There, at least one oil‐producing country is almost guaranteed to remain friendly to the United States. That is Iran, which :has a fathomless need for oil money to finance its economic development and military modernization. More important, Iran is not an Arab country; it has consistently stood aloof from the Arab‐Israeli conflict; and it is quite willing to make a profit at the expense of its Arab oil‐producing neighbors (in 1967, during the brief Arab oil embargo against Britain and the United States, Iran made a killing in the European market). Unfortunately for us, however, Iran's production will definitely not be enough to meet U.S. needs in 1980, even if, during a crisis, all of it were di verted from European and Japanese customers to the United States—which in fact couldn't be done.
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
i've tried to switch from windows to linux on a number of occasions, but, in the end, the problem is always that i can't get linux support for my sound gear. it's been a few years since my last attempt, and i have been toying with putting linux on the 64-bit machine.
and, there was a time when macs were different - they had different processors, and different architectures. that was a debate, back then; now, it's historical.
a mac nowadays really is literally just an hp or dell with a different sticker on it, and that sticker costs roughly $3000/machine. that's not much of an exaggeration - if you put linux on your hp, you'd have a mac for half the price.
so, there's actually even something poetic about putting a fake mac sticker on a windows laptop, if you actually understand how these devices are manufactured and are able to see past the surface branding optics.
....which nobody would reasonably expect that mr trudeau would have the depth of thought required to do.
mar 11, 2018
politicians with macs.....
i see this all of the time. they probably think it's trendy.
but, you know that apple has like a 2% market share, right?
what that says is "i am an out of touch elitist".
you are literally broadcasting yourself as a member of the 1%.
stop doing it...
normal people use windows machines.
at 08:31
even iphones are niche items, nowadays.
at 08:32
95% of strategists will see it otherwise, i concur.
but, nobody wants to have a beer with a political strategist.
to, 95% of voters, this logo screams DOUCHE.
...and it should be avoided like the plague.
now, if you don't like windows - or are afraid somebody is going to make you pay licensing - a much safer choice than a mac would be linux, because while people may raise an eyebrow, it's more likely to leave a positive impression - it's going to broadcast a level of technical intelligence, whereas the apple logo just broadcasts "this is somebody i don't want to spend time with".
at 08:52
and, if you're going to lecture me on using the word 'douche' as an insult, then you're a douche.
at 09:05
so, this is the final total fruit bowl update, combining everything in one giant post.
- old cheddar (regular, lactose-free or white) [240 mg of salt]
vitamin a (general)
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ok, so i fixed a few things, and this is my new template.
i need to get some cheese info in there. but, now i'm at the point of pondering what and how i should supplement further, and the first vitamin in the list is vitamin a.
i know that vitamin a comes in two forms, and i know that conversion is often poor. i think i was previously overestimating the amount i was getting from a combination of tomatoes/soy/cheese/eggs, and i was told that vitamin a deficiency can't happen here and believed it, but after actually calculating the values, which i should have done years ago, i think i need to pay special attention to this.
this is worth sorting through to summarize the situation:
so, i'm getting about 54% of my vitamin a from actual retinol (soy, ice cream, eggs, margarine), not including cheese. the other 110% is from carotenoids found in fruit (you'll notice there's not yet any vegetables in my diet, and i need to change that). is that a good enough mix? well, for a, i'd like to shoot for 400% total, with 100% in the retinol and 300% in the carotenoids. that should eliminate any potential error, and make sure i'm converting as much as possible. a single carrot is an extra 250%, entirely via carotenoids, and with minimal k, so i think that solves that without even wading into the problems presented by broccoli. but, what about actual retinol?
given that i'm trying to avoid fish due to the mercury content, my only serious choice for vitamin a is via fortification or via dairy products, and i only really get dairy in the form of ice cream (which i think i'm maxed out on) and cheese (which is what i'm looking at next). i don't want to eat animal organs, 'cause gross.
so, next time somebody gives you shit about eating cheese, you might want to point to the retinol. unless they're eating a fair amount of liver or fish, or paying very close attention to how the grains they eat are fortified, or drink a lot of fortified whole milk, or eat eggs every day, or eat lots of fattening peanut butter, cheese is really the only serious way to get any. and, i'll pick cheese over the others...
how many of the options in this list sound appetizing to you?
on that note, the other thing i can do is buy a box of cereal and throw it in with the fruit. something like a cup of plain jane special k or corn flakes is not bad on fat, and will help with b complexes, too. it's cheap, as well. i just need to find the brand that has what i want, which is - lots of vitamins, minimal sugar, minimal salt & minimal price. and, i'll bring it home on the unicorn i parked in the lot.
so, that means i should be looking at cheddar-type cheeses, as they have more retinol than mozza type cheeses. i'm not sure there's any reason to migrate from the marble, but i'll see if i can get a better answer on that, too.
...which was actually pretty easy, i just went to the site:
my marble has 10%/30g, which is about on par with the cheddar numbers at the self site (maybe a little higher). the black diamond mozza is at 8%, which is consistent. but, if i'm eating cheese for a, i can actually max that out by moving to one of the flavours with 15%, which are:
- mild cheddar [180 mg of salt]
- medium [old or white] [180 mg of salt]
for reference, the marble has 200 mg of salt and is marketed as medium. that seems like what i should do...
so, i'm not adding anything in this post besides the top line of vitamin a, i'm just reposting the template. but, to get me to where i want to be with a, my options are:
- carrots (250% more carotenoids presents resolution for >300% carotenoids dv)
- cheese (~45% more retinol) (99%)
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- low sugar, low salt fortified cereal (20-30% more retinol) (presents resolution for >100% retinol dv) (if i can find it)
- doubling soy milk? (10% more retinol) (gravy)
it would be even better if they put vitamin a in the pasta & bread.
i need to do some court stuff today...
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i'm starting with vitamin a, on the top line and moving down, and i'm instantly finding an error in the data that could very well be catastrophic. the raw numbers at the self site seem to be pulled directly from the usda, but the conversion factors seem to be all wrong.
consider bananas.
there are supposed to be 30.7 μg of beta-carotene and 55.5 μg of alpha-carotene equivalents in 118 g of banana. the factor for beta-carotene is supposed to be 12 & the factor for alpha-carotene is supposed to be 24. this would suggest that there is a total of:
30.7/12 + 55.5/24 = 4.87 μg of retinol activity equivalents. yet, the site insists on 3.5 μg rae, and i can't immediately see what the conversion factor is.
worse, when you convert from 3.5 μg rae to ui, the factor should by 10/3. so you should get (7/2)*(10/3) = 35/3 = 11.67. yet, the site insists on 75.5 ui - which is indeed about 2% of 3000 ui, a bit more. but, converting backwards, you'd need to get to 22.65 μg rae, which seems a far cry from 4.87 or 3.5.
so, the numbers being thrown around don't appear to be consistent with each other, and if you go directly to the usda site, you might get the explanation i'm trying to find - they come from independent estimates. so, the ui is not calculated from the component sections.
Vitamin A, RAE 3.54 µg 4/1/2006
Retinol 0 µg 6/1/2002
Carotene, beta 30.7 µg Analytical (16.5, 68.4) 12/1/2002
Carotene, alpha 29.5 µg Analytical (11.8, 88.5) 12/1/2002
Vitamin A, IU 75.5 IU 4/1/2006
Lutein + zeaxanthin 26 µg Analytical (15.3, 31.9) 12/1/2002
the numbers for the carotenoids appear to be an average calculated independently from the rae or iu numbers.
now, if i plug in the highest numbers in the sample, for fun, i get:
2*(68.4/12 + (88.5+31.9)/24) = 21.43 μg rae, which is at least close, but demonstrates a point i've been trying to get at by lowballing everything - these numbers are not static, and are going to depend on things like growing conditions and storage. when foods are fortified, their contents are determined in a lab and it's more clear; when they're plucked out of a produce section, you often just don't really know. you have to guess...
that's why i'm coming in low and aiming high on everything.
that said, i'm also assuming the ui numbers are for total retinol equivalents due to the calculated daily value numbers. it happens to be, though, that 3.54/0.05 ~ 70, meaning the conversion factor is much closer when it's calculated directly from beta-carotene. if that is what they did, and i think it is, then they made an error in the final conversion, as they should have calculated the rdi at 18,000 rather than 3,000 and that is only 0.5%. that would appear to be an error in conversion at the self site, rather than by the usda; the usda provides the numbers 3.54 μg rae and 75.5 ui, but does not derive one from the other, specify units for ui (retinol, or beta-carotene) or provide a daily value from them. yet, it is clear from the numbers that the usda must have meant ui beta-carotene, and the self site misread it as ui retinol. and, i wonder if that factor of 6 carries through (in fact, it does).
so, how do i fix that?
while i would like to add up the components as modularly as possible, i don't know how complete the listing is. there are more than six carotenoids, so i may miss total retinol by adding them up. further, i now *know* that i'm not going to get the same answers.
what i'm going to do is rely on the rae number. this should consistently be a very rough factor of six lower than what i had listed, due to a conversion error at the self site. i apologize for not catching that, but i just took the data as i saw it.
if you are an editor at the self site, please make that correction - you are not converting properly and are inflating carotenoids by a factor of 6.
so,
- bananas go from 4% to 7.08 μg (which is roughly a factor lower at .78%)
- strawberries are entered in at .75 μg, which is still 0%
- avocados go from 4% to 10.5 μg, which is that same factor downwards
- kiwis are at 3 μg, still very low
- the soy, ice cream & cereal present their dv% on the box as retinol (not carotenoids) and will be left as is.
so, the sum for this meal is now:
38% dv for retinol
21.33 μg rae carotenoid, which is 2.37% of the dv.
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40.37%, down from 47%.
i will correct these items in the chart.
now, this might seem terrible, but let's take a step back.
when i initially crunched these numbers, i decided i would need:
1) 100% retinol, split by threes because it's fat soluble.
2) 300% convertible, because i'm going to lose a factor of 3, roughly, if i have conversion issues.
the correction i'm making is a more aggressive one, but it is essentially working out the same concern, just putting it into the chart. and, as such, there's not any real reason to seek out 300% of the daily value of carotenoids if i'm calculating the rae up front.
let's see what the numbers for the rest of the meal look like:
peppers - first, note that i'm boosting the amount to 200 g because that's more realistic. the giant peppers i bought the other day are more in the 250-275 g range, but that's before they're cut. even so, i never really see the small ones, and am going to hold out for the biggest ones at the best price when i find them. so, that's 314 μg, and a much smaller 35% - but note that that is roughly a third of the 103% i was overshooting for.
pasta - the 1% was pulled from data in this paper, which eyeballed .5 μg. i should divide that by a factor of 24, which is .02 μg rae.
cheese - is from a modern label, and is 30% pre-formed retinol
carrots - i am likewise boosting carrots to 110 g as that is more reflective of reality. that number is chosen to get the carotenoid rae content over 100%, which is what i actually wanted. that's 918 μg.
so, i still have 30% pre-formed from the cheese and now have:
314+918+.02 = 1232.02 μg rae, which is 137% from carotenoids.
together, that's 167%, in more precisely measurable terms. and, note that 345/3 = 115 < 137, so i'm arguably doing better via that calculation, conceptually.
the eggs are the first and maybe only hybrid decision for vitamin a in the matrix. the numbers at the self site are interesting:
- 335 iu (7%)
- 88.8 μg of actual retinol
- 91.1 μg of total rae
that would indicate 2.3 μg of rae from carotenoids, and they do indeed appear to be measurable in the data.
as before, the iu does not appear to be calculated from the rae numbers but comes from an independent analysis that is close but off due to error. the carotenoid numbers would indeed appear to be roughly 2.5, so i'm going to be consistent and stick with the rae in order to minimize any further conversion errors at the self site. and, in this case, that number actually increases my total...
as before, the weight factor is three, so:
88.8*3 = 266.4 μg [29.6%]
2.3*3 = 6.9 μg &
91.1*3 = 273.3 μg, which is 30.37% total, up from 21%.
the cheese & margarine are from modern labels and come in at 15% and 10%, respectively.
so,
retinol: 54.6%--->54%
carotenoid: .77%--->1%
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55%
the soy in the coffee is from a modern label and will not be altered.
the new totals are:
126% retinol +
140% retinol equivalent carotenoids
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266% rdi
further, 140*3 = 420 > 354, so the recalculation actually suggests i was lowballing, as intended.
i'm going to apologize again, but it's not like this is really my fault - i didn't make a mistake in the calculation, so much as the site i was using made an error in their conversion factor, and i only caught it because the numbers didn't add up. i actually corrected somebody else's error, here. that's called peer review and this is why science needs it. that said, i had already compensated for this, conceptually, so it turned out to be a move sideways and not much of a big deal, after all.
note the altered requirements for a at the bottom.
we'll jump to b1 next, and make sure the numbers are right - relatively to the new weightings of the pasta bowl.
* - not really vitamins
so, september added roughly 200 pages to the document, much of it in the form of charts, and it's been very frustrating to try and format it, especially given that the server updates every half second, but there's something readable up that needs to be cross-referenced before i can get to october which won't be much better. it should flip over around february or so.
everything always takes longer than i want it to, but what do you want me to say about it? i'm trying to just dump it to file as fast as i can, but the server won't let me do it, and it's just not safe to connect any other computer to the network.
again - blame everything on the fucking pigs, they're the root cause of most of the problems we have in front of us in this society.
today's posts is my first dvd full of flac lps, which is lp000-lp011. that is,
- inri002 (inricycled) <----0th lp (shorts collection of first two demoes)
- inri015 (inri) <----first lp (remixed & remastered)
- inri021 (inriched) <-----second lp (remixed & remastered)
- inri023-inri025 (inrimixed, inriclaimed, inricited) <----- three comps of alt versions for the first period
- inri032-inri033 (inrimake, inridiculous) <---- covers comp & third lp
- inri035 (ambient works vol 0) <---mixed tape of period 1 shorts
- inri041-inri042 (deny everything, inrijected) <------4th lp & outtakes comp for late inri phase
- inri052 (jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj) <------5th lp
this is inriℵ10.
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purchasing this release does not come with a download.
inri002: written and recorded over 1996 and 1997. digitally remastered, sequenced and mildly modified in the fall of 2013. released dec 11, 2013. finalized as lp000 on july 3, 2016. i consider this my unofficial zeroth record.
inri015: written and demoed in multiple stages from 1994-1998. initially constructed in this form in june, 1998. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. reconstructed and resequenced jan 6-10, 2016 from parts that were rebuilt over 2013-2016. re-released on jan 10, 2016. audio permanently closed on aug 10, 2016. finalized on oct 10, 2016. this is my first official record.
inri021: written and demoed in multiple stages from 1993-1999. initially constructed in this form in feb, 1999. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. reconstructed and resequenced over november and december, 2016 from parts that were rebuilt over 2013-2016. re-released & finalized on dec 15, 2016. this is my second official record.
inri023: constructed over 1998. compiled and remastered in late 2013. released dec 27, 2013. the first two tracks were corrected to stereo in sept, 2014. the last two tracks were added for re-release as a remix lp in dec, 2016. re-released & finalized as lp003 on dec 17, 2016.
inri024: initially written and recorded between 1996-1999 and remixed over the summer of 2015, with a lengthy pause due to malfunctioning electronics. final compilation date is jan 3, 2016. finalized dec 17, 2016. lp004.
inri025: this idea was developed in parallel to the inriclaimed project over the summer of 2015 and first compiled on nov 27, 2016. released & finalized on dec 17, 2016. lp005.
inri032: recorded sporadically, and without cohesive intent, over '98 and '99. originally compiled in the fall of '99. augmented and minimally altered in january, 2014. released on jan 3, 2014. finalized as lp006 on sept 21, 2017.
inri033: written and demoed in multiple stages from 1996-1999. initially constructed in this form in dec, 1999. slightly resequenced in jan, 2014. re-released jan 3, 2014. finalized as lp007 on sept 19, 2017. this is my third official record.
inri035: initially written and recorded between 1996-1999 and remixed between 2013-2015. initially released as part zero of a three volume set on may 21, 2015. split into it's own release on june 14, 2015. finalized as lp008 on sept 29, 2017.
inri041: recorded over the space of the year 2000. remixed substantially in 2004, 2006 and 2014. existing version released on jan 14, 2014. finalized as lp009 on oct 9, 2017. this is my fourth official record.
inri042: this record was recorded over the years 1999 and 2000, but did not take this form until mid september, 2017. the first track list dates to sept 14, 2017. these tracks are technically outtakes, but did not become outtakes until the remastering process removed them from their respective recordings. released & finalized as lp010 on oct 9, 2017.
inri052: tracks 1, 3 and 8 were written in 2001 and reinterpreted and completed in 2014. tracks 2 and 5 were interpreted and completed in 2001. track 4 was written in 2000 and reinterpreted and recorded in 2001. track 6 was written in 2001 and completed in 2006. track 7 was written in 1998, reinterpreted in 2001 and rendered in 2014. tracks 1-7 were sequenced on sept 9, 2014. final completion date is oct 3, 2014. refinalized as lp011 on oct 22, 2017. this is my fifth official record.
originally created from 1996-2001. this compilation is dated to dec 16, 2001. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2013-2017. compilation finalized on oct 23, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
released december 16, 2001
j - guitars of all types (electric, acoustic, classical), ebow, effects, pick scrapes, mandolin, bass, bass synth, keyboards, organ, synthesizers, piano, drum & other programming, drum kits, orchestral & other sequencing, flute, sampling, vocals, vocal relics, mic noises, octavers, cool edit synthesis, windows 95 sound recorder, found sounds, strategies, soundraider, hammerhead, noise generators, noise reduction, sound design, light-wave synthesis, generative synthesis, granular synthesis, generative percussion, metronome, tapes, digital & analog effects processing, treatments, digital wave editing, loops, films, a broken tape deck, a broken equalizer, chance, coughs, text-to-speech synthesis, remixes, reconstructions, reinterpretations, composition, production
the star trek sample in 'gravity's rainbow' is from the episode "errand of mercy" (mar 23, 1967).
the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, electric bass, synth bass, distorted electric guitar, clean electric guitar, steel string acoustic guitar, nylon guitar, ukelele, sitar, trumpet, trombone, brass ensemble, orchestra hit, saxophone, violin, cello, viola, contrabass, pizzicato strings, string ensemble, synth pads, piano, synthesizers, synthesizer effects, mellotron, organ, bamboo flute, clarinet, flute, voice, music box, tubular bells, bells, tinkle bells, clavinet, kalimba, theremin, drum kit, hand drums, taiko drums, drum machines, gongs and electronic drums.
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