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| 001 | 7-day Week: Its Origin in Moon Phases & Dark Moon Days [Mondays] |
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| It is evident from lunar observation and history that originally the lunar month comprised four 7-day weeks plus 1 or 2 dark moon days to maintain synchronism. | |
| 002 | About Robert John Morton: Background, Former Profession, Philosophy |
| An observer and thinker about the physical and social realities in which I live, I am concerned about the state of humanity and seek a way to a better future. | |
| 003 | About This Book: The Lost Inheritance by Robert John Morton YE572246C |
| This book contains my point of view. It is an expression of my opinion, which is based on my own personal perceptions of my own observations and experiences. | |
| 004 | About the Web Site of Robert John Morton: Context/Viewing/Navigation |
| The entire content of this web site is my personal observation and opinion taken from my unique personal point of view within time, space and the social order. | |
| 005 | Alzheimer: A Carer's View |
| If awareness exists, when memory does not, then time, as we perceive it, cannot be what time really is. | |
| 006 | Amateur Bands: A Design For A Top to Ten TRF [Non-Superhet] Receiver |
| An aerial coil is an inductance used to capture a radio signal. A tuning coil is an inductance used to tune the various radio-frequency stages of a receiver. | |
| 007 | An Idyllic World Order |
| The poverty and suffering caused by the disparate way in which the wealth of our planet is shared among us, is inexcusably unjust. Could there be a fairer way? | |
| 008 | An Unfair World |
| The vast majority of the people of Planet Earth are corralled into sovereign jurisdictions which bind them in servitude. | |
| 009 | Anatomy of Exploitation: Internal [National] and External [Foreign] |
| In order to expedite its economic endeavour, the capitalist elite requires the force of a sovereign state to physically exploit the resources of the planet. | |
| 010 | Anatomy of Ownership: of Self, Mind, Body, Objects, Home and Land |
| The dominant societies of this present world base all their significant relationships up on the exclusivistic notions of ownership, possession and control. | |
| 011 | Ancient Texts: Semantic Shift Between Ancient Writer & Modern Reader |
| There are many mechanisms that shift the meaning of an ancient text. So what the modern reader understands will be different what the ancient writer intended. | |
| 012 | Anthropological Community: A Basic Need Built into The Human Mind |
| Sociological evidence suggests that there exists an optimum size limit for a human group, which may be determined by the physiology of the human brain. | |
| 013 | Atoms have an Enforced Size Limit: Corporations Should Have One Too |
| If governments fail to co-operate to set an upper size limit for multinational corporates, the socio-economic consequences for the world could be catastrophic. | |
| 014 | Autism: When Personality Type is Incompatible with The Social Order |
| Western neo-liberal capitalism has a chokingly narrow modus operandi that is essentially out-of-tune with most and completely incompatible with 1 in 70 of us. | |
| 015 | Basic Human Needs: The Needs of The Body and The Needs of Mind |
| The human body needs food, water, clothing and shelter. The human mind needs companionship, knowledge and work to do. A lack of any of these leaves it deprived. | |
| 016 | Bible Quotations For Footnote Article on Fear, Guilt & Sexual Sins |
| The Biblical quotations on fornication, adultery, divorce and serial monogamy referred to within the Chapter 12 footnote article on Fear, Guilt and Sexual Sins. | |
| 017 | Bible: Some of its Logical, Philosophical and Doctrinal Anomalies |
| Ideas that do not make sense: a life taken and returned, notions of sin and guilt, act of Judas, man in the image of god, an all-seeing god, heaven: what then? | |
| 018 | Biblical Message: A Strictly Personal View of What The Bible Says |
| The Bible is one of many texts whose contents are, without substantiation, believed by its followers to be the words of beings from beyond our physical domain. | |
| 019 | Biblical Tithing: Fundamentally Different From 10% Of One's Salary |
| Tithing is fundamentally different from income tax. Tithing is 10% of a gain set by natural fecundity: not ~35% of an arbitrary market value for human labour. | |
| 020 | Bill of Rights: To Protect The Individual From State and Corporation |
| The individual is forever being strangled by recession, pillaged by corporates or trampled by elephant-footed bureaucracies mindlessly adhering to idiot rules. | |
| 021 | Body Fuel: How Can The Poor Afford Their 8,640,000 Joules Per Day? |
| If in 1994 it had all come solely from honey, it would have cost £1.59. That is 94% of the £1.69 daily personal food budget with which State Welfare left me. | |
| 022 | Brazil: Illustrative Model on How a Society Could Be Made Equitable |
| How could a country enslaved by unbridled neo-liberal global capitalism be transformed into a paradise of wealth, well-being, equity and fulfilment for all? | |
| 023 | Burden of Taxation: Most of a Labourer's Wage goes in Profit & Tax |
| Under the yoke of capitalism, man ends up with very little of the fruit of his labour. Most is forcibly confiscated to feed corporate profit and State revenue. | |
| 024 | Business Barriers: Corporate Bully Diverts Blame for Own Incompetence |
| Computer projects often turn sour. And when they do, it is the independent artisan who invariably is made the scapegoat, being branded as the obvious cowboy. | |
| 025 | Business Barriers: Nine Obstacles to Success in the Global Free Market |
| Lack of capital; image, personality & deficiency barriers; marketing cost, market prejudice, restrictive practice, subsidized competition & corporate bullying. | |
| 026 | Can Work; Won't Work: Unjust Public Opinion About The Unemployed |
| The rich deserve their wealth because they've earned it. Society owes nobody a living. An employer has no moral duty to employ me. It's his business. Right? | |
| 027 | Cancer of Capitalism: A Social Analogue Driven by Absent Conscience |
| At first sight, this comparison seems emotive. But an examination of the ways in which each one works shows the comparison to be disturbingly systematic. | |
| 028 | Capital: Land and Food Cannot Rightly be Valued in The Same Currency |
| The financial world fails to see that, though erroneously measured in the same monetary units, capital and the profit it generates, are fundamentally different. | |
| 029 | Capitalist Government: Enslavement within an Illusion of Freedom |
| The purpose of government in the capitalist state is to contain its common people within a web of delusion, within which they are convinced that they are free. | |
| 030 | Capitalist Mentality: A Comparison With The Antics of Two Kittens |
| Capitalists are a world-wide minority of opportunist who strive single-mindedly for unlimited self-gain by gambling the livelihoods of the rest of humanity. | |
| 031 | Carer's Diary of a Relapse: An Official Threat From The Health Service |
| It seems that protection of professional reputation takes precedence over patient confidentiality which takes precedence over the rights of a patient's family. | |
| 032 | Carer's Diary of a Relapse: The Unmedicated Onset Medics Never See |
| My diary of events relating to the on-set of my wife's relapse after she came off medication in April 2000. It is solely my view of what I saw, felt & suffered. | |
| 033 | Carer's Diary of a Relapse: Threatening Letter From Health Trust |
| The local health trust took offence at my honest day to day observations on my wife's relapse, saying it implied that its professionals were inept or negligent. | |
| 034 | Cell Navigation: Do Cells Refer to Some Kind of Astral Body Map? |
| How does a stem cell know where it is in the human body so that it can switch itself to become the right one of the 216 possible types of functional cell? | |
| 035 | Chaos Theory: A Multi-Mode Difference Equation Iterator Applet |
| This Java applet exercises the difference equations x=cx(1−x) and x=x²+c. Shows how merely changing the value 'c' changes the entire behaviour of the equation. | |
| 036 | Chaos Theory: An Iterative Sine-Wave Generator Written in BASIC |
| A BASIC program, which generates a sine wave by iterating a simple difference equation. You can cut, paste and compile the source code, then run the executable. | |
| 037 | Chaos Theory: Introduction: Formative Interest and Practical Lessons |
| A collection of applets which explore various phenomena in Chaos Theory including the Mandelbrot set, bifurcation maps and chaotic difference equations. | |
| 038 | Chaos Theory: Iterative Bifurcation Maps Generated by Java Applets |
| Working applets, complete with functional descriptions and source code, which map the equations x=cx(1−x) for 1 lt c lt 4 and x=x²+c for -2 lt c lt 0.25. | |
| 039 | Chaos Theory: Mandelbrot Set Generated by a Java Applet [Source Code] |
| A running demonstration applet/Web Start app complete with source code written by an unemployed programmer existing on a reprehensible pittance called welfare. | |
| 040 | ChaosTheory: Hénon's Strange Attractor Generated by a Java Applet |
| Source code for an applet, which generates Hénon's Strange Attractor: an example of how phase space can be distorted to get a clearer view of what is happening. | |
| 041 | Chapter 10: The Capital Men: Maximise Labour Cost to Maximise Profit |
| A capitalist entrepreneur is legally bound to maximise the profit of his enterprise. To do this, he is obliged to minimise the wages he pays to his employees. | |
| 042 | Citizen or Subject? We Live to Serve a Minority as and when Required |
| The State exists for the benefit of the citizen: not the citizen for the benefit of the State. A subject exists to serve the State: not the State its subject. | |
| 043 | Collective Ownership Becomes, in effect, Ownership By Those in Control |
| The collective ownership of economic resources inevitably becomes ownership by a single head of state. This invariably proves worse than ownership by an elite. | |
| 044 | Community-Based Markets: The Labourer is Free But Dispossessed |
| Advancing technology reduces the labour required on an estate. In consequence, most labourers are jettisoned into regional labour pools without land or means. | |
| 045 | Conflict of Interests Between Producer & Consumer of Goods & Services |
| One buys products to perform tasks as well, for as long and as cheaply as possible. One sells products to make as much profit as possible as often as possible. | |
| 046 | Connective Force: Polyamory as a basis for a Fair Stable Society? |
| With the old forces of religious fear, political subjugation and corporate exploitation eradicated from the planet, what force will motivate social connection? | |
| 047 | Conscious Awareness: What is the Sentient Being I Perceive as Myself? |
| It perceives, feels & suffers. But what is it that can assert 'I think therefore I am'? Where is it? Of what is it made? How's it linked to the physical brain? | |
| 048 | Conscious Experience: What Imparts Colours to The Wavebands of Light? |
| Experience occurs in the consciousness. It is initiated by an outside physical event. But it is not a property of that event, to which it bears no resemblance. | |
| 049 | Creed of Greed: Manifesto of Competition and Hierarchical Sujugation |
| When need turns to greed, cooperation turns to competition, alienating us from each other. This stifles friendship and dissipate effort in fruitless conflict. | |
| 050 | Critical Mass: To Survive in a Global Market, You Have To Start Big |
| Without enough uranium you can't start a chain reaction. Without enough capital you can't start a business. And the critical mass needed grows with the market. | |
| 051 | Curriculum Vitae: Robert John Morton - Programmer, Writer and Thinker |
| Educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and The Regent Street Polytechnic. Worked for Redifon, Scicon and ITT Europe, before becoming freelance in 1976. | |
| 052 | Cut My Share: Experiencing The Dark and Devious Side of Business |
| The marketing agreement for my software was between me and a marketing company, which agreed that as owner of the software I would get 40% of the retail price. | |
| 053 | DSS Benefit Rules Thwart Every Opportunity For Re-employment |
| The restrictive rules imposed by the state, under which I am required to seek work, actively prevent me from exploiting golden opportunities for re-employment. | |
| 054 | DSS Savings Limit Grid-Locks The Poor Into Permanent Poverty |
| The upper limit on savings, imposed on those dependent on state welfare, deprives them of a means by which they could escape their economic inactivity. | |
| 055 | Dayse do Nascimento Silva: Life & Travels |
| A photo-essay about my life but mainly about my travels, the observations I made and the thoughts they evoked along the way. | |
| 056 | Death of Email: Those Who Spam & Those Who Blacklist the Innocent |
| If something is not done to fight them, the anti-spam carpet bombers who blacklist the innocent could spell death to email as a usable means of communication. | |
| 057 | Declaration of Human Rights Trapped in The Context of Capitalism |
| A United Nations Declaration of Human rights is laudable. But united nations are united governments. Each serves the interests of its country's dominant elite. | |
| 058 | Definition of Friendship: Affinity, Shared Values and Mutual Trust |
| To think I could define a concept so profound as friendship would be arrogant. So this is simply my view and feelings on what the word 'friendship' means to me. | |
| 059 | Democracy |
| Democracy and the rule of law have utterly and universally failed to provide fair and equitable government. | |
| 060 | Digital Exclusion: Appallingly Designed User Interfaces |
| For old, infirm and inept, web-based user interfaces are exceedingly difficult to use. | |
| 061 | Displaying Current Date and Time: A Little Snippet of JavaScript |
| A small JavaScript snippet to display current date and time. It may be useful to build into HTML files provided it doesn't provoke and unjust security penalty. | |
| 062 | Divide and Rule: The Principle of Sujugation of the Many by The Few |
| This axiom of tyranny is alive and well in the governing of modern democratic states, where its incisive divisions cut ever deeper and wreak increasing misery. | |
| 063 | Divide and Rule: The Reactionary Effects of Dividing The Genders |
| Attenuating social interaction between the genders is the most effective way by which sovereign states divide, conquer, subjugate and exploit their people. | |
| 064 | Divided We Fall: A Society Whose Members are Divided is Easily Ruled. |
| As sentient beings, we should be able to self-connect into a benign global society in which we may freely evolve towards our destiny. But this isn't happening. | |
| 065 | Draft Manifesto for a Fairer Society: The Earth Must be Shared by All |
| Currently law simply facilitates the containment & exploitation of the poor by the rich. Here we attempt to devise a protocol by which all could live in equity. | |
| 066 | Dysfunctionality and resulting unfairness of the Tax System |
| Yes, the unemployed, who must exist on a disgracefully miserable level of welfare, must still pay tax in several forms. Graph of my income & taxation 1977-2000. | |
| 067 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Author's Software Licence Agreement |
| The conditions, as interpreted by the laws of England, upon which author grants licensee permission to use the package for the purpose for which it is designed. | |
| 068 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 01: Marketing: Need & Background |
| The size & complexity of the marketing task has much less to do with the size & complexity of an enterprise and much more to do with those of its marketplace. | |
| 069 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 02: Marketeer System Overview |
| MARKETEER is a computer software package to help you establish, develop and maintain a UK Market, whether or not you actually have a base in the United Kingdom. | |
| 070 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 03: Furniture and Equipment |
| Essential equipment, additional items, compatibility, optional equipment, mains supply, printers, office space & furniture, consumables, setting up & testing. | |
| 071 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 04: Installing The Software |
| To install Marketeer yourself, you need to be familiar with the operating system of your computer and also with installing and connecting modems and printers. | |
| 072 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 05: Define Your Target Market |
| Key names & values, sales & postcode areas, TV regions, localised businesses; planning, setting up & naming your own sales areas & defining them geographically. | |
| 073 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 06: Viewing Market Statistics |
| Statistics options, compiling & when to re-compile; sales area populations, statistics & map display; relation, status, progress, event & product statistics. | |
| 074 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 07: Writing Good Sales Letters |
| A good sales letter is really the most vital component of a targeted mailshot. It can make or break the tenuous first connection between you and your prospect. | |
| 075 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 08: Sending Targeted Mailshots |
| Select letter, sender's name/title, individual or group, printing the letters, window envelopes, degree of familiarity, letter heading design, mailshot report. | |
| 076 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 09: Telephone and Telesales |
| Dialling method: manual or automatic; one-off calls, conducting a call, assessing the result, calling a target group, call session report, planning a campaign. | |
| 077 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 10: Telex & Communications |
| Mail: paper, telex, email; setting up email with your name & address, writing/sending messages to individuals and to target groups, post-transmission report. | |
| 078 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 11: New Names and Addresses |
| Name & address record, entering a name & address, namecode, reference number, postcode validation, prospect classification, ad hoc comments & memory triggers. | |
| 079 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 12: Maintaining Contacts Data |
| Recall a record by trawling or scanning for namecode, postcode, ref no., classification, status, SIC & key values. Command words: EDIT, KILL, NEXT, PREV, XREF. | |
| 080 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 13: Defining Target Sectors |
| Target profile: name, SIC, area, relationship, status, products, selector code, events, last event, elapsed time, automatic diary, visiting lists, list sifting. | |
| 081 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 14: Creating Prospect Lists |
| Reports: heading, line format, key fields, name & address fields, name & key values fields; Sticky-labels: stationery, uses; mail/email-shot & telesales lists. | |
| 082 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Chapter 15: Finding Sales Prospects |
| Preparing a database, sources, initial input, lists supplied on disk, records listing, shape of your market; campaign: mail pieces, sales letters, phone calls. | |
| 083 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Foreword, Contents & Author's Addendum |
| This user manual is a complete 'hands-on' introduction to the EBS MARKETEER Software Package, which is written as an easy-reading tuition-style narrative. | |
| 084 | EBS Marketeer User Manual: Index Extracted From Embedded Keywords |
| Lists each keyword with chapter & paragraph number where it occurs. Keywords are interspersed within chapter texts, embedded between special HTML comment tags. | |
| 085 | Effects of Capitalism: Frustration and The Erosion of Personal Worth |
| Caged in their bland suburban housing estates, it is little wonder that the hapless slaves of capitalism exhibit an increasingly antisocial mode of behaviour. | |
| 086 | Employee-Plus Approach: Offering My Skills & My Products as a Package |
| Employment is always a buyer's market. So the employee who offers most gets the job. I tried to offer more to employers by adding my products to my experience. | |
| 087 | Employment Barriers: Ageism, Interviewer Ignorance, Globaization... |
| With such negligent wastage of mature talent, it is little wonder the captains of the IT industry are forever bleating about their insoluble skills shortage. | |
| 088 | Employment Relocation: Global Geographic Polarisation of Skills |
| The demand for information technology design and development skills seems to be gravitating on a global scale towards ever fewer and larger geographic centres. | |
| 089 | Energy Barrier: Analogy for The Cause of Free Market Exclusion |
| It is the force that favours the status quo. It is the latch on the door to the free market that ensures that all whom misfortune casts out, become locked out. | |
| 090 | Event Horizon of History |
| An historic analogy of the physical event horizon of relativity theory. What an observer sees as he looks outwards — and hence backwards — into the mists of time. | |
| 091 | Every Human Being Has a Fundamental Moral Right To Adequate Income |
| Under capitalism, most don't own means to turn their work into their needs of life. Morally therefore, those who do must compensate them with an income in lieu. | |
| 092 | Excluding Older Workers Leads an Industry To Repeat The Same Mistakes |
| It's hard even now to find a system that's not, beneath its glitzy GUI, still a labyrinth of disparate drivers and patched scripts flying on a wing & a prayer. | |
| 093 | Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Is Contact Fundamentally Impossible? |
| Could there be Sun-like stars with Earth-like planets with evolved civilizations within radio range of the Earth? There are cogent arguments for and against. | |
| 094 | Fallibility of Authority: Official Abuse: My Personal Experience |
| Many in authority intimidate their victims by projecting the belief that they have some kind of psychological 6th sense that can see into their victims' minds. | |
| 095 | Fallibility of Perception and Reason: The Paradox of Simulation |
| All one's experiences enhance a neural model that simulates one's outside world. One interprets what one sees by comparing current experiences with this model. | |
| 096 | Fallibility of Perception and Reason: Viewing Orbits and Epicycles |
| Simple motion looks complicated and difficult to resolve when it can only be viewed from an awkward angle. Understanding it consequently takes a lot of effort. | |
| 097 | Family Estate: Division of Inheritance is Legal but Rarely Fair. |
| Apathy, negligence, ignorance and pressure cause the rich to divide their wealth unfairly among their descendants, keeping it in the hands of a favoured few. | |
| 098 | Fear, Guilt and Sexual Sins and The Re-Engineering of Conscience |
| To whom would keep a nation subjugated under a social hierarchy, intimate inter-gender friendship is the ultimate threat. A way had to be found to suppress it. | |
| 099 | Finding Friendship: The Need For Connection in an Austere World |
| Western society, where every aspect of human endeavour is driven by an all-pervading ethos of greed & competition, isn't an easy place to find true friendship. | |
| 100 | Free Market is Only Free to a Small Elite Clique of Corporates |
| The free market isn't the common possession of all. It's owned by the rich & ruthless who guard it within an impenetrable wall of joint-stock limited liability. | |
| 101 | Freedom of Travel: A Freedom The Law Allows But Poverty Denies |
| I live in a so-called free country. Legally I'm free. Notwithstanding, the degree to which my legal freedoms can be realised depends on the extent of my wealth. | |
| 102 | Genes of Consciousness: Adaptation to Drifting Niches: Gaian Genome |
| Does there exist, within the human genome, the encoded information from which is constructed the conscious entity that becomes aware of its own existence? | |
| 103 | Geographical Constraints put The Captured Consumer at a Disadvantage |
| A global corporation can buy in one country, produce in another and sell in a third. The consumer must sell his labour and buy his needs all in the same place. | |
| 104 | Global Navigation: A Communications Network With Mobile Nodes |
| A navigation aid for the mobile nodes of a VHF and microwave-based digital communications network, in which each node has on-board sources for position & time. | |
| 105 | Global Navigation: Automatic Moving-Map Global Navigator: 8-Tab Version |
| A full working version of the automatic global navigator of which the previously described applet was a demonstrator. It is written entirely in 'C' plus X11. | |
| 106 | Global Navigation: EBS Nomad In-Flight Informer: Commercial Outline |
| Stagecoach travellers absorb inspiring detail from the land through which they pass. Not so jet passengers who must stare into the blue hour after boring hour. | |
| 107 | Global Navigation: EBS Nomad In-Flight Informer: Project Outline |
| Project plan covering the whole life-cycle of design, development, production, marketing, maintenance and decline of the EBS Nomad in-vehicle navigation system. | |
| 108 | Global Navigation: EBS Nomad In-Flight Informer: Technical Outline |
| An in-vehicle navigation system that provides geographic + cultural & economic information about the hinterland through which the vehicle is currently passing. | |
| 109 | Global Navigation: Flight Control and Radio Functions Written in 'C' |
| A collection of navigation functions and data structures in C relating to the simulation of aircraft navigation equipments and their terrestrial environments. | |
| 110 | Global Navigation: Moving-Map Navigator Applet/Web Start Application |
| A moving map global navigator, which can run as an embedded applet in Java-capable browsers or be launched as a Web Start application from non-Java browsers. | |
| 111 | Global Navigation: Moving-Map Navigator: Introduction & Philosophy |
| A flight guidance system, which steers an aircraft from an origin to a destination via a route, which comprises a set of way points joined by great-circle arcs. | |
| 112 | Global Navigation: Moving-Map Navigator: Quick Guide User Instructions |
| How to select the desired route to fly using a selected ellipsoidal Earth model, select the map display coverage and data refresh rate and initiate the flight. | |
| 113 | Global Navigation: Moving-Map Navigator: Technical Details and Source |
| Technical descriptions and source files for the applet, including its graphical control panel and the underlying dynamic geometry classes for global navigation. | |
| 114 | Global Navigation: Prototype 'C' Functions For Moving Map Navigation |
| A collection of separate navigation functions written in C, which were used as the basis for the moving map navigator implemented as an applet on this website. | |
| 115 | Global Navigation: Waypoint Encounter Dynamic Geometry Demo Applet |
| Demonstrates a dynamic encounter between an aircraft and an en-route waypoint, using a circular attractor to create a hyperbolic flight path past the waypoint. | |
| 116 | Gone Bust: A Painful Introduction To The Meaning of Limited Liability |
| This company did not go bust. Its director manipulated it so that it was not in its creditors' best interests to try to sue it. Immoral but completely legal. | |
| 117 | Government Bureaucracy: Rules Forced Me to Destroy My own Career |
| Idiotic official rules imposed upon the unemployed have forced me to engage for over a decade in the systematic destruction of my own opportunities to get work. | |
| 118 | Government Bureaucracy: The Constrictive Rules of Job-Seeking |
| The inflexible rules, through which government employment advisers are forced to deliver their help, turn the whole process of job-seeking into a futile chore. | |
| 119 | Graphics-Based Difference Equation Iterator Program written in 'C' |
| Demonstrates an interesting aspect of Chaos Theory: that iterating a simple non-linear equation creates the apparently chaotic behaviour of complex-dynamical systems. | |
| 120 | Group Size: Number of Members Necessary for Maximum Group Cohesion |
| The optimum number of members for a cohesive group of equal peers is 7. For a task-group under the exclusive command of a single director, the ideal size is 12. | |
| 121 | Handful of Supermarkets may Soon Govern Access To Our Needs of Life |
| These commercial leviathans now control the nation's entire food supply & distribution system. Thus they alone now hold the key to the door to the tree of life. | |
| 122 | High Cost of Marketing Relegates Most Good Products To Oblivion |
| Developing what technically may be the perfect product is fine. But if you don't have the money to market your perfect product it'll never see the light of day. | |
| 123 | Holy Spirit: Many Non-Christians Have a Stronger Moral Conscience |
| Is there a hyper-universe, beyond what we can physically perceive, in which live omnipotent self-existent beings who wish us to communicate with them? | |
| 124 | Home-Based Working: Enabling a Wasted and Rejected Source of IT Skills |
| Could the so-called IT 'skills shortage' be largely a skills wastage? I submit that there is a vast national reserve of IT skill which is inexcusably rejected. | |
| 125 | Human Instinct: Natural, Acquired, Trained and Moral Instincts |
| Basic mental programming that equips the individual to automatically sustain and protect himself within his terrestrial environment. But it can be manipulated. | |
| 126 | Idyllic State: An Agrarian Socio-Economy of Nomads and Farmers |
| An idyllic society is inherently unstable and hence transitory: not through any systemic flaw, but because of the excessive self-seekingness of an exigent few. | |
| 127 | In Nature, Social Architectures are Networks: not Hierarchies |
| The hierarchical structures of capitalism are not reflected in nature. They are inventions of the human mind to help it classify elements of the natural world. | |
| 128 | Inadequate Means: The Jobless are Businesses With No Marketing Budget |
| Governments, in decreeing what the unemployed job seeker needs to live on, overlook what it costs to market oneself in today's fiercely competitive job market. | |
| 129 | Information: Syntactic versus Semantic; Words versus Meaning |
| Species adapt to changes in their niche conditions. But does this mean that therefore all genera evolved by progressive adaptation from a single ancestor? | |
| 130 | Inheritance Bond: A Concept That Gives All a Stake in The Economy |
| It divides a nation's wealth equitably among its citizens. It is the convergence of political extremes. It is the final fusion of Capitalism and Socialism. | |
| 131 | Instruments of Acquisition by Which The Favoured Few Grow Rich |
| All of us were born on this planet. But most of us own none of it. Ownership of the Earth is a privilege of a few, which is naively upheld by a stupid majority.
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| 132 | Inter-gender (Male-Female) Friendship as a Basis for Social Cohesion |
| Societal undertones impose a tangible awkwardness on a separately married man and woman being friends. This denies us the better half of our potential friends. | |
| 133 | Interest Rates: Negative Equity is Debt Resulting From Theft by Usury |
| Interest rates rise. My wages don't. House prices fall. I sell my house for less than I paid for it. I inherit a debt. What have I received to incur this debt? | |
| 134 | Internet Society |
| The Internet has enabled us to connect locally, nationally then globally. But there is one vital way in which it cannot connect us. | |
| 135 | Internet: Experience of Internet Services in Brazil: Blink Telecom |
| Contrary to suggested practice, they arbitrarily block your listening ports, thus denying you of your freedom to interact with other Internet users as you wish. | |
| 136 | Internet: Experience of Internet Services in Brazil: Claro NET |
| Through the networks facility on my computer I see the names of all local Wi-Fi nodes. Practically all are locked. However, I saw one Wi-Fi node that was not. | |
| 137 | Internet: Experience of Internet Services in Brazil: Conclusion |
| Contrary to suggested practice, they arbitrarily block your listening ports, thus denying you of your freedom to interact with other Internet users as you wish. | |
| 138 | Internet: Experience of Internet Services in Brazil: GVT |
| As such, GVT's name rather appealed to me. But alas, for me, GVT is simply not an option. | |
| 139 | Internet: Experience of Internet Services in Brazil: Introduction |
| Contrary to suggested practice, they arbitrarily block your listening ports, thus denying you of your freedom to interact with other Internet users as you wish. | |
| 140 | Internet: Experience of Internet Services in Brazil: NET |
| After 10 years of excellent service, Way TV went bust. I tried an ISP called NET, which was my beginning of woes. | |
| 141 | Internet: Experience of Internet Services in Brazil: Oi |
| Contrary to suggested practice, they arbitrarily block your listening ports, thus denying you of your freedom to interact with other Internet users as you wish. | |
| 142 | Internet: Experience of Internet Services in Brazil: TIM |
| Pressure from government & commerce to make the smartphone the de facto way to interact with society, forced me to buy a new smartphone and sign up with a new mobile telephone service. | |
| 143 | Internet: Experience of Internet Services in Brazil: W@y Internet |
| This Internet access service was ideal for me and I wish it could have continued forever. | |
| 144 | Internet: Frustrations With Routers When The Routing Tables Go Wrong |
| A faulty backbone router can make a computer blind to a large part of the Internet and getting an ISP help line to understand the problem is all but impossible. | |
| 145 | Internet: Internet Insecurity - From The User's Perspective |
| While providing a secure environment that is difficult for hackers to penetrate, it has left the user insecure. | |
| 146 | Internet: Those Ubiquitous & Obnoxious Browser Security Warnings |
| Not one of my applets or Web Start applications contains the functionality necessary to access your computer, which makes the warning message an outright lie. | |
| 147 | Interpreting Messages: A Fuzzy Overview is Safer Than Isolated Detail |
| Many religious groups hang a pivotal doctrine upon a single sentence. Truth is more accurately perceived through a fuzzy overview of an entire scripture. | |
| 148 | Land, Wealth and Capital: All Wealth and Capital Comes From The Land |
| Today capital is the essence of wealth and power. But only land can turn labour into the needs of life. Capital is nothing more than a well-engineered illusion. | |
| 149 | Land: Why They Who Have Work-Not While They Who Have-Not Must Work |
| Within the hierarchy, one is classed according to wealth. So there must be significant wealth disparity among different members of society. How did this arise? | |
| 150 | Landshare Project: A 6-segment annulus Design for a Landshare Dwelling |
| Design for a shell structure to accommodate the six connected activity spaces of the physical dwelling-cum-workplace, which forms the nucleus of the farmlet. | |
| 151 | Landshare Project: A Dwelling of Circular Ellipsoids on 3 Levels |
| The landshare dwelling can take any of a variety of physical forms. The first design comprises 3 joined circular ellipsoidal enclosures on 3 half-storey levels. | |
| 152 | Landshare Project: A Pilot Landshare Community |
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An individual farmlet, alone in this hostile world, is not likely to survive for long. Many farmlets need to agglomerate into anthropological communities. | |
| 153 | Landshare Project: A Torus-Shaped Design for a Landshare Dwelling |
| This outer shell design of the landshare dwelling is based on a variety of torus-shaped envelopes with a variety of configurations for internal activity spaces. | |
| 154 | Landshare Project: A Yinyang Garden For The Twin-Daisy Dwelling |
| This is an alternative garden setting for the Twin-Daisy dwelling design, which suspends the night-time module over a lake leaving the daytime module over land. | |
| 155 | Landshare Project: Activity-Based Design For Living and Working Space |
| To design an ideal dwelling, it is necessary to analyse the activities it must support then devise a set of conducive environments in which they may take place. | |
| 156 | Landshare Project: Clover Leaf Design for A Landshare Dwelling |
| This version of the universal terrestrial dwelling comprises 3 separate conglomerations of activity spaces, associated respectively with work, rest and play. | |
| 157 | Landshare Project: Design For A Universal Terrestrial Dwelling |
| A utility-independent dwelling, providing both living and work space, which could be installed on any 2-hectare plot of habitable land anywhere on the planet. | |
| 158 | Landshare Project: Dwelling Designs Based On Ellipsoidal Modules |
| These designs for the landshare dwelling provide a way of linking the ellipsoidal activity-space envelopes with better conduits for passing between the spaces. | |
| 159 | Landshare Project: Ellipsoid-Based Model For A Landshare Dwelling |
| This option for the design of the outer shell of the landshare dwelling is based on a 2:1 circular ellipsoid, which is sliced into flanged component panels. | |
| 160 | Landshare Project: Experimental Designs for The Landshare Dwelling |
| These designs for the landshare dwelling comprise activity-space envelopes based on fluted ellipsoids, hexagonoids and tori linked in various configurations. | |
| 161 | Landshare Project: For Each A Fair & Equal Piece of His Planet |
| Everybody has the inalienable right to his fair share of his planet's habitable land on which to live and by which to turn his labour into his needs of life. | |
| 162 | Landshare Project: Fractal Socio-Economics [Control Program] |
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A modern economy is governed by a small elite who make laws and policies derived from a view that is far too over-simplistic to adequately represent reality. | |
| 163 | Landshare Project: Futuristic Home For a Utility-Independent Farmlet |
| A futuristic shell structure to accommodate the system of connected activity spaces for a permanent dwelling-cum-workplace forming the nucleus of the farmlet. | |
| 164 | Landshare Project: Hexagonal Ring Dwelling of Oblate Ellipsoids |
| This ring of partially coalescing ellipsoids is just one personal design for the kind of dwelling I would consider as the nucleus for my Experimental Farmlet. | |
| 165 | Landshare Project: Introduction to A Utility-Independent Farmlet Home |
| To design and develop a working model of a family farmlet to be the economic element of the alternative society proposed in Chapter 12 of The Lost Inheritance. | |
| 166 | Landshare Project: Kitchen Diner: Food Preparation/Eating Flow Model |
| Here we create and consume a meal. This is probably the most complex domestic process, which lends itself well to the rigorous discipline of systems analysis. | |
| 167 | Landshare Project: Land Contract: Paid in Full But Denied Title |
| Account of monthly payments made for the land according to the contract. All but two bank receipts are available. All payments are verified by bank statement. | |
| 168 | Landshare Project: Modulo Rural: Minimum Tradable Area of Land |
| In Brazil, it is the smallest unit of rural land that can be legally traded. Its size is set by Federal & State regulations according to location of the land. | |
| 169 | Landshare Project: Pentagonal Ring Dwelling of Prolate Ellipsoids |
| This is a 5-module version of the previous 6-module design for a futuristic envelope to accommodate the connected activity spaces of the experimental farmlet. | |
| 170 | Landshare Project: Satellite Survey and Area Check of Purchased Plot |
| This survey used coordinates from a Google Earth satellite photograph, in a Java applet, to adjust the plot's boundary points to enclose the prescribed area. | |
| 171 | Landshare Project: Search For Land on The Tropical Brazilian Shield |
| To realize my dream of building a working model of a landshare farmlet, it was necessary to search for and acquire 2 hectares of real land on which to do this. | |
| 172 | Landshare Project: The Basic Requirements For a Landshare Farmlet |
| Under the convoluted land-laws of a modern State, is it possible to acquire space for a landshare and scape it into a working example of a futuristic farmlet? | |
| 173 | Landshare Project: The Bedroom: Its Layout and Activity Flow Cycle |
| This 8 metre diameter bedroom features a central bed, in the form of a Maltese cross, surrounded by twin washing & dressing facilities, wardrobes & toilets. | |
| 174 | Landshare Project: The Central Garden: 'Counsel Fire' Circle Design |
| This is the spiritual and intellectual centre of the dwelling. It is a place of earth, water and fire; a place of inspiration where one can link with nature. | |
| 175 | Landshare Project: The Entrance Hall: Helical Staircase & Lift Shaft |
| Here inside meets outside. It's the resident's access to the world and the visitor's first impression. Structurally it's the most complex part of the dwelling. | |
| 176 | Landshare Project: The Lounge: Desiged for Conversing & Viewing |
| It is the entertainment and relaxation centre of the dwelling. It is the place for casual conversation, serious discussion, for movies, books and documentaries. | |
| 177 | Landshare Project: The Quiet Room: Designed For Peace and Meditation |
| This is a sanctuary of tranquillity, where cares may be forgotten, the fundamentals of life may be reconsidered, the spirit refreshed and the mind re-inspired. | |
| 178 | Landshare Project: The Workspace Module of The Landshare Dwelling |
| This is a place of quietness and concentration in which to research and study, invent and design, formulate plans, crystallize ideas and connect with the world. | |
| 179 | Landshare Project: Toroidal Barrels Design For Landshare Dwelling |
| My preferred design for a landshare dwelling comprises 6 transparent torus-shaped shells, each containing an opaque clipped ellipsoid-shaped accommodation unit. | |
| 180 | Landshare Project: Tri-Flower & 5-Petal Variants of The Dwelling |
| This design of the outer shell of the landshare dwelling is based on a 24:14:7 ellipsoid, which produces a dwelling of a most aesthetically pleasing design. | |
| 181 | Landshare Project: Twin-Daisy Design For The Landshare Dwelling |
| This was the second of my early designs. I went into much more detail and produced what could well have been a very desirable place in which to live and work. | |
| 182 | Landshare Project: Universal Terrestrial Dwelling [Small Version] |
| A utility-independent dwelling, providing both living and work space, which could be installed on any 2-hectare plot of habitable land anywhere on the planet. | |
| 183 | Landshare Project: Utility Independence For Water, Power and Data |
| Conventional homes need utility services. Most land is beyond the reach of utilities. Utility-independent homes could open vast new areas to human habitation. | |
| 184 | Landshare Project: Victims of a Scam: Paid But Denied Title to Land |
| Many unscrupulous landowners are now trying to apply the condominium principle to the private ownership of rural land. But its legality is extremely dubious. | |
| 185 | Landshare Project: Virtual Model of Farmlet Set in The Land Scam Plot |
| The land scam rendered us unable to build a tropical version of the Model Farmlet. So we decided to create it virtually on land adjacent to the purchased plot. | |
| 186 | Landshare-Based Socio-Economy: A Pilot Scheme For a Model Community |
| Capitalist economies value everything in terms of a single currency. This causes things to be exchanged in trade whose values are fundamentally non-equatable. | |
| 187 | Language Barrier: Ultimate Guarantor of Mutual Misunderstanding |
| Different languages are not only different ways of coding meaning into sounds & signs. They are also different ways of seeing the world, with different ideals. | |
| 188 | Legal Infrastructure: For Whom is it Necessary? Whom Does it Benefit? |
| A formal legal infrastructure is needed only by regimes that use law as the means to facilitate the containment & exploitation of those ruled by those who rule. | |
| 189 | Life After Death: What Seems To Me To Be The Biblical 7-Stage Plan |
| The Bible seems to say something different and mutually inconsistent to everybody. This is what it says to me concerning what one might call 'life after death'. | |
| 190 | Limited Liability: Empowers the Rich to Legally Steal from The Poor |
| To protect himself, the capitalist devised a legal entity called the Limited Liability Company through which he could pass his risks onto the unsuspecting poor. | |
| 191 | Living on Benefit: My Struggle with The DSS Savings Limit Penalty |
| Commentary on my accounts for 1991 to 2001 during the debilitating Thatcher-Major era when it cost the unemployed more to save money than the rich to borrow it. | |
| 192 | Living on Benefit: Public Transport is too Expensive and Inflexible |
| Outside a major city, public transport cannot provide the flexibility required for finding work. Besides, for job seekers on state welfare it's too expensive. | |
| 193 | Living on Benefit: Social Exclusion: The Isolating Effect of Poverty |
| State welfare supposedly provides those who are unemployed or unable to work with their bodily needs of food, clothing and shelter. But the mind also has needs. | |
| 194 | Living on Welfare (Benefit): Amputation of Household Functions |
| Like an advanced life-form, a household too, when deprived of sufficient means of sustaining itself fully, is forced to amputate its less vital functions. | |
| 195 | Living on Welfare (Benefit): From Riches To Rags: The Cost of Clothing |
| Clothing one's family from a State Welfare budget in an expensive area is hard enough, without having to battle against child-targeting corporate merchandising. | |
| 196 | Living on Welfare (Benefit): Having to Halve Our In-Work Food Costs |
| Food is the most basic need of life. Yet on Welfare, the amount one has to spend on it is the only item in the household budget that it is possible to squeeze. | |
| 197 | Living on Welfare (Benefit): My Car: Luxury or Functional Necessity |
| Without artificial transport it is no longer possible to function as a member of society. Public transport is inadequate & expensive. A car is the only option. | |
| 198 | Living on Welfare (Benefit): No Budget For Maintenance and Replacement |
| Buildings and furnishings deteriorate. Domestic appliances wear out. Crockery chips and breaks. Facts which State welfare seems conveniently to overlook. | |
| 199 | Living on Welfare (Benefit): Our Family Income Spreadsheet Table |
| Complete table of our domestic finances from which the various graphs in Chapter 5 are generated. Key to column heading abbreviations appears after the table. | |
| 200 | Living on Welfare (Benefit): Profile of a Benefit-Dependent Family |
| I commend all my children who despite having had to do without so much have maintained a determination to exist in this reprehensible society as best they can. | |
| 201 | Living on Welfare (Benefit): Struggle To Keep The Tools of My Trade |
| A computer is the basic tool of my trade. I need it to maintain my skills. Yet DSS rules say I may keep tools of my trade only up to a fraction of its value. | |
| 202 | Living on Welfare (Benefit): The Creeping Extra Costs of Education |
| Though my sons are in State school, I have been increasingly pressured to spend more and more on education. This may have gone unnoticed were I not on Welfare. | |
| 203 | Living on Welfare (Benefit): The Terrifying Spectre of Destitution |
| People think welfare works. But Benefit rules can bring destitution upon any genuinely needy person at any time for reasons that defy common sense or humanity. | |
| 204 | Living on Welfare Benefit: Energy: The Crippling Cost of Keeping Warm |
| Modern society denies most the option their ancestors had of going into the forest to gather fuel for heating & cooking. Fuel can now only be bought with money. | |
| 205 | Logic and The Fallibility of Our Observation, Perception & Reason |
| Truth's absolute. Perception's fallible. So perceived truth's fallible. I perceive truth from only 1 point in time & space. So perceived truth's also relative. | |
| 206 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 01: My Career Gone |
| It is a cherished belief of modern society that if you get a good education and work hard then wealth and well-being are bound to follow. But it's not true. | |
| 207 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 02: A Point of View |
| Society imposes a collective point of view. But a point of view can only be from one position in time & space. So the only valid view is that of an individual. | |
| 208 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 03: The Vital Key |
| To convey a point of view, writer and reader must share not only the same language, but also a common context, without which, misunderstanding is inevitable. | |
| 209 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 04: A Futile Chore |
| Blind bureaucratic rules forced upon me by unemployment require me to dissipate my meagre resources in an endless iterative procedure that can't possibly work. | |
| 210 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 05: Staying Alive |
| We accept reduced living standards during times of recession. But how far can our belt be tightened before graceful degradation becomes functional amputation? | |
| 211 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 06: Poverty Sticks. |
| A capital economy embodies a nasty self-latching mechanism, which ensures that once you become poor, you remain poor. Intentional or not, this is how it works. | |
| 212 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 07: Relative Heaven |
| I am told that, compared to the poor of the Third World, my poverty is only relative. But that is meaningless. We're both equally poor, but in different ways. | |
| 213 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 08: The Family Estate |
| All have the same basic needs. Few own the means to produce them. The resulting disparity of wealth breeds dichotomy of thought, which precipitates conflict. | |
| 214 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 09: The Historical Line |
| We live on a planet that is well able to provide the needs of its 7 billion inhabitants. But why do a few bask in over-abundance while most languish in poverty? | |
| 215 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 10: The Capital Men |
| Unrestrained free-market capitalism is enveloping the globe at an ever-quickening pace. What will be the final consequences for the inhabitants of Planet Earth? | |
| 216 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 11: How They Govern |
| Wealth is from the collective minds & muscles of all. So why allow a small elite to exploit this vast power for its own selfish ends, leaving most with little? | |
| 217 | Lost Inheritance - Robert John Morton: Chapter 12: Ruling Ourselves |
| Is it possible for human beings to live together in a society in which all have equal rights, responsibilities and status? Or is hierarchy the only option? | |
| 218 | Lost Inheritance by Robert John Morton YE572246C: Introduction |
| In a democratic society, why does government of the people by the people create such a vast and unfair disparity in wealth and well-being among the people? | |
| 219 | Lost Inheritance by Robert John Morton: ABSTRACT of This Book |
| Proposal that hierarchical national governments should be replaced by a global structure resembling a hexagonal network, in which each citizen is an equal node. | |
| 220 | Lost Inheritance by Robert John Morton: The Age of The Universe |
| The age of the Universe was generally held to be between 10 and 20 billion years. Now, a more accurate estimate is 13.7 billion years, assuming time be linear. | |
| 221 | Lost Inheritance: Chapter 06: Poverty Sticks: Blaming Society |
| Blaming yourself for your predicament is easy. Nobody will condemn you for that. But blaming society takes courage, for it will provoke the indignation of all. | |
| 222 | Lost Inheritance: Epilogue: How To Begin Creating a Fairer World |
| An untraversable chasm separates us from our egalitarian ideal. Perhaps we should start now along the road that, one day, will take us to that better destiny. | |
| 223 | Man: an Economic Resource to be Used and Abused by a Corporate Elite |
| Man once dominated the Earth. It was as if he were the reason for its being. Now, he is just another economic resource to be used and abused by a wealthy elite. | |
| 224 | Market-Centred Flow Model of a Business: Materials, Labour, Money |
| This resource & financial flow model of a business was the first of my personal projects. It was to help me design the software I would need to run my business. | |
| 225 | Marriage and its Destiny: Today's Economy Stresses it to Destruction |
| Modern economic forces are pushing to sever even the tenuous bond of marriage to dissipate humanity into a socially celibate plasma of isolated atoms. | |
| 226 | Master Plan for Humanity: My Understanding of the Biblical Message. |
| To transform an earth-bound colony of physical life-forms into a community of super-beings with the run of the physical universe and the higher reality beyond. | |
| 227 | Maximising Profit by Maximising Revenue and Minimising Costs |
| To maximise his profit the capitalist must make the unit price of his product & its rate of production as high as possible and its unit cost as low as possible. | |
| 228 | Means of Exchange: The Nebulous Nature of The Value of Money |
| People see the value of money as absolute: a fixed frame against which anything can be valued. But perception is relative including that of the value of money. | |
| 229 | Memory and The Nature of Time |
| If awareness exists, when memory does not, then time, as we perceive it, cannot be what time really is. | |
| 230 | Mental Illness: A Carer's View: Health Professions Cannot Sense Onset |
| Life does not naturally deal to each an equal share of health, wealth and opportunity. A civilised society is supposed to compensate for such unfairness. | |
| 231 | Middleman: An Absorptive Barrier Between Producer and Consumer |
| Expanding markets threw artisans into competition. Out of the fray emerged an economic class, whom serendipity made rich upon the labours of their former peers. | |
| 232 | Modern Employee is The Bonded Slave of The Corporate Collective |
| Most today seem to think slavery a thing of the oppressive past. But a closer look at the capitalist free market system soon shows slavery to be alive and well. | |
| 233 | Modern Websites: Confusing Contentless Cacophonies of Colour |
| Too much spurious design, backgrounds, borders & whitespace with print too small to read comfortably & confusing non-standard proprietary navigation widgets. | |
| 234 | Money System Concentrates Wealth Into The Hands of Ever Fewer |
| Money is a representation of a debt that society owes an individual. In effect, a unit of money is a form of IOU (I owe you) note from society to its possessor. | |
| 235 | My Ideal Personal Computer: The Frustrations of Design Retrogression |
| Making it an ever-smaller consumer product relative to its human user makes it ever more difficult to use and ever less serviceable and user-upgradable. | |
| 236 | My Industry Standard Schema for My XML CV - Robert John Morton |
| HTML encoded version of my XML schema for a curriculum-vitae to help standardise the form in which people's career information is presented for easy searching. | |
| 237 | My Interest in Short Wave Radio: Illustrated Tour of Band Allocations |
| Broadcasts from every nation give rich, varied, challenging content around the clock: a first hand unfiltered insight into every shade of political philosophy. | |
| 238 | My Unconditional Birthright: I claim 1/7000000000 of Planet Earth |
| As one of the seven billion human inhabitants of planet Earth, I claim the right of occupancy and economic exploitation of one seven-billionth of its resources. | |
| 239 | My View of Reality: The Known, The Knowable and The Unknowable |
| People wonder about the meaning of life and the universe. Do non-physical dimensions exist? Will we live beyond this transitory existence? Here are my thoughts. | |
| 240 | Natural Complex Dynamical Analogue of The Modes of Human Society |
| Analogies are imperfect but when confronted by a large complex system like society, it helps to look at nature for an analogue that can be observed more easily. | |
| 241 | Nature of Conscience: Where do Notions of Right & Wrong Come From? |
| I have an inner sense that tells me right from wrong and a strong conviction to do right and shun wrong. Are these part of my nature or were they taught to me? | |
| 242 | Nature of Inter-Personal Relationships: Affinity, Values, Aspirations |
| A relationship develops between 2 self-aware conscious beings when they interact according to a protocol that progressively evolves through mutual interaction. | |
| 243 | Nature of Light: Doppler Effect Applet that Illustrates Two Theories |
| The velocity of light can only be measured for a round trip. This allows an alternative explanation for the Doppler effect. But there's yet a third explanation. | |
| 244 | Nature of Light: Established View: Classical Relativity of Einstein |
| That the speed of light must be the same in all frames of reference leads to counter-intuitive notions like the dilation of time and the contraction of length. | |
| 245 | Nature of Light: Observer's Frame of Reference & The Triplets Paradox |
| Perhaps the apparent dilation of time and contraction of space are merely illusions created by the way space-time conveys information from one place to another. | |
| 246 | Nature of Light: Passive Observer in A Source's Frame of Reference |
| If light be the essence of its source dispersing itself through space, it would make sense to consider the velocity of light to be relative only to its source. | |
| 247 | Nature of Light: Round Trip Basis For Measuring The Velocity of Light |
| The apparent distance travelled and time taken by light from source to observer depend on whether we look from the point of view of the source or the observer. | |
| 248 | Nature of Light: Simultaneity: Has Absolute and Relative Aspects |
| There are many intuitive problems and paradoxes with simultaneity. I here consider aspects of simultaneity that transcend the observer's past event-horizon. | |
| 249 | Nature of Light: The Prime Axiom Upon Which The Laws of Physics Rest |
| The Laws of Physics must be the same, to all observers. From this, many erroneously conclude that the velocity of light must appear the same to all observers. | |
| 250 | Nature of Light: Time Dilation & Length Contraction + Demo Applet |
| Perhaps the apparent dilation of time and contraction of space are merely illusions created by the way space-time conveys information from one place to another. | |
| 251 | Nature of Light: Wave or Particle? It's About How Atoms Absorb Waves |
| We're told that light comprises photons and that a photon behaves sometimes like a wave and sometimes like a particle. But we can never see a photon in flight. | |
| 252 | New Technology Socio-Economically Excludes Those Who Can't Afford It |
| When society adopts a new technology leaving the old one to die then those who become unable to afford the new, can't simply revert to doing things the old way. | |
| 253 | Noble Capitalist Had The Means To Bring About The Global Market |
| With his private means, the noble estate-owner has lots of time and money to venture into the world to establish a global market, which only he can capitalise. | |
| 254 | Noble Estate: A Socio-Economy Maintained by an Oppressive Hierarchy |
| The settler fences land thus depriving the wanderer of hunting ground. This triggers conflict in which wanderer eventually dispossesses and subjugates settler. | |
| 255 | Nuclear Family: The Basic Social Unit Determined By Human Physiology |
| Sexual dimorphism of human beings forces parents to pass on not only biological genes but also skills, knowledge, wisdom and a consciously developed ideology. | |
| 256 | Observation: Complex-Dynamics Validates My Restricted Personal View |
| How can a lone individual possibly make a valid observation about something which covers the entire world and extends back thousands of years before his birth? | |
| 257 | Omnipotent Cretins: the Larger an Entity the More Stupidly it Behaves |
| These towering idiots impose upon the individual their own Draconian obligations according to a complex labyrinth of incompatible and incomprehensible rules. | |
| 258 | On a Barren Planet, a Farmer's Wisdom and Toil Can Yield Him Nothing |
| Move man to a barren land and neither his millennia of accumulated knowledge nor any amount of desperate labour will earn him salvation from instant extinction. | |
| 259 | One's Earnings: Determined more by Market Forces than Personal Virtue |
| Most think their hard work earns them their livings. But human effort can't produce the needs of life. It can only take, form & distribute what Nature provides. | |
| 260 | Ownership of Land is an Illusion: It's Always Partial & Conditional |
| In the case of land, the words: have, possess & own aren't simple notions but a synergy of imperialist, capitalist, socialist & Aboriginal ideas of possession. | |
| 261 | Parable of the Cows: A Bovine Analogy For Free-Market Capitalism |
| In nature, the disparity in individual well-being of human society does not exist. So why do humans adopt the insidious form of socio-economy called capitalism? | |
| 262 | Partible Paternity Drives The Formation of An Intimate Social Network |
| A mother's belief that her baby inherits the best aspects of each of her men made the social structures of primitive tribes take the form of intimate networks. | |
| 263 | Personal Income: An Insidious Attempt to Compare Human Worth |
| The fallacy that an employee's salary be a measure of his inherent worth makes him loath to divulge it, thus making him the instrument of his own subjugation. | |
| 264 | Personal Study Notes: Introduction: About The Internet, Java and Unix |
| Highly illustrated study notes, some of which are reviews of my accumulated knowledge, while others cover new areas about which I had always intended to learn. | |
| 265 | Personal Study Notes: The Internet: To Share Knowledge & Information |
| History, addressing, architecture, protocols, ports, email, news groups, telnet, FTP. file types, archiving & compression, search engines. World Wide Web ... | |
| 266 | Poem: Beyond - about Life, the Universe and Beyond |
| A poem that explores whether the conscious self has a transitory or sempiternal existence. | |
| 267 | Poem: Cancellation [of an Internet Combo] |
| A poem that explores the difficulties in trying to cancel an Internet Services plan with a giant telecom corporation. | |
| 268 | Poem: Condominium: Noise: The Democracy of a Selfish Majority |
| A poem about insupportable din in the bedroom of our apartment. | |
| 269 | Poem: Democracy |
| A poem exploring the capriciousness, flaws and failures of democracy. | |
| 270 | Poem: Digital Exclusion |
| As the smartphone becomes the only means of buying, selling and managing finances, how do the old cope with its tiny screen and keys smaller their fingertips? | |
| 271 | Poem: Economies: Hierarchical Control versus Complex Dynamics |
| An economy is, by nature, a complex-dynamical system. It can be governed only through fractal rules. | |
| 272 | Poem: Erdogan's Revenge: A Rude Limerick About Boris Johnson |
| I had help from a friend to write this. | |
| 273 | Poem: Externalisation |
| A poem that explores how the old and infirm are digitally excluded by default. | |
| 274 | Poem: Freeloaders |
| A poem that explores how it is companies and corporations, not the unemployed, that are freeloading on the tax-payer. | |
| 275 | Poem: Human Society [a complex-dynamical view] |
| A poem that explores the errors of hierarchical government. | |
| 276 | Poem: ISP Contract |
| A poem that explores the unfairness and frustration towards the user of Internet service contracts. | |
| 277 | Poem: Judgement |
| A poem that explores the way society decides who is worthy of reward and who is deserving of punishment. | |
| 278 | Poem: Merit |
| A poem that explores the the very different perceptions of merit that exist within modern society. | |
| 279 | Poem: Millennia: Likening Free-Market Capitalism to a Tropical Storm |
| Begins: 'Dawn over Central Africa. The cool of the night is quickly quenched by the warmth of the rising sun heralding the tranquillity of another hot day.' | |
| 280 | Poem: Money |
| A poem about the paradox of money: what it is, what it isn't and what it does. | |
| 281 | Poem: Mother Earth, Our Lost Inheritance, Our Inalienable Right |
| Planet Earth should be the heritage of all, but under capitalism, its wealth-generating resources are the exclusive possession of an ever-diminishing minority. | |
| 282 | Poem: Mother Earth: Our Inalienable Right to Our Lost Inheritance |
| Planet Earth should be the heritage of all mankind, but its wealth-generating resources are becoming the exclusive possession of an ever-diminishing minority. | |
| 283 | Poem: My Sustainable Home: A Universal Terrestrial Dwelling |
| The home I would like if the technology and social environment allowed. | |
| 284 | Poem: Perception - Fallibility of Observation, Instrumentation, Language, and Logic |
| Quest for the objective truth through fallible senses and thought processes. | |
| 285 | Poem: Possession |
| A poem that explores philosophically the dubious meaning of possession. | |
| 286 | Poem: Slavery |
| A poem that explores the systemic, rather than the political, definition of a slave. | |
| 287 | Poem: The Corporate Clock: The Daily Grind of a Corporate Employee |
| The stress of being driven by the clock. The obligation to work the same hours at the same boring job at the same level of productivity both summer and winter. | |
| 288 | Poem: The Pauper's Rant by Robert John Morton |
| A poem that explores the author's sentiments of UK society up to the early 2000s. | |
| 289 | Poem: The Purpose of The Law |
| A poem that explores why The Law exists, what it does, how it is enforced and whom it serves. | |
| 290 | Poem: Time and Space: The Nature of Universal Reality |
| An alternative from the relativity and quantum mainstreams that is simpler and unified. | |
| 291 | Poem: War and Peace: The Despised Unemployed Fight a Lonely Battle |
| War is hard to bear, yet all around you are in the same boat. They are all sharing the tribulation with you. When unemployed you stand alone, despised by all. | |
| 292 | Political Disclaimer: My Formative Influences and Current Position |
| Thus far, I've been destructively critical of all mainstream political options. So I feel I must now state my history and clarify my present political beliefs. | |
| 293 | Poverty: Resulting Social Isolation Erodes One's Ability To Reconnect |
| The severe poverty, to which state welfare subjects the unemployed, forcibly isolates them from the very society to which they are accused of not contributing. | |
| 294 | Probatio Diabolica: Brazilian Bureaucracy |
| Bureaucratic rules can result in the loss of personal property because one is unable to prove a negative. | |
| 295 | Radio Astronomy: The Water Hole Band: The Search for Little Green Men |
| Searchers for extraterrestrial intelligence think that this is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum most likely to contain signals from alien civilizations. | |
| 296 | Radio Receivers: Magnetic Antenna (Aerial) & Tuning Coil Calculator |
| Calculates a coil's inductance, top frequency, radius, turns, diameter and amount of wire from min frequency, max & min capacitances and desired coil pitch. | |
| 297 | Reading Plan for This Web Site |
| The 1,080,000 or so words of this web site can be read comfortably in about 135 days by following the plan herein. | |
| 298 | Reference Note: Lissajous' Figures as a Track Recorder Alignment Test |
| Applets showing 1 & 2-phase Lissajous figures + the trace of a program originally written in Honeywell DAP to test the linearity of track recorder servo motors. | |
| 299 | Relativistic and Complex Dynamical Nature of Human Societies |
| Society has no fixed form or structure. It is a complex dynamical fluid of human molecules that appears different to each according to his unique place therein. | |
| 300 | Religion: My Imaginary Friend of Onmipotent Power and Total Knowledge |
| I may be one of the elite; one of the favoured few. But I'm still only human. I don't have the power to control & exploit an entire nation. So how can I get it? | |
| 301 | Religious Disclaimer: My Own Present Position as Regards Religion |
| In one phase of my life I was very religious. I studied the Bible fanatically. I will now state my history and clarify my present position on religious belief. | |
| 302 | Robert John Morton YE572246C: College, Employment & Freelance Projects |
| My college laser research project and the commercial electrical research & software development projects I worked on as a corporate employee from 1966 to 1976. | |
| 303 | Robert John Morton: Ancestry: Part Scottish, English, Irish and Welsh |
| I am of Scottish, Welsh, Irish and English descent. Sadly, the uncertain and questionable details of my ancestry extend back no more than 2 or 3 generations. | |
| 304 | Robert John Morton: Brief Summary of My Freelance Work History |
| Electrical apprentice, electrical research assistant, programmer, systems analyst, technical writer, software developer, businessman, unemployed layabout. | |
| 305 | Robert John Morton: Employment History: Programmer, Analyst, Writer |
| Electrical apprentice, electrical research assistant, programmer, systems analyst, technical writer, software developer, businessman, unemployed layabout. | |
| 306 | Robert John Morton: Formal Education: Colchester Royal Grammar School |
| I received excellent primary and secondary education but not at the tertiary level. Yet it was only when my formal education ended that my real education began. | |
| 307 | Robert John Morton: History & Modus Operandi of My Business 1977-1991 |
| Programmer/analyst/developer: I can contribute to your project from simply providing fresh ideas all the way to taking a full part in its practical realisation. | |
| 308 | Robert John Morton: History of My Personal Projects While Unemployed |
| Programmer/analyst/developer/businessman/unemployed layabout. Small software projects I did to keep my skills up to date from when I became unemployed in 1991. | |
| 309 | Robert John Morton: Life & Travels |
| A photo-essay about my life but mainly about my travels, the observations I made and the thoughts they evoked along the way. | |
| 310 | Robert John Morton: Programming Experience [FORTRAN IId to Java 11] |
| For one who has followed the development of programming over 30 years, switching to a new language is trivial. A pity agency flibbertigibbets can't see that. | |
| 311 | Robert John Morton: Software Packages: EBS Marketeer/Author's Delight |
| I wrote and developed a contacts manager and a paragraph processor, the first of which I also sold and supported through my own business between 1980 and 1990. | |
| 312 | Robert John Morton: Technical Writing Experience: Employed & Freelance |
| I have devoted half my career to technical writing, during which I have seen a revolution in authoring aids including 'Author's Delight', which I wrote myself. | |
| 313 | Ruthless Rules of Welfare: Our Correspondence with Officialdom |
| Letters between me and my son on the one hand and the DSS, the NHS and our Member of Parliament on the other about my son's mental illness and his welfare. | |
| 314 | Ruthless Rules of Welfare: There Simply To Avert Social Insurrection |
| When ruthless rules enforced by bloody-minded bureaucracy deny me my basic needs, what does society expect me to do: appeal, steal, or starve to death quietly? | |
| 315 | Salvation: An Alternative View: Transformation Would be More Accurate |
| The Bible seems to assert that I need to be saved from something and that the only way I can be saved from it is to accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ's life. | |
| 316 | Scientific Method: Clearest View of Reality, if Politics is Kept Out |
| A true picture of reality can never be beheld by human eyes. Nevertheless, the formal scientific method gives a clearer view of reality than casual observation. | |
| 317 | Share in The Land: The Means to Turn Labour into The Needs of Life |
| There is a glaring disparity in the way the habitable land of this planet is divided among its inhabitants, which no amount of moral reasoning can ever justify. | |
| 318 | Short Wave Broadcasting as an Analogy for Free Market Competition |
| The short wave bands are a cacophony of competing signals from all over the world. Only the powerful stations of the rich nations can be heard above the noise. | |
| 319 | Short Wave Radio: Antenna Steering Software for Mounbounce |
| This is a description of how to compute azimuth and elevation of the Moon solely from GMT [UT] to keep a radio antenna locked onto the Moon for moon bounce transmissions. | |
| 320 | Short Wave Radio: C-program: Communications Command and Control |
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This description is of a computer program. It acts as a command centre for radio transceivers. It is written entirely in 'C' with X11 windowing. | |
| 321 | Short-Wave Radio: A Radio Bandscope Controller Applet For The AR8600 |
| Gives a general view of the strengths of signals (vertical scale) across a frequency range (horizontal scale) over a selectable portion of the radio spectrum. | |
| 322 | Short-Wave Radio: HF Broadcast Receiver Controller Applet For AR8600 |
| A logical user interface for a physical general coverage receiver to help find and tune to the best available signal from a particular station or broadcaster. | |
| 323 | Short-Wave Radio: Ionospheric Propagation of H F Radio Signals |
| I have always been fascinated by our planet: its land, oceans, atmosphere, weather, geography and geo-physics. My interest in the ionosphere is part of this. | |
| 324 | Short-Wave Radio: My Design and Wish List For An HF Receiver Applet |
| A spectrum analyser style display showing current activity on a selected band and a variety of controls you can adjust to achieve the best possible reception. | |
| 325 | Short-Wave Radio: My Ideal HF Aerial: Capturing The Magnetic Vector |
| Capturing a very limited frequency range is easy, but trying to concoct the ultimate wide band radio aerial is perhaps like the search for the Holy Grail. | |
| 326 | Short-Wave Radio: My Ideal HF Receiver: Amateur, Broadcast, Weather |
| Should the personal HF receiver be a consumer product or a user-upgradeable framework? I prefer the framework so I can easily adapt it to my changing interests. | |
| 327 | Side Note regarding The Department of Work and Pensions |
| Stopping my pension. | |
| 328 | Social Class: Exists Only in The Mind as a Dubious Aid To Perception |
| Members of a family or team interact according to established rules, whereas a social class is merely an aid to perception. So why is the latter so divisive? | |
| 329 | Software: About Software: Good Software Versus Profitable Software |
| To write a good robust software package one must follow certain rules. To write a commercially successful package one must follow a very different set of rules. | |
| 330 | Software: Applets: A Keyword Search Facility for this Web Site |
| A search engine, complete with index, that runs as a client-side Java applet. The index contains keywords gathered from the meta tags of the site's HTML files. | |
| 331 | Software: Applets: Keyword Search Facility: Applet Warning Message |
| If presented with a warning message like the one shown on this page, you can rest assured that it is completely and utterly invalid. You can safely ignore it. | |
| 332 | Software: Index to My Java Applets: Over 30 Applets with Source Code |
| These applets are all 'live' on this web site. Their benign purpose is to illustrate [often by animation] various concepts and principles described in the text. | |
| 333 | Software: Java Applets: E-book Downloads Graphical Display Applet |
| Shows the numbers of copies of the PDF version of the Book downloaded by visitors to this web site each week so far since I started monitoring on 1 July 2001. | |
| 334 | Software: Java Applets: Web Site Hits Counter & Histogram Display |
| A histogram of the number of hits to my home page for each week since 26 April 1998. An applet generates the histogram live from a data file on the server. | |
| 335 | Software: JavaScript: Compound Gain Calculator for Shares and Funds |
| For daily/monthly/annual gain, where interest accrues daily and yesterday's gain is left in account as part of today's capital that generates today's interest. | |
| 336 | Software: My Curriculum Vitae in XML: A Vain Passing Fashion |
| A proposed minimalist schema containing necessary & sufficient information for efficient candidate job matching to help alleviate the apparent skills shortage. | |
| 337 | Software: My Programs: A Simple Non-Caching Non-Proxy Web Server |
| A simple non-caching non-proxy HTTP web server written in Java as a command line initiated program. Its minimal functionality gives it minimal vulnerability. | |
| 338 | Software: Neural Networks: Training The Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| A multi-layer perceptron is trained by presenting it with an input pattern for which the correct response is known and back-propagating the error in its output. | |
| 339 | Software: Packages: EBS Marketeer: Contact Management & Commuication |
| Marketeer is a well specified contacts management database package which I developed during the early eighties with an integrated context sensitive user manual. | |
| 340 | Software: Packages: EBS Marketeer: The Full 'C' + 'X11' Version |
| Marketeer is a well specified contacts management database package which I developed during the early eighties with an integrated context sensitive user manual. | |
| 341 | Software: Packages: Family Finances program written in 'C' + 'X11' |
| Screen shots from this program replace embedded Java applets which, because of the retrogression in web technology since 2017, no longer function in modern browsers. | |
| 342 | Software: Packages: The EBS Nexus Communications Managment Package |
| A fast database which identifies, locates, classifies and holds address, diary and dossier information on and facilitates contact with a large number of people. | |
| 343 | Software: Packages: The EBS Personal Link Contacts Management Database |
| A comprehensive aid to keeping track of, informed about and in touch with, one's personal coterie of family, friends, colleagues & contacts in the Internet age. | |
| 344 | Software: Personal Study Notes: Java: A Comprehensive Crib Sheet |
| Java's primitive types: numeric, character & string literals; declaration, modifiers & scope of variables; declaring arrays of variables, objects & arrays ... | |
| 345 | Software: Personal Study Notes: Unix - Its Merits, History and Future |
| History & Structure, Files, Directories, Searching, Redirection, Printing, Basic Commands, Installing Software, Multi-Tasking, DOS & Unix, Multi-User, Email ... | |
| 346 | Software: Programs: A Java Global Word Counter for My Website |
| Counts chars, words & sentences in HTML files, lists average number of words per sentence for each file and builds a dictionary of all the words in the files. | |
| 347 | Software: Programs: An Experimental Web Browser: Basic 'C' Functions |
| Long ago I started to design & code my own graphical HTML browser. But once the leading graphical browsers became established, this became no longer necessary. | |
| 348 | Software: Programs: Neural Networks: A Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| A multi-layer perceptron is one of many different types of neural network. It comprises a number of active 'neurons' connected together to form a network. | |
| 349 | Software: Programs: Neural Networks: Complete Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| Commentary on multi-layer perceptron program mlp.c: discussing command line, arguments, validation, dynamic allocation, weights, perceptron, I/O, training ... | |
| 350 | Software: Programs: Neural Networks: Introduction to Designing an MLP |
| Hailed as a new high-demand area, I decided to re-skill myself in Neural Network technology. These are the design notes for my generic multi-layer perceptron. | |
| 351 | Software: Programs: Neural Networks: MLP Input Summation Function |
| Each neuron in a multi-layer perceptron network receives a number of inputs. These are each multiplied by a separate weight and summed to form a single output. | |
| 352 | Software: Programs: Neural Networks: MLP Non-linear Transfer Function |
| The sigmoid function is so-called because it is shaped like the Greek letter Sigma. Its purpose is to create non-linearity between a neuron's input and output. | |
| 353 | Software: Programs: Neural Networks: Some Conducive Applications |
| Local weather forecasting, harvesting, market trends, HF radio conditions, interpersonal compatibility, radio signal identification, maintaining dynamic trim. | |
| 354 | Software: Programs: Neural Networks: The Complete & Tested Neuron Code |
| Inputs are multiplied by corresponding weights then summed and divided by the number of inputs and fed into the Sigmoid function to produce the neuron's output. | |
| 355 | Software: Programs: ROBOS: Message-Driven Real-Time Operating System |
| Robos is a development name. It runs chip-embedded or as an application on a host operating system. It's compact & closely linked with the applications it runs. | |
| 356 | Student Accommodation: The Petty Capitalist's Opportunity to Exploit |
| The increasing requirement for rich guarantors in student tenancy agreements is driving tertiary education more and more into the exclusive realm of the rich. | |
| 357 | Sustainable Energy: Needs, Sources and Systems for Heat and Power |
| Energy for our homes is provided by the polluting fuels which corporations commandeer from our common inheritance to sell back to us in return for our labour. | |
| 358 | Sustainable Food and Water: Needs, Climate, Crop Mix, Protection |
| Of the 2 hectares of habitable land per person available on this planet, 2396 m² of arable land alone is enough to provide each human being with adequate food. | |
| 359 | TECs: The Desparate Need For a Job Seeker's View of the Economy |
| Systematic job-seeking requires knowledge of one's economic environment. This exists, but in the wrong form and beyond the reach of those who need it. | |
| 360 | Table and Graph of Real Inflation and its 10 Root 2 Attractor |
| I originally based my inflation corrections on the 10th√2 algorithm. This is based on the premise that the £UK has approximately halved in value every decade. | |
| 361 | Team: Co-operation Evoked by The Sporadic Distribution of Talents |
| Our higher abilities are divided among us, making us all specialists. To deploy them effectively, we must combine them by forming ourselves into teams. | |
| 362 | Theft: A Notion Far From Being The Moral Absolute That Most Suppose |
| The wanderer's view that what is 'just there' is rightly for the taking is manifest in the modern world, particularly with regard to intellectual property. | |
| 363 | Tick-Box Forms: The Dysfunctional Sub-Language of Bureaucracy |
| The constrictive sublanguage of a modern official tick-box form is a woefully ineffective means of communicating the needs and circumstances of the individual. | |
| 364 | To Control Society, Maintain a Cultural Dichotomy Between The Genders |
| Nature gave men and women differences, which are both complementary and constructive. Sadly, society has added others, which are both inhibitive and divisive. | |
| 365 | Trickle-down Economics: The Fundamental Reason Why it Cannot Work |
| Wealth has no more cause to trickle down from the tables of the rich into the hands of the poor than the wealth of a farmer into the trough of his plough horse. | |
| 366 | Unemployed Need An Effective Job-Seeker's Information Source |
| Competition in the recruitment industry fragments & disperses job vacancy information, making the task of a resource-starved job-seeker impossibly complicated. | |
| 367 | Unemployment Stats: Unemployed or Unwillingly Economically Inactive? |
| Official figures do not portray unemployment as much of an issue. Figures from independent sources tell a different story. My observations favour the latter. | |
| 368 | Unfair Employment Contracts: Corporate Theft of Intellectual Property |
| An employee is paid only for the work he does. But employers, through unfair contracts of employment frequently try to lay claim to far more than they pay for. | |
| 369 | Union Action Hurts Innocent Artisan More Than Guilty Corporate |
| The nature of the only means by which unions can exert pressure is more likely to cause collateral harm the innocent than to perturb their corporate masters. | |
| 370 | Universe: About Theories: Human Observation Can Never be Objective |
| To me, the universe is all I see and feel that is beyond my conscious self. Its effects and impositions compel me to theorise about what it is and how it works. | |
| 371 | Universe: Events & Waves: Events Write Waves upon The Passing Aether |
| To any observer, the universe is one gigantic event, comprising a continuous stream of demarcatable features, which converges towards him from every direction. | |
| 372 | Universe: Force and Inertia: Velocity-Space and the Finger of God |
| The wilful exertion of a real force is the only way a conscious entity can cause a change of state within the physical universe and thereby convey a thought. | |
| 373 | Universe: My Personal Perception: A Sphere Whose Radius is Time |
| Any view of the universe can only be as it is variously perceived by each human consciousness from experiences invoked by inputs from the five physical senses. | |
| 374 | Universe: Notion of Motion: Complex Accelerations Without Force |
| The universe can only exist in a permanent state of dynamic equilibrium. Thus, all free objects must be in continual relative motion: motion is vital to being. | |
| 375 | Universe: Objects and Matter: Knots & Cusps in the Fabric of Space |
| As a conscious being, I am aware of something outside of me. It is not me but it contains me. It contains other things besides me. It is the physical universe. | |
| 376 | Universe: Red-Shift: An Alternative Explanation by Aethereal Flow |
| Some galaxies appear redder than astronomers expect. From this, they deduce that they must be receding. But could the evidence support a different explanation? | |
| 377 | Universe: Revolution: Phenomena in 3 Further Dimensions of Space-Time |
| Space provides 3 linear dimensions. It also facilitates revolution or spin about any 3 mutually perpendicular axes. This provides a new mode of aethereal flow. | |
| 378 | Universe: The Enigmatic Aether: The Bringer of Light & Experience |
| By definition, the universe is the only isolated object. So no single object within it can be isolated. It must be connected to all other objects. But by what? | |
| 379 | Universe: The Enigmatic Aether: The Bringer of Light & Experience |
| By definition, the universe is the only isolated object. So no single object within it can be isolated. It must be connected to all other objects. But by what? | |
| 380 | Universe: Time and Space: Thoughts on 3-Dimensional Space-Time |
| To me, space is the conduit through which time flows. Yet, paradoxically, I think space exists only by virtue of the fact that time is flowing through it. | |
| 381 | Validity of Evolution: Problem of Symbolic Coding in The Genome |
| Species adapt to changes in their niche conditions. But does this mean that therefore all genera evolved by progressive adaptation from a single ancestor? | |
| 382 | Vector-Space of Politics: What Does 'Right' and 'Left' Really Mean? |
| A person's or party's political position cannot be meaningfully expressed solely in terms of Right and Left because it is a concept with at least 3 dimensions. | |
| 383 | Vodafone Fiasco |
| From what I read in the relevant blogs, this kind of slimy practice by telecom corporations is far from uncommon the world over, especially with regard to vulnerable people. | |
| 384 | Website Hosting: A Journey of Vacillating Satisfaction |
| If something is not done to fight them, the anti-spam carpet bombers who blacklist the innocent could spell death to email as a usable means of communication. | |
| 385 | Welfare (Social Security Benefits): How Much and Who Decides? |
| The amount of money provided by State welfare depends on the attitude the many have towards the few who are denied the opportunities which the many are given. | |
| 386 | Where I Work: a Matter of Practicality or Corporate Bloody-Mindedness? |
| A universal wish among almost every employee and contractor I have spoken to on the subject has been eventually to leave employment and set up his own business. | |
| 387 | White Elephant Projects: What Would the IT Industry do Without Them? |
| Throughout my career I have seen unceasing torrents of government money poured recklessly into projects which could not possibly end other than in failure. | |
| 388 | Who Owns Cyberspace? Those Who Grant, Deny & Control Our Access To It |
| When you step into cyberspace, you are in somebody else's territory. You walk naked before his all-seeing eye. Even your inner secrets are open to his gaze. | |
| 389 | Workfare: Unpaid Voluntary Work is Exploitation of the Unemployed |
| It is argued that the unemployed should be put to work to earn their welfare. But if they are put to work, why shouldn't they be paid a fair wage for that work? | |
| 390 | XML Source for My Resumé Marked Up in HTML - Robert John Morton |
| This is my suggestion for a standard XML schema for résumés (curriculum vitae), which would be placed on a universal data base freely accessible to everybody. | |
| 391 | XSL Source for My CV Marked Up as an HTML file - Robert John Morton |
| XSL template file marked up so it can be displayed as an HTML file. This provides a template for all personal CVs so they can be presented in a standard way. |
