My Dropbox Hacked

About an hour ago, my Dropbox account was hacked specifically, as to files linked on this blog. And the link to my paper Air Water Ground 1.6  was eliminated, now restored. Changes apparently made in a few files alo. Have not checked them over. If you something wierd, let me know. Thanks
jay

Faith Painting?

Hmmmm. Just thinking.
Is religion actually one of the arts?
Neuro-painting of what is observed?
Then people that are not people of faith, are simply lacking in that particular painting talent?
Of course, religion would still have practical functions such as providing a teleological boundary, a hard stop barrier to combinatorial explosion, as a contingent altruism tag generator, and the consequent breeding of pseudospeciation behaviors etc.
Atheist draw, people of faith, paint? :)

An Approach to Overcoming Hyperbolic Discounting?

To address the hardwired restraint of Hyperbolic Discounting,:
A long term need, with high option value itself will need to be addressed in a planned (probably using iterative planning) series of short term rewards, that positively reward individuals in the ways consistent with the Socially Obligate Economical Boundary Condition?

Humans, your attention please

Systemic view please.

(climate change and central Asian glacier  reduction, fresh water demand, WMD’s etc.)

This is a tiny butterfly effect point example, of a potential causal set eventually for the next world war:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/china-blocks-brahmaputra-tributary-impact-on-water-flow-in-india-not-clear/story-QVAYbO2iOBFUSynwwpyneN.html

Putin as pied piper, and the new Russian stroll down the dark mountain

An amoral comment made as a citizen.

The U.S. was not always the “Great Satan” to fundamentalist Islam. We began our earning of the term long ago when we reduced the British Empire to our ethnarchy, and directly, when that ethnarchy created a European State in the middle east, centered on the second most holy city to Muslims, in 1947.

There was once a folk known as Russians. They invaded a country known as Afghanistan. One of their military behaviors was to drop booby trapped toys & candy from the air on rebel villages.

Candygram!

Al-Qaida, the Taliban formed to fight the Russians. Russia's southern border is primarily Muslim. Russians have essentially been killing Muslims, torturing Muslims, etc. off &amp on; since the 14^th Century.

Aleppo.

The Russians and their local ethnarchy are currently destroying without apparently any semblance of that American concept of “rules of engagement,” one of the oldest cities in the world.

The Memory Gospel

The man who lead the 12^th century recovery of Jerusalem from the Crusader Kingdom, Saladin, was actually a Kurd, born while his parents were traveling, in the very city Saddam Hussein was later born. For those of you who are American, lets just say Saladin to many young Arab boys, is a combination of Davy Crockett, George Washington, and the latest sports hero.

The shared birthplace was used in Saddam's cult of personality PR.

Simply put, the Russians have a Muslim body count, of innocents,  Dead and maimed children. That body count will probably never, I hope, be beaten by us. Outsize of our short attention span theater, this is remembered.

Yes, Mr. Putin, lead your civilian population down the dark mountain of terrorism strikes to your  Motherland.

President Obama? Right now, in the amoral real politick world, do nothing.
The boots on the ground will randomly appear in Russia, and they are not our boots….