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Mickey Baker Passes Away; Christmas Music from Chuck Mead, JD McPherson; Best Live Acts of 2012
- Mickey "Guitar" Baker passed away at the age of 87. He might be best-known for "Love is Strange," his hit with Sylvia Robinson.
- Here's Chuck Mead's version of "Will Santa Come to Shanty Town."
- And a Christmas song from JD McPherson. McPherson also participated in a recent episode of The Attic Sessions.
- Charlie Daniels talks about his new Christmas album with CMT.
- Bart Crow was interviewed by CMT's Craig Shelburne.
- Justin Townes Earle, Gary Clark, Jr., and Neil Young & Crazy Horse made Paste's Best 25 Live Acts of 2012 countdown. What were the best shows you saw this year?
- Tony Rice had to cancel some performances due to health complications, reports Bluegrass Today.
- Listen to a live performance of "The Poet at 33," a song that'll be on Drew Kennedy's next record.
- Sean L. Maloney wrote a Nashville Scene feature on John Dougan's new book, The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of Tomorrow: The Story of The Prisonaires. An excerpt from the article: Rising from a rec-yard gospel quartet in one the state's most brutal jails to the faces of prison reform in '50s Tennessee, The Prisonaires were anachronism — prisoners granted greater freedoms precisely for what Dougan calls their "convictness."
- Dolly Parton was interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation.
- The Huffington Post put together a slideshow of Dolly Parton photos and quotes about her breasts.
- Here's Taylor Swift playing an acoustic version of her song "I Knew You Were Trouble."
- An excerpt from Carrie Allen Tipton's new PopMatters column, "Country Music Hollers Back at Hip Hop": One of the easiest ways to set about explaining who you are is to explain who you are not. As Tichi noted, for country music, this enterprise has historically taken the shape of positioning rural social values against urban mores. What intensifies this longstanding tradition, however, is a pattern I noticed about five years ago. A lot of popular country songs that valorize rural life do so, somewhat improbably, by appropriating elements of hip-hop culture and rap music—the most "urban" of all music in the American imagination. The result? In satirizing musical and lyrical gestures drawn from a genre rooted historically in African American visions of the city, the songs launch a targeted critique of urban modernity and postmodernity that inescapably, though perhaps incidentally, also targets black cultural expression. On the flip side, when pondering exactly who possesses agency in this complex transaction, one considers the perspective voiced by Michael Eric Dyson in his essay "This Dark Diction Has Become America's Addiction." Dyson suggests that due to the globalization of black cultural products, particularly rap music, the colonized have become the colonizer, shifting the historic balance of power towards the marginalized. So, is country music poaching, or is rap music dominating? Probably the answer is—yes. It's nothing new for this supposedly lily-white genre to interface with black music. Bill Malone's book Country Music, U.S.A., documents exchanges between working-class blacks and whites in the genre's formative years, resulting in white acceptance of "the spirituals, the blues, ragtime, jazz, rhythm-and-blues, and a whole host of dance steps, vocal shadings, and instrumental techniques." So that's old hat. What is new is country music's use of black musical influences to construct a pointed critique of urban life—a critique that highlights another traditional sentiment expressed in country songs, ambivalence about the city.
- This Punch Brothers article from the San Francisco Chronicle mentions that Chris Thile has "been arranging and performing a growing catalog of solo mandolin interpretations of Bach's works for violin, destined to become an album."
- And here's video of Thile performing one of Bach's violin suites at a recent Punch Brothers show.
- Reba is featured in an upcoming issue of AARP The Magazine.
- Here's an interview with Anna Roberts-Gevalt about her new project, compilation album The New Young Fogies, Vol. 1.
- Christmas with Scotty McCreery has gone gold.
- Celebrate the 20th anniversary of James Reams & The Barnstormers with a free NoiseTrade download of their album Barnstormin'.
- Paste shares some 1977 footage of .38 Special from the Video Vault.
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That's good work from Carrie Allen Tipton, though there are no doubt examples of styles brought into country from black sources being used for some sort of urban critiques and differentiations before. I mean, there are blues by Jimmie Rodgers that mock urban cops, for instance..That's not using black forms to draw a line exactly (Rodgers wasn't much of a line drawer), but if we thought about it, I'm pretty sure we could find what she's talking about in hillbilly blues, Western Swing, country boogie, rockabilly, countrypolitan–the succession of country sounds that took in black influences over the years.
Agreed, the Carrie Allen Tipton piece is top notch, except that she called me "polemical" and I'm not smart enough to know if I'm being praised or insulted by it ;). Good follow up piece here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christandpopculture/2012/11/god-and-country-music-the-country-music-culture-wars/
Great points, Barry–I appreciate the thoughtful engagement w/the piece, as well as the shout out here in this post. By the way, got your comment thru my website & have tried several times to respond but the email address you left has bounced back my messages several times–perhaps box is full?
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Posts by Steven Roper
1388 posts • joined 10 May 2011
Outsourcing your own job much more common than first thought
Re: @Steven Roper
"but here in the real world a company is not a person"
Er - yes it is. Companies and corporations are regarded as persons having human rights for legal purposes. Their often unscrupulous exploitation of this fact is where many of the perceived social problems with them comes from.
As for the rest of your post, I can only say that your ideals sound rather Pharaonic to me. I may live in a weird entitlement utopia, but that sounds a lot better than the master-slave plutocracy you seem to be advocating.
@ romanempire
Not quite - unless you explicitly state that the service must be given personally by the employee. And I've never heard of such a clause being part of a work contract.
A work contract, or to give it its proper title, a "job and person specification" is a list of tasks, and their outcomes, the incumbent is expected to accomplish. How they are accomplished is in most cases up to the person tasked with achieving that outcome. If the job includes cleaning the toilets, then my only expectation in that regard is clean toilets. If the employee then goes and finds someone to clean toilets in his behalf at a lower rate, what boots it as long as the job gets done? Of course, if the substitute hired to actually clean toilets then goes and cleans out the company safe, the employee who hired them has to bear their share of the responsibility for that.
It's like subletting a rented house. Here in Australia, the law forbids a landlord from preventing a tenant from subletting rooms in the house to other tenants. The tenant has to notify the landlord of course, but the landlord cannot stop the tenant from doing so. But if the sublet tenants then knock holes in the walls, it's the original tenant who has to foot the bill, because they're the ones who signed the contract with the landlord.
So if an employee outsources all or part of their job, as long as the company security is maintained and policies and procedures respected, then there's no problem. To punish an employee for simply finding a cheaper solution when that is what the entire company is about doing, is nothing more than sheer mean-mindedness.
Re: ummmm
Exactly. The hypocrisy of these companies here stinks to high heaven, a perfect example of do-as-as-we-say-not-as-we-do, we-can-but-you-can't mentality. If companies can outsource, why can't employees? And I part-own a company myself. If I found one of my staff doing this, I'd commend them for their resourcefulness.
The only problem I can see in this is one of security. I'd want to see what measures the employee has taken to ensure company confidentiality; if they'd thrown open our codebase to some two-bit Chinese outfit THEN some stern words would be spoken. I'd want to see all the paperwork, contracts, quotes and so on, but if they'd addressed this satisfactorily then I'd have no problem with it.
After all, I spend a fair whack of my work time perusing and posting on El Reg. I can hardly complain if my staff want to do the same, as long the work gets done one way or another!
Four firms pitch hi-def DRM for Flash cards
Re: the problem with DRM systems
The problem with DRM systems is that the entire concept is cryptographically flawed.
In any cryptographic scenario, you have at least three parties: the sender (usually called Alice), the intended receiver (usually called Bob), and the middleman attacker (usually called Mallory). Any given cryptographic scenario is then based on Alice encrypting a message to transmit to Bob, and Mallory tries to intercept and decrypt the message without Alice or Bob knowing.
Where DRM fails in all this is that the receiver is, ipso facto, the attacker. DRM is built entirely around this contradiction: the presumption that the receiver simultaneously should and should not be able to access the message. In this scenario, Bob and Mallory are the same person. The logical flaw in this then becomes self-evident. The customer is also the criminal.
What this amounts to is, if the message can be seen or heard, it can be copied. No amount of copy protection, no matter how sophisticated, can prevent this: what the human eye can see, a camera can photograph; what the human ear can hear, a microphone can record. If you're worried about quality, the unencrypted video data going to a screen or audio signal going to a loudspeaker can easily be captured. And once the recording is made, subsequent digital copies can be made ad infinitum. Even if you need specialised equipment to capture the video feed from within the monitor, or a tap on an audio cable, it only needs one person to make a copy, and all the DRM in the world is useless.
For this reason, DRM is snake oil, and nothing but. I'm frankly stunned at the blindness of copyright holders in not understanding this utterly simple, obvious and inescapable flaw underscoring all DRM. They've been trying for better than 30 years, and they still haven't realised that the whole concept is completely fraudulent.
US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums'
Re: American organisation offended by breathing
"But now show me a gay sex scene (or even a kiss) in a Hollywood film. Heaven forbid!"
Maybe not in a film per se. But try watching Game of Thrones some time. Or Spartacus.
North Korean citizens told: Socialist haircuts are a thing... go get some
Re: Fifty years and counting...
It took the Soviet Union more than 70, as I recall.
Re: Socialism
Socialism, communism, capitalism, democracy - they're all myths and fantasies.
The only form of government ever practiced by any human culture anywhere, throughout history, is plutocratic feudalism, backed by the Gold and Gun Rule; i.e. who has the gold owns the guns and makes the rules. Rich people have children who will grow up to inherit their rule over everyone else's children, ad infinitum.
Occasionally there's a revolution; the proles are recruited by the revolutionists with promises of a better life; they storm the houses of the rich with torches and pitchforks, then as soon as the revolution is complete the revolutionists become the new feudal lords, the proles get kicked back to the gutter where they belong, and feudalism continues unaltered.
No other form of government exists, ever has existed, or ever will exist, as long as there are human beings.
Re: I wish! (Homer 1 - 14:07)
Grass does not grow on a busy street, nor hair on a smart man's head.
Trekkies detect Spock's Vulcan homeworld ORBITING PLUTO
Re: Mass Effect
I read Greek mythology in my childhood, and so to me Cerberus (Kerberos) is, and will always be, the giant three-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld and prevents the spirits of the dead from leaving (i.e. he's there to keep the dead in, not the living out). Notably captured and brought back to Tyrins by Heracles as the last of the twelve tasks assigned to him by the cowardly prince Eurystheus. The monster dog so terrified Eurystheus that he hid, gibbering, in a brass pot for three days, until Heracles returned the creature to Hades.
Cerberus was also put to sleep by the singing of Orpheus, who was given permission by Persephone, daughter of Demeter and wife of Hades, to lead his dead lover Eurydice out of the Underworld - as long as he didn't look back to see if she was following. He did, and thus lost her forever. (A happier alternative ending has it that Orpheus died soon after of a broken heart, and he and Eurydice were then re-united in eternal bliss in the Elysian Fields.)
Anything else is just a rip off. It's as abrasive (to me) as someone hearing a Beethoven sonata and going, "Oh, that's the tune from the [insert brand name here] commercial!" Gaaack!
Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant
Not really
since I wouldn't hire anybody with that thin a skin.
Climate scientists link global warming to extreme weather
A fair analysis
"In addition, global land mass is concentrated in that hemisphere, and land masses warm and cool more quickly than do oceans. "These two factors are crucial for the mechanism we detected,"..."
That's a good explanation for this effect. What's interesting is that if these two factors are the main drivers of this mechanism, then it cannot be anthropogenic, since you can hardly blame humans for the fact of landmasses being concentrated in the northern hemisphere, nor the fact that land gains and loses heat more quickly than ocean.
Boffin shows pics of germs grown on SPOTTY STUDENTS' MOBES
H.G. Wells put it best
"By the toll of a billion deaths, man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his though the Martians were ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain."
Though those bacterial colonies may look disgusting, without them we could not live, our earth would be piled neck-deep in dead animals and plants, we'd have no immune system, and awesome foodstuffs like yoghurt and cheese would not exist!
Ancient lost continent discovered lounging on Mauritian beach
Re: Mu and Lemuria
I've always thought that Lemuria was Zealandia, the massive V-shaped sunken continent east of Australia, of which New Zealand, New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu are the tops of the highest mountain ranges. It's easily visible on Google Earth, or any topographic ocean-floor map of the southwest Pacific.
It begins: Six-strikes copyright smackdown starts in US
And don't forget
you have to have The Machine That Goes 'PING!'
Bees use 'electrical SIXTH SENSE' to nail nectar-stuffed flowers
Re: Ironic
Wow. All I can say to you, Sanity Soapbox, is that your statements are not just wrong, they are fractally wrong, which means any effort at refutation would result in an infinite recursion of wrongness. Since a first-level refutation has already been made, I'll spare myself the infinite time required for successive ones...
Re: Bees not as amazing as Australian face flies.
That is why I, and everyone else I know, explicitly ignore the big capital-letter warning DO NOT SPRAY DIRECTLY TOWARD EYES OR MOUTH printed on every Aerogard can. The only way to guarantee 100% coverage of every square millimetre is to close your eyes and mouth and do exactly that.
If you obey the warning and do what you're supposed to by spraying it on your hands and rubbing it on your face, then as you say, there'll be one fucking fly that finds the three square mm that you missed.
I also noticed the flies seemed particularly bad this year. At Victor Harbor last December, on top of the Bluff, we were mugged by the fucking things, even though a fair breeze was blowing that should have cleared them off. These flies seemed immune to wind, Aerogard and even the traditional Aussie salute. And the last time I'd seen so many was when I was up in the outback round Arkaroola years ago!
Dalek designer Ray Cusick passes away aged 84
Re: Americanism.
Actually, I encountered "survived" in a similar context as a small child back in the 70s, learning about the wives of King Henry VIII: "Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived..."
BOFH: Climb the corp ladder - and use your boss as a bullet shield
also noticed the increasing use of "Architect" as a JD buzzword.
First we had "Manager". Everyone from the janitor up was a "manager" of some kind. Then there was "Specialist". Then "Engineer". Now we have "Architect". What's next? Doctor?
That'd be good: Toilet Cleaner -> Waste Manager -> Hygiene Specialist -> Sanitation Engineer -> Health Systems Architect -> Epidemiology Doctor...
Bundestag holds 'unusual' hearing on German Copyright Act
Re: re. John Lilburne
Don't bother.
John Lilburne is a known copyright troll down there with the likes of Turtle and PirateSlayer et. al. and, like them, probably an RIAA / MPAA staffer. His brain cell likely isn't capable of assimilating the concept of publicity and revenue provided by big search engines linking to content, because all it's capable of is something like, "duh, it's all mine and I don't want anyone to see it without paying, duh..."
Just ignore him. If you can be bothered wasting the few seconds it takes, downvote him if it helps you feel a bit better after being subjected to his drivel. ;)
John Sweeney: Why Church of Scientology's gravest threat is the 'net
Re: Yes. In a civilised society ;-)
As opposed to a politically correct one...
@Eurypides Pants
Drop-bears would have no need of an autogyro to clean out Psychlos. Or anything else for that matter, since I'm sure they could depopulate the galaxy with just their claws and teeth...
Microsoft legal beagle calls for patent reform cooperation
This is interesting
" Microsoft plans to make information explaining exactly which patents it owns available to anyone on the web by April 1, 2013."
Does that include the still-undisclosed 240-odd patents MS has been threatening and blackmailing the Linux community with for the past few years?
Rid yourself of Adobe: New Firefox 19.0 gets JAVASCRIPT PDF viewer
Re: @AC 04:40 @Lusty Mixed blessing
Actually I do understand technology, better than you might think.
"Locking" electronics documents from being changed is simply not reliable or trustworthy, not now, not ever. There's not a DRM schema ever invented that hasn't been cracked. Ever heard the adage "What man can make, man can break?" There's no such thing as "uncrackable", and that means any electronic document can be untraceably altered, no matter how secure the DRM snake-oil purveyors claim the locking technique is. I know this because way back in the 80s I was a member of a well-known cracking crew and I've seen firsthand how these guys operate.
You obviously don't live in Australia, where power outages, while not that frequent, when they do occur can run to several hours. The longest one I experienced was nearly two days, during the floods in 2005. And travel across town to recharge my laptop? That wouldn't be necessary for paper records, would it? And even in a major natural disaster, paper records can be recovered a lot more readily. Even if they are fire- or flood-damaged, there's still a chance that some of the information can be recovered - which is not true of, say, a fire-damaged thumb drive.
I will grant that PDF is not likely to lose support any time soon, but as to old records being lost because of media and format issues, even with the most industrious record-keeping, archives can be forgotten until it's too late. Things turn up in basements and attics that were thought lost years ago and which could answer many unanswered questions. Yes, in most cases people will transfer data to new formats as they become available, but only if they know or remember that it's there. You know, PEBKAC - the human factor!
I'm not saying electronic storage is inferior to paper, or that every single thing should be printed out. I'm simply saying that both have their place and their uses.
@AC 04:40 Re: @Lusty Mixed blessing
I'm not just being contrary here. Lusty didn't mention anything about a paperless office and neither did I, nor did I state or insinuate that he had. As for documents specifically being "from the internet", how does that invalidate my argument? My first point in particular has validity here, since documents on a website can and do change frequently, so printing one out as it was on such-and-such a date is prima facie proof that this was what the document stated on that date. This is especially true of things like ToS and EULA documents where a print copy made before an online change could make or break a court case.
Lusty stated that he could think of only two reasons for printing a document, from the internet or otherwise. I added three more reasons to explain why people print out documents. So no, I didn't just feel like disagreeing. I simply articulated the arguments that were most likely to be behind the downvotes he got (none of which are mine, BTW.)
@Lusty Re: Mixed blessing
I can give you three very good reasons for printing a document that you haven't mentioned:
One, a print copy, once made, cannot be modified or altered. The problem with electronic documents is that they can be readily altered and the change erased to suit someone's agenda - for example, to facilitate corruption, fraud or theft, or to rewrite history. This is why many companies (including ours) still maintain filing cabinets with paper records of all meeting minutes, quotes, invoices, and transactions.
Two, a paper record is human-readable without requiring any machine or power to display it. In the event of a disaster, or even a protracted power outage, paper records can be retrieved, read and acted on even if there's no power for recharging phone or tablet batteries, or running PCs.
Three, a paper record does not rely on document or media formats that may quickly become obsolete or unreadable. Many records have been lost because they were stored on things like 8" floppy disks, which you can no longer obtain drives for, or in cryptic 70s and 80s file formats that modern spreadsheets and word processors cannot read.
A paper record has a permanence that cannot be contested in the way an electronic document can. This is why law courts, for one thing, want everything on paper. If, in a trial, you were to try to hand up a tablet with a Word doc on it, the judge would throw it at you. They want solid paper records than can be filed, retained, and retrieved without question or difficulty.
In the end, it's not about "not understanding technology." It's about understanding the limitations of technology and using it in its place, just as we need to understand that paper copy also has its place and purpose, and for the reasons posited above, will continue to do so for a long time to come.
Amazon ditches 'neo-Nazi' security firm over alleged harassment of workers
Re: There's something
The media outlet that made the documentary may very well have gathered evidence. But media bias is a well-known phenomenon; in fact it's the primary driver of the witch-hunt mentality I'm concerned about. Selective evidence gathering is an obvious part of this process. What if you were in that business's position; who would you trust more - a team of police investigators out to uphold the law, or a two-bit media outlet out to make a quick sensationalist buck?
There's something
a bit "witch-hunty" about all this. The first line in the article is the trigger: that this security company was "accused" of habouring neo-Nazi sympathies being the reason for contract termination is actually a cause for concern. Was a proper, impartial investigation conducted to establish these claims? All we have to go on are some claims by workers and a "documentary" by a local media outlet - and this was enough to justify terminating a contract and publicly smearing someone's business?
Like "paedophile" and "terrorist", "neo-Nazi" seems to have become a common witch-hunt attack - the mere accusation is enough to ruin you, with or without proof or evidence. This sort of thing really does need to be watched very carefully, not only because of the travesty of justice that it entails, but also because it can easily undermine, by turning them into "witch-hunt victims", efforts to identify and bring real paedophiles, terrorists and neo-Nazis to justice.
Microsoft: Office 2013 license is for just one PC, FOREVER
Re: Götterdämmerung
My thoughts exactly. This behaviour is symptomatic of a company that has finally woken up to the fact that its old business model has failed and is panicking over its increasing irrelevancy, hence the push to rentism to try to secure a revenue stream. And as with all such situations, everything they do merely fans the flames of their own demise, as more and more customers realise they are being shafted and start looking for alternatives.
Python-lovers sling 'death threats' at UK ISP in trademark row
Re: sad all around
The complete breakdown in civility is a direct result of anger and rage at the insatiable greed behind the massive virtual land grab you refer to. The two are related; civility fails when greed prevails.
The cheap 3D craft pen that scribbles over 3D printing hype
Except that
any car you can draw with that pen is most likely going to look like something out of The Flintstones...
Printer to pen ratio?
You've got to be fucking kidding me. Several pens per printer? Not a chance in my place, home or office. Pens disappear within minutes, sometimes seconds of discovery or purchase, every time. What I have is an effectively infinite printer:pen ratio, because I have two printers and zero, count them, zero pens. Printers at least are too big to disappear into pockets, handbags or microscopic invisible black holes!
AMD: Star Trek holodecks within reach
Me? Worldbuilding, much more so than sex. Sex only has so much appeal, after all. Even if it's with a generated ideal of your perfect partner, what happens when you've blown your load for the tenth time in a day and your hormones are past satiated? For me, worldbuilding would be far more satisfying use of such a technology.
OTOH, I am 46 and maybe I'm just getting on a bit! ;)
Beer, because like sex it's socially expected that there's no such thing as too much of it...
Holodecks aren't just about processing power
Sure, we might be able to recreate the visuals and audio within a decade or so, but that's a long way from what the ST:NG holodecks were depicted as being capable of. Tactile and olfactory simulation being the biggest challenges here; how to simulate the roughness and solidity of a rock, or the furriness of a cat, or the softness of a comfy armchair? Then there's smell and taste, which are notoriously difficult to replicate, let alone simulate.
I can see "360-degree viewing rooms" emerging within the next 10 or so years: I imagine a cuboidal room, perhaps the size of a toilet cubicle, whose walls and ceiling consist entirely of hi-res monitors to create the effect of you being inside a "glass box" within a virtual environment. For real authenticity these monitors would need to be capable of parallactic 3D (not the simple stereoscopic pseudo-3D of today's TVs) so if you move your head to see around a nearby tree, for example, what's behind the tree comes into view. And that technology is quite a long way off yet, as it requires in-situ 3D positional mapping of every object in the scene, although the computational power discussed in the article certainly makes running this kind of display feasible.
Google misses privacy-policy deadline, incurs EU wrath
Re: Now we come to it
"I suggest you go and get popcorn, this will be interesting to watch."
Agreed. Which was why I asked for a large bucket of hot buttered and a Coke. I'm looking forward to seeing the fallout from this!
BTW I'm 46. Is that younger than you? You never know on these forums. ;)
Now we come to it
What's "repressive action"?
Are the collective goverments of the EU going to cut off public access to Google, YouTube, ReCaptcha and half the internet which Google controls? Can't wait to see the shitstorm that's going to result from that. Or are they just going to fine Google huge amounts of money, utlimately leading Google itself to cut off European public access to its own sites (resulting in the same shitstorm).
Either way, Google wins. Because so many people are so dependent on its services that it's become indispensable. But if Google wins, that means it can thumb its nose at laws and governments alike, and that is not a good thing. Forced nationalisation, anyone?
So may we live in interesting times. I'll have a large bucket of hot buttered and a Coke, please. This is going to be good!
Higgs data shows alternate reality will SWALLOW UNIVERSE
Re: Spider Robinson covered this a few years ago
James Blish also examined this "bubble universe" topic in 1959 with his Cities In Flight saga. In the final book, A Clash of Cymbals, he describes a collision between two universes (this one of matter and another of antimatter, since the Higgs wasn't known about back then) and how this entire universe would be engulfed as a result.
Indian government censors own web site after court order
"organisations full of bribe-seeking corrupt people where even at the top they have a track record of being caught red handed and being jailed"
I hope this university has some really solid proof to back up that statement. Otherwise that has to be the most spectacular example of pots, kettles and the absence of colour I've ever seen!
Baby-boulder bowling burglar breaks Boulder Apple Store's $100k glass door
$100k for a glass door?
What the fuck is it made of - Waterford Crystal?
Iceland thinks long and hard over extreme smut web ban law
Re: About this proposed ban
If you have radical feminists in your government you need to vote them out now, especially the male ones. During my nearly two decades of egalitarian* activism, I've noticed that the vast majority of male feminists I've encountered, are invariably the most radical self-righteous hypocritical bigots this side of the Taliban. And this Ögmundur Jónasson fits the profile perfectly.
Ironically, most female feminists I've encountered, even those who are lesbians, are actually quite reasonable in comparison. After all, their agenda is to get a fair go for their own sex, not to disenfranchise men, which I've never had a problem with. It's the anti-male demonisation and disenfranchisement, most of which is driven by male feminists with a small smattering of hard-core female man-haters, which I oppose with such vehemence. And this anti-porn bill, such as you describe, is a typical modus operandi of such people.
So the old stereotype (and oft-used strawman) of the butch lesbian feminist man-basher is exactly that: a stereotype. It's the male feminists you have to watch out for. Warn your friends and get that bugger out of office come the next election, if you value your people's freedom and dignity at all.
* Egalitarian means advocacy of equal rights, with no preferential treatment, for all people regardless of gender, race or whatever. Some feminists (again mostly male ones) try to make the weasel claim that feminism is about equal rights for all, but that is a deception intended to validate their misandrist worldview. Feminism is, and has always been, about female rights in particular; that is why it is called feminism. Treat with suspicion anyone who makes this claim - and I'll give better than ten-to-one odds it's a male making it.
Wikipedia's Gibraltar 'moratorium' - how's it going?
Wikipedia has its uses, with caveats
As long as the subject you are researching isn't politically charged (e.g. climate change, World War II or the Kennedy assassination) it is usually fairly accurate. In particular its articles on politically neutral subjects like mathematics or physics are a good starting point if all you need is a working understanding of the topic.
For example, the Wikipedia article on Mersenne primes explains the concept quite effectively (that is, that a Mersenne prime is a prime number one less than a power of two) without any political overhead or agenda. There is no dispute about what these numbers are or are not, just the simple fact of their existence and how they are calculated. For citation purposes of course you would look up the referenced articles at the bottom of the page for more authoritative discussion of the subject.
The danger comes when an article carries a political agenda. A good example, discussed on your findingdulcinea.com link above, is climate change. (TL;DR - A UK scientist, William Connolley, gained Admin authority on Wikipedia and used it to push a pro-climate change agenda while banning opposing contributors) In these cases, of course the references at the bottom will also all be in favour of the agenda in question by virtue of their being selected to support the article. This makes it very difficult to even locate opposing views from the references.
So as in all things, use your better judgement. If your topic of research is even slightly politically charged, don't go near Wikipedia at all. Use a variety of search engines (not just Google) and give equal attention to points made for and against. But for purely scientific or mathematical research where no political agenda is involved, Wikipedia makes as good a starting point as anywhere.
Russian boffins race to meteorite crash lake as shard prices go sky-high
Where have I heard this sort of thing before?
"Next morning, a crowd gathered on the common, hypnotised by the unscrewing of the cylinder. Two feet of shining screw projected, when suddenly, the lid fell off..."
I need to catch a cold, and fast. Those bloboid bastards aren't injecting my blood into their own veins without a fight!
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Re: The fact that even New York got served..
You're not alone, friend. You should do what I do with my company.
When I'm running up a quote for a customer, if during the interview I see them pull out an iPhone or iPad, I add a small percentage to the quote (it varies depending on how devoted to the Church of St. Jobs the customer appears to be) as an "Apple tax". After all, I figure that if they've got money to splurge on Apple crap, they've got money to splurge on our services!
I've made my company quite a few grand extra by doing this. My partners know I do it too, but since they hate Apple almost as much as I do, there is no objection, as long as I disguise the increase amongst other itemisations on the quote sheet!
Thank you for proving the exact point the article (and several commentards) were making about the behaviour of Apple fanbois. You're a textbook case.
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John Sheridan, eh?
Must be a relative (ancestor?) of one Capt. John Sheridan, who also proved his acumen for financial finagling by working the books so that EarthGov ended up paying rent to itself for his command staff's use of the officers' quarters on Babylon 5...
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"We're not dinosaurs, reliant on a certain climate or delicate environment..."
I recommend you look up a book/documentary called "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond. He's an anthropologist who spent 30 years researching why Eurasian civilisations dominated the world over other cultures, and his thesis states that geography - specifically the temperate conditions that allowed certain species of food plants (wheat, oats, barley) and animals (goats, cattle, horses) to exist - is what gave the Eurasian cultures their edge, by freeing them from the exigencies of survival and enabling specialisation. When they attempted to colonise the tropics, their traditional survival methods failed because the plants and animals upon which our civilisation depends were not adapted to survive there.
So we do need surprisingly specific conditions to survive, or at least to maintain the structures of advanced civilisation. Without our temperate-zone climate, wheat and other staple foods don't grow, and without them civilisation as we know it cannot stand.
In a post-impact Earth, survival alone becomes only a thin possibility. If we look at past extinction events - the Permian-Triassic or the Cretaceous-Tertiary, for example - we see that the climate changes that resulted from them weren't measured in decades or even millennia. The lushness of the Permian gave way to the deserts of the Triassic; likewise with the verdant Cretaceous and the barren Tertiary, both of which lasted for millions of years before the Earth recovered.
In a mass-extinction event of this magnitude, large, complex lifeforms cannot survive. Only the smallest, simplest creatures can eke out an existence, and give rise to new evolved forms over time; the dinosaurs from the Permian-Triassic, and the mammals from the Cretaceous-Tertiary. The poisonous atmosphere, the centuries of global winter darkness resulting from an impact - these effects would last far longer than our civilisation has already existed and developed, and so the chances of anything much more complex than a frog surviving them are marginal at best.
So "re-colonising Earth" is simply not a viable proposition in the aftermath of such an event. Not unless we can maintain a civilisation in underground bunkers for a few million years at a stretch, until the Earth becomes inhabitable again...
You're slipping, Eadon!
This article is about asteroids hitting the Earth. You should have been able to work in at least one little MS diss in there somewhere!
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"The fox doesn't see beauty or experience admiration."
How do you know that? Have you looked up any research on animal cognition? There is increasing evidence that many animal species are self-aware and capable of cognition in ways that we are only just discovering. A quick google of "animal intelligence" or "animal cognition" will turn up some very interesting articles on the subject, and if they teach us anything at all, it is that human intelligence differs from that of other animals only in the extent of our abilities to harness the natural forces and materials of our environment.
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"umbilical you can tow a lorry with"
Yes, I also remember those from my childhood back in the 70s. There was one time when my parents were shopping for a new TV, and one had a "wired remote" with a rather hefty cable - about which I recall Dad commenting that "you could moor the bloody QE2 with that thing!" And that was back then...!
Forget wireless power for phones - Korea's doing it for BUSES
Re: Lateral thinking
The problem with your suggestion is that if we did use said "biological transport mechanism", we'd all be up to our necks in "bio-degradable waste products"!
Re: One problem hopefully solved
As Mr. Orwell so rightly pointed out in 1984:
"...and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was all part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week."
Of course, the real reason the power was cut off was precisely to reduce the quality of life; part of the underlying principle that power is asserted by making people suffer.
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A bicycle safety event will be held in the Lambeau Field parking lot on Wednesday.
The former Packers wide receiver will appear on national television at 7:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday.
Several small animals will be part of the attractions at practice on Sunday in Green Bay.
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Owners of the Packers convene for the annual meeting inside Lambeau Field at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday.
Current and former Packers DuJuan Harris, Don Barclay, Sean Richardson, Ahman Green and Gilbert Brown will all make an appearance.
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Along with releasing Grossman, the starting quarterback on the Chicago Bears' 2006 NFC champion squad, the Browns waived offensive linemen Karim Barton and Martin Wallace and wide receiver Charles Johnson.
Grossman had signed with the Browns on Aug. 12 and initially made the 53-man roster as the No. 3 signal-caller behind Brian Hoyer and rookie Johnny Manziel. The 34-year-old attempted just eight passes during the preseason, completing four of them for 80 yards.
Byrd was claimed from Dallas and Hauptmann was waived by Seattle on Saturday. Seymour and Winston both spent the preseason with the San Francisco 49ers.
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The annual celebration took place in Colorado and the guy who shot the video says Stoneyberg told everyone he WAS the famous director -- so potheads were hooking him up with free dabs.
And then there's this tidbit ... Spielberg's wife Kate Capshaw was at Coachella.
Sadly ... no midlife here. A rep tells us it's not S.S.
Bummer, dude.
Hahaha dude thought up the best ploy for free pot! I'm sure with a good high they totally thought he looked like SS.
pretty tacky to connect an icon w/this crap
Who cares if it was? Smoking pot isn't the big taboo it once was. Let it go already.
It isn't him.. Whoever it is needs to learn how to inhale
So what if it is him
what a wasted story
steves been a avid pothead for years... is this only new info now?
Its not speilberg, dude doesnt even look anything like him
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The delicate relationship between the tappet and pushrod in a V-8 engine has not advanced far in our lifetime. While other cam technologies have taken the spotlight when it comes to making the most power from the smallest package, our old pushrod power plants stubbornly survive. It's certainly not for a love of the technology. I'm sure most of you would happily advance, along with the rest of the world, into overhead cams and computer-controlled valve events with engines that don't even use camshafts! But since we love our old V-8s that means we're stuck with their old technology. But, I too am a lover of pushrods and tappets and I believe today, more than ever, the potential to match the OHV engine's capabilities, liter-for-liter, lies within our grasp.
IT STARTS WITH THE CAMThere's actually way more to camshafts then we could ever explain in just a few pages, so we'll hit on the hard points of cam selection and offer up some data to support our theories. First of all, keep in mind that the cam's lobes are designed to do only one thing: push the lifter, (a.k.a. tappet), up smoothly to open the valve and let the lifter follow the lobe back down to close the valve without bouncing it off the seat. It's much more difficult than you might think. Good-old flat tappet cams have never been the most efficient way to do this, buy they were cheap. And their low cost has kept them popular until today. Now flat tappets are becoming increasingly harder to find and their prices keep going up. There are a lot of reasons for this, not the least of which is that flat tappets actually cost horsepower.
The OEM's haven't put a flat tappet cam in their engines for almost 20 years. So why should you? If it were still a good way to do things, the cost-conscious OEM's would've stuck with flat tappets forever. So where did the big push for rollers come from? That's easy to answer. It was all about reducing friction. Because friction costs power and since they're always looking to make the most reliable power for less, the OEMs choose to reduce friction inside the engine first. But notice that they've only advanced to hydraulic roller tappets.
CYLINDER HEADS MAKE THE CHOICEThere's a ton of cam choices out there the right one today involves more thought than simply asking your buddy what cam he runs. With rapidly advancing cylinder head development, cam choice becomes even more critical. But, fear not, because the aftermarket cylinder heads are so good today, they're also very forgiving in cam selection. Today, with a good flowing set of aluminum heads, you can run a cam that's much bigger than you could with stock heads 10 years ago. Since the cam's only function is to open the valves to move air in and out of the cylinders, if the heads are not capable of moving that air efficiently, then running a bigger cam used to only hurt power. But with the aid of computer airflow modeling and CNC machining, the head manufacturers have been able to increase their potential and take advantage of new cam and valve spring developments. So now, a smart engine builder can let his cylinder heads choose the cam he'll run.
It's important to look at all aspects of you cylinder head's, and total engine's, performance. I tend to focus heavily on the cylinder heads Intake to Exhaust (IvE) flow percentage. That's the amount of air the exhaust port can flow vs. the intake port. A head with a higher percentage can use a cam with more closely matched intake and exhaust lobe figures. Conversely, a head with a poor IvE ratio needs more exhaust duration to work well. The differences here a minimal. A small change in head flow is usually worth more of a power increase than a large change in cam timing. The following chart represents the same big-block Chevy head, before and after the exhaust ports were worked on. The stock head would respond better to a cam with about 10 degrees more exhaust timing, but no more lift. While the ported head would work well with a cam that has its intake and exhaust figures closely matched, with maybe only 2-4 degrees more duration on the exhaust lobes. And since exhaust flow improved more dramatically as lift increased in the ported head, then its cam could make better use of more lift on the exhaust side as well.
While most cylinder head companies will be happy to give you their flow figures, you'll probably have to do the percentage calculations yourself, so here's the formula: (exhaust flow / intake flow).
And to compare heads, take the larger exhaust flow from one head, subtract the smaller ex flow from the other and then divide that by the smaller figure.
Here's an example from .200-lift above: (107-99) = 8/99 = 0.08
Move the decimal two points to the right and you've got your percentage of improvement: 8% I've found this to be a very good method of comparing cylinder heads and choosing the proper camshaft to go along with it. Of course, this method really only applies to naturally aspirated cylinder heads and as soon as you add nitrous or a blower or turbo, cam selection changes dramatically.
LOBE SEPARATION ANGLEBy choosing a cam with the correct LSA for the engine's intended usage, you can have your cake and eat it too. First of all, the LSA is ground into the cam at the factory and cannot be changed. It represents the number of degrees, in crankshaft rotation, that separate the intake lobe centerline from the exhaust lobe centerline. A wider LSA figure, i.e. 112-116 degrees, moves the lobe centerlines further apart and will smooth your idle due to the decrease in overlap that creates. The lower the figure, i.e. 106-110 degree, moves the centerlines closer and will increase bottom end power, but your idle will suffer along with it. We did a test a few years back running five different LSAs on otherwise identical cams in the same engine. What we found was that the cams with a 108-110 LSA worked best all around. But idle vacuum was higher with the wider LSA cams (112-114) and this would translate to better idle quality. Bottom line here is that most cam companies have put lots of effort into selecting the proper LSA for the cam's intended usage so you'd be wise not to second-guess them.
SPRING THINGToday's springs are designed to run with much lower pressures and yet still control the valves. That leads to less loading on the tappets and translates to longer life at idle. Weight at the valve tip is what can cause problems with springs and valve float. Any time you can decrease the weight at the valve tip, you can usually add power. Things like Titanium retainers are a good, but expensive, way to accomplish this. Also, springs like COMP Cams new "Beehive" wire springs, along with their tiny Ti retainers are a fantastic way to reduce weight and still control the valves.
KEEPING UP WITH THE IMPORTSNot only have the U.S., OEMs been leaving flat-tappet cams out of their engines for many years, they've also just about abandoned pushrods and tappets completely. The move towards overhead cammed engines is strong and we'll probably see the total elimination of OEM pushrod V-8s in our lifetime. Thankfully, there's still the aftermarket and they've not completely given up on us yet. "Street (solid) rollers can be designed for most any RPM range, but are usually limited to applications with an upper RPM limit of 7200-7400RPM. The advantage of a roller over a flat tappet camshaft is that it broadens the useable torque curve from about a 3000-RPM range to about a 4500-RPM range, (i.e. 2,000 to 6,500 rpm). In other words a roller cam approaches the valve action of an overhead cammed engine much more closely than a conventional flat tappet camshaft," said Mark Campbell, Director of Research & Development at Crane Cams.
WHERE'S THIS LEADING?While it's still ok to run a flat tappet cam in your engine if you're looking for the cheapest way to make due. But, if you're like many others out there who want the absolute best power, and will pay a little bit more to get it, then running a roller cam is the way to get there. And matching that roller cam's specs to you engine's needs has never been easier. Mostly, we're happy to stick with hydraulic roller cams and the power we've already made with them closely approaches that of our competition. But there's also a huge selection of solid street roller cams today that don't require the regular valve lash adjustments and can live forever.


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One of the biggest topics for the Food Revolution this year was the unnecessary sugar and additives in flavored milk.
The Food Revolution stands for providing kids the freshest food and best nutrition. The endless supply of sweetened, flavored milk showing up on lunch trays every day at breakfast and lunch is representative of just how backwards our school food system has become.
One of the great things about milk in schools is it�s a decision that�s made locally. In recent years, a handful of pioneering districts have shown that flavored milk can be removed with great success, replaced by pure, white milk and crisp drinking water. You can read our stories about leaders like Boulder, CO; Washington, DC; and New Haven, CT.
Public Demand For Pure, White Milk
The Food Revolution launched a campaign to swell those ranks. More than 50,000 people signed our national flavored milk petition. In particular, we brought the conversation to Los Angeles, America�s second largest school district.
With the public clamoring for change, Dr. John Deasy, LAUSD�s new superintendent, made a public commitment on national TV to remove flavored milk from LA�s public schools. In mid-June the LAUSD Board upheld that decision. That was a big win!
On June 9th we held our first �Flavored Milk Day of Action� and nearly 300 community leaders signed up. We created a helpful Fact Sheet - The Hard Facts About Flavored Milk, developed an Action Planning Guide, and launched a special Facebook Page for our leaders.
Soon, more districts were announcing shifts away from flavored milk. Districts near to Los Angeles like El Monte City and Compton joined the movement, and Minneapolis, MN made national news with its own decision.
By back-to-school time, there were more than 1000 people among our milk leaders. We helped LAUSD explain to its own cafeteria staff why this change is so important. And we geared up for a Flavored Milk Week of Action for November.
For Milk Week, we created some helpful new resources: a �flavored milk calculator� to determine how much sugar kids are getting; flyers to use to promote local actions; and a petition letter to use with principals or district officials. We also hosted a great
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Our second grassroots push on milk yielded impressive involvement by students and some hard-won lessons on what it takes to make change.
There are now 44 districts we know of serving only plain white milk, and about two dozen more in some stage of transition. In 2012 we look forward to working together with energized community members to support school nutrition staff ready to take a new approach to quality food and drink for our kids.
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1:34 PM PT -- One of Justin's neighbors tells TMZ ... the argument between Bieber and the accuser was NOT over a party ... it had to do with a Ferrari.
We're told Bieber had the car delivered to his home last night on a flatbed truck ... and this morning, he was racing the vehicle up and down the streets.
Neighborhood sources tell us ... the neighbor was furious about the deafening noise AND felt Justin was endangering the community by tearing through the streets at breakneck speeds.
We're told the neighbor went over to confront Justin about the situation ... and that's when the two sides got into a screaming match.
Justin Bieber has been accused of battery by a neighbor ... and cops are at the singer's home in Calabasas, CA investigating ... TMZ has learned.
Sources tell TMZ .... Justin and one of his male neighbors got into a verbal altercation just after 9 AM. We're told the argument was intense.
We've confirmed Justin has returned from his overseas concerts and was back home this morning.
L.A. County Sheriff's spokesperson Steve Whitmore tells TMZ ... the accuser told deputies Justin made physical contact with him and he has filed a battery report. He also claims Justin threatened him.
Sources connected with Justin's security tell TMZ ... the neighbor came on to Justin's property and began screaming that while Justin was away (overseas) there were people at the house throwing loud parties.
Our sources tell us Justin told the man to get off his property ... but they insist Justin did not have any physical contact with him.
Sources connected with JB's security tell us the singer went inside his house and security escorted the neighbor off the property.
The Sheriff's Dept. is investigating.
He is responsible for the property...most likely his lil thug friends so you little Bieber's should not get your panties in a big twist
I cant wait till Beiber looses it ALL and we never have to hear of him again!
How nice to have paid security to back up your story.. I mean it's not like Justin has shown himself to be hot head who likes to get a bit physical with those he's pissed at or threaten others... Oh wait....
If there was loud noise, why didn't the neighbors call police? Everyone is looking for a payday
Right now this kid is just a target. Poor guy.
Tweet Tweet He looks like a good bird house
Will this little jerkoff please go away?
Brat. Wish the neighbor beat him up. How rude for him to have parties all the time. That happened with an old neighbor of mine. Sound travels and at night you have to call the police to take care of it and if it happens all the time it is a pain in the ass. Beaver head should know that. Look what happens when he lends his cars out the same thing happens with a home. These are children not adults. What happened to his mother teaching him to respect others.
whos the accuser a five year old girl
CA$H GRAB!!! Getting rich the American way.
Beiber couldn't beat up a cardboard cutout.
This kid is a total b!tch waiting for the day he says some slick sh!t to someone and that someone just kill him I am not wishing death upon him just want to see how tough his friends think he is when he's buried 6 feet Lil Wayne got kids really they're tough Lil Twist is a b!tch too smh I wish the US was dangerous like it was in the 80s/90s won't have to deal with little fake f***s it's sad that these kids think they can be thugs
This kid has got to weigh 80 lbs soaking wet. Whoever filed this battery report should be embarrassed. They're obviously looking for $$$.
I hope this little **** gets what he deserves. He is soo stupid letting those thugs destroy his stuff and now he is turning into a thug too. I hope all the mommys and daddys of his fans stop taking them to his concerts and buying his cds. Now that would be funny.
Honestly, I feel for Justin Bieber. People shouldn't be able to get paid to stalk celebrities and more so neighbors shouldn't be able to go on someone else's property screaming. If there were loud parties while JB was gone, why didn't you call the cops? Even if the man and JB got physical I believe the man provoked it. As for JB letting people use his crib/cars I don't agree BUT that's his decision and his sh*t that he paid for. Therefore, he can do whatever he likes. Please TMZ, stop making this man seem like a bad guy. I'm sure he's not.


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