Restrain never encourage borrowing:

 

Restrain never encourage borrowing:

How can you be living within your means if you borrow?

It is impossible for someone to get into debt trouble if he lived within his means and the reason people get into trouble is because borrowing to spend is addictive and they lose control.

THUS ALL LENDING MUST BE RESTRAINED, SUBJECT TO CLOSE SCRUTINY AND THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION TO LIBERALIZE LENDING UNLESS YOU WANT TROUBLE, AND WHOEVER EXHORTS LENDING IS PUTTING HIS HEAD ON THE CHOPPER BOARD.

Borrowing means risk and living beyond your means:

No matter how anyone can wrongly dispute, whenever a person borrows he is taking a risk and no man of truth takes risks, he only does what he knows. Something may happen that may force you to default (eg lose job or you die, even if you die, your karmic debt for non-payment stands).

If you live within your means it means you live with what money or assets you have, by borrowing you are always living beyond your means, even if you have assets to back up what you borrow, it is not the same as cashing those assets and using the money instead of borrowing with assets as collaterals which means you profit from still keeping the assets that may decline in value.

EVEN IF YOU HAVE COLLATERALS BORROWING STILL INVOLVES RISK AND LIVING BEYOND YOUR MEANS. THE PROPER WAY IS TO DISPOSE OF YOUR ASSETS AND USE THE MONEY TO FINANCE YOUR ENTERPRISE.

THE WISE MAN HEADING FOR HEAVEN DOES NOT TAKE RISKS THAT DOES MEAN HE MUST BE VERY CAUTIOUS, HE JUST ONLY UNDERTAKE WHAT HE SEES AND KNOWS AND YOU CANNOT UNDERTAKE WHAT YOU SEE AND KNOW IF YOU TAKE RISKS. BECAUSE HE DOES NOT TAKE RISKS, HE IS NOT AT RISK.

IT IS GREED (BASED ON FORCE OR ATTRACTION FOR UNRIGHTEOUS GAINS) NEVER TRUE UNDERSTANDING THAT DRIVES A PERSON TO TAKE RISKS AND BORROW.

If you think you can borrow without taking any risks or live within your means you may be right or deluding yourself or have wrong view and understanding that leads to hell or the animal womb.

ALL BORROWING IS TAKING RISKS AND LIVING BEYOND YOUR MEANS, IF YOU LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS YOU SELL YOUR ASSETS AND USE THE PROCEED TO BUY THE NEW ASSETS. WHY WON’T YOU SELL? IS IT BECAUSE OF GREED, TO MAXIMIZE GAINS, PROFITING BY HOLDING YOUR ASSETS AND BORROWING ON IT TO GAIN ADDITIONAL WEALTH BASED ON BORROWING.

BY NOT SELLING BEFORE BUYING YOU HOPE AND TAKE A RISK TO PROFIT FROM YOUR EXISTING ASSET AND BORROWING ON THAT ASSET THAT CAN TURN HAYWIRE OR YOU ARE TAKING A RISK.

Taxpayer bank bailout 'justified'

The Treasury was "justified" in using taxpayers money to bailout banks, according to the National Audit Office.

Whoever is responsible for the statement is a fool heaping deadly karma on himself. Without asking taxpayers’ permission (eg referendum) you are a fool to accrue debt or take risks on behalf of others and to further say it is justified is additional karma.

TO UNDERTAKE RISKS FOR OTHERS IS ITSELF KARMA BUT TO SAY IT IS JUSTIFIED IS ANOTHER KARMA.

My own money bailout justified:

Why won’t the person use his money to bailout banks?

IF IT WAS HIS OWN MONEY HE WILL NOT USE IT TO BAILOUT BANKS LET ALONE SAY IT IS JUSTIFIED UNLESS HE IS MAD AND SO IF YOU WILL NOT USE YOUR MONEY AS TOILET ROLL WHY DO YOU EXPECT TAXPAYERS TO AGREE AND YOU THINK IT IS JUSTIFIED? WAIT UNTIL THE AXE FALLS ON YOUR HEAD THEN SEE IF IT IS JUSTIFIED.

Oil skids below $76 Friday:

Notwithstanding the stylish way it was put, if you understand the statement you must understand there is no basis for the gyrations of oil prices except the work of speculators or as evidence speculation dictate prices.

BECAUSE THE PRICE OF OIL HAS BUILT IN DECENT PROFITS, THE ONLY BASIS FOR RAISING OIL PRICES IS IF COSTS OF PRODUCTION RISES AND LOWERING PRICES IS IF COSTS OF PRODUCTION DROPS.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT COSTS OF PRODUCTION CAN GYRATE UP AND DOWN IS SO MUCH SO FAST AND SO THE REASON OIL PRICES FLUCTUATE SO MUCH IS TO REFLECT DIRTY HANDS MANIPULATING PRICES FOR PROFIT OR SPECULATING.

Mother’s tears pay off with citizenship for daughter:

His or her emotion stirred to hype, the person does not realize he is talking nonsense that will end in insanity.

It is not the mother’s tears that got her daughter citizenship but it is her enterprise or effort in seeing the minister.

If you think enterprise is the same as tears then you may have right or false perception that will end in mad perception. His emotions stirred (‘touched’), he is trying to stir others’ emotions to make much of what is a lot of hoo hah. If both were ugly old hags rather than well dressed attractive woman, they may not be such headline items.

Citizenship is no big deal, it is not paradise here and anyone who makes much of it is heading for woe.

Using your money to make you pay:

Not only are there speculators on the oil market but they (or the big fish like Goldman Sachs) may have secretly cornered or controlled the market using money borrowed from the public or money infused into them through government bailouts to margin finance their speculative positions on the oil markets that then pushes up prices resulting in you having to pay more for oil.

Recently governments throughout the world pumped money (real or imagined) into banks but instead of lending out these banks like Barclays that have big trading desks in commodities may be using the money to margin trade that tends to raise prices that people whose money they borrowed will have to pay more. Look how silly or absurd this world is?

These speculators should be lined up and shot but politicians who are in cohorts will not, karma will not be so indulgent and those who speculate are headed for the scrape yard of eternity.

It is the end of the world, but not as we know it:

The person is engaging in deception and conflict that he thinks is funny or pleasurable not realizing there is torment in the future for him.

He does not mean what he said, “it is the end of the world” because what he subsequently said, “but not as we know it” belies or contradicts it. Unconsciously he wants to stir conflict in others (and also himself).

MANY PEOPLE ARE GUILTY OF SAYING “YES, BUT”. IF YOU MEAN WHAT YOU SAY THEN THERE ARE NO ‘BUTS’ AFTERWARDS WHICH BELIES OR MAKE A LIE OF WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER APART FROM STIRRING CONFLICT IN YOURSELF AND OTHERS THAT WILL END IN UNCONTROLLABLE CONFLICT.

So, is religion an unifying force in the country?

What is said is false and nonsense.

Religion is not a force, if you perceive religion as a force you may have false perception that will end in mad perception.

All religions are about teachings that may be true or false, not force. If you perceive teachings as force or has force then you are deluded.

Whatever that is united by force cannot last, is enforced and therefore false and without understanding.

OBVIOUSLY THE PERSON THINKS WHAT HE SAYS IS FULL OF MEANING, PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE AND TRUE WHEN IT IS FALSE AND NONSENSE.

“DOES RELIGION UNITE OR DIVIDE IN THE COUNTRY” MAY BE CORRECT.

If England can't beat the US they have no business being in the knockout stages

Anyone who understands truly the statement will understand that it is false empty babble driven by emotion not worth paying attention to.

Stirred by emotion (eg pro England, he may be exuberant that England has a good draw), he scoffs at the US as unworthy opponent and thinks England is so good it will walk over the US. Just because England cannot beat the US does not mean it has no business in the knock out phase and therefore he is cultivating false logic that will end in mad logic.

Before something has happened, he has already formed a view how it will happen, England will beat the US or it does not deserves to be in the later stages.

REASON OR UNDERSTANDING IS NEVER THE BASIS OF THE STATEMENT BUT EMOTION, EG COCKINESS OR DERISIVENESS IS STIRRED TO TREAT THE US DERISIVELY AND OVERRATE ENGLAND. BECAUSE IT IS DRIVEN BY BLIND FORCE, THE STATEMENT NATURALLY IS ALSO BLIND OR FALSE AND THE PERSON AND THOSE WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR AGREE WITH IT WILL HEAD FOR INSANITY.

Climate of fear

Dubai's property investors wary of the future

There is no need to bring climate into the picture, climate has nothing to do with it but it is introduced to sound nice and therefore it is the meaningless style in the substance of speech that is for show to impress not without consequence because it is false perception that ends in mad perception to perceive there is a climate of fear when it is merely a case of Dubai’s investors fearful of the future.

Almost and all but:

Quote: employers all but stopped shedding jobs.

There is a difference as great as an eternity of perdition and heaven in saying almost versus all but and if you think they are about the same you have wrong view.

“All but” is a learnt style of speech copied from others because it sounds impressive but it is false and contradictory. “All” means employers have stopped shedding jobs and the ‘but’ contradicts or renders as false what you said previously. A person who understands truly what he wants to say and does not want to deceive others says ‘employers almost stopped shedding jobs”.

True believers:

Emotional people speak of true and false believers without understanding what they are talking about. There are no true and false believers because belief is about using force to accept what you did not see as true.

Whatever there is to be believed is a plan that you use force to accept as true because you trust the person speaking so. If you saw something said is true, what is there to believe?

THUS BECAUSE BELIEF IS ABOUT SOMETHING YOU DID NOT SEE AS TRUE BUT YOU USE FORCE TO ACCEPT IT AS TRUE, IT IS ALL ABOUT BLIND HARMFUL FORCE THAT IS BEHIND THE PLAN OF WHAT IS TO BELIEVED AND BECAUSE FORCE IS BLIND AND MEANINGLESS, THERE ARE NO TRUE OR FALSE BELIEVERS.

BECAUSE BELIEF IS ABOUT SOMETHING YOU ACCEPT BLINDLY, IF YOU ARE A TRUE BELIEVER YOU ARE DELUDED, YOU SEE SOMETHING YOU DID NOT SEE AS TRUE. THE PERSON OF TRUTH SEES SOMETHING HE DID NOT SEE AS TRUE (BELIEF) AS SOMETHING HE DID NOT SEE AS TRUE, NOT SOMETHING TRUE WHICH IS THE DOMAIN OF DELUDED PEOPLE.

If a person is a 'true' believer it means he perceives what is a belief as true and that is false perception or delusion. So there is nothing wonderful about being a 'true' believer, it is foolishness and delusion.

The false believer is higher:

A true believer perceives what he believes as true.

A false believer perceives what he believes as false and so he is still in touch with reality.

A TRUE BELIEVER SEES WHAT IS A BELIEF AS TRUE AND BECAUSE A BELIEF IS WHAT YOU DID NOT SEE AS TRUE BUT YOU USE FORCE TO BLINDLY ACCEPT AS TRUE, THE TRUE BELIEVER IS ONE WHO HAS FALSE PERCEPTION, HE PERCEIVES AS TRUE WHAT HE DID NOT SEE AS TRUE OR WHAT HE BELIEVED.

The true believer is the false perceiver:

First you use force to tell a lie which such conviction and drama that you want others to believe it is true but increasingly, you yourself start to perceive (not believe) that lie is true and thus you become a true believer in what you said that is false.

EACH TIME A PERSON USES FORCE TO PERCEIVE WHAT HE DID NOT PERCEIVE AS TRUE OR WHAT HE BELIEVES OR TOLD TO BELIEVE, HE INCREASINGLY PERCEIVES FALSELY IT IS TRUE SUCH THAT A TIME WILL COME WHEN HE COMPLETELY PERCEIVES WHAT HE DID NOT SEE AS TRUE OR WHAT HE BELIEVED IS TRUE AND THAT IS WHAT A TRUE BELIEVER IS, A FALSE PERCEIVER OR ONE WHO PERCEIVES WHAT IS FALSE IS TRUE.

THE PERSON WHO IS NOT A TRUE BELIEVER EITHER KNOWS WHAT HE BELIEVES MAY BE FALSE, HE HAS NOT COMPLETELY EMBRACED IT OR HE IS AWARE THAT WHAT HE BELIEVES IS JUST THAT, A BELIEF NOT SOMETHING HE TRULY SAW.

Confession, apology & forgiveness:

Most emotional people are loathed to confess to wrongdoing let alone apologize let alone ask for forgiveness yet according to what the Buddha taught, a wrong still stands with suffering due unless the other person forgives you of your wrongdoing.

So, anyone who is too proud to ask for forgiveness will be well advised not to commit wrongdoing (telling lies, steal, divide, harm) because repayment, no matter how long it takes even many eons later) is due unless the other person forgives him. Moggalana, the Buddha’s deputy who was a Satan in a past eon, had to be beaten severely in his final days in final propitiation of his past debts.

THUS IF YOU HAVE TOLD A LIE, THE CORRECT THING TO DO IS ADMIT OR CONFESS, APOLOGIZE AND THEN TO ASK FOR FORGIVENESS. IF THE OTHER PERSON DOES NOT FORGIVE YOU, STILL YOU MUST REPAY THE DEBT. A PERSON WHO DID NOT TELL A LIE DOES NOT OWE DEBT AND NO FORGIVENESS TO BE GIVEN.

Impossible to kill a Buddha:

It is impossible for anyone to take the life of an enlightened person, only he can extinguish his own life.

Thus Monggalana, who was the Buddha’s deputy, was pummelled by rival religious assassins for debts accrued in past eons, did not die but managed to go to see the Buddha to bid his goodbye.

At that time, Maha-Moggallana lived alone in a forest hut at Kalasila. After his encounter with Mara he knew that the end of his days was near. Having enjoyed the bliss of liberation, he now felt the body to be just an obstruction and burden. Hence he had no desire to make use of his faculties and keep the body alive for the rest of the aeon. Yet, when he saw the brigands approaching, he just absented himself by using his supernormal powers. The gangsters arrived at an empty hut, and though they searched everywhere, could not find him. They left disappointed, but returned on the following day. On six consecutive days Moggallana escaped from them in the same way. His motivation was not the protection of his own body, but saving the brigands from the fearsome karmic consequences of such a murderous deed, necessarily leading to rebirth in the hells. He wanted to spare them such a fate by giving them time to reconsider and abstain from their crime. But their greed for the promised money was so great that they persisted and returned even on the seventh day. Then their persistence was "rewarded," for on that seventh day Moggallana suddenly lost the magic control over his body. A heinous deed committed in days long past (by causing the death of his own parents) had not yet been expiated, and the ripening of that old Kamma confronted him now, just as others are suddenly confronted by a grave illness. Moggallana realized that he was now unable to escape. The brigands entered, knocked him down, smashed all his limbs and left him lying in his blood. Being keen on quickly getting their reward and also somewhat ill as ease about their dastardly deed, the brigands left at once, without a further look.

But Moggallana's great physical and mental strength was such that his vital energies had not yet succumbed. He regained consciousness and was able to drag himself to the Buddha. There, in the Master's presence, at the holiest place of the world, at the source of the deepest peace, Moggallana breathed his last (Jat. 522E). The inner peace in which he dwelt since he attained to sainthood, never left him. It did not leave him even in the last seven days of his life, which had been so turbulent. But even the threat of doom was only external. This is the way of those who are finally "healed" and holy and are in control of the mind. Whatever Kamma of the past had been able to produce a result in his present life, nevertheless, it could affect only his body, but no longer "him," because "he" no longer identified himself with anything existing only impermanently. This last episode of Moggallana's life, however, showed that the law of moral causality (Kamma) has even greater power than the supernormal feats of this master of magic. Only a Buddha can control the karmic consequences acting upon his body to such an extent that nothing might cause his premature death.

Sariputta and Maha-Moggallana were such wonderful disciples that the Buddha said the assembly of monks appeared empty to him after their death. It was marvelous he said, that such an excellent pair of disciples existed. But it was marvelous, too, that, in spite of their excellence, there was no grief, no lamentation on the part of the Master, when the two had passed away.[11]

Therefore, inspired by the greatness of the two chief disciples, may a dedicated follower of the Dhamma strive to be his own island of refuge, have the Dhamma as his island of refuge, not looking for any other refuge, having in it the powerful help of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthana)! Those who are thus filled with keen desire to train themselves in walking on the Noble Eightfold Path, they will certainly pass beyond the realms of darkness which abound in Samsara. So the Master assures.[12]

MACC to watch distribution of aid to victims

KOTA BARU: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission officers will be stationed at functions held to hand over aid to flood victims in Kelantan, said National Security Council director Mohd Roslee Mamat

It reflects their advanced false perception and shallowness that they deem such activities as befitting and effective in weeding out corruption. Obviously they think the public will be impressed with their diligence.

Why such scrutiny in Kelantan an opposition state and not elsewhere?

MACC will be well served if they posted officers in all Federal ministers offices to deter corruption than in flood victims aid distribution centres.

THEY THINK WHAT THEY ARE DOING (WHICH MAY NOT ACTUALLY TAKE PLACE) IS FULL OF MEANING, IS PART OF THEIR JOBS WHEN IT IS ABSURD, A WASTE OF RESOURCES. CATCH THE BIG FISH FIRST NOT THE SMALL FISH FIRST.

No fire, poison or weapon can touch a truly good man:

"Monks, for one whose release of awareness through good will is cultivated, consolidated, and well-undertaken, eleven benefits can be expected.

"One sleeps easily, wakes easily, dreams no evil dreams. One is dear to human beings & non-human beings. The devas protect one. Neither fire, poison, nor weapons can touch one. One's mind gains concentration quickly. One's complexion is bright. One dies unconfused and

The Buddha said fire, poison and weapons cannot touch a person’s whose release of mind through goodwill is well cultivated, so how can anyone take the life of an enlightened one?

A monk can see the Buddha, say it is time to pass away, elevate his body in mid air, burst into flames and extinguish his life just there.

In another case a monk asked to be carried outside because he has been bitten by a snake and about to pass away. Once outside, his body crumpled into a pile of dust. It may be that you say the snake killed him but do people killed by snakes have bodies that crumple into dust? It is the monk allowing himself to be killed by the snake that he passes away not the snake killing him.

Queen orders paparazzi crackdown:

The queen spoke out recently concerning paparazzi intrusions into the private lives of the royals. “Queen orders paparazzi crackdown is an interpretation or understanding of what happened and it may be an accurate or true understanding or it may be a perverted or false perception either because the person truly falsely perceives as thus or he twists it around to be sensational or try to be funny or mock the queen.

WHATEVER THE CASE, ‘QUEEN ORDERS PAPARAZZI CRACKDOWN’ IS NOT AN ACCURATE UNDERSTANDING OF AN EVENT THAT HAS HAPPENED BUT IT IS A FALSE UNDERSTANDING POSSIBLY OUT OF DELIBERATE DISTORTION FOR SELFISH GAINS THAT HE WANTS OTHERS TO SHARE, HE WANTS OTHERS TO UNDERSTAND FALSELY LIKE HIM THAT THE ‘QUEEN ORDERS PAPARAZZI CRACKDOWN’ WHEN THE TRUTH MAY BE QUITE DIFFERENT. THUS PEOPLE THINK THEY UNDERSTAND THINGS BUT THEIR UNDERSTANDING MAY BE FALSE OR PERVERTED.

Geitner poohs poohs talk of transaction tax:

This is a revelation that US officials are not working for the good of the community but for bankers and high finance.

Because most of the currency dealings are centralized in London, it is easy to impose a small transaction tax on speculators who buy and sell currency for profit even indulge in the carry trade of borrowing in one currency to switch to another to profit from interest rate changes. These speculators can create havoc on economies by the violent swings in currency rates as a result of their actions.

ACTUALLY EXCEPT FOR TRADE PURPOSES OR LONG TERM SHIFTS PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO TRADE CURRENCY FOR THE SAKE OF PROFIT FROM EXCHANGE RATE DIFFERENCES AND THE EUROPEAN PROPOSAL FOR A SMALL TAX DOES NOT GO ENOUGH TO MEET THE CHALLENGE AND EVEN THIS US OFFICIALS ARE OPPOSED WHICH IS AN INDICATION TO THOSE WHO ARE DISCERNING THAT GEITNER IS NOT ON THE SIDE OF THE LITTLE MEN BUT WALL STREETERS LIKE GOLDMAN SACHS. EVEN WITH DEMOCRATS THE WORLD FINANCE IS NOT IN GOOD HANDS.

What is money speculation?

Just as you can speculate in oil and causes prices to rise that is borne by consumers you can speculate in currency with the price paid by the public.

What is called speculation in money?

If you have no interest in a currency, you only buy or sell it for profit, to profit from price appreciations or declines, you are a currency speculator.

Not only do people speculate in currency, they borrow money to speculate and they borrow currency they do not have to exert pressure on a currency just as RHB was supposed to have lent ringgits to foreign speculators to sell for USD pressuring the ringgit by draining Malaysia’s USD reserve.

EXACTLY WHETHER A PERSON OR TRANSACTION IS SPECULATIVE CANNOT BE DENIED, IT CAN BE CLEARLY KNOWN AND ALL CURRENCY SPECULATION IS EVIL, A FORM OF UNRIGHTEOUS GAIN WITH HELL AND THE ANIMAL WOMB AWAITING THESE SPECULATORS.

Why the world is headed for financial, economical meltdown:

The system and the people administering the system (the elected politicians and their cronies in the financial and big business world) itself is seriously rotten.

It is the rotten system and the rotten people running it that led the world into the grave even irretrievable mess it is now in and the system and its rotten administrators are still intact so it is impossible that the rotten system and administrators that got the world into this mess should retrieve the world but it will continue until it is a total wreck.

This is a system that condones cheating, stealing and attacks and even exalts them. No actions are taken against money speculators who knows you are short of USD to borrow local currencies (eg ringgit or pounds) to sell for USD depleting your reserves of USD so that you are forced to devalue and they can then sell USD back to you for more ringgits and thus pocket the difference. What is happening is robbery or borrowing ringgit to attack a nation so that its people pays a ransom or is impoverished because its currency is devalued. If speculators had not borrowed ringgit to sell for USD, the nation may not run out of USD and so this is an evil action driven out of ill will for unrighteous gains and these speculators face even hell.

Don’t think Soros is that wonderful, he probably borrowed pounds to sell for USD pressuring sterling to be devalued and this netted him $10 billion at the expense of the UK government and thus people.

A large part of the financial industry today may not be productive but speculative, using money to make money that does not come from nowhere but is at the expense of the system or the ordinary person. Margin finance is permitted to buy shares, oil and money.

ALL THESE SPECULATION IN OIL, CURRENCIES, STOCKS AND PROPERTY ARE NOT WITHOUT SIDE EFFECTS BUT IS LIKE A CANCER EATING THE SYSTEM AND NOW THE CANCER MAY BE TERMINAL AND THE SYSTEM WILL DIE, WITH IT EVERYONE INCLUDING THESE RICH CRIMINALS LIKE SOROS.

Singapore and HK different from Dubai?

If you think Singapore and HK are made of sterner stuff than Dubai which has run into even fatal debt trouble because of a property bubble built on borrowings, you are a fool, Singapore and HK too may be headed for a crash.

Recently HK’s chief executive spoke of concern of a property bubble because prices have risen by 30% last year.

No matter how rich and productive HK & Singapore are, how short of land and sustained the demand (augmented by an influx of speculative money from all over the world), the spiral of rising property prices cannot be sustained by the income base and so Singapore and HK may be like the fool who keeps climbing higher and higher up a pole and now it is reaching the end of the pole which is so high the sight of the ground below is frightening and the only way down is to jump to certain painful death.

AND SO IT IS THAT SINGAPORE AND HK THINK THEY ARE DIFFERENT, THEY CAN DEFY GRAVITY BUT IT IS A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THEY TOO COLLAPSE AND AS THE SAYING GOES, THE HIGHER YOU CLIMB THE MORE PAINFUL THE FALL.

 

A driverless Audi for Pikes Peak

(The true significance of this feat, a powerful sportscar tackling a testing mountain circuit is lost on ordinary people and it is this: NO MATTER HOW SOPHISTICATED THIS CAR IS, IT HAS NOT ONE BIT OF UNDERSTANDING, IT ONLY DOES WHAT IT IS PROGRAMMED TO DO, OR IT DOES WHAT IT IS TOLD TO DO AND WHAT IS RELEVANT IS ITS PERCEPTIONS (SENSORS DETECT DATA IT IS TOLD TO DETECT AND BASED ON DATA DETECTED BY SENSORS, PROGRAMS ARE TRIGGERED THAT ARE SO SOPHISTICATED NOWADAYS IT CAN ENABLE A FAST CAR TO NEGOTIATE A TRICKY CIRCUIT. IT IS PROOF THAT NO UNDERSTANDING IS REQUIRED TO DO ALL THE SPEECH, ACTIONS AND INTELLECTUAL DEEDS OF EMOTIONAL PEOPLE, IN TIME A POWERFUL ENOUGH SUPERCOMPUTER CAN BEHAVE LIKE EMOTIONAL PEOPLE. IN OTHER WORDS, IT DOES NOT REQUIRE UNDERSTANDING TO DO THE THINGS ORDINARY PEOPLE INCLUDING ‘TOP’ INTELLECTUALS DO, IT MAY BE JUST A MATTER OF PERCEIVING, MEMORIZING AND RETRIEVAL OF WHAT IS MEMORIZED FOR REPLAY JUST AS THIS AUDI IS DOING)

Posted by: Anthony Lim

Audi is set to return to a venue synonymous with its past motorsport successes when a “driverless” vehicle tackles the infamous Pikes Peak Hill Climb in the US next year. Currently in the testing phase, the Autonomous Audi TTS quattro is being developed for several still-to-be determined real-world driving challenges in 2010, including a possible drive up the legendary 12.42-mile Pikes Peak Hill Climb route in Colorado. This will not be a competition run, however, and is separate from the actual Hill Climb Championships being staged next June.

The vehicle is the direct result of work underway at the Volkswagen Group Automotive Innovation Laboratory (VAIL) – a collaborative effort set up by the Volkswagen Group Electronics Research Laboratory and Stanford University USA to advance car technology.

The boffins have converted a standard Audi TTS quattro to “drive by wire” and are developing a safety system to ensure a reliable autonomous drive that can perform a vehicle shutdown if it determines conditions have become unsafe.

The Autonomous TTS is currently controlled by a computer located in the boot, but next year Stanford algorithms will be running in the car using Java real-time receiving programming updates via telemetry with a range of 32km. Ultimately, it is envisioned that aerial towers will be able to send and receive signals to these cars in a manner similar to cellular mobile telephone aerials today.

As a backup solution, the vehicle includes a telemetry system that can transmit all vehicle parameters to a receiving station up to 32km away which can also shut down the vehicle remotely, or order the safety systems to engage and bring the car to a controlled stop.

For Audi, even in a non-competition format, the Autonomous TTS run would also mark the company’s return to the Pikes Peak course, in which it has won many honours and set many records, including the first sub-11min time in 1987, when Walter Röhrl clocked 10:47.85 in a 2.1l “Pikes Peak” quattro delivering almost 600bhp. Even though Röhrl’s record has long been surpassed, Audi still holds the record for a front-wheel drive vehicle, even after three decades.

As for the Autonomous Audi TTS project, the company states that this one isn't aimed at making motorists, or the thrill of driving, dispensable, but rather as a tool intended to explore the best capabilities of current and future driver assistance technologies.

Climate talks an economic opportunity - Bill Clinton

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Monday that to reach a new deal to combat climate change, global warming needs to be sold as an economic opportunity not "a dose of castor oil you have to swallow."

This is the talk of a greedy deluded man who is trying to see gain wherever he sets eyes on and so he is headed for perdition.

THE PURPOSE FOR CLIMATE TALKS IS NOT TO EXPLORE AVENUES FOR POSSIBLE ECONOMIC GAINS WHICH ARE BESIDE THE POINT. IF YOUR PURPOSE FOR CLIMATE TALKS IS FOR ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE THEN THAT IS A FALSE PURPOSE AND YOU ARE HEADED FOR INSANITY FOR PRACTICING CLIMATE CONTROL FOR THE SAKE OF GAINS. THE PURPOSE OF CLIMATE CONTROLS IS TO STABILIZE THE CLIMATE BECAUSE IT CAN LEAD TO DISASTER, NOT TO REAP GAINS.

Unless you want to be mad:

Unless you want to be mad, the reason you enter climate talks is because the world is facing a serious even fatal environmental disaster unless steps are taken to correct it. To enter talks because of potential material gains is a false reason that is the path to madness.

IT REFLECTS THEIR COMMON DELUSION THAT PEOPLE SEE NOTHING WRONG, THINKS IT IS ‘KILLING TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE” WHEN IT IS DEADLY, LEADS TO INSANITY TO DO SOMETHING FOR FINANCIAL GAINS INSTEAD OF A MEANINGFUL REASON, EG TAKE CLIMATE STEPS BECAUSE NOT TO DO SO WOULD MEAN DISASTER.

In the same way:

Just as programmed perceptions (programmers tell the car what to look for) and programmed rehashing (programmers tell the car to accelerate, brake or turn if certain perceptions are detected) that does not require understanding can permit a powerful sportscar to negotiate and survive a tricky race course, in the same way, programmed perceptions and programmed rehashing that does not require true understanding can enable a man to survive even very well for a long time in this world of biological robots who think they understand truly when they don’t understand many things and whatever they understand is understood falsely in a rehashed manner.

THERE PROGRAMS IN THE MINDS OF EMOTIONAL STYLISH PEOPLE THAT TELLS THEM WHAT AND HOW TO SEE AND BASED ON WHAT THEY SEE IN SNAPSHOTS THEY SEARCH AND RETRIEVE RECORDED EXPLANATIONS OR UNDERSTANDINGS OF WHAT IT IS THEY SEE THAT MAY DEPART FAR FROM REALITY AND THEY THINK THEY UNDERSTOOD SPECIFICALLY WHAT THEY SAW. WHAT THEY UNDERSTOOD CAN BE EXAMINED TO BE FALSE AND REHASHED NOT UNDERSTOOD FRESH FOR THE OCCASION.

Why property is headed for a big crash:

The only true reason for property to rise in price is if the cost of building has risen.

Even given generous accounting for inflation, cost of materials and labor, the costs of building cannot have increased so much as to account for the stellar rises in house prices that reflect greed, speculation.

Because there is no true reason for property to be so high, it is artificial & cannot be sustained forever and at some stage it must crash.

Further a lot of the money used to prop up prices is borrowed, savers money in banks have been depleted by borrowers who use it to buy or speculate in property. Another reason for stellar rise is hot money from all over the world that can now descend greedily on any place on earth be it Singapore, HK, India or Dubai to artificially boost demand and this money will escape at the first sign of trouble.

STELLAR PROPERTY PRICE RISES ARE NOT BASED ON TRUE REASONS BECAUSE COSTS HAVE NOT RISEN MUCH BUT BASED NOT JUST ON SPECULATION BUT SPECULATION ON BORROWED MONEY AUGMENTED BY HOT MONEY FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. BECAUSE HOUSES COST A LOT THEY RAPIDLY DEPLETE THE SAVINGS IN THE SYSTEM THAT BANKERS RECKLESSLY MOBLIZED TO LEND FOR BUYING.

Japan steps up stimulus spending:

Herein is an example of mankind’s advanced false logic on two counts:

Firstly you don’t spend to stimulate the economy but you spend because you have something meaningful to spend on eg you don’t buy a computer to stimulate the economy but you buy because you need a computer.

Secondly, you have spent yourself into trouble and you never spend yourself out of trouble but you always spend yourself into even greater trouble. You save yourself out of trouble, repay and save yourself out of trouble and make sure you learnt your lesson and never do it again.

IT IS FALSE LOGIC THAT AFTER YOU HAVE SPENT YOURSELF INTO TROUBLE AS THE WORLD HAS DONE SO, THE ANSWER IS FOR GOVERNMENTS (WHO THEMSELVES HAVE OVERSPENT AND NO MONEY) TO TAKE OVER TO SPEND OURSELVES OUT OF TROUBLE.

IT IS TRUE LOGIC AND UNDERSTANDING THAT AFTER YOU HAVE SPENT YOURSELF INTO DEEP TROUBLE, YOU MUST SAVE AND REPAY YOUR DEBTS MANFULLY AND LEARN YOUR LESSON NEVER TO REPEAT.

AGAIN YOU NEVER SPEND TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY BUT YOU SPEND BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING YOU NEED AND YOU CAN AFFORD IT.

Why climate sceptics are headed for hell:

It is never out of reason but antagonism that climate sceptics are taking issue and because they take issue without seeing and knowing they are acting in opposing actions that may be crucial in the name of antagonism.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT CLIMATE SCEPTICS SEE AND KNOW THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING OR THAT MANKIND IS NOT THE CAUSE BUT THEY ARE ACTING WITHOUT KNOWING OR SEEING FOR EMOTIONAL REASONS LIKE DISLIKE OR SCOFFING.

THERE IS SIZEABLE EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE (RISING CO2 LEVELS, MELTING POLAR CAPS, RISING GLOBAL TEMPERATURE) TO INDICATE THERE IS GLOBAL WARMING AND MANKIND MAY BE OR IS THE CAUSE OF IT AND THE WISEST COURSE OF ACTION IS TO TREAT IT AS TRUE AND TAKE STEPS TO COUNTER IT RATHER THAN SCOFF. UNLESS YOU SEE AND KNOW THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE AND MANKIND IS NOT RESPONSIBLE YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SPEAK OUT AND OPPOSE REMEDIAL STEPS. IF YOU DO SO, YOU ARE COURTING MADNESS, DOING THINGS YOU DID NOT SEE IS TRUE. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE CLIMATE SCEPTICS CAN SEE THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING AND SO THEY ARE SPEAKING AND ACTING OUT OF ANTAGONISM NOT REASON.

Paid by oil companies:

Some of these sceptics may be paid by oil companies who may stand to lose if measures are taken to curb energy consumption and so apart from emotional derision, there may be vested reasons why some scientists who have sold their souls to money might oppose measures.

Ample evidence of global warming:

Why are gases like CO2 and methane called greenhouse gases? It is because they trap heat in the atmosphere that would otherwise escape into space.

You can conduct an experiment in which you compare the equilibrium temperatures of air with differing CO2 composition to see if it makes a difference to the temperature and if atmospheric temperature is proportionate to CO2 concentration and there is evidence atmospheric CO2 is rising and global temperature is rising then you must have serious false perception to doubt what your eyes tell you, namely CO2 is a greenhouse gas and it is rising in concentration in tandem to an objective rise in global temperatures.

IF DESPITE CO2 BEING A KNOWN GREENHOUSE GAS AND ITS CONCENTRATION STEADILY RISING WITH DOCUMENTED RISING GLOBAL TEMPERATURES AND YOU STILL DISPUTE GLOBAL WARMING WITHOUT SEEING AND KNOWING WHAT YOU DISPUTE IS TRUE, YOU ARE STUBBORN AND IRRATIONAL, COURTING MAD PERCEPTION.

Loneliness 'raises cancer risk'

Loneliness could make cancer more likely, say researchers who found rodents kept alone developed more tumours.

Loneliness is a false involuntary emotional state of the mind that is suffering and can lead to depression, not a physical state of the person. A Buddha or noble person can be in total isolation even in a cemetery in the middle of a night and not feel lonely or in need of company.

It is dependency, the dependency needs of a person that when deprived leads to loneliness, an emotional state of the mind characterized by sadness, agitation and fearfulness that is always suffering and also conditioning such that with age the person’s emotional loneliness becomes easier to arouse to more intense levels that gets harder to shake off.

A person who is not stylish, does not use force to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness cannot be lonely, he does not require company and is not dependent on others. On the contrary he prefers seclusion and seeks seclusion and minimizes contact with emotional people.

Short selling is legalized cheating and plunder:

There is such a thing called short selling and it can be clearly defined as such and such. It is rampant in currency, shares and commodities trades. It does not benefit but harms the society and the only (material) beneficiary is the short seller, so why is it allowed to short sell?

The reason is because financial/economic experts and authorities do not understand what short selling is (pure cheating and plunder) or understand falsely what it is that they permit such criminality that harms the system to exist.

Short selling is borrowing stock or currency or commodity (eg oil) that you don’t have (or even selling something you don’t have without borrowing) to drive down prices or on expectation the commodity will drop in price and you can buy back the commodity to return to the lender and pocket the difference as profit.

Why is short selling pure cheating and plunder?

If hedge funds did not borrow ringgit from RHB to short sell to deplete Malaysia’s USD reserves but had to use USD to buy ringgit on the market, it would swell Malaysia’s coffers of USD so that if they then sold ringgit for USD the USD would be just returned to them without depleting Malaysia’s USD reserves and speculators will derive nothing except losses on conversion charges.

It is only because they did not have to swap their USD for ringgit but they borrowed ringgit (for a commission to lenders) from RHB that they artificially increased ringgit demand for USD that may cause a stampede of others fearing a run on the ringgit that then depletes Malaysia’s USD reserves so that it has to devalue and thus devalued, the speculator can buy much more ringgit for their USD to return to RHB.

SURELY IF YOU WANT TO SELL RINGGIT YOU MUST BE MADE TO POSSESS RINGGIT FIRST. HOW CAN YOU ALLOW PEOPLE TO SELL RINGGIT THAT THEY DO NOT POSSESS, YOU LET THEM BORROW LOCAL RINGGIT FOR A FEE TO SELL? IS THIS NOT CHEATING IN ORDER TO PLUNDER THAT DEPRIVES MALAYSIAN CITIZENS?

In the same way if share short sellers had to buy shares on the market to short sell, they will drive up prices that defeat their purpose to push down prices so that they can buy back later and there may not be so many shares available on the market for them to buy to sell down.

ONLY A FOOL WILL BUY EXPENSIVE TO SELL CHEAP, IT IS SUICIDAL AND SO IT IS ONLY BECAUSE SPECULATORS DID NOT BUY THE SCRIPTS THEY SHORT SOLD, THEY BORROWED IT TO SELL DOWN ON THE GAMBLE THAT IT WILL FALL AND THEY CAN BUY BACK TO RETURN THE SCRIPTS MUCH CHEAPER THAT THEY DO SO.

SHORT SELLING NEVER BENEFITS ANYONE EXCEPT THE SHORT SELLER, INSTEAD IT HARMS THE SYSTEM TO BENEFIT ONLY THE SHORT SELLER AND BROKERS WHO HAVE MORE BUSINESS BECAUSE OF SHORT SELLING. SO WHY DO REGULATORS NOT UNDERSTAND THIS AND BAN SHORT SELLING? IS IT BECAUSE THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR UNDERSTAND FALSELY OR THEY ARE IN COHORTS WITH SHORT SELLERS WHO HAVE CONNECTIONS IN HIGH PLACES?

 

FALSE OR LACK OF UNDERSTANDING BY THOSE WHO ARE TOUTED AS EXPERTS (ECONOMISTS, REGULATORS) IS NOT ABOUT ARCANE OR DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND MATTERS BUT SIMPLE FUNDAMENTAL MATTERS THAT INTERESTS ORDINARY PEOPLE. MONEY MATTERS TO ORDINARY PEOPLE AND YET WHY DO THEY NOT UNDERSTAND THAT SHORT SELLING IS CHEATING AND PLUNDER AND PERMIT IT TO FLOURISH IN SOCIETY?

THUS FOR ONE WHO SEES RIGHTLY, THE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN AND THOSE AT THE REINS DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR UNDERSTAND POORLY AND HAVE NO COURAGE TO ACT AGAINST SUCH PARASITIC ACTIVITIES THAT IS LIKE A CANCER THAT MAY ALREADY BE TERMINAL.

NAME ME ONE OTHER PERSON WHO SPEAKS LIKE ME, I AM NOT EVEN A TRAINED ECONOMIST LET ALONE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS.

Borrowing script is circumventing the market:

When you borrow script instead of buying script to sell, you are bypassing the market and virtually creating two sets of shares, the shares the owners are supposed to possess and their shares that you have borrowed.

Thus you have deceived the market that you have shares that you did not have but belonged to another. It is the creation of the artificial or false situation or illusion that the lender still has the shares and you the short seller also has the shares.

The appearance or deception is of two sets of shares (one owned by the lender and one owned by the short seller) when there is only one set of shares that the short seller has borrowed and is selling.

Thus Soros is a cheat:

The only way Soros could have made so much money speculating on the British pound (at the expense of the British people) is by cheating (short selling pounds he borrowed) and cheating can send one to hell and so if you think Soros is a good man, is a philanthropist, you may be deluded.

SOROS MADE MONEY BY CHEATING AND THAT IS KARMA.

Short selling only works if you can borrow:

Short selling only works if you can borrow what you want to sell or sell without having even without borrowing.

It is impossible for short selling to be profitable if you cannot borrow or sell what you don’t have.

IS SELLING WHAT YOU BORROWED NOT WHAT YOU HAVE NOT CHEATING?

IF HEDGE FUNDS HAD RINGGIT TO SELL FOR USD THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO BORROW LOCAL RINGGIT FROM RHB. THUS IF HEDGE FUNDS HAD TO OWN RINGGIT, THEY WOULD HAVE TO SELL THEIR USD TO BANK NEGARA FOR RINGGIT AND WHEN THEY SELL RINGGIT FOR USD THE USD THEY USED TO BUY RINGGIT IS MERELY RETURNED TO THEM AND MALAYSIA’S USD RESERVE IS UNCHANGED AND IT IS A WASTE OF TIME FOR HEDGE FUNDS TO BUY AND SELL RINGGIT.

IT IS ONLY IF THEY CAN BORROW LOCAL RINGGIT TO SELL FOR USD THAT THEY CAN DEPLETE MALAYSIA’S RESERVES AND TRIGGER A PANIC EXIT BY OTHERS THAT THEY CAN ENGINEER A CRISIS THAT OTHERWISE WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED THAT NECESSITATES DEVALUATION AND PROFIT FOR THEM.

THUS SHORT SELLING ONLY WORKS IF YOU BORROW THE COMMODITY YOU WANT TO SELL. IF YOU HAVE TO OWN THE COMMODITY, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PROFIT BY SHORT SELLING. ISN’T SELLING WHAT YOU DO NOT OWN A FORM OF CHEATING?

An instance of their unwitting false perception:

Emotional people perceive short selling as a marvellous tool with which to make money, they don’t see it as unfair or cheating or plundering when the only way to truly perceive short selling is to perceive it as cheating and plundering the system.

Because they perceive short selling as normal, marvellous they have false perception and understanding that will end in mad perception.

ANYONE WHO SPEAKS OF SHORT SELLING OR ARE INVOLVED IN SHORT SELLING AND DOES NOT SEE IT AS BLATANT CHEATING AND PLUNDERING BUT INSTEAD PERCEIVE IT AS A MARVELLOUS HARD TO UNDERSTAND INSTRUMENT OF TRADING HAS FALSE PERCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING.

How did Soros make 10 billion betting on devaluation of pound?

Without borrowing heavily in sterling to sell for USD or other currencies and then returning to lenders the devalued sterling he bought with a stronger USD, he cannot have reaped such ‘handsome’ profits.

If Soros did not sell sterling for USD before the devaluation, how can he reap profit after the devaluation?

It is only because Soros sold sterling for more USD before the devaluation that after the devaluation he bought sterling with far fewer dollars that he made his money speculating on devaluation.

It is impossible that he owned so much sterling that he sold before devaluation but he must have borrowed it to sell.

THE ONLY WAY ANY HEDGE FUND CAN PROFIT FROM A DEVALUATION OF ANY CURRENCY IS TO BORROW IN THAT CURRENCY AND THEN SELL THAT CURRENCY FOR FOREIGN CURRENCY IN ANTICIPATION OF A DEVALUATION AND SO SOROS MUST HAVE BORROWED IN STERLING TO SWAP FOR USD EXERTING EVEN MORE PRESSURE ON THE POUND AND WHEN DEVALUATION ENSUES, HE POCKETS THE DIFFERENCE. IT IS A FORM OF ATTACK ON A VULNERABLE PREY AND SO SOROS IS A PREDATOR.

AND THIS IS WHAT HEDGE FUNDS ARE DOING ALL OVER THE WORLD, THEY ARE PREDATORS LIKE SHARKS LOOKING FOR WEAKENED OR WOUNDED PREY TO MOVE IN FOR THE KILL.

Who was the finance minister then?

Apparently at a press conference where DAP MPs drew attention to a corrupt deal to award a luxury car procurement for government deal worth hundreds of millions to a company called Spanco, a reporter took issue and kept asking in a berating manner who was the finance minister then and when the DAP men balked at answering the reporter said Anwar was the minister guilty.

The reporter and you do not realize that he does not say what he means and is headed for torment even for an eternity.

It is obvious he knew who is the minister then so why did he keep asking about something he already knew? Therefore his question is false, he is not genuine in wanting to know who is the minister and therefore that is a form of lying and not meaning what you say, not saying what you mean that Anwar was the culprit.

THE REPORTER IS PARTISAN NOT A TRUE REPORTER BECAUSE HE IS SIDING WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND HIS MOTIVE IN ASKING ‘WHO WAS THE MINISTER’ IS NOT TO GENUINELY WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWER BUT TO ATTACK AND BLAME ANWAR. WHETHER IT WAS ANWAR OR NOT IS BESIDES THE POINT. THE POINT IS THAT A PROJECT OR ENTERPRISE WAS CORRUPTLY AWARDED TO A COMPANY WITHOUT OPEN TENDER.

 Anwar is not necessarily involved:

The reporter is exhibiting false logic that because Anwar was the finance minister he is the corrupt one. Deals can be struck bypassing him.

Just because Anwar was the finance minister does not mean it was him, investigations and more information is need to ascertain. The reporter is guilty of false logic that because Anwar was the minister he is to be blamed.

PRESUMPTION DRIVEN BY EMOTION IS A DEFILEMENT OF THE MIND ACCORDING TO THE BUDDHA AND A DEFILED MIND IS A SUFFERING MIND.

Share trading is passing on losses and grabbing others’ gains:

Even if one did not short sell, share trading is selfish and evil, the basic rule or principle is passing on the losses of the shares one holds to others and grabbing gains due to others.

When there are rumours or news that will depress the price of shares the person holds, he quickly disposes his shares on others so that others will suffer the losses. When rumours or news will cause share prices to rise, he quickly grabs the shares before they have risen therefore depriving the seller of gains he would otherwise have reaped had he not sold.

THUS ALL SPECULATIVE SHARE TRADING IS ABOUT SELFISHNESS, MAXIMIZING SELF GAIN AND MINIMIZING SELF LOSS, PASSING ON THE LOSSES ONTO OTHERS AND GRABBING GAINS FROM OTHERS HAD THEY KEPT THEIR SHARES.

IF YOU DO NOT LIKE TO SUSTAIN LOSSES ON YOUR SHARES WHEN PRICES DROP, WHY DO YOU THINK OTHERS DO NOT MIND? IF YOU LIKED THE GAINS YOU MADE FROM GRABBING SHARES BEFORE THEY RISE, WHY DO YOU THINK THE SELLER WOULD NOT LIKE IT TOO? YOU ARE ONLY CONCERNED FOR YOURSELF, SELFISH? SELF IDENTITY VIEWS THE BUDDHA SAID IS ONE OF THREE LOWER FETTERS TO FUTURE WOE AND THAT IS NOT THE PATH TO HEAVEN.

YOU SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS CREED BUT IT MAY MEAN AN ETERNITY OF PERDITION FOR YOU.