The lyrics of the song tell a true story: on 4 December 1971 Deep Purple had set up camp in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones and known as the Rolling Stones Mobile Studioâ"referred to as the "Rolling truck Stones thing" and "the mobile" in the song lyrics) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino (referred to as "the gambling house" in the song lyric). On the eve of the recording session a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino's theatre. In the middle of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire when somebody in the audience fired a flare gun into the rattan covered ceiling, as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line.[7][8] The resulting fire destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the Mothers' equipment. The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song (credited to bass guitarist Roger Glover, who related how the title occurred to him when he suddenly woke from a dream a few days later) referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva from the burning casino as the members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their hotel. The "Funky Claude" running in and out is referring to Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival who helped some of the audience escape the fire.
Claude Nobs (2006), the "Funky Claude" mentioned in the songLeft with an expensive mobile recording unit and no place to record, the band was forced to scout the town for another place to set up. One promising venue (found by Nobs) was a local theatre called The Pavilion, but soon after the band had loaded in and started working/recording, the nearby neighbours took offence at the noise, and the band was only able to lay down backing tracks for one song (based on Blackmore's riff and temporarily named Title nÂ1), before the local police shut them down.
Finally, after about a week of searching, the band rented the nearly-empty Montreux Grand Hotel and converted its hallways and stairwells into a makeshift recording studio, where they laid down most of the tracks for what would become their most commercially successful album, Machine Head.
Within living memory (my own memory in fact) "Gay" didn't mean "homosexual", it meant happy and carefree. The Christmas song "deck the Halls" isn't about transvestites ("Don we now our gay apparell").
Don't get me wrong..it can cause damage...but nothing catastrophic. Issac knocked out power down here in many areas for 1-2+ weeks. But that's an inconvenience, not a catastrophe.
This isn't just a cat 1 hurricane, it's a cat 1 hurricane colliding with a noreaster. In Louisiana lack of power is an inconvinience because it doesn't get that cold down there. But when you have no heat and it's below freezing outside, that certainly IS a catastrophe.
There are serious problems with some hindu and buddhist beliefs, thinking it's okay for people to suffer the way they do and not even try to help
I don't know about Hindus, but I spent a year in Thailand, a country almost 100% Bhuddist, and they were nothing like you make them out to be. Whoever told you this was lying.
I am a Christian, and I don't believe the world is as old as scientists say.
I'm a Christian, and it's fools like you who embarrass thinking Christians. You might want to look a little closer at methods used tof determining dates. They'r not going to be accurate to minutes, but they're certainly accurate in terms of decades or centuries.
There is no need to try to state a debate with me because I would likely ignore any further comments that try to discredit things I believe
In other words, LA LA LA I CAN"T HEAR YOU. You, sir, are a fool. Try READING your bible, particularly Proverbs. "A fool despises his father's instruction, But he who receives correction is prudent."
"A scoffer does not love one who corrects him, Nor will he go to the wise."
"The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness."
Sorry, son, but Solomon was talking directly to you.
I don't think many Christians have actually read it
Sadly, I have to agree with you -- but your comprehension of your reading seems to be a bit lacking. You make the same mistake as many Christians, taking Deuteronomy as law. But the new covenant isn't about stoning adulterers, it's about forgiveness and love.
You're confusing us with the Jews. Worse is, many Christians do as well.
So a Christian will tie up a large part of their identity with Christianity and when you say that Jesus' teachings are bad you're saying that they, by self identifying and wrapping up their identity with their beliefs are also bad.
It's understandable that someone who worships money would think that Christ's teachings are bad. After all, Jesus taught tolerance, forgiveness, self-sacrifice, generosity; someone who worships money would be against everything jesus taught.
Had they done this before everyone started eschewing shiny plastic for "the cloud" it would have been simple: Your game and OS both are on the disk. Put he disk in and your whole computer is dedicated that that single game until you remove the disk and reboot again. Of course, this wouldn't work with Steam.
Without Windows games, why would any teenager need the PC to be dual-boot?
I see that the guy who moderated you insightful is as ignorant of computers' workings as you are. Computers don't figure things out. There is no such thing as an "electronic brain" or a "thinking machine." Computers are nothing more than huge electronic abacuses. They don't figure things out, the scientists figure things out (theorize) and then test their theories using computerized models when they can't do direct testing.
Users were able to transition from a DOS UI to a Windows UI pretty successfully.
Transitioning from a text based interface to a GUI is easy. Transitioning from one GUI to a completely different GUI is quite a bit more of a learning curve.
Linux is not 10 years behind. I just don't think we're there any time soon.
If by "behind" you mean desktops in use, yes -- but Linux doesn't spend billions on advertising like Apple and Microsoft. Most non-nerds don't have a clue Linux even exists. Why should I care what OS you're using, as long as mine fills my needs?
If by "behind" you mean features, Linux is way ahead of Windows in features.
The difference with this is that it's a hurricane and a noreaster combing. You're going to have flooding and power outages followed by freezing. That is never a good scenario.
I wouldn't worry too much.. The bad guys can't shoot straight either!
That's a bad thing. About 20 years ago when my kids were little, we were eating dinner and heard what sounded like a string of firecrackers... but I thought it sounded like gunfire. We went outside to see what was going on, like everyone else in the neighborhood. As we stood watching, a cop car came down the street so fast his car became airborne going over the railroad tracks.
There was a gang war down the street, dozens of shots were fired, only one shot hit flesh -- a white guy trying to get his children inside was hit in the back by a stray bullet. Not a single shot had hit its intended target.
Had they been able to shoot straight, the white guy wouldn't have had his life really fucked up for a really long time, and there would have been a dozen dead gang bangers.
Every shooting I read about in the paper is like that; the only people who get shot are innocent bystanders, often children.
Considering how dumb our bad guys are, I wouldn't be sure of anything
*groan* If the bad guys are dumb, the cops must be mentally retarded, since 90% of all crime goes unsolved. But I have a hard time believing that the cops are that dumb, so I have an even harder time believing the criminals are dumb, too.
to some groups, disagreeing with their religion is, by definition, insulting
That was proven by my comments in the last Dawkins story being modded "flamebait" simply for disagreeing with Dawkins. It's true that athiesm is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby, but the zeal and fanaticism of most antitheists (not athiests or agnostics, just the antitheists) is as fanatical as the most zealous creationist in Kansas.
Nope, as good as Archive.org is, most of the pre-2000 stuff is gone forever. Much of my old gaming site is there, but not all of it. The only surviving page of Janet "Kneel" Harriott's Yello There is one I posted on my gaming site. Very liitle of mcgrew.info survives.
the question is what the hell is wrong with theists for organizing so many exclusionary charities.
Any exclusionary charity I would agree is not a good charity. But I know of very few exclusionary charities outside the Mormon church. You don't have to be Catholic or even Christian to eat at the St. John's bread line. They feed anyone who walks in. You don't have to be Christian to benefit from any of my own church's charities, a poor athiest or Muslim or Hindu is as welcome as a poor Christian.
Religiously affiliated charities clearly trumpet those affiliations in all of their advertising
Most religious charities don't advertise.
The ACLU, at the very least, have been attacked for their godlessness by numerous Christian groups over the years.
Numerous Christian churches are full of fools. The ACLU is faith-agnostic and will defend anyone whose rights are being trampled. IMO the ACLU is an excellent organization.
What exactly is your basis of this imagination from?
Intelligence is the ability to learn. When you're born you know absolutely nothing. Afterwards there are an incredible amount of ways to damage that organ.
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See for yourself.
Wikipedia is your friend.
Not only that but the starting salary for teacher's in every state is in excess of $30,000.
Too bad they didn't pay your teachers more, they might have found a couple who were competent at teaching, since they very obviously failed you.
Is there another meaning of "gay"?
Within living memory (my own memory in fact) "Gay" didn't mean "homosexual", it meant happy and carefree. The Christmas song "deck the Halls" isn't about transvestites ("Don we now our gay apparell").
Don't get me wrong..it can cause damage...but nothing catastrophic. Issac knocked out power down here in many areas for 1-2+ weeks. But that's an inconvenience, not a catastrophe.
This isn't just a cat 1 hurricane, it's a cat 1 hurricane colliding with a noreaster. In Louisiana lack of power is an inconvinience because it doesn't get that cold down there. But when you have no heat and it's below freezing outside, that certainly IS a catastrophe.
There are serious problems with some hindu and buddhist beliefs, thinking it's okay for people to suffer the way they do and not even try to help
I don't know about Hindus, but I spent a year in Thailand, a country almost 100% Bhuddist, and they were nothing like you make them out to be. Whoever told you this was lying.
I am a Christian, and I don't believe the world is as old as scientists say.
I'm a Christian, and it's fools like you who embarrass thinking Christians. You might want to look a little closer at methods used tof determining dates. They'r not going to be accurate to minutes, but they're certainly accurate in terms of decades or centuries.
There is no need to try to state a debate with me because I would likely ignore any further comments that try to discredit things I believe
In other words, LA LA LA I CAN"T HEAR YOU. You, sir, are a fool. Try READING your bible, particularly Proverbs. "A fool despises his father's instruction, But he who receives correction is prudent."
"A scoffer does not love one who corrects him,
Nor will he go to the wise."
"The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness."
Sorry, son, but Solomon was talking directly to you.
I don't think many Christians have actually read it
Sadly, I have to agree with you -- but your comprehension of your reading seems to be a bit lacking. You make the same mistake as many Christians, taking Deuteronomy as law. But the new covenant isn't about stoning adulterers, it's about forgiveness and love.
You're confusing us with the Jews. Worse is, many Christians do as well.
So a Christian will tie up a large part of their identity with Christianity and when you say that Jesus' teachings are bad you're saying that they, by self identifying and wrapping up their identity with their beliefs are also bad.
It's understandable that someone who worships money would think that Christ's teachings are bad. After all, Jesus taught tolerance, forgiveness, self-sacrifice, generosity; someone who worships money would be against everything jesus taught.
Had they done this before everyone started eschewing shiny plastic for "the cloud" it would have been simple: Your game and OS both are on the disk. Put he disk in and your whole computer is dedicated that that single game until you remove the disk and reboot again. Of course, this wouldn't work with Steam.
Without Windows games, why would any teenager need the PC to be dual-boot?
I just consider the usage of a spell checker to be basic etiquette on the Web.
Dew knot truss yore spill checker! I'd rather people simply proofread what they wrote.
I see that the guy who moderated you insightful is as ignorant of computers' workings as you are. Computers don't figure things out. There is no such thing as an "electronic brain" or a "thinking machine." Computers are nothing more than huge electronic abacuses. They don't figure things out, the scientists figure things out (theorize) and then test their theories using computerized models when they can't do direct testing.
Users were able to transition from a DOS UI to a Windows UI pretty successfully.
Transitioning from a text based interface to a GUI is easy. Transitioning from one GUI to a completely different GUI is quite a bit more of a learning curve.
That's another good story, but hardly on topic.
Linux is not 10 years behind. I just don't think we're there any time soon.
If by "behind" you mean desktops in use, yes -- but Linux doesn't spend billions on advertising like Apple and Microsoft. Most non-nerds don't have a clue Linux even exists. Why should I care what OS you're using, as long as mine fills my needs?
If by "behind" you mean features, Linux is way ahead of Windows in features.
The difference with this is that it's a hurricane and a noreaster combing. You're going to have flooding and power outages followed by freezing. That is never a good scenario.
I wouldn't worry too much.. The bad guys can't shoot straight either!
That's a bad thing. About 20 years ago when my kids were little, we were eating dinner and heard what sounded like a string of firecrackers... but I thought it sounded like gunfire. We went outside to see what was going on, like everyone else in the neighborhood. As we stood watching, a cop car came down the street so fast his car became airborne going over the railroad tracks.
There was a gang war down the street, dozens of shots were fired, only one shot hit flesh -- a white guy trying to get his children inside was hit in the back by a stray bullet. Not a single shot had hit its intended target.
Had they been able to shoot straight, the white guy wouldn't have had his life really fucked up for a really long time, and there would have been a dozen dead gang bangers.
Every shooting I read about in the paper is like that; the only people who get shot are innocent bystanders, often children.
And you contract yourself... My bet is your a republican... Proof me wrong
Well, your grade school teachers certainly were way overpaid.
Considering how dumb our bad guys are, I wouldn't be sure of anything
*groan* If the bad guys are dumb, the cops must be mentally retarded, since 90% of all crime goes unsolved. But I have a hard time believing that the cops are that dumb, so I have an even harder time believing the criminals are dumb, too.
to some groups, disagreeing with their religion is, by definition, insulting
That was proven by my comments in the last Dawkins story being modded "flamebait" simply for disagreeing with Dawkins. It's true that athiesm is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby, but the zeal and fanaticism of most antitheists (not athiests or agnostics, just the antitheists) is as fanatical as the most zealous creationist in Kansas.
Nope, as good as Archive.org is, most of the pre-2000 stuff is gone forever. Much of my old gaming site is there, but not all of it. The only surviving page of Janet "Kneel" Harriott's Yello There is one I posted on my gaming site. Very liitle of mcgrew.info survives.
the question is what the hell is wrong with theists for organizing so many exclusionary charities.
Any exclusionary charity I would agree is not a good charity. But I know of very few exclusionary charities outside the Mormon church. You don't have to be Catholic or even Christian to eat at the St. John's bread line. They feed anyone who walks in. You don't have to be Christian to benefit from any of my own church's charities, a poor athiest or Muslim or Hindu is as welcome as a poor Christian.
Religiously affiliated charities clearly trumpet those affiliations in all of their advertising
Most religious charities don't advertise.
The ACLU, at the very least, have been attacked for their godlessness by numerous Christian groups over the years.
Numerous Christian churches are full of fools. The ACLU is faith-agnostic and will defend anyone whose rights are being trampled. IMO the ACLU is an excellent organization.
What exactly is your basis of this imagination from?
Intelligence is the ability to learn. When you're born you know absolutely nothing. Afterwards there are an incredible amount of ways to damage that organ.
Since they can't be copied per the terms of the TOS
What are you talking about? A lot of friends of mine host their music on Archive.org.
Is there anything you dislike a lot?
There are things I dislike a lot; thievery, for instance. But it's the act, not the person, that I abhor.