i play pretty close attention to global conflict spots and i don't even pretend to have a solid grasp of what's happening there, with muslims fighting christians and blacks and arabs and europeans fighting each other, and china fighting the united states, and corporations fighting each other and governments competing over resources to export and a dozen different tribal groups all mixed up in it...it makes syria seem easy to understand in comparison...
the one thing i think i get is that, despite all the myriad forces fighting for control, it's only the gangs on the ground that actually have any control, and they've turned war into a mercenary business. the ideologies are really just a gloss. they're for hire. and that's the devastating reality on the ground.
http://www.msf.org.uk/article/central-african-republic-arriving-midst-violence
Saturday, December 21, 2013
this is legit, and legally binding in iran. there's been some establishment propaganda recently trying to rationalize it away as mere words, but that kind of doesn't add up as consistent with their own propaganda - is iran a totalitarian theocracy or not?
the reality is that they're not building anything.
http://www.ww4report.com/node/929
the reality is that they're not building anything.
http://www.ww4report.com/node/929
at
21:59
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
1) smash up a google bus
2) ????????
3) communism
i suppose it's a shocking way to get the issue covered. unfortunately, the kind of press this produces is
"luddite bay area idiots go tourettes on taxpaying citizens"
it's not a question of supporting or condemning them. i'm very vocally of the opinion that rent is too high, but i blame property owners and not workers. i certainly don't blame "techies". the tactic is too uninformed, counteractive and bluntly stupid to get to the point of asking that question.
i mean, if you're opposed to pipelines do you attack a ketchup factory and then claim diversity of tactics? there's no sense in this. it's just derp.
http://pando.com/2013/12/20/breaking-protesters-attack-google-bus-in-west-oakland-smashing-window/
of course, this has all the signs of infiltration by the cops in the sense that it was a random act. the anti-gentrification groups (and i hate that concept, as it enforces class division instead of fighting against it and shifts the target of attack from people who own property to people who rent it) all expressed shock and confusion.
i mean, this is what cops do. they've been doing it since bismarck. it's deeply documented. the derp of it all is hard to explain through other means.
we shouldn't be reducing the issue to increasing living conditions OR maintaining livable rent, then condemning wide swaths of the city to crime-infested and impoverished slums. we should be demanding increased living conditions (through a combination of community work and investment) AND livable rent, possibly through cooperatives. that requires refocusing the attack on property owners.
there should ultimately be an attempt to build solidarity with these tech workers to try and convince them to help create low rent solutions, possibly through subsidization programs involving tactics like the state buying up property. these are workers. they pay rent themselves. they're not likely to lack empathy on the issue.
attacking them solidifies feelings of us v them, creating arbitrary divisions that are not actually class divisions. it pits proletariat against lumpenproletariat. smart socialists understand that the lumpenproletariat needs to form the infantry for proletariat revolt because employed workers are too co-opted by capital to form a revolutionary class of their own. so, who benefits by turning them against each other?
....and, no, you can't scare them out of the neighbourhood; they have riot cops, you have sticks, that's delusional.
so, it just creates division across a dispossessed front when the focus should be on building solidarity against bosses and property owners.
if it's not the cops, these people need better class politics and it's up to the anti-gentrification groups to make sure they get that education.
2) ????????
3) communism
i suppose it's a shocking way to get the issue covered. unfortunately, the kind of press this produces is
"luddite bay area idiots go tourettes on taxpaying citizens"
it's not a question of supporting or condemning them. i'm very vocally of the opinion that rent is too high, but i blame property owners and not workers. i certainly don't blame "techies". the tactic is too uninformed, counteractive and bluntly stupid to get to the point of asking that question.
i mean, if you're opposed to pipelines do you attack a ketchup factory and then claim diversity of tactics? there's no sense in this. it's just derp.
http://pando.com/2013/12/20/breaking-protesters-attack-google-bus-in-west-oakland-smashing-window/
of course, this has all the signs of infiltration by the cops in the sense that it was a random act. the anti-gentrification groups (and i hate that concept, as it enforces class division instead of fighting against it and shifts the target of attack from people who own property to people who rent it) all expressed shock and confusion.
i mean, this is what cops do. they've been doing it since bismarck. it's deeply documented. the derp of it all is hard to explain through other means.
we shouldn't be reducing the issue to increasing living conditions OR maintaining livable rent, then condemning wide swaths of the city to crime-infested and impoverished slums. we should be demanding increased living conditions (through a combination of community work and investment) AND livable rent, possibly through cooperatives. that requires refocusing the attack on property owners.
there should ultimately be an attempt to build solidarity with these tech workers to try and convince them to help create low rent solutions, possibly through subsidization programs involving tactics like the state buying up property. these are workers. they pay rent themselves. they're not likely to lack empathy on the issue.
attacking them solidifies feelings of us v them, creating arbitrary divisions that are not actually class divisions. it pits proletariat against lumpenproletariat. smart socialists understand that the lumpenproletariat needs to form the infantry for proletariat revolt because employed workers are too co-opted by capital to form a revolutionary class of their own. so, who benefits by turning them against each other?
....and, no, you can't scare them out of the neighbourhood; they have riot cops, you have sticks, that's delusional.
so, it just creates division across a dispossessed front when the focus should be on building solidarity against bosses and property owners.
if it's not the cops, these people need better class politics and it's up to the anti-gentrification groups to make sure they get that education.
at
21:21
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
publishing first remaster & re-release of inri (inri015)
so, this is completely, totally done now, no going back to it. i
boosted the bass in a few places and actually reverted back to the cd
rip for a few of the sound collages. i think it sounds pretty good,
actually, for the most part.
there's one specific track, the 8th, on the second demo that is causing me headaches. the mix is just so saturated and muddy that i'm constantly getting information overload listening to it. i'm having a hard time building reference points. i want this done with by the end of the day, so i can move on, so soon.
====
it took a little longer than i wanted it to, but i've finally got this cleaned up to a final state.
....and now that it is mastered decently and has had a handful of bad decisions removed, i have to say it holds up fairly well. when comparing it to other late 90s electro-rock hybrids, it carves out a really unique space in it's exploration of more abstract electronics. i'm not content to recycle depeche mode or new order yet again; i want to mix in elements of glitch, throw in sound collages and even get a little proggy sometimes. really, i wish there were more people working in this removed a space, both then and now. it's really rather refreshingly creative.
the record/demo bounces back and forth between "songs" and "experiments". while some of the songs are more compelling than others, the more consistently interesting material is actually the experiments.
where it drags is in the vocals, but only to an extent. the eighth track is indefensibly bad; incoherent to the point that i don't even remember what it was about, if it was about anything at all. the rest of it is valid, even when it's trite, because it's real. that is to say that it sounds like i'm 17 and less than well-adjusted. if it could be better than it is, it would lack the authenticity of being a demo produced by a troubled teenager. i might not articulate my feelings of being useless at a very high level of thought or with much compelling poetry, but i'm certainly feeling them and that feeling certainly gets across in my unique and goofy sort of way. likewise, when i go into juvenile shock rock i am actually convincingly juvenile and convincingly shocking (unless i'm trying to be ridiculous, in which case i pull that off just as well).
that means you have to listen to it from a certain distance because a big part of what you're listening to is the spectacle of a demented child being demented, but when you do that it comes off as some of the most idiosyncratic leftfield synth pop i'm aware of. you've never heard anything quite like this.
so, if i could remove the 8th track without killing the flow of the disc, i would. beyond that, the edits that i've made have left me comfortable with throwing this out there as it is - under the existing caveats.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-lp
====
my first cd demo represents a dramatic shift in sound that, at the time, was meant to be permanent but that ended up being merely a step in a long journey. on one hand, the shift in sound reflected my changing tastes away from alternative rock and towards industrial music. on another level, it was a return to my childhood roots in 80s synthpop. i was also expanding my tastes into glitch, noise and what could be called "musique concrete".
the shift to using drum machines was dominant in the new sound, as was the reality that i had a synthesizer available to me starting in the beginning of 1998. another major factor was the use of a pc. however, my main songwriting tool remained the guitar and these are still mostly guitar-driven pieces.
the guitar work is one of the things that separates the sound from a typical industrial aesthetic. i've never been a fan of heavy metal and largely shied away from creating that kind of thing. yet, i found myself connecting more with psychedelic guitar at this point than punk rock. industrial psych generally implies something like trance, but it need not to. industrial hendrix? well, maybe it ends up sounding more like synth pop, which has historical roots in psychedelic music and progressive rock. the point is that the music does manage to carve out a unique space between industrial music and synth pop that i don't know of any clear comparisons to. people have suggested mid-period swans, the legendary pink dots and nine inch nails - only the last of which was a significant influence, and none of which are really that close. a better comparison, although still not a significant influence at this time, would be joy division - who would become a significant influence after this phase. my actual influences at the time would have been more like brian eno (through his 70s and 90s work with david bowie, as well as his work with u2), early prog (genesis/floyd/crimson), peter gabriel, the beatles, radiohead, the smashing pumpkins, REM, sonic youth, the tea party and a bit of contemporary electronic music (prodigy, nin, coil, foetus, autechre, nitzer ebb, ministry, econoline crush, gravity kills, stabbing westward, skinny puppy and side projects). the sense of humour is coming from frank zappa and matt groening, if they are not actually the same person. i wasn't listening to much tears for fears, i don't think, but you can hear them lurking underneath everything.
some of these songs are reworked versions of tracks i had recorded previously. in almost all cases, i consider the versions here (and on the follow-up demo, inriched) to be the authoritative versions of these tracks.
the demo is consciously constructed to alternate between "conventional songs" and "experimental pieces", although both definitions are stretched. it generally takes the form of connecting passages. it's meant to give the record the feel of a cohesive work rather than a collection of songs.
lyrically, i'm still a teenager, but i'm starting to grow into myself a little more. there are still some points of embarrassment, but it's really only the 8th track that is causing me any serious grief. my singing style has changed quite a bit though - most of the lyrics here are in a spoken word style, rather than sung. it's partially the result of insecurities with my voice, but it's mostly due to the shift to something electronic. i found the dead pan vocal delivery more appropriate. it's something that stuck with me though until relatively recently.
some of this material was written as far back as 1994, but was only sequenced in the second half of 1997 and recorded in the first half of 1998. unfortunately, i decided that the songs sounded better in mp3 and consequently compressed everything before burning. i understand now that i was hobbling together a crude mastering process, but it means (unfortunately) that the closest thing i have to the finished tracks are low quality mp3s and a cd-r. these tracks were taken off of a cd-r and run through digital post-production in dec, 2013 in a process that also included minimal editing (mostly the removal of badly placed simpsons samples). this is my first official record; as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, drum programming, sequencing, sampling, vocals, cool edit synthesis, windows 95 sound recorder, found sounds, strategies, soundraider, hammerhead, sound design, metronome, digital wave editing, production
released june 20, 1998
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-lp
there's one specific track, the 8th, on the second demo that is causing me headaches. the mix is just so saturated and muddy that i'm constantly getting information overload listening to it. i'm having a hard time building reference points. i want this done with by the end of the day, so i can move on, so soon.
====
it took a little longer than i wanted it to, but i've finally got this cleaned up to a final state.
....and now that it is mastered decently and has had a handful of bad decisions removed, i have to say it holds up fairly well. when comparing it to other late 90s electro-rock hybrids, it carves out a really unique space in it's exploration of more abstract electronics. i'm not content to recycle depeche mode or new order yet again; i want to mix in elements of glitch, throw in sound collages and even get a little proggy sometimes. really, i wish there were more people working in this removed a space, both then and now. it's really rather refreshingly creative.
the record/demo bounces back and forth between "songs" and "experiments". while some of the songs are more compelling than others, the more consistently interesting material is actually the experiments.
where it drags is in the vocals, but only to an extent. the eighth track is indefensibly bad; incoherent to the point that i don't even remember what it was about, if it was about anything at all. the rest of it is valid, even when it's trite, because it's real. that is to say that it sounds like i'm 17 and less than well-adjusted. if it could be better than it is, it would lack the authenticity of being a demo produced by a troubled teenager. i might not articulate my feelings of being useless at a very high level of thought or with much compelling poetry, but i'm certainly feeling them and that feeling certainly gets across in my unique and goofy sort of way. likewise, when i go into juvenile shock rock i am actually convincingly juvenile and convincingly shocking (unless i'm trying to be ridiculous, in which case i pull that off just as well).
that means you have to listen to it from a certain distance because a big part of what you're listening to is the spectacle of a demented child being demented, but when you do that it comes off as some of the most idiosyncratic leftfield synth pop i'm aware of. you've never heard anything quite like this.
so, if i could remove the 8th track without killing the flow of the disc, i would. beyond that, the edits that i've made have left me comfortable with throwing this out there as it is - under the existing caveats.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-lp
====
my first cd demo represents a dramatic shift in sound that, at the time, was meant to be permanent but that ended up being merely a step in a long journey. on one hand, the shift in sound reflected my changing tastes away from alternative rock and towards industrial music. on another level, it was a return to my childhood roots in 80s synthpop. i was also expanding my tastes into glitch, noise and what could be called "musique concrete".
the shift to using drum machines was dominant in the new sound, as was the reality that i had a synthesizer available to me starting in the beginning of 1998. another major factor was the use of a pc. however, my main songwriting tool remained the guitar and these are still mostly guitar-driven pieces.
the guitar work is one of the things that separates the sound from a typical industrial aesthetic. i've never been a fan of heavy metal and largely shied away from creating that kind of thing. yet, i found myself connecting more with psychedelic guitar at this point than punk rock. industrial psych generally implies something like trance, but it need not to. industrial hendrix? well, maybe it ends up sounding more like synth pop, which has historical roots in psychedelic music and progressive rock. the point is that the music does manage to carve out a unique space between industrial music and synth pop that i don't know of any clear comparisons to. people have suggested mid-period swans, the legendary pink dots and nine inch nails - only the last of which was a significant influence, and none of which are really that close. a better comparison, although still not a significant influence at this time, would be joy division - who would become a significant influence after this phase. my actual influences at the time would have been more like brian eno (through his 70s and 90s work with david bowie, as well as his work with u2), early prog (genesis/floyd/crimson), peter gabriel, the beatles, radiohead, the smashing pumpkins, REM, sonic youth, the tea party and a bit of contemporary electronic music (prodigy, nin, coil, foetus, autechre, nitzer ebb, ministry, econoline crush, gravity kills, stabbing westward, skinny puppy and side projects). the sense of humour is coming from frank zappa and matt groening, if they are not actually the same person. i wasn't listening to much tears for fears, i don't think, but you can hear them lurking underneath everything.
some of these songs are reworked versions of tracks i had recorded previously. in almost all cases, i consider the versions here (and on the follow-up demo, inriched) to be the authoritative versions of these tracks.
the demo is consciously constructed to alternate between "conventional songs" and "experimental pieces", although both definitions are stretched. it generally takes the form of connecting passages. it's meant to give the record the feel of a cohesive work rather than a collection of songs.
lyrically, i'm still a teenager, but i'm starting to grow into myself a little more. there are still some points of embarrassment, but it's really only the 8th track that is causing me any serious grief. my singing style has changed quite a bit though - most of the lyrics here are in a spoken word style, rather than sung. it's partially the result of insecurities with my voice, but it's mostly due to the shift to something electronic. i found the dead pan vocal delivery more appropriate. it's something that stuck with me though until relatively recently.
some of this material was written as far back as 1994, but was only sequenced in the second half of 1997 and recorded in the first half of 1998. unfortunately, i decided that the songs sounded better in mp3 and consequently compressed everything before burning. i understand now that i was hobbling together a crude mastering process, but it means (unfortunately) that the closest thing i have to the finished tracks are low quality mp3s and a cd-r. these tracks were taken off of a cd-r and run through digital post-production in dec, 2013 in a process that also included minimal editing (mostly the removal of badly placed simpsons samples). this is my first official record; as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, drum programming, sequencing, sampling, vocals, cool edit synthesis, windows 95 sound recorder, found sounds, strategies, soundraider, hammerhead, sound design, metronome, digital wave editing, production
released june 20, 1998
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-lp
at
08:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Friday, December 20, 2013
on the middle class nature of socal punk
happyhooliedaze
Punk is punk and has nothing to do w/electonic or hiphop.
deathtokoalas
i'd say punk has a lot to do with hip-hop, politically. further, this is a type of punk that was popular in california; rave/industrial was a type of punk that was popular in england.
happyhooliedaze
real punk is rebellious and libertarian,NOT political .Rave has NOTHING to to w/punk.Ravers are a bunch of drugged up rich kids that listen to talentless.pre-programmed garbage. Don`t talk about u don`t know as its obvious,ur "standin` on the outside,lookin` in".
deathtokoalas
the reality is that most punk, especially socal punk, was also put together by upper middle class kids. bad religion were centered around rich mommy's basement. they wrote most of their lyrics as a criticism of wealthy white culture from a first person perspective. great band, don't get me wrong, but bringing class politics into punk rock has always been perilous. joe strummer was actually an aristocrat.
rave is derived directly from industrial, which was an offshoot of punk. this is a question of historical fact. it's not a matter for debate.
ron paul is not a libertarian.
the major thing libertarians don't understand is that markets are inherently coercive. they base their ideas around concepts of freedom from the responsibility to contribute, rather than freedom to choose how to contribute responsibly. the end result is a freedom to exploit, rather than a freedom from exploitation.
Paul Boisvert
First off, all of your facts are correct and I'm sure others can agree on that. Also I completely agree with your opinion of Libertarian ethics. With that said, the subliminal opinion within your comment displays a vast amount of Class Envy. I think that your opinion of this band's writing material and your own personal beliefs make no sense because the lyrics to these songs can give you the proper information to fuel your conflagrations against the Upper-Middle/Upper Class. Also, your general thesis on discontent for Class Politics involved in Punk Rock music into a rant on Class Politics was completely hypocritical. I'm truly not trying to throw any hate in your direction because I can admit to suffering from Class Envy as well, of course those of us who have been truly affected by this recession have many of the same beliefs in that specific area. Good luck to you!
deathtokoalas
i was responding to a previous comment, which was a response to a previous comment of mine. the privacy settings that have come with these new youtube/google+ rules have created the problem of not being to reply to replies on your own comments. i think the context would clear things up.
but "class envy" is sort of a weird concept from a leftist perspective, where the aim is to abolish class. i think all leftists have something that is sort of like class envy, but that that isn't a very astute way to articulate it.
i mean, "class envy" is sort of the same concept as "distributive justice". i don't want to completely discard it as nonsense. it's just that, envy is an almost comical way to describe the process of recognizing the injustice of inequality.
Marios Laskaris
Who told you their parents were rich? They were shopping clothes from Walmart from what I know. I am not saying they were starving, but they were not rich either. Writing generic stuff without having done your research is unacceptable and far more off putting than middle class 17 year olds writing songs about what they think is wrong with the world!
deathtokoalas
i don't know or care where brett & friends shopped before they became very wealthy from epitaph records, but if you had done that basic "research" yourself, you'd realize that this entire genre is the reaction of upper middle class suburban white kids - and that, yes, bad religion is a band that mostly operated out of upper-middle class garages.
to be clear: these were guys that lived with their parents well beyond any socially normal cut-off point. they fit any conventional definition of the word "loser". self-releasing records isn't cheap, and they partially offset the cost of that by not taking responsibility for paying for living expenses like rent. if you share the mindset, you realize why climbing up social hierarchies isn't important to some people. but, socal punk as a reaction to suburbanite living (and this is a distinct thing from other kinds of punk) couldn't have happened otherwise. that's exactly what this is.
which is fine. i'm not really criticizing them for this, i'm just correcting somebody's flawed perception of punk having this kind of ghetto hip-hop romanticism. that's not true. the prominent, influential bands were mostly rich kids, which reflects our social reality. it would be a remarkable triumph of capitalism if kids could actually climb out of the projects with socially relevant art projects!
the reality is that it's how most of the audience connects with it. i grew up in a project, but by the time i was in my mid-teens i was living in a white, upper middle class reality. there were a lot of things i didn't like about that. socal punk bands like the offspring, the dead kennedys, bad religion and others helped me make sense of this upside-down reality i was living in and work my way through it's contradictions. upper middle class white kids are humans too; they need ways to cope with reality like everybody else. they may see some problems with the composition of the current system (even as it privileges them). more importantly, they may very well reject it on it's axiomatic basis. it's those upper middle class white kids that this was written by and for.
in a sense, understanding bad religion (and socal punk in general) is very simple: teach a generation of kids a moral code when they're growing up, then tell them to go out and break it in order to be "successful" and finally watch them react in confusion and horror when faced with such daunting contradictions worked into the basic process of survival. this whole cycle of events - from the moral teaching, to the opportunities revolving around being "successful" to the freedom to rebel - is a reflection of the privilege that socal punk was birthed within.
so, rather than reject the idea of these bands coming from wealth, you'd be better off to look into it a little further. it's kind of a vitally important aspect of actually understanding what this is/was all about.
Marios Laskaris
Upper middle class can be punk too. As Graffin says and I totally agree, a girl from an affluent religious family who consistently shows up to church on Sunday with her green mohawk and "Fuck Jesus" shirt is punk. But so is a biology professor who claims that Charles Darwin's ideas were wrong and has his own. Going against the grain is punk.
And what you're asking for/your idea of the "proper punk band" is impossible. You're asking for a bunch of 17 year olds that have no money to somehow aquire guitars and drums and convince Atlantic records (since epitaph would not exist in your "punk world") to release their album! Not possible! Most punk bands had to "create record labels", because no one would release a punk album from an unknown band back in 1975-1980. And if epitaph was not created, offspring, pennywise and NOFX and so many other punk bands probably wouldn't exist now and I definately wouldn't have been able to listen to them/discover them over here in Greece. So thank f**k for that! You need to think about reality too and not just theory!
I'll help you get an idea of their world back then. Sure they were not living in the streets like bums, but they were not living an untroubled life either:
''In 1976 I moved with my mom and brother to the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. Like millions of other victims of divorce in the 1970s I had to deal with the fact that my father was now living far away (in Racine, Wisconsin) and I would not get to see him as much as most other kids see theirs. This pain was compounded by the bewildering alienation I felt as a Wisconsin boy at Junior High School in the Los Angeles unified school district. I had entered a landscape unlike anything I experienced in my 11 years of life. I had dark brown fluffy, wavy hair, unfeatherable, impossible to mold into the cool rock-and-roll hairdos of the 1970s that were so popular. I wore velour kids shirts from K-Mart, and corduroys and because they were less expensive than jeans and we didn't have a lot of money. I had cheap shoes, usually also from K-Mart or Payless, always worn out, with goofy logos that emulated the real popular brands that all the other kids wore. I could see fellow 7th graders come to class with squinty eyes and euphoric smiles reeking of pot smoke. If you went along with the flow, unquestioning and complacent, you were accepted and rewarded with social status. If you questioned the norm, or went against the grain in any way, you were in for a rocky ride down the social ladder.
I came to be friends with a particular class of people who were labeled geeks, nerds, kooks, dorks, wimps, and pussies (or "wussies" if you combine these last two). We hung out together and did creative things after school...''
deathtokoalas
as pointed out in a previous comment, i was responding to a previous comment about prominent punk musicians and class. i've never presented an ideal of a punk band, or criticized anybody for the class they were born into. i was merely rejecting the idea that punk (and especially socal punk) had any kind of inherently "lower" class politics, for the sole reason that it just simply isn't true.
lukmruk
"ron paul is not a libertarian." oh sure he is randroid
deathtokoalas
right-wing libertarians tend to reject rand and objectivism. it isn't very good with ideas like the nap. and paul is racist, homophobic and sexist - ideas that tend to be weak in libertarian circles. libertarians tend to be in favour of gay marriage, to the extent that they acknowledge marriage at all. not paul. libertarians tend to be pro-choice on abortion. not paul. and libertarians tend to be "colour blind", they don't write up racist newsletters to try and control a white supremacist voting demographic.
paul, like rand, is just a peculiar type of american conservative. there's no value in analyzing him more deeply than that.
miaumiaucatmagician
you're making very good comments all the way
mattlaureys
here are some words from greg himself from "no direction" :
"a righteous student came and asked me to reflect
he judged my lifestyle was politically incorrect
I don't believe in self important folks who preach
no Bad Religion song can make your life complete"
Alfredo Rodriguez
The reality is, you have no clue. You weren't there when they wrote this, and fuck your political agenda. Fuck Joe Strummer, he wasn't even in a punk band. Sorry, but I can't even think of his useless bands name right now. Dance music, isn't punk rock, go rock the cashbah on the dance floor.
deathtokoalas
i don't really enjoy the clash, either, but there are a lot of other early punk bands (like the buzzcocks) that double very well as dance music. again, i don't know where people are going by disconnecting punk from dancing. what's the motive for that kind of revisionism? hardcore was something else, but it was as much of a reaction against punk as it was an evolution of it.
i also don't know why there's so much hostility to rave culture. ignoring the historical connections, just the similarities in outlook should be enough to see a set of political allies. they're both dead now, but rave was arguably more successful than punk in building a viable counter-culture. i guess there were punks that hated hippies, too, but they must have been no less close-minded.
randomusername987
I agreed with the first part, but how the hell was all the rest relevant?
deathtokoalas
i think it follows from the conversation. i mean, can you be more specific?
randomusername987
Well i was referring to the original post. What does ron paul etc have to do with Suffer?
mattlaureys
what are you even ranting on about ? that guy was making solid points and you start going on a rant talking about things that are completely insignificant. the reasons people disconnect genres from eachother is because they are diff genres and completely diff music duh. you're just ranting and linking everything to punk. and you say "they're both dead now" punk is very much alive tons of punk bands still making music and rave is also , still plenty of raves going on. you like to bash on punk don't you ?
Alfredo Rodriguez
I guess Bad Brains was also a rich band of white kids from the "burbs" as well. All these bands come from blue collar working families. Greg and Brett's parents are educators. Teachers don't make much money. Fuck Ron Paul fucking racist piece of shit!
deathtokoalas
the last time i checked, bad brains weren't skate punk from southern california. further, it's rather insensitive for you to suggest that teachers don't make a lot of money. relative to who? doctors? it's a certain sort of cluelessness that would argue that teachers are not comfortably in the middle class.
as mentioned repeatedly, that has nothing to do with what i was talking about. i really couldn't imagine dropping a bad religion record off at a mcdonalds and expecting the employees to connect to it. the songs do not discuss issues that are of relevance to the most desperate members of the working class. rather, they discuss topics that are of concern to the middle class children of teachers.
Sam steinhauer
Average yearly salary for a public school teacher in the US is about $50,000. However, Greg's parents were Professors which is most certainly an upper middle class job. Still don't get why this should change my opinion of the band.
deathtokoalas
i at no point suggested it should....
Punk is punk and has nothing to do w/electonic or hiphop.
deathtokoalas
i'd say punk has a lot to do with hip-hop, politically. further, this is a type of punk that was popular in california; rave/industrial was a type of punk that was popular in england.
happyhooliedaze
real punk is rebellious and libertarian,NOT political .Rave has NOTHING to to w/punk.Ravers are a bunch of drugged up rich kids that listen to talentless.pre-programmed garbage. Don`t talk about u don`t know as its obvious,ur "standin` on the outside,lookin` in".
deathtokoalas
the reality is that most punk, especially socal punk, was also put together by upper middle class kids. bad religion were centered around rich mommy's basement. they wrote most of their lyrics as a criticism of wealthy white culture from a first person perspective. great band, don't get me wrong, but bringing class politics into punk rock has always been perilous. joe strummer was actually an aristocrat.
rave is derived directly from industrial, which was an offshoot of punk. this is a question of historical fact. it's not a matter for debate.
ron paul is not a libertarian.
the major thing libertarians don't understand is that markets are inherently coercive. they base their ideas around concepts of freedom from the responsibility to contribute, rather than freedom to choose how to contribute responsibly. the end result is a freedom to exploit, rather than a freedom from exploitation.
Paul Boisvert
First off, all of your facts are correct and I'm sure others can agree on that. Also I completely agree with your opinion of Libertarian ethics. With that said, the subliminal opinion within your comment displays a vast amount of Class Envy. I think that your opinion of this band's writing material and your own personal beliefs make no sense because the lyrics to these songs can give you the proper information to fuel your conflagrations against the Upper-Middle/Upper Class. Also, your general thesis on discontent for Class Politics involved in Punk Rock music into a rant on Class Politics was completely hypocritical. I'm truly not trying to throw any hate in your direction because I can admit to suffering from Class Envy as well, of course those of us who have been truly affected by this recession have many of the same beliefs in that specific area. Good luck to you!
deathtokoalas
i was responding to a previous comment, which was a response to a previous comment of mine. the privacy settings that have come with these new youtube/google+ rules have created the problem of not being to reply to replies on your own comments. i think the context would clear things up.
but "class envy" is sort of a weird concept from a leftist perspective, where the aim is to abolish class. i think all leftists have something that is sort of like class envy, but that that isn't a very astute way to articulate it.
i mean, "class envy" is sort of the same concept as "distributive justice". i don't want to completely discard it as nonsense. it's just that, envy is an almost comical way to describe the process of recognizing the injustice of inequality.
Marios Laskaris
Who told you their parents were rich? They were shopping clothes from Walmart from what I know. I am not saying they were starving, but they were not rich either. Writing generic stuff without having done your research is unacceptable and far more off putting than middle class 17 year olds writing songs about what they think is wrong with the world!
deathtokoalas
i don't know or care where brett & friends shopped before they became very wealthy from epitaph records, but if you had done that basic "research" yourself, you'd realize that this entire genre is the reaction of upper middle class suburban white kids - and that, yes, bad religion is a band that mostly operated out of upper-middle class garages.
to be clear: these were guys that lived with their parents well beyond any socially normal cut-off point. they fit any conventional definition of the word "loser". self-releasing records isn't cheap, and they partially offset the cost of that by not taking responsibility for paying for living expenses like rent. if you share the mindset, you realize why climbing up social hierarchies isn't important to some people. but, socal punk as a reaction to suburbanite living (and this is a distinct thing from other kinds of punk) couldn't have happened otherwise. that's exactly what this is.
which is fine. i'm not really criticizing them for this, i'm just correcting somebody's flawed perception of punk having this kind of ghetto hip-hop romanticism. that's not true. the prominent, influential bands were mostly rich kids, which reflects our social reality. it would be a remarkable triumph of capitalism if kids could actually climb out of the projects with socially relevant art projects!
the reality is that it's how most of the audience connects with it. i grew up in a project, but by the time i was in my mid-teens i was living in a white, upper middle class reality. there were a lot of things i didn't like about that. socal punk bands like the offspring, the dead kennedys, bad religion and others helped me make sense of this upside-down reality i was living in and work my way through it's contradictions. upper middle class white kids are humans too; they need ways to cope with reality like everybody else. they may see some problems with the composition of the current system (even as it privileges them). more importantly, they may very well reject it on it's axiomatic basis. it's those upper middle class white kids that this was written by and for.
in a sense, understanding bad religion (and socal punk in general) is very simple: teach a generation of kids a moral code when they're growing up, then tell them to go out and break it in order to be "successful" and finally watch them react in confusion and horror when faced with such daunting contradictions worked into the basic process of survival. this whole cycle of events - from the moral teaching, to the opportunities revolving around being "successful" to the freedom to rebel - is a reflection of the privilege that socal punk was birthed within.
so, rather than reject the idea of these bands coming from wealth, you'd be better off to look into it a little further. it's kind of a vitally important aspect of actually understanding what this is/was all about.
Marios Laskaris
Upper middle class can be punk too. As Graffin says and I totally agree, a girl from an affluent religious family who consistently shows up to church on Sunday with her green mohawk and "Fuck Jesus" shirt is punk. But so is a biology professor who claims that Charles Darwin's ideas were wrong and has his own. Going against the grain is punk.
And what you're asking for/your idea of the "proper punk band" is impossible. You're asking for a bunch of 17 year olds that have no money to somehow aquire guitars and drums and convince Atlantic records (since epitaph would not exist in your "punk world") to release their album! Not possible! Most punk bands had to "create record labels", because no one would release a punk album from an unknown band back in 1975-1980. And if epitaph was not created, offspring, pennywise and NOFX and so many other punk bands probably wouldn't exist now and I definately wouldn't have been able to listen to them/discover them over here in Greece. So thank f**k for that! You need to think about reality too and not just theory!
I'll help you get an idea of their world back then. Sure they were not living in the streets like bums, but they were not living an untroubled life either:
''In 1976 I moved with my mom and brother to the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. Like millions of other victims of divorce in the 1970s I had to deal with the fact that my father was now living far away (in Racine, Wisconsin) and I would not get to see him as much as most other kids see theirs. This pain was compounded by the bewildering alienation I felt as a Wisconsin boy at Junior High School in the Los Angeles unified school district. I had entered a landscape unlike anything I experienced in my 11 years of life. I had dark brown fluffy, wavy hair, unfeatherable, impossible to mold into the cool rock-and-roll hairdos of the 1970s that were so popular. I wore velour kids shirts from K-Mart, and corduroys and because they were less expensive than jeans and we didn't have a lot of money. I had cheap shoes, usually also from K-Mart or Payless, always worn out, with goofy logos that emulated the real popular brands that all the other kids wore. I could see fellow 7th graders come to class with squinty eyes and euphoric smiles reeking of pot smoke. If you went along with the flow, unquestioning and complacent, you were accepted and rewarded with social status. If you questioned the norm, or went against the grain in any way, you were in for a rocky ride down the social ladder.
I came to be friends with a particular class of people who were labeled geeks, nerds, kooks, dorks, wimps, and pussies (or "wussies" if you combine these last two). We hung out together and did creative things after school...''
deathtokoalas
as pointed out in a previous comment, i was responding to a previous comment about prominent punk musicians and class. i've never presented an ideal of a punk band, or criticized anybody for the class they were born into. i was merely rejecting the idea that punk (and especially socal punk) had any kind of inherently "lower" class politics, for the sole reason that it just simply isn't true.
lukmruk
"ron paul is not a libertarian." oh sure he is randroid
deathtokoalas
right-wing libertarians tend to reject rand and objectivism. it isn't very good with ideas like the nap. and paul is racist, homophobic and sexist - ideas that tend to be weak in libertarian circles. libertarians tend to be in favour of gay marriage, to the extent that they acknowledge marriage at all. not paul. libertarians tend to be pro-choice on abortion. not paul. and libertarians tend to be "colour blind", they don't write up racist newsletters to try and control a white supremacist voting demographic.
paul, like rand, is just a peculiar type of american conservative. there's no value in analyzing him more deeply than that.
miaumiaucatmagician
you're making very good comments all the way
mattlaureys
here are some words from greg himself from "no direction" :
"a righteous student came and asked me to reflect
he judged my lifestyle was politically incorrect
I don't believe in self important folks who preach
no Bad Religion song can make your life complete"
Alfredo Rodriguez
The reality is, you have no clue. You weren't there when they wrote this, and fuck your political agenda. Fuck Joe Strummer, he wasn't even in a punk band. Sorry, but I can't even think of his useless bands name right now. Dance music, isn't punk rock, go rock the cashbah on the dance floor.
deathtokoalas
i don't really enjoy the clash, either, but there are a lot of other early punk bands (like the buzzcocks) that double very well as dance music. again, i don't know where people are going by disconnecting punk from dancing. what's the motive for that kind of revisionism? hardcore was something else, but it was as much of a reaction against punk as it was an evolution of it.
i also don't know why there's so much hostility to rave culture. ignoring the historical connections, just the similarities in outlook should be enough to see a set of political allies. they're both dead now, but rave was arguably more successful than punk in building a viable counter-culture. i guess there were punks that hated hippies, too, but they must have been no less close-minded.
randomusername987
I agreed with the first part, but how the hell was all the rest relevant?
deathtokoalas
i think it follows from the conversation. i mean, can you be more specific?
randomusername987
Well i was referring to the original post. What does ron paul etc have to do with Suffer?
mattlaureys
what are you even ranting on about ? that guy was making solid points and you start going on a rant talking about things that are completely insignificant. the reasons people disconnect genres from eachother is because they are diff genres and completely diff music duh. you're just ranting and linking everything to punk. and you say "they're both dead now" punk is very much alive tons of punk bands still making music and rave is also , still plenty of raves going on. you like to bash on punk don't you ?
Alfredo Rodriguez
I guess Bad Brains was also a rich band of white kids from the "burbs" as well. All these bands come from blue collar working families. Greg and Brett's parents are educators. Teachers don't make much money. Fuck Ron Paul fucking racist piece of shit!
deathtokoalas
the last time i checked, bad brains weren't skate punk from southern california. further, it's rather insensitive for you to suggest that teachers don't make a lot of money. relative to who? doctors? it's a certain sort of cluelessness that would argue that teachers are not comfortably in the middle class.
as mentioned repeatedly, that has nothing to do with what i was talking about. i really couldn't imagine dropping a bad religion record off at a mcdonalds and expecting the employees to connect to it. the songs do not discuss issues that are of relevance to the most desperate members of the working class. rather, they discuss topics that are of concern to the middle class children of teachers.
Sam steinhauer
Average yearly salary for a public school teacher in the US is about $50,000. However, Greg's parents were Professors which is most certainly an upper middle class job. Still don't get why this should change my opinion of the band.
deathtokoalas
i at no point suggested it should....
at
18:37
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Thursday, December 19, 2013
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at
16:29
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
thoughts regarding a repressed memory
it's amazing how repressed memories can just throw themselves back at you. i remember this clearly, now. which is remarkable, because i couldn't have been older than 2.
i'm sitting in a high chair, eating chocolate cake. which means it was probably my birthday. i've long deciphered the language that these humans around me are using. i'm struck by their deep corruption, and ultimately frightened by them. i understand that my safety in their presence is never certain.
somebody, perhaps my mother, tells me that once i learn to talk i'll be more like them. i can't remember the language, i can only remember the reaction, which was horror.
it was probably something parents or grandparents reflexively say on early birthdays. getting big. be talking soon.
my decision not to speak as a child, which lasted for several years, was a fully conscious attempt to keep myself pure from what had been identified as the source of human corruption: language.
...and i can now also remember myself walking around the hospital in circles, kicking a toy around the waiting room, and weighing the pros and cons of keeping my innocence by maintaining my silence, which i would, of course, eventually break.
for whatever reason, i've never told anybody this.
apparently, what the doctors determined is that i was disinterested in human interaction - not autistic, but simply highly introverted.
there was more to it than that.
and i'm not sure i've changed much.
existential dread is usually measured in terms of "teenage angst", but i wonder if anybody's studied it in toddlers.
i was saying "g-houst", with a soft g like j, but i interpreted gh the same way as ch or sh - always soft and never hard.
(i hadn't yet seen words like 'chromatic')
the day-to-day pronunciation of "ghost", as in "ghostbuster", struck me as a populist fallacy. i was certain that true poltergeist experts in the actual field would pronounce it correctly, correctly meaning in a way that conformed to my understanding of phonetic rules - gh must be just like sh and ch.
what was actually driving my insistence was a fallacy of precedence. i seem to have believed that words existed inherently in written form first and were only later taken up in speech. as such, they are defined by the rules of phonetics first and foremost and then corrupted by human speakers who impose populist fallacies upon them. i know now that it's actually the other way around, that written language is designed to capture the sounds of human speaking and that when humans change how they speak, written language changes as well.
i do, however, have specific and clear memories of what i'm saying.
i probably arrived at that fallacy of precedence (which is actually some kind of platonism, funnily enough) through experience. i mean, it's not like i had it formally postulated, but it seems to be the not-thought-through assumption i was working with because it's how i approached it: i was reading before i was talking.
the concept of the unwashed masses being too ignorant to pronounce 'ghost' correctly, gh clearly being just like sh or ch, must have also been an example of the fallacy of generalizing the specific.
so, i do fully admit to relying too much on deduction and not enough on experience and coming to some faulty conclusions as a result of that. in my defense, i'll state that i learned the value of scientific thinking very early - PRECISELY due to making deductive errors very young.
again, though, i specifically remember wrestling with the idea of whether i should talk or not and going through a long period of not talking due to rejecting it.
but, yeah, that's what i was thinking: ghostbusters was just watered down pop-sci for the masses, whomever put it together screwed up the pronunciation, and real ghostbusters that had advanced degrees in the topic would know how to pronounce it properly because they would understand that gh must be just like sh and ch (which i had never seen in a hard usage).
just to put it more in context, a word like 'zucchini' would have deeply bothered me as well. i would have argued until i was blue that it should be pronounced 'zook-cheen-ee", and then proceeded to phonetically deconstruct the word in a perfectly reasonably demonstration of that fact. i would have used phonetic rules that i only vaguely remember today, like the first i making the second long and the double cs making the u long. it would have actually been pretty complicated and impressive - and completely correct, in the sense of a formally logical deduction from first principles. i would have then accused anybody that maintained the popular, fallacious pronunciation as being functionally illiterate.
in other words, i would have not just expected there to be an underlying theory of pronunciation, i would have thought myself well-versed in it's rules, and then expected people to follow those rules. i would get very upset when people denied those rules and denounce them as pretenders and anarchists. my universe was very ordered through strict rules of structural logic.
of course, in time, i learned this isn't true. it was a valuable learning process.
ultimately, i wanted the world to be easily analyzable: i wanted everything around me to be understood through logical deduction. that way, i could say "this is why things are like this". the why, and the knowing why, and the knowing how to know why, was very important to me.
suggestions that the universe was different than this, that there were exceptions that could not be understood deductively, bothered me very deeply and would put me into temper tantrums.
the way to convince me, btw, would have been to argue with me on a phonetic basis, rather than simply tell me what is true and what isn't on an authoritarian level. and i think that's what eventually ended up happening. somebody explained to me that i had the 'gh' sound wrong, phonetically, that it's not soft before a vowel as one would expect by analogy through ch, and i went from there.
in fact, i remember that this person was my grandmother.
i'm sitting in a high chair, eating chocolate cake. which means it was probably my birthday. i've long deciphered the language that these humans around me are using. i'm struck by their deep corruption, and ultimately frightened by them. i understand that my safety in their presence is never certain.
somebody, perhaps my mother, tells me that once i learn to talk i'll be more like them. i can't remember the language, i can only remember the reaction, which was horror.
it was probably something parents or grandparents reflexively say on early birthdays. getting big. be talking soon.
my decision not to speak as a child, which lasted for several years, was a fully conscious attempt to keep myself pure from what had been identified as the source of human corruption: language.
...and i can now also remember myself walking around the hospital in circles, kicking a toy around the waiting room, and weighing the pros and cons of keeping my innocence by maintaining my silence, which i would, of course, eventually break.
for whatever reason, i've never told anybody this.
apparently, what the doctors determined is that i was disinterested in human interaction - not autistic, but simply highly introverted.
there was more to it than that.
and i'm not sure i've changed much.
existential dread is usually measured in terms of "teenage angst", but i wonder if anybody's studied it in toddlers.
i was saying "g-houst", with a soft g like j, but i interpreted gh the same way as ch or sh - always soft and never hard.
(i hadn't yet seen words like 'chromatic')
the day-to-day pronunciation of "ghost", as in "ghostbuster", struck me as a populist fallacy. i was certain that true poltergeist experts in the actual field would pronounce it correctly, correctly meaning in a way that conformed to my understanding of phonetic rules - gh must be just like sh and ch.
what was actually driving my insistence was a fallacy of precedence. i seem to have believed that words existed inherently in written form first and were only later taken up in speech. as such, they are defined by the rules of phonetics first and foremost and then corrupted by human speakers who impose populist fallacies upon them. i know now that it's actually the other way around, that written language is designed to capture the sounds of human speaking and that when humans change how they speak, written language changes as well.
i do, however, have specific and clear memories of what i'm saying.
i probably arrived at that fallacy of precedence (which is actually some kind of platonism, funnily enough) through experience. i mean, it's not like i had it formally postulated, but it seems to be the not-thought-through assumption i was working with because it's how i approached it: i was reading before i was talking.
the concept of the unwashed masses being too ignorant to pronounce 'ghost' correctly, gh clearly being just like sh or ch, must have also been an example of the fallacy of generalizing the specific.
so, i do fully admit to relying too much on deduction and not enough on experience and coming to some faulty conclusions as a result of that. in my defense, i'll state that i learned the value of scientific thinking very early - PRECISELY due to making deductive errors very young.
again, though, i specifically remember wrestling with the idea of whether i should talk or not and going through a long period of not talking due to rejecting it.
but, yeah, that's what i was thinking: ghostbusters was just watered down pop-sci for the masses, whomever put it together screwed up the pronunciation, and real ghostbusters that had advanced degrees in the topic would know how to pronounce it properly because they would understand that gh must be just like sh and ch (which i had never seen in a hard usage).
just to put it more in context, a word like 'zucchini' would have deeply bothered me as well. i would have argued until i was blue that it should be pronounced 'zook-cheen-ee", and then proceeded to phonetically deconstruct the word in a perfectly reasonably demonstration of that fact. i would have used phonetic rules that i only vaguely remember today, like the first i making the second long and the double cs making the u long. it would have actually been pretty complicated and impressive - and completely correct, in the sense of a formally logical deduction from first principles. i would have then accused anybody that maintained the popular, fallacious pronunciation as being functionally illiterate.
in other words, i would have not just expected there to be an underlying theory of pronunciation, i would have thought myself well-versed in it's rules, and then expected people to follow those rules. i would get very upset when people denied those rules and denounce them as pretenders and anarchists. my universe was very ordered through strict rules of structural logic.
of course, in time, i learned this isn't true. it was a valuable learning process.
ultimately, i wanted the world to be easily analyzable: i wanted everything around me to be understood through logical deduction. that way, i could say "this is why things are like this". the why, and the knowing why, and the knowing how to know why, was very important to me.
suggestions that the universe was different than this, that there were exceptions that could not be understood deductively, bothered me very deeply and would put me into temper tantrums.
the way to convince me, btw, would have been to argue with me on a phonetic basis, rather than simply tell me what is true and what isn't on an authoritarian level. and i think that's what eventually ended up happening. somebody explained to me that i had the 'gh' sound wrong, phonetically, that it's not soft before a vowel as one would expect by analogy through ch, and i went from there.
in fact, i remember that this person was my grandmother.
at
07:03
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
in terms of actual fruit content, pineapples are highly deceptive.
at
13:13
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
we need a stray cat cull. the idea that we can just continue to allow these vermin to breed out of control in our cities is not looking at the bigger picture and the kind of problems they're going to cause.
gawker, as usual, are being morons; this woman had every right to chase the cat (who was probably hanging around looking for food and/or trying to sneak in) away from her place.
it may seem unusual, but if you're shocked then what you need to realize is that that cat may be twenty or more generations removed from domestication. nor were they ever fully domesticated in the first place. this is just the beginning; they're going to get more and more aggressive. i'm just across the river. i can state clearly that the alley cats i've tried to interact with (including several around my place) are an entirely different species of animal. they have no interest in human affection. they run when you try and touch them - more like a squirrel would than like a house cat would. which means they're just another rodent, right? who cares? except that they're territorial, and don't understand or care that humans built all this stuff. they'll try and block your path home, under the perception that you're invading their territory. and, i have to admit i've felt stalked. that's the next step in their instincts reasserting themselves.
we can't just let them evolve back into dangerous wild animals in our urban core because we're too pussy (pun intended) to deal with them.
http://gawker.com/woman-learns-invaluable-lesson-about-not-picking-fights-1484881340
gawker, as usual, are being morons; this woman had every right to chase the cat (who was probably hanging around looking for food and/or trying to sneak in) away from her place.
it may seem unusual, but if you're shocked then what you need to realize is that that cat may be twenty or more generations removed from domestication. nor were they ever fully domesticated in the first place. this is just the beginning; they're going to get more and more aggressive. i'm just across the river. i can state clearly that the alley cats i've tried to interact with (including several around my place) are an entirely different species of animal. they have no interest in human affection. they run when you try and touch them - more like a squirrel would than like a house cat would. which means they're just another rodent, right? who cares? except that they're territorial, and don't understand or care that humans built all this stuff. they'll try and block your path home, under the perception that you're invading their territory. and, i have to admit i've felt stalked. that's the next step in their instincts reasserting themselves.
we can't just let them evolve back into dangerous wild animals in our urban core because we're too pussy (pun intended) to deal with them.
http://gawker.com/woman-learns-invaluable-lesson-about-not-picking-fights-1484881340
at
06:15
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
in fascist russia, oven cook you.
it's a country full of paradoxes. putin is, in fact, the only person that can save it from falling into a dictatorship.
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/12/russian-television-star-says-gay-people-should-be-burned-alive/
it's a country full of paradoxes. putin is, in fact, the only person that can save it from falling into a dictatorship.
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/12/russian-television-star-says-gay-people-should-be-burned-alive/
at
05:33
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
http://fpif.org/george-kennans-prescience-military-industrial-complex/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/12/pers-d12.html
http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/twenty-years-too-long/
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/12/the_anti_apartheid_underground_ronnie_kasrils
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/yves-engler/2013/12/canadas-duplicitous-economic-policies-supported-apartheid-south-a
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20572-mandelas-greatness-may-be-assured-but-not-his-legacy
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11167
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/12/from_marxism_to_neoliberalism_ronnie_kasrils
i'm very much in favour of punishing motorists.
http://www.wheels.ca/news/hudak-blasts-5-cent-a-litre-gas-tax-hike/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11161
may was a vocal supporter of the registry. it's confusing that she would accept hyer into the party. well, until you realize her rank opportunism, anyways. sadly, the green party are oh so very similar to the other parties.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/13/green_party_doubles_caucus_as_former_ndp_mp_bruce_hyer_joins.html
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/12/the-two-mandelas/
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/13/one_of_our_greatest_coups_the
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/13/polaroid_apartheid_inside_the_beginnings_of
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/14/jang-d14.html
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20564-the-transformation-of-americas-energy-economy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/13/our_red_lines_and_theirs_hussein_chemical_weapons
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/shooting-at-queen-subway-station/article15969116/
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/8834-israel-opens-dam-flooding-gaza-strip-with-rainwater
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/12/pers-d12.html
http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/twenty-years-too-long/
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/12/the_anti_apartheid_underground_ronnie_kasrils
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/yves-engler/2013/12/canadas-duplicitous-economic-policies-supported-apartheid-south-a
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20572-mandelas-greatness-may-be-assured-but-not-his-legacy
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11167
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/12/from_marxism_to_neoliberalism_ronnie_kasrils
i'm very much in favour of punishing motorists.
http://www.wheels.ca/news/hudak-blasts-5-cent-a-litre-gas-tax-hike/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11161
may was a vocal supporter of the registry. it's confusing that she would accept hyer into the party. well, until you realize her rank opportunism, anyways. sadly, the green party are oh so very similar to the other parties.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/13/green_party_doubles_caucus_as_former_ndp_mp_bruce_hyer_joins.html
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/12/the-two-mandelas/
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/13/one_of_our_greatest_coups_the
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/13/polaroid_apartheid_inside_the_beginnings_of
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/14/jang-d14.html
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20564-the-transformation-of-americas-energy-economy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/13/our_red_lines_and_theirs_hussein_chemical_weapons
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/shooting-at-queen-subway-station/article15969116/
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/8834-israel-opens-dam-flooding-gaza-strip-with-rainwater
at
05:13
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Windsor, ON, Canada
this is another one of those things where it's just a bit of a shrug.
in a truly free society, prostitution wouldn't exist. really, i'd go so far as to suggest that you can measure a society's level of oppression pretty well by observing how prevalent prostitution is. not how strict the laws are, but how often it happens. like wage work, prostitution is a type of slavery with invisible chains.
on the one hand, we think of this kind of work/slavery as being a little extreme. i mean, it's one thing to shovel ditches but to put out sexually? not everybody's going to see it like that. and the reality is that the higher price that can be demanded would, for some people, offset the discomfort. so long as we're forced into market relations on one level or another, it's arbitrary to restrict what kind of labour is allowed and what isn't. it follows that laws against prostitution are explicitly misogynist.
on top of that, there are reasons to think that decriminalization would lead to safer conditions. so we should be approaching this the same way we approach abortion, which is decriminalization followed by social programs designed to eliminate the conditions that lead to prostitution - poverty, drug addiction, lack of child support, etc.
ultimately, though, this isn't a solution to anything. the solution lies in the programs designed to minimize the prevalence of prostitution.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/feminist-current/2013/12/supreme-court-canada-to-make-decision-on-prostitution-law-de
in a truly free society, prostitution wouldn't exist. really, i'd go so far as to suggest that you can measure a society's level of oppression pretty well by observing how prevalent prostitution is. not how strict the laws are, but how often it happens. like wage work, prostitution is a type of slavery with invisible chains.
on the one hand, we think of this kind of work/slavery as being a little extreme. i mean, it's one thing to shovel ditches but to put out sexually? not everybody's going to see it like that. and the reality is that the higher price that can be demanded would, for some people, offset the discomfort. so long as we're forced into market relations on one level or another, it's arbitrary to restrict what kind of labour is allowed and what isn't. it follows that laws against prostitution are explicitly misogynist.
on top of that, there are reasons to think that decriminalization would lead to safer conditions. so we should be approaching this the same way we approach abortion, which is decriminalization followed by social programs designed to eliminate the conditions that lead to prostitution - poverty, drug addiction, lack of child support, etc.
ultimately, though, this isn't a solution to anything. the solution lies in the programs designed to minimize the prevalence of prostitution.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/feminist-current/2013/12/supreme-court-canada-to-make-decision-on-prostitution-law-de
at
01:32
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Windsor, ON, Canada
ok, so that's the tactic - table off the wall legislation, uphold the constitution by voting it down and declare it a victory for democracy.
meaning you protestors can go home, now.
what they'll also do is pass the legislation they want in one bill, while debate is occupied by something absurd.
so, we'll see how that plays out. usually, even simple tactics work against mass movements - for a while.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11173
meaning you protestors can go home, now.
what they'll also do is pass the legislation they want in one bill, while debate is occupied by something absurd.
so, we'll see how that plays out. usually, even simple tactics work against mass movements - for a while.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11173
at
01:01
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Windsor, ON, Canada
art cannot produce change; rather, it is a product of change that is
occurring. marxists have never understood this properly. plato, on the
other hand, understood it perfectly.
it follows that art is an end, and not a means. when we see movements of creative art, we know something has already changed and it is too late for reactionary forces to reverse it. it's celebratory; gloating, even.
but, it also represents the phase where the movement becomes decadent. every art-based counterculture movement has been co-opted. artists inherently seek to go beyond struggle and merely exist. so, it's not just a failed tactic but we can understand why it's a failed tactic. let's learn from this, not repeat the same mistakes again.
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/12/art-in-the-age-of-fatalism/
it follows that art is an end, and not a means. when we see movements of creative art, we know something has already changed and it is too late for reactionary forces to reverse it. it's celebratory; gloating, even.
but, it also represents the phase where the movement becomes decadent. every art-based counterculture movement has been co-opted. artists inherently seek to go beyond struggle and merely exist. so, it's not just a failed tactic but we can understand why it's a failed tactic. let's learn from this, not repeat the same mistakes again.
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/12/art-in-the-age-of-fatalism/
at
00:30
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Sunday, December 15, 2013
there's somebody funding the independent media that's pushing hard for public banking. the arguments they provide are largely based on historical inaccuracies, probably not accidentally, and the whole thing is consequently just a big elaborate lie. i've tried to argue against these inaccuracies, and tried to argue against the bad economics...
at the end of the day, the bottom line is that it doesn't matter. it may be a little easier for the elites to control public banks than private ones. who owns the banks, how much money is printed and all these other things aren't actually valid questions if you're actually interested in changing anything, they're just distractions from a legitimate class analysis. will public ownership of banks make it harder to manipulate stock crashes? no, it would make it easier to co-ordinate.
so, i'm shifting to ignoring it. there isn't anything more substantial underlying the public banking thing than there is underlying the abolish the fed thing. they're variations on the same theme of channeling dissent to a harmless outlet.
it is enraging, though, to read through this stuff. it's logically incoherent at it's high points.
the problem isn't who owns the currency or how much gets printed, it's the idea of basing society on a concept of market exchange. do we have to run through every possible combination of possibilities before we get it and just stop placing arbitrary values on things in order to exchange them?
at the end of the day, the bottom line is that it doesn't matter. it may be a little easier for the elites to control public banks than private ones. who owns the banks, how much money is printed and all these other things aren't actually valid questions if you're actually interested in changing anything, they're just distractions from a legitimate class analysis. will public ownership of banks make it harder to manipulate stock crashes? no, it would make it easier to co-ordinate.
so, i'm shifting to ignoring it. there isn't anything more substantial underlying the public banking thing than there is underlying the abolish the fed thing. they're variations on the same theme of channeling dissent to a harmless outlet.
it is enraging, though, to read through this stuff. it's logically incoherent at it's high points.
the problem isn't who owns the currency or how much gets printed, it's the idea of basing society on a concept of market exchange. do we have to run through every possible combination of possibilities before we get it and just stop placing arbitrary values on things in order to exchange them?
at
23:53
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Windsor, ON, Canada
obviously, the universe isn't a holographic projection.
#sheer_idiocy
#sheer_idiocy
at
07:43
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
http://www.nature.com/news/water-seems-to-flow-freely-on-mars-1.14343
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strategies-for-aging-vary
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=massive-aquifers-under-the-sea-could-sate-thirst
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2013/12/extreme-diets-can-quickly-alter-gut-bacteria
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/134
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20131211-self-repairing-running-shoes-made-from-3d-printed-protocells.html
http://mitne.ws/1kCRs9S
https://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2013/12/13/what-do-we-really-know-about-social-resistance-to-vaccines/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20467-noam-chomsky-interview
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/02/the_kerry_doctrine
http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/12/09/leaked-pussy-riot-greenpeace-activists-and-rioters-in-russia-will-be-freed-under-amnesty/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/09/asia-d09.html
the rantings of an out of touch old man. hyperbole aside, dude might want to consider if maybe the thrust of these actions are conscious, rather than the result of some kind of "illiteracy". silly liberals...
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20511-henry-giroux-the-spectacle-of-illiteracy-and-the-crisis-of-democracy
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/09/pers-d09.html
http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/montr%C3%A9al-police-kill-donald-m%C3%A9nard/20357
http://www8.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/11/indi-d11.html
right. because india is experiencing low population growth. ugh….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/court-in-india-criminalizes-homosexuality/2013/12/11/ea7274a6-6227-11e3-a7b4-4a75ebc432ab_story.html?hpid=z5
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/10/kerry_begins_iran_sales_job
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/02/the_design_and_fall_of_civilizations
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20456-in-europe-a-repudiation-of-austerity-policies
http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/12/10/qeqchi-leaders-attacked-with-machetes-on-eve-of-megadam-construction/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/adiz-d10.html
i don't mind walking to the store at all. in fact, i'm excited about how this will decrease the amount of paper wasted in flyers.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/11/canada_post_to_announce_radical_changes_to_save_itself.html
if you consider {public, private, public-private} to be an oversimplification of the possible approaches, public-private is by far the worst - it combines the exploitation of corporatism with the monopolization of mercantilism. as critical as i am of free market approaches, at least they don't enforce themselves like corporatism does
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20546-when-outsourcing-public-services-to-private-companies-goes-wrong
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11123
because focusing too much hope on leadership, and the authoritarian structures that creates, has been identified as the primary cause of the tremendous failures of 20th century revolt?
http://fpif.org/twilight-leadership/
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20567-how-wall-street-power-brokers-are-designing-the-future-of-public-education-as-a-money-making-machine
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11160
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/11/the_secret_history_of_how_cuba
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11168
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/12/11/nelson_mandela_on_how_cuba_destroyed
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/11/how-the-anc-sold-out-south-africas-poor/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strategies-for-aging-vary
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=massive-aquifers-under-the-sea-could-sate-thirst
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2013/12/extreme-diets-can-quickly-alter-gut-bacteria
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/134
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20131211-self-repairing-running-shoes-made-from-3d-printed-protocells.html
http://mitne.ws/1kCRs9S
https://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2013/12/13/what-do-we-really-know-about-social-resistance-to-vaccines/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20467-noam-chomsky-interview
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/02/the_kerry_doctrine
http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/12/09/leaked-pussy-riot-greenpeace-activists-and-rioters-in-russia-will-be-freed-under-amnesty/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/09/asia-d09.html
the rantings of an out of touch old man. hyperbole aside, dude might want to consider if maybe the thrust of these actions are conscious, rather than the result of some kind of "illiteracy". silly liberals...
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20511-henry-giroux-the-spectacle-of-illiteracy-and-the-crisis-of-democracy
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/09/pers-d09.html
http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/montr%C3%A9al-police-kill-donald-m%C3%A9nard/20357
http://www8.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/11/indi-d11.html
right. because india is experiencing low population growth. ugh….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/court-in-india-criminalizes-homosexuality/2013/12/11/ea7274a6-6227-11e3-a7b4-4a75ebc432ab_story.html?hpid=z5
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/10/kerry_begins_iran_sales_job
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/02/the_design_and_fall_of_civilizations
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20456-in-europe-a-repudiation-of-austerity-policies
http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/12/10/qeqchi-leaders-attacked-with-machetes-on-eve-of-megadam-construction/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/adiz-d10.html
i don't mind walking to the store at all. in fact, i'm excited about how this will decrease the amount of paper wasted in flyers.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/11/canada_post_to_announce_radical_changes_to_save_itself.html
if you consider {public, private, public-private} to be an oversimplification of the possible approaches, public-private is by far the worst - it combines the exploitation of corporatism with the monopolization of mercantilism. as critical as i am of free market approaches, at least they don't enforce themselves like corporatism does
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20546-when-outsourcing-public-services-to-private-companies-goes-wrong
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11123
because focusing too much hope on leadership, and the authoritarian structures that creates, has been identified as the primary cause of the tremendous failures of 20th century revolt?
http://fpif.org/twilight-leadership/
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20567-how-wall-street-power-brokers-are-designing-the-future-of-public-education-as-a-money-making-machine
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11160
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/11/the_secret_history_of_how_cuba
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11168
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/12/11/nelson_mandela_on_how_cuba_destroyed
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/11/how-the-anc-sold-out-south-africas-poor/
at
07:17
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Windsor, ON, Canada
india is not interested in being a tool of american colonialism's desire to contain china.
this actually presents some serious problems for india, because america has made it clear that it demands that india be their central ally - more important than australia and even japan.
questioning whether he'll be banned from america is a little naive. will he be assassinated or overthrown?
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/10/will_india_s_next_leader_be_banned_in_america
this actually presents some serious problems for india, because america has made it clear that it demands that india be their central ally - more important than australia and even japan.
questioning whether he'll be banned from america is a little naive. will he be assassinated or overthrown?
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/10/will_india_s_next_leader_be_banned_in_america
at
05:23
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
mail delivery is a shitty job that has largely been rendered obsolete by technology. fighting for jobs against progress (which in a real leftist narrative is actually reactionary) is the kind of thing that makes the left seem like it's stuck in the past.
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/12/canadians-should-demand-reversal-canada-post-decision-cupw
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/12/canadians-should-demand-reversal-canada-post-decision-cupw
at
04:59
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
no. this guy is living in a pre-libya reality.
the russians are not going to bend like this again any time in the near future. they understand that appeasement has reached it's limits. they understand that if they don't put up a fight they're going to eventually be negotiating with "terrorists" on the outskirts of moscow.
the reason the united states did not invade syria was because russia would have treated it like the uk treated germany invading poland.
the calculus of a single global superpower is over now. get your head around it.
put another way, the russians put down their own red line, and the americans wisely decided against crossing it.
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/11/obama_adviser_extremism_possible_key_to_ending_syrian_civil_war
the russians are not going to bend like this again any time in the near future. they understand that appeasement has reached it's limits. they understand that if they don't put up a fight they're going to eventually be negotiating with "terrorists" on the outskirts of moscow.
the reason the united states did not invade syria was because russia would have treated it like the uk treated germany invading poland.
the calculus of a single global superpower is over now. get your head around it.
put another way, the russians put down their own red line, and the americans wisely decided against crossing it.
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/11/obama_adviser_extremism_possible_key_to_ending_syrian_civil_war
at
04:44
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
exactly. ultimately, i don't care if markets work (they don't). i just don't want to live that kind of lifestyle.
we can take it a step further. i don't want to be somebody's boss. i don't want to run a business. i don't want to stress out over bills and accounting and salaries. i don't want the responsibility of having somebody else's existence dependent on whether i "succeed" or "fail". i don't even want to think about the difference.
actual freedom is taking all that bullshit and burning it, not embracing it as a type of efficient order. fuck efficiency....
(link apparently lost)
we can take it a step further. i don't want to be somebody's boss. i don't want to run a business. i don't want to stress out over bills and accounting and salaries. i don't want the responsibility of having somebody else's existence dependent on whether i "succeed" or "fail". i don't even want to think about the difference.
actual freedom is taking all that bullshit and burning it, not embracing it as a type of efficient order. fuck efficiency....
(link apparently lost)
at
04:22
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
yeah. i tried to point this out.
people are comparing baby trudeau to his father in 1967. but, if you were 30 in 1967 you're currently probably dead or close to it. we should be thinking about trudeau in 1984; people that are 50-60 now were 20-30 then. this is where the real nostalgic voting power exists.
of course, trudeau in 1984 was the guy that lost quebec to mulroney after pissing everybody off by plowing through an unpopular constitution a few years after putting the province under martial law. he's also the person that pissed off the west with the nap.
even with all that, mulroney won precisely because he swung the boomer vote in ontario.
there was a time, under dion, when i thought the liberal party was worth supporting as a lesser evil. i don't think that's the case any more.
but it's really painful to watch them repeatedly make just flat out stupid tactical decisions. not *just* stupid tactical decisions, either. *obviously* stupid tactical decisions.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/09/trudeau_hasnt_seized_laytons_quebec_legacy_hbert.html
people are comparing baby trudeau to his father in 1967. but, if you were 30 in 1967 you're currently probably dead or close to it. we should be thinking about trudeau in 1984; people that are 50-60 now were 20-30 then. this is where the real nostalgic voting power exists.
of course, trudeau in 1984 was the guy that lost quebec to mulroney after pissing everybody off by plowing through an unpopular constitution a few years after putting the province under martial law. he's also the person that pissed off the west with the nap.
even with all that, mulroney won precisely because he swung the boomer vote in ontario.
there was a time, under dion, when i thought the liberal party was worth supporting as a lesser evil. i don't think that's the case any more.
but it's really painful to watch them repeatedly make just flat out stupid tactical decisions. not *just* stupid tactical decisions, either. *obviously* stupid tactical decisions.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/09/trudeau_hasnt_seized_laytons_quebec_legacy_hbert.html
at
03:37
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
*sigh*.
i don't think there was a thinking person in the world who believed for one moment that the accusations the americans leveled had the slightest tinge of legitimacy. if it were possible for credibility to be measured in a comparable way, american credibility would be *negative*. they have *anti-credibility*.
rather, when the americans make a claim, thinking people require that it be corroborated by a more trustworthy international actor, like russia. or china. in the absence of such a corroboration - or in the presence of contradictory claims - the null hypothesis of american hyper-pragmatism that treats truth as a casualty of ambition must be fallen back upon.
this is how we must operate. we must assume that american officials, even at the highest levels, are looking us in the eye and lying to us through their teeth. the burden of proof to demonstrate otherwise is entirely theirs. due to history, it is heightened, and also present in situations where the benefit of the doubt should be otherwise assumed - and ought to be outside of the extraneous circumstance of the americans having negative credibility.
so, this is the reality of things. the americans can say what they want, but nobody believes them anymore.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2013/12/08/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin
i don't think there was a thinking person in the world who believed for one moment that the accusations the americans leveled had the slightest tinge of legitimacy. if it were possible for credibility to be measured in a comparable way, american credibility would be *negative*. they have *anti-credibility*.
rather, when the americans make a claim, thinking people require that it be corroborated by a more trustworthy international actor, like russia. or china. in the absence of such a corroboration - or in the presence of contradictory claims - the null hypothesis of american hyper-pragmatism that treats truth as a casualty of ambition must be fallen back upon.
this is how we must operate. we must assume that american officials, even at the highest levels, are looking us in the eye and lying to us through their teeth. the burden of proof to demonstrate otherwise is entirely theirs. due to history, it is heightened, and also present in situations where the benefit of the doubt should be otherwise assumed - and ought to be outside of the extraneous circumstance of the americans having negative credibility.
so, this is the reality of things. the americans can say what they want, but nobody believes them anymore.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2013/12/08/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin
at
03:14
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
there's something about this article that i like.
i could say something about the demographics. doesn't the author know the 00s are over, meaning the painful return of the 80s is consequently also over, and it's now the 90s again? the article could have easily been written 20 years ago about jaded gen xers and no doubt at various other points of history as well.
so, this kind of widespread apathy isn't something that is unique to people under 35.
it walks a fine line between suggesting apathy is dangerous and acknowledging that it's a rational reaction to empirical evidence. this is the thing i like about it. i've been reading articles like this in the news for a long time. they've taken every possible approach, from arguing that APATHY IS UNCOOL (which has worked, temporarily, in fact a few times) to condemning it as evil or even idiotic. this is the first time i've seen a level of agreement, even if it is done grudgingly.
you shouldn't tell us anything, michael. if you can't agree with us outright, you should at least recognize us as evidence that the ideals underlying western civilization are deeply flawed. we're either evidence that the system isn't working very well or are evidence that humans actually aren't what you assumed we are. either way, what we provide is a challenge for the system to adjust to, rather than an opponent to be debated with.
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/12/08/suppose_they_threw_an_election_and_nobody_came.html
i could say something about the demographics. doesn't the author know the 00s are over, meaning the painful return of the 80s is consequently also over, and it's now the 90s again? the article could have easily been written 20 years ago about jaded gen xers and no doubt at various other points of history as well.
so, this kind of widespread apathy isn't something that is unique to people under 35.
it walks a fine line between suggesting apathy is dangerous and acknowledging that it's a rational reaction to empirical evidence. this is the thing i like about it. i've been reading articles like this in the news for a long time. they've taken every possible approach, from arguing that APATHY IS UNCOOL (which has worked, temporarily, in fact a few times) to condemning it as evil or even idiotic. this is the first time i've seen a level of agreement, even if it is done grudgingly.
you shouldn't tell us anything, michael. if you can't agree with us outright, you should at least recognize us as evidence that the ideals underlying western civilization are deeply flawed. we're either evidence that the system isn't working very well or are evidence that humans actually aren't what you assumed we are. either way, what we provide is a challenge for the system to adjust to, rather than an opponent to be debated with.
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/12/08/suppose_they_threw_an_election_and_nobody_came.html
at
02:54
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
lol.
food & retail workers are no more revolutionary than factory workers. there's a large potential for reform in organizing them, but they are ultimately not opposed to the interests of capital but aligned with it. let's fast forward slightly to malatesta for an understanding of that.
i don't want to give off the wrong idea. i think factories and retail sectors should both be run on vaguely syndicalist principles.
but, a nihilistic worker revolt with a threat of fascist overtones? any kind of worker revolt at all? hilarious...
if you're worried about rising fascism at a grassroots level, i'd be more concerned about completely co-opted organizations like moveon - and totally controlled movements like the tea party.
(fascism is always pushed down by the "ineffectual liberals" to prevent socialism, and has never been this sort of uprising of the unwashed. once again, hedges is hiding behind a wall of socialist (and now anarchist) rhetoric while he upholds wildly inaccurate liberal propaganda.)
it's basic fear-mongering. so, who is he working for?
(link apparently lost)
food & retail workers are no more revolutionary than factory workers. there's a large potential for reform in organizing them, but they are ultimately not opposed to the interests of capital but aligned with it. let's fast forward slightly to malatesta for an understanding of that.
i don't want to give off the wrong idea. i think factories and retail sectors should both be run on vaguely syndicalist principles.
but, a nihilistic worker revolt with a threat of fascist overtones? any kind of worker revolt at all? hilarious...
if you're worried about rising fascism at a grassroots level, i'd be more concerned about completely co-opted organizations like moveon - and totally controlled movements like the tea party.
(fascism is always pushed down by the "ineffectual liberals" to prevent socialism, and has never been this sort of uprising of the unwashed. once again, hedges is hiding behind a wall of socialist (and now anarchist) rhetoric while he upholds wildly inaccurate liberal propaganda.)
it's basic fear-mongering. so, who is he working for?
(link apparently lost)
at
02:23
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
....and obviously somebody like degrasse-tyson isn't going to deal with as much discrimination, and if people try it will be at their competitive disadvantage, sure. the free market argument makes some sense in this exceedingly restricted context.
in the context of flipping burgers, answering phones, running cash registers, hitting switches, doing patrols, etc....90+% of the jobs that actually exist...talent isn't any kind of factor in the hiring process, or in the ability to retain employment. human capital, here, is quite honestly just an input variable. so long as there are more unemployed people than there are jobs, employers will remain free to pick and choose based on whatever arbitrary nonsense they'd like.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-discrimination-tax
in the context of flipping burgers, answering phones, running cash registers, hitting switches, doing patrols, etc....90+% of the jobs that actually exist...talent isn't any kind of factor in the hiring process, or in the ability to retain employment. human capital, here, is quite honestly just an input variable. so long as there are more unemployed people than there are jobs, employers will remain free to pick and choose based on whatever arbitrary nonsense they'd like.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-discrimination-tax
at
01:34
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
game theory is powerful, but like anything else it depends on it's assumptions.
the idea that stealing something from a store is wrong follows only from the enforcement of hierarchical property rights. there's nothing organic about this. so, while they're presenting the results in terms of connection to a community, the analyses is skewed by the underlying assumption of a system of "ordered capitalism" that is enforced through violence; conversely, it could be argued that the results provide empirical data for hierarchical class relations - the closer you are to the inner circle of the bosses and property owners, the more likely you are to be a class traitor (or an owner or boss).
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-game-theory-evolution-party.html
the idea that stealing something from a store is wrong follows only from the enforcement of hierarchical property rights. there's nothing organic about this. so, while they're presenting the results in terms of connection to a community, the analyses is skewed by the underlying assumption of a system of "ordered capitalism" that is enforced through violence; conversely, it could be argued that the results provide empirical data for hierarchical class relations - the closer you are to the inner circle of the bosses and property owners, the more likely you are to be a class traitor (or an owner or boss).
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-game-theory-evolution-party.html
at
01:01
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Saturday, December 14, 2013
it's curious how this manages to whitewash the reality that santa claus is not actually based on "st. nicholas" but is a merging of pagan mythology with colonialism. in the reformation era northern european legends, the "gifts" that "santa" brings are made by "elves" that happen to be black and under the colonial domination of the european nation that receives the gifts. the santa claus story, itself, is a rationalization of white supremacist ideology. it follows that santa is indeed as white as adolf hitler was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdkGA_rgHRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdkGA_rgHRY
at
07:32
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/protesters-occupy-quebec-education-minister-s-office-1.2458566
this strikes me as an answer. it incorporates what everybody realized, and it doesn't collapse into new age idiocy. this is how entanglement works.
http://mitne.ws/IVunni
http://www.nature.com/news/not-all-species-deteriorate-with-age-1.14322
silliness. i'm willing to openly acknowledge that something existed _before_ the universe, but everything has a start and an end. the idea of an infinite universe isn't worth seriously contemplating.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rainbow-gravity-universe-beginning
https://www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/curiosity/index.xhtml
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2013/12/07/harvesting-electricity-triboelectric-generators-capture-wasted-power
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/133
this strikes me as an answer. it incorporates what everybody realized, and it doesn't collapse into new age idiocy. this is how entanglement works.
http://mitne.ws/IVunni
http://www.nature.com/news/not-all-species-deteriorate-with-age-1.14322
silliness. i'm willing to openly acknowledge that something existed _before_ the universe, but everything has a start and an end. the idea of an infinite universe isn't worth seriously contemplating.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rainbow-gravity-universe-beginning
https://www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/curiosity/index.xhtml
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2013/12/07/harvesting-electricity-triboelectric-generators-capture-wasted-power
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/133
at
07:17
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
on the question of santa’s skin colour
jessica amber murray
santa isn't just white - he's a white supremacist, too. we should be deconstructing the racism, not denying it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas#The_Netherlands:_Zwarte_Piet
dave
Sinterklaas isn't Santa, hes one of the European predecessors that the Santa figure drew from when it was created in America in the 19th century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz
Similiar to this guy, there is a number of European seasonal figures that Santa draws from
jessica amber murray
i think it's more accurate to say that sinterklaas evolved into santa claus in the dutch colony of new amsterdam (now called new york). some other ideas may have found their way into the construction, but he's the core of what santa claus is in the sense that he's the root story that the other traditions get attached to.
it seems like it's the same basic process, though, in the sense that both the german and slavic legends are the result of being colonized by christians. in both cases, traditional gods are converted into mythical figures that uphold rather than challenge the authority of the church.
santa isn't just white - he's a white supremacist, too. we should be deconstructing the racism, not denying it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas#The_Netherlands:_Zwarte_Piet
dave
Sinterklaas isn't Santa, hes one of the European predecessors that the Santa figure drew from when it was created in America in the 19th century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz
Similiar to this guy, there is a number of European seasonal figures that Santa draws from
jessica amber murray
i think it's more accurate to say that sinterklaas evolved into santa claus in the dutch colony of new amsterdam (now called new york). some other ideas may have found their way into the construction, but he's the core of what santa claus is in the sense that he's the root story that the other traditions get attached to.
it seems like it's the same basic process, though, in the sense that both the german and slavic legends are the result of being colonized by christians. in both cases, traditional gods are converted into mythical figures that uphold rather than challenge the authority of the church.
at
05:12
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
my jesus year is fast approaching. i've been thinking about it a lot, actually.
i can only make one promise: i will not stare at anybody like they need to be saved.
i can only make one promise: i will not stare at anybody like they need to be saved.
at
04:17
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
this is a balanced and informative talk by somebody that knows what they're talking about. it's a much more realistic analysis than is usually rubber-stamped for academic consumption and may consequently provided a slightly different perspective than you're used to hearing. but this is the right perspective and the one you should hear.
at
03:14
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Friday, December 13, 2013
actually, i would drastically prefer to live in a universe that is defined by logical rules and develops according to an understandable framework that follows a rational outline. i didn't choose to live within the chaos of absolute stochastic mayhem. alas...
at
21:21
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
prematurely republishing inri (inri015)
so, post-production on this is complete, along with some minor changes - removal of awkward samples, basically.
i consider this a listenable release. the lyrics are not always great (although there's a few i like that i'll pull out for inricycled B), but they either express valid viewpoints as i was experiencing them or they pull of the shock rock thing well enough to be effective. less than half of this will be recycled, but i would only really like to actually strike out track 8.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-lp
i consider this a listenable release. the lyrics are not always great (although there's a few i like that i'll pull out for inricycled B), but they either express valid viewpoints as i was experiencing them or they pull of the shock rock thing well enough to be effective. less than half of this will be recycled, but i would only really like to actually strike out track 8.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-lp
at
18:32
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Thursday, December 12, 2013
i think this article makes some valid points, but it goes a little too far and in the process exposes the author's reactionary white privilege.
my reading of mandela is essentially that he didn't really know what he was doing. he campaigned from the left based on it's ideals and then found himself in power at the confluence of the collapse of communism and the rise of neo-liberalism. he followed his advisers to the implementation of failed reforms.
i've compared him to trudeau before and will again. people attack trudeau for his economic policies. the truth is trudeau didn't actually understand anything about economics, he was a lawyer with an interest in philosophy, and if you spend some time searching through his biography and reading some of his statements you'll realize he admitted as much. on the one hand, trudeau took power in an economic mess - nixon shock, opec embargo, collapse of keynesian economic theory. even if he did have a clue, the challenges were substantial. he would have had to rely on advice, regardless. and we now know that the experts studying the situation were as flabbergasted as anybody else.
so, trudeau - a social liberal by any concept of the term and one with a background in workplace organizing that ran on an election platform that promised direct democracy - ended up carrying out experiments on behalf of milton friedman. canada liked monetarism before it was cool. and trudeau had no idea what he was implementing.
likewise, when mandela's advisers came to him and presented trickle down as a solution, he went for it because he trusted the advice and believed it was the way forward in a post-communist future. the task, now, is to point out that it failed. there's no need to vilify and no value in it.
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/26519
my reading of mandela is essentially that he didn't really know what he was doing. he campaigned from the left based on it's ideals and then found himself in power at the confluence of the collapse of communism and the rise of neo-liberalism. he followed his advisers to the implementation of failed reforms.
i've compared him to trudeau before and will again. people attack trudeau for his economic policies. the truth is trudeau didn't actually understand anything about economics, he was a lawyer with an interest in philosophy, and if you spend some time searching through his biography and reading some of his statements you'll realize he admitted as much. on the one hand, trudeau took power in an economic mess - nixon shock, opec embargo, collapse of keynesian economic theory. even if he did have a clue, the challenges were substantial. he would have had to rely on advice, regardless. and we now know that the experts studying the situation were as flabbergasted as anybody else.
so, trudeau - a social liberal by any concept of the term and one with a background in workplace organizing that ran on an election platform that promised direct democracy - ended up carrying out experiments on behalf of milton friedman. canada liked monetarism before it was cool. and trudeau had no idea what he was implementing.
likewise, when mandela's advisers came to him and presented trickle down as a solution, he went for it because he trusted the advice and believed it was the way forward in a post-communist future. the task, now, is to point out that it failed. there's no need to vilify and no value in it.
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/26519
at
07:17
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
the situation's sort of complex. apparently, the israeli right (netanyahu is actually in the centre of the heavily rightward-skewed israeli spectrum) rejected the idea of planned resettlement as a sort of welfare.
as mentioned, beyond the problems of resettlement itself, i'm concerned about the ramifications regarding forced resettlement of israeli citizens that happen to be arabs and the collapse of the rule of law in israel. this is a different thing than bulldozing over villages in the occupied territories. like most people on the left, i don't want multiple states in the region that are defined by ethnic or religious identities. that's a formula for perpetual violence, nationalism, racism, etc. rather, i want to see a single cosmopolitan, multicultural, multi-ethnic state that buries the nineteenth century ideal of ethnic nationalism. i reject the idea that jews and arabs are too different to live together. reality is that they're virtually indistinguishable - same genes, same language, same religion.
http://972mag.com/bill-to-displace-israels-bedouin-to-be-scrapped-laws-drafter-says/83525/
in all honesty, the best thing that could happen to the area is an invasion by an outside force. it's interesting to contemplate an alternate history where the ottoman empire maintained control of the area long enough to accommodate jewish resettlement after wwII.
another thing to think about is the possibility of a new messianic cult arising in the region. hey, religion is a statist fantasy to begin with; now's a good time to make a new one up.
i'm really not interested in ideas that maintain the status quo and merely seek to balance power. the problem is that there's a gang of armed morons in charge that think god has the right to grant fiefs. that's what needs to be resolved.
it's not a question of sharing the "holy land", it's a process of bringing people to terms with the truth that there is no such thing as "holy land".
only a secular, multicultural state that rejects ethnic nationalism can get us there.
and this idea of rounding up arabs and putting them on reserves is really damaging to that only possible end goal.
as mentioned, beyond the problems of resettlement itself, i'm concerned about the ramifications regarding forced resettlement of israeli citizens that happen to be arabs and the collapse of the rule of law in israel. this is a different thing than bulldozing over villages in the occupied territories. like most people on the left, i don't want multiple states in the region that are defined by ethnic or religious identities. that's a formula for perpetual violence, nationalism, racism, etc. rather, i want to see a single cosmopolitan, multicultural, multi-ethnic state that buries the nineteenth century ideal of ethnic nationalism. i reject the idea that jews and arabs are too different to live together. reality is that they're virtually indistinguishable - same genes, same language, same religion.
http://972mag.com/bill-to-displace-israels-bedouin-to-be-scrapped-laws-drafter-says/83525/
in all honesty, the best thing that could happen to the area is an invasion by an outside force. it's interesting to contemplate an alternate history where the ottoman empire maintained control of the area long enough to accommodate jewish resettlement after wwII.
another thing to think about is the possibility of a new messianic cult arising in the region. hey, religion is a statist fantasy to begin with; now's a good time to make a new one up.
i'm really not interested in ideas that maintain the status quo and merely seek to balance power. the problem is that there's a gang of armed morons in charge that think god has the right to grant fiefs. that's what needs to be resolved.
it's not a question of sharing the "holy land", it's a process of bringing people to terms with the truth that there is no such thing as "holy land".
only a secular, multicultural state that rejects ethnic nationalism can get us there.
and this idea of rounding up arabs and putting them on reserves is really damaging to that only possible end goal.
at
06:13
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
spent hours doing post-production, can't tell the difference between result and initial wave files.
grargh. let me try this again...
i'll never forgive myself for deleting all the source files for this ancient stuff. something as simple as boosting the guitars turns into a math problem about fundamental frequencies and harmonic overtones. ugh...
not to mention those samples. to be 17 again would be to understand what the fuck i was thinking.
the mastering process on this stuff consisted of compressing the wave files to mp3. the fraunhofer method, i suppose. hey, that *is* a type of compression and it was a valid best approach when mastering software was out of the reach of warez on home pcs.
btw, my take on warez is that if intellectual property is to exist at all then it should be very minimal in scope. ten years, tops. i don't tend to go after the newest releases, but i think previous cycle software should be treated as freeware.
anyways, this is long overdue to be run through some stereo imaging and harmonic exciters. but there's just a handful of places where the mix has come out fucked...
so, i'm running over the source material with parametric eqs trying to get just the right frequencies out. almost done. and it's almost painful, really.
^ only a perfectionist, huh? lol.
grargh. let me try this again...
i'll never forgive myself for deleting all the source files for this ancient stuff. something as simple as boosting the guitars turns into a math problem about fundamental frequencies and harmonic overtones. ugh...
not to mention those samples. to be 17 again would be to understand what the fuck i was thinking.
the mastering process on this stuff consisted of compressing the wave files to mp3. the fraunhofer method, i suppose. hey, that *is* a type of compression and it was a valid best approach when mastering software was out of the reach of warez on home pcs.
btw, my take on warez is that if intellectual property is to exist at all then it should be very minimal in scope. ten years, tops. i don't tend to go after the newest releases, but i think previous cycle software should be treated as freeware.
anyways, this is long overdue to be run through some stereo imaging and harmonic exciters. but there's just a handful of places where the mix has come out fucked...
so, i'm running over the source material with parametric eqs trying to get just the right frequencies out. almost done. and it's almost painful, really.
^ only a perfectionist, huh? lol.
at
04:00
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
publishing inricycled a (inri002)
so, i just spent the last several months flooding everybody's feed with music that i wrote in the 90s as a teenager, criticizing both it and myself and more or less suggesting that you don't bother listening to what i'm spamming you with.
this inri material has been a problem for me for years because quite a bit of it is some of the music i've written that's closest to me (consider i was around 15 when i wrote most of it), but quite a bit of it is also absolutely terrible and unoriginal garbage and it's all intertwined with itself.
i've gone over it a few times and pulled out sections for listenable consumption. it's the only really workable approach. I had never done that for the cassette demos, though.
i wanted everything available for analysis in it's rawest form, that's why i uploaded. but, that's not the material i'd ever send anybody to go listen to. i'm actually really happy that this is finally put together because it gives me a document of myself in early high school (the tenth grade) that i can actually send people towards.
so, no, you probably don't want to listen to the other 90s stuff i was posting. the awful lyrics, the rip-offs, the sometimes terrible playing and other characteristics make those demos of historical value only.
this compilation i've just pulled out, though, is void of all of that and is really quite listenable. if you like noisy grunge/punk/doom/hardcore with a prog/fusion/jazz/blues flair (and can handle the odd ambient or psychedelic pop embellishment) then you might get some enjoyment out of it. i was a pretty talented little guitarist...
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inricycled-a
===
i've released a dozen different things with the title "inricycled", making it more of a concept than a release. it's not just the material i'm recycling, now, it's the idea of recycling material.
i hope this is the final iteration. the difference, here, is that i'm trying to isolate segments of songs that people interested in my more recent compositions would find interesting. these fragments aren't entirely void of lyrics, but they're very minimal. they're also quite short.
i've retitled most of the tracks to get a feel of what the music sounds like and/or what i was thinking as i was writing it.
the material in this volume is taken from the following cassette demos:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-cassette-demo-1 (1996)
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-cassette-demo-2 (1997)
this is the best possible absolute starting point for my musical material.
sequenced and mildly modified in dec, 2013. as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, drums, vocals, keyboards, tapes, found sounds, metronomes, digital wave editing, production.
released july 1, 1997
this inri material has been a problem for me for years because quite a bit of it is some of the music i've written that's closest to me (consider i was around 15 when i wrote most of it), but quite a bit of it is also absolutely terrible and unoriginal garbage and it's all intertwined with itself.
i've gone over it a few times and pulled out sections for listenable consumption. it's the only really workable approach. I had never done that for the cassette demos, though.
i wanted everything available for analysis in it's rawest form, that's why i uploaded. but, that's not the material i'd ever send anybody to go listen to. i'm actually really happy that this is finally put together because it gives me a document of myself in early high school (the tenth grade) that i can actually send people towards.
so, no, you probably don't want to listen to the other 90s stuff i was posting. the awful lyrics, the rip-offs, the sometimes terrible playing and other characteristics make those demos of historical value only.
this compilation i've just pulled out, though, is void of all of that and is really quite listenable. if you like noisy grunge/punk/doom/hardcore with a prog/fusion/jazz/blues flair (and can handle the odd ambient or psychedelic pop embellishment) then you might get some enjoyment out of it. i was a pretty talented little guitarist...
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inricycled-a
===
i've released a dozen different things with the title "inricycled", making it more of a concept than a release. it's not just the material i'm recycling, now, it's the idea of recycling material.
i hope this is the final iteration. the difference, here, is that i'm trying to isolate segments of songs that people interested in my more recent compositions would find interesting. these fragments aren't entirely void of lyrics, but they're very minimal. they're also quite short.
i've retitled most of the tracks to get a feel of what the music sounds like and/or what i was thinking as i was writing it.
the material in this volume is taken from the following cassette demos:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-cassette-demo-1 (1996)
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-cassette-demo-2 (1997)
this is the best possible absolute starting point for my musical material.
sequenced and mildly modified in dec, 2013. as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, drums, vocals, keyboards, tapes, found sounds, metronomes, digital wave editing, production.
released july 1, 1997
at
22:57
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
no they're not. this is a very misleading headline, covering very cynical politics. unifor is angling for refineries to be built in canada. they're going to co-opt the first nations struggle to try and get that done, but to suggest that they are "on the same side" as first nations, here, is a flat out lie.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/energy-union-backs-first-nations-against-northern-gateway/article15799496/
‘We’ll be there in solidarity to support them,’ says Unifor area director Gavin McGarrigle.
first nations would be wise to avoid any strategic planning with big labour.
thankfully, i think they mostly realize this.
the truth is that the article itself is probably trying to lump together the opposition to the pipeline as "unions and indians". the conservatives benefit from that kind of optics, as both groups are deeply unpopular.
you can hear ezra, now.
"today, an evil axis of communists and savages descended upon the peaceful oil executives of central alberta and threatened to sacrifice them to their nature gods unless certain concessions were made. we're going to dedicate this entire program to the existential threat that this axis poses to our freedoms in canada."
that's only a mild exaggeration.
in truth, unifor does not care about the ecological issues. if they get their way, and refineries get built, they will immediately swing their support for pipelines to move the refined product. that could conceivably have a catastrophic effect on the ability to actually resist.
it's hard to reject temporary allies, especially when they're powerful, but first nations should really be making an attempt to clarify that the nature of their opposition is drastically different than unifor's. unifor's solidarity should be rejected in no uncertain terms. this would hopefully have the effect of undercutting support for unifor's proposed refineries, which is a more important goal than building a level of transparently fake solidarity that will eventually backfire.
unifor's "solidarity" is, in fact, an attempt to co-opt an ecological movement into one for economic nationalism, at the cost of severe ecological ruin.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/energy-union-backs-first-nations-against-northern-gateway/article15799496/
‘We’ll be there in solidarity to support them,’ says Unifor area director Gavin McGarrigle.
first nations would be wise to avoid any strategic planning with big labour.
thankfully, i think they mostly realize this.
the truth is that the article itself is probably trying to lump together the opposition to the pipeline as "unions and indians". the conservatives benefit from that kind of optics, as both groups are deeply unpopular.
you can hear ezra, now.
"today, an evil axis of communists and savages descended upon the peaceful oil executives of central alberta and threatened to sacrifice them to their nature gods unless certain concessions were made. we're going to dedicate this entire program to the existential threat that this axis poses to our freedoms in canada."
that's only a mild exaggeration.
in truth, unifor does not care about the ecological issues. if they get their way, and refineries get built, they will immediately swing their support for pipelines to move the refined product. that could conceivably have a catastrophic effect on the ability to actually resist.
it's hard to reject temporary allies, especially when they're powerful, but first nations should really be making an attempt to clarify that the nature of their opposition is drastically different than unifor's. unifor's solidarity should be rejected in no uncertain terms. this would hopefully have the effect of undercutting support for unifor's proposed refineries, which is a more important goal than building a level of transparently fake solidarity that will eventually backfire.
unifor's "solidarity" is, in fact, an attempt to co-opt an ecological movement into one for economic nationalism, at the cost of severe ecological ruin.
at
03:14
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
Monday, December 9, 2013
i hate aristotle. what a dork.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=aristotle-thought-the-brain-was-a-radiator
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-human-stem-cells-functional-lung.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-robot-wiper-tackles-solar-panel.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=23andme-is-terrifying-but-not-for-reasons-fda
http://news.sciencemag.org/asiapacific/2013/11/new-middle-eastern-virus-found-camels
i'm down with this, and including elephants and dolphins.
http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2013/12/lawsuits-could-turn-chimpanzees-legal-persons
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/nov/27/does-the-positron-excess-really-exist
https://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/11/25/cartesian/
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-scientists-low-cost-open-source-d-metal.html
http://www.nature.com/news/iran-hit-by-drug-shortage-1.14292
nobody is even listening anymore...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=safe-limit-for-global-warming
In 2011, there were 44 incidents of streets or portions of structures collapsing into the quarries, a number that rose to 77 in 2012 and 83 to date in 2013.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secret-labyrinth-of-tunnels-under-rome-mapped
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/12012013/article/scientists-sequence-400-000-year-old-hominin-dna
stop stargazing and get to work in the factory! your fancy contraptions ain't making me no money. go on, now. get....
http://www.nature.com/news/nasa-funding-shuffle-alarms-planetary-scientists-1.14304
fuck the surface, let's just start over underground.
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-scientists-vast-undersea-freshwater-reserves.html
http://www.nature.com/news/hominin-dna-baffles-experts-1.14294
this is being promoted as important. it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. maybe the genetic factors that lead to autism also lead to stomach issues...which would be a minor discovery....
http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674%2813%2901473-6
http://blogs.plos.org/onscienceblogs/2013/12/06/ancient-dna-gets-older-and-multiple-births-get-bigger/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/30/berl-n30.html
well, whoever thought protest accomplished anything, anyways? stop protesting and start rebuilding.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/30/spai-n30.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bangladesh-factory-burned-down-by-angry-workers-1.2445170
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/02/adiz-d02.html
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/29/afghanistan_karzai_bilateral_security
hopefully the wto doesn't go after them...
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/12/02/ontario_to_bring_in_ethical_sourcing_policy_for_clothing.html
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11122
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20372-the-googlization-of-the-far-right-why-is-google-funding-grover-norquist-heritage-action-and-alec
http://complex.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/02/if_china_s_airspace_grab_turns_violent
strategically, america correctly finds the idea of democracy in pakistan to be threatening to it's aims in the region.
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/02/meet_the_most_powerful_man_in_pakistan
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/02/understanding-egypt-today/
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/a-drone-delivery-expert-answers-the-big-questions-about-amazons-plans/281980/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/02/adiz-d02.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/02/the-karzai-dilemma/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/02/thai-d02.html
tool use is now understood to be widespread, even amongst animals that otherwise show no heightened level of intelligence. our use of tools is not what makes us special, if we wish to hang on to the false idea that we're special.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/researchers-discover-the-hot-new-technology-throwing-javelins/281976/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11084
http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/12/03/keystone-xls-southern-leg-to-be-operational-on-jan-3/
when i saw her speak in ottawa, it was very clear to me that she was not an independent agent. she's being prepped for a powerful role in the region.
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/20396-a-daughter-is-born-in-the-swat-valley-of-pakistan-and-set-free-by-knowledge
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/03/mps_reform_bill_would_strike_a_blow_for_democracy.html
um, er, uh, see, contracting out makes it so we all benefit from higher costs: both me and my buddies.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/03/tony_clement_defends_contracting_out_government_services.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/03/pers-d03.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/03/sale-d03.html
well, we already know what it looks like. it's fox news. nor do the major media outlets really follow any serious objectivity, it's all lip service. but actually openly dropping the fantasy? fox.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/a-news-organization-that-rejects-the-view-from-nowhere/281979/
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-03/why-canadas-oil-sands-look-like-a-shaky-investment
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20412-the-facts-are-in-austerity-politics-doesnt-work
there are some valid points made here about slacktivism, but technology is not going to change to accommodate the left - and marx would have ripped this guy apart as a naive utopian for suggesting as much. rather, the left needs to adapt to technology. there will be some aspects of the left that won't, but we'll have to leave them in the 20th century as we move forwards. to be honest? for the most part, i'll bid good riddance to it.
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/12/cyberlibertarians-digital-deletion-of-the-left/
i can't believe that he lacked the spine to call for a reversal of the ridiculous corporate tax breaks that the state has implemented.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/4/detroit_bankruptcy_wall_street_lost_revenues
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/04/bide-d04.html
http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2013/11/wildcat-strikes-push-china-write-new-labor-laws
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11136
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/04/the-economic-and-political-context-of-student-debt/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20404-syrias-criminal-rebels
i haven't even heard anybody talk about a possible bail out.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/04/bank-d04.html
http://libcom.org/blog/argentinian-police-go-strike-people-go-shopping-04122013
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/12/04/unpaid_interns_what_the_new_rules_would_cover.html
http://complex.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/04/team_obama_changes_course_appears_to_accept_china_air_defense_zone
right. because we're just property - just input variables. here's a novel solution to the problem of charles kenny - feed him to alligators on live television.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/04/linked_out_send_americas_unemployed_abroad
http://fpif.org/chinas-struggle-air-sea/
all credit rating is political. it's made no sense for years.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20446-frances-ideological-downgrade
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11128
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/04/the_linchpin_why_india_needs_to_be_center_us_asia_pivot
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/05/adiz-d05.html
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/05/global_elites_anxious_about_income_disparity_doing_nothing_to_fix_it_partner/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11134
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/06/bide-d06.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-wynne-agree-ring-of-fire-funding-must-be-of-public-benefit-1.2452230
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18352-mr-president-economic-injustice-will-not-end-without-systemic-economic-change
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20405-california-ships-prisoners-out-of-state-to-reduce-its-prison-population
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/06/did-iran-have-to-give-up-so-much-to-get-so-little/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11154
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/06/pers-d06.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/07/nzaz-d07.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/07/bide-d07.html
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20496-operation-enduring-occupation
http://www.economist.com/news/21589156-moose-loses-its-shades-uncool-canada
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=aristotle-thought-the-brain-was-a-radiator
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-human-stem-cells-functional-lung.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-robot-wiper-tackles-solar-panel.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=23andme-is-terrifying-but-not-for-reasons-fda
http://news.sciencemag.org/asiapacific/2013/11/new-middle-eastern-virus-found-camels
i'm down with this, and including elephants and dolphins.
http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2013/12/lawsuits-could-turn-chimpanzees-legal-persons
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/nov/27/does-the-positron-excess-really-exist
https://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/11/25/cartesian/
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-scientists-low-cost-open-source-d-metal.html
http://www.nature.com/news/iran-hit-by-drug-shortage-1.14292
nobody is even listening anymore...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=safe-limit-for-global-warming
In 2011, there were 44 incidents of streets or portions of structures collapsing into the quarries, a number that rose to 77 in 2012 and 83 to date in 2013.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secret-labyrinth-of-tunnels-under-rome-mapped
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/12012013/article/scientists-sequence-400-000-year-old-hominin-dna
stop stargazing and get to work in the factory! your fancy contraptions ain't making me no money. go on, now. get....
http://www.nature.com/news/nasa-funding-shuffle-alarms-planetary-scientists-1.14304
fuck the surface, let's just start over underground.
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-scientists-vast-undersea-freshwater-reserves.html
http://www.nature.com/news/hominin-dna-baffles-experts-1.14294
this is being promoted as important. it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. maybe the genetic factors that lead to autism also lead to stomach issues...which would be a minor discovery....
http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674%2813%2901473-6
http://blogs.plos.org/onscienceblogs/2013/12/06/ancient-dna-gets-older-and-multiple-births-get-bigger/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/30/berl-n30.html
well, whoever thought protest accomplished anything, anyways? stop protesting and start rebuilding.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/30/spai-n30.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bangladesh-factory-burned-down-by-angry-workers-1.2445170
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/02/adiz-d02.html
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/29/afghanistan_karzai_bilateral_security
hopefully the wto doesn't go after them...
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/12/02/ontario_to_bring_in_ethical_sourcing_policy_for_clothing.html
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11122
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20372-the-googlization-of-the-far-right-why-is-google-funding-grover-norquist-heritage-action-and-alec
http://complex.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/02/if_china_s_airspace_grab_turns_violent
strategically, america correctly finds the idea of democracy in pakistan to be threatening to it's aims in the region.
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/02/meet_the_most_powerful_man_in_pakistan
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/02/understanding-egypt-today/
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/a-drone-delivery-expert-answers-the-big-questions-about-amazons-plans/281980/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/02/adiz-d02.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/02/the-karzai-dilemma/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/02/thai-d02.html
tool use is now understood to be widespread, even amongst animals that otherwise show no heightened level of intelligence. our use of tools is not what makes us special, if we wish to hang on to the false idea that we're special.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/researchers-discover-the-hot-new-technology-throwing-javelins/281976/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11084
http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/12/03/keystone-xls-southern-leg-to-be-operational-on-jan-3/
when i saw her speak in ottawa, it was very clear to me that she was not an independent agent. she's being prepped for a powerful role in the region.
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/20396-a-daughter-is-born-in-the-swat-valley-of-pakistan-and-set-free-by-knowledge
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/03/mps_reform_bill_would_strike_a_blow_for_democracy.html
um, er, uh, see, contracting out makes it so we all benefit from higher costs: both me and my buddies.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/03/tony_clement_defends_contracting_out_government_services.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/03/pers-d03.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/03/sale-d03.html
well, we already know what it looks like. it's fox news. nor do the major media outlets really follow any serious objectivity, it's all lip service. but actually openly dropping the fantasy? fox.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/a-news-organization-that-rejects-the-view-from-nowhere/281979/
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-03/why-canadas-oil-sands-look-like-a-shaky-investment
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20412-the-facts-are-in-austerity-politics-doesnt-work
there are some valid points made here about slacktivism, but technology is not going to change to accommodate the left - and marx would have ripped this guy apart as a naive utopian for suggesting as much. rather, the left needs to adapt to technology. there will be some aspects of the left that won't, but we'll have to leave them in the 20th century as we move forwards. to be honest? for the most part, i'll bid good riddance to it.
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/12/cyberlibertarians-digital-deletion-of-the-left/
i can't believe that he lacked the spine to call for a reversal of the ridiculous corporate tax breaks that the state has implemented.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/4/detroit_bankruptcy_wall_street_lost_revenues
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/04/bide-d04.html
http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2013/11/wildcat-strikes-push-china-write-new-labor-laws
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11136
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/04/the-economic-and-political-context-of-student-debt/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20404-syrias-criminal-rebels
i haven't even heard anybody talk about a possible bail out.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/04/bank-d04.html
http://libcom.org/blog/argentinian-police-go-strike-people-go-shopping-04122013
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/12/04/unpaid_interns_what_the_new_rules_would_cover.html
http://complex.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/04/team_obama_changes_course_appears_to_accept_china_air_defense_zone
right. because we're just property - just input variables. here's a novel solution to the problem of charles kenny - feed him to alligators on live television.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/04/linked_out_send_americas_unemployed_abroad
http://fpif.org/chinas-struggle-air-sea/
all credit rating is political. it's made no sense for years.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20446-frances-ideological-downgrade
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11128
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/04/the_linchpin_why_india_needs_to_be_center_us_asia_pivot
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/05/adiz-d05.html
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/05/global_elites_anxious_about_income_disparity_doing_nothing_to_fix_it_partner/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11134
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/06/bide-d06.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-wynne-agree-ring-of-fire-funding-must-be-of-public-benefit-1.2452230
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18352-mr-president-economic-injustice-will-not-end-without-systemic-economic-change
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20405-california-ships-prisoners-out-of-state-to-reduce-its-prison-population
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/06/did-iran-have-to-give-up-so-much-to-get-so-little/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11154
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/06/pers-d06.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/07/nzaz-d07.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/07/bide-d07.html
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20496-operation-enduring-occupation
http://www.economist.com/news/21589156-moose-loses-its-shades-uncool-canada
at
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this is funny math. MLEs. probability theory. ugh. i sort of hate it. worse, you don't want to start letting programmers do the math because the flat reality is that they're going to do it wrong.
...but i realize that there's a huge class of relatively simple practical problems that are NP and that require complete rethinks to approach.
to put it another way, the algorithm is going to have very, very bad results from time to time. so, you write in a time-out operation and start again. it's random, so you could get 100 bad results in a row. that's extreme, but it will happen from time to time. when you do get a good result, though, the guessing is often going to be faster than a systematic approach.
but, it's all guessing and working with probabilities.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131202121546.htm
...but i realize that there's a huge class of relatively simple practical problems that are NP and that require complete rethinks to approach.
to put it another way, the algorithm is going to have very, very bad results from time to time. so, you write in a time-out operation and start again. it's random, so you could get 100 bad results in a row. that's extreme, but it will happen from time to time. when you do get a good result, though, the guessing is often going to be faster than a systematic approach.
but, it's all guessing and working with probabilities.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131202121546.htm
at
01:44
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
well, they sucked. they rode a wave of leftist indignation to a second place showing, then elected a fucking liberal. actually, that's not fair - mulcair has demonstrated that he's opposed to ideology, in general, and merely seeks power. so, they elected a megalomaniac masquerading as a fucking liberal.
suck. sorry.
http://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2013/12/beyond-politics-origins-and-future-ndp%E2%80%99s-orange-wave
suck. sorry.
http://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2013/12/beyond-politics-origins-and-future-ndp%E2%80%99s-orange-wave
at
01:12
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Windsor, ON, Canada
the denisovans hadn't been discovered yet when i was working this out (neither had the "hobbit"), but i can sort of work them in. this, i'm having trouble making meaning of. it's easy to make sense of, but i don't see it shedding light on anything.
except, maybe, this: basque is a language isolate, sometimes connected to caucasian languages and north american languages that are ultimately siberian. 400 000 years ago is clearly too early to be talking about any existing languages. however, if continuity can be developed until fairly recently it is a possible diffusion point.
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-oldest-hominin-dna-sequenced.html
except, maybe, this: basque is a language isolate, sometimes connected to caucasian languages and north american languages that are ultimately siberian. 400 000 years ago is clearly too early to be talking about any existing languages. however, if continuity can be developed until fairly recently it is a possible diffusion point.
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-oldest-hominin-dna-sequenced.html
at
00:43
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
this was bound to happen eventually. it's not that macs and linux machines are inherently safer. well, maybe they're a little harder to hack into, but you shouldn't be worried about somebody hacking into your machine. you should be worried about getting something in your email, or running a compromised program or opening the wrong website.
see, here's the thing: windows had something like 95% market share at one point. i know it's gone down a lot, but it's still dominant. you're an 31337 hax0r. why bother with the machine with 8% or 13% market share? no, you want the high probability option. so you write your 1337 scripts to go after windows. or, windoze, as you'd call it.
that's the only reason that macs and linux boxes have less viruses targeted towards them. it's just a smaller market. and, again, most viruses spread nowadays through user behaviour. the weakest link is not your operating system, it's you.
macs are growing steadily but slowly. they might maybe hit 15% soon if the current rate continues, and 20% by 2020. with those kinds of numbers, it's not likely that virus makers will bother targeting mac users any time soon.
android, though, is dominating the market. 81% market share in q3. and these are the devices that people are using to connect directly to their bank accounts, credit card companies...
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-symantec-worm-linuxthreat-devices.html
see, here's the thing: windows had something like 95% market share at one point. i know it's gone down a lot, but it's still dominant. you're an 31337 hax0r. why bother with the machine with 8% or 13% market share? no, you want the high probability option. so you write your 1337 scripts to go after windows. or, windoze, as you'd call it.
that's the only reason that macs and linux boxes have less viruses targeted towards them. it's just a smaller market. and, again, most viruses spread nowadays through user behaviour. the weakest link is not your operating system, it's you.
macs are growing steadily but slowly. they might maybe hit 15% soon if the current rate continues, and 20% by 2020. with those kinds of numbers, it's not likely that virus makers will bother targeting mac users any time soon.
android, though, is dominating the market. 81% market share in q3. and these are the devices that people are using to connect directly to their bank accounts, credit card companies...
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-symantec-worm-linuxthreat-devices.html
at
00:22
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
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