User:Dlawyer

About Me

I'm a very old man who has many interests. My health is poor and I can barely walk. BS Engineering UCLA 1957, MS Engineering UCLA 1965. But I've also an academic background in Operations Research, Economics, Transportation, and Russian. During the great recession my major interest and concern was the "Economic Depression" but I've made no contributions to Wikipedia on that subject yet. First I did write a "Depression" article on my website which I've been writing over a multi-year period. My website was www.lafn.org/~dave/ but it's now www.appspot.com/davylawyer. There you'll also find many articles that I've written on topics that I was interested in: transportation (especially railroads) and the history of the Universalist religion (although I'm not now a member of this religion), etc.

Most of my contributions to Wikipedia have been anonymous, and I've just now (2012) registered since some of the IP addresses my ISP uses have been blocked by Wikipedia. Topics I've contributed to: Russian and Soviet Railways (There are 4 different articles now on this topic and I think they need to be merged), Rolling Resistance, Curve resistance (railroad) and a minor contribution to an energy-efficiency in transportation article (but my contribution, which I think was very significant since it showed that Japanese claims for energy-efficiency of high-speed rail were grossly exaggerated, has been removed). Also, parts of what I wrote about Soviet Railroads that showed the USSR railroads to be superior in some ways to the US, have also been removed. 2014: I restored the stuff that was deleted about USSR railroads, and drew historical curves of rail traffic, etc. Also someone split off Railway electrification in the Soviet Union to which I'm the principle contributor.

Since I knew Russian I decided to write an article for my website on sex in the Soviet Union. I saw the claims that sex was suppressed in both the USSR and the USA and both turned out to be mostly false. Since a Russian book on sex history failed to even mention incest I undertook a brief study of it and read accounts by people in Russia of their incest experiences. People are more free to write about it there since it’s legal there. Then I started reading about incest on the Internet in English and noted a lot of bias and errors in Wikipedia which I’m trying to fix.