New Zealand is a country of scenic beauty but it's islanders are downright racist except a few.
I went there from UK with a job in hand and their emigration officers are the worst.
I went there with the hope of staying there for 3 years and thereafter working myself to Australia.
The idea was to work in Northern Territories of Australia.
Australian ingenious people have similarities to Ceylonese Vaddhas and I did want to investigate, in my own way.
I think Ceylon was a big continent and it vanished after a big meteorite hit, leaving a tiny bit, jutting India.
That is my Theory!
It never had any connection to India and if at all it was connected to Australia.
Read my book of "Origin of Ceylon" at Amazon book store.
It's priced high, since what is in there is not recorded elsewhere.
What is in here will be inserted in my book "Power Vacuum".
I am not sorry for being brute.
1. Apart from being racist their English dialect was hopeless to say the least.
I could not understand having come from UK.
2. In technology wise they were primitive and I could not find a good TV or TV Deck.
Instead, I rented one.
3. It rains a lot.
4. It is windy.
Thankfully no gloves but my rain cape from UK was good enough.
5. It is situated in a major fault line and earth quake prone.
One of the biggest earth quakes of Richter scale 7.2 hit it when I was there and I was thrown out of the bed in mid day (sleeping after night duty) and was rudely woken up.
With after tremors I could not sleep for 6 weeks and left New Zealand soon after.
Thankfully my family was sent home 6 weeks before.
6. I was covering work for there doctors and was underpaid.
In fact, I was made to work more than (40 plus was base but I exceeded 72 hours) the labour stipulations.
I threatened to take them to court.
When I left never to return, they could not find a guy to replace me.
7. New Zealanders are basically lazy.
They retire at 50.
8. Then there was guy called MEAT (not a Meat Grinder) who came back from UK having worked as a retail salesman in the garment industry who did not have proper credentials to work in a hospital and telling me how to function in my capacity as a resident senior doctor.
His only objective was saving money and tests.
He was piece of cake for me.
9. The basic retirement pay was equal and I had no intention of retiring at 50.
10. I came home and joined the University and worked until 66 years of age.
11. I always returned and had a holiday in UK in the 1970s - 1980s but I never did return to New Zealand.
I had the VISA form filled for the entire family and a cheque written for $685/= but never posted it.
12. My file/s at the VISA office was the biggest bundle they ever had.
Heavy Weight class by my choice of countering every decision they made against me and my family.
I blasted the lady senior officer at the main office and said I am paying from my pocket for my son's eye surgery and she would have to answer my lawyer not me in future.
She promptly sent my passport back.
13. There were no Macdonald and Kentucky Chicken but only fish and chips which I hated.
14. By the way, I met a few good people including Resident Ceylonese who used to beat me in poker games.
All of the stories are recorded in my books on Rebirth and Unforgettable Personalities.
15. Eye Surgeon was the best!
16. If you are a lazy guy it is a good country to retire!
17. They probably have more sheep and cows than humans.
18. The Otira volcano erupts frequently and air pollution is common.
19. Some part of New Zealand have radioactive deposits and some carry a Geiger Counter in their cars.
20. Some unknown reason they believe in Aliens and there are unconfirmed stories to that effect.
My interest in aliens probably started there.
21. Salesgirl in New Zealand stole the electronic dictionary I bought for my daughter under 8 years.She hid out of my sight when loading the rest of the buys.
It was the only unit in the store and it was bit expensive. I checked it to give it to my daughter, having come out of the shop and it was missing.
I went inside an showed the receipt and said it was missing.
The manager took her side and did not even record my complaint.
I said never mind I won't come back to your shop until this girl was summarily dismissed.
Do not bother about my money or the unit she can have as a gift from me.
But I hate stealing!
I did not tell him but in my mind I said to myself I am leaving this country.
22. Majority of males and females were obvious homosexual and that was the final trigger.
I missed a large perianal abscess of a homosexual young man of 22 years twice.
His complaints were hip and knee joint pains and he was ashamed to declare his orientation or real site of pain.
On a Sunday (I was off) I got a call from my senior consultant to come to the ward.
He was on his tommy and he showed me the full extent of the abscess and smiling told me beware homosexuals in this country.
I told him I am not a homosexual and I did not figure it out.
I will put my foot in next time.
The saying is, if you do not put your finger in you may have to put your foot in later.
That is one should examine the rectum in every patient.
23. Majority of yoing adults are drug adicts in New Zealand and very violent.
I do not mind smoking amd alcohol.
24.There was a young guy who used to fake injury to his thumb to get ACC compensation.
On the third attempt I did sign the form and said he is faking injury and should not be paid ACC.
I never saw him again but would have gone to another hospital.
25. They come out in raw filth in the hospital and I give one warning and if they do not comply call the police as a case obstruction to work.
26. One day a drug addict had a major convulsion in the casualty. I was hesitant to administer anticonvulsants but admitted him.
He refused admission but I call the police and admitted him.
Police told me he was a wanted man they were looking for five more.
I said they will come to visit him in the ward and I will tell the nurse to call police direct.
Obstruction to work and sure enough they got all of them.
27. At times I felt I am taking a big risk and one day these guys off from police custody target me outside the hospital with violence.
So l have no regrets leaving New Zealand after two years.
28. I hate beer but love French Wine.
New Zealand had only two local wines and
they were flavorless.
They were cheap but I always purchased French Stuff.
I was an alcoholic and weaned myself, the past 8 years.
My pension is not enough to buy good stuff.
29. Everybody gets the same pension at 50 years.
I hate that protocol and I needed a pension to suit my salary at retirement.
30. New Zealand allowed all the guys / girls who supported apartheid but when it came to Ceylonese there were lot of barriers.
I could not get my mother in law to baby to my kids.
She was stopped at Singapore airport and returned home.
I had bought a ticket to Christ Church.
Singapore airline however refunded part of the airline fee.
Ticket fare was expensive.
They violated the free visitor passage for 6 months to any country provided there is financial support.
I could support her for even two years.
Postscript.
My comments are not biased.
I fought every inch of my Fundamental Rights.
They even violate simple human rights.
That is why I had a heap of a file/s at the Immigration.
I do not regret not having permanent VISA.
I am planning to visit my old Ceylonese soon.
Friday, June 2, 2023
Why I hate New Zealand
Thursday, June 1, 2023
TAILS Linux
Tails is a Linux distribution which one can carry in a USB stick.
Minimum of 4GB is recommended for a persistent volume.
If a good password is used to log in, even if one loses the USB stick one cannot use it.
It is installed in a FAT partition, so if one loses it the data inside can be seen through a Windows PC.
TAILS stand for
Tor
Amnesia
Incognito
Live
System
This is a good Linux solution for a journalist who wants privacy and security.
It helps the user to use Internet anonymously.
If your government is spying on you this is the distribution to use.
1. It uses its own TOR browser which does not store ISP or WiFi location.
It does not use VPN.
2. A stands for Amnesia or loss of memory.
3. It is a Debian based Live Distribution.
4. It leaves behind a blank slate.
5.It is FREE.
I do not think it has games.
Sunday, May 28, 2023
American War Politics, Until End of 2024
I am going to sign off posting political stuff here, until the election fever is over.
I do not want to hint bright and scientific ideas to these STUPID guys.
Equally nothing much happening on the Linux Front to write about!
There would ONLY be politics and nothing but politics till the end of 2024.
It is true for Ceylon, since lame duck, unelected president has no power to dissolve the parliament or call for elections for the presidency, while everybody else wants some form of elections.
Longer they hold on worse for the ruling party.
By the way, elections want solve any of our problems but like buying a lottery ticket it is an addiction.
However in Ceylon, politics is unpredictable, violence including political assassinations are on the card.
I am saying the above (assassinations) due to many reasons.
A Buddhist monk, Buddha Rakkitha plotted killing SWRD.
He was living with a female cabinet minister.
Poor Somarama was sent to prison (he did not know how to hold a pistol) but a thug hired by ?j did the job.
Ossie Corea was my guess.
Soma Thera died under suspicious circumstances similar to Professor Senaka Bible.
Gaminie Dissanayake and Laiith Athulathmudali were killed by goons of Chandrika.
Baddegana Sanjeewa was a Chandrika goon.
There are lot of othe non political goons of the underworld who are active in drug smuggling.
There is a Triangular Drug syndicate that operates from Thailand, Mumbai and Colombo.
Local Mafiosi has connection to this triangle.
I have no knowledge of how Putin's mafioso operates.
One place I never want to visit is Thailand.
Vijaya Kumaranatinge and Ranjan Wijeratne were killed by JVP.
Lot of journalists were killed by goons of Senior Premadasa.
Sotti Upali was one of the goons,
It started with killing Richard Zoysa and culminated with killing Lasantha Wicràmatunge on the 8th of January, 2009.
Number of Tamil journalists killed far exceeds the number of Sinhala journalists killed both by LTTE and successive government agents.
Then Upali Wijewardana disappeared in mid air.
Then Jeyataj Fenandupulle was killed not by LTTE but by a guy who was eyeing for the post of PM. I have no knowledge of his goons and how he operates except for the Easter Bombing.
Our Rajan Kadhiragarman was killed by a marksman of the LTTE.
Violence is endemic in Ceylon including domestic violence and conflicting parties solve their problems by killing each other.
Under 16 years, as a minor, I have seen two fatal events using sword as a weapon and a third non fatal event (in our village and none were my relatives) in my neighbourhood.
The First case in my internship was a murder case.
A guy had cut the abdominal aorta with a sword and in spite of pumping over 22 pints of blood, the surgeon could not suture the bleeding artery.
Then, I had a young guy under 20 whose liver was pierced by a cris-knife.
We packed the wound with rubber form and pumped blood and saved him.
It was a bloody mess and we tried to save the guy.
We left this village and moved to a better residential area closed to the town.
Mind you all these were born Buddhists!
Then were had JVP and D.JVP violence and mayhem!
Political violence including killing journalists is normal and none were adequately or conclusively reported or investigated fully, in the South and in the North.
Luckily nobody except services can carry weapons but political thugs and underworld guys and girls possess weapons.
If one does do a real analysis more than 50% of the guys and girls (having underscored the local politicians who kill opponents) in the parliament have some form of criminal record.
They use parliamentary privileges to cover their tracks.
I do not mind British Stray Storm Shadow missile hitting our parliament while in full session debating prevention of terrorist act, killing all it members so that we can say full good bye to parliamentary politics.
From the ashes of Phoenix or Parliament (all members dead) we can design a new constitution where no member is allowed more than two terms, no list MPs, no bonus MPs, ability to file a case against any corrupt politician by any citizen so that his or her civil rights are permanently abolished, for anyone with pending cases (civil or criminal) is not allowed to contest and any political party whose member is convicted on any offence (better even pending cases) is barred from contesting two consecutive elections.
There are 181 parties and by the above provision we can cut down the number of parties at any election.
The beauty of this proviso is that the ballot paper which is like a newspaper would become smaller and we safe the paper, trees and even our precious planet.
These are wishful thinking and would never see the day light in my time on this planet.
One brother of a killer politician is having a local TV station on his credit.
It is total mess.
Moving to the foreign scene India, Pakistan and Bangladesh included President Biden wanting a Regime Change in Russia and getting Ukraine guys to send drones to Moscow to kill Putin are not good omens at all.
All the above are my guess-estimates without hard facts and RAW, C.I.D, CIA, MI-5-6 and KSB should not ask me to provide incriminating evidence.
Me leaving Ceylon well in advance from the battle field is preemptive safeguard measure, since a stray bullet can kill a guy or girl watching a political event.
I can remember an innocent undergraduate was shot in front of the University Senate.
I rushed to the hospital but he was DOA or dead on arrival.
This was my first job in the university and I decided to leave Ceylon soon after the compulsory service of 6 years.
Coming back to American politics, there is nothing but politics till the end of 2024.
Trying to poison President Putin using Ukraine as a rump state has misfired.
There wers over 22 biological labs in Ukraine and WHO is silent except for the Wuhan labs.
President Putin knows this very well and he will drag the War in Ukraine willingly or unwillingly.
He has good store of missiles in store and Ukraine will be a Rump State by then with or without EU certification.
EU will crack open and nobody except perhaps, a woman will soon take the chair temporarily.
De Santos is a stupid guy.
Biden was the worst president in American history and De Santos is going to spoil the soup for Republicans.
The Shifty Shiff's bogus Steel Document (UK Guy), bogus impeachment process, Hunter Biden Laptop,Twitter collaboration, Ukraine War, MIC and Neocolonial White House Staff are enough SAGA to win enough electoral colleagues seats for the Republicans, come next election and De Santos wants to spoil it.
He cannot win against Biden but Trump can.
Instead of uniting Republicans he is trying to become an instant hero.
I am not a supporter of Trump and I do not care what happens in American politics but politically speaking Trump should be given a second chance, so that he would clean up the FBI.
He had a raw deal instigated by FBI.
He started by firing former FBI director and he has the stamina to stand up to the FBI.
Muller Report was a scapegoat!
CIA will become a non entity when Ukraine collapses.
BRICS will become an alternative to American hegemony.
Doing sweet nothing China becomes a world power by default and it will take years for Russia to cultivate European Dream.
For the time being, Russia should turn to Asian and African countries for friendship.
That is where the emerging economy is and certainly not in E.D.E or Energy Deficit Europe.
No EDGE at all!
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Running Parallels with Proxy War in Ceylon and Ukraine
Let me be forthright from the very outset.
I am writing this as a simple Buddhist who is totally against any war anywhere on this Planet Earth.
Hatred begets hatred.
Loving kindness brings harmony.
In Ceylon we had over 35 years of political hatred under JRJ (UNP) and Sirimovo (SLFP).
These two parties and their collaterals ruined Ceylon.
The breakaway offshoot parties from these two parties still carry hatred in Ceylon including LSSP, CP and MEP.
There are 81 registered parties in Ceylon and one is headed by a monk.
According to Buddha monks should not take part in politics or should not give advice to kings (currently president Biden and Putin), queens or presidents.
The latest in this development are Wira Wansa Associate Conglomerate and Champaka's new party of descent (HATE).
These two are offshoots of the OLD JVP lead by Wije (Wira) Weera who started revolution in this country when there was no NEED or racial animosity in existence.
He started hating India to begin with.
It is believed North Korea was instrumental in creating this party of descent who used killing opponents in broad day light, as a political stunt and tool.
Less I talk about LTTE is better and it was a party of HATE from its origin and it systematically exterminated, all other moderate Tamil parties.
TNA is the remnant collateral.
I have nothing but admiration for Sampanthan for his political stamina.
By the way, I do not understand how the Tamil political parties evolved in the North.
Muslim parties analogy is simple.
When two dogs fight, the small dog steals the flesh of politics.
Here is the entry point for CIA.
CIA used Indian RAW as its collateral in creating descent in Ceylon just like in Ukraine.
India hated Ceylon and feared it would supersede Singapore as a power keg of the Indian ocean.
USA and CIA was eyeing Ceylon as a base.
I know it as first hand information since, I protected the satellite in the surgical theater as a surgical equipment.
India crested DJVP (second RAW creation) in 1988-89 to scuttle the launch.
Indira Gandhi was the architect of the first but I am not sure of the second, may be PM, Rajiv.
Only difference in Ukraine was it armed the Neo Nazis and Bandera in Ukraine for over a decade (equivalents of JVP and D-JVP).
Both Republicans and Democrats without exception helped to create Russophobia.
CIA and MIC (Military industrial Complex) were direct beneficiary but they have now met their nemesis called Russians who withstood Nazis.
It looks like Ukraine militants (Bandera) are going to be all but a pushover for Wagner group and Chechens.
I have sympathy for average Ukrainians who are refugees in Poland and EU countries.
Poland had to stomach spill overs historically.
Coming to India and Indians they did not provide refugee status to Ceylonese Tamils.
That is the typical Duplicity of Indians.
Currently India while buying cheap Russian fuels and selling them back to EU countries 3 times the stock price and are asking for a seat in the Security Council is the real Geopolitical Duplicity.
Pakistan and the rest of the neutral countries should oppose double dealing Indians, and there should NOT be a place in the Security Council for India.
China obliterated Tibet and Dalai Lama is a lame duck.
China fought two wars with India for a narrow stretch of land and should not be given a seat in the Security Council.
Instead South Africa deserves a place in the Security Council.
WHO is a collosal waste and should be abolished for the reason allowing CIA to operate lethal viral labs to kill President Putin in Ukraine (over 22 labs in number).
One need not do anything to resurrect USA and UK for using Depleted Uranium and let the guys/girls who masterminded these operations die of lethal cancers.
France should be allowed to have Nuclear Plants in every city but they should not be allowed to buy Uranium from outside sources, at all.
They should dig and mine Uranium in France and not in West Africa.
No gas and fuel from Russia or any other country to France and UK until all the Depleted Uranium is utilized in a War Zone of their choice.
Above points are raised to show not only India but all except a few EU countries are Duplicity Giants.
This piece is not complete unless I make some references to Israel and Muslim conflict.
Both religions are essentially similar, God based.
One branch arise from a legitimate child and other branch from an illegitimate child from same father.
The God I think was an intermediary by creating another bifid child of humans and gods.
I am a guy who believes in, the god has no relationship to human evolution.
If there was a hybrid child it would have been from an alien species who visited this planet millions of years ago having had sex with an evolving primate species.
By the way, the age of this planet is not 7000 years as according to Bible and Kuran but much more ancient and revising these texts according to at least Sumerian artifacts, if not scientific is mandatory.
By the way these two texts have many editions and are constantly changing with time.
Archeologists and writers are born liars except for a few.
This comment applies to Bagawath Geetha, too.
Former CDC chairman and his committee of hifi scientists should be sent to prison for operating "gain in function" research in China.
I have a request for President Putin.
We took 35 years to end our war of attrition and we are totally bankrupt.
He should end the War (attrition till next Presidential Election in USA is prudent) soon, on his own accord with a Strategic Bomb near the border of Poland (please avoid spent up Uranium) or on the head quarters of the Military Alliance of the EU, lest Russia too, go bankrupt with Esoteric Missiles of mass distruction.
Otherwise, MAD or Mutually Assured Distruction!
Postscript.
Please note I am not in Ceylon currently and if I post this post in a local post I will be categorised as a terrorist.
All Ceylonese are by default terrorists thanks to our robust constitution.
I think Ceylon should not have a constitution but let our monks deliberate Security Council Debates, on monthly basis in every village in Ceylon and the UNO should fund these rabid monks.
By doing so, (debating security) as rabid dogs, fighting each other, they will exhaust their inbuilt anger and spent up steam, the rest of the citizens can exercise their free and democratic rights only in their residential domains, if they possess any of their own but not rented out.
According to proposed amendments to the constitution tenants are terrorists with no legal rights.
In the alternative each monk should be provided with a Steam Deck and Drive with a big overhead TV to play "War Games" in preparation of the Security Council Debates.
I have another proposal!
The rent for University Students should be raised by three times the local prices.
By doing so, we can reduce the number entering the Universities drastically and then having more dons than undergraduates in every university that fails to function with perennial strikes.
The dons themselves can create creativity perpetually without students asking valid questions.
Monday, May 22, 2023
Versatility of Linux
The biggest plus point of Linux is one need not worry about Virus attacks.
The file structure of parent child relationship makes it difficult to insinuate wild or viral coding when running the system.
There is a big community that supports Linux and also individual distributions.
Number one attribute of Linux, is it protects the hardware both old and new.
One can use hardware as long as one desires or until one decides to buy new infrastructure/s.
Number two attribute is, it detects hardware problems at boot time and reports them before booting.
It gives a live report at booting but the problem is that it flashes them fast, in less than 30 seconds.
One should develop the habit of reading them at boot time.
If one press Control plus Shift and F1 the boot time readout is available.
Once the kernel detects the hardware the Linux distribution boots instantly.
Rest depends on the desktop type.
Xfce boots fast and KDE plasma boots slowly.
One can go to command line using Ctr + Sht and Function keys before and after booting.
Number three is, it schedules all the processes as either live or inactive and saves resources for work in progress.
Linux is absolutely fast due to above and many other reasons.
Then there are many solid distributions to choose.
One is not hooked to a company or product that fails to update.
Saturday, May 13, 2023
War Mongering, MIC, War and Peace
MIC = CIA = War Mongering is the current equation for White House and White Hall..
Only Donald Trump speaks of Peace and that is what a good businessman should focus on.
When MIC or the Military Industrial Complex gets activated all other industries including Silicon Valley go into hibernation.
Ceylon was a base for War for over 35 years and that was instigated by RAW of India.
We are bankrupt now.
CIA was an indirect beneficiary.
Only Ukraine helped Ceylon then and I have nothing against Ukraine.
Downfall of Ukraine started with the Neo Nazis becoming a proxy (USA) for War against Russia.
Russia lost over 30 million against Hitler's Nazis and Ukraine is no match or nemesis for Russia.
Just read the book War and Peace of Maxim Gorki.
Unlike modern USA under Biden = Demolition of Russia is a historical joke, Biden included.
Russia is a great culture if one forgets about Stalin and Communism, the contribution of Russian civilization to history is enormous.
What is the contribution of USA and CIA,?
War in some remote corner of the globe.
Ultimately WAR would revisit USA, if they consider using nuclear arsenal.
The failed Ukraine Saga would lead them to China.
Astute President Putin won't lead us to World War III but Xi Ping is an unested man in global affairs.
If at all, China is preparing for a global war with over 300 satellites activated.
Proactivity is a dangerous preposition!
Hope he does not become a mad man of communism.
BEWARE!
Mao Se Tung killed 3 to 5 millions of his own citizens.
Any man on War footing can become a Hitler.
In Ceylon we are still unable to give civilian casualties.
Generally civilian casualties far exceeds military and Ukraine is an exception.
RATIO of One to Seven casualties of Military in Ukraine and currently Poland will never be able to absorb the NATO brunt.
Next casualty is Poland.
History repeats.
As a closing note, I should say something about Eurovision.
I do not watch it for years.
It has become a politicised organization and promote subtle political message.
I believe singers and song writers should be free of political assertions.
It kills creativity.
I can understand if somebody is suppressed and under autocracy as in China.
The suppression of artists from Russia in Eurovision is the begining of the downfall Eurovision on the grounds of its own hypocrisy.
Like independent political commentators singer should be free of bondage.
There is a healthy manifestation in journalism.
New and vocal media are coming up with the help of freelance crowd or open sourcing.
This a threat to CNN, BBC and Fox News who are becoming organs of certain political parties.
It is a trend in Ceylon, too.
Apolitical mass is growing world over.
Once it grows beyond 40% I think political guys and girls cannot keep on lying to the intelligent voter or citizenry.
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Coronation, Wealth and Thamasha
If a referendum is held in UK and average British citizen is given the opportunity to decide (economic migrants should be excluded) I am pretty sure more than 50% will have a negative reflection on the monarchy irrespective who holds the reign.
I am not saying that democratic view should always be the right view, simply because view of 49% is ignored.
What I say is mankind has not evolved a correct political system, yet which is all inclusive.
In my analysis we are level ZERO CIvilization.
Level One (1) civilizations are devoid of political systems that control beings of that sphere.
The way we treat animals Level One civilizations treat us as subhuman (animal analogy).
There are no WARS in level one and above civilizations.
The WAR represents the animal behaviour of humans.
Monarchy and commonwealth were built on wars of attrition.
We are on the threshold of World War III.
We have had two world wars already.
Third World WAR is end of our civilization and there is no sane institution (including Vatican and UNO) in this world to get us out of this quagmire!
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Whopping Loss for Conservative in UK
It is whopping loss for conservative in UK.
Reasons.
1. Helping USA to blow up gas pipeline.
2. Helping (under water drones) to damage a bridge in Ukraine.
3. Arming Ukraine to fight a proxi war for America.
4. Sending mercenaries to Ukraine
5.Total Lack of diplomacy and Piece Negotiations.
Joining the War Mongering Biden.
Same story will befall on Democrats who are good at lying openly.
In Ceylon cancelling local election fearing defeat is obvious.
Hope judges see the day light and give a verdict favouring the voter.
Why I detest AI technology
I detest AI technology.
AI may be good for an autocratic country like China.
I will never alight a plane only on AI.
Remember the plane crash that guys put autopilot and were engaging in homosexual act.
They perished with the passengers.
Remember the Shuttle Crash that pilots could not cancel the autopilot mode.
When on flight and unexpected events occur on a made made machine only the man can figure out his own faults.
AI will work on a particular program mode.
If that mode fails it has to reprogram having deactivated the original program.
If the AI cannot figure out the outcome mode it invariably go back to default mode with faults ingrained.
AI could fail but human brain can figure our a contingency plan.
We should be able trust our brains without panic.
Only a few can master the brain in panic mode.
That is why TRAINING is Vital.
I trust almost all pilots with enough flying hours to their credit function well under trying conditions.
This being said, I can enjoy my flight.
So never ever criticize them including ground staff.
They are trained to handle difficult situations.
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Debian 12 at Freeze Stage
It looks like a Major Debian version 12 is ready for Freeze.
That means by the end of this year Linux enthusiasts are going to see a major upgrade.
I am fed up of Arch Linux except Manjaro Linux.
Hope they come out with a New Desktop.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Why I ditch Steam Deck to a simple Tablet or a PC
I think Steam Deck and Dock will drain all your pocket money before YOU, even play the first game.
Please do not become a prey of the gaming industry especially, Valve.
One can buy several other gaming hardware for a fraction of the dollars one has to pay for Steam.
I an old guy who has gone trough with my kids and bought all the gaming hardware and fooled myself and the kids.
Except the PC all the gadgets are either broken or in the attic NOW.
Thankfully my kids are grown up.
It is better to buy a large cellphone and play games on the cellphone.
Mind you cellphone is a mini computer!
It is even better to buy a large TV with anti- glare software and play games direct on TV with the remote control or the joystick!
Monday, March 13, 2023
Good Bye Ceylon Cricket and Tony (Graig)
Good Bye Tony (Graig)
Well what do they do
On Sundays?
They watch Cricket,
If Ceylon
Is not playing,
To be precise
PS.
I thank God for sparing
Tony watching any more of
Agonizing Ceylonese Cricket.
Friday, March 10, 2023
How I solved the NUC Audio Problem
The Intel NUC, the basic unit, I have had no Audio inputs and outputs and no fan.
My attraction was it's low wattage with sky rocketing electricity bills.
It has two HDMI outputs and stuck my Sony TV to one input and to the other HDMI port, I fixed the VGA monitor through a converter.
Problem solved but only Emmabantus can configure two monitors and ALT Linux and Debian cannot.
Debian has to rewrite it's CODE for dual monitor and it's wireless coding is still primitive.
Now I will break a trade secret of Dialog here for intelligent customers.
Using SIM through any network is expensive, whereas wireless link is cheaper comparatively.
If you do not have a wireless router at home a simple way out is to buy a wireless mobile and stick another Dialog SIM and load it with data package.
You sign in with your password and stick the mobile unit in your trouser pocket like a boiled egg.
Problem is solved your cellphone will not run out of data.
I use the mobile unit to link with my PC and Laptop and why not use it for the cellphones the voice SIM (no charge from voice SIM).
I downloaded all the software for ALT Linux using the Dialog Wincle.
ASIRI Surgical Hospital and Australian VISA Processing Unit and The Comparison
This piece is to say good about Russia and ALT Linux.
I have decided to learn Russian Language for a brief tourist visit to Moscow.
Not dollar but the Ruble is going up by the minute and our agencies are not giving the parity for Ruble.
It is not gold but one should buy Ruble which is tagged to Gold by default.
Buying Ruble is like buying gold.
But I have to go through an European country via Australia probably.
I was given an appointment at 10AM for Bio-metrics and I was dispensed out in about, half an hour.
Thank you.
Australian are only neurotic about Tuberculosis which they probably contract from Aberogenes, Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.
I need to add Chinese,too.
We in Ceylon has a good BCG vaccination program given soon after birth before exposure to active cases of pulmonary tuberculosis.
A student of mine who was a chest physician and nurse known to me in Nittambuwa Hospital died of tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis is often diagnosed as a case of cancer since sputum culture for TB is poor in Ceylon.
I need to have a swipe at Anthony Fausi.
What this guy who is an ace crook did to prevent spread of Tuberculosis?
My prediction is with the coronavirus pandemic peaking itself, the relapse of tuberculosis is going to be a real problem especially in Ukraine with Asian mercenaries, already fighting there.
But (VQA) they only took my finger prints for bio-metrics.
Fingers can rarely transmit tuberculosis and TB bacilli are resistant to current detergents.
Even bacterial stains do not penetrate the cell walls of TB and 30 minutes of heating of the slide is mandatory.
Did not do a proper Retinal Test which is the most useful biomarker.
They took a photograph which probably had a macro lens.
I am a microscopic and photographic man and Funduscopic examination is fundamental to Medical Examination and I may be the only one in Ceylon who was not an eye surgeon who has an ophthalmoscope with a tiny auroscopic accessory for kids.
I have not seen a patient for 22 years and retired from teaching pathology 7 years ago and my critical sensing is good and finished a book on Interleukins better term Cytokines, just few days ago (with minimal typing errors).
I told the Tamil Lady, I was not a criminal in Sinhala but a sensible man (did not tell her I was a doc).
So all VISA officers are paranoid and paranoia is a serious psychiatric condition.
By the way. Australians are also obsessed about hook works!
The lady doctor did not ask for a stool sample for testing vermilion.
At ASIRI Hospital I had to wait nearly three hours for the medical having paid Rs.15,000/= for a urine test, chest X-Ray and a putative blood test which I did not need.
This is in addition to the doctor's fee of Rs.5000/=.
Doctors are the worst parasites in this world!
They were only interested in how much they could plunder me in 3-hours.
The nurses were like Barby Doll robots poorly trained but virtual runners in surgical terminology.
Eye testing woman was horrible and the unit did not have the contrast background that is necessary for proper testing of vision.
I was trained in New Zealand to do eye screening on weekly basis using slit lamp examination (of the corneal abrasions), which I was good at.
ASIRI Hospital probably did not have a slit lamp ophthalmoscope for Retinal Examination.
It did not have a proper WHO recommended sphigmomanometer to test my BP.
The worse was there was not a single washbasin to clean my hands before entry into a cubicle.
Toilets were ordinary and not to the Hotel Standards.
I saw a horrified little girl under 7 with her mother waiting for a ??? unnecessary psychiatric examination.
Luckily for me my wife was with me to take my building anger away.
Besides, if a male doctor examined me I would have blasted him.
She did not test my testicles and missed the tiny direct hernia on the right side.
One can miss a testicular cancer.
They did not test my haemoblobin / PCV which is always high probably due to renal overproduction of renin.
I was polycythemic all my life and I take aspirin as a precaution and I did not tell this lady doctor why I was taking aspirin fearing another blood test and money out of my pocket.
After all these, I told her, she is wasting her time on medical examinations (is a waste of her qualifications) for cash dividends.
Furthermore, I did not tell her, I was a pathologist for 40 years.
I am interested only, looking in depth, after an eventful death.
I did not tell her, the doctors miss 60% of the diagnosis at the first examination and after two more examinations and testing, it never gets better and goes below 50%.
I hope this doctor does not read this piece even by accident.
She has no time, I believe to update her experience.
Since she has never seen (at least a single) a PM Examination, the academic upgrade is humanly impossible.
With experience doctors become worse is my catch phrase.
Only Forensic Pathologists become wiser not general pathologists.
I have become bit wiser having read Buddha in my old age.
Now coming to my main topic.
ALT Linux MATE is fabulous.
It was bit slow to Boot and Install and configure my WiFi but once configured to my needs does a very neat job in the Linux Work Station.
I increased the workplaces to 4 which is my standard.
Like Sparky Linux which is at it's very best, a Russian distribution which powers my Laptop, it had cellphone utilities including Telegram and Spotfire.
I booted it with English but I want to boot it with Russian and the Russian alphabet is my next target.
Russia unlike USA is a rich cultural civilization and it's War machine under President Putin is fine tuned to enter the simmering Third War III.
I bet UK cannot stand up to it and USA is currently faltering.
Saturday, March 4, 2023
Russian ALT Linux and Total Erasure of two of my hard disks
I tend to do irrational things once a year or so.
I was trying to install Russian ALT Linux and both due to my lack of knowledge of Russian, aided by poor eyesight, Hit Enter key, that took over both my hard disks.
It surely took over and erased all the partitions I had made for 5 distributions.
So I did not have any OS to boot.
This is the first time I have done this in over 23 years of Linux.
No WARNING from ALT Linux.
I have a liking of this MATE desktop, so I went back to basics and installed ALT Linux, Emmabantus, Sparky Linux both Media and Game Over and currently installing Ubuntu to get my ESP boot loader recognizing all distributions at the boot up stage.
By the way, ALT Linux has lot of useful Linux utilities.
MATE desktop is light and clean.
I love it if not ALT.
The bottom line is I am going to learn Russian starting with it's large alphabet.
Why this obsession against this country with a long history.
By the way, I do not like or dislike President except I SAY, he is the only Man in this world with WOKE culture with ambiguous sex orientation.
I decided to dump Emmabantus and go back to my favourite Debian.
One and only one reason Emmabantus take about 10 minutes for fschk File integrity checking.
I have to dump AbiWord, too grudgingly simply because of Amazon's Dum/P Text Editor.
Well I have published all my books and I lost only one manuscript in a scientific theme due to my erratic behaviour.
I have no DATA in my NUC, I erased all my photos and images, too.
It is a clean slate now and booting well.
Only games no writing untill the current American Geared WAR is Over.
No WAR games by default!
It looks like Americans are getting a real battering and a hammering.
Thursday, March 2, 2023
What is happening in Ceylon MobiTel and Google
What is happening in Ceylon MobiTel
Google has gone BONKERS with their security update.
They do not let me sign up to my Gmail.
I do not care I have three more alternative emails.
Luckily I have not published book at Amazon under Gmail and on second thought I won't.
Not only Google browsing your private actiovity,
DO not use Gmail if you have one.
Not only MobiTel guys are stealing money without offering a bill.
Over Rs.1200/= I put it in a Till in a Till in Kandy City was not credited to my account.
This is the third time DO NOT Use MobTel.
I saw a guy dismantling the Till as YOU enter City Center.
Fortunately Google have not stopped my Blog activity.
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Time Dimension
Time Dimension
We are supposed to be the time keepers to the Buddhist world at large but do not seem to have any idea about the concept of time and its prudent use.
Are we able to manage the present (moment) wisely?
Let me state some philosophical and Abhidhamma concepts about time and its origin and then diverge to astrophysical concepts.
"It is now held that each series of events has its own time order, and it is difficult to relate the one to the other since there is no standard time"
The Mysterious Universe
"We cannot give what may be called absolute dates but only dates determined by events. We cannot point to a time itself but only to some event occurring at that time".
Bertrand Russell
Buddha’s Interpretation
The knowledge of the external world
Samaye niddisi cittam cittena samayam muni
Niyametvana dipetum dhamme tatha pabhedato.
By the Time the Sage described the Mind
And the Mind he described the Time.
All the Dhamma (mental or otherwise) classes are portrayed by an order of such a definition envisaged in Dhamma.
First two of the above statements refer to the external world and events in general and only the Buddha referred to the internal working (world) of the mind in relation to the relative concept of time.
Ceylonese are known for poor time management and time wasting. Even the nature's call of poor gecko (hoona) is not spared. With Avurudu (New Year) gone by an oblique reference to mundane affairs of conventional time and adopted time is worth pondering.
In physics time is a concept but not something substantial like momentum, gravity and electro-magnetism. It is concept that is vital for referring to relationship of moving objects. If there are no moving objects and space between them the time would become more abstract than what it is known today.
In Abhidhamma connotations the time can be only related to the timeless Samsara and that is also in relation to the mind (not to the body or perceived soul -Anathma) and its working (Anitta) in the Sansara Cycle (Dukka-or the unsatisfactoriness) and not vice versa. Any other relationship or relevance of time is of mundane nature.
This is where I have to pose a question, however open ended it may look like to our venerable monks who are advising the political forums what right they have and what authority they have on such a mundane (quite at variance with Buddha's teaching) affair as time and its reference to a standard (GMT) and its practical usage?
There is evidence to suggest that even the great civilisations of the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs stretching back 1000 years B.C also had invented calendar with 18 months and who can dictate that only Sackra's have the sole authority in the modern world?
My attempt here is partially to rectify this anomaly with some reference to Abhidhaama Philosophy of time for an apprentice and a wayfarer of Dhamma. True Buddhists have no problem with time and its concepts and aeons and Kalpas but it is the modern but misguided Buddhists who venerate some of the Vedic doctrines and driving nuts in our polity.
In Sansaric terms time is limitless and it can be related only to mind and its working on world of phenomena guiding the Kamma Principles and nothing else. Its only relevance is to the Kammic energies and their vagaries that express themselves in this world and beyond. The celestial world has no relevance to Mind, Kamma and Sansara except it is (whatever the worldly body one is reborn or habituate) transient (Anatta) spacial relationship in whatever existence of Bhava (Jathi- or Life) in the Sansara Cycle until it is terminated by one's own will and sustained effort by following the eight fold path laid down by Buddha and followed by his (eight fold) disciples.
Only relevance of time for Buddhist is do not waste it (time) on mundane affairs and astrology but strive hard on following the path of deliverance.
"Appamado Amata Padam" is a statement par excellence.
The only way (Ekayana Magga) is meditation whether it is Samatha or Vipassana Bhavana.
Any Buddhist monk who is propagating astrology in one form or other is one who is not versed in Dhamma and misguided and wasting lot of time in the Sansara Cycle.
The two words that come across in Buddhist scripture is Samaya that is related to the working of the mind and the other is Kalo (duration) which is denoted in reference to any event (Yuga in Sinhala) and is a concept as is in modern science and any other rendering is Vedic in origin and has neither Buddhist relevance nor importance.
I leave the reader to decide who is in the right tract and who is on the wrong tract any further discussion is waste of time and diverging from my original tenents of the Way Forward as a Buddhist in this modern world.
Violence
It appears to me none of the religions except Buddhism abhor the violence that include self inflicted violence. What I mean is the suicide bombing in the name of religion or terrorist cause. Destruction of life whether it is self or otherwise and all beings is alien to Buddhism.
This is where Buddhism stand alone in high ground.
This is where we have to define the role of a suicide bomber in the modern society. There is no justification for the existence of similar entity and for that matter intolerance or discrimination of any human being for his or her origin, class, creed, religion, race, sex and whether rich or poor.
We are at a cross roads.
There is alarming trend of religious fanaticism and atheistic views raising their heads.
This is where the Buddhist moral principles should stand erect and relevant. They are strikingly different from all modes of other religions where it is espoused that killing oneself for the sake of a religion or sect (there was a similar sect-Ishihara- in Japan) is as the supreme sacrifice and results in being born in heaven.
This is a myth we must dispel with utmost vigour.
This is happening in Ceylon too but for a different reason and goal. Labile children with childhood trauma are selected and indoctrinated to take life for a course which they themselves cannot enjoy in return. The fallacy of this inhuman misdemeanour has to be born clear of all religions. The religious leaders and dignitaries have failed in their duty and the present political systems, whether authoritarian, capitalistic, communist, religious or liberal systems have failed to deliver any form of organisation except further division. Devoid of human values (we may call it moral principles) the perceived global village is collapsing.
Divine Abode
The four sublime states of mind described in Buddhist psychology the loving kindness (Metta), compassion (Karuna), altruistic joy (Mudita) and equanimity (Upekka) are the very essence of humanity that is lacking in the modern world.
Why these Pali words do not have a place in Oxford or Webster's dictionaries is an indication how the world politics are shaped up in the current century.
There is no English synonym for Avihimsa (world sans violence) and that is how the Western Democracy has evolved. From Romans to modern day Mandela the way of dealing with crisis was absolute violence without recuperation. Only now there is some form of dialogue emerging but with Western Bias. Instead, hate, vengeance and violence are the operating themes of the world be that it may be terrorism or state sponsored violence sanctioned by the UNO.
The Suttas description of development of these supreme states is as follows.
" There, O monks, with mind full of loving kindness (compassion, altruistic joy or equanimity) pervading in one direction, then a second direction, then a third one, then the fourth one, just so above, below and all around and everywhere identifying himself with all, he is pervading the whole world with mind full of loving-kindness with mind wide, developed, unbounded, free from hate and ill-will."
Thereafter he follows the same theme with compassion, altruistic joy and equanimity.
It is said that in this country there were hospitals caring for animals. The decadence that has set in our society and world at large has to be reversed. We must not let the politics, economics and business mechanisms to decide our future however powerful they are.
They are not the only stakeholders.
Silent masses without a voice is quite evident after the tsunami episode. We must be self critical of our failures. We must be mindful and expose the changes that is currently taking place globally due to unsustainable scientific and economic exploitation of the third world.
The Way Forward
The world and all beings big or small need kindness, compassion and freedom to live with dignity. Live and let live should be the only currency for the modern world and why all the religions and religious sects (except perhaps Buddhism) are failing to arrest these dangerous trends is the question the UNO should be asking itself?
17th April, 2006
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Update on Politics in Ceylon
We had 79 political parties.
Latest data indicate there are 80.
That means a new party is registered recently.
It is certainly not a Tamil Party.
I can guess who is behind it.
When nominations are finalized we can have a better idea.
Do not get caught to this new party.
The plan is to hoodwink the voter.
BEWARE!
Age of Consent and a point of few
This is an answer to Democrats and their current "Woke Culture".
Unfortunately, current Labour Party in UK i no different!
People ask me why I left UK and New Zealand and this is part of the answer apart from racial discrimination especially Asians.
Real reason was Mrs.Thatcher legalizing homosexuality and I was trained to investigate paedophiliacs and and at that time there were over 35 paedophilics in British Parliament.
My last case was a Police officer abusing his own child, a girl of two years.
My consultant who was an Indian did not come to see the kid and got into hot water .
I immediately left UK.
I went to New Zealand and it was much worse there and the Irish descendants suffer from a major inferiority complex.
Age of Consent and a point of few
The contextual issues surrounding the age of consent cannot be defined by legal limitations alone. The fact that it needs legal definition is an indication of its importance in civil society especially in a multicultural society. With the advancement of knowledge base of the modern age, the trend should be for it to go up instead of go down. In a country like Sri-Lanka where the social fabric is fast deteriorating and with distinct lack of moral courage the legal implications are measured by the impact of economy when foreign paedophiles are not available to revive the ailing economy. The lowering of the age of consent is someway related to the capture of the British paedophile and the court case that would ensure. Any discussion of this issue should take into current and future implications. To name a few, comprehensive discussion should include physiological, psychological, cultural, national and moral issues. The haste that surrounds the up surge of this issue needs careful attention separately. That is also not my intentions. Various levels of discussions should be done by the experts in respective fields. I would not discuss the legal ramifications instead I would highlight medical as well as moral issues. I would state briefly, physiological and psychological aspects before winding up with Buddhist ethics. I firmly believe this would encourage other writers with similar interests.
Historical
In the prehistoric time the man lived up to 35 years and a woman up to 45 years (current age of female menopause). The man’s early demise was related to genetic as well as to physical (hunters with primitive tools sustained injuries more often than not) injuries. Poor nutrition (strictly speaking an ill understood biological clock) seems to induce menarche early and better nutrition seems to delay onset of menarche beyond 13 years. In prehistoric times with maternal mortality being high early maturity and early marriage had pivotal role in keeping the balance of nature.
Physiological
The age of consent at 13 is physiologically unsound. The average onset of menarche in our well nourished girls is about 13 years and it has some relationship to the height achieved by them. From the age of 13 the puberty spread over another 5 years and they attain maturity at around 18 years. Male puberty lags behind by 2 to 3 years. I am one who even discourages physical sports for children below 16 years of age. I have seen severe sport injuries to children under this age and myjudgement are based on my personal experience. As for sex, in this growing period especially pregnancy has serious consequences both to the mother and baby.
Psychological
The psychological development lags behind 3 to 5 years of physical maturity especially due to cultural impacts and consent below 16 years (preferably18 years) is unsound. According to Piaget’s stages of conceptual development the concrete operations develops between 7 to 11 years and formal operations develops between 11 to 15 years. If one is to apply hisgeneralisations the minimum age of consent should be 15 years and not 13 years. Abstract thinking and hypothetical analysis develop between 11 to 15 years period and assuming that all children can make logical decisions as regard to sexual (psychology of sex as opposed to physical sex) activities are fraught with many fallacies.
Medical
What we know definitely is that the early sex and multiple partners are sure recipe for cancer (at an early age) of the female genital tract. This is also the age they contract all socially contractible diseases including AIDS. The psychological makeup and their ramifications have lasting impact on the future adult.
Legal
Legal implications are only a reflection how seriously we consider all aspects of a problem and legal procedures do not cure the problem but a cosmetic application to please the mediocre.
Moral
In an ideal society the majority of Buddhists would be monks and sex is something that need not be discussed since they practice total abstinence. For the layman there is no morality beyond five simple precepts which is the foundation of civil society. It does not matter what age one starts sexual activities as long as there are no paedophiles and no extramarital sex.
Common Sense
What our politicians including monks in the parliament are lacking is common sense. My biggest concern is why I have got to waste my time writing this when there are over 20 education ministers in this country and a President who is the Minister of Education? Most of these children from 13-16 years should be in schools doing some intellectual exercises instead of sexual orgies. I am one who encourages school going age up to 22 years and use this period for character development and work skills. Instead making the young adults subservient to political groups they should be made independent individuals of productivity. That is only a wishful thinking.
Postscript
When I was in England one of the basictraining I had was on Child Abuse Investigation. We used to have case conferences on each case of child abuse, an exercise that I did not enjoy any way. One of the last cases, I detected was a child of two and a half years. I got an emergency call at half past one in the morning. Rushed to the casualty and found a distressed child without any clinical findings to account for her distress. My gut feeling was that they (parents) pulled me out of my bed thinking that I would be very cursory in my examination and would miss the tell tale story of child abuse. I told the sister that I would do a detail examination having taken all the precaution to calm the child. I found three pieces of hair in her perineum and sent them for forensic examination. Parent's explanation was that the hairs were probably dog's.
I would not go further because of the legal implications.
I of course left England never to take up a job in paediactrics (my children were small and I wanted them to grow in a normal environment) until my children were big enough. Last time I got involved in a similar case was in another western country where a mother poisoned the child (killed). That women went to prison.
I used to question myself why we have to do this? All this could be prevented by good parenting and education. Sadly it is lacking in the West as well an in the East. Sri-Lanka had been a heaven for notorious paedophiliacs. The role of LTTE in this racket needs close scrutiny. Child soldiers and paedophiliacs probably have some common links.
20th September, 2005
Friday, February 10, 2023
Puppy Download of S15Pup64-22.12+2-T.iso
Puppy Download of S15Pup64-22.12+2-T.iso
It took solid 45 minutes to download Slackware derivative of Puppy Linux.
I do not think a young would have the patience to wait.
Equally, Google could not get wireless keyboard configured to type this message.
Solution is to have a torrent download of Puppy Linux.
Then again I cannot browse the web while the DIRECT download is on.
This is not so with torrent which shares resources diligently.
Fault is with our (Ceylon) Telecom Industry.
It is a pain!
This is before 8 AM after 9 AM, no hope at all.