Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

 

INSOUMISSION CATHOLIQUE

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/insoumission-catholique-903bbd642fa2

 

Le Père Gaschon est l’enfant de l’histoire.

Père Gaschon is a child of history.

Charlemagne introduced what was to become feudalism under the dual authority of his crown and the Church. Land was unified in its ownership and shared between the nobility and the church at local and regional levels. The land was worked and tilled by peasants, most of whom were serfs. They were tied to the land and could not travel or move without a permit. But the Benedictines (or black monks) were known as the engineers of feudalism because they controlled most of the libraries inherited from the Roman Empire, and as such were able to unify the legal basis of this land ownership and the status of the population into three orders: the nobility, whose role was to maintain peace and order, and protect the various territories; the secular or monastic clergy, who ensured the spiritual and ritual well-being of society; the rest of society divided between serfs working the land and vilains doing other tasks such as all the trades necessary for the expansion of this society (trade and various services).

He never broke this link with the ten centuries since Charlemagne leading to a future beyond the French Revolution.

 

Éditions La Dondaine, Médium.com

 

Anticipation ou Extraction Cataphorique,

Dans La Phrase en Contexte

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/anticipation-ou-extraction-cataphorique-dans-la-phrase-en-contexte-656ef54c5e7d

 

Follow-up personal contribution after the publication of the full PDF file that was uploaded yesterday at https://www.academia.edu/104880620/La_Phrase_en_Contexte_Actes. Vous trouverez ci-après la Table des matières et mes remarques sur l’article de Louis Begioni et Alvaro Rocchetti qui soulève un certain nombres de questions en phylogénie du langage considérée seulement pour les langues romanes exclusivement en Europe et donc tardivement dans l’après-glaciation, excluant toute connexion avec le Grec (voire l’Arménien), mais faisant deux ou trois fois une comparaison avec l’anglais qui est une langue germanique très créolisée, il est vrai, au contact conquérant du français normand. Le français est fortement signalé comme exceptionnel sans faire référence au contact fort avec le Celte, gaulois, breton et autres, et les langues germaniques (spécificités de contacts importants pour la langue d’Oïl et le Picard).

 Dr. Jacques Coulardeau, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.

 

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

 

Generative Artificial Intelligence

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I just published Generative Artificial Intelligence. Generative Artificial Intelligence is taking over the world. How can we control it? Should we follow the example of the Chinese? They are in the process of instating temporary regulations, to be discussed and elaborated into some more durable procedures. Will those be sustainable scientifically?

Alerter sur la problématique de l’Intelligence Artificielle générative (IAG)

à date du 18 juillet 2023

Ces questions sont fondamentales. Mais le problème de la responsabilité civile et pénale dans le cas où des incidents, accidents, ou pire, se produiraient du fait d’une erreur de traduction ou simplement de rédaction d’une IA generative comme ChatGPT, est posée : le concepteur et l’utilisateur sont directement concernés.

Un texte ChatGPT reçu par une personne quelconque et celle-ci se suicide du fait du message. Qui est responsable au civil et au pénal ? Il semble en plus difficile d’obtenir des éléments de réponse des entreprises. Voir Boeing 737 MAX.

Dr. Jacques Coulardeau

 

Medium.com, 2023

 

FAT – FATTER – FATTEST – FATIGUE

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They say ”fat” is a disease, and yet I do not understand why so many people who have been fat all their lives, suddenly lose a tremendous amount of weight when they get old. I always think of Ronny Coutteure who had made the choice of getting obese because, as an actor, there was a fair demand of fat actors, and he liked it. Born in 1951, he died in 2000 at the age of 49.

 

This series also contains a mystery. Alan Campbell is Assistant D.A. Derek Mitchell. He is always used marginally and several times, but not many, he is entrusted with a case in court, and I do not remember any really brilliant victory. Mediocre result or failure. We have to say his boss, the Fatman, alias J.L. McCabe does not trust him very much and does not push him up in his career, though he knows he, as an obese and even ever getting more obese D.A., will need a successor soon and his assistant should be his privileged choice.

 

Another mystery: what did this actor Alan Campbell become? Not much indeed if we ask IMDb, not much at all, a lot more with Wikipedia, but mostly what they call “guest-starring,” those apparitions for one very limited part in TV episodes, but no main parts, no real characters the actor could be associated with, and very few films. He probably made a clean income over the years, but he will probably only survive as Assistant D.A. in Los Angeles and Hawaii with The Fatman and Jake: five full seasons, practically all the episodes. True enough, he has been kept within very rather narrow limits by his Boss, McCabe. He could have done more.

 

Joe Penny, alias Jake Styles did a lot more and better. His IMDb page is impressive, just as much as his Wikipedia page. His great quality is that he is flexible and can intervene in many situations that can be very different and this within two minutes on the screen, from one sequence to the next. He is a perfect hypocrite when questioning people and a monster when dealing with those that dare be bad losers. It is obvious he is English by origin. Maybe this series overused his naked backside in sexual situations a little bit too much, at least in the first three seasons. That’s a cliché of American detective stories of any kind. The “sheriff” or one of his deputies is nothing but a sex-machine. Check Banshee for example. I do wonder why Columbo did not fall into the trap. But the English characters on this line, like Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes, never did that kind of bed gymnastics because they are English, of course, so no sex, please.

 

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

 

Please, Let Me Know What You Think

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Open multifarious research

In the time of biased Artificial Intelligence

 In our world today, it is more than high time we start sorting out the mess the end of the Cold War produced.

 The US used an Atom Bomb in Japan in 1945 to quicken the surrender and submission of Japan into defeat and occupation by the USA.

 As a preventive measure, NATO was created by 12 countries from Europe and North America on  April 4, 1949. Since then, it has been expanding though they had to wait for the fall of The Iron Curtain to integrate most other European countries.19 more countries have joined NATO through nine rounds of enlargement (in 1952, 1955, 1982, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2020 and 2023). Finland is the last one which joined in 2023. Sweden is pending. Ukraine is not yet programmed, Nor is Georgia.

 Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty sets out how countries can join the Alliance. It states that membership is open to any "European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area." We can note that Biden’s idea that it should be open to Asian countries to counter China is not in the treaty. We cannot see how Taiwan could be concerned, or Japan and South Korea, when Australia and New Zealand are not even close to jumping into this North Atlantic Boat.

 is taken by the North Atlantic Council, NATO's principal political decision-making body, based on consensus among all Allies.

 The Cold War became a nuclear-deterring strategy in the world when the Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1 or “First Lightning” at Semipalatinsk on August 29, 1949.

 France has always been a free player in that game. “France is determined to regain on her whole territory the full exercise of her sovereignty,” wrote French President Charles de Gaulle on March 7, 1966, after his reelection on  December 5, 1965, with a second round on  December 19. They were the first direct presidential elections in the Fifth Republic and the first since the Second Republic on December 10 and 11, 1848, electing the first and only president of the Second Republic. The election led to the victory of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte with 74% of the popular vote. He became Emperor Napoleon III after a coup d’état on December 2, 1951.

With De Gaulle’s decision, the country intended to stop putting its military forces at NATO’s disposal and intended to kick NATO military forces—and those of NATO members, first of all of the USA—off of its land.

In short, de Gaulle had just done the unthinkable: pulled the plug on a crucial part of NATO. We remember how President Jacques Chirac vetoed the UN resolution to launch the war in Iraq in 2003.

 The Parisian NATO headquarters has become Paris University Dauphine. I taught there for about four years.

The new cold war is the only way the USA has to counter the change of power in the world where the West is a minority of countries, a minority of the population, and a minority of Global GDP, and this backward movement is still amplifying the weight of the Rest.

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

Call For Papers

Pro Edu. International Journal of Educational Sciences

ISSN 2668-5817 online

ISSN 2668-5825 print

 

Segregation and Color-Blindness

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Lorraine Hansberry was ahead of her time when she dreamed of a society with no segregation. But her dream is still not reached and the sky is the limit but it is a very long way up to Saint Peter and his Paradise.

 

US CONSTITUTION – AMENDMENT XIV

Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

 

STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

No. 20–1199. Argued October 31, 2022—Decided June 29, 2023*

[*Together with No. 21–707, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina et al., on certiorari before judgment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.]

 

[T]he Harvard and UNC admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause. Both programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful endpoints. We have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way, and we will not do so today.

At the same time, as all parties agree, nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.  See, e.g., 4 App. in No. 21–707, at 17251726, 1741; Tr. of Oral Arg. in No. 20–1199, at 10.  But, despite the dissent’s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today. (A dissenting opinion is generally not the best source of legal advice on how to comply with the majority opinion.) “[W]hat cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly.  The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows,” and the prohibition against racial discrimination is “levelled at the thing, not the name.” Cummings v. Missouri, 4 Wall. 277, 325 (1867). A benefit to a student who overcame racial discrimination, for example, must be tied to that student’s courage and determination. Or a benefit to a student whose heritage or culture motivated him or her to assume a leadership role or attain a particular goal must be tied to that student’s unique ability to contribute to the university.  In other words, the student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race. Many universities have for too long done just the opposite. And in doing so, they have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.

The judgments of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and of the District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina are reversed.

It is so ordered.

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

Race and Racism,  *  Discrimination,  *  Affirmative Action,  *  US constitution,  *  US Supreme Court

 

Nuclear Holocaust, No Hope For Humanity

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If tomorrow a few children escape the nuclear holocaust that is bound to come, how will they survive? Will they reinvent language, culture, technology, science, religion, or just plain let things come the way they may come, if they come?

Right now there is like a revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s plays in the USA, on Broadway particularly. The fourth play on this curse of the Blacks in America or elsewhere in the world, and the curse of humanity under the mismanagement of the Western Whites, is the M.L.Kingian dream of the Black hard-working working-class being able to move from the ghetto to a white neighborhood is not included. It is A Raisin in the Sun, and that dream could only be a dream in 1959. No way, in this direction, desegregating neighborhoods.

The US Supreme Court has just gotten rid of “Affirmative Action” for the selection and registration of students at the college level, making the desegregation of colleges and universities in the USA go one important backward step to more segregation instead of less. You can imagine in 1959: the black family who would move into a white neighborhood would be at least expelled with some violence, or simply lynched on the main square of this neighborhood and hanged from the branches of some majestic tree there.

 

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

Nuclear Engineering,  *  Survival Analysis,  *  Holocaust Studies,  *  Children,  *  Beauty

 

Blind the Slaves, for them not to read

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Still Blinding the Blacks in the US.

It is amazing to see how the US Supreme Court is going back to more segregation against Black students. The Blacks have to remain blind to truth in the US for white supremacy to go on controlling a situation that is absurd. Absurd but also racist, cruel, and futureless. Waking up might be very painful.

 The US Supreme Court has just gotten rid of “Affirmative Action” for the selection and registration of students at the college level, making the desegregation of colleges and universities in the USA go one important backward step to more segregation instead of less. You can imagine in 1959: the black family who would move into a white neighborhood would be at least expelled with some violence, or simply lynched on the main square of this neighborhood and hanged from the branches of some majestic tree there.

 It is interesting to go back to this author and her plays, but we have to keep in mind that what was possible on Broadway, to be the first black female author of a play performed there, does not reflect what was, and still is, happening in the US society, but only the very slow evolution toward some justice. But Dunn High School, Dunn, North Carolina, was only desegregated in September 1969, and hence it brought together students of different colors and their teachers. I know about it because I was there then. But the High School has been pulled down in the meantime. See the picture below, and me with some students in 1969-70.

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

 

Colonial Hell in Africa

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In 1959-60, Lorraine Hansberry was exploring the genocidal colonial situation in Black Africa, mostly the ex-Belgian Congo that was still Belgian then. The diagnosis was catastrophic and deprived of any hope whatsoever. Have things changed? Has the West changed policies? My question. Your answer.

Robert Nemiroff collected three plays, two dealing with the Black Curse in America: Les Blancs and the brutal European colonization of Africa, and we know the end of it; The Drinking Gourd and the curse of slavery for both the slaves and the slaveowners at the beginning of the Civil War, and we know the end of it; What Use Are Flowers and the curse of humanity before, during and after a nuclear cataclysm, or should we call it a nuclear Holocaust? And we know the end of it.

Right now there is like a revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s plays in the USA, on Broadway particularly. The fourth play on this curse of the Blacks in America or elsewhere in the world, and the curse of humanity under the mismanagement of the Western Whites, is the M.L.Kingian dream of the Black hard-working working-class being able to move from the ghetto to a white neighborhood is not included. It is A Raisin in the Sun, and that dream could only be a dream in 1959. No way, in this direction, desegregating neighborhoods.

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023