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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of August 3, 2017

Your eyes are more powerful than you realize. If you were standing on a mountaintop under a cloudless night sky with no moon, you could see a fire burning 50 miles away. Your imagination is also capable of feats that might surprise you. It can, for example, provide you with an expansive and objective view of your entire life history. I advise you to seek that boost now. Ask your imagination to give you a prolonged look at the big picture of where you have been and where you are going. I think it's essential to your discovery of the key to the next chapter of your life story.

Many is the time when I drive to Sevier County, I curse myself for not bringing my binoculars.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 5, 2016

"Anybody can become angry," said Greek philosopher Aristotle. "That is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." I'm pleased to inform you, Sagittarius, that now is a time when you have an exceptional capacity for meeting Aristotle's high standards. In fact, I encourage you to honor and learn all you can from your finely-honed and well-expressed anger. Make it work wonders for you. Use it so constructively that no one can complain.

Anger used to be my worst internal enemy, and I guess I still have problems with it. But lately I'm the coolest I've ever been and miss getting in somebody's face (especially if it's DESERVED).

When I was in examination years back, I told the therapist about something called "carburetor icing". In aircraft engines, the fuel intakes can get much colder than the rest of the engine because of the speed of the airflow around the components and the altitude. If the air is very humid, you might have the hazard of water vapor being induced into the carburetor and then flash-freezing, blocking the air and fuel getting into the engine, and then the engine seizing as a result. I said, there is something like that with human emotions: run too hot and you break the relations that sustain you. Run too cold and nobody wants to relate with you because they think you can't empathize. Where is the healthy temperature?

March of The Machines.

There was a part that meshed directly with the "firmware" portion of POI's Machine. Law offices, prosecutor and defender divisions are now commonly using analytical computers to research cases and collect evidence in the "discovery" phase. How much you want to bet that The Machine already is looking in on every single one of these systems to tell who's being investigated...and who's doing the investigating? Maybe even to recruit potential future assets?

Stikfas II figures scale at approximately 1/23.

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In this past hour, of course.

As a Christmas gift, my sister and brother-in-law gave me a copy of the American Heritage History Of World War Two which I had never owned before, in spite of my long years of interest in the period of history.

What is sparking this particular note here is a table that was calculated by the corporate contractor that the Nazi German government had running the Holocaust death camps. (Yes, THAT Schindler. Him and his peers.) They had calculated the profit for an "average" inmate who was put to death after a mere nine months of slave labor. I won't reproduce it here, because I'm sure it's available on-line somewhere and I could probably come back and link it if I want.

I decided to interpolate the data in the table to the here and now. First, I found a site that had foreign exchange rate data, which told me how much a ReichsMark was worth in Dollars before hostilities broke with America. Then, I found another site to give me inflation figures for the last seventy years.

Care to guess? How much was a human life worth to Mr. Schindler and his kind?

$45.50 in 2012 money. Less than most of my friends pay for their TV programming per month, I imagine. About a week's worth of groceries for my household.

Would you kill somebody for $45.50? How many people on this world now would answer "Yes" to that question? The only way to guarantee that everybody answer "No" is to raise everybody's standard of living to the level that a human life is more than that figure. It is too cheap in too many places for us to say "Never Again" and mean it.

A nice gem from a few years ago that still delivers.

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I think we're already seeing the effects. The big problem is that there isn't all that much individuals can do, because market forces are driving so much of the behavior that created the situation and feeds it.

( Scots & Water? Salute! )

Current Music: Big Country -- One Great Thing

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All of a sudden I think more of it is genetic--or at least fundamentally part of the human condition--than I would have expected before. My evidence: I saw my nephew do something that I thought was my own way of doing something...only I never taught him it and am sure he didn't learn it from his parents. Just a thing of habit...or perhaps, instinct?

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All I got is e-mail. Don't use text messager systems because I don't have enough connectivity speed and reliability now. And forget the phone. I HATE how I sound over the phone.

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Again, I have to remind everybody that all "technology" means is applied know-how. Lower forms of life apply their know-how to survive. Humans apply their knowledge twenty-four hours a day. We cannot "better mankind" by being ignorant and abandoning methods that work, have worked, and will continue to work for us.

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I feel no need to keep track of such things. Kindness is not a form of money as such; it is both more important and more desirable--and less tangible. But is it "random", or just part of the duty of the human being who is capable and given opportunities to aid his fellow?

How A New Technology Six Thousand Years Ago Made Europeans What They Are.

Weird Japan Is Super-Weird--(with apologies to the theme song of Urusei Yatsura) but we love it anyway. Thanks to

robotech_master, who posted this on his Facebook.

...A Cosmic Zoom. ( Sense of Perspective )

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Of course not. It's difficult getting into the heads of others. When I create I do so just for my own satisfaction and if it satsfies others, then okay. No point on getting hung up about it tho'.

( Working Without A Net--Or A Network )

Current Music: Alan Parsons -- Turn It Up

...When someone from Knoxville sees another someone from Knoxville whose pant fly is undone, they can say, "SmartFix 40 is open!"

The "Rape Undone By The Pizza Delivery Man" Story Suddenly Isn't So Sliced-and-Baked.

Seems BOTH accused and ACCUSER have skeletons in their separate closets.

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