Musings from Jay (blog site permanently frozen 11/05/2024 morning)

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There are actually three separate choice dimensions and over time these three dimensions will become independent although there could be bundles offered by vendors with multi-selections from all three dimensions if it makes business sense. The industry is in a state of flux.  The choice dimensions are: 1. Content you want: (video show, video show bundle, video channel, video channel bundle, audio/music, audio/music bundle, audio/music channel, audio/music channel bundle) 2. Device you want to watch it on: (TV, Mac, Windows, android cell, apple cell, other hardware) 3. Data transmittal method to device: (through physical portable storage, antenna, through cable signal, through streaming signal, via browser, via Chromecast or Airplay). Also, can live shows be prerecorded?   ----------- We currently have a google TV which supports both cable and streaming. I use windows and my wife uses a Mac. Both of us use iPhone. We use spectrum internet, cable TV, home phone service...

  A good American friend of mine read my happiness essay and asked me what eastern philosophy had to say about happiness. I know little about eastern philosophy (Buddhism, Hinduism). Almost all the stuff I sent him when he asked the question is generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Generally, us computer types have quite a bit of trust on AI generated responses. I did some work to get him at least some response. He would have to pursue further if it interested him. I hope the AI output does not offend you if you are a Hindu or a Buddhist, but it is what I could do as a quick research effort to answer the question. -------- Hinduism would say : besides the sensory and cognitive consciousness that western psychologists and philosophers know about, there is another true inner consciousness. They call it atman. They say atman = Brahman where Brahman is the whole universe and the true eternal reality.  So, to be one with the universe, all you must do is find this atman withi...

Here are the 4 essays that were topics that came up during discussions with my friends. They are very personal in nature and highlight my own personal life strategy that I have mostly followed.    ------------------------------ Thoughts on ethics   People put together their life strategy as they go along in life. An important component of that is your ethical compass. Ethics provides a framework to your life and anchors you.   Many people get their ethics from religion/culture (often called morals). Many others get it from values imprinted into their minds in childhood which really tend to stick. I do get it from childhood (in India) imprinted values as one source, but also from reasoning after interacting with westerners. Here are some thoughts on how values form when growing up:  https://jaykasi.blogspot.com/2024/05/how-are-values-formed.html   My ethics blends ideas from both eastern dharmic living (many imprinted) and western ideas. To...

I had written earlier that my blogging will soon stop.  https://jaykasi.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-end-of-my-essay-writing-is-not-far.html My blogging career is now over. Goodbye, and thank you all for reading my essays.  The blog site will remain intact (unless I get kicked out of blogspot.com for some reason).  Any future content produced will be outside these blogs. I will be doing socializing, relaxed reading, interacting with relatives and friends, etc. Fun in my old age!! May write a few personal private essays shared with family and close friends.  The climate essays have also been put in a dedicated blogsite for climate at: http://climatebyjay.blogspot.com Feel free to send this URL to whoever may be interested or could benefit from it. Feel free to cart off this content and adapt for your purposes if you wish. All this content is free and is made available as a public service. You can do the same for other personal parts of my personal blog site too but plea...

  Wrote earlier but just added.  I will share with you my assessment of Trump.   I don't think Trump is directly "controlled" by anyone, but he has "deals" with people/orgs. He also has a circle of advisors, and I think he is susceptible to manipulation and possibly vulnerable to blackmail (example things in his history are Stormy Daniels, E Jean Carroll, Access Hollywood. What else?). Also, I think he will not hesitate to make a deal with anyone if it benefits him . I think his decisions are primarily gut feelings , more than arrived at after careful deliberation. Some people say he is a fascist . (I read Kamala and John Kelly saying that and Mark Milley reportedly said it too). I don't know that for sure. But the methods he uses to gain power and collect the loyalty of people - I have never seen before used in American politics. Also, very concerning are Trump's mental stability and age . Lastly, project 2025 blueprints by his people are very con...

This is a speculative essay and not a factual essay. It projects into the future and explores some potential scenarios. I live in Hawaii. The US projects power in the Pacific from Hawaii and Guam. If there is a war with China or North Korea, Hawaii is a prime target. So, this is obviously of concern to me. I will focus on China here. These days, my interest in China is only as a source of threat to Hawaii. I had written some narrow essays on Israel and Ukraine. I had not really written an essay on the larger geopolitical landscape. However, I briefly touched on it in one essay. Here it is: https://jaykasi.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-five-key-challenges-for-us-in-future.html I also wrote about the rule based world order. Here is the essay on rule based world order:  https://jaykasi.blogspot.com/2024/06/power-in-us-and-renewables.html Here is the Israel essay: https://jaykasi.blogspot.com/2024/08/my-views-on-context-of-israel-hamas-war.html Here is the Ukraine Essay: https://jayka...