Acme

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If the left wants to understand American voters it needs to understand psychology and sociology not economics and politics and doing election keep economics and politics out and talk in terms of psychology and sociology.

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Understanding 'it' is one thing; doing something about 'it' is quite a different kettle of fish. To whit:

Discussions on Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition. (Split requested by Phi for All)

 

Here are the facts. A meta-analysis culled from 88 samples in 12 countries, and with an N of 22,818, revealed that several psychological variables predicted political conservatism. Which variables exactly? In order of predictive power: Death anxiety, system instability, dogmatism/intolerance of ambiguity, closed-mindedness, low tolerance of uncertainty, high needs for order, structure, and closure, low integrative complexity, fear of threat and loss, and low self-esteem. The researchers conclude, a little chillingly, that the core ideology of conservatism stresses resistance to change and a justification of inequality.

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A pair of really good binoculars with a tripod - plenty of other uses and makes enough of a difference to observations to settle any doubts

:thumbs_up: Great suggestion! A quick search turned up a pair from Celestron for ~$90 USD

Celestron SkyMaster 20x80 Binoculars

I have found the computer controlled (built-in control) consumer quality telescopes difficult to use because of the many nested menus which you have to try & navigate in the dark. I found the orienting hard and the auto-tracking poor. I got around this by pointing the telescopes manually. To qualify, I have used 2 different models, though I don't remember which ones except one was a reflector and one a refractor. Both were 5" IIRC and cost several hundred dollars. Views of the Moon were pretty good, but while you can see hints of Jupiter's bands and Saturn's rings, it pales compared to photos by professionals that inspire you.

 

There is also the matter of how not-fun it is to haul everything out in the dark & stand around in the cold for a few minutes of viewing a particular target. It gets boring quickly for children and all but the most hardened adult enthusiast. If you use the thing more than 4 times a year it would surprise me.

 

Of course you have to have fresh batteries right when you want to go, as well as clear weather, and you have to store the thing. It ain't small and it is delicate.

 

I'd hook up with locals who have viewing parties and try that before you lay out several hundred dollars on -IMHO- an unlikely prospect.

Right now I can only make out themes and labels, but whole strings of VMS text is too complex. Check this Clock.

I played around with the Sun on f67r1 and used Welsh, English and Roman Numerals and it's interpreted to me as a 24 hour period Clock.

It seems to me if you can decipher those characters on the 'clock' then you would have deciphered them wherever those same characters appear in whole strings of text. What am I missing?

 

A side note on the numerology from a mathematical perspective. Numerology in base 10 is congruent to modulo 9. E.g. 5+6+1+8=20 : 2+0=2 and 20 mod 9=2. Note that the numerological 9 is congruent to a mod 9 residue of 0. This relationship extends to numerology in any base, e.g. base 12 numerology would be congruent to mod 11. This is not meant to endorse what you claim for the numerology, rather as some mathematical trivia.

DrKrettin I suggest you open your mind to that possibility in which old parchment was used. And if Dee had 630 ducats at the time he is a likely suspect Author of the VMS.

 

link & drawing redacted

On the question of what kind of skin:

Voynich manuscript @ Wiki

Protein testing revealed the parchment was made from calf skin, and multispectral analysis in 2014 showed the parchment was unwritten before the manuscript was created. While the parchment was created with care, deficiencies exist, and the quality is assessed as average at best.[23]...

Please address my question on deciphering the manuscript text that I posted. Can you or can you not decipher it? If yes, then tell us what it says, and if no then tell us why you can't decipher it. (Whether deciphered in whole or in part.)

If we find a manuscript or book with equal equivalence to my cipher and the Voynich Manuscript than that would be something.

The only equivalence I intended was that of uselessness.

 

Here's a page of the manuscript from wiki. Prey tell, what does it say when you decipher it?

Too little information given to draw a conclusion.

Even if not archived your client (e.g. Outlook, Thunderbird, Groupwise etc.) will sync your folders so that you can access them offline. If you archive your messages they usually get stored into a compressed file that you will have to open to access the emails again.

A hundred emails a day does not sound that much if your business relies on them. While I rarely get more than a hundred a day (of which rarely more than 60 are action items), a senior colleague of mine who has a large research network has often gotten more than 300 a day. Which is probably on the extreme end (and resulted in having to employ an assistant to sort and tag those mails).

Oh. Well I don't use a client so that may be my misunderstanding about "e-mails on a laptop".

 

On the political note, when little Donny is cunning, he is smart, but when Hil is cunning she is dangerous. I get it now.

Fine. So homework assistance proved fruitless because of the system's safety net of examinations. On the other hand, intensive homework help might indeed improve some people's ability in examination.

 

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When I found myself banging my head, I joined a study group. We did our homework together, but no one was 'doing the homework' for the others. Sometimes the group helped me get over obstructions (or I helped them), sometimes not. One-on-one tutoring sometimes works to learn too.

I have around 30,000 non-archived emails on my computer and an uncounted number more in archives on my machine. If I didn't run it like that I would need to be online in order to read my emails.

 

I estimate I receive/send around sixty emails a day, but I am not running the State Department.

Can you explain how you 'have' non-archived e-mail on your machine, as well as how you archive e-mails? Can I read my e-mails without being online and I just don't know it?

And as far as I have heard, there is no evidence these are state dept. e-mails, rather they are on a personal machine. Not that I doubt Carlos Danger may be prolific in his personal activity.

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You ramble on about Pythagoras. This is completely irrelevant as he is dead. (And numerology is still meaningless nonsense even if he was stupid enough to believe it.)

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Speaking of another dead guy who, while heralded, believed stupid things, I am put in mind of Buckminster Fuller. On the one hand, writing in Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, Fuller expounds on the nonsense of numerology in regard to assigning qualities to the residues derived numerologically. He says:

1220.20 Numerological Correspondence: Numerologists do not pretend to be scientific. They are just fascinated with a game of correspondence of their "key" digits__ finger counts, ergo, 10 digits__with various happenstances of existence. They have great fun identifying the number "seven" or the number "two" types of people with their own ingeniously classified types of humans and types of events, and thereafter imaginatively developing significant insights which from time to time seem justified by subsequent coincidences with reality. What intrigues them is that the numbers themselves are integratable in a methodically reliable way which, though quite mysterious, gives them faithfully predictable results. They feel intuitively confident and powerful because they know vaguely that scientists also have found number integrity exactly manifest in physical laws.

 

1220.21 The numerologists have also assigned serial numbers to the letters of the alphabet: A is one, B is two, C is three, etc. Because there are many different alphabets of different languages consisting of various quantities of letters, the number assignments would not correspond to the same interpretations in different languages. Numerologists, however, preoccupied only in their single language, wishfully assumed that they could identify characteristics of people by the residual digits corresponding to all the letters in the individual's complete set of names, somewhat as astrologists identify people by the correspondences of their birth dates with the creative picturing constellations of the Milky Way zoo = Zodiac = Celestial Circus of Animals. ...

Nonetheless, just previous to this statement he says

A finger is a digit. There are five fingers on each hand. Two sets of five digits give humans a propensity for counting in increments of 10.

He then proceeds to exposit some interesting patterns using his "indigs", but does so only in base ten and missing an infinite number of interesting patterns when using other bases. D'oh!

 

While I have been reading this off and on I can't say that I might not have missed something, but if the labels have been deciphered by Tom, shouldn't this allow the text not associated with labels to also be deciphered?

 

I don't understand the phrase "e-mails on a laptop". Aren't e-mails stored on servers and only accessed from personal computers when a user logs into their account? And 650,000 e-mails!? What provider service allows that measure of storage? Please advise...

Makes one think that someone archived their entire email account to their personal computer.

 

650,000/100/365= 17.8. 100 emails sent and received a day for 17.8 years. If the majority were from Weiner's account, then Anthony and Huma must have been a rather busy.

 

That accounting is interesting as it brings another unreasonable attribute to the phrase "650,000 e-mails on a laptop". The only e-mail archiving I have ever used was to copy into a word processor, but in that case (unless the file is named "e-mail....") there is no knowing a word processing file contains an e-mail unless you open it, and yet a court order ostensibly was obtained to look at e-mails. WTF Moreover, the actual time to write the e-mails would surely be doubled in archiving them, oui/no?

 

So just to revisit, unless archived into files, e-mail is not stored on a personal computer?

I don't understand the phrase "e-mails on a laptop". Aren't e-mails stored on servers and only accessed from personal computers when a user logs into their account? And 650,000 e-mails!? What provider service allows that measure of storage? Please advise...

Is there some sort of known psychological phenomenon (condition? disorder?) where people will say or write things that they assume will make sense to others because they understand it themselves. But they fail to reveal or explain any of the background knowledge or information that allows them to make sense of it.

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Yes, it's a thang. The thang is dissociation.

In psychology, the term dissociation describes a wide array of experiences from mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experience. The major characteristic of all dissociative phenomena involves a detachment from reality, rather than a loss of reality as in psychosis. ...

Stern-wheelers Up Columbia: A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country by Randall V. Mills

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Poison Arrows: North American Indian Hunting and Warfare by David E. Jones

Here I lurk for lack of what,

maybe something that is not,

or could be something after all,

but if it is it's very small.

Yeah, utter bullshit. Everyone knows that you use a member of the Panicoideae for that. Ranunculaceae won't work as well.

And everyone knows Ranunculus sceleratus is used to poison arrows. I suppose one might argue that having poison arrows doth bestow a sense of courage however.

Numerologically the herb is represented as 9153533331 1353591231. Reduced this is 6 and 6 is the number of a loving and caring nature, ergo you love your enemy and care enough to use the a good poison on them. So it is written, so shall it be done.

Hello Acme, we haven't talked in quite awhile. ...

That's because I find your geologic analyses unsubstantiated. My bad for bothering you; I'll see myself out.

I think a false dichotomy is at play in the thread's theme. All knowledge is experiential whether that experience is reading, hearing, touching, smelling, feeling, or thinking. I is a strange loop.

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That seems almost impossible to have been able to occur given the time span between glacial periods. This is more likely the result of glaciation on nearby Mt. Hood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hood) that is 80 km to the east where glaciers have advance and retreated since the end of the last glacial period at which time this whole region was covered in Ice.

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While Hood has [and had] glaciers, the ice sheets of the last ice age did not cover the Portland area and extended only into Northern Washington State.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/glaciation.html

The map at left[sic] outlines in blue the extent of the Laurentide Ice Sheet 15,000 years ago.

You might consult a qualified geologist at a local university for an analysis of your rock.

If a solipsist falls in the forest...

2012: Magnetic Pole Reversal Happens All The (Geologic) Time @ NASA

 

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The Earth's magnetic field determines the magnetization of lava as it is laid down on the ocean floor on either side of the Mid-Atlantic Rift where the North American and European continental plates are spreading apart. As the lava solidifies, it creates a record of the orientation of past magnetic fields much like a tape recorder records sound. The last time that Earth's poles flipped in a major reversal was about 780,000 years ago, in what scientists call the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal. The fossil record shows no drastic changes in plant or animal life. Deep ocean sediment cores from this period also indicate no changes in glacial activity, based on the amount of oxygen isotopes in the cores. This is also proof that a polarity reversal would not affect the rotation axis of Earth, as the planet's rotation axis tilt has a significant effect on climate and glaciation and any change would be evident in the glacial record.

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Another doomsday hypothesis about a geomagnetic flip plays up fears about incoming solar activity. This suggestion mistakenly assumes that a pole reversal would momentarily leave Earth without the magnetic field that protects us from solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun. But, while Earth's magnetic field can indeed weaken and strengthen over time, there is no indication that it has ever disappeared completely. A weaker field would certainly lead to a small increase in solar radiation on Earth as well as a beautiful display of aurora at lower latitudes - but nothing deadly. Moreover, even with a weakened magnetic field, Earth's thick atmosphere also offers protection against the sun's incoming particles.

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ET friends? Good grief!

 

Earth's Magnetic Field Flip Could Happen Sooner Than Expected @ Scientific American

..."Such a flip is not instantaneous, but would take many hundred if not a few thousand years," Floberghagen told Live Science. "They have happened many times in the past.

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Still, there is no evidence that a weakened magnetic field would result in a doomsday for Earth. During past polarity flips there were no mass extinctions or evidence of radiation damage. Researchers think power grids and communication systems would be most at risk.

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"Infinity" is a mathematical construct that can't exist in reality. For all practical purposes the exceedly complex nature of reality is far greater than infinity anyway. A butterfly flaps its wings in China and causes galaxies to collide.

 

We can't predict the outcome of a single atomic collision yet a virtually infinite number of such collisions take place on a virtually infintesimal time scale which in aggregate determine not only our reality but the reality of colliding galaxies in the far future.

First you declare infinity can't exist in reality, then you go on to give examples of infinity existing in reality. Here we go again with no limit to the ensuing absurdities...