Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Prisoners

"All new construction should be on rock, rocky ground, or on a concrete slab.This prevents inmates from burrowing tunnels. A high wall surrounds every fortress prison. The wall is steel-reinforced concrete,and at least 30 feet high. A good design feature is to have the top of the wall rounded, to prevent anyone from walking on it, and to deny purchase for improvised grappling hooks. Guard towers control access on each side of the wall. Spacing between towers is 50 to100 yards, but access to each tower must be from outside the yard. This allows officers to relieve each other at shift change without passing through the yard." This is what Tony said about prisons.

"The practical fact is that docile inmates are less troublesome than unruly ones. A program of preventative treatment helps keep inmates quiet...Some inmates are unresponsive to normal custodial practice and behavior modifcation. Some are self-destructive, while others seek to prove to the officers that they can't be 'broken.'....One female inmate, for example, was incorrigbly defiant, and responded to being locked up by throwing the contents of her toilet at officers. When officers put a plastic shield on her cell to stop this, she tore the toilet out of the wall and flooded the floor. When officers handcuffed her to the bars, she excreted upon herself."

This is wat Tony said.

Friday, February 9, 2007

"Today's professors are mostly mediocre teaching machines, often repeating what they have repeated for years. Powered by a piece of paper called 'doctoral degree,' protected by another piece of paper called 'tenure,' they have become recording machines that spit out the same words as soon as in class.

A simple test can show the sorry state of the conditioned human called 'professor.' Take away the two pieces of paper called 'doctoral degree' and 'tenure,' and clear majority of today's tenured professors will not be considered suitable for getting hired to teach the same courses they are teaching today. Ask any tenured professor to walk away from the 'tenure,' to walk away from the 'doctoral degree,' denounce both as representations of the dead knowledge of years ago and then try to enter any university without those two pieces of paper, relying solely on the 'knowledge' accumulated over the years. The answer you receive will tell you how entrenched today's professors are in the knowledge-dams.

Today's education system is designed on 'certificates' of the dead knowledge of the past, namely 'degrees' and 'tenure' statements. There is no flowing knowledge in such pieces of paper. The pieces of paper the tenured professors cherish are proclamations that the dead knowledge of past is all a professor needs. They are knowledge-dams that allow nothing new to flow to the occupiers of tenured positions. So long as professors act like worn out tape recorders, passing on the dead knowledge to new generations in search of degrees, they will reamin untouchable.

Would the 800,000 faculty members of today's universities tear up their degrees and tenures and go back to school and become students? Or , would they continue to prefer the security of the knowledge-dams such as degree and tenure? Are professors alike in reaching a world of work-sharing knowledge seekeers? Or, are they another barrier, another concentration of knowledge-dams fighting anyone who dares to post a threat to Tenure and Profit?Perhaps the professors and teachers of today's societies will see the light of the path of work-sharing knowledge seeker. But then, as occupiers of relatively privileged positions, they are well-conditioned to remain believers in the master artifacts, ignorant of the waste steams.

Inspection

"Be especially careful when handling mail. Remember that the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is a low-profile but extremely proficient law enforcement agency, better than their peers. Over the years, their conviction rate has been higher than the other two well-known federal agencies, the FBI and the Secret Service. A person doesn't want to be in trouble with the Postal Inspectors."

Thursday, February 8, 2007