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Mon Oct 27 15:38:55 2003

Diary pages are like some of my life, sort of hard to follow, but in short they get places, do some decent work, but aren't exactly planned to page level...

I got this when I  started a shell this afternoon on a machine which runs the web server,  and on which I recently put the latest complete cygwin unix emulation (the machine runs on XP because there is no linux driver available for the modem). It still had my startup script which does an imitation of what minicomputers in my experience were not unlikely to offer: present the system, give you a funny or serious few lies of unix 'fortune' , and then the reassuring, relatively powerfull waiting prompt and the command line cursor.
Welcome to bash/cygwin on XP
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of 
them keeps paying for it.
                -- Peggy Joyce
~ [501] $
The shell is called bash, which is similar to what is available and often used on most linuxes.

Authority

From Merriam Webster Online :

au·thor·i·ty (pronounciation)
Pronunciation: &-'thär-&-tE, o-, -'thor-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Etymology: Middle English auctorite, from Old French auctorité, from Latin auctoritat-, auctoritas opinion, decision, power, from auctor
Date: 13th century
1 a (1) : a citation (as from a book or file) used in defense or support (2) : the source from which the citation is drawn b (1) : a conclusive statement or set of statements (as an official decision of a court) (2) : a decision taken as a precedent (3) : TESTIMONY c : an individual cited or appealed to as an expert
2 a : power to influence or command thought, opinion, or behavior b : freedom granted by one in authority : RIGHT
3 a : persons in command; specifically : GOVERNMENT b : a governmental agency or corporation to administer a revenue-producing public enterprise <the transit authority>
4 a : GROUNDS, WARRANT <had excellent authority for believing the claim> b : convincing force <lent authority to the performance>
synonym see INFLUENCE, POWER


The Club of Rome

Does it still exist? In a way.

In the seventies, I remember from being sort of pre-adolescent, there was this club of concerned world citizens who called themselves the club of Rome, who wanted to make clear what environmental theats await us when the industrial and consumer developments grow unbriddled at the rate and under the circumstances and with the variables known in that time.

They gathered various data about the earth's resources and polution processes, made computer programs encorporating data about various subject, and made growth rate and breakdown based predictions.

The outcome wasn't exactly positive about the future of the world even in my projected lifetime, let alone for later generations.

I'm sure the New Age would 'know' ways to 'deal' with these problems, but thus far I don't have faith in Clintonism, or the general european eucharist life's constructions to solve anything at all, and then the predictions hold probably all too much, and must be dealt with with the highest priority, much like a desaster situation when wildfire hits town. The environment must get the highest priority for a liveable world to begin with, or the world population is going to become little short of distinct when the oil runs out, the ozon layer is destroyed, and all kinds of pollution grow outside correctable bounds, there is not much choice, and anyone who tells you differently is probably a liar.

All religeous, faithwise, and other other non-rational considerations must be put aside in the face of the physical exhaustion of the world energy sources, and the even now quite high and growing rate of pollution. I of course cannot exactly look down in my coffecup (Assuming I, luckily, can have one) check the debris and predict the future, but when the oil sources are mapped and reasonably estimated, I know for pretty sure that it makes no sense to research car anti-rust schemes which make them last longer than 40 years (when lucky) unless their are electrical or bio powered.

Barbara at the shore, over a dike, of the largest dutch artificial (it was a sea) lake, which is bearable, polutionwise, though I don't only like the idea of swimming in it. 

Fish aren't extinct, but some known and relevant sorts were and are certainly in danger, real danger.


Leiden (in Holland) University Main Library, side alley, with students sitting in front

There are studies ecology or environmental issues or somthing, not that one would expect much to come from that, you'd probably want an engineer or maybe an advanced scientist from one of the non-human (haha) sciences to solve some problem lets say in mechanics or electrical engineering, and probably they would given some time be able to answer your content-wise question. Not unlikely even pretty decent.

Apart from probably the languages, and of course medical doctors, the 'human' scientists aren't even accustomed with the principles, just like many civil servants and the likes. None of them much learns to actually look objectively at a problem with an aim for a solution to it. Or to information relevant for engineering, they just didn't learn such principles much or at all.

And then life takes a wholly different course as a result, the question 'why are we on earth' has profound, and wrong, answers in certain world wide religeous systems, and they are very much aimed at engineering power structures, and pretty damn good and refined and powerfull in that. Much more than a naive well willing young intellectual with hopefully some idea to change the world for better and of course left influences will normally take into account when denying him or herself the information about the true great whore mam.

A value system which doesn't honour the type of problems the world faces also in this area as essential for 'normal' existence is simply missing an important point, and cannot afford that at high level while maintaining credibility. A 'moral' system in the natural, as in not refering to some esotherical, physically unprovable issue, simply cannot escape the inheritance to the children that the turning world system costs in absolute, measurable, quantifiable form.

When the oil is gone, it is gone. Nuclear power stations cost uranium, which is more abundant, enery contentwise, but also not available without limits, and of course generates horrible waste materials which are nearly impossible to get rid of in a way which doesn't all turn us into star track mutants.


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Currently 2 million barrels of oil a day are being produced for the iraqi people alone.


The mystery of inequity

Constitution



Software copyright

new media.


Louvre (Paris) historic paintings



Saint gregory is painted here, but he lived 1000 years earlier...



This one is also taken from (digitial) video tape from hand filming, interesting to see art from so long ago, the start of the enlightenment.