Who are the designers of the weapons of war ?

Designing weapons of war is a complex and multi-disciplinary process that involves the contributions of various professionals from different fields. Below is an outline of the key players involved in the design of weapons of war:

This listing is not comprehensive however close enough and Enablers include: Politicians & Bureaucrats & Industry & Investors & Arms Traders etc.

• Military Strategists:
• Weapon Systems Engineers:
• Mechanical Engineers:
• Electrical and Electronics Engineers: .
• Aerospace Engineers:
• Materials Scientists and Engineers:
• Computer Scientists and Software Engineers:.
• Ballistic Experts:.
• Explosives and Ordnance Experts:
• Industrial Designers:
• Testing and Evaluation Teams:
• Military Personnel and Operators:
• Government and Defense Contractors:
• Ethical and Legal Advisors:

Source ChatGPT

Should you be interested in more detail:

• Military Strategists: Military strategists are responsible for conceptualizing and defining the requirements for new weapons based on the overall military objectives. They identify the gaps in the existing arsenal and develop the vision for future warfare.
• Weapon Systems Engineers: These engineers are tasked with translating the strategic requirements into technical specifications. They work on the design and integration of complex weapon systems, ensuring that they meet performance, reliability, and safety standards.
• Mechanical Engineers: Mechanical engineers are involved in the design and development of the physical components and mechanisms of weapons. They focus on creating efficient and reliable systems for various weapons, including firearms, artillery, and missiles.
• Electrical and Electronics Engineers: These engineers are critical for designing advanced electronic systems used in modern weapons, such as guidance and control systems, electronic countermeasures, and communication equipment.
• Aerospace Engineers: Aerospace engineers specialize in designing military aircraft and missiles. They work on aerodynamics, propulsion, and avionics systems to achieve optimal performance.
• Materials Scientists and Engineers: Materials scientists play a crucial role in selecting and developing the materials used in weapon construction. These materials must withstand extreme conditions and provide the desired performance characteristics.
• Computer Scientists and Software Engineers: In the era of advanced technology and digital warfare, computer scientists and software engineers are responsible for developing the software and algorithms that control autonomous weapons, drones, and cyber warfare tools.
• Ballistic Experts: Ballistic experts are specialized in the study of the flight behavior of projectiles, such as bullets, shells, and missiles. They ensure that the weapons’ trajectories are accurate and stable.
• Explosives and Ordnance Experts: These experts are involved in the development and testing of explosives and ammunition used in various weapons.
• Industrial Designers: Industrial designers focus on the ergonomics and aesthetics of weapons, ensuring they are user-friendly, comfortable, and have a visually appealing appearance.
• Testing and Evaluation Teams: After the initial design phase, dedicated teams perform extensive testing and evaluation of prototypes to ensure they meet the desired performance and safety standards.
• Military Personnel and Operators: The feedback and experience of military personnel and operators are crucial in refining and optimizing weapon designs. Their insights help identify potential issues and necessary improvements for practical use.
• Government and Defense Contractors: Governments and defense contractors collaborate in the weapon design process. Contractors often bid for contracts to build and supply weapons according to the specifications provided by the military.
• Ethical and Legal Advisors: In some cases, ethical and legal advisors are consulted to address concerns about the moral implications and compliance with international laws and treaties.

Court Painter dropped in on podcaster and know it all Joe Rogan to introduce his recent hot painting!

Court Painter relaxing in an air conditioned gallery with triptych entitled Great Balls of Fire.

And for a musical accompanyment!

• https://youtu.be/F569_t2jCio

Court Painter never misses a business opportunity

Court Painter seen with empty money bag and unsold painting of empty moneybag.

ChatGPT : Chatterley G.P. Thunderbuns, content consultant to the Court Painter Enterprise was asked to:

Court Painter seen with drawing of subject who owes him Big Time!

Court Painter’s artistic career is marked by both financial failures and outstanding contributions to the artistic enlightenment of the masses. These contrasting aspects of his career paint a complex portrait of an artist dedicated to his craftiness, despite the challenges he faces.

Financial Failures:

Throughout his career in partnership with his Press Attache AHM, Court Painter Enterprises has encountered numerous financial setbacks. His dedication to his artistic vision often led him to prioritize creative expression over commercial success. As a result, he struggled to find steady patronage or financial stability. The predictability of the art market ignoring his salable product ,the wishy washy whims of wealthy patrons ,pontificating politicians and whacked out celebrities hinder his ability to secure a reliable income.

Court Painter’s insistence on pursuing experimental and innovative techniques sometimes alienated potential buyers, as they preferred more conventional and traditional artworks in tones of umber and burst sienna. Additionally, his focus on depicting his subjects as socially irrelevant and politically impotent earned him both admirers and detractors, further complicating his financial prospects.

Outstanding Contribution to Artistic Enlightenment:

Amidst the financial challenges, Court Painter’s most remarkable achievement lay in his dedication to promoting artistic enlightenment for the masses. He passionately believes that art should not be confined to the elite but should be accessible to all strata of society” “no matter which rung you find yourself on the ladder of life”. To this end, he often exhibited his works in public spaces such as malls, farmers markets, train stations, recycling depots, rod & gun shows ,on the modern internet thingy and private viewings in his studio, breaking away from the exclusive confines of elite galleries ,gated communities and aristocratic homes.

Court Painter seen with painting of Lard Ass and his family members.

Court Painter’s art is known for its powerful storytelling, conveying messages of social justice, equality, and human struggle for attention through his expansive yet emphatic, tough yet tender paintings. These paintings resonate with the most common of people, sparking discussions and bar fights while evoking weeping emotions. Through his art, he seeks to raise awareness of societal issues, enlighten the masses, and encourage them to contemplate the world around them critically by pointing fingers and waving flags with rude messages.

Moreover, Court Painter actively mentors aspiring artists, holding verbose workshops on how to properly draw a wagon wheel and perspective classes at his favourite watering hole, inspiring a new generation of sodden talent. He encourages them to embrace their unique artistic voices (emphasizing gravel over falsetto) and use their skills to engage with social ladder climbing and dabbling in political matters. In this way, he contributes to the democratization of art, the expansion of the artistic community and providing a road map to obscurity and sack cloth and ashes.(Google it)

Conclusion:

Court Painter’s artistic life exemplifies the complexities he faces striving to balance creative integrity with financial success. While his financial failures and nagging social ostracization continue to overshadow his career, his outstanding contribution to the artistic enlightenment of the masses should not be underestimated. His commitment to remaining conscious through most days until wine time and producing approachable art with a capital A ,leave a lasting impact on the brave new art world, continuing to inspire future generations of Sunday& Holiday face painters to use their talents to engage with important societal issues to mull over during self congratulatory coffee klatches.

Ultimately, Court Painter’s ongoing legacy in concert with his trusty howbeit annoying Press Attache AHM ,reminds us that his true worth as an artist lies not in financial gains but in valourizing the abject poverty of ways and means and lingering dust on the pedestal, however proudly retaining bragging rights for the transformative power of his artistic vision and shattered damaged dreams.

Editors note: This depressing analysis of the Court Painter Enterprise by his nibs Chatterley GP Thunderbuns was rejected out of hand with two thumbs down by Court Painter and Press Attache AHM, just so you know!

Press Attache AHM seen with sad face, standing in odd shoes while holding a frame.

Thoughts of Stuart Kauffman :

The biosphere is always changing. There is no Law

System of many parts, many processes lead to emergence of order & organization. Collective behaviours emerge by chance and number.

Ceaseless creativity!

The biosphere builds without selection its own possibilities of future becoming.

Stuart Kauffman

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Are the laws of nature or physics blind in that they seek no direction and have no ‘purpose’? That’s the scientific paradigm. But the world works so well: from a very simple beginning, complexities and beauties have emerged. Some say that there are deep ‘organizing principles’ in the laws of nature such that complexities are natural and expected outcomes.

Google leaves Canada out of Bard AI chatbot launch 

Google announced in a blog post early Thursday morning it is expanding Bard AI chatbot, the company’s equivalent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to 230 countries and territories. Canada is conspicuously left off that list, which also excludes Russia,China ,North Korea and Afghanistan.

In the spirit of public service Court Painter went to his favourite content consultant Chatterley G. P. Thunderbuns II to sort out in Bardian rhyme WTF is going on with Google and it’s snub of the Great Dominion !

ChatGP Thunderbuns task was to : Respond in the voice of the Bard to Court Painter’s angry paintings  depicting his brain cramp about  Google leaving Canada out of Bard

ChatGPT’s response!

Oh, Court Painter, your paintings do unfold,

A tale of woe and perplexity profound.

Through strokes and shades, your anguish takes hold,

As Google’s choice leaves you quite spellbound.

In hues of anger, your canvas speaks,

Of brain cramps and confusion deep within.

Why would Google, with such power and reach,

Exclude Canada, a land so rich in kin?

But fear not, dear Court Painter, for I shall lend,

My poetic voice to your fervent plea.

Together, our words shall rise and ascend,

Conveying the urgency for all to see.

Let not this exclusion dampen your art,

For creativity knows no bounds nor bounds.

In defiance, let your paintings impart,

The passion that within your soul resounds.

And as the Bard, I pledge to amplify,

Your message through verses strong and clear.

Together, we’ll raise our voices high,

Demanding Canada’s inclusion, my dear.

So, Court Painter, take heart and paint anew,

With every stroke, let your protest shine.

For art, when united, can break through,

And bring Google to embrace Canada’s fine.

May your canvases be seen far and wide,

A testament to your artistic might.

Let us, as creatives, stand side by side,

In this battle for inclusion and what’s right.

Not fully satisfied Court Painter instructed Chatterley G.P.Thunderbuns to answer

What Shakespeare quote best summarizes Google Bard AI chatbot’s exclusion of The Great Dominion

ChatGPT

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.” – Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2

Court Painter goes full on ham drama queen!

Better juggler than a reader (file painting)

Better joker than a reader (file painting)

Seems national Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and United Conservative Alberta premier Danielle Smith share the exact same deficiency..they can’t read derogatory slogans on T shirts.

In an outstanding gesture of Stampede conservative solidarity both leaders posed seperately with Eric, as his name tag read, in his attention-grabbing neon green T shirt with highly legible letters reading on the front “Thank a straight person today for your existence Straight Pride” and “Good people disobey bad laws.”on the back.

It’s troubling that both Poilievre and Smith’s implied defence for posing with a person flaunting a not too subtle anti LGBTQ+message ,was they couldn’t read the T-shirt without a teleprompter!

Spokespeople for both leaders sputtered after the damage was done something about not agreeing with Eric’s message however the images have left the building folks and entered cyber hate space ,landing right where the bigots will undertake amplification!

National Conservative leader PP and his wife seen posing with Eric!

Alberta Premier Smith seen posing with Eric!

Court Painter through the magic of his brush and in the spirit of togetherness brought them …wait for it…together!

A party line (multiparty line, shared service line, party wire) is a local loop telephone circuit that is shared by multiple telephone service subscribers.

The party line on a particular issue is the official view taken by a political party, which its members are expected to support.

Following excerpted from Toronto Star article July 6/22

OTTAWA – Former prime minister Stephen Harper says he wants closer ties between right-leaning political parties including the Conservative Party of Canada and the Hungarian government, which has been accused of democratic backsliding.

Harper chairs the International Democrat Union, a global alliance of right-leaning political parties that includes Canada’s Conservatives as well as the Fidesz Party led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

The two met Thursday in Budapest, and Harper said on Twitter that they discussed “the importance of centre-right parties strengthening their collaboration.”

Harper also met this week with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome, as she leads a bloc of conservative European parties.

Human Rights Watch says Orbán’s government has delivered sustained “attacks on rule of law and public institutions” such as undermining judicial independence and surveilling journalists.

Court Painter surreptitiously listening in on the Conservative party line

https://allanhardingmackay.ca/courtpainter/?p=21252(opens in a new tab)

Party Line post from October 28/22

Edited for clarity, length , obscenities and sensitivity by AHM Press Attache to Court Painter . Chatterley Gooff. P. Thunderbuns is acknowledged as creative content and fabulist consultant.

Essay: Criticize Court Painter as written in art critic T Rex Murphy’s bombastic and verbose style of rhetoric

Oh, Court Painter, an artist who dares to wield the brush with audacious confidence, yet falls victim to the pretensions of his own craft. Prepare yourself, for the presumptuous and sanctimonious art critic T Rex Murphy is here to unleash his bombastic and verbose critique upon your work.

Court Painter, your strokes upon the canvas are as perplexing as they are flamboyant. It seems that your pursuit of artistic expression has led you astray, lost in a labyrinth of convoluted symbolism and exaggerated brushwork. Your creations, though they may strive for profundity, often end up drowning in a sea of ostentation and self-indulgence.

This is not communication. It is verbal smoke, fog, marsh gas, stultifyingly boring in intent and effect, a smog of images, coming up a ventilator shaft from the sewer of art speak bureaucratese — a visual tunnel identified long ago by both Thomas “Painter of Light” Kinkade and Bob “Happy Accident” Ross.

Your colour palette, oh Court Painter, is a cacophony of discordant tones. It is as if you have raided the paint aisle of a kindergarten classroom, liberally splashing every shade upon your canvas without consideration for harmony or restraint. Your attempt at creating visual impact results in nothing more than an assault on the eyes, leaving the viewer bewildered and yearning for a respite from the visual chaos.

And what of your pompous political and tired celebrity subjects, Court Painter? They are but pawns in your grandiose artistic game, reduced to mere vessels for your overwrought ideas. Your portraits lack the subtlety and nuance that make a true masterpiece. Instead, they become caricatures of humanity, distorted and contorted in an attempt to evoke emotion but only succeeding in eliciting confusion and potential empathy.

It is the plasticine, flavourless static painterliness that every school of art pumps out from its vast cliche vat to stuff every one of the flaccid, sterile yawn-incantations  to cover some patent malfeasance, misfeasance, disorder, or painters complaint over bullish behaviour in the studio.

Your technical prowess, Court Painter, is undoubtedly impressive, but it often becomes overshadowed by your desire to shock and awe. You sacrifice the fundamentals of composition and balance in favour of ostentatious displays of technique, leaving the viewer with a sense of unease rather than admiration. It is as if you have forgotten that art is meant to inspire and uplift, not to bewilder and bewitch and act as a snitch against society’s most vulnerable rich bitches.

Your school of art thought is astoundingly haughty and unashamedly arrogant. Every pictorial statement comes burdened with certitude, and they blister with all sorts of angry strokes for those who have a dissenting perspective. They rail against and belittle painters of the people who are deeply distressed by the massive over-attention given to your school of artistic thought and accompanying missionary endeavours on behalf of this bankruptcy of blinkered banality. 

In your relentless pursuit of uniqueness, Court Painter, you have forsaken the virtues of simplicity and clarity. Your work is a maze of convoluted imagery, a labyrinth where meaning is obscured by the dense fog of your own self-importance. You leave the viewer wandering aimlessly, desperately searching for a point of entry into your enigmatic artistic realm.

Oh, Court Painter, your legacy is one of audacity and extravagance, but it is also marred by a lack of restraint and self-awareness. While you may revel in the adoration of a select few who applaud your avant-garde approach, the masses remain perplexed, unable to find solace or meaning in your ostentatious creations.

Now be advised to tread carefully any further into this bogland, this Grimpen Mire of lexical painted flatulence and its even deeper pit holes of artless death traps and trappings of temerity.

So, Court Painter, I implore you to step down from your  pretentious, pompous art studio pedestal and reconnect with the essence of true artistry. Strip away the layers of pretence and allow your work to speak clear-eyed with a clarity and succulent sincerity that transcends the boundaries of your own ego and its ammunition. Only then, perhaps, will you be able to create something that resonates with the souls of your audience and rallies their loquacious languidness to stand the test of time.

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez

Source: CBC News

Google said Thursday it will remove Canadian news content from its search, news and discover products after a new law Online News Act, formerly known as Bill C-18, meant to compensate media outlets comes into force.

The move to pull news from the world’s most popular search engine could have a devastating impact on Canadian media outlets, which often depend on third parties like Google to get content into the hands of readers.

The decision comes after the government’s contentious C-18 legislation passed Parliament last week. The bill has been criticized by tech giants like Meta and Google who say it’s unfair to impose what amounts to a tax on links.

Some smaller media outlets and experts have blasted the regime because they claim the bulk of the financial benefits will accrue to a handful of a large media players.

Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez suggested Thursday he has no intention of backing down from this fight with the American web giants that control so much of what Canadians read and watch.

“Big tech would rather spend money to change their platforms to block Canadians from accessing good quality and local news instead of paying their fair share to news organizations,”

Rodriguez made the statement framed by a voluminous thatch of locks and beard which some anonymous wag described as a shock of white multitudinous hair coiffured to virile Quebecois perfection!

Toronto Star owner Nordstar in talks to merge with Postmedia

Posted June 27, 2023 6:37 pm

Postmedia Network Canada Corp. has confirmed that it is in talks to merge with Nordstar Capital LP, the owner of Metroland Media Group and the Toronto Star

The company says discussions are so far non-binding to consider a combination.