The End Of One Era

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Old?
2006.01.30 9:04

Does someone tell me why 'old.' Technocrat.net?

Biggest Investment Ever
2006.01.30 7:09

If I bought gold or silver, the value of these metal would never change as time passes, therefore it's precious. Knowledge is, on the other hands, once acquired, these turn to wisdom after some time.
My largest investment went into acquiring knowledge from a book in my early twenties. I invested millions of time doing so, now it's time I got reward from them. I'm sure I will.
Personally speaking, I like silver though. I like the touch of it and its eternity. When I was reading Bible, I often encountered the description of silver, I used to watch my marriage ring again and again then imagined if part of my ring come from the same silver in biblical times.

Coin In Use
2006.01.29 8:12
I don't like to use coins for speculation, and gamble, but only for investment. I didn't flip a coin.

In Search Of New Energy
2006.01.29 8:11
I think there's a very different history, background behind what power plant we favour in Japan or Europe and USA. As was the same in the situations of other countries, Japanese government twenty years ago were very enthusiatic about building new nuclear power plants one after another. As a result of this policy, many new plants were built and planned. You see Japan is very populated in this tiny island, people were afraid of nuclear disaster as Chernobyl, and Three Miles Island. As we anticipated, a number of incidents occurred, fortunately none of them was as serious as Chernobyl, but some workers died and nuclear agency had to spend millions of tax to compensate them and clean the nuclear contamination as well.
Now governemnt as well as people are just fed up with building new facilities. That doesn't pay. Many new plans have been abandoned so far for these fifteen years.
Nuclear power was based on a revolutionary idea but nuclear power plant was based on an obsolete idea. The true nuclear power can be generated in a small chamber, not a factory. The key is 'E=MC2', one of good examples of utilising new energy is the recent development of fusion battery. We have to concentrate our wisdom on the issue.

Homo Belligerence
2006.01.29 8:08

It has been thought to be a riddle for humans to be unable to find relatives of ourselves. In the case of many other animals, there are many kins around them. So some scientists tried to explain this mystery by assuming a missing link from humans to apes. -There must be a primate that hasn't found yet.
I am not particularly a proponent of this theory, though, I support a huge chasm in genetics between humans and apes. My supposition is that humans were so belligerent that they killed almost all kins genetically closer to humans. We were indeed homo belligerence.

Unmanned Weaponry
2006.01.29 8:05

This news reminds me the deployment of unmanned battle vehicle [ubergizmo.com] in Iraq one year ago. It was experimental, so the number of the machines were few.

Prelude?

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Prelude?
2006.01.25 8:56

Related to Old Glaciers On Mars
the researchers have concluded it was snow blowing in from the poles that caused the ice buildup previously.-zogger
I felt chilly. Japan was hit this winter by unprecedented quantity of snowfall, and they say the snow was directly from the North Pole.
I hope this is not a prelude to Mars now.

Transfiguration
2006.01.25 7:20

When Era of Tsin Dynasty, scholars from Europe demonstrated that the very complicated Chinese writing system (about 5000 ideograms) can be transliterated in the combination of only 26 characters. Chinese ruler at that time was just amazed to see them.
Technically speaking, transliteration from very complicated ideograms into simplified phonetic characters is possible, but because of the habit, custom, bad? tradition, we are still using that very clumsy writing system.
Again technically, English writing system can be transfigured into the combination of 0 and 1 as in computer. Morse signal is also based on this idea.
As to the logics of language, both English and Chinese are very logical language. That's why both find so many users.

Money Game
2006.01.25 7:15

Under the current system in the Internet, if you have $10, you can buy up to $100 worthy of shares. If the stock you bought rose up to $2000, that is 20 times as much as you invested, you can get $2000. As opposed to this success example, if you lost $100, you would end up owing $100 in debt.
He succeeded this money game. He came to be very rich through making the most of this strange system. This speculative game might have produced millions of fortunes, only in figure. Still many business people believe figure is everything. Probably figure (flow economy) reflects part of the truth but not all. What percent? Depending on who you are.
After Mr Horie was arrested, the share of his company is skydiving. He's never returned any part of his huge profit to his 20,000 shareholders, mostly individual ones who dreamed a high return. The heart of the investers were broken twice.
Trust is more important than money.

No Elixir
2006.01.25 7:01

Aspirin is a very common drug, and more and more the drug turns out to be one of the most applicable drugs to many other diseases. However, always careful clinical trials by patients as many as possible is required, since there's no elixir in our world.

Geography
2006.01.25 6:59

They are asking how we pronounce the word 'tomato'. I guess many Americans pronounce like toe may toe. In my country toe mah toe. Main pronounciation differs according to the region we live, so geography in title.

Oxygen With Comments

O2
2006.01.18 17:55

Related to this article.
I have heard the story once that O2 is highly toxic to life if it were taken too much or in highly densely form, but because it exist with a combination of nitrogen in the rate of 1:4, it is beneficial to life.

True! (Score:2)
by AB3A ({ab3a} {at} {comcast.net}) on 2006.01.18 18:17 (#10543) User #2283 Info http://technocrat.net/ Last Journal: 2005.10.07 11:17
Actually what's really toxic is the partial pressure of O2. This is the reason why divers can't dive below 85 feet (If I recall correctly) on Nitrox II. It's also the reason why pilots need pressure suits and full face masks even if they're breathing pure oxygen above Flight Level 350 or so. If you can't get the ambient air to a pressure of at least 20 percent of an atmosphere, then you'll slowly go hypoxic as your body attempts to breath in sufficient oxygen.
Look Ma! No Brains!
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Re:True! (Score:1)
by mercedo on 2006.01.18 18:44 (#10544) User #2554 Info http://mercedo-the-eve.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.01.20 9:58
Thank you for finding my comment. I wanted to make a comment this directly to the article, though, I felt it slightly off topic, so I posted here. Seemed nobody's reading my journal, your comment encourages me much.--
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No Paradigm

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Some Paradigms Are Unnecessary
2006.01.20 9:58
Mike, go home. Mike goes home. Since there are two meanings here, we need to define verbs, one is for order, and the other is for ordinary.
But how about these, -He goes home, since 'he' is used as the third person, we don't have to use -es to define as ordinary sentence. He go home/He goes home both means the same.
We use "isn't/ aren't/ don't/ doesn't/ hasn't/ haven't" according to the subject we used, but "ain't" can replace all these negations, is "ain't" enough to use instead? If you think "ain't" is a bad word, just 'not' will be replaced for this.
You see the most logical word order might be like 'He not go to the zoo.', the negation word 'not' has to be placed before verb so like 'I not have written journals for two days since I was busy.'

Revolutionary Idea
2006.01.20 9:54
Poison to poison, chaos to oscillating movement. Nono world is ruled by completely different physics -as quantum theory tells - as if it were both wave and molecule, it is such a hard thing to grasp the notion there in nano world.
The same applied to macrocosm. Space where lightyear rules, completely different physics -they say theory of relativism - works.
Oscillating movements lead to taming chaos is a revolutionary idea, I hope it does work.

Direction Of Wind
2006.01.20 9:51
I don't think he's particularly violating laws, he's a master of conducting legal deed through loopholes of law, which is yet to be arranged in current circumstances of the Internet society.
His misdeed was he hasn't shared part of his huge profit with shareholders. As if he forgot that his success was supported by millions of individual investors.
He has to not only read between the lines of stockmarket, but direction of wind in a society. Only when he lost support and popularity among people as well as thousands shareholders, he would have to think over his direction again.

Single Dominant vs Diversified Scarce
2006.01.20 9:45
Remember the role of bacteria is different from that of plants and animals. Main role of bacteria is to decompose corpse of those lives, so in order to decompose as quickly as possible, they don't need to diversify the kinds of their species, but they need a semi-single large quantity of bacteria. So in an area like the Amazon, single dominant species tend to flourish.
In an area like desert, the plants and animals are so adjusting to particular environment specifically, and their corpses are so hard to be decomposed under such severe circumstances. The kinds of bacteria tend to diversify according to the particular body they work, but the number of bacteria remains to be tremendously lower.
Rememer they are talking about the number of the kinds, not the entire quantity. Obviously the number of bacteria is by far exceeding in the Amazon than in desert. Whether it's relevant to talking about pH is questionable. I'm afraid that's a result, not a cause.

Cancer Is A Natural Result
2006.01.19 10:16

Cancer is formed from the consistent accumulation of carcinogen in parts of their body. Any carcinogen is so toxic to humans, unless it is formed later as cancer, it might directly cause their immediate death. Instead of their instant death, they will be formed to cancer and kill them whichever.
Cancer is a natural result of maximum resistance of their body to accumulate and concentrate venoms in parts of their body.

Human Map
2006.01.19 9:15
We thought about the cases of fauna of plants, animals and bacteria in both the Amazon and deserts. We can assume similar conclusion on human fauna here.
Chinese, Americans are semi-single dominant language group or people in the world, occupying large plain in the continent, which is suitable for living by a large number of people.
Geographically complex areas like Caucasus, Balkan, Central Asia and a rim of Russia are occupied by many peoples with small population each.
In talking about language group, the distinction is more apparent. Indo-European and Chinese are two major language groups with huge population, there are so many other languages with as many peoples.

Human Map

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Human Map
2006.01.19 9:15
We thought about the cases of fauna of plants, animals and bacteria in both the Amazon and deserts. We can assume similar conclusion on human fauna here.
Chinese, Americans are semi-single dominant language group or people in the world, occupying large plain in the continent, which is suitable for living by a large number of people.
Geographically complex areas like Caucasus, Balkan, Central Asia and a rim of Russia are occupied by many peoples with small population each.
In talking about language group, the distinction is more apparent. Indo-European and Chinese are two major language groups with huge population, there are so many other languages with as many peoples.

Oxygen

http://technocrat.net/article.pl?sid=06/01/07/0041244&mode=nested

Related to this article, I have heard the story once that O2 is highly toxic to life if it were taken too much or in highly densely form, but because it exist with a combination of nitrogen in the rate of 1:4, it is beneficial to life.

Noah's Ark

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Noah's Ark
2006.01.14 19:12

This will be the Noah's Ark in our times. Noah had to keep all female & male animals and plants in a form as they are in his ark. Thanks to the recent biochemical achievement, the portion will be reduced greatly, but remember however developed our technology is, we would be unable to store all the spieces in a storehouse.
The most important thing is to keep our planet as our Noah's Ark. We ought to make an every possible effort to evade such catastrophy instead.

Nihilism Of Europe

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Nihilism Of Europe
2006.01.13 8:49

'Those who rule Europe will rule the world. It is undoubted, but I don't think Hitler is trying to do so. ' -Stalin
As a matter of fact, two world wars were fought along with the border of Europe, at that time everybody had admitted that Europe was the centre of the world. But after the World War II, the Cold War, USA emerged as the No.1 country in the world. Now USA is the only Super Power. It is not a matter of hegemony, though, as long as USA keeps on exporting freedom and democracy, the liberation of knowledge will continue to be spread every nook and cranny. People in other region will try to develop another search engine inevitably.
Hitler was trying to prevail nihilism in Europe. The attempt was completely failed, though, the tradition of nihilism still remains strongly everywhere in Europe, they will show another alternative especially when they overcome its nihilism in the near future.
USA is superior to any other country in many respects, but not everything, USA is not the same as the world, and vice versa. There are many countries and regions other than USA. We ourselves have to form common knowledge not just from USA, EU, or any other region. The world doesn't need a centre of something. The world ought to be from unilateral image to multilateral one.

Fitontid
2006.01.13 8:46
Trees have powers called 'fitontid'. This is a combination of alkaloid, multiple lactose, organic acid and tannin, usually found in the form of evaporation in the woods and existing in the air of woods one out of a hundred million to one billion, however according to the estimate some scholar made, all quantity on the earth is 175 million tons, that is 6 times as large as all exhaust gas and smoke from cars &factories. This material helps make us all minus-ionised (a little bit mystic though). Russian scholar Dr Kieton, professor at the University of St. Petersburg named it. Here is the link [wakando.jp] that I was able to find only in Japanese.

A Memory Of Monosodium Glutamate
2006.01.13 8:43

When I was a kid, I used to lick monosodium glutamate every time I saw the small container since we were told that monosodium glutamate makes us smart. Now I knew glutamate works as a neurotransmittant, so in part the theory was confirmed.
I thougt too much, I read too many, I wrote tens of scribles when I was a minor, so I don't have to worry about having glutamate excessively since all taken were completely consumed.

My Advice

My Advice(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.01.12 2:45 (#14446877) (http://mercedo-the-eve.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.01.10 2:07)
Please don't be impatient. And read as many books as you can.
By the way thanks for befriending me.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

One Viewpoint

From One Viewpoint(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.01.12 2:29 (#14446761) (http://mercedo-the-eve.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.01.10 2:07)
Interesting aricle. I enjoyed it.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Novel Initiative

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Novel Initiative
2006.01.11 9:06

Spending too many hours on the screen and wrinting nothing. All contributions are going to be a part of my novel initiative. Write something productive.

Wolf In Front, Tiger In Rear

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Wolf In Front, Tiger In Rear
2006.01.08 23:42

For the writers, intrusion is the biggest enemy.
When I chose to write it at night, I might not be interupted by any sound, but by drowsiness, fatigue. When I chose to write it in a day, I find some hawkers on the street shouting meaningless chants.
Whichever I chose, the life of writers are not easy.

Serious Crime, No Punishment

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Serious Crime, No Punishment
2006.01.08 22:50

We've got tens of serious crimes out there and it was strange to find that the serious crime pays and less serious crime doesn't pay.

If criminals had a piece of conscience, he would be likely to be caught much more than the cases determined criminals who committed serious crimes with no feeling of regret, remorse, mercy. As a matter of fact, criminals who were caught were much more the ones those who committed it accidentally, with no particular intentions to do it, without convictions to do it, etc. By and large the criminals who were caught are the ones thought to be the offenders of less serious crimes.

The crimals who had a slightest of conscience are likely to be caught and punishable by very strict crimal codes as opposed to the criminals who didn't have the slightest of conscience, who had a full of malicious intent. As long as they are at large, they might be laughing behind the scenes or are they suffering from the pain of conscience for good?

'Atchan Bouy'

'People prefer believe in nothing rather than not to believe.' - From 'The Genealogy Of Morals', Nietszche.

'Blackjack' is a backstreet surgeon who has not qualified as a doctor and demands tens of millions of dollars for him to ask surgery, he is a well known character created by Osamu Tezuka, anime writer, who was also a medical doctor himself.

He(Blackjack) lives with a girl whose name I can't recall, I must confirm that he is not a paedophile, he just chose to live a girl with whom he is unable to have relations in the first place.

Her cliche is 'Atchan Bouy'. Bouy might be 'V'. In Japanese sounds, 'V' and 'Bouy' doesn't make difference, anyway, that doesn't change in essence the phrase is meaningless. She says many times this phrase instead of saying something meaninful. -Atchan Bouy!

Not only this anime but also others as well along with other cases of comedians, cliche is often used to call for laughing. I recall Nietszche's remark on the essence of religion I raised above. In the age of nihilism after the World War II, we all were caught by an apathy of something, these kinds of repetition of phrases might be the largest resistance general publics were able to make in public.

The Sponsor

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The Sponsor
2006.01.08 18:53

When I started posting journals and comments on Technocrat.net in December, last year, I was unable to find an advertisement at the upper part of the site. Soon after when I found the advertisement, I still remember I was glad to see it.
I have no idea how much cost it takes to maintain the site like this - non-profit and based on a benevolence and conscience with the aim of spreading knowledge and enlightening, it takes money to mantain it but nobody's willing to pay for because of only the reason this site is such a nice site.
There must be several ways to bring money to the site. Subscription, Fundraising, Advertisement. We can't expect too much on subscription. We want to use it without paying basically, besides sharing knowledge, interest, hobby ought to be run in an exchangeable base - I was able to know it through your journals, comments, submissions and I will contribute them in exchange, thus both sides are beneficial.
Wikipedia- type fundraising is one of the best ways to collect fund from unspecified users and it is completely based on freewill of the users, it's not compulsory, it is based on voluntary, but still very motivated from the user's intention -Eager to maintain the site, but it's a little bit difficult to demand such campaign in such a small community like this. Fundraising campaign would only invite similar to semi-compulsory subscription. -If you can't contribute some fund, you would not be allowed to use the site any more. - That's opposite to the spirit of the liberation of knowlegde firstly aimed at at the beginning of the foundation of the site.
In the end, we end up resorting to the help of sponsors who're willing to pay and show their advertisement and expecting to gain more profit and advantage by paying money and showing their advertisement at the site.
The most successful example is of course 'Slashdot', since this site attracts tens of millions of users, it can find more and more sponsors who are willing to pay for it. The solution for us to find more sponsors is to try to make this site more and more attractive by contributing lots of interesting journals, comments, submissions.
Simple but it's difficult, that is the question.

No Safe Haven

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No Safe Haven
2006.01.07 6:57

Were the Norwegian sending spams in India? And were Norwegian authorities able to arrest their nationals like him living in India and put him under the custody of Norwegian embasy in India because of the violation of criminal code in Norway? Was he taken into custody while he was in Norwegian Embasy? It might be illegal to send spams in Norway but is it illegal in India? Police must be local Indian police and is it possible for them to force Norwegian nationals to obey Norwegian law in India or in Norwegian Embasy?
There ought not to be a national border in criminal case. All the more when it comes to the Internet activities where virtually no national borders exist. Spamming is like pouring poison in the international river.
It was good to be able to arrest him beyond the limit of nations.

Internal Server Error

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Internal Server Error
2006.01.06 7:23

I don't know what the cause of this malfunction. Just for the record and to learn precicely later I keep the description here.

Searching HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:14:45 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e mod_perl/1.29 X-Powered-By: Slash 2.002006 Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 OK The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, Technocrat@Technocrat.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Apache/1.3.33 Server at technocrat.net Port 80

Ah

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Ah
2006.01.04 9:27

Working 8 full hours in a day, got home around 10 p.m. Took a bath & had some dinner, started opening the site at midnight. No extra energy was left other than going to bed. Slashdot and Technocrat.net, sorry I go to sleep.

What Was The Cause?
2006.01.04 8:32
What was the cause of Sago Coal Mine Explosion? Full of carbon monoxide in the main shaft means imcomplete combustion took place under the state less oxygen supplied. Wanna know the cause.

A Happy New Year

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Gas Eruption In Spa
2006.01.03 7:51

It is very common for us to spend our holidays in some famous hot spa, this one -Doroyu Hotspring is less known to us but there are tens of less known hot spas all around in Japan. Three people died of inhailing hydrogen sulfide gas which coming out of the ground in a hot spa area, where they were staying in an inn for their holidays.
Probably this incident indicates recent upheaval of activities inside the Earth, though, we are not certain the cause of it yet. Here is the link."

I'm A Liar
2006.01.03 7:45

This statement contradicts itself. If I were a really liar, I would be an honest person.
Lying means telling some false story, something different from what is true, right, correct. There's difference between what is true and false, though because we use language to tell the truth or false, in nature truth contains some false and false contains some truth. Because language for telling the truth or false is an imperfect tool. We might be called liar if we were merely misunderstood owing to the nature of language itself. It is important for us to take it for granted at any time that no people are either telling only truth or false. Anyway always it's difficult to tell the truth not because we don't know the truth but because we can't say the truth even if we know what is truth. This itself also indicates the limitation of human wisdom. Don't blame on them, because we are nothing but humans.
On the other hands, if you were a chronic liar, things are a little bit different. I would strongly recommend them to be a novelist. There must be a good way to make the most of their hidden talent other than just being called a liar.

A Happy New Year
2005.12.31 8:31

2006. Japan is always the first country (or second something) that had a new year 2006 among the world countries. So prior to people in other countries in Europe, America (where many Technocrat.net Users live), A Happy New Year to other Users.