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<div>See [[Strands of conservatism within the Bahá'í Faith]] for an introduction to some of the posts in this category, but this category may also relate to showing how some seemingly liberal aspects of the Bahá'í Faith may actually appeal to some philosophical conservatives.</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Conservative_strands_within_the_Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith&diff=81Conservative strands within the Bahá'í Faith2020-08-11T07:34:51Z<p>WikiSysop: WikiSysop moved page Conservative strands within the Bahá'í Faith to Strands of conservativism within the Bahá'í Faith</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Conservative strands within the Bahá'í Faith]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Category:Conservatism&diff=69Category:Conservatism2020-08-11T03:55:16Z<p>WikiSysop: clarify</p>
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<div>See [[Conservative strains within the Bahá'í Faith]] for an introduction to some of the posts in this category, but this category may also relate to showing how some seemingly liberal aspects of the Bahá'í Faith may actually appeal to some philosophical conservatives.</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Conservatives_supporting_world_government&diff=68Conservatives supporting world government2020-08-11T03:53:32Z<p>WikiSysop: +Conservatism</p>
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<div>This post is in response to a friend questioning whether the right would ever agree to a world government. I believe the answer is yes.<br />
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As far as our at least more moderate right wing brethren, I think many of them might actually be the first on board as far as certain of the reforms needed to the U.N. system--e.g., booting out countries from the U.N. if their human rights were too abysmal, and making the U.N. General Assembly more proportional to population (we are the third most populous country in the world after all).<br />
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Admittedly, those reforms could probably only be achieved if the veto power we currently hold were eliminated or at least curbed, but then again, no doubt many on the right might even welcome that as well, if they understood it meant that certain other countries who shared that veto power (and have exercised it toward their own ends in the past) would no longer retain it either.<br />
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And I think those on the right who think the current U.N. is a waste of money and/or that the U.S. should not be acting as the sole world police, would rejoice if the above-mentioned reforms could actually lead to nations being willing to submit to the will of the reformed U.N. and making its decisions actually binding, since it would reduce the burden on the U.S., including reducing our serving as a primary target for accusations of neo-colonialism (whether unjustified or justified). Many conservatives supported the notion behind the first Gulf War (of repelling an aggressor) under the U.N. umbrella. An effective U.N. ought to even take up the ostensible notion behind the Second Gulf War: preemptive strikes on confirmed arms treaty violators, though assuming international approval and responding as a matter of law to any such violations, not purely when nations deem it in their limited interest. (I mean to imply no political criticism (or endorsements) here--only to suggest pre-emptive strikes can have their place, just as they do when individual citizens or groups store up an undue amount of arms, alarming neighbors, and jeopardizing public safety and order--though intervention by a neighbor, however well-meaning, may lead to chaos, intervention by a representatively-accountable police force is rightly accepted by society.)<br />
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The philosopher Schopenhauer stated that a truth goes through stages of being ridiculed, opposed, and then becoming self-evident. While some will be inflexible in their opposition to the idea of an adequately strong but representative, federated world government, as long as the rest of us limit our loyalties to our own nation, the idea will no doubt remain in the ridicule stage and at best relegated to fiction (and that usually only in dystopian form, Star Trek being one fortunate exception). (Note I'm not criticizing a rational loyalty to country, any more than I would criticize a rational loyalty to one's city.)<br />
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But if people say start waving the U.N. flag along with the U.S. flag showing solidarity with their fellow law-abiding world citizens, at least supporting it in principle despite its current limitations and even unjust attributes (such as the veto power of the "more equal" permanent members of the Security Council), if we start having a rationally-based faith that the unity which our forbears successfully built up from tribal loyalties to city-states and states, and then from divided states into a united republic, is still achievable today as long as we work, as did our earlier counterparts who welded our states together, for the welding of today's nations together.<br />
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Remember the Articles of Confederation--our first Constitution, like our first (and current) U.N. charter, which granted too much autonomy to individual states, leading it unable to cope with the threats of the time? We overcame that, both due to crisis but also choice. The soldiers in the different states of the time were known to cry "One hoop to the barrel", meaning they wanted to be under one command, despite coming from different states. Benjamin Franklin helped spread in the budding educational system the notion of national identity--a notion which hadn't been formally promoted before then, just as today we need educators and our system to spread the idea of world citizenship. George Washington--certainly no extreme leftist--lead the way as an early proponent of an adequately strong federal government, welding together disparate states : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#Function , just as we need a strong, though of course not overly-centralized, world government.<br />
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No doubt, such outward expressions of love and loyalty for the whole world order will be seen as a threat to those who harbor no wish for the U.N. to succeed--whether out of racism, nationalism, religious or ideological fanaticism, or those who simply do not understand that the idea need not be threatening if properly constituted. But the idea entering our public consciousness in a more serious way by more Americans owning the issue ought not only bring out hostility and fear-mongering, but also a genuinely healthy debate which Americans (and other world-citizens) of different political inclinations can contribute to for the benefit of a new international order.<br />
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Americans were positive about the United Nations when it first formed; I do not believe there is any inherent bigotry or opposition among the majority of the American people toward greater international sovereignty, as long as it is done democratically and justly. As a nation founded on principles, hopefully we can ensure these same principles are applied to a strengthened, most just world order.<br />
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[[Category:Society]] [[Category:Conservatism]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Category:Conservatism&diff=54Category:Conservatism2020-08-11T03:35:20Z<p>WikiSysop: -underscores</p>
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<div>See [[Conservative strains within the Bahá'í Faith]] for an introduction to the posts in this category.</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Category:Conservatism&diff=53Category:Conservatism2020-08-11T03:34:53Z<p>WikiSysop: + page</p>
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<div>See [[Conservative_strains_within_the_Bahá'í_Faith]] for an introduction to the posts in this category.</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Brett_Zamir&diff=51Brett Zamir2020-04-11T02:39:34Z<p>WikiSysop: +current favorite quotes</p>
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==Current favorite quotes==<br />
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On the lack of weakness in practicing humility:<br />
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"Once when a child asked ['Abdu'l-Bahá] why all the rivers of the earth flow into the ocean, He said, ‘because it sets itself lower than them all and so draws them to itself.’<br />
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– Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá<br />
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Regarding verbal one-upmanship (particularly evident online!):<br />
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"Verily I say unto thee: Of all men the most negligent is he that disputeth idly and seeketh to advance himself over his brother. Say, O brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning."<br />
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– Bahá'u'lláh, Hidden Words<br />
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==About me==<br />
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* [http://bahai.org The world-embracing system of thought and action to which I inadequately subscribe]<br />
* My and your [http://www.un.org/ United Nations] (As a world citizen, have you memorized our U.N. charter's inspiring [http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml preamble] and have you read the very readable [http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ UDHR]? How about these powerful and rational suggestions for critical [http://statements.bahai.org/95-1001.htm U.N. restructuring]?)<br />
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==Contact==<br />
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* I don't currently have a commenting system enabled. If you wish to get in touch, feel free to send a Yahoo email to brettz9 .<br />
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==Code==<br />
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* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/120243 Firefox extensions]<br />
* [https://github.com/brettz9/ Github repositories]<br />
* [https://www.npmjs.com/~brettz9 npm packages]<br />
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==Other Causes==<br />
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* I strongly believe the world should choose an official world auxiliary language (whether it is an existing language like English, confirmed and taught universally in schools around the world, or a constructed language--whatever gets agreement). In the hopes of furthering this effort, and also drawing attention to the possibilities for such a universal sign language, mostly by the help of my dear mother, and with kind permission from the World Federation of the Deaf, I have put online an early book on [http://brett-zamir.me/gestuno Gestuno], with the language now known more widely as International Sign or IS.</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=The_JavaScript_Theorist&diff=50The JavaScript Theorist2015-02-17T19:36:57Z<p>WikiSysop: +need for humility</p>
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<div>One of the most fascinating science stories I've ever encountered is that of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor memristor].<br />
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Despite the electronic age having been well underway by 1971, to say the least, it was only at that time that it was first noted that a ''fundamental'' (!) type of circuit element should be possible but had not yet been created, and it was in fact later proved to be true by a working implementation.<br />
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It is my feeling that in the JavaScript world, and with JSON in particular, there are many fundamental and critical types of applications and code libraries which exist for other languages but which we have yet to borrow and apply (the open source community being my primary interest here), not merely because of a lack of effort, but often because of either:<br />
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* a lack of imagination and consideration of the parallels between data formats<br />
* a stubborn refusal to look at and apply parallels between languages with the dogmatic insistence that "JavaScript/JSON just isn't meant to do that" even if there is some grain of truth in the need to recognize how formats and thus parallels between them will differ<br />
* an arrogant or facile dismissal of the relevance of work on now less fashionable languages such as XML (or even SQL) just because of some admittedly uglier and now outmoded or inadequate aspects of these languages<br />
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I believe that we as practical web developers need to apply a certain degree of "pure science" when looking at what we can do with JavaScript, or, in other words, to become JavaScript theorists as well as practitioners. This theorism can apply to any type of examination of the language--even into seemingly impractical areas--need not be limited to examining parallels with other languages, but that is my concern in this post. We also need more humility to avoid challenging anyone anytime they think outside of the box in attempting to look at parallels.<br />
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I would like to examine here what critical applications and code libraries are missing for JSON that are present for XML or SQL.<br />
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I plan to expand more here on this later, but for now, I can refer you to a couple of pages which may give you some idea of the direction I was intending: http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/17257/piecemeal-json-json-schema-walker-iterator and to https://github.com/brettz9/jtlt/ . Specifically, this includes developing the equivalents for JSON of code libraries for schema-aware XPath and XSLT/XQuery/XUF-for-and-as-JSON (or for XML/HTML/DOM/Jamilih), as well as applications like phpMyAdmin or Yii for SQL (using JSON Schema) for type-aware default editing and searching options via introspection on the schema (though also exposing this to users via type-aware viewing and searching). [https://github.com/jdorn/json-editor JSONEditor] is an impressive first step in this direction as far as editing, but much more could be created. I'd also like to see XQuery/XUF-for-and-as-JSON equivalents work over [https://github.com/brettz9/httpquery HTTPQuery].<br />
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And for the holy grail of parallels, in this case to a neglected fundamental type of desktop application, the database-creation program, akin to Microsoft Access or LibreOffice Base. We need this for JSON, but within a web application, and with options for access control ranging from a private website to a public type-aware wiki.<br />
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If you are interested to collaborate with me on this, please contact me at brettz9@yahoo.com . I have some health issues which prevent me from implementing the coding at any decent pace, but I have had this ambition for quite a long time, and am trying to make some gradual headway with it. If more interest is found, we can set up a mailing list.<br />
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[[Category:Web]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=The_JavaScript_Theorist&diff=49The JavaScript Theorist2015-02-17T19:35:11Z<p>WikiSysop: +httpquery ref.</p>
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<div>One of the most fascinating science stories I've ever encountered is that of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor memristor].<br />
<br />
Despite the electronic age having been well underway by 1971, to say the least, it was only at that time that it was first noted that a ''fundamental'' (!) type of circuit element should be possible but had not yet been created, and it was in fact later proved to be true by a working implementation.<br />
<br />
It is my feeling that in the JavaScript world, and with JSON in particular, there are many fundamental and critical types of applications and code libraries which exist for other languages but which we have yet to borrow and apply (the open source community being my primary interest here), not merely because of a lack of effort, but often because of either:<br />
<br />
* a lack of imagination and consideration of the parallels between data formats<br />
* a stubborn refusal to look at and apply parallels between languages with the dogmatic insistence that "JavaScript/JSON just isn't meant to do that" even if there is some grain of truth in the need to recognize how formats and thus parallels between them will differ<br />
* an arrogant or facile dismissal of the relevance of work on now less fashionable languages such as XML (or even SQL) just because of some admittedly uglier and now outmoded or inadequate aspects of these languages<br />
<br />
I believe that we as practical web developers need to apply a certain degree of "pure science" when looking at what we can do with JavaScript, or, in other words, to become JavaScript theorists as well as practitioners. This theorism can apply to any type of examination of the language--even into seemingly impractical areas--need not be limited to examining parallels with other languages, but that is my concern in this post.<br />
<br />
I would like to examine here what critical applications and code libraries are missing for JSON that are present for XML or SQL.<br />
<br />
I plan to expand more here on this later, but for now, I can refer you to a couple of pages which may give you some idea of the direction I was intending: http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/17257/piecemeal-json-json-schema-walker-iterator and to https://github.com/brettz9/jtlt/ . Specifically, this includes developing the equivalents for JSON of code libraries for schema-aware XPath and XSLT/XQuery/XUF-for-and-as-JSON (or for XML/HTML/DOM/Jamilih), as well as applications like phpMyAdmin or Yii for SQL (using JSON Schema) for type-aware default editing and searching options via introspection on the schema (though also exposing this to users via type-aware viewing and searching). [https://github.com/jdorn/json-editor JSONEditor] is an impressive first step in this direction as far as editing, but much more could be created. I'd also like to see XQuery/XUF-for-and-as-JSON equivalents work over [https://github.com/brettz9/httpquery HTTPQuery].<br />
<br />
And for the holy grail of parallels, in this case to a neglected fundamental type of desktop application, the database-creation program, akin to Microsoft Access or LibreOffice Base. We need this for JSON, but within a web application, and with options for access control ranging from a private website to a public type-aware wiki.<br />
<br />
If you are interested to collaborate with me on this, please contact me at brettz9@yahoo.com . I have some health issues which prevent me from implementing the coding at any decent pace, but I have had this ambition for quite a long time, and am trying to make some gradual headway with it. If more interest is found, we can set up a mailing list.<br />
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[[Category:Web]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=The_JavaScript_Theorist&diff=48The JavaScript Theorist2015-02-17T19:32:48Z<p>WikiSysop: +cat: web</p>
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<div>One of the most fascinating science stories I've ever encountered is that of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor memristor].<br />
<br />
Despite the electronic age having been well underway by 1971, to say the least, it was only at that time that it was first noted that a ''fundamental'' (!) type of circuit element should be possible but had not yet been created, and it was in fact later proved to be true by a working implementation.<br />
<br />
It is my feeling that in the JavaScript world, and with JSON in particular, there are many fundamental and critical types of applications and code libraries which exist for other languages but which we have yet to borrow and apply (the open source community being my primary interest here), not merely because of a lack of effort, but often because of either:<br />
<br />
* a lack of imagination and consideration of the parallels between data formats<br />
* a stubborn refusal to look at and apply parallels between languages with the dogmatic insistence that "JavaScript/JSON just isn't meant to do that" even if there is some grain of truth in the need to recognize how formats and thus parallels between them will differ<br />
* an arrogant or facile dismissal of the relevance of work on now less fashionable languages such as XML (or even SQL) just because of some admittedly uglier and now outmoded or inadequate aspects of these languages<br />
<br />
I believe that we as practical web developers need to apply a certain degree of "pure science" when looking at what we can do with JavaScript, or, in other words, to become JavaScript theorists as well as practitioners. This theorism can apply to any type of examination of the language--even into seemingly impractical areas--need not be limited to examining parallels with other languages, but that is my concern in this post.<br />
<br />
I would like to examine here what critical applications and code libraries are missing for JSON that are present for XML or SQL.<br />
<br />
I plan to expand more here on this later, but for now, I can refer you to a couple of pages which may give you some idea of the direction I was intending: http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/17257/piecemeal-json-json-schema-walker-iterator and to https://github.com/brettz9/jtlt/ . Specifically, this includes developing the equivalents for JSON of code libraries for schema-aware XPath and XSLT/XQuery/XUF-for-and-as-JSON, as well as applications like phpMyAdmin or Yii for SQL (using JSON Schema) for type-aware default editing and searching options via introspection on the schema (though also exposing this to users via type-aware viewing and searching). [https://github.com/jdorn/json-editor JSONEditor] is an impressive first step in this direction as far as editing, but much more could be created.<br />
<br />
And for the holy grail of parallels, in this case to a neglected fundamental type of desktop application, the database-creation program, akin to Microsoft Access or LibreOffice Base. We need this for JSON, but within a web application, and with options for access control ranging from a private website to a public type-aware wiki.<br />
<br />
If you are interested to collaborate with me on this, please contact me at brettz9@yahoo.com . I have some health issues which prevent me from implementing the coding at any decent pace, but I have had this ambition for quite a long time, and am trying to make some gradual headway with it. If more interest is found, we can set up a mailing list.<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Web]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=The_JavaScript_Theorist&diff=47The JavaScript Theorist2015-02-17T19:32:12Z<p>WikiSysop: first draft</p>
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<div>One of the most fascinating science stories I've ever encountered is that of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor memristor].<br />
<br />
Despite the electronic age having been well underway by 1971, to say the least, it was only at that time that it was first noted that a ''fundamental'' (!) type of circuit element should be possible but had not yet been created, and it was in fact later proved to be true by a working implementation.<br />
<br />
It is my feeling that in the JavaScript world, and with JSON in particular, there are many fundamental and critical types of applications and code libraries which exist for other languages but which we have yet to borrow and apply (the open source community being my primary interest here), not merely because of a lack of effort, but often because of either:<br />
<br />
* a lack of imagination and consideration of the parallels between data formats<br />
* a stubborn refusal to look at and apply parallels between languages with the dogmatic insistence that "JavaScript/JSON just isn't meant to do that" even if there is some grain of truth in the need to recognize how formats and thus parallels between them will differ<br />
* an arrogant or facile dismissal of the relevance of work on now less fashionable languages such as XML (or even SQL) just because of some admittedly uglier and now outmoded or inadequate aspects of these languages<br />
<br />
I believe that we as practical web developers need to apply a certain degree of "pure science" when looking at what we can do with JavaScript, or, in other words, to become JavaScript theorists as well as practitioners. This theorism can apply to any type of examination of the language--even into seemingly impractical areas--need not be limited to examining parallels with other languages, but that is my concern in this post.<br />
<br />
I would like to examine here what critical applications and code libraries are missing for JSON that are present for XML or SQL.<br />
<br />
I plan to expand more here on this later, but for now, I can refer you to a couple of pages which may give you some idea of the direction I was intending: http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/17257/piecemeal-json-json-schema-walker-iterator and to https://github.com/brettz9/jtlt/ . Specifically, this includes developing the equivalents for JSON of code libraries for schema-aware XPath and XSLT/XQuery/XUF-for-and-as-JSON, as well as applications like phpMyAdmin or Yii for SQL (using JSON Schema) for type-aware default editing and searching options via introspection on the schema (though also exposing this to users via type-aware viewing and searching). [https://github.com/jdorn/json-editor JSONEditor] is an impressive first step in this direction as far as editing, but much more could be created.<br />
<br />
And for the holy grail of parallels, in this case to a neglected fundamental type of desktop application, the database-creation program, akin to Microsoft Access or LibreOffice Base. We need this for JSON, but within a web application, and with options for access control ranging from a private website to a public type-aware wiki.<br />
<br />
If you are interested to collaborate with me on this, please contact me at brettz9@yahoo.com . I have some health issues which prevent me from implementing the coding at any decent pace, but I have had this ambition for quite a long time, and am trying to make some gradual headway with it. If more interest is found, we can set up a mailing list.</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Brett_Zamir&diff=46Brett Zamir2014-12-26T05:11:22Z<p>WikiSysop: /* Code */ +npm packages</p>
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==About me==<br />
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* [http://bahai.org The world-embracing system of thought and action to which I inadequately subscribe]<br />
* My and your [http://www.un.org/ United Nations] (As a world citizen, have you memorized our U.N. charter's inspiring [http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml preamble] and have you read the very readable [http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ UDHR]? How about these powerful and rational suggestions for critical [http://statements.bahai.org/95-1001.htm U.N. restructuring]?)<br />
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==Contact==<br />
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* I don't currently have a commenting system enabled. If you wish to get in touch, feel free to send a Yahoo email to brettz9 .<br />
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==Code==<br />
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* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/120243 Firefox extensions]<br />
* [https://github.com/brettz9/ Github repositories]<br />
* [https://www.npmjs.com/~brettz9 npm packages]<br />
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==Other Causes==<br />
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* I strongly believe the world should choose an official world auxiliary language (whether it is an existing language like English, confirmed and taught universally in schools around the world, or a constructed language--whatever gets agreement). In the hopes of furthering this effort, and also drawing attention to the possibilities for such a universal sign language, mostly by the help of my dear mother, and with kind permission from the World Federation of the Deaf, I have put online an early book on [http://brett-zamir.me/gestuno Gestuno], with the language now known more widely as International Sign or IS.</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Conservatives_supporting_world_government&diff=45Conservatives supporting world government2014-08-27T06:05:05Z<p>WikiSysop: clarify</p>
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<div>This post is in response to a friend questioning whether the right would ever agree to a world government. I believe the answer is yes.<br />
<br />
As far as our at least more moderate right wing brethren, I think many of them might actually be the first on board as far as certain of the reforms needed to the U.N. system--e.g., booting out countries from the U.N. if their human rights were too abysmal, and making the U.N. General Assembly more proportional to population (we are the third most populous country in the world after all).<br />
<br />
Admittedly, those reforms could probably only be achieved if the veto power we currently hold were eliminated or at least curbed, but then again, no doubt many on the right might even welcome that as well, if they understood it meant that certain other countries who shared that veto power (and have exercised it toward their own ends in the past) would no longer retain it either.<br />
<br />
And I think those on the right who think the current U.N. is a waste of money and/or that the U.S. should not be acting as the sole world police, would rejoice if the above-mentioned reforms could actually lead to nations being willing to submit to the will of the reformed U.N. and making its decisions actually binding, since it would reduce the burden on the U.S., including reducing our serving as a primary target for accusations of neo-colonialism (whether unjustified or justified). Many conservatives supported the notion behind the first Gulf War (of repelling an aggressor) under the U.N. umbrella. An effective U.N. ought to even take up the ostensible notion behind the Second Gulf War: preemptive strikes on confirmed arms treaty violators, though assuming international approval and responding as a matter of law to any such violations, not purely when nations deem it in their limited interest. (I mean to imply no political criticism (or endorsements) here--only to suggest pre-emptive strikes can have their place, just as they do when individual citizens or groups store up an undue amount of arms, alarming neighbors, and jeopardizing public safety and order--though intervention by a neighbor, however well-meaning, may lead to chaos, intervention by a representatively-accountable police force is rightly accepted by society.)<br />
<br />
The philosopher Schopenhauer stated that a truth goes through stages of being ridiculed, opposed, and then becoming self-evident. While some will be inflexible in their opposition to the idea of an adequately strong but representative, federated world government, as long as the rest of us limit our loyalties to our own nation, the idea will no doubt remain in the ridicule stage and at best relegated to fiction (and that usually only in dystopian form, Star Trek being one fortunate exception). (Note I'm not criticizing a rational loyalty to country, any more than I would criticize a rational loyalty to one's city.)<br />
<br />
But if people say start waving the U.N. flag along with the U.S. flag showing solidarity with their fellow law-abiding world citizens, at least supporting it in principle despite its current limitations and even unjust attributes (such as the veto power of the "more equal" permanent members of the Security Council), if we start having a rationally-based faith that the unity which our forbears successfully built up from tribal loyalties to city-states and states, and then from divided states into a united republic, is still achievable today as long as we work, as did our earlier counterparts who welded our states together, for the welding of today's nations together.<br />
<br />
Remember the Articles of Confederation--our first Constitution, like our first (and current) U.N. charter, which granted too much autonomy to individual states, leading it unable to cope with the threats of the time? We overcame that, both due to crisis but also choice. The soldiers in the different states of the time were known to cry "One hoop to the barrel", meaning they wanted to be under one command, despite coming from different states. Benjamin Franklin helped spread in the budding educational system the notion of national identity--a notion which hadn't been formally promoted before then, just as today we need educators and our system to spread the idea of world citizenship. George Washington--certainly no extreme leftist--lead the way as an early proponent of an adequately strong federal government, welding together disparate states : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#Function , just as we need a strong, though of course not overly-centralized, world government.<br />
<br />
No doubt, such outward expressions of love and loyalty for the whole world order will be seen as a threat to those who harbor no wish for the U.N. to succeed--whether out of racism, nationalism, religious or ideological fanaticism, or those who simply do not understand that the idea need not be threatening if properly constituted. But the idea entering our public consciousness in a more serious way by more Americans owning the issue ought not only bring out hostility and fear-mongering, but also a genuinely healthy debate which Americans (and other world-citizens) of different political inclinations can contribute to for the benefit of a new international order.<br />
<br />
Americans were positive about the United Nations when it first formed; I do not believe there is any inherent bigotry or opposition among the majority of the American people toward greater international sovereignty, as long as it is done democratically and justly. As a nation founded on principles, hopefully we can ensure these same principles are applied to a strengthened, most just world order.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Society]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Conservatives_supporting_world_government&diff=44Conservatives supporting world government2014-08-19T19:08:48Z<p>WikiSysop: very minor grammar</p>
<hr />
<div>This post is in response to a friend questioning whether the right would ever agree to a world government. I believe the answer is yes.<br />
<br />
As far as our at least more moderate right wing brethren, I think many of them might actually be the first on board as far as certain of the reforms needed to the U.N. system--e.g., booting out countries from the U.N. if their human rights were too abysmal, and making the U.N. General Assembly more proportional to population (we are the third most populous country in the world after all).<br />
<br />
Admittedly, those reforms could probably only be achieved if the veto power we currently hold were eliminated or at least curbed, but then again, no doubt many on the right might even welcome that as well, if they understood it meant that certain other countries who shared that veto power (and have exercised it toward their own ends in the past) would no longer retain it either.<br />
<br />
And I think those on the right who think the current U.N. is a waste of money and/or that the U.S. should not be acting as the sole world police, would rejoice if the above-mentioned reforms could actually lead to nations being willing to submit to the will of the reformed U.N. and making its decisions actually binding, since it would reduce the burden on the U.S., including reducing our serving as a primary target for accusations of neo-colonialism (whether unjustified or justified). Conservatives supported the first Gulf War, and that was an operation approved by the U.N. of the time. An effective U.N. ought to even take up the ostensible notion behind the Second Gulf War: preemptive strikes on confirmed arms treaty violators, though assuming international approval and responding as a matter of law to any such violations, not purely when nations deem it in their limited interest. (I mean to imply no political criticism (or endorsements) here--only to suggest pre-emptive strikes can have their place, just as they do when individual citizens or groups store up an undue amount of arms, alarming neighbors, and jeopardizing public safety and order--though intervention by a neighbor, however well-meaning, may lead to chaos, intervention by a representatively-accountable police force is rightly accepted by society.)<br />
<br />
The philosopher Schopenhauer stated that a truth goes through stages of being ridiculed, opposed, and then becoming self-evident. While some will be inflexible in their opposition to the idea of an adequately strong but representative, federated world government, as long as the rest of us limit our loyalties to our own nation, the idea will no doubt remain in the ridicule stage and at best relegated to fiction (and that usually only in dystopian form, Star Trek being one fortunate exception). (Note I'm not criticizing a rational loyalty to country, any more than I would criticize a rational loyalty to one's city.)<br />
<br />
But if people say start waving the U.N. flag along with the U.S. flag showing solidarity with their fellow law-abiding world citizens, at least supporting it in principle despite its current limitations and even unjust attributes (such as the veto power of the "more equal" permanent members of the Security Council), if we start having a rationally-based faith that the unity which our forbears successfully built up from tribal loyalties to city-states and states, and then from divided states into a united republic, is still achievable today as long as we work, as did our earlier counterparts who welded our states together, for the welding of today's nations together.<br />
<br />
Remember the Articles of Confederation--our first Constitution, like our first (and current) U.N. charter, which granted too much autonomy to individual states, leading it unable to cope with the threats of the time? We overcame that, both due to crisis but also choice. The soldiers in the different states of the time were known to cry "One hoop to the barrel", meaning they wanted to be under one command, despite coming from different states. Benjamin Franklin helped spread in the budding educational system the notion of national identity--a notion which hadn't been formally promoted before then, just as today we need educators and our system to spread the idea of world citizenship. George Washington--certainly no extreme leftist--lead the way as an early proponent of an adequately strong federal government, welding together disparate states : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#Function , just as we need a strong, though of course not overly-centralized, world government.<br />
<br />
No doubt, such outward expressions of love and loyalty for the whole world order will be seen as a threat to those who harbor no wish for the U.N. to succeed--whether out of racism, nationalism, religious or ideological fanaticism, or those who simply do not understand that the idea need not be threatening if properly constituted. But the idea entering our public consciousness in a more serious way by more Americans owning the issue ought not only bring out hostility and fear-mongering, but also a genuinely healthy debate which Americans (and other world-citizens) of different political inclinations can contribute to for the benefit of a new international order.<br />
<br />
Americans were positive about the United Nations when it first formed; I do not believe there is any inherent bigotry or opposition among the majority of the American people toward greater international sovereignty, as long as it is done democratically and justly. As a nation founded on principles, hopefully we can ensure these same principles are applied to a strengthened, most just world order.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Society]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Conservatives_supporting_world_government&diff=43Conservatives supporting world government2014-08-19T18:52:06Z<p>WikiSysop: clarificiation</p>
<hr />
<div>This post is in response to a friend questioning whether the right would ever agree to a world government. I believe the answer is yes.<br />
<br />
As far as our at least more moderate right wing brethren, I think many of them might actually be the first on board as far as certain of the reforms needed to the U.N. system--e.g., booting out countries from the U.N. if their human rights were too abysmal, and making the U.N. General Assembly more proportional to population (we are the third most populous country in the world after all).<br />
<br />
Admittedly, those reforms could probably only be achieved if the veto power we currently hold were eliminated or at least curbed, but then again, no doubt many on the right might even welcome that as well, if they understood it meant that certain other countries who shared that veto power (and have exercised it toward their own ends in the past) would no longer retain it either.<br />
<br />
And I think those on the right who think the current U.N. is a waste of money and/or that the U.S. should not be acting as the sole world police, would rejoice if the above-mentioned reforms could actually lead to nations being willing to submit to the will of the reformed U.N. and making its decisions actually binding, since it would reduce the burden on the U.S., including reducing our serving as a primary target for accusations of neo-colonialism (whether unjustified or justified). Conservatives supported the first Gulf War, and that was an operation approved by the U.N. of the time. An effective U.N. ought to even take up the ostensible notion behind the Second Gulf War: preemptive strikes on confirmed arms treaty violators, though assuming international approval and responding as a matter of law to any such violations, not purely when nations deem it in their limited interest. (I mean to imply no political criticism (or endorsements) here--only to suggest pre-emptive strikes can have their place, just as they do when individual citizens or groups store up an undue amount of arms, alarming neighbors, and jeopardizing public safety and order--though intervention by a neighbor, however well-meaning, may lead to chaos, intervention by a representatively-accountable police force is rightly accepted by society.)<br />
<br />
The philosopher Schopenhauer stated that a truth goes through stages of being ridiculed, opposed, and then becoming self-evident. While some will be inflexible in their opposition to the idea of an adequately strong but representative, federated world government, as long as the rest of us limit our loyalties to our own nation, the idea will no doubt remain in the ridicule stage and at best relegated to fiction (and that usually only in dystopian form, Star Trek being one fortunate exception). (Note I'm not criticizing a rational loyalty to country, any more than I would criticize a rational loyalty to one's city.)<br />
<br />
But if people say start waving the U.N. flag along with the U.S. flag showing solidarity with their fellow law-abiding world citizens, at least supporting it in principle despite its current limitations and even unjust attributes (such as the veto power of the "more equal" permanent members of the Security Council), if we start having a rationally-based faith that the unity which our forbears successfully built up from tribal loyalties to city-states and states, and then from divided states into a united republic, is still achievable today as long as we work, as did our earlier counterparts who welded our states together, for the welding of today's nations together.<br />
<br />
Remember the Articles of Confederation? Our first Constitution, like our first (and current) U.N. charter, which granted too much autonomy to individual states, leading it unable to cope with the threats of the time? We overcame that, both due to crisis but also choice. The soldiers in the different states of the time were known to cry "One hoop to the barrel", meaning they wanted to be under one command, despite coming from different states. Benjamin Franklin helped spread in the budding educational system the notion of national identity--a notion which hadn't been formally promoted before then, just as today we need educators and our system to spread the idea of world citizenship. George Washington--certainly no extreme leftist--lead the way as an early proponent of an adequately strong federal government, welding together disparate states : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#Function , just as we need a strong, though of course not overly-centralized, world government.<br />
<br />
No doubt, such outward expressions of love and loyalty for the whole world order will be seen as a threat to those who harbor no wish for the U.N. to succeed--whether out of racism, nationalism, religious or ideological fanaticism, or those who simply do not understand that the idea need not be threatening if properly constituted. But the idea entering our public consciousness in a more serious way by more Americans owning the issue ought not only bring out hostility and fear-mongering, but also a genuinely healthy debate which Americans (and other world-citizens) of different political inclinations can contribute to for the benefit of a new international order.<br />
<br />
Americans were positive about the United Nations when it first formed; I do not believe there is any inherent bigotry or opposition among the majority of the American people toward greater international sovereignty, as long as it is done democratically and justly. As a nation founded on principles, hopefully we can ensure these same principles are applied to a strengthened, most just world order.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Society]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Conservatives_supporting_world_government&diff=42Conservatives supporting world government2014-08-19T18:51:49Z<p>WikiSysop: grammar/clarify</p>
<hr />
<div>This post is in response to a friend questioning whether the right would ever agree to a world government. I believe the answer is yes.<br />
<br />
As far as our at least more moderate right wing brethren, I think many of them might actually be the first on board as far as certain of the reforms needed to the U.N. system--e.g., booting out countries from the U.N. if their human rights were too abysmal, and making the U.N. General Assembly more proportional to population (we are the third most populous country in the world after all).<br />
<br />
Admittedly, those reforms could probably only be achieved if the veto power we currently hold were eliminated or at least curbed, but then again, no doubt many on the right might even welcome that as well, if they understood it meant that certain other countries who shared that veto power (and have exercised it toward their own ends in the past) would no longer retain it either.<br />
<br />
And I think those on the right who think the current U.N. is a waste of money and/or that the U.S. should not be acting as the sole world police, would rejoice if the above-mentioned reforms could actually lead to nations being willing to submit to the will of the reformed U.N. and making its decisions actually binding, since it would reduce the burden on the U.S., including reducing our serving as a primary target for accusations of neo-colonialism (whether unjustified or justified). Conservatives supported the first Gulf War, and that was an operation approved by the U.N. of the time. An effective U.N. ought to even take up the ostensible notion behind the Second Gulf War: preemptive strikes on confirmed arms treaty violators, though assuming international approval and responding as a matter of law to any such violations, not purely when nations deem it in their limited interest. (I mean to imply no political criticism (or endorsements) here--only to suggest pre-emptive strikes can have their place, just as they do when individual citizens or groups store up an undue amount of arms, alarming neighbors, and jeopardizing public safety and order--though intervention by a neighbor, however well-meaning, may lead to chaos, intervention by a representatively-accountable police force is accepted by society.)<br />
<br />
The philosopher Schopenhauer stated that a truth goes through stages of being ridiculed, opposed, and then becoming self-evident. While some will be inflexible in their opposition to the idea of an adequately strong but representative, federated world government, as long as the rest of us limit our loyalties to our own nation, the idea will no doubt remain in the ridicule stage and at best relegated to fiction (and that usually only in dystopian form, Star Trek being one fortunate exception). (Note I'm not criticizing a rational loyalty to country, any more than I would criticize a rational loyalty to one's city.)<br />
<br />
But if people say start waving the U.N. flag along with the U.S. flag showing solidarity with their fellow law-abiding world citizens, at least supporting it in principle despite its current limitations and even unjust attributes (such as the veto power of the "more equal" permanent members of the Security Council), if we start having a rationally-based faith that the unity which our forbears successfully built up from tribal loyalties to city-states and states, and then from divided states into a united republic, is still achievable today as long as we work, as did our earlier counterparts who welded our states together, for the welding of today's nations together.<br />
<br />
Remember the Articles of Confederation? Our first Constitution, like our first (and current) U.N. charter, which granted too much autonomy to individual states, leading it unable to cope with the threats of the time? We overcame that, both due to crisis but also choice. The soldiers in the different states of the time were known to cry "One hoop to the barrel", meaning they wanted to be under one command, despite coming from different states. Benjamin Franklin helped spread in the budding educational system the notion of national identity--a notion which hadn't been formally promoted before then, just as today we need educators and our system to spread the idea of world citizenship. George Washington--certainly no extreme leftist--lead the way as an early proponent of an adequately strong federal government, welding together disparate states : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#Function , just as we need a strong, though of course not overly-centralized, world government.<br />
<br />
No doubt, such outward expressions of love and loyalty for the whole world order will be seen as a threat to those who harbor no wish for the U.N. to succeed--whether out of racism, nationalism, religious or ideological fanaticism, or those who simply do not understand that the idea need not be threatening if properly constituted. But the idea entering our public consciousness in a more serious way by more Americans owning the issue ought not only bring out hostility and fear-mongering, but also a genuinely healthy debate which Americans (and other world-citizens) of different political inclinations can contribute to for the benefit of a new international order.<br />
<br />
Americans were positive about the United Nations when it first formed; I do not believe there is any inherent bigotry or opposition among the majority of the American people toward greater international sovereignty, as long as it is done democratically and justly. As a nation founded on principles, hopefully we can ensure these same principles are applied to a strengthened, most just world order.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Society]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Conservatives_supporting_world_government&diff=41Conservatives supporting world government2014-08-19T18:51:10Z<p>WikiSysop: comparison with neighbor/police</p>
<hr />
<div>This post is in response to a friend questioning whether the right would ever agree to a world government. I believe the answer is yes.<br />
<br />
As far as our at least more moderate right wing brethren, I think many of them might actually be the first on board as far as certain of the reforms needed to the U.N. system--e.g., booting out countries from the U.N. if their human rights were too abysmal, and making the U.N. General Assembly more proportional to population (we are the third most populous country in the world after all).<br />
<br />
Admittedly, those reforms could probably only be achieved if the veto power we currently hold were eliminated or at least curbed, but then again, no doubt many on the right might even welcome that as well, if they understood it meant that certain other countries who shared that veto power (and have exercised it toward their own ends in the past) would no longer retain it either.<br />
<br />
And I think those on the right who think the current U.N. is a waste of money and/or that the U.S. should not be acting as the sole world police, would rejoice if the above-mentioned reforms could actually lead to nations being willing to submit to the will of the reformed U.N. and making its decisions actually binding, since it would reduce the burden on the U.S., including reducing our serving as a primary target for accusations of neo-colonialism (whether unjustified or justified). Conservatives supported the first Gulf War, and that was an operation approved by the U.N. of the time. An effective U.N. ought to even take up the ostensible notion behind the Second Gulf War: preemptive strikes on confirmed arms treaty violators, though assuming international approval and responding as a matter of law to any such violations, not purely when nations deem it in their limited interest. (I mean to imply no political criticism (or endorsements) here--only to suggest pre-emptive strikes can have their place, just as it does when individual citizens or groups store up an undue amount of arms, alarming neighbors, and jeopardizing safety and order--though intervention by a neighbor, however well-meaning, may lead to chaos, intervention by a representatively-accountable police force is accepted by society.)<br />
<br />
The philosopher Schopenhauer stated that a truth goes through stages of being ridiculed, opposed, and then becoming self-evident. While some will be inflexible in their opposition to the idea of an adequately strong but representative, federated world government, as long as the rest of us limit our loyalties to our own nation, the idea will no doubt remain in the ridicule stage and at best relegated to fiction (and that usually only in dystopian form, Star Trek being one fortunate exception). (Note I'm not criticizing a rational loyalty to country, any more than I would criticize a rational loyalty to one's city.)<br />
<br />
But if people say start waving the U.N. flag along with the U.S. flag showing solidarity with their fellow law-abiding world citizens, at least supporting it in principle despite its current limitations and even unjust attributes (such as the veto power of the "more equal" permanent members of the Security Council), if we start having a rationally-based faith that the unity which our forbears successfully built up from tribal loyalties to city-states and states, and then from divided states into a united republic, is still achievable today as long as we work, as did our earlier counterparts who welded our states together, for the welding of today's nations together.<br />
<br />
Remember the Articles of Confederation? Our first Constitution, like our first (and current) U.N. charter, which granted too much autonomy to individual states, leading it unable to cope with the threats of the time? We overcame that, both due to crisis but also choice. The soldiers in the different states of the time were known to cry "One hoop to the barrel", meaning they wanted to be under one command, despite coming from different states. Benjamin Franklin helped spread in the budding educational system the notion of national identity--a notion which hadn't been formally promoted before then, just as today we need educators and our system to spread the idea of world citizenship. George Washington--certainly no extreme leftist--lead the way as an early proponent of an adequately strong federal government, welding together disparate states : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#Function , just as we need a strong, though of course not overly-centralized, world government.<br />
<br />
No doubt, such outward expressions of love and loyalty for the whole world order will be seen as a threat to those who harbor no wish for the U.N. to succeed--whether out of racism, nationalism, religious or ideological fanaticism, or those who simply do not understand that the idea need not be threatening if properly constituted. But the idea entering our public consciousness in a more serious way by more Americans owning the issue ought not only bring out hostility and fear-mongering, but also a genuinely healthy debate which Americans (and other world-citizens) of different political inclinations can contribute to for the benefit of a new international order.<br />
<br />
Americans were positive about the United Nations when it first formed; I do not believe there is any inherent bigotry or opposition among the majority of the American people toward greater international sovereignty, as long as it is done democratically and justly. As a nation founded on principles, hopefully we can ensure these same principles are applied to a strengthened, most just world order.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Society]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Conservatives_supporting_world_government&diff=40Conservatives supporting world government2014-08-19T18:49:35Z<p>WikiSysop: clarification</p>
<hr />
<div>This post is in response to a friend questioning whether the right would ever agree to a world government. I believe the answer is yes.<br />
<br />
As far as our at least more moderate right wing brethren, I think many of them might actually be the first on board as far as certain of the reforms needed to the U.N. system--e.g., booting out countries from the U.N. if their human rights were too abysmal, and making the U.N. General Assembly more proportional to population (we are the third most populous country in the world after all).<br />
<br />
Admittedly, those reforms could probably only be achieved if the veto power we currently hold were eliminated or at least curbed, but then again, no doubt many on the right might even welcome that as well, if they understood it meant that certain other countries who shared that veto power (and have exercised it toward their own ends in the past) would no longer retain it either.<br />
<br />
And I think those on the right who think the current U.N. is a waste of money and/or that the U.S. should not be acting as the sole world police, would rejoice if the above-mentioned reforms could actually lead to nations being willing to submit to the will of the reformed U.N. and making its decisions actually binding, since it would reduce the burden on the U.S., including reducing our serving as a primary target for accusations of neo-colonialism (whether unjustified or justified). Conservatives supported the first Gulf War, and that was an operation approved by the U.N. of the time. An effective U.N. ought to even take up the ostensible notion behind the Second Gulf War: preemptive strikes on confirmed arms treaty violators, though assuming international approval and responding as a matter of law to any such violations, not purely when nations deem it in their limited interest. (I mean to imply no political criticism (or endorsements) here--only to suggest pre-emptive strikes can have their place, just as it does when individual citizens or groups store up an undue amount of arms, alarming neighbors, and jeopardizing safety and order.)<br />
<br />
The philosopher Schopenhauer stated that a truth goes through stages of being ridiculed, opposed, and then becoming self-evident. While some will be inflexible in their opposition to the idea of an adequately strong but representative, federated world government, as long as the rest of us limit our loyalties to our own nation, the idea will no doubt remain in the ridicule stage and at best relegated to fiction (and that usually only in dystopian form, Star Trek being one fortunate exception). (Note I'm not criticizing a rational loyalty to country, any more than I would criticize a rational loyalty to one's city.)<br />
<br />
But if people say start waving the U.N. flag along with the U.S. flag showing solidarity with their fellow law-abiding world citizens, at least supporting it in principle despite its current limitations and even unjust attributes (such as the veto power of the "more equal" permanent members of the Security Council), if we start having a rationally-based faith that the unity which our forbears successfully built up from tribal loyalties to city-states and states, and then from divided states into a united republic, is still achievable today as long as we work, as did our earlier counterparts who welded our states together, for the welding of today's nations together.<br />
<br />
Remember the Articles of Confederation? Our first Constitution, like our first (and current) U.N. charter, which granted too much autonomy to individual states, leading it unable to cope with the threats of the time? We overcame that, both due to crisis but also choice. The soldiers in the different states of the time were known to cry "One hoop to the barrel", meaning they wanted to be under one command, despite coming from different states. Benjamin Franklin helped spread in the budding educational system the notion of national identity--a notion which hadn't been formally promoted before then, just as today we need educators and our system to spread the idea of world citizenship. George Washington--certainly no extreme leftist--lead the way as an early proponent of an adequately strong federal government, welding together disparate states : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#Function , just as we need a strong, though of course not overly-centralized, world government.<br />
<br />
No doubt, such outward expressions of love and loyalty for the whole world order will be seen as a threat to those who harbor no wish for the U.N. to succeed--whether out of racism, nationalism, religious or ideological fanaticism, or those who simply do not understand that the idea need not be threatening if properly constituted. But the idea entering our public consciousness in a more serious way by more Americans owning the issue ought not only bring out hostility and fear-mongering, but also a genuinely healthy debate which Americans (and other world-citizens) of different political inclinations can contribute to for the benefit of a new international order.<br />
<br />
Americans were positive about the United Nations when it first formed; I do not believe there is any inherent bigotry or opposition among the majority of the American people toward greater international sovereignty, as long as it is done democratically and justly. As a nation founded on principles, hopefully we can ensure these same principles are applied to a strengthened, most just world order.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Society]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Conservatives_supporting_world_government&diff=39Conservatives supporting world government2014-08-19T18:45:41Z<p>WikiSysop: +page</p>
<hr />
<div>This post is in response to a friend questioning whether the right would ever agree to a world government. I believe the answer is yes.<br />
<br />
As far as our at least more moderate right wing brethren, I think many of them might actually be the first on board as far as certain of the reforms needed to the U.N. system--e.g., booting out countries from the U.N. if their human rights were too abysmal, and making the U.N. General Assembly more proportional to population (we are the third most populous country in the world after all).<br />
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Admittedly, those reforms could probably only be achieved if the veto power we currently hold were eliminated or at least curbed, but then again, no doubt many on the right might even welcome that as well, if they understood it meant that certain other countries who shared that veto power (and have exercised it toward their own ends in the past) would no longer retain it either.<br />
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And I think those on the right who think the current U.N. is a waste of money and/or that the U.S. should not be acting as the sole world police, would rejoice if the above-mentioned reforms could actually lead to nations being willing to submit to the will of the reformed U.N. and making its decisions actually binding, since it would reduce the burden on the U.S., including reducing our serving as a primary target for accusations of neo-colonialism (whether unjustified or justified). Conservatives supported the first Gulf War, and that was an operation approved by the U.N. of the time. An effective U.N. ought to even take up the ostensible notion behind the Second Gulf War: preemptive strikes on confirmed arms treaty violators, though assuming international approval and responding as a matter of law to any such violations, not purely when nations deem it in their limited interest. (I mean to imply no political criticism here--only to suggest pre-emptive strikes can have their place, just as it does when individual citizens or groups store up an undue amount of arms, alarming neighbors, and jeopardizing safety and order.)<br />
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The philosopher Schopenhauer stated that a truth goes through stages of being ridiculed, opposed, and then becoming self-evident. While some will be inflexible in their opposition to the idea of an adequately strong but representative, federated world government, as long as the rest of us limit our loyalties to our own nation, the idea will no doubt remain in the ridicule stage and at best relegated to fiction (and that usually only in dystopian form, Star Trek being one fortunate exception). (Note I'm not criticizing a rational loyalty to country, any more than I would criticize a rational loyalty to one's city.)<br />
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But if people say start waving the U.N. flag along with the U.S. flag showing solidarity with their fellow law-abiding world citizens, at least supporting it in principle despite its current limitations and even unjust attributes (such as the veto power of the "more equal" permanent members of the Security Council), if we start having a rationally-based faith that the unity which our forbears successfully built up from tribal loyalties to city-states and states, and then from divided states into a united republic, is still achievable today as long as we work, as did our earlier counterparts who welded our states together, for the welding of today's nations together.<br />
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Remember the Articles of Confederation? Our first Constitution, like our first (and current) U.N. charter, which granted too much autonomy to individual states, leading it unable to cope with the threats of the time? We overcame that, both due to crisis but also choice. The soldiers in the different states of the time were known to cry "One hoop to the barrel", meaning they wanted to be under one command, despite coming from different states. Benjamin Franklin helped spread in the budding educational system the notion of national identity--a notion which hadn't been formally promoted before then, just as today we need educators and our system to spread the idea of world citizenship. George Washington--certainly no extreme leftist--lead the way as an early proponent of an adequately strong federal government, welding together disparate states : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#Function , just as we need a strong, though of course not overly-centralized, world government.<br />
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No doubt, such outward expressions of love and loyalty for the whole world order will be seen as a threat to those who harbor no wish for the U.N. to succeed--whether out of racism, nationalism, religious or ideological fanaticism, or those who simply do not understand that the idea need not be threatening if properly constituted. But the idea entering our public consciousness in a more serious way by more Americans owning the issue ought not only bring out hostility and fear-mongering, but also a genuinely healthy debate which Americans (and other world-citizens) of different political inclinations can contribute to for the benefit of a new international order.<br />
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Americans were positive about the United Nations when it first formed; I do not believe there is any inherent bigotry or opposition among the majority of the American people toward greater international sovereignty, as long as it is done democratically and justly. As a nation founded on principles, hopefully we can ensure these same principles are applied to a strengthened, most just world order.<br />
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[[Category:Society]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=A_Twelve_Step_Program_for_the_World%27s_Possibly_Most_Dangerous_Drug,_Nationalism&diff=38A Twelve Step Program for the World's Possibly Most Dangerous Drug, Nationalism2014-08-03T05:25:12Z<p>WikiSysop: copying 12 steps over from old blog</p>
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<div>Among the world's top most dangerous drugs--nationalism... (We might also take racism as being akin to nationalism...)<br />
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This drug's most obvious effect is (selective) blindness. The addict will filter and process everything through the distorted vision caused by this drug. Only the addict (and by extension his country) will be right in all situations, and others are suspect of blame, weakness, aggression, etc.<br />
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As with drug addiction, the addict will most likely vigorously deny the dependence, but it will be clear from their actions that, for the most part, they will only be able to place blame on others (other nations or people in other countries) and not take account for their own actions (often because this is indeed more difficult to do). While fault may indeed be found with others (or other countries and their people), this is often used as an excuse for failing to address and overcome the system of mutually enabling behavior which affects both addicts in their relation to one another--such as an unjust or weak international order cannot resolve disputes adequately and leads to further national animosities (and to look at one's own faults (and one's own country) in the process).<br />
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Here's a twelve-step program (based largely on the original one for alcoholics) to overcoming this dependence... They apply equally no matter your country of origin...<br />
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Note that, needless to say, none of this is professional psychiatric advice.<br />
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# We admitted we were powerless over nationalism—that our lives (and those of our fellow national and world citizens, and our international relations as countries) had become unmanageable.<br />
# Came to believe that a Power (or at a minimum, a federated world power) greater than ourselves (and greater than our country alone) could restore us to sanity.<br />
# Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him (or at least to a higher representative authority which encompassed all people).<br />
# Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves (including ourselves as national citizens). [One of the most important and difficult steps, in my opinion - B.Z.]<br />
# Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs as an individual and national citizen. [I don't really agree with the part about admitting it to another human being as far as small offenses by individuals, as I don't believe in humiliation before another human being, but I do believe disclosure may be truly needed in some larger cases for therapy or justice (e.g., like in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission or even payment of reparations).]<br />
# Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character in ourselves and our country (and/or let a justly constituted international system of governance by the people of the world monitor and prescribe remedies for serious defects not handled adequately by our own national authorities).<br />
# Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings as individuals and as a country. [Note that, as with addiction recovery, one need not focus blame excessively on oneself as a country or people, and there are advantages to taking note of steps toward progress, but without letting such pride or contentment degenerate into laxity or regression, or ignoring the need (as discussed in the next steps) to redress serious wrongs one (or one's country) has committed. - B.Z.]<br />
# Made a list of all persons, peoples, and nations we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.<br />
# Made direct amends to such people or nations wherever possible (as an individual or country), except when to do so would injure them or others.<br />
# Continued to take personal inventory and when we (as individuals or as a country) were wrong promptly admitted it.<br />
# Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him (or at least seek to improve our conscious knowledge of, participation in, reformation of, and adherence to His current higher legal body for humanity, the United Nations and other international institutions), praying only for knowledge of His Will for us (or at least for knowledge of international opinion and consensus, as God favors unity except where unity is truly amoral, as in Hitler's Germany) and the power to carry that out (or at least that a justly constituted United Nations, comprised of our nation and others, will be given the authority and power by God to act as the executive for such consensus and act as the global policemen to adequately defend individual and national liberties as necessary, as our world so sorely needs).<br />
# Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other nationalists, and to practice these principles in all our affairs (as individuals or as a nation).</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Web-app-exploitation-entry-points&diff=37Web-app-exploitation-entry-points2014-03-04T12:48:50Z<p>WikiSysop: alternative</p>
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<div>For [https://github.com/brettz9/asyouwish/ AsYouWish] (or older version at [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/as-you-wish/ AMO] languishing in loneliness awaiting preliminary approval), while it opens up a lot of fun, it is also a bit scary given the number of ways in which its power could be exploited by the malicious.<br />
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Here are some entry points which require proper awareness if not sanitizing by AsYouWish websites (though they also may invite ideas for proper usage):<br />
<br />
{| border=1 class=sortable<br />
! Input source<br />
! Protagonist<br />
|-<br />
| URL parameters || User in URL bar, user clicking third-party link, or user visiting third-party website (with hidden XSRF potential) || <br />
|-<br />
| regular postMessage || Third-party developer<br />
|-<br />
| privileged postMessage (as from WebAppFind invocation from OS desktop and potentially in the future from [https://github.com/brettz9/atyourcommand AtYourCommand]) || User<br />
|-<br />
| registerProtocolHandler || User in URL bar, user clicking third-party link, or user visiting third-party website (with hidden XSRF potential)<br />
|-<br />
| bookmarklet || Third-party site (potentially coming from other users if XSS is an issue)<br />
|-<br />
| local data store || Potentially other users<br />
|-<br />
| remote data store || Potentially other users<br />
|}<br />
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A very important principle is to make all GET-able URL-accessible parameters (URL parameters or custom protocols) idempotent, while allowing for pseudo-POST (via postMessage) to, if proper checks are in place, provide safe code with side effects (bearing in mind that a "null" origin may not differentiate between file:// URLs, etc.). Where the context does not allow for POST-like behavior, one can still allow bookmarkable non-idempotent behaviors upon user confirmation (ideally after they are provided with source code of exactly what will be changed/added).<br />
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[[Category:Unfinished draft]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Web-app-exploitation-entry-points&diff=36Web-app-exploitation-entry-points2014-03-04T12:43:46Z<p>WikiSysop: start draft</p>
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<div>For [https://github.com/brettz9/asyouwish/ AsYouWish] (or older version at [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/as-you-wish/ AMO] languishing in loneliness awaiting preliminary approval), while it opens up a lot of fun, it is also a bit scary given the number of ways in which its power could be exploited by the malicious.<br />
<br />
Here are some entry points which require proper awareness if not sanitizing by AsYouWish websites (though they also may invite ideas for proper usage):<br />
<br />
{| border=1 class=sortable<br />
! Input source<br />
! Protagonist<br />
|-<br />
| URL parameters || User in URL bar, user clicking third-party link, or user visiting third-party website (with hidden XSRF potential) || <br />
|-<br />
| regular postMessage || Third-party developer<br />
|-<br />
| privileged postMessage (as from WebAppFind invocation from OS desktop and potentially in the future from [https://github.com/brettz9/atyourcommand AtYourCommand]) || User<br />
|-<br />
| registerProtocolHandler || User in URL bar, user clicking third-party link, or user visiting third-party website (with hidden XSRF potential)<br />
|-<br />
| bookmarklet || Third-party site (potentially coming from other users if XSS is an issue)<br />
|-<br />
| local data store || Potentially other users<br />
|-<br />
| remote data store || Potentially other users<br />
|}<br />
<br />
A very important principle is to make all GET-able URL-accessible parameters (URL parameters or custom protocols) idempotent, while allowing for pseudo-POST (via postMessage) to, if proper checks are in place, provide safe code with side effects (bearing in mind that a "null" origin may not differentiate between file:// URLs, etc.).<br />
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[[Category:Unfinished draft]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Change-content-type&diff=35Change-content-type2014-03-04T12:30:20Z<p>WikiSysop: idea</p>
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<div>Offer the ability to change the Content-Type of a currently loaded URL (e.g., for reserving the raw HTML of a Github repo page as actual workable HTML, assuming one trusts the site). Ideally would allow this to be run automatically on selected sites where desired.<br />
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[[Category:Add-on idea]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Google-Redirect&diff=34Google-Redirect2014-03-04T12:28:08Z<p>WikiSysop: +gist URL</p>
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<div>Sometimes I encounter Google results pages but as service is unreliable here in China, I often want to get directly to the result rather than having the vain hope of waiting to go through Google.<br />
<br />
http://www.google.com.hk/url?q=<SOME QUERY HERE><SOME ARGS HERE>&url=<ESCAPED URI COMPONENT HERE><br />
<br />
It is too much of a pain to type out decodeURIComponent on the relevant portion of the URL, so I worked with the following...<br />
<br />
While this bookmarklet will do the trick if already loaded:<br />
<br />
var url = window.location.href.match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
window.location = decodeURIComponent(url);<br />
<br />
(or in bookmarklet form, courtesy of http://mrcoles.com/bookmarklet/ :)<br />
<br />
javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20url%20%3D%20window.location.href.match(%2F%5B%3F%26%5Durl%3D(%5B%5E%26%5D*)(%3F%3D%26%7C%24)%2F)%3Burl%20%3D%20url%20%26%26%20url%5B1%5D%3Bwindow.location%20%3D%20decodeURIComponent(url)%7D)()<br />
<br />
...usually Firefox just keeps on running, so I made the following page, google-redirect.html<br />
<br />
(T'would be nice if Firefox could allow multi-line locations in bookmarks for preserving the line breaks of bookmarklets--dare I, moreover, dream of syntax highlighting here courtesy of an add-on? Would that it were, would that it might... For now, I'm just pasting the same code another time in the description so I can at least read it; hopefully I will always remember to update such bookmarklets in both the location and description (and deal with the annoyance of needing to add it after "javascript:").)<br />
<br />
<script><br />
var url = window.location.href.match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
url = decodeURIComponent(url).match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
window.location = decodeURIComponent(url);<br />
</script><br />
<br />
...and I made a bookmark leading to it, but leading to:<br />
<br />
file:///C:/Users/<my-path>/google-redirect.html?url=%s<br />
<br />
...and with the keyword "redir", so I could quickly hit ctrl-l to get into the location bar, copy-paste the URL, type "redir" and space and then paste (ctrl-x) to redirect quickly to whatever URL was appended at the end of the URL. Probably sounds convoluted unless you've had to deal with the Google issues as over here. This also has the advantage of not needing the maintenance trouble described above for bookmarklets.<br />
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[https://gist.github.com/brettz9/9345623 Gist]<br />
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[[Category:Bookmarklet]]<br />
[[Category:Add-on idea]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Google-Redirect&diff=33Google-Redirect2014-03-04T12:22:49Z<p>WikiSysop: </p>
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<div>Sometimes I encounter Google results pages but as service is unreliable here in China, I often want to get directly to the result rather than having the vain hope of waiting to go through Google.<br />
<br />
http://www.google.com.hk/url?q=<SOME QUERY HERE><SOME ARGS HERE>&url=<ESCAPED URI COMPONENT HERE><br />
<br />
It is too much of a pain to type out decodeURIComponent on the relevant portion of the URL, so I worked with the following...<br />
<br />
While this bookmarklet will do the trick if already loaded:<br />
<br />
var url = window.location.href.match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
window.location = decodeURIComponent(url);<br />
<br />
(or in bookmarklet form, courtesy of http://mrcoles.com/bookmarklet/ :)<br />
<br />
javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20url%20%3D%20window.location.href.match(%2F%5B%3F%26%5Durl%3D(%5B%5E%26%5D*)(%3F%3D%26%7C%24)%2F)%3Burl%20%3D%20url%20%26%26%20url%5B1%5D%3Bwindow.location%20%3D%20decodeURIComponent(url)%7D)()<br />
<br />
...usually Firefox just keeps on running, so I made the following page, google-redirect.html<br />
<br />
(T'would be nice if Firefox could allow multi-line locations in bookmarks for preserving the line breaks of bookmarklets--dare I, moreover, dream of syntax highlighting here courtesy of an add-on? Would that it were, would that it might... For now, I'm just pasting the same code another time in the description so I can at least read it; hopefully I will always remember to update such bookmarklets in both the location and description (and deal with the annoyance of needing to add it after "javascript:").)<br />
<br />
<script><br />
var url = window.location.href.match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
url = decodeURIComponent(url).match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
window.location = decodeURIComponent(url);<br />
</script><br />
<br />
...and I made a bookmark leading to it, but leading to:<br />
<br />
file:///C:/Users/<my-path>/google-redirect.html?url=%s<br />
<br />
...and with the keyword "redir", so I could quickly hit ctrl-l to get into the location bar, copy-paste the URL, type "redir" and space and then paste (ctrl-x) to redirect quickly to whatever URL was appended at the end of the URL. Probably sounds convoluted unless you've had to deal with the Google issues as over here. This also has the advantage of not needing the maintenance trouble described above for bookmarklets.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bookmarklet]]<br />
[[Category:Add-on idea]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Google-Redirect&diff=32Google-Redirect2014-03-04T12:21:00Z<p>WikiSysop: URLs attempted for handling</p>
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<div>Sometimes I encounter Google results pages but as service is unreliable here in China, I often want to get directly to the result rather than having the vain hope of waiting to go through Google.<br />
<br />
http://www.google.com.hk/url?q=<SOME QUERY HERE><SOME ARGS HERE>&url=<ESCAPED URI COMPONENT HERE><br />
<br />
It is too much of a pain to type out decodeURIComponent on the relevant portion of the URL, so I worked with the following...<br />
<br />
While this bookmarklet will do the trick if already loaded:<br />
<br />
var url = window.location.href.match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
window.location = decodeURIComponent(url);<br />
<br />
(or in bookmarklet form:)<br />
<br />
javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20url%20%3D%20window.location.href.match(%2F%5B%3F%26%5Durl%3D(%5B%5E%26%5D*)(%3F%3D%26%7C%24)%2F)%3Burl%20%3D%20url%20%26%26%20url%5B1%5D%3Bwindow.location%20%3D%20decodeURIComponent(url)%7D)()<br />
<br />
...usually Firefox just keeps on running, so I made the following page, google-redirect.html<br />
<br />
(T'would be nice if Firefox could allow multi-line locations in bookmarks for preserving the line breaks of bookmarklets--dare I, moreover, dream of syntax highlighting here courtesy of an add-on? Would that it were, would that it might... For now, I'm just pasting the same code another time in the description so I can at least read it; hopefully I will always remember to update such bookmarklets in both the location and description (and deal with the annoyance of needing to add it after "javascript:").)<br />
<br />
<script><br />
var url = window.location.href.match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
url = decodeURIComponent(url).match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
window.location = decodeURIComponent(url);<br />
</script><br />
<br />
...and I made a bookmark leading to it, but leading to:<br />
<br />
file:///C:/Users/<my-path>/google-redirect.html?url=%s<br />
<br />
...and with the keyword "redir", so I could quickly hit ctrl-l to get into the location bar, copy-paste the URL, type "redir" and space and then paste (ctrl-x) to redirect quickly to whatever URL was appended at the end of the URL. Probably sounds convoluted unless you've had to deal with the Google issues as over here. This also has the advantage of not needing the maintenance trouble described above for bookmarklets.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bookmarklet]]<br />
[[Category:Add-on idea]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Category:Add-on_idea&diff=31Category:Add-on idea2014-03-04T12:15:53Z<p>WikiSysop: +page</p>
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<div>This category is for browser add-on ideas.<br />
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[[Category:Web]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Google-Redirect&diff=30Google-Redirect2014-03-04T12:14:56Z<p>WikiSysop: bookmarklet form and other wishes</p>
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<div>Sometimes I encounter Google results pages but as service is unreliable here in China, I often want to get directly to the result rather than having the vain hope of waiting to go through Google.<br />
<br />
While this bookmarklet will do the trick if already loaded:<br />
<br />
var url = window.location.href.match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
window.location = decodeURIComponent(url);<br />
<br />
(or in bookmarklet form:)<br />
<br />
javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20url%20%3D%20window.location.href.match(%2F%5B%3F%26%5Durl%3D(%5B%5E%26%5D*)(%3F%3D%26%7C%24)%2F)%3Burl%20%3D%20url%20%26%26%20url%5B1%5D%3Bwindow.location%20%3D%20decodeURIComponent(url)%7D)()<br />
<br />
...usually Firefox just keeps on running, so I made the following page, google-redirect.html<br />
<br />
(T'would be nice if Firefox could allow multi-line locations in bookmarks for preserving the line breaks of bookmarklets--dare I, moreover, dream of syntax highlighting here courtesy of an add-on? Would that it were, would that it might... For now, I'm just pasting the same code another time in the description so I can at least read it; hopefully I will always remember to update such bookmarklets in both the location and description (and deal with the annoyance of needing to add it after "javascript:").)<br />
<br />
<script><br />
var url = window.location.href.match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
url = decodeURIComponent(url).match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
window.location = decodeURIComponent(url);<br />
</script><br />
<br />
...and I made a bookmark leading to it, but leading to:<br />
<br />
file:///C:/Users/<my-path>/google-redirect.html?url=%s<br />
<br />
...and with the keyword "redir", so I could quickly hit ctrl-l to get into the location bar, copy-paste the URL, type "redir" and space and then paste (ctrl-x) to redirect quickly to whatever URL was appended at the end of the URL. Probably sounds convoluted unless you've had to deal with the Google issues as over here. This also has the advantage of not needing the maintenance trouble described above for bookmarklets.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bookmarklet]]<br />
[[Category:Add-on idea]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Category:Bookmarklet&diff=29Category:Bookmarklet2014-03-04T12:09:07Z<p>WikiSysop: +cat.</p>
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<div>This category is for posts regarding miscellaneous bookmarklets or HTML snippets meant to be invoked from the local file system with arguments.<br />
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Thankfully Firefox allows pasting in non-bookmarklet form, but if you need to convert to a linkable one, you can use http://mrcoles.com/bookmarklet/<br />
<br />
[[Category:Web]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Google-Redirect&diff=28Google-Redirect2014-03-04T12:07:05Z<p>WikiSysop: Created page with "Sometimes I encounter Google results pages but as service is unreliable here in China, I often want to get directly to the result rather than having the vain hope of waiting t..."</p>
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<div>Sometimes I encounter Google results pages but as service is unreliable here in China, I often want to get directly to the result rather than having the vain hope of waiting to go through Google.<br />
<br />
While this bookmarklet will do the trick if already loaded:<br />
<br />
var url = window.location.href.match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
window.location = decodeURIComponent(url);<br />
<br />
...usually Firefox just keeps on running, so I made the following page, google-redirect.html<br />
<br />
<script><br />
var url = window.location.href.match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
url = decodeURIComponent(url).match(/[?&]url=([^&]*)(?=&|$)/);<br />
url = url && url[1];<br />
window.location = decodeURIComponent(url);<br />
</script><br />
<br />
...and I made a bookmark leading to it, but leading to:<br />
<br />
file:///C:/Users/<my-path>/google-redirect.html?url=%s<br />
<br />
...and with the keyword "redir", so I could quickly hit ctrl-l to get into the location bar, copy-paste the URL, type "redir" and space and then paste (ctrl-x) to redirect quickly to whatever URL was appended at the end of the URL. Probably sounds convoluted unless you've had to deal with the Google issues as over here.<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Bookmarklet]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Category:Baha%27i&diff=27Category:Baha'i2013-12-13T14:35:53Z<p>WikiSysop: +redirect</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT[[Category:Bahá'í]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Category:Baha%27i_tech&diff=26Category:Baha'i tech2013-12-13T14:35:19Z<p>WikiSysop: +cat</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT[[Category:Bahá'í tech]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Category:Baha%27i_tech&diff=25Category:Baha'i tech2013-12-13T14:34:33Z<p>WikiSysop: redirect</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT[[Bahá'í tech]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Category:Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_tech&diff=24Category:Bahá'í tech2013-12-13T14:33:59Z<p>WikiSysop: +page</p>
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<div>This is for posts regarding technology (such as Bahá'í wiki sites).<br />
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[[Category:Bahá'í]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Talk:Brett_Zamir&diff=23Talk:Brett Zamir2013-12-13T13:58:31Z<p>WikiSysop: rmv comments from society leech</p>
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<div></div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Brett_Zamir&diff=22Brett Zamir2013-12-13T13:57:19Z<p>WikiSysop: +contact</p>
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<div>__NOTOC__<br />
==Blog feeds==<br />
<br />
The following types of feeds are available for my various blogs:<br />
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{| border="1"<br />
! Category || By created date<br /><small>(how most blogs are ordered)</small> || By modified date || Alphabetically<br />
|-<br />
| All categories || [[Special:NewPages/namespace=all,username=WikiSysop|(new posts)]] || [[Special:RecentChanges|(modified posts)]] || [[Special:AllPages|(alphabetical)]]<br />
|-<br />
| Web || (not supported) || [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Web|(modified posts)]] || [[:Category:Web|(alphabetical)]]<br />
|-<br />
| Bahá'í || (not supported) || [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Bahá'í|(modified posts)]] || [[:Category:Bahá'í|(alphabetical)]]<br />
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<br />
If you are interested in tracking modifications to previously-added posts (since I modify earlier posts to make corrections or improve their organization), but you wish to avoid having to re-read an entire post, you can visit the "View history" link for a given page and choose which two revisions you wish to compare, or, if you are looking at the modified page feed, you can click "hist" to get to a specific page's history or just click "diff" to see the most recent change for that page.<br />
<br />
==About me==<br />
<br />
* [http://bahai.org The world-embracing system of thought and action to which I inadequately subscribe]<br />
* My and your [http://www.un.org/ United Nations] (As a world citizen, have you memorized our U.N. charter's inspiring [http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml preamble] and have you read the very readable [http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ UDHR]? How about these powerful and rational suggestions for critical [http://statements.bahai.org/95-1001.htm U.N. restructuring]?)<br />
<br />
==Contact==<br />
<br />
* I don't currently have a commenting system enabled. If you wish to get in touch, feel free to send a Yahoo email to brettz9 .<br />
<br />
==Code==<br />
<br />
* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/120243 Firefox extensions]<br />
* [https://github.com/brettz9/ Github repositories]<br />
<br />
==Other Causes==<br />
<br />
* I strongly believe the world should choose an official world auxiliary language (whether it is an existing language like English, confirmed and taught universally in schools around the world, or a constructed language--whatever gets agreement). In the hopes of furthering this effort, and also drawing attention to the possibilities for such a universal sign language, mostly by the help of my dear mother, and with kind permission from the World Federation of the Deaf, I have put online an early book on [http://brett-zamir.me/gestuno Gestuno], with the language now known more widely as International Sign or IS.</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Brett_Zamir&diff=21Brett Zamir2013-12-13T13:55:24Z<p>WikiSysop: no TOC</p>
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<div>__NOTOC__<br />
==Blog feeds==<br />
<br />
The following types of feeds are available for my various blogs:<br />
<br />
{| border="1"<br />
! Category || By created date<br /><small>(how most blogs are ordered)</small> || By modified date || Alphabetically<br />
|-<br />
| All categories || [[Special:NewPages/namespace=all,username=WikiSysop|(new posts)]] || [[Special:RecentChanges|(modified posts)]] || [[Special:AllPages|(alphabetical)]]<br />
|-<br />
| Web || (not supported) || [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Web|(modified posts)]] || [[:Category:Web|(alphabetical)]]<br />
|-<br />
| Bahá'í || (not supported) || [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Bahá'í|(modified posts)]] || [[:Category:Bahá'í|(alphabetical)]]<br />
|}<br />
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| Personal || (not supported) || [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Personal|(modified posts)]] || [[:Category:Personal|(alphabetical)]]<br />
--><br />
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You are also welcome to browse [[Special:Categories|Categories]] for the site.<br />
<br />
If you are interested in tracking modifications to previously-added posts (since I modify earlier posts to make corrections or improve their organization), but you wish to avoid having to re-read an entire post, you can visit the "View history" link for a given page and choose which two revisions you wish to compare, or, if you are looking at the modified page feed, you can click "hist" to get to a specific page's history or just click "diff" to see the most recent change for that page.<br />
<br />
==About me==<br />
<br />
* [http://bahai.org The world-embracing system of thought and action to which I inadequately subscribe]<br />
* My and your [http://www.un.org/ United Nations] (As a world citizen, have you memorized our U.N. charter's inspiring [http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml preamble] and have you read the very readable [http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ UDHR]? How about these powerful and rational suggestions for critical [http://statements.bahai.org/95-1001.htm U.N. restructuring]?)<br />
<br />
==Code==<br />
<br />
* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/120243 Firefox extensions]<br />
* [https://github.com/brettz9/ Github repositories]<br />
<br />
==Other Causes==<br />
<br />
* I strongly believe the world should choose an official world auxiliary language (whether it is an existing language like English, confirmed and taught universally in schools around the world, or a constructed language--whatever gets agreement). In the hopes of furthering this effort, and also drawing attention to the possibilities for such a universal sign language, mostly by the help of my dear mother, and with kind permission from the World Federation of the Deaf, I have put online an early book on [http://brett-zamir.me/gestuno Gestuno], with the language now known more widely as International Sign or IS.</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Mainpage&diff=20MediaWiki:Mainpage2013-12-13T13:30:40Z<p>WikiSysop: avoid redirect</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Talk:Brett Zamir]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=17Main Page2013-12-13T13:30:15Z<p>WikiSysop: WikiSysop moved page Main Page to Brett Zamir: better main page name</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Brett Zamir]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Brett_Zamir&diff=16Brett Zamir2013-12-13T13:30:13Z<p>WikiSysop: WikiSysop moved page Main Page to Brett Zamir: better main page name</p>
<hr />
<div>==Blog feeds==<br />
<br />
The following types of feeds are available for my various blogs:<br />
<br />
{| border="1"<br />
! Category || By created date<br /><small>(how most blogs are ordered)</small> || By modified date || Alphabetically<br />
|-<br />
| All categories || [[Special:NewPages/namespace=all,username=WikiSysop|(new posts)]] || [[Special:RecentChanges|(modified posts)]] || [[Special:AllPages|(alphabetical)]]<br />
|-<br />
| Web || (not supported) || [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Web|(modified posts)]] || [[:Category:Web|(alphabetical)]]<br />
|-<br />
| Bahá'í || (not supported) || [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Bahá'í|(modified posts)]] || [[:Category:Bahá'í|(alphabetical)]]<br />
|}<br />
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|-<br />
| Personal || (not supported) || [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Personal|(modified posts)]] || [[:Category:Personal|(alphabetical)]]<br />
--><br />
<br />
You are also welcome to browse [[Special:Categories|Categories]] for the site.<br />
<br />
If you are interested in tracking modifications to previously-added posts (since I modify earlier posts to make corrections or improve their organization), but you wish to avoid having to re-read an entire post, you can visit the "View history" link for a given page and choose which two revisions you wish to compare, or, if you are looking at the modified page feed, you can click "hist" to get to a specific page's history or just click "diff" to see the most recent change for that page.<br />
<br />
==About me==<br />
<br />
* [http://bahai.org The world-embracing system of thought and action to which I inadequately subscribe]<br />
* My and your [http://www.un.org/ United Nations] (As a world citizen, have you memorized our U.N. charter's inspiring [http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml preamble] and have you read the very readable [http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ UDHR]? How about these powerful and rational suggestions for critical [http://statements.bahai.org/95-1001.htm U.N. restructuring]?)<br />
<br />
==Code==<br />
<br />
* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/120243 Firefox extensions]<br />
* [https://github.com/brettz9/ Github repositories]<br />
<br />
==Other Causes==<br />
<br />
* I strongly believe the world should choose an official world auxiliary language (whether it is an existing language like English, confirmed and taught universally in schools around the world, or a constructed language--whatever gets agreement). In the hopes of furthering this effort, and also drawing attention to the possibilities for such a universal sign language, mostly by the help of my dear mother, and with kind permission from the World Federation of the Deaf, I have put online an early book on [http://brett-zamir.me/gestuno Gestuno], with the language now known more widely as International Sign or IS.</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Media_types&diff=15Media types2013-12-13T12:40:59Z<p>WikiSysop: update on fonts</p>
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<div>In trying to think big for a site, I often end up thinking about various media types, but I haven't had a simple way to categorize them.<br />
<br />
Note that the following might be combined (e.g., real video and audio with abstract (searchable as opposed to graphical) text for subtitles).<br />
<br />
Also note that whereas SVG may theoretically be able to represent any detail of visual representation, unextended MIDI is an abstraction limited to current conventions such as a fixed number of instruments, tunes, and channels, while Open Type SVG fonts (?) may be somewhat limited to current Unicode conventions.<br />
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{| class="sortable" border="1"<br />
!Scalability (i.e., Abstract or Real) || Medium/Dimensionality || Timing || Recording Technology || File format || Ideal possibilities (including text if kept within the format)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 3d || timed || Kinect || ? || Hologram - timed<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 3d || snapshot || Kinect || ? || Hologram<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 3d || timed || (Scriptable) || WebGL (JavaScript)/SVG 3D (XML) + Animation || Hologram - timed (with (synchronized) text-searchable captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 3d || snapshot || (Scriptable) || WebGL (JavaScript)/SVG 3D (XML) || Hologram (with text-searchable caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 2d or 1d || timed || Video camera || Theora (or GIF) || Video (with embedded captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 2d or 1d || snapshot || Camera || PNG/JPG/GIF/etc. || Image (with embedded caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 2d or 1d || timed || (Scriptable) || Canvas 2d (JavaScript)/SVG + SMIL/Timed Text (XML) || Images - animated (with (synchronized) text-searchable captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 2d or 1d || snapshot || (Scriptable) || Canvas 2d (JavaScript)/SVG (XML) || Image (with text-searchable caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Text (2-3d) || timed || Keyboard (or video camera on text)/Scripted for timing || WOFF? || (Pixelated) font<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Text (2-3d) || timed || Keyboard/Scripted for timing || SVG || Open Type SVG?<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Text (2-3d) || snapshot || Keyboard (or camera on text) || WOFF? || (Pixelated) font<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Text (2-3d) || snapshot || Keyboard || SVG || Open Type SVG?<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Aural || timed || Audio recorder || Ogg || Audio playback (sound and voice) with pause<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Aural || snapshot || Audio recorder || Ogg || Audio playback (sound and voice)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Aural || timed || (Scriptable) || Web Audio (JavaScript)/MIDI || Audio playback (instrument or voice synthesizer) + (synchronizable) notation & lyrics<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Aural || snapshot || (Scriptable) || Web Audio (JavaScript)/MIDI || Audio playback (instrument or voice synthesizer) + notation & lyric<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:Web]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Media_types&diff=14Media types2013-12-13T11:57:03Z<p>WikiSysop: +missing format for fonts</p>
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<div>In trying to think big for a site, I often end up thinking about various media types, but I haven't had a simple way to categorize them.<br />
<br />
Note that the following might be combined (e.g., real video and audio with abstract (searchable as opposed to graphical) text for subtitles).<br />
<br />
{| class="sortable" border="1"<br />
!Scalability (i.e., Abstract or Real) || Medium/Dimensionality || Timing || Recording Technology || File format || Ideal possibilities (including text if kept within the format)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 3d || timed || Kinect || ? || Hologram - timed<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 3d || snapshot || Kinect || ? || Hologram<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 3d || timed || (Scriptable) || WebGL (JavaScript)/SVG 3D (XML) + Animation || Hologram - timed (with (synchronized) text-searchable captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 3d || snapshot || (Scriptable) || WebGL (JavaScript)/SVG 3D (XML) || Hologram (with text-searchable caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 2d or 1d || timed || Video camera || Theora (or GIF) || Video (with embedded captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 2d or 1d || snapshot || Camera || PNG/JPG/GIF/etc. || Image (with embedded caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 2d or 1d || timed || (Scriptable) || Canvas 2d (JavaScript)/SVG + SMIL/Timed Text (XML) || Images - animated (with (synchronized) text-searchable captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 2d or 1d || snapshot || (Scriptable) || Canvas 2d (JavaScript)/SVG (XML) || Image (with text-searchable caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Text (2-3d) || timed || Keyboard (or video camera on text)/Scripted for timing || WOFF? || (Pixelated) font<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Text (2-3d) || timed || Keyboard/Scripted for timing || SVG || SVG Fonts<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Text (2-3d) || snapshot || Keyboard (or camera on text) || WOFF? || (Pixelated) font<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Text (2-3d) || snapshot || Keyboard || SVG || SVG Fonts<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Aural || timed || Audio recorder || Ogg || Audio playback (sound and voice) with pause<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Aural || snapshot || Audio recorder || Ogg || Audio playback (sound and voice)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Aural || timed || (Scriptable) || Web Audio (JavaScript)/MIDI || Audio playback (instrument or voice synthesizer) + (synchronizable) notation & lyrics<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Aural || snapshot || (Scriptable) || Web Audio (JavaScript)/MIDI || Audio playback (instrument or voice synthesizer) + notation & lyric<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Web]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Media_types&diff=13Media types2013-12-13T11:52:41Z<p>WikiSysop: +fonts</p>
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<div>In trying to think big for a site, I often end up thinking about various media types, but I haven't had a simple way to categorize them.<br />
<br />
Note that the following might be combined (e.g., real video and audio with abstract (searchable as opposed to graphical) text for subtitles).<br />
<br />
{| class="sortable" border="1"<br />
!Scalability (i.e., Abstract or Real) || Medium/Dimensionality || Timing || Recording Technology || File format || Ideal possibilities (including text if kept within the format)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 3d || timed || Kinect || ? || Hologram - timed<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 3d || snapshot || Kinect || ? || Hologram<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 3d || timed || (Scriptable) || WebGL (JavaScript)/SVG 3D (XML) + Animation || Hologram - timed (with (synchronized) text-searchable captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 3d || snapshot || (Scriptable) || WebGL (JavaScript)/SVG 3D (XML) || Hologram (with text-searchable caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 2d or 1d || timed || Video camera || Theora (or GIF) || Video (with embedded captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 2d or 1d || snapshot || Camera || PNG/JPG/GIF/etc. || Image (with embedded caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 2d or 1d || timed || (Scriptable) || Canvas 2d (JavaScript)/SVG + SMIL/Timed Text (XML) || Images - animated (with (synchronized) text-searchable captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 2d or 1d || snapshot || (Scriptable) || Canvas 2d (JavaScript)/SVG (XML) || Image (with text-searchable caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Text (2-3d) || timed || Keyboard (or video camera on text)/Scripted for timing || (Pixelated) font<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Text (2-3d) || timed || Keyboard/Scripted for timing || SVG Fonts<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Text (2-3d) || snapshot || Keyboard (or camera on text) || (Pixelated) font<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Text (2-3d) || snapshot || Keyboard || SVG Fonts<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Aural || timed || Audio recorder || Ogg || Audio playback (sound and voice) with pause<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Aural || snapshot || Audio recorder || Ogg || Audio playback (sound and voice)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Aural || timed || (Scriptable) || Web Audio (JavaScript)/MIDI || Audio playback (instrument or voice synthesizer) + (synchronizable) notation & lyrics<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Aural || snapshot || (Scriptable) || Web Audio (JavaScript)/MIDI || Audio playback (instrument or voice synthesizer) + notation & lyric<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Web]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Media_types&diff=12Media types2013-12-13T04:51:42Z<p>WikiSysop: first draft</p>
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<div>In trying to think big for a site, I often end up thinking about various media types, but I haven't had a simple way to categorize them.<br />
<br />
Note that the following might be combined (e.g., real video and audio with abstract (searchable as opposed to graphical) text for subtitles).<br />
<br />
{| class="sortable" border="1"<br />
!Scalability (i.e., Abstract or Real) || Medium/Dimensionality || Timing || Recording Technology || File format || Ideal possibilities (including text if kept within the format)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 3d || timed || Kinect || ? || Hologram - timed<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 3d || snapshot || Kinect || ? || Hologram<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 3d || timed || (Scriptable) || WebGL (JavaScript)/SVG 3D (XML) + Animation || Hologram - timed (with (synchronized) text-searchable captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 3d || snapshot || (Scriptable) || WebGL (JavaScript)/SVG 3D (XML) || Hologram (with text-searchable caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 2d or 1d || timed || Video camera || Theora (or GIF) || Video (with embedded captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Visual 2d or 1d || snapshot || Camera || PNG/JPG/GIF/etc. || Image (with embedded caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 2d or 1d || timed || (Scriptable) || Canvas 2d (JavaScript)/SVG + SMIL/Timed Text (XML) || Images - animated (with (synchronized) text-searchable captions or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Visual 2d or 1d || snapshot || (Scriptable) || Canvas 2d (JavaScript)/SVG (XML) || Image (with text-searchable caption or metadata)<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Aural || timed || Audio recorder || Ogg || Audio playback (sound and voice) with pause<br />
|-<br />
| Real || Aural || snapshot || Audio recorder || Ogg || Audio playback (sound and voice)<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Aural || timed || (Scriptable) || Web Audio (JavaScript)/MIDI || Audio playback (instrument or voice synthesizer) + (synchronizable) notation & lyrics<br />
|-<br />
| Abstract || Aural || snapshot || (Scriptable) || Web Audio (JavaScript)/MIDI || Audio playback (instrument or voice synthesizer) + notation & lyric<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Web]]</div>WikiSysophttp://brett-zamir.me/index.php?title=Brett_Zamir&diff=11Brett Zamir2013-12-13T04:05:48Z<p>WikiSysop: remove personal category link for now</p>
<hr />
<div>==Blog feeds==<br />
<br />
The following types of feeds are available for my various blogs:<br />
<br />
{| border="1"<br />
! Category || By created date<br /><small>(how most blogs are ordered)</small> || By modified date || Alphabetically<br />
|-<br />
| All categories || [[Special:NewPages/namespace=all,username=WikiSysop|(new posts)]] || [[Special:RecentChanges|(modified posts)]] || [[Special:AllPages|(alphabetical)]]<br />
|-<br />
| Web || (not supported) || [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Web|(modified posts)]] || [[:Category:Web|(alphabetical)]]<br />
|-<br />
| Bahá'í || (not supported) || [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Bahá'í|(modified posts)]] || [[:Category:Bahá'í|(alphabetical)]]<br />
|}<br />
<!--<br />
|-<br />
| Personal || (not supported) || [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Personal|(modified posts)]] || [[:Category:Personal|(alphabetical)]]<br />
--><br />
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==About me==<br />
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* [http://bahai.org The world-embracing system of thought and action to which I inadequately subscribe]<br />
* My and your [http://www.un.org/ United Nations] (As a world citizen, have you memorized our U.N. charter's inspiring [http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml preamble] and have you read the very readable [http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ UDHR]? How about these powerful and rational suggestions for critical [http://statements.bahai.org/95-1001.htm U.N. restructuring]?)<br />
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==Code==<br />
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* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/120243 Firefox extensions]<br />
* [https://github.com/brettz9/ Github repositories]<br />
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==Other Causes==<br />
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* I strongly believe the world should choose an official world auxiliary language (whether it is an existing language like English, confirmed and taught universally in schools around the world, or a constructed language--whatever gets agreement). In the hopes of furthering this effort, and also drawing attention to the possibilities for such a universal sign language, mostly by the help of my dear mother, and with kind permission from the World Federation of the Deaf, I have put online an early book on [http://brett-zamir.me/gestuno Gestuno], with the language now known more widely as International Sign or IS.</div>WikiSysop