re: those skips i was fighting with....

it does seem to be a directory issue after all, and i'm not sure why what i did fixed it anymore. i just tried to move the entire project to a different directory, and the skips came back. undoing the process (through the menu) fixed it, thankfully. i have a hunch just copying it back wouldn't have.

after going through all the checks i did, i have to conclude it's a problem with the cubase software. this is an old version - sx 3, from late 2005. i couldn't imagine it not getting fixed. but i don't really know what it's doing that would cause this.

i've learned the lesson, though - don't change the directory.

of course, that's not at all feasible to actually hold to. i have to copy to create alternate mixes. i'm also going to want to back these files up when i'm done. i'll have to experiment with this to see what happens and ways to fix it other than re-rendering the freeze tracks.

fuck this.

tell the extreme minority of anti-pot puritans to vote conservative. trudeau is only running out in front due to the incompetence and unpopularity of both of his opponents.

if he was smart, he'd jump all over this. marijuana legalization is probably the only populist issue available for any candidate to run on at this point.

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/marc-emery-the-prince-of-pot-may-be-a-liability-for-the-liberals

the polls are overwhelmingly in favour of full legalization.

it's not just some fringe of anarchists. fiscal conservatives understand it's a waste of money all the way through. civil libertarians, who traditionally vote liberal in canada, have a lot of arguments. progressives want the tax revenue.

it's across the spectrum, there's really no opposition outside of the christian right.

comparing emery to a snowden or a morgantaler is a hefty exaggeration, but he will eventually be pardoned and get a state apology.

i think this is worth watching, although i haven't seen the alperovitz section yet.

specifically, richard wolff lays out the reality of the situation fairly well. that's the part i think is worth watching.

unfortunately, i think he's still a little too tied to historical materialism. the technology is moving too fast for workplace communes to be an answer for the future; what he's describing was an answer for the 70s or 80s, before it became so abundantly clear that the future is in automation. in fact, some of the production is moving back here, but it's being tied to almost workerless factories. how do we talk about workplace democracy in the future, when the factories of the future don't have workers in them?

it brings us back to the macro, in a way that skips that socialist stage. if we're to have automated factories, they should neither be owned by capitalists nor by phantom workers but by society itself.

what that means is talking about operating at cost, and taking the surplus out of the equation altogether.

so, it's worth watching. but, i'm still awaiting the answer to the question i posed several years ago. nobody else seems to be thinking like this.

if markets were the way to maximize individual freedom in an agrarian economy, and socialism was the way to maximize individual freedom in an industrial economy, what is the way to maximize individual freedom in a post-industrial, automated, computerized economy?

the best answer i have is full communism. but i don't know how to get there, either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl2Yx6ciFUc