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and I think of the 19th and 20th century lynchings of African-Americans.
noted, but there's historical use of a term, and current use of a term.
gay old time being a prime example of the former, or the later, depending on what you wish to describe. -
Lynching, incidentally, has almost precisely nothing to do with how we're discussing the incident. No one here has come anywhere near calling for Veitch to be hung up by a tree, burned, beaten, and have his genitals and tongue cut out, while the rest of the community has a picnic and takes postcard pictures.
you have an active and colourful imagination not short on gory detail
Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment meted out by a mob. .... is defined by some codes of law as "Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person which results in the death of the person,"
group hug?
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am i a total Pollyanna for hoping that people are able to be rehabilitated?
:( ........
apparently in this world of understanding and compassion, anti death penalty, prison systems don't work because it a punishment, (not a remedy), war on drugs is a war on personal freedom, mental health is a real issue and should not be marginalised and shamed, etc etc....... pollyanna maybelooks like there's gonna be a lynchin', stand back so's you don't get run over by the posse
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It WILL make a different to what gets recorded and how it gets recorded- and why.
a friend recently commented on the impact that the death of john peel will have on the shape of music. no the fall = no pavement?
not having listened to uk radio for a while does anyone know if people are stepping up to carry on his role? -
I don't really care about sound quality...
That's cosin this day and age its predominantly reasonable, but why not have cd quality if its available.
128 bit mp3 is passable but compare it to 34 or 68 bit and you'd start to care. grainy and gritty.
look what our parents had to listen to music on, shitty record players with no bass, and scratchy harsh sounds.the advantages to better audio are in the detail of what you can hear in the mix, a backing vocal harmony or cool hidden guitar line etc, but that only comes up to a certain point and then you're into detail in instruments and stereo placement and space and I'm not really that fussed by that stuff as a listener. i'm with robbie with the car stereo turned up loud. Cars shouldn't be the best listening experience with all the road noise and bad speaker placement but how often does anyone get time to sit in a well set up room with 'good" equipment.
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I would have stuck with Creative, but no one else can compete with that 160G of storage!
does creative allow for full res .wav files?.
I think I looked at an iriver years ago and it recorded in 44/16 and played back 44/16 files. obviously hard drive space becomes an issue when you're dealing with full res but I don't really need to carry 2000 albums with me, I don't like that much music.
Its what players should be going toward though, full res audio and the capacity to store it all.
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Quicktime / iTunes fucking up both PCs' and Macs' CD drives is much documented online.
any word on what's causing it?
I have'nt experienced any such problems but I don't doubt they exist. if it did happen to me I'd be straight down to the shop I purchased my laptop off, which I updated with legit sofware updates from he manufacturer and insist they sort it quickly. I can do this cos I live in a city with an earnestly good mac store (magnum mac CHCH) who are conscious of their rep, trying it in the uk might be less easy as those guys didn't seem to give a shit. -
Hasn't it always been near-impossible in NZ? Of the NZ musicians playing gigs around town and being played on the radio, what percentage have day jobs? 95%?
tell that to the nz music industry commission. they blew $5 mill on trying to establish a viable industry and all they had to do was ask the exponents and dave dobbyn the likelihood of earning a livable wage from music since those guys gigs more than any other bands in nz.
i've mentioned it before but shihad at the peak of their success were paying themselves $400 a week, ie about the same as what you get for flipping burgers 6 nights a week.99% have dayjobs, or more, unless they're on the dole
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just arguing about the role drm- already, it seems, dropping out of the equation- has to play in whatever the road forward is.
I'm not really arguing about the bad vibe drm has caused, its obvious from irate comments all over the show.
simon's cd drive for instance. but I don't think the act of attempting to copy protect music is to blame, I think the urgency and the badly implemented examples of it have snowballed it into a giant bad vibe scene.In your case simon who knows why your drive was screwed. does quick time have anything to do with drm? I take it you're running a pc so it must be bill gates fault, or apples for quicktime or the music industry. does it matter any more who's fuck up it was?
imagine a corner store where you knew the owner. nice person, always helpful, getting robbed blind by some kids from another neighborhood. he puts in barbwire to keep them from sneaking in the store, you snag your polarneck skivvy (1975, orange) on it.
shop owner explains he's going under cos of theft and needed to do something till he gets his security guard and CCTV installed, you understand his position and you don't want to lose the convenience of having a good guy running a store locally, so you accept the conditions. The key thing there is understanding it from their point of view. I don't think that's happening a lot right now.and apparently with all this talk of hassles with itunes apparently it is possible for someone to create software which stops you doing things, even if it is completely unintentional :)
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33 pages of people telling you that is my evidence, yer honour!
me
33 pages of periphery discussion
hopefully you read more in it than that robbie.
if anything i'd hope some people saw the issue in colours other than the black and white its tempting to dismiss it in.