Let's keep all this oil here and try to bring the freakin' price of gas back down to what it was pre-Katrina at least.
But I'm guessing the tree huggers behind the Obama admin, won't want to lower prices back. I think they want to keep them high to try to kill off cars in the US.
Hey man - coming from a life long Zeppelin-man, and someone proud to call himself a person with broad, and (I believe) good taste in music - while it is true that there is no longer ANY mainstream-radio rock that is legitimate or good, there are, thanks to the democratizing effect of technology, a great many folks out there making incredible music. some of it very "indie", some of it touching the mainstream. Shouldn't close yourself off like that. At bare minimum, a Zeppelin man would love "White Denim" and/or "Gary Clark, Jr."... both from austin. But the thing that people like you and me need to accept is that rock is, for lack of a better term, dead. And by this I mean that rock isn't mainstream any more. It just isn't. It sure as hell isn't what "the kids" are into.
Well, I did find Wolfmother a few years back, but they only did 2x albums...and I like some of the Black Keys.
But the thing is, there is no easy way to find good music....everyone even on these threads says "you have to actively search for it". Well, when you are out and have a real job and responsibilities and limited time for fun, you don't really have time to search through the huge sea of crap out there, to find the gems.
In real terms, it might as well not exist.
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I mean, I grew up finding all my great (now classic) bands driving around hearing them first time played on album rock stations. If it isn't easily findable, it isn't there.
But, thanx for the suggestions...I'll try to look those guys up you suggested. I really like any type of blues based rock really.
My sister and her husband will. They drive an old car, live in a "starter" house, shop for sales and only get what they need (not want and think they need, but actually need). Together they probably earn 80 or 90k per year. They have almost two million dollars invested and plan on retiring in about two years, when she is 50 and he is 51. They will have over 2 million by then and think they can enjoy many years of retirement.
Well, that's interesting, and yes, if you can be strict with yourself like that, that will work.
The trouble is, what if they get hit by a bus at age 49? I mean, life is short and you don't know what will happen.
I think you have to balance out spending and enjoying life while you are young, able bodies and alive with looking forward to age and retirement.
There needs to be a little "want" while your working for retirement.
Plenty of good modern music out there, it's just harder to find or not played on mainstream FM radio as in the 70s.
Possibly...
But maybe that's one of the things that went wrong...I mean since there's no real good mainstream way to easily discover new good music, if it is there but not easily accessible, then it really "isn't there" in actuality.
I mean, unless you're a kid or still living on the parents' teet, to have the free time to actively search for good music in the sea of banality, you don't see any good new stuff.
I mean, I have a day job...and my time away from that is spoken for, I don't have time to sit and devote hours to search the haystack for the odd shiny needle here and there.
But there may be something else. I mean, I speak with younger folks today about music, and to them, it is disposible. They tell me the download of even buy stuff, but it isn't something to keep and listen to for the rest of your life. It isn't worth it to get a GOOD listening set of tools, a good stereo, to listen to the music...I mean, the songs I grew up with, I BOUGHT all of it, and I feel so strongly about it, I invested over the years (not at once) quite a bit building a high quality home sound system, so that I can enjoy it to the fullest.
I can't imagine parting with my songs/albums/CDs...I mean, if I"ve lost my hard copy I replace it and I keep hard copies to rip my digital versions I use for lessor listening environments (ipod in gym, the car, etc).
To me, the music that captures my heart, has never been disposable. What makes todays music disposable?
I you think money is the only reason to work then I encourage you to ask yourself why you don't seem to enjoy doing anything worthwhile. Perhaps you hate civilization?
I don't quite get what you're trying to ask here. What does my earning a living possibly have to do with civilization?
I don't really give a fuck about "civilization" I guess.. I mean, I work for one reason, to earn enough money to support my life and lifestyle for myself and family. I do it so I can afford to buy the things I want, to eat and live in a manner I enjoy.
If I was not wanting for money (lottery jackpot), I'd not work again. I'd spend ALL my time doing what I do on my non-working hours. I'd travel. I'd likely close up my house for a bit pack up and travel for a bit all around the US on my motorcycle. I'd go and see things and places.
I'd spend lots of time maybe in Key West or CO, depending on the time of year. I'd be chasing babes in different places, having lots of dates (why get tied to just one), dining out, enjoying my couple of homes, playing with my hobbies (and hey, some of them might make $$, but why would I care at that point). I like to do computer related projects, but just what I'm interested at in the time, etc.
But seriously, I'd take and do nothing but enjoy my time remaining on earth as best I could. Why not? We're only here on earth a short time, and IMHO, the point of being here is to maximize the pleasure for myself and the ones I care about the time I am here.
So very little music you hear out today can be considered "musical" at all.
I prefer the days (I'm a rock/blues type) when people/groups generally wrote their own songs, played their own instruments, and aside from a bit of reverb, and other treatments shy of fucking Autotune...had real vocals on their songs.
I guess that's why I still see young kids of today, wearing AC/DC or Stones' tshirts (reproductions), and listening to Led Zeppelin, when they should have really come up with giants of music of their own day to replace the ones of my day.
I was shocked the other day really.
It was an afternoon on the way home from work not long ago. I was warm and I had the windows down on the car, and I was blaring Dazed and Confused, the 30 min live version from TSRTS album. It was during the extender part of Jimmy Page bowing his guitar, just a lot of noise really, and unless you knew this piece on a live recording...you'd not know what this noise was, especially considering the age of the piece.
Well, I pulled up, rolled up the windows, turned the music down and the car off and got out to walk into the store.
Just outside the store, a young stock boy, like in his upper teens, was sitting outside smoking a cig on break I guess. As I walked by, he spoke to me and said "Oh man, I love Zeppelin...dazed and confused!!"
I smiled and said yeah, good stuff or something like that.
As I walked in the store, I thought more about it and thought, goodness...HTF did he know that song?
Its that the old stuff is still around...because something happened along the way, and nothing really great or unifying in music happened much after my younger years, and the old stuff is still strong enough to keep a following. It hasn't been supplanted yet.
I think part of it was...most music through my era, had been very closely built or nicked from the music of the generation before it. Somewhere in the late 80s or 90's maybe, there was a break in the continuum. And music splintered, and money took over...and well, you just didn't get the continuing stream of artist with control over their music and time to hone their skills, style and following like say a Led Zeppelin did. Music became throw away, and while there have always been one hit wonders, that is now the norm. Groups don't earn or aren't given a chance to develop staying power. Or, maybe they just don't work as hard to know their instruments and music. I dunno.
Maybe some combination of all of the above.
Ok, now, get off my lawn, and lemme get my anti-static gun to "clear" my album I'm about to throw on the turntable.
I've changed directions in the generic "IT" field a few times, and it all boiled down to "What do I actually WANT to be doing?
Hey, it's never too late really, if you are quick to pick up things, and smart enough. It doesn't have to be confined to only ONE field.
I'm over the mid 40's, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
My degree was in chemistry, never worked in that field, almost did medical school, shy of that I fell in to medical research, started learning databases for that way back in the stone age, did some grad school in IT to try to bring my gpa up (I had a great party life in college)...from there fell into GUI design with a company that was primarily mainframes, but moving interfaces to windows, fell into learning Oracle, and did some DBA work at places, I've designed database driven web apps, played with a few languages, but never really mastering any one. I've worked in restaurants, been a head chef, sold retail, and frankly, I'm looking maybe at some point to see what I can do in the arts maybe. I dunno yet.
I have mostly been a jack of all trades but likely master of none. However, doing that, learning enough to get through anything (fake it till you make it), having some people skills, I've just gone in different directions where the wind took me and my interests.
I think Aerosmith said it best "Life's a journey, not a destination".
I still don't know what I wanna be when I grow up...it can be a lifestyle and philosophy that you go with. I keeps life from being boring, and yes, you can make a VERY comfortable living doing it if you're smart, and do what you set your mind to and don't let things get in the way.
Err...exactly what other motivation is there for working if not for money?
If I were independently wealthy, I could readily think of about 100 immediate other things I'd much be rather doing than earning a living working.
If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd not even bother coming back in to get my stuff at the worksite...although I would likely pay the equivalent of a day or two's pay for a few friends on the project for them to come celebrate with me, but I'd never set foot on a work site again.
Money is the only reason one works a job. Money to live, money to retire.
however, retiring by 50 is not likely, which I why I am considering a change.
Who the hell retires at the young age of 50?!?!
I've never known anyone retiring that early...and I know plenty of people making well over 6 figures, and they're not retiring anytime before 65, or maybe even later.
I often use my phone to watch for cops with radar or breath checks using the phone app Trapster. I watch it and post when I see cops so other's can avoid the traps.
What states ban cell phone talking while driving? GPS while driving?
My state really only recently made it an offense to text while driving, but everything else in most states I move about it don't restrict cell phone use for talking etc...nor do they require hands free.
Is it mostly just CA and NY that ban all things cell phone while operating a vehicle?
How long until people start hand picking the genes for the next super generation. The next super athlete, scientist, beauty queen...
And, what exactly would be wrong with that? People try to do the best for their kids after they're born...why should they not try to do so BEFORE they're born too? If I could help to ensure my prodigy was smart, healthy, athletic, why in the world would I try for anything less for them?
Heck, if you're one that believes in God (and I do), you have to believe he gave us the brain power to figure this stuff out, and use it, no?
Isn't the purpose of government to ensure the common good?
Depends on what govt. your talking about. IN the US, the constitution basically sets up the federal govt. to have a set, small enumerated set of powers (yes, sadly we're really getting away from that)...but it should be there to keep things civil,enforce contracts, and prevent crime. But I don't see that it is there to be mommy and daddy, and say what I can or cannot do with my body or my life.
And really...how does banning this type of thing affect the common good one way or another? This is purely a decision and action by consenting adults, why should anyone else, particularly the government have a say in what they are doing here?
they can be isolated safely without the extremes of solitary confinement being locked in a tiny box and not being allowed any type of communication is not for the safety of other prisoners its vindictive
You know what? Sometimes you reap what you sow.
And then again, per the article, there are some inmates that request it. Frankly, I'd likely ask for it too, rather than be in general population with all those animals.
Where I grew up, taking pictures of strangers anywhere was taking your life in your hands. Some small subset of people won't tolerate that, and that same subset has violence as its first choice for resolving any dispute. Maybe things are different in sheltered yuppie enclaves, and that's fine and all, but when you leave that enclave, be ready for a more diverse world.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very privacy concerned, and not a glass fan, etc.
That being said, I do at times take part is the old tried and true area of street photography. I have a pretty nice set up (5D3 and lenses) and especially here in New Orleans, I shoot interesting scenes and people on the street....if something I want to publish, I'll try to get a model release, but often just for my pleasure and personal collection or for editorial type shots. I rarely have encountered anyone that didn't like it....
I"m curious, where do you come from and live where you find people will react as you described?
Well, it is not a union that is necessary in the field I believe. It is statistics. Detailled statistics of what gets paid here or there and for different kinds of seniority or field of application could definitely boost workers leverage during negociations.
Again, a little research on the individuals part will let you know what's being paid what in different parts of the country.
There are several places on the web now that gather and distribute this info, and if you're doing federal contracting, there's the GSA info that is pretty public.
Seriously, what the fuck difference does it make what sex, race or religion you are to be in IT??!?!
If a group isn't interested, they aren't fucking interested. You don't HAVE to have two of every creature in every positon.
Hell, the NBA is really lacking of white college educated women....are we freaking out and trying to induce them with $100 to work to get into the NBA (and god help them if the teams discrimate!!).
Geez, please...get over it..people will do what people want to do.
TIme for IT to do the same if only we had a union!
Please, no union.
I'm perfectly able to negotiate my own bill rates and job conditions. It isn't that hard, you just have to have a little backbone and learn some people skills.
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Let's keep all this oil here and try to bring the freakin' price of gas back down to what it was pre-Katrina at least.
But I'm guessing the tree huggers behind the Obama admin, won't want to lower prices back. I think they want to keep them high to try to kill off cars in the US.
Well, I did find Wolfmother a few years back, but they only did 2x albums...and I like some of the Black Keys.
But the thing is, there is no easy way to find good music....everyone even on these threads says "you have to actively search for it". Well, when you are out and have a real job and responsibilities and limited time for fun, you don't really have time to search through the huge sea of crap out there, to find the gems.
In real terms, it might as well not exist.
I mean, I grew up finding all my great (now classic) bands driving around hearing them first time played on album rock stations. If it isn't easily findable, it isn't there.
But, thanx for the suggestions...I'll try to look those guys up you suggested. I really like any type of blues based rock really.
Well, that's interesting, and yes, if you can be strict with yourself like that, that will work.
The trouble is, what if they get hit by a bus at age 49? I mean, life is short and you don't know what will happen.
I think you have to balance out spending and enjoying life while you are young, able bodies and alive with looking forward to age and retirement.
There needs to be a little "want" while your working for retirement.
The Stones and the Beatles are implied.
The Stones (of their day) are my favorite band to listen to still.
Possibly...
But maybe that's one of the things that went wrong...I mean since there's no real good mainstream way to easily discover new good music, if it is there but not easily accessible, then it really "isn't there" in actuality.
I mean, unless you're a kid or still living on the parents' teet, to have the free time to actively search for good music in the sea of banality, you don't see any good new stuff.
I mean, I have a day job...and my time away from that is spoken for, I don't have time to sit and devote hours to search the haystack for the odd shiny needle here and there.
But there may be something else. I mean, I speak with younger folks today about music, and to them, it is disposible. They tell me the download of even buy stuff, but it isn't something to keep and listen to for the rest of your life. It isn't worth it to get a GOOD listening set of tools, a good stereo, to listen to the music...I mean, the songs I grew up with, I BOUGHT all of it, and I feel so strongly about it, I invested over the years (not at once) quite a bit building a high quality home sound system, so that I can enjoy it to the fullest.
I can't imagine parting with my songs/albums/CDs ...I mean, if I"ve lost my hard copy I replace it and I keep hard copies to rip my digital versions I use for lessor listening environments (ipod in gym, the car, etc).
To me, the music that captures my heart, has never been disposable. What makes todays music disposable?
I don't quite get what you're trying to ask here. What does my earning a living possibly have to do with civilization?
I don't really give a fuck about "civilization" I guess.. I mean, I work for one reason, to earn enough money to support my life and lifestyle for myself and family. I do it so I can afford to buy the things I want, to eat and live in a manner I enjoy.
If I was not wanting for money (lottery jackpot), I'd not work again. I'd spend ALL my time doing what I do on my non-working hours. I'd travel. I'd likely close up my house for a bit pack up and travel for a bit all around the US on my motorcycle. I'd go and see things and places.
I'd spend lots of time maybe in Key West or CO, depending on the time of year. I'd be chasing babes in different places, having lots of dates (why get tied to just one), dining out, enjoying my couple of homes, playing with my hobbies (and hey, some of them might make $$, but why would I care at that point). I like to do computer related projects, but just what I'm interested at in the time, etc.
But seriously, I'd take and do nothing but enjoy my time remaining on earth as best I could. Why not? We're only here on earth a short time, and IMHO, the point of being here is to maximize the pleasure for myself and the ones I care about the time I am here.
Aside from that, nothing else really matters.
Well, to be fair, the words rap and music ARE mutually exclusive terms.
So very little music you hear out today can be considered "musical" at all.
I prefer the days (I'm a rock/blues type) when people/groups generally wrote their own songs, played their own instruments, and aside from a bit of reverb, and other treatments shy of fucking Autotune...had real vocals on their songs.
I guess that's why I still see young kids of today, wearing AC/DC or Stones' tshirts (reproductions), and listening to Led Zeppelin, when they should have really come up with giants of music of their own day to replace the ones of my day.
I was shocked the other day really.
It was an afternoon on the way home from work not long ago. I was warm and I had the windows down on the car, and I was blaring Dazed and Confused, the 30 min live version from TSRTS album. It was during the extender part of Jimmy Page bowing his guitar, just a lot of noise really, and unless you knew this piece on a live recording...you'd not know what this noise was, especially considering the age of the piece.
Well, I pulled up, rolled up the windows, turned the music down and the car off and got out to walk into the store.
Just outside the store, a young stock boy, like in his upper teens, was sitting outside smoking a cig on break I guess. As I walked by, he spoke to me and said "Oh man, I love Zeppelin...dazed and confused!!"
I smiled and said yeah, good stuff or something like that.
As I walked in the store, I thought more about it and thought, goodness...HTF did he know that song?
Its that the old stuff is still around...because something happened along the way, and nothing really great or unifying in music happened much after my younger years, and the old stuff is still strong enough to keep a following. It hasn't been supplanted yet.
I think part of it was...most music through my era, had been very closely built or nicked from the music of the generation before it. Somewhere in the late 80s or 90's maybe, there was a break in the continuum. And music splintered, and money took over...and well, you just didn't get the continuing stream of artist with control over their music and time to hone their skills, style and following like say a Led Zeppelin did. Music became throw away, and while there have always been one hit wonders, that is now the norm. Groups don't earn or aren't given a chance to develop staying power. Or, maybe they just don't work as hard to know their instruments and music. I dunno.
Maybe some combination of all of the above.
Ok, now, get off my lawn, and lemme get my anti-static gun to "clear" my album I'm about to throw on the turntable.
Hey, it's never too late really, if you are quick to pick up things, and smart enough. It doesn't have to be confined to only ONE field.
I'm over the mid 40's, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
My degree was in chemistry, never worked in that field, almost did medical school, shy of that I fell in to medical research, started learning databases for that way back in the stone age, did some grad school in IT to try to bring my gpa up (I had a great party life in college)...from there fell into GUI design with a company that was primarily mainframes, but moving interfaces to windows, fell into learning Oracle, and did some DBA work at places, I've designed database driven web apps, played with a few languages, but never really mastering any one. I've worked in restaurants, been a head chef, sold retail, and frankly, I'm looking maybe at some point to see what I can do in the arts maybe. I dunno yet.
I have mostly been a jack of all trades but likely master of none. However, doing that, learning enough to get through anything (fake it till you make it), having some people skills, I've just gone in different directions where the wind took me and my interests.
I think Aerosmith said it best "Life's a journey, not a destination".
I still don't know what I wanna be when I grow up...it can be a lifestyle and philosophy that you go with. I keeps life from being boring, and yes, you can make a VERY comfortable living doing it if you're smart, and do what you set your mind to and don't let things get in the way.
Err...exactly what other motivation is there for working if not for money?
If I were independently wealthy, I could readily think of about 100 immediate other things I'd much be rather doing than earning a living working.
If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd not even bother coming back in to get my stuff at the worksite...although I would likely pay the equivalent of a day or two's pay for a few friends on the project for them to come celebrate with me, but I'd never set foot on a work site again.
Money is the only reason one works a job. Money to live, money to retire.
Who the hell retires at the young age of 50?!?!
I've never known anyone retiring that early...and I know plenty of people making well over 6 figures, and they're not retiring anytime before 65, or maybe even later.
I guess they'll have to, otherwise everything in the Squishee machine will melt long before the arrive.
Interesting..I just usually chug the last of my beer at the gate right before getting on the plane.
Never had anyone try to sample it before tho....
But it isn't texting....
What states ban cell phone talking while driving? GPS while driving?
My state really only recently made it an offense to text while driving, but everything else in most states I move about it don't restrict cell phone use for talking etc...nor do they require hands free.
Is it mostly just CA and NY that ban all things cell phone while operating a vehicle?
Yeah, but if you do that, it is SO damned hard to get them to look like you as they grow up...
And, what exactly would be wrong with that? People try to do the best for their kids after they're born...why should they not try to do so BEFORE they're born too? If I could help to ensure my prodigy was smart, healthy, athletic, why in the world would I try for anything less for them?
Heck, if you're one that believes in God (and I do), you have to believe he gave us the brain power to figure this stuff out, and use it, no?
Depends on what govt. your talking about. IN the US, the constitution basically sets up the federal govt. to have a set, small enumerated set of powers (yes, sadly we're really getting away from that)...but it should be there to keep things civil,enforce contracts, and prevent crime. But I don't see that it is there to be mommy and daddy, and say what I can or cannot do with my body or my life.
And really...how does banning this type of thing affect the common good one way or another? This is purely a decision and action by consenting adults, why should anyone else, particularly the government have a say in what they are doing here?
Hey, they GMO our food...why not GMO the consumers of said food?
You know what? Sometimes you reap what you sow.
And then again, per the article, there are some inmates that request it. Frankly, I'd likely ask for it too, rather than be in general population with all those animals.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very privacy concerned, and not a glass fan, etc.
That being said, I do at times take part is the old tried and true area of street photography. I have a pretty nice set up (5D3 and lenses) and especially here in New Orleans, I shoot interesting scenes and people on the street....if something I want to publish, I'll try to get a model release, but often just for my pleasure and personal collection or for editorial type shots. I rarely have encountered anyone that didn't like it....
I"m curious, where do you come from and live where you find people will react as you described?
Why aren't they protesting no Asian women in the NBA?
Again, a little research on the individuals part will let you know what's being paid what in different parts of the country.
There are several places on the web now that gather and distribute this info, and if you're doing federal contracting, there's the GSA info that is pretty public.
If a group isn't interested, they aren't fucking interested. You don't HAVE to have two of every creature in every positon.
Hell, the NBA is really lacking of white college educated women....are we freaking out and trying to induce them with $100 to work to get into the NBA (and god help them if the teams discrimate!!).
Geez, please...get over it..people will do what people want to do.
Please, no union.
I'm perfectly able to negotiate my own bill rates and job conditions. It isn't that hard, you just have to have a little backbone and learn some people skills.