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Sunday, November 1, 2020

Punchlines, Punch Bags (Boxing Bags). Punch Balls, Kick Bags and Kickbacks with Punch and Judy

Punchlines, Punch Bags (Boxing Bags). Punch Balls, Kick Bags and Kickbacks with Punch and Judy

Election is all over and every conceivable lie had being utilized for gains.

It is miracle that I survived without hearing loss since the decibel range was higher than the pitch I was used to.

Sometimes I think it is a blessing to be either deaf or blind or both.

Since I am not either this is to revive Punch and Judy not in his style but in boxing style.

It is strange to note that Punch and Judy characters never used Boxer the kids friendly dog nor the the real boxing characters like Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali), probably fearing American backlash.

I am writing this not expecting any kickbacks from any living soul or any British soul sent to hell by Punch but I have to use English for the strength of the Punch but in boxing style.

I am not even light weight and not even super flyweight to have the physical (I was super bantamweight when I was abroad and having being here for over 5 years gone below the fly weight category without even having a crash course in dieting) presence felt in the ring.

I have to use the English punchlines (send our Buddhist MPs including monks to heaven – not to hell like in UK for them to evoke blessing for the millions of voters who are practically missing a meal-according to health Ministry statistics; they never starve; they actually follow the Buddhist monks principle of eating once a day to go to heaven since Ceylon is not the heaven or paradise that it was known to be) instead for posterity.

The boxing categories including light weight was used by me to address the issue I have with the Microsoft / Open Office Office Package/s which is /are always super heavyweight and tax my computer's limited resources including RAM.

Since I use Linux for my work I do many things (unlike Microsoft Windows) once at the same time (watching Football World Cup-not cricket now- do a distribution download while I do some pep writings like this) and the speed is a factor I rely for efficiency.

I use Abiword Light sometime which is portable too.

I have extended this to my Linux100 writing elsewhere in the Google’s blogspot- just type asoka and paraox- you are instantly there and I want the Linux Developers to produce Light Weight (700 MiB. Middle Weight is 1700 MiB and anything above is Heavy Weight (especially the commercial versions that tax resources even at boot time) and sometimes useless to say the least.

Just to take some respite from somewhat taxing job (100 is a big issue at my age, even though I have already 200 distributions in my USB hard disc) of testing and writing reviews for the wider web users.

I take life at an easy pace now!

To begin with my Punch Code (in computer terminology) we must have a nurse and a doctor appointed to the parliament.

The should weigh all new MPs (do not do that with the old foxes they are too heavy that the spring of the balance will break without any spring of surprises) now and every three months over the next 6 years and send that data to the Central Bank / World Bank and the WHO (Sinhalen whoooo) as real data.

They must be categorized according to the weight class of the boxers and see how they progress from flyweight to super heavyweight both in weight and money in no time.

Real progress of the country.

My argument for this is that our parliament truly represents the wishes of the population in real terms and numbers.

It truly feel the pulse of the people and rule of the law but not the rulers image.

If we have donkeys in this country surely they should be represented there.

Then we must have an annual contest in front of the Diyawana Oya and get Indian actors to come and face them weight by weight.

Our voters can be used as the Punch Bags or Boxing Bag (it is done almost everyday if you look at the government TV Channel).

It is worth while that they must send a random sample of weight from school leavers for comparison.

But I think that is a waste since our Central Bank has the knack of manipulating any real data into abstruse elements for it to be presented at the Budget at any time of the day or night or if necessary for IMF’s consumption.

But my real punch line is not for the new MPs.

It is for the Ministers who were newly appointed.

It looks as if they are used as the Punch Bags especially the Foreign Minister.

I do not wish who uses them as the Punch Bags.

It is a top secret except for one who is always vociferous in Sinhala for the cameras and destroy anything foreign except the oil he wears on his head.

If seems that boxers use kick balls and kick bags.

I like both of them (kick bag and kick ball) and in football style I can kick them in their vestiges!

Asoka

3rd July., 2010

American and Ceylon Politics-No difference

Inter-monsoon and inter-political vacuum in America and in Ceylon.

I refuse to talk about Ceylon under military dictator, lest I be beheaded alive, like in the Kandyan Kingdom where I live currently.

This piece is to highlight how uninspiring, the political debate in America.

They are obsessed with Coronavirus, thanks to Singapore Airline's fast service to Europe and America, the Coronavirus becoming an unintended passenger in flight.

I am interested in two issues.

1. Global Warming

2. Sixth extinction.

3. Third if I may say, wraps both above in one tight loop, that is water security.

I dispense with water first.

We did not have the normal rain that comes in September and goes through to early December.

Inter-monsoon is in limbo and I have to water my rooftop garden almost daily.

My guppy fish die of heatstroke, if not for the total surface cover with floating water plants, I have allowed to grow with utmost care.

Birds and even dragonfly come to quench the thirst with temperature hovering in the outside world about 85 degrees Fahrenheits.

With all these America is eager on shake oil drilling unabated and there is no policy in both Democratic and Republican camps.

America including Middle East are the biggest polluters of this globe now overtaken by China with Mega Mania and India closely following.

Our rulers are hell bent on Coal Power industry while decimating our rain forest.

That is the reality nobody talks in America, Italy and in Vatican and Ceylon.

The Coronavirus is the blessings in disguise, that will decimate over 20 million in the next decade or so and the WHO does not have a population strategy.

When human fails mother nature takes over with a vengeance.

The sixth extinction is in full gear now.

Hold your belt tight in your car or in in flight entertainment in a plane.

Planes are the biggest polluters of our air.

Thanks to American Air Industry.

None of this is discussed by both candidates and CNN and Fox News watching is a waste of time.

I am not surprised if Donald Trump has a victory in electoral colleague count.

So do not take bets like in Arizona dessert's casinos which is again an another American successful industry..

Good Bye and No more blog pieces from me now onwards.

I have gone into hibernation with the election results taking more than two months to declare by the Supreme Court of America.

What an anticlimax?

Thursday, October 29, 2020

There is No TAX on Discontent (NTD)

There is No TAX on Discontent (NTD)

Sri -Lankan are very creative people but that creativity comes only after retirement when one sees that the grave stone or tomb is 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 against the rulers 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 50 to 60% as taxes.

Today Ceylon collects 70% as taxes.

Every 100 rupees you earn 70 rupees will go back to the government as taxes.

This means Ceylon 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.

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……..

Finally Nation Building TAX NBT).

We have still not yet built our NATION three years after ending internal war.

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 fiction / out of real facts).

I hope this goes around CEYLON at least 100 times!!!!!

YOU can help it get there!!!!

GO AHEAD – – – be a CEYLONESE !!!!!!!!!!

SEND IT AROUND EVERYWHERE for a change

Help make a difference.

Ayubowan, is Long Life.

If you live long you pay more TAX so kick the bucket early!

May he attain the Final Goal, the Nibbana in this life and not next life.

IF not his next life we believe is NOT spared.

The TAX Inspector will follow him in the Samsara.

Even the PIN in Pin Kate is TAXED now.

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

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Thank YOU SPIKE

Thank YOU SPIKE

Spike is an amazingly good utility.

It organizes multiple emails.

I am signing off from the entire Internet, which I have been planning for the last 3 years.

All social media and Tik Tok are social vultures.

Add to that partisan CNN and FOX News political overtures are appalling, to say the least.

I have another problem.

Our Internet charges TAXES at 60% and for alcohol taxes are much more.

I prefer visiting my friends and see them live and Coronavirus put an end to that.

I used SPIKE to cheer them up and get out of the paranoia.

BIG Thank You.

I am now in a long hibernation out of religion, spiritual awakening, politics and above all faked science including medicine.

I enjoy gardening and encouraging all insect visitors to my rooftop garden.

Internet is a waste of on intellectual interlude.

Thanks again.

Keep up the good work.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Knoppix 9 is out

Knoppix 9 is out

Knoppix 9 is out but there are no seers for me to download it.

I had been using Knoppix from its 3.6 edition and I have disc-case full of Knoppix CD and DVDs.

One of the best live DVDs to learn Linux.

I wonder why guys and girls are not using the mandatory block-down for learning Linux.

It is a shame and Facebook, Twitter and WhatsUp are killing learning habits.

I never/ rarely use those three utilities.

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Dog Shit as a Meditative Object

Dog Shit as a Meditative Object

All dog lovers should read this.

I was to write about my 'Mini Garden Concept' but this is more urgent matter to deal with.

It was only yesterday, I was walking down our foot path and there was a little tussle brewing.

I generally avoid such encounters like, I avoid dog shit on our path.

This guy was a old polio case with a big limp and at the street level with direct eye contact.

I knew him as a casual labour when young not for good reason.

He refused to cut grass as fodder for the young cattle (cow and a bull) my wife had saved from the slaughter house.

His refusal did not deter me doing this menial job of looking after them for over seven months.

The other was a wife of a policeman who died recently as a pensioner.

She was on top flight of the steps.

I did not look up but diverted the guy's attention to me.

Then he said that dog shit was on his steps everyday.

He knew, I love dogs and feed all the stray dogs I meet on my walkaway.

The lady, in a second retreated to her house.

This guy is living at a higher level and there is another guy who is very friendly with me because of his reading habits. (Only recently I found that the two were brothers and their childhood history was terrible.)

He is relatively poor but I make a point to buy a book or two of his choice, if I meet him in a bookshop.

I like him since he always has a question or two for me to answer or expand upon, which sometime end up as a blog piece.

I have this canny habit of rephrasing his question to make his next question more vulnerable.

He is caring for all the dogs (now partially stray) that come to his house from the neighbourhood.

I told him the other day, that he is stupid and with the cost of living as it is, feeding dogs is not a minor matter.

I told him, I feed stray dogs on the street but never take them home as my company.

These dogs have the uncanny habit of pleasing you with a drop of a hat.

I told him, follow me, when I see dog shit in my garden, I clean them up immediately in meditative mode (my dog never does it on the steps) since my wife has a big aversion.

Mind you dog shit is dog shit and smelly if your dog is not a vegetarian dog (there aren't any vegetarian pedigree dogs).

My dog has limited space but his shit is small and in pellet formation and easy to cast away like a bad thought in meditative mode.

His only problem is constipation both he and I suffer due to dehydration (extremely hot weather even in Kandy).

So dog shit is a meditative object for me but for many Buddhists in this country dog shit is enough to start a war now that the ethnic war is extinguished (but the mad hatters are harping on).

I was able to stop the tussle.

This guy is deceased now.

But I won't try it once the parliament is dissolved.

All our political stray dogs are there cohabiting with shit on the floor of the house with p words.

I was looking down from my balcony and there were five or six dogs on the road making their territorial marks.

It just reminded me one of our present minister's pedigree dogs were poisoned for political reasons.

So they (now he is just a citizen with lot of spare time on his hands) will be busy igniting the ethnic war while at the same time visiting Buddhist temples.

How can these Buddhist monks practice meditation not on 'dog shit' but on 'ethnic purity shit'?

This theme is called 'territorial integrity' which dogs possess in abundance.

I think dogs acquired this "SHIT TERRITORIAL POSSESSION" from man.

Why I do not use a cell phone

Posted on January 8, 2011

I have more than 100 reasons why I do not have or use a cell phone

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

As an intern I hated a call 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 t0 10 kids whose blood sugar and CSF sugar zero.

The government at that time told the public it was encephalitis and I proved them wrong without even my medical registration completed. 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 leave I decided to leave the Public Sector Health Service 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 in number.

As a doctor I hated bad news on telephone. We rarely hear good news when on duty.
Later in life when cell phone came I believed in CPP (Calling Party Pays) and flatly refused a cell phone.
It is a public nuisance
It is a nuisance when the cell phone owner has switched it off when you really needed him
When you travel on a public transport one cannot have a snooze to drown the inconvenience with frequent interruptions. I love silence in public places.
Even though I don’t use it I have to foot the bill (kids telephone bills)
No work get done in public officers. They are busy answering their private call 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 junk or gossip.
We use it for gossip not for creative work
It is private enemy one when you own the bank or telephone company a small sum in arrears and the reminders by them cost you more than 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.

SMS, Short Forms, Pidgins and Linux Acronyms

SMS, Short Forms, Pidgins and Linux Acronyms

There are lot of things that I can hate and some of them are Linux acronyms.

I never use SMS and I was trained to use proper English or Sinhala in my vocabulary.

Yes we use some jargon riddle terms in Medicine to hoodwink innocent patient and make them engrossed in their own misery.

That is no reason for Linux or computer guys to use short forms when one can use a fancy name like Imagination, Unity, Peppermint, Poseidon, PureOS and the like.

I am almost finishing my Linux downloads and testing and was going through the failed download list and found Idr-1.06 i686 and Google could not find a match for this acronym.

After about half an hour I decided to type L instead of I and I got the Link to the iso.

It says Linux Done Right iso which is an Arch derivative.

I do not think they have done anything right in their naming strategy.

They have got totally bogged down in the acronym jungle.

Arch is a very sleek distribution and its derivative has become an orphan at birth.

In any case I could not get the 1.06 version since Linux Done Right has already gone to 1.10 and in between 1.08 was missing in number in sequence.

These guys/ Girls are absent minded professors even before becoming old like me.

There is another which I remember by heart since it is a Gamer’s Linux.

Games is something we lack in Linux. In that scenario we must make it very attractive for newbie.

The name goes as lglive.

It is again Arch Linux derivative.

Its web site is live.linux.gamers.net

Acronym shows the way they think right to left instead of left to right.

Even a learned Arab will get confused in this terminology.

By the way Arch Linux gamers is one of the best Linux game CD/DVD.

This is a malady of Linux Guys and Girls and as a doctor I do not treat them since if I treat them they stop using the creative part of the brain and stop being creative. Many of us do not use this part of the brain even if we decide to stand on our head to get blood flow to that area.

Why this is I do not know.

But I have one theory from childhood our teachers suppress the creative children for life and children fear authority and especially their maths teachers. Our language is character base (they have no meaning) unlike graphic based Chinese and Japanese.

Children like graphic and not character based letters (in fact they hate letters).

This is why Chinese are good at tearing part an American plane hijacked and fix it in three days without an English manual to working order.

They figure out the structure and not the manual written in letters.

there is something wrong in English character map especially when the are made into acronyms and SMS.

Monty Python and Python Programming Protocol (P.P.P.)

Monty Python and Python Programming Protocol (P.P.P.)

I never thought Linux has any relationship to Monty Python’s playacting and his scripts.

Now I discover python language’s name comes from his acting skills and not due to any programming language as long as a reptile called python.

In my case any programming language is a python to me whether it is C or C++ or Java or Beans (they never spell or spill the beans or code in anyway comprehensible to human mind but to computers only) and sometimes with cobra venom installed in them and any sane guy start hating them.

All these changed when I discovered Linux. Whether you like or not one needs to know few starting scripts and rooting responses, booting and Grubbing files, if one wants to embrace Linux.

So I did.

Now I hear suddenly from nowhere ‘A’ Level students are made to learn python in schools and act like Monty Python of BBC.

BBC Basic was the first language I started learning before Sinclair’s Basic and long time before I discovered there is something called C and later Unix.

By the way, the language is named after the BBC show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and has nothing to do with reptiles.
Making references to Monty Python and acting skills are actively encouraged by the Linux community.

Some of Python’s notable features:
Uses an elegant syntax, making the programs you write easier to read.

Is an easy-to-use language that makes it simple to get your program working. This makes Python ideal for prototype development and other ad-hoc programming tasks, without compromising maintainability.

Comes with a large standard library that supports many common programming tasks such as connecting to web servers, searching text with regular expressions, reading and modifying files.

Python’s interactive mode makes it easy to test short snippets of code. There’s also a bundled development environment called IDLE.

Is easily extended by adding new modules implemented in a compiled language such as C or C++.

Can also be embedded into an application to provide a programmable interface.

Runs on many different computers and operating systems: Windows, MacOS, many brands of Unix, OS/2.

Is free software in two senses. It doesn’t cost anything to download or use Python, or to include it in your application. Python can also be freely modified and re-distributed, because while the language is copyrighted it’s available under, an open source license.

Python is an easy and powerful object-oriented programming language. It was originally created back in the 1980’s, but saw it’s first public release in 1991. After the release of Python 1.0 in 1994, it quickly became one of the preferred programming language for the creation of web applications in the Internet, alongside with Perl and PHP.

It’s creator, Guido van Rossum has played a major part in the Python development from it’s first release and has a central role in deciding the direction of the Python development.

Python is often used as a scripting language for web applications in combination with the “mod python” module for the Apache web server. Python’s easiness of use and ability to integrate with different SDKs allows the creation of many different programs for Windows, Linux, Маc ОS and other operational systems.

This is what Eric Raymond gas to say about Python

I had already heard just enough about Python to know that it is what is nowadays called a “scripting language”, an interpretive language with its own built-in memory management and good facilities for calling and cooperating with other programs.

So I dived into Programming Python with one question uppermost in my mind: what has this got that Perl does not?

Perl, of course, is the 800-pound gorilla of modern scripting languages.

It has largely replaced shell as the scripting language of choice for system administrators, thanks partly to its comprehensive set of UNIX library and system calls, and partly to the huge collection of Perl modules built by a very active Perl community. The language is commonly estimated to be the CGI language behind about 85% of the “live” content on the Net.

Larry Wall, its creator, is rightly considered one of the most important leaders in the Open Source community, and often ranks third behind Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman in the current pantheon of hacker demigods.

To say I was astonished would have been positively wallowing in understatement.

It’s remarkable enough when implementations of simple techniques work exactly as expected the first time; but my first metaclass hack in a new language, six days from a cold standing start?
Even if we stipulate that I am a fairly talented hacker, this is an amazing testament to Python’s clarity and elegance of design.

There was simply no way I could have pulled off a coup like this in Perl, even with my vastly greater experience level in that language. It was at this point I realized I was probably leaving Perl behind.

Now Guido van Rossum who has a major role in development in Python will join the elite three mentioned above.(Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and Larry Wall).

It is not easy to master a computer language but one who has background knowledge and basic understanding of several language would benefit from it.

Jumping into it straight away may not be the best way.

Learning C and Unix, Linux and how scripting done and modules used to take advantage of Linux kernels is necessary before embarking on this adventure.

In any case Linux is the winner.

It is an object oriented interpretive language with graphic capability may be better than Visual Basic but if one needs to advance in programming language one need to know the code and syntax behind the ant graphic interphase.

There are lot of language wrapped behind the Linux kernel and scripting. It is far better to master Linux and simple commands and scripts before delving.into an advanced language with powerful capabilities.

I still prefer to call it a python with reptilian image because it is a very very long language behind the big modules.

Enjoy Linux and one will enjoy Python too but do not let it wrap round your neck and squeeze your wind pipe and suffocate you.

Better learn few piping tricks in Linux and put the python inside a pipe and tame it.