I was an abused geek in middle school once, like you. I would have killed for the chance to have a hidden video camera or hidden mike. (Washington M S, may you and your clueless, careless administration rot in hell.)
Now if someone could just come up with an operating plan for this service...
If you're saying, "I think they meant Cradle-to-Grave," then no, they meant Cradle-to-Cradle. You obviously didn't see the first two links of this article.
"If you want a hundred examples of outright leftist falsehood, you only need to look to junkscience.com. It's updated daily. They're not always right, but they seem to have brought back the concept of healthy skepticism."
Ah, Steven Milloy. Webmaster of junkscience.com, and tobacco industry shill.
Basic story: "the Junkman" got his start through Phillip Morris's dealings with PR firm Burston-Marsteller when they started creating phony scientific groups to oppose inconvenient research into the harmfulness of tobacco, and phony grassroots citizens' groups to make it appear there was a public groundswell of support for tobacco companies. Guess who was on board some of the groups to give "scientific weight" to what they said.
Here are some excerpts of the article:
Steven Milloy describes himself as the publisher of the Junk Science Home Page and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. "Milloy appears frequently on radio and television; has testified on risk assessment and Superfund before the U.S. Congress; and has lectured before numerous organizations," it adds, noting that he has also "written articles that have appeared in the New York Post, USA Today, Washington Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, and the Investors' Business Daily."
These facts are all accurate as far they go, but they say nothing about how Milloy came to be a prominent debunker of "junk science." This omission is undoubtedly by design, because it would certainly be embarrassing to admit that a self-proclaimed scientific reformer got his start as a behind-the-scenes lobbyist for the tobacco industry, which has arguably done more to corrupt science than any other industry in history.
Early in his career, Milloy worked for a company called Multinational Business Services, a Washington lobby shop that Philip Morris described as its "primary contact" on the issue of secondhand cigarette smoke in the early 1990s. Later, he became executive director of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC), an organization that was covertly created by Philip Morris for the express purpose of generating scientific controversy regarding the link between secondhand smoke and cancer.
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After leaving Tozzi's service, Milloy became president of his own organization called the "Regulatory Impact Analysis Project, Inc.," where he wrote a couple of reports arguing that "most environmental risks are so small or indistinguishable that their existence cannot be proven." Shortly thereafter, he launched the "Junk Science Home Page." Calling himself "the Junkman," he offered daily attacks on environmentalists, public health and food safety regulators, anti-nuclear and animal rights activists, and a wide range of other targets that he accused of using unsound science to advance various political agendas.
Milloy was also active in defense of the tobacco industry, particularly in regard to the issue of environmental tobacco smoke. He dismissed the EPA's 1993 report linking secondhand smoke to cancer as "a joke," and when the British Medical Journal published its own study with similar results in 1997, he scoffed that "it remains a joke today." After one researcher published a study linking secondhand smoke to cancer, Milloy wrote that she "must have pictures of journal editors in compromising positions with farm animals. How else can you explain her studies seeing the light of day?"
In August 1997, the New York Times reported that Milloy was one of the paid speakers at a Miami briefing for foreign reporters sponsored by the British-American Tobacco Company, whose Brown & Williamson unit makes popular cigarettes like Kool, Carlton and Lucky Strike. At the briefing, which was off-limits to U.S. journalists, the company flew in dozens of reporters from countries including Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru and paid for their hotel rooms and expensive meals while the reporters sat through presentations that ridiculed "lawsuit-driven societies like the United States" for using "unsound science" to raise questions about "infinitesimal, if not hypothetical, risks" related to inhaling a "whiff" of tobacco smoke.
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Milloy is also highly visible on the internet. In addition to publishing the Junk Science Home Page and a website for the No More Scares campaign, Milloy also operates a "Consumer Distorts" website devoted to attacking Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, which Milloy accuses of socialism, sensationalism, and "scaring consumers away from products."
On the other hand, you could also spend less money and just design more-easily-constructible furniture and more-easily-understandable instruction booklets. Technology/= Simplicity.
That is the most refreshing thing I've read in... years. Someone finally put everything I feel deep inside about our culture, and how it's spinning out of control towards a tall tall cliff, into words. To the original author, if you happen to read this comment on the reposting of your work: THANK YOU. (And thanks, Jucius Maximus, for reposting it.:))
'Electronic music' is as broad a genre as 'rock'; there are many subgenres, different types of electronic music. I haven't heard Digweed, so I don't know what it sounds like. You might want to look at different subgenres if you're completely new.
I'm not great at grouping music into categories or describing it, so I went to the All Music Guide for the categories and descriptive words in this list. I highly recommend the Guide.
Here's a list of some of my favorites; none of this is the kind of music you'll find at a rave, that's usually called 'dance' or 'rave' I believe, rather than 'techno' or 'ambient.'
Orbital - 'The Middle Of Nowhere,' or 'In Sides.' Ambient Techno. Smooth, Lush, Ethereal, Reflective, Confident, Trippy, Laid-Back/Mellow, Hypnotic, Clinical, Stylish, Elegant, Soothing. TMON takes getting used to, it would affect my mood when I listened to it until I'd become familiar with the album.
Propellerheads - 'Decksanddrumsandrockandroll' Drum n' Bass. Energetic, Boisterous, Rousing, Stylish, Party/Celebratory. I actually find this album very laid-back.
DJ Shadow - 'Endtroducing...' Ambient Breakbeat. Ethereal, Somber, Reflective, Reserved, Ominous, Street-Smart, Gloomy, Wintry, Trippy, Earthy, Hypnotic, Detached, Intimate, Cerebral, Nocturnal, Druggy, Eerie, Brooding. Much of this album is tracks of percussion and classical instruments mixed together. Trippy.
The Dust Brothers - 'Fight Club' score These two guys spent most of their career producing albums for a wide variety of artists, the All Music Guide goes into more detail. Seeing the movie would give you a better idea of what this music feels like than what I could say.:)
(various) - 'Run Lola Run' score "Appropriately, the music from Run Lola Run is frenetic, fast-paced techno - which serves as the driving force behind the film's adrenalized action sequences. About half the pieces were composed by the director himself (Tom Tykwer), and for the most part, the other contributors are little-known artists. But this is one of the most cohesive soundtrack albums in recent memory, and the music is excellent."
Wagon Christ - 'Musipal' or 'Tally Ho!' Jungle Drum n' Bass. Fun, Freewheeling, Playful, Witty, Trippy, Detached, Stylish.
Fluke - 'Risotto' Techno. Ethereal, Sensual, Trippy, Detached, Clinical, Stylish, Cerebral, Nocturnal. You can really lose yourself in this album; Fluke has pretty much mastered the build-and-release of techno.
The Crystal Method - 'Vegas', or 'Tweekend' Techno. Energetic, Rousing, Trippy, Hypnotic, Detached, Visceral, Party/Celebratory. An early Gap commerical had a song from 'Vegas', which is how I found out about TCM and bought the album, the first album I'd ever bought on my own. 'Tweekend' is more energetic, though it took me more than one listening to adjust to the beats.
Prodigy - 'Fat Of The Land' or 'Music For The Jilted Generation' Techno. Irreverent, Energetic, Raucous, Intense, Menacing, Brash, Rowdy, Rebellious, Cathartic, Volatile, Angry, Hostile. 'MFTJG' makes me think of William Gibson's settings, for some reason. It also contains the only device used in classical music I've ever seen in electronic music; the last three tracks are a suite.
Last but not least, if you're looking for electronic music online in MP3 form, use SoulSeek, which is specifically for electronica.
The best part comes in a couple years, when we get to watch GE and whoever else makes light bulbs neglect to put these on the market for as long as possible, or jack up the price.
The technology to make ultra-long-lasting lightbulbs has been known for ages, but they've only been available for a few years now, I wonder why? Maybe it's because bulb manufacturers make more money by selling shorter-lived bulbs...
From the article mentioned above:
Particularly troublesome, Black said, is when law enforcement authorities move swiftly and "short-circuit" regular legal procedures. "I think we must be careful not to create a process whereby using a private company somehow empowers the government to do things they cannot legally do under the new laws," Black said.
I wanna hear you say that dirty word... fascism!
I believe Mussolini defined it as stato corporativo, or the "corporate state"...
Does anyone else have Orwellian alarm bells going off in their head, or is it just me? It might help spread taxes more fairly, but the government will know where everyone's car is. It may not sound insidious, but compare it to a hypothetical situation:
A tax on sidewalk use, for the upkeep of city sidewalks and so on. Only, everyone has to have a GPS "black box" implanted in their foot.
The privacy issues with such "tracking devices" are frightening.
...the media ownership is worse. If one company controls everything you see, it becomes much easier for them to keep you in the dark about anything unethical they do.
There goes all your news about anything unethical practices or corporate crime committed by AOL/Time Warner/Disney/etc. I wouldn't put it past them.
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...before his work homogenizes and dumbs down our movies even more! One size does not fit all.
"If we only promote identical music to what's on the radio now, that will promote the rise of new, different music."
I was an abused geek in middle school once, like you. I would have killed for the chance to have a hidden video camera or hidden mike. (Washington M S, may you and your clueless, careless administration rot in hell.)
Now if someone could just come up with an operating plan for this service...
> Somehow I don't think that's what they meant.
If you're saying, "I think they meant Cradle-to-Grave," then no, they meant Cradle-to-Cradle. You obviously didn't see the first two links of this article.
Count me as a supporter. When I've fiddled with my preferences I've always wondered why there's no 'lowest scored first' section.
Ah, Steven Milloy. Webmaster of junkscience.com, and tobacco industry shill.
PR Watch had a huge article on Milloy, which you can read here.
Basic story: "the Junkman" got his start through Phillip Morris's dealings with PR firm Burston-Marsteller when they started creating phony scientific groups to oppose inconvenient research into the harmfulness of tobacco, and phony grassroots citizens' groups to make it appear there was a public groundswell of support for tobacco companies. Guess who was on board some of the groups to give "scientific weight" to what they said.
Here are some excerpts of the article:
And here are some more PR Watch articles on Mr. Milloy.
On the other hand, you could also spend less money and just design more-easily-constructible furniture and more-easily-understandable instruction booklets. Technology /= Simplicity.
That is the most refreshing thing I've read in... years. Someone finally put everything I feel deep inside about our culture, and how it's spinning out of control towards a tall tall cliff, into words. To the original author, if you happen to read this comment on the reposting of your work: THANK YOU. (And thanks, Jucius Maximus, for reposting it. :))
'Electronic music' is as broad a genre as 'rock'; there are many subgenres, different types of electronic music. I haven't heard Digweed, so I don't know what it sounds like. You might want to look at different subgenres if you're completely new.
:)
I'm not great at grouping music into categories or describing it, so I went to the All Music Guide for the categories and descriptive words in this list. I highly recommend the Guide.
Here's a list of some of my favorites; none of this is the kind of music you'll find at a rave, that's usually called 'dance' or 'rave' I believe, rather than 'techno' or 'ambient.'
Orbital - 'The Middle Of Nowhere,' or 'In Sides.'
Ambient Techno. Smooth, Lush, Ethereal, Reflective, Confident, Trippy, Laid-Back/Mellow, Hypnotic, Clinical, Stylish, Elegant, Soothing.
TMON takes getting used to, it would affect my mood when I listened to it until I'd become familiar with the album.
Propellerheads - 'Decksanddrumsandrockandroll'
Drum n' Bass. Energetic, Boisterous, Rousing, Stylish, Party/Celebratory.
I actually find this album very laid-back.
DJ Shadow - 'Endtroducing...'
Ambient Breakbeat. Ethereal, Somber, Reflective, Reserved, Ominous, Street-Smart, Gloomy, Wintry, Trippy, Earthy, Hypnotic, Detached, Intimate, Cerebral, Nocturnal, Druggy, Eerie, Brooding.
Much of this album is tracks of percussion and classical instruments mixed together. Trippy.
The Dust Brothers - 'Fight Club' score
These two guys spent most of their career producing albums for a wide variety of artists, the All Music Guide goes into more detail. Seeing the movie would give you a better idea of what this music feels like than what I could say.
(various) - 'Run Lola Run' score
"Appropriately, the music from Run Lola Run is frenetic, fast-paced techno - which serves as the driving force behind the film's adrenalized action sequences. About half the pieces were composed by the director himself (Tom Tykwer), and for the most part, the other contributors are little-known artists. But this is one of the most cohesive soundtrack albums in recent memory, and the music is excellent."
Wagon Christ - 'Musipal' or 'Tally Ho!'
Jungle Drum n' Bass. Fun, Freewheeling, Playful, Witty, Trippy, Detached, Stylish.
Fluke - 'Risotto'
Techno. Ethereal, Sensual, Trippy, Detached, Clinical, Stylish, Cerebral, Nocturnal.
You can really lose yourself in this album; Fluke has pretty much mastered the build-and-release of techno.
The Crystal Method - 'Vegas', or 'Tweekend'
Techno. Energetic, Rousing, Trippy, Hypnotic, Detached, Visceral, Party/Celebratory.
An early Gap commerical had a song from 'Vegas', which is how I found out about TCM and bought the album, the first album I'd ever bought on my own. 'Tweekend' is more energetic, though it took me more than one listening to adjust to the beats.
Prodigy - 'Fat Of The Land' or 'Music For The Jilted Generation'
Techno. Irreverent, Energetic, Raucous, Intense, Menacing, Brash, Rowdy, Rebellious, Cathartic, Volatile, Angry, Hostile.
'MFTJG' makes me think of William Gibson's settings, for some reason. It also contains the only device used in classical music I've ever seen in electronic music; the last three tracks are a suite.
Last but not least, if you're looking for electronic music online in MP3 form, use SoulSeek, which is specifically for electronica.
Have fun!
...this is a climate predictor, not a weather predictor. No criticism necessary. :P
The best part comes in a couple years, when we get to watch GE and whoever else makes light bulbs neglect to put these on the market for as long as possible, or jack up the price.
The technology to make ultra-long-lasting lightbulbs has been known for ages, but they've only been available for a few years now, I wonder why? Maybe it's because bulb manufacturers make more money by selling shorter-lived bulbs...
From the article mentioned above: Particularly troublesome, Black said, is when law enforcement authorities move swiftly and "short-circuit" regular legal procedures. "I think we must be careful not to create a process whereby using a private company somehow empowers the government to do things they cannot legally do under the new laws," Black said. I wanna hear you say that dirty word... fascism! I believe Mussolini defined it as stato corporativo, or the "corporate state"...
Does anyone else have Orwellian alarm bells going off in their head, or is it just me? It might help spread taxes more fairly, but the government will know where everyone's car is. It may not sound insidious, but compare it to a hypothetical situation:
A tax on sidewalk use, for the upkeep of city sidewalks and so on. Only, everyone has to have a GPS "black box" implanted in their foot.
The privacy issues with such "tracking devices" are frightening.
...the media ownership is worse. If one company controls everything you see, it becomes much easier for them to keep you in the dark about anything unethical they do.
There goes all your news about anything unethical practices or corporate crime committed by AOL/Time Warner/Disney/etc. I wouldn't put it past them.