Flesch-Kinkaid evaluations of my writings

Having found an updated version of the "Flesh" software, and using it for evaluating my easily found text writings, below are samplings of my writings' evaluations. The sequence is defined in the first line below. As sequenced by when written, top is most recent, and bottom is furthest back in time.

Sequence of dash separated values:

Document title - year originally written - Flesch-Kinkaid school grade level - reading ease level - number of words - sentences - syllables - avg. syllables per word - avg. words per sentence (The type of writing is shown in parenthesis at end)

Musing on how to make a "Free Enterprise" system able to actually work - 2009 - 11.06 - 54.78 - 1182 - 54 - 1814 - 1.53 - 21.89 (blog)

Going Past The Town Prison - 2009 - 9.41 - 64.66 - 54,602 - 2,626 - 78,141 - 1.43 - 20.79 (sci fi)

Revising our health care system for the very much better - 2009 - 20.71 - 15.51 - 271 - 7 - 487 - 1.180 - 38.71 (blog)

Repairing rule by law and enforcement - 2009 - 17.39 - 32.33 - 3511 - 101 - 5778 - 1.65 - 34.76 (blog)

Pondering what has gone wrong in this country - 2009 - 15.82 - 38.04 - 3008 - 95 - 4859 - 1.62 - 31.66 (blog)

A federal fill-in workforce system for retirees and unemployed to boost the GDP - 2009 - 13.56 - 45.08 - 5623 - 212 - 8962 - 1.59 - 26.52 (blog)

My prior short posts re space utilization involving human spaceflight - 2009 - 17.65 - 29.77 - 1720 - 50 - 2890 - 1.68 - 34.40 (blog)

Masters of the Trading Game_1 - 2009 - 10.60 - 53.92 - 3269 - 167 - 5141 - 1.57 - 19.57 (sci fi)

Ideas about pressure-strengthened vehicular substructures-b - 2009 - 16.57 - 31.72 - 1090 - 35 - 1849 - 1.70 - 31.14 (technical)

Home internet-linked manufacturing workstations - 2009 - 14.12 - 37.06 - 3350 - 138 - 5747 - 1.72 - 24.28 (technical)

The Torus City Ice Shields Returning Home_SW1 - 2008 - 10.76 - 56.56 - 61,585 - 2836 - 93,347 - 1.52 - 21.72 (sci fi)

one such long-standing problem and possible solutions - 2008 - 14.01 - 43.00 - 10261 - 378 - 16530 - 1.61 - 27.15 (blog)

viewpoint of mankind's history re sustainability - 2008 - 20.91 - 20.03 - 2228 - 53 - 3796 - 1.70 - 42.04 (blog)

why bullies accuse Aspies of being sexual perverts - 2008 - 14.35 - 51.60 - 1869 - 56 - 2681 - 1.43 - 33.38 (blog)

It's Down To Earth_SM20100124f - 2007 - 12.35 - 51.69 - 71,650 - 2,824 - 109,582 - 1.53 - 25.37 (sci fi)

The Big Picture software, housing crisis, and the Pyramid Game With Token - 2007 - 13.44 - 47.19 - 9125 - 335 - 14237 - 1.56 - 27.24 (blog)

my rant on KESTS electric diversify and nuclear - 2007 - 13.71 - 46.49 - 1954 - 70 - 3049 - 1.56 27.91 (blog)

Cats may be something more than what we see - 2007 - 11.12 - 53.68 - 5012 - 233 - 7780 - 1.55 - 21.51 (blog)

Does better health prevent cranky decisions? - 2007 - 10.00 - 59.20 - 3319 - 165 - 4991 - 1.50 - 2012 (blog)

Into Plowshares into Space - 2006 - 18.91 - 25.56 - 1299 - 35 - 2205 - 1.70 - 37.11 (blog)
The Ark of 1984's Future - 2005 - 11.00 - 53.85 - 53.85 - 54,166 - 2,560 - 84,201 - 1.55 - 21.16 (sci fi)

Characteristics of Space Escalator Carousels vs Space Elevators - 2005 - 16.95 - 25.34 - 5323 - 183 - 9562 - 1.80 - 29.09 (technical)

The old Prospector's goldmine - 2005 - 9.43 - 65.00 - 1813 - 86 - 2581 - 1.42 - 21.08 (Blog, fiction writing)

symbolism and minding store - 2005 - 12.32 - 43.99 - 1105 - 53 - 1852 - 1.68 - 20.85 (blog)

Full text of JEDC's e&s2004 = 2004 - 20.90 - 14.05 - 3129 - 81 - 5680 - 1.82 - 38.63 (technical)

More on Subjectivity 2004 - 16.71 - 30.17 - 401 - 13 - 689 - 1.72 - 30.85 (blog)

societal games - 2004 - 10.58 - 54.90 - 621 - 31 - 966 - 1.56 - 20.03 (blog)

Data and Subjectivity - 2004 - 10.33 - 55.31 - 616 - 32 - 961 - 1.56 - 19.25 (blog)

Asperger's Syndrome sees Group Think - 2004 - 14.78 - 44.27 - 960 - 31 - 1488 - 1.55 - 30.97 (cluster writing)

kesepts-ssi-2b-mod - 1997 - 15.18 - 30.75 - 7548 - 302 - 13447 - 1.78 - 24.99 ( technical)

The Triune Brain- an ISSS talk - 1997 - 10.55 - 41.53 - 1143 - 92 - 2063 - 1.80 - 12.42 (psychological)

An open letter to the Rockwell new business group - 1996 - 12.52 - 40.10 - 1055 - 54 - 1832 - 1.74 - 19.54 (correspondence)

PullBand Commute System - 1995 - 14.02 - 43.08 - 1771 - 65 - 2849 - 1.61 - 27.25 (technical)

Wet Launch of Prefab habitat Modules - 1995 - 15.19 - 29.33 - 3128 - 129 - 5653 - 1.81 - 24.25 (technical)

A talk on KESTS given to LA Chapter of ISSS in 1994_SW - 1994 - 15.68 - 29.67 - 6,840 - 259 - 12,157 - 1.78 - 26.41 ( technical)

MEGABRIDGES 2167 - 1992 - 11.20 - 50.23 - 3542 - 178 - 5711 - 1.61 - 19.90 (technical)

MILLIDIAMETER KESTS 1315 - 1990 - 14.33 - 28.94 - 1439 - 70 - 2671 - 1.86 - 20.56 (technical)

The Commute to High Suburbia pt 1 819 - 1989 - 13.56 - 41.17 - 1825 - 75 - 3041 - 1.67 - 24.33 (somewhat technical)

HIGHWAYS TO THE EARTH GEO RING 747 - 1988 - 11.57 - 49.74 - 2304 - 109 - 3694 - 1.60 - 21.14 (somewhat technical)

SPACE HABITATS AT GEO 689 - 1988 - 14.08 - 35.35 - 1157 - 50 - 2024 - 1.75 - 23.14 - (technical)

CONCEPTUAL SYNTHESIS 634 - 1988 - 13.64 - 42.12 - 3099 - 123 - 5097 - 1.64 - 25.20 (Somewhat technical)

GEO's Umbilicals and Space Settlements 644 - 1988 - 15.08 - 28.66 - 1336 - 57 - 2438 - 1.82 - 23.44 (somewhat technical)

Mooncable Project described in GEnie Library files 1988 - 1988 - 16.65 - 33.76 - 6518 - 200 - 10786 - 1.65 - 32.59 (technical)

Start of transportation writings L1 - 1988 - 12.24 - 46.46 - 1231 - 56 - 2009 - 1.63 - 21.98 (sci fi; rewrite of 1984 transportation start)

SPACE INSPIRATION my testimony to NCS - 1985 - 13.22 - 43.29 - 1714 - 71 - 2817 - 1.64 - 24.14 (somewhat technical)

Magnetic Footprints-1 - 1984 - 11.22 - 51.91 - 419 - 20 - 662 - 1.58 - 20.95 (poetry)

Intro to Mooncable: Gravitational-Electric Siphon in Space 480 - 1972 - 14.11 - 33.34 - 354 - 16 - 632 - 1.79 - 22.12 (technical)

INTRO NOTE TO MOONCABLE PROJECT PROPOSAL - 1972 - 14.53 - 35.43 - 325 - 13 - 561 - 1.73 - 25.00 (technical part of the intro)

The Mooncable: A Profitable Space Transportation System 1179 - 1972 - 16.74 - 30.11 - 3062 - 99 - 5260 - 1.72 - 30.93 (technical)

Musing on how to make a "Free Enterprise" system able to actually work

Am having an urge to attempt to write some wisdom to help the American business scene of the moment.

Me, have business wisdom? Sure, as I have mentioned before, my business acumen is so poor I probably could not sell a tall glass of cool clear water for a dime to a rich man dying of thirst in the desert. In fact, my efforts to convey my "KESTS to GEO" concepts fits that category quite well, a reality test. Nonetheless, I - a naive Aspie - have this urge to write something here. So, with a cup of wine to help fend off any virtual sneers from the spinmasters of the moment, I will attempt to describe a thought that keeps surfacing although is not quite surfaced at this point.

It has to do with how to make a "Free Enterprise" system able to actually work. Well, maybe "Free Enterprise" only purpose is to be used as a slogan for the power grab of the past decade. But naive me thinks there might be some sincerity among some to make it actually work, so ....

It seems to me that the theory behind "Free Enterprise" is that the customer will choose the best product or service among those offered, thus enabling an ever better system of products and services. Businesses would sprout up of all kinds and the customer base will pick which ones work, and go back and buy some more of the good ones, but not so much of the poorer performing ones, as evaluated by the customers.

The humongous problem with the system as now practiced, is in the available selection presented to the informed customer base. If the customer is unable to easily find out the options, or if some of the options have been blockaded by the system, the customer cannot choose adequately, to test and see what fits their need the best. Their options are stuck with choosing among what advertising tells them, and what is available after big business has staked out its territories.

There are root causes, more than the single minded drive to make the most profit for the least effort. Such as ... imagine for a moment, that someone has invented some widget, say a simple battery powered cheap gadget, that a person could use that would work better to maintain good health, than does much of the conventional extremely expensive medical system of chemical pills and surgical knife getting rid of the bad things in a person's body and mind. And that thousands of people worldwide have individually exprimented and found that the electronic gizmo does indeed work. But widespread adoption of the cheap electonic gizmo would bring down trillions of dollars of the existing health industry; and that means a lot of jobs that are well paid and people need that income coming in month by month to pay their commitments from mortgage to college ed for kids to groceries. Millions of people. Perhaps most of all the powerful investors, who like those easy dividends continuing rolling in on time. Consciously or unconsciously they will all work to keep the existing system functioning as it already is. That means, no little cheap electronic gozmo is going to be allowed to step up and prove its worth in comparison to the existing mega system.

There is lots of incentive to quietly hide and erase the existence of the little electronic gizmo. By lots of people. Who have the territory staked out in many ways.

Yet this seems a violation of the ""Free Enterprise" system. Customers are supposed to be able to pick and choose from all options. Yet existing business commitments have taken the measures to prevent that option to the customer base. Low cost of health and improved wellbeing has been denied the customer base, sacrificed to maintain the jobs and lucrative existing business system.

So ... maybe there is a way to have the American nation step in and ease the transition - in this example - for the existing pharmaceutical and medical system, while the honest evaluation is going on as to what actually is the most efficient protocols possible, instead of the protocols permitted by the business-profit-guided system. Continuing to provide the income to all those who would lose their jobs and yes even their stock dividends, while the customer base shifts to the hypothetical widget that generally obsoletes a significant amount of prior conventional medial protocols. The customers benefit overall, with better health and less down time, even when paying for non-working medical systems, which still have going for them the things they can do best. So some form of buffer system would enable this to happen, spotting the obsoleted protocols and materials, and finding new uses for them that work well. Lots of on-the-job-retraining going on, paid for by the American system, which is greatly benefiting overall per the customer base.

Now, this kind of thing does not seem possible in a free-for-all anarchical tunnel-visioned "Free Enterprise" arena, where business is free to stake out territory against potential rivals, and to subtly ditch the upcoming potential competition by all sorts of trickery. Cheaper to do that, than to make a better product, by far, too much of the time, as has been going on for a very long time.

Probably the reader of this - if there are any - has long ago realized that the missing part is that things are not done by protocols and gizmos, they are done by a hierarchy of people, a system that makes people function harmoniously by knowing their place in the who-is-boss-of-whom grand scheme of things. And the upper bosses insist that only they can make the significant decisions, as proof of their right to occupy the lucrative positions. Protocols, elaborate chemical pills and the wielded surgical knife are all just footballs in their games. They are the shakers and movers, all that counts in the system. Customer base making decisions, hah. Customers are not boss. And who is boss is all that counts among this mentality. "Free Enterprise" thus is mere slogan camouflage, like waving a little American flag hiding their gun to pretend patriotism. The criteria for who climbs higher in this business hierarchy is not the evaluation of the resulting optimal evaluation by the customer base given all possible options from which to choose.

Ah, my little cup of wine is long emptied and has mostly worn off. Remaining are the echos of words of wisdom by a former coworker, who would comment that Parker Brothers are the ones to blame. Puzzling about that seemingly off-the-wall statement, the realization would seep in that the Parker Bros games, such as Monopoly, so conditioned the young minds as to have created the dysfunctional paths we are now so solidly following.

But does "blaming" work? It seems to me that the thing that works is to go in and fix the problem.

But, I again forget, it is only the "bosses" who enable things to happen. And they are too busy with other things. And political bosses can eventually be voted out if they are not doing the good job; but corporate bosses cannot even be voted out, we are stuck with them.

"Blog for Choice"

On an email list that today suggests making a blog entry about women ought to have the final say-so on their reproductive choice decisions, instead of men. So, here is mine.

Are American women mere reproductive machines for the men powerful enough to acquire them and use them to crank out progeny for those males? Seems quite cave man-ish. I thought we had gotten more civilized.

On the other hand, a man may marry a woman with intent to reproduce his kind in harmony with her, as she with him in partnership. The man may invest all his earnings during the marriage, to share equally with her, with her part largely being to conceive, gestate, and do much of the raising of the children. But what if she accepts his employed earnings and other help yet does not want to have children with him? It seems to be an agreement thing to be resolved between them to the satisfaction of each, instead of something to be resolved by laws requiring women to carry every conception to term and spend much of their life raising the children.

The implication by the men is also that women ought not do lovemaking unless going to have children by the participating male. Especially when women's birth control use has been hindered by something. Yet throughout mankind's existence, women's huge capacity for lovemaking with men 24/7 has united mankind to make great achievements together, instead of the mammalian herd animal's mode of a few dominant males attack the other males and do all the reproduction fertilization.

Women need to be free, in aggregate, to make love with all the men, none left out, so as to maximize human resources for civilization productivity; and that means they need to have the means to control their reproduction in the rare instances they might get fertilized in the process, without that being the intent.

Governed by a consortium of corporations

With the takeover of Kennedy's seat by the GOP yesterday in Massachusetts, and thus ending the Democrat's majority for being able to get projects done despite the phalanx of the GOP, I once again have been idly and briefly thinking: could the United States really be governed by a consortium of corporations run solely to make maximum profit for least value added? And presumably have the elected government only have the remaining function of interfacing with those that are there for "providing the common defense," in other words, merely for the civilian population to interface with the Pentagon. All else would be privatized.

Government would then no longer function to enable the projects needed for integrating the nation for wholesomeness of the entire American people, in that scenario. For example, such as the nation's transportation system's upkeep and improvement. Such activities, if they continued at all, could only be done by corporations for profit, extracting money from anybody who would want to drive or ride anywhere, extracted on the spot. Toll booths at every interstate border, maybe even at every city limit.

Healthcare would get far worse than it already is, in such a mode; even more businessmen figuring out a way to weasel in to leverage a monetary portion of all healing that went on. It is sick people that would bring in maximum business for such medical-related businessmen; it is not not well people. To make maximum profit for least value added, guess what. Even I can see the game.

New hordes of businessmen of the in-group to get easy money, the easy life, for joining in. Would that really be a way to prevent a tyrant from taking over the government someday?

This kind of scenario seems to me to maybe be the basic vision the GOP party says it promotes. And some indication that some of them believe the ends justifies the means; lots of fear synchronized in the news gets scared people to vote for the GOP, typically, instead of courageously daring to reach for a better life. Is their way the only option against some day a dictator taking over and ruling everybody for selfish purposes, absolute power corrupting absolutely? Is a horde of petty tyrants preferable to one humongous tyrant, in other words. Surely this country has better options than either of those.

Making the assumption that a country could be benevolently run by a group of corporations which are solely ruled by maximizing corporate profits to supply to their investors, maybe that could work, if somehow "maximum profit for least value added" could equate in aggregate to "maximum improvement in life quality for all Americans." Right now, there seems to me to be a very large gap between the two, needing to be bridged.

Additionally, there seems to be a continuing pattern of gamesmanship, for the purpose of making winners by making losers of the other folks. While this fits in the finest of exciting team sports activities, and thereby conditioning the mentalities of enthusiasts, American government "by the people and for the people" does not seem to me to be an appropriate place for that kind of activity. (PS BTW the new law that corporations can spend unlimited advertising and pressure for their narrow interests, as if they were an individual, suggests that the government "by the people and for the people" will soon need to be changed to read "American government by the most powerful corporations for the most powerful corporations."

The GOP has at times in the past been a fine political group that was able to accomplish great things for America. But it has too often been largely taken over by narrow interest groups that are far more for themselves than for America. And some of the current power in the GOP possibly comes from their aggregate guilty feelings about some of what they did in the eight years of the previous administration, and use the tactic of pointing the finger of blame away from themselves furiously so as to prevent having to deal with their own huge errors. Blaming is a dominant mode of some of the psychological types; blaming of others, that is. Yet the only constructive mode is to identify problem origins as problems, seek how to avoid falling into those modes again, and move on to get the job done of making America function optimally for Americans - instead of for powerful narrow interest groups that have expertise in greed, deception, smoke&mirrors and insideously spreading false information about their supposed enemies, yikes! I recently saw a circulating email where they had a long list of public works over the decades initiated by Democrats and saying they were all failures as proven by the assertion that they had not made a profit! Clearly they missed the point of it all; we are all on the same ship together, why can't they see that? Such is the philosophy they have, such tunnel special interest vision. Almost as if they function as mere predators on America and its resources. Winner take all. Making profit instead of making better, basically, seems to be their implied golden standard. Yet there surely are worthy skills among even those who practice such things; American needs to find ways to enable those fine honorable and constructive modes to shine forth in them, as in all Americans.

Ah, well, there are a huge number of things people do that seem to make little sense to me. To ponder it too much is just another crazymaker. Write a little rant in a blog that others seem to not be able to find, write it off as done. Looks like we the American population are due for more experience in getting our noses rubbed in it, to eventually learn the lesson. Surely there are more interesting and fun ways to get the daily dose of drama, to keep life from being boring. And yes, I know they did not ask me. So, what's new, as it is said.