Back when I was attending Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, in the late '70's, most of my friends lived in Airstreams. In fact, large numbers of Oregonians lived out of trucks, trailers, etc. You could see some amazing "hippy-mobiles" with large back porches and the like driving around.
My friends' consensus was that the Airstreams built in the '60's were nice because they were all yachty wood paneling and the like. The ones that came later were too much plastic.
the Texas Legislature has passed a law requiring all "American" flags flown throughout the state to contain the phrase "Heil Bush!" and the Carlyle Group corporate logo.
Meanwhile, a few hundred more black kids will have their feeding tubes removed under the "Futility" law because their poor parents can't pay the hospital bill for the treatment.
And a few hundred more minority criminals will be executed.
Welcome to Texas - land of "the law" (as they used to call it.)
Memo to Osama: Got any idea where your next target should be?
I was just yesterday viewing a video from Teacher's TV of Jim and Caroline Corr and a sound engineer showing how they produced one of their songs.
I was struck by the fact that it starts from a few basic chords and by the time they get done with it, it takes 50 or 60 laid-down tracks to produce what you hear on the record - which is then "duplicated" on stage by six people and some instruments for the live performance...
What struck me is how a live performance sounds much (if not exactly) like the record with far fewer electronic efforts. Makes you wonder if the electronic effects are really worth it. Obviously it many cases, depending on the song, it is. Enya, for example, can hardly play her stuff live at all because of the production values in her records. But others, like the Corrs, have no problem.
Would it be more cost effective for many bands to drop the effects and play it "straight"? In some cases, maybe, in others, it might be a disaster.
I've noticed that Andrea Corr's voice is sometimes barely recognizable on the record - due to the fact that I have seen her sing live (on video) more often than I've heard the recorded songs. So I'm more used to her "real" voice than the processed and synthesized one. This effect only fades if I watch a video where the Corrs lip-sync to the record (which many TV shows appearances require).
I tend to prefer the "real" voice to the processed one. I wonder how many others prefer their favorite singer's "real" voice over the recorded versions? Or a "real" performance over a "produced" one?
Idiot - the Pope is the head of the Roman Church which happens to be the forerunner of EVERY other so-called "Christian" church which is any church that claims Jesus Christ as some sort of divinity, son of divinity, etc ad nauseum. This leaves out the Muslims who do not believe Jesus was "divine" - but of course the Muslims have their own problems.
Since you obviously have no clue about the history of Christianity and the schisms which resulted in Protestantism (who do think they were "protesting" against?) and a variety of other offshoots and cults, you probably have no clue that Jesus was a devout Jew whose followers would have stoned you to death for claiming he was in any way "divine".
Or that Paul was a Roman double agent working for the Temple priests (collaborators with Rome) who penetrated Jesus's organization, then began spreading his own version. Jesus's own brother sent missionaries to refute Paul's doctrines. Paul returned to Jerusalem, engaged in a public argument with Jesus's brother, was nearly attacked by the followers of Jesus, "checked in" to the Romans for protective custody - whereupon forty of Jesus's followers swore never to eat, drink or sleep until they had killed him. This plot was leaked to the Romans who escorted Paul out of town and back to Rome where he founded the so-called "Christian Church".
The same "Christian Church" hundreds of years later was approached by Jesus's heirs who represented variants of Jesus's doctrines. They requested a share of the profits of the so-called "Christian Church" from the Bishop of Rome (the guy people call Pope now) - who told them to kick rocks. The last thing he wanted was a bunch of "Jews for Jesus" who knew the REAL story of how the Christian Church was founded.
Christianity is the biggest fraud in the history of mankind. Or the biggest tragedy when you count up the millions of people killed due to its belief system and the assholes - like the transvestite Pope and the Borgia Popes and who knows what other assholes who have run the Roman Church in the past - who have used it to achieve power and wealth and the fanatics who have used it to suppress literally hundreds of other religions around the world.
The Pope is dead! Good! Now, when the College of Cardinals meets to choose the new Pope - NUKE THE VATICAN! Get 'em all in one fell swoop!
Actually my favorite band - The Corrs = is being sured right now by some asshole who says he did their hit "Breathless" first.
The case has been tossed out of court at least once already. And those who have heard this idiot's "rendition" have said it's a joke to compare it to the Corrs song.
The problem today would seem to be more about people CLAIMING that others have "stolen" their songs than about people who actually HAVE "stolen" songs.
Courtesy of the "New World Order" of "intellectual property", apparently.
Well, yeah, nobody said looking good was a disadvantage.
BUT the Spice Girls (and quite a few other British girl bands) looked good, too - and they didn't sell 45 million albums worldwide (well, maybe they did, I don't know, but they were a fad - the Corrs have been around for almost fifteen years now). Sharon has said this directly - push the sex if you want to be a fad.
The Corrs aren't a "girl band" - they play their own instruments (from childhood), write their own legitimate music and lyrics based on their own experiences, and do a hell of a dynamite live show.
And they spend a lot of time promoting charities like the 46664 AIDS concerts (at the personal invitation of Nelson Mandela). When their mother died of a rare lung disease about five years ago, they put on a benefit concert for the hospital that treated her and raised over 100,000 British pounds for a research wing.
And, as one of their label's marketing people put it, "they're the hardest working band on the label - except for Phil Collins - and they're unfailingly professional."
But, I grant you, if they hadn't crashed the Michael Jackson production session at the Hit Factory in gowns, David Foster might never have produced their first album!
But as they've said, they'd do anything they were asked to do if there was a slim chance it might lead to a better opportunity down the road.
They've got a sharp manager in John Hughes, too, who was (and is) a musician himself and who just got the Irish Meteor Awards Industry Award. I suspect he's the one who came up with idea of constantly releasing documentaries about the group.
One less Christian asshole (and better yet, one of the Christian assholes whose particular cult STARTED this whole crap by hijacking a Jewish prophet who had no intention of starting a new religion - much less one that would persecute his own people for the next two thousand years.)
Set up a monthly subscription plan whereby people who like your music can log on and see live (and prerecorded live) streaming video (and audio) of concerts and jam sessions on a regular (weekly, whatever) basis.
All the money goes directly to you (and your bandwidth provider, of course - somebody's going to take a percentage of your earnings, and that's a fact.)
Do NOT concern yourself about "pirating" of your content - it's irrelevant to your success. It's merely "unauthorized marketing" and will do you some good.
Secondly, do major marketing. Look at The Corrs - they went to practically every country on the planet, as they say, "selling each album door-to-door, country-to-country, stage-to-stage". They feel it's only right if someone buys your music, they should have the opportunity to see you live. (And the Net allows that without the jet lag.)
And they have a cameraman following them around practically twenty four hours a day, given all the documentary footage they're released over the last ten years. They have a good Web site. They log on to their fan sites and post messages (both Sharon and Caroline Corr logged on to the Corrboard in the last couple weeks to thank fans for birthday wishes). They walk across traffic to sign autographs. Treat your fans right - they buy your music.
Now, the Corrboard put up a notice saying it was closing down because the Webmaster no longer liked the Corrs music. He added a link to his "new" Website.
Figuring his site had been hacked, or the domain hijacked, I naturally did NOT click the link, as I didn't want to get infected with something on my lame Windows side of the machine.
So I emailed someone else to find out when the board would be back up, since I knew the message was nonsense.
Turns out it was an April Fool's joke the site owner has done for the last four years.
I felt like Andrea Corr when she forgets which song is next in the set list at a concert (which happens a lot to her!) - I forgot it was April 1st!
In comparison, the/. story is just...lame, lame...
Not to mention the fact that Novell's SUSE Linux server has about twice the performance of Windows Server 2003...
When you start running dozens or scores or hundreds of servers, that kind of performance difference starts to matter. Not to mention the license fees savings - but they are not as important as the ability to run half as many servers - which means fewer admins, less infrastructure costs, etc.
Actually, it should be obvious that the Iraqi "democracy" is going to end up exactly the sort of Shia-dominated, Iran-friendly (but not submissive) operation that the neo-cons desperately wanted to avoid.
Either that, or a civil war, out of which somebody will emerge the victor - but it won't be the US.
Just about every scenario that has been offered by analysts indicates that the supposed "goal" of the war (well, aside from the phoney WMD crap which was the SUPPOSED goal of the war) will never be achieved.
Unless, of course, you assume that destabilization of the country WAS the goal (which it was - the Israeli goal - that and an oil pipeline to Haifa, LOL!)
Meanwhile Wolfowitz goes to the World Bank where he will no doubt try to convince everyone in the financial sphere that Iraq can pay for its own reconstruction... Oh, wait, another pipeline got blown up...
What the US gets out of all this is a $250 billion or more tab, 2000 to ten thousand dead US troops and probably 25-50,000 wounded troops (before it is finally over), 100-500,000 more dead Iraqis civilians, and $100 a barrel oil.
Freedom from coercion implies freedom to do anything without interference from someone else.
What other freedom are you contemplating? Other than freedom from reality, I can't conceive of the word "anything" used above as meaning anything but "anything". I'm talking about people being able to DO things - not get "free health care" or any other crap you might be considering.
Obviously law is coercion. That is why I'm an anarchist.
Your argument seems to me to be pointless pedantry.
What EXACTLY do YOU mean by "freedom?" And I ask in the social context, not some airy context where words don't mean anything.
Since this is from the "Iraqi Resistance Reports" - which tends to be rather unreliable, I won't vouch for it. But I wouldn't be surprised if it were true, either.
If the link goes down, here's the text:
Resistance sharp shooter guns down US soldier.
An Iraqi sharpshooter put a bullet through the head of an American soldier, killing him instantly in the middle of the city of ar-Rutbah, near the Jordanian border, 400km west of Baghdad, on Tuesday morning, eyewitnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam.
Witnesses who were in the area of the shooting reported that an Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter was perched atop the tall Iraqi Citizenship building opposite where the US soldier was standing and fired one shot.
A source in the Citizenship Department confirmed that the sniper bullet hit the American soldier directly in the head.
US forces surrounded the area after the attack and went up the building from where the shot was fired to search for the attacker. All they found however was a piece of paper on which was written in Iraqi dialect: "Hey, Americans, don't crowd! Stand in line single file. You'll each get your turn."
A source in the Iraqi puppet police said that when the Iraqi collaborator translator read the message to the American troops they became extremely enraged and almost hysterical.
of why nanotech will accelerate science in various areas.
And why people who denigrate the probability of massive changes in human biology as a result of nanotech are ignoring the synergistic effects. Nanotech will speed up scientific research in many areas, allowing much faster technology development than most specialists think is likely in their particular field of endeavor.
Drexler predicted this effect in "Engines of Creation" and it is still consistently ignored by most "pundits".
New terrorist plan: walk around an airport with some sort of high-frequency emitter in a briefcase - frying everybody's RFID passport chips.
Make for a wonderful day at Customs, I'm sure.
Then you'd have to have security guys wandering around the airport with RFID detectors trying to spot excessively powerful transmissions (or hardware in the building to do so and alert security.)
Alternate plan: walk around with the same sort of long-range detectors the state obviously wants to use and suck all the data out of everybody's passport, burn it onto your fake passports (after looking up the individual's photo somewhere and copying that in - since I assume photos will remain the primary identity device in passports) and walk your terrorist army through any Customs.
Next problem: how do ordinary people get their passports with all this data in the chip? Obviously that data will have to be reported - or sucked out of some huge TIA database, right? So this is just to set up once again the "need" for the government to know EVERYTHING about you - so they can issue a fucking passport...
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Back when I was attending Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, in the late '70's, most of my friends lived in Airstreams. In fact, large numbers of Oregonians lived out of trucks, trailers, etc. You could see some amazing "hippy-mobiles" with large back porches and the like driving around.
My friends' consensus was that the Airstreams built in the '60's were nice because they were all yachty wood paneling and the like. The ones that came later were too much plastic.
Today it's probably worse.
the Texas Legislature has passed a law requiring all "American" flags flown throughout the state to contain the phrase "Heil Bush!" and the Carlyle Group corporate logo.
Meanwhile, a few hundred more black kids will have their feeding tubes removed under the "Futility" law because their poor parents can't pay the hospital bill for the treatment.
And a few hundred more minority criminals will be executed.
Welcome to Texas - land of "the law" (as they used to call it.)
Memo to Osama: Got any idea where your next target should be?
I was just yesterday viewing a video from Teacher's TV of Jim and Caroline Corr and a sound engineer showing how they produced one of their songs.
I was struck by the fact that it starts from a few basic chords and by the time they get done with it, it takes 50 or 60 laid-down tracks to produce what you hear on the record - which is then "duplicated" on stage by six people and some instruments for the live performance...
What struck me is how a live performance sounds much (if not exactly) like the record with far fewer electronic efforts. Makes you wonder if the electronic effects are really worth it. Obviously it many cases, depending on the song, it is. Enya, for example, can hardly play her stuff live at all because of the production values in her records. But others, like the Corrs, have no problem.
Would it be more cost effective for many bands to drop the effects and play it "straight"? In some cases, maybe, in others, it might be a disaster.
I've noticed that Andrea Corr's voice is sometimes barely recognizable on the record - due to the fact that I have seen her sing live (on video) more often than I've heard the recorded songs. So I'm more used to her "real" voice than the processed and synthesized one. This effect only fades if I watch a video where the Corrs lip-sync to the record (which many TV shows appearances require).
I tend to prefer the "real" voice to the processed one. I wonder how many others prefer their favorite singer's "real" voice over the recorded versions? Or a "real" performance over a "produced" one?
Idiot - the Pope is the head of the Roman Church which happens to be the forerunner of EVERY other so-called "Christian" church which is any church that claims Jesus Christ as some sort of divinity, son of divinity, etc ad nauseum. This leaves out the Muslims who do not believe Jesus was "divine" - but of course the Muslims have their own problems.
Since you obviously have no clue about the history of Christianity and the schisms which resulted in Protestantism (who do think they were "protesting" against?) and a variety of other offshoots and cults, you probably have no clue that Jesus was a devout Jew whose followers would have stoned you to death for claiming he was in any way "divine".
Or that Paul was a Roman double agent working for the Temple priests (collaborators with Rome) who penetrated Jesus's organization, then began spreading his own version. Jesus's own brother sent missionaries to refute Paul's doctrines. Paul returned to Jerusalem, engaged in a public argument with Jesus's brother, was nearly attacked by the followers of Jesus, "checked in" to the Romans for protective custody - whereupon forty of Jesus's followers swore never to eat, drink or sleep until they had killed him. This plot was leaked to the Romans who escorted Paul out of town and back to Rome where he founded the so-called "Christian Church".
The same "Christian Church" hundreds of years later was approached by Jesus's heirs who represented variants of Jesus's doctrines. They requested a share of the profits of the so-called "Christian Church" from the Bishop of Rome (the guy people call Pope now) - who told them to kick rocks. The last thing he wanted was a bunch of "Jews for Jesus" who knew the REAL story of how the Christian Church was founded.
Christianity is the biggest fraud in the history of mankind. Or the biggest tragedy when you count up the millions of people killed due to its belief system and the assholes - like the transvestite Pope and the Borgia Popes and who knows what other assholes who have run the Roman Church in the past - who have used it to achieve power and wealth and the fanatics who have used it to suppress literally hundreds of other religions around the world.
The Pope is dead! Good! Now, when the College of Cardinals meets to choose the new Pope - NUKE THE VATICAN! Get 'em all in one fell swoop!
Actually my favorite band - The Corrs = is being sured right now by some asshole who says he did their hit "Breathless" first.
The case has been tossed out of court at least once already. And those who have heard this idiot's "rendition" have said it's a joke to compare it to the Corrs song.
The problem today would seem to be more about people CLAIMING that others have "stolen" their songs than about people who actually HAVE "stolen" songs.
Courtesy of the "New World Order" of "intellectual property", apparently.
Well, yeah, nobody said looking good was a disadvantage.
BUT the Spice Girls (and quite a few other British girl bands) looked good, too - and they didn't sell 45 million albums worldwide (well, maybe they did, I don't know, but they were a fad - the Corrs have been around for almost fifteen years now). Sharon has said this directly - push the sex if you want to be a fad.
The Corrs aren't a "girl band" - they play their own instruments (from childhood), write their own legitimate music and lyrics based on their own experiences, and do a hell of a dynamite live show.
And they spend a lot of time promoting charities like the 46664 AIDS concerts (at the personal invitation of Nelson Mandela). When their mother died of a rare lung disease about five years ago, they put on a benefit concert for the hospital that treated her and raised over 100,000 British pounds for a research wing.
And, as one of their label's marketing people put it, "they're the hardest working band on the label - except for Phil Collins - and they're unfailingly professional."
But, I grant you, if they hadn't crashed the Michael Jackson production session at the Hit Factory in gowns, David Foster might never have produced their first album!
But as they've said, they'd do anything they were asked to do if there was a slim chance it might lead to a better opportunity down the road.
They've got a sharp manager in John Hughes, too, who was (and is) a musician himself and who just got the Irish Meteor Awards Industry Award. I suspect he's the one who came up with idea of constantly releasing documentaries about the group.
There's no such thing as "stolen".
It's merely "unauthorized independent marketing" - and you need it to be a success.
And like all Polish icons, he's dead.
One less Christian asshole (and better yet, one of the Christian assholes whose particular cult STARTED this whole crap by hijacking a Jewish prophet who had no intention of starting a new religion - much less one that would persecute his own people for the next two thousand years.)
Have a nice day, moron.
Only way to go.
Set up a monthly subscription plan whereby people who like your music can log on and see live (and prerecorded live) streaming video (and audio) of concerts and jam sessions on a regular (weekly, whatever) basis.
All the money goes directly to you (and your bandwidth provider, of course - somebody's going to take a percentage of your earnings, and that's a fact.)
Do NOT concern yourself about "pirating" of your content - it's irrelevant to your success. It's merely "unauthorized marketing" and will do you some good.
Secondly, do major marketing. Look at The Corrs - they went to practically every country on the planet, as they say, "selling each album door-to-door, country-to-country, stage-to-stage". They feel it's only right if someone buys your music, they should have the opportunity to see you live. (And the Net allows that without the jet lag.)
And they have a cameraman following them around practically twenty four hours a day, given all the documentary footage they're released over the last ten years. They have a good Web site. They log on to their fan sites and post messages (both Sharon and Caroline Corr logged on to the Corrboard in the last couple weeks to thank fans for birthday wishes). They walk across traffic to sign autographs. Treat your fans right - they buy your music.
And I personally am thankful for it.
And any hot woman who wears boots gets my eternal gratitude - and a good screw if she wants.
Cmd Taco has posted the fifteenth dupe of the day...
It's April Fool's Day, moron, not DUPE DAY!
The words do NOT mean the same thing!
And that includes her legs, her mouth and her cellphone address book...
Very lame...
Now, the Corrboard put up a notice saying it was closing down because the Webmaster no longer liked the Corrs music. He added a link to his "new" Website.
Figuring his site had been hacked, or the domain hijacked, I naturally did NOT click the link, as I didn't want to get infected with something on my lame Windows side of the machine.
So I emailed someone else to find out when the board would be back up, since I knew the message was nonsense.
Turns out it was an April Fool's joke the site owner has done for the last four years.
I felt like Andrea Corr when she forgets which song is next in the set list at a concert (which happens a lot to her!) - I forgot it was April 1st!
In comparison, the
Not to mention the fact that Novell's SUSE Linux server has about twice the performance of Windows Server 2003...
When you start running dozens or scores or hundreds of servers, that kind of performance difference starts to matter. Not to mention the license fees savings - but they are not as important as the ability to run half as many servers - which means fewer admins, less infrastructure costs, etc.
Nah, it's easy to find Yankee Imperialists!
Just follow the McDonalds smell...
Actually, it should be obvious that the Iraqi "democracy" is going to end up exactly the sort of Shia-dominated, Iran-friendly (but not submissive) operation that the neo-cons desperately wanted to avoid.
Either that, or a civil war, out of which somebody will emerge the victor - but it won't be the US.
Just about every scenario that has been offered by analysts indicates that the supposed "goal" of the war (well, aside from the phoney WMD crap which was the SUPPOSED goal of the war) will never be achieved.
Unless, of course, you assume that destabilization of the country WAS the goal (which it was - the Israeli goal - that and an oil pipeline to Haifa, LOL!)
Meanwhile Wolfowitz goes to the World Bank where he will no doubt try to convince everyone in the financial sphere that Iraq can pay for its own reconstruction... Oh, wait, another pipeline got blown up...
What the US gets out of all this is a $250 billion or more tab, 2000 to ten thousand dead US troops and probably 25-50,000 wounded troops (before it is finally over), 100-500,000 more dead Iraqis civilians, and $100 a barrel oil.
Oh, and Bush's friends made a lot of money.
Only because the US troops are hiding in their bases to reduce the casualty rate.
Their excuse is they want the Iraqi security forces to take over - which is a joke on all sides.
Freedom from coercion implies freedom to do anything without interference from someone else.
What other freedom are you contemplating? Other than freedom from reality, I can't conceive of the word "anything" used above as meaning anything but "anything". I'm talking about people being able to DO things - not get "free health care" or any other crap you might be considering.
Obviously law is coercion. That is why I'm an anarchist.
Your argument seems to me to be pointless pedantry.
What EXACTLY do YOU mean by "freedom?" And I ask in the social context, not some airy context where words don't mean anything.
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Since this is from the "Iraqi Resistance Reports" - which tends to be rather unreliable, I won't vouch for it. But I wouldn't be surprised if it were true, either.
If the link goes down, here's the text:
Resistance sharp shooter guns down US soldier.
An Iraqi sharpshooter put a bullet through the head of an American soldier, killing him instantly in the middle of the city of ar-Rutbah, near the Jordanian border, 400km west of Baghdad, on Tuesday morning, eyewitnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam.
Witnesses who were in the area of the shooting reported that an Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter was perched atop the tall Iraqi Citizenship building opposite where the US soldier was standing and fired one shot.
A source in the Citizenship Department confirmed that the sniper bullet hit the American soldier directly in the head.
US forces surrounded the area after the attack and went up the building from where the shot was fired to search for the attacker. All they found however was a piece of paper on which was written in Iraqi dialect: "Hey, Americans, don't crowd! Stand in line single file. You'll each get your turn."
A source in the Iraqi puppet police said that when the Iraqi collaborator translator read the message to the American troops they became extremely enraged and almost hysterical.
Actually I suspect there's no such thing as respect among humans.
It's either fear or lust, but never respect.
Respect requires some intelligent assessment.
of why nanotech will accelerate science in various areas.
And why people who denigrate the probability of massive changes in human biology as a result of nanotech are ignoring the synergistic effects. Nanotech will speed up scientific research in many areas, allowing much faster technology development than most specialists think is likely in their particular field of endeavor.
Drexler predicted this effect in "Engines of Creation" and it is still consistently ignored by most "pundits".
Ah hah!
You forgot to specify the CONTAINER which would hold said eight ounces of liquid.
You just got eight ounces of hot liquid dumped on your keyboard...
Have a nice day.
"As little personal information as possible should be stored on the passport"
You're obviously missing the point of the whole exercise.
They WANT as MUCH personal information on you as possible. That is why they are putting smart chips in passports.
So they can then require a huge TIA database on everybody so they can extract that info when they issue your passport.
People won't object to a smart passport - until they realize it won't work without the huge TIA database. Then they're stuck.
New terrorist plan: walk around an airport with some sort of high-frequency emitter in a briefcase - frying everybody's RFID passport chips.
Make for a wonderful day at Customs, I'm sure.
Then you'd have to have security guys wandering around the airport with RFID detectors trying to spot excessively powerful transmissions (or hardware in the building to do so and alert security.)
Alternate plan: walk around with the same sort of long-range detectors the state obviously wants to use and suck all the data out of everybody's passport, burn it onto your fake passports (after looking up the individual's photo somewhere and copying that in - since I assume photos will remain the primary identity device in passports) and walk your terrorist army through any Customs.
Next problem: how do ordinary people get their passports with all this data in the chip? Obviously that data will have to be reported - or sucked out of some huge TIA database, right? So this is just to set up once again the "need" for the government to know EVERYTHING about you - so they can issue a fucking passport...
I can use one to control my companion robot's plasma cannon so I can fry some asshole just by thinking about it.