Sinhalaya Killing Sinhala Language

Let me start with Indika Thotawatta.

That is the guy I love to listen to, even though I do not agree with his astrological predictions. 

He is one who loves mother Lanka and the Sinhalan Language.

Hats off to him for his honorable approach.

I am very bad in my Sinhala and I always pick one or two Sinhala Gems from him.

Chapa Bandara can handle the Sinhala language in a respectable way. 

I do not know his political ambitions but I wish him well.

My current attempt is to promote Dhamma not Buddhism. 

I use English for that purpose and not raw Sinhala. 

Sinhala sometimes tend to devalue Pali of it's substantial meanings. 

This is what that Kiribathgoda Goiya is trying to do. 

DO NOT listen to him. 

He is an antithesis to Dhamma.

One I love to hate is Chamuditha.

Plane and simple his aggressive behaviour is unbecoming. 

I used to switch off the TV whenever he is on TV in any program.

I am away from our land and I am currently not subjected to his vituperations.

I have no problem of switching him off. 

He is a politically ambitions guy. 

He should not be in parliament by any imagination.

This Sepala Guy is a simple "Potha Gura" and had no substance behing him. 

A pretentious guy by all measures.

His objective is to destroy Dhamma. 

He can never achieve that. 

He will be in Hell, no sooner he leaves his present human domain. 

He has no recuperation at all. 

I leave it at that. 

I have no problem he is becoming a slimy political animal. 

What I really hate is, his transliteration. 

This is a term, I helped in coining when trying to translate Medical Terms to Sinhala. 

I used to tell my professor who had no knowledge of Sinhala, it is far better to use the original English term and get the students to learn terminology rather than the language.

Guys come to University not knowing how to define the term definition.

I was later recruited simply (my putative Sinhala ability) because of me helping the Professor of Biochemistry (I was pretty good in Biochemistry) to translate Multiple Choice Questions as a Medical Student (as a Senior Student of the 4th year.

Getting into even Seconded Post was extremely difficult those days. 

I cut my teeth, then and there and never looked back. 

Over time, I improved my English and now I start to forget lot of Sinhala Words in Common use, especially food items.

I said Halapath to Halapa.

I was teased appropriately and my current ploy is to keep my mouth shut.

Main Objective

This piece is about the YouTube guys who abuse Sinhala, especially guys who use foul language. 

One must not subscribe to them and they would peter out, naturally.

First of all the guys who destroyed Sinhala language were J.V.P. guys.

Just look at some of their wall paper posts in 1970 and 1988/89.

Marapiya

Kotapiya

Nathi Banga Karapiya

Nathi Banga Wewa

These NPP guys talking lush and posh language NOW, is simply a whitewash and just to fool the masses. 

That was their political motive which they successfully achieved.

I hate the guys who use Umba and Umbalata for Oba or Obata. 

It is nauseating to me coming from a Catholic school where we were not allowed to use them.

We had a very good Sinhala Teacher named Mr. Wickramadinghe. 

He taught us from Kumarodaya and his teaching of grammar was excellent.

No hanky panky.

Precise.

He was with us for only 3 months.

When he came in he wore a National Dress. 

After three months of learning English he switched to  a trouser. 

That had a lasting impact on me and I concentrated on English. 

By the age of 16 my English was very much refined.

Never a Single vulgar term in my school life. 

The other guys liberally used foul language but they were automatically shunned. 

It is opposite now. 

Vulgar vernacular is promoted as opposed to Sweet Words.

We used I, you and we.

Mr. Mrs and Madam for younger females.

This Athi Garu, Vishishta and Uthumanani came with Rajapaksa Regime.

I used to say Mr. Rajapaksa, Mr. Wicramasighe and Mrs. Chandrika.

Please leave it at that.

None of them were great or National Heroes.

Quite the opposite but shameful characters.

Puppy Easy OS-6.5.3

I have installed Puppy Easy OS on a USB stick.

It has lot of problems, basically due to its container technology.

Containers can be used for many uses but mainly for Virtualization.

What it does is to mount something foreign on top of a very basic operating system.

What it tries to do is to work without link libraries (DLL in Windows).

Linux is not resource hungry.

It allocates and prioritize resources as and when needed.

Al these techniques are mitigated or vandalized by containers.

In good old days strength and beauty of Puppy were it's small footprint of about 100MB.

 

It has expanded to 1000MB and showings it's vulnerability.

It looks seems are bursting.

 

Gnome has a better Virtualization package called Box Utility. The beauty of Box Utility is it gives one the ability to try individual packages within the Container. It consumes lot of RAM and it need fare amount of hardware capacity as reserved space to run Box.

 

Flathub is inherently bulky.

 

Yes, Puppy should move forward with new technology but with extreme caution.

 

It's package installer is Flat Pack and it is painfully slow.

I wanted to Install Audacity, KDNLive and my favorite browser FireFox but it is almost getting  FROZEN in mid air like a jet plane without jet fuel. 

 

I am trying Brave browser, and the same outcome.

 

I generally I  have at least 3 browsers working for me in addition to FireFox, they are Dillo and Falkon and Konquorer, specially, if I am using KDE desktop.

 

Yes FlatPak is a pain compared to Synaptic Package Manager of Gnome (Debian).

 

I have 8GB of RAM and that is enough for my daily work.

If Easy Pup cannot allocate my RAM in an equitable way, I am not going to recommend it to any guy or girl.

Currently, there are no other Puppy Derivatives available but luckily I have a collection of old Puppy Images with me, including Ubuntu and Debian derivatives.

PLUSES

On the plus side it configures WiFi effortlessly.

Chrome browser is OK.

 

It allocates entire 8GB USB to a EXT4 File.

 

Puppy on a USB is my favourite when I am on the move. 

Thankfully, today is a holiday and I can drop to sleep while these actions are running in the background.

I re-did everything.

 

It is all due to container philosophy which is pretty slow.

 

One should install one application at a time.

Flathub does not know how to queue one application after another. 

It tries to do everything at one go.

It gets chocked.

 

Linux philosophy is one job at a time with less time allocation for less demanding tasks, appropriately.

Many Bolas (Gundus)

Many Bolas (Gundus) 

This is the time E Bola (Election Gundu), 

Tom Bola (Pacha ), 

Pee Bola (Mada),

Gill Bola (Gill Mart)

Pani Bola (honey) 

and Pagha Bola (money) are dispensed with impunity.

Rocket Money and Faked Moon Landing

Rocket Money and Faked Moon Landing

Read this piece in parallel with Science Degree, here.

Rocket Science is Money.

At present technology, mankind can only take men or women up to 250 miles only.

American Administrators do not have to worry

1. Russia

2. China

But they worry a lot about

3. American Public Opinion

I will give a list of names below for probing the moon landing, on first attempt.

It was Stanley (Rubric) Kubrick who filmed some shots.

1. Bart Sibrel

2. Joe Rogan

3. William Kaysing

4. Robert Bigelow 

5. John Lear

6. Bob Lazar

7. Jeremy Corbell

8. George Knapp

and many more.

See the film "Something went wrong on the way to the moon".

It is the Pride and Money that help the CIA to keep this secret live and alive.

CIA assassination or threat to assassinate prevents the truth coming out.

It is called "Truth Embargo".

The bottom line is the lies have greater potential than truth in America.

Not only political lies (Democrats on Donald Trump), there are scientific lies.

Little alcohol is good for life is a similar lie propagated globally (scientist were paid to propagate this little bit of alcohol lie).

Speculative Theories and Course Correction

Speculative Theories and Course Correction
 
There are sixty one (61) theories that are considered to be Wrong Views by Buddha.

Many of them existed before Buddha and many of them are still considered to be the essence of humanity, even today.
 

My belief, is that the present existence of speculative theories are mostly based on Kalama Sutta’s modern interpretation of reality.
 

Any one new to Buddhism should read Kalama Sutta in conjunction with Brahmajala Sutta (All Embracing Net of Views).
 

Reading one only leads to misinterpretation of Reality.
 

I have discussed this before on three points.
They are;
1. Reality
2. Perception
3. The Gap or Void
 

Wrong perception leads to misconception and misinterpretation and the Gap or the Void is filled with the Wrong View/s.
 

To start with Buddhism is not a Philosophy, in the true sense of Philosophy.

If you read Prof. A.D.P. Kalansuriya’s book “The Buddha’s Discourses and Wittgenstein” he tries to correct this course and found fault with his fellow Buddhist Philosophers (they were not true thinkers but adherent to dogmas, at that time, naming them is improper).

He was trying to free the Philosophy into its own domain which is a first order discipline by definition.

(Even Wittgenstein saw this malady and called it the "Language Games" played on our minds).
 

In doing so he cleverly freed the Dhamma from corruption by the fellow travelers, of his age.

These modern age guys were interested in selling their books often derived from their PhD theses.

Having said, that I can now say that Buddhism is a way of life not a philosophy to trash about.
 

Why I say so.

The Brahmajala Sutta is meant for course correction and laid the foundation of Dhamma.

If one wants to label philosophical tenets, there are only three elements, nothing more.

1. Unsatisfactoriness (of both pain and pleasure principles)

2. Impermanence (of both mind and matter and the material world-Uppada, Thitti, Banga, Arising, Stabilizing and Falling nature of all things)

The modern rendering is “the state of flux”.

3. Impersonal nature of “Beings” and Bhava (Sansara).

Buddha is a teacher.

He laid down the cause (Kamma) and effect (Bhava).

He is not a Saviour.

He shows the path he trod on.

He has no reservations left for himself.

He is freed, so why any reservations?

There is a caveat here.

One is his/her own saviour.

On has to be diligent about the “Wrong View” or the “Wrong Path”.
 

There is only “One Way”.

Ekayana Maggo!

That way is “Meditation” and correct understanding of the three principles born above.

So Meditation (if one has the time and resources) is a “Way of Life” not a theory for philosophizing.

With those two out, I need to summarize the Nets of Views in brief.

There are basically three types of persons, who want to have their views heard loud and clear.
 

They are the Eternalists, Rationalists and Skeptics.

All are based on afterlife except one group.
 

There is no religion in this world that disputes the existence of afterlife except nihilists or skeptics.

Their views are either based on self realization in Jhana states or rationalization based on one’s own thinking.

One can read ones previous life (Jhana State Five) and based on these experiences some of them formulate that, since there was a past life, there ought to be an eternal life that continue after death.

In some religions merging of self with the eternal self tend to be the essence.
Many selfs are not identified as individual entities but one of a wholesome divine entity.
The next subset in this is that there ought to be a divine creator or God.
There are at least 18 subsets based on eternity.

In this subset, it is the Maha Brahma (may be some of his retinues) who had the grandiose illusion that he was the creator of the world.

The bottom line is, when they consume these planes of lives and exit, they are often reborn in lower form of life often, even lower than human life.
It is a pity.

One who has not pursued the Jhana states to clear vision or wisdom sees these as eternal truths and postulate them as their discoveries.

They are the eternalists.

Then there are the skeptics who do not believe in afterlife.

They create the nihilistic view (only one out of 44 views).

There are 44 views (including View of the Buddha) with future life in perspective.

This is where the category of perception comes into play.

The perception has a void in it and that gap is filled with any view out of the 62 views of reality.

The Brahmajala Sutta is an attempt at Course Correction from Eternalists, Rationalists and Skeptics, not for Divinity but for the Emancipation from ills, wills and imperfections.
 

That is to untangle from the tangled entanglement of the Wrong Views.

That is why Samma Ditti is the first of the Eight fold Pathway.
 

In other words Mithya Ditti is the sure recipe for prolonging agony in the lower worlds of existence.

Once one gets his/her mind out of the Kalama Sutta and the Brahmajala Sutta one is free to delve into enormous Sutta discourses and Abhidhamma (mind you very dry in content) for clear view of Dhamma.

No part of Suttas or Abhdhamma is redundant for a wayfarer.

One either needs a true guide or one has to chose his own Sutta or Abhidamma discourses as a guide.

Please read the book of late Prof. A.D.P.Kalansuriya, if one is interested in philosophy.
 

It is heavy reading by the way, but that does not deter you from reading it, in small doses.  

Philosophy is more difficult than Dhamma.

 

Law, Common Law and Above Law

This piece is in Evolution and applied ONLY to Ceylon.

Reader may amend, alter and improve the content ingrained.

Now that I have dispensed the Law of Dhamma, it is time for me to dispense how Law operates in Ceylon.

There is no Order in Ceylon.

To begin with, Ceylon operates on fundamentals of Physics, namely Disorder. 

The technical and Scientific term is Chaos.

An Excellent Example of Chaos is our Northern MP  named Archuna (Ar Chu Na).

I believe in Law that is equal to every citizen of this country. 

It should not be inviolable. 

Ar Chu Na is the only exception.

I am not a lawyer, so I have no dealing with Law of the country, except abiding by it.

As a doctor, I have been in contact with Common Law, all my life.

I never ask the question, Are you sure of your father?

That question violates the Common Law.

In Common Law Sex is not supposed to be consensual (that is a legal term). 

This does not mean that the women are a common property.

What  it means the ability to violate Common Law and claim that one can take  advantage of every opportunity when it suits the individual (sex of the individual is immaterial) in dealing with the opposite sex.

Homosexuality is an aberration on this context.

Now do not get into trouble by literally interpreting above representation of mine.

Doctors are not supposed to ask this question (who is your father) since, it opens the door to Law and Lawyers.

I will take some common examples like our Divorce Law and Law of the Road or more precisely the Law of the Three Wheeler Drivers, to illustrate our Common Law predicaments.

Although what is stated here is not applied to the Parliamentary Guys and Girls, recent development of Spouse and Car exchanges are not the classic examples.

They are of Special Order, even above the Above Law, I am going to discuss later, here.

Common Law is what people practice in day to day practice.

We take the Precept Not to Lie as a daily dose of prescription but every day we start our life with a big lie.

A brilliant lie to start the day.

Example One.

One comes to the office late.

The common law excuse is that guy or girl missed the bus or the bus broke down at the Thun Mulla Handiya and there was a big Traffic Jam.

There is nothing one can do about this scenario.

Example Two

You are late to office and take the earliest available Three Wheeler to the office.

Dispense Rs.500/= for a Rs.200/= fare and gets the balance of Rs.200/=.

You demand the correct balance.

The answer is, the extra Rs.100/= is for income tax, Sir.

That is the common law on the road.

One should have all Rs.100/= notes when travelling by Three Wheelers. 

Problem is these Three Wheeler Drivers collect Rs.100/= notes  and dispense them sparingly. 

Currently, Rs.50/= has no street value.

It is the common law.

Example Three

One the way home one goes to the pub for a drink. 

You meet a guy to whom you owe money.

He demands a free drink.

You have to spend the money left for daily provisions for this guy.

One is left with money only for another half a  peg. 

He takes a half a peg for the door.

One is empty pocket, now.

Comes home pretending to be dead drunk.

It is common law.

Example Four

The last is similar to recent Saga.

One is married with kids but his common law wife is even younger to his youngerst daughter.

It is common law of this country.

Above Law

Above Law applies to the parliamentarians and they can violate any law of the country. 

Nobody including the police can proceed and file a case for full conviction.

There are over 90,000 police officers in this country and none can proceed a case against a sitting MP.

That is Common Law applied as Above Law.

Nobody dare to file a case against a MP past or present. 

Even if a case is filed, the police invariably distort it's presentation so, Justice may not (seemed not to be) be carried out according to the Law of the Country.

Nothing can be done about this pessimistic view.

Sorry.

History of Jews

This is according to Indika Thotawatta.

Jews lost to Egyptians between 1500 to 2000 BCE.

Jews  lost to Babylonians or Persians around 700 BCE.

Jews lost to Romans in 2500 BCE.

My narrow history knowledge is exposed.

I thought the Jewish problem was only a century old.

I am proved wrong.

Lies from Mahawansa to Sinhalawansa

Diplomats are Trained to lie.

Politicians are Born to lie.

We had Chethiya the Liar King or the King Liar.

Ceylonese love lies, it is a romantic affair.

It is part of our ancient history from Mahawansa, to Chulawansa to the present Sinhalawansa.

Hubris Syndrome

Hubris Syndrome

Hubris Syndrome is a pattern of behaviour in a person who sees the world as a place for self-glorification by the use of power only.
 

Features of Hubris Syndrome include;
 

There is a tendency to take action primarily to enhance one’s personal image.
 

Shows disproportionate concern for self image and presentation.
 

Exhibits messianic zeal and exaltation in speech.
 

Conflates self with nation or organisation.
 

Loses contact with reality.
 

Resorts to restlessness, recklessness and impulsive actions.
 

Allows moral rectitude to obviate consideration of practicality, cost or outcome.

 

Displays incompetence with total disregard for nuts and bolts of policy making.

 

Basically such a person is a pain.

Triage of Elephant Untouchables

Triage of Elephant Untouchables 

My search for the plight of “Baby Elephants in the Wild” has convinced me that there is an existence of a “Triage of Untouchables”

Number one is the Hashish Growers.

Number two is the “Untouchable Politicians” who ties end at loose points.

35. Number three is the “Untouchable Law Enforcing Authorities”, that include police, banks and the judiciary which only prosecute the sprats.

Insight

 Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Insight
The meaning of insight in medical terms is  powerful.
In psychiatric terminology one who has lost insight to his or her predicament is actually has a major psychiatric disorder.
It is the marker of insanity.
Most of the other disorders with insight into the plight of an individual in a given stressful situation are minor psychiatric disorders.
In depressive illnesses, one who has lost insight to the given predicament is said to have Endogenous Depression.
One who has insight into the predicament is called Reactive Depression.
Insight into a scientific problem is what propels the science forward.
What it means is given a certain scientific problem, one has to delve into its core and bring out a meaningful explanation for the occurrence of a particular phenomenon.
Often there are no measurements or data.
A hypothesis is developed to explain the phenomenon and thereafter it is tested for its validity.
Insight by its nature predates the hypothesis.
 
Insight can be of used outside the scientific arena and may herald clever resolution of complicated conflicts, especially political. We could say Nelson Mandela’s approach to apartheid showed his mature political insight.

Fullbright and Russia

J.W. Fulbright was an American Senator and a lawyer. 

He died in 1995.

When American Peace Keppers were in Ceylon, I used believe that he was a great guy.

He chaired the Foreign Relations Committee for a very long time.

He was against Russia all his life.

This Systematic Russophobia is deeply ingrained in American politics in both camps.

Currently Russia is sanctioned in all other White or English speaking countries.

He studied in Oxford which is also a base for antirussian sentiments.

What amazes me is that both these countries are staunch supporters of Israel.

Israel cam buy any politician in UK and USA.

I wonder from where Israel gets its money.

It is very simple.

They have an active War Industry.

During our internal ethnic (Ceylon) conflict Mossad had guys helping Ceylon Army and LTTE in the same venue.

Can one trust a Jew in modern day?

Perhaps not.

I wonder why Africans call Indian a "Black Jews".

India and RAW also play the same game in regional politics.

Perhaps Pakistan does not.

In world politics duplicity is the name of the game.

There is no avenue for diplomacy but War and More War resonate in real world of politics.

I do not think President Donald Trump can change it in 2 days.

Nobody believes on Americans.

Azarbhajan and Korean Airline Crashes- My Theory

In theory a passenger airline should not crash on landing unless weather gods were nasty at the time of landing.

This rule does not apply to private jets.

My misgivings are as follows.

The aircraft lands on its belly.

It crashes on the fence but explodes instantly.

It was an instant explosion and it did not look like a jet fuel burn on impact. 

Of course, the jet fuel burn finished the job with only ashes remaining.

The damage to the fence was minimal.

This is related to Azarbhajan crash.

Russia has no involvement in Korean crash.

Why did Russian military take such an action related to crash in Azarbhajan?

Most likely Russians had advance information and acted decisively in spot of political and diplomatic risks. There were Azabarjan radical involvement. 

Lack of transparency on Azarbhajan investigation is the end result. Everybody wants to cover the tract.

That is the way Secret Services works. It is very complicated discovering the Truth in this Modern World.

Lot of facts should be taken into account in considering, the evolution of global politics.

1. President Biden is bitter not having a second term.

Deep inside Biden team does not want President Trump to start smoothly. 

Tried all the methods to scuttle him before the election but failed.

He needs some diversion tactic to take the blame away.

His failures were Global.

Plane crash may be on the card and divert attention on Ukraine not Russia. 

For input of more money before saying Good Bye.

2. Zelensky is more bitter than Biden. 

He was looking for many ways to antagonize Russia especially, President Putin. 

President Putin is one step ahead not paranoid like Zelensky. 

He anticipates major and minor plots and act accordingly but smoothly.

Zelensky is a total tactical failure of CIA.

Korean Air Crash

South Korea is in turmoil and there is no proper running administration.

Their secret service can be bought by Ukrainians desperate for a plot against Russia.

I do not mean South Koreans would have any such ideas or plots.

Section of the secret service could be bought to plant a bomb or explosives on a airline bound to Russia.

The Plot could have been;

Airline safely lands in Muan.

It is hijacked by Ukraine operatives.

It is already loaded with explosives, unknown to South Koreans.

It was matter of flying to Moscow and crash landing.

The guys would crash land and reach a safe place already identified having executed the plan.

Russia got a sniff of Ukrainian suspects among the passengers. At least a few of them were Ukrainians carrying Russian passports.

Russian undercover agents plan would have been to plant an explosive device that would detonate on high impact among the already packed explosive.

Pertinent question is who provider the explosive.

Could it be even Turkey.

The aim was  to disable the onward (putative) flight to Moscow by Ukrainian mercenaries.

The Korean pilots panicked moment the wing was hit by birds.

They were not aware of the explosive content in it's belly. In other words they were not aware of the overload. 

Most likely underestimated the load and the stopping distance.

They just went by the standard protocols.

They were not part of the plot.

Ukrainians were.

Ukrainians are a desperate lot.

Expect some more of their plots during the lame duck period of this current presidency.

It is mandatory while these happening prisoner exchange did occur.

There are a few sane people who value diplomacy.

Diplomacy is the way forward and is not the last resort.

Empress of China by Kumar David

Empress of China

by Kumar David 

This is in Meory of Kumar David

Two examples, nearer home in more ways than one from antiquity are the Maurya Emperor Asoka (reigned 232-274 BC) and the Empress Wu Zetian (reigned supreme 690-705 BC and consort 655-683) the only female Empress of China. Both reigns are renowned for material prosperity and peace most of the time. Ideological harmony in both was grounded in the spread and acceptance of Buddhism. 

I need to say no more about Asoka, but many readers may not be aware that Empress Wu, deemed a great ruler, bonded with her people by identifying with and supporting Buddhism which was then gaining ground. Her reign was the golden age of Buddhism in China before the elite fought back and restored the older hegemony.

The older narrative that the intellect had become accustomed to post-Enlightenment, reason, rationalism, liberalism, socialism and Marxism are in retreat in the face of this assault. 

Liberals, socialists and the secular-minded basked in the glory of reason, science and the pluralist state for a long time. 

Quite suddenly and within two decades it has inverted. 

Out of dark recesses of the human soul a new mass hysteria has erupted. For long it was thought that unreason had been banished. 

Not so, the battle has to be joined again if humanity is not to pass into another Dark Age.

Your Sri-Lankan Tax Code Updated by Ranil

Your Sri-Lankan Tax Code Updated by Ranil

 

My Note of Discontent (NOD)
Posted on November 11, 2011

Sri -Lankan are very creative people but that creativity comes only after retirement when one sees that the grave stone or tomb as the final place of conquest.
 

This ultimate reality is also taxed; the Masters of this creation are British Tax Inspectors of Yesteryear.
 

British only had Police and Inspectors now we have Private Security in the Universities, too.
We have lost everything including freedom but they cannot take our simple humour rather the satire (I thought satire is bit psychopathic) out of context.

Very soon humour will be taxed.
 

The academic Freedom in the University is also Taxed and Malabe is the Beginning.

Mr. O.M. Weerasooiya is a Retired Commissioner General of Inland Revenue and a Corporate Member of Sri Lanka Institute of taxation and former Treasurer of Netherlands Alumni Association of Lanka.

A personal note of somebody who is nobody in this Tax World:

Mr. O M Weerasooriya has done a wonderful job by writing this poem but there is something that we would like you to know.

A Developed country will collect 20 to 35% as taxes in this world.
 

A Developing country will collect 35 to 42.5% as taxes. 

 

The current figures I do not have.

Today Sri Lanka collects 63% as taxes.
Every 100 rupees you earn 63 rupees will go back to the government as taxes.

This means Sri Lanka is heading for disaster like Zimbabwe (this is true- my own comment-We are heading that garden pathway rapidly in the name of development Who cares?) who collects a whopping 88% as taxes.

Support somebody who could change this at least to a developing level.
 

Read My Comment below and please add your comment, too.
Few lines would do.
 

The Tax Poem

At first I thought this was funny…then I realized the awful truth of it.

Be sure to read all the way to the end as that’s the punch line!

Tax his land, tax his bed,
Tax the table at which he’s fed.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Teach him taxes are the rule.

Tax his work, Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts Anyway!
Tax his pants, Tax his coat.
Tax his ties, tax his shirt,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco, tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars, Tax his beers,
If he cries tax his tears.
Tax his car, Tax his gas,
Find other ways to tax his aRss (after the daily purge).
Tax all he has, then let him know
That you won’t be done, till he has no dough
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till he’s good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he’s laid.
Put these words upon his tomb,
‘Taxes drove me to my doom…’

When he’s gone, do not relax,
Its time to apply the inheritance tax.

List of Taxes in Ceylon

Accounts Receivable Tax,
Airline surcharge tax
Airline Fuel Tax,
Airport Maintenance Tax
Building Permit Tax,
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax,
Death Tax
Dog License Tax,
Driving Permit Tax
Excise Taxes,
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment (UI),
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax,
Petrol Tax (too much per liter)
Gross Receipts Tax,
Health Tax
Hunting License Tax,
Hydro Tax,
Inheritance Tax
Interest Tax,
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes,
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax,
Mortgage Tax
Personal Income Tax,
Property Tax
Poverty Tax,
Prescription Drug Tax
Provincial Income Tax,
Real Estate Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax,
Retail Sales Tax
Service Charge Tax,
School Tax
Telephone Tax,
Provincial and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax,
Water Tax,
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax,
Workers Compensation Tax
Entertainment Tax,
Tourism Promotion Tax
Value Added Tax……..
 

G.S.T. (Gona Saha Thanakola TAX-Bull and the Grass TAX)

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our Nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.
 

We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middle-class and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
 

What in the hell happened?
Can you spell ‘Politicians’?
It is all PoliTricks Scientists (my creation for Oxford Dictionary-Coined for American Scientists who make mockery / distort facts and make them friction / out of real facts).

I hope this goes around SRI LANKA at least 100 times!!!!!

YOU can help it get there!!!!

GO AHEAD – – – be a SRI LANKAN !!!!!!!!!!

SEND IT AROUND EVERYWHERE for a change

Help make a difference.


Ayubowan, is Long Life.

If you live long you pay more TAX.
 

May he attain the Final Goal, the Nibbana in this life and not next life.
Then the next life we believe is spared.
Even then the TAX Inspector will follow me.

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I will send a Note / Email to Maha Brahma to TAX the TAX man and send him to HELL.

Google Jump started Linux Android

Google Jump started Linux Android

 

Like the Canonical's Unity Desktop, Google has jump stated on Linux base and it is time for Microsoft to re-engineer the wheel of IT technology.
Buying Skype may not solve its problems of insecurity and virus base.

Glossy front but ineffective back end would slow it down but it is wrong to say or think that Microsoft is finally dead due to poor mutation (genetically speaking) evolutionary wise of IT industry.

Cloning something is easy but when something is inherently faulty, the evolutionary process adapt the survival of the fittest strategy to chose the best for the current generation and Linux did not mastermind the change but it looks a successful business venture with its search engine has won the day.

Embracing Linux it has hit two bird with one stone.

I am not at all against business success of any company but when a company uses FUD psychology, Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt as a strategy in evolution it is bound to fail in real world with real people.

This was what happened to Microsoft whereas Apple only focused on high end and remained there for its own worth.

That strategy also might change if we hit another financial crisis which we cannot avoid as the way things are developing.

Hunger may be the next wave that will take us by surprise if we get engrossed only in technology.

So cutting down cost and wastage are important.
Recycling and stability of a product to last at least a decade is important,
Disposable era might abruptly end when shortages (rare metal and even integrated circuits) hit the market.

Emerging signs are of that nature.

Google also uses cloud computing as its next line of defense.

If not for business strategy Linux also should look at business acumen of Google for its success without hampering its original goals and vision.

There should be some business plan for some of the successful Linux distributions and canonical taking UNITY forward should not be looked at with squinted eye.

Why aren't we looking with the same squinted eye when we look at Google?

That is my question for the intellectuals in the IT industry.

Success breeds success.

Failures (Linux included) leads to bigger failure.

This is a strategy applied in field of sports and in war games and terrorism,too.

Nobody talks about a failed team (cricket) or a failed army.

It is nice to see America is taking a cue from us and taking terrorism head on.

But they should not apply double standard like Microsoft and USA politics (and their ambassadors all over the world).

Duplicity never works.

It is not the old world order now.
It is a new world order now and everybody should be transparent not naked in their actions.

They should have realized it before the WiKiLeaks.
It is too late to repair the damage done.

FUD and Microsoft’s Strategy

Published Aug 3, 2016

FUD and Microsoft’s Strategy

This strategy is similar to elimination of Professor Bibile's, humane drug policy.

Bulldoze other operating systems with Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD).
Why I have stopped writing about Linux?
I have stopped writing about Linux  (this site is named Linux 100) mainly because of of the popularity of the smart phones.
 
Smart phone  is a minicomputer and is slowly outstripping the PC Market.
Reason for writing about Linux, is to show how Linux contributed to IT industry and how Microsoft tried to kill Linux by various alliances (Novel included).
 
1. Android is Linux based (has taken over the place of Apple iPhone).
 
Microsoft is NOW struggling to enter the phone market.

2. Unlike Apple and Microsoft, Linux has many desktops from minimal to heavy (KDE).
I love Gnome but now Xfce4 is almost becoming the standard due to its low usage (fast) of resources.

3. Server market is dominated by Linux.

4. The cloud can be easily managed by Linux.

5. The story is when one cannot kill, one has to embrace it.
 
Microsoft is lately doing it to survive in the Cloud Market, and it is unknown  truth that Microsoft use Linux in its back end cloud space.

The bottom line is if you have money buy the elegant iPhone.
If you are low in budget or want a second smart phone by an Android and not a Microsoft (you have to pay for every little thing you download).

Of course you have Samsung (again Linux derivative) as an attractive design.
 
In the meantime F-Droid free software version of Android is building up its repertoire of software.
 
Linux is all over the place including NASA space station NOW and Microsoft cannot monopolize. 

I am one of those guys who used Linux exclusively and pity the guys who pay for a product which is out of date.

 

Four Freedoms and FUD Factor

 Four Freedoms
Four freedoms elegantly expressed by former US President F.D.Roosevelt have given way to FUD factor. 

The freedom of speech and expression (state controlled media and private media with vested interests), 

freedom of worship (desecrating religions), 

freedom from want (poverty) and

last but not least freedom from fear (terrorism) has no meaning today worldwide. 

The last factor the fear (from both physical and psychological) is utilized to gain undesirable motives. 

The psychological fear is the deadliest of all and our doctors are using this to the detriment of the profession (both public and private). 

 

 Dhamma Expansion on Fear

1. Fear of Fire

2. Fear of Floods

3. Fear of Wind (Cyclones)

4. Fear of Disease

Viral fevers similar to Coronavirus compounded by Fear of Artificial (not properly tested) Vaccines.

5. All these are related to untimely death.

6. One should not fear the timely death by completion of 50 Cell Cycles on this planet.

7. Chuti Sitta here is the Gati Sitta of another, cycle of life not necessarily on this planet but may be on a very distant galaxy.

There are billions of galaxies and the life cycle there may be shorter or longer.

8. Good Kamma carry better lives.

9. Bad Kamma carry forward to animal world.

10. One should not fear born as a dog or an elephant.

Upward mobility to celestial spheres from a dog or elephant life is real and feasible.

11. Be kind to all animals and do not eat flesh of any kind.

Animals can easily be your kith and kin of former lives.

Meaning of Freedom

 Published Aug 21, 2016

Meaning of Freedom

Reproduction which is very OLD but relevant to this Day

The dangling of the carrot is the proverbial statement for an offering that is apparently “feasible but not tenable”, that is presented to hoodwink the unsuspecting masses.
Now the operative word is the FUD, a shorthand for Fear, Uncertainty and the Doubt. 

FUD the triple of Fear, Uncertainty and the Doubt that is created in the minds of masses by corporate giants and is utilized to sideline the competitors.
 

Good example is the operation of Microsoft against the competitive Linux distributions. 

When Linux was emerging as an operating system the FUD was amply utilized to distance the would be computer enthusiast and lure him / her to Microsoft Windows.
 

But being intellectuals most of the Linux enthusiast overcame this by sheer courage and community spirits. 

Linux was very flexible and now quite unintentionally FUD is working against its originator. 

Community spirit prevailed in the Linux community and the Free Software Foundation laid the foundation in overcoming FUD syndrome. 

The spirit of Free Software Foundation / Linux is the gift of original software to the Internet Community.
As long as the authorship (not ownership) is quoted any modification could be done to the original copy to improve it and remove bugs. However the improved version has to be re-released back to the pool for further development by the community. 

It is called the copy left and not copy right. 

So the natural evolution of the software takes leaps and bounds within a short space of time for the betterment of the masses.
 

Much of this principle is very much close to the Buddhist principle of “Dhamma Dhana” but with a difference. 

What is given away is recycled with added improvement in quality and it is given away for another cycle like the “Sansara” cycle never ending.
One need not improve “The Dhamma” but only have to understand its underlying principles and spread the message of goodwill.
It is interesting to note that a Buddhist monk who had appeared in a court to protect his Pirith cassette, he had been marketing.
 

Is the “Sabbha Dhanam Dhamma Dhanam Jinathi” spirit of Buddhism being betrayed? 

This monk should read the evolution of Linux Community and the General Public License that came with the Free Software Foundation. This Buddhist monk does not understand that the Gift of Dhamma is the supreme gift and it should not be commercialized. 

A blank CD / cassette is only Rs.25 / 50 and anybody who is selling a Pirith CD / cassette for more than Rs.50 is vandalizing these principles.
 

If Buddha is alive today I wonder what he would utter.
 

Would be an another occasion for “Udana Whakya” similar to “Sabbha Dhanam Linux Dhanam Jinathi” and would have a little smile at the corner of his mouth. There would be few more verses added illustrating the illusion of freedom and liberty of the mind filled with lust, hate and delusion.

Are we truly free and liberated?

from China, India and USA?

 
It is something worth pondering.
 

All Sri-Lankans whatever the creed may be, believe that they are prisoners of their own conscience.
Sinhalese believe that they have to be free from interference by Tamils.
Tamils believe they are persecuted by the majority.
Are the Tamils free from persecution by their masters?.
The Muslims, believe they have to be free from indulgence from both Tamils and Sinhalese.
Million dollar question is, could the piece mongers (foreign ambassadors of dubious credentials) allay the FUD syndrome?
They in fact created it.
We are in this vicious cycle of suspicion, the LTTE and party in power and party aspiring to come into power are spreading the FUD syndrome viciously to its maximum zenith (peak).
What is needed is to have FUD syndrome at its nadir (depths).
The international community spreads the FUD syndrome to help the propagation of their corporate agenda with dangling the proverbial carrot.
What is happening in the political field in Sri-Lanka is the insensible manifestation of FUD syndrome.
At a philosophical level what Socrates said to an aggressive follower who would stretch his arm for a punch is relevant even today.
“Your freedom ends where my nose begins”.
The international community should realize that they are very close to every one's nose.

It is nice to recapture what Nazurudeen stated about his failure to marry.
It is said that he had been to all the countries looking for a girl he liked.
Ultimately he found one but the girl who matched his interests was also looking for man whom she wanted but alas for him / her that man was not Nazurudeen. 

We have being looking for a suitable match maker for   Sri-Lankan bride. Now we are left with a whole harem of foreign ambassadorial girls (donating their vices).
At what price we do not know?
This is where one has to ponder and ask the vital question what is the price for freedom and what is the meaning of liberty?
Poor man on the street does not understand the jargon he will never be freed from his poverty.
As long as there is corporate mind set in making profits without sharing the wealth of information with its competitors to improve the quality and availability at an affordable price the gap between the rich and poor would widen.
Free market philosophy is not for liberating the masses.
They are there to increase the profits.
The belief that profits would filter to the masses is a grand myth.
There is no community involvement as seen in the Linux community. Linux community feels that they are liberated from the corporate giants. Until and unless we are free from both local and foreign corporate giants who are hell bent on making profits and exercise their monopoly, the freedom of choice is an illusion to the majority.
Only the minority will have the freedom to enjoy and exploit.
This corporate mind set should change to community mind set and community involvement.
There is a limit that the free market philosophy can stretch but beyond that point there are diminishing returns.
Like in the Linux community somewhat similar orientation has to take place in the business community in        Sri-Lanka and worldwide for the true meaning of freedom to be enjoyed by all.
Not a privileged and selected minority.
Freedom that costs is meaningless.
Selfish gains but no devotion as is preached by all the religions is not relevant to the corporate mind set.
Microsoft agents doing a few community projects (to lure a few deprived clients in the periphery) without shedding their corporate mentality is of little benefit to the masses.
A wholesome benefits want accrue.
If we do not think in radical terms and initiate changes now, there going to be massive uprising, hitherto unknown in the past. Some of the manifestations in the world today are a sign of this frustration building.
Not only with the poor but in the middle class too.
The middle class gave stability but it is fast disappearing.
With the wide use of the Internet, we would hear of more and more of evolving crisis.
People would like to see the credibility in their leaders which is sadly lacking in the world because of corporate giants pulling their strings behind their leaders.
They determine policy not the larger masses.
The masses would ask what is the meaning of this freedom?
That is the starting point of the crisis of this century.
Leaders have to be groomed with social values and ideals and not individual profiles and party profiles. Leaders should not be trained only to run the corporate giants. Leaders should be trained to lead the community they live.
Emulating western values only, going to be, not enough and begging bowl mentality should give way to equal partners in international dealing whether the country is big or small.
Some of the eastern values of sharing and caring should take precedence over profits. Then only one can call the citizens of sovereign nations are free and liberated.
United Nations will fail in their duty, if they have only Human Right Charter for cosmetic exercises. In that case the amount money that is spent on UNO could be better utilized for some other ventures.
They should rewrite these Charters.
Profit beyond certain acceptable levels should be prohibited or a certain level of compulsion to do community research both eco-friendly and community-friendly should be encouraged.
What is the big idea of having a few rich people and million and millions of poor souls?
How can a man like Tyson a champion one day and then a pauper the next day (in his twilight years)?
It is not acceptable in USA and for that matter any other country in this world.
Where is the social security?
England had a very well organized social security system and in another 50 years time it is going to be all private pensions?
These questions that are raised in the West and are equally relevant to us. The people who raise these voices have no industrial or corporate muscle.
Party politics seem to have ruined the entire world.
Most of the party leaders worldwide are gullible liars and some of them are of course pathological in nature.
Can we trust these leaders?
This is what is emerging in the West.
The covert political mechanisms are firmly embedded and established, in the  current system, only the corrupt and rich can rise to the top.
So, talking about freedom whether it is in the West or East is futile to the average man on the street. They just get the kick out of kicking a party out of power to get another miserable party into power and languish till the next opportunity to make the same mistake again.
In reality, it is a Gamble or a Casino?
One day cricket was much more interesting until this Casino bug bit it in full.
At the end of the day, all the so called democratic exercises are futile and the freedom of choice, a bad dream and a nightmare, just as well, to be forgotten by the majority at stake.
The liberation that the average man is looking for in economic and social fields is not achieved. Goals are set but never achieved due to lack of penetrating insight and vision.
What is done is patchy and ad hoc. We are blindly going through the cycle of events till events take control of our freedom.
Are we truly liberated?
The answer is firm, No.

Freedom
Four freedoms elegantly expressed by former US President F.D.Roosevelt have given way to FUD factor. The freedom of speech and expression (state controlled media and private media with vested interests), freedom of worship (desecrating religions), freedom from want (poverty) and last but not least freedom from fear (terrorism) has no meaning today worldwide.
The last factor the fear (from both physical and psychological) is utilized to gain undesirable motives.
The psychological fear is the deadliest of all and our doctors are using this to the detriment of the profession (both public and private).