Facebook Posts - September 2019

The thing to watch is heart rate. This walk was at 11 min / km pace. Heart rate was within 130 for most of the walk.

Previously made a 4 km walk at 8 min / km pace, which is very fast and at the speed that I used to walk at when I was younger, rate jumped to 170, which should have been my max.

Maybe I am too much focused on all these devices and heart rates, and would have been better off not knowing or caring any of these. As they say ignorance is bliss.

And you don't need all these devices and hand bands to measure your heart rate anyway. Check the frequency of your breath and that will tell your heart rate. Panting? You have reached max heart rate and suffering Oxygen lag.

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• Bata, North Star. Loafer shoe, no lace. Size 10.

1-Sep-2019 7:29 am

Until I ran a deep search on twitter to figure out this one was a 30 something white male.

The no-news on the shooter's identity should have been a give away.

Time changes.

1-Sep-2019 8:15 am

This boy was an Islamist, a jihadist, anti-imperialist, fully concerned about Syria, Kashmir and had been sharing all the latest post of our known celebrities on these same ideologies.

So what's the last thing he might do?

Commit suicide.

Yet he did just that jumping from roof top yesterday. And this is his final note. Knowing fully well of the consequences and punishments and then telling us "well God can forgive us if He wants to anyway."

A bad ending. And what's the sin that he committed in life to face such a consequence? He told us that too, in case we agree to accept it : continuous miss-behavior with one's parents.

Well, how can someone so much concerned of the Ummah, can engage in such a grave sin as to not know how to behave with one's parents?

Maybe we are so much focused on jihad that we have made every other thing moot including those major things as good behavior with parents.

Time to refocus on what's most important first.

A stark opposite end to our Zaved Kaisar vai, both at the same time, but with a different lesson.

Soon it will get harder figuring out what's right, simply from watching signs.

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1-Sep-2019 3:03 pm

Figured out no one actually is. That they are buried there is a comforting word that's being told us by the agencies. But reality differs.

I did know of this for Medina, as the graveyard there is too small to accommodate all the Hajjis dying there. Even though the graves are cycled, not all local arabs in Medina get a place there. Only the elites get a place there that Saudi gov issues a permit for.

Was checking Javed vai's grave location. As published on FB it's called مقبرة شهداء الحرم translating "Graveyard for the Shahids of Haram". Located it on google maps. And the distance recorded 12 km from haram.

So is it within the border of haram? Still no. The border of haram ends at Aisha mosque on that side. Which measures 2 km. So where is Muallah? The famous cemetery of Mecca? That's 1 km from the Haram, that is within the borders of Haram.

But nevertheless it's still within the border of Hillah, the area encircled by Miqat, and nearest to Muallah than any other graveyard.

May Allah accept their good deeds and enable us to follow them.

Pic in comment showing Javed vais burial location, Aisha mosque, Muallah [the yellow star beside Aisha mosque] and the Haram.

Sharing this for our future understanding.

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1-Sep-2019 10:39 pm

1-Sep-2019 11:18 pm

- Cardiac arrest.

Reminds me of the 1991 cyclone we watched hitting Chittagong. Its gusting air speed, still remember, was 330 km/hr. 150,000 people died in the resulting coastal waves that came with the cyclone. That count is for only bodies-found. Actual count was then estimated at 300,000 as many bodies were washed over to the ocean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Bangladesh_cyclone

It toppled the second largest TV transmission tower in BD which was in Chittagong. And later a tender was issued calling to build a tower that can sustain 330 km/hr wind hit.

I still remember stories of miraculous survivals and deaths from that surge that were spreading like tales.

These days super storms like these are getting so frequent, that those are now almost a no-news event.

3-Sep-2019 1:50 am

You can pay with your whole heart all that you wish, but they would never payback a cent of you money. Forget the interest, that was a bait anyway.

And as like you never win in gambling, you never win in Insurance too. Not even if you face the accident that you are insured against. And even NOT IF they mysteriously pay for your loss.

You want to insure yourself? Better save the premium you wished to pay yourself, and use that fund in your hard times.

Not only you gain double the benefit this way as no insurance company in the world pays back more than 50% of the premium collected, but also you get a 10 times larger payback this way, as you are comparing the investment with a BD company, which most likely would have never paid you back anyway.

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3-Sep-2019 2:25 am

I don't find a problem with others trolling on what Taheri said.

But I do find problem when people try to engage the government in it, and try to ban or punish him for what he said.

That something is a "Bid'a, Munafeqi, not-Sunnah" has nothing to do with our justice system or our government.

I rather appreciate Taheri's stand on it "If law enforcement want to monitor what I say, let them monitor and I am not a bit concerned about it. And if they find anything illegal, let them do whatever they are supposed to do."

This attitude of 'I don't give a damn on what others say' is something that I can learn from.

3-Sep-2019 12:52 pm

Basically walked to Banani graveyard, did some work, then returned.

3-Sep-2019 9:25 pm

আমাকে কেউ ব্লেক মেজিক করলো, আমি আত্মহত্যা করলাম -- আমি কি জাহান্নামি হবো নাকি হবো না?

ধরি কেউ ব্লেক মেজিক করে নি। আমি সুস্থ সবল হাসি খুশি স্বাভাবিক। হটাৎ শয়তানের প্ররোচনায় আত্মহত্যা করলাম। জাহান্নামি? এখানে শয়তান দোষি।

উল্টো দিক থেকে সিমানা বাড়াই :

ঘুমের ঘোরে আমি হাটি। স্লিপ ওয়াকিং। এই অবস্থায় বাসার ছাদে হেটে বরডার থেকে লাফ দিলাম। জাহান্নামি?

কেউ পাগল হয়ে গেলো। এর পর আত্মহত্যা করলো? সে? জাহান্নামি?

আচ্ছা :

কেউ যদি বলে উপরের কেইসগুলোর মাঝে কে জাহান্নামি কে জান্নাতি আমরা জানি না। আল্লাহ তায়ালা যে কাউকে মাফ করে দিতে পারেন। তবে কি সে মুরজিয়া?

জানা নেই।

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• পাগল আর ঘুমন্ত ব্যক্তির উপর থেকে কলম তুলে নেয়া হয়েছে।

4-Sep-2019 6:12 am

"হাটা বা দৌড়ানোর হিসাব কি করে করেন?"

এনড্রইড মোবাইল ফোনে। fitness tracker, step counter, run counter, walk counter এই সব শব্দ দিয়ে সার্চ দিন -- হাজার হাজার এপ পাবেন। এর মাঝে যে কোনোটা ডাউনলোড করে ইন্সটল করে নিন।

আপনার মোবাইলে জিপিএস থাকতে হবে। রান বা ওয়াক স্টার্ট দিয়ে হাটবেন বা দৌড়াবেন, প্রোগ্রেস দেখাবে। শেষে স্টপ দিলে হিসাব-প্রোগ্রেস-স্টেটিসটিকস দেখাবে। ফেসবুকে শেয়ার করার অপশনও পাবেন।

"অনেক এপের মাঝে কোনটা আপনি ব্যবহার করেন? আমি কোনটা করবো?"

যেটায় কোনো এড নেই এবং ইন-এপ পারচেস নেই। ডাউনলোড করার আগেই এপ স্টোর দেখায় কোন এপে এড-পারচেস আছে। সেগুলো বাদ দিয়ে যাবেন। Google এর নিজস্ব একটা আছে "Fit" নামে। সেটা দিয়ে ট্রাই করতে পারেন।

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• Mi Band 4 and corresponding android app "Mi Fit"

4-Sep-2019 6:54 am

India is about to land its rover on the lunar surface if everything else goes right. Right now it's orbiting the moon riding the satellite it was originally launched with.

Question : if the rover wants to travel the whole perimeter on the surface of the moon and return back to its starting point, how many kilometers does it have to travel?

We know that for going around the earth it's 40,000 km. As that's how the kilometer was defined initially.

For a rough calculation on moon, we have two data, the diameter of the moon in night sky, which is half a degree. And distance of the moon which is 400,000 km.

Calculating from these two give a number of 10,000 km. Which is almost what the actual figure is.

Ending with a moonwalk video going viral on social media. Even though it might look like it's in BD, it's actually from India.

https://www.facebook.com/9NewsMelbourne/videos/2498905736842116/

Old timer's nostalgia : in the 80s "moonwalk" actually meant MJ seemingly walking forward while actually moving backward.

4-Sep-2019 7:58 pm

The strike on Iran might be carried out by Israel, instead of USA. But it's inevitable. Will happen. Most likely earlier instead of later. Reports NYT today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/magazine/iran-strike-israel-america.html

But none of these mean Iran will retaliate. It might choose to simply file a complaint under UN and be done with it.

Reminds me of Israeli fighter's raid and bombing of Saddam's nuclear reactor in Iraq in 1981. The fighters traveled over Jordanian and Saudi airspace to reach near Baghdad, bombed the reactors and returned. Iraq though raged, couldn't do anything.

The video of that bombing was played so many times on TV at that time, that I still remember it.

So what's the lesson here? The nation that God wants to win will continue to win for as long as He wishes them to win.

We wait, eyes on the sky.

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• মিশরিরা শাফি। যেখানে দাড়ি রাখার গুরুত্ব হানাফিদের থেকে কম। একারনে একই রকম মালয়শিয়াতেও দেখা যায় যারা শাফি।

4-Sep-2019 10:10 pm

But aren't robots supposed to run by themselves? That's what they were meant for? That's true, but apparently -- they can't still. Which is why these job opportunities are growing. Reports WSJ.

These are jobs like remotely operating a flying delivery drone -- those still can't fly in every terrain. Remotely operating a sentry guard robot -- those can't handle unusual situations, a human needs to step in, and guarding is about handling unusual situations. And works likewise.

Link in comment.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-next-hot-job-pretending-to-be-a-robot-11567224001?mod=rsswn

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• https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-next-hot-job-pretending-to-be-a-robot-11567224001?mod=rsswn

5-Sep-2019 8:03 pm

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• কিন্তু... কিন্তু... আমি তো জানতাম আমেরিকায় কেউ যেতে পারলে সে আর ফিরে না!?! :-/

5-Sep-2019 10:18 pm

Well not exactly in "forever", as I could walk just as fast previously. But fell sick to multiple diseases that put me mostly in bed for the last 12 years.

Apparently recovering.

All thanks for Allah.

5-Sep-2019 10:50 pm

But I no longer am the driving force behind it -- this thought is so soothing.

6-Sep-2019 7:40 am

So China made a large progress in nuclear fusion and is about to reap the reward, right?

Wrong. Then the details, it runs only for 10 seconds and is far from generating any usable energy.

Nuclear fusion power is as far off, at it had been for the last 40 years.

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-east-experimental-advanced-superconducting-tokamak-nuclear-fusion-reactor-100-million-degrees-2018-12

6-Sep-2019 8:02 am

His strategy was to grab all farm land from white people, and distribute those to blacks. But blacks couldn't run the equipment, neither could harvest or manage the farms. The net food exporter nation quickly became an importer. But where would the money come from? He started printing money leading to hyper inflation where billions and billions of Zimbabwean dollars couldn't buy a bread.

And one can assume that he would have seen that his strategy wasn't working and would have backed off at one point. He didn't do that.

If one needs a proof that not all nations can rule themselves -- he should look at Zimbabwe. Self rule sounds good in theory, until the whole nation leave their free state willfully to become the asylum seeker slaves of the other nation that they have kicked out from their land previously.

Life is tough. And high pitched emotion can't feed a nation.

This one was a strongly opinioned post.

6-Sep-2019 2:21 pm

6-Sep-2019 11:59 pm

That makes it the second nation to fail a lunar landing after Israel.

Don't know if this is a good news in the morning or a bad news. [ :-) ? or :'( ? ]

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• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/isro-loses-contact-with-vikram-when-it-was-just-2km-from-lunar-surface/articleshow/71018212.cms

7-Sep-2019 5:46 am

Here are the possible reasons :

- Maybe moon landing is indeed fake. The other nations that claim to have performed it also failed, but they simply chose to lie instead to accept the truth. Problem with Israel and India was that they were live broadcasting the landing, and were caught off guard, couldn't fake it anymore and had to come out with the truth.

- Maybe moon being a pure place doesn't like any nation landing there with an impure heart. And as such on some scale USA, Russia and China pass a threshold, which Israel and India don't.

- And don't forget "Nibiru", the secret planet that scientist deny ever exists. And as a reason they don't include its gravitational pull in their calculation, and thus all their missions fail.

- Conspiracy from Pakistan? Maybe they reached the moon before India and were waiting there with their guns.

7-Sep-2019 1:55 pm

|| South Africa

Riot in South Africa is on going against all foreigners and migrants. The second wave within a week. This comes after we had been reading of Bangladeshis being killed there every week for the last 6 month.

The media isn't highlighting it, but people are getting burnt there alive on the street, video of which are on tweeter. And if a foreigner has a shop or business there, God save him.

Another sign of anti-Migrant movement now taking over the whole world, including our country. Sign of the time.

|| The "Barbar"

Anyone who have read "Al-Fitan" from Nuaim bin Hammad should be familiar with the term "barbar"s of Africa. They are supposed to wreck havoc Egypt starting a new phase of tribulation. I was always in a lost as to who they were. And assumed they should be the black nations from mid Africa.

Until a few days ago, when figured out all the north African arab countries except Egypt are called "barbar". Which includes Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco.

That changes a lot for those that are looking for a match.

7-Sep-2019 6:02 pm

In the 2000s when Bush was in power, then people were using posters from that film to express their disapproval for the president. King George as in George W. Bush.

But those were only for funny display, not literal. Today's news : Trump is showing erratic behavior and people are really concerned about his mental health.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-aides-worried-about-mental-state-alabama-hurricane-dorian-2019-9

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7-Sep-2019 11:36 pm

Khabib still managed to jump off the ring like last time. But instead of punching his enemies he hugged his team this time.

Most of the game was Khabib just grabbing his opponent until 5 minutes of the round was over.

The full fight is available on youtube, but these are all illegal uploads as the game was possibly only on pay per view. Which means these clips will be removed shortly.

By the way, Khabib is actually Habib, but a lack of a "H" in Russian language made it Khabib.

8-Sep-2019 6:26 am

There's question of legality. But it's unethical for the one who's buying it from me. Me selling my service shouldn't be unethical, at least that's my justification anyway :-)

There are many types of article writing. This one covers writing homework and solving assignments for USA kids. :-)

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• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/us/college-cheating-papers.html

8-Sep-2019 7:16 am

Not only is QM now not explainable, scientists have taken the stand that anyone who tries to explain it should be counted as out of the bounds of science. Therefore anyone who touches it loses his grands for research.

QM mysteries took a sharper turn in the late 90s and early 2000. That's when I was following it.

Basically right now if you want to touch the explanation of QM, you need to talk on God or at least "Intelligent Design". That's a no-go zone for science. They are scared.

That's my take anyway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/quantum-physics.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/quantum-physics.html

8-Sep-2019 12:50 pm

Note that this region sees the largest number of deaths from lightening in the whole world. 25% of all deaths worldwide. Only a single district Sunamganj had 100 deaths from lightening within the last 4 years.

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• http://mzamin.com/article.php?mzamin=189437

8-Sep-2019 4:09 pm

|| Registered mail

Here's how I was delivered a mail today. Once the delivery man has handed me the papers, he sends a confirmation to the courier service. The courier service's server sends me a SMS containing a code. The delivery man has to collect the code from me and punch it in his phone. On acceptance it's recorded as delivered. No signing required.

This sounds best way to deliver registered mail. No way he can not deliver it and fake the papers as delivered.

|| Credit Card

As soon as I handed over my card the sales man told me to punch in my 4 digit PIN. This should ring a thousand alarm. He can just clone my card, take this PIN and withdraw money from ATM.

This has happened previously. In Shawpno Banani sales center. Where the sales man was wearing a card reader as bracelet on his hand. And then watched the buyer punching in the number.

Was my Bank stupid? or is this sales man faking?

Then noticed this new card I had wasn't a standard magnetic card that can be cloned. Rather it's one of those microchip card which can't be cloned. He can take my PIN but then he has to fight and take the card from me too. In Swapno's case, the bank was using standard magnetic card and still prompting the user to punch in the 4 digit PIN in open. That was a no-no.

So has security increased or decreased?

Increased I guess. Previously whenever I lost a card, was always scared that someone might be using it to purchase something expensive on my name. Because there weren't any other security in place other than being the card holder.

Now it's two factor. You need to know the number too.

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8-Sep-2019 6:03 pm

I was watching cattle price after Eid. Especially at the border area. Was assuming that cattle price should be one fourth of that of peak season at this time. Figured out isn't actually. Still priced the same as was at Eid. Maybe a little bit more.

Videos are on youtube.

The way to go is online. Sell your cattle online and more likely you will have a better opportunity. One company sold their 100 cattle in two days as soon as they put those online.

Also in Aftabnagar cattle market, a lot of camera teams were roaming around. They were taking snaps of live cattle, uploading those over facebook, add their price and live chat with the buyer. If he agrees, they purchase it, hire a pickup and deliver it to his door -- hassle free. Good business I would say.

All these point to a future where online is the way to go.

8-Sep-2019 11:49 pm

What if USA doesn't withdraw? Well then all those big promises from Trump that he delivered before election are as void as other presidents' talks that Trump used to attack for being void.

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• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-camp-david.html

9-Sep-2019 3:27 am

Birdman - Watched in Bangladesh Television [BTV] in 1975-76. The very first cartoon that I used to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alXW_hS0gSo

Fantastic 4 - Watched BTV : 1975.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuWl4RTerCc

Battle of the planets. Anime, Watched BTV : 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acOnskcyrtA

Spider Man - this one was the first of many later reboots. Watched BTV : 1982.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsx3JCw62WQ

Those where the one I watch alone. The other more popular ones like Thunder Cats, Voltron don't ring that much nostalgia.

9-Sep-2019 2:46 pm

Later as tech improved, they were replaced by less skilled strikers assisted by better technologies.

Here a recent hostage situation in China, where a man has taken a women hostage in a public place. The sniper was called in. He shot a single bullet from afar and in between the legs of another man who was covering him.

Kudos.

9-Sep-2019 10:26 pm

Though I let my heart get frozen
To keep away the rot
My father says I’m chosen
My mother says I’m not

I listened to their story
Of the gypsies and the Jews
It was good, it wasn’t boring
It was almost like the blues

- Leonard Cohen

9-Sep-2019 11:23 pm

What's making BD going right now isn't remittance or garments. It's foreign aid, that amounts to $6 billion. Which is an increase over $3 billion from last years. For comparison exports we talked about above also amounts to $3 billion.

Think of Rohingas saving the day. At least for the next few days.

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• http://mzamin.com/article.php?mzamin=189609

10-Sep-2019 6:31 am

Remember Sarah Palin?

10-Sep-2019 6:55 am

Worst would be another extension.

10-Sep-2019 7:09 am

Interestingly e-cig was introduced as a safe alternate to old cigarettes, that was supposed to deliver only nicotine, the addicting element.

10-Sep-2019 7:49 am

|| জিহাদ সিমিত

শিয়াদের ফিকাহ মতে আক্রমনাত্মক জিহাদ বলে কিছু নেই। রাসুলুল্লাহ ﷺ কখনো করেন নি। বরং এটা চালু করেছে ওমর রা: ইরাক বিজয়ের সময়। এবং শিয়ারা ওমর রা: কে শত্রু মনে করে। জিহাদ শুধুমাত্র রক্ষনাত্মক।

এখান থেকে শিক্ষনিয় হলো একারনে ইরান গায়ে পড়ে আক্রমন সাধারনতঃ করবে না। প্রথমে আক্রান্ত হতে হবে। এর পর তারা হিংস্র হয়ে যাবে। ইরাক-ইরান যুদ্ধের সময় যেরকম দেখেছি।

|| তকদিরে বিশ্বাস নেই

তকদির মানে আল্লাহ তায়ালা আগেই সব কিছু লিখে রেখেছেন কি হবে সেই মতো সব কিছু হচ্ছে। অথবা ভালো মন্দ সব আল্লাহর তরফ থেকে আসে। শিয়াদের মতে এটা কমপ্লেক্স এজন্য এটা বিশ্বাস করে না। তারা বিশ্বাস করে শুধু মানুষের কর্মের উপর তার ফলাফল নির্ভরশিল।

শুধু এই বিশ্বাসের জন্য সুন্নিরা তাদেরকে ইসলামের গন্ডির বাইরে ধরতে পারে। যেহেতু আকিদার সবচেয়ে ছোট লিমিটের মাঝেও এই বিষয়টা থাকে। আমানতু বিল্লাহি ওয়া মালাইকাতিহি ... যারা পড়েন।

এতে শিক্ষনিয় হলো হাদিসে শেষ যুগে তকদিরে অবিশ্বাসিদের ব্যপারে যা কিছু বলা আছে, সেগুলো শিয়াদের ব্যপারে ধরা যেতে পারে।

10-Sep-2019 3:56 pm

Great job done. Tribute.

10-Sep-2019 5:40 pm

John Bolton out. Yes you read that right. He just said he quit.
https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1171455806069305346

Trump says he is fired.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1171452881729228802

I blame global warming. :V

Comments:
• *quit <-- guess i spelt it right this time in the status too.

10-Sep-2019 10:34 pm

Next watch Israel.

10-Sep-2019 11:27 pm

The catch is battery lasts only 18 hours. You need to charge every night, and thus can't check the time at night.

11-Sep-2019 12:22 am

The streaming service market is getting crowded. And everyone seems to be making their original content.

11-Sep-2019 2:43 am

Our childhood.

In case you were wondered what "Inflation" is.

How BD has now exceeded Singapore fulfilling our dream.

The generation that cries for a good slapping.

Didn't know I was always dropping my phone the right way.

Warning : Cuteness overload.

Me now vs when was young, :-)

Always safe putting mom in the exception list anyway.

The Mom!

11-Sep-2019 8:06 pm

This is in stark contrast to what we knew 20 years back. Then it was said : Sell before peak, buy before rise and you will get rich soon. Until it was shown that there is no way one can predict when the market will go up or down.

As a solution they introduced funds managed by smart investors, that *knew* which share to buy and sell. Until it was shown none of them did better than the market index.

Even worse : as you need to provide these smart chaps with a big cut of your profit for their useless advice, you earn less.

Introduced computer algorithm, surely some kind of math can predict the market? Until it was shown that none of them works no matter how much data from the world you feed it.

Then everybody jumped to index fund. Which did better as there's no cut for the big head -- the market wolfs.

Then it was shown you don't actually need someone to tell you what an index fund is either. Just buy some random share tossing coin over the air and you will do just as good as the index fund.

And today's news : Scientific research shows it's impossible to make a living from day trading. :V :V
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3423101

20 years and people I thought were the smartest wolf in the streets -- are just puff in the air.

Work hard and build something real that makes peoples life easier. That's the secret sauces to success.

11-Sep-2019 9:43 pm

So what's next after Bolton?

USA might now be looking for peace with Iran. Oil price has fallen today watching this sign.

And increase troops in Afghanistan -- they want to win this war badly. Trump tweeted about reincarnation of war in Afghanistan for the last few days.

If anyone said the above 2 weeks ago, I would have called him crazy. ROFL.

Or maybe something else might happen and these are just camouflage for that.

Keep watching.

Comments:
• https://www.arabnews.com/node/1553141/world

11-Sep-2019 10:15 pm

Summarizing the timeline of the history that I lived through. Which movement was at its peak at which era that I have witnessed.

|| 70s : Communist

It was the communists all over the world. I could hardly understand politics at that age. But saw the leftovers from that decade in the 80s. Most of all islamic movements at that era also revolved around communism. Think of Maolana Vashani in BD, and how popular he was. Communism lost it's charm by the end of this decade and was mostly eradicated by 90 after the fall of USSR, modern Russia.

|| 80s : Shibir

Branch of Ikhwan movement from Egypt. It rose in popularity in the 80s. And at that time most of all islamist students in BD varsities were involved with Shibir. There were no second movement that I knew of then. Popularity started to dwindle by the end of that decade.

|| 90s : Tablig

Popularity of the Tablig movement within the students rose in the 90s. This was the peak. There was a separate student branch and they were mainly leading it. The student branch was closed by the end of this decade and the work faced stalemate by 2010.

|| 2000 : Hijbut Tahrir

This was the time that it took off within the varsity students in BD. It was replacing Shibir, and most of the people you know that support HT are from this genre. It ended by the end of this decade when it was declared illegal, and faced hard government crack down.

|| 2010 : Jihadi

Gained popularity in this decade and replaced HT. These were all basically underground team. But divided in a bunch of fractions each lead by a local leader. They passed their zenith after their corresponding groups lost in the middle east wars.

|| Now

We are watching the future to see what's next.

#Timeline

13-Sep-2019 1:14 am

As a solution I had another 30k Lenovo laptop sitting in the store unutilized. Dusted it off, charged it, ditched the preinstalled Win 10, installed Fedora, rsynced the work files from the Thinkpad to here -- and well, I have complete working system up within a day.

The only down side I feel is that this one doesn't have a backlit keyboard. And it's very tough to work in the dark without one. Even though I touchtype but need assistant during typing numbers and controls.

Other than that I don't see any dramatic difference between the top end and low end computers. The cheap one I am using now has a 1TB HD, 4GB RAM and probably a dual core celeron processor. But that isn't a factor. That the processor is still a 64 bit is a factor and was enough.

The lesson? You don't need a high end laptop for work. Though it's a nice to have thing if you work in group and everybody quietly compare who has the most expensive one. :V

Comments:
• By the way, the Thinkpad possibly can be repaired, But my work can't stop for that duration. Has to continue anyway.

14-Sep-2019 12:11 am

The Islamic teachings that dominated or gained popularity in every decade that I have lived through.

|| 70s : Berlavi

The whole country was behind shrines, spiritual music and saints. I would assume 95% of the population in BD followed the Berlavi ideologies at that time. Milad was regularly arranged at one home or other in the community.

|| 80s : Spread of Deobandi

By this time the Deobandi teachings caught on with the general population. And Berlavi fiqh started to lose traction. Most of the Imams in mosque by this time where Deobandi educated. Milad lost popularity and became rare.

|| 90s : Rise of Ahle Hadith

Ahle hadith teachings started to spread within the educated community. There wasn't any Internet still. And communication was performed person to person and through booklets. The spread was more prominent on the west side of BD. Debates and arguments on differences were frequent and could be watched anywhere people were talking.

|| 2000s : Saudi Salafia

The salfiya movement caught on in BD by this time. Spread by large number of scholars returning from Medina university, satellite channels, and the internet. At one point it seemed to me that salafi teaching will take over Deobandi.

|| 2010s : Return of Deobandi

By this time we saw a revival of Deobandi teaching. Pumped by Deobandi scholars now becoming media aware and bracing it, which they were mostly avoiding before this time. And the arguments from the Salafi scholars becoming more tolerant toward the Deobandi teachings.

#timeline

14-Sep-2019 6:50 am

I don't have colon cancer, but was checking regardless what the survival rate is *if* I had it anyway. Figured out there's a 10% chance of me surviving after 5 years.

Not sure whether I should be happy or sad. :V
_____

Dying in the toilet was frowned upon by our *overly correct* generation. But then again, if I am sick and about to die, I surely will vomit or excrete some type of bodily fluid. And in that case it is basic instinct to run to the toilet. And more likely to die there.

Don't know what this generation was thinking. Right now every time I run into toilet I have to fear : will I be dying there this time?

And as if that wasn't enough, now there's a second way NOT to die from : colon cancer. As if there are some right places to get a cancer and a wrong place.

This hopeless generation. Face palm. :V

14-Sep-2019 7:36 am

Saudi military on high alert. But what more can they do? They are already fighting Houthis. Fight more?

The same can be said about Trump's renewed interest in fighting Talibans. Then what? Weren't USA fighting hard enough in Afghanistan to win this war in 18 years?

I don't see how a new Afghan war can revive now. USA will need a supply route and there's no Musharraf in Pakistan to provide that. Was watching Imran Khan's interview with russian RT news and he was saying it was our grave mistake providing USA support for Afghan war in 2001. He won't be doing it. And Trump's last year tweet accusing Pakistan doesn't help either.

Comments:
• Saudis started teh war some 10 years back when houthis were ascending to power because Saudis didn't like the houthis.

14-Sep-2019 1:59 pm

But the feeling is like this is the calm before the storm. The irony : peace but not really "in peace".

Too calm, should we say.

14-Sep-2019 9:24 pm

And there is no news that Saudis prevented part of the attack or even were able to detect the drones. When the first news broke out in the morning today everyone was unsure if that's a local accident or something else.

Its american anti missile systems are there, but has been proven useless in this attack. The low flying small sized drones aren't detectable on radar. There were 10 involved and most of all struck their targets. These are cheap and have possibly flown a thousand kilometers deep inside Saudi.

Imagine the chaos that will ensue if they start using those against more vulnerable targets.

Saudis by now should be feeling like sitting duck.

15-Sep-2019 1:05 am

In case this escalates, which is a high possibility, USA and Israel won't have to run the show. They can just sit back and watch war break out between KSA and Iran.

Keep watching. Situation changing every week so drastically that it's like chaos.

15-Sep-2019 5:57 am

15-Sep-2019 10:04 am

Weekend is over and it's Sunday. Today's news another garments in Mirpur shutdown their factory and workers blocked the road. 40+ garments factory have been shutdown this year.

Global slowdown hitting Bangladesh. Note that 90% of our export is garments.

Comments:
• http://mzamin.com/article.php?mzamin=190350

15-Sep-2019 3:34 pm

And news indicate this situation is likely to prolong to 6 months. The damages are major.

Second issue : Saudi got a new oil minister just a few days ago replacing the old one. The new minister is a brother of MbS.

15-Sep-2019 3:42 pm

Has the world changed a lot while I wasn't looking? Where have they gone?

And more importantly : am I the only survivor from that Najar hossain generation? In that case am I still the poor man's Najar hossain? or the main stream Najar Hossain now?

Wondering :V

#PoorMansNajarHossain

Comments:
• ^ Accepted. And tagged the post appropriately.

16-Sep-2019 12:40 am

Recently Iran was moving its missiles near Israeli border, in anticipation that if it's struck, it can quickly and effectively retaliate by attacking Israel.

Then two weeks ago Israel bombed every one of the missile bases that Iran was building. But these things aren't new.

What was new is that, one of the most damaging attacks wasn't launched from Israel, but the Israeli drones used in that attack took off from Syria, which Iran wasn't covering with radar and wasn't monitoring. That took it by surprise.

Now how can Israeli drones take off from Syria? Later it was reviled that Saudi was the sponsor here. Iran now wanted to retaliate.

Therefore Iran used an unexpected place like an Iraq base to launch all these drone attacks on KSA and create maximum damage. This time they wanted to hurt it, and not just warn like before. And that took the Saudis off guard too, they weren't monitoring Iraq.

These drones were 3 meter long cruise missile type drones. And Kuwait watched those flying over their head. They are now taking serious actions to prevent any more.

Keep watching.

Comments:
• https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-iranian-drones-launched-iraq-carried-out-attacks-saudi-oil-plants

16-Sep-2019 1:24 am

Satellite images of the site is on net. And shows 20 points hit. Indicating there were more than 20 drones involved, not 10 as previously reported.

And the strike points were very precise. No two drones hit the same target and everyone hit the structure it was supposed to hit.

Next how Saudi/USA retaliate is yet to be seen. The bad thing about bragging on choking Iran through sanctions is that you can't choke it any more no matter what it does. And that's what Trump did to Iran without a reason. Now there is a reason, but no way to put in extra sanctions. USA has to go to war and hope Iran doesn't retaliate.

Comments:
• Two months of practice and my english is improving. Had to fix only 2 grammar after posting this one. It used to be 20. :-)

16-Sep-2019 6:58 am

If I don't, then that should be a big proof that I don't need medical treatment, unlike what some rumor mongers are spreading.

Keep watching. :-)

16-Sep-2019 7:47 pm

And though that was deep.

Only to discover that it was actually "বন্ধু তুই লোকাল বাস"।

It has turned now deeper.

16-Sep-2019 10:59 pm

[ warning : contains music ]

That this one is from 2013 tells a lot on how long this has been going on.

And reminds me of Shuvro Deb the original writer of part of the lyric from the 80s. Haven't heard of him in like ages. Guess he has settled abroad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6tgcfT0qBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6tgcfT0qBo

16-Sep-2019 11:16 pm

Well, wrong. Who would be ruling them? There will be power struggle. And as like the conflict why they weren't able to live in their own land, they won't be able to live in this new land too.

Any nation that can rule themselves can live in their homeland too. If not then they will need foreigners to rule them.

BUT foreigners' rule is "occupation" and they will seek "independence". Leading to conflict, deteriorating situation and then seeking a newer land to start over, again. Rinse, repeat.

17-Sep-2019 6:10 am

Right now it seems neither Saudi nor USA is willing to fight Iran. They are seeking excuses to look the other side and kill this whole incident off.

Trump is to meet with Ruhani of Iran in USA recently. And rumors are that Trump offered Iran 16 billion to go back to the old Obama era agreement with Iran again, which he unilaterally revoked last year.

Even if Ruhani agrees, what prevents USA from backing off again a few days later? And what's the value of an agreement if any side can break it at will, and when a next president will not respect the previous one's deals?

The thing is, everyone knows the current conflict once started, will quickly spin out of control and into territories never visited before.

No one wants to see himself as the one that started it.

17-Sep-2019 6:35 am

// wondering if I have said the same politically incorrect thing in the above paragraph. :V

17-Sep-2019 3:21 pm

That I have witnessed. Interestingly the turning points occur mostly at the beginning of each decade.

|| 1979

This is the year Islamic world turned on its head. Prior to this the world was mostly secular/communist. And events in this year made Islam significant again. Afghan war, Mecca seizure, Iran revolution, Saddam's ascendance all morphed the world. Marked start of the Hijri centrury 1400.

|| 1991

Fall of Communism. The world entered from the era of cold war between two super powers, into a single super power now running it. Start of long decade of peace.

|| 2001

9/11 morphed the world once again. Nothing was same as before. Religion of Islam came into the fore light into world politics.

|| 2011

Arab spring. Beginning of the decade long Syrian war. Middle East now is the battlefield of superpowers, replacing Europe.

#timeline

17-Sep-2019 6:03 pm

Resume writing tips.

Damn you all TicTok users.

The one I have at home is yet to laugh, safe?

Moksed now is in need of a different kind of help.

Can't find anything more to add. Everything is there.

Thumbs up. Don't know where, though.

This is what I also wondered when I was a kid. But don't anymore. :-)

RIP language.

But the notice said exactly not to do this!

17-Sep-2019 10:46 pm

Delayed choice quantum erasure experiment performed on helium atom - proving particles don't exist until observed.
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10152917184723176

Forbes article - the only way our sun can burn is through QM
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10152939757118176

Even scientists will give you contradictory answers when asked basic questions on QM
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10153126466483176

Student's QM essay, rick rolled.
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10153280042618176

Arrival of QM computers in 1995
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10153292739383176

Quran doesn't teach us new science, rather instructs us to use our knowledge of science to watch God's creation.
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10153344951718176

A chess game based on QM rules
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10153378917283176

Physical constants might be different in different locations of the universe -- [ this one was later proven false ]
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10153401887248176

In Bengali : two things from science that prove God's work.
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10153499169368176

A single photon having half a plank momentum - the impossible can happen.
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10153615362173176

China launches a satellite that uses quantum entanglement for communication, that can't be spoofed.
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10153808928598176

Trying to revive an alternate explanation of QM other than Copenhagen Interpretation -- that doesn't work
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10154031765953176

Forbes article on EmDrive -- now proven false
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10154089133523176

As per QM - everyone sees a different reality
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154233240848176

Quantum foam - and vacuum energy explained in this video
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10154235779863176

How QM contradicts the basics of creation of the universe -- instead of explaining it all
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10155360364593176

Gizmodo's explanation of Hawking's last paper on parallel universes. These are physically existing universes outside our own
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10155379714163176

My wild guess on what the seven skies might be
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10156128297133176

QM says the cat is both dead and alive at the same time, and NOT dead *or* alive.
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10156248287243176

Scientists have now taken the stand that anyone trying to explain QM isn't doing science.
https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10156632813633176

#HabibAll

18-Sep-2019 7:13 am

India is facing a cash crunch. Businesses that have tons of money are sitting on it and not lending anything to anyone. This came after Modi's new bankruptcy law which allows businesses to legally not pay back, if it can't afford to.

That turned the market and GDP down. Which now is hitting 5%.

And today's news : cash crisis hits US. Repo rate, the rate banks loan money from central bank suddenly exploded yesterday. So much that Fed cancelled and stopped all transactions at one point blaming "technical difficulty". Later it resumed and Fed had to inject $50 billion into the system.

Comments:
• https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/17/business/overnight-lending-rate-spike-ny-fed/index.html
• Falling apart is India's economy. USA is still going strong.

18-Sep-2019 7:50 am

Figured out that's not the case. He would be travelling about 30 to 50 km horse back riding. And that riding will be basically the horse walking while carrying him on back. Not much better than travel on foot. Galloping doesn't last more than a few minutes.

Therefore daily travel in the old days was around 25 km. Regardless of transport.

18-Sep-2019 12:25 pm

I do have a Jinn story. Was about 20 years ago when I use to drive a cab. So I got dispatched to an old folks home. Out came a very weak old lady. So I use to play Quran very low as I worked my shift. She got in and immediately commented, "I recognize this but it is too low."

Was weird, So I turned it up. She snarled up her lip and said, Oh...the Quran. I said, yes it is! Have u heard it before? Are u a Muslim? She said, I heard it when it was first revealed. And I always knew you would leave Christianity and become A Muslim.

Not gonna lie I was spooked and took refuge with Allah. I said, u knew I would be a Muslim huh? How? She said, because I was there at your birth. First thing that crossed my mind was the shaytan pricking the son of Adam at birth. So I turned around and went to drop her.

Back where I got her. The staff were like what happened? Why didn't u take her where she wanted to go. I just said another can would be on the way and that the lady said weird things. The nurses looked at each other and said, This woman doesn't speak. She hasn't for decades!

18-Sep-2019 7:17 pm

The clear answer is : we in BD are prosecuted for the slightest negative comment that we might write against our government. Which is why sitting in BD we write on usa or middle eastern politics, while those currently residing in saudi or USA write on BD politics. Always keeping a safe distance.

And in cases when we write on local politics, we write it vaguely. As like "the situation in Uganda..." where by Uganda we mean BD. All locals understand what one is talking about. Others might find it surprising.

19-Sep-2019 11:27 am

يا من يرى
يا من يرى مد البعوض "جناحها" في ظلمة الليل البهيم الأليل
يا من يرى
و يرى مناط عروقها "في نحرها" و المخ من تلك العظام النُحل
يا من يرى (×2)
يا من يرى مد البعوض "جناحها" في ظلمة الليل البهيم الأليل
و يرى مناط عروقها "في نحرها" و المخ من تلك العظام النُحل
و يرى خرير الدم في أوداجها متنقلا من مفصلٍ في مفصل
أمنن علي بتوبةٍ تمحوا بها ما كان مني في الزمان الأول
يا من يرى (×2) ماكان مني في الزمان الأولي
أمنن علي بتوبة تمحوا بها ما كان مني في الزمان الأول
يا من يرى (×2) ماكان مني في الزمان الأولي
يا من يرى (×2)
و يرى وصول غذى الجنين "ببطنها" في ظلمة الأحشاء بغير تمقل
يا من يرى
و يرى مكان الوطء من "أقدامها" في سيرها و حثيثها المستعجل
يا من يرى (×2)
و يرى وصول غذى الجنين "ببطنها" في ظلمة الأحشاء بغير تمقلِ
يا من يرى
و يرى مكان الوطء من "أقدامها " في سيرها و حثيثها المستعجل
و يرى و يسمع حس ما هو دونها في قاع بحر مظلمٍ متهول
أمنن علي بتوبة تمحوا بها ما كان مني في الزمان الأول
يا من يرى ماكان مني في الزمان لأولي (×2)
يا من يرى

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAUaW05lC2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAUaW05lC2U

19-Sep-2019 2:37 pm

And I was just shocked!

Then read details inside, ... "ইকবাল হোসেন শ্যামল"...

I said oh! :V

19-Sep-2019 4:14 pm

For 10 years he was raged
Then grieved another 10
And then wondered "why?"

Right now, it's just melancholy.

19-Sep-2019 5:35 pm

If I could, I would have stood on the road for the farewell.

19-Sep-2019 7:08 pm

19-Sep-2019 10:09 pm

20-Sep-2019 4:35 am

I wasn't his fan, but everyone around me at that time was.

Comments:
• http://mzamin.com/article.php?mzamin=190986

20-Sep-2019 5:59 am

Wrong. He himself thought that would happen too, but it didn't. He lost. The winner in Israel are the seculars. Netanyahu was far leaning towards the ultra orthodox jews, that want to build the temple. But apparently most of the Israelis don't -- surprise.

So will there be a new one on that chair now? How will that affect the war drums with Iran? Keep watching.

20-Sep-2019 3:12 pm

Comments:
• Right. That needs to be worked on. Or investigated.

20-Sep-2019 7:59 pm

Very bold step as if Trump didn't learn anything from the first one.

Comments:
• https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-defends-conversation-with-ukraine-leader-11568993176

21-Sep-2019 6:35 am

Follows Islamic stand on this issue by every group :

|| Salafi-Madkhali

All revolt, procession, demonstration, opposition or protest against the ruler is strongly forbidden and a grave sin. We should support the ruler even if he is an oppressor, but dislike his works of oppression, not him. And continue to co-operate and obey him in all other ways that aren't forbidden in Islam.

|| Hanafi-Dewbondi

You can revolt against a ruler only when you have a chance of winning, and only if it benefits the community without any harm on themselves. And one should not engage in any anti government activity that puts him or his family in danger.

|| Ikhwani-Jamat

It's one's duty to protest the bad deeds of the rulers and anyone that declines to protest is in sin. And it's obligatory for the people to establish the religion of Islam in government and state because that's the gist of this religion. But this should be done in conventional way through election and procession, and not with arms.

|| Jihadi

Any ruler who breaks the order of Allah in judgment and justice has himself turned non-muslim, including everyone that support him. And they must be fought against with arms. Any muslim who refuses to consider these rulers as non-muslim are themselves "murjia", i.e another type of non-muslim themselves.

21-Sep-2019 1:55 pm

Link in comment.

Comments:
• https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-hong-kong-protesters-umbrellas/

21-Sep-2019 3:47 pm

You have to pay the bank more if you wish to deposit money. And Bank will happily pay you more if you wish to take a loan from the bank.

Comments:
• https://www.reuters.com/article/denmark-rates-jyske-bank/update-1-denmarks-jyske-bank-lowers-its-negative-rates-on-deposits-idUSL5N26B1AA

21-Sep-2019 7:58 pm

Well, right now I don't know what I had been hearing about so long.

Comments:
• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2900447

21-Sep-2019 8:09 pm

Right now the situation is tense. But might not roll out to war. When the time is ripe you would know it beforehand watching war machine concentration.

The world right now is in a stand still. Both sides know the consequences and they are working hard to figure out a way that will work. How much that works is something to be seen.

Note that nothing of these would have been possible, had Trump stuck to Obama's agreement.

So how much time would Iran need to make the bomb? A few days ago Iran declared it's purifying U235 to 20%. That's the threshold after which purifying speed boosts up rapidly. And Iran said it can build a million centrifugal machines if necessary. Pre-contract it had 30,000.

I would give it two more years.

21-Sep-2019 11:17 pm

I was in high school when First Blood was released. Brings back so much memory.

And now 40 years later, he still lives on. Maybe steroid won't grow any more muscle. But VFX is here to replace it.

22-Sep-2019 11:39 am

But then the differences he attacked started to become shorter and shorter. And now I can hardly agree with his emotion. Lastly he ended up flaming something that doesn't seem to me that much a big issue anyway.

The lesson here is when you are fighting against those who you deem wrong or you start to give dawah, you need to pause or stop at some moment and think only about yourself. That's the way you can hope to stay on path, and save yourself too.

For some people, specially the ones that God love, He Himself makes that happen for them. Think of Dr. Zakir Naik now. Getting silent after one's time up isn't a curse, it's a bless. Those that can't stop, end up somewhere unexpected. Like creating enmity with people he thought he was actually defending.

The other thing to learn is : Don't monetize your dawah. If you do, you will find it hard to stop when you need to, as giving dawah is now your job for a earning.

As the saying goes : you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Which is why Islamic idols and icons die early. Just when they have finished the job they were supposed to carry on. No one's job is too important to keep it running for long -- regardless of what he believes.

God is there to take care of the rest.

Comments:
• The only reason I didn't mention the topic in the post was not to discuss it. Deleting my answer above.
• I didn't mention that issue here, to save ourselves from getting immersed into it.
• ^ dream on.

22-Sep-2019 12:42 pm

As the confrontation between Saudi/UAE vs Iran is on the horizon, this is the new question rising in the coming days.

Ravaging war against muslims are forbidden, and even if someone justifies it bringing in exceptions, that won't bring in peace of mind for the warriors, and frequently they end up repenting their actions later, or having a void mind to forget it all.

For this we need to look beyond propaganda. Beyond the contemporary talks that rose after this issue came forward. And our big-bros' scissor cut quotation would be the worst place to look for it, as like giving in to online bullies that would push you to take one stand or the other as per his party's wish.

Wondering.

22-Sep-2019 4:07 pm

His apple watch called 911 medical emergency automatically with location and also informed his son.

His son arrived to find ambulance already picked him up and left.

Apple watch informed his son where he is right now.

Comments:
• Congrats for all the good deeds. That was a lot of hard work that paid off. All best wishes for the future.
• but... but... i thought, no one will notice it's from batman.

22-Sep-2019 5:38 pm

ভালো লাগলো জেনে যে সেই হারানো ক্লাবগুলো এখনো আছে। এবং গত কয়েক দিনে পত্রিকায় সেই আদি ক্লাবগুলোর নাম আসছে।

তবে তারা আর ফুটবল খেলে না। অন্য কিছু খেলে। :V

Comments:
• শেখ জামাল অনেক পরে এসেছে। সম্ভবতঃ ৯০ এর পরে। কিন্তু ক্রেজটা ছিলো ৮০ এর দশক পর্যন্ত। ঐ সময় পর্যন্ত খেলার পরে সাপোর্টারদের মারামারি-রায়ট করা ছিলো ট্রেন্ড।

22-Sep-2019 11:05 pm

I am reading these types of frustration getting expressed by other scholars in this school too. Indicating some dark times ahead.

I wish to post some "ways to defend yourself in the upcoming confusions" type of post within a few days, if Allah wills.

Comments:
• https://www.facebook.com/lrfarazi/posts/2713504118684527

23-Sep-2019 12:00 am

Restoring damaged oil infrastructure will take months, and can't be done by the end of this month as previously declared.

Saudi has informed its largest oil importer Japan of disruption, and Japan is now looking elsewhere.

Saudi's Vision Fund is in trouble. No new investment will be made for the next 12 months.

And whatever investment the fund made previously is also in sinkhole. It invested $10B on WeWorks at $40B valuation. Valuation dropped bellow $1B, and criminal charges are being investigated against WeWorks. Other investment like Uber, Slack all are trading bellow IPO.

As if it was that easy to make money off investment. Wondering what Saudi will be doing with its Aramco IPO cash.

23-Sep-2019 6:26 am

I blame lack of faith and lack of knowledge. But you can't expect everyone from a population to be educated on these complex matters and be able to comprehend those. Herein comes the requirement that the government should save the foolish from foolishness.

When the government fails you, as in our case, it becomes individual's duty to know it and save himself from these traps.

Comments:
• How did the one that lost 10 million, gained that money in the first place? Possibly from drug dealing, or some illegal way.

23-Sep-2019 11:18 am

That's the core message. Don't deny the benefit. There is as said by Allah. But let not their highlighted benefit make you fall in their trap.

The road to Allah is full of traps. One need to walk extremely carefully saving himself from every one of those.

What if I ignore the message and happily wish to fall in a trap and stay there? Well the world will not be here forever. And more than that you won't be here forever. Our destination is either heaven or hell -- that's forever.

May God save us all.

23-Sep-2019 11:34 am

The yellow building is our office.

Deep quotation found in office dinning.

The back street toward office.

Azad mosque, Gulshan.

Hatirjheel

Hatirjheel

23-Sep-2019 7:17 pm

Serverless is neither cheaper, nor faster -- unlike what people believed.

The basics still live on, though.

Comments:
• http://einaregilsson.com/serverless-15-percent-slower-and-eight-times-more-expensive/

23-Sep-2019 9:07 pm

Me ROFL.

Comments:
• https://www.facebook.com/mozammelhossain.toha/posts/2626731047549950

23-Sep-2019 10:27 pm

This model sounds so nice, that I guess pretty quickly it might turn out to be the future. Pay $5/month and you don't have to buy any app again. App developers will also have better return as people as a whole are now paying more.

Comments:
• https://www.businessinsider.com/google-play-pass-launch-ad-free-access-paid-apps-games-2019-9

23-Sep-2019 10:56 pm

The last time I did such was when I was young and didn't have the money to pay the fare for the ride. Walked up to Banani to face a job interview and then returned walking. Empty pocket. A shoe on hand while I returned, as it was torn midway. But still happy. As I had a joining date.

Time flies, and I still remember that single day. The hard days in your life aren't your bad days. Looking back I see those as most memorable ones. The bad days now are when I misbehaved with someone, or hurt my parents or betrayed someone.

On the day of judgement one won't have to open his book-of-deeds to figure out which of the works that he was confused with were good and which one was bad. He will just know it in his heart.

May Allah forgive us all.

23-Sep-2019 11:16 pm

Predictability is the key. No one likes an unpredictable situation does he?

The news is, as none of the big two coalitions could form government, Netanyahu made an agreement with the opposition that they both will rule for 2 years each. Then the question, who rules first?

And watching how far this man has come, we can predict he will be able to cross rest of the road too, and is here as PM for some more time to come.

Keep watching.

24-Sep-2019 4:21 am

24-Sep-2019 7:55 pm

Generally that's nothing. But these are dark times.

24-Sep-2019 9:01 pm

Indeed. We know. And agree.

But... but... why were you telling that to us, again?

Comments:
• https://enews.zoombangla.com/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%96-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B7/

24-Sep-2019 11:35 pm

Comments:
• They might ask for their rights, fight for their rights and finally obtain freedom. Then we would have a new problem to worry about.

  // kidding.

25-Sep-2019 6:05 am

And like how Netanyahu is staying as the PM even after his party lost, Trump is here to stay no matter how hard Dems try to throw him out.

My assumption, this latest impeachment procedure will turn out to be as much void as the first Russian investigation, but it will have the side effect of boosting up his popularity further and thus win him the second term, which until now seemed quite unlikely.

His support within the republicans stands at a staggering 94%, that's what actually counts.

Keep watching.

25-Sep-2019 6:44 am

But depth, location and angle of quake matters. And we don't know the details.

25-Sep-2019 8:07 am

Wait for a few days to be available in BD and to get to know the price. The future is here.

Comments:
• Salute.

25-Sep-2019 12:22 pm

- The new MbS's brother oil minister, who joined a few weeks ago said, Saudi capacity will recover by the end of September, i.e. next few days.

- Experts say after damage of this size, it will take end of Sep only to assess the damages, let alone plan or repair.

- But Saudi can't show production cut, because "the King has already spoken".

- So it's looking to buy Iraqi oil and sell those to customers to make it look like the supply line is uninterrupted.

- And here's the twist : Iran actually smuggles its oil to Iraq and sell it from there to bypass USA sanctions.

- Thus Saudi for some time to come will be the proxy for selling Iranian oil. :V :V :V

Comments:
• https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Why-The-Saudis-Are-Lying-About-Their-Oil-Production.html
• I guess Yasir Qudi said as like that's his assumption. And not like : this explanation is the only correct one.

25-Sep-2019 2:13 pm

The thing not said in the following note is that Humayun Ahmed had to change his script because of public demand in ways that he didn't want to. The change was : in the end the villain was killed by the sidekick. He later said in an interview "I hated adding that last scene. In real life, villains walk away without any harm or justice, and I wanted to put it that way. But had to do it because I was pressed for something. To show some justice."

As usual, I didn't watch any of those. Not a single episode of this long running popular series. But know those as like how everyone does, because those were so big events. Everyone was talking about those and newspapers were all covering it.

25-Sep-2019 9:08 pm

And when I do want to learn the details, I do it by reading the spoiler. Previously there were spoilers sites which I used to visit. But now one can just visit wikipedia and read the "Plot" section to learn it all.

Which is why I can comment on movies from the 80s pretty perfectly. Cause that's the time when I used to watch. But can't from Avengers or Thanos -- don't watch anymore.

Link to one of my detail movie review, which I actually never watched.

https://www.facebook.com/habib.dhaka/posts/10154228356103176

Let not these misguide any of us.

25-Sep-2019 9:17 pm

For me, the only noticeable point on the ongoing crackdown in BD isn't about how corrupt everyone in power is, we all knew of it all the time minus the party blinds. Rather these indicate that there's an on going conflict within the party which is bringing down the rebels by choosing to expose their corruption.

News of this civil war is important as this is an indicator of an upcoming collapse. Every powerful regime in history fell neither because of their corruption, nor for their ruthlessness or their tyranny -- but fell because of their internal conflict.

The conflict being the first sign of a downfall.

26-Sep-2019 6:43 am

Which part of this news do you find interesting? I find only the last line.

26-Sep-2019 12:38 pm

Don't know, neither do I care. I only have to answer for myself on the day of judgement.

26-Sep-2019 2:18 pm

|| It's the weather

Don't know, for at least a month now I am feeling like early spring has arrived in BD. Even though it isn't still winter in here. But the temperature, the breeze, the sunshine, the silence, the feeling and the vibe in the air -- all give me a feeling like it's already spring. And this spring might last for 6 months.

|| Time for reckoning

There's a time, when one has a freedom to do anything one wishes. And then a time for reckoning. When you reap what you sow. Today's news, MbS says he takes responsibility for Khashoggi's killing because it happened "under his watch”. With Saudi in shambles it's time for reckoning. And everywhere I look, every person, every man in power, including myself, I see all facing the consequences for their deeds in exactly the same time.

Call of the time, that turns pages slowly but surely, one after one.

|| "Fitna" is almost over

How many argument on Facebook do you see now on Hanafi-Salafi, Ashari-Athari? Everyone is tired, everyone knows the point, everyone now more accepting of the opposite. Middle east war is almost over, and one of the sides lost. The fitna that's supposed to run for 12 years has ran its course and is on the edge.

The winner is the one that didn't look at these and were busy with his prayers at his home. He received the rewards of a hundred martyrs.

And the losers are those that felt and acted like they were "warriors of justice."

|| The next decade

The new Fitna won't be over confusion and smoke, but will be over power and greed. Run by state troops, larger, far more wider, more intense and far more damaging.

But before that, we are getting on hand our result sheets of the past.

Comments:
• কান্না চলে আসছে। দোয়া করি.... দোয়া করি যেন....

26-Sep-2019 3:32 pm

There's truth that lives
And truth that dies
I don't know which
So never mind

I could not kill
The way you kill
I could not hate
I tried, I failed
You turned me in
At least you tried
You side with them, whom
You despise

You serve them well
I'm not surprised
You're of their kin
You're of their kind

The story's told
With facts and lies
You own the world
So never mind

-- "Nevermind"

27-Sep-2019 6:29 am

Now that Trump's hope is over, the signal has been sent "you can go for war". Which raises the big question -- actually who goes to war?

Saudis want "the world" to go to war. "It's an attack on the world."

USA wants the Saudis to go to war. "It's your problem."

And Israel wants the USA to go to war.

We need to solve this problem first, if we want to see war :V

Early this year MbS asked French war analysts on whether a Normandy like coastal invasion by Saudi forces on Iran was possible. And the analysts laughed it off, calling it mad. Now you don't need any analyst to realize it after Aramco attack.

But won't we see any war? We shall, just wait for it.

27-Sep-2019 6:47 am

Bitul Mukarram, the largest mosque in Dhaka before Jumma, today. This is the outside yard. The inside was full as I entered.

"Dainik Bangla" area. This was the location of the office of a daily news paper that used to be published when I was young. It has long since stopped, and the office closed. But the area is still being called by that old news paper's name.

Fakirapul

Rajarbag

Night view.

You can see this notice in front of every mosque in the city. Every one in our area. Informing on the signs of extremism and where and how to report.

Though I never have found time to read it yet.

This one costs Tk. 190.

27-Sep-2019 2:54 pm

Comments:
• O Messenger of Allah, what do you say if a person tries to take my money?

  Don't give him your money!

  What if he fights me?

  Fight him!

  What if he kills me?

  You are a martyr!

  What if I end up killing him?

  He is in Hell!

  [Sahih Muslim]

• ^ collected. haven't checked where in Muslim. But have read this hadith a lot of times be it in Sahi Muslim or somewhere else.

27-Sep-2019 5:32 pm

And they are finding similarity with "I, Pet Goat" conspiracy film?

27-Sep-2019 11:11 pm

News : Six dead in BD, drinking spirit from a homeopathic pharmacy. Another six hospitalized, and probably will go blind or have an organ failure.

Generally the spirit used in homeopathic pharmacies should have been ethyl alcohol. But it costs more, so they substitute it with methyl alcohol, which is cheaper, but deadly toxic as expressed in the news.

This most likely happens at most of the homeopathic pharmacies around us where we and our kids visit. That doesn't kill us outright for the small amount we drink with medicine. But hurt our organs in the long run.

Would like to add how useless homeopathic is, but let's not hurt the believer's feeling here. But this risk is real and you won't be able to figure out which one is toxic.

Better : tell the doctor to dissolve the medicine in water instead of spirit. You will be safer. That's a good option that doctors happily agree.

Comments:
• http://mzamin.com/article.php?mzamin=192261

28-Sep-2019 12:08 pm

Election is running today.

Now Talibans have rejected the election and is not participating in it. -- ok.

There might be bomb attack on some of the pooling stations carried out by some groups from Talibans. -- understandable.

The thing I shall be looking for is whether Taliban's top leaders take responsibility for the attacks and support it or not.

Because if they do, the difference between pakistans TTP and afghans Talibans will shrink further in my eyes.

Big time -- check who is killing whom in the name of ideology. That will indicate a lot on who runs the future.

Comments:
• I don't know squat about ideologies and am the last man eager to know those. I figure out who's good vs who's bad by watching who kills whom for what.

28-Sep-2019 2:08 pm

Yemen's Houthis have captured Saudi's Najaran city completely. Unlike previous attacks this isn't a "make a single attack and cheer" scenario. Rather total and complete defeat on the saudi side and houthis have more or less captured the city.

Houthis report : 900 saudi military personals have been captured, and 7000 hostages taken, which includes high ranking saudi officials. You will be receiving more news shortly.

Time for reckoning. Watch how many fronts the saudis can fight now. This was a complete Saudi's start of war and Yamenies didn't ask for it. MbS thought he could win it easily, because of how poor Yemen is within the arab states.

That didn't happen. Now face the music.

Comments:
• Saudi is crumbling -- the sign is there.
• First reports are here :
  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/houthis-claim-capture-thousands-saudi-troops-attack-190928144722091.html
  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/houthis-claim-capture-thousands-saudi-troops-attack-190928144722091.html

28-Sep-2019 10:16 pm

paste ____
DevOps is Ops with new tools. I went to DevOpsDays thinking DevOps means developers and operations merged into one team. I was wrong.

I did not meet or hear from any developers. It was a gathering of system administrators who use version control, and write a lot of YAML. Programming languages were not a topic; I heard Python mentioned once in passing, that’s it.

DevOps means the veteran admins had to check in their personal scripts, and everyone is expected to automate more things. They relate to the software their business runs (“app”, “asset”) the way a merchant-navy captain relates to what’s in the containers on his ship.

AWS is king. Whenever a hosting provider was mentioned, it was AWS. It was usually mentioned as if it was a basic understanding that we’re both on AWS. Google Cloud was a sponsor but didn’t otherwise get mentioned, Digital Ocean was mentioned once, and one of my lunch tables had someone who uses Azure. Otherwise it was all AWS.

Slack is king. “Chatops” is big. Being a gathering of system administrators I’d expected more IRC, there was no mention of it.

Everyone hates YAML. Everyone writes a lot of YAML.

On-call / incident-response is a big part of the DevOps job, and several of the sessions focused solely on that. As a result they also talk about mental health more than programmers do.

Cloud monitoring is a saturated market. Maybe half the vendors/sponsors were cloud monitoring (i.e. Prometheus competitors), although most of them called it something else.

Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and Packer were the tools I heard mentioned the most, in that order. Prometheus was popular for monitoring, but many (most?) used a vendor, such as Datadog.

The most common job title seemed to be SRE (Site Reliability Engineer), although there was a long tail, and they don’t care much about job titles.

Many were curious about service-meshes (basically a smart network proxy?) such as Istio or Linkerd, but almost none were using one.

The consensus on how software releases happen is that your CI/CD pipeline builds and tests the “asset” resulting in a Docker container, which is they deployed in a blue-green fashion using either Kubernetes or Terraform. The existence of a CI/CD pipeline that produces a Docker container was assumed in most conversations I had. Everyone loves containers.

PDX DevOpsDays was one of the best run conferences I’ve been to (MC Alice Goldfuss was phenomenal), and probably the one I learnt the most at. A++++ would conference again.

Comments:
• https://www.darkcoding.net/software/a-developer-goes-to-a-devops-conference/

29-Sep-2019 4:54 am

29-Sep-2019 2:28 pm

It's no longer about protecting the holy cites, or protecting the king, or protecting the land. The way the Saudis have abandoned the three brigades that have fallen to Huthis make this even worst. It's clear that my commanders won't protect me even if I protect them with life.

The royal family want mercenaries as in Gulf 91. But there's no one around now to fight for them for money. And I thought the first gulf war would have been a large enough warning for them to build a strong army. That never happened. Maybe they were scared of coups that strong armies bring in, who knows.

But the fright that the Saudis are strong, is now gone. That they are sacred and should be respected are gone. They now look so weak and vulnerably.

Remember the extortion of money from the businessmen? Hariri's forced resignation? Khashoggi's murger? The young king has possibly learnt a lot by now. But it's too late.

God save the Ummah.

29-Sep-2019 10:38 pm

Comments:
• //
• Fire continues at night.
• The building is lost.
• Royal family on high alert.

  And note that the bodyguard being killed today was also in Jeddah.

• //
• Whole station is now lost. It was a brand new one.
• Smoke has covered the whole city. Can now be seen from space.

29-Sep-2019 11:06 pm

Some form of trust needs to exist in the society for business to operate. It's diminishing.

30-Sep-2019 11:50 am