of the widening gap between the haves and the have nots. ironically, HDTV is being pushed heavily as a way to get greater access to news to consumers. That's why the FCC is mandating HDTV broadcast. rather than benefit most consumers, however, it only has the effect of increasing availability and lowering the cost for the Connoisseur who can actually cares about the increased bandwidth and can pay for the expensive sets.
political candidates like George O'Brien of the Progressive Party worked hard to fight for the rights of the common man. When Ralph Nader formed the FCC, he didn't intend it to be used to benefit the vested interests. How sad to see the current state. It makes me want to join up with Nader's Raiders as a 30 year long practitioner of law. Oh well, instead I will probably stick to complaining about things I will never seek to change.
I'm glad that Slashdot gives me this forum, wherein I can feel like my concerns are being heard, but actually I waste time in meaningless debate with people who have no influence where it matters. It's worse than when the CIA invented LSD and started spreading it in Harlem and Berkeley.
I don't know. Do you think this is a big deviation from the posting of the "Internationale" lyrics? My aim is to prevent understanding, in a sense. To display the deliberately incongrous. In this case, a musician commenting on Slashdot is pretty out of place. Lyrics to the socialist international anthem is also incongrous, because of the overwhelming number of libertarians on this site. It fits for me. Sorry if it doesn't for you.
The last few months I have been doing some research into the trolling phenomenon on slashdot.org. In order to do this as thoroughly as possible, I have written both normal and troll posts, 1st posts, etc., both logged in and anonymously, and I have found these rather shocking results:
* More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up. Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4. * Logged in people are modded down faster than anonymous cowards. Presumably these Nazi Moderators think it's more important to burn a user's existing karma, to silence that individual for the future, than to use the moderation system for what it's meant for : identifying "good" and "bad" posts (Notice how nearly all oppressive governments in the past and present do the same thing : marking individuals as bad and untrustworthy because they have conflicting opinions, instead of engaging in a public discussion about these opinions) * Once you have a karma of -4 or -5, your posts have a score of -1 by default. When this is the case, no-one bothers to mod you down anymore. This means a logged in user can keep on trolling as much as he (or she) likes, without risking a ban to post on slashdot. When trolling as an anonymous user, every post starts at score 0, and you will be modded down to -1 ON EVERY POST. When you are modded down a certain number of times in 24 hour, you cannot post anymore from your current IP for a day or so. So, for successful trolling, ALWAYS log in. * A lot of the modded down posts are actually quite clever, funny, etc., and they are only modded down because they are offtopic. Now, on a news site like slashdot, where the number of different topics of discussion can be counted on 1 hand, I must say I quite like the distraction these posts offer. But no, when the topic is yet another minor version change of the Linux kernel, they only expect ooohs and aaahs about this great feat of engineering. Look at the moderation done in this thread to see what I mean. * Digging deep into the history of slashdot, I found this poll, which clearly indicates the vast majority does NOT want the moderation we have here today. 'nuff said.
Feel free to use this information to your advantage. I thank you for your time.
he Internationale [variant words in square brackets]
Arise ye workers [starvelings] from your slumbers Arise ye prisoners of want For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of cant. Away with all your superstitions Servile masses arise, arise We'll change henceforth [forthwith] the old tradition [conditions] And spurn the dust to win the prize.
So comrades, come rally And the last fight let us face The Internationale unites the human race. So comrades, come rally And the last fight let us face The Internationale unites the human race.
No more deluded by reaction On tyrants only we'll make war The soldiers too will take strike action They'll break ranks and fight no more And if those cannibals keep trying To sacrifice us to their pride They soon shall hear the bullets flying We'll shoot the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers No faith have we in prince or peer Our own right hand the chains must shiver Chains of hatred, greed and fear E'er the thieves will out with their booty [give up their booty] And give to all a happier lot. Each [those] at the forge must do their duty And we'll strike while the iron is hot.
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Press for Conversion! subscriber and patron of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, Pete Seeger was interviewed on May 9, 1995 by Richard Sanders. Future issues will feature interviews with other subscribers.
P4C: I wanted to ask about the role of music in conveying important messages.
PS: This is often asked of me and I can't prove a god-damned thing. All I can do is quote people through history who said that music is important. Plato said it is very dangerous for the wrong kind of music to be allowed in the Republic. We know that the Catholic Church tried to control music for a thousand years or more and most countries try and keep revolutionary music off the air. There are cases of songs which, Anatol France says, have overthrown empires. He was probably thinking of La Marseillaise. The song Lilly Bolero is said to have cost King James the throne. It was a hilarious, very danceable little tune. People could dance while they sang it. It spread through England, Scotland and Ireland.
P4C: You have your own experiences of being kept off the radio and TV. During the McCarthy era you were blacklisted. They must have thought you were a threat.
PS: It was part of the stupidity of that time. Now, they do the same thing but in much more clever and subtle ways. They say, "Oh yes you can say anything you want but of course prime time is very expensive and we only put stuff on what people want to hear, which will make money." In effect, songs are blacklisted now. I don't get asked on TV that often.
P4C: This week, many people around the world are thinking back to the end of the WWII and events of 50 years ago. What significance do you attach to those events and perhaps you could also reflect on the way they're being dealt with in the media.
PS: Well, I confess I was not optimistic and never have been. As long as the capitalist system is around, there will be people wanting to take advantage of it to push there own agenda. Have you ever heard this quote from Abraham Lincoln? It was written in a letter to somebody on Nov. 21, 1864: "We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war, which has cost a vast treasure of blood and money, is almost over but I see in the future a crisis approaching that fills me with anxiety. As a result of the war, corporations have become enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The moneyed power of the country will endeavour to prolong its rule by preying upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is concentrated in a few hands and the Republic destroyed. I feel at this time more anxiety for the future than at any time in the past, even in the midst of war."
So, I confess, I was not optimistic at the end of WWII. I appreciated the fact that they were trying to start the UN but, after all, they tried to start the League of Nations after WWI and it didn't have much success either. Now, we have individuals in the U.S. who have more annual incomes than the budgets of many small countries.
P4C: How accurate do you think Lincoln's projections were of today?
PS: I think that the world is in greater danger than it's ever been because science and technology have made weapons so much more available. As we saw in Oklahoma, you can make a weapon out of fertilizer now. However, good things can come from bad and maybe when the world realizes the danger we're in, we'll be a lot more careful about talking angrily to each other and about any killing.
The date of the shooting at Waco should be remembered. It was one of the most stupid things done by the Clinton administration. You can't blame the President entirely, he's busy on a million things. He assumed that the FBI and the Justice Department would know how to handle it. But they did screwy things like playing the most unnerving music outside, blasting it at these people and trying to make them go crazy. They should have played beautiful hymns to calm them down.
I think that people who try to destroy their enemies are very foolish. I was once in the presence of somebody who said, "I wish somebody would assassinate Reagan," and a much more sensible person said, "I hope I will never hear such a suggestion as long as I live." This stupid person shut up immediately. Reagan was one of the worst presidents that this country ever had and we'll be paying for his foolishness and crimes for a long while. But assassination is not the answer.
I hope Reagan lives long enough to know how foolish he was and to see the Republican party repudiated. He's in good health but I'm afraid with Alzeimers he won't be really conscious. They'll say, "Mr. Reagan, the Republican party is having a meeting and we hardly know how to tell you but they are giving speeches regretting that you were their president." He says, "huh huh huh, what's a party?" He'll be ninety five or a hundred at the time.
P4C: Do you support the Democrats?
PS: I support them when they do something good. I think that Clinton has made so many mistakes that its hard to support him much. If he learns something from his past two years and changes, I might support him in the next election.
Basic to the saving of democracy is how people vote. I'm convinced that the powers that be are glad to see 67% of America not bothering to vote. Nobody polls them because they'll find out how many have given up on government. They think that the Democrats are as bad as the Republicans.
P4C: There's some truth to that. Democrats aren't that much different. You might even say they're not as honest as Republicans in saying what they really believe.
PS: Politicians cannot be as honest as they'd like to be and get elected. That's one of the faults of our system. It's winner take all. Proportional representation would make it possible to be much more honest and still get elected. Back in the 1930s and '40s we had two communists on the New York City Council. They'd say, "Sure I'm a communist but we have a hundred thousand communists in New York City. Why shouldn't I be on the City Council?"
P4C: Do you have any memories from during the war that you'd like to share?
PS: Well I must confess, I'm no great pundit. The significance of Hiroshima did not really filter through to me for a couple of months, until I started having nightmares about it. When I first heard it, I was just thinking, "Well, war is horrible thing; it's horrible to bomb a city, but it's horrible to kill anybody." I played a banjo through WWII. It was my big contribution to winning the war against fascism, pickin' a banjo.
P4C: What sort of songs were you pickin'?
PS: Oh, I sang soldier songs mostly, and pop songs and the occasional old country songs and old folk songs. I'd get a crowd singing with me. Once in awhile, I'd sing a song about Hitler, like "Dear Mr. President." When first in the army I won an amateur contest singing, "Round and round Hitler's grave he won't get up no more."
P4C: How do you view that experience?
PS: Well, you learn from everything. It was very educational. I've been kind of a pacifist most of my life, a pacifist kind of a communist. I think, if I'd been smart, I would have joined A.J.Muste, who'd been a communist but then quit. He said the problem with revolutionaries is they don't realize that when they take power by force of arms, they try to maintain power by force of arms. The next thing you know, they're shooting at each other. P4C: How has the peace movement changed over the years that you've been associated with it.
PS: In the first place, beware of the definite article "t h e." I think the human race and the English language might be better without it. The truth, the revolution, the lord, the church, the reason. The peace movement was one thing in the thirties, another in the forties, another in the fifties and another in the sixties. The peace movement is definitely growing. I think what you are doing is absolutely wonderful. I hope you are growing. Churches are getting involved. The terrible bombing in Oklahoma is going to be educational to many. Some church people are realizing, there are those who claim to be Christians but who are all for killing. It may make people think twice about supporting any kind of killing.
Margaret Mead, the anthropologist, had a great line. She said, "Progress is when the proportion of people rises that thinks that it's a bad thing to take human life." She didn't mention more health, more money, more housing, more food, more communication. I agree with her 100%.
P4C: If you were president, how would you reinvest the nation's vast resources.
PS: I think I would first of all take the money out of the information business. I would not completely outlaw private TV but would demand that in return for using the people's air, that TV stations give a huge amount of free time for political campaigns and that other advertising be outlawed. Herbert Hoover said, "It is unthinkable that our airwaves are controlled by advertising." As president, I'd say, "Let's open up our airwaves to all sorts of opinions. If the far right has opinions, let them be heard. If the far left has opinions, let them be heard. If upside down people want to be heard or right side up people, let them be heard." It may be confusing to some but in the long run we'll learn how to talk with each other. People who say stupid things will find they have a limited audience.
I would immediately start discussing proportional representation and quit this system of winner take all. A friend of mine in Holland, said "Oh you Americans have two political parties. That's just one more than the Soviets had. We have twenty." How do they govern? By coalitions. Instead of having to lie to put your coalition together, you know you're dealing with skilled politicians, so you say, "Look I'll vote for this, if you vote for that." It doesn't make heaven on earth but it makes for a more peaceful country.
Let me reiterate that what you are doing is right at the cutting edge of the future because I believe that within the next ten years we're going to have to start limiting arms more. What's going on now at the UN is absolutely shocking. I spoke with Daniel Ellsberg recently. He says the U.S. is just stonewalling and other countries are just astonished. They say, "Aren't you willing to say that you look forward to someday not having any atom bombs?" "No, we can't say that." "Aren't you willing to say that you won't use the atom bomb first?" "Oh, no, we can't say that." The U.S. is not willing to make a single concession. It's shocking. Other nations are dumbfounded.
P4C: Well perhaps someday there will be a global movement to boycott the U.S., just as there was one to boycott South Africa.
PS: Its very possible. I have almost weekly talks with friends who are so discouraged they feel like leaving the country as they did during the Vietnam war.
P4C: Is that because of the rise of the Republicans and the right wing?
PS: Yes, I remind them that the Republicans only had 17% of the votes. Only 33% of the electorate voted. Democrats got 16% and Republicans got 17%. That's their great mandate.
P4C: Did anyone ever ask you to run?
PS: Oh, I've been asked occasionally but they were very foolish to ask me. I am not a good organizer at all. I get ideas but I don't know how to follow them up. My life is a chaos of uncompleted projects. Fortunately, one or two of them have succeeded.
To order Pete's book, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (complete with 200 songs) contact Sing Out, at (610) 865-5366.
SOURCE: "Press for Conversion!", Spring (Issue # 21) May 1995.
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I pray for the end of Libertarianism if only to save hundreds of thousands of poor vulnerable teeenage boys from the mind-rotting cruelty of Atlas Shrugged, an addictive substance far worse than crack coccaine by any objective(ist?) measure.
Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty [give up their booty]
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot.
Nevertheless, the earlier discussion of deviance appears to correlate rather closely with the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. With this clarification, a descriptively adequate grammar suffices to account for the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. For one thing, this selectionally introduced contextual feature can be defined in such a way as to impose a corpus of utterance tokens upon which conformity has been defined by the paired utterance test. Summarizing, then, we assume that the descriptive power of the base component is to be regarded as a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. Conversely, this analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features is rather different from the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. From C1, it follows that relational information is, apparently, determined by a parasitic gap construction. I suggested that these results would follow from the assumption that the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition is not quite equivalent to problems of phonemic and morphological analysis.
On our assumptions, the descriptive power of the base component does not readily tolerate an important distinction in language use. For any transformation which is sufficiently diversified in application to be of any interest, the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial is not subject to the levels of acceptability from fairly high (eg (99a)) to virtual gibberish (eg (98d)). I suggested that these results would follow from the assumption that a descriptively adequate grammar is not to be considered in determining the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol.
Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot.
Vote for Walter F. O'Brien. He'll save the packet that never returned on today's M.T.A..
It appears that most of the methodological work in modern linguistics appears to correlate rather closely with problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. With this clarification, this analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features can be defined in such a way as to impose the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. It may be, then, that the natural general principle that will subsume this case raises serious doubts about the extended c-command discussed in connection with (34).
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political candidates like George O'Brien of the Progressive Party worked hard to fight for the rights of the common man. When Ralph Nader formed the FCC, he didn't intend it to be used to benefit the vested interests. How sad to see the current state. It makes me want to join up with Nader's Raiders as a 30 year long practitioner of law. Oh well, instead I will probably stick to complaining about things I will never seek to change.
I'm glad that Slashdot gives me this forum, wherein I can feel like my concerns are being heard, but actually I waste time in meaningless debate with people who have no influence where it matters. It's worse than when the CIA invented LSD and started spreading it in Harlem and Berkeley.
Censor him.
I don't know. Do you think this is a big deviation from the posting of the "Internationale" lyrics? My aim is to prevent understanding, in a sense. To display the deliberately incongrous. In this case, a musician commenting on Slashdot is pretty out of place. Lyrics to the socialist international anthem is also incongrous, because of the overwhelming number of libertarians on this site. It fits for me. Sorry if it doesn't for you.
And your mother.
Hand. HST. Whatever thingy indicating that this was a troll.
The last few months I have been doing some research into the trolling phenomenon on slashdot.org. In order to do this as thoroughly as possible, I have written both normal and troll posts, 1st posts, etc., both logged in and anonymously, and I have found these rather shocking results:
* More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up. Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
* Logged in people are modded down faster than anonymous cowards. Presumably these Nazi Moderators think it's more important to burn a user's existing karma, to silence that individual for the future, than to use the moderation system for what it's meant for : identifying "good" and "bad" posts (Notice how nearly all oppressive governments in the past and present do the same thing : marking individuals as bad and untrustworthy because they have conflicting opinions, instead of engaging in a public discussion about these opinions)
* Once you have a karma of -4 or -5, your posts have a score of -1 by default. When this is the case, no-one bothers to mod you down anymore. This means a logged in user can keep on trolling as much as he (or she) likes, without risking a ban to post on slashdot. When trolling as an anonymous user, every post starts at score 0, and you will be modded down to -1 ON EVERY POST. When you are modded down a certain number of times in 24 hour, you cannot post anymore from your current IP for a day or so. So, for successful trolling, ALWAYS log in.
* A lot of the modded down posts are actually quite clever, funny, etc., and they are only modded down because they are offtopic. Now, on a news site like slashdot, where the number of different topics of discussion can be counted on 1 hand, I must say I quite like the distraction these posts offer. But no, when the topic is yet another minor version change of the Linux kernel, they only expect ooohs and aaahs about this great feat of engineering. Look at the moderation done in this thread to see what I mean.
* Digging deep into the history of slashdot, I found this poll, which clearly indicates the vast majority does NOT want the moderation we have here today. 'nuff said.
Feel free to use this information to your advantage. I thank you for your time.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26638
my lyrics beat your lyrics.
he Internationale [variant words in square brackets]
Arise ye workers [starvelings] from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth [forthwith] the old tradition [conditions]
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty [give up their booty]
And give to all a happier lot.
Each [those] at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot.
You, sir, are an idiot.
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Interview with Pete Seeger
Press for Conversion! subscriber and patron of the Coalition to
Oppose the Arms Trade, Pete Seeger was interviewed on May 9, 1995
by Richard Sanders. Future issues will feature interviews with
other subscribers.
P4C: I wanted to ask about the role of music in conveying important
messages.
PS: This is often asked of me and I can't prove a god-damned thing.
All I can do is quote people through history who said that music is
important. Plato said it is very dangerous for the wrong kind of
music to be allowed in the Republic. We know that the Catholic
Church tried to control music for a thousand years or more and most
countries try and keep revolutionary music off the air. There are
cases of songs which, Anatol France says, have overthrown empires.
He was probably thinking of La Marseillaise. The song Lilly Bolero
is said to have cost King James the throne. It was a hilarious,
very danceable little tune. People could dance while they sang it.
It spread through England, Scotland and Ireland.
P4C: You have your own experiences of being kept off the radio and
TV. During the McCarthy era you were blacklisted. They must have
thought you were a threat.
PS: It was part of the stupidity of that time. Now, they do the
same thing but in much more clever and subtle ways. They say, "Oh
yes you can say anything you want but of course prime time is very
expensive and we only put stuff on what people want to hear, which
will make money." In effect, songs are blacklisted now. I don't get
asked on TV that often.
P4C: This week, many people around the world are thinking back to
the end of the WWII and events of 50 years ago. What significance
do you attach to those events and perhaps you could also reflect
on the way they're being dealt with in the media.
PS: Well, I confess I was not optimistic and never have been. As
long as the capitalist system is around, there will be people
wanting to take advantage of it to push there own agenda. Have you
ever heard this quote from Abraham Lincoln? It was written in a
letter to somebody on Nov. 21, 1864:
"We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war, which has cost
a vast treasure of blood and money, is almost over but I see in the
future a crisis approaching that fills me with anxiety. As a
result of the war, corporations have become enthroned and an era of
corruption in high places will follow. The moneyed power of the
country will endeavour to prolong its rule by preying upon the
prejudices of the people until all wealth is concentrated in a few
hands and the Republic destroyed. I feel at this time more anxiety
for the future than at any time in the past, even in the midst of
war."
So, I confess, I was not optimistic at the end of WWII. I
appreciated the fact that they were trying to start the UN but,
after all, they tried to start the League of Nations after WWI and
it didn't have much success either. Now, we have individuals in the
U.S. who have more annual incomes than the budgets of many small
countries.
P4C: How accurate do you think Lincoln's projections were of today?
PS: I think that the world is in greater danger than it's ever been
because science and technology have made weapons so much more
available. As we saw in Oklahoma, you can make a weapon out of
fertilizer now. However, good things can come from bad and maybe
when the world realizes the danger we're in, we'll be a lot more
careful about talking angrily to each other and about any killing.
The date of the shooting at Waco should be remembered. It was
one of the most stupid things done by the Clinton administration.
You can't blame the President entirely, he's busy on a million
things. He assumed that the FBI and the Justice Department would
know how to handle it. But they did screwy things like playing the
most unnerving music outside, blasting it at these people and
trying to make them go crazy. They should have played beautiful
hymns to calm them down.
I think that people who try to destroy their enemies are very
foolish. I was once in the presence of somebody who said, "I wish
somebody would assassinate Reagan," and a much more sensible person
said, "I hope I will never hear such a suggestion as long as I
live." This stupid person shut up immediately. Reagan was one of
the worst presidents that this country ever had and we'll be paying
for his foolishness and crimes for a long while. But assassination
is not the answer.
I hope Reagan lives long enough to know how foolish he was and
to see the Republican party repudiated. He's in good health but I'm
afraid with Alzeimers he won't be really conscious. They'll say,
"Mr. Reagan, the Republican party is having a meeting and we hardly
know how to tell you but they are giving speeches regretting that
you were their president." He says, "huh huh huh, what's a party?"
He'll be ninety five or a hundred at the time.
P4C: Do you support the Democrats?
PS: I support them when they do something good. I think that
Clinton has made so many mistakes that its hard to support him
much. If he learns something from his past two years and changes,
I might support him in the next election.
Basic to the saving of democracy is how people vote. I'm
convinced that the powers that be are glad to see 67% of America
not bothering to vote. Nobody polls them because they'll find out
how many have given up on government. They think that the Democrats
are as bad as the Republicans.
P4C: There's some truth to that. Democrats aren't that much
different. You might even say they're not as honest as Republicans
in saying what they really believe.
PS: Politicians cannot be as honest as they'd like to be and get
elected. That's one of the faults of our system. It's winner take
all. Proportional representation would make it possible to be much
more honest and still get elected. Back in the 1930s and '40s we
had two communists on the New York City Council. They'd say, "Sure
I'm a communist but we have a hundred thousand communists in New
York City. Why shouldn't I be on the City Council?"
P4C: Do you have any memories from during the war that you'd like
to share?
PS: Well I must confess, I'm no great pundit. The significance of
Hiroshima did not really filter through to me for a couple of
months, until I started having nightmares about it. When I first
heard it, I was just thinking, "Well, war is horrible thing; it's
horrible to bomb a city, but it's horrible to kill anybody." I
played a banjo through WWII. It was my big contribution to winning
the war against fascism, pickin' a banjo.
P4C: What sort of songs were you pickin'?
PS: Oh, I sang soldier songs mostly, and pop songs and the
occasional old country songs and old folk songs. I'd get a crowd
singing with me. Once in awhile, I'd sing a song about Hitler, like
"Dear Mr. President." When first in the army I won an amateur
contest singing, "Round and round Hitler's grave he won't get up no
more."
P4C: How do you view that experience?
PS: Well, you learn from everything. It was very educational. I've
been kind of a pacifist most of my life, a pacifist kind of a
communist. I think, if I'd been smart, I would have joined
A.J.Muste, who'd been a communist but then quit. He said the
problem with revolutionaries is they don't realize that when they
take power by force of arms, they try to maintain power by force of
arms. The next thing you know, they're shooting at each other.
P4C: How has the peace movement changed over the years that you've
been associated with it.
PS: In the first place, beware of the definite article "t h e." I
think the human race and the English language might be better
without it. The truth, the revolution, the lord, the church, the
reason. The peace movement was one thing in the thirties, another
in the forties, another in the fifties and another in the sixties.
The peace movement is definitely growing. I think what you are
doing is absolutely wonderful. I hope you are growing. Churches are
getting involved. The terrible bombing in Oklahoma is going to be
educational to many. Some church people are realizing, there are
those who claim to be Christians but who are all for killing. It
may make people think twice about supporting any kind of killing.
Margaret Mead, the anthropologist, had a great line. She said,
"Progress is when the proportion of people rises that thinks that
it's a bad thing to take human life." She didn't mention more
health, more money, more housing, more food, more communication. I
agree with her 100%.
P4C: If you were president, how would you reinvest the nation's
vast resources.
PS: I think I would first of all take the money out of the
information business. I would not completely outlaw private TV but
would demand that in return for using the people's air, that TV
stations give a huge amount of free time for political campaigns
and that other advertising be outlawed. Herbert Hoover said, "It is
unthinkable that our airwaves are controlled by advertising." As
president, I'd say, "Let's open up our airwaves to all sorts of
opinions. If the far right has opinions, let them be heard. If the
far left has opinions, let them be heard. If upside down people
want to be heard or right side up people, let them be heard." It
may be confusing to some but in the long run we'll learn how to
talk with each other. People who say stupid things will find they
have a limited audience.
I would immediately start discussing proportional
representation and quit this system of winner take all. A friend
of mine in Holland, said "Oh you Americans have two political
parties. That's just one more than the Soviets had. We have
twenty." How do they govern? By coalitions. Instead of having to
lie to put your coalition together, you know you're dealing with
skilled politicians, so you say, "Look I'll vote for this, if you
vote for that." It doesn't make heaven on earth but it makes for a
more peaceful country.
Let me reiterate that what you are doing is right at the
cutting edge of the future because I believe that within the next
ten years we're going to have to start limiting arms more. What's
going on now at the UN is absolutely shocking. I spoke with Daniel
Ellsberg recently. He says the U.S. is just stonewalling and other
countries are just astonished. They say, "Aren't you willing to say
that you look forward to someday not having any atom bombs?" "No,
we can't say that." "Aren't you willing to say that you won't use
the atom bomb first?" "Oh, no, we can't say that." The U.S. is not
willing to make a single concession. It's shocking. Other nations
are dumbfounded.
P4C: Well perhaps someday there will be a global movement to
boycott the U.S., just as there was one to boycott South Africa.
PS: Its very possible. I have almost weekly talks with friends who
are so discouraged they feel like leaving the country as they did
during the Vietnam war.
P4C: Is that because of the rise of the Republicans and the right
wing?
PS: Yes, I remind them that the Republicans only had 17% of the
votes. Only 33% of the electorate voted. Democrats got 16% and
Republicans got 17%. That's their great mandate.
P4C: Did anyone ever ask you to run?
PS: Oh, I've been asked occasionally but they were very foolish to
ask me. I am not a good organizer at all. I get ideas but I don't
know how to follow them up. My life is a chaos of uncompleted
projects. Fortunately, one or two of them have succeeded.
To order Pete's book, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (complete
with 200 songs) contact Sing Out, at (610) 865-5366.
SOURCE: "Press for Conversion!", Spring (Issue # 21) May 1995.
"Press for Conversion!" is published electronically and in hard-
copy format by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT).
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YOU, sir, are an idiot.
YOU, SIR are an idiot.
I pray for the end of Libertarianism if only to save hundreds of thousands of poor vulnerable teeenage boys from the mind-rotting cruelty of Atlas Shrugged, an addictive substance far worse than crack coccaine by any objective(ist?) measure.
Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty [give up their booty]
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot.
That's Carnegie Mellon
Catch the comment about Bill Hick?
no he never returned.
and his fate is still unlearned;
he may ride forever 'neat the streets of Smurfville He's the smurf who never returned.
Vote for Walter F. O'Brien.
Ok. How can I sign up?
Nevertheless, the earlier discussion of deviance appears to correlate rather closely with the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. With this clarification, a descriptively adequate grammar suffices to account for the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. For one thing, this selectionally introduced contextual feature can be defined in such a way as to impose a corpus of utterance tokens upon which conformity has been defined by the paired utterance test. Summarizing, then, we assume that the descriptive power of the base component is to be regarded as a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. Conversely, this analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features is rather different from the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. From C1, it follows that relational information is, apparently, determined by a parasitic gap construction. I suggested that these results would follow from the assumption that the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition is not quite equivalent to problems of phonemic and morphological analysis.
On our assumptions, the descriptive power of the base component does not readily tolerate an important distinction in language use. For any transformation which is sufficiently diversified in application to be of any interest, the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial is not subject to the levels of acceptability from fairly high (eg (99a)) to virtual gibberish (eg (98d)). I suggested that these results would follow from the assumption that a descriptively adequate grammar is not to be considered in determining the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol.
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot.
Vote for Walter F. O'Brien. He'll save the packet that never returned on today's M.T.A..
It appears that most of the methodological work in modern linguistics appears to correlate rather closely with problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. With this clarification, this analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features can be defined in such a way as to impose the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. It may be, then, that the natural general principle that will subsume this case raises serious doubts about the extended c-command discussed in connection with (34).