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Loneliness and God

When people are desperate , they do desperate things.It is assumed by
many that the poor are so because they are lazy.Indolence means
poverty in the common speak. Some things like people dying in the
streets are simply ignored, and this year has shown that visual
effects rather than necessity turns people towards charity. Much more
were given after dramatic pictures from Katrina victims and Tsunami
Effects were shown in TV that people usually do.
People are mostly good ,which I agree. But the stereotype that poor
are lazy is plainly wrong. It was also stated during some major
research into poverty that many poor actually work ,but only that they
don't earn enough. Maybe in the day of nanotechnology ,in which money
will play no role as it would be easier to make paper money, we will
see what the divide between the rich or poor being gapped will
portend. But it has been argued by economist that the present money
based economy is the best,because it simply awards hard work. Most
people who are successful are able to sell themselves to the economy
thereby garnering money from the various components of economics. But
those who are poor are simply not working hard enough .The argument
falls when you consider peerage and status. For a good economy from a
philosophical view of point ,people should get what they deserve .That
means if you work really hard and are willing to go the extra mile you
should be successful. But unfortunately a factor called luck has been
left out. Nobody in this world is born equal. What you are ,what
education you get, and what chances you may receive depends largely
upon where you are born, who are your parents, how good looking are
you, how rich and influencial your parents are and other factors like
this which doesnot make everybody equal. George W.Bush got into Yale
and Harvard not because he of merit(he was a C student) but because of
the fact that his parents were influential and rich.
It is not expected that a child born in Sudan will fare any better or
equal to any child born in
US(except if the child is born to a very rich family in Sudan). Good
looks is also a big factor. You hardly see a ugly looking guy being
successful. Yes if you are lacking some stuffs you have to go the
extra mile. Marlyn Monroe changed her haircolor worked day in and out,
did some provocative shoots for her day , made aquaintances with the
top producers and even though she came from a failed family and
turbulent childhood she became famous. Though it has been argued that
she is not "better" looking than many of her counterparts. But it must
be said that she is not what you call ugly.
This much for now.
pwned

ViewSonic E40 goes blank ,but when tilted or whacked comes back up

My monitor ViewSonic E40 went blank but the LED was still blinking ,so
I did some search looked up some schematics and came up with the
conclusion that a device called NE555 timer or MOSFET is not
functioning properly.The strange thing about the monitor is that when
tilted a bit or when whacked ,the picture comes back.I used to whack a
bit ,to bring up the computer when one day it simply stopped working
.So however hard I whacked there was no picture.Then I tilted the
computer at various angles and learnt that that is another solution to
no picture problem.Let me see if I can get hand on the timer now.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:The Worst Movie of all time

I can understand why very poor quality movies like Gigli or Catwomen
are made.They had a idea , some sort of a plot but very poor
implementation and acting.Nothing in those movies seems to work
out.But given good actors ,good directors and good handling of plot
,even those movies could become watchable.
I went to watch the new Harry Potter movie today and it was the worst
of the worst.It was the biggest waste of time and money over a movie I
had had this year.Or maybe my life. I had read the book and I do
think JK Rowling had produced a good book .The quality of her work (as
the Harry Potter phenomenon catched up and become a large business)
steadily declined. The
5th and the 6th books are frankly terrible. Things like creativity
,originality and good literary sense were thrown down the toilet. She
afterall had all the "Potter" fans to be crap but still followed
around.
Now about the movie.It was a piece of junk ,not only because of
acting(in LOTR ,nobody remembered the acting, just everyone was saying
how good the movie was) ,plots(based upon a good book) or CGI(good
enough) but very bad direction.The movie was deviod of emotion and a
thing called continuity.Random events seemed to happen.Each of the
takes seemed as if somebody had randomly cut off the movie scene and
put them together. The child actors lacked appeal and more importantly
seemed to know nothing about acting.
It is suprising that it has already grossed $400 million but I would
hope that most of them had gone hoping to see a good family flick but
come home disappointed.

Energy and God

When I was in college there was a guy who used to tell me that God
exists and he/she is representive of energy.He was a science student
and he knew much more about primordial soup(where life originated)
,big bank(from where the current universe expanded ,and reached its
current form, no account for parallel universes) , and evolution.But
he told me that he believed in God , an omnipresent and omniscient
allpowerful God.And the God is energy. He told me that big bang
happened because of God,as God envisioned it, and so on for the origin
of Life or the solar system. I laughed at him at that time,but
retrospectively I think he is correct.If you think energy is God ,then
it has all the characteristics of God.Nothing in the world happens
without energy from the ATP in your cells to nuclear reactions in
Sun/Stars. So it could be said that God(energy) designed life,
universe and created it to the current form.
No argument that!

Time Dilation,Astrology, and Relativity.

Anybody who has a remote knowledge about general relativity of Albert
Eistein could tell you about Time Dilation. Time dilation means that
time dilates when your present speed(velocity) approaches the speed of
light. The dilation is minor when velocity is small.In other words,
people who travel a lot in airplanes and astronauts are a fraction
younger than those of us who stay in earth. Yes it's true and has been
scientifically proven already. Now that means that time is not a
constant, which means that one hour time measured in earth would be
different from one hour time measured some other place. As always I
recommend reading wikipedia's page about time dilation.Now relativity
states that like other axises ,time could be theoritically travelled
and it could be stretched and jumped. It makes sense when you compare
with the other dimensions like space ,you can jump forward ,backwards
or stay at the same place. It is only the matter of energy and
theoritical time travel machines(which would actually work if built)
are already envisioned and designed. There are serious problems with
implementation of those machines which would mean that there is very
little chance of anyone seeing those machines quickly. Now ,according
to relativity it seems that like space time is out there .In other
words , like yesterday tomorrow is already there ,or what happens
tomorrow or any future time is already fixed. That is it is fatalistic
view of tomorrow.You really have no control of what happens next, if
you follow this theory. Now some scientific minded supporters of
astrology have pointed out to me that from relativity you can see that
future is fixed, or astrology works. They see the planets as some
blueprint of the already fixed tomorrow.
Scary picture that!

Astrology- it works!?

I came across a Hindu astrology book which gave me a very interesting
reading.It was comparing birth charts(horoscopes) of two Indians with
identical charts.
It appeared that one of them was from a very prominent family and had
enough money for a good education.
The other was from a poor family and was thus forced to study in a
government school(in Utter Pradesh,India) one of the poorest parts of
the country with dilapated school buildings and very poor education
methods and instructors.
Without the help of astrology I could have said ,it is likely that the
man from the rich family went on to be very successful whereas the one
from the poor family was left poor.Education do matter a lot in
India,and people with very good education (like IIT, the renowned
Indian Institute of Technology) are mostly very successful in life.
Now from an astrological viewpoint,it turned out that they had
similiar charts.Both had 5 planets exalted(special points in horizon
where planets are supposed to be very strong) out of possible 7.Hindu
astrology counts Moon and Sun as planets and the outer planets(Uranus
,Neptune and Pluto) are not included.So it should be (from an
astrological viewpoint) that they both should live successful lives.
It turns out that the poor one just for subsistence sake got a
government job, then he raped a minor ,and currently he is spending
his quality time in jail, whereas the rich one is head of a MNC(Multi
National Company) in Dubai.See just as I would have predicted(though,
without astrology).
Now the book explains the disparity between the two(with similiar
charts) amazingly.
Apparently, the birth charts and its effects depends upon place,
situations, parents and time.What a nice way to say 'astrology is
fake'.
Robin

Fark Vs Something Awful

Flame on in both forums as both sucks.I think that there should be
someway that those who participate in these flame wars could come face
to face,so some real blood could be spilled.
Meanwhile ,flame on Morans. And all your brains are belong to us.

The most racist country in the World(Continued)

I will be giving the reasons for calling Denmark the most racist
country in the world.There are probably 20 million and a google search
would probably bring it more detailed discussion about Denmark.
http://www.google.com.np/search?q=%22far+right%22+denmark&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
One story here
"

A local radio station in Copenhagen has called on its listeners to
throw out Muslims or alternatively kill them.

"We need to fight against Islamic terrorism either by throwing the
Islamists out of Western Europe or by killing off all the fanatics or
in other words by killing a large share of Muslim immigrants," said
Kaj Wilhelmsen, who owns and runs the local radio station Radio
Holger.
"
from
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/aug2005/kill_muslims.htm
I would like to state here that due to international condemnation
the radio was "suspended" for 1-2 months and no legal action was
taken.Clearly it is the norm in Denmark.

The most racist country in the World

This I have to quote ,from an American who recently visited Denmark.
"
According to many foreigners Denmark is now the most racist country
in Europe. For me it is without comparison the worst racism since it
is the only one I am responsible for. Institutionalized racism might
be worse in America, but since the Danes are more outspoken in their
views and have not learned the political correctness of Americans,
individual racism is far more extreme over here. Indeed, when I
recently lived in the Ku Klux Klan head quarter in America it struck
me after weeks of interviewing the Klan members that they had less
hate in their hearts than what I find in my fellow Danes right now.
Here are a few of my photos from the Danish political scene
"
http://www.american-pictures.com/gallery/denmark/

Cross Sums(Kakuro)

After the popularity of Sudoku,a new game is about to become as popular as Kakuro.When Guardian,London changed its format to Berliner,it added a section called diversions in G2,the magazine section of the newspaper.It also started giving cross sums(american) or Kakuro(british) everyday in the same section.The first thing I noted was that it is much difficult than Sudoku,until I got the combinations that is .
Kakuro is somewhat like Sudoku(you have to fill 1-9 in the empty boxes),but the difference is that the numbers in a run should total to a sum printed either to the left or at the top of the run.
The technique to tackle Kakuro is little different.Since same numbers are not allowed in a run, you have the possible unique combinations.
For two spaces -16,17,4,3
For three spaces-6,7,24,23
For four spaces 10,11,29,30
For five spaces 15,16,34,35
For six spaces 21,22,38,39
The unique combinations like 4(3/1) helps to solve the puzzle.
For more information I suggest the wikipedia page again,but you can download the game
itself (free) from here

Another interesting Game

Another interesting game,but the images were taken with Acquire Screenshot of Gimp 2.0.I love gnuchess and its X interface xboard.For those who are lost gnuchess is a Linux based chess engine and xboard its graphical interface.

The game goes:


1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qd1 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. a3 Bc5 7. Bc4
O-O 8. b4 Bd4(1)

9. Nge2 b6 10. O-O Bb7 11. Nxd4 exd4 12. Ne2 Nxe4
13. Nxd4 Ne5 14. Bb3 Qh4 15. Nf3 Nxf3+ 16. Qxf3(2)
d5 17. Rd1 Rac8
18. Bxd5 Bxd5 19. Rxd5 Rxc2(3)

20. Be3 Qf6 21. Rad1 Qxf3 22. gxf3 Nf6
23. Re5(4)

Rc3 24. a4 Rc4 25. Re7 Rxb4 26. Rxa7(5)

Rb3 27. Rd6 b5 28. a5 h6
29. a6 Rb1+ 30. Kg2 Rb2 31. Rb7(6)

Ra2 32. a7 Nh7 33. Rb8 f6 34. Rdd8
Kf7 35. a8=Q(7) Rxa8 36. Rxa8 Rxd8 1-0

Intellligent Design In Court

Eleven parents in PA are putting the ID debate on in the American Way,
through the courts that is.They are challenging that teaching ID in
schools voilates the seperation of Church constitutional clause.
The "liberal" ACLU is taking up the case against a school in Dover,PA
arguing that ''This clever tactical repackaging of creationism does
not merit consideration," Witold Walczak, legal director of the
Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union and a lawyer for the
parents, told US District Judge John E. Jones in opening arguments.
''Intelligent design admits that it is not science unless science is
redefined to include the supernatural."
I hope that the issue get's resolved round here.ID was never a science
and never will not be science ,however arcane and obtruse arguments
the ID proponents make.Unfortunately today's Guardian reported that
45% of Americans believe creativism.
I don't think that you can change that figure,for them patroitism =God
,but for the majority 55% sake it's time to act.

Great Optical Illusion

See this picture

Follow these steps
1)Concentrate on the 4 dots for around 40 seconds
2)Take a look at a smooth/monochromed(single colored) wall near you
3)You will probably see a circle of light(developing)
4)Start blinking for a number of times ,whence you will see a figure of somebody.
The trick of this illusion is not how amazing this is ,but to find the reason behind the illusion.This illusion has been called by some to be the greatest optical illusion of all time.
I would love to hear from anybody who could find how the illusion occurred.
(If not I will give the answer the next week).

My best chess game(Against the computer)

Playing against Arasan 5.2 I notched up this impressive win.Arasan's ELO is around 2000 to 2200 which means that it is much weaker than a Grandmaster but much stronger than an average chess player.
I love this game as this game shows the strategy required to beat the computer in its own game.The key is the suprise move,as the computer can compute far more nodes in a second than you can probably in your whole lifetime.
The game goes(French Defense,Exchange Variation)
1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. exd5 exd5
4. Nc3 Qe7+
5. Be3 Be6
6. Nf3 Nf6
7. Be2 c6
8. O-O Nbd7
9. Ne5 O-O-O
10. Bf4 Nxe5(see picture)

11. dxe5 Nd7 (Why not Bxe5,the answer the Rook and the Queen is in the same diagonal,potential to a attack from the Bishop)
12. Qd2 Re8
13. a3 Bf5 (if not a3 then Black could have played Qb4)
14. Rfe1 Qe6
15. Bd3 Bc5
16. Rac1 Be7
17. b4 Qg6
18. Qe3 Nb6 (the a7 pawn is a easy bunny without support,see picture)

19. Na4 Nxa4 (Knight Sacrificed to gain superb position,computer should have rejected the sacrifice)
20. Qxa7 Kd8 (forced, if king does not move then
20.Qa8+ Kc7(Kd6 follows e6 threatens mate and Queen is lost)
21.e6+ and mate follows)
21. Qxb7 Qe6 (why Qe6 why not Ref8?)
22. Bxf5 Nc5 1-0(picture)

Hurricane Rita is Coming

I hope that the respone to Hurricane Rita would be much better than that of Katrina.I will add more on Rita later on,but right now there are two pages to track Hurricane Rita
1) Disaster Center's Rita Page
2) National Hurricane Center
From wikipedia,
Hurricane Rita is the seventeenth named storm, ninth hurricane and fifth major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm has already impacted Florida and Cuba, and currently threatens Texas and Louisiana, with the National Hurricane Center of the United States forecasting it as of 11 pm EDT, September 20, 2005 to become as high as a Category 5 with a landfall sometime on September 24, near Galveston and Houston in Texas.

Google Talk and Ad Sense

I used to use the open source Jabber Instant messanger while my college days.I miss using Jabber,it has lot of features which I could not say about the irritating IMs with ads from Yahoo or MSN.
Jabber uses the XMPP protocal. The main advantage is that it is open source, meaning that anyone can deploy /develop their own IMs based upon the protocal.
The advantages according to the wikipedia page are
Advantages

* Open : the jabber protocols are free, open and public. Making it easy to implement clients or servers
* Standard : The jabber protocols XMPP is a IETF(Internet Engineering Task Force) standard
* Decentralized : anyone can run their own Jabber server
* Secure : It is possible to encrypt the communication between client and server.
* Extensible : New feature can be added to the protocol, using the power of XML namespaces.
IETF's main aim is to standarize web protocals.
Those days were long gone but XMPP is back with a bang,thanks to Google again.
The much superior Google Talk (as compared to other IMs) features open protocals ,no adds, multi messanger connectivity(ie you can use Gaim in Linux or Trillian in Windows to connect and chat), and high quality voice chat.
I highly recommend using the IM in place of MSN or yahoo.
In my final note, I am using Google AdSense in this page,which (I think) pays me $0.01 for every search/add that is done through the Google bars/text box. Unfortunately,I don't know that I will earn $100(the minimum amount for payment).It takes 10,000 distinct(that is differnt computers) to search through the google boxes.
And I needed Linux and Scholar searches ,( I modified their code so that you could search Linux/Scholar) and I don't know whether that adds up the clicks or not.
Hope it does.
If you want to know about adsense, read this page

My response(Continued)

It has become a interesting series of emails that I am publishing here.
My response to the previous answer from the preacher(admin) follows.
Thanks for your response.I don't think that you know about
SHOUTING or
did you deliberately used the uppercase letters?
Anyway your response opens up further queries.I hope that you would take the time to
answer taking the time off from your busy schedule of spreading the words about God.

For example on the question about infanticide you pointed out that it
is wrong to add wrong with another wrong,ie it is a "Sin" to
abort on being raped,but if let's say the rapist is a family
member,the child is a product of an incest,then what?
Should the child still not be aborted? If no, what should be the
child's status from a purely theological or a Christian view point.
As for the ID debate probably you know about the recent controversies
about the documentary "March of the Penguins".ID supporters are using
arcane examples from such far off thing as a documentary to try to
"prove their case".Are you sure that the
books that you are referring to do not allude to similiar blunders as
it later turned out that the "family values" of the Penguins were also
coupled with homosexuality and polygamous behavior.
I think that there is much Science can't explain ,but to work as a
scientific theory shouldn't ID should have at least one scientific
paper with proofs so that others could repudiate or check up the claims.
As for the warlords and muslims -aren't you blaming them for their
own way of expressing their respect for God as they see it?
And how come a child born to a muslim or a non muslim mother in
Somalia could be any different from a child born to anyone in
America?
I agree that I have not understand your rhetoric,your ideas and your
approach.Maybe I am ignorant but does not God loves everybody either
the person is Atheist or not?
And what about the suffering from Katrina,you blamed prostitution and
drugs for the suffering in the Gulf Coast ,but how
can you say that a child or the the old patients in the hospital(that
was left without support/care) were responsible for their untimely death?
How come that it is found that Canadians(where Gay marriage is legal
and social services is one of the the best) people are more happy than
say in many theist socities?
How come the priests that were accused of child-molestation were never
fully investigated from the church,let alone unfrock them?
How come the number of non-believers(infidels) are increasing day by day?
Hope to hear from you soon
And thanks for your reply

Linux and Indexed Search

There is lot of options for index search in Linux.
Depending upon what you are looking for the following searches might come handfull-
1)Apropos or man-k
Man -k searches the man pages for the text that you inputted.For example you might want to find the possible commands /and tutors for vim.
man -k vim
returns the possible commands with with description containing the word vim.
For man -k to work you need to do
makewhatis
(to update the index)
2)htdig
You can crawl your intranet and index files in the intranet with htdig.If you want you can crawl the whole internet(think about time and space consideration).
Now you can use htdig to search for files/pdfs/etc.
More information here
3)For local indexed search you can use rlocate ,slocate and locate.
Unfortunately it is not user friendly or should I say 'ID10T free'.
It has all the functions of google desktop,but you must create a database (or index) at start by the command
updatedb
More information here

Clutter in the blog

There is so much problem with formatting that I have used the HTML tag
<pre> to preformat some of this blog.That means that some blogs are
comming out of margin.I will fix these on the weekend probably and
hopefully.If I don't lazy,that is!