Did you not watch the news last week and see the burned corpses of Americans dragged through the streets in Iraq for the awful crime of bringing food to people?
These were MERCENARY SOLDIERS!!
You have fallen victim to American Propaganda. Those images were -designed- to shock you!
Well, someone else has pointed out that militant Islam is - by any objective measure - immeasurably more cruel than anything we've done to ourselves.
I beg to differ.
Hack off your daughter's clit? No problem! Murder your wife because she got raped? Well, the bitch shouldn't have been showin' it off! Hey, it's their culture, and all cultures are equivalent, right? That's what your moral relativism implies -- fine by me.
Umm... this stuff happens in the United States. Pretty much every day. It still happens in the holy moral system of the U.S.... therefore: how is it right to use the fact that it happens over there to justify war against them?
The U.S. is the biggest manufacturer and user of weapons of mass destruction on the Planet. Why is it okay to use this pretext to invade Iraq?
As for 'millitant Islam', I'm very much afraid that you are brainwashed. There is about as much 'millitant Islam' going on in the world as there is Ku Klux Klan, my friend.
My 'self-destructive tendencies' haven't led me to shove my head as far up my ass as you have with yours, also... I can at least still see a little light of day, I suppose...
So, ship 1,000 water pumps instead of 1,000 missiles. End of power struggle.
I'm saying, AGGRESSIVELY EXPORT YOUR TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE LIFE, NOT DEATH, WITH AS MUCH VIGOUR AND ENTHUSIASM AS YOUR CURRENT MILITARY USES, and maybe you won't have so many people hating you so much...
Well, last I checked, you can find hundreds and thousands of drug-addled 'products' of the American systems on your streets, countless human rights abuses in your jails, undeniable evidence of social deterioration in your Columbines, mass irresponsibility for human consumption and greed in your media, mob mentality in your court rooms, and endless police state aggression.
If you want to make 'moral equivalences', lets talk about Ruby Ridge or Waco...
It is precisely this arrogant view, that some people do have an understanding of 'human psychology' and some people do not, which gives us the bigots in command who are writing the purchase orders for more, bigger, massive weapons.
a tremendous ignorance of the world outisde the United States
I actually have lived all over the world, including America, and including places that most Americans would not dare to go. I dare say I'm more aware of the situation than most Americans...
but hey thanks for the free psychological evaluation. i'll be sure to note that you are an expert.
and, for the rcord, i never made that conclusion... all i said is, "Americans, use your Technological Prowess to MAKE PEACE, not WAR!"... but its interesting how so few people actually understand that this is possible in light of the mob rule of 'guns make good'...
no, you are not. 10,000 iraqi's have died in this war. there is nothing specific about that, and to an on-the-ground observer, it sure looks like Americans don't care enough about killing muslims, as much as they do about protecting their Valued Christian Soldiers.
Its an exercise in viewpoint, dude. if you can't see why some people would think that America is killing Muslims, its because your news media is not showing the pictures of demolished mosques, daisy-cutter charred corpses, and limbless kids.
You kill us, we will kill you.
This argument works for THEM as much as it works for YOU. Just like this one:
You feed me, I feed you.
What's the difference? The difference is, idiots like you who are incapable of escaping your little box...
A highly efficient water pump, designed by rocket scientists, functioning in the middle of the Gobi desert, delivered by caring individuals under no moral pretext other than simply to -help- would be a far more defensive mechanism than that same pump, sitting in a bunker as part of a missile system, idle, waiting for the day that it has to be used against some other persons weapon.
my point is, maybe a little more peace-making investment, and a little (no, actually, a lot) less war-making investment, and America might not have so many frustrated people from other cultures they do not understand, trying to defeat the machine which is modern American society.
40 Trillion dollars on missiles sitting in bunkers is 40 Trillion dollars which, if spent on water projects in key area's, would put Americans in a -far- better moral position than they are currently.
as it stands, America is one of the most immoral societies in the world eye... because Americans care more about their own self-preservation and defense than they do about the real, honest, thirsty, starving plight of their fellow man.
its all too easy to say 'these are radicals, they are insane' when your definition of 'sanity' is "anything which is not part of our culture and society".
America just doesn't seem to understand that the homogonization of the world by Western Elite and Their Weapons is not something that is going to result in peace...
if americans used their technological prowess to solve the problems that these box-cutter weilding people thought that blowing up skyscrapers in new york would solve, perhaps they wouldn't be blowing up skyscrapers?
i know, that sort of thinking requires just a little too much responsibility... too bad there's no such thing in the world of 'defense spending', eh ?
The iPod form-factor pretty much cannot be beat. My gen-1 iPod still functions extremely well, gets 8 to 10 hours worth of battery life, and fits in my clothes like no other device. It is 100% a bar of soap product.
This is a good form factor for computing. If I can put my POSIX apps on it -and there are lots of interesting apps for uClinux- then I have myself a portable music player which also functions as a working computing platform.
(Computing platforms do not have to be fast, latest and greatest, RAM-stuffed beheamoths in order to be a functioning, operational computing platform...)
For the, the biggest draw of iPod on Linux is the fact that the iPod just still, to this day, feels good. Give me a C compiler for it, and it will rock the world...
I want to use.ogg files for everything. I don't care about Apple's features so much... but if I could put.ogg files on my iPod, use it as a disk, and still have playback capabilities on the road through a Linux interface, this would be ideal.
Not to mention that Linux on iPod makes a great stealth platform. From my iPod connected to a target network, I could launch all sorts of extremely useful processes...
All of that technology, to serve what end? Killing people.
If only there were a reason for America to apply its talents to making the world a better place, instead of making it 'safer for Americans'.
I'm a techno-geek, but its very, very hard for me to get excited about such advanced use of technology for the purpose of putting killing machines on the ocean. Lets see the remote helicopter be used for drought control, or crop maintenance, or airlifting badly needed parts for the local U.N. pump in a village, or something...
As long as there are men making weapons, there will be war.
i'd sure like to know how often you have to change the wet sand, in order to get 2 weeks worth of refrigeration?
anyone got any napkin-science calculations that can give us a ballpark of whats needed? i'm sure this is a simple physics equation, only i'm certainly not qualified to work out the formula...
maybe once there is a 100% -completely- Microsoft-tracking GUI around, maybe there won't need to be so many of them for Linux, and some truly innovative GUI advances can be made...
In my book, an instrument is any object designed specifically and only for the purpose of making music. (This is why softsynths aren't "instruments" in my opinion; though they are 'virtualized software instruments' they're not quite complete... since you have to use a general-purpose computer to run them... in the same way that pro-tools using edit gimps aren't "musicians" {they're producers}, neither are soft-synths 'instrument's... heh heh... flame on...)
So, anyway, I make synthesizers and work for a fairly well-known synthesizer company.
There are tons of DIY Synthesizer builders out there in 'net land, in fact its quite an active and avid community... synth construction is a very fun geek activity, and you'll be surprised by some of the amazing systems that have been built, quite openly, by instrument-making enthusiasts.
Check out synth.net, of course... this site is all about DIY instrument makers, and if you really want to go on a wacky and wild journey, browse the Synth DIY Who's Who and see where it takes you...
GarageBand, and the general plethora of opportunity it provides to musicians -hobbyist, serious and 'pro'- is a definite improvement in the standard for media content creation tools.
with this simple app, you're able to do things which previously required a fairly significant investment. its a great 'raising of the bar' by apple in the media content-creation apps sphere...
i only feel sorry for apps like Intuem, which is a native OSX-only app in the DAW sphere... surely they can't be too happy about competing with Apple directly, themselves, on an OSX-native DAW system.
nevertheless, its great to see people starting to realize that no, Virginia, "Pro Tools" does not make a pro. In fact, you can do things with GB now, which once were the exlusive domain of the 'elite' packages like Pro Tools.
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Did you not watch the news last week and see the burned corpses of Americans dragged through the streets in Iraq for the awful crime of bringing food to people?
These were MERCENARY SOLDIERS!!
You have fallen victim to American Propaganda. Those images were -designed- to shock you!
This was a routine occurrence in Iraq before the US liberation.
... umm... actually I have been in a police state, more than one.)
Says who? Your Media?
Hitler said the same thing about the Poles before he sent in his blitzkreig.
Has History Taught You American Sheep NOTHING?!!
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The US, with all of its power has abused it FAR LESS than others would have. While not perfect, it is better than most.
only americans believe this bullshit.
Well, someone else has pointed out that militant Islam is - by any objective measure - immeasurably more cruel than anything we've done to ourselves.
... therefore: how is it right to use the fact that it happens over there to justify war against them?
... I can at least still see a little light of day, I suppose ...
I beg to differ.
Hack off your daughter's clit? No problem! Murder your wife because she got raped? Well, the bitch shouldn't have been showin' it off! Hey, it's their culture, and all cultures are equivalent, right? That's what your moral relativism implies -- fine by me.
Umm... this stuff happens in the United States. Pretty much every day. It still happens in the holy moral system of the U.S.
The U.S. is the biggest manufacturer and user of weapons of mass destruction on the Planet. Why is it okay to use this pretext to invade Iraq?
As for 'millitant Islam', I'm very much afraid that you are brainwashed. There is about as much 'millitant Islam' going on in the world as there is Ku Klux Klan, my friend.
My 'self-destructive tendencies' haven't led me to shove my head as far up my ass as you have with yours, also
So, ship 1,000 water pumps instead of 1,000 missiles. End of power struggle.
...
I'm saying, AGGRESSIVELY EXPORT YOUR TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE LIFE, NOT DEATH, WITH AS MUCH VIGOUR AND ENTHUSIASM AS YOUR CURRENT MILITARY USES, and maybe you won't have so many people hating you so much
Well, last I checked, you can find hundreds and thousands of drug-addled 'products' of the American systems on your streets, countless human rights abuses in your jails, undeniable evidence of social deterioration in your Columbines, mass irresponsibility for human consumption and greed in your media, mob mentality in your court rooms, and endless police state aggression.
...
If you want to make 'moral equivalences', lets talk about Ruby Ridge or Waco
And this is different, exactly, from "Iraq is now an American Oil-producing State, run by Radical Christians", how?
Look. Just Put Down The Weapons and Feed Each Other. The more people do this, the less likelihood there will be a need for war.
It IS that simple.
You have no understanding of human pscyhology,
... all i said is, "Americans, use your Technological Prowess to MAKE PEACE, not WAR!" ... but its interesting how so few people actually understand that this is possible in light of the mob rule of 'guns make good' ...
It is precisely this arrogant view, that some people do have an understanding of 'human psychology' and some people do not, which gives us the bigots in command who are writing the purchase orders for more, bigger, massive weapons.
a tremendous ignorance of the world outisde the United States
I actually have lived all over the world, including America, and including places that most Americans would not dare to go. I dare say I'm more aware of the situation than most Americans...
but hey thanks for the free psychological evaluation. i'll be sure to note that you are an expert.
and, for the rcord, i never made that conclusion
we are killing specific people
...
no, you are not. 10,000 iraqi's have died in this war. there is nothing specific about that, and to an on-the-ground observer, it sure looks like Americans don't care enough about killing muslims, as much as they do about protecting their Valued Christian Soldiers.
Its an exercise in viewpoint, dude. if you can't see why some people would think that America is killing Muslims, its because your news media is not showing the pictures of demolished mosques, daisy-cutter charred corpses, and limbless kids.
You kill us, we will kill you.
This argument works for THEM as much as it works for YOU. Just like this one:
You feed me, I feed you.
What's the difference? The difference is, idiots like you who are incapable of escaping your little box
where did you get these 'facts' from? lets see the actual reports, not heresay, not 'interpretation'.
A highly efficient water pump, designed by rocket scientists, functioning in the middle of the Gobi desert, delivered by caring individuals under no moral pretext other than simply to -help- would be a far more defensive mechanism than that same pump, sitting in a bunker as part of a missile system, idle, waiting for the day that it has to be used against some other persons weapon.
No. They wanted to see Americans die, and their social agenda (a worldwide islamic state) furthered.
And this is different from wanting to see Muslims die, and the world-wide furtherment of a World American State, how exactly?
my point is, maybe a little more peace-making investment, and a little (no, actually, a lot) less war-making investment, and America might not have so many frustrated people from other cultures they do not understand, trying to defeat the machine which is modern American society.
... because Americans care more about their own self-preservation and defense than they do about the real, honest, thirsty, starving plight of their fellow man.
...
40 Trillion dollars on missiles sitting in bunkers is 40 Trillion dollars which, if spent on water projects in key area's, would put Americans in a -far- better moral position than they are currently.
as it stands, America is one of the most immoral societies in the world eye
its all too easy to say 'these are radicals, they are insane' when your definition of 'sanity' is "anything which is not part of our culture and society".
America just doesn't seem to understand that the homogonization of the world by Western Elite and Their Weapons is not something that is going to result in peace
if americans used their technological prowess to solve the problems that these box-cutter weilding people thought that blowing up skyscrapers in new york would solve, perhaps they wouldn't be blowing up skyscrapers?
i know, that sort of thinking requires just a little too much responsibility... too bad there's no such thing in the world of 'defense spending', eh ?
The iPod form-factor pretty much cannot be beat. My gen-1 iPod still functions extremely well, gets 8 to 10 hours worth of battery life, and fits in my clothes like no other device. It is 100% a bar of soap product.
...
This is a good form factor for computing. If I can put my POSIX apps on it -and there are lots of interesting apps for uClinux- then I have myself a portable music player which also functions as a working computing platform.
(Computing platforms do not have to be fast, latest and greatest, RAM-stuffed beheamoths in order to be a functioning, operational computing platform...)
For the, the biggest draw of iPod on Linux is the fact that the iPod just still, to this day, feels good. Give me a C compiler for it, and it will rock the world
I want to use .ogg files for everything. I don't care about Apple's features so much ... but if I could put .ogg files on my iPod, use it as a disk, and still have playback capabilities on the road through a Linux interface, this would be ideal.
...
Not to mention that Linux on iPod makes a great stealth platform. From my iPod connected to a target network, I could launch all sorts of extremely useful processes
All of that technology, to serve what end? Killing people.
...
If only there were a reason for America to apply its talents to making the world a better place, instead of making it 'safer for Americans'.
I'm a techno-geek, but its very, very hard for me to get excited about such advanced use of technology for the purpose of putting killing machines on the ocean. Lets see the remote helicopter be used for drought control, or crop maintenance, or airlifting badly needed parts for the local U.N. pump in a village, or something
As long as there are men making weapons, there will be war.
... right?
(Hint: WANK!)
i'd sure like to know how often you have to change the wet sand, in order to get 2 weeks worth of refrigeration?
...
anyone got any napkin-science calculations that can give us a ballpark of whats needed? i'm sure this is a simple physics equation, only i'm certainly not qualified to work out the formula
maybe once there is a 100% -completely- Microsoft-tracking GUI around, maybe there won't need to be so many of them for Linux, and some truly innovative GUI advances can be made ...
per my dictionary, 'instrument' means:
...
A device for playing or producing music.
I wasn't, actually, making up a definition that suited me. I was using the one someone else had made up for me, in a dictionary, which suited me
But it depends on what you call an 'instrument'.
... since you have to use a general-purpose computer to run them ... in the same way that pro-tools using edit gimps aren't "musicians" {they're producers}, neither are soft-synths 'instrument's ... heh heh ... flame on ...)
... this site is all about DIY instrument makers, and if you really want to go on a wacky and wild journey, browse the Synth DIY Who's Who and see where it takes you ...
... I've built a couple ASM1's now. Its like Open Source, only for Hardware... instead of compile, you solder.
In my book, an instrument is any object designed specifically and only for the purpose of making music. (This is why softsynths aren't "instruments" in my opinion; though they are 'virtualized software instruments' they're not quite complete
So, anyway, I make synthesizers and work for a fairly well-known synthesizer company.
There are tons of DIY Synthesizer builders out there in 'net land, in fact its quite an active and avid community... synth construction is a very fun geek activity, and you'll be surprised by some of the amazing systems that have been built, quite openly, by instrument-making enthusiasts.
Check out synth.net, of course
And if you want an example of the DIY/GNU spirit combined, you can't do much better than Gene Stopp's ASM1 Design (Open Modular Synthesizer Hardware Project)
GarageBand, and the general plethora of opportunity it provides to musicians -hobbyist, serious and 'pro'- is a definite improvement in the standard for media content creation tools.
...
:)
with this simple app, you're able to do things which previously required a fairly significant investment. its a great 'raising of the bar' by apple in the media content-creation apps sphere
i only feel sorry for apps like Intuem, which is a native OSX-only app in the DAW sphere... surely they can't be too happy about competing with Apple directly, themselves, on an OSX-native DAW system.
nevertheless, its great to see people starting to realize that no, Virginia, "Pro Tools" does not make a pro. In fact, you can do things with GB now, which once were the exlusive domain of the 'elite' packages like Pro Tools.
Amen to the erosion of elitism, i say!
... but by christmas, cheap ($200) video-playing 'ipod killers' are gonna hit the market.
the majority of these -already- run linux.