Ecologically and Socially Friendly and Sustainable, Anarchic Civilisation
So you’ve just done Christmas with the family eh?
There’s a lot of valid questions I’ve been asked about my work and the vision it expresses, although these questions are usually asked in a very poor – even invalid – format, so I have to reinterpret the question, in order to help the querent understand their own question, and therefore understand the answer.
Continue reading “What happens to greed?”
I ran into an issue at 62,000 words on the book manuscript, being that MS Word struggles to render any pages that have embedded images, even when I’ve been careful to render the image at the lowest acceptable quality of image resolution – the problem was so bad, that the entire computer would seem to have crashed for a few minutes, and which is not acceptable given this is a reasonably powerful machine that should have no such issues with a simple display of text, formatting, layout, and the occasional image.
NOTE: The terms used below are explained further down ( after the review ), if you’re interested in a quick lesson about system configuration for your own home/office computers.
Continue reading “Technical update and product review ( Metabox ) – Nov 9th, 2017”
After recently writing an article about the inefficiency of capitalism as demonstrated by the leaf blower vs. broom, I felt compelled to write this brief follow up.
The future isn’t cryptocurrency, as cryptocurrency retains the fundamental flaws of currency, and the fundamental flaws of the underlying property/trade/currency-based economic paradigm from which currency is derived … the future IS however the blockchain, used for non-species-biased, non-property/trade/currency-based, and non-hierarchical ( aka anarchic ) justice economics & politics. Continue reading “Visionary Investor(s) required”
I’m one of the generation who grew up with the first home computers; some of my friends at school had things like the Atari, Commodore64, ZX81, Apple III, and Amiga ( amongst others ), while our family had an Apple IIe, one of the schools I attended had some Amstrads, and the local TAFE ( aka Australian technical colleges – actually called a CAE ( “college of advanced education” ) back in those days, long before it became a fully fledged university ) had a punch-card & tape-drive mainframe system ( probably IBM, but I’m not sure ). Continue reading “A lesson for Microsoft ( and other tech developers )”
For those of you whom were unable to attend the funeral of my father, or whom did attend but would like to read this extended version of my own contribution to the family eulogy, I post this for you – also for those whom wish to understand where I came from and perhaps get a glimpse of how my father influenced my obsession with Ecological & Social Justice & Sustainability. Continue reading “Extended Eulogy from the funeral of my dad, Dr Jim Rose”
I love you, I wish you were still here, I wish we had many more days in which to get to know each other better … but the last chance for that is now gone, and all I can do is study the things you left behind, including my feelings for and memories of you, in order to divine new clues as to the nature of who you were. Continue reading “Goodbye dad”
There are things that bother me, because they are stupid, pointless, irresponsible, and shouldn’t be happening in the first place.
How many million pieces of fruit do you think are eaten daily in the western world? For argument’s sake, let’s just conservatively say it’s 1,000,000 from conventional farms and mainstream supermarket retailers – it’s probably much more than that, but that’s fine, we’ll just say it’s 1.
Each of these pieces of fruit has a small plastic ( non-biodegradable ) sticker on it, with a number that means absolutely nothing to the consumer. So we’ve just taken a perfectly biodegradable packaging ( the skin ), and added an utterly pointless ( to the consumer ) non-biodegradable component. Continue reading “Those little fucking stickers on fruit”
Apparently some idiot was using my wiki subdomain to send spam, and apparently the people who coded the wiki media CMS didn’t think to automatically block any function by default with such a gaping security flaw in it, nor to warn anyone with big flashing letters on the screen during the install to say “if you don’t do this immediately, people will be able to just use your domain as a source of spam without even needing to know your login passwords”. Continue reading “Apologies re wiki spam”