Yeah, we've all learned such "code" words long ago. They're trying to "fix" the problem of freedom on the internet. I mean, people being able to express themselves equally and anonymously on a level where everyone is the same as everyone else? The nerve of some people!
The internet is what it is because of its very nature. If it were vastly redesigned so there would be less privacy, easier to track everyone's PC, etc, I think that the market demand would give birth to another "new" internet, completely outside of whatever crap shoot these clowns are dreaming up.
I read somewheres that the master violin makers knew how to isolate and magnify certain harmonics.
Other than that, I have a love/hate relationship with the violin. I love it because it can craft a wicked jig or folk tune that takes you away to another place and time. It can be sensuous, evil, bewitching, and enchanting all at the same time.
I hate it because most of its proponents and players are stuffy and pretentious and absolutely refuse to budge from their 300 year-old traditions. I recall one time I was shredding the hell out of my ebay violin at a Celtic festival. I had an admirer walk up to me and ask about my instrument, that its sound paralleled $4,000 violins that he'd heard. I explained that I purchased it on ebay for $20, and that it's not the instrument that matters, it's the player. People don't realize that the violin is very much an art, and an instrument so expressive that it's too radical for stuffy academia that it's normally classified under.
If you want text only. Get with the times, people! Dial-up is slow, impractical, and a waste of money. Think you're saving money with it? HA! Jokes on you. You have to pay approximately $50 a month for a landline, plus for the ISP itself. DSL can usually be had for around $40 a month, and doesn't tie up a land line (if you use one of those any more.) It's even horrible from an economic standpoint. It's like buying one apple for $5 or a ten pound bag of apples for $10. The bag costs more, but you get like 20 apples. In the case of dialup vs. broadband, it's worse. At market prices, it'd be like paying $60 for one apple from the above example.
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Yeah, we've all learned such "code" words long ago. They're trying to "fix" the problem of freedom on the internet. I mean, people being able to express themselves equally and anonymously on a level where everyone is the same as everyone else? The nerve of some people! The internet is what it is because of its very nature. If it were vastly redesigned so there would be less privacy, easier to track everyone's PC, etc, I think that the market demand would give birth to another "new" internet, completely outside of whatever crap shoot these clowns are dreaming up.
I read somewheres that the master violin makers knew how to isolate and magnify certain harmonics. Other than that, I have a love/hate relationship with the violin. I love it because it can craft a wicked jig or folk tune that takes you away to another place and time. It can be sensuous, evil, bewitching, and enchanting all at the same time. I hate it because most of its proponents and players are stuffy and pretentious and absolutely refuse to budge from their 300 year-old traditions. I recall one time I was shredding the hell out of my ebay violin at a Celtic festival. I had an admirer walk up to me and ask about my instrument, that its sound paralleled $4,000 violins that he'd heard. I explained that I purchased it on ebay for $20, and that it's not the instrument that matters, it's the player. People don't realize that the violin is very much an art, and an instrument so expressive that it's too radical for stuffy academia that it's normally classified under.
If you want text only. Get with the times, people! Dial-up is slow, impractical, and a waste of money. Think you're saving money with it? HA! Jokes on you. You have to pay approximately $50 a month for a landline, plus for the ISP itself. DSL can usually be had for around $40 a month, and doesn't tie up a land line (if you use one of those any more.) It's even horrible from an economic standpoint. It's like buying one apple for $5 or a ten pound bag of apples for $10. The bag costs more, but you get like 20 apples. In the case of dialup vs. broadband, it's worse. At market prices, it'd be like paying $60 for one apple from the above example.