Confidential Consortium Framework

The Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) is a free and open-source blockchain infrastructure framework developed by Microsoft.^[2][3] Originally called Coco Framework, it was designed for building secure high-performance, and high-availability applications that have a focus on multi-party compute and data.^[4] The framework is used for developing distributed ledgers that can execute transactions with throughput and latency similar to those of a centralized database.

Is this clear to you? It sure isn't to me. But it is an excellent example of how far we have progressed technically while remaining socially backward. 

I recognize one word: blockchain, which is a big deal, as many other people can tell you. 

6 top videoconferencing services put to the test

Computerworld

The Computer demands you understand it. If you don't, you do not exist -  as it is concerned.

Now that we have the Virus (you know which one I mean) people are using their computers to meet for work. Or to meet for anything else. 

The Cuban Web Site

www.cuba.com

This was a disappointment for me. Andi  I have produced this posting to overcome its deficiencies. 

This begins when Fidel Castro conquered the island and made it a communist country, the only one left in the world. with him as its dictator. The CIA tried to overthrow him but failed in the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

It was supported by the USSR, which led to the Cuban missile crisis. But Fidel eventually died. 

What happened next, I am not sure. but a new government has come into power (which is not described on their Web site). It has two new currencies, one of which is pegged to the US dollar. 

You cannot fly there directly from the US but will have to fly to another country first. 

In Costa Rica, for example, women fly to Cuba to get their abortions. 

Socially Corrupt

 This is a new term of mine, and it applies to the US, the UK, and the EU, which have all fallen apart. 

You can use it, and I encourage you to do so. 

Sex makes People Stupid

Children are great learners. Their bodies ate telling them "Learn as fast as you can!" And if their parents do not interfere, they will do just that. They can learn a language without trying at all. 

But when they can have sex, they concentrate on that instead. You lean, you reproduce, you die. And you become the dominant species everywhere. 

But now, a few thousand years later, we are failing, and will not last much longer. And we are failing faster and faster. 

And we are having sex at a desperate pace. 

But Sex will not save us.

Latin Ameriica explained to Americans

This is the online magazine Americas Quarterly, which is written in American English. I can now understand concepts such as mano dura, better than most Latinos.

This issue concentrates on Peru, someplace Ray has visited, as a tourist.], but he cannot understand the darker parts of its past, such as Shining Path.

Joseph Smith was a Religious Leader

He did not start out this way, but this was what his followers wanted. And once he became close to what they wanted, he had to finish the job, by making irrational claims, that they eagerly accepted. 

Mormonism became the mass movement they were looking for. 

His most important claim was that he had discovered golden plates, and had translated them into the Book of Mormon. A claim his followers (including his mother) accepted enthusiastically. 

Religion is Crazy

 Bur for most people, they have to have it, and the crazier the better. This is built into their DNA. 

Religion and Science do not mix, but this fact is not acceptable to most people. 

My Google Pixel Phone

This is my newest toy, and Ray is helping me to set it up.

My new number is 8963 7722 (in Costa Rica). 

Azure

This is Microsoft's cloud and like all clouds, appears to be extensive, and honest. What more can I say?

I can say this is part of a very technical culture that provides amazing capabilities to people that cannot understand it in the least. This is a dangerous situation, and I must say more. Perhaps an example would help. 

Ray owns the house I live in. He has been doing online sales, but Coviid 19 has made this difficult, and he needed another company to work for. This seemed to be Amazon, which has a training program that he could take. He worked hard at this training program, which took a month. At the end of which, they gave him a job. One day later he quit, saying he could not stand the place! He left immediately for a three-week visit to his mother, leaving me completely baffled. 

What is my explanation for this? Ray could not work for Amazon, because it was too technical (too computerized) for him. 

There is a big difference between using a Computer, and Programming a Computer. And this difference is driving the world nuts. 

Buried Treasure

Joseph Smith's mother, Lucy Mack Smith, was not completely candid about his use of a Seer Stone in his search for Buried Treasure. 

This was an illegal profession, and he had to leave New York state and flee to Pennsylvania, just across the border.

He got married in Pennsylvania and moved back and forth across the border frequently. 

Old Age and Stress

Stress is tricky stuff, we have just discovered it. and we don't know how works. Old Age is nothing new, but we don't know much about it either. Put them together and you have a complete mess 

My new Fire Tablet

Ir is a Certified Refurbished Fire HD 10 Tablet (10.1" 1080p full HD display, 32 GB) – Black

I will be using it mainly as a Kindle reader, but it has shown me its audio capabilities. I can ask it "How deep is the ocean?" 

 

Joseph Smith was an Evil Man

There has been plenty written about him, by all kinds of people. 

His most important idea was discovering golden plates (that never existed) but many people have seen them. 

My father had a tape recorder, that he used to record the testimony of an elderly couple in Ft. Madison, Iowa, in the Fifties. 

Joseph Smith also had visions, of which movies have been made. 

Does this make him Evil? Yes, because he encouraged many people to believe in things that never existed. 

You may prefer to say he was crazy, like many other religious leaders. who accomplished much good. 

The Place of Power in the Present

I have been witnessing a shift in the Power Structure, from 2000 to 2020. From hundreds of Computer companies to five: Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. 

Each controls Billions of dollars, and the Government has no idea how to regulate them. 

Subnit your ideas as comments to this posting. 

A Book about Joseph Smith, Written by His Mother, Lucy Mack Smith

 I am reading the Kindle vesion of this now, that I downloaded from Amazon, for little money. 

I keep asking myself "Why have I never heard of this before?"  The answer must be that it was an LDS book, not an RLDS book. 

Get it and read it. 

I am not rhe Woman I Used to Be

 And our Marriage no Longer Exists. 

This is what my wife told me when she was released from a Psych Ward. 

We all have Mothers

We have Fathers also, but our Mothers may not know who they were, they were in their lives for such a short time. 

We were in our Mother's for 9 months and were well-acquainted with her. She was Home. 

Being Good to Me

 This is not easy in today's world, that is not set up to benefit the people in it. 

What is it set up for? Globalization. 

You can easily look this up in Wikipedia, But will find yourself absorbed in the definition itself. 

Try it, and see what I mean, 

The Way It Is

First, we had Language, that no other Species had. 

Then we had Civilization, which included Writing and War

Then we had the Computer with its Internet and Phone that made Globalization possible

Globalization became Self-Destructive for many reasons, including Global Warming

Which most people cannot Comprehend. 

Afghanistan has no Maps

This is not quite true, it has maps, but they have little relationship to the terrain they are supposed to represent. 

Accurate maps are a new invention that have only existed for a few hundred years and do not exist for most of the world - including Afghanistan where we here have been a war for a very long time. 

President Biden has proclaimed that we will leave Afghanistan soon. He doesn't know what he is talking about. 

Some troops are leaving, but we don't know which troops, or where they are leaving from. 

The Taliban are moving in as fast as we are moving out. And we have no way of stopping them, with our planes, without knowing where they are. 

The Last Battle Over Big Business

The NewYorker 

Ralph Nader, General Motors, and what we get wrong about regulation.

These 4 Paradigm Shifts Will Define The Next Decade

Photo of a man jumping into a swamp.

The Internet is swarming with new ideas, such as this one. All you have to do is pick the right ones. 

Martha Jane Knowlton Coray

I learned about her from reading Wikipedia every day and becoming a better-educated person. 

My family was RLDS (as opposed to LDS) and did not have any members like her.

To learn about her, look her up on Wikipedia.

The Afghanistan You don't Know About

 I tried to know about it but had to give up, it was just too much work. 

Everyone else has come to this conclusion, but won't say so. This is really all you need to know about this terrible situation. 

Marxhmello

 Was the name of our donkey, when I was married.

We called him Marshmellow because we both l.iked them. But the name did not fit his personality, which was as ornery as he could be, as all male donkeys are. 

When we went by a farm that raised them,  Beth had to have one, right then. When we got back to Santa Barbara, where we were living, she forgot all about him, and I had to take care of him, by keeping him in a horse ranch. 

When our marriage ended, I had to sell him.