I did ethnomusicology for a couple of years. I shared the class with final year music students.
One of the exercises was to listen to some African drum music and write it down in notation.
I bombed completely, but the dedicated music students wound up producing something reminiscent of Frank Zappa's 'black page drum solo'. It wasn't the 'easy, teenage, New York version' either.
There are some forms of music that simply cannot be expressed in western music notation and I found that intensive training in this format actually reduced people ability to comprehend non-classical-western derived music.
Oh and those final year music students frequently seemed on the verge of nausea when listening to certain asian or native american music.
I mean face it, one of the problems we have in democracies is that leaders are NOT selected on any merit other than being able to get people to vote for him.(In Dubyas case that would be his surname, no?)
Theres no guarantee that an elected president/prime minister isn't going to be an absolute goofball. And thats pretty fucked up for a form of government.
"In his book "Stupid White Men," Michael Moore claims that Bush has cabinet members read their reports to him."
Thats really interesting because I have heard the same about A.Hitler. That he was extremely lazy, getting out of bed very late in the day and that he could never be bothered reading anything; his aides read everything to him.
Apparently he got a lot of mail from ordinary Germans asking advice and such, a sort of "Ask Adolf" if you will.
There was so much mail that a special Gestapo unit was set up to process it.
The story goes that this is how A.Hitler got a lot of his ideas from; one (or more?) aide had the thought that euthanasia for old folks was a great idea.
But how to draw it to Herr Fuhrers attention? So this aide went through the mail till he found things like "Dear Adolph, my dear old grandmama is so old and sick and feeble and we are so poor and hard working. Would you mind if we, uh, 'let' her die with dignity?"
Finding such letters, he'd present them to the boss and try to make the case for euthanasia. It worked; Hitler thought it was such a good idea that it was implemented nationally.
This is not apologist; I'm not saying Hitler was an ok kinda guy.
I'm just pointing out a means by which national leaders who unfortunately happen to be a bit lazy or disenclined to read for themselves can get themselves and those around them In The Poo.
Always be careful who you let do your thinking for you.
Now of course, all of this Hitler stuff has long since passed away into the classical mythology of our civilisation, so who knows how much *truth* there is in that anecdote? Or, for that matter, the 'Bush is dyslexic' anecdote that I've also heard?
Or the US military will destroy it before you can effectively salvage it; like the components of the F117 stealth fighter/bomber that was shot down by the Serbs.
Not long after that, the Chinese embassy was 'accidentally' bombed.
I can't blame the Chinese for wanting some fragments of that plane...
The reason your hands get cold and numb isn't because they are actually so cold (umm sort of; bear with me); its because your core temperature drops and your thermal maintenance systems shut down blood flow to the extremities. Loss of blood flow in the hands results in the numbness and loss of dexterity.
If you wear a heated vest (or even just keep a charcoal-burning hand warmer in a chest pocket (nice and low tech)) your hands don't get all cold and numb; they stay dexterous and warm. And without *any* gloves at all.
Ok so *serious* below zero temperatures will still result in skin loss if you *touch* something...:)
Actually I think that 1984 is almost like a prequel to 'brave new world'.
Recall that in 1984 there is the 'artinsem' programme where they are trying to do away with sexual reproduction... and that huge war that might or might not really be happening?
And in 'brave new world' they reproduce asexually and one of the reasons for their living in the way that they do was the near-extinction of the human race due to huge wars involving biological weapons.
I think theres definitely room for a link novel.:)
And yes, the text messaging fad is a lot like newspeak. But then its also like clockwork orange slang.
I've often hoped that there could one day be a movie of 'brave new world' but it couldnt' be done faithfully especially in todays politically correct climate... remember 'hunt the zipper'...?:)
Slashdot Mirror
writing 419 emails???
"As if science and money are the ultimate ends of the human experience. They're not."
;)
How positively un*american*! You terrorist!
yeah yeah troll yeah
I did ethnomusicology for a couple of years. I shared the class with final year music students.
One of the exercises was to listen to some African drum music and write it down in notation.
I bombed completely, but the dedicated music students wound up producing something reminiscent of Frank Zappa's 'black page drum solo'. It wasn't the 'easy, teenage, New York version' either.
There are some forms of music that simply cannot be expressed in western music notation and I found that intensive training in this format actually reduced people ability to comprehend non-classical-western derived music.
Oh and those final year music students frequently seemed on the verge of nausea when listening to certain asian or native american music.
that digest high explosives & black powder to make the world a safer place.
Until someone comes up with workable laser or gauss rifles...
*sigh*
"NEVER underestimate the power of human stupidity."
Of course, thats why capitalism works.
Karaoke!!!!!!
At last, karaoke 'singers' might be replaced by a machine!
well then maybe the voters are the ones who should be tested?
he damn well should!
I mean face it, one of the problems we have in democracies is that leaders are NOT selected on any merit other than being able to get people to vote for him.(In Dubyas case that would be his surname, no?)
Theres no guarantee that an elected president/prime minister isn't going to be an absolute goofball. And thats pretty fucked up for a form of government.
"WTF... Never heared about that before. Are you sure about it? Any references?"
Sorry, I have no references to the specific story, thats why I tried to cage it carefully. I'm not claiming its authoratative.
Sorry.
"In his book "Stupid White Men," Michael Moore claims that Bush has cabinet members read their reports to him."
Thats really interesting because I have heard the same about A.Hitler. That he was extremely lazy, getting out of bed very late in the day and that he could never be bothered reading anything; his aides read everything to him.
Apparently he got a lot of mail from ordinary Germans asking advice and such, a sort of "Ask Adolf" if you will.
There was so much mail that a special Gestapo unit was set up to process it.
The story goes that this is how A.Hitler got a lot of his ideas from; one (or more?) aide had the thought that euthanasia for old folks was a great idea.
But how to draw it to Herr Fuhrers attention? So this aide went through the mail till he found things like "Dear Adolph, my dear old grandmama is so old and sick and feeble and we are so poor and hard working. Would you mind if we, uh, 'let' her die with dignity?"
Finding such letters, he'd present them to the boss and try to make the case for euthanasia. It worked; Hitler thought it was such a good idea that it was implemented nationally.
This is not apologist; I'm not saying Hitler was an ok kinda guy.
I'm just pointing out a means by which national leaders who unfortunately happen to be a bit lazy or disenclined to read for themselves can get themselves and those around them In The Poo.
Always be careful who you let do your thinking for you.
Now of course, all of this Hitler stuff has long since passed away into the classical mythology of our civilisation, so who knows how much *truth* there is in that anecdote? Or, for that matter, the 'Bush is dyslexic' anecdote that I've also heard?
And Bill Clinton has (had) an intern to, uh, work her *tongue* for him. Literaly!
"They have lots of people doing "stuff" for them."
Yeah like in George Pube^H^H^H^HBush's case, sending other peoples children to *die* for his sense of self esteem?
Or the US military will destroy it before you can effectively salvage it; like the components of the F117 stealth fighter/bomber that was shot down by the Serbs.
Not long after that, the Chinese embassy was 'accidentally' bombed.
I can't blame the Chinese for wanting some fragments of that plane...
IIRC the early Venus 'landers' never made it to the surface; their batteries ran out on the long slow float down...
I had been wondering.
The sequence of events that lead up to this was, IIRC,
1. Rover extends arm ready to take a grinder to a rock.
2. Contact with Rover lost due to bad weather in Australia.
3. Rover bad.
So it had just moved part of its structure closer to the rock just before this happened.
yeah but the Martians would get *SO* pissed off...
spammers, for example?
So if we take a pic now, using this technique, we might well be able to see the Mars Interdiction Team working on the Spirit Rover?
I'd been hoping that the earlier 2m resolution pics would show a big-ass Dune-style sandworm making its way to the landing site...
8-)
Darl McBride would be sending Lawyers to Mars.
Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
considered edible for these purposes? :-/
The reason your hands get cold and numb isn't because they are actually so cold (umm sort of; bear with me); its because your core temperature drops and your thermal maintenance systems shut down blood flow to the extremities. Loss of blood flow in the hands results in the numbness and loss of dexterity.
:)
If you wear a heated vest (or even just keep a charcoal-burning hand warmer in a chest pocket (nice and low tech)) your hands don't get all cold and numb; they stay dexterous and warm. And without *any* gloves at all.
Ok so *serious* below zero temperatures will still result in skin loss if you *touch* something...
Actually I think that 1984 is almost like a prequel to 'brave new world'.
:)
:)
Recall that in 1984 there is the 'artinsem' programme where they are trying to do away with sexual reproduction... and that huge war that might or might not really be happening?
And in 'brave new world' they reproduce asexually and one of the reasons for their living in the way that they do was the near-extinction of the human race due to huge wars involving biological weapons.
I think theres definitely room for a link novel.
And yes, the text messaging fad is a lot like newspeak. But then its also like clockwork orange slang.
I've often hoped that there could one day be a movie of 'brave new world' but it couldnt' be done faithfully especially in todays politically correct climate... remember 'hunt the zipper'...?
Have you ever read Aldous Huxleys "Brave New World"?
Do so if you havn't already.
In that world they create consumers on demand and as required.
"Again, ignoring the issues of having the stuff explode on reintry"
:)
Uh... *helium* exploding?
That'll be a cold day in hell...