I ( Jeff Relf ) am in Seattle, Mid 2020. [ Mail@"Jeff-Relf."Me !555 206.900.9444 ]
I was born here, start of 1960. My Photo My Location
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1980: Morning in America.
2020: Bedtime.
2040: Wake Up.
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First we export the parts of capitalism we don't like
( pollution, fascism, racism ) to China, then we
complain about how poorly they treat their citizens.
If we block "evil" China, stopping trade,
we'll have to do the evil ourselves, personally.
Hippies fail to understand:
Without punishments and rewards, nothing happens.
Prohibition is wrong, but so is - promoting -
the "drug abuse" that is negative interest rates.
If Ted Kaczynski and Michael Moore got their way
( so the world's GDP dropped each year );
humanity would just live longer/sadder.
Woody Allen wrote:
You can live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to live
to be a hundred.
With or without humanity,
entropy will eventually kill the Earth,
the solar system, and The Universe.
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Buffett is sitting on 137 billion $ in cash;
not gold, not stocks, cash.
Due to central-bank printing, semi-deflation (oil),
and the rush to "safe" assets,
real estate, stocks and gold are overvalued.
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"The Big Rip" is replacing the concordance model, Lambda-CDM;
22 billion years from now, the Hubble "constant" will be infinite.
Quoting "Futurism.COM", January 2019:
Guido Risaliti and a colleague at Durham University laid out
the provocative observations in a new paper published in
the prestigious journal "Nature Astronomy".
The duo examined x-ray and ultraviolet data from
telescopes pointed at nearly two thousand quasars,
which are huge black holes that spit out epic beams of energy.
What they found was surprising.
The new readings indicate that objects in the universe
aren’t just [ accelerating away ],
but are doing so at a quickening pace.
According to the researchers, this suggests that
dark energy is getting stronger as the universe ages.
Today's black holes are nothing like they used to be.
12.5 billion years ago, quasar J2157-3602 had
the luminosity of 695 trillion suns ( 2.66×10^41 Watts ).
695 trillion suns.
Lambda, the cosmological "constant", is growing.
In physics, entropy is how evenly heat/matter are distributed.
Our hot/dense sun evaporates into the cold/sparse vacuum,
losing 4.3 million tons each second.
Our Universe is going from infinitely hot/dense to infinitely cold/sparse.
"God" (nature) programmed us to ride this wave
( i.e. to sustainably consume residual eXergy ), same as the sun.
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My modifications to Quantum Firefox 77 itself, and the pages it displays.
My SearchBar My Mouse/Keyboard Layout ( "%LocalAppData%\LGHUB\Settings.jSon" ).
My playList when reading/writing/programming.
I wrote my own diff routines ScreenShot. Help/Settings: My custom C++ console+client .
My posts to Usenet ( since Feb 2012 ).
HTML or C++, I ignore erroneous warnings/errors; C++ Coding Rules,
Visual Studio 2019 macros, C#, Win10 Registry Settings.
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Re: Usenet:
UTF-8, not US ASCII, has been the standard for decades now.
Mozilla Thunderbird is the gold standard for newsreaders;
but 99.999 % of people can't configure it properly.
Most people can't write the CSS, nor the JavaScript,
required to make it super nice.
Unless you enjoy -Random- lags ( when will your post show up ? ),
Do NOT use a binary server to read Usenet.
For that, use INN servers; to wit:
News5.Open-News-Network.ORG:119
News2.Open-News-Network.ORG:119
News6.Open-News-Network.ORG:119
News.Individual.NET:119
"OpenNews" is cost free; warning: these servers are SLOW.
Register at: Open-News-Network.ORG/register
Must translate from German; if Captcha fails, F5 refresh.
"Individual.NET" is 10 Euros per year;
warning: its archive is heavily censored.
Do NOT post using Individual.NET, it'll censor you;
instead, use a binary server; to wit:
News.US.Usenet-News.NET:119 or usNews.BlockNews.NET:119
They won't censor you; they don't even keep the "Path:" line,
so you can't be identified. Their archive is over 18 years deep.
$5 buys you 11 gigs, enough for several life times.
If one is down ( -very- unlikely ), use the other one.
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GoogleChrome users can't do this (below).
How YouTube looks to me ( on FireFox 77, Developer Edition, Win10 ):
Jeff-Relf.Me/YouTubeComments.PNG Jeff-Relf.Me/YouTubeComHist.PNG
Jeff-Relf.Me/YouTubeNotices.PNG Jeff-Relf.Me/YouTubeSubs.PNG
"Jeff-Relf.Me/SearchBar.PNG" shows how my AddressBar/SearchBar text
(UpperLeft) stands out, larger than elsewhere;
the DropDown, UpperLeft, lists the "Search Methods" I use.
Skinned via: Jeff-Relf.Me/userChrome.CSS.TXT
Jeff-Relf.Me/userContent.CSS.TXT Jeff-Relf.Me/Black.Theme.TXT
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First, Democrats demonize " Big Oil ", then they milk the poorest,
keeping them alive, like cows in a stall, feeding on food stamps.
Prohibition, when hysterical church ladies take over, taught us:
the more "out-there" a government gets, the larger the (bloody) mob.
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We humans _ need to believe in a judgment day;
"Climate Change" is just the latest version of it.
More rain, more carbon dioxide, warmer weather,
tropical Arctics... What more could a plant ask for ? !
56 million years ago (@PETM), the Arctic was tropical, not icy;
then and there, we primates first appeared. 3 million years later,
we were most everywhere. 22 million years later, the poles froze.
4.5 billion years ago, the surface of earth was molten.
13.8 billion years ago, The Known Universe was infinitely hot.
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First, they denounce " Big Oil ", " think of the children ";
then they tax+regulate the poor, leaving them with nothing but
food stamps and a tent, just like our forefathers envisioned.
They're FAKE GREEN, pretending.
Sustainable Consumption is greener then manic windmills;
but it'll never happen because they call it "depression".
Nothing would be greener than lower, more sustainable wages, and
higher interest rates, to promote savings and discourage borrowing/spending.
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Quantum ignorance doesn't falsify thermodynamics nor General Relativity.
General Relativity and thermodynamics are presumed "true" because:
1: They're useful ( to some, sometimes ).
2: No one can falsify them (presumably).
The red pill ( harsh reality ):
"God" ( nature, thermodynamics, evolution ) programmed us;
" Sustained Consumption " is the goal, not truthiness per se;
we're (robotic) consumers, like the sun.
"God" ( nature, General Relativity ) is static, immutable,
changeless and timeless, both everything and nothing.
Randomness is ignorance ( nothing more, nothing less ).
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Plants prefer warmer weather, with more carbon dioxide;
likewise, people prefer warm Bangladesh over cold Norway.
The North Pole was tropical 55 million years ago,
when/where we primates first appeared.
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Everyone is a "rent slave", everyone bows down before the government,
everyone pays property taxes, everyone is someone's bitch, a bottom.
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I wish people would post links to their own WebSites, like this:
Jeff-Relf.Me/YouTubeComHist.PNG
The "Jeff-Relf.Me" domain name costs $22/year; I'm paid up, 5 years.
"PacificHost.COM" hosts "Jeff-Relf.Me"; $90 for 3 years.
UnLimited BandWidth/Storage/Apps. I'm paid up for the next 5 years.
My email filters: Jeff-Relf.Me/filter.yaml.TXT
Do NOT, NOT, -NOT- tell the customer service drones your password;
they'll use it to spam others, so you can't send emails yourself.
[ I changed my PassWord; it's all good now ]
A similar thing happened to one of my VoIP services "FlowRoute.COM".
I told a customer service drone my password and they proceeded
to spend hundreds of dollars calling random countries (kick backs?).
[ I changed my PassWord; it's all good now ]
By the way, "VoIP.MS" is far better, they have free texting/SMS;
I'm paid up for the next 5+ years ( about $28/Year ).
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Everything, all of us, move at "c" ( the speed of light ).
If, relative to each other, we ( you and I ) are not moving spatially,
then I observe that you're moving ( at c ) exclusively
in the temporal dimension, not in the spatial one.
Conversely, photons move exclusively in the spatial dimension;
i.e. we observe that their ( local ) clocks don't tick.
We observe that objects are frozen/static at an APPARENT event horizon
because they only move in the spatial dimension, not the temporal one.
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I wrote my own "C++ console", "X.EXE" ( Windows 10 ) that can zoom in/out,
using single-, double-, or triple- width glyphs. 4k Screenshots:
Jeff-Relf.Me/Diff.PNG
Jeff-Relf.Me/SleepPat.PNG
Jeff-Relf.Me/Chess.PNG
Jeff-Relf.Me/Super.Fast.Monopoly.PNG
Jeff-Relf.Me/Reversi.PNG
Jeff-Relf.Me/Solitair.PNG
Jeff-Relf.Me/Mario.PNG
"X.EXE" is in ＜X.ZIP＞, along with the files it needs.
"X.HTM" is the "help/settings file".
"Nyms.HTM" is the Usenet Scorefile.
The "xGames" folder has .PNG files for the Monopoly game.
"X.CPP" is the source code, Visual C++, x64, Visual Studio 2017.
"OCR A", "MS Mincho", "Segoe UI Symbol", "DejaVu LGC Sans Mono"
and "nSimSun" are the (required) "Unicode Console" fonts.
"DirectX.CPP" is a small (one-file) example of how to:
_ Make all Fonts/Glyphs the same width (double_width is allowed).
_ Rescale Graphics/Glyphs when a window changes size.
_ Use DirectX 11.1, Direct2D 1.1, DirectWrite, and Direct3D.
_ Draw to a back buffer at a high fps (frames per second).
_ Draw properly scaled/smoothed .JPG files, hardware accelerated.
_ Draw to/from/within bitmaps.
_ Discover if a font exists or not ("FindFamilyName()").
_ Discover if a glyph exists in a font ("HasCharacter()").
_ Discover the width/height of a glyph ("GlyphWH()").
Your startup folder should have, e.g., "Pics/LowRes.JPG" ( 100px wide/tall )
and "Pics/Chess.PNG" ( a 3840 x 2160 screenshot, Jeff-Relf.Me/Chess.PNG ).
All coordinates are in hard⋅pixels (D2D1_UNIT_MODE_PIXELS).
ScreenShot: Jeff-Relf.Me/Glyph.PNG
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My $350, 1 TeraByte SSD
arrived in the U.S. Mail, along with some letters.
U.S. Mail is _Slow_, 7 days without tracking info.
Cloning the "C:boot" drive is easy,
lots of free programs do it, but...
.....making the new SSD the "C:boot" drive,
without reInstalling everything, was _hard_.
I'm not sure what I might've done wrong or right,
but, in the end, this worked:
Shutdown and plug in the new SSD (SATA_III).
Boot and, with no apps running ( no browser, editor, etc. ),
run "DiskMgmt.MSC" (Windows 8) to remove its partitions, then
"CloneDisk" your "C:boot" drive (I used "Todo Backup", Free version).
Shutdown ASAP, unPlug the previous "C:boot" drive.
Boot to BIOS (Hit DEL).
The fan will run hard for awhile, 100% CPU, 4 gigaHz,
as the new drive becomes "C:". BIOS does it !
Find/Change BIOS' (well hidden) BootDrive Setting.
On reBoot, you've got a new "C:boot" drive, without reInstalling.
Shutdown, plug in the previous boot drive.
Boot, remove all partitions from the previous boot drive;
otherwise, the drives would be too similar, confusing you.
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My vasectomy was the best thing I ever did for myself
because it helped me respect woman and kids.
Quoting "PBS.ORG/earth-a-new-wild/episode-plains/reindeer/" ＜＜
The practice of castrating [[reindeers]] has helped.
A castrated male, known as the gentleman of the tundra,
won’t waste his energy on fighting for reproductive rights,
and therefore will use his strength
and enormous size to dig through the snow.
The ancient castration technique of biting
is being studied and brought back because it is
less severe than using tongs or other modern methods.
Using modern methods, some male deer can become listless and lazy.
Scientists believe that with the biting method,
the deer will still produce enough testosterone to remain vigorous.
Reindeer are one of the last species to be domesticated by man —
and are only semi domesticated.
Castration is a key component in domesticating a herding animal. ＞＞
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Console2, a better "DOS Console",
runs CMD.EXE in the background, like a daemond.
Console2 works well with Unicode,
provided you tell -both- the default DOS console
and Console2 to use the "DejaVu Sans Mono" font.
Japanese glyphs work too,
despite the fact that DejaVu doesn't have them.
But you must change Windows' Registry first:
; ReBoot to effect any change to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE".
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont]
"0"="DejaVu Sans Mono"
Also, "7z.EXE" ( like Zip.EXE ) works well with Unicode.
With every invocation of CMD, "Init-CMD.BAT" runs; to wit:
> @chcp 65001
> @prompt $P$_$g
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
"autorun"="C:\\__\\_Source\\Init-CMD.BAT"
Console2's settings are stored in "Console.XML",
which I edit by hand, using Visual Studio 2017,
my text editor; like this:
... rows="115" columns="143" ...
font name="DejaVu Sans Mono" size="14"
bold="0" italic="0" smoothing="2"
color use="1" r="222" g="111" b="111"
Console2 settings: Jeff-Relf.Me/Console.XML.TXT
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My "Jeff-Relf.Me" domain_name costs me $20+ per year, paid to GoDaddy.
＜cPanel hosting＞[*] costs me $30 per year, paid to "PacificHost.COM".
[ *: pacifichost.com/web-hosting.shtml ]
cPanel allows unlimited, "Catch-All" email addresses ( aliases );
e.g. "Usenet＠＠Jeff-Relf.Me".
[ To set it up, ask PacificHost pacifichost.com/contact-us.shtml ]
That's unlimited "transfer" ( gigabytes ), unlimited disk storage,
unlimited sub_domains, password_protected folders,
＜yaml filtering ( to block select email aliases )＞[*], etc.
[ *: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/filter.yaml.TXT ]
Do NOT give your loging info to a customer service representative !
You can't trust them with it.
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Photos of my rooming house ( I'm the manager ):
Front of House, Back, Bath, the Kitchen, a Room.
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Who I am ( Personal info ):
My dad, after being a WWII pilot ( catching the very end of it )
became a tool and die maker, first in partnership with Jeff Fluke,
later on the team that designed and built the 747.
My dad's dad ( Gerald Relf ) was a banker for the Federal Reserve.
Back in the day ( in Seattle, 1940 ),
bankers sat around a table and exchanged each bank's bags.
My mom's dad ( Robert Grass ) was a Washington state senator
and a lawyer, working out of what was, at the time,
the tallest building west of the mississipi, the Smith Tower.
Seattle has always been a boom/bust town
and Boeing had hit hard times in 1971,
people were leaving en masse.
Also, being Mormons, my dad felt the Seattle/University drug scene
had engulfed two of his kids... one of my brothers is/was
a paranoid schizophrenic... so, in 1972, he moved us to Utah.
My first programming was on HP/TI calculators starting around 1973-74.
By 1976, I was programming the HP 67 with it's magnetic strips.
Me ( Jeff Relf ), back in 1976, when I was 16 ( Orem Utah ).
Me ( lower right ), 1976, Seattle, my parents and grandmother
are behind me, right side.
My mom, dad ( Bill ), and a brother ( Pete, age 18 ), in 1976 ( Orem Utah ).
My dad's mom ( age 73 ) holding her GREAT_grand_daughter, in 1976 ( Seattle ).
My sole sister ( Diana, then 22, Seattle ) and her first daughter.
My brother ( Bill Jr. ) born in Seattle, 1956, in Utah, Sep 15th, 2017.
He died Sep 20, 2017, shortly after getting off
antipsychotic medications ( which he took most of his life ),
to get on meds for his liver and kidneys.
His last words ( to Peter, my brother ):
" Dreams that will never be... ".
Here is a photo of Sarah ( Wallace ) Pruse ( my friend )
visiting her daughters, Gianna and Ginette.
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Work:
Dr. JianXin Huang nfo@"DrHuang."BIZ // Seattle, WA
Dr. Charles Haley ChipH@"UW."EDU // Tucson, AZ
April Faulk aFaulk@"ABA."COM // Washington DC
Family:
Diana ( Relf ) Harkcom dHarkcom@"gM"ail."COM // Lehi, Utah
Peter.Relf@"Dell."COM // Sandy, Utah
Friends:
Michael Brickler MBrick02@"gM"ail."COM // Eagle-Rock, VA 24085
Sarah ( Wallace ) Pruse ICantForTheLifeOfMe@"Ya"hoo."COM // Tampa FL
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