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Family Dei 2012: CBC Disappointingly Promoted Envy

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Most of you know my decades-long love affair with CBC (not with being a CBC–that's a wholly-different thing q:-D); but a story just now on the National, arguably a thinly-veiled expression of Envy, would have been a lot less Entitlement-of-the-West sounding in the context of Matthew 20's Landowner and Vineyard-workers parable…

That without pointing out the gifts that we have of comfort and surplus of Western society the news story of our crown corporation arms-length national broadcaster would emphasize the difference between provinces–that Nova Scotia hasn't Family Day, and that British Columbia be portrayed, implementing it next year, as "catching up," but in no cases, that we can afford to do thus, that we have social and community support to do thus to support our values, sigh…



The problem, you see, with allowing ourselves to feel this way, unmitigated Envy without the context of remembering that we're not even Entitled to living the next minute, let alone to what we think we've "earned" (repeated market fluctuations only being a small reminder compared to the vast majority of the World who do not live in our Entitled societies…)–

I try to remind, whenever I can, my daughter that hew own mother and grandmother, raised Catholic (but we still await their conversion, I guess…) now work against me, who have only been Catholic some 3 years longer than my daughter, trying to mitigate their bitterness of having "lost Uncle Brad when he was only 27 years old," without remembering that we NONE of us are ENTITLED to living the next second, let alone with whatever it is we think we're Entitled that life to come with…

And that Envy has killed what positive Brad had, and it kills Him inside to know that Envy and Entitlement are actively working to make sure we're not only unappreciative of what we do have, but that we increase our unhappiness by comparing what we have to others and then increasing the Envy, decreasing the appreciativeness q:-(

 

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+20%3A1-16&version=NIV

 

Matthew 20:1-16

New International Version (NIV)

Matthew 20

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

 1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

   3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.

   “He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

   7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.

   “He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’

   8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

   9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

   13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

   16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

Footnotes:

  1. Matthew 20:2 A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer.

 

 

Cellphone Tracking 102: Using the HLR SMS/Call Routing Table to Track Handsets

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Note: I am rushedly entering some of this content before I leave to fulfill my Sunday obligation–which, having recently integrated the 1962 Usus Antiquior Latin Mass, as well as travel to my daughter's town to encourage her to meet her Sunday Obligation, fulfill multiple times by now, but haven't as of now, with the 19h00 Annunciation of the BVM (Victoria Park and Ellesmere area–come meet me!) remains… I'll finish up later, if it loks half-done!

Cellphone Tracking 201: PASSIVE-Only METHODS and the Public HLR SMS/Call Routing Database

 

[+AMDG]: You want to have your cake and eat it and not eat it too.
For this very basic exemplar that depends only on stuff the public can access and NO probing or anything that even contacts the cell company, we explore using differential diagnosis-style analysis to determine where a friend from Finland is right now…
 
Everyone thinks they want "K.I.S.S.," but in a world where criminals who would hack and steal from you know you aren't willing to learn about the systems you use, and ARE learning about them (and they're not simple)–PLUS the recent marketing application that the Privacy Commissioner complained about, without our understanding that if it's not endangering us, we may actually WANT the lower prices, better-designed products, and more responsive service that we also always complain about. 
 
+JMJ  Even people not involved or interested in the field will be interested to take the responsibility to learn this–as I urge with all technologies, whether we directly use them or not, that society as a whole can step up to dealing with the threat from those who would use it against us or to steal from us, because they are

 

taking the responsibility to learn this stuf….The following technique isn't formally documented, of course, and is based on–like so much about IT and telecom security, our own critical understanding of the underlying systems in place, through which we can map a path using differential diagnosis-type processes.  

The source of this information that I wll be adapting is currently hosted at 

Graphics will be added when I get back.

Note:

ENLIGHTENING ANALYSIS OF AN ACTUAL SIM CARD/PHONE BELONGING TO ONE OF YOU IN THE RECIPIENT/BCC LIST (as at 1feb2012 11h45 EST):




- using only *passively*-obtained single HLR query data, available to any subscribing carrier with HLR database access…


- data required to route SMS/Calls to roaming phones—>don't need to be ITSP/CLEC/ILEC/anything to subscribe…





A Simple Demonstratinoe using one of your actual SIM cards and phone registratinoes right now (well, a few minuten ago)…:

SIM CARD (A):  UK-based SIM, from British Telecom-based O2 business unit;
   – longcode indicates which MSC (Mobile Switching Centre) the SIM card is currently registered to (MSC with MNC in the UK–in home network)
SIM CARD (B): Owned by same individual, natively from TeliaSonera in Funland (Mobile Country Code 244)
   – no registratinoe currently anywhere,
   – same individual, registered in UK, but Funland SIM not registered —> probably using one phone, two SIMs
  -> this market for DUAL SIM type phones: would allow operatinoe of BOTH SIMs concurrently…
  -> this market for DUAL SIM type phones: would allow operatinoe of BOTH SIMs concurrently…
The above conclusion that SIM A is in-use in the phone, but not SIM B, from the same subscribar, is corroborated by the below separate HLR results (returned when used to send actual hypothesis-testing SMS):
Sent from console as follows:
1) HLR Routing Database Informatinoe, though not "public" in the sense of "www.my-hlr-database-registration-data.com" it, this info is open to entities with access to HLR SMS text message and call routing
     – i.e. HLR routing information required for
         a) locating handset when roaming in one of 15,372 countries, without knowing ahead of time which (abstracted routing table);
         b) SMS MSC can use HLR routing results to route SMS texts to subscriber's handset when roaming, by contacting the appropriate MSC directly, bypassing the subscrib'ers home network/country–more efficient routing and vastly reduces data transit and latency;
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- Still think would be cost effective source of incremental revenues to offer pay-per-use Wifi for non-3g users, WIND/mobilicity, etc.
- Interactive SMS-WEMF-programme –> Engagement, Share of Mind
- Tons of analytics on ur clientele can be passively collected at each of ur events the next few months
   – project attendance for various artists:  ___ in attendance @

 

Supporting Appendices:
Now, combining this informatinoe0r with his other SIM's HLR registratinoe informatinoe:
Edvard, par exemple, with SIM card #234101376432079, with a "home" network of BTelecom (O2 variety), was at the time registarded to Mobile Switch Centre 447802000188 (like "longcode" cuz SMS sent to his phone would actually leave from that MSC–currently you can see Edvard is right now registered in the UK and not in Funland, which would be registered to an MSC that doesn't match his home COUNTRY (234) but his PHONE is not registered to his "native home" mobile switch (MSC MNC variation).
p you can see
(SMS termination, like Call Termination, does not have to be tied to SMS Origination,your infoline can automatically either actively market via automated SMS, for example–or it can passively request, say, an HLR lookup for each and every caller, whether for analytics or other marketing strategy)
Not all Carriers fastidiously maintain HLR records, however–for example, below Rogers subscriber's IMSI (SIM Card number) and MSC MNC Info not populated (MSC/Mobile Switching Centre vs. MSC MNC/Mobile Network Code indicates where subscriber's SIM is registered versus where it currently is roaming–>frequency and location subscriber travels q:-)
Quickly, we can see that Kafid:
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Sincerely,
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+JMJ

 

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“tl;dr” Insidious Affront to Society

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Although I'd just finished my MBA@Mac in 2002, I've been busy learning "more and more about less and less," since beginning my PhD in Finance in 2009; though I intended just to peek and see what this was all about, I soon realised, "Not three hours ago, I suggested that we set a strong counter-example to what now might be analogous to an online ulcer; but  efforts elucidated a putative inflammation-based aetiology localised coincident with the Helicobacter. So, now, believe that the once-straight-forward ulcer can bleed and kill outright. Or, it may also lay in wait, killing through a more insidious plan of suffering."

My point is that although "tl;dr" (a common Internet slang the younger generation uses to legitmize unwillingness to read what they claim to be "too long; didn't read."


The reason, it seems, it evolved to be curt, clean-cut and simple to slip by as established jargon–and especially, mysterious enough to intimidate people from asking and appearing not to be current enough to know.  
The insidious potential for this theme to become dangerous, like cancer, is in its self-reinforcing (that is, it is effective at not only intimidating others from stepping up to they challenge -> to a challenge -> it is not cool to be the "keener."


Were the outcome and social impact of enabling a behaviour that on the one hand, rewards doing only what the student (arguably a student because they have yet to learn–and so often do not have the foundational knowledge necessary to lead to an optimal decision. So, on the one hand, its primary direct effect is in a shrinking of knowledge base, a lowering of the quality of that knowledge. 

The behaviour is reinforced through perceived self-worth modulation; note that the very issue could provde people with tools adequate that they not feel intimidated from their faith.

Why Walden Emphasizes Epistemology & Ontology at Outset

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Remember waaay back (ok, not that many a's eh) when I last mentioned that the media in its simplistic reporting of, explanation of certain issues, such as the bullying of homosexuals or other individuals perceived to be "different" may validly be attributed to the superficial attributes–but that people NEED to understand at least some modicum of what is really, really basic research design validity–and it's most easily demonstrated dialectically when we consider, ok, sure, you can statistically "homosexuals," or any other group of individual perceived to be different
 
(Some of the more boneheaded thinking down there, like the whole George Takei pointing out that TN banned talking about homosexuality in schools as a response to bullying–but thanks to everyone's lassitudinally-induced preference for simple answers, simple explanations, simple solutions, simple implementations, without expending the reasoning effort to discover that simpler is not only not always better, but it is more likely rarely-aligned with a desired outcome, since, well, everyone wants to do the easiest things, and so it's probably already done that way…
 
playing right into an underlying likely causative factor–if we assume, for a moment, that it is the perceived difference that satisfies the selection criteria for a bully's target, then we can test this hypothesis first by observing whether other perceived differences also elicit bullying responses (1. the validity of the construct is understandably low, since the bullying is only superficially caused by the actual "talking," but rather the underlying construct–that a group that deviates from "the norm" in some way is easily to single out appears to bullies particularly attractive to bully because they are perceived to be "different."  
 
Not very nice going. 
 
This preference for a simple solution yields a simplistic, poorly-elucidated one that actually would often be expected to exacerbate the problem, instead of hide it as the goal probably was, since giving special treatment ADDS another difference–now one that is reasonably expected to elicit envy as well, rather than the much more difficult, but much more rational approach of removing the underlying causes–even this is often assumed to be "make everyone adopt a perspective that homosexuals/visible minorities/physically-handicapped/little people, whatever are not different, not special, not mutants…." 
 
Cuz, remember, this is literally "punishing everyone for the bullies' actions" (another reasoning fallacy is that this implies that the education that is imposed as a result of the bullying actions are undesirable in some way–that is not rationally-implied by the sense of 'punishment' that I meant–and this illustrates yet one more problem that is difficult to understand without taking the responsibility to develop some modicum of reasoning proficiency, and even then–to learn the common conventions to communicate relatively abstract concepts–in this case, as Walden emphasizes, always to pre-determine and -define a defensible and clearly-communicated epistemology and ontology demonstrably optimal, or at least appropriate, for the given issue, setting, situation, and context. 
 
How often do you see two people arguing, and being the "third party," you see quite easily and clearly that they're both arguing for the same position, but from a different episteme and using different ontologies? 
 
A: "I don't wanna go to school!!!!!"
B: "No, you don't wanna hafta struggle for hours and feel like an idiot."
 
A: "I'm pretty sure I know what I want and don't want better than you. And it's to NOT go to school."
B: "But what is it about school that you don't like?"
 
A: "The going to it part"
B: So what you're saying is that you wouldn't mind school and the studying and tests and projects and the strap, if you could do it at home? Cuz we have a thing called home-schooling yknow
 
A: No that would just change the "going to school" from taking a bus into going from my room to the kitchen. That would suck even more cuz we always have ice cream in the kitchen. And then I'd start to hate ice cream too.
B: But what I'm getting at is that it's not the GOING TO SCHOOL that you hate–it's what you do at school
 
A: No. You're not listening. I told you I know how I feel and it begins when I leave the door. The whole time I'm waiting for the bus, I dread. I hate it. I'm not at school for another half hour after that. so DURR it's GOING TO SCHOOL that I hate sheesh just listen for once
B: No YOU listen for ONCE until I finish explaining sheesh–I mean that it is not the act of going to school that is causing you to feel that–it's what goes on at school–
 
A: –ok youre a tard cuz OBVIOUSLY if you'd LISTENED I just explained it starts when I have no way of even KNOWING whats going on in sc–
B: You've had a cellphone for a year now–that YOUR DAD AND I paid for–thanks for not appreciati…..
 
Even this is not the true underlying causative factor in most cases of bullying, since, well, it would be a stretch even for a physco to find the simple difference itself compelling; so, it is more likely something internal to the individual that carries out the bullying behaviour that the bully has associated with the emotional/psychological response that must likely be reinforced for the bully because it ends up fulfilling some perceived need that wasn't otherwise being fulfilled.

Latin Analysis of One Line of Ambrosian Hymn

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Ambrosian Hymn

Jam lucis orto sidere,
Deum precemur supplices,
Ut in diurnis actibus
Nos servet a nocentibus.

 

Linguam refraenans temperet
Ne litis horror insonet:
Visum fovendo contegat,
Ne vanitates hauriat.

Sint pura cordis intima,
Absistat et vecordia;
Carnis terat superbiam
Potus cibique parcitas.

Ut come dies abscesserit,
Noctemque sors reduxerit,
Mundi per abstinentiam
Ipsi canamus gloriam.

Deo Patri sit gloria,
Ejusque soli Filio,
Cum Spiritu Paraclito,
Nunc, et per omne saeculum.
Amen.

(From my St. Andrew Missal, p.3; Ambrosian Hymn (morning). 
As Wikkedpaedia puts it, "Ambrose in the fourth century wrote hymns in a severe style, clothing Christian ideas in classical phraseology, and yet appealing to popular tastes. He had found a new form and created a new school of hymnody. St. Hilary of Poitiers (died 367), who is mentioned by St. Isidore of Seville as the first to compose Latin hymns, and Ambrose, styled by Dreves "the Father of Church-song", are linked together as pioneers of Western hymnody. Isidore, who died in 636, testifies to the spread of the custom from Milan throughout the whole of the West, and refers to the hymns as Ambrosian."

Oh–Carl Vanderwouden: Fr. Dominic's reminder that the Devil often closes our minds through the trickery of reminding us how well we may 'recall' something, that we not truly consider it critically, but merely recall it.

Thus, I'd typed that manually, though I believe there to be most likely pre-typed versinoes on the Network of Interconnected Networks (maybe that's what NiN is!) 
In doing so, I noticed that it contained therein something that made my previous observation, with Steve Eckert @ the Pizza Nova inadequately-informed in two ways:

1. I'd thought that Ecclesiastical Latin seemed to employ a static, predictable word order (yes, this is verse, and so not quite the same as some of the more "prosaic" [I mean prose-like, not literally--nor litorally--prosaic :p)] Eccles Latin: "Deo Patri sit gloria," which you note uses "Deo Patri" in the dative [imparting the sense of "to/towards"] and "sit" in the subjunctive [the optative use of the subjunctive: imparting volition for the verb "to be" or sum, esse, fui--which in the subjunctive mood is conjugated not as:

sum I am
es thou art
est he/she/it is

But rather as: 
sim that I be
sis that thou beest
sit that he/she/it be -- in the sense of "Would that it were..." or, in this case, "Glory be to God The Father," since Patri is also in the dative, so not "God's Father," which would have it in the genitive--it modifies Deus and is not "To God and to the Father," which would be "Deo Patrique" or "Deo et Patri." 

See--all contained therein, such richness that we completely lose in English because of the lack of inflected forms q:-(

 — at ipv6.RobinCheung.ca

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    Robin L. M. Cheung Oh, I forgot that I meant to point out the metre and rhyme of Ambrose's stuff remound me of the Stations Latin accompanying verses, which had similarly-awesome metre and rhyme.

     

    (For example, Station VIII:

    O quam tristis et afflicta:
    Fuit illa benedicta
    Mater Unigentiti!

    Or, from the Fifth:

    Quis est homo qui non fleret,
    Matrem Christi si videret
    In tanto supplicio?

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    Robin L. M. Cheung Oh–Carl Vanderwouden: Fr. Dominic's reminder that the Devil often closes our minds through the trickery of reminding us how well we may 'recall' something, that we not truly consider it critically, but merely recall it.
    Thus, I'd typed that manually, though I believe there to be most likely pre-typed versinoes on the Network of Interconnected Networks (maybe that's what NiN is!) 
    In doing so, I noticed that it contained therein something that made my previous observation, with Steve Eckert @ the Pizza Nova inadequately-informed in two ways:

     

    1. I'd thought that Ecclesiastical Latin seemed to employ a static, predictable word order (yes, this is verse, and so not quite the same as some of the more "prosaic" [I mean prose-like, not literally--nor litorally--prosaic :p)] Eccles Latin: "Deo Patri sit gloria," which you note uses "Deo Patri" in the dative [imparting the sense of "to/towards"] and "sit" in the subjunctive [the optative use of the subjunctive: imparting volition for the verb "to be" or sum, esse, fui--which in the subjunctive mood is conjugated not as:
    sum I am
    es thou art
    est he/she/it is

    But rather as: 
    sim that I be
    sis that thou beest
    sit that he/she/it be -- in the sense of "Would that it were..." or, in this case, "Glory be to God The Father," since Patri is also in the dative, so not "God's Father," which would have it in the genitive--it modifies Deus and is not "To God and to the Father," which would be "Deo Patrique" or "Deo et Patri." 

    See--all contained therein, such richness that we completely lose in English because of the lack of inflected forms q:-(

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    Robin L. M. Cheung Brian Izzard: Recall I mentioned that lack of inflection causing English to be so deficient in richness? q:-(

     

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    Carl Vanderwouden Latin is beautiful!

     

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    Robin L. M. Cheung Oh–Carl VanderwoudenI totally said there were two things–the second thought was abortive, above–but it referred to word-order; I only started and forgot to finish, after the optative subjunctive explanation. In fact, what I meant to say was we normally would say it otherwise, as you know, such as "Gloria Deo Patris," which is technically "Glory be to God the Father"; however, again, "lost in translatinoe" is the optative subjunctive (the subjunctive *is* still extant in English; however, it's unfortunate that most people either don't know it or even if they do, it looks identical to other forms, such as "Would that I were a rich man.. [Yubby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dum]" looks like "were" as a simple past–but it is far from it… And we can't distinguish too well the conditionnel either *sigh*

     

    So, I suppose a better translation, since there is actually a "sit" in there, would be "May there be glory to God the Father," to distinguish it from "Gloria Deo Patris," which has only a substantive verb (there is no actually "to be" in there, but it is imputed as a substantive).

    WOW–I even wonder, myself, HOW I remember this from 1989-1994 Latin that I didn't use in the intervening years AND I don't even have to look up for it to jump out at me.. Crazy.. But I won't fail to appreciate His part in it q:-)

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