Good afternoon Team:
Writing from Venice Florida USA.
Fail often fail fast here at FlunkedIn. The need to develop private networks that are offline at all times, like a secret society, is useful and necessary. You believe such a strategy is useless? You are naive. FlunkedIn is a network of electrical engineers, and other tinkerers. Bob Pease types and well-heeled other types. I know I am being vague, but it is what it is.
I have not written in a long time, about 4 months, I guess. This is because I am busy with physical work, actual work, outside of the “meta verse”.
Hodgepodge…
I realize this post is a hodgepodge in some ways, but this is boot camp. All my thoughts connect coherently, but words are in themselves clumsy. It is up to you to try to figure the author. I recall when I first started reading hard works such as by Edward Gibbon on the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", or Charles Dicken’s Bleak House, or Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, I had to frequently stop and read chapters and pages several times to understand the author. Staying up all night reading was not uncommon for me then. I had to speak to the author so to say, mutter to myself about a text passage. Learning, really learning, is an art; it takes time. The Zen masters would agree and disagree. I am digressing…
Why fail often? Why fail fast? You learn quicker this way by admitting your mistake and learning about how you made the mistake. The concepts of negative feedback engineers know.
-FlunkedIn Team-
Government licenses blow…
A license from the government does not mean an automatic assurance of quality and integrity of product.
I want to talk about government and municipal licenses, and work permits. This will lead into the title of this post: PN; PNets; PrivateNets; or Prins; or Pri-Nets; or, in proper, English private networks. This appellation is obviously not trade marked, or copyrighted because we espouse a copyleft dot org precepts here, this link:
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Licenses and permits…
All State licenses are a franchise contract which you join and become the franchisee subject to State statutes, or local ordinances, but lately, and I claim never, licenses do not provide quality of work nor security of any type. In this Franchise the government is the merchant, and you are the buyer; and, in commercial law the merchant has the power and the merchant sets the rules. For the naysayers simply look for evidence on your own time. We follow “fail often fail fast” concepts, which implies self-learning, and self-realization. So why not create our offline private merchant groups? Maybe it is because the effort to create a private network is hard for us? This is because in a network of merchants we are the responsible sovereign humans, and not the government. Sovereignty too hard for us?
Good questions to ask…
If someone disclaims what they claim. Can you really define what they are claiming? Often the disclaimer is eloquently and elaborately worded so that you miss the contradictions. It is not like not P, then not Q obvious setup. For an approximate reference of this tactic see NFPA disclaimer at the beginning of the work. The NFPA (National Electric Code not law), some 100 + contributing professional authors to the work from all engineering fields, disclaim everything, except that the work is a guideline; in essence, in the end, the user of NFPA/NEC is the one who fesses up all responsibility. Are you cool with that?
Take for example Englewood Florida where recently many homes were destroyed by hurricane Ian. I had a chance to see first hand an affluent homeowner’s leaky roof in a 3 + million dollar home. The guy supposedly was Ex Amazon AWS, or whatnot, young entrepreneur who created a $50,0000,000 per year company then sold it. The roofing job for this 3M+ home is going to cost him at least $125,000.00 dollars to fix, but probably more.
So, think about this: A 3M+ home in a neighborhood where ex-football players live and the house developed a leaky roof even though the roof is of cement tiles designed to withstand the hurricane. You think that roof work was permitted and licensed in 2010? You bet. So I should really put my Mac Book away right now because my point is settled. A LOT LICENSED WORK GOES TO HECK.
The current game we are playing is that when one buys a house and the title is held in the name of a bank who gave you the mortgage the bank, MERCHANT, has the power to set all legal and lawful rules and regulations such as require that a licensed and insured worker perform the job. Usually, the license and insurance are okay, until the insurance companies themselves bend the rules.
Example: a children’s center here in Venice was badly damaged by the hurricane.
The FEMA (federal emergency management administration) and insurance appraised the damage to be about $36,000 dollars. Then then did this:
(1) $8,000 deductible
(2) $16,000 depreciation
(3) $12,000 paid by insurance
Do you see the scam? $16,000 depreciation? It’s not like the guy would buy used plywood, old paint, used framing boards, used plywood. All materials to restore the place are new and market prices which are high these days.
However, if the guy were smart, and challenged local laws and state laws, he would hire local guys who are good carpenters; draw up a private agreement and get the job done! It is month number 5 and his place is closed. The other slap in the face by FEMA and insurers is they recommended a company. The company came ripped of the sodden drywall and stopped all work once they found out the guy has on $12,000 to pay. This is a scam. I phoned the guy and asked how he is doing with the place. He said he is hiring lawyers. This is not the experience we want. Hence our private networks and private agreements. Government supposed laws CANNOT violate private agreements, look up private agreements in a legal dictionary.
Another one…
Many mobile home parks were blown generously to pieces by Ian. Again, this should stop you and make you think. Who approved the work permits and who hired these contractors? What company won the contract and sold these dinky things to Floridians? Ah, you say the laws were different then. I see , I see… LOL. Here we have a 40 acre place blown to pieces built in the 90s or 80s. You think not a single contractor who installed these mobile home parks was aware of the structures integrity against wind? You are naive. You think that the insurance companies did not know of this? You are naive. You think insurers did not omit the fact that flood insurance would be the best choice as later written in local news, “Floridians got the wrong insurance” ? You are naive. Licenses and insurance is just another racket. Some of you are shocked by rackets everywhere and essentially call us the big C-theorists. But, this is easy to test if you are willing to think:
Any time a free lunch is offered to you, there is reason to believe you are about to be scammed, scammed either in the short term, or via sweet sophisticated, elaborate Italian Oceans 11 job. We’ve been conditioned to be scammed. Times up!
Free lunch mentality real life example…
I’m at my friends house helping him remodel some. He sold a piece of his property to another home owner (Mike), and just the other day Mike was cutting down the ubiquitous palm trees on his property. When my friend, call him John, said, “ are you going to take the tree stumps to the dump because they are slightly in my way and I have already cleared my rubble” Mike said, “why the city will do it for, “free”. For free? Really? Tell me where to find these altruists. This is the free lunch mentality that is debilitating US of A. The people who say I’ll get a benefit for free have not done their math in respect to how much taxes they pay and what they may rightfully expect of a city municipality. To be fair to Mike, I’d say maybe Mike did do his math, but I am not holding my breath.
Evidence is everywhere you must look, think…
I realize this may be hard to bring to your conscious attention because after I showed you the facts of shoddy licenses; of horrendous contracting mistakes and flops; your first feeling that wells up within you is that of mistrust of everyone. That is not a healthy response. You are only responding with utter disdain because you have never learned to sift for good workers and good people. You depended on a third-party verified evidence. You need to smell the BS relatively fast, and find the right guys for the job. How? By asking all the right questions. Start with any question that bothers you, then ask.
Our private networks globally “Prinet”…
(If some wise ass steals and trademarks the “prinet” we don’t care. We simply say private group. We can invent words.)
Basic rules for prinets.
a.) No online presence whatsoever. They do it with their secluded, excluded,
societies.
b.) No, online presence whatsoever.
c.) EVER.
d.) This network is completely private with zero presence in the “Metaverse”, so
the Elons of this world and Peter Thiels would not siphon off our product
ideas; let them make their own cake and eat them.
e.) It is a general term for many networks.
f.) It is a network of merchants who work together on a private basis for human
growth potential.
g.) The merchants interchange services for money, trade, collateral, barter.
h.) The rules you create are to foster humanity and extend and expand human
potential on Earth.
i.) Add your network’s rules, code, laws so long as the above are respected
ABOUT THIS POST: 1 day to fully complete. 3 hours to write; 1 hour to proof read; another 1 hour to proof read; not reliant on Grammarly software; all is from direct personal experience, validation, and reading across many books and online sources; 20 years of personal reflection, experience, talking to others, world travel experience.
DISCLAIMER: I only disclaim what I am not claiming, duh? That is: I am not claiming all licenses should be abolished or rescinded. Fail often fail fast.
Good questions to ask…
If someone disclaims what they claim. Can you really define what they are claiming? For reference of this tactic see NFPA disclaimer at the beginning of the NEC code. The NFPA (National Electric Code, code not law), some 100 + contributing expert professional to the work from all engineering fields, disclaim everything, except that their input is for guidance only; in essence, in the end, the engineer in choosing to apply the NFPA/NEC IS the one who fesses up to all responsibility. Are you cool with that? Find the NEC code and read their full disclaimer. You’ll find such phrases as “accuracy not guaranteed”, and lots of other goodies. The NEC is not entirely wrong, but you should understand this method of disclaiming as we live in this reality we mutually, by tacit consent, have agreed to create whether it be conscious or unconscious.
On “accuracy not guaranteed” in a limited sense, means: when you are at a point of indecision based on what the NEC says YOU have to find a solution, and state your reasons why you chose not to follow NEC guideline. YOU must find the error and correct the guideline. This process is mutual. Who watches the watcher?
Chinese saying: “Confidence of success is almost success.”
The FlunkedIn Team