DADA is personal
DADA is political
DADA is powerful
DADA is peculiar
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William Schaeffer and
Atwater Publishing
Monday, January 13, 2020
Poverty causes Blindness
Fact: The medical cause of blindness is poverty.
If you have doubts, do a google search and research the literature. I was astounded to find even a mention of a correlation, much less a direct link. My grandfather was put in an orphanage at age 8 when his mother went blind three years after her husband (my great grandfather) died.
The medical cause of blindness is poverty.
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William Schaeffer
If you have doubts, do a google search and research the literature. I was astounded to find even a mention of a correlation, much less a direct link. My grandfather was put in an orphanage at age 8 when his mother went blind three years after her husband (my great grandfather) died.
The medical cause of blindness is poverty.
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William Schaeffer
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Science and Global Warming
William Schaeffer:
Actually Phil H what I said was "We have no future on Earth at all" NOT that the Earth is doomed. Humanity is doomed by global warming. Just read some of the published scientific literature that is endorsed by the scientific community. Thanks.
Phil H:
Don't believe everything you hear, just because "science" says it's true.
William Schaeffer:
Phil H HAHAHA.. That is the most idiotic thing I have heard. The practice of science built the entire environment you spend 90% of you waking hours. Science grows your food and builds your house. Science built Television, computers, the internet, electricity, refrigeration, and automobiles. Science has a very good track record of being consistent, repeatable, and an accurate predictor of future events on different scales of time and area of influence. If we did not use the scientific method to build and shape our world we would still be nakedly superstitious savages praying to the moon and killing rodents for food. HAHAHA And you think your blindly intuitive knee jerk reaction to unpleasant news is of any value to anyone anywhere?? HAHAHA THAT is idiotic.
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William Schaeffer
Actually Phil H what I said was "We have no future on Earth at all" NOT that the Earth is doomed. Humanity is doomed by global warming. Just read some of the published scientific literature that is endorsed by the scientific community. Thanks.
Phil H:
Don't believe everything you hear, just because "science" says it's true.
William Schaeffer:
Phil H HAHAHA.. That is the most idiotic thing I have heard. The practice of science built the entire environment you spend 90% of you waking hours. Science grows your food and builds your house. Science built Television, computers, the internet, electricity, refrigeration, and automobiles. Science has a very good track record of being consistent, repeatable, and an accurate predictor of future events on different scales of time and area of influence. If we did not use the scientific method to build and shape our world we would still be nakedly superstitious savages praying to the moon and killing rodents for food. HAHAHA And you think your blindly intuitive knee jerk reaction to unpleasant news is of any value to anyone anywhere?? HAHAHA THAT is idiotic.
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William Schaeffer
Friday, January 10, 2020
Visual Effects industry has no honor
I worked in VFX full time for fifteen years. Nobody that employed me seemed to be interested in my Computer Science degree. Also, after fifteen years of steady employment on projects at Digital Domain, Method, and Stereo D, my seniority and work experience meant nothing. All three companies preferred to outsource my job and/or hire workers that are twenty years younger. I am astounded that after working so hard and sacrificing so much for a graduate degree that it is virtually worthless to me except for the "joy" that the additional knowledge and understanding brings. In my opinion it does not matter. There is no honor or loyalty in the companies that do visual effects and you will be lucky to have any work resembling a forty year career. Take it from me -- I know. I have imdb credit in forty feature films, I never had a shot returned, and I now work for minimum wage in another industry. Digital Domain, Method, and Stereo D have no honor and no reliability. Most of the people that work in VFX are selfish, self centered, and not even human. Good Luck.
My computer science education was primitive by today's standards (and I studied artificial intelligence. I even wrote pattern generation algorhythms). The advances in automatic rotoscoping today are amazing. The advances in real time in-camera matte extraction and compositing are amazing. The industry has changed. Just being able to shoot a HD video in your cell phone is amazing.
ALSO, in none of my previous work at Digital Domain, Method, or Stereo D was there any breech of contract and no illegal activity. The short term contract was honored faithfully and when it ended I looked for another assignment. Unfortunately, I assumed that since I always did good work, I would continue to get hired and that obviously was not the case. Outsourcing work, "lack of honor," and fttp: technology were the unanticipated market changes that destroyed my career. Oh well... good luck.
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William Schaeffer
My computer science education was primitive by today's standards (and I studied artificial intelligence. I even wrote pattern generation algorhythms). The advances in automatic rotoscoping today are amazing. The advances in real time in-camera matte extraction and compositing are amazing. The industry has changed. Just being able to shoot a HD video in your cell phone is amazing.
ALSO, in none of my previous work at Digital Domain, Method, or Stereo D was there any breech of contract and no illegal activity. The short term contract was honored faithfully and when it ended I looked for another assignment. Unfortunately, I assumed that since I always did good work, I would continue to get hired and that obviously was not the case. Outsourcing work, "lack of honor," and fttp: technology were the unanticipated market changes that destroyed my career. Oh well... good luck.
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William Schaeffer
Thursday, January 9, 2020
DADA
DADA is Powerful
DADA is Perfect
DADA is Precious
DADA is PEACE
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William Schaeffer
DADA is Perfect
DADA is Precious
DADA is PEACE
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William Schaeffer
Monday, January 6, 2020
The New World 1520
Only three codexes (books) written in the Aztec script Nahuatl survived destruction by the Spanish priests and they are stored today in the Vatican.
However, the Aztecs practiced ritual human sacrifice on an enormous scale. According to eyewitness reports, the temples were the site of this human sacrifice and smelled like slaughter houses in old Europe. The walls were caked with dried blood and the conquistadors were horrified at the revelation. At the coronation of Montezuma, 10,000 victims were sacrificed in one ritual and it took several days of assembly line like production to enact. The victims were marched up a pyramid. After the heart was cut out of the living person, the bodies were rolled out the back and down into the water of the lake.
Cultural relativism can be very difficult at times.
Most of the Spanish priests and bishops in the New Word were also acting independently "above and beyond the call of duty" in order to enhance their own prestige and the power of the Church. If a significant number of priests today are pedophiles or sex criminals (up to 5%?), then you can only imagine what a creative and ambitious young priest might orchestrate in a forbidden New World where nobody else was watching.
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William Schaeffer
However, the Aztecs practiced ritual human sacrifice on an enormous scale. According to eyewitness reports, the temples were the site of this human sacrifice and smelled like slaughter houses in old Europe. The walls were caked with dried blood and the conquistadors were horrified at the revelation. At the coronation of Montezuma, 10,000 victims were sacrificed in one ritual and it took several days of assembly line like production to enact. The victims were marched up a pyramid. After the heart was cut out of the living person, the bodies were rolled out the back and down into the water of the lake.
Cultural relativism can be very difficult at times.
Most of the Spanish priests and bishops in the New Word were also acting independently "above and beyond the call of duty" in order to enhance their own prestige and the power of the Church. If a significant number of priests today are pedophiles or sex criminals (up to 5%?), then you can only imagine what a creative and ambitious young priest might orchestrate in a forbidden New World where nobody else was watching.
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William Schaeffer
January 6
Today is the twelfth day of Christmas. It is also the day that Christmas was originally celebrated before it became a Roman Holiday. Traditionally January Sixth is the day the three wise men arrived to pay homage to the Christ child. These wise men were from the Zoroastrian religion which was the traditional religion of the Persian Empire. Zoroaster lived around 1000 B.C. and was widely followed until Mohammed and his followers absolutely destroyed the culture and killed all the adherents. A few people were able to escape to India where they are known today as the Parsis. Most of the original texts were also destroyed and are now lost to history. Zoroaster was a learned and educated man that preached tolerance, wisdom, and personal responsibility.
He is also know as Zarathustra and Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a famous book about him called "Thus Spake Zarathustra." Merry Christmas... Happy New Year... Good Luck and have a nice day.
Curious footnote:
Satan was a deity in the Zoroasterian religion and is mentioned by name in surviving fragments of the Zend Avesta (Holy Scriptures of Zoroastrianism). Apparently, Satan was introduced into Judiasm during the Persian Exile. This was the same time that the concepts of life after death, the soul, Heaven, and Hell were introduced into Judiasm from Zoroastrianism. It is amusing to think that the deity Satan is in some ways "more powerful" than any "God" because he exists as the same personality in several entirely different religions.
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William Schaeffer
Curious footnote:
Satan was a deity in the Zoroasterian religion and is mentioned by name in surviving fragments of the Zend Avesta (Holy Scriptures of Zoroastrianism). Apparently, Satan was introduced into Judiasm during the Persian Exile. This was the same time that the concepts of life after death, the soul, Heaven, and Hell were introduced into Judiasm from Zoroastrianism. It is amusing to think that the deity Satan is in some ways "more powerful" than any "God" because he exists as the same personality in several entirely different religions.
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William Schaeffer
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