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Richard’s Correspondence On Mailing List ‘D’ with Correspondent No. 1
Continued from Directors Correspondence: A Matter of Style Re: AF website mirror RESPONDENT: I’ve setup a mirror of the original AF website. http://afmirror.[deleted].org/ In case the original site momentarily goes down (which it does), or if you like the new design, you can use this. To download the entire website (not just the ‘lite’ version of it), see: http://afmirror.[deleted].org/download.html (message No. 5084) RICHARD: G’day No. 1, Upon reading your above post I took the rather unusual step of subscribing to this forum solely for the purpose of asking you, as one fellow human being to another fellow human being, to take down your unauthorised and thus unlawful version of The Actual Freedom Trust web site forthwith. To explain: the integrity of The Actual Freedom Trust web site – the accurate presentation of its authors’ writings and thus its implicit guarantee of reliability in regards authenticity – obviously depends upon the capacity of its authors (or their duly nominated representatives) to have password-protected editorial and authorial access to and control of the entirety of its contents. The imprimatur of the (legally registered) name ‘The Actual Freedom Trust’ on each and every page is this implicit guarantee of reliability. Your unauthorised usage of that (legally registered) name on virtually every page of your so-called ‘mirror’
website Furthermore, your unauthorised usage of that (legally registered) name is a criminal offence. * Given that you are an IT professional (working for Microsoft Corporation apparently) it is highly unlikely that you could be ignorant of the fact that millions of websites around the world have words to the following effect displayed:
Indeed, the following search-string alone returned nearly 2,000,000 hits on an internet search-engine:
Moreover, as an IT professional you must surely be aware of illegitimate activities known as ‘spoofing’ and/or ‘phishing’ – the illicit access to information through the creation of mirror websites which redirect communications, credit card numbers and other personal and financial details for criminal gain – as well as ‘spamdexing’ insofar search engines generally do not favour identical/ mirror websites because they could otherwise be tricked into higher rankings (via spamming, cloaking, doorway pages, for instance) and penalise or remove an offending site from its index. In short: your unauthorised and thus unlawful version of The Actual Freedom Trust web site potentially compromises not only its ability to ensure user confidence, in regards personal and financial details, but also its capacity to be searchable. * A random perusal of your so-called ‘mirror’ website As an IT professional that is, quite frankly, just shoddy workmanship. However, the words [quote] ‘Web page designed by The Actual Freedom Trust’ [endquote] which appear at the bottom of 400+ pages on your unauthorised and thus unlawful website – apart from being an out-and-out lie as it is your bastardised version – undeniably conveys to its readers that the design and layout displayed is the fault of peoples either actually free and/or virtually free of the human condition. To use a cliché: that is not a good look. Which brings all this to the crux of the matter: your adamantine conviction that The Actual Freedom Trust web site is ugly and that your version is beautiful. Vis.:
Yet even though you engaged in a rather extensive email exchange with the directors of The Actual Freedom
Trust less than a year ago Even more to the point: in view of the fact that you have been, and still are, soliciting donations for your modified version of The Actual Freedom Trust website (at userstyles.org/styles/4664), a ‘Terms And Conditions’ text, similar to the ubiquitous example presented further above, has now been added onto the ‘Disclaimer’ on the website as the words contained therein [quote] ‘may not ... modify, sell ... or exploit in any way ...’ [endquote] should cover your parasitical profit-at-others-expense type of activity as well. For your information: the directors of The Actual Freedom Trust have, over the years, expended tens of thousands of scarce dollars of their own moneys (plus tens of thousands of unpaid hours) to create, maintain, and provide the millions of words currently available for free on the internet– it is only in recent years that the sale of non-essential items have been sufficient to barely cover the basic ongoing costs of the enterprise – and to have someone professing an interest in what is on offer seek a monetary gain off the back of this philanthropic contribution to the advancement of human knowledge is a classic example of the human condition in action in all its crass opportunism. Lastly, and purely as an example of unintended consequences, your meddling in matters beyond your ken puts at risk the continued viability of many of the copyrighted images in the introduction pages: specifically, it cost upwards of $2,000 to procure limited rights to legally republish those images – ‘limited rights’ meaning on the explicit condition they are restricted for use only on The Actual Freedom Trust web site (for free) and as giveaway inclusions (for free) on its associated DVDs – and are not to be used for commercial purposes ... else they would have cost an impossible-to-pay commercial price. Please, take down your unauthorised and thus unlawful version of The Actual Freedom Trust web site forthwith. Regards, Richard.
Re: AF website mirror RESPONDENT: I’ve setup a mirror of the original AF website. http://afmirror.[deleted].org/ In case the original site momentarily goes down (which it does), or if you like the new design, you can use this. To download the entire website (not just the ‘lite’ version of it), see: http://afmirror.[deleted].org/download.html RICHARD: G’day No. 1, Upon reading your above post I took the rather unusual step of subscribing to this forum solely for the purpose of asking you, as one fellow human being to another fellow human being, to take down your unauthorised and thus unlawful version of The Actual Freedom Trust web site forthwith. RESPONDENT: There is no way for me to know that you are Richard of the Actual Freedom Trust simply from your Yahoo! Groups member profile which is currently linked to: http://profiles.yahoo.com/richard.actualfreedom. In regards to responses related to permission to host a mirror, can you email me from your @actualfreedom.com.au address – just for legal records? RICHARD: A verifying email has been sent to you from the directors of The Actual Freedom Trust ... the main part of which reads as follows:
* RICHARD: To explain: the integrity of The Actual Freedom Trust web site – the accurate presentation of its authors’ writings and thus its implicit guarantee of reliability in regards authenticity – obviously depends upon the capacity of its authors (or their duly nominated representatives) to have password-protected editorial and authorial access to and control of the entirety of its contents. RESPONDENT: Ok. RICHARD: I am pleased to see you have acknowledged what is, essentially, the primary reason for the absolute retention of proprietorial rights as it is vital that the imprimatur of the legally registered name ‘The Actual Freedom Trust’, on each and every page, continues to stand for an implicit guarantee of reliability in regards authenticity and accuracy in presentation. A badge, if you will. And any blot on that escutcheon, as it were, is not something which I personally, or the directors generally, take lightly as the evidence of history bears due witness to the divisiveness which different versions/ competing translations, of what somebody once said long ago, inevitably brings about. As equally important is to prevent each and any attempt to water-down what is, without a doubt, such a radical departure from anything preceding it. The very meaning-of-life and peace-on-earth are at stake. Both an actual and a virtual freedom from the human condition, being such priceless discoveries, deserve whatever vigilance it takes to preserve the authenticity and accuracy in presentation of what will be of interest to both practitioners and academics in the years/the centuries to come. Again, I am pleased to see your acknowledgement. [... snip ...] * RICHARD: Please, take down your unauthorised and thus unlawful version of The Actual Freedom Trust web site forthwith. RESPONDENT: I have disabled it from public access ... RICHARD: Thank you ... and I appreciate your promptness. Now that you have the verification you asked for, please take it down completely. Vis.:
[... snip ...] RESPONDENT: PS: (If you are the Richard of The Actual Freedom Trust) parts of your email did make my heart throb faster (attacking ‘me’, I think) ... RICHARD: Oh, there was no need for any ‘attacking’ on my part. It was the very act of taking, without permission, the end result of other peoples’ decade-long endeavour and then publicly re-presenting a bastardised version in their name which brought about an equally public reminder that there are quite valid reasons why such a course of action should never have been contemplated in the first place. Let alone being acted upon. If nothing else, legal deterrents surely would give anyone pause for thought, in regards intellectual property, as under section 1204 of the 1998 DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), for a general example, penalties range up to a $500,000 fine, or up to five years imprisonment, for a first offence and up to a $1,000,000 fine, or up to 10 years imprisonment, for subsequent offences. The DMCA legislation implements two 1996 World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) treaties – the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty – as well as addressing a number of other significant copyright-related issues. Speaking personally, I am always aware of the ‘Fair Use’ copyright laws, for instance, when quoting from publications on my portion of The Actual Freedom Trust web site. RESPONDENT: ... but I am glad that those triggers did not lead to any stable unpleasant feeling states; and thus enabled me to reply normally. RICHARD: ‘Tis good to hear that. Speaking of which: the various queries and points you raised (in the snipped sections above) will have to wait for another email as I am currently elsewise occupied. Regards, Richard.
Re: AF website mirror RICHARD: (...) and to have someone professing an interest in what is on offer seek a monetary gain off the back of this philanthropic contribution to the advancement of human knowledge is a classic example of the human condition in action in all its crass opportunism. CO-RESPONDENT: I have found that in general, Hanlon’s Razor is a good strategy when guessing at others’ intentions. [snip link]. RICHARD: Yet there was no guessing required ... the words ‘seek a monetary gain’, to which you are responding, came solely from the words displayed for all to see on the web page referred to. Vis.:
CO-RESPONDENT: OK, I will paraphrase another of my recent emails on this subject: – I have re-read Richard’s email, and in a single sentence, he mentions two phrases which are very strongly presumptuous of intent: [snip phrases]. RESPONDENT: Yes, basically this was my question too – can actually free people guess at others’ intent? RICHARD: Of course they could yet, as already pointed out just above, there was no guessing required as the words ‘seek a monetary gain’, to which the ‘Hanlon’s Razor’ response was directed, came solely from the words displayed for all to see on the web page referred to. RESPONDENT: I noticed another logical inconsistency in Richard’s argument [to Respondent No. 2]:
‘Ripping-off the AFT website in its entirety ...’ must refer to afmirror.[deleted].org ... RICHARD: Nope, your guess is incorrect ... besides which it is quite clear, from its contextual usage, just what that colloquialism refers to. RESPONDENT: ‘Ripping-off the AFT website in its entirety...’ cannot refer to http://userstyles.org/styles/4664 because it was not a rip-off[1] but simply a cascading stylesheet file which can be applied over the target website using a Firefox addon called ‘stylish’ by the user only if they wish. [1] rip off: – To steal; to embezzle. RICHARD: Again, your guess is incorrect ... I was, of course, using the colloquialism ‘ripping-off’ in its Oxford Dictionary meaning of ‘designating or pertaining to an instance of financial exploitation’. Vis.:
And even the non-hyphenated colloquialism ‘rip off’ has its Oxford Dictionary meaning of ‘exploit financially’. Vis.:
As a matter of related interest: anyone going through my words with a fine-tooth comb, looking for a discrepancy in order to bring about a pathetic gotcha experience (PGE), will surely be rewarded as, having written millions of words over a decade-long span, there are bound to be some scattered here and there. Indeed, I am on record many times over (28 hits) as saying that the academics would have a field-day with it. Regards, Richard. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• P.S.: Also, and whilst on this very topic yet again, your rip-off is not [quote] ‘simply’ [endquote] a cascading stylesheet file which can be called ‘stylish’ by the user only if they wish ... it is a comprehensive re-design of the end result of other peoples’ decade-long endeavour costing tens of thousands of scarce dollars of their own moneys (plus requiring tens of thousands of unpaid hours) in order to create, maintain, and provide for free in the design and layout set the way they want it to be viewed. Vis.:
Your attempt to downplay – as evidenced by [quote] ‘simply’ [endquote] and not a guess – the magnitude of what you chose to do despite having had a lengthy discussion with the directors, on that very subject, should surely signify to you there is an issue you are still not dealing with in a way which optimises your well-being.
Re: Email deletion RESPONDENT: It appears from the Group Activity Log under Web Features that some emails are being deleted (moderators can delete emails posted by anyone it seems). RESPONDENT No. 4: Here are a few more to delete: 3566, 3595, 3598, 3630, 3633, 3644, 3645, 3647, 3660, 3661 RESPONDENT: Deleted about 20 messages remaining that contained the name. RICHARD: G’day No. 1, Thank you ... and thanks, No. 4, for your prompt. No. 1, in regards to the font settings: Vineeto has unlocked the font in all the Library Articles (including the Glossary) and has published them online already. All the introduction pages are also unlocked and online. She is currently busy with the FAQ’s and CRO’s ... then the next to be done is Selected Correspondence. Eventually, the entire web site (there are 1700+ pages to do). More later. Regards, Richard. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• P.S.: We tried-out the 120% line-spacing; on the larger/ largest size-setting, in the web browser, it was not needed at all (in fact it made for too much separation). But ... thanks for the suggestion (I would not have thought of trying it) anyway.
Re: Email deletion RICHARD: No. 1, in regards to the font settings: Vineeto has unlocked the font in all the Library Articles (including the Glossary) and has published them online already. RESPONDENT: Hi Richard, I just went through some of the library pages... and I don’t notice any difference in font-size (or visual appearance for that matter). RICHARD: G’day No. 1, All the library pages have definitely had the font-lock taken off them (and can be increased in online size in view-settings) as I randomly clicked through quite a few pages myself, just to be personally sure before posting my email to you. I have again checked, just to be doubly sure, and they can indeed be increased in size. (Have no idea what you mean by ‘visual appearance’). RESPONDENT: Not sure if I’m the only one seeing this behavior, but that is what I get from Firefox 3.0.10 on Windows XP. For example, from the source of this page <http://actualfreedom.com.au/library/topics/advaita.htm>, I see: <font color="#800080" size="2">The medieval Indian philosopher ... (...) With further investigation, I figured out why this is so. The above <font... line is expanded to show its parent tag: <td width="74%" ... font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;’> ... <font size="2" color="#800080">The medieval Indian philosopher ... For comparision, this is the source from the older version of the same page [from web.archive.org and the ‘lite’ version of the site], <td width="74%" ... font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;’> ... <font color="#800080">The medieval Indian philosopher Shankara, ... As you can see the only difference in the newer version is the addition of the attribute ‘size="2"’. Perhaps this is the change Vineeto did. More importantly, the ‘font-size: 10pt’ is still there albeit in the parent element (<td>). RICHARD: Vineeto explained to me she had missed that one, on the ‘Advaita’ page, in her progressing changes and has now fixed it. Thank you for drawing attention to it. RESPONDENT: I played with Firebug [ extension for the Firefox browser. screenshot] ... and this is what I did to actually unlock the font-sizes (as it – letting the default font-size be used) Remove the ‘font-size: 10pt;’ attribute in the parent element (<td>) Remove the ‘size="2"’ attribute in the <font> element. Just letting you know in advance.RICHARD: It would appear I should have explained that the reason why the directors decided to take the lock out in the ‘parents’ – page, table and cell properties – whilst leaving the <font-size="2"> in all the pages is because they want to keep the font-size as it is. Removing the lock is an accommodation to the vision-impaired and/or those with ultra high-resolution screens (so they can set their browser to a larger font). * RICHARD: All the introduction pages are also unlocked and online. RESPONDENT: The above mentioned issue is also applicable for these pages. RICHARD: All the introduction pages have definitely had the font-lock taken off them (and can be increased in size in view-settings) as I randomly clicked through quite a few pages, myself, just to be personally sure before posting my email to you. I have again checked, just to be doubly sure, and they can indeed be increased in size. * RICHARD: She is currently busy with the FAQ’s and CRO’s ... then the next to be done is Selected Correspondence. RESPONDENT: If I may suggest, it is a good idea to first do the change on a select few pages, then verify it with others on this list ... as this has the potential to avoid some repetitive work. RICHARD: Each of the directors has at least one computer each – some have two – and I have a mobile computer phone (as well as a modern laptop and an older desktop) and the pages mentioned so far have readily been increased in size, in the view-settings, on each and every one of the various computers it was tested out on. It could be, perhaps, that Firefox/ Firebug has some sort of problem with compatibility. * RICHARD: Eventually, the entire web site (there are 1700+ pages to do). RESPONDENT: Another suggestion is to use a separate CSS file that can be included in all of 1700+ pages. The benefit of this is that should any change in style be needed (for eg., new font-size), it is enough to modify this CSS file alone and let that affect all of the pages automatically. RICHARD: Thank you for your suggestion ... as there is not going to be any change in style needed (e.g. no new font-size) such a course of action is not really needed. Speaking personally (and this is only to explain my own choice) the reason I prefer size-ten times-new-roman is because, being a very fast reader, the more I can scan without moving eyes to the left-and-right, and with minimal scrolling, the faster I can read. When I tried out the pages mentioned on larger/ largest view-setting my reading speed slowed to a crawl. Regards, Richard.
Re: Question ... about pure intent RESPONDENT: Hi Richard, As I too cannot recall a PCE (and never had one yet), I printed your email out of interest and spent about an hour thinking over it ... reading each words/ sentences carefully (often re- reading several times). Your meticulousness in explaining the approach did give me some clarity in this matter. These days it is merely a matter of seeing where sincerity lacks (and thus naiveté is missing) ... and this alone tells a lot of about where I am missing attentiveness. For instance, the other day, I noticed how much ‘maneuvering’ (an opposite of naiveté) I subconsciously exhibit in matters related to women... and how that is preventing a carefree/ felicitous experience at these times. RICHARD: G’day No. 1, Just popping in briefly as I am going to be far to busy locally, for the next few days, to catch-up on pending posts. Because you are evidently paying so much attention to that previous post of mine (to No. 13 Given that it is, plainly and simply, always ‘my’ choice as to how ‘I’ experience this moment then the optimum manner in which to do so is, of course, sincerely/ naïvely. Thus the part-sentence in that previous post of mine [quote] ‘and to be sincere is to be the key which unlocks naiveté’ [endquote] is worth expanding upon. The operative words in that part-sentence are [quote] ‘... to be the key ...’ [endquote] and with particular emphasis on the word ‘be’ (rather than ‘have’ for instance). In other words, to be sincerity (not only have sincerity) is to be the key (not merely have the key) to be naiveté (not just have naiveté). (Bear in mind that, at root, ‘I’ am ‘my’ feelings and ‘my’ feelings are ‘me’ and it will all become clear). As there is something I have oft-times encouraged a fellow human being to try, in face-to-face interactions, which usually has the desired effect it is well worth detailing here: Reach down inside of yourself intuitively (aka feeling it out) and go past the rather superficial emotions/ feelings (generally in the chest area) into the deeper, more profound passions/ feelings (generally in the solar plexus area) until you come to a place (generally about four-finger widths below the navel) where you intuitively feel you elementarily have existence as a feeling being (as in ‘me’ at the core of ‘my’ being ... which is ‘being’ itself). Now, having located ‘being’ itself, gently and tenderly sense out the area immediately below that (just above/just before and almost touching on the sex centre). Here you will find yourself both likeable and liking (for here lies sincerity/ naiveté). Here is where you can, finally, like yourself (very important) no matter what. Here is the nearest a ‘self’ can get to innocence whilst remaining a ‘self’. Here lies tenderness/ sweetness and togetherness/ closeness. Here is where it is possible to be the key. Regards, Richard.
Re: Peculiar Information # 5 RICHARD: … where the women go, there go men too ... eventually. RESPONDENT: Hi Richard, Can you explain what you meant by that? What sort of connection exists in actuality that makes men (male flesh and blood body) follow women? Or, were you just referring to the reality? RICHARD: G’day No. 1, ‘Tis good to be chatting with you. I was, of course, just referring to the reality (the real-world reality) as all is equitable in actuality. I also did not mean ‘follow’, as such, but more along the lines of what has been occasionally discussed/ mentioned on this very forum ... to wit: that men (as a generalisation) are reluctant to penetrate deeply and/or go very far into actualism because women (as a generalisation) are looking for love and compassion and an empathetic understanding or, at the very least, affection – from a potential spouse (companion/ partner/ lover/ whatever). Hence my undivided attention on the women in my life, and my preference that the second person to become actually free from the human condition be a woman, as it paves the way for more and more men to be confident of finding a woman who will not settle for second-best (affection, empathy, love and all the rest) but wants only the best ... both for herself and for her spouse. (Not to forget to mention my delight at it being a female, and not a male, who opened the way for a virtual freedom to have an entirely new aspect ... namely: a five-month PCE). I guess my ‘where the women go, there go men too’ way of phrasing it would be best exemplified by those men who buy women’s magazines to find out what the latest is they have to adopt so as to get into a modern woman’s panties. That whole SNAG (sensitive new age guy) phenomenon is an instance of this. Regards, Richard. P.S.: So as to pre-empt anyone who would not recognise facetiae even if it got into bed with them all night, and thus categorises that latter part of my post as a malicious outburst (for example), it is but another instance of my droll sense of humour.
Subject: Re: A Long-Awaited Public Announcement RICHARD: I wish to advise that The Actual Freedom Trust web site is currently undergoing review. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. Please stand by for a long-awaited public announcement, due to be made early in the new year, the consequences of which will have far-reaching implications and ramifications for anyone vitally interested in both an actual and a virtual freedom from the human condition. RESPONDENT: [Richard]: ‘Uploaded wirelessly to the World Wide Web from a solar-powered notebook.’ I laughed out loud reading this. Normally, this is too trifle an observation to note down that it is common to simply not even state how one transfers the replacement page in a website that is down at the moment. You surely have never-ending appreciation of things, don’t you? RICHARD: G’day No. 1, Yes, I find it simply marvellous that I can sit up naked upon my bed, with my back against the pillows, at the navigable head of a remote river system in the nearest to a wilderness area as can be expected these days, and type out words which will be instantly available to be read by peoples vitally interested in both an actual and a virtual freedom from the human condition. To explain: I was born and raised on a dairy farm in the south-west of this country as my progenitors were pioneer settlers (carving a farm by hand out of virgin forest and sowing grasslands for animal husbandry); as both a boy and as a youth I personally used hand- held axes and cross-cut saws to help cut down the trees to make pasture land; I was involved in the fencing and ploughing and sowing and harvesting; I hunted game in the forest and helped raise domesticated animals; I tended the gardens and orchards and crops; I assisted in building sheds (barns) and outhouses from forest timber and learned improvisation from the ingenuity required in `making do’ with minimal commercial supplies. There was no plumbing; no sewage, no telephone and no electricity – I went to bed with a candle and to the outdoor latrine with a kerosene lamp – thus no computer, no television, no videos, no record players, no freezer, no electric kitchen gadgets and etcetera. What is truly wonderful, however, is that this naive boy from the farm has been able to call for a convivium
gathering, in a modern-day wilderness area, in order to organically have come about the (naked) For example: my third wife (de facto) has flown back into this country – from where she had previously been sitting at the death bed of her progenitress – in order to make a once-in-a-lifetime decision as to whether or not she will be taking her rightful position here beside me, as a true equal, in this actual world. She will be arriving early this morning – about three-four hours from now – as this organic way of ensuring that the ship’s complement will be squeaky-clean (so to speak) begins to unfold. And, as I will be keeping those vitally interested in global peace and harmony in our lifetime fully informed via my keyboard, as the precise make-up of the seven-member (naked) crew emerges in the days and/or weeks to come, then please stand by for the long-awaited public announcement, with far-reaching implications and ramifications, to come wirelessly to global attention. Regards, Richard. P.S.: To summarise: I do not choose the crew: the crew chooses itself
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