i don't have a lot of interest in the saga of that cfo we arrested, but we can't be treating this like it's a hostage stand-off. the woman is being detained legally as a part of an extradition request.

trudeau should respond with a travel warning, not with concessions.

i'm not ready to make these calls yet, today.

i'm making a very serious accusation, and i have to do it, but i'm not ready to do it, today. this is going to be painful, and i realize it.

tomorrow, maybe.

i'm still sleeping...maybe not really wanting to get up...

how far can it go, then?

well, it was at something like 10,000 when obama started printing money.

but, it depends on what policy exists. if money continues to be destroyed, it will keep falling.

it would be better to abolish capitalism altogether, and eliminate debt along with currency.

but, so long as we have currency and capitalism, we should seek to maximize indebtedness in order to redistribute wealth. eliminating debt just means trickling the wealth up, and making the poor poorer.

call it a contradiction if you want, but it's really in your head; it's not a contradiction, at all, it's just a recognition that the economy is a creation of human hands, and not something that exists out there, somewhere, in the wild.

money is debt. so, sharing wealth means creating debt, and eliminating debt means destroying wealth. that's reality. deal with it.

the rate increase isn't a cause, it's a signal. it's a warning signal that a bomb is about to drop, not the bomb itself. the bomb itself is the elimination of debt.

debt and wealth are the same thing.

but, conservatives have never understood this, which is why they shouldn't be allowed near the economy.

the market is the debt.

no debt = no market.

do you understand?

so, you're upset about the market crashing.

but, i thought you wanted to get rid of the debt?

i'm going to get to the end of this and find out it was the russians that altered the audio, right?

meaning it was csis...

so, what about the civil case, then?

well, i think there's two things i want to look at with this. i want to get the response from the fingerprint destruction request, and i want the report from the opird. i half expect that i may have to take both decisions to court. but, in a sense, that's the point.

i have a timeline around this. but, let me look into exactly how i'd start this off. i know i need to file something in superior court, but is it just a motion, or do i need to file supporting documents? what are the timelines? where do i make the argument that i was arrested without probable cause, exactly, and who decides?

i expect i'll put this off until next month, but let me look into it more closely.

so, i need to make some calls today about the motion to release the audio, and will be waiting to file the human rights complaint until i am certain as to whether i can get solid audio released or not. and, i need to look into starting the civil rights case at least.

it's deductive reasoning v empiricism yet again, right?

math v science.

you start with math - you have to. but, you correct it as you build evidence.

and, i have a lot of wheels to reinvent...

can i be faulted for trusting the court house to get me unmodified audio on request?

a priori? no, probably not. that's a reasonable thing to rely on, if you don't know better.

but, in hindsight? i don't want to even use the word naive - it's not naive. it's just not a deep enough level of cynicism.

so, this isn't a logic error, it's a deficit of experience. i learn quickly :).

it's kind of recursive.

i'm suing for damages relating to arresting me in order to prevent me from suing for damages. had she not had me arrested, i would be in one of those scenarios where i could win a suit, but not be liable for anything - or i'd get $1 or something. being discriminated against isn't necessarily a reason to get an award, i have to prove that the discrimination actually cost me something. but, because she foolishly had me arrested without any sort of cause, it opens her up to liability.

i should be able to file this anyways, sure.

but, i've already made the mistake of putting words to paper without getting the evidence first. it's more of a question of what i end up filing - if i can get the unmodified audio released, i'll be able to insert the smoking gun; if i can't get this audio, i'll need to remove any references to it in what i file.

i don't have much experience at this. so, i'm going to make some mistakes. what's important is that i learn from them, and don't repeat them. and, there's a lesson here - don't rely on the honesty of others to get the data to you, make sure you have the evidence before you start using it.

no. i need to wait for the human rights thing.

i'm essentially suing for damages for filing a false report - i mean, that's where the actual financial award exists. it's a civil case. so, i should get all of the evidence, first. 

yeah, i'm going to have to call to figure out when this particular justice sits, next, and also to figure out how the audio is stored.

i'm requesting that the audio be released in it's "original, unmodified form with proper time stamps and complete metadata". i'm also requesting permission to analyse the data to determined it's authenticity, which is actually against the law to do without permission.

i don't expect that the justice will know what that means, and i'm not certain i do yet, either. it seems like there's multiple channels in the audio, so what i'll need to know is how it's recorded. is it mixed together at once? are the audio streams stored in separate files?

i know how this stuff woks, obviously - i can have a very technical conversation about this. and, i'll need to have it before i get to the justice, so that i understand exactly what i'm asking for.

the next thing i'm going to look at is the human rights forms.

so, what happened?

i'm still not sure what this pepper smell is, but i think it's making me sleepy.

suspected sources:

1) the pepper in my spice cabinet. occam's razor, right? i just don't know why it smells like pepper on the other side of the apartment, though.
2) i drink large amounts of very powerful coffee which is brewed frequently and transported all around. it partly adds up, as the coffee maker smells like it. but, the coffee maker is also beside the spice cabinet.
3) pollution from outside, but i can't find anybody talking about peppery-smelling pollution, so i don't know what it is.
4) smoke or something else from upstairs. cologne, maybe?
5) dry air from the heaters. but, it doesn't seem so dry in here, really.

i should be able to rule a few things out next week.

whatever is, it seems to be of least concern overnight and pick up in the morning, and it has knocked me out two days in a row, now.

i woke up in the afternoon on tuesday to a set of questions related to the ongoing investigation of the officer, got a start on it, ate, crashed again, and finished writing them an essay in the morning. i then slept all day wednesday, again, i suspect due to this peppery smell, got up to eat in the evening, and crashed yet again. i'm still feeling woozy.....a combination of chest congestion and eye strain....

am i just sick? i guess it's possible, but there seems to be a cause and effect.

i'm going to try and get the motion ready for the day. i wanted to file it in the afternoon, but that may need to wait until next week if i can't get the energy to get up.