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First blog for all Quorten's blog-like writings

Distracting black lines? So what was that thing about “the concept is simple, black lines distract”? Oh, I think I may have found it.

20170222/DuckDuckGo the black lines distract
20170222/http://whitelines.se/function/

Aw, patented so they say. Yeah, sure, but I have my own criticisms against the mechanism. First of all, the existing design of using light blue pre-printed lines on paper is in fact designed for minimal visibility. Second, I think that although this may seem to be a good idea for young college students for writing, it may be a little bit more difficult for older people to use than the mainstream design. Reading the paper, though, sure that may be easier for everyone. So yeah, they got their marketing demographics right for their paper, sure.

Oh, what’s this? More interesting things. So, to add to Tour de Force, often times its important to be aware of the social conditions going on at historic times, not just the state-of-the-art of the technology, because that decides who and what kinds of people got the mass majority of historic access to the technology, which is often times only a restricted group, and because culture advances slower than technology, often times those arbitrary preferences and discriminations can continue on even in the present day. So, this is one of the historic discriminations that were going on in a technology-inspired named center, Radio City Music Hall.

20170222/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/26/nyregion/rockettes-and-race-barrier-slips.html

So, what does Wikipedia have to say about “asylum”? Oh, quite some interesting things. So, basically the idea of political asylum came out of the unfortunate historic fact that sometimes, people not in political or cultural agreement would get sent to mental institutions, and mental institutions possess a variety of punishment that is not found in other medical practices. So how can they escape from this? Well, they can be granted political asylum in a different country, protected from the abuses of the mental asylums in other countries.

20170223/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum
20170223/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_psychiatric_institutions
20170223/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_asylum