Tuesday, January 21, 2025
In Defence of Bab Lazar
J.R.J and Ranil Wichramsinghe-The Plan- Destroy Our Free Education
J.R.J and Ranil Wichramsinghe -The Plan - Destroying Our Education
I hear Ranil W is planning to publish a book.
He should introduce my piece here as an introduction to his book.
I have omitted some of his daring characteristics, as a respect for Mangala Sanaraweera.
This was published sometime ago and a few editions were made, today.
I am a Writer, Doctor by
profession (off from medical registration register for over 25years) and
lastly a University Teacher for over 15 years.
Never wanted to become a professor.
University is an
institution and it owns the individual and his / her status, when one
works for one of these institutions.
It does not stop there.
Long after one's exit from this institute and one has copyright ownership of the titles, University claims the Ownership.
All the writings one may wish to write one should write after quitting, any one of these institutes..
In my time, in
Ceylon one has to pay over Rs.35,000/= to get a copy of a chapter you
wrote for them but was published by it's printing press.
Some Universities own printing presses.
My university did not and the printing press doing the printing for the university was near our house. It is no more and has gone bust since practically every university was defunct after pandemic
closure (delay in having university entrance examinations and also delay
in opening the university for those who already qualified).
The pandemic which I believe was created by the Blilderbergs and Trilateral Commission was a blessing for these C.I.A. stooges.
Many of them have given up university education and a few of the lucky ones have found places in foreign universities.
I joined University as a permanent member well past 55 years and was a hard nut to crack.
University discontinued me on false grounds three times and I fought back by threatening to take them to courts of law.
University has a lawyer of low caliber and always fear litigation.
I am a freelance writer and I self publish my books at Amazon books.
I am currently working on five books.
I am currently doing
5 books (these have been already published during coronavirus pandemic), at my leisure and in the book of unique personalities, I met in
my life, I have a chapter on a nice guy who was the Assistant Registrar (only one Registrar and the rest are Assistants to the Registrar) of the Faculty of Medicine. It included Dental Science and Veterinary Science in our time. However, unlike today the numbers were limited by statues.
He was a very nice guy and he was unceremoniously discharged from the university because he did not bend the law to satisfy the then Dean or the Vice Chancellor.
Reason for his termination of service, I do not
know, and my guess is one of the dons wanted to adjust the pass marks or
class marks of one of his student stooges, probably of the opposite sex.
Registrar records
the marks on a register and once entered by hand in ink, the marks cannot be
altered and this is done individually and later checked in the presence
of the Board of Examiners who have the original list of markes.
The mark lists are properly sealed with lacquer and are checked by an examiner who is not the examiner of the particular subject.
These rules were established by the British when they were administing the Single University.
The Senate which is huge but with the specified number of place holders have to certify the final result. All these are done to prevent any possible fradulant acts of commission or omission. Our original certificates (Ceylon specified) were accepted pro rata by the General Medical Council in UK.
In the examination
board the board collectively decide to allocate additional minimum marks
to pass a guy or girl who has failed the subject 4 or 5 times.
I have failed only one guy (foreign) in Pathology in all my 15 years in the University.
He was a very nice
guy hopeless in Pathology but we made him to change the course of
studies and found him an alternative university in his mother country.
I have not heard about of him, since then.
All these rules,
regulations and bylaws come from British and lately we are relaxing them
to mass produce medical guys for export.
This guy (registrar) fought the university for over 16 years or more and he won with meager compensation.
He was not allowed to step into or legally barred from entering, his ulma mater for life for standing firm on right side of the law.
It an inhumane place and I am glad I am no longer, a part to it.
When politicians get involved in academic matters, they ruin everything.
The ex-president started as a State Minister of education.
He dismissed, the principle of the Issipathana School, Mr. Alles who did not bend to his wishes, on flimsy grounds.
He fought back and won but resigned to start the first private school, Gateway International.
One of my middle school teachers became the director of this school after retirement. He was a very sweet guy coming from a Catholic School.
Now my superior
professor who recruited me was removed from University Grant Commission
by the ex-president unceremoniously.
It was an assignment made by Chandrika Kumaranatunghe on merits.
My professor had a Grand Plan for the Entire University System and ex-president wanted to ruin this plan and appointed a political appointee as the Chair of the UGC.
My professor and his wife another professor left to Switzerland and never returned.
Current president's boss J.R.J wanted to ruin the university education to introduce private universities. He started by closing the Department of Pali, the moment he became the President. I regret, I voted for J.R.J. expecting him to be a better administrator.
I stand by my statement that the U.N.P. Top Guns wanted to destroy the Education of Pali and Buddhism in Ceylon.
We fought him "Head On" against his attempts to ruin University Education, and to keep the universities as
semi-autonomous institutions (with a huge Senate to administer the
independence of each institution, in academic matters of national interest).
In Ceylon teachers are recruited as puppets or prostitutes of the government in power.
Just now, I hear in the Teacher Training College Grounds, the
band playing and the teachers are paraded like school kids in the
teacher training college by reserved Army Officers.
Training teachers to be Subservient to the Army.
We are a Police State currently will soon become an Army State.
Teaching is low priority and subservience is the name of the game.
This is why I wish NOT to be born again in Ceylon.
Monday, January 20, 2025
Embargo on Thought
Embargo on Thought
I thought in this Modern World there is only Truth Embargo.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Debian the clear winner-The Gold for Light and Heavy Weight Championship
Posted on July 26, 2011
These instant Heroes had unassailable lead and they had to be pulled down to base level and gyrate them on the correct path lest all of us would be heading for disaster.
I hope senses will come to body politics of the country, unless of course the voters will bring the Heroes to Zeroes in double quick time at the correct gyroscopic orbit and time and they are not stupid or donkeys who carry burden.
We are of course in the minority in that context and what we can provide is wisdom if not vision.
We came to equilibrium position neither zero nor hero but a position of comfort from where we can gyrate to greater heights if correct recognition is extended.
Debian
Coming to IT industry where there are commercial heroes but the clear winner which gyrate at the correct orbit is Debian.
It was no surprise.
Score of above 3000 and well above the Gold Standard of 2500 for the standard CD.
For the heavy weight category it is within the Gold Mark where no other distribution has all the components at hand with over 30,000 package well tested.
It has gParted which is around 100 MB with partition and security features.
It has Blender, Scribus and Inkscape.
Only missing component was O.E.M. component.
It did not have a printed book but thanks to French and the English translation is due soon and available on line as open source.
It has all the versions from Mini to KDE to Server.
It has multi-language support including Sinhala.
It does not pretend to be a (commercial) hero but the wise counsel to all the other distributions which include Ubuntu and extending a hand to Linux Mint currently.
Additionally it is forging with FreeBSD, too.
It is the clear winner.
It is called Debian.
It is not for the lazy souls and it is the one who wants to dig a lot, sweat a bit and enjoy a lot of the hard labour.
Nothing is easy in the IT World.
One has to go into simple command line and give commanding orders till midnight commander sleeps like a sleeping beauty!
Debian Collection-Sinhala Capability
Debian Collection-Sinhala Capability
Posted on July 15, 2011
I am afraid you are not going to hear, I relate, any good dreams for a while and I was under the weather, this time not due to verbal diarrhoea of a political variety but really runny bottoms which virtually dehydrated me and the forced starvation had caused even hypoglyaemia to the extent, I have a slight headache even interfering my prolonged sleep on a Poya Day.
What usually happen is I have a good invigorating dream on Pre-poya day and I go straight to the computer and an email to Maha Brhma who virtually responds instantaneously to my dreams.
You may remember, we had an agreement unless the dream content has some humour, both ways my actual dreaming of it and its interpretation by Maha which makes the earthling practically starving of a good laugh, keep amused away from our boring politicians.
Suffice is to say I had some little fragmented dreams of no significance but a good one is long due.
Probably our cricket team’s poor performance and Sanga’s muted Revelations of Sri-Lankan Cricket would get no Sri-Lankan into a good mood awake or in dreams.
I have to agree with Sanga that Cricket was not something alienated with power politics or racial overtones whether it is South, North, East, West of in the Central Hills in the past but it seems under the present regime it has become alienated to extent one who is a Buddhist and coming from deep south only will get a chance to play for Sri-Lankan team as a newcomer and s/he should be in the ruling party as a member of the parliament or avid supporter to get some contracts to fatten his or her foreign exchange illegally.
Corruption is ripe and only difference is unlike Indians our officers are cushioned by political maneuvers.
This is what Sanga could not state (not the 9 O’clock News item) but his resignation at a time when we had not groomed a viable successor, is an indication of his disgust how cricket is manged here in Sri-Lanka.
Well done Sanga, you come from the hill capital was the only one like our Late Kadhiragarman who value principles of good governance.
I suppose you should now concentrate on law rather than cricket.
Be a chip of the old block.
Time will tell who with the political backing will get the baton but who ever who comes with political baton will be sure to fail, since cricket is the only game where power politics has no place.
England has shown us how it is done with transparency and I won’t be surprised if England will lift the Cup next time around if they persevere with combination of youth with talent and senors with grit.
Just for record the criticism of of Trot was unwarranted and he is the one who helped to lift the cup and silenced English armchair critics.
Well done Trot you have more to offer as a Senior Player, if Sanath can play at 41 plus you should be playing at 38 plus if you keep your fitness, technique and solid temperament to win the game for your country right, in the shorter version of the game.
But if you are not up to it don’t wait like Peterson but follow the Thescovic example and play for your county till 40 plus and enjoy the gentleman game.
I hope you will be in the team which lift the next world cup and I will be following you very closely if not the others in your team and if you need a push I will certainly give it, far away from your home from the East.
Make sure you beat Indians this time round in summer like what you did in Australia.
Indian money and politicians are ruining the game and only English can save the game from disgrace, IPL included.
We should never allow Bolliwood to fashion the game!
I am far off the target from Linux and Debian in particular.
Now I have array of CDs/DVDs to promote Sinhala Linux and devoting my time for Debian during our industrial action which has given me ample time to sit in front of the computer.
Debian has produced bug fixes and I have downloaded them too.
I think Deann fork should follow Unity experience while maintaining Linux Mint under Debian fold.
American Alien Reports
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Space,Travel, Infinity of Mind
Space,Travel, Infinity of Mind
This piece is bizarre and has no earthly bound limitations.
In fact, beyond the limitation of physics.
This discussion is not limited by space and gravity.
This is to bring out the concept of Rebirth in relative and comparative terms.
Kamma is its associate, the other side of the coin.
There is a Mongolian belief that dogs have many lives beyond one single life. They also carry forward memories of their past lives and are born again as dogs.
There is a good film “Purpose of Dogs”.
I disagree here and my "born/bone of contest" is that, most dogs are born as celestial beings (Buddhist terminology of Godly beings) or gods. They easily bypass the mundane human life having lived with them long enough to understand how nasty a human being can be. Biden, Putin and Zelensky and there followers are good examples that dogs have studied, on their own ways.
Killing opposing beings and War is there way of life.
Eating flesh of any kind are their liberal form of life.
They have their own form of gods and sects and the priests walk with the soldiers to kill the fellow humans. The Pope in his part keeps numb about War crimes of Israelite. Quote some disagreement in textural scripts of Vatican to purist theologies of other sects.
Mongolians follow a form of Buddhism that gives credence to rebirth and meditation. It is bit different from Tibetan Buddhism in which the term reincarnation has a special meaning and they all try to become Buddhas.
It is bit far fetched and farcical attempt. Really, antagonistic to simple Buddhism where Kamma and Rebirth explains the outcomes. The goal of "casting away" of rebirth can be done by less vigorous means.
Becoming an Arhanth is the goal not another or somebody like Buddha (PaseBuddha).
Rebirth cannot be proved but it cannot be denied.
That is my premise here.
There is a Western myth that Buddhism is a philosophy. I dispense the philosophical connotation outright, to begin with.
In the East, no philosophy has any roots simply because of Hindu belief in creator gods of many kinds. Buddhism is not a religion, in the sense of the Western and Middle Eastern beliefs where by following the Gospel of a mythical god one can redeem oneself and achieve salvation in, single life form.
Eternal damnation to hell is unethical on human terms.
Buddhism is a way of life but that way of life is little bit difficult and advanced.
One reaps the benefit of Good and Bad Kamma. How it turns out one cannot predict in advance. Recurrence of Karma Pala and Rebirth are automatic in nature.
It is like a wheel roiling down or rolling upwards with effort.
Action and reaction.
Equal and opposite reaction in physics.
One cannot escape and the rounds of births are there eternally to salvage good and bad without counsel of gods or elders supervising the outcome.
Buddhism starts with not killing any life including animal life.
It has four simple rules.
Indulgence in alcohol is not in that four and I believe it was added much later into the system.
The Arhants have only 10 very simple precepts.
Eating one main meal a day is one of them.
Vegetarianism is a simple byproduct.
I need to make some reference to Harry Potter series of films to begin with. The films are Creative and Imaginative but not Inspiring.
I never read any of these fictional books being a man of science.
Being an old time paediatrician that ended up as a gaeriatrician in later life, bringing fear and phobias to kids' mind is no good at all. Some bordering paranoia and may cause depression in them. I strongly oppose killing opposing imaginative creatures and witches.
I do not want to be born like any of those imaginative beings.
Sometime, I think the authors of these type of books, in their previous life form were born as a demons to relive them in this life.
I do not mind Harry Potter author, living with these miseries in this life but exposing them to young kids is pathological.
I have no objection adults reading them and becoming killers themselves in War of attrition.
Coming back to Title of this piece;
We are one gravity beings with somewhat limited capacity. We cannot live on the moon with less gravity than on the earth. We cannot live on Mars with more than on earth.
No gravity is anathema to all human physiology.
I see that, it is difficult to land on Mars. But forming colonies there is a another kettle of fish.
We need to design new form of transport which alien beings possess.
Aliens are no Gods but some type of advanced humanoids.
The space vehicles are most likely driven by radiation obtained from elements above 112. Elements above 110 are possible in some galaxies.
Now coming to Mind itself.
I have two books on mind one simple and one advanced at Amazon Book Store.
What follows here is a brief resume!
1. Mind is the best vehicle to travel the Universe.
2. Mind is a mystery.
3. With some meditation techniques one can achieve momentary state of escape from the brain.
However, the mind's attachment to brain is very strong and this escape mode is an illusion.
This is one reason (out of many), I oppose many forms of meditation.
Live this life in wakeful state.
Be mindful of every moment of life.
Be happy (Somanassa Chitta).
4. According to Buddhism there are 30 types of celestial beings who live in almost eternal bliss.
5. They have achieved them through vigorous form of meditation and become strongly bonded to these live forms and they believe that these state/s is/are eternal.
It is a form of delusion worse than living on psychoactive drugs. Psychoactive drugs have a limited time span unlike living as a high celestial being.
6. All are temporary states of bliss.
7. That brings us to the "Uncertainty Principle".
8. That is the entry point to Dhamma.
I leave it at that point.
"Somanassa Chitta' without attachment is the base to real bliss.
There are 3 other components.
Metta
Karuna
Upekka
In Defence of Bart Sibert and ME
As a Buddhist Lie I consider as a the biggest crime of this Modern World.
All World Media are owned by five big corporations and if the journalists as professionals do not follow rules laid down on them they are unceremoniously removed.
Tucker Carlson is a case in point but he survived.
According to Bill Kazing odds, in 1966 going to the moon was 1 to 10.000.
Many reasons cited.
Flying
Flying
Posted on June 7, 2011
I was very fond of flying.
I could have ended up as a good Flying Officer (not a fighter pilot) and I had all the right ingredients but I came close to it.
The day my father took a flight to India on good old Air Ceylon (Avro, I believe) and watched the the take off from the Air Control Tower, I new I was going to fly a lot.
I never told anybody especially my father (he would have never allowed me) but did my own survey and found that it was humanly possible for me to break in without a big connection.
I gave up that idea.
However, even though I did biology I made it a point to offer applied mathematics (I was very good in my mathematics and in fact I beat all the maths students from my biology class) and mathematics, in case one day fortune favours me.
Then of course moment I passed out and confirmed in service I applied for Volunteer Air force but I was not enlisted.
I had all the qualifications including physical and sports and was sure of getting enlisted.
When final selection came guy who was almost one foot short was selected and I was not even called for the interview.
Then when I did my own search and I found that somebody had a hand in not forwarding my application to the board.
Not only that somebody was enlisted without maths and applied mathematics (he was unceremoniously thrown out later after having being in Uniform for many years). I do not know who instigated his fall but I made a decision I will chuck the Government Service moment I finish my compulsory service, which I did with my father’s vehement protest.
That decision I always cherish and three months after the compulsory service I left the service for good saying myself I will never join it again.
I had been in service I would have ended up in a regrettable high post where corrupt practices are the norm.
The cost of my first flight to UK one way was less than Rs.4000/= and luckily for me by then my brother who scooted off before me without a red cent in his hand was very well settled abroad and not married too.
It took another almost five years for me to get all the training in accident and emergency service to qualify to become a flying doctor (before I changed my course radically to enter academic sphere) and my last job abroad had a quota of flying doctor and doctor for horse racing (I liked horse racing more than flying) if I was not otherwise engaged officially.
But before that I have flown from Northern Hemisphere to Southern Hemisphere on my own money and I never got a free ticket or a free ride but I never could qualify as a frequent flyer like most of the Arabs and American CEOs.
What could not dream here in spite all qualifications I could do it in a foreign country down under.
Funnily enough now I hate flying mainly because of the pricing of the tickets which has not come down in spite of stock market crisis and fall.
I always flew on my own money and never ever taken a red cent (I am entitled) from government coffers unlike our MP who go on entourage (rather pilgrimage) and make a mess out of our foreign affairs.
That is something my family is very proud of.
It is shame to fly on public money and that is a norm today.
Spacesuit and its Occupant
In zero gravity C.S.F fluid flows in opposite direction and effects sleep diurnal rhythm and critical decision making capacity.
This is an idea I hit upon by reading a blog writing of a experienced civil pilot not a fighter pilot.
Have you ever thought of the 50 things that the spacesuit occupant in space won’t share with his body soul?
You probably have not but I was one who was very much interested in this in my school days and in early days as medical student.
I cannot remember what I wrote then but this is an attempt to revise some of those physiological constraints not in particular order or in any order of merits.
Suffice is to say I get a sickly feeling when I think of space (occupied especially by alien elements).
Imagine yourself trapped in a escalator without illumination (light) and the computer circuit controlling the up and down movements gone haywire and it is going up and down in an erratic fashion.
That is a the feeling I get moment I put on a spacesuit for travel.
That is one thing you must consider when paying for, an enormous amount for a single trip in space.
Is is worth the experience and the money?
Probably not but having said that I have tremendously high regard for those guys who trained for years end on to go to space.
They were the human guinea pigs in space.
I often wonder how many times they felt sick and vertiginous even in their sleep.
Probably many many times and uncountable and that is the feeling I get if I am invited to wear a spacesuit and come hither for a go.
I will list the feeling inside my head with little imagination and some understanding of my own physiology if not of another being.
1. I hate the space constraint.
2. I hate heights. Imagine you are in a hotel overnight on the 21st floor room due to flight cancellation. You are well away from a fire exit and there is a blackout and fire drill.
3. Now about the daily routines I enjoy. Sleep to begin with. I think I can manage sleep upside down on space inside a spacesuit since there is nothing else I can do there except dreaming coming home.
These two are new words, I have coined for the Oxford Dictionary with local elections due now).
4. What about food. I won't enjoy the high calorie, high protein dehydrated food-fads of space travelers especially they are floating about and not placed on a plate with a well laid out nice table.
5. Coming to spirits (if they are allowed like a commercial flight) and drinks. When I suck (not drink them) a little, I want them to stay a while in the mouth and esophagus and stomach and not go flushing down like a vacuum cleaner on full throttle to the colon, in one go..
6. After meal I want to brush my teeth as my good dental friends tell me with a tooth brush floating in air and the toothpaste all over the face with me trying to reach as far as it goes to the third molar.
7. That also I can manage but how about a quick spend a penny in the loo with my prostrate pushing hard on the correct track inside but the squirt getting between my spacesuit and the underwear.
8. Then the master job of course I have decided one last one here and never in the shuttle till I come home and take some constipating medicare one a week before the departure. I do not want my smelly secrets floating in air and taking pictures of me in flight.
No thank you.
9. Last but not least I fear the algae and the fungi I have been accustomed on earth and living with me with mutual understanding all along my life for years taking advantage of the flight and growing all over me.
10. Last of all I love scratching my skin, just for fun and any other accessible point from my crown to the rump.
11. As for the rubbish I collect on flight no problem. We are trained to drop at any advantage point in the town and the Municipalities never clean them. I just open the window and drop it down when we are centering round Sri-Lanka with a note stating “coming from space shuttle in orbit no valuables dropped but destined for Sri-Lankans”.
This is why when President Obama invited me for a flight in space, I refused and gave over 100 volunteers from our parliament elected and wanting to get elected. He of course refused nay for parliamentarians after the Health bill was bailed out out.
Stux
Origin: Italy
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment:
Architecture: x86
Based on: Knoppix, Slackware
Wikipedia:
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: 2.0 | June 5, 2007
Stux – a LiveDistro (CD) Linux distribution from Italy which is based on Slackware and Knoppix.
The live system provides a combination of packages of Slackware Linux and kernel, modules and scripts of Knoppix. It includes automatic hardware detection and supports a vast majority of graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals.
STUX allows a full system configuration and usage through the STUX-Utilities, an unique, easy-to-use graphical interface specifically designed for STUX distribution.
Slackware users can use and configure STUX as they have always done with normal Slackware installations.
STUX GNU/Linux supports i386 platform and features Blackbox, Fluxbox, WindowMaker and KDE desktop environments on a single CD.
Version 0.5.3 was launched on December 16, 2003, the last version 2.0 was launched on June 5, 2007.
CYBERPARANOIA
Tux, STUX, D.E.F.T, M.A.D and C.W.F (Cyberwarfare), Cyberparanoia and Stuxnet
Posted on November 5, 2011
New vocabulary is entering general use with cyber attacks becoming preemptive at international stage. I am not going to be expressive here since hackers (they) might think my IP address is some defense attaché and attack with D.O.S (Denial of Service Attack).
Cyber space is free but it is not is not a fair play ground for a simple academic like me to engage in, who is nearer to the grave by natural causes and do not need any interference to my intellectual exercises unless, incapacitated by natural illness or loss of memory.
I am disturbed by the use of TuX in Stuxnet and this Simple Linux Guy (S.M.G) whom I adore.
Stuxnet is the Virtual attack that was directed at Iran’s nuclear reactors.
Tux is a penguin character and the official Mascot of the Linux kernel.
Tux in various styles. In video games featuring the character, female counterparts, named Penny and Gown, accompany him.
STUX
STUX is a bootable CD with a collection of software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and U.S.B devices and other peripherals.
STUX also contains an installation wizard on the Live CD for putting the distribution on a Pendrive and thereby booting from it.
DEFT is a Linux distribution with Digital Evidence and Forensic Investigations tools attached.
I was trying to download (point to point) it and I have failed in 5 attempts now due to abrupt termination of service.
MAD is Mutually assured Destruction
Mutual Assured Destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and National Security Policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction.
There are very interesting articles and one who interested in can browse but suffice is to say even an innocent device like Play Station can be used for an attack.
Other interesting point is that proprietary operating system with the O.E.M guys can use a device to send secret message to the company or the country’s National security for spying on your web activities.
This is why I am strongly against Windows 8 attempt to invade and intrusion of One’s Freedom of Use (O.F.U).
Cyberparanoia is the word I coin today to describe this phenomenon from a doctors point of view.
That is my contribution to the jargon and vocabulary.