SCXIOS™ advises hexagram 25:
“Thunder rolls beneath Heaven, as is its nature and place:
Sage rulers aligned themselves with the changing seasons, nurturing and guiding their subjects to do the same.
Exceptional Progress if you are mindful to keep out of the way of the natural Flow.
It would be a fatal error to try to alter its course.
This is a time of Being, not Doing.”
I’ve always loved this image of the rose, which is similar to the heraldric rose I have tattooed on the inside of my right wrist.
Was just comparing it visually with the hard points and lines of the geometric compass rose:
Both to me are equally accurate and equally beautiful representations on a visual level of what the Platonic Rose™ feels like and does. Love is that eternal orientation, a tingling sensation.
Gaining new functionalities, add-ons, extensions, limbs and other modules with Mandala OS should be as easy and fun to do as it was to gain a new spell back in old school RPG days. Not some elaborate thing I have to hunt around and find a program for, figure out the damned license, how to install it, what kind of interface, metaphor or paradigm its operating under…. I SHOULD JUST BE ABLE TO JUST USE IT. Any time I even think of a possibility of something I might want to be, do think, feel or say, it would be laid out right there for me. Would be like having the Midas Touch maybe, maybe just a little too much. #buildspeak. Where is the line when you’re talking about mediating human experience with technology?
Talk about #multilocalism! Have you heard about this? I haven’t looked into it too much because I don’t want my fantastical poetic notions of what this is, what this means or what this would even be to get crushed by boring reality.
Greek life represents a large portion of the SU community. Dr. Roy Baker, associate dean of students, and Joshua McIntosh, senior associate director, are now holding all recognized fraternities more accountable to their respective national organizations’ standards.
“We are asking fraternities to follow their own national policies; the national office of their organization says these things and sets these regulations,” McIntosh said. “If a fraternity does not follow these rules, it is then a system of accountability with SU, the Inter-Fraternity Council and their national office.”
That the company Apple has managed to take a first person pronoun of self-identification and then attach it to any random product with a reasonably intuitive interface:
Ital is derived from the word vital; in Rastafarian parlance, the initial syllable of a word is often times replaced with the letter “I” as a means of expressing the self determination of the African race; thus eternity become iternity, creation iration and vital ital. As Velma Pollard explains in Dread Talk The Language of Rastafari, “The sound ‘I’ is also related to the meaning of ‘eye,’ the center of sight, allowing the Rasta man to be far seeing when compared to the non-Rasta whose sight is at best limited.” Although the word ital is associated primarily with food, it is also used among Rastafarians to describe anything in its natural state.
What would a Rasta OS look like? How do dreads think about computers? There’s a segment in “Neuromancer” towards the end where there’s a Rasta space station and none of their vessels use clocks because they’re a tool of the Babylon system. I’m inclined to agree with them, and yet wonder how you can create a universal technology which meets the needs and beliefs of any party anywhere at any time? Is such a thing possible or even desirable in the first place? Those are questions which interest me a great deal right now.
“You cannot transmit to the public directly.” - Page 63
“Sometimes you will hear a repeater station transmitting a professional-sounding amateur radio news service for hams. This is perfectly legal. But what is NOT legal would be a news broadcast talking about non-ham subjects that was intended to be received by non-ham public listeners on scanners.” - Page 64
These quotes come amidst a section whose intent seems to be present proper protocols and procedures for ham operators - as determined by the FCC. Big amongst them are no obscenity or vulgarity (though there’s no list of unacceptable words, either), no secret codes and no broadcasting to the general public.
Each of those restrictions to me reveals the underlying politicization of an entity such as the FCC. Yet as a casual reader to that textbook, it disallows any kind of commentary or questioning on the part of the reader as to the appropriateness of the rules being laid out. Maybe this text is poorly written and argued though, I’m open to that. But I feel like if we as a nation are going to so highly regiment the application process of an aspirant to communicate on an equal footing using technologies that are available to major corporations, then maybe we could open up that process to some rigorous scrutiny, some review and insight into the depths by which the telecommunications industry has been so blithely politicized without anyone so much as breathing a word of it - simply because they want to pass the licensing exam.
So, to bring these questions out into the open and hopefully involve more of the ham/amateur radio audience - and thus learn more contextually what members of the subculture value - I want to just put forward these questions:
Actually, there are a lot of follow-up questions to that, but that’s a great place to start! Any takers?
