pneumatics tips dept

27.ramadan.mcdxxx

Never discuss physics problems in the bathroom.

if there is any book in the world that can be called diabolical, it's the bible.

integrate don't differentiate.

the world can be manipulated by manipulating symbols.

keep all texts out of bathrooms, especially comics.

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pneumato note on force

27.ramadan.mcdxxx

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forces result from mass in motion, result from motion of mass - there is the "potential energy" but potential fields of motionless particles themselves result from the residual motions inside the particles. in any case in nature, there are no point charges that just sit there.
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ie forces are very much like momenta. similar to momenta. first and second order differentiations of the position function of time; AND the mass.

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a weak pneumato note:
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relation to ritual as a consecration of matter and behavior of matter, motion.
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this is perhaps inadvertently ("coincidentally")reflected accidentally in the phrase "going through the motions".


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social fields

27.ramadan.MCDXXX

updated version of an earlier post with some additions.

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we imagine a human society where each individual is a generator of at least one field, or is the gauge particle of a field
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likewise we can imagine the individual comprised a bunch of gauge charges (flavors) each interacting / generating different fields - just like a particle could interact strongly, e-weakly and gravitationally

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or rather that every individ is both a gauge particle generating a field, and endowed with different charges , "observables that interact with other particles field
* different ways to conjecture:
-- the individuals are each unique , unlike the particles families in the physical metaphor or source of the analog we're trying to construct. conversely,
-- not unlike individual particle instances of a given class of particles, the invidivual's are identical - eg, "a single soul", and a "single Self" - and thus conform in their various properties, particularly their gauge charge. this is even more attractive than the first conjecture

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counterconjecture: not unlike physical particles, individs represent instances of different classes / families of particles (having nothing to do necessarilty with biological kinship)
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each individual generates a field of influence in its neighborhood
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others are either outside the field or inside, or the field could be infinite tapring off to infinitesimality in the case of people who do not know the individual and who might subissent a residual influence that is negligible not , felt.
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those that are closer to the indvid who generates his field, have a larger charge wrt to the charge field generated by the individ than others.
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this determines their proximity or distance to him in his field - which socially translates to the group of people interacting directly with the individ.

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what kind of topological space would correspond to the set of individuals in a society?
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how connected, compact, and separable is that topological space?
o
what kind as in how is it to be classified? t0, t1, t2, t2.5, t3, t3.5 , t4, t5, t6,
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hausdorff, normal, regular, tychonoff, etc.
o
we note that the intersections of neighborhoods are not empty, as one clue to the type of topology of the social spc

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we let state be the open/closed / clopen sets that constitute the (local) neighborhood of each individ in the social set or space
o
there may be a prblm w/ that def

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we image that transformations are changes of state for a given subset S of the spc
o
if the change of state is generated from S (self-generated) ,
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the xform is an automorphism?
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equiv to action by the subset?
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if the change is generated by another subset R , it is a xform R→S or is it?
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it is not
o
we cannot change a subset R to subset S , we cannot transorm people into other people
o
the changes are from state(t1) to state(t2),
o
thus it seems the change is from a subset to a subset hence always an automorphism
o
on the other hand individs may move from one subset to another in the course of / due to a xformat ,thus
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was the xform applied to single subset ending up affecting more than just that subst or
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was the xformat applied to all the subsets that got affected?

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thus there may be two prblms w/ xformats
o
in defining what is a state
o
in defining what is a transformation (of what, what changes what remains the same, from what to what,automorph or not)

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motivation for social xforms:
o
ideally that would be to look at em in terms of groups, the study of which properties are useful to descriptions (and verifiable sims) of the system
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but since a) i know neither what it means to organize xforms into groups , nor what the props o groups and their representations, their lie algs and their lie algebras' reps say about the system or the xformats; and b) i am in the effort to understand and know those things
o
this is what the construct of the social field analogy and identifying xformats their groups vis a vis the props / observables and the system.
o
wrk symmetry into that: those xforms that leaves certain props unchanged.


foregoing can thus also relate a bit to an earlier post, I am negative mass.
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the countrification of cyberspace (and the web)

05.viiI.MCDXXX

The firewall of china's so big you can see it from cyberspace. Cant get a day pass at Spotify - sucks to be in your country 'cause it's not available there. you got 3 out of 245 chances of being in the right country to enjoy last.fm. google blocks TOR and other anonymization services.



One of the exciting things about early Internet social media (the early ones included BBS, NNTP, IRC, mailing lists) and of the web was the nationlessness of communication. You could enter into communication with random strangers in far flung lands and not have to worry what you think of their place or what they think of yours. This gave a temporary respite from int'n or racial or cultural prejudice.

Then someone invented geolocation by IANA lookups, or geoIP. As a result one again gets hemmed in by geographically-based presumptions. (See for instance this post serve it in english svp)

It sucks but many will argue we had it coming due to a myriad legal and financial issues - namely every one of humanity's vices - freeloading entertainment media, politics, e-commerce trade regulations, the unsolicited shoving of things down your vision nerves known as advertising or marketing, etc.

The problem isn't with the law enforcement part. The trouble is that every big party uncritically and eagerly embraced and exploited this break-up of the Pangeaic cyberspace into country ip ranges, for pigeon-holing and exclusivism as the chief uses for geo IP location.

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time bubble note

26.vii.MCDXXX

Like any foam, the bubbles in a time foam would have to be maintained by surface tension. But tension of what surface?

The surface of a time bubble consists of nothing other than regular mass , but controlled in a way , perhaps through intrinsic momenta or angular momenta, so as to create a differential between the rate of time flow inside and outside the bubble. ... Read more

some oriental abjads

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film revu draft: film review medley

21.vii.MCDXXX

game for skewering:


(star system: no stars for suckers, or some for hook interestingness and/or prodction qlty)

**** In the valley of Elah

thoughtful casting places a whole line up of very talented actors in the best roles i've seen them in in a long time. The actors and their parts fit together very well. Tommy lee jones in particular delivered a carefully crafted performance that was very thoughtful, telling and touching.
haggis. he's got it. he write the good stuff paul haggis.
he'd caught my attention in Crash to be sure - which was more heartfelt, tighter and more real than emotional orgasms of paul thomas anderson's magnolia.
Indeed this movie represents a few steps up the quality ladder since Crash.
Haggis' filmography reveals a slinger and a heavy hitter.
His writing credits include the two latest outings of the new Bond, three Clint Eastwood movies.

although i avoided them when they were released , now recognized as eastwood haggis collaborations they are at least worth checking out.

already million dollar baby stands out as one of the best boxing movies in its proximity to the sport itself + the strong melodrama that burdens and drives its characters.

Team America (2004)

I'd skipped that one too . There ws no way i was going to watch self-indulgences on the war from the South park angle. But of the post 03 war movie wave, this was one of the earliest.
For all its ambivalence (or complacency) and idiosyncracies it's a solid comedy. it's south park; so it's also over the top: there are enough times you hear the name of jesus invoked in exclamation associated with wanton acts of intercourse.

# passion of the christ

incomplete - b/c i skipped a lotta scenes
i never liked cazievel anyway - jus lk @ the name
belucci does some repenting
listening the very arabic-like aramaic is v. interesing
nad quite puts the lie to the ajami foreign alien exoontologic turkic/hungar language of khebkhew

# family plot (Hitchcock 1976)

lol his name is hitchcock.
anyway
finally finished this plodding un-funny though it thinks it is flick
full of cliches from its period (mid/late 60s - what? late 70s?
crime, suspense, thriller flicks
where directors and actors who for some unknown reason think they're cute
and are droll
are actually anything but
if anything it points to the atrocious state of humour among at least that clique
in their day.
most brit - like hitchy here -
i recall those endless ensemble suspense/thriller/murder/whodunit/whatrwecalledherefor dramas
with the likes of peter sellers, david niven, assorted harlots and sidekicks (lol like i bet
robter wagner and the likes)
lol, eg,
cat and the canary
also the period goes with my current disco phase

indi jones & crystal skull

is v. effing dull

** Strange days (1995)

Can hardly believe this cyberpunk flick was made in 1995 !!!!
so visionary
their foretelling of the millenium parties is remarkable - tho
it is rather str8fwd if u think abou it
the memory transcription thing is one of the more interesting themes in sci-fi
see greg egan s/w copy or something , paprika anime, etc.

Chemical wedding (2008)

another cyberpunk movie
quantum interference, squids,
crazy quantum-related computer-controlled transmigration of souls, reincarnation
astral projection AND time travel
to say nothing
of masonic rites and references, philological devices, occult galore,
and satanic sex orgies
gotta be the cyberpunk flick of the decade so far !
naturally none of the critics understood it
nor did i of course - but it takes some background knowlege on
crowley and his AA-OTO-GD crowd , his thoughts etc
smoe of the references make more sense when familiar with his works
like the 7777777,... message eg.

# **** Mongol (2007)

good treatment -
much appreciate the mongol (monguk) dialogues
the interesting costumes of the turko-monguk settings on the outskirts of the xixin kingdom
and the interpretations were good as well
another plus is the story tallies with every other work i've perused on
the Khagan's life - which all obviously derive from the same legend and source
the secret history of the mongol people

the vistas of the open steppes, the well thought-out sets
give off historical reality and gravity
with the right mood it allowed me to wander into the very human condition itself
and this primordial tale which must have been replicated throughout ostasia and transpacific
for millenia.

then of course the story of this man, clearly guided and protected by fate / destiny,
amounting to making an unstoppable agent, close to that of major prophets.
The morality cliches , the dedication fo the wife, the monk, the trials and deprivations
of the khagan are - as is the habit with chinese / ostasian productions - touching.

# Street Fighter: The legend of Chun Li (2009)

not bad , has some interesting hooks
still not sold on that genre AND it is a game adaptation
a genre of which i have still seen nothing impressive
but a novel and interesting environment and context and set of
cliches / tropes for me to watch since i'm so unfamiliar
with this tacky brainless bullshit

i guess one attractive (literally) elemnt in this genre of movies
(kickboxing,street fighting vigilante type shit)
which could be seen in this flick and i often saw it
in the random tv replays of van damme and lambert flicks
is how its protags exude this goodness and good faith
and the story is so simplistically morally clearcut
to watch it is like a massage to viewers' ethical subsystems

but it is particularly a good natured quality about the protag
that appeals to the "masses" which also includes me every now
and a blue moon, with a trough in my intellectual biorhythm,
and nothing better to watch :)

# ** Starship Troopers 3 (2008)

it's pretty close to the original flick
reprises much of the same art direction, and character of the first one.
quite unlike the very shazh/outcast, the 2nd sequel

# starship troopers 2 (200x)

disparate from the other two in the series
+ sucks ass basically
it's like Alien on a shoestring budget by
performing arts wannabes - yep it's squarely on the low-end
of the "hack movie" category
must've gotten it today after ST3 wetted my appetite for more

# Resident Evil: degeneration (2008)

not bad not bad for a 3D anime
some nice details
noted the work on the textures like textiles, >= two layers of hair
the facial playacting
and facial features
tho still people do not move like that -

* Duplicity (2009)

not bad not bad
w/ the inside man guy the one with always good parts - clive owen
better than the rest in its type of plot
i recall the one with clooney -
and another with the stupid euro company selling bad weapons to some
arab country - and their relation with russian mafia and the protag.
the three fit together.
this one was perhaps better.

Dead space downfall (2008)

cartoon - cel animation
art approaches that ugly art of the guy who made the aeon flux cartoon series
but the art is thankfully much better than that - particularly the humans are much better
tho still leaving much to be desired.
otoh, the craft and tech designs were nice. particularly the space tether
was well conceived - and an upgrade on the legendary spelevator.

Eagle eye (2008)

OMG it's soooooo imbecilic

outlander

OMG it's soooooooo baaaaad
and imbecilic
also score's almost the same as previous entry
but great creature design

Gin-iro no Kami no Agito

(=Agito the Silver-Haired)(2006, Keiichi Sugiyama) aka (origin - spirits of the past)
studio Gonzo
def'ly NOT studio ghibli
for every studio ghibli there is a studio gonzo
to fool the less discerning

changeling (2008)

i hear oscar nominations
which isn't saying much - it's already done w/ we're in june's end
but what a harrowing story
and the history seems to be told well, 'least for a hllywd picsher
but utterly unmemorable. the story is so small compared
to the steppes of Ghengiz khan the alien infestations in far away galaxies.
no actually some key elements were missing from this work.
and angelina jolie won't convince me of motherhood emotions if they paid me.

confessions of a shopaholic

incomplete
she so cute & funny
ok and also vomit inducing but cute
she has that reese witherspoon air about her.

**** oss 117: rio ne répond + (2009)

Manages to tackle a culturally sensitive area with frankness and subtlety, tho characteristically it doesn't take itself too seriously - or at least presents itself this way. understandably - for it juggles heavy baggage: as an exploitation spoof, as an exploitation movie itself, as intercultural readings through (faux-)satire, and so on.
isn't Hubert, among other things, sarkozian france in today's confusing state of the world? so are his co-star chars also personifications of the different locales he stumbles into.
all reasons to look fwd to the next installement in the series - maybe in 2010.

*** king arthur (2004)

2nd time watch
fresh take - a demystified look at the legend, attempting to place it in an historical
context - that or reproducing the novel that originally did that.
good despite melodramatic flourishes and score
good cast too - and clive owens very distinguishing in the roles he chooses- something that viewers appreciate in actors.

hardware (1990)

piece of garbage
lowest tech movie ever
tech takes a nosedive in this foresaken flick
a cyberpunk wannabe that fails so badly - never even tries
stupid
ages badly because it wasn't up to its own time
would appear more impressive if it were made in 1969 not 1990
incomplete - couldn't finish it

notorious (2008)

so lame
gives "black" or "hood" movies a bad name
do all biopics suck?
it sucks ass - no cool, no pace, no charisma, nothing
couldn't finish it
and seriously if notorious biggs is anything like that actor (was he him?!)
he so lame man. i hung out with people who hung out with puff daddy read p-diddy,
and this film here is laaaayme bro its laaaame.

entre les murs (2008)

excellent classroom drama
best one i've seen so far?
2nd time lucky -

Columbo 5x02 A Case Of Immunity Ac3 Dvdrip Xvid

reel arabs episode - nominated for emmy
goldblum carrying Saurians sign
the fictional arab dictatorship is sauria - either a play on saudia or syria
incomplete

friday 13th 2009

incomplete
nothing new
michael bay shud be kept away frm teen movies

Push (2008)

incomplete
great story - terrible film
and what the hell is with this silly idea of sniffers
it's disgusting to start with

highway to hell (1991)

nostalgia for one of those random old rentals from the time i watched it - obviously
past the late 80s /90s cusp viewing wave
so 2nd time or so since 91/92 maybe even 93/94 !
discovered
it has early parts for buddies ben stiller his dad and his sister even!
stiller again cast / casting himself as the idiot - so it's a loooong running
gag with him. but u can nearly always tell he's no idiot - nearly because - well
watch zoolander + dodgeball
incomplete

Martyrs (2008)

french hoghogh
compelling thought if only for a second - though a second later the gaping hole in the premise becomes evident. despite anything compelling it remains a gratuitous/exploit. film and i didn't like that.

beowulf and grendel (2005)

demystified look at the legend
demystified and boooooring.
but w/ whatchmacallem, King Arthur (2004) *** , and the more engaging Beowulf (2007) *** ,
they form the kernel of a good Gothic (the historical culture not the literary genre) Film fest.

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etymo note: P راس -> Reg Rex

30.vI.MCDXXX

Rani, rania, rein , regna,

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serve it up in english svp

25.V.MCDXXX

Summary: In conclusion, I think search engines like google and other web services / portals should always be served in an international language by default until the language setting is later changed and saved using cookies or whatever.

i hate when software makers start to make guesses for the user that they should not be making.

Most annoying, eg, is how google and other WWW public(?)/free(?) services make guesses about the language I want to read their service in based on the geo location of my IP. (although this is withOUt saved cookies i should disclaim.)

So if i'm a business traveler in myanmar, and tap a query into the search engine from the hotel bar or biz ctr, or try to access other services without saved cookies , i get served in malayo , which i've never learnt or read in my life.

and so even though the entire malayo nation itself has gone thru the trouble of making all its public information available to foreigners in one or moreinternational languages like english or french or chinese. Not so with service providers like google - noooo, they gotta play "smaaart" and guess for you what language You speak ! ... Read more

افندى (efendi) αὐθέντης authentic

12.I.1430

notice: this post contains both fact and fan[ta]cy (<- Pan,pangyr)

Authentic, authenticus, αὐθέντης , (Effendi) أفندى,

The turkish title (used for civil servants and the like) connotes a measure
of authority. It derives from the greek αὐθέντης.

It was in the hierarchy of the ottoman social system, ouranked by the bek and the pasha.

Afandem also was used to answer present in regimental contexts, or when coming to attention b/f a superior.

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Classifying knowledge by energy level

22.v.1430

The various domains of knowledge could be expressed as the functional domain for some knowledge measure function.

by way of example, the study of molecular biological systems that involve low levels of energy would be ranked lower than the study of the fluid dynamics of a waterfall, where the energies measured are much higher. And so the molecular biology would be to the left of waterfall dynamics on an axis or scale of energy levels.

The study of cosmology would probably one of the highest on the knowledge domain axis; and ironically for science, and by definition, theology would occupy the position on the axis with the highest energy level of all - the existence that transcends and contains the natural world and beyond. ad hoc schemes/heuristics to determine the energy level of a given knowledge domain seem feasible.

The initial motivation was to play around with the idea of an integrable knowledge mesaure - eg, a knowledge area function. This presented a challenge which was to find both a measure of knowledge and a metric (to define the domain and distance on the domain of that knowledge measure function, or knowledge area function).

some discussion is at knowledge_area_function.


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time, loops and motion

22.V.1430

when dealing with the passing of time in computer programming , there is no recourse like the loop. For instance, how else do we handle the repititiveness of time when doing things like printing a clock update?

programming indefinite timeframe in which to wait and catch events as they occur - involves a loop- like the processing loop.

* But what other loops are there nature? Motions.

* So is time generated by motion? In other words, in the absence of motion, is there no more time?

If Nature is customarily subtle, its signals that this may be true, could not be more blunt. Most of the motions we see are periodic. Indeed are physical and social existence are organized around those loops of time.

Entertaining the blind conjecture that time is loop-like. Recalls familiar notes.

* As we said, motion itself is loop-like due to laws.
* The relation of time to motion and energy is clear from e=mc^2 and e=hυ.
* so (maybe) motion generates time (?)

* iow, time is a function of motion. eg, time is like the displacement over its derivative t(s) = s(t)/s'(t).

* That time, as a function is periodic suggests time is a complex function.

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Computing as the evolution of writing

22.V.1430

computing, or programming are to humankind more like writing2.0.

writing , in implication, was not merely the aquired ability to record data.

It was also very much a programming tool - which with an individual's will
was exercised and accomplished - think contracts, court orders, decrees, wills,
and so on.

The transformative effect writing had on society was thus much more than the
more widespread communication of information. It included creating new social
spaces, and tools for action. Crucially it is through writing that mathematics
and exact engineering and technology were able to arise.

The ability to distribute and store information through was one of the secondary
applications or byproducts (lesser effects) of writing despite being at the root
of the motivation to write.

If the appearance of programming (or equivalently computing) in society at large in the past 60 years is an analogue to the effect of the invention of writing, then despite all the applications
seen so far - at the risk of aping Sir Papa WWW - we are still at the beginning of the computer era in terms of its profound
effect on society.

One of the things that initially stands out about computing is how it insinuated itself into every human activity. Despite being a product of electrical engineering and formal logic*, ie despite being an invention "like any other" it was as indispensible to human activity as others like planning and administration.

writing also became a necessity in every serious activity - from religion to trade everything required record keeping, planning, communication writs.

computing provided - well - computation. But it also xtended the record keeping. it automated record keeping and reduced most human activities to computations made on vast records of data.

Indeed, technically the computer was never more than that. A tool for data processing. like writing.

Both are intimately connected to our cognition and thought processes. We often cannot think without them. (here writing can be expanded to its larger sense which includes graphing or drawing as well - as a representational tool & faculty - an extension of the imagination).

Thus computing - or specifically computer programming - is the evolutionary step following writing.

Where writing has led to the ability to program and maintain civic institutions - from theology to accounting , computing gives the ability to program and automate intellectual activity and systems of knowledge.

*for a picture of the fields that fathered computer science , see http://augmented5th.dyndns.org/doku/doku.php?id=computation.
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things life teaches dept: if the universe were an algorithm

22.V.1430

if the entire universe is an algorithm,
then its entire run and outcome set must be known in advance.

there are good reasons why it is an algorithm, and not only as a collection of cellular automata primitives.

it is an alg, as a process that is controlled by sets of constraints - which are the physical laws.

even for a chaotic process, the constraints of physics , or of nature, apply.

it is an algorithm also in the sense of a dynamic model, we know it is controlled or self-regulating/controlling because the persistence of form of some of its objects , like us, despite a continual flow of matter "through" us. That was pointed out by Wiener in Cybernetics

Since a state function is defined (even if it is unknown) by the domain/range, and because a process itself is a set of state or transitions functions, it mus be viewed as a design, ie no different from other state transition machines, or state machines, or automata - save in complexity of course.

The implication is clear. As an algorithm, a formal (vs. natural) automatic machine, it is designed and like any well-designed system, its behavior and outcomes must have been anticipated and fully understood before its "deployment" :)



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2 points of aesthetics

17.V.1430

construction work in the states looks smart going up and smart after it's done
here it looks dumb going up and even dumber after it's finished

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