2000-01-23 - 21:05:37

something ate my entry for today and i can't find the durn thing............gripe & groan .......

rats !

i see in the paper this morning that physicists have succeeded in making something be in two places at once- - - a beryllium atom - - - - and think it will be the basis for a new rank of super computers.

faster and smaller than what we have now. they say a quantum computer of 300 bits could contain more information than there are particles in the universe

so who are the people who counted all the particles in the universe ? and just how accurate was the count ? did price waterhouse vet it ? and are they going to put the blasted thing to work counting particles in neighboring galaxies ? why ?

so let's get serious a bit, looks like to me that the state of the art is so high tech now that we depend on what we used to call, "double domes," just the top ones of course to tell us what they have decided is good. one earlier "double d" probably said thalidomide probably was the greatest discovery since the wheel and made us common jokers believe it. wonder who was the most naive the scientist who thought it was so or we peons who believed him ???

clusters of disaster, like our agricultural elite who thought they could work miracles in africa and managed to mess it up. read about it. the process of throwing money and food at a problem, it is thought by the powers that be will wreak a solution. it seems to me that in the long run it corrupts to the point that some leader on a white horse in a white hat gains absolute power. with the wealth which came out of the taxpayers pockets. and we have bought us another dictator. in the process of a conversation i made the remark about some other process that it indicated "alcoholic thinking," which is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results each time. i know i am a big blabber mouth, but it's my diary. so there too.

there is a columnist in our town who wrote today mentioning "catch 22" by joseph heller and a similar situation here and phrased it a slightly different way, calling it "political circular madness," can't increase taxes to build enough prisons to hold all the convicts because state spending can only increase 6 % a year by the stricture of the TABOR amendment - - - so to build the prisons they are going to use funds earmarked for education k through 12 th grade.

and i feel deeply that education is the only hope for this country to survive as a viable democracy. i also feel that to have education do any good there has to be a basic teaching at home about respect, good behavior, ethics and morals thereby giving teachers something to do other than babysit a bunch of undisciplined bratty savages.

some of who could be the next team to commit mass murder on a more successful scale than the rich, supposedly well raised children of columbine high school did.

when we were kids the books we read and the pulps we snuck down to the drugstore to buy were full of pirates, "bad" indians, cattle rustling cowboys, violent city slickers, yadda yadda yadda

we waded in a sea of blood and guts most of our play time, but we knew the difference between stories and reality because our parents taught us about the difference, quite firmly if needed. now-a-days parents are seldom home enough to know how their kids are warping themselves by seeing the fictional stories on tv. what is need is a mom or a dad on hand to set the record straight when needed.

so, having solved some of the problems of the world - - - or having thought about them deeply, i will leave it for the night.

wonder where this entry will end up ? ? ? ? ?

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