Monday, April 30, 2018

Putin's history with elections

A (very) little history.
Why would Putin want Trump to be president? I did some research.
The story of Vladimir Putin's hatred of Hillary Clinton began in the russian 2011 elections (coincidence?).
Read REACTIONS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_legislative_election,_2011


For two years the russian people demonstrated in protest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932013_Russian_protests



Putin repeatedly accused Clinton, who served as U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, of interfering in Russia's internal affairs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#Putin_and_Clinton

General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff of the Russian Federation, writes in the "Military-Industrial Kurier“ February 27, 2013:

The very “rules of war” have changed. The role of non-military means of achieving political and strategic goals has grown, and, in many cases, they have exceeded the power of force of weapons in their effectiveness. All this is supplemented by military means of a concealed character, including carrying out actions of informational conflict and the actions of special operations forces. Collective intelligence, dynamics of the crowd in participatory systems such as social media, have immense power to support a collective action – such as foment a political change.

Read the United States Army Combined Arms Center report on that strategy:
https://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20160228_art008.pdf

In secret, Vladimir has achieved a global victory.

Behind the scene

During the overnight when the networks would go off the air the feed from the affiliated network was used to deliver recorded announcements to the station. Sometimes the feed would be left on during other recordings. This was captured at an ABC affiliate around 1980.




Sunday, April 29, 2018

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Create a USB drive to boot ANY computer:

Download the ISO file:
https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

Run the Windows USB installer:
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

Only 2GB USB drive or SD card needed.

Choose the ISO file, your Flash Drive and, Click Install.

Your USB device now becomes a boot drive for almost any computer or laptop. Ubuntu 18.04 will boot up and run your hardware with an option to install or simply test drive. If you don't like it don't install it. Bionic Beaver will check your hardware and load compatible generic drives for all your gear. Only NVIDIA might need extra drivers.


Friday, April 27, 2018

Clearwater Beach, Florida

March 17, 2018

This photograph is a screen capture of FOX13's webcam http://fox13cams.com/webcams/clearwater.jpg
Combined with another photo of the sky.
In this picture the sun is coming up at the same time it is setting. 

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Where did the word EASTER come from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre

Theories connecting Ēostre with records of Germanic Easter customs, including hares and eggs, have been proposed. Old English Ēostre continues into modern English as Easter and derives from Proto-Germanic **Austrǭ, itself a descendant of the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ews-, meaning 'to shine' (modern English east also derives from this root). In Northern Europe, Easter imagery often involves hares and rabbits. Citing folk Easter customs in Leicestershire, England where "the profits of the land called Harecrop Leys were applied to providing a meal which was thrown on the ground at the 'Hare-pie Bank'", late 19th-century scholar Charles Isaac Elton theorizes a connection between these customs and the worship of Ēostre.