Human Story is NOT complete

This piece is in development stage.

Lot of loose ends.

I am not a historian.

Thank God I was not.

 

History was always written by the Victor and never by the Loser.

 

Therefore,there are lot of inaccuracies in historical documents.

Now that politics is over and done with there is room for me for other intellectual pursuits.

I have few underlying hypotheses.

 

1. Logic in not my kind of thing but scientific analysis is.

I had a friend who was a very good mathematician and a logician.

 

We used to have a pot of Mesna Tea and sit and talk for hours and he used to say logic is boring and mathematics is not. 

I say something to the contrary and the discussion goes into may dimensions, not thought about before.

This ends with a note, "See you again".

Last time, I told him, you may have to come to Australia.

Yes, I said Good Bye.

2. Human Evolution was NOT linear

It takes about 3 to 5 millions years for mitochondrial DNA to change drastically. 

 

When this happens, the mutations that ensue is unimaginable.

Somebody, has worked out, that if we go back in hereditary traits, we would end up in about 3000 years, into China.

 

This does not mean human kind originated from Chinese Stock.

 

What it means is that the hereditary divergence makes hereditary predictions unrealistic and unreliable beyond 3000 years..

Another, a different kind of analysis ends up in Afro-Asian connection.

3. At least modern civilizations over the past 10,000 to 50,000 years were parallel not linear.

4. Modern civilization had a life cycle of about 5000 years which peaked at about 4000 years and thereafter rapid decline due to many reasons.

Pandemic

Famine

Natural catastrophe 

Wars

Over population 

Natural reset 

5. Archeologist were the biggest cheats and Smithsonian Institute is run by a clan similar to the CIA. 

 

Their business is to distort real human history.

6. Religion was not a necessity.

Brain has a Language Center but no Religious Center.

7. Philosophy was an antithesis to Religious Dogma. 

Socrates was persecuted for no good reason.

8. Religion was all about Money and Power and not about Humanity or Human Welfare.

9. It's looks like there were parallel Hindu Civilizations in India and South America.

 

Lemuria comes from this belief. 

 

In the 1880s, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891) formed the Theosophical Society with psychic investigator Henry Steel Olcott. 

In her book The Secret Doctrine (1888), she claimed to have learned of Lemuria in The Book of Dzyan, which she said was composed in Atlantis and shown to her by survivors of that lost continent. Her source may have been Sanskrit legends that tell of the former continent of Rutas that sank beneath the sea.

Lemurians, according to Blavatsky, were the third of seven root races of humankind. They were hermaphrodites with psychic abilities and a third eye. Atlanteans, she stated, were the fourth root race. They evolved from Lemurians after much of Lemuria sank, and they lived on the edge of the continent in the northern Atlantic. 

Atlantis sank around 8,000 b.c.e., according to Blavatsky, and its inhabitants fled to central Asia

VIMANAS were probably real air crafts not human imagination. 

 

They would have been globe trotters.

10. Modern Humanity was obsessed with recording contemporary history.

Both in pictorial forms and in language.

Mayans

Sumerians

Assyrians 

Akkadians 

Babylonians

11. Mohandajaro and Harappan civilization did not have priests or religions.

Cities

Chola vira

Happapan

Lothan

Sukodata 

Mohendo jaro

 

They were destroyed by war mongering Aryans.

Indian portray Aryan as a peaceful and integrating souls and not it is not true.

They were barbarians to begin with and they made women to sacrifice at death of husbands.

They came from somewhere near Ukraine.

Ukrainians still have this blood thirsty and Aryan cum Nazi traits.

Using ATACOMS is no strange behaviour at all.

We are on the verge of a Nuclear War.

America and UK aiding and abetting.

War and Plundering are in human genes.

 

Americans in Iraq is a good example.

12. If VIMANAS were not man made they were Alien Air Crafts.

This leads to my theory of origin of religions.

 

The aliens were treated as Gods.

 

Anybody coming from outer space were Godly.

The higher beings of Level 1 and Level II Civilizations were the ones with curiosity and go about in this cosmos looking and discovering new things.

By the way, we are in Level Zero (0) Civilization. 

They were not interested in humans and if at all, they considered humans to be inferior experimental specimens.

13. The bombshell.

 

It took over 70 years for humans to reverse engineer Alien artifacts.

With the binary system our computers were primitive and aliens probably have Matrix System and Space Shifting technology, if not anti-gravity.

NVIDIA with their parallel and fast computing algorithms may take us to the next level of the human development.

CUDA language has many computational probabilities 

Video games

Cryptocurrency 

Neural Networks 

AI

That is of course, if America does NOT give permission to Zelenskyy (during the lame duck period of Joe Biden's White House) to strike Russia.

Then, the Nuclear War would end this current World.

MAD or Mutual Assured Destruction.

14. Who were the Annunakies?

Annunaki Theory

Annunaki means from from heaven to earth

They came from Naburu.

Planet Naburu was destroyed by Climate change.

They came here probably 45,000 years ago.

Did genetic manipulation and created Humans as slaves to mine gold.

Gold was supposed to shield the atmospheric holes and prevent atmospheric catastrophe.

Sumerians were the first to record them in cuneform arts.

That is the first language of modern mankind.

Unfortunately, Bible Writers missed many details recorded in the cuneform tablets.

Importantly missed the part of genetic manipulation from ancient hominoids, somewhere round 50,000 years ago.

It is strange to note many of the hyeroeglyphic records in many part of this planet have similar corresponding records.

15. Polybius and Anacyclosis 

Anarchy

Leadership or Kingship

Hereditary Succession and Degeneration 

Tyranny

Aristocracy

Oligarchy 

Revolution and Democracy

Mob Mentality and Narcissism and Demagogues

Monarchy

Tyranny 

Aristocracy 

Oligarchy

Democracy 

Anarchy

Cycle Repeats itself.

16. Uncertainty Principle

Ultimately it boils down to my "Uncertainty Principle" where nothing substantial remains at any point in physical, sociological, economical, political or religious, periods of human history.

It is always in a state of flux.

The flow that goes with it is an illusion.

Absolute power leads to anarchy, in no time.

That is why I say Ceylonese citizens are a stupid lot. 

They already have pawned their freedom without a leash in their hand.

Suffice is to ponder the dog analogy.

A dog without a leash is a danger to the dog (going astray) itself and also to the wider public (if not properly vaccinated, becoming a rabid dog).

I wonder!

Professor Jayasena of Department of Pharmacolgy

I am fast forgetting names.

It took almost 6 months to remember the name of Professor Jayasena.

He was second in command to Professor Senaka Bible.

I still forget the name of the first supermarket chain started by IMMI in Digana.

It is Cornel's Supermarket, started by Cornel Perera. 

I found the name  browsing the Web.

A guy made a comment in the Web.

Digana Village complex has gone into derelict and no more Cornel Supermarket, there. It is taken over by Ceylon Cinemas and, I believe only guys with prostitutes now come there.

It was for entire family with a Swimming Pool and a Tennis Court.

I only loved the Billiards Table.

I did not have a big room in our house and if I did have I would have brought the Billiards Table home.

There were 3 English Bookshops in Colombo.

1. Cargills Bookshop.

2. Millers Bookshop

3. Caves Bookshop

All were started by British entrepreneurs.

Lake House Bookshop came much later.

Then there was All Ceylon Bookshop at Dam Street, in Colombo run by a Jaffna Gentleman.

Cycle of Life and the Long Life

 

Cycle of Life and the Long Life

Maha Brahma (really his assistant) tells me that he has an old story to relate.

It goes on like this with some global modification by me to stand to reason for the modern world.

One day an earthling has come to visit him for his next round of birth as a human. 

He looked at his CV and offered him five years of life to the said being. 

He was thoroughly dissatisfied with the offer. So the Maha Brahma asked him to stay for a while so that he could offer him some bonus deals.

In real life most of the beings in the lower world except pigs (I come to that point later) refuse his offer and go for a lower life cycle than what is offered by the all almighty, so the Brahma can hand over any left over to any earthly being as a bonus.

In a little while another earthling came for his share in the life cycle. Maha offered him 15 years as a dog. Dog was not happy to take this offer and Maha said that he has to take a minimum of five years that he offers to all humans and asked why he declined the offer.

He said as a dog even though one is very faithful, he only gets left over food and dog food is really dog food and the garbage is no better.

Brahma promptly offered the balance to the human being making his life cycle 15 years and he was still not happy.

Then another earthling came and he was offered 25 years as a bull. Without batting an eyelid he refused the offer and went for the lower limit (minimum) of five years. 

His grouse was he has to work every day of the week and after all that when he is weak the human offer him to the slaughter house and it is not a pleasant ending.

Maha did not have any regrets and he gave the balance to the human being making his life 35 years. He was still not happy.

Then the third in the line of earthlings came for his godly offer. Maha offered him a choice that he could have 25 years as a village pig and said that there is no guarantee that he could live up to the maximum. 

Pig requested a lower regime and Maha offered him 1 to 5 years. One year as a domestic pig or 5 years as a wild boar. 

He went for the latter offer knowing very well the outcome of the former life (slaughter house within a year).

Maha offered him the balance 20 years to the man making his life time 65 years but he was still not happy.

Then came the last of the earthling for the day and he offered 40 years as a bat.

But the bat asked why 40 years.

He said you do night duty when all other earthlings are having a good snooze and so “it is a bonus” Maha said.

But bat said it is not a fun standing upside down the whole day and seeing the world upside down.

Maha said the whole world is upside down anyway and what you are seeing is the real world.

But the bat was not convinced he went for a lesser time of five years and Maha offered the balanced to the man who was quite pleased with 100 years.

When he was about to leave the Maha told him my friend you are going to live only five years as a real human being.

How come the man asked?

Now child you will live as a child for five years.

Then the next five years you live like a dog always faithful to your parents, to elders and teachers.

Then the next 20 years till 35 years you will live like a bull doing all the dirty donkey work for your family.

Next 20 years you like live like a pig eating all the rubbish the world has to offer.

The last 35 years you live like a deaf, dumb and a blind man and seeing the world going upside down right in front of you and you a ready for the dustbin any moment after 65 years.

Man asked why didn’t you tell me this?

You never asked, the Maha Brahma replied.

Now I come to my late discovery and hope somebody would propose me for the Nobel Prize in psychoanalysis.

This actually should go to Piaget but he did not publish this in his time (found in his possession as crumbled notes) fearing that if he published it then he would have been sent to the dustbin of history with all his previous writings.

My adaptation of his psychoanalytical theory goes little further than Piaget assumed it to be.

1. Up to 5 years Concrete Operational  

2. 5 to 15 years Formal Operational  

3. 15 to 35 years Formal but non Functional 

4. 35 to 65 years Non operational  

5. 65 to 100 years Concrete (Complete) non Operational

In another way of putting the facts of life is as follows.  

1. Up to 5 years Ego  

2.  5 to 15 years Accelerating Ego  

3. 15 to 35 years Decelerating Ego  

4. 35 to 65 years Non Ego  

5. 65 to 100 years No Ego

When this theory is applied in a scientific way to politics and science what is revealing is fantastic.

Politicians

The politicians also go through the child stage and the dog stage up to about 15 years and having achieved nothing in this period he would go to the stooge stage abruptly (Formal but non Functional Stage) and becoming subservient to his political masters.  

At 35 years he goes to the Killer Stage. 

By default according to my latest analysis (Non Operational Brain Stage) at this stage they do not get any new ideas and subside on others ideas for survival (for example All Party Conferences). 

This stage they start killing other’s ideas within the same party and if they cannot do that they physically eliminate them.

Then they turn to the opposing parties and start abusing and eliminating them until they culminate in coming to the helm by hook or by crook.

The final culmination of all the hard work and they become the rulers (The President or Prime Minister) without any new ideas or common sense (Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush were examples).

They project all ideas of the others as their own and Mr. Reagan was an example and was a very good actor at that.

Scientists

Coming to Scientists they go through the Discovering Stage (rather learning) up to 35 years.

Then they go to the Discovered Stage.

They do some hard work and at the end they find all these have been already discovered by others.

Having discovered this fact at a later stage of their career they have no urge for living and die prematurely at around 65 years of age (looking for a better life next time).

Buddhist way of Analysis

Lord Buddha and Buddhists analyze this in a subtle way. 

It is easy to analyze this in modern Banking Terms.

There are only three stages.

1. Deposit Account Stage from birth to 15 years – Kusala Kamma (KK for short)  

2. Current Account Stage from 15 to 35 years    – Kusala Akusala Kamma (KAK for short)  

3. Overdraft Stage from 35 to the end    – Akusala Kamma Stage (AK or all Kusala consumed)

Then the Brahma takes over and recruits them to the Animal Kingdom again.

It is strange that AKD has become the President of Ceylon.

Is it his Akusala Kamma?

So many promisesa that cannot be accomplished.

His choices and picks have no overrule in life and matters.

The life cycle begins again with fresh vigour.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Russian: Еле́на Петро́вна Блава́тская, Ukrainian: Олена Петрівна Блаватська) was was a Theosophist, writer, and traveler. She was born on August 12, 1831 (31 July, old style) in Yekaterinoslav, an administrative-territorial unit of the Russian Empire. This city is today known as Dnipro, as it is part of Ukraine.
In 1875 (together with Colonel H. S. Olcott, attorney William Quan Judge and others) she established the Theosophical Society. Blavatsky was the main source of Theosophical teachings and discussed the major themes of Theosophy in many articles and several major works, including Isis Unveiled, The Secret Doctrine, The Key to Theosophy, and The Voice of the Silence. She died in London, on May 8, 1891.
Blavatsky, widely known as HPB, was instrumental in bringing the spiritual wisdom of the East and that of the ancient Western mysteries to the modern West, where they were virtually unknown.

Graphic Cards and GPU

It all started with a transistor, capacitor and  logic gate when I was in school.

There were no Printed Circuit Boards, then.

I tried a one transistor radio then (not a valve). It did not work and needed a high antenna.

I have up and did medicine.

Did not give up learning transitotor technology and mose code and many circuits and a radio.

I bought a set up with 3 transistors from RadiShack in UK.

I still have it and it is still working.

Duodes were not able then.

Belore is and array of technological terms used in Video Games.

GPU is the actual chip.

Graphic Processing Unit

SLI

Multi Processor GPU

Crossfire

Redeon

GeForce 

Built by 

AMD

NVIDIA

Memory

4GB VRAM is the minimum specification for gaming.

More the better 32 to 64 VRAM

Core Clock and Boost Clock 

Thermal Throttling 

Performance drops when graphic card gets heated up.

Good cooling system is mandatory.

Memory clock and Bus clock.

CUDA is the NVIDIA Language 

DDR 4 were 24 nanometer chips.

DDR 5 are 14 in AMD for and 16 in NVIDIA 

AMD are built in UK slightly cheaper 

NVDIA are built in Taiwan  not China are bit expensive.

Manufactured in 

TSMC

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Samsung

Global Founderis.

How Graphic Cards work?

36 trillions calculations a second.

Video Games

Bit Coin Mining

Neural Net Working 

AI

CPU has 24 Cores

Graphic Card had 10,000 cores.

PCB

Printed Circuit Board where all the components are mounted on.

The components are

Memory is GDDR 4 and 5

GPU

CUDA cores

Simple algebraical calculations

Tensor Cores for 3 point matrixes

Ray tracing algorithms  completely new terminology to me.

I started with 512 MB RAM and worked with 1GB RAM for over 2 decades.

My NUC with integrated graphic card has 8GB RAM and runs Debian Gnome 12.7.0.

What a turn around for an old guy like me.

Now elections are over I am back to computer logics and my books.

My book on "Linux Fundamentals" will have a chapter on current technology.

Other components are

Power Supply

In put is 12 volts but out put is 1 volt or zero.

Computers works on 1 one and 0 zeros.

Various ports

Graphic slot that mounts on the motherboard

GPU

GDDR 6 and 7 Memory Chips feed in the calculations to the GPU in Embarrassingly Parallel Computations which are necessary for Video gaming.

Why I do not use a Mobile

Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Why I do not use a Mobile

Why I do not use a Mobile
 

Mind you I have a land phone.

Read this in tandem with attention deficit (new syndrome defined by me) below.
 

This is something I posted elsewhere.

I have 100 or more reasons why I do not have or use a cellphone.

I will list them as they come to my mind but not in any order of priority.
 

As an intern I hated all calls mobile included since it meant, a batch of new arrival of small kids who have arrived in absolutely appalling condition.

Some of them fitting due to low blood sugar nearing zero.
 

In fact, I had 8 to 10 kids whose blood sugar and CSF sugar levels were down to zero.
 

The government at that time told the public it was due to encephalitis and I proved them wrong even without my medical registration completed. 

I used to take blood samples to Medical Reaserch Laboratory in Borella and come the next week to collect the reports.

This is during Sirima and NM and Covinn time.

Then in 6 months later when I went to collect my own data they had disappeared mysteriously from, medical records.
 

Then, what I did subsequently, I have to pen down on a latter date of my life, nearing my death.

One thing was sure, leaving this messy Health Service and I decided to leave the Public Health Service for good and I was glad I did that and if you read Dengue Dilemma elsewhere, in my writings, one can easily guess it.
 

It has deteriorated in quality even though, it has expanded.

 

As a doctor, I hated bad news by telephone.

 

We rarely hear good news when on duty.

 

Later in life when cellphone came, I believed in CPP (Calling Party Pays) and flatly refused a cellphone.

It is a public nuisance.

 

It is a nuisance when the cellphone owner has switched it off when one really need him / her.

 

When you travel on a public transport one cannot have a snooze to drown the inconvenience with frequent telephone interruptions. 

 

I love silence in public places. 

 

Even though, I don’t use it, I have to foot the bill (kid's telephone bills).

 

 No work get done in public officers.

 

They are busy answering their private calls of nature and it is more frequent than the real call of nature.

 

It is cheaper to redirect a message by email that should end up as a junk or a piece of gossip.

 

We use it for gossip not for creative work. 

 

It is private enemy number one when you own the bank or telephone company a small sum in arrears and the reminders by them costs more than the amount you actually own them.

I think you got the picture correct. 

I think it is enough for today but I will add more on future date when I run short of a topic to write. 

 

Memory and Gadgets
Attention Deficit Related (Mundane gadgets like tablets) to Technology Addiction.

Many years ago, I posted an article on the web regarding memory specially in reference to Buddhist Monks of yesteryear (not today´s TV acting MahaMewna Type) and all the points except my assertion on Mediation Practice (focused attention on the present moment) was copied by an Author of the Scientific American Publication and most recently by another author.

This is one reason, I thought of writing a few books before my memory fails by default and due to old age.

It is rather loss of short term memory and now I have coined a fancy Medical Term.

Few years ago (I still do not take a note or reminder but devised a 24 hour simple protocol to enhance day to day activity), I noticed lapses in my memory and got activated.

1. I won´t use the telephone but buy a cheapest cellphone when I go abroad and drop it to a bin at the airport (this is the biggest handicap and in the middle of your work, one may give a call with a low priority-gossip related call). 

When I tried to do that long time ago, one of my relatives in Singapore asked for it and duly obliged. Another one I used for sometime gave it free to a classmate of mine. 

His son had lost his expensive cellphone when travelling to Colombo by bus.

Who Cares for an expensive cellphone.

Thank God, one can switch off the cell, then what is the use of a telephone, if it is not doing it's job, simply transfer a message.

I use my land phone at my discretion since I pay the bill.
Not even the Telecom (delay in payment) or the a bank officer can break that law and break into my freedom.
 

2. Won´t sit in front of the TV and watch web videos unless it is related to animals, especially Elephants.

One Baby Elephant dead was trapped in a tree in this country.

There is a video of an elephant mum protecting its young baby from hyenas (we have to protect the young one's from political hyenas and some rabid monks in saffron cloth).

3. I live with living things, the dog, fish, and plants, including water plants.

All three will die if I do not have some simple protocol, not so rigid but to remind me that there are other lifes on this planet, in relation to me.

Fortunately fish can go on for 10 days without food.

If neglected any longer toxic algae will kill them.

A dog will die within three days without water, if there is no care giver.

Believe it or not Dogs never use telephones even in an emergency.

They only BARK.

My dog in particular will start barking for no reason when I am on the phone.
 

He wants me to stop talking quickly and he has not got a degree in economics but he knows how to cut my telephone bill.
 

The garden will go to wilderness in no time.

All these little things one has to be mindful, however busy one is in day to day life, even if one has servants to look after these odd jobs.

They will never do them right in my experience.
 

4. Use the computer and the email productively.

5. Keep in touch with family and family friends in person.
When one sees a friend, just stop for a few minutes and greet them and have some empathy.

You may not see them again could even be run over by a vehicle driven by a fast track lumpen with a cellphone in hand.
 

I am predicting now with Facebook and low priority web videos, the present young generation will hit a very low point, in their middle age with Attention Deficit and I am going to coin the Medical Term, Attention Deficit Related to (Mundane gadgets like tablets) Technology Addiction (AD-R-TA- RTA stands for Road Traffic Accidents and some of these gadgets may trigger an accident on the road too).

How to become a Successful Politician

How to become a Successful Politician

 

I was getting totally fed up of all politics both local and global, mainly because it effected my writing habits, especially books.

I was particularly interested in Election in USA.

Local election, I knew the outcome well in advance and the total lack of political will of the opposition.

They were all geared up for the big post and spent all their money, resources and time, on that post.

Burnt out Syndrome.

They forgot that in parliamentary democracy what is important is vibrant opposition.

I say our citizen's are stupid enought to give 2/3rd majority.

I was particularly interested in ousting corrupt War Mongering Democrats.

It has come good but very soon MIC with it's might will turn Donald Trump into War Footing, starting from Israel to begin with.

Ukraine has become a dead end for Americans but EU guys with twisted tounge will continue to carry the War Flames.

This was of course a dream 

This is the Topic of my next book, too.

It has some caveats.

Book won't be published but only on digital form.

If any body wants a copy FREE, he or she has to read one of my old books and send me an email to the email address given, in that book in the last page of the book.

Let me say, it is a Yahoo Mail opened well before Gmail.

 

I have never got an email in respond to any of my books piblished, either due to nobody has read it/ them at all or s/he has not read the last few pages.

Then they have to find this blog site (I have not given any clues) and quote the latest blog piece to qualify for free book.

Idea is to promote this site and not my books.

Let me say a few words to the guys who were selected to the Parliament I Ceylon.

 

1. Will they pass a bill to cancel pensions for MPs?

 

This is to save money for the coffers to begin with.

This has to be done before they take over the official residences of past presidents.

I bet that they cannot get this piece passed in the present parliament.

 

Reasons are many.

 

a) The privileges for a MP far exceed any CEO in America.

 

b) When they see the comforts provided to the MPs in the present parliament, no one would blame Pxxxxx Nanayakkara (who lost his seat for the first time and he was a List MP not answerable to any average citizen. He brought filth to the parliament for the first time) his crave and stamina to last so long without repugnance.

c) They will never get 2/3rd majority for this bill.

At worst they would say they would introduce that this  "no pension for MPs" in the next constitution.

I will leave at that.

To read about my dream one has to read my digital book.

This book is given free to anybody including present parliamentarians to promote Total Digitization of Government Activities. 

This government promised digitization and I want to see how they would do it, successfully.

I will not dish out or volunteer how it can be done being a fully digital man for ages.

Old Dog Haven and Senior Dogs

Old Dog Haven and Senior Dogs
There are lot of myths about dogs but here          I want to illustrate few human facts that I should communicate with Maha Brahma who was                    a yesteryear dog exterminated to make room for Perahara Pilgrims that visit the holy city of Kandy. Most of Ceylenese end up in hell whereas all          Maha Brahmas and present Assistant of Maha Brahmas were dogs from this planet earth. By clever design they ended up there and for my luck I happened to know the Present Maha Brahma’s Assistant            as a Paraya dog in Kandy and I am fortunate enough to communicate with him by virtual email.
First the bad news.
Lot of Paraya Dogs were cleared up recently in preparation for Esala Perehara, the grand pageantry in this country. I want a place reserved for these dog exterminators in hell.
In some countries when they are old they are sent to Old Dogs Haven. I want the Maha Brahma to take them to heaven moment they are exterminated but make a short list of the exterminators and send that list to Apaya (Hell) Server.
I have designed a full proof program to catch dog killers and that is working nicely in Apaya Server currently but the problem is, these dog killers live longer than the dogs by many a mile due to cardiac surgery performed.

How to Compare Senior Citizens and Senior Dogs

1. The have homes for the elderly.
Haven is practically hell for the dogs.  

2. Some senior citizens by that time become mayors of the holy city.   
There is only extermination decree for aged dogs signed by the Mayor.

3. They never give way to juniors
But the junior dogs take charge of the brood.
I have another plea.
If one wants to age with the dog please follow, the instructions below.
Take care of a young dog at the age of 43 years. This is the time nobody seems to want you including your wife and kids.
When you are 50 your dog is 7 years old and equal to 50 years of human age.
In another three (3) when your dog is 10 he is equivalent to 60 human years and you will be 53 years.
You are younger by 7 years.
In another two years dog (at 12 years) will be 70 in human age and you will be only 55 years.
You are younger by 15 years.
43=0
50 = 7 = 50
Only at the age of 50 one can be at the level of the contemporary dog of  7 years.
You should enjoy with your heart’s content his company with equal disabilities.
By the way, his company prevents you from getting a heart attack.

53 = 10 = 60
52 = 12 =70
This is the time you get a bypass operation and the dog would probably gets his first heart attack.

4. Now that you have become the mayor at 55 after retiring from service would you be kind to this dog who is 12 years old or sent for the Municipality exterminator.

5. They are just old senior dogs / citizens they do not have a parliament to go but only the streets but unlike you they look after our streets even at night when young
Is it reasonable to put them to death?

6. How come, if I say all the senior citizens who were ex-parliamentarians and drawing a fat pension and to save money for development of Ceylon that they should be exterminated.

Will you pass a bill and vote Yes in parliament?
Are we reasonable human beings?

 

Raw Talents

Now that I have discussed skills, it is mandatory, I should talk about Raw Talents.

Some guys are born with talents.

I have found a few and I have guided them to their true potential.

The guys talented in computer skills were identified and sent out of this country with the first opportunity.

I am not a coach.

Besides, I could find or coach a single guy who could lead my field of expertise. Did not find anybody interested and forcing somebody in that direction was not my intention. 

This is true of Linux, too.

One guy who was talented did not pursue the career he was selected by the UGC.

I called him one day and asked why?

He said, he wanted to get involved in student politics. The I asked him did he wish to become a politician.

He said no.

Then, I told him he would end up in prison.

Only way, to avoid that scenario is to become a lawyer. Enrol in law college and that itself might deter police from taking him in.

With his pass in university first examination and his advanced level passes he could have easily entered law college.

He did persue law and ended up as a lawyer. 

I even called to his mother and told her, let him do what he wishes and the University was not his place.

I did not see him after that and when I surveyed the web yesterday, I found him in the lawyer's garb.

Already his fellow lawyers are up against him. Lawyers themselves have form a mafia against him.

I am by nature dead against these guys in the "Unthare". 

They disrupt University Sessions. This was true even during our time. 

There was a guy called Malcolm, who was nicknamed "Mathini".

We hated him.

There was another guy who was before him and he was ejected from Peradeniya. 

I cannot remember his Christian name.

He ended up in a school in Kundadale and disrupted even children's education.

That includes Pubudu Jagoda.

I saw this guy talking about "Education Reforms" of Ranil Wickramasinghe. 

It is true Ranil is an agent of America and clueless in Adult Education.

Guy is totally against Free Education and from Batalanda days he tried various methods to disrupt University Education.

My gut feeling is guys like Pubudu helps the Ranil/USA/MCC propaganda to propagate their awful projects.

I never saw him in the University and I did not wish so, in anyway. 

I may have already left the University.

Pubidu is a talented guy.

If for some reason, if I met him I would have guided him and even asked him to become a lawyer.

Other guy I follow in the web is Tharindu Uduwegedara.He contested election and their alliance did not even get a list MP post.

Their main problem was money.

It is very difficult for an independent journalist to enter parliament without backing from a major party.

He is a guy who could have entered the parliament, if not for the landslide of the NPP/JVP.

I think Tharndu who is intelligent should take up law. 

His is young and his time will come.

I must make a note or interjection here about Naganada (Naya) Kodituwakku. 

He must realize that the average citizen sees him as a political joker, just like Ranjan Ramanayake. Even my wife who has no political wisdom sees him as a joke.

Other guy is Sudath who is trying to collect airfare by Patreon contributions. 

He is no better than a gossip columnist and his political maturity is lacking and wanting. His language is vulgar and foul.

Then there is another forum run by a group of Colombo guys which is the number one Gossip Column, which I boycott by default.

I am a scientific guy and an analyst.

I got it totally wrong this time round but predicted NPP would come to power long time ago, having consulted astute political souls.

They simply hijacked the ARAGALAYA theme.

Coming back to raw talents, Tharindu already have had encounters with the police with tell tale physical evidence.

I hope this JVP/NPP ascendence is as a temporary aberration in our politics and true space would open up, in due course, for alternative views.

Two other guys, are Chandana and Chaminda.

Chaminda is salesman in a bookshop.

I am voracious reader and the two books I was looking for and could not find were Das Capital by Karl Marx (book one) and the book about Baghdag, Iraq Museum looting by British and American soldiers.

The name of the Book was Babylon and CIA banned this book. 

I hope Scot Ritter enlighten me on this issue.

Americans are good at looting and they did it in Ukraine,too.

If I tell, Chaminda finds me the book or order it for me. He tried to sell me a cricket book on Rickey Pontin which I did. I knew enough about Australian captain and things that were not included in the book.

Other guy was Chandana who was the messenger boy of Nawaloka Hospital. 

He was clever and talented guy and if I wanted to dispense and gather information in double quick time this was the guy I depended on.

More than 20 years gone and I can still remember their names.

Reflection on Peaceful Revolt

This piece is not an evaluation of politics but to make a few valid comments about typical Ceylonese citizen's behavior styles which are stated at the end.

I am out of the country but followed the Election in Ceylon without any emotion.

First of all Thanks to The Election Commission for conducting the election peacefully and more importantly releasing the results in one full page summary.

Excellent job done.

We should be proud of the system that everything was done manually without digital support. There is no software problems and everything is validated promptly and manually and the Telecom System doing the communication in style.

American election is "still on" and they are unable to declare the results of the House of Representatives for ages.

The results of the our House of Representatives was declared without a hitch within 24 hours.

 

Hats off to the Public Servants and we should protect the Public Service without selling them to the highest bidders, as intended by the IMF.

My Usual Comments 

 

1. Public participation is only 69% and in some places 60% which is below par.

Usually it is over 80% and and it has reached 85% in the past.

68.93% to be exact.

2. Spoiler Vote is nearly 6%.(5.66%)

That is Bad.

 

667,240 votes, doubled the amount of last time.

3. Nearly 10% to 30%  increase of vote share for N.P.P which is excellent.

4. Nearly 10% to 30% drop in vote share for S.J.B which was self inflicted.

5. Death knell for U.N.P and N.D.F which was inevitable and welcome.

My friend Rajitha has lost his seat. 

He should have stayed with S.J.B.

 

Comments about Our Citizenry

1. Every citizen should queue in at public places including bus stands.

First come first service by default in public places.

This is the "first pass the post politics" in real life.

No breaking of queues.

2. No overtaking on the left side by Three Wheeler Drivers.

Overtake only on the right side.

Right of the way is a cardinal principle.

3. No urination in open public places (trees can survive without urine) and keep public toilets clean.

4. Carry all the plastic bottles and beer cans home and  do not drop them to rivers including Mahaveli.

5. Do not use cellphones in public transport unless it is urgent.

Silence (in public places) is golden. 

6. Respect other people's rights as is of one's own right.

7. Do not let your dog defaecate in the neighbors garden path or in the garden.

Look after your own dog and do not make them become stray dogs.

If you cannot look after a dog do not take a puppy home.

My usual Christmas wish is never take a puppy home, if you cannot look after it every minute of its life.

8. I do not want any of these N.P.P guys to call me Sahodaraya or Uncle.

I have a name and I am a professional.

I still continue to introduce myself if needed but rarely after retirement.

Each individual needs his or her dignity addressed and covering that dignity with a blanket commoner garden name is abnoxios.

 

It is some sort of vandalism.

That will be the biggest obstacle and challenge to the political progress, now that they are holding administrative posts.

In other words, practice what one preaches.

We do not need politicians, if everybody including politicians follow the above rules in public places as a form of  Good Governance.

Five Precepts and animal welfare would be discarded and there won't be anybody to talk about Animal Rights.

Hope that Human Rights are maintained, that include "Freedom of Speech" and not one party dominance.

Power and Skill, which is better?

Power or Skill?

I go for skill.

Why?

I would come to that later.

This goes back to my school days.

In Kandy there was a casino unit.

It is no more.

It belonged to Mr. xxxxx. 

Mr Balasooriya.

He had body guards protecting the unit.

I was told, if somebody hits a jackpot, he was followed behind and money was retrieved. 

If opposed, he is summarily disposed and dumped to the Kandy lake.

If he gives in he is given a reasonable portion and is told never to come back again.

I can remember many mysterious deaths but could not verify the above claims.

One guy who was drowned was a national swimmer.

He took a bet and ventured and died an unnatural death. 

The water at that time was freezing cold and an instant cramp in that situation is real.

The worse scenario is there is lot of mud in the lake. One gets stuck in the mud and there is no escape at all.

Little bit about the lake. 

During King's time it was actually a paddy field and muddy base has a real paddy field history. The current Boagambara Stadium was the real lake during King Sri Wikramarajadinhge Rajasinghe. 

He was not cruel as portrayed by the British. 

The current prison of course where Nilames had their bangalows. 

There was a deep well there. 

The story prevalent is that all the jewellery and valuables were dumped into this well when British cordoned it. 

Even to this day, gem merchants in Ratnapura had deep wells inside their houses and the most valuable stones are dumped there for security.

The real story was that Rajapaksa guys and the Army airlifted all the valuables escavated from this pit. I heard the story and ran to Kandy and witnessed this SAGA first hand and there were several shuttling of helicopters from the Prison. 

It was allowed for public view after the evacuation of all valubles.

I went in and had a superficial survey and I was much interested in where Maru Sira was incarcerated and there was nobody to guide me through and I abruptly terminated my inspection.

Those days, we had road races around the lake and I had seen several going off the road. They were dressed in floating armour  but It took several hours to recover them.

Eventually road races were stopped.

There must be lot of dead bodies deep in the mud. There was an attempt to dredge (remove mud) and that attempt was abruptly stopped and no wonder they would have recovered a few skeletons from British times.

Coming to British, I believe they used this circuit to train military motorcycle men in preparation of invasion by Japanese. 

It is quite similar to how Russians use motorcycle men in combat surveillance in current war in Ukraine.

I am long way off the mark.

Regarding power.

I used to see those body builders who protected the casino long after "Lake Club" belonging to Mr.Balasooriya was closed.

They had big frames but their muscle mass was no more. 

Without regular excercise they go back to base line mass.

This I checked later as a medical student and I found it true.

I never did body building but I did lot of skill training almost everyday in the Peradeniya University.

The track is build similar to the initial training for British soldiers with many obstacles. 

What a soldier needs is skill not power when in attack and in defense.

I did this skill track every day after one hour of hockey.

The worst part is climbing the tall wall over at the tail end.

Then I go to the Gymnasium and play some Table Tennis.

I was not good in Badminton but was reasonably good. 

I improved my badminton talent during my internship at Ratnapura.

On oncall days, I was always in the badminton court and I used to clerk patients in my sports kit.

Shorts is normal in Australia and New Zealand but never in UK. 

Anyway, it was very cold in UK but I preferred snooker or billiards.

Last of all, I climb the rope in the Gymnasium from bottom floor to the second floor.

We did not have a swimming pool.

I was hopeless in swimming and I could not go even 30 meters.

We collected first Rs.100,000/= in our 5 years, in the University. When I was in UK the contract to build was given to a UNP guy. It was a shoody job and it started leaking within six months.

Then when I rejoined university past 50 years,  I activated this project again and got a reasonably good swimming pool.

I could not have dip and it was working fine when I retired at 65.

In UK when an interview for job is very competitive and I really liked the post, I used to clinch it buy posing the question (when that option is given), have you got a few billiard tables in your sport complex.

Never swimming pool because swimming pool is generally a part of the hospital complex.

I really liked the hydrotherapy unit and a dip in warm water is soothing for one's body and muscles.

President Putin has delivered, what all Russians could be proud of

 
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
 

President Putin has delivered, what all Russians could be proud of

My comments about Mr. Putin and Russian politics are proven wrong.
 

There aren't any credible geo-politicians, left on this planet

We are going from crisis to crisis.

President Putin has delivered, what all Russians could be proud of.
 

I watched “Sochi Olympics” with much more enthusiasm than watching Sir-Lankans playing cricket with Bangladesh and English getting a real drubbing in Test Cricket by Australians.

The C in cricket stands for Crime and Corruption and I have changed it to Wicket and W in Wicket stands for wickedness they handed over to English. 

The mighty South Africans who played well.

Eventuality, caused burnt out for England, and Kevin Peterson (P stands for Pride here), the not so nice guy in the dressing room (because he speaks his heart out unlike, the English who are born with two tongues- one tries to speak the truth, the other is deceptive).

Before taking about Mr. Putin let me dispense the English and Australians.

Like the way they dealt with Kevin, English use the Terrorist Rump (the backside of English politics)  who did sweet nothing to Ceylonese - Sri-Lankan- Image-to their advantage and dump them (like Kevin) off when the going is BAD or Touch,too Bad.

So before they went to Sochi, they were looking for holes (only found ARSxxxxx) in Russian Terrorist Rump and found nothing to find and ended up looking for toilet bowls and were balled out in Medal Table.

The BBC (they have an obsessive group of so called almost Nutty, sometimes Nutzie) group of journalists who were always unhappy even given the best of comforts) never portrayed the true “Russian Spirit”.

Unlike the British, the ordinary Russians are very sweet guys and girls.
 

They can bring the best out, given even the worst of comforts.

They looked after their stray dogs, too.

They proved their mettle without any doubt in Sochi.

The Australians who are also petting terrorist rump (what is left of it) fared worse than English.

What has happened to their “Macho Image” in Cricket and Rugger?

They can say it is a desert and Wild Continent and can wash their hands off.

But I am amazed.

To the Americans, my hat's off to the Olympians who adopted, so many puppies.
 

He is a guy who everyone should admire.

What has happened to “Puppy Sense” of British and Australians?

They must be thinking of quarantining the hypothetical Russian terrorist genes in their “Puppy Blood” before adopting them but they could adopt any terrorist with two legs, left our shores without any hesitation.

That is their wisdom in politics, of course.

Coming to Canada winning the Olympic Hockey (my favorite game being a hockey player of yesteryear (not ICE hockey) is creditable but their political brain is frozen when it comes to terrorists.

It is the breeding ground for the “Next Generation” of terrorists including money laundering and “Yuppie Type” guys and girls involved in “Cyber Cafe Crimes” (money is raised with illegal drugs coming from Mexico through Americas).

Those behind the Iron Curtain dealt a body blow to “Fanatic Muslim Terrorists” with and Iron Fist which Mrs Thatcher now in her grave could be proud of.

Not only that they topped the Medal Table too.

In the mean time all in the European Commission guys were busy splitting the Ukraine into Anarchy.

That is how the Europeans outside, the Greater Russia expanding their Neo-colonialism.

I think Mr. Putin should put an end to this SAGA in Ukraine with real politics, now that the Sochi Olympics is over.

Indians Counterfeiting Drugs

Wednesday, February 12, 2014
 

Indian Counterfeiting Drugs

Below I reproduce an article for the greater good of the poor patients.

Counterfeiting Drugs
Even though, I do not write on medical topics now, this is an issue, I was involved for over 40 years but has not seen any improvement after the demise of late professor Senaka Bibile.

It has got worse over the past 20 years and I never buy Indian Drugs for my consumption.
 

Even if, the tender procedures look OK on paper by the time the drugs are shipped from India over 40 to 50 are dud ones (counterfeiting is not the correct term) so that, 50 of the good stuff is filtered and given to pharmacies in India at cut rate.
 

This happen in Ceylon, too.
 

Almost 50% from the SPC stuff is filtered out and dud ones are introduced.
 

There is a Drug Mafia running parallel with illegal (heroin) stuff and that is where almost 50% of the black currency is originated.

That is how the democracy works here and in India and perpetrators (because they are in the majority anyway) are protected by politicians.
 

Americans have woken up but it is too late for the poor patients in Americas.
 

How India's Drug Biz Can Compromise Your Pills‬‬‬‬

In the cutthroat business of generic drug manufacturing it’s the little things that can bolster a company’s bottom line—like fabricating data about quality instead of fully testing products. 

 

Some major drug plants in India that exported medications to the U.S., it seems, did just that.

Such shoddy practices can lead to medicine that does not perform as it should or, worse, causes harmful side effects. 

In recent years these kinds of incidents have prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to place bans on several prominent drug suppliers in India. 

To follow up, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg is going to India this week to meet with its health minister and industry officials. India’s drug and food programs will be at the top of the agenda, according to the FDA. 

India is currently the second-biggest drug provider, after Canada, and the eighth-largest exporter of food products to the U.S.

The meeting comes shortly after the U.S. curbed imports at yet another plant belonging to Ranbaxy Laboratories, Ltd., India’s largest drug manufacturer and one of the largest U.S. suppliers. Last month the FDA banned a Ranbaxy plant from producing or distributing drug ingredients for the U.S. market; the firm was caught retesting materials to produce acceptable findings after they had failed the first time around. The company had neither investigated nor reported why the products failed initially, the FDA says.
Since 2008 the FDA has issued four bans against Ranbaxy plants.
At present, no Ranbaxy human drug products are being imported into the U.S.
The company has already pleaded guilty to federal drug safety violations as part of a $500-million settlement with the FDA, after a whistleblower from inside Ranbaxy came forward.

Separately, Ranbaxy has experienced other quality and control lapses, one of which allowed pieces of glass to get into its generic Lipitor tablets in 2012. Ranbaxy is not the only Indian company that has been cited for sending flawed products to the U.S. 

Wockhardt and RPG Life Sciences have also received FDA admonishments.

Some critics have blamed lackluster FDA inspection practices for the mishaps, noting that although the FDA inspects domestic plants every two years, it only inspects foreign plants about once every seven to 13 years. 

In fiscal 2009, for example, the FDA inspected 1,015 domestic establishments but only 424 in all foreign countries combined. FDA data indicates that in 2013 the agency performed 111 inspections at Indian drug facilities.

Simply ramping up the number of FDA inspections overseas would not solve the problem, however, says Roger Bate, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who studies the drug market. More unannounced inspections in India, along with testing products these plants send to the U.S. would help, he says, but any watershed changes would need to be fueled by the Indian government. 

The power to inspect and shut down facilities rests with each state in India, and some states are more diligent than others, he says. 

He notes that empowering India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organization—equivalent to the FDA—to take action would help address the issue.

Commissioner Hamburg’s eight-day trip will apply needed pressure to the Indian government to crack down on the problem, Bate says. Hamburg is slated to take up food and drug safety issues during meetings with the CEOs of major drug and food producers and with India’s ministers for Commerce and Industry, Health and Family Welfare, and the drug controller general as well as state-level regulators.

She will also be meeting with World Health Organization officials and speaking at the World Spice Congress. India supplies nearly one quarter of the spices, oil and food colorings used in the U.S., but an FDA evaluation last fall found that some of the Indian spices were contaminated. 

Just one of many findings: almost 9 percent of the 1,057 spice shipments from India were laced with salmonella.

(For more data on what’s in your spices check out Graphic Science in the March edition of Scientific American.)

Elephant Myths-03

 Friday, February 7, 2014
Elephant Myths-03

Elephant Myths-03
I just made a comment on a story about a seaman who had strayed in sea for one year and survived.
I did not believe a wee bit having cared for malnourished children and adults, 41 years ago.
This is  similar to a story our Ganja Grower (hashish or pot) will give to a policeman who will record it faithfully as a true story (from Monaragala).

I did a survey (hypothetical to begin with but a true fact of evolution in this country) of how a family of 20 elephants would survive a journey (sea is mind-boggling) from Uda Walawe to Wilpattu?
 

With the current rate of conflict of Man an the Beast, the chances are only three (3) will survive and not a single baby elephant.
 

You should do the calculation yourself.

1. 200 hundred are killed every year.

2. Nearly 70 baby elephants captured by illegal trackers (but probably more).

3. The elephant man ratio is one is to hundred thousands (Ratio 1:100,000) for this family of 20.

4. Human movement is in multiples, a single Ganja Grower / Grover can make multiple trips over and over again without getting caught to our vigilant policemen, after mid night, anywhere in this country without batting an eyelid.

5. But the odds are multiples for a herd of 20, with there pace can grind to a halt at anytime, when they encounter a Ganja Grower with automatics (some are ex-serviceman from Late Lalith Athlathmudali's time-a batch 400 went missing and not accounted for).

Let me begin the track record.
1. Uda Walewas to Lunugamwehera should be a cake walk at night.

2. They would bypass the so called narrow strip of Sinharaja forest since it is crowed by human activity on all sides and the stream is small and narrow.

3. Would the the elephants get a good meal on their meal is a moot point.

4. They will also bypass Hambantota due to cricket, especially due to flood lit cricket.

5. Their deadliest route is when they emerged from Yala over the borders of Ganja Cultivation, in Monaragala district.
Please do your own cultivation, since after a sniff they shoot at anything moving sometimes their own dogs.
Elephants hate dogs even if they do not bark.

6. They will somehow make it to Elahara.

7. From GiraduruKotte to Wasgamura is the most treacherous part, if not killed certainly maimed in their ordeal to avoid human habitat (which was their habitat centuries ago).
Thanks to Mahaveli Project our elephants had to devise many ways to avoid humans.
They come out only at night.
They have very poor vision especially, the baby elephants, the traps our Ganja Growers have laid is covered with roses (sorry hashish).

8. Then they are in the flood plains of Mahaweli.
They baby elephant's carcass trapped in a tree that BBC published is the living reminder how treacherous the terrain and flood plains when torrential rains intervene.

9. They cannot cross to Wilpattu since there are so many religious activities in Anuradhapura with captive elephants parading and sending “belly messages” with their empty bellies, signaling the path is not clear for safe passage of wild elephants.

10. The bottom line is, that there are so many obstacles on their way, that if the old matriarch is there with the herd with her wisdom never hurries (or fails) in her journey through.

But many of them were killed or maimed that the younger ones who have not mastered the tricks of our Ganja Grower, end up in conflict.

That is simply unavoidable.

11. The myth that there is an Elephant corridor was cooked up in 1970s when we did not have rice to feed our human babies.

That the link with the seaman's  (lie) story is real.

Our politicians are better than this seaman and will cook up a miracle story to hash/bash/brag, my blog post.

Old Cricketers Except D.S, the undesirable

Old Cricketers Except D.S, the undesirable
Old Cricketers Except D.S, the undesirable

This is a bit of "gossip", I made to a local paper.

I do hesitate to write anything about present cricketers except Mahela (not necessary for Sanga, who has a big wag of his own) for posterity.

They are our Rohan Kanhai and Kallicharan duo.

Of course, there is no look a like for Vivian Richards, on record.

Cricketers (all good cricketers should do that) used to walk away (like Mahela) if they felt they were out without leaving the agony for the umpires to decide.

Our cricket Board is corrupt to the core like our politicians.

Politicians (even after heroin) and board officials (big mess in cricket stadiums and the grass they used to overlay, many corrupt practices, which even our milking cows won't partake ) never resign.


1. T. B. Kehelgamuwa I knew him well in cricket and in police.
 
2. Daya (Sahabandu) used to ball SIX different ways in an over.

He was the worst fielder we ever had.

He has (probably) never scored a caught and balled victory in an international.

Somebody had to be in the Circle or Ring to catch for him.

It was very nice cricket anyway, without the hype.
 
3. We had a guy called Ben Navaratne who whipped the bail by his tongue and the umpire could not catch this trick.

If he became a politician with his wagging tongue (not the tails of present parliamentarians), God only knows where he would have gone. 

May be Sky High!

4. Micheal Tissera was the best we had, he could have achieved more, if not for the fact, his buddy (bestman) eloped to Australia with his wife.

Collection of these writings should be there in the Web (preserved as archives), like in Wikipedia for the young ones to browse.

Elephant Myths-02

Thursday, February 6, 2014
Elephant Myths-02

Elephant Myths-02

Peeps at Many Lands (Ceylon)
By Alfred Clerk.

When Ceylon belonged (only the coastal areas) to Dutch, the capture of the elephants for sale was one of their principal sources of revenue. 

The operations were carried out in the south of the island, where elephants then swarmed, over 200 having been captured in a single drive.
 

The system is still followed not by the Government, and the old Dutch name still applied to it. 

 

Elephant kraals are now got up by the Kandyan chiefs (sick), in honour of newly appointed Governors or of royal visitors (sick) to the Island.
 

The system employed is to construct of tree-trunks (the beginning of environmental degradation, coupled with Tea plantation which the author fails to record) of strong enclosures called kraals into which herds of elephants are driven by hundreds of shouting (sick) men armed with spears, and provided with tom-toms and other noise producing instruments (pathetic).

(Panamura Ath Raja-King Elephant of Panamura was killed by a state member called Mola Mure (he was a heedless and headless, Kandyan chief) who was the speaker, then.
 

He died in the speakers chair/chamber (good on him, god willing).

The curse befell him.
These men are sometimes engaged for weeks in the forest rounding up elephants till all is ready for the final drive.
Stands are erected near the great gate of the kraal and here ladies (probably psychopathic) and gentlemen, invited to be present (I believe they had to pay for the entrance) sit for hours waiting more or less patiently, while the herd is slowly and carefully brought up. 

When the great movement arrives a tremendous uproar of guns, tom-toms and human throats (this is how our ancient politicians learnt how to speak in the parliament) is raised and the terrified elephants come crashing out of the forest, pause for one moment at the sight of the stockade and then rush through the gate (of no return), huddled mass of huge black forms, the gate bars (reminder of the Jurassic Park) are dropped behind them and the pleasant, leisurely life of the jungle is ended for most of them.

As soon as the herd is enclosed, tame elephants, carrying men expert in noosing, enter the kraal and one by one, all the YOUNG and SALABLE animals are secured and dragged out. 

The aged and infirm elephants remaining are then allowed to escape.

There is no victory parade, though.
 

The imprisoned elephants are generally too cowed to give any trouble but occasionally an old bull or more often a cow with the young calf (present day Buddhists shoot the mother dead, in our Pollonnarwa District with the patronage of powerful politicians) will show fight and charge the stockade and has to be shot to prevent it breaking through. 

It is curious fact that the men riding the tame elephants inside the kraal during the noosing operation are never molested by the wild ones, though it would be easy for them to pull the men off and to trample them to death (probably they practice “Metta” to these devil incarnations).
 

The training of the captured elephants is a simple matter.
They are secured by ropes on fore and hind legs (and staved to fatigue) to strong trees and are left to struggle (exhaustion) till they are thoroughly exhausted themselves (equivalent to American water-boarding).
Many animals kill themselves through internal ruptures of the violence of their struggle to capture (note no escape).
They also suffer terribly from leg sores (fested in no time) caused by chafing of the tether ropes.
This is how we capture the elephants to carry the casket (only the casket, mind you) of the Temple of the Tooth and decimated the population from 60,000 or more before the British to barely, 2000, now.
 

200 are killed each year.

The time is running out. 

Historical records indicate from ancient Egypt (5000 years ago, slavery stated in Egypt both for animal and human) to present India and Ceylon they were used for warfare and not for religious (it is mythology) activity.

These poor captive animals (including Pinnawala) have no democratic rights, freedom or choice but only modern day SLAVERY in the name of glorious religion.

My Freedom (Linux) Philosophy

 My Freedom (Linux) Philosophy

My Freedom (Linux) Philosophy

Let me be down to earth.

People do not value if something is given free.

This is true in Africa, in Asia, and in Americas.

This stupid mentality is very well illustrated in Ceylon.

The government to absolve and justify their stance of not improving the education system over 35 odd years (almost the time of the internal war) or so, give free school books and wash their hands off.

Teachers are ill trained or not trained at all, and there is a thriving industry of Tuition Masters, outside the main stream.

Then there is a leadership training program to inculcate inferiority and subjugation of poor undergraduates.

Add to the above insult there is no orientation program and the level of English is hopelessly poor.

So the undergraduates live a vegetative life (this is not so 45 years ago) for few years and pass out with a degree but without the skills for survival (survival of the fittest).

Their skills in IT (except for few) is inadequate.

Almost 97% of the students do not know there is an operating system called Linux and BSD and “Linux Freedom” gives a very good alternative system and choice of high value.

Above all majority DO NOT play games including video games (I was an addict).

The above preamble,

Is to highlight the plight of Microsoft users (XP and Win 7) and I now have a psychopathic elation to watch their misery.

My inner feelings (state), that was not my original intention (over the past 10 to 15 years) when I started educating young ones on the philosophy of free software and free operating system.

Everybody took me as a JOKE then. sometimes even my colleagues.

That is the very reason of my current elation.

I knew this was coming.

I have the last laugh and would continue to laugh at the Microsoft (Microshaft guys) guys and girls.

That is because now I enjoy the Linux Freedom.

That is a Freedom one could boast about, even at a time when we are fast losing our democratic freedom and free speech.

Below are two distributions that worth considering as an alternative for Microsoft and Apple.

Even though, I do not use Ubuntu as my primary work horse (there are over 300 distributions, worth trying), I promote it without reservation because the Ubuntu forum/s are good backup resources.

Warnings

1. There are enough Free Linux (there was practically nothing except Linux Bible and Fedora Bible when I started writing introductory books) books to download now.

I have downloaded them and read a few but nothing like the Linux Bible.

I do not intend to update them since, by the time I finish my book, it goes out of date.

Lately even (this was the oversight of Ubuntu, had they introduced books, I would have been one of the first (very few) to buy them) Ubuntu has produced books.

 
Best option is for me to write blog pieces once in a way.

I used to do that once a week when I started.

 

I used to subscribe to Linux Magazine and stopped in my retirement when the subscription fee went up.

Most of the Linux guys and girls also have gone through this phase of fatigue, but not me.

I still read the Linux Magazine, waiting for it to come by mail is like waiting for a “Love Letter”.

Geeks are doing the magazine and they have the distant vision in their grasp.

When one reads a books the instructions are general and not specific like antibodies to Microsoft.

Microsoft and their viruses will remain for a foreseeable future sometimes deliberately introduced by Microsoft cronies.

2. If one uses a Linux distribution (we call it the default set up) do not try to tinker it.

If the desired outcome is not available please make a forum request.

Unlike Microsoft that take years to find a solution, in three month you will get an update.

That is the beauty.

3. If you like to tinker, go ahead and do it but when you are in trouble ask for help.

There is always few guys/girls who would do the needful.

4. Please be NICE to them; 

They just do it for fun not as a memorial collection or they are not TAX collectors.

They actually save time and TAX for you.

 
To be nice to them is a mandatory requirement.

5. I use light weight distributions, even if they lack some security features.

Even if a hacker come through the back door into one of my computers, I have many computers to fall back.

This happened only twice over the past 15 years.

One

Stupid guy from India whom I traced back.


Two

I used one my computers as a Cloud Server as an experiment and it was used almost as a Zombie.

I could not save any of my working files and a mad guy (mad server probably) was using its resources fully leaving me nothing.

I found a way out but that was not to my satisfaction and ultimately come December, 2013 holidays, saved all my data and withdrew abruptly from “Cloud Serving”.

 

I now keep SSH client door closed.

5. In another five years even Linux will be Dead with cloud computing would be taking a foothold.

I have already stated an undesired outcome of cloud computing, above.

So learn Linux by trial and error (Learning curve may be bit steep) and stick to a base you are comfortable with.


1. Peppermint

I use Peppermint but it is minimal and for light work but has all the resources (software) to download.

One has to tinker a bit.



2. Lubuntu

Lubuntu is good enough and light weight but it has few glitches (understandable only a few guys are with the developer/s).

Change is good but changing everything isn't always great.
Same is true for aging computers and their operating systems. 

Support is sometimes lost too quickly with a 6 month core release cycle. Graphics & Audio cards and chip sets get dropped along with other miscellaneous functions with programs or drivers that just go missing. 

We all like having updated software we certainly don't like down time or loss of features and capabilities.

I believe most aging hardware just needs the right system on it, and lets face it, it helps keep a couple bucks in your pocket, if you can squeeze a few more years out of your current system; without sacrificing, performance, capability, usability and of course aesthetics.

I decided to take a LTS version of Lubuntu, although not official it was close enough. A nice stable seasoned release from which to build from. I loaded it up with some heavy weight programs to ensure covering all the bases while providing ease of use. 

I added and updated the software repositories, and updated all the major programs such as LibreOffice, Gimp, Openshot.

Finally, I made sure it was beautiful, complete with a new theme coupled by gorgeous wallpapers and drop shadows provided by Compton.

I also included a couple unique features like Random Wallpaper, Fast Forecast, Aero Snap and the Conky system monitor layout. 

I then decided to create both a 32 bit & 64 bit versions of LXLE. They are identical with a small exception. The 32bit version has Compton (shadows) disabled by default, it is easily enabled if desired.

The REAL SORT OF IT IS, this is a glorified remastered version of Lubuntu 12.04, with plans for incremental updates until the next LTS release.

Help or support can be achieved through existing (L)Ubuntu Forums, Websites, Channels, Documentation and I'll help by email if I can.

3. Robolinux

Robolinux is pretty impressive but my advice is to use only 64 bit version with at least 4 GB RAM.

My 32 bit, old computer froze in a matter of five minutes.

It did not do any damage, even though Esc, Ctr+Alt, F1 to F7 did not work and I did not have any escape route.

Mind you, short cuts and command line work are the main stay in Basic Linux which this distribution has done away with.

This can be deadly for the RAM (if one is panicky) and the Graphic Card.

I lost one using PCLINUX in last October.

Robolinux is a user-friendly, 100% fully configured, highly intuitive, no-hassle, commercial Linux operating system that installs everything you need in just 10 to 20 minutes.

Robolinux includes dozens of proprietary Wi-Fi and printer drivers, plus it is the only Linux distribution that features an innovative one-click, 10 second Windows 7 and XP virtual machine installer.

For 100% proof watch the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mrB52h1aRLw

See what Real Users are saying here:

http://www.robolinux.org/testimonials.html

Welcome to a virus & malware free life!