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Assembly points au pair

I have a thought about those positions of the assembly point that pertain to the “norm” of the society. The common thinking is that there is one. I think it is not. I think there is a set of positions close to each other that form a sort of an “area” accepted and reinforced by the society.

When I meet someone and start an interaction, that person tries to reinforce his position of the assembly point in me, so that perhaps we have a better understanding. That is, I think, a natural mechanism. That is, natural to this particular organization of this particular society. Anyway, I can also reinforce my position of the assembly point and force it onto the other. Some positions are more easily forced than others.

What happens when two people live together is that they have to agree on a common position of the assembly point. Otherwise they would have to oscillate all the time between their own and that of the partner. Or keep their own and forget about deep bonds. Unproductive. So, they have a choice of agreeing on following either of the partner’s position or picking a totally new position for both. If they are lucky they both will feel comfortable with this common position and then they accept it and reinforce it. The position becomes solidified and it is much easier to keep it when there are two of you. Or more, counting the kids.

Any person with half a brain should come to this selection of the position of the assembly point as to the single most important decision in his life. This is the decision that will govern his life from that moment on. The position of the assembly point is the state of your consciousness, the state of your mind, and that results in the tasks, targets, restrictions that you set for yourself. With one swipe of the pen you sign a contract with yourself and your partner that will govern the rest of your life. This decision has to be taken very seriously and certainly with some critical analysis and meditation. And the partner must follow.… -->

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A word or two about Nokia

While I am at the news, I find it amazing that Nokia still happily trumps downward spiral despite the obvious signs of failure. “Nokia has been knocked off the top of the smartphone totem pole by Samsung, Japanese investment bank Nomura said today.” says The Reg. Well, that does not come as a surprise, it is a bit earlier than I expected though. Everything one needs to know about the problem has been discussed in my previous post on the matter. Nokia! Wake up! The only manufacturer that does proper phones is going down under. I wish I had the cash to buy out Nokia and kick it back into shape. Or better yet organize another company that would steal Nokia phones from Nokia.… -->

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Colonial wars

It simply amazes me to watch the colonial wars in our time. Somehow years ago I thought it would not be possible to do large-scale colonial wars anymore, that nobody in their right mind would actually dare start a war like that anymore. And there we are, it is all happening in front of our very eyes. Simply unbelievable. Yes, like Iraq, Syria and Libya and all that.

Today they have it in the news that NATO provides air support to the “rebels”. I do not even know where to start laughing at that. At the notion of “rebels”? At the NATO support to anyone but the rightful country administration? At the fact that they are fighting over the control of oil fields? At the comments of Australians that the actual government’s “days are numbered”? At the equally cool reaction to all this of the whole brainwashed population right across the globe?

We had recently an outbreak of some weird bacterias that took away several lives and almost started an epidemic in Northern Germany. I guess nobody sees this as a direct result of the colonial wars or what? No, the services that must know – they know, I am sure. The disease that combines the most horrible parts of two bacterias and resists contemporary antibiotics comes from cucumbers and lettuce? Give me a break! It comes from the demonstrated desire of France and UK to join the colonial wars and cut a piece of pie for themselves and from the outspoken desire of Germany to stay away from it. You want a piece of war? You do not want to give support? Here is a bit of bacteriological warfare for you, think twice before cutting ahead of Uncle Sam.

Strangely, we do not seem to be able to trust ourselves anymore. You know, a hundred years ago people were more honest, I think. Honest to themselves. They would admit they are going to war. They would say to their own population that we are a country at war and there will be casualties even if we all do watch out. Now we pretend that nothing has happened and blame it on the farmers. Yeah, right.

I do not think they can keep up the good appearances forever. There are destabilizing forces that force EU time and time again to look internally rather than externally. Those forces are man-made. I think they have to be known. It is much more efficient to fight against known enemies. The people must know what they are up against. Well, that is, if we really are up against something… -->

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Urgent and important… not!

How often do we come across things that are extremely urgent and painfully important? Some people more often than others but pretty often I would say. What is the problem? It is difficult to make well reasoned decisions under that kind of duress.

However, that situation is totally artificial. In the “real world” out there, the world outside the purely human territory, the things are never urgent nor important. They are immediate. And immediate is quite different from urgent if you dare to think about it.

So the “urgent” and the “important” are inventions of the purely human world. And being the way they are, artificial constructs, they possess an interesting quality: they are not compatible with each other. That is, things can be either urgent or important but never both at the same time! The combination of the two is an artificial trap to lock your attention and force to make mistakes under duress. In a word, it is a trap.

Next time someone tries to trap you with “urgent and important” – think about it. It is not.… -->

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Nokia

I suppose I have to admit that I am a big fan of Nokia. I did use several models of other manufacturers, SonyEricsson, HTC, HP, Motorola, but in the end I always come back to Nokia. Strangely, even with all of those silly problems and annoying shortcomings, Nokia phones are still by far the best as, precisely, phones. But why do they have all those problems that force me search hi and lo for a new phone every now and then? Here is a batch of articles that sheds quite a good light onto the problem:

  1. Undesirable at Any Price? What happened to Nokia, who invented the smartphone
  2. Sherlock Holmes & Hound of the Nokiaville? Why Did Nokia Market Share Crash-Dive? I May Have An Answer..
  3. Return of the Jedi: Nokia can be saved, here is the how

I think I agree more or less completely with what Tomi Ahonen explains there. Interestingly, I think those precise problems plague more than a few companies in the world, in many different industries. Unfortunately, nobody listens.… -->

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Solar power wars

I came across an interesting article about solar trade on Reuters. The article describes the rather well known tactics that Chinese use to push their products on the market, this time in the clean energy sector. But that was not so interesting, the interesting part was towards the end, where they talk about the First Solar, a US company, who apparently signed a preliminary deal on installing the solar panels to a large China project. Why they received the deal? Because they have an advanced technology – their production of thin-film panels is cheapest in the world.

Do you think they simply got the deal and that is all? Check it out:

  • The deal is not final, it is only a MoU, not binding in any way
  • The first part before anything happens will be a pilot project in a partnership with a Chinese company that will take a majority stake
  • A Chinese company is opening a plant right next door to the First Solar in US

Now you may call me a paranoid, but I think First Solar is never getting that final project.… -->

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Randomly life…

Возникает четкое ощущение, что эксперимент по созданию личности не удался. Ну не получается развернуть в жизнь то, что мне, видимо, хотелось. По этому поводу самое лушее, что приходит в голову, – это уже просто уничтожить данное воплощение и попробовать всё с самого начала ещё раз. Это было бы, наверное, проще всего. Но это не наш путь. Ведь собственно результат здесь не важен, да и результата как такогого никакого нет. Важен как раз опыт разворачивания, воплощения сознания в этом странном мире. А посему надо как раз продолжать упорствовать в продолжении эксперимента до конца, пытаться всё-таки выровнять своё воплощение, свою личность, невзирая ни на какие препоны. Видимо, главное – это всё-таки выделить и удержать вниманием цель. А то вокруг столько помех…… -->

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Ubuntu on X201i

Finally, I got the Ubuntu graphics properly work on my Lenovo X201i. It took quite a while and the problem was the graphics card. It would give me blank screen at start-up during the installation, so I gave the kernel the “i915.modeset=0” option according to the advice found after some searching high and low. It worked.

The problem is that it doe snot really quite work… First, the graphics mode is weird, it does not use the accelerator, it seems, so you can’t have the bells and whistles of the interface. That I could live with. The other problem was more serious, the screen would not come back from blank when going to the sleep mode (close the lid).

That second problem was sort of fixed with the option “SAVE_VIDEO_PCI_STATE=true” given to the ACPI (/etc/default/acpi-support). Unfortunately, this never worked reliably and sometimes the computer would freeze on suspend or on resume. Finally, that got me fed up.… -->

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World inertia and Christmas

I noticed a very interesting thing lately… the world has inertia. It really does what you want of it but … it takes time and effort. The mind is much lighter, no, much more vivid, or, simply, faster. Although, in some ways, mind can be mind-bogglingly slow :) Anyway, I suppose I always knew it somehow but now I am acutely aware of this simple fact: the world is slow and inert.

We are now celebrating Christmas for all except the Orthodox, so my wish to you all happy Christmas-in-December-celebrating-people: let your world be a bit less inert, a little more agile and willing to follow your dreams. Let it take you a bit less effort to shape your future.

Merry Christmas, everyone!… -->

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Oh, mate, oh, websites…

Oh, headache… When I was making the website for the company it looked so cool to make a couple of pages in English and then make the same in Russian. Now I am looking at it with horror. After I complete the rewrite of the site in English, and I plan more than two pages this time, I will have to perform the translation into Russian of all that. Oh, why did I need to do this all in the first place? I do not have and I do not plan to have customers in Russia, why on Earth do I keep a site in Russian? But the funny thing is, once you have the site, you just cannot get rid of it, can you? Oh, no, you are going to keep it running, oh, yes… All right, back to typing the websites… Enjoy your evening in front of TV, please, do.… -->

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