June 12

6:15 Just wrote about dreamtime or dreaming, the Australian aboriginal spiritual belief as a possible source for Buddhism, ancient migration from south (Indonesia, Australia) as a source for apparition of untouchables in Indian society and a and a Boeing Dreamliner crashed in India.

8:35 Să vă trăiască... ministresa!

June 11

2:30 Am verificat din nou să nu greșesc. Partea alocată din Bugetul de Stat pentru Ministerul Muncii pare să fie 95 miliarde (pagina 12), sau cea mai mare din toate ministerele, a șaptea parte din tot Bugetul de Stat.

Urmează Educației și Cercetării cu 75 miliarde (aici avem salariile profesorilor, 37 miliarde, pagina 32), Transporturilor cu 50, Dezvoltării cu 30 etc..

Însă Ministerul Muncii nu administrează doar partea sa de la Bugetul de Stat. El mai are, prin Casa de Pensii, grijă și de totalitatea Bugetului de Asigurări Sociale, cu cheltuieli de 155 miliarde (pensiile), pe care tocmai l-am ridicat pe drive lângă bugetele ministerelor mari.

O spun de ani de zile. Nu e ușor să afli pe net bugetele ministerelor. Totdeauna vin cu cifre relative. Au crescut, au scăzut. Dar niciodată, niciodată nu vin cu cifre cinstite. Am eu o postare veche cu bugetele la toate ministerele din 2019. Atunci, mi-am promis că o să fac una similară în toți anii. Dar m-am luat cu alte chestii...

Deci avem la Ministerul Muncii pe de o parte 155 miliarde tot sistemul de pensii din România care mie îmi pare mai real (dacă împărțim 155 miliarde la pensia medie și 12 luni ne dă 4,7 milioane pensionari) și pe de altă parte 95 de miliarde din Bugetul De Stat. Cel mai bănos minister din România. 250 miliarde, un sfert din Bugetul de Stat.

Ce fac ei cu acei 95 de miliarde, nu o spune nimeni. Bănuiesc că aici se ascund mult amintitele pensii speciale. Oare să fie atât de mult? Nu, Ministerul Muncii nu plătește "salariile tuturor angajaților la stat", fiecare minister o face în parte din propriul buget, ca de exemplu 37 miliarde la Educație, pagina 32, link mai sus.

Salariile plătite de Ministerul Muncii pentru proprii angajați sunt trecute la "cheltuieli personal" și sunt în valoare de sub un miliard (629 milioane).

10:10 Have you ever try to migrate with your phone to a different provider and the only way was "to root" your device? Do you know what it means?

In Android (Linux) root access is the same as administrator access in Windows. It gives you privileges to do anything including getting rid of restrictions (using some app that needs and gets "root access") imposed by the provider who invested in your device.

Which means Android runs in user (non-administrative) mode by default. More than that, most of the times is locked in user mode. Though you (partly) own the device, you are never supposed to use administrative privileges unless you decided to hack it.

Of course a phone is not a computer from many standpoints of view, you don't need administrative privileges, it maintains self, nothing is left to the owner but technically it is nothing but a Linux powered (and powerful) computer which runs an app to allow you to make phone calls and many others to allow you to do other things.

One of the reasons they don't give you root access is most users will mess with them so badly that in a short time the "phone" would be useless.

Now we are ready to read this phrase.

I wanted to continue yesterday exactly on this subject but forgot when MSN (what else, Microsoft Network) that is on my list of sites to open (simultaneously) every time i want to read the news today pushed me a commercial with best antivirus software.

Why would i need antivirus software? Because Windows was built sloppy, with none of the security features present on Linux from its design. It was and is a flimsy, quick and dirty operating system "for the masses" working in administrative mode by default and because of that it has been patched and patched so many times it became the bloatware we look at today and we have to have on it an antivirus software, otherwise...

Problem is of course, how much time Seattle Wa Shinto based Microsoft made Windows "powered" computer owners have spent over years, put together on the whole planet, to fix their computers (for this reason and so many others, like i spent two more hours last night trying unsuccessfully to fix the jittering problem on Windows Media Player) and how much this has this contributed to global warming and fulfilling Buddha's sermon of the seven suns?

Have you ever had to run an antivirus on Android? No and one of the reasons is the vendors won't be able to sell them if you did.

1:17 It's been a busy day on my blogs but it's about to get busier. This phrases quoted a couple of days ago opened my eyes.

I said a few days ago that Japan had its own untouchables. Also about the connection at least at one time between Ancient Egypt (and Mesopotamia) and Eastern Asia, on the silk road.

It is said that when the samurai caste was (about to be) abolished, most samurai took office jobs within the administration. It is logic to assume they continued the same type of jobs and endogamy (not mixing with other castes and especially with the Burako).

So far from videos, images and other (visual) experiences i started to distinguish at least two different types of Japanese faces. One that i call the office face, that seem to be close to images from Ancient Egypt like that of Nefertiti with features almost close to Europeans and certainly to Chinese.

On the other hand, i see the monkey or snake type of face (Khufu), more prevalent in the teams around the apartment where i live. The kind i find a bit repulsive, even among sexy women.

8:05 PM Azi în timp ce mă plimbam (5 km, o oră și) mi-a venit o idee (cum) să fac un folder pe drive cu toate ministerele, numai prima pagină. Suficient pentru a se vedea cheltuielile prevăzute, cu angajament, ce-o mai fi și aia (fonduri multianuale), precum și cheltuieli personal (salarii). Deși părea mult mai greu la început, nu mi-a luat mai mult de o oră două.

Deocamdată sunt sortate în mod alfabetic, urmează să adaug miliardele în fața numelui fiecărui fișier pentru a le putea sorta și pe mărime. În toată perioada cât am lucrat tipa de sus, care plecase înainte de 1 iunie, a fost aici și m-a frământat. Se pare că nu a predat încă apartamentul.

9:30 Ok am reușit să le sortez în ordinea (inversă) a mărimii bugetului. Primele două cifre sunt miliarde. Sper să nu fi greșit când am transferat numerele.

Observații. Primele 11 sunt de ordinul miliardelor, iar ultimele sunt insignifiante ca mărime. E greu de înțeles de ce pui într-o singură oală bugete de zeci de miliarde cu bugete de zeci de milioane. Ca să faci totul mai greu de urmărit?

Toate ministerele au undeva la început cheltuielile de personal, care sunt salariile. Un exemplu. La Educație avem 37 miliarde salarii (care ar ajunge la 345 mii angajați, majoritatea cadre didactice) iar restul până la 64?

Ce mi-a sărit în ochi. ICCJ are un buget de 3 miliarde și jumătate, iar neobosita CCR are 50 milioane. Ministerul Finanțelor are două bugete, Acțiuni Generale e dobânzile, 86 miliarde, aici am ajuns. În rest, mirați-vă și dvs.

10:20 Da. Să ne spună cum au calculat deficitul. Trebuia să ia cheltuielile de pe 6 luni (mă rog, 5) sau 3 și să calculeze PIB-ul la 3 luni și să împartă. Dacă publică deficitul, trebuie să publice și cheltuielile iar dacă publică cheltuielile trebuie să spună și pe ce (proiecte).

1:15 PM (June 12) Voi adăuga aici câteva rânduri fiindcă sunt idei legate cu ce am postat mai sus.

Poate ați văzut că în toate capetele de fișier postate (două link-uri mai sus) există o coloană numită execuție preliminată 2024. Ce înseamnă asta.

Aceste fișiere sunt luate din celebra Anexa 3 la legea Bugetului pe 2025, proiect, singura formă care există pe site-uri (Camera Deputaților, Senat, Ministerul de Finanțe, ANAF, toate identice).

Legea și anexele sunt întocmite în noiembrie-decembrie 2024 și este votată în ianuarie-februarie 2025, în fiecare an data depinzând de mofturile lor.

Deci la data întocmirii "Bugetului" pe 2025 nu se cunosc execuțiile bugetare pe 2025. Mi se pare un pic ciudat, fiindcă, mă rog, nu se cunoaște PIB-ul, nu se cunoaște deficitul, nu prea știi cum să programezi deficitul următor (fiindcă deficitul, domnilor, este prevăzut în această lege care prevede cheltuielile).

Mai departe, se votează proiectul ca primarii parlamentarii, nu-mi amintesc să fi fost respins vreodată, studiez problema de cel puțin 6 ani, după care... Jubilation, nimic nu mai contează până anul următor.

Mai departe nu se obosește nimeni să transforme legea din proiect în lege-lege, cu acele cifre actualizate, ca nu cumva cineva alții decât ei să calculeze deficitul real. Ideea că trebuia să postez asta mi-a venit imediat ce am ieșit să mă oxigenez, mă gândeam în timp ce scriam mai sus dar pe drum m-am mai gândit și există și alte consecințe ale acestei "mici omisiuni".

După cum spuneam, deficit înseamnă împrumuturi. Falsificând deficitul, se justifică noi împrumuturi, cu care ați ghicit, se finanțează găuri brunete ca cea de la Ministerul Muncii, iar capătul celălalt al găurii de vierme se poate ghici unde se află. Iar nouă, ne mai pun biruri, ne mai vorbesc filosofie.

De unde să avem noi deficit 142 de miliarde? Contribuțiile cu 60% la buget ale angajaților, 45% pe statul de plată și până la 60% TVA și indirect accize și alte biruri, fac un total de 493 miliarde (venitul de 8910 înmulțit cu 7,7 milioane de angajați și 12 luni și 0,6).

La capătul celălalt al găurii de vierme se finanțează infrastructura (nu că s-au terminat demult construcțiile de autostrăzi în Ungaria), vaste programe sociale, ca de exemplu 32 mii euro la al treilea copil, și mai mult ca sigur niște buncăre pe sub Budapesta unde sunt reproduse în cel mai mic detaliu, după proiecte, încăperi oficiale și camere de televiziune din toate statele, unde armata lor de actori plătiți din banii noștri merge la program în fiecare zi și-și execută actele pe care noi le vedem la televizor după care se duc acasă sau își văd de ale lor. (Știristele care apar singure pe ecran pot să aibă foarte bine amenajată acasă o cameră cu tot decorul).

(Și ce Dracula fac ei cu 96 miliarde la Muncii?).

June 10

7:00 AM The world of illusion. A bit of semantic confusion between Austria and (ancient) Australia i wrote about last night. For that, a fake or illusory on demand event fabricated by "Austrian" authorities (like we so so many recently in the US), with the attacker dead, so nothing can be proved.

Austria's name itself in English is totally wrong, it pretends it comes from Osterreich, which means country of the east in German while in English Austral means from south.

4:35 PM Nu aș vrea să vă sâcâi prea mult dar în timp ce făceam mâncare mă gândeam. Cred că problema cea mai mare a României nu e deficitul. Adică e deficitul, dar cum l-au calculat? Ca să calculezi deficitul la jumătatea anului trebuie să ai cheltuielile bugetare centralizate de la fiecare minister în parte iar suma totală o împarți la PIB. (PIB-ul de la jumătatea anului bineînțeles).

Deci cine a calculat deficitul știe aceste cheltuieli și PIB-ul în timp real. Putem să le vedem și noi sau mergem pe încredere? Sau măcar deîmpărțitul și împărțitorul sau avem de-a face cu o singură ecuație cu două necunoscute pe care nici un matematician nu a rezolvat-o încă (Iohannis avea a scuză, el era profesor de fizică).

Mda aceeași chestie. Am încercat o rețetă nouă de spanac, adus din grădină. Faptul că îl fac eu de la a la z, văd toate ingredientele, cum le prepar, mă face când mănânc să mă gândesc la cum l-am făcut, uneori stresant, când faci o rețetă pentru prima dată, și simt gustul separat al ingredientelor și nu am o experiență culinară satisfăcătoare (nu îmi place).

Singurul lucru care îl fac eu (în afară de cafea) și îmi place neconditiționat este omleta cu brocoli, cred că am pus undeva rețeta. Și salata beouf dar nu am mai făcut demult.

10:55 Still theoretical. Hope we'll se it working some day, soon enough. News first seen here (coincidence).

11:40 I started the other day to write a bit of the OS history. The real one, containing information only. The motivation behind it was the extreme frustration generated by one yet Windows major screw up.

Let me explain. I told the story of the music stick i have in my car right now. I found on a site and downloaded a whole collection of over 6000 songs (files) containing first 100 Billboard hits of every years starting with 60s. Had to download every year manually in the form of a zip file and then unzip it on my flash drive.

After, i copied the over 6000 mp3 files on a stick and that i moved in the car. But the files with the music remained on the computer as well and after listening in the car, i started to want to play them on this computer, hooked to the speakers via Bluetooth (while i do my stuff of course) instead of listening to radio synched to my activities.

But not long after i started playing some music using of course the built in Windows Media Player, i noticed jitters and  hiccups in the songs. Especially when i was starting the browser to navigate in sites.

It so happens i know what this means. Though my system has 8 cores that run up to i forgot, 4 GHz each, it is not fast enough to play a song and open sites in the same time!

I won't skip many other technical details and go to the problem. Programs, applications or processes how they are called nowadays have execution priorities. That is some are executed before others. I would think WMP runs every second or so sending music to a buffer, while the browser does much more work, and it sometimes interferes with the player.

So thoughtless so rude so unprofessional of their part. They set the priority for the player the same as that for the browser or other programs and they clash, which means though i have a formidable hardware, i cannot listen to music and run a browser in the same time.

I know there are several workarounds to address this problem but they all mean changing priority for the WMP process and one way is through the task manager. You start the task manager pressing simultaneously CTRL/ALT/DEL and then click on the Details vertical tab and go to WMP process, right click and then change the priority to f...g realtime.

However. It only last one session of WMP. If you close the window and start it again, it does it again.

One way to make this setting persistent is modifying the command line in the shortcut. Cause of course the shortcut should contain the command line to start the task, right? Like at Linux, right?

However. After with some pain i copied on the desktop a working shortcut for WMP, what do i see under Target tab? A couple of lines, none being the command line though i found online instructions on how to modify the command line on a shortcut. After loosing more than one hour today all the frustration i still cannot make it work cause i will not go and change priority every time i want to play music, right?

How many times similar things  happened to me since that unfortunate day in 1996 when i bought my first Windows computer to this day? Countless. Which made me to sometimes in 2012 to switch to Fedora, a version of Linux. Yeah with Fedora i wasted much more time than i would have by simply continuing to run Windows, but it was so much faster and neater and less fussy and without a million useless options in any situation and i could also understand how an OS should work and felt not that much bullied by Windows as being the only option.

But then i bough a laptop with Chrome OS that was again Linux and now i bought this super micro PC with Windows on it that seemed to finally run mostly because of the hardware but every once in a while like today i remember the Windows pain.

June 9

12:25 AM Cum obții lista celor care nu virează reținerile la stat. Simplu. Iei lista celor care virează și o scazi din total.

10:05 Just because i said yesterday was a record temperature in Portland not seen since 1955, other things about Viktor Orban, etc..?

10:10 Vorbeam de marea evaziune și au trântit și ei ceva, cu un titlu macabru.

Ministerul Cercetării e finanțat de la Bugetul de Stat iar bugetul e aprobat de Parlament prin Legea Bugetului de Stat de la începutul fiecărui an. Unealta parlamentarului e mâna care o ridică sus când votează Legea Bugetului.

Am încercat să accesez normal link-ul de pe blog (dreapta) cu bugetele ministerelor, să văd cât au cei de la cercetare, dar... nu merge! O întrebare google lămurește. E comasat cu Ministerul Educației, sunt 60 de miliarde, iar salariile profesorilor din toată țara sunt sunt 23 miliarde (am găsit pe 2023 când bugetul a fost 49, mai caut). Deci jumătate se duc pe apa sâmbetei sub cupola "învățământ". 

12:25 PM

Site-ul Ministerului Finanțelor nu merge punct. Site-ul ANAF e în mentenanță. Site-ul Camerei Deputaților nu-mi mai intră de mult timp. Nu știu unde să mai caut Legea Bugetului de Stat, cu anexele pe Ministere.

Legea se mai găsește pe site-uri private dar... contra cost!

1:10 PM Ok am găsit Anexa 3 la Legea Bugetului de Stat cu cheltuielile pe ministere pe site-ul Senatului, am modificat și link-ul permanent. Cheltuielile nu se pot vedea pe primele pagini, trebuie defilat mai jost până apare un tabel vertical. Site-ul este foarte lent, la fel ca cel al Ministerului de Finanțe (când mergea). Ok ia să ridic eu acum pe drive și Ministerul Educației și să listez din nou ce am.

3:00 I wrote yesterday about the history of Windows and how some quick solution became something that is run across 80 percent of the computers today. As i said, Windows derived from an earlier, more expensive operating system called CP/M designed for microcomputers, that were basically a computer on a chip, made by Xilog or Motorolla for early Apples.

The existing operating system made for bigger mainframe computer at the time was Unix. Why Unix did not catch with microcomputers.

Now i found that Apple DOS also had similarities with CP/M. In fact there is not much room for variations when we talk about a number of basic functions needed to operate a computer that you can  hardly call a computer, with a word length of 8 bits and addresses memories of the order of 64k (as opposed to today's computers that use words of 64 bits with GB size memories like there is no room for variations generally when talking about operating systems, cause they all have to accomplish the same tasks on the same resources.

(A computer's memory is like a matrix with word length as number of colons and the number of lines being the size of it).

However as the size of hardware grew for microcomputers, Apple reinvented self and went to a Unix microkernel while Windows stayed with API32.

On the other hand, Linus Torvalds, a computer student from Sweden build a Unix based OS compatible with non Apple hardware Windows runs onto he called Linux. Linux was at first used mainly on servers because of its stability over Windows but then it turned to desktop, with Chrome OS and a number of versions like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. and to phones with Android. And most important, was/is free, with volunteers from around the world maintaining its kernel.

As yet another coincidence, here comes a news today saying Apple did a major change to its operating system yet i fail to see it among  the lines of the news. As for much expected AI thing, we still have to wait. And i think we first we have to wait for a more robust OI that is not patched all the time, being it Apple, Linux or Windows to start thinking about that.

8:50 Could it be the dalits or untouchables of India are immigrants from Australia?

"At this point, the notion of 'untouchability' first developed. We can see upper castes in the Nilgiri hills, particularly the Badaga Gowdas and Todas, persecuting the lower caste Kurumbas, considering them polluted sorcerers and scammers."

"in almost all tested Dravidian groups, which earlier studies confused for high Steppe Aryan ancestry. Furthermore, the date of endogamy for the Komati caste (a wealthy merchant caste from Andhra) is proposed to be >4k years before present, so we can safely say that there was some form of caste endogamy in the Mature Indus Valley Civilization."

According to the Indo-European theory, there should be some correspondence not only between the languages of Europe and those of India, of which we can mention Romanian as having a large number of Sanskrit words, but also at social levels and i think i found one in the paragraph above.

It is said within Dacian society (while Dacian or Dacia term itself seem to derive from Sanskrit daksa, meaning dextro, or righteous) there was a separation in at least three castes of which one was the comati (defined by all historian as the commoners), another was the pileati, or nobles and the third was the priests.

...

Could it be Buddhism which came in conflict with Brahmanism which in the end was rejected from Ancient religious mainstream India an attempt of the untouchables foreigners to institutionalize their beliefs and especially that of illusion (of perception) in order to gain social status?

June 8

11:23 Can anybody please stop the show?

1:20 I can't tell how frustrated i am with Windows, other operating systems.

Back in the days of the mini computers and PCs i used 40 MB hard drives. That is the size of 10 jpg pictures on a phone or one song in wav format. On one of those i made a salary app for a few thousands employees.

One the same hard drive i also had the development environment (FoxBASE) with much room left for games.

At some point i  also had data for 6 different clients with an accounting app.

It is true, the operating system (the quick and dirty pre-Windows QDOS) it was Bill Gates first hit, which was actually not done by Microsoft but was sort of a hack done done by a guy from other Seattle company and sold with 40 dollars a copy while the existing CP/M on still on 8 bit only was sold with 200 dollars a copy) was on command line only (no windows) but the app had screens with data fields to navigate, input and check data. But it was easier and faster to work with than it is with Windows.

That quick and dirty imitation (hack) of CP/M ran on Windows until the XP version on it but the API calls copied from CP/M remain to this day, due to needed backwards compatibility. Yes, it became bloated because they kept adding on top of that, never trying to re-write the whole thing. For that, they would need to pay...

Did any government agency or scientific organization ever got involved with this critical area of our lives and society or was it all left all to a hacker and a ninja like businessman like Bill Gates?

For managing files i had an almost graphic set of utilities named PC Tools made by Central Point Software, and of course, Norton commander.

I used CP/M to make a (real time) app for centralizing balance sheets of different production departments of a company in 1990 Romania, using Turbo Pascal on a Romanian 8 bit computer (yes, Cub means cube in Romanian, Z is from Zenu Zilog, with floppy disks only). Which later i used on a PC in Delphi graphic version at Qadramed.

(I remember on 8 bits CP/M did not have integers large enough for those numbers so i built a "custom" data type made of alphanumeric characters with procedures for adding and subtracting but it was still extraordinarily fast, given the fact turbo Pascal was close to C language).

Now i have on an originally 225 dollars PC with 500 Gigs of flash memory, which is what, 10000 times more, with Windows only occupying a few gigs, and Windows became the useless part around a browser (Chrome) which was developed by google using the free (volunteer made) Chromium.

With it, i can watch movies on Netflix and Prime and youtube.

What frustrates me the most this morning (actually was last night when i got home). I cannot easily go back and see what i've done. With all the sophistication of an 8 core processor and this huge, unused amount of memory, i cannot go back in time and see what i've done on it.

Windows has all kinda of logs with every tiny event (don't know if position of mouse is traced, but clicks surely), that are used internally. 

The browser has a history of the visited sites, but some are missing, could not figure why. Then i installed an extension which is a bit better.

I know for a fact that each site and video you see (including/especially pictures) is downloaded on your PC or phone (the phone nowadays is nothing but a PC with a tiny display) or whatever and kept for a while. Do you remember that "clear cache, cookies and browser history" action recommended when  your PC becomes slow? That thing called cache is actually that space on your hard drive or flash where all the viewed stuff is temporarily saved.

The reason is, if you go back within minutes or navigate back and forth within a site, the PC does not have to download it again. Even youtube videos are saved.

It's got limit settings, however, is not easily available to see if you are searching by example for a video you just watched that disappeared from online. I tried this morning for hours and could do nothing (especially because i've watched bunch of other videos after which may overwrite the limited size of cache).

So yes, we own this things but are slaves to them and the sites we visit, because we don't know and especially we don't have the software to use them at their real power and capabilities.