The engineers of Ekballpore love the idea of a water aeolipile being
fed through a siphon tube coming from an overhead reservoir. I knew
they would appreciate the idea - the reservoir has an integral quality
to it. When the river water flows at a higher speed, the water wheel
in the river will pump at a good rate, and at other times, the pumping
will be weaker. In fact, a windmill assist to the pumping can also be
applied. The reservoir serves to store (integrate) all the waters coming
in, for use even at leaner intake intervals. Now, this does not typically happen for solar or direct windmill based power generation. Now, since
the water is getting fed into an aeolipile, not a single drop of the
energetic fluid gets wasted. Moreover, since an electricity load sensor
can control the number of multi-AC loops in active duty around the
disc, the torque required to turn the disc will vary with the load.
So, the load sensor can simultaneously control the flow of water
in the siphon tube. That way, you can economize on water usage even
further.

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Engineers have some questions about the water wheel, be it for
use with your water wheel farm of Item#467, or even for the
purpose of lifting water to the elevated reservoir. How should
the water wheel look like? Well, the blades of the water wheel
successively dipping into the water should be such that
they do not suffer from much drag resistance - just receive the
push from the river current. So, they should not be radial, may
be, sit at angle to the wheel's rim. Such wheels have been used
in the past. Look, if you can create the capture area of a blade
roughly equal to the area of a circle of 1ft diameter, then by
the simplified formula of my Item#483 you can expect a force
of about 24 lbfs, for a typical river water speed of 3 knots.
Again 3 knots is equivalent to 5 ft/sec. So, you are looking
at 120 ft-lbf per second of water power being transferred to'
the wheel - that's roughly equal to 164 Watts. This is assuming
no losses. After losses, if it can deliver 100W of power, a
100X100 matrix of wheels will deliver 1MW.

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Interestingly, the engineers argue, there will be considerable
interest about increasing the local speed of water in the channels
you show in Item#467. Because the power delivered will increase
by S^2, S being the speed of water. Yes, definitely. In fact,
one idea could be using windmills to push waters into the channels
at a faster rate. That would create an interesting synergy between
wind power and water power. I see, you are suggesting the use
of faster moving wheels that drive the waters into the channels -
while these driver wheels could be driven by windmills. What if
the wind is low, and the driver wheels run slower than the
water speed?

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Interestingly, the engineers argue, there will be considerable
interest about increasing the local speed of water in the channels
you show in Item#467. Because the power delivered will increase
by S^3, S being the speed of water. Yes, definitely. In fact,
one idea could be using windmills to push waters into the channels
at a faster rate. That would create an interesting synergy between
wind power and water power. I see, you are suggesting the use
of faster moving wheels that drive the waters into the channels -
while these driver wheels could be driven by windmills. What if
the wind is low, and the driver wheels run slower than the
water speed? The driver wheel's blades will have to be shaped
(probably, triangular, like the pawl gear's teeth) in such a way
that it does not impose significant loading on the incoming waters.

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Engineer, Ekballpore historians think you deserve credit for analyzing
the history of the sub-continent in terms of your "waves" theory.
They find the bengali language somehow associated with all the
counter-waves. The buddhists that gave the first counter-wave created
it, the british that gave the second counter-wave revived it, Bangladesh
that gave the third counter-wave fought for it and enriched it, and you
who gave the fourth and important tech push towards basic tech
innovations happen to speak bengali. Ha ha! That's just coincidental.
But, do I deserve credit for giving the "waves" theory? Well, I will
definitely feel happy to be acknowledged.

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Engineer, cheers to the Kalama Sutta from Ekballpore. Recently, I was
visiting an AdBu temple; after finishing a session of yogic exercise
and meditation, I was having a chat with the monks. Apparently, they
know about your works. They said they see clear indication of the
Buddhist spirit of questioning as the Buddha had so nicely explained
in his Kalama Sutta. You are always questioning the existing concepts
and coming up with new ideas. The spirit forms the basis for innovation -
never blindly believe in existing methods and principles, always think. Everything can be questioned, including his own instructions - that
was the Buddha's idea. Definitely, otherwise, chemical change of the
mind can set in. They said the sub-continental ruling class had thrown
out Buddhism because they came from the middle east where the questioning spirit was not popular. Well, I think there were more reasons than
just that.

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What were the other reasons - some Ekballporeans wonder. I think
it was mainly because the Buddha understood the fallacy of the
hindu caste system - it was a religion based apartheid order for
him. That was imposed upon the local darker folks of the sub-continent
by the "migrants from the middle east", who created and circulated
various stories to indicate their supremacy. For example, read this
interesting description of the Assalayana Sutta: https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/buddha-talks-brahmin-supremacist/
Now, if the brahmins, according to the story, are born out of the
mouth of the lord Brahma, some folks may have asked themselves, what
are we born out of?! Looks like, the Buddha represented them.
Naturally, if the caste system is removed, there will be intermixing
between various diverse groups, like you are having in your AdBu temples.
The caste supremacists did not like that, and, when they got power
threw away Buddhism all-together.

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Do you think, somehow, Buddhism failed in some ways in the sub-continent?
Yes, the main failure was to stick to the linguistic focus of the early
hindus. They did not sufficiently move towards a tech focus - although
they had developed major schools of learning such as Taxila and Nalanda
that pre-dated the big universities of western europe. And, the chinese
were already working with the spur gears. Good point! That's why, we are vigorously pursuing a green tech focus for Ekballpore. Look, Ekballpore
is a small country, it is impossible for us to develop a diverse
technological base - we will need to continue to import tech products, machines, and machine parts in the foreseeable future. But, we needed
to focus on a smaller but important technological sector that gives
us energy independence, and keeps it pollution free! Also, we want to do
it in peace, and completely avoid wars. President Doball has decided
to request a permanent presence of UN peacekeepers in Ekballpore, who'
will train side by side with our military.

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Wow! Another non-causal departure from the past practices for Ekballpore.
Yes, this is happening because we are witnessing a higher level of
energy - social energy! People are more energetic than ever - they want
to accomplish much more, their aspirations are higher. The AdBu, the meritocracy, and the other reforms are making them want to go farther.
Look, a weak nation cannot make non-causal changes. They remain in the
grip of causal continuation.

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Engineer, the country you grew up in has been going through
a process of parliamentary elections. You have any reactions?
Any favorite political party? Well, as I have indicated earlier
my thought process has changed a lot in recent years, I no
longer look at things from an upper caste perspective, particularly
so after reviewing the history of the sub-continent from the
"waves" theory framework. Also, I was shaken to see some
caste oppression videos on youtube. India has typically been
ruled by upper caste dominated parties - while the upper
caste is only about 20% of the population [table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Backward_Class].
I guess, it's time to see the other 80% get to positions
of power.

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New bengali word introduced for the english word 'non-causal' - ohetufolio! 'hetu' in bengali is equivalent to 'cause' in english; 'fol' is 'result';
note that the 'hetu' is preceding the 'fol', just as in the law of causality ('hetufol sutra'); 'o' is used in the sense of 'non'; and, the 'io' is
like the 'al'.

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Engineer, I had an interesting chat with a comparative literature
student in Ekballpore. He pointed to an interesting youtube video
showing an interview with a prominent man of literature from Bengal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQA4FaptxNg
Although I don't understand Bengali, he explained to me that the
author lamented the lack of popularity of Bengali literature in
the world scene. What would you say? Well, he was one of the
most prominent literary figures in poetry and prose in the late
20th century Bengal - I was a fan of his writing style as a youngster.
He simplified Bengali prose writing. In my view, the reason for
the lack of popularity is that the Bengali culture is too causal,
and it is not backed by the tech side of culture. For example,
if the British had not come to Bengal, we would not have the
universities of Calcutta and Dhaka - and, folks like JC Bose,
PC Roy, MN Saha, SN Bose, SK Mitra etc. would not work on science.
Probably, the cult of sati would have continued for another 100 years.
And, there would be no Tagore to lift the standards of the Bengali
language and literature.

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How do the oppressed castes of South Asia reconcile with their
status? Look, major religions of the region are filled with
stories of supremacy, etc., like the one Assalayana was mentioning
to the Buddha. Now, if you repeat the stories over centuries
and millennia, they have a mind-bending effect. Chemical
change of the mind - a very dangerous thing! See, when the
Buddha gave the Kalama Sutta, he provided a wheel to the
human mind - the wheel to go ahead with questioning. When
the Buddhism got crushed, the wheel got broken for the
oppressed classes. And, the ruling classes would do nothing
to question those "stories" - so, science and technology never
flourished. Engineer, one thing we like about your approach,
you don't talk about problems in a system, unless and until
you have a solution. Well, that comes with doing engineering
as a profession. That is, as long as there isn't a new solution
to a problem, the old solution is the best!

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Engineer, your ANDs pipe (Item#306)that you have successfully used
in your direct decimal arithmetic circuits has created a fresh stir
among the Ekballpore engineers. Although you have used it to do fast sub-clock_period clocking, they think it can also be used for
nonlinear clocking, slow to fast, fast to slow, sometimes slow,
sometimes fast, etc. Yes, that's a good idea - somewhat like the
human brain, works non-linearly. When you are working under a stressful situation, the brain works faster, when you are relaxing, it works
slower - adaptive. I understand it is somewhat easy to add situation dependence, and even uniformly progressing non-linearity to the ANDs
pipe.

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The idea of picking out the positive edges from an advancing pulse
propagating through the ANDs pipe is like a wave-front sensor -
the engineers argue. Yes, of course, I used a finite sequence of
the edges to perform some digital operations quickly, but, there
can be other applications. For example, you could have two parallel
ANDs pipes - one fed by a clock pulse, and the other by its inverse.
In that case, you can have an infinite sequence edges. Now, if you
selectively pick up edges after variously spaced stages, and use
them to set/reset latches, you can create pulse widths of various
lengths of time, and even pulse-width amplification. Wow, sounds
like dynamically selecting the numbers of turns from the secondary
of a transformer. Advisor, you seem to understand some EE! :-)

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Engineer, the president appreciates your tech comments. He said,
one thing I like about his comments is that he mainly discusses
concepts that he has created, or has had significant contributions
in. Ha ha! Yes, in bengali, we have a saying, raja ujir mara, meaning
the tendency to flaunt one's acquaintance to the king and the vazir,
while the person himself is rather ordinary! I try to avoid that.

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He also acknowledged that as a leader of a nation in transition
he has been greatly helped by your visionary inputs in various
fields. Although you are not a political person, your blogs
are filled with visionary and forward looking thoughts. Well,
thanks for appreciating the visionary aspect of things. Of course,
if the leader of a nation doesn't have a clear vision of the
future, that's not a good leader. I like the way Mr. Doball
has been running the show for Ekballpore. Pretty non-causal!

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The other important thing we have discussed, that may be of interest
to you is that the world may run out of petroleum and other fossil
fuels (coal, gas) much faster than the global warming gets to become unbearable. In fact, one estimate points to the year 2085 when we
will totally exhaust our fossil fuel reserves, unless huge new reserves
are discovered: https://www.ecotricity.co.uk/our-green-energy/energy-independence/the-end-of-fossil-fuels
Ugh! That's alarming. Alarming indeed, but, Ekballpore has already
started on a course of green energy independence, and you have already
come up with green energy concepts.

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Engineer, our engineers here want to know some more about the
box symbol for the MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor-field-
effect-transistor) that you introduced in your snippets, e.g.,
in Item#370. Why did you introduce a new symbol when the old
symbol has been used for over half a century, and it is quite
simple? Sure, the old symbol is quite popular, and will probably
continue for a while. But, the new box symbol is more descriptive
- you can quickly figure out if it is an nfet or a pfet; whether
it is a low Vth or a high Vth device, and even you can indicate
whether the fet is operating in the cutoff, the linear, or the
saturation region. See, since many of my designs focus on reducing
the number of fets needed for creating the same circuit function
as before, each fet becomes more powerful! So, I needed a symbol
that is more illustrative.

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But, you haven't shown anywhere how your symbol can be used
to indicate the saturation, the linear, and the cutoff modes.
True, I did not show it, but, it's somewhat apparent. When
the big dot indicating the electron or the hole is in the
middle without touching the source (box-side closer to ground
bias for an nfet, and closer to power for a pfet) or the
drain sides of the box, the fet is in cutoff - the dot's
only role now is to indicate if it's an nfet or a pfet.
When the fet is conducting current (gate to source bias
exceeds threshold), you can turn the dot into an oval egg
shape. If the oval dot touches both the source and the drain
sides, it's in linear mode. And, in saturation, the oval dot
only touches the source side, and not the drain side!
Now, you can have many circuit diagrams explaining the operation
of CMOS circuits under various biasing conditions and their
transitions.

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Engineer, our engineers have reviewed your new box symbol.
They agree with the added utility of the circles and the oval
shapes in indicating the modes of operation, and also the
little dots in describing the LVT, HVT etc., but they
don't feel good about the box structure. They would rather
go with the current symbol with the circles/ovals and the dots
added as needed. They think that the box structure can give
a false impression that the source and the drain are on the
same net, and can confuse a reader. Yes, I agree with the
point they have raised. A good observation!

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Engineer, there is a lot of debates and discussion in Ekballpore on
the new non-causal changes that we are seeing in our country. What
comes out from these is that there was a false notion prevalent
among the common people that somehow the ancients were more honest
and truthful compared to the current generation - so whatever they
had said, or the systems they had set up should continue. But,
there is no reason to believe that, they had the same tensions,
the same greed that drove them. Yes, I entirely agree! In fact,
it was much easier to get away with cruel and dishonest acts in
ancient times, and not get caught. Now, it is progressively more
difficult. In fact, after your new design of the PRP boat, some
Ekballporeans are referring to the older times as the "Oars age"!
Ha ha! That's cool - its bengali translation is DnaR jug! :-)

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Bangladesh minority activist Ms Priya Saha's recent meeting with President Trump at the White House to describe the troubles faced by the religious minorities there has caused quite a flutter on youtube that I follow. Particularly so because the level of exodus she indicated sounded
astounding - 37 millions! So, I was trying to see if there is any
justification to the number. What I found was that there really has been significant reduction in hindu population percentage since 1971 when
Bangladesh became independent - by about 15% (23% to 8%,
page 12, https://www.justice.gov/eoir/file/882896/download).
For example, had the reduction not been there, and considering a current population of 168 millions (https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/bangladesh-population/)
there would be 168X0.15 or 25.2 millions more hindus; plus there may
have been some exodus involving christians and buddhists. Still, it
may not be as high as 37 millions. Although a number between 25
and 30 millions would also be worrisome.

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Engineer, speaking of Bangladesh, it seems the country is impacted
by an extremely bad flood situation right now. Apparently, floods
happen quite frequently in that country. Any ideas how to deal with
such floods, not just there, but anywhere? Yes, it's a really
difficult situation for a large number of village folks, almost
every other year. I was looking into the flood maps. There are
various ways to deal with such floods. Most importantly, have all
homes built on an higher altitude (on concrete/steel beams) in the
flood zones, and also large temporary flood shelters, granaries.
Then of course, massive dredging of the rivers and the water bodies,
to make them deeper. Creating new canals to divert the waters is
another way to control flooding. The best is to avoid living in the
flood zones, and use those regions mainly for cultivation.

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I am fortunate to have an AMC theater near me here in Santa Clara,
that plays bollywood hindi movies. I occasionally go and see a
movie there. I like some movies, and I don't like some others -
especially the ones that are excessively and unnecessarily
full of violence (they seem to contain a terror element in them).
I cannot but talk about a movie I watched recently, Article 15,
which appeared to be a huge eye opener about the horrendous
caste based oppression among the hindus. I must say, the director
(Anubhav Sinha) of the film did a bold depiction of what appeared
to be still continuing in parts of India. Engineer, does that mean
that since the time of the famous conversation between the Buddha
and Assalayana nothing much has changed in that region? Probably,
it had changed for some centuries when Buddhism was in vogue,
but, apparently, it changed back. Interestingly, the geographical
locations indicated in the movie is not very far from where
the Buddha had lived 2500 years ago.

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Engineer, in Ekballpore these days we look at systems, past and present,
in terms of how sporting they are. This is in keeping with our new
focus on meritocracy. We think that the greatness of the Buddha lay
in the fact that he could presage the conflicts between the various
castes of hinduism - that one day they will turn ugly. Obviously,
the folks from the disadvantaged castes start the 100m dash of
life from a couple of hundred meters behind the starting line.
Yes, I agree, whenever there are divisions like castes, there
are possibilities of conflicts between the sections, there can
be stronger and weaker sections, exploitation. The Buddha was
smart.

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Since I write a lot about information theft issues on this column,
I wanted to share the following message I just received from Mozilla
(a Mountain View, CA based web browser company) - thought it is relevant. ===========================================================
Hi Arya,

If you have a voice assistant in your home or on your phone, have you ever been concerned that someone from the company could listen to your voice recordings?

Recent news coverage confirms that suspicion.

At the end of July, The Guardian reported that people at Apple were regularly listening to recordings of deeply personal events such as conversations with doctors, sexual encounters, and other moments. While the effort was designed as a quality control
measure, users likely had no idea that some of their utterances were being recorded and reviewed by humans.1

Since then, Apple has temporarily suspended its human review program.2 Google has been forced to pause its own review program in the EU and Amazon is now giving users the ability to opt-out.

Mozilla has put together a guide for you to change your privacy settings on voice assistants.

Learn How to Opt Out

Click here to learn how to change your settings and to share the graphic. [https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/how-opt-out-human-review-your-voice-assistant-recordings/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019advocacy-en&utm_content=voiceassistant&utm_term=5122968]

Even with these additional privacy controls, there are still a number of concerns raised by these programs that haven't yet been resolved. Some of those concerns are:

For users who don't opt-out, workers at Amazon and Google are still listening to a small segment of recordings from people's smart voice assistants and despite efforts to anonymize that data, recordings can contain sensitive and personally identifiable
information.3
In many cases, recordings were made even without someone saying the wake word ("Hey Google") or because they said something that sounded similar to the wake word (such as "Syria" — alerting Apple's Siri). People may not have known they were being
recorded once the device was triggered to listen.4,5
Until recent reporting on this issue, these review programs were not clearly disclosed to users and some like Amazon's did not give users the ability to opt in/out. What's more, news continues to break that other companies like Facebook are also
employing human review of other types of users' voice content without previous disclosure. This raises questions about what meaningful consent should look like when people's data is used to train a model to improve the product.6,7
We will keep monitoring the developments on the issue, and of course advocate for disclosure and stronger privacy protections in publications like our Privacy Not Included guide and more.

In the meantime, it is important that consumers like you know how to set the privacy settings for your own voice assistant. Will you share this graphic to spread the word?

Thanks,
The Mozilla Team

References:
1. Alex Hart, “Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings,” The Guardian, July 26, 2019.
2. Taylor Mahlandt, “How to Stop Amazon, Apple, or Google From Listening to Your Smart Speaker Recordings,” Slate, Aug. 6, 2019.
3. Sarah Perez, “41% of voice assistant users have concerns about trust and privacy, report finds,” TechCrunch, May, 2019.
4. James Vincent, “Yep, human workers are listening to recordings from Google Assistant, too,” The Verge, July 11, 2019.
5. Jeremy Horwitz, “Apple Siri contractors often hear up to 30 seconds of accidental recordings,” VentureBeat, July 26, 2019.
6. Sarah Frier, “Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe Users' Audio Chats,” Bloomberg, Aug. 13, 2019.
7. Paul Sawers, “Apple and Google halt human voice-data reviews over privacy backlash, but transparency is the real issue,” VentureBeat, Aug 2, 2019.

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Engineer, there was an interesting debate competition at the eit
recently. What was the topic? Engineers that give new concepts
are greater, or the politicians that channel the concepts are
greater. Those who spoke in favor of the concept-giving engineers
said that it was the new engineering concepts that led the world
forward. Without the concepts there would be no movement, they are
more basic than anything else. For example, the concepts of the
wheel, the spur gear, etc. showed the way ahead in the ancient
world. Even today, the modern concepts in electrical and mechanical
engineering are at the fore-front. Those who favored politicians
said that the latter control money and power, without their able
leadership the concepts would not be channeled in a proper way.
They gave an example of the concept of water desalination to produce
drinking water. So, in a country where the people are suffering
from an acute scarcity of drinking water, putting that concept
into practice makes the politician great for the people.

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In fact, in Ekballpore, the politicians such as Mr. Twoballski
and Mr. Doball (though he is strictly not a career politician)
have been doing great work by putting new and non-causal
socioeconomic concepts into practice. Yes, the debaters mentioned
that. But the opposing team saw that as an exception rather
than the rule. Globally, they said, politicians often follow
a causal path, even acting as 'animalator' to concept-giving
engineers such as yourself. Bending the ancient sanskrit
saying, swadeshe pujyate raja, bidwan sarbatra pujyate
(A king is respected in his own country, but a learned man
everywhere). For example, an electric fan works equally in
the US as in Somalia. This global reach of engineering concepts
led the judges to vote in favor of the debating team that
spoke for concept-giving engineers.

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Engineer, new interest and curiosity about the Bollywood film
Rangoon among some Ekballpore viewers. While they find the movie
very interesting and well-made, they wonder if the sword
they were carrying to the INA operatives may have concealed a
message against the INA. What would you say on that? Well, I
never thought along those lines, although the wordings of some
songs sounded a bit odd to me. Also, as you know I now view
the history of the sub-continent in terms of my waves
theory - from that perspective, the entire movement for freedom
may be seen as a result of an ego problem of the "forward caste"
sections. The Brits had taken away the ruler-ship from them, they
wanted to get it back! But, like many of my contemporaries I have
also taken some interest on the mystery surrounding the INA
and its leader. In fact, I remember watching a video on youtube
that suggested that internal operative(s) of the INA had
provided advance information on their movements to the british
Indian army - leading to the INA's defeat.

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Would you then say that the story of the betrayal towards
the INA would be more important than the various theories
on the disappearance of its leader? Yes, of course, the INA
was definitely bigger than its leader - if such a betrayal had
really taken place, one video here or there don't prove a
thing. But, sometimes, unimportant or less important stories
are floated in order to obfuscate the real story. That's
where investigative journalism comes in. Engineer, speaking
of journalism, the new press freedom ranking has come in https://rsf.org/en/ranking
Also, the evolution of the index for a country can be studied
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index
I would give credit to countries that have kept a positive
d(pfi)/dt for a significant length of time.

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Would you then say that the story of the betrayal towards
the INA would be more important than the various theories
on the disappearance of its leader? Yes, of course, the INA
was definitely bigger than its leader - if such a betrayal had
really taken place, one video here or there don't prove a
thing. But, sometimes, unimportant or less important stories
are floated in order to obfuscate the real story. That's
where investigative journalism comes in. Engineer, speaking
of journalism, the new press freedom ranking has come in https://rsf.org/en/ranking
Also, the evolution of the index for a country can be studied
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index
I would give credit to countries that have kept a positive
-d(pfi)/dt for a significant length of time.

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Considering the primacy of engineering innovations in driving
the society forward, and the leading role of women played in
Ekballpore today, particularly after our new social reforms,
an Ekballpore women's organization called for higher proactive
participation of women in engineering. Interestingly, they gave
the eminent example of Bertha Benz who partnered her husband
Karl to develop the early concept of the automobile. An extremely
pervasive concept! Yes, definitely so - one realizes that
every morning. In fact, I like their example. If women only
liked musicians, all men would go into music. And, what a brave
woman Bertha Benz was - she did the first long distance test drive
on an automobile. Another great European woman's name comes
to mind, Margaret Elizabeth Noble (1867-1911), later known
as Sister Nivedita (a disciple of the hindu monk Swami
Vivekananda) - who helped and supported the pioneering
Indian scientist/engineer JC Bose.

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Engineer, your profile is coming up good in bing images and yahoo images
when searched by your full name, compared to the results shown up by
google images. Do you think it's a way to compare search engines?
Well, I have very little idea on how search engines work! Actually,
google images show a lot of the figures from my small biz site.
But, of course, you want to see the presentation of information
in a more connected way, rather than in a scattered way. Look, I
am all about my engineering work, I personally feel good to see
a lot of my work coming up in searches.

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We wonder how you keep working under so much noise and disturbance.
Well, it's like living in a nice house next to a slum. You try to
focus more on your work so that the slum noise doesn't affect you.
Still, it must be extremely annoying and distracting! Yes, it is.
And, the worst part is that it appears to be surreptitious and
collusional - how does it go with the "the land of the free and
the home of the brave" proclamation in your national anthem?
No, it does not go very well - these people are polluting the
atmosphere big time. "Free and brave" folks are seldom surreptitious
and collisional.

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We wonder how you keep working under so much noise and disturbance.
Well, it's like living in a nice house next to a slum. You try to
focus more on your work so that the slum noise doesn't affect you.
Still, it must be extremely annoying and distracting! Yes, it is.
And, the worst part is that it appears to be surreptitious and
collusional - how does it go with the "the land of the free and
the home of the brave" proclamation in your national anthem?
No, it does not go very well - these people are polluting the
atmosphere big time. "Free and brave" folks are seldom surreptitious
and collusional.

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So, basically you are trying to orthogonalize the disturbance -
our engineers gather. For example, if your creative effort is
a vector A, the torturous disturbance a vector B, their dot
product A.B or |A|*|B|*cos(theta) would be the torture received
by you, the impact of the disturbance. If you can keep the 'theta'
close to pi/2, the impact is minimized. True, but, the fact is
that I am not always doing creative effort. I am doing various
other things throughout the day, let's say, a1, a2, a3, ...etc.
And, the torture designer is shrewd - the disturber is watching
everything and creating individualized disturbances, b1, b2, b3,
...etc. So, in effect, the impact is a1.b1+a2.b2+a3.b3+ ....
A sum of dot products! It is difficult to keep the 'theta' for
each of the dot products close to pi/2. The idea is that by
granularizing the torture, its impact is maximized. Wow! sounds
like a mathematical model for the disturbance.

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Engineer, failed US immigration policies to blame. A country where a
civil rights movement (CRM) has taken place should not get too many
folks from where a similar movement hasn't taken place. For example,
the US getting too many folks from an apartheid era south Africa would
not be advisable. Because, it can potentially reverse the trend.
The hindus, because of the caste system are still in a pre-CRM
state, and they are entering the US in large numbers with their
Hi-Lo feelings.

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No, it's no failed US immigration policies as you suggest, it's
just that the apartheid nature of the hindu caste system was not
known to the outside world till very recent times when movies
like the Article 15 came out. For example, I lived in India for
the first 30 years of my life, but never knew of the horrendous
caste oppression scenarios. Always lived in cities, among 'forward'
caste people, and never had a chance to visit the villages where
exploitation really happened. With that kind of experience, one is
expected to think that everything was all-right! Now, the geno innu
is another interesting phenomenon that had not happened before.
But, personally, I would say I am more concerned with the legacy
left behind by William Shockley who is said to have "put the silicon
in Silicon Valley": https://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Silicon-Valley-Shockley-racist-semiconductor-lab-13164228.php

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I am more concerned with the legacy

left behind by William Shockley who is said to have "put the silicon
in Silicon Valley": https://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Silicon-Valley-Shockley-racist-semiconductor-lab-13164228.php

Interesting article. Like Churchill and other great racists, Shockley was honest about his racism. Unlike the suave lot around, now.

I had heard that Shockley was a bit thick. But that could be negative propaganda.

My problem with the inventors of transistors is that they did not use queuing theory to explain the barrier potential. Maybe one day, I will write a monograph on that!

Cheers,
Arindam Banerjee

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Engineer, you have made us stumble upon a dangerous article.
More than why or what you find troublesome about the legacy
of Shockley, many in Ekballpore seem to be interested to
compare your contributions to engineering with that of Shockley
and his Bell Labs team! Wow! I am nowhere near as important.
Shockley's transistor was epoch-making - it basically started
the rise of America as the global electronics super-power! While
judging his work one should not talk about his personal flaws.
Obviously, his connecting IQ with race was mostly based on
hearsay. Engineering creativity or the creativity in any other
field is totally dominated by the quality and the quantity of
of individual effort, as you can see from my example :-).
But, the problem with Shockley's unnecessary race-IQ thesis was
that he had ignored the role of culture in promoting
creativity. Yes, we agree, your culture doesn't support forward
movement.

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The most troubling aspect of Shockley's racist theorizations,
some Ekballporeans believe was his idea of 'sterilizing' who
he perceived as genetically disadvantaged, using financial
incentives and so on. Yes, that is a dangerous idea - in fact,
it had the potential of getting applied to any non-white male,
if a lot of people took it seriously enough. In fact, you have
discussed 'sterile-making' in the context of the genocidal
innuendo phenomenon. Yes, I had urged folks to bypass the
'sterile-makers' when it comes to acknowledging my work.
Look, the only way to get over Shockley's racist theories is
to celebrate the works of later contributors. And, the diaspora
folks have a role in that. For example, I have acknowledged
the MOSFET inventors Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng in
Item#485. As you know, the MOSFET as a device has beaten
the bipolar transistor, and I have also shown how to derive
linearity using the Early effect. But, you have acknowledged
contributors that are no more - isn't that vulture-like.
No, I am not vulture-like, not even half-vulture-like,
that is, celebrate someone when he is very old, and can't
do much with his celebrity status. In this case, it was just
paying a fitting tribute to a team of great engineers that
had helped us move ahead.

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Fitting indeed, who else would have been in a position
to pay the tribute to the stalwarts and with what! You have
created so many circuits with the MOSFET your paying the
tribute makes sense. On the topic of your contributions to
tech, some engineering scientists of Ekballpore think you
reintroduced common sense into engineering. That's interesting,
what do they mean? They think that before Leonhard Euler, the
famous 18th century swiss mathematician (1707-1783) and polymath,
engineering was mainly driven by common sense, and creative iq
(ciq). But, Euler brought analysis in a bigtime way - all the
great aiq (analytical iq) folks jumped in with great success.
Engineering became inseparable from mathematical analysis.
In a way, it was a good development, but, some saw it as
over-shackling. In your later drawings you seem to have broken
the shackle. Ha ha! I didn't think so much while doing my
prp boat designs and so on.

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Yes, your mechanical and electromagnetic spring tooth gear based
designs are expected to be pervasive and disruptive - adding
additional degrees of freedom to power transfer. Unfortunately,
you are looking at a granular torture situation which is
like slow sterile-making that may or may not be due to
the legacy of Shockley. No, the legacy of Shockley has little
validity in the context of the current goings-on. The DPs have done
a lot of harm - for example, now is the time for the sleep vector,
and the non-orthogonal disturbance vector persists.

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The other important aspect is a large PFI gap. A whole bunch of low PFI
folks entering a high PFI place is a drag. Because the low PFI folks
lack the courage and spine to acknowledge that is well-understood.
Unless, of course, they come in as some kind of refugees who were
coerced into a low PFI state, but now want to speak up. For example,
many Ekballpore independents got shelter in Freespeechia at one
time, when Ekball had run his authoritarian regime. Yes, I agree.

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In fact, I know that you guys in Ekballpore had been looking for
a method to control the immigration of negative spirited folks
into Ekballpore. It appears that you have now chosen the PFI
to be a criterion. Yes, we figure that we really don't care
about the internal mechanisms of various countries, but, any
negativity will leave an imprint on the PFI. But, of course,
we will welcome extremely brilliant individuals, and visitors or
business travelers coming in for a short duration, irrespective
of the PFI. By the way, what happened to those that had migrated
to Freespeechia? Many of them have returned, now that Ekballpore
has embarked on a path of fast reform. But, some have stayed back.

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Engineer, since the time that wheels got attached to wagons,
crackpots and pseudo-scientists have been dreaming of pushing
the wall of the wagon from inside to make it move ahead.
Your Item#384 seems to make their dream come true. If you
construct the handle of the piston in the form of a movable
wall, pushing that wall will create credible movement, our
engineers contend. See, you need a proper mechanism to
achieve your dreams - otherwise, if you just keep kicking
the walls it will not move the wagon. This is what I like
about your engineers, they freely express their imagination
around my creative engineering work. That expression is basic
journalism - obviously, Ekballpore has press freedom.

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Engineer, the fact that your engineering work is less than adequately acknowledged in your local area seems to indicate something to us.
What? There is a lack of real press freedom in the US. If folks
cannot naturally and spontaneously make open appreciation of what
they like/dislike they are not really free! Do you think the PFI
numbers could be fake? Ha ha! You got a point there, in fact,
this thought has occurred to me. My position is, first acknowledge
my engineering work, then we talk. That's why I rarely try to make
a personal friend - who knows the person could be fake or under
pressure. Speaking of pressure, one interesting variation to
pushing the wall of the wagon to make it move ahead comes to mind.
The wall could even be the ceiling of the wagon, and you are pulling
a handle hanging from the ceiling, rather than pushing a wall.
In this case, you take advantage of gravity in a better way.

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Engineer, your Item#373 has created some flutter among the
engineers here. They look at it as some kind of a template
for engine design. It serves to remove the phobia that they
often develop when it comes to thinking of the subject.
Yes, I expect that. I am not saying that it is meant to compete
against the most popular EM engine, namely the electric motor
which has now achieved a high level of efficiency. But, it
has some new elements to it. Number one, the crank is not
there! As you understand, the crank in a typical heat engine
has a load on the driver side, the piston itself, but, the
spring tooth has none, theoretically. This has power implications -
the heat engine has to always run to avoid the piston turning
out to be a load. But, you can run the piston driving spring teeth intermittently, sort of like in a pulse mode. This makes the
engine appealing even for manual operations. If you can set
up a reciprocatory (back and forth) motion in a small space,
by any means, you can quickly configure an engine.

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So, basically, you are replacing the hard connection between
the piston and the flywheel with a relative speed connection
involving the spring teeth. Yes, that's the idea. It's a fundamental
change indeed. Well, it all evolved from my recognition of the
logical power of springs added to gears while trying to solve the
the problems of gear based NAND/NOR gates (e.g., Item#s 206,205, and
even earlier). I am still not happy with the use of 1/0 bias chains
for those gates. Ideally, the cases of the inputs 1,1 for the NAND ,
and 0,0 for the NOR should yield 0 or 1 on the outputs without the
chains and spring shaft, and just with the power of the input gears.
I am yet to figure that out. In any case, from that exercise, the
spring teeth emerged with its relative speed meshing properties.

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Engineer, following our latest discussion on the PFI, PM Twoballski
has withdrawn from the idea of using the PFI for the purposes of
immigration control. He no longer thinks the PFI is a good indicator
of individuals' spirit. So, we will stick with the personal interview
method, where our immigration control officers will try to judge
a potential immigrant's ability to live up to our new meritocratic
and non-causal standards. Makes sense to me - you need spontaneous
and positive-spirited folks in there. Your motto should be Listen,
Acknowledge, Appreciate, and Immediately. You don't want baseball
spectators who clap when nothing is happening - they were thinking
whether to clap or not, how does it make me look like! What if
my girlfriend thinks I can only clap, and cannot make shots like the
guy in the middle.

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Speaking of baseball, in Ekballpore, we are actually moving away from
games like baseball and cricket, and getting into more directly
competitive sports, like athletics, badminton, tennis, table-tennis,
boxing, soccer, etc. For example, the instructions in athletics
are so simple, Run, Jump, Throw, Swim, etc., complex sports like
baseball and cricket sound like politics. Also, we are thinking,
but, not done anything yet, towards putting an end to passive
spectatorship. The viewers will have a spring-tooth pedal to push
from time to time, to generate some electricity and keep their
limbs in some activity. But, that electricity will be very
little, isn't it? Yes, but good enough to momentarily light up
some led lamps on top their seats, or generate some sound.

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Engineer, you were mentioned with respect at a conference of
Ekballpore economists and bankers who were discussing what needs
to happen if Ekballpore wanted to embrace a sportsist economic
structure. Everyone starts from the same line, and the best
wins, etc., like we had discussed earlier. They said they were
engaged in revenue distribution, storage, and investment fields,
while you are creating revenue and jobs generating engg concepts.
If you don't come up with new revenue generating concepts,
what can they distribute! But, they are also doing something
fundamentally important in economics - sportsism. Not communism,
not capitalism, not feudalism, but, a new economic order that
enforces sporting fairness in your society.

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In fact, the idea of sportsism appealed to me over 25 years ago
when I was doing my graduate work in engineering in Canada. But,
I could not figure out how it would be implemented. For example,
each family is an economic unit, how can you stop the parents
from transferring their moneys to their children, out of affection!
Wouldn't that be some kind of an infringement of human rights?
True, but that unit also interacts with the state, and benefits
from the state's various facilities. The recent push for sportsism
in Ekballpore came from PM Twoballski who happens to be a man
from the arena of sports. Of course, we were thinking of sportsism
to go along with other meritocratic developments here, like we
have discussed the initiatives taken by the new ceo of the
Ekballpore company, to foster innovations. So, you have now
figured some ways to implement it without breaking human rights?
Yes, and it is quite interesting how our economists are planning!

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PM Twoballski said he was moved by the recent harsh dismissal of
a diamond league sprinter for making a false start by a fraction
of a split second. Yes, even I felt pretty sorry for her, but
then, probably the umpires simply followed the rules. That's the
point our economists are making. That is, if you receive excessive
'gifts', that will be looked upon as a performance enhancer in
a race. As if you are starting the life's 100m dash from 25m ahead
of the starting line, cheating your fellow competitors. So, there
should be rules to control that. What rules are they proposing?
If an Ekballporean receives 'gifts' that is equivalent to
10x or more of the median lifetime income, and keeps all of it,
there will be certain restrictions imposed on the person.
The person cannot contest in elections, nor can hold government
jobs. But, one can work for privately held companies, or do
investments. Also, the person's yearly spendings will be taxed.
Quite interesting indeed, Ekballpore seems to be saying you can
be rich from 'gifts', then, we won't let you become powerful,
nor can you compete with commoners.

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That's basically the spirit of the reform - and, I don't want to
discuss too many details. The ERS will create a special sportsism
directorate that will monitor the assets changes of Ekballporeans.
What about lottery wins, will those also be considered as 'gifts'?
Yes, lottery wins will be considered in the same category as assets
changes from inheritance. But, not the incomes from the stock market.
Although the economists have suggested a higher tax rate for those
incomes, as opposed to earnings from work or innovation/inventions.
Also, they want to create a delay of 24 hours in stocks trading,
no more instant trading. They want only serious investors to
participate, not the button-press types that buy or sell by
tracking the first and the second derivatives of the share price,
etc. Wow, that's quite a reform. While we are pushing towards
all electronic transactions, there could be color changes
of currency notes every couple of years. The economists are
saying the cash renewal will help the directorate monitor changes
in individuals' cash reserves.

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I like the idea of new Ekballpore with its various non-causal
reforms rising like the phoenix from the ashes of the Ekball
era. Earlier, it was a culture based on lamentation of its
existing scenarios, as the old woman and the hindu guy used to
discuss, towards the end. Only bad or negative news used to
emerge from the country. But, now, bright new concepts are
creating a sense of hope for the future. Engineer, many
Ekballporeans think they learned a lot from your example.
They say, look, if Mithu-da can continuously generate new
engineering and socio-economic concepts in the face of various
negative situations, we can too! The economists said they
are creating such an economic order that a guy like you would
be a billionaire, just on merit (creative output), and low
merit folks won't be. And, as far as the conversation between
the old woman and the hindu guy is concerned, they created the
motivation for change, while our current discussion is the
change itself.

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But, give credit to PM Twoballski for pushing these reforms fairly
quickly. He has justified the name of his party, the Fast Reform.
President Doball is now focusing more into 'negative spirit'
identification - he thinks the counter-meritocrats that had kept
him down during the Ekball era had 'negative spirit', and are bad
for any country. Whether the children of 'negative spirit' folks
also inherit the same nature is now a subject of popular debate
in Ekballpore. Many think it may not entirely be a genetic
transmission of negative traits, but, more of a learning process.
Watching the parents' reaction to various situations, as the
children grow up. If the parents are into finding faults with
an over-achiever, the children are more likely to be of
a similar nature.

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Engineer, the combination of the aeolipile and the multi-ac
(Item#468) has been shaping up to be one of the best power
generators in the future. Whether the aeolipile is driven
by steam or water - our engineers observe. Definitely, why not!
In fact, the calculation for water is simple too. If an
aeolipile can leak 1kg of water per second, coming from a
height of 102m (compare with typical height of dams, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_dams) it can
impart 1KW to the multi-ac wheel. So, if we assume a
conservative river discharge rate of 10,000 cubic meters
per second (compare with rivers' discharge rates, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_discharge) -
it will add up to 10 Giga Watts! Now, since the calculation
is linear, a height of 204m and 20,000 cubic meters per second
will make it 40GW. The best thing is that with the waterwheel
farm concept (Item#467) one can generate electricity in a
distributed manner, along the length of the river, and avoid
constructing expensive dams that require difficult mechanisms
for the passing of boats and ships.

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Some Ekballpore economists wondered what your reaction was
on the recent winning of the nobel prize by someone
(prof Abhijit Banerjee) who hails from your old city of Kolkata.
Good, I think it was a very good news for the city that often
looks for western recognition. In fact, the field of developmental
economics that the group worked on is very relevant in understanding
how the poor people react to aid and education. To me, it sounds
more like applied economics - a field started by another great
bengali economist, Dr. Yunus from Bangladesh, whose work had touched
the lives of millions of disadvantaged folks through his micro-credit
scheme. I think it is very noble and worthwhile to worry about
how one can change the lives of the poor - my congratulations to
the team!

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In contrast, Engineer, your engineering concepts work is not focused
on the poor, nor on the rich. We find a founding father quality to it -
create your own path before walking on it. They seem to defy the causal
flow of engineering developments. Well, to onlookers it may look like
that, but, to me, it's just a reflection of how I think of things.
On the other hand, the Ekballpore economists seem to be focused on the
rich - they are trying to set rules on how the rich gets rich.
Yes, that is exactly correct, in that way, they are helping the
process of meritocracy. But, the latter will help the poor also -
a poor man with merit will have less hurdles to cross.

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How is Mr. Doball's 'negative spirit' identification work coming
along? What does he plan to do, once he completes the task?
No, he will never complete the task, it will remain an ongoing
process, where Ekballpore psychologists will help with
questionnaires and game designs. The idea is to discourage
employers from hiring 'negative spirited'/surreptitious
folks, particularly in vital services - restaurant chefs,
hospital nurses, certain emergency services, etc. I see,
the professions where human trust is a crucial factor.
For example, the folks that are involved in giving you
geno innu/ttk are extremely surreptitious and 'negative
spirited' - you don't want them to be around you when you are
sick or injured, or serving you food! You want direct, open
and upfront folks helping you in those situations.

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Yes, I agree. When you are sick or injured, you are weak, and
you are less vigilant than in normal situations. So, it is much
easier to harm you - a window of opportunity for the 'negative spirited'/surreptitious. Similarly, when you are in a restaurant
waiting for food, you totally trust the persons that prepare
the food, serve the food - you need totally trustworthy folks
there. Trust is a very important factor in many other situations
also. For example, when you are making a private communication
over the phone, you trust the system to be truly private!

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Engineer, we can see your commitment to privacy in Item#214
where you are trying to come up with a solution to detect
wire-tapping. So, trust also plays a role in engineering,
not just in vital services! Definitely, engineering is
so pervasive. Our engineers want to know if there is
a special recipe for the creativity that you have exhibited
over the years. No, just keep thinking and try to come
up with solutions in your own way; suppose there were
no existing solution to a problem, then how would you
come up with your own solution. Also, try to work from
a standing position, rather than from a sitting position.
Much of my concepts work was carried out while standing
next to the computer in my home office that you can see on
the home page of my small-biz website. The sitting position
is feudal, it doesn't represent kinetic energy. When I am
working from a sitting position, it is less creative than
my concepts work.

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Engineer, happy newyear 2020 to you from Ekballpore. Of course, there
are many bright folks in America, but, you are one American we talk about
the most. Your work represents the positive side of your country.
Those that are disturbing you appear to be anti-American, in that sense.
Well, that can be a way to look at it! Happy newyear to you and all
the hard working Ekballporeans from my side too! I just returned from
a short vacation in India and in Germany. Still recovering from the
jet lag. Hope the new year brings you more success with your non-causal developments. Will stay tuned!

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Engineer, did you find your PC Roy spirit gaining ground in India?
No, unfortunately not! The place still seemed to remain biased
towards the "linguistic side". Also, there is too much "trading"
culture - as we call in hindi, idhar ka maal udhar (buy goods
cheaper here, sell there at a higher price). Rather than build
upon your own innovations, and then try to sell them, the so-called
PC Roy spirit. Of course, there are many technological developments
- but, the basic technology is borrowed from the west. In contrast,
Germany is more balanced between its basic tech side and the
linguistic side.

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Wonderful music to share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qso8G5VEkis
Note the teleportational quality of the singer's voice.
Absolutely bhashottirno (transcending the barriers of language).

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Engineer, thanks for sharing the wonderful vocal renditions -
many Ekballporeans think she is probably one of the top female
vocalists of our time. I agree. I used to listen to her songs
rather regularly, earlier, during the peak disturbing phase of
the geno innu. That kind of music soothes your nerves somewhat -
keeps you from getting crazy! My sense of gratitude to YouTube.

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Engineer, speaking of your linguistic side, many literary critics
in Ekballpore swear by your poem on Sati-daha (widow-burning). They
say, you could get the nobel prize just for writing one small poem -
that poem. I don't agree with them. Any prize should be given for work
that shows a path for positive change. That poem only shows the cruelty
that continued for about 700 years. In fact, my other poem on Karuvaki
and Ashoka is more positive.

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That's an engineer's point of view, they say. Who always want a
positive idea for development to emerge from a work. But, scientists,
for example, don't worry about that. They are more interested in
understanding the structure and interaction of matter, whether
it leads to any engineering development or not. Take the work
of Charles Darwin, arguably the world's greatest scientist of
all time, as an instance. Similarly, a good literary work
explores human situations. Well, an interesting observation indeed!
As an engineer I may say who cares whether we evolved from
monkeys or not, let's focus on what we have on the palette.
Or, an astrophysicist suddenly finds a bird flying inside a
black-hole - it will make a big news, how come?! aren't photons
forbidden from escaping the black-hole! He will simply theorize,
some black-holes give the photons a break, sometimes.

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Since your literary critics liked my poems, here is another
literary piece. Let's call it "a doughnut shaped aquarium".
Doesn't the place look like we have been here before -
Says the male sword-tail to his mate,
While observing an aquarium decor in a doughnut shaped aquarium.
Yes, I remember this place, replied the lady fish.
When we were suffering in the wall-to-wall confinement of the previous box
The owner told us, okay, you suffer no more,
I will take you to unlimited waters!
We were ecstatic to expect freedom -
But, it seems he has cheated us, we are just going round and round,
Always returning to the same place we have been before ...

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Wonderful! A nice commentary on the nature of compromised freedom.
Even the folks on our AdBu council like your poems - short, but thought provoking. Somewhat like our new religious text (the text will be revised
every 50 years to ensure its adaptive nature), only four pages,
but, encourages the devotees to think for themselves. A sharp departure
from ancient memorize-more-think-less type texts. While commenting
on your aquarium poem, our literary critics agreed that the new
system we are building in Ekballpore tends to empower the individual
towards freedom. Whenever your goal in life is to create something
nice and good, it frees you from circulating around an outdated
instruction set. By the way, the new police finds an SNR (signal-to-
noise ratio) link between the noise surrounding you, and your
sati-daha poem.

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They figure that the perpetrators of the sati-daha created noise
with the louder drumbeats to drown out Protima's wails that
represented a positive signal. She was possibly trying to
reach out to some good Samaritans who could see through the skullduggery
of the deadly ritual, and would come to rescue her from the impending
and horrific murder. At the same time, the perpetrators wanted
to conceal their despicable crime, the negative signal, with
the noise, making it look like a celebration. In your case, the
noise helps to obfuscate the excellence of your polymathic
creative work, the positive signal. But, there must be a
dangerous negative signal lurking underneath that the noise
helps to divert attention from! Interesting analysis.

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Engineer, some Ekballporeans wonder why very few bengali speaking
people contribute to the soc.culture.bengali. It's almost only
you! Ha ha, that question has occurred to me - but, I don't know
the answer. Our literary critics think the answer may be found
in your aquarium poem. Considering the vector nature of your
writing, some may be fearing their contributions could sound
like a glory song to going round and round? I have not been in
touch with contemporary bengali thinking and linguistic expression,
since I am away for a long time. Except for the geno innu. But, I
will definitely like to see forward looking blogs from others.

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The literary critics think of the geno innu as a piranha style
thought policing virus experiment on you. Its potential impact
is to diminish your thought leadership. That's a new way
of looking at it - a virus experiment. Earlier, we had talked
about nkvd type thought policing. They think that no world leading
thoughts emerged out of Bengal for the last few centuries.
Of course, there were a few scientists, and literary figures,
but, that was due to british thought leadership and influence
of the post-renaissance period. e.g., https://www.thefamouspeople.com/19th-century-british-scientists.php

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Wow! That's an impressive list. Although, it's odd that the list
misses Michael Faraday, one of the most influential british scientists
of the nineteenth century. Interesting that the list mentions
Lord Rayleigh whose Drag Equation was referred to in my Item#483.
Regarding your critics' comment about the emergence of world leading
thoughts out of Bengal, I think it is partially true. For example,
some of the scientists out of Bengal were leading authorities
in their fields, like, radio transmission (JC Bose), Chemistry
(PC Roy), spectroscopy (CV Raman), quantum mechanics (SN Bose),
stellar astrophysics (MN Saha), etc. But, their work would
possibly not come through, had Bengal not been under the British
rule. One important contribution of the famous british scientists
of that time was to turn the focus to make-real rather than the
make-believe that is dominating many cultures today.

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Many Ekballporeans wonder how the british produced such an impressive
array of scientists and engineers! Well, I am not of british origin,
so, I am not sure how, but, I can guess. It all started with the
introduction of the protestant religion (started by Dr. Martin Luther
of Germany in the early 1500s, with the help of Gutenberg's printing
press invented in 1450 AD) in England by king Henry VIII, in
1532 AD. As you know, the protestant religion disregarded the
papal authority, and declared that all christians are equal,
the priests are no special. We know how Galileo Galilei was
punished by the Roman Church for his scientific theories and
observations. I think this new-found freedom of thinking and
enquiry triggered the renaissance, involving such luminaries as
William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton. The renaissance eventually
created a pervasive science culture. That kind of non-causal
change did not happen in Bengal, but, it is happening in Ekballpore.

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Engineer, our engineers are of the opinion that they don't care
whether someone is a protestant or a catholic, or of any other
religion groups. All that matters is the importance and relevance
of the work. For example, they point out that your boat speedometer
(Item#483) is based on the hydraulic press principle, first introduced
by a french Catholic, Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662 AD). Yes, definitely,
his work was of high importance during the renaissance period.
In fact, another point of interest is that he created the first
mechanical calculator. Note that I have designed a bunch of
*direct decimal* electronic circuits for addition, subtraction, and
comparing (Item#s late 200s through early 300s). Swiss computer
scientist Niklaus Wirth developed a programming language called
Pascal (very popular at one time) to honor the 17th century scientist.

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Speaking of the british renaissance, our literary critics think that the external influences of such stalwarts as Galileo (1564-1642 AD), and
Descartes (1596 - 1650 AD) were very crucial. Of course, Galileo was
extremely important, made the world aware of the planet's non-central
position, somewhat like Darwin. And, Descartes created the first
significant development in mathematics beyond previous developments
in asia - the field of analytical geometry, or coordinate geometry.
Most importantly, he started the idea of graphical representation
of mathematical functions using the x, y coordinates. I think, this visualization was important. It prompted such questions among later mathematicians, Leibniz (1646-1716 AD), and Newton (1643-1727 AD) as to
the rate of change of the functions, and the areas held by them -
giving rise differential and integral calculus. It is now common knowledge
that calculus changed everything afterwards.
[Courtesy, the wikipedia for some historical information]

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Looking at the phenomenon of the geno innu, our literary critics
think that somehow it does not behoove post-renaissance folks
to engage into such activities. So, do you think that the Bengal
renaissance was fake? Ha Ha! That's a good question. No, it was
not entirely fake, but, in my view, somewhat forced. The transfusion
of the british renaissance into Bengal angered two powerful groups
of people. First of all, the british East India Company ended the
561 year old Islamic rule of Bengal through the deafeat of Mir Qasim
in the battle of Buxar in 1764 AD. This way, they angered the
Islamic ruling class, dominated by people of persian and arabic
descent. Although they continued to live in Bengal, and later took
up the bengali language rather pervasively, they remained angry.
The other important group of people was the hindu brahminical order.
When the british governor-general Lord Bentinck abolished the
the practice of sati-daha (widow burning) in 1829 AD, the brahminical
order lost the power to adjudicate human sacrifice. That's a very
important power to lose, if you think, since the brahmins enjoyed the socio-religious superiority since the days of Ballal Sena (1150 AD).
So, they also remained angry. But, fortunately, there were other
groups in Bengal that took to the renaissance more enthusiastically.

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Engineer, the literary critics do agree with you that in the
wake of the british assisted renaissance of Bengal, brilliant
scientists and literary figures (like Tagore, for example) did
emerge from there, working in such difficult subjects as quantum
mechanics and general relativity. Particularly in the late
19th century and in the 20th century. But, what they mean by
world leading ideas are concepts that the entire world can
benefit from. For example, the electric fan, the bicycle, the
automobile, the personal computer, the cellphone, etc. These
things are equally valid and helpful anywhere in the world.
That's the reason they are impressed with your work - your
concepts have that quality. Well, world leading ideas need not
be just in science and engineering, they can be in various
other fields as well. Like in social reform, religion, economics,
and so on, where Ekballpore is showing the way.

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Engineer, the *novel* coronavirus 2019 seems to be causing a havoc
around the world, do you think the panic is justified? Hmm, definitely,
one needs to be cautious regarding personal hygiene, but, I think
it may not be a "novel" virus. Its microbiological/genetic identification
may be new. Sort of like the Uranus was still there before its
discovery in 1781 AD (William Herschel). It was not a new planet
that suddenly entered the solar system. I am not an expert in
virus science, but, I was reading some discussions on the internet - knowledgeable people think that it was neither bio-engineered,
nor did it look like recently mutated. Probably, it was playing
a role in pneumonia/influenza for a long time, without being
properly identified. As is known, the infection rate and the
death rate of pneumonia/influenza is way higher, than that of
the new coronavirus. Fortunately, we don't have a single case of
the new virus in Ekaballpore, but, we are cautious. All Ekballporeans
have been advised to eat freshly cooked food, and practice
clean habits. And, lots of exercise to stay strong. Good advice!
Look, there are probably many viruses floating around in the hope
of being discovered and identified - if one gets overly worried
about them, one cannot do creative work.

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The literary critics agree. They are a smart bunch of folks -
I hang out with them rather frequently these days. They said
you have endured a far worse virus - the geno innu, over several
years now. And, unlike the coronavirus, it is man made, using
an elaborate scheme. The persons delivering the brain virus
into the air from dark hidden chambers, while looking at a
website may sometimes sound pleasant to you, but, their
handlers are vile. Obviously, your only antidote was
creative work, and lots of it. What a story - they exclaimed!

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Engineer, do you think an international calamity like the coronavirus
can be a good thing for the negative spirited and the uncreative? Who
might want to take advantage of a bad situation? Yes, definitely, that's
a distinct possibility - that folks need to keep vigilant of. Like, I
had earlier discussed a scenario from Satyajit Ray's Distant Thunder
(Asani Sanket in Bengali) - where an ugly looking guy of the village
was hoarding food grains with the indications of a looming famine.
When the pretty women of the village will run out of food, they
will have to beg from him, and he will take advantage of the situation.

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What are you doing to protect yourself from the coronavirus? Well,
as you know, the entire state of California is in a lockdown mode -
enhancing the much needed 'social distancing'. I am also working
from home over the VPN. But, everyday, I take three to six mile
walk to give myself some exercise. In my view, an unfit body
attracts viruses more. Also, I have started drinking some beer
every day to give myself some blood alcohol level - it appears
from my reading that alcohol helps kill viruses. Accompanied
by hot potato chips - thinking that hot food may also help.

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Coming back to the topic of the renaissance in Bengal, our literary
critics think that the brahminical surname changes to pre-renaissance
state, like Chatterjee to Chattopadhyay, Mukherjee to Mukhopadhyay, etc.
may indicate that the brahminical order wants the sati-daha powers
back. Also, why should they change the name of Calcutta to
Kolkata - while the city was actually built by the British. Well,
regarding the name change of Calcutta to Kolkata, I agree with
the critics, but, when it comes to surname changes, it's totally
a right of the surname holders. They can change it to whatever
they like. Also, nobody will get sati-daha powers back, it's illegal
since 1829. Yes, on that I agree. In this day and age, Montu and
Poltu will probably have a cellphone, they would upload a video
to some social media platform, and all hell will break loose on
the perpetrators. Interpreting the geno innu as an extreme form
of sex policing, they probably thought of sex policing powers.

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They said that the Uzbek rulers (the Mughals) of India and the then
brahminical order bore some similarities. They neglected the local
languages, e.g., Bengali, and championed Persian and Sanskrit.
Also, they had delayed the entry of the press and the printed
media in India by over 200 years. The first newspaper was published
in western Europe (Germany) in 1609 AD, and the first Bengali
newspaper appeared in 1818 AD, that too with the help of the British missionaries. Although India had close contact and trade with
the west Europeans since after Vasco da Gama (1497 AD). Even the
first grammars of the Bengali language were written by Europeans -
in 1743 AD by Portuguese missionary Assumpcam, and in 1778 AD
by the british orientalist Halhed. Were the Bengali people lazy
and stupid? No, they were heavily controlled in the pre-renaissance
time. That's what our literary critics think. And, they see the
shadows of that control in the "brain virus" you are experiencing.

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Are the "brain virus" folks on an overdrive? Yes, they appear to
be. The LCs (literary critics) think that they know if you have
to deal with two viruses simultaneously, you'll have a tough
time. How are you guys dealing with the coronavirus in Ekballpore?
Well, exercise, exercise, exercise! Millions of Ekballporeans
have taken the AdBu focus on physical and mental exercise very
seriously. The monks have advised to do workouts daily, and to
such an extent that makes you sweat. As you can understand,
we are a nation in renaissance - we are devising our own systems.
We don't want any virus to derail us from that path. Yes, I
appreciate that. As evident from your inputs from Ekballpore,
always rich in new ideas. If no new ideas emerge, there is no
point in having lengthy discourses, however well-worded etc.

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Engineer, the spread of the coronavirus is so massive, and global,
some in Ekballpore compare it with global warming, sort of like
global virusing. Just as global warming happens through some
components of the atmosphere, so could a virus spread using
a component. Couldn't it? Yes it can, one possibility could be
with rain clouds that take unlimited flights through the skies.
Let's say, someone like a villain in a James Bond movie
sprinkles some corona into the clouds, and then the clouds
fly over various countries and rain the pathogen. Although
I have not done any systematic study on the subject, I noticed
that there may be some correlation between average rainfall during
the first quarter of the year, and the severity of the outbreak.
Also, in some countries, even the strictest measures in social
distancing don't seem to work! A rather curious scenario indeed!

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Engineer, the spread of the coronavirus is so massive, and global,
some in Ekballpore compare it with global warming, sort of like
global virusing. Just as global warming happens through some
components of the atmosphere, so could a virus spread using
a component. Couldn't it? Yes it can, one possibility could be
with rain clouds that take unlimited flights through the skies. https://bgr.com/2018/02/06/viruses-in-the-sky-bacteria-atmosphere-earth/
Let's say, someone like a villain in a James Bond movie
sprinkles some corona into the clouds, and then the clouds
fly over various countries and rain the pathogen. Although
I have not done any systematic study on the subject, I noticed
that there may be some correlation between average rainfall during
the first quarter of the year, and the severity of the outbreak.
Also, in some countries, even the strictest measures in social
distancing don't seem to work! A rather curious scenario indeed!

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The LCs have suggested that your creative work has ushered a new
paradigm of applicability and the emergence of new ideas. They are
now judging linguistic efforts by the same yardstick - how it can
help people here there everywhere. Earlier, writers used to write
thick books, film makers made expensive movies - from which
practically no new ideas came out. Maybe, a wonderfully written book,
or a beautifully organized film, but, ultimately, they turned out
to be "glory songs to going round and round" (ghurpak khaoar joigaan,
in bengali). Well, it's the era of blogs and snippets. People
don't have much time to go through lengthy works. So, there should
always be an attempt to insert some interesting thought or idea
for development in a small space.

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Some LCs have admonished me for telling you that we are in a
renaissance process - the world will think we are such late-
bloomers! While many countries got renaissance centuries ago,
we are into it in the early twenty-first. But, I told them that
we are into a different kind of renaissance - we are not moving
from a rectangular aquarium (choukona motsyadhar, in Bengali)
to an annular one (boloyakriti), but to unlimited waters
(oshim jolorashi, hu ha hu ha)! Ha ha! That's a good answer.
Ekballpore journalists tell me that if you are celebrated
for your works and writings, you may face a tough press
conference afterwards, hopefully from truly "renaissanced"
journalists. Sir, I have a question, Sir, I have a question....
That's not a problem, as long as they focus on my creative
output, it should be fine.

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Engineer, how are you dealing with the lockdown that seems to have
gone on for more than a month now? Nothing much, just continuing with
the work from home, and daily lunchtime exercise (brisk walking).
The lockdown has an impact on the spirit - it tends to turn the folks
into cavemen growing long hairs and all that. It is quite unfortunate
that the spread of the virus continues unabated - indicating
some kind of failure of the medical science. What's worse is
that many labs and other establishments have gotten hold of the
virus - of course, most people of the world are nice and not
ill-intentioned, but, you never know, a few unmolasses type
guys can cause a havoc! Indeed, like many who got your feeds
may be neutral, but, an extremely small number may get into misuse,
like the 'brain virus'.

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Definitely! But, sharing someone's private feeds itself should
be a crime - whether it is shared with neutrals are not. Engineer,
we saw your name come up with a mylife.com profile, with some
particulars that match yours. Yes, I have noticed that - I think
it's a scam, someone trying to sprinkle virus on my reputation.
Exactly, those are the types of folks that one should be cautious
about. Imagine the person is working at a lab or at a hospital!

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I see that your are gathering strength for your recent decision to
disallow the surreptitious and the negative spirited from holding
positions in the food services, and in the medical services! I
like the fact that your country has gone beyond health, and into
the realm of spirits. But, what if a person's spirits change over
time? Yes, that's quite possible, and we have decided to keep it
somewhat dynamic. You can reapply after a gap of time when your
spirits have improved, etc. Also, those holding such positions
will have to continuously exhibit positive spirits. You cannot
say, when I was young I had positive spirits! Engineer, it appears
that the global stock markets are recovering again after a dip -
do you think some people took advantage of a bad situation,
using the coronavirus gloom to pump their monies? Well, I think
it's good that the stock markets went on operating through the
tough times - one should be able to sell their shares at market
price, but buy at 10% more, effectively helping the people who
lost their income due to lockdown.

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Do you think Satyajit Ray, from whose film you had earlier given
an example of taking advantage of a bad situation got the Oscar
too late in his life? Don't you think it was somewhat vulture-like
on the part of Hollywood to acknowledge his works when he was in his
death bed. Yes, I think creative works should be acknowledged and
awarded as soon as possible - so that the awardee has enough time to
enjoy the glory of an award. Being from Calcutta, I have seen many of
his films when I was young. He made rather neat cinema - with great
attention to the details, creating very realistic moods. And, often
giving a wholesome feeling about his movies. But, looking back,
did his movies come up with ideas that moved folks forward? I would
rate positive spirited Hollywood movies like Hunger Games and Divergent
higher.

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Engineer, many Ekballporeans now think that the "brain virus" indicates
the fungus (parasite) nature of the community responsible for it.
They are absorbing your information like a fungus, and then disturbing
you with that. Had it been in Ekballpore, they would make them feel
unwelcome by throwing rotten tomatoes and eggs, and even spit on them in
public till they leave. Ekballporeans won't have anything to do with
that kind of folks. Wow! That's a an interesting way of putting it -
like fungus, or a parasite. In fact, the "brain virus" givers may
be inadvertently exposing their generalized fungus nature - in work
also, coming up with no creative concepts, always depending on others'
ideas.

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Globally, do you think the coronavirus will leave a huge impact?
Yes, quite likely. You see that the lockdown is like divide-and-conquer
at an atomic level. Immediately, you can sense a divisive impact -
individuals are going to get suspicious of one another. Although
it may have some positive and negative impacts. But, the good news
is that some scientific breakthroughs look promising - the Remdesivir
in the US, vaccine experiments in China and in the UK sound promising.
As soon as we get a credible drug or vaccine for the virus, a lot of the impacts will go away.

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Look, it's all related. Even when the coronavirus scare was not there,
it was Ekballpore that acknowledged and appreciated your creative work. Because, we are a positive spirited nation, bringing in various non-causal changes. That's true, you always impressed me as a country that is
alive and kicking ahead. Exactly, the dead don't change, it's only the
living that can change. But, the coronavirus seems to have globalized
the dying city/state mindset. Yes, that's the bad thing. One big
blanket of death seems to shroud the entire world. Again, a credible
and stable breakthrough is needed. Until then, any other discussion
appears to be bogus talk (faltu kotha, in Bengali).

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Engineer, do you think state terrorism can rise in some places
due to extended lockdown situations? We have seen you worried about
putting an extra locking mechanism on your door earlier - so that
it tells you if security was compromised when you return home.
Yes, it can, simply because it renders the "visibility" poor.
Nobody really clearly understands what's going on - for example,
I am highly annoyed by the fact that I cannot get a hair-cut for
a long time, because all the hair salons are closed. Yet, I see
folks with nicely trimmed hair. Also, folks' foods can be contaminated
to make them sick and dead - attributing it to coronavirus.

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So, you are introducing another important suspicion, beyond the
individual to individual suspicion you had already talked about,
that of foul-play! Yes, the foul-play is another possibility that
people may worry about, and, in fact, they have a right to.
Some may even think that the lockdowns could be a means to stop
word-of-mouth transmission of foul-play talk. Look, the brain
virus (geno innu) I am experiencing will apparently look like
various things, creating automobile accidents, turning me crazy,
reducing my creativity, always looking for my faults/defects/weaknesses
to reduce my confidence level - all handiwork of some of the
nastiest folks on earth, organized on a multi-vertex graph! But,
there is another very important motivator - am I coming to know of
some foul-play facts, if so, what and how!

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Scum of the earth - murmured President Doball while reading your
last blog, expressing his complete disapproval of the brain virus
(geno innu) givers. He said you missed one important objective
of the process - so that you cannot exceed them in money, power, or
influence. Same thing happened to him at the hands of the Ekballpore counter-meritocrats, the military understood that, and put him at the
helm of the new nation.

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Of course, he has fulfilled the promise. No wonder, he along with
PM Twoballski brought so much social and economic justice to Ekballpore.
The country got a new momentum thanks to these two individuals - almost organically non-causal. Even the famous Bengali poet Tagore
believed in social justice. He wrote, those that inflict injustice
and their passive supporters are equally culpable, let your wrath O
Lord burn them like wildfire on dry grass. Interestingly, Tagore was
an extremely rich man, and mostly through paternal and family property,
which is a total no-no as per the new sportsist economics of Ekballpore.
And, he was not non-causal, at least not in an explicit way, unlike
his famous friend and contemporary, Albert Einstein.

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Engineer, the Ekballpore economists don't think that Tagore had broken
any rules of the new sportsist economics they have proposed. He did
not hold a government job, nor did he contest in elections to try to
become a minister. In fact, he did not even hold a position of power in
an enterprise run by another man's money! He used his monies to build
a township, and a renowned university - that catered to lots of teachers
and students. This is a perfectly sound and welcome gesture even by the sportsist economic principles. Wow! That means, even then, more than 100
years ago, when the details and the dialogues on sportsism were not
available, Tagore had acted in an inherently sportsist way. Adds another feather in his cap. There is new speculation in Ekballpore that the
"brain virus" may be a reaction to your earlier questioning of the
macabre death of someone called Rizwanur Rahman in your original home
state of west Bengal.

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Engineer, what is your reaction to the protests and the riots following
the excessive and arbitrary police brutality on George Floyd, that led
to the latter's death? Well, I woke up to the news somewhat late, since
in the silicon valley area where I live, there is no sign of unrest.
But, I believe, justice should prevail, and the widespread unrest must
come to an end. In fact, the whole scenario is not making us look good
in the world - particularly, when it comes to American businesses'
global presence. Some countries may officially/unofficially shut their
doors on us, murmuring to themselves, no biz with brutes! Also, internally, many people may lose faith in the law enforcement after looking at such
blatant disregard of the first amendment rights of a man - after all
what is America without the fundamental constitutional rights! Probably,
we need police reform like in Ekballpore.

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How did Ekballpore react to the protests and the unrest following
the death of George Floyd? I am not sure of how the entire nation feels - probably, many aren't even aware of the events in the US. But, I was
speaking with the LCs - they felt that the police took up too many roles
that are not expected of them! They appeared to play the roles of
police, detective, prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner. Yes, I
agree, the police's role is to take a 'suspect' into custody alive, and
not go much further beyond that. Unfortunately, the events of the
last few days have shifted the focus away from the coronavirus
pandemic. One would like to pay deep respects to all the medical
professionals that are losing their lives while helping patients
fight the pandemic - they are the real heroes all over the world!

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True! We agree. But, you need to understand that no "foulplay" has
so far been proven beyond a doubt regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
While racism, racial profiling, racially driven brutality are all
instances of "foulplay" - and also some kind of a pandemic. In fact,
the "brain virus" (geno innu) is also a part of that pandemic!
Some in the new police think that one cannot rule out the possibility
of medical professionals being involved in the latter. Because, who
would know that a daily dose of the lack of nightly sleep can do
harm, or continuously overwhelming you with your own information could
have a detrimental effect on your brain, cause car accidents, create hallucinatory effects, etc.

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Yes, possible. But, recently, I have been more worried about terroristic break-ins into my acura mdx, once when it was parked in my car-port,
and yesterday night when it was parked outside. Some signs of ransacking
in both cases, yesterday, they also stole my registration and insurance documents! Fortunately, I had kept additional copies of the documents
with me. Ha ha! As if you expect these types of things to happen, Doesn't
give a good impression of security and policing in silicon valley. Did
you get your missing motor-cycle tank bag back? No, I did not - that's
why, I don't even report these things to the police, just a waste of time.

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Interestingly, I also discovered what you may call a footprint, or
rather a bootprint of terror on the front row passenger seat.
Wow! sounds like a detective story to me! As if the "terror"
guy left his rubber-stamp imprint, indicating he had invaded.
More and more, folks in Ekballpore think that the coronavirus
may have spread through infected food/drink, simply because
of the latter's longer and more pervasive interaction with the
body's interiors. Did you have any unfinished food/drink in your
car? Yes, some bottles of water, but, they may not have been
contaminated - looked sealed, and I later drank from them.

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Engineer, since we are always trying to learn from the interesting
history of Bengal, the Ekballpore historians want to find out in what
way is the Bengali culture returning to the pre-renaissance days, if
at all. Since you have already indicated that it is not towards the
sati-daha (widow burning) practice. That's a tricky question! I guess,
it's moving away from the basic creativity in engineering and science. Basically, the ruling classes of Bengal in the late 1700s and in the
early 1800s lost to the British engineering. The Brits brought the
steam engine, and the batch processing methods, and later the electricity. These things were so powerful, they crushed the stories on which the
Bengali culture was continuing for centuries. Now, again, the story-
tellers are getting prominence. Yes, it appears to be a reasonable
description - and the brahminical order is stealing information from
your computer screen. If you succumb under pressure they will claim
your work as theirs, in a bizarre scheme of hostile take-over.

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Before the "terror" incident happened on your vehicle the other night,
what was going on in your thought process? Some detectives of the new
police wondered. Their point is, when someone is excessively
thought-policed, one's thought patterns can disturb/enrage the stealers
of the information! Nothing much, I was trying to create a little
puzzle poem involving the name of a person who had crashed against my car
in the past. Sort of like a crossword puzzle rhyme. I was trying to imitate Tagore as he had created a similar tiny poem in his famous short story Guptadhon (Hidden Treasures, in English, written in 1904 AD), where
he had indicated the name of the village where to find the treasures
through that rhyme.

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Engineer, it's the creativity gap. The uncreatives are trying
to "terrorize" you. That's why our monks are continuously telling
the followers to be creative - do something new, always think how
you can improve upon existing things, thoughts, and processes.
Build upon your new ideas, publish them, exhibit them, talk about
them. Call your neighbors for tea or for lunch, and discuss them,
show them. Also, all followers should try to appreciate new
creativity with a positive spirit. Because, a non-creative life
is like a single-minded pursuit of death - like that of animals.
The "terrorists" feel comfortable when folks live like "animals".
Creativity makes your life more like a human life. Wow! that's
quite inspiring indeed.

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Are the AdBu followers still kissing in Ekballpore - under all these coronavirus situations all over the world? Yes, we did not allow the
threats to scuttle our new movement to ease off the caste/creed/racial divisions. The monks said, the kissing is a very "human" thing, and
an essential part of the adaptive Buddhism culture - those who are
taking part in the regular exercise and meditation at the AdBu centers
are allowed to kiss. Also, the new culture was originally mandated
by the military, to remove the social divisions between the
'loyalists' and the 'independents' etc. of the Ekball era. They say,
it's not a good idea to have such divisions - the less fortunate
groups can pass strategic secrets to the enemies. Had all the
members of the INA been AdBu followers, they would possibly not be
routed by the BIA, for example. Look, we always take lessons from the
history!

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Engineer, your water wheel farm idea of Item#467 has created new interest
among irrigation and flood control folks here. Instead of generating electricity, one can also use the water wheels to lift the water out of the river into overhead conduits, running for miles. Yes, why not, use the force
of the water itself to create horizontal artificial rivers overhead.
That way, the level of the water in the river will go down, and flooding
will be reduced. But, it will be a massive project, requiring a lot of
efforts and resources. Not easy.

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Our LCs think that the river in the sky concept brought a breath of
fresh air in the middle of the coronavirus gloom. Yes, the concept
is somewhat interesting because the overhead canal will have the
additional utility of generating electricity. Flood control, irrigation,
and electricity generation - all converging into the green energy device.
In Ekballpore, there is new enthusiasm in green energy driven mechanisms
such as the bicycle, and even your spring tooth gears, because it keeps
you real and dependent on your own energies. In particular, after looking
at the major disconnects between the money and the work in many countries
going through lengthy coronavirus shutdowns. No production work going on,
yet the stock market indices very high - sort of like a hollow. Yes,
I am also more traditional in that sense - sell your work and ideas
to make money. Can we call that "green" intentions?

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Regarding the 'brain virus', the LCs are comparing it with a running
fatwa against you, sort of like the fatwa ordered by the Ayatollah
against Mr. Rushdie. Although there may be some fatwa-runners near
you in California, but, the main brain may be far away! He may be
just wearing a fatua (a form of loose desi folk shirt), and running
the fatwa from the prairies or some such place. Oh no, the prairies
are so extensive that it is easier to find a needle in a haystack,
than finding someone from there. Yes, that's why the prairies is
a possible location for the "Ayatollah". In fact, the LCs think
that the "Ayatollah" could even be a hindu, because, as per your
'waves' theory, the hindus and the moslems had migrated from the
same regions, and bear strong similarities in nature.

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But, the question that is ringing in the minds of many Ekballpore
journalists is how a 'fatwa' like that can continue for so many
years in a country like the US - with very strong privacy laws,
and declared to be 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'?!
Well, the thing is that one of the most important objectives of
the 'fatwa' is to continuously watch me and analyze me, and that's
an effective way to keep someone small and ridiculed. What better way
to keep a colored over-achiever down - some white supremacists may
be thinking! In fact, recently, a white acquaintance mentioned over
lunch that after the 9-11 it was decided that colored over-achievers
won't be celebrated in the US, however brilliant their work may be!
Wow! That must must be pretty demoralizing for you, also, sounds unconstitutional to me. Yes, but, I didn't entirely believe his
words, how can it be possible, I thought - because, we have
relationships and businesses with various 'colored' countries!
But, it is possible some folks in the US may be secretly professing
that kind of a view, and the fatwa-runners are getting help from them.

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But, the question that is ringing in the minds of many Ekballpore
journalists is how a 'fatwa' like that can continue for so many
years in a country like the US - with very strong privacy laws,
and declared to be 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'?!
Well, the thing is that one of the most important objectives of
the 'fatwa' is to continuously watch me and analyze me, and that's
an effective way to keep someone small and ridiculed. What better way
to keep a colored over-achiever down - some white supremacists may
be thinking! In fact, recently, a white acquaintance mentioned over
lunch that after the 9-11 it was decided that colored over-achievers
won't be celebrated in the US, however brilliant their work may be!
Wow! That must must be pretty demoralizing for you, also, sounds unconstitutional to me. Yes, but, I didn't entirely believe his
words, how can it be possible, I thought - because, we have
relationships and businesses with various 'colored' countries!
But, it is possible some folks in the US may be secretly professing
that kind of a view, and the fatwa-runners are getting help from them.

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Engineer, the new police look at it in a different way. They don't
give much importance to the "white supremacist" connection. They
would want to investigate it from the level of monies involved in the
'fatwa' process. Obviously, some folks are giving the fatwa money,
and some are receiving it! Who are they? And, some may be just
distributing it without giving/receiving much. Oftentimes,
these monies are "hollow" types - coming from (buy/sell)
button-press stock market play, advertisement revenue, etc.
Naturally, very few would be interested to put their hard-earned
money into a 'fatwa' process. Also, some "hollow" money folks
could be against you, because you work hard to solve technical
problems on a daily basis, and create new rjgci concepts for future development. Now, whether a subset of them are "white supremacists"
is immaterial - who cares! Yes, the analysis makes sense to me.

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Being a bengali yourself, how do you explain the bengali
involvement in the fatwa process? Well, as we discussed earlier,
all bengalis are not alike. But, as I grew older, I figured
that the bengali culture was really a half culture - not adequately
supported by a strong science/engineering tradition. So, it's a
weak culture, for example, not a single bengali person ever won an
olympic track and field medal. So, bengalis are not used to
get to the podium at an world level - that may be encouraging
some to get into negative tactics, if somebody is doing good work
pull him/her backwards! But, bengalis have done well in cricket.
Cricket, to me, is not physically as competitive as running
and jumping. Because, most of the the time, you are either resting
in the pavilion, or basking in the outfield. Also, some bengalis
received the nobel prize for their efforts in their fields.
Don't you think that should make them somewhat positive?
The nobel prize is a western prize, it's not controlled by the
bengalis.

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Engineer, how are you dealing with the coronavirus process in
Santa Clara? Are you guys still in the lockdown mode? No, not
the strictest lockdown that's possible, some reopening has taken
place. But, unfortunately, there has been a reversal of the
Monday's (July 13) reopening to phase 3. I am working under
social distancing norms, getting my forehead temperature monitored
every morning for the last six weeks or so. Fortunately, the cartesian
graph of the temperatures can show that it remained within normal
range through the period. Of course, there can be ups and downs
within the temperature band monitored - but, that I attribute to
the fatwa process ('brain virus'). If the fatwa is low in the
night, I get better sleep, and the temps are down, etc.

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Engineer, what do you think of the global coronavirus pandemic's
influence on the world, so far. That's a tough question to answer
- more and more it looks like a weapon for mass destruction (wmd)!
It seems to impose some kind of a forced equality - communism,
by highlighting the animal or chemical compound nature of humans.
Where all are equally susceptible to a potential and apparently
dangerous chemical reaction with a violet spiked pink ball. If
you think of a reverse parallel, your adBu monks are encouraging
the followers to be more creative and to move away from the 'animal'
nature of human existence, the coronavirus is doing just the
opposite! Yes, some more creative folks can have ego, but, that's
naturally expected. Look, the 'brain virus' (fatwa) people
are similar - they are continuously and illegally looking at
the 'chemical compound' nature of my existence. Wow! the LCs will
like your vision.

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The LCs agree with you, they additionally think that the coronavirus
situation is probably being taken advantage of in many places.
For example, it may be helping societies with pre-existing segregation and untouchability norms, with the new social distancing protocols.
Also, folks are losing sight of other major factors leading to large
scale human degradation, such as floods, and similar natural disasters.
True, it is absorbing all of the global attention. Speaking of floods, I am thinking of a design of temporary elevated flood shelters based on
tubular trusses, possibly made of steel pipes. The challenge is to
support the maximum loading on minimum number of pipes stuck
into the ground - just to reduce clutter at the ground level.
The roof and the floor attached to the top flats could hold a couple of
hundred people, and be aerodynamically shaped near the periphery to
sustain strong winds. The air supply and some natural light can come
from perforations on the floor. Engineer, it sounds like a possible
solution. These types of designs should be implemented on a
war footing in flood zones, because, a natural calamity means
the nature has attacked the people!

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Our engineers were wondering what type of aerodynamic shaping
of the roof and the floor you had in mind. Well, I no longer think that's
a good idea - it is better to leave them as flat surfaces and horizontal.
In fact, what can be added to the roof of the shelter, somewhat above
the roof surface, would be a large circular aerofoil kind of structure,
flat on the top, and convex on the bottom side. The idea is to derive a negative lift from it in case of winds. It is expected to keep the shelter
from getting uprooted by strong winds. Additionally, it will also provide
an extra protection from the rains. So that, now you can have windows
on the surface of the roof, through which you can stick your head out
to monitor the flood situation from time to time.

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Do animals suffer from the pain of loss? This is a question
that is haunting many for centuries, since the days of Rene Descartes (1596-1650 AD) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes,
note the section 'On animals']. In the condominium complex where I
live here in Santa Clara, we have pools that have many ducks and drakes
- often you see couples walking about all over the campus. Although
drivers are cautious and careful to avoid hitting them, recently,
a duck got crushed on an internal street. I saw Mr. Drake standing
near the site even after the dead duck was taken away. Mr. Darwin wins!

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Engineer, we have looked at some of the negative impacts of
the lengthy coronavirus situations, do you think there are any
positive outcomes at all? The LCs wonder. Yes, definitely,
due to the global lockdown restrictions, very few gasoline driven
vehicles are seen on the streets - leading to the much needed
global cooling. Particularly so after the months long wild fires
in Australia and in Brazil - that contributed to the direct heating
of the atmosphere. I am not talking about the global warming here,
which is a long term effect. The direct heating can melt the
snows on the mountains and cause the floods. Yes, that's a
dangerous result of large scale forest fires that go on and on.

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The LCs have liked your suggestion that the troposphere is
a massive room filled with the air, and the long running forest
fires are like room heating furnaces. For example, you can no
longer say this is the liquor I purchased, and this is my own
car I am driving after consuming the alcohol. Yes, there is not
only the possibility of the creation of the floods through the melting
of snow, other devastating climatic calamities may be associated
with the wildfires, such as excessive rain-storms in a particular
region, tornadoes, cyclones, etc. A fertile ground for research
in global weather patterns. A quick control of wildfires can reduce
massive losses of lives and property.

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A very interesting research article on what happened to the INA soldiers
(as opposed to their leader, Netaji Subhash Bose) on a fateful night of
25 September 1945 at the Neelgunj Detention Camp, near Kolkata: https://www.myindiamyglory.com/2019/10/08/1945-nilganj-massacre-how-british-shot-2000-ina-soldiers-in-det-camps/
Tremendous effort by the history researcher Mr. Tamal Sanyal,
who works for the Central Reserve Police Force of India.

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Engineer, PM Twoballski gave you credit for the many non-causal developments in Ekballpore. He said, had Dr. Raychaudhuri not attended that physics class
at the IIT Kharagpur some 44 years ago and learnt about the primacy of the law of causality, he would not have reacted to it, and explicitly enuncuated the
non-causal mode. It shows the importance of keeping your eyes and ears open
for new information and thinking about them! We the politicians of Ekballpore are always coming up with the new ideas for development, because we are no longer causally tethered to the past, In contrast, politicians in various parts of the
world keep repeating the same old ideas, because they are tethered to the past practices. Yes, that's an interesting point. After all, the new ideas make the world
move forward.

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But, I must also add that before my explicit discussion of the non-causal
mode that involves planned sharp departures from the past practices, there
were folks whose works had created dramatic changes in their respective
fields. For example, Einstein, Darwin, Dalton, Des Cartes, and Galileo come to mind. In that sense they had created implicitly non-causal departures.
What about the Lord Buddha? Yes, definitely, he changed the focus to
individual human reflections (e.g., the kalama sutta) from the causal continuation of religious doctrines. But, that was in truly ancient times (~2600 years ago).

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Engineer, your Item#490 has evoked interesting new thoughts among
the engineers here at Ekballpore. Some are looking at it as a challenge
to the 2300 year-old Archemedes' principle. No no, it is not a challenge to
the sacrosanct law of buoyancy - in fact, the additional lift the partially immersed body can experience is due to the 260 year-old Bernouli's
principle. These two are independent of one another, but, together
they can seem to give rise to a situation where neither principle
gets you the full and correct answer. Sort of like a new "Berchemedes" principle guiding the partially immersed boat to a new equilibrium,
with the boat lifted out of the water somewhat more. Yes, that's
why our engineers expect it to favorably impact the naval architecture
in the future. If the water drag to the forward movemnt is significantly reduced, the sail boats can make a comeback (ship Ahoy!). True, the
fuel economy is the main aim.

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Engineer, an interesting economic index emerged out of Ekballpore
during a post-dinner discussion among the brave new economists
of the nation that are driving the sportsist dispensation from the forefront. The president had hosted a dinner at his residence to honor them
and talk to them on the latest developments and the obstacles.
As the meeting continued beyond the dinner, the economists
kept stressing on the general empowerment of the masses more
frequently than on anything else - and, how the new adBu has helped
in that. They gave the example of South Africa in 1994, the year of
liberation from Apartheid. The white population was only 13% - so,
the level of empowerment was roughly 0.13. Now, based on our earlier
discussion on the culture's two components, the linguistic side, and the
tech side, each contributing 0.5 (max) to the culture coefficient, they assigned (as an example) 0.3 from the then South Africa's linguistic side,
and 0.32 from the tech side. That brought the culture cofficient to 0.62.
Now, if you take the product of the empowerment coefficient and
the culture coefficient, the value would be 0.13x0.62 = 0.08.
According to our economists this is a very important developmental
index. The closer this number is to 1.0, the better it is. Obviously, 0.08
was a far cry from 1.0.

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Speaking of empowerment, an Ekballpore woman who just got released
from jail said that some prison guards, and some members of the FoE had taken sexual advantage of her while she was serving an Ekball era sentence. Apparently, she was sentenced on flimsy grounds as if with an
ulterior motive. Maybe she was also scapegoated to hide the real culprits.
PM Twoballski ordered inquiry of her complaints. He said that the constitution of Ekballpore also holds true inside jails, and any breach of constitutional rights should be punishable. He asked me to form a task force out of the
new police to investigate the situations of the prisoners in all our prison houses. We are also reviewing our justice systems so that no one is
pushed into jails on flimsy grounds.

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Engineer, apparently, the lady knew about your blogs even when
she was in jail - she talked to our task force mainly comprised of female officers of the new police. She said she found your blogs very liberating,
and that she fell to tears as she read your sati-daha poem - remembering
how she was dragged to the prison like Pratima to the pyre. I see,
I understand. Did she come to know about some dirty secrets about
some big shot in the Ekball administration? Sometimes, that can be
a reason to put someone away. Wow, you are right! She had come to
know about how the slow party leader Gulari was ttk-ing Ms Laoshi,
the pro-democracy activist, long before the matter came to public
attention.

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In the meantime, the task force finds that there have been numerous
violations of human rights inside our jails; and, alarmingly, even after the Ekball era was over. As per the recommendation of the task force, we will provide each inmate with an internet device which will enable them
to press a red button whenever a violation takes place - it will simultaneously take a picture of the situation, and send the red alert to the task force's control
room. Later, the task force will meet the prisoner to know more about the reported incident, and investigate. Typically, the prisoners are not allowed internet access, but, this device will also give them very limited browsing access, particularly, to a few news sites. So that they are not blocked out from some of the important developments in the world, like the coronavirus vaccine and such. Since they won't be able to write emails or make other
forms of communication with the internet device, there will be another yellow button to request a discussion on a topic that does not involve the violation of human rights. Naturally, this will be a lower priority call. But, these calls make sense. For example, an inmate has a bright idea to combat the coronavirus, We need to hear from her/him reasonably quickly.

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Wow, I like your vector, engineering approach to solve the problems,
as opposed to the scalar, literary, and lamentational! Ha ha! Yes, in
new Ekballpore we are expected to always move ahead, and not sit
like a flower, however pretty. That's why our LCs like your blogs so much! Thanks, but, I am an engineer myself, and I only/mainly know the engineering approach.

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The LCs compared you with a marathoner - when it comes to creative
work. The geno innu fatwa folks are like continuously defecating on your
tracks - yet you have proceeded spectacularly. They want to fill the whole space with the sweet stench of feces, slowing your progress by throwing
in the forced caution not to step on the excreta. You never know the IOC may envisage a new form of terrorism through all this - never let these folks go anywhere near the olympic stadium!

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Let's say, there is a desolate house in the middle of an open field,
that is filled with venomous snakes like the vipers and the cobras.
A person who knows about what is in the house is walking on the road
next to the field, while he sees another person about to enter the house!
But, the person on the road simply walks by without shouting at the
other guy to alert him of the imminent danger. Because his point is
he has the right not to alert him, and also, it is not his duty
to shout at whoever tries to enter the house. Do you think he has an
ethical and morally sound point? No, not at all. He is an extremely
bad person - he knowingly let another human being towards the latter's
doom. Now suppose, the road guy decides to contest in an election.
That's dangerous - that's why I take less and less interest in elections
these days, who knows some of the contestants may be like the road
guy. For example, the geno innu situation is like the house in the
middle of the field.

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The LCs find the participation of some migrants from the "third"
world in the geno innu correlating with the software mindset held
by many of them. While you yourself had migrated from the "third"
world, you have consciously tried to develop a hardware base
in concepts creation. Yes, that's an interesting point. For example,
they say that the software work is like tickling on the main frame
or torso of the hardware. The hardware is more important, if
hardware is not there, no tickling is needed. Ha ha! Reminds me of
a line from a Tagore song - "come with fun-filled touches to the
body", as if the hardware tells the software. :-)
Just as the internet has a hardware side, and a software side,
the geno innu seems to have both sides as well. While the
hardware looks like created by your local system, the software side
is being operated by some "third" world migrants.

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Do you think these "third" worlders who are working on the
'software' side of the geno innu are worse than the "road guy"
in our snake house story? Yes, definitely, they are even broadcasting
the fateful goings-on inside the snake house after the victim enters
into the location. Look, major parts of the "third" world are extremely
poor and underdeveloped. So, many folks grow up with some kind of
greediness - in a negative sort of way, that is, not looking to make
money through hard work and efforts. In fact, a person may be
individually rich, but still remain greedy, and, that way, amenable
to 'bribing' by the "first" world, and getting into 'software' work -
even if it means back-stabbing friends/family/fellowmen.
That's my feeling.

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Engineer, any new designs coming from your side? Our engineers are
wondering. Yes, yes, I am working on a hand-operated skateboard
design, that will also be propelled by friction, like the regular skateboards.
Except that you don't need to touch the ground with your own shoe from
time to time. I will also probably add a feet operated direction changer
to it - so that the rider can do some steering with the feet. Wow, that sounds interesting - because, some folks find it a bit silly to have to frequently touch the ground with the feet. No, there is nothing silly
about it, in fact, the regular skateboard is extremely simple and portable.
I was wondering if I could come up with a *mechanism* for hand-operated leg/foot motion emulation that can propel a stand-up device. As you know,
in mechanical engineering, the mechanisms play the same role as the
basic circuits in electronics, or the schemes in electric power generation,
or the algorithms in computer science, etc. Also, potentially the stand-up device could serve as an engine for hand-pulled rickshaws - friction
propelled rickshaw engine, as opposed to the cycling propelled ones
already in existence. As we know, the foot friction is nature's preferred method of propulsion for all ground-faring creatures.

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Engineer, your new mechanism is well-liked by the Ekballporeans!
Even the medical surgeons are impressed - they said there is an element
to it that may help people with a handicap - folks that may have lost
a limb through an accident. Good to hear that they liked the design.
By the way, they also know about the geno innu disturbance you have
been going through. One of them mentioned that while causing
traffic accidents through externally imposed distraction could be one
goal of the geno innu, the other, from a medical viewpoint, could be
to create psychosomatic disorder - physical illnesses caused by
psychological pressure and disturbance. So, they don't rule out the
possibility of involvement of some evil medical doctors in the geno
innu process.

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They think it's like a classic contest between the Ciq (creative iq) and the Diq (disruptive iq). You have enough Ciq to show possibilities (Möglichkeiten) in engineering and in socio-economic domains. Some rich and powerful
folks that don't have such Ciq don't want to look dumb in comparison -
so, they are trying to create a poisonous environment for you dominated
by the Diq. Well, initially, I had thought that it was the main purpose of the geno innu process - to continuously explore my "dark sides" and broadcast. And, that the genocidal and the psychosomatic possibilities
were just unintended fallouts. But, slowly, I felt that the secondary intentions were as real as the primary. Pretty brazen and cold-blooded
if you think of it.

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Engineer, the doctors agree! They wanted to destroy your brain, while
appearing to be friendly and helpful. In fact, the "secondary intentions"
took precedence as the primary was not really working. The "genocidal"
could just be an unintended side-effect - just another accident, involving some so-called expendables.

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Engineer, the doctors agree! They wanted to destroy your brain, while
appearing to be friendly and helpful. In fact, the "secondary intentions"
took precedence as the primary was not really working out. The "genocidal" could just be an unintended side-effect - just another accident, involving
some so-called expendables. Sounds scary, the brain is very important,
without the brain what can one do! I remember while learning to ride the motorbike more than three and a half decades ago, I had a few falls -
the first thing I'd worry about would be if my brain had gone kaputt.
I made sure it's working by reciting to myself the list of 20 original grammatical pre-fixes (they change the meaning of words when
added to their front) in bengali - pro pora opo samo ni obo anu nir
dur be adhi su ut pori proti abhi oti opi upo aa ... At least I have a working memory! :-)

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Engineer, where is your rickshaw math showing the foot-steering moments
that you had promised, and the power steering, our engineers wonder.
Yes, yes, I am going to show something soon. The idea is very simple -
you run two belts out of the rear wheel, each containing a series of hemispherical rubber balls. Run the belts below the brake rods.
That's the source of power in the power steering. Now, under each brake
pedal attach a half-ball, similar to the ones on the belt. If you need power while steering, just push the brake pedal down a bit as you are pushing it ahead, to derive power from the belt through relative speed friction.
If no power is needed, the pedal does not need to be pushed down, only ahead. So, basically, you can run the steering both in manual, and in power mode.
Wow! that's quite simple! Of course, in a simple vehicle like that you cannot have a power steering that is more complex than the engine itself.

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Engineer, where is your rickshaw math showing the foot-steering moments
that you had promised, and the power steering, our engineers wonder.
Yes, yes, I am going to show something soon. The idea is very simple -
you run two belts out of the rear wheel, each containing a series of hemispherical rubber balls. Run the belts below the steering rods.
That's the source of power in the power steering. Now, under each steering pedal attach a half-ball, similar to the ones on the belt. If you need power while steering, just push the steering pedal down a bit as you are pushing it ahead, to derive power from the belt through relative speed friction.
If no power is needed, the pedal does not need to be pushed down, only ahead. So, basically, you can run the steering both in manual, and in the power mode. Wow! that's quite simple! Of course, in a simple vehicle like that you cannot have a power steering that is more complex than the engine itself. Also, you gain some additional braking advantage in times of need - don't push a
steering pedal forward, just push it down, hard.

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Engineers wonder if you push too hard when you are intending to
just take a turn, won't it slow down the vehicle, something that you don't want? Yes, that's a possibility - but, if you make the steering pedal's half-ball
smaller, it will not significantly alter the speed of the belt. Also, as you may have noticed you feel safer to take a turn at a slower speed.
While this method of power steering can also be applied to other vehicles,
even with those with seated drivers, I have figured another way
that takes advantage of the gravity - more suitable for standing drivers
as in the rickshaw engine. When you visit the gym you will notice
that you can lift the same weight (let's say, 40 Kg) with different levels
of ease with your various actions - push, pull, with the leg, with the arms, taking/not taking advantage of gravity, etc. That kind of study is helpful
in designing the manually driven "green" vehicles. It's stupid not to
use the most advantageous combination and variation of actions.
For example, my PRP boat of Item#472 can be driven by pushing, pulling,
with the feet, with the hands, and even with a driver's buttocks. It's
so simple!

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Engineer, the negative spirited and uncreative are creating a pervasive anti-CMO (colored male overachiever) situation for you. The new police
think the local DMV (department of motor vehicles) should make an
independent investigation. Because, what's happening to you can be
called externally applied "influence" and "distraction" while you are driving, sleeping, etc. Naturally, if you can't sleep well, next morning you may not
be able to drive well. On the other hand, the engineers like your gravity- assisted power steering using a gear equivalent of the hydraulic press.
They pointed out one issue with the front wheel axle though. Since it is hanging from the central bearing, bumps on the road can damage the
wheels. It would be good to add some shock absorbers to the wheels.
Yes, yes, I will later add shock absorbers, thanks for pointing out.

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Engineers also want to know if you have any thoughts on the braking.
Well, the braking action with rubber to rubber friction shown in Item#492
may be somewhat inadequate - meaning long braking distance. Although the braking force is expected to be high, the braking moment will be low -
force x radius of the radial paddles will be reduced by the small radius of the
paddles.That's why, vehicles with large wheels with the braking force applied to the wheels' periphery are easier to brake. Because, the braking work (energy) equals to moment x the total angle (radians) rotated by the wheel.
So, in order to bring a particular kinetic energy of the vehicle to zero,
if the moment is low, the total angle will be linearly higher, hence a long braking distance. So, I am thinking of using a separate horizontal
braking wheel with larger diameter, and coupling it to the rear axle.

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Engineers also want to know if you have any thoughts on the braking.
Well, the braking action with rubber to rubber friction shown in Item#492
may be somewhat inadequate - meaning long braking distance. Although the braking force is expected to be high, the braking moment will be low -
force x radius of the radial paddles will be reduced by the small radius of the paddles. Because, the braking work (energy) equals to moment x the total
angle (radians) rotated by the wheel. In fact, my analysis (Item#495) shows that the breaking distance cannot be helped by making the wheel larger
or smaller, for peripherally applied braking force, like in a bicycle. So, the focus should be on the braking force - how we can make it larger, for any particular radius of the wheel chosen. So, I am thinking of using a separate horizontal braking wheel with larger diameter, and coupling it to the rear axle.
This will enable applying a larger force, as we have seen with the gear equivalent of the hydraulic press in Item#494.

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Engineer, your Item#496 has evoked a lot of interest among our engineers.
The discussion seems to suggest that an externally applied braking force
has a similar effect on the vehicle as a force that is applied to the periphery of a wheel (f=1) from inside the vehicle. But, if f is not equal to 1, its effect
is different. Yes, that's quite interesting. I like the fact your engineers marked
that. Well, to them you are like a teacher who has inspired a whole bunch
of creative thinking. They recall they hardly ever met a teacher who
had inspired so much interest in creative engineering concepts.
The fear is that if you are continuously taught by uninspiring teachers
you will also become like them if/when you choose the teaching profession.
Ha ha! But, that's not a good idea. By the way, they also detected
an error in your numerical example. Yes, I noticed the error in translating from the angular entities to the linear motion entities - I will fix the error.

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The engineers are enthused by your later comments to Item#496 that the
kinetic energy of the vehicle in your numerical example, as computed to
be 2288 Joules dissipates to only a small amount of heat. It converts to 547 Calories, that could heat up roughly half a kilogram of water by just over 1°C. It means that by eating a small amount of food you can create lots
of kinetic energy! Yes, that's the good thing about green energy - no wonder the horse drawn carriages went on for the millenia. Engineer, this is what they are talking about, you create understanding through your designs - that represents "vector" teaching. As opposed to our Ekball-era "scalar" teachers who used to look up existing concepts from books and journals and
explain them to the students. Don't you think that the internet
will slowly replace the "scalar" teachers over time? Well, it will take
a long time for that to happen. In fact, I have seen extremely good "scalar" teachers - I felt they are very much needed, and could not be replaced.
Also, even if the internet replaces some "scalar" teachers, you would still need folks to write the "scalar" content for the intenet, and update them
over time.

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Yes, they agree about your stressing on the need for "scalar" teachers,
at least for the foreseeable future, but, they think that some "scalar" teachers
were excessively repetitive. Although, the students can be fooled to believe that the teachers are introducing them to new concepts. For example, a
teacher who teaches a subject to the 2nd year students may appear to
bring new concepts to them, but, if a 3rd year student came back and attended
a few of his lectures, he would find him very repetitive. But, in contrast, when
you are publishing your concepts, the 1st through the 5th year students can simultaneously look them up, and even their professors - in fact, anyone that takes interest. Yes, I understand what they are indicating - they are against repetitiveness; but then all jobs involve some repetitiveness, don't they? True, but, teaching directly involves the communication of the new concepts - so, the repetitiveness is less desirable there. New concepts have a feeling
of warmth, but, repeating the old concepts makes it cold.

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Ha ha! The most vital warmths of the world need reciprocal enthusiasm,
which is what I am seeking with regard to my engineering design concepts.
First of all, I want to dispel a misunderstanding that's being floated here, with the introduction of the phrase - "vector" teacher. I am not a teacher,
nor did I set out to be one. I have designed some engineering concepts
that I hope to sell. I explain some of them here so that folks have a better understanding of them. As you know, people like something more when they
get a better understanding of it! Now, the relevance to teaching is a secondary impact - some sort of a side-effect. When you become a professional teacher, there are various practical considerations that you need to abide by. For example, you need to provide the students with the necessary inputs/pre-existing concepts from the subject, even if it means repetition. But, of course, teaching methods need to evolve with the advent of the
internet era. Probably, the movement is already taking place, just that I do not keep track of it.

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Engineer, while you had thought the LCs have gone away from the scene,
actually they haven't! They are always monitoring our conversation rather closely. While looking at the timeline for the development of your
engineering concepts they were impressed with the enterprise of the brain (mostishker udyog, in bengali) put into action there. That too without
much of a "reciprocal enthusiasm" (protiborti uddipona, in bengali)
coming your way. It is somewhat surprising because at one time the US
was the place to be if you are in the realm of developing new concepts.
in the crucible of the small business. Even not so long ago, during the
dot com time. They figure two factors contribute to the coldness of
the ambient for you. One is of course the prevalence of "hollow" money
(money earned without much effort, like with the stock market, advertisements. etc.) absorbing all the good hamburgers. And, secondly, the geno innu situation that you are facing. Good point! It's like one long run for a warm object through
the cold dark space with Ekballpore as the sole jacket to keep the warmth in.

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A very informative article on how to improve t-cells (needed by the body
to fight the bacteria and the viruses) in a natural way: https://www.ramsayhealth.co.uk/blog/lifestyle/how-to-boost-your-immune-system As is seen, frequent exercise is very vital!

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Engineer, sounds like BV CV teaming! CV telling BV, you lob the ball so I can hit it hard and high - out of the playing field. The ttk folks disturbing your sleep
so that your body's immune system goes down - creating an opportunity for
other viruses to enhance a co-morbidity situation. Wow! That's good detective thinking.

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Engineer, Buddham saranam gachchami, Dhammang saranam gachhami,
Sangham saranam gachchami [I take refuge in the Buddha, I take refuge
in the religious practice, I take refuge in the community] - I have now officially
switched to AdBu! My new last name when translated into english would
mean "sunshine". Wow, that's good news, Mr Sunshine - considering how
AdBu has introduced a new sense of positivity and creativity in Ekballpore. Yes, the AdBu temples, typically, one every 4 square miles, are slowly turning out to be centers for social development and ethics. Not just the various forms of exercise and meditation that we had discussed earlier. For example,
the regular attendees of the temple can now form committees to look into environmental pollution issues in those 4 square miles, and try to get corrections. This has created a sense of good competition between the
various temple communities - who can keep it more clean, green, etc.
Also, the evening cultural events now include discussions of various contemporary issues and ethics In the AdBu temple I attend, we recently
had a discussion on "courtesy".

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So, what did you discuss on the topic of "courtesy"? I am curious to
know. Well, some of the points that came up were pretty banal -
like, you should treat others in the same way as you yourself would
like to be treated, also that one should be proactively courteous and go
ahead to acknowledge/congratulate others' good work. Yes, definitely,
it creates a positive environment. For example, I watch many videos on
the youtube, and I enjoy quite a few of the shows - now, if I ever happen
to meet the persons doing the shows I would like to acknowledge their
good work. But, the discussion later turned towards the topic of social courtesy, implemented through the non-causal changes we are witnessing
in Ekballpore. One attendee, possibly an engineer, gave the example of the galley slaves being treated uncourteously in the battle ship rowing scene
in the movie Ben Hur ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7wcShvrus )
- the movie clip that inspired you to design the matrix PRP scheme of
Item#474. He thought that kind of situation demanded non-causal
changes, to stop the causal continuation!

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Speaking of the non-causal, the LCs like the struggle for survival aspect
of your writings. There is a detective vector that is trying to identify the main ttk (bit-by-bit murder) mastermind(s). If a murder is the effect, and the murderer is a cause, the effect seems to be running after the cause!
Ha ha! Yes, of course, why not! Typically, a murder is investigated after
it takes place. Sometimes, the culprits are identified and punished -
giving a sense of closure to the crime. But. that's not true closure,
because the murdered doesn't return to life.

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Engineer, it's the negative spirited and the uncreative that are gathering
bits of your personal info using the leaky products surrounding you,
and then making negative insinuations like a bunch of character assassin hyenas. Yes, I think that's what seems to be happening. I like your
using the 'character assassin hyena' term - makes you spiritist,
mimicking the older term 'racist'. It is horrendous to think of a situation where only a very few people are working sincerely to develop new
concepts, while being continuously hounded by a nation of
character assassin hyenas that thrive on a leaky products scenario.
Well, I hope the new year brings positive changes to the dystopic
state of affairs. In the meantime, wishing all readers around the globe
a very merry christmas, and a covid19-free new year 2021!

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Engineer, wish you happy NewYear 2021 out of Ekballpore! We had a
pleasant survey result at the end of the year, regarding the choice of master's and PhD supervisors by the "independent" students. We found
that the students are now choosing their advisors more freely than in
the Ekball era when the "independent" students would avoid "loyalist"
advisors. The latter would often not acknowledge the "independent"
students' good work, and stand up for them. President Doball was
very keen to get the survey done since he himself had suffered a lot
due to the "loyalist" counter-meritocrats. Wow! That means you are
now looking at an Ekballpore that has really moved away from the
shadow of the Ekball era. Yes, it was a very important survey since it
looked into/sampled how Ekballpore's internal mindset has changed.

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Engineer, how has the lockdown impacted your life? I would
say, pretty badly - particularly, the gyms are closed, so that means
I am unable to do regular exercise to maintain all the health parameters.
Also, financially, since many businesses are also impacted, who could potentially get me working on projects. Yes, I understand. Regarding
the stoppage of all activities, don't you think it is counter-productive?
Yes, of course! Activities that help produce white blood cells (wbc)
and t-cells should not be stopped. For example, I was reading a recent
news report that indicated five hot spots for coronavirus transmission -
pubs, cafes, restaurants, religious gatherings and hotels. Obviously, these are not locations where you gain wbc or t-cells. For example; for any
nation there is a certain median (mid point of a statistical distribution)
wbc count, let's say, 7.5x10^9 per liter of blood - now, if the median goes down with respect to the transmissivity of the virus, that's not good.

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Engineer, our amateur radio guys find that the geno innu folks are
on a overdrive. I told them that the engineer must be somewhat
unwell - they are so negative spirited if someone gets sick they feel
very happy! Ha ha! Yes, I am somewhat down and trying to recover
from a skin itch problem. I do remember when I was down with
something, like a cough and cold situation, or the motorcycle fall,
etc,, they went on overdrive.

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It seems the persons that are shouting at you are either reading from
a blog-type website with passworded restriced access, or they have
your direct feeds from your home. There are possibly even others that
are writing into that website, either from your direct feeds or using some other source of information. The new police think that separate crime
graph (your Item#142) paths meet at the shouters. On the one side
you have the entities involved in owning/maintaining that crucial geno
innu website, On the other, there are the processes involved in making
payments to the shouters, giving them protection from information
police, etc.. Of course, there others like getting your feeds to whoever
uses them, and last but not the least important, carrying the shouts
to you so that you can be overwhelmed. Possibly, there are even other
folks involved in translations from bengali to other languages.
A pretty complex crime graph, with lots of money

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The LCs think that they go on an overdrive when you are unwell
because you cannot orthogonalize the disturbance as successfully
in those times. So this is a good time to push you over the edge.
The LCs find an interesting cinematic contrast between your
positive non-causal world-view that includes your engineering
concepts geared to the life and the living, and the geno innu's
dying city mindset!

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Engineer, anti-birbal-line bunch! They want to look good
by ridiculing you when you are sick - but, they don't have
your level of rjgci's and the various concepts to offer at
world forums. As the LCs put it, in reference to Tagore's
famous poem, the awakening of a cave-fountain (nirjjhorer
swapno vongo in bengali, 1883 AD, when the poet was only 22) -
they ould probably never le the fountain wake up!

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Speaking of your rjgci's, what are your plans ? Of course,
to sell them to interested parties. Now, you can see that as
Shockley started the silicon valley with his Shockley
semiconductors, I am in a position to start a "green tech hub"
anywhere, given land and funding to start, By the way, I am still
on medical vacation in LA. The latest diagnosis with the abdomen
ct scan pointing to fluid accumulation, that needs to be removed.

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Engineer, how are you doing? Ekballporeans want to know!
Got some fluids taken away - with the needle method (ultra-sound),
as well as with medication, at the LA Kaiser. More treatment to follow.
The spirits got a serious dent from the body. As you know, for me
no spirits, no work.

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Engineer, are the things looking better - health-wise? Yes, definitely,
but, slowly. I am able to walk up the grades on the slightly hilly
terrains of the neighborhood. Still very far from what was possible
in 2017-2018, creating ~260 new snippets in two years! Look, it's
always the speed of non-repetitive work that counts.... as we had
earlier discussed,

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Yes, it indicated an interesting paradigm shift that the the post-internet
era had introduced. As if, it is no longer important to understand what
you know, or even how much you know, it is more important to find out
what you can do with what you know. Previously, they used to say, "knowledge is power", but, now no longer, since most of the pieces are already there
on the internet, and you have reasonably fast search engines. The process
of creative life has always been an open-book exam, but, now, more so
than ever before. So, it should be more like creativity is power - isn't it? True, but, the forces of knowledge_is_power are not ready to give it up so easily!

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Engineer, you are lucky to have Ekballpore on your side to acknowledge and appreciate your creative efforts - it should help some to heal the acid scars. The LCs find your 'continuously watch and damn' situation to be driven by
an acid-throwing mindset. Yes, I agree. But, at least I am recovering health-wise.

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How much did you recover? I think, I have recovered quite a bit, considering the
fact that I was almost bed-ridden in Feb-March. Definitely to such an extent that my physical discomfort is no longer a predicament to the spirit that drives the un-subaltern creative efforts. Yes, I agree, it is tough to come out of the shadows of subaltern education and practice, and to create one's
own domain of items. But, the worry is that my un-subaltern items are
not selling, at least, not yet.

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I had earlier indicated the role of good sleep and exercise in building a strong immunity
to bacteria and viruses: https://www.ramsayhealth.co.uk/blog/lifestyle/how-to-boost-your-immune-system Here is another relevant article from the Johns Hopkins University (one of America's
top medical research schools): https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/exercising-for-better-sleep

Engineer, our monks will love these - because AdBu's basis is physical exercise and meditation!

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Engineer, your original home state of west bengal in India went through the state
assembly elections. - looks like the ruling party (TMC) swept to power the third
time in a row, while the opposition (BJP) lost after fighting hard. Any comments?
Well, in my view, both parties are somewhat similar - you cannot expect much non-causal from any of them! So, it really doesn't matter who wins who loses. The opposition made a mistake of banking too much on a slogan about the Lord Rama (from the hindu epic Ramayana), knowing fully well that the renaissance poet Michael M Dutta had distanced bengalis from the Ramayana war ethics
in his long and powerful mid-1800s poetry on the killing of Meghnad, the son of Ravana. At least a couple of killings described in the epic sounded unethical
to some readers - those of Bali and Meghnad.

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A creative artist in Ekballpore came up with the idea about the distribution
of the units devoted to prototype generation of your various engineering
ideas in a campus setting. Let's say, you are at the focal point from which multiple horses are diverging out, all on unequal lengths of leashes.
Now, take this scenario 50-100 ft above the ground, and let the 12 noon
sun shine on it - creating the umbras on the ground. Those umbras will be
the units. What about my (the focal point's) shadow? That will be the
central planning and control building, and probably marketing! Interesting
idea - reminds me of the american creative artist Alexander Calder's artwork
- sculptures with metallic wires and colored plates hanging from above and moving slowly, e.g., https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+calder+mobile&tbm=isch&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiA2MyttdfwAhWElVMKHUnqCB8QrNwCKAB6BQgBEPMB&biw=1349&bih=625
Recently, had the opportunity of viewing some of the artist's original artwork, as well as some paintings from Picasso, at the de Young museum in the
Golden Gate park, San Francisco.

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Very interesting Italian paper on how steam inhalation can reduce the severity of/eliminate the
coronavirus infection, by Giancarlo la Marca, and other co-authors: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680040/
This sounds quite logical to me - because, it is now well known that heat kills the virus.
It is therefore recommended to take any food/drink after warming it up to/above
70C. at which temperature the covid19 remains no longer active. But, the authors
used steam at a lower temperature (55-65C), possibly to avoid internal burn injuries.
Good to see that their findings are getting support from competent peers: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201130/Steam-inhalation-therapy-found-to-inactivate-SARS-CoV-2-virions.aspx

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Engineer, do you think the state sponsored stalking and psychological torture is peculiar to the US situation you live in? Well, it's a new thing for sure, but,
it could be in other places also. It's the dual use of security technology that has proliferated all over the world. Sort of like the same nuclear technology
that can be used for power generation could also be used for making
bombs, with some tweaks. The idea is to cheat the "stalked" out of his youthful years.- make him older soon! The murder in the future concept
that was discussed earlier. Let's say, without the cheating, a person
could have lived till 85 years of age, but, with the cheating he will
go at 80 or 75. So, effectively, you went into the future and killed a
75 year old man!

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Yes, we agree, and also it seems that the folks running the scheme
represent some kind of a degraded mindset. While you think and
talk about your works and concepts, they think about you! Ha ha!
It surprises me how much they claim to know about me, gathering/stealing
info from here and there. Engineer, our engineers thought after looking
at the devastation caused by the cyclone in Bengal and the neighboring
areas, your Item#s 487-489 could be relevant in developing habitats that
are high winds resistant. Also, staggered rows of tall trees could be
used to block the winds wherever possible, along the coastline.
Yes, I agree.

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Engineer, there is new interest in your lift-drag measurement scheme
of Item#s 488-489. Aerodynamics engineers are pointing at its usefulness
in measuring the lift-drag [F.sin(theta), F.cos(theta)] of any weird shaped object placed in a fluid flow. To get mathematical estimates of lift-drag
in such situations is often complicated and unreliable. So, the experimental method is very welcome. Yes, that's the idea!

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Engineer, let's say, when Einstein goes on a vacation , a thief breaks into his home; on his return, Einstein understands this but cannot do much
about it - the thief does not get caught! The thief thinks he is smarter than Einstein because he could make a complete fool of the latter. Well, in a
sense it is true, but, the question is if we need such "smarter" folks. Probably, Einstein forgot to plug some 'holes' before leaving, and the
thief who always watches out for such 'holes' took advantage of
that!

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For example, this morning, I find that a favorite apple pie is missing
from the deep freeze section of my refrigerator! Obviously, my first
reaction would be did someone enter my condo in my absence?!
And, as we have earlier discussed, these days almost every medical
clinic has coronavirus in their possession; Now, who knows what the
intruder was doing in my fridge. Of course, I am personally vaccinated
against the virus, but, what if it's something else! So, all refrigerators should come with locking mechanism - just to add another layer of
protection. Although, a refrigerator is not the only place folks (including myself) keep their foods and drinks - they are often kept on open shelves,
etc.

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Engineer, the LCs think that unlike most CEOs in the US, you own your
product concepts that you have developed yourself, while they inherit
the pre-existing ideas that were driving their companies even beore they
came in. In that sense, you are inherently sportsist! But, I am not
receiving the projects/fundings to develop on the ideas, sort of like being kept small. Yes, this fact along with the prevailing "hollow" money
scenario, dominated by excessive focus on marketing, advertisements,
and "button-press" millionaires lead some to believe that the US may
be in a state of downfall! Do you think so? I cannot comment on it,
simply because I don't have all the parameters to review before one
can come to such a conclusion. I can only see some symptoms. In fact,
certain sectors of the economy are working excellently - for example,
the medical industry that I have had the direct experience with, recently.

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Referring to your visits to museums, the LCs drew a parallel between
the works of Art and your drawings of engineering science. Do you still
get as overwhelmed by museums compared to when you had not come
up with your rjgci works? No, I don't - I have visited quite a few museums
at various cities, e.g., the De Young's at San Francisco, the Getty's
at LA, the MoMA at New York, The British museum of London, the historical museum at Frankfurt, etc, and I know that the works of art and even archeological objects can be spectacular, and at occasions goosebumps giving, but, art often has a limitation. You look at art and sometimes feel good
about it, and sometimes you don't even understand what you are seeing
without clearly admitting it. Then what? A piece of art doesn't directly
lead to anything - while my drawings have more fire in them, fire of engineering concepts leading to further developments. Also, anybody
with common sense and a basic knowledge of engineering can
understand them - you don't need to look at them for hours with squinted eyes to derive the inner meanings! Yes, I agree, and, some of them are spectacular too.

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Wonderful, quip the LCs, you have created an unsubaltern channel of appreciation through your own work. This is quite extra-ordinary.
But, in order to even inadvertently accomplish it, you needed to
present a whole lot of original tech content, otherwise you would
also remain an obsequious subaltern all your life. Yes, makes sense
to me. Look, when you create a large volume of new work, it comes
with various side effects, and some of them are not by design.
But, later on, folks talk about them, as if those concomitant channels
were included in the scheme of the development.

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Engineer, there is a new rumor in Ekballpore that the coronavirus
may have been created by some racist entities as a reaction to the
developments with the AdBu - where the followers are free to kiss
whomever they like/want. Apparently, the AdBu threatened the
who can kiss whom based segregation schemes. There are many
such rumors floating around - they should not be taken seriously.
But, one thing looks apparent to me - *if* the coronavirus was indeed intentional, it may have had two aims, one, to rehearse for a viral
warfare, and two, to slow the world down. Sort of like getting at its
genesis by looking at the effects that are visible to all.

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The other interesting aspect is how the little deadly darwinians have
been mutating into unwieldy variants like alpha, beta, gamma, delta, etc.
So, start with a variant that responds well to the existing vaccination, and keep mutating in the lab till it doesn't respond anymore. Engineer, then almost anyone can create an unknown killer virus?! That's the fear -
that's why you need broad-spectrum prophylactics that can handle a
whole range of mutants. The reason why the Italian research on
using hot water vapor appealed to me. Solutions involving radiation,
heat etc. need to be looked at more seriously. Also, we in Ekballpore
think that the negative spirited and uncreative folks would like to
slow others down to match with their own rate of creativity, almost zero!
While for you, it is the valuable time for creativity lost, to them the priority
seems to be to reduce competition in a negative way.

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An interesting youtube video discussing how Swami Vivekananda, one
of the the brightest hindu monks from post-renaissance Bengal had
suffered during his lifetime for being a non-brahmin preacher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-iIfEjkRWo
Engineer, that means even the Swami-ji had been impacted by the caste
system! Apparently, he was. The cult of orificial (Brahma's, read for example, https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/buddha-talks-brahmin-supremacist/) supremacy that make Bengal look like an "upper" caste hindus' colony, could not be changed by Vivekananda though. In that sense, the joint efforts of the Buddha and the famous King Ashoka were way more successful. No wonder we have
chosen AdBu as a non-causal endeavor. Although Buddhism does not
align with superstition and the dependence on the unknowable and unseen
divine beings/spirits, our monks have advised us that we can still pray to
such divine entities to gain inner strengths before overcoming ordeals in life,
That is, no problem with having personal gods. Because, nobody should
try to rule/brainwash a follower's mind.

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Of course, one of the things that is very unfortunate about the Swami-ji
is that he passed away too early, at age 39, due to a cerebral rupture.
So, his potential work in the fields of social reorg of the hindus could
not come through. Had he lived till the more mature age of 80 as the
Buddha did, he could have accomplished a lot more! Probably, he was
"murdered in the future", like you have earlier discussed. With all the pressures of the contemporary bengali society that were brought to
bear upon him, the circumstances may have expedited his death.
Possible, you have to look at the average life spans of folks in his family, to come to such a conclusion. Look, even I have outlived him with all
the geno innu and all that. True, in fact, in your case, it is even worse; you are not a religious preacher or anything, just an engineer with a non-causal outlook. Even Prof. Saha had complained about social
pressures, as anandabazar.com had indicated in an article.

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After his death, of course, he was heavily respected and celebrated - definitely considered as one of the top bengalis of all time. That's not
a good idea - why should he not be celebrated in his lifetime?! Is it like
"the only good non-brahmins are the dead non-brahmins" (echoing
T. Roosevelt's words about the american indians)? Somewhat like
that, unless the west celebrates him first, as in the case of RN Tagore,
JC Bose, SN Bose, MN Saha, etc. What do you think is the remedy?
Well, one solution could be to have a caste-less social structure like
the AdBu in Ekballpore, but, in the meantime, one could have non-brahmin channels of appreciation and celebration. Yes, I agree. In fact, the unethical caste structure also prevents full-fledged development - because, most of
the energy gets drained in maintaining the structure. As we can see so much energy and resources getting spent to run the geno innu on you.

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Engineer, the LCs believe the basis of the geno innu given to you
is the rampant information theft from your private spaces.
All the companies and individuals involved in such theft should
make financial compensation to you - otherwise they be termed
cheatingbaj, a benglish word they find appropriate. Yes, I know,
it means habitual cheaters and thieves.

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Engineering ragas is how the LCs describe your *mechanisms*.
Just as the ragas, the basic units of music find application in
many different songs, so would your electronic, electrical, mechanical engineering mechanisms be used in different machines that potentially
simplify the existing methods. Typically, if a person can come
up with one or two ragas or mechanisms in a lifetime, that's
considered enough work done, and, you have come up with a
whole bunch of them. Well, I wanted to beat the heat in a creative
sort of way!

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The earth's surface was initially uneven, that's why our feet evolved/mutated the way it has shaped up, giving the braking function more precedence.
But, if the earth's surface was largely smooth and planar, the evolution
would possibly involve wheels below the feet - your Item#492 (rickshaw
engine) has evoked this thought among some Ekballpore scientists.
Interesting thought! In fact, even at this time, it's not entirely flat, only
a small percentage of the surface is flat/planar, so we cannot wait for
times in the evolutionary scales. But, engineering can supplant the
potential evolutionary possibilities - have a shoe that can have the wheels coming out or getting withdrawn as the wearer wants, depending on the surface and speed needs. The non-automatic version of such shoes are already
available - possibly, one just needs to make them change the modes more
easily and quickly.

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Regarding the geno innu disturbance, the LCs also agree with our
earlier discussion where we had indicated that the master-minds
could have some major crimes to hide. You know, we mean crimes like
genocide, murder, arson, gangrape, terrorism, etc. Through all the info
theft they are trying to find out how much you have come to know,
and from whom/where. Then they may have engaged some
cheatingbaj types who execute it for money.

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From some mosques they would continuously chant the repetitive hymns
about the God - now if the mosque is located in the midst of a residential neighborhood, will it eventually impact the mental clarity of the folks listening
to it over a period of time? Yes, it can. We think the psychiatrists would agree.
So, the geno innu disturbance could be advised by a psychiatrist? Then, that psychiatrist need to have a good connection to the world of journalism -
so that no journalists ever cover it!

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Voila! Another mega sporting event is upon us. Any thoughts?
Well, let all the athletes start from the same starting line and
the best win! Sports is tremendous - it gives an opportunity
to the individual athlete from a militarily weaker nation to say,
you may look stronger, but, I can run faster. For you guys at
Ekballpore, the idea of sports is even more significant. You
got your freedom from a sporting arena; the principle of
meritocracy that governs your rules and laws, your economics,
and even your adaptive religion - all come from a sporting motivation.
And, don't forget our beloved PM Twoballski! Yes, obviously, we take
sports seriously. It's no longer sports for sports' sake here at
Ekballpore.

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Engineer, some engineers in Ekballpore think that the Moore's Law of semiconductor scaling is somewhat brain-lazy making, because, there
is a certain boring causality in the technological approach. What do you
think? Ha ha! That's a bright point - in fact, that's why I came up with the circuits reduction approach, the TML (transverse Moor's Law) of
Item#364. It requires you to think in innovative ways. The new police
think that some brain-lazy folks are somehow involved in the
"medusa" on you - now that we have a new name for the geno innu.
Because, as they say, a lazy brain is a devil's workshop! But, the
"medusa" would also have required bully powers to implement the
lazy brain designs.

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Engineer, the LCs were wondering if you were to receive a honorary
degree in a subject other than engineering which is your profession,
what subject would it be, and from where? Naturally, it would be
in history, and from the Calcutta (Kolkata) University. I think I have
made some interesting contributions to the history of Bengal, and
to the subject of history in general, through my blogs. For example,
I have shown that the freedom struggle against the British colonizers
was really not a people's movement, it was more of a fight to rule
between the older colonizers (first the brahminical order, and then the
islamic rulers) and the new (the british). In fact, the new colonizers
did more good for the common people than the older outfits. Also,
I have talked about archaeo-history, although it is not a new concept. Sometimes, my writing about topics lends a new warmth to a pre-existing
line of thinking. For example, my re-visiting the ancient aeolipile in Item#468
is an example of archaeo-engineering. Most importantly, it is relevant to understand how you can change the course of history without much
violence - that's where the non-causal (ohetufolio, in bengali) approaches come in! Rather than remaining a passive reader of history - sort of like
the "nirjhor" (in Tagore's poem) running for thousands of years in dark caves
with heavy sunscreen on. Regarding my university of choice, I have always held it in high regard because it produced a number of stalwarts in various fields - stalwarts always raise the level of a group they are associated with.

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Makes sense to us. Since you are a cmo (colored male overachiever)
in the US, it may be advisable to seek non-US channels of appreciation.
Colored female overachievers (cfo's) may have an easier time in a male-dominated counter-meritocracy. No, I am not actively seeking any
non-US channel of appreciation at this time, but, if a suitable one comes
by, I may consider it. Otherwise, you have to somehow align with the mind-bending counter-meritocracy - which is difficult for an independent spirited guy like you.

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What can one do, sometimes, when you are going through financial
crunch situations, you got to align with even the torture bozos that
have very little creative contribution to the US and the world, yet
hold high positions due to the prevailing counter-meritocracy!
Yes, engineer, we understand, your situation is like that of
the Ekballpore independents in the Ekball era. Companies would
like to keep them in lower level positions, and thus avoid
giving them the signature powers. In your case, the field of
physical design verification plays a very small role in the scheme
of things, so, the counter-meritocrats would like to confine
you to that, just to keep you low - overlooking your vast engineering
concepts creation work.

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Regarding the "medusa" thing, did you talk to your medical clinic?
Because, it sounds like a continuing medical crime. Yes, I left a message
with the member services of the Kaiser Permanente to seek any help
that they possibly could offer. But, the thing is so pervasive and mind-boggling that I am not very hopeful of receiving any help from
them - they may simply say it is not in their jurisdiction, like the
department of motor vehicles investigative unit had earlier indicated. Apparently, the geno innu folks are also getting details of all my credit
card transactions, contents of paper mails, etc. It is quite likely
all the private information, computer screens etc. are being passed to other countries in a continuous manner.

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Engineer, as we watch various TV channels out of Bengal, why does
the state look so economically poor, even though the state has produced
some brilliant economists? It's a valid question; in fact, I have wondered about its answer myself, many times. I *guess* the subject of economics
mainly deals with the analysis of economic situations, whereas, for the economic growth of a region you need vigorous activity, both agricultural and industrial. These activities can flourish only when the people have inner strength driven by a sense of equality and competition. As you have seen
in movies like the Article 15, large sections of hindus are born somewhat unequal. On the other hand, Islam doesn't foster free thinking - you must find all answers from one book. That's why we have only a four page book for AdBu, the folks are forced to think for themselves, look for answers from beyond the book. In keeping with the famous Kalama Sutta.

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Quite adaptive indeed, and moving with the times! Otherwise, you always
look backwards. Mutation is also needed for socio-cultural frameworks.
as the Ekballpore methodology indicates. In Bengal, for example, nothing
much happened on the mechanics side of things after the Ballal Sena
and his minister Halayud Misra crushed the buddhists in a riot, in the
late 1100s. The cow drawn carts and the oars-boats would not change for
another 600 years, till the british east India company arrived in the late 1600s through the 1700s. The printing press, the most essential thing
for any kind of renaissance came only as late as 1780. The first bengali newspaper (samachar darpan - "news mirror" in english), published in
1818 interestingly used a script that was created by the buddhist Pala
kings before the riot that put the brahminical order in a position of power. Then, how did the brahminical order maintain a position of social leadership
if they could not make any technological progress? Was it by creating
some kind of geno innu type situation for others?

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It's possible! Considering how venomous the "acid-throwers" are, it is
quite likely that they may have inherited the quality from somewhere
deep in the past. If there were no damn-the-creatives type situation
present at that time, there would be more innovations in mechanics
during that period of history. Engineer, the LCs agree with you, and
they see a distinct difference in nature between yours and theirs -
for example, you don't surreptitiously watch people, collect their
private information and generate acids to throw. So, you may have
descended from a different group of folks from that period. Maybe,
just maybe, some of your fore-fathers had also exhibited a lot of
creativity, but, were subjugated by the prevailing brahminical order
of those days - unfortunately there were no internet in the pre-renaissance Bengal. I am sorry, I cannot confirm on that, I don't know that much
at all about my fore-fathers.

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Engineer, your Frankfurt pictures looking nice - how did you like the city?
I was there for a very short time, but, it was possible to take a long walk near the river, visit the museum, and eat at some restaurants. I would say,
it was a fine but old city. Rather tourist friendly - the hotel served unlimited
free breakfast, very good quality. One local gentleman whom we spoke to
while walking near the old city center mentioned that most of the buildings except for a couple of churches were smashed by allied bombing during the
WWII - but they rebuilt keeping the old vibe in tact. One thing I did not like about the place was that the daytime was too small in January. Of course,
one holds Germany in high regard because they spectacularly innovated
in mechanics. Somehow, if a nation does not innovate in mechanics, and
these days, electronics, they are not taken seriously. That's why, the Talibans that are using the sophisticate guns in Afghanistan to quell
the pro-democracy demonstrators are being thoroughly disliked by
many - because they did not innovate any part of the guns' mechanics,
they just bought/got them!

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Speaking of the Talibans, one Ekballpore stand-up comic compares the
geno innu folks as some kind of mujahideens working with american
hardware! Ha ha! Makes sense to me - stand-up comedians are smart
individuals that can quickly come up with intelligent and humorous quips.
He said, while you may think that there are no connoisseurs for your "engineering ragas", it's actually a "mujahideen" dominated atmosphere
that's coming in your way. The "mujahideen" don't/can't innovate - so they
will stop all appreciation of innovation, disturb and diminish the innovator on a daily basis.

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Engineer., congratulations from Ekballpore on your 500 snippets! As if
it is your answer to the lack of basic engineering innovations by bengalis
over several centuries. Interesting that you completed the five hundred
with some mild shelling (bash). :-) Well, shell programming is a favorite endeavor - it naturally lends itself to digital circuit modeling as earlier (nine years ago) indicated in Item#38. Each shell can run one or more
modules, clock, etc., and then they can communicate between them with
little files that hold the instantaneous states - giving rise to what you
can call dynamic emulation. Of course, in the snippets you refer to
(Item#s 497-501) the routines involved are seen to parse the circuit hierarchies well. Of special relevance is how specifiable nets impacted sub-Trees are extracted. Another feature of doing these things with the
bash scripts is that once you buy the scripts from me, you can run them
on the linux shells/compilers that typically comes for free with any linux installation, including dual boots. You don't need to buy expensive
time-bound licenses of other software platforms.

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The LCs think your new 'breakroom' page is a good idea - where you
can share some non-technical thoughts and experiences. They like
your fascination with water bodies when you present your photo taken in Frankfurt by the river Main. Yes, I like beautiful water bodies - I often
look them up on the internet. Engineer, it resonates with our new focus
on protecting and respecting the natural environment - the monks think
that the unpolluted natural environment has a divine quality to it, because that's where the essential mutations took place, creating the animal species including ourselves. Instead, if you throw things into the water body, it not only pollutes, it can clog the flow of water enhancing the possibility of man-made floods. Of course, we have already discussed the issue of
troposphere heating through large scale and prolonged wild fires.
Yes, we have. In fact, in that sense, the geno innu that dumps verbal disturbance into the information space may derive from the anti-divine disrespect of water bodies!

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Engineer, we are all convinced now that the geno innu is a continuous
and incessant crime being committed against you, and as Rev Dr. King
had once said. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere",
we in Ekballpore remain worried. In the meantime, some more folks
got picked up by the new police in connection with the gang intro of
Ms Doball. Apparently, they had a meeting before the gang intro to plan
for the event - how they would scare Ms Doball, and turn her against
Mr Doball, etc. Not all of the people who took part in the meeting
actually participated in the gang intro - but, the new police think all
of them were responsible.

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Makes sense - the premeditated/pre-planned nature of the gang intro event makes it look like a complex crime. By the way, you often talk about the "negative spirited and uncreative" taking advantage of this or that situation to suppress positive/forward movement. Do these things go together -
negative spirited, and uncreative? For example, one's creativity is a matter
of genetics and upbringing - that way, it's not one's fault to be less creative!
What about the negative spirit? In Ekballpore, we think that folks are somewhat responsible for their spirit, it is not very uncontrollable. You are right, creativity
is something that heavily depends on things that are beyond your control,
but, the lack of creativity can exacerbate negative spirit.

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In this context, the LCs made a point. They said, look at Mithu-da (you),
he is an engineering scientist engaged in a struggle to unlock the powers
of engineering mechanisms that help the human efforts. This is one class of endeavor. On the other hand, you have those that are trying to disturb and diminish him - that's a lower class endeavor. Although they are learning
a lot from Mithu-da's works, they will never acknowledge it! That's
like being lower class ingrates. The reason why folks avoid keeping
such pets as spiders and cockroaches - lower animals, although they may
receive pet favors from you, they can still bite you!

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Pres. Doball shuddered to think of the pre-planned/pre-meditated
nature of the gang intro event. He said in a private conversation
that these counter-meritocrats were inherently opposed to the
idea of positive and vector (dhonatmok o dishajukto, in bengali)
construction that our new republic has embraced. He was happy
that their complex crime was identified by the new police. Yes, I
agree that it would be rare to find a more sporting dispensation
than your new republic. It's like every day being a sports day!
Our military is also happy with the outcome of their initial
efforts - the division between the loyalists and the independents
having been largely erased with the AdBu religious practice.
One spokesperson said they feel relieved that their relatives and
friends were more equal than ever before.

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Engineer, some Ekballpore lawyers said, the way the relentless
information infraction has happened on you over the years should
be totally illegal in any country. Since the geno innu folks are
getting to steal your information, it is most likely that other big
companies are also involved - giving a bad name to american
businesses, thieves and cheaters. True, your small biz is a very
small entity, but, it has the same rights to privacy as any other
bigger entities! Yes, I agree. I would like to get a list of individuals
and companies involved, they should all pay fines to me. I know they
could be punished in other ways too, but, those other ways
don't help me.

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Engineer, you being a bengali hindu, what are your thoughts on the
durga puja, the festival around the worshipping of the goddess durga,
that is going on right now? Of course, I hope folks enjoy the festival
- it may provide some relief from the gloomy pandemic times. But,
as you know, I am in favor of more adaptive and energy/health giving
practices such as the AdBu. Even the durga puja can be more adaptive
to avoid clay images that are immersed into the rivers at the end of the festival, creating pollution and clogging. Particularly, in the light of a recent NASA report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmMRrMJTrk4
that warns of the looming rise of oceans to swallow the human habitats.
So, any acts that move materials from the land masses into the waters
hastens the submersion. Since there is no competitive reverse process
is in view at this moment.

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The engineers of Ekballpore agree that engineering creativity is such a
thing that does not flourish without "reciprocal enthusiasm" (protiborti uddipona, in bengali), as you have sought. Do you think that the silicon valley is slowly losing real tech spirit? If so, why? Well, compared to the early decades of the Moore's Law, the tech enthusiasm seems to be
running low, when it comes to looking at basic innovations. The place
is now filled with folks that want to somehow make money, and not
innovations, often coming from cultures that do not support, nor encourage basic innovations. One of the simpler ways to figure which cultures
do or don't encourage basic innovations is to scan their television
shows, and other media - the question to keep in your mind should
be if they are highlighting the efforts of the basic innovators.
Taking an extreme hypothetical example of a religious hardline culture,
you may see they are only showing religious programs - definitely, you
don't want to get folks from that culture into the silicon valley.
Also, basic innovations require the enterprise of the brain - it's easier
on the brain to follow the paths of the pre-existing developments.

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President Doball mentioned that in Ekball's time, the independents
and the loyalists were born unequal. Although some independent
professionals like himself showed high creativity, their work did not
get sufficiently acknowledged. The independents often thought
they were surrounded by "cold" and "negative" people - but.
there was an underlying planning! The Ekball administration
did not want the independents look like champions - lest the
loyalist women sought their "signatures". Didn't we discuss this
in some other context?!

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Probably, we did, but, what was not discussed was the possibility
of the retrogressive evolution of a community. That is, with time,
the lack of recognition of independent excellence pushing the
independent community backwards, the community adapting to
to mediocre ways - leaving them with no stalwarts. Mr. mediocre
is coming - the loyalists would say, seeing an independent
on the street. This is why, the LCs like your self-created "polymath
hat" (multi colored math polygons on a motorcycle helmet) -
they said it was a nice statement! The lack of "reciprocal
enthusiasm" did not subdue your spirit. Ha ha! That's a good point
- but, my latest shell program to compute the paths on a vertex-edge
graph (Item#503) is a more note-worthy creation.

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Engineer, the LCs find commonality between your graph paths
recursive shell (Item#508) where the algorithm avoids looping of
vertices, and your earlier poem about the sword-tail couple in an
annular aquarium! Yes, that's funny - but, in the case of the
graph paths if you allow looping, it can get into infinite loops
that is not at all permissible, while the poem on the sword-tails
was more of a socio-cultural point. By the way, your polymath
hat is well-liked in Ekballpore. Good, I like this thing about
Ekballpore, if they like something they quickly acknowledge
it - sort of like a basic journalistic honesty. In contrast, you
have folks that would think for years, if I say I like it what
all can happen ....

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Engineer, the LCs find commonality between your graph paths
recursive shell (Item#508) where the algorithm avoids looping of
vertices, and your earlier poem about the sword-tail couple in an
annular aquarium! Yes, that's funny - but, in the case of the
graph paths if you allow looping, it can get into infinite loops
that is not at all permissible, while the poem on the sword-tails
was more of a socio-cultural point. By the way, your polymath
hat is well-liked in Ekballpore, they found it colorful and meaningful.
Good, I like this thing about Ekballpore, if they like something they
quickly acknowledge it - sort of like a basic journalistic honesty. In contrast, you have folks that would think for years, if I say I like it
what all can happen ....

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In fact, at one time Ekballpore was filled with sticky folks that
don't acknowledge good work. But, things are rapidly changing
with our post-Ekball developments. For example, earlier, the only
science people were interested in was the medical science - because
it was useful for the sticky politician types to keep the independents
down, to control their intimacies. But, now the folks are more
empowered, and they are getting very keen about the engineering
science - so essential for progress and jobs generation. Even
our literary critics are refusing to go in circles!

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There is new speculation in Ekballpore that the idea of the geno
innu came from a person with a physical deformity like our own
OTK had. In such situations one often remains angry, and sometimes
crooked! Yes, the geno innu women seem to be talking about a guy
whose head shape is somewhat odd. They are also talking about
how the brahminical order may have reacted to my disapproval of
the manu-samhita, earlier - referring to a recent TV program on
Kolkata TV, called choturtho stambha (the 4th column, in english).

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Engineer, the LCs have derived the basic reason for the lack of
free thinkers at the fundamental concepts level among the followers
of the manu-samhita to the limitation in questioning it and and
the order it created. That is, whatever you say or do cannot question
its validity. Yes, that's something that we have already discussed.
In fact, one of the icons of modern hinduism, Swami Vivekananda
also felt that the samhita was "obsolete". He wanted to see religion
as an adaptive practice - changing with the times. But, it remained
a holy grail for him. To view the geno innu as a reaction to your
free thinking makes some sense then, won't you say! As if you were
going to touch some "holy grail", had they not shouted. Possible. Interestingly, there could be multiple holy grails!

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The engineers liked your depth of recursion plots in Item#505 - the
static imprints of the YOYO effect you had earlier mentioned in Item#147.
Is it possible to see a more dynamic YOYO effect? Yes, it is possible with
some tiny code edits (quiz!), and turning the linux terminal right by 90 degrees
with the command "xrandr -o right" ( "xrandr -o normal" brings it back to regular ). Now, as the transcript moves, it will create a dynamic trace of the YOYO. In fact, the latest shell algorithms are better than the one used for Item#147 which was a mix of while looping and recursion. The new algorithms are purely recursive or purely non-recursive. I would say, this
sets up a paradigm for algorithm development - first use the shell as a crucible for the work, and then move that to other languages for speed etc. Sometimes, the shell code may be found to run fast enough. Wow! Engineer,
your website seems to be turning into a world heritage website!

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Makes the geno innu phenomenon look like organized urination
on the yellowstone! Actually, it's an indicator of the level of racism
that still exists in the US - a colored male overachiever's work can
be continuously disturbed and disregarded. So intense and pervasive
is the grasp of the torment that it can easily and successfully include
the contribution of other colored folks! So, for me it's basically a human rights violation issue.

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We in Ekballpore greatly appreciate your tenacity through all the
negativity that surrounds you. One interesting point was mentioned
by the new CEO of the Ekballpore company. He said that your work
during the pandemic times divides engineers into the driver of
concepts and the driven. Sort of like the engine driving the wagons.
For drivers like you, it's a huge waste of productive times, whereas,
for the driven it's like an extended semi-holiday. Well, that's true for almost any field, not just engineering. Even I have slowed down
considerably. During 2017-18, when I was focusing solely on concepts generation, I created 260 snippets in 2 years (an average of 130 per year), while, since August 2020, I have created only 28 snippets so far.
Of course, I was sick for a few months earlier this year, and the intellectual and financial resources that drive my creativity are running out.

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Wishing all readers around the globe happy holidays, and a positive
spirited NewYear 2022! Engineer, wish you the same from Ekballpore.
We think your latest snippets helped in fighting the sticky situation
created by the pandemic times - as if some kind of a vested interest
has set in. In life, we all want to go from point A to point B, and as
an engineer you are trying to chart a course by finding all the possible
paths using your shell routines. Quite significant! Ha Ha! That's quite
a description. In fact, my fascination with the vertex-edge graphs
started long ago, when I was doing my master's degree in Kolkata
(used to be called Calcutta then) - I did a math course in Graph Theory.
So, I always wanted to do something with the graphs. I have also shown
its application in EE (electrical engineering), although there may be more applications.

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Engineers here also like your design of the lift-drag apparatus
described in Item#s 488-490. The apparatus makes it easy to
break a force F into its horizontal [F.cos(θ)] and vertical [F.sin(θ)] components, for any arbitrary shaped objects. The force could be
applied through fluid (air/water) flow or through some other means
(spring, etc.), Yes, that's right. Suppose, you don't know F or θ, which
is typically the case for fluid flow where you can only control the speed.
Now, by measuring the [F.cos(θ)] and the [F.sin(θ)], you can get the equivalent magnitudes of F and θ. Also, we have been told from the
very beginning that the horizontal and the vertical components of a
Force F applied at an angle θ are [F.cos(θ)] and [F.sin(θ)] respectively. Is it really true? You can test it with this apparatus. Engineer, sometimes the lack of a suitable apparatus limits the testing of design variations.
The engineers think that the lift-drag measurement apparatus will
fill that gap. True, I would say, the apparatus will help test out hydrofoil design variations [ a brief write-up on hydrofoil is here : https://web.mit.edu/2.972/www/reports/hydrofoil/hydrofoil.html ]
more easily. In particular, stackable hydrofoils - more lift with smaller area.

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Engineer, your polymathic creative output has impacted our education
system in planning for the number of PhD degrees our universities
offer to students. We are reducing the numbers and associating them to
our focus development areas. That's a good idea - a PhD degree gets
relevance mainly when you are involved in creating new concepts/principles,
or with making significant changes to the existing ones. Otherwise, when
it comes to learning the existing concepts/principles and applying them,
a master's or a bachelor's degree is enough. Also, a PhD degree gives
a certain kind of broader vision to connect the sub-concepts in a
particular field, and even the concepts in separate fields - it helps in adding coherence to the designs for the future. For example, with the new Ekballpore system, you have meritocracy, police reform, adBu, sports-Economics, etc.
These are concepts in separate fields, yet they are stitched together in
a rather coherent way.

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But, then, PhD is not the only way to achieve creativity, or to gain
a broader vision. Some of the GOATs in the realm of creativity
had much less conventional education - they just learned from
experience, and through their own efforts. On the other hand,
if you have a PhD degree, yet you could not show enough creativity,
nor vision, your degree has not much value. One of the interesting
comparative aspects between creativity in science/technology, and
in socio-economic domains (like in the new Ekballpore system) needs
to be noted. Innovations in engineering science, for example, work
equally for all peoples/users - the recursive shells will work equally
on all computers running the Bourne shell. But, the socio-economic
ideas need people's participation. That way, you guys in Ekballpore
are lucky to have the folks respond so positively and quickly to the
new socio-eco framework components! One is reminded of the famous
experiment with a plant in a dark room - create an opening on the wall
to let some sun in, the plant orients itself in that direction. Close the opening and create another on the other side of the room, the plant
reorients! That's the sign of life.

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Engineer, there seems to have been a very bad railway accident in Bengal, with several bogies derailed - did you keep yourself aware of the incident? Yes, quite
an unfortunate tragedy that has added to the miseries already caused by the pandemic times. In fact, I was checking on the internet to find some references on safer railways travel - to me, though not an expert in the field, the whole process of interaction between the wheels and the tracks look somewhat
unsafe. Here is an interesting article that discusses some innovations: https://theconversation.com/five-innovations-that-could-shape-the-future-of-rail-travel-147962
I like the ideas of "active suspension" and "active steering". Also,
there is this other report on the Indian Railways' smart coach with
integrated sensor based diagnostics of the defects in wheels, bearings,
tracks, and brakes: https://perpetuum.com/2018/08/29/indian-railways-rolls-out-its-first-smart-coach-including-perpetuum-bearing-wheel-and-track-monitoring/
But, considering the size of the Indian Railways, it may take quite a
bit of time to pervasively implement any changes.

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The passing (today at age 97) of Narayan Debnath, the most famous bengali cartoonist, evokes memories of the childhood days when his cartoon stories in the Shuktara magazine were the staple. One remembers the immaculate sense
of suspense that engulfed the mind while waiting for the next issue of Shuktara with its most appealing items coming from his pen. Although he is no more,
he will live in the hearts of his readers for ever. May his soul rest in peace.

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Yes, the LCs agree that suspense is an important element of any
creative expression, otherwise it's boring. Indeed, there are often
two types of suspense, one that is involved with waiting for the
next episode of the comics item, and, two that keeps you guessing
about the ending of the episode while you are at the beginning.
Sort of like a suspense within a suspense. In fact, I later read the
Tintin and the Asterix comics - they also had the similar characteristics, Engineer, so are your blogs - no one knows what you are going to
write next, and then within a blog there is often a twist in the middle.
Ha ha! Speaking of a twist, today gave me a good feeling when I
could recover my dual booting windows10/LinuxMint20.1 computer
after it had crashed a few days ago. That sort of a thing always scares
me since I am not good at fixing those mishaps. Fortunately, some
helpful youtube videos made the recovery possible. Particular mention
must be made of the EasyTechs tutorial videos - quite useful.

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Engineer, the transparency international's annual
Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2021 is just out. Now,
what is happening to you is simply corruption, the rampant data
and information theft, the geno innu, and all that, and, the culprits
seeming to continue to live their lives quite happily. The PM Twoballski explained that this was "corruptions perception" that should figure
in the ranking. Well, these rankings like the PFI, CPI, etc. are not
that much reliable as some may think. But, then, how would various countries/companies base their decisions with regard to investment, immigration, etc. - they need some kind of an index. For example,
my writing about information/data theft (I hear that even my
personal financial details, credit cards transactions are being
stolen, and even transported to another country), and the geno innu
only shows the tip of the iceberg - just imagine the depth of the infrastructure that allows the things to happen.

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