Well, it looks like we may have endured...hopefully. For those who may have just returned from a galaxy, far, far away, pretty well most of the planet is under lockdown. True to form, your lockdown is not the same as my lockdown, and we are both different to others. Sadly, this inconsistency is...consistent.
Why are we under lockdown, I hear you ask...? Well...depending on who you talk to, and then who you might be prepared to believe or trust, there is a bug going around called Whu-Flu, Chinese Virus, or the latest, COVID-19 (or as I prefer - C19). It was originally supposed to have started in some Chinese wet markets in the Whuhan area of China, but that was discounted, as it moved on to then being something out of a very dodgy bio-lab, also in Whuhan. Seems like some nice people...
We didn't know too much at the time, but it looks like there is an industry where they take a bug/germ from some form of animal, and see if it can be transferred to humans (yes, folks, this is deliberate - this no accident!) The weird part is that the Chinese Communist Party (who we are finding more about every single day) are ruling the whole of China - with an iron fist. The CCP are not nice people. No matter what face they may present to the world outside China, no matter who, in the West, they manage to coerce (or buy) to promote their CCP agenda (and yes, there is an agenda,) then the CCP are crooks, of the worst kind!
We now find out that, for years - decades - they have been quietly moving into the West, buying up here, there, and anywhere they thought they could. They are expansionist!
We now have main stream media (MSM) outlets coming down on China's side - actually treating China as the 'victim' here, and, as I say, heaven knows how many politicians and main business types have been bought into the bosom of the CCP agenda - yes, politicians - those people who we are supposed to be able to trust, with our safety and have our best interests at heart! These people have no heart - all they see are $$$ signs. The businesses are the same. A lot of companies moved their local (USA/UK/Europe/wherever) set-up to China, essentially due to saving billions of $$$.
People have now lost count of the cost of this Pandemic - it is in numbers that are too high to be counted!
There is the financial cost, or course, but the human cost is huge. Thousands of businesses can now no longer operate, and they are folding. The personal costs are racking up, when company owners see so much of their life's work falling away. Suicides are up (sometimes dramatically) and show no sign of easing.
Is it worth it? That depends on what you count - it now turns out that the daily figures are nonsense. If someone dies, and has C19, then they write it up as a C19 death - which it may not be! Did they die with it, or did they die because of it? There is a HUGE difference! It means that when we listen or watch the daily results, we can ignore it - pretty well - as it's fiction!
And yet, they all continue with this fiction...small wonder that a lot of people, in a lot of places, have had enough. Yes, this bug has killed people, but so have car accidents, cancer, the normal flu outbreaks...so why is this different? It was supposed to be lockdown to flatted the curve, so that the Health industry wasn't over-whelmed by the cases - they can only deal with so much! So how has this morphed into now 'waiting for the cure', which may be a year away - or more?
The Western governments are slowly moving things along, but this is a little, possibly too late.
You cannot have the Gov paying people to stay at home - some people want to work - they need to work! We need to open up the Western world, and get to normal day to day living.
Monday, 18 May 2020
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Squares On A Chess Board
Have I mentioned that I love maths...? Perhaps not...
This is all coded in VB.Net - no DB at all, so it's stand-alone.
Never underestimate the power of maths - it is everywhere!!!
If you are too young, then check out what a chess board even is - it's a game that I think you'll like. Maybe start with checkers/drafts...?
It presents as an 8 x 8 grid, and the classic question is - how many squares are there on the board?
This is an update to the version that I loaded, nearly 3 years ago (https://www.bitchute.com/video/dwWOp696Hx8u/)
I have changed the way I produce this, completely.
The end result is the same, it's just that I re-visited it to see what I could improve.
I originally had a grid of buttons - it's now all in a datagridview. This is faster, and needs less lines of code.
I have reduced some 600 code lines to less than 200. Pretty neat...
If you watch the video (and I am writing this as I have developed a crazy hiss on my headphones...), all I am doing is demonstrating the different combinations that are available.
I will leave it up to you to actually do the maths on this - how many squares?
As a token gesture, if you really have look into this as a new problem, do NOT start with an 8 x 8 grid!
Why do I say that? Because you can't see the wood for the trees...
What do I mean?
Think about it - start with a single square. You have 1 square (well, duh!)
Then move to a 2 x 2 square - you have 4 single squares, but you also have 1 large (2 x 2) square.
Move to a 3 x 3. This gives you (work it through...) 9 small squares, 4 x 2 x 2 squares (work it...) and 1 large square.
Do you see a pattern...? 1 + (2x2) + (3x3) + ...
It's a repeating formula/equation.
Try to work out what the answer is - without cheating.
Good luck!
This is all coded in VB.Net - no DB at all, so it's stand-alone.
Never underestimate the power of maths - it is everywhere!!!
If you are too young, then check out what a chess board even is - it's a game that I think you'll like. Maybe start with checkers/drafts...?
It presents as an 8 x 8 grid, and the classic question is - how many squares are there on the board?
This is an update to the version that I loaded, nearly 3 years ago (https://www.bitchute.com/video/dwWOp696Hx8u/)
I have changed the way I produce this, completely.
The end result is the same, it's just that I re-visited it to see what I could improve.
I originally had a grid of buttons - it's now all in a datagridview. This is faster, and needs less lines of code.
I have reduced some 600 code lines to less than 200. Pretty neat...
If you watch the video (and I am writing this as I have developed a crazy hiss on my headphones...), all I am doing is demonstrating the different combinations that are available.
I will leave it up to you to actually do the maths on this - how many squares?
As a token gesture, if you really have look into this as a new problem, do NOT start with an 8 x 8 grid!
Why do I say that? Because you can't see the wood for the trees...
What do I mean?
Think about it - start with a single square. You have 1 square (well, duh!)
Then move to a 2 x 2 square - you have 4 single squares, but you also have 1 large (2 x 2) square.
Move to a 3 x 3. This gives you (work it through...) 9 small squares, 4 x 2 x 2 squares (work it...) and 1 large square.
Do you see a pattern...? 1 + (2x2) + (3x3) + ...
It's a repeating formula/equation.
Try to work out what the answer is - without cheating.
Good luck!
Books that we have on display...
Somebody has recently commented on Michael Gove having a book by David Irving (yeah, him...) on display. This flies in the face of sense and sensibility. The meaning here is that he shouldn't have the book. At all. Why not? To have a book showing that somebody else may find questionable has nothing to do with the owner, but everything to do with the viewer. It seems that they may be a snowflake, just looking for a reason to melt. Poor diddums…
Why must so many people be desperately objectionable? I mean, it's not as if we all have an easy time at the moment (C19, lockdown, Stasi-fied police tactics and threats in the UK, arrests for opening your shop in the USA...?)
What the hell is going on?
We now look to be seeing daily figures of C19 deaths that are wildly out - they are misleading, and it seems deliberately so. We literally have people dying, and we don't have any indication whether they have died BECAUSE of C19 or WITH it - there is a HUGE difference.
So what are we to do? This week, it looks as if we may get a relaxing of the East German/Russia approach to this crazy time, but to what extent can we get back to a normal life? And talking of a 'normal life', think of what we can see and hear in the West, and then compare that to what we are finding out about within China itself? They are lying to us all, that is clear, but to what end? They should realise that we will never be able to do any real business with them after this, as they simply don't trust us, and we have no reason to trust them.
So many people have died, and it looks like we will never know the true casualty list within China - they have the means to squash anything, literally bury any news that might find it's way out.
And we now see that, over many years, we are doing so much business with China that they are holding us to ransom! How the hell did this happen (apart from companies being in bed with the CCP to make sure that the West becomes a vassal state to them).
This is a disgrace, and threatens our way of life - if any western government comes out of this C19 mess and thinks it can continue as normal with China - vote them out. They MUST be removed.
If you don't react to this Wu-Flu, then it won't be long before we all have that famous little red book from China on our shelves, for the world to see.
May 2020...Getting used to lockdown...and retiring!
Getting used to lockdown...and retiring!
Well, this is a bit weird. I am now into my 3rd month of retiring, and at the same time I have to cope with lockdown?
That's a little unusual. I am trying to go through all of my emails, and unsubscribe to so many that I just never got around to...there are lots!
Also, I am in groups within LinkedIn that are not relevant to me, since I plan to be retired - I am done with the Mon-Fri commute!
Having slaved over a hot keyboard for the last 45 years (give or take) I am now at home... slaving over a hot keyboard.
I am enjoying having time on my hands to catch up with all of the things that I wanted to do for the last few years/decades - I now have that time!
I can look at the clock on Monday morning, see that it says 08:00, and I can go 'Nah...' and turn over and go back to sleep, or get up, put the kettle on, look outside, and start my day doing the things that I want to do - not what has been forced on me for so long.
Do I regret giving up work? Why? Why would I regret it?
I might miss the interaction, the pace, the pressure, but regret it? No way!
Also, having just finished at a very small but well-placed software company, I can actually say, with some confidence, that I am out of touch with most things modern. I like to have time to think about things, to try things through, but the day to day pressure in any small company means that I don't have that luxury.
So I am home, because I have to be (lockdown) and because I want to be (retired). Hey I'm no longer 25, and I'm no longer at my fittest. The last year or two have thrown some medical complications at me, so I am looking forward to doing my things, when I want to, and at my speed.
What can go wrong...?
I can now follow:
COVID-19,
the up and coming USA elections, the USA politicians (those that should be certified, and those that shouldn't)
Media commentators (those that I like, and those that I follow but don't have to...)
I can read up on all those books I bought, and have still to read...there are a few.
I can catch up on all that music that I want to catalogue and put into Finale, make videos of, and put up on bitchute (not so much youtube these days...bad vibes from there...)
...early days, but this is going to be a good time...
Early April, 2020...
Oh My Gawd… how did we ever get to this nightmare situation?
Seriously - how did we ever get to the nonsense situation where we (the West, the UK, the USA... all get held to ransom by some country that literally holds the entire planet as hostage, and they caused the original problem!
How is this ever supposed to be excusable?
Where to start...?
What is the problem? What are we all screaming about...?
How do we handle the current situation - what do we do now?
How do we handle this for the future...? It's all very well to say that we can settle things for the next week or two, but the next 6-12 months...
Come on! This should not be Rocket Science!!!
In case you have just surfaced from under some rock, we are under siege - the West - the USA, UK, mainland Europe, and more...? What part of this do you not get?
The Media - it's tricky - what part do you read, and trust? It's actually simpler to say what parts do you follow and believe? It's usually a smaller list...
The mainstream media (MSM) is actually proving itself to be a waste of space. What they say, you simply cannot believe!)
Saturday, 28 March 2020
Covid-19 28 March 2020
Since we are all doomed (apparently...) I thought I would just mention that so far
1) I am fine. Well...'fine' may be a bit strong. I'm OK....well, OK may be pushing it... BUT
2) I am still breathing, with a pulse!
3) I have not yet gone down with this damnable WuFlu thingy. Yeah - is that 'racist'?
I really don't care. Go sit on a sharp, pointy thing...
4) Others around me have also not gone down with it....so far...?
Massive - HUGE! - sympathy to those who have, or who are suffering (or have suffered) or have lost the battle. Dreadful. The whole Social Media farce seems to be 'the Gov: it should have been more, and sooner' to just about everyone. Trump, Johnson, et al. Whatever hoops they have been jumping through, it isn't enough (to some people...)
To others, it's a case of
1) we don't really understand the issue here, so we will put some steps in place, and review...
2) Reviewing turns into a daily (hourly?) setup, and it's still not enough. You can't please everyone...
3) It will never be enough. No matter what was done, who it was done to, who it was done by, it will never be enough. Until you acknowledge that, then it's pointless.
What are we supposed to be doing with this whole social distance thingy? 2 metres seems to be the norm, but how do you deal with the loopy types who have not read the memo? Or those utter clowns who decide that they don't like you, and they are going to cough. In your face. And then tell you that they have C19!!!
How are people this stupid? Really, how did the Human Race descend to such rampant stupidity?
They deserve no sympathy. They get none from me!
But sadly, the powers that be don't seem to have grasped the situation...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8102451/Coronavirus-Australia-Woman-kicked-Jetstar-flight-coughing-row.html Just vile: who would let this lunatic in their store, ever...?
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/26/us/woman-coughed-on-produce-trnd/index.html
Can you be drunk and NOT be stupid...? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/27/woman-coughed-police-officers-face-jailed
The list goes on: just google it! If you are having a bad day, stay at home! Please!!! Do NOT take it out on any of the emergency services, as they will take it personal (quite right!) and make sure that, if you thought your day was bad, it just got worse. It is NOT the emergency services fault that you are a total dickhead!!! It is YOUR fault! If you cannot, and will not deal with it - do NOT blame the emergency services! How many times does this have to be spelled out, in Plain English?
And yes, I am very good at English - just don't call me if you want this in any other language!
So. We have what can only be called a New Experience to so many people - Social Distancing. It means that, hopefully, if
1) the population pay attention, and
2) the population keep 2 metres apart, then we may get through this mess, sort of unscathed.
Can we all (at least in the West...and maybe Australia + New Zealand - just agree that we are taking the best advice available - you may not like it, but damn it - if you've got a 'better expert' then bloody say so! Until then we do what we do - we knuckle down and just get through the next few days! You can't ask any more.
MASSIVE salute to all the people involved in this - the NHS personnel, now the Forces, the police, the ambulance, and who know who else! This is going to drag Everyone in! YOU ARE ALL AWESOME!!!! How this fool managed to even survive this altercation with the police...it's essentially a terrorist activity; what can I say? They shoot you for this! She is truly vile. https://www.miragenews.com/police-charge-woman-after-spitting-on-officer-during-vehicle-stop-greenacre/
1) I am fine. Well...'fine' may be a bit strong. I'm OK....well, OK may be pushing it... BUT
2) I am still breathing, with a pulse!
3) I have not yet gone down with this damnable WuFlu thingy. Yeah - is that 'racist'?
I really don't care. Go sit on a sharp, pointy thing...
4) Others around me have also not gone down with it....so far...?
Massive - HUGE! - sympathy to those who have, or who are suffering (or have suffered) or have lost the battle. Dreadful. The whole Social Media farce seems to be 'the Gov: it should have been more, and sooner' to just about everyone. Trump, Johnson, et al. Whatever hoops they have been jumping through, it isn't enough (to some people...)
To others, it's a case of
1) we don't really understand the issue here, so we will put some steps in place, and review...
2) Reviewing turns into a daily (hourly?) setup, and it's still not enough. You can't please everyone...
3) It will never be enough. No matter what was done, who it was done to, who it was done by, it will never be enough. Until you acknowledge that, then it's pointless.
What are we supposed to be doing with this whole social distance thingy? 2 metres seems to be the norm, but how do you deal with the loopy types who have not read the memo? Or those utter clowns who decide that they don't like you, and they are going to cough. In your face. And then tell you that they have C19!!!
How are people this stupid? Really, how did the Human Race descend to such rampant stupidity?
They deserve no sympathy. They get none from me!
But sadly, the powers that be don't seem to have grasped the situation...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8102451/Coronavirus-Australia-Woman-kicked-Jetstar-flight-coughing-row.html Just vile: who would let this lunatic in their store, ever...?
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/26/us/woman-coughed-on-produce-trnd/index.html
Can you be drunk and NOT be stupid...? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/27/woman-coughed-police-officers-face-jailed
The list goes on: just google it! If you are having a bad day, stay at home! Please!!! Do NOT take it out on any of the emergency services, as they will take it personal (quite right!) and make sure that, if you thought your day was bad, it just got worse. It is NOT the emergency services fault that you are a total dickhead!!! It is YOUR fault! If you cannot, and will not deal with it - do NOT blame the emergency services! How many times does this have to be spelled out, in Plain English?
And yes, I am very good at English - just don't call me if you want this in any other language!
So. We have what can only be called a New Experience to so many people - Social Distancing. It means that, hopefully, if
1) the population pay attention, and
2) the population keep 2 metres apart, then we may get through this mess, sort of unscathed.
Can we all (at least in the West...and maybe Australia + New Zealand - just agree that we are taking the best advice available - you may not like it, but damn it - if you've got a 'better expert' then bloody say so! Until then we do what we do - we knuckle down and just get through the next few days! You can't ask any more.
MASSIVE salute to all the people involved in this - the NHS personnel, now the Forces, the police, the ambulance, and who know who else! This is going to drag Everyone in! YOU ARE ALL AWESOME!!!! How this fool managed to even survive this altercation with the police...it's essentially a terrorist activity; what can I say? They shoot you for this! She is truly vile. https://www.miragenews.com/police-charge-woman-after-spitting-on-officer-during-vehicle-stop-greenacre/
Saturday, 14 March 2020
Bookish me...Jihadist psychopaths and the like
Alright, the world is a complicated place. I get that. Really, I do. With 7B+ people you should literally expect the unexpected (thanks, Grasshopper), but on top of that we have the notion that some groups within that 7B+ are of the opinion that they are right.
They are correct. In fact, they are the ONLY correct people on the planet, and it is YOU who are in the wrong!
This is, for a start, unhinged thinking (if you can even call it REAL thinking) - it is! If you are of the opinion that YOU, and ONLY you, are correct, or right in your world view...that says SO VERY MUCH about you (and none of it is good.) It means that, with often no (or little) verification or serious evidence, you make outlandish claims of your superiority, your dominion over others - and yet you expect that the rest of the world is to just roll over and (literally) play dead?
Dude - what planet are you from, because it surely isn't the one that I am living on!
Examples? Really - you need examples? Wow...
calling Trump Hitler is a sad and sick joke. If he was Hitler, then you and your Hollywood types literally would not be able to call him Hitler - why - how? - do you not get this?
Calling Trump racist - I can't even begin to explain this...not to someone who simply does not have the facility to understand! Calling Boris Johnson racist...oh, S.T.F.U! You useless, sad, pathetic fools - get a grip!
Do not get me started on this circus show of the European Union - what a disgrace!
From start to finish, this has proven itself to be a wholesale disaster - it has NO redeeming features at all!
We have the EU devotees, who often spout the most wonderful drivel, and are surprised when people either do not listen, or shoot them down in flames! The pro-EU types have at best half the argument - and literally ignore all the rest.
What part of this 'open borders' fiasco do you still want to promote? Any of it? Some of it? Why?
How are you still clinging on to the Titanic of the 21st Century? It is an unmitigated disaster, of unprecedented proportions! We are literally losing entire countries to the invasion - call it what it is - it is an invasion of the lowest denominator that Europe has seen in centuries! And yet...and yet, the people who started, and want to continue this farce - are still returned to office!!!!
, This I simply do not understand. Are you that thick, that you somehow believe that voting for the same party, the same beaurocrats, will somehow deliver a different result? JEEEEZUS!!!! How can you be that dumb!!!! Anyway...my main point in this blog...?
I have just got the latest book from Jamie Glazov, Jihadist Psychopath, and I have started to read it through.
On a separate note, I like what (little) I know of Jamie - he has been through a lot, and is a legal immigrant to the USA, and is making a success of what he does. Good for him!
What I find to be murky, and worrying (not that I am, as yet, losing any sleep over it) is that Jamie, and many others in the USA, have what I can only call a strong Christian bent. This has nothing to do with Trump - sorry, PRESIDENT Trump. This religious fervour was in place years before Trump was even running for office - it's just that with him in office, this religious flavour seems to have found...a 'something', a force that they love, and will no doubt use.
To the wise...? Who knows - really, who can say? I thought years ago that Trump was an excellent choice, and it is only him keeping Pence in some form of check that is preventing the USA going full tits-up and becoming some theocratic dictatorship - which is ironic, if you look at what the USA thinks it is fighting against!
Look, I am in the UK - we have had so much crap from the EU in the last few decades (and few really understand what that even means) and those in the USA are (reluctantly) waking up to the farce of their politics for the last century (and more!)
Oh, Canada - what a failure you are! JT is at best an embarrassment (I do not know - what else can you call him?). At worst...he is engineered to bring down the West. Your call... Vote! For goodness sake (literally) go out an make your vote count! It may be the difference between live or die (and that scares me - a LOT!!!)
They are correct. In fact, they are the ONLY correct people on the planet, and it is YOU who are in the wrong!
This is, for a start, unhinged thinking (if you can even call it REAL thinking) - it is! If you are of the opinion that YOU, and ONLY you, are correct, or right in your world view...that says SO VERY MUCH about you (and none of it is good.) It means that, with often no (or little) verification or serious evidence, you make outlandish claims of your superiority, your dominion over others - and yet you expect that the rest of the world is to just roll over and (literally) play dead?
Dude - what planet are you from, because it surely isn't the one that I am living on!
Examples? Really - you need examples? Wow...
calling Trump Hitler is a sad and sick joke. If he was Hitler, then you and your Hollywood types literally would not be able to call him Hitler - why - how? - do you not get this?
Calling Trump racist - I can't even begin to explain this...not to someone who simply does not have the facility to understand! Calling Boris Johnson racist...oh, S.T.F.U! You useless, sad, pathetic fools - get a grip!
Do not get me started on this circus show of the European Union - what a disgrace!
From start to finish, this has proven itself to be a wholesale disaster - it has NO redeeming features at all!
We have the EU devotees, who often spout the most wonderful drivel, and are surprised when people either do not listen, or shoot them down in flames! The pro-EU types have at best half the argument - and literally ignore all the rest.
What part of this 'open borders' fiasco do you still want to promote? Any of it? Some of it? Why?
How are you still clinging on to the Titanic of the 21st Century? It is an unmitigated disaster, of unprecedented proportions! We are literally losing entire countries to the invasion - call it what it is - it is an invasion of the lowest denominator that Europe has seen in centuries! And yet...and yet, the people who started, and want to continue this farce - are still returned to office!!!!
, This I simply do not understand. Are you that thick, that you somehow believe that voting for the same party, the same beaurocrats, will somehow deliver a different result? JEEEEZUS!!!! How can you be that dumb!!!! Anyway...my main point in this blog...?
I have just got the latest book from Jamie Glazov, Jihadist Psychopath, and I have started to read it through.
On a separate note, I like what (little) I know of Jamie - he has been through a lot, and is a legal immigrant to the USA, and is making a success of what he does. Good for him!
What I find to be murky, and worrying (not that I am, as yet, losing any sleep over it) is that Jamie, and many others in the USA, have what I can only call a strong Christian bent. This has nothing to do with Trump - sorry, PRESIDENT Trump. This religious fervour was in place years before Trump was even running for office - it's just that with him in office, this religious flavour seems to have found...a 'something', a force that they love, and will no doubt use.
To the wise...? Who knows - really, who can say? I thought years ago that Trump was an excellent choice, and it is only him keeping Pence in some form of check that is preventing the USA going full tits-up and becoming some theocratic dictatorship - which is ironic, if you look at what the USA thinks it is fighting against!
Look, I am in the UK - we have had so much crap from the EU in the last few decades (and few really understand what that even means) and those in the USA are (reluctantly) waking up to the farce of their politics for the last century (and more!)
Oh, Canada - what a failure you are! JT is at best an embarrassment (I do not know - what else can you call him?). At worst...he is engineered to bring down the West. Your call... Vote! For goodness sake (literally) go out an make your vote count! It may be the difference between live or die (and that scares me - a LOT!!!)
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