Covid 19 Lockdown app

Simple and smooth way to control Covid 19 Lockdown.

To combat Covid 19, we need to control the movement of the public. However, it is necessary to allow persons needed for essential services to move about freely. Then it is necessary for the general public to purchase essential goods.

We do it by paper Curfew passes. It is cumbersome to create and verify.

Use a smartphone app to do this work. When a person gets registered he will give the necessary details. The app will produce a 2d barcode. This barcode will be entered into a central database.

At a checkpoint, the user will show the 2d barcode to the checking officer's smartphone. A message will be sent to the central database. A response will be received at the checking officer's smartphone. The response will be GREEN if all clear. YELLOW if there is a suspected problem, and the user is advised to rectify by contacting appropriate authorities. RED after several continuous violations with the YELLOW flag RED flag will be indicated. A spot fine will be imposed.

Meditation

Strangely the drugs that you take can affect your ability to meditate. I think sleeping drugs, relaxing drugs, anti depression drugs, affect you. But there may bar a host of other drugs that affect your ability to concentrate.

I think it also affects the ability to do yoga.

15.11.2018

I need to more about breathing meditation. I use the ticks of a piano metronome beats to synchronise breathing. The lung gets tired, and breathing get heavy, I thought it was ok, but found not. Breathing should be as silent as possible. Don't try to keep up with the beats, but count the beats. Think of the lung how it expands and contacts. When you are out is breath breathing becomes irregular, it's ok, keep meditating, after a while breathing becomes regular. When the body becomes tired even a little bit, the lung tried to get more oxygen, we should allow it, or we get more tired, and breathing becomes more heavy.

Sri Lankan Media

Stop publishing and broadcasting rubbish.
In the morning we see sooth Sayers explaing horoscope.
Or religious sermons, are these helpful to people? Does they listen to these at all? Have we improved after decades of these broadcasts?

Broadcast more political discussions. Educated people about economy, social norms etc. People listens these. Have people interact by telephone, sms, tweeter, Facebook,  like social media. Have more public discussions. Bring experts and educate people. Kaka more people interest In these discussions than, Tele-dramas.

This is the way forward. Not by blaming each other. Help public make correct choices in democratic elections. If they are ignorant they can't do it.

For instance why nationalism is bad for our country. But it helps Israel. What happened to Nazi Germany. How they have to change to ruishmark from marks and  dueshmarks from ruishmarks.

Getting rid of Corruption

We use criminal punisment as a tool to get rid of corruption. Is it successful? No. Why? We criminalise corruption. And take crimial action on corruption. But we rarely take penal action that is civil action, we almost ignore it. There is a drawback in criminal action. To penalise someone by crimal action, we need to proove, beyond resonable doubt that person is responsible to the action. This is difficult, unlike when some physical harm is done to another, collecting evedence is difficult. Usually harming someone is not well planed. It is not difficult to find evidence and charge that person. Then murder can be well planed. But in murder, the method of finding the culprit is improved over the years and it is posible to find the culprits and punish them.

Fraud against a person, if the fraud is big, that person takes action. Usually if the fraud is big, the victim has substancial means to take legal action.

But problems arise when fruaud is aginst sociaty. In wealthy sociaties, better methods exist to find and punish culprits. In poorer sociaties corruption is widespread. These fraudsters plan these frauds in such a way it is difficult to catch them and punish them. Because to prove criminal action you need to prove beyond reasonable doubt. These legal action takes long time. The accuses need to be given fair chance to prove their inocence. You cannot apply balance of probabilities to prove tha action. Therefore frauds flarish. The world has become a heven to the fraudsters.

I have a suggesion. Criminal action need, beyond resonable doubt, because the violaters certain rights are curtail as punishent. Incarsaration by sending him to prison or a detention centre. Finacial penalties, where the accused has to depart from his wealth. These are very hard on a person and the sociaty has to be very sure that he commited to action.

What if we have lesser penalties and use balance of probabilites, as criteria to punish frauds against sociaty. These penalties can affect only the social contract by a person to the sociaty. Removal of civic rights. Usually current meaning of voting rights, government services, public education etc. We can redesign this in such a way that the affected person can live a nomal life, He can buy thigs from shops, he can rent or buy a house to live. Usually these high corrupters have enough wealth to sustain them. The criminal system take the same action for a pety bribe, to a trafic violation by a policeman who take the bribe because he do not have enough income from his salary. And a politicial who take bribes to give govenment contract.

We can use penalties like: no passport will be issued and the one issued is canceled. No national identity card. No bank accounts. No electricity, no water service ( he will have to use someone elses name to get these services. The idea is not to bar a person from useing lectricity, but he cannot buy these in his name). No mobile telephone issued in his name. These are some, there will be other benifits accured by teh preson from the sociaty, that can be curtailed.

These need not be life time bans, but limited to number of months or years depending the sevearity of the corruption.

Also the legal action should be swift, or its usefulness will be nulified in the end. This can be compared to Taxation Authorities. Since their action is swift, people are more scared to taxman than a policeman. That is people who has wealth.

These corruptors very scrupilious persons, and very resourseful ones, therefor whatever action it will be difficult to curtail them. But this will be a more efficient tool than crimial procedings.

Nweton's First Law of motion

Newtons first law of motion (law of inertia) states that an object in motion stays in motion at the same speed and direction until some outside action (a force) acted upon it.

What if this is a human construct. Not fully but partially. Say there is motion. Motion is a fundermental entity of the universe(I do have doubts about even this. Since all motion is relative. Special Relativity and Micheson Morely experiment.

We humans add to the basic concept of motion "regulated motion".  One cardinal entity related to this regulated motion, is the observer. Without an observer such motion cannot happen. Or rather we don't know of such a motion existed without an observer. Appel fell down form a tree. At one moment it was hanging from the tree and the next moment it is on the floor. The observer observe that it falls in a straight line to the floor. At all stages of the downward journey of the appel from the tree branch to the floor, it emits photons, these are captured by the eye and come to the conclusion that it traveled inn a straight line.

There can be whole lot of other event like this. This is very similar to events of time.

12.10.2018
According to quantum theory particles don't move is straight lines. So we humans have constructed the first law. It is not a pure physical thing.

SPIN

What is spin? And how is it possible
Spin and events. What is the relation.
How do you know that something is spinning.
What quantum theory says about spin.

100% symmetrical object cannot spin. Because how it is possible for an observer to know that it is spinning?it might have other qualities butnot spin. Consider the two cases, as spinning ball with a polished surface and another like a golf ball that have identical dimples. An observer may not know that the polished ball is spinning, but will know that the ball with dimples spin. How does he know that.   He will see light reflected by dimples, changing and will come to the conclusion that the ball is spinning.

How Competitive Exams Erode Knowledge

BYSri Lanka is a good example. Everyone accept that reduction of knowledge has taken place from work earlier times.

There is no private knowledge. Wittgenstein, philosophical investigations.

Competitive Exams leads competitors guard whatever they have learned to gain advantage from other competitors. So, it it's not the competition that is the problem but the attitude of the competitors. But this attitude is a natural result, when there is a competition.

So it is not the fault of the competitors, but the ones who use competition as a means of delivering a reward. Reward like a job, place in a good school, entrance to university. You can contrast these with a normal minority reward. Earlier mentioned rewards are important for the future in the individual, it is a life changing reward, not like getting some money.

A society should change this system. Especially in Sri Lanka this is the case.

06.10.2018
Sri Lanka has many problems, everyone knows it. One is education. Starting from grade 5 scholarship to selecting medical undergraduates by competitive A/L exam. This may be one of the reasons of deterioration of the society not open economy. This using competitive exams to judge intelligence is wrong.  Though it is one method it is not the only method. Competition destroys collective knowledge. Knowledge is something that results from collective thinking. This may be the reason why having high literacy rate for more then 50 years, other countries that didn't have it has surpassed us in intelligence.

07.10.2018
corruption was there in other societies you can see in films and stories in England and US there was corruption. The managed to get out of it. Even though there is corruption in their systems, systems would run smoothly. For us this always. The other way around . Why is it?