As a dj and turntablist [only by hobby currently] myself, as well as a discriminating fan of dance music, I find myself with the perspective of whoever would be spinning music for the kids on the floor. Not that i do not understand that there is a time and a place; sometimes, people are only looking for a beat, and are not interested in 'integrity of performance.' Yet, I feel closely connected enough to have conern for what i consider an art. A simple dj is not actually laying tracks live, but a good one is still creating original music out of the fundamental music.
I guess this is just one more reason to save the vynil - AI has not quite developed the skills to spin the real stuff!
I'm not exactly sure I understand what you mean completely, but it is my understanding that those are the exact reasons for a representative democracy; the individual has equal influence over his own government, and therefor this treasured sovereignty is preserved.
The only applications I see of guns or war within the democracy's self is by those attempting to overthrow the democracy, eliminating the sovereignty. There is more than lying and stealing to diplomacy. Theres a matter of lives saved and peace preserved.
Im not particularly sure that Stop AT&T/MI for Open Access is really misinformed, but that they are clearly propagandists. Doesnt it make you confident of the truthfulness of what they are saying when they basically try to avoid telling you who they really are? A friend who works for the cable company south of me confirmed that it is all of those crappy little independant cable companies around michigan [do other states have such rampant, inconsistent entrepreneurial companies?] They of course would run business exactly the same as AT&T does now, but are trying to keep big business away. Dont get me wrong; I do everything I can to support mom-n-pop stores and one-of-a-kind shops and such, but at no time have I ever felt bad for a communications company, nor did I wish the big succesful ones would pick on them less. Ambition in another is bad when your the king. I dont care if ted nugent created a cable company with 67 channels of hunting with ted nugent, and bought out AT&T - those guys are all in it for themselves, and they dont need the support of innocent bystanders to swing it.
borne
I swear the fact that Im on @home, and that I get free expanded-expanded cable with it has no effect on my opinion at all. Im dissatisfied with the way they operate it, anyway.
Im really surprised the Heroic Legend of Prince Arislan series, one of my favorites, has only been mentioned once when nearly every other anime I would list has been repeated already, though I want to warn that Age of Heroes, or Part 5 should be ommitted, because its one of the worst series endings Ive ever seen, even though Parts 1 through 4 leave you craving the next one. Fantastic faux mideval setting, which leads me on...
Yes, the Record of Lodoss War is another must, but please dont confuse it with the lesser TV series [6 Parts is good, 9 Parts is bad]. It took a few times to make it all the way through, but it never got tedious.
Green Legend Ran, not Ran is also pretty good. Its not five star material, and maybe Im only mentioning it because its one of the most recent in my mind, but I thought it kept my eyes on the screen more than not.
Another that of course everyone has brought up, but I will hail is Akira. Even though I dont think its the flagship of anime, it certainly forged paths for works to follow, good and not-so-good alike.
Props go out to the ones that already have enough said about them like Ninja Scroll [one of my earliest experiences was with Jubei], MD Geist, Vampire Hunter D, Ghost in the Shell, Tenchi Muyo [yes, only the first movie, none of the show], Demon City, and Ranma 1/2.
btw, I cant remember if youve got a Family Video nearby, but here in Muskegon their selection far surpasses Blockbusters, and its not even owned by Viacom®. I am also a regular at AnimeNation.
...or you could just go back to Ultra 7 and Voltron.
i guess it takes an off-beat topic like real world weapons to find the lines among a seemingly homogenous group like this. except, of course, i dont usually busy myself looking for differences.
granted, my experiences and views are far from those at the center of the croud, but most of them i try not to simply inherit, and instead contemplate [at least the most crucial values] extensively before solidifying. i am personally opposed to guns. they are a violent means of action, reaching back to barbaric animal-like tendencies our society feels so proud to be shedding. i entirely recognize the hunting aspect, but the "take your kids hunting, so you don't have to hunt for your kids" bumpersticker seems a litle misguided since i am an animal rights activist, but nevertheless well meant.
the second ammendment is probably the most controversial among the bill o' rights. my understanding is basically that the bill was written at a very different time with intentions that no longer apply to our lives [supermarkets, american indian reservations, and border guards eliminated a majority of uses for guns], and it also is in no way an end-all be-all [protection of private property is no longer all we care about, and women's and black's rights were never mentioned.]
concerning protecting ourselves from our government/ securing our free state against bad guys, id like to note that in a representative democracy, the governing system we are coming closer to, the governed people are their own government. majority tyranny is no longer the threat. the laws will reflect what the most people affected by them want. diplomacy is in, and its not a fad; the need to go out and hurt someone for what they think not only can and is being avoided, but counteracts any sort of progress the world has made for happiness and survival.
now, the issue everyone seems to like to point to is "crackhead joe", the guy who has a gun, and needs to be regulated but may never be. even though these people exist, and they exist because it is possible for people with clean records to buy multiple guns and resell them, joe is not making news lately. the government doesnt give a damn about joe when they talk about locks and operator recognition systems; everybody knows that adults have always shot other adults. the issue here is children. i have none, and am not even at risk of coming down with a case of them, but i do what i can to make sure existing children live, and live well.
living in west michigan, i am immersed in a single party political system, along with a severely alligned belief system [did i say alligned? alligned opposite myself, that is.] we have a terribly frequent rate of kids being suspended/ expelled for reasons from bringing guns to school to kindergardeners playing cops 'n' robbers at recess. rarely are these kids being supplied with weapons from their gangs [dutch-reformed gangs, of course], nor are they hiring their grandma to go buy a new one. these guns always come from their parents' gun cabinet or sock drawer, taken right after the church potluck, and right before volunteering for national honor society. it isnt like these parents are considered neglectful - they're sure their kids don't know where the gun is, or that they know not to play with it. endless documentation shows that children, no matter how rigorously trained in gun safety, always want to play with them. and any time a gun is picked up, the opportunity for firing, most likely causing an accident, is too likely.
so if hunting is your life, i dont mean to deprive you of enjoyment. i never will accept the argument "i like to hunt with a hand gun." i like to chop vegetables with a 15' tall guillotine, but i dont argue when someone says its misuse. and if you know for a fact that youll never shoot someone/thing you didnt mean to at the time or when you werent as mad, and that no one else will ever get ahold of your gun and do the same thing, then chances are it isnt really a gun.
guns are for people that dont know how to use swords or fists.
Setting aside the legality of the parties' actions, because the law is not the limit, and forgoing any moral implications toward all involved, because none of us here are really moral enough to know what we would be talking about, this is about productivity, progressiveness, and highest good.
The RIAA having effectively poured cement shoes for the service My.MP3.com, possibly the only service actively trying to preserve the recording industry's interests, two co-existing movements are further aligned: users previously [and for the time being, still] able to listen to albums, the rights for which they have paid, online will shift to services such as Napster, Gnutella, FreeNet, etc. which do undermine the standard capitalist music/entertainment industry, partially in retaliation, and partially because of no other alternative; the entertainment industry in return will have a clearer view toward and more ammunition for the support of possibilities like ultimate control of the entire life of a piece of "art", from conception to sales to use, and even secondary sales.
Many argue this system is not sustainable unless it is totalitarian, but the risk is too great, and for any end user or artist/ supplementor to support the chance of this happening is certainly damage to the self. (Q.) How can attacking another service such as Napster benefit any parties beyond the RIAA itself, which of it's own free will countered their ability to profit from and co-operate with the direction of information dissemination which it's public has embraced? (/Q.) As fortunate as it is for a party as influential as Metallica to be given the option of whether to be counterproductive and attempt to stand rigidly against the surge of change beyond a point-of-no-return, or to take means to improve and pioneer the quality of life for every creator and consumer of art, no one will stand aside and accept whatever may be passed down on them. Please educate yourselves on what you are fighting both for and against, and how your own interests might be realized without destruction of someone else's.
-"Quick, think of something great to be my last words..."
Slashdot Mirror
yeah, you beat me to presenting this article from last week. so much for "Boeing has no plan for a competing aircraft."
I guess this is just one more reason to save the vynil - AI has not quite developed the skills to spin the real stuff!
now they might stop trying to sel me sun-block, and push those snow-shovels.
borne
I'm not exactly sure I understand what you mean completely, but it is my understanding that those are the exact reasons for a representative democracy; the individual has equal influence over his own government, and therefor this treasured sovereignty is preserved.
The only applications I see of guns or war within the democracy's self is by those attempting to overthrow the democracy, eliminating the sovereignty. There is more than lying and stealing to diplomacy. Theres a matter of lives saved and peace preserved.
Im not particularly sure that Stop AT&T/MI for Open Access is really misinformed, but that they are clearly propagandists. Doesnt it make you confident of the truthfulness of what they are saying when they basically try to avoid telling you who they really are? A friend who works for the cable company south of me confirmed that it is all of those crappy little independant cable companies around michigan [do other states have such rampant, inconsistent entrepreneurial companies?] They of course would run business exactly the same as AT&T does now, but are trying to keep big business away. Dont get me wrong; I do everything I can to support mom-n-pop stores and one-of-a-kind shops and such, but at no time have I ever felt bad for a communications company, nor did I wish the big succesful ones would pick on them less. Ambition in another is bad when your the king. I dont care if ted nugent created a cable company with 67 channels of hunting with ted nugent, and bought out AT&T - those guys are all in it for themselves, and they dont need the support of innocent bystanders to swing it.
borne
I swear the fact that Im on @home, and that I get free expanded-expanded cable with it has no effect on my opinion at all. Im dissatisfied with the way they operate it, anyway.
Im really surprised the Heroic Legend of Prince Arislan series, one of my favorites, has only been mentioned once when nearly every other anime I would list has been repeated already, though I want to warn that Age of Heroes, or Part 5 should be ommitted, because its one of the worst series endings Ive ever seen, even though Parts 1 through 4 leave you craving the next one. Fantastic faux mideval setting, which leads me on...
Yes, the Record of Lodoss War is another must, but please dont confuse it with the lesser TV series [6 Parts is good, 9 Parts is bad]. It took a few times to make it all the way through, but it never got tedious.
Green Legend Ran, not Ran is also pretty good. Its not five star material, and maybe Im only mentioning it because its one of the most recent in my mind, but I thought it kept my eyes on the screen more than not.
Another that of course everyone has brought up, but I will hail is Akira. Even though I dont think its the flagship of anime, it certainly forged paths for works to follow, good and not-so-good alike.
Props go out to the ones that already have enough said about them like Ninja Scroll [one of my earliest experiences was with Jubei], MD Geist, Vampire Hunter D, Ghost in the Shell, Tenchi Muyo [yes, only the first movie, none of the show], Demon City, and Ranma 1/2.
btw, I cant remember if youve got a Family Video nearby, but here in Muskegon their selection far surpasses Blockbusters, and its not even owned by Viacom®. I am also a regular at AnimeNation .
...or you could just go back to Ultra 7 and Voltron.
granted, my experiences and views are far from those at the center of the croud, but most of them i try not to simply inherit, and instead contemplate [at least the most crucial values] extensively before solidifying. i am personally opposed to guns. they are a violent means of action, reaching back to barbaric animal-like tendencies our society feels so proud to be shedding. i entirely recognize the hunting aspect, but the "take your kids hunting, so you don't have to hunt for your kids" bumpersticker seems a litle misguided since i am an animal rights activist, but nevertheless well meant.
the second ammendment is probably the most controversial among the bill o' rights. my understanding is basically that the bill was written at a very different time with intentions that no longer apply to our lives [supermarkets, american indian reservations, and border guards eliminated a majority of uses for guns], and it also is in no way an end-all be-all [protection of private property is no longer all we care about, and women's and black's rights were never mentioned.]
concerning protecting ourselves from our government/ securing our free state against bad guys, id like to note that in a representative democracy, the governing system we are coming closer to, the governed people are their own government. majority tyranny is no longer the threat. the laws will reflect what the most people affected by them want. diplomacy is in, and its not a fad; the need to go out and hurt someone for what they think not only can and is being avoided, but counteracts any sort of progress the world has made for happiness and survival.
now, the issue everyone seems to like to point to is "crackhead joe", the guy who has a gun, and needs to be regulated but may never be. even though these people exist, and they exist because it is possible for people with clean records to buy multiple guns and resell them, joe is not making news lately. the government doesnt give a damn about joe when they talk about locks and operator recognition systems; everybody knows that adults have always shot other adults. the issue here is children. i have none, and am not even at risk of coming down with a case of them, but i do what i can to make sure existing children live, and live well.
living in west michigan, i am immersed in a single party political system, along with a severely alligned belief system [did i say alligned? alligned opposite myself, that is.] we have a terribly frequent rate of kids being suspended/ expelled for reasons from bringing guns to school to kindergardeners playing cops 'n' robbers at recess. rarely are these kids being supplied with weapons from their gangs [dutch-reformed gangs, of course], nor are they hiring their grandma to go buy a new one. these guns always come from their parents' gun cabinet or sock drawer, taken right after the church potluck, and right before volunteering for national honor society. it isnt like these parents are considered neglectful - they're sure their kids don't know where the gun is, or that they know not to play with it. endless documentation shows that children, no matter how rigorously trained in gun safety, always want to play with them. and any time a gun is picked up, the opportunity for firing, most likely causing an accident, is too likely.
so if hunting is your life, i dont mean to deprive you of enjoyment. i never will accept the argument "i like to hunt with a hand gun." i like to chop vegetables with a 15' tall guillotine, but i dont argue when someone says its misuse. and if you know for a fact that youll never shoot someone/thing you didnt mean to at the time or when you werent as mad, and that no one else will ever get ahold of your gun and do the same thing, then chances are it isnt really a gun.
guns are for people that dont know how to use swords or fists.
Setting aside the legality of the parties' actions, because the law is not the limit, and forgoing any moral implications toward all involved, because none of us here are really moral enough to know what we would be talking about, this is about productivity, progressiveness, and highest good.
The RIAA having effectively poured cement shoes for the service My.MP3.com, possibly the only service actively trying to preserve the recording industry's interests, two co-existing movements are further aligned: users previously [and for the time being, still] able to listen to albums, the rights for which they have paid, online will shift to services such as Napster, Gnutella, FreeNet, etc. which do undermine the standard capitalist music/entertainment industry, partially in retaliation, and partially because of no other alternative; the entertainment industry in return will have a clearer view toward and more ammunition for the support of possibilities like ultimate control of the entire life of a piece of "art", from conception to sales to use, and even secondary sales.
Many argue this system is not sustainable unless it is totalitarian, but the risk is too great, and for any end user or artist/ supplementor to support the chance of this happening is certainly damage to the self. (Q.) How can attacking another service such as Napster benefit any parties beyond the RIAA itself, which of it's own free will countered their ability to profit from and co-operate with the direction of information dissemination which it's public has embraced? (/Q.) As fortunate as it is for a party as influential as Metallica to be given the option of whether to be counterproductive and attempt to stand rigidly against the surge of change beyond a point-of-no-return, or to take means to improve and pioneer the quality of life for every creator and consumer of art, no one will stand aside and accept whatever may be passed down on them. Please educate yourselves on what you are fighting both for and against, and how your own interests might be realized without destruction of someone else's.
-"Quick, think of something great to be my last words..."