuroStar back to London so let me go . The chunnel train does have its own security search , kinda "airport lite" . You don't have to take off your shoes and you can leave your laptop in its case . Could keep your bottled water too . ( Heading out from Denver , a supervisor almost stopped the woman in front of me from keeping her toddler's bottle of water after the magnetometer and x-ray watchers told her not to worry about it . ) Heathrow seemed more concerned that your carry-on fit in this silly metal form they had than anything really having to do with security . I had to take some newspapers and maps I'd picked up out of my laptop case and put them into my checked luggage to trim it a cm or so so it would squeeze fit . So 767s and 777s designed with enhanced overhead storage are now flying with all that space nearly empty . I can't tell you how much safer I felt . No worries that someone's back pack may have shifted during flight and bonk you on the head when you deplane . The checked baggage was just shoved thru an x-ray machine . Had I known what the routine was , I would have brought back more that a left over roach ( from a commercial Dutch joint - more like a spliff than a typical NYC joint ) and a chip of cheap hash . I was as worried about smuggling a lighter from coffee shop "sixty-two" in Middelburg as them noticing the the herb in with my cigars . Prices in Middelburg ranged from around 4.5 to 6.5 Euros % gram for both herb and hash . Seemed to be about 50% more in Amsterdam . I've uploaded all my images from the trip to http://cosy.com/y06/Images/Europe/ .
Check the progress Towards 4th.CoSy Executive
Computing Environment The User/Developer Forum is now open
, and I have left K.CoSy for Proto 4th.CoSy for my simple diary uses .
The event which
prompts my getting out my first newsletter since
shortly before Ray Cannon's APL Moot in Surrey England last summer , NL0607 , is
again announcing the presentation of the evolving free and open 4th.CoSy
"notecomputing" environment . I'll be presenting an hour and a half
interactive tutorial introduction at the ACM APL2007
conference being held in conjunction with OOPSLA
the week of October 21st . I'll leave most of the details to the
abstract and other documentation available at my CoSy/CoSy
page , in the CoSy/Forum
, and in the interactive help which you start in when you download
and boot up the software itself . While still an embryo , I have now
been using 4th.CoSy as my main
daily diary since , well , I see October 7 last year , and have tapered
off the use of old K.CoSy to the not inconsiderable
task of family accounting .
I have also been invited
to participate in a panel comparing
and contrasting the various available array oriented languages . To the
question of the strongest aspect of 4th.CoSy
, my answer is that it's free and open and if a handful of talented
individuals get interested , we'd represent a larger development team
than any commercial vendor .
It's somewhat short
notice , but I hope a few of you language
addicts can make it to Montreal . As I say in the introduction to the
interactive documentation , at this point in its development , I offer 4th.CoSy
as a mental jungle-gym upon which to exercise your anabolic
talents .
I've said in
posts on the Manhattan Libertarian Serf
City blog and on their Yahoo
Group
that Ron Paul's presidential candidacy is the most historic in my life
time . The march towards a global nanny police state by the US
government led me to become an activist Libertarian nearly a decade ago
. Now a groundswell is erupting among the broadband connected which is
shocking and awing the NeoCon war-mongers . In the quarter just closed
, Paul raised $1.2 million mostly in the last week . Essentially the
race is between Ron Paul and everyone else . The truth that he is the
only candidate who has a chance of beating Hillary in 2008 is starting
to sink in to republicans . Just how many of us are changing our
registration to flood the republican party primaries will be
interesting to see , but it's clear there are millions of us who are
mad ( and scared ) as hell and are doing everything we can about it .
Unless this country radically changes course , I seriously am looking
for freer country to move to . But if the US is not gotten back under
control , no place will be safe .
Without the internet it
would have been very difficult to leave NYC for Colorado ; with it , I
continue to be webmaster of ManhattanLP.org
, and , following some unfortunate cock-ups last spring , have taken
over as moderator of the ManhattanLibertarians
Yahoo group . I also post on the NYC
Junto and Preston Peet's www.DrugWar.com
mail groups .
The NeoCon philosophy has
much more to do with
defending zionism than anything to do with traditional conservatism .
It is clear why the mind set controlling the country protested so
loudly against giving a microphone to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . While a
religious nut like all the rest of them , he blows away the
characterizations of him and Iran that are continually drummed on us by
the state/media .
In this day of
instantaneous transcripts and videos , the MSM
censor more than inform . Thank the flow of existence for CSPAN . Here
the videos of the
The NPC asks the better questions , but the 2 events tend to be
complementary .
Here's a bit of what he
really said :
He is
less a dictator and more representatively elected than most other
leaders in the mid-east arguably including Israel .
He
does not deny the "holocaust" ( one of many in the 20th century )
rather he asks why among all topics of study are half a dozen or more
researchers and academics of various credentials in prison in Europe
for questioning various aspects of it .
He asks why should the indigenous Palestinians have been paying for
sixty years living in the most god-awful mess on the planet for what
was a European event . He points out that before zionism , muslims ,
jews , christians and even zoroastrians lived in peace thru out the mid
east and even today a community of around 25,000 jews live , with
representation , in Iran ( and in fact have rejected inducements to
move to Israel ) . It's clear his brand of the religious nuttiness ,
common to all the "warring" regimes , including Bush , is monotheism .
He emphasizes the commonalities between the 0 , 1 , and 2 messiah sects
rather than their differences .
He proposes a referendum of all the population of palestine to decide
the future of the region . This , of course , is why he is so feared by
the zionists , both christian and jewish , both in Israel and here . A
vote of all the people of the region would end the zionist experiment .
He considers nuclear weapons an outdated and useless way to manage
international relationships . But he absolutely demands that Iran have
equal rights to develop its science and technology , including nuclear
, as any other country .
What in all of this are the rants of a madman ? Surely it must be
admitted that he projects far more intelligence and is far more
articulate than our president . This is what is truly feared . That
he's not a nut . Rather the zionist side in its apoplectic hysteria to
silence him shows the desperation of its case . If you want to see real
saber rattling , go to the Jerusalem Post
.
With respect to his much
derided comment that there are no
homosexuals ( alternately translated no "homosexual culture" ) in Iran
, Mosaic
TV had some informative links :
My view is : a pox on all
religions - starting with the monotheists
whose first commandment is "Me , me , me , bow to me and none other" .
The first clause of our first amendment should have kept us out of all
this crap . See CoSy.com/Liberty/FirstClause.htm
.
It must be noted that
Ahmadinejad did NOT deny that Iranian
weapons were getting into Iraq , just that the US was deluding itself
to think this was the source of its problems .
It is not appreciated
sufficiently , that rather than control
of oil directly , the purpose of invading Iraq was to establish large
permanent military bases there to replace those in Saudi Arabia and
elsewhere . That ever less achievable goal is a core reason why
democrats like Hillary will not put an end to American occupation .
#Warmwww.CoSy.com/views/warm.htm
The most recent print issue
of SerfCity.US
featured my 4000
word pursuit
of the classic physics of planetary temperature as its centerfold
article . The basic premise of the global warming fear mongers -- that
uniform changes it the spectrum of layers of the atmosphere can change
the mean temperature of our radiantly heated sphere from the
temperature of the space around it -- continues to offend my
understanding of the most elementary thermodynamics . Heat does not go
up hill and stay there .
The real issue is whether
rationality will catch up with this subject before the global
governments do too much damage .
There
are increasing numbers of very strong videos skeptical of global
warming on YouTube . ( rather like the Ron Paul
phenomenon )
For this newsletter I've given up doing any fancy editing and splicing
of the video of the experiment I did with black , white and silver ping
pong balls in the Colorado sun last spring . I've just uploaded the
last clip I took because it was clouding up and I had completed all the
relavant permutations I could think of . The temperatures indicated are
pretty typical tho . ( note the thermometer on the left
tended to read 0.2c below the others . )
The GW alarmists claim that minute changes in the reflectivity of the
planet will make major changes in its mean temperature . I found no
difference between a flat black painted and a natural white ping-pong
ball and at most about 2c with a "chrome" painted ball . I also got a
feeling for what a small change the at most 0.8c increase in
temperature this century is . It's hard to get thermometer reading to
be stable within less than ~ 0.2c . I'd really like to see this
experiment done "professionally" in a vacuum , and I'd really
like to see the equations which predict exactly how much heating or
cooling different paint jobs will produce . Despite the lifestyles of
millions riding on this science , I have failed to find such basic
equations anywhere on the web .
My old grad
school
roommate Greg Stanley and his wife stopped by this summer . Greg's PhD
is in Chemical Engineering ( the process control side ) and he thinks
in PDEs
. We've since corresponded about the problem , but I won't have time to
dive into it again until after APL2007 . I do think we will be able to
come to some definitive equations . My last note to him was just a
brief comment that I wanted to understand marbles before taking on
fluids . Expressing these relationships in 4th.CoSy so I can have my
own little planetary models will be an early gauge of the succinctness
, clarity and power of its notation .
One
impressive video I happened on while uploading my clip is Noam
Mohr and the Internet Skeptic on Global Warming
The Skeptic's computation of CO2 residence time of about 20 years from
Mauna Loa measurements is straight forward , and how any GW
"scientists" could claim uncertainty of between 50 and 200 years is
criminal given the stakes involved .
#Lifewww.CoSy.com/home.htm Last Winter we were snowed in
for weeks at a time
. A deaf dog disappeared . A mare out at a trainer on the plains died .
It's been a wet year til this month . We lost - thru a bad vet and
ignorance - a beautiful palomino to an ankle infected after being badly
cut on corral fencing . Have a new foal and a yearling by him tho .
They are learning bad habits from the gelding , Tie . After being down
to 3 ducks , the female hatched 10 of which 7 have survived . Their
father is their brother and it shows . Saw a beautiful fox coming up to
the house for the dog food . All 3 adult cats disappeared within a
couple of weeks . Left with 3 kittens of the litter born in my bedroom
around the same time as the ducks . The ducks are adults ; the kittens
still kittens . The conure , OneEyedJack , which
lost an eye in a cat fight stays my shoulder to the bank or
Blockbusters .
The other day I spent the
entire afternoon
searching for our retarded
african gray parrot which I ended up finding after a 0c night in a
grove of pine saplings on our neighbor's side of the fence over 100m
away . news.Google.com
had a bunch of coverage of the sudden death at 31 of a supposed genius
african gray at MIT or somewhere . Our gray's only talent is meowing
like a cat and is otherwise dumber if possible than even our 10 ducks
which are so dumb you wouldn't feel that much of a pang offing and
eating them . In contrast , our cockatoo and conure pack an amazing
intelligence in their little walnuts .
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The
major event for me in 2005 has been leaving my 20 year view at 42 Peck
Slip
, Manhattan 10038 , of Roebling's enduring bridge over the East River
for a view
of the natural beauty of Pike's Peak from here at 28124 N Hwy 67 ,
Woodland Pk ,
CO 80863 . I have been meaning to get out a general newsletter since
even before
the move in August but only succeeded in publishing specific portions
on 
from 
Last but most assuredly not
least , as I write this on New Year's eve ,
MidWinter is
just 5 Saturdays away . This will be my 20th 
MidWinter
Gathering , the
first couple of which were held in Rochester NY before moving down to
Manhattan
in 1984 . To mark the first party back out in the natural world , we'll
do
something that's a little difficult on the 13 mile island ,
particularly on your
own family property .
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Last Winter we were 
The other day I spent the
entire afternoon
searching for our retarded
african gray parrot which I ended up finding after a 0c night in a
grove of pine saplings on our neighbor's side of the fence over 100m
away .