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Definitions are important.
Nonetheless; A bit for the other side of the brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7lhMAOxLxw
I always hear "Money for Nothing" in the background watching this scene.
In particularly "the little faggot with the earrings and the makeup"
Yeah buddy, that faggot was my role model.
Movie scenes are rarely, if ever, perfect. If you can reply to this with a good cogent criticism of the fight choreography please do.
I spotted a few myself, but relatively minor, I consider it better than most films that came after it to say the least.
Why was Guthrie doomed in this fight? I can put it in a few words, a sentence fairly well, a few paragraphs with reasonable thoroughness surely; can you?
Music is notes in time.
What is it about music that captures the human heart?
Definitions are important.
Music is notes in time. Without notes, or without time, there is no music. Am I wrong?
I think I am right. And I think this is why this form of art is so powerful to us. Because...
Definitions are important.
Humans are naked apes who specialize in time-binding. From our most natural to our most artificial environments, this is one constant key to our success - and sometimes our fatal weakness. We do not exist only in the here and now. We remember deeply. We dream of the future. We remember the words of generations long ago turned to dust, and we dream of generations yet to come. Because of this, we could predict, and plan, and harvest nutrition our cousins could not. We expanded into climate change, as they shrank before it.
Anyway music is all about time-binding. Notes in time. You plot time on one dimension, and then you plot something else, usually pitch, or some approximation of pitch, on another axis, and you have music. You have a platform on which to imitate every distinctly human activity.
It's NOT "the universal language." It's not a language.
But it does share some pretty basic characteristics with every language.
Real abstraction is a hallmark of language, and music doesn't quite pull that off without language to supplement it. But our ears are (as befits a species with thin skin, little strength, no claws, and a poor sense of smell) actually very sophisticated, and we can appreciate a great deal of variation musically.
Harmonic scales, diatonic scales, pentatonic scales, a set of drums that don't really have any specific root pitch (but are nonetheless quite distinct to the ear) - all of those things are notes. But if you really want to push the definition of music to the limit, you play a single note for the whole track. Good luck with that. If you want to go one step further and prove I'm REALLY wrong? Play no notes.
Yeah, John Cage got me. Or I'm calling him out (well, sort of, if he were still alive and I ran into him I wouldn't 'call him out' I'd try to buy him a drink, but whatever.)
I think he was deliberately pushing things past the edge to show us where the edge is. Notes and time. That's where the edge is.
And time? Even that can be played with. For the most part, it's a convention so that multiple musicians can play together and not fall apart. If you're playing alone, or if your group is well rehearsed/tight knit, you can speed up and slow down at will.
But here's the important part. You, as a group or a solo performer, you project notes in time. You can bend your notes and you can bend your time - and the audience experiences that as a ride along with you.
Music is not a language, but it can be used to enhance and to *comment upon* language.
That last part is where it truly becomes transformative. Where the language says 'x' and the music says 'probably not x.'
Thoughts?
Trump Admits Russia Helped Get Him Elected
"I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected." -- Donald J Trump, May 30, 2019
It is illegal for foreign nationals or governments to help people get elected.
Mueller Speaks about Trump Investigation
Here's a link to his statement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DWzzMlMIRI
It's a Fox News youtube channel. Take a look at the comments too.
Here is a written story from the CBC:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dc-mueller-statement-1.5153877
Trump Deploys Troops to Iran
Trump approves sending more forces to the Middle East amid tensions with Iran
Trump's projection tells us more about him than it does about those he's accusing:
"In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran." - Donald Trump, 1:48 PM - Nov 29, 2011
"Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate." - Donald Trump, 3:39 PM - Oct 9, 2012
"I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!" - Donald Trump, 2:23 PM - 16 Sep 2013
Kept in the dark again, HIPAA blamed
I called the nursing home where I and my father had visited my aunt a year ago, to ask if she was still there and how she was doing. They would tell me nothing. Claimed that HIPAA forbade that. But HIPAA says no such thing. They are wrong. I called back and tried to inform them that by HIPAA rules, it was okay to answer. They were rude. Tried to hog the floor, and when I would not go along with that, talked over me, then hung up. I called again.
They changed their story, said the privacy requirement was actually in the contract with their residents. Proudly claimed that they take their privacy seriously. I began to wonder if they were covering up something. I called the police and asked them to do a welfare check. The police did so, and told me my aunt was still there and seemed to be okay.
ばか馬鹿
AK-47s
あなたが理解していないという理由だけで、これはそれが重要ではないという意味ではありません。
And to repeat:
Ακριβώς επειδή δεν καταλαβαίνετε, αυτό δεν σημαίνει ότι δεν είναι σημαντικό.
SN eds are monolingual morons, except for mrpg, who groks the espanol, and pico français.
And the expat speaks!
We're sorry, your submission "Anti-Semitism doesn’t happen in a vacuum | (Revised, for your consideration)" was declined for the following reason:
You say that we are destroying this site - it is YOU and the drivel that you write that is achieving that. Advocating violence - even when you claim that you are not doing so - has no place on this site.--JRThe editors felt it inappropriate for them to correct the issue themselves. Please feel free to correct the issue yourself and resubmit.
So now resubmission is violence? Good to know. Venez voir la violence inhérente au système! Je suis en train d'être réprimé! C'est ce dont je parle!
So sad, Brits having to retire in France just to get health insurance, and they don't even bother to speak the langue! Mon dieu!
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Update (not really)
Cheers to Eds! Five submissions in less than an hour, and all rejected within the same hour, lest any Soylents might chance to see them in the queue. I guess I should post all of them here, but I let stand the exquisite censorship of the Editors of SoylentNews, who will have to live with the reputation that follows them accross the infinite expanse of internet time, which, mind you, is only just beginning.
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And now, at the end, you realize the true power of the dark side, the side of truth, the side of philosophers, the side of actual people and not confabulated "rational maximizers" of something they know not what.
I submitted, per request, a Russian sub, as mrpg asked for, and it was rejected as well. Bad enough that subs in French, German, Norsk, Greek, Hollandaise, and Romanian get rejected. Could not one American have enough education to read a sub in Spanish? Or Canadian? Oh, the illiteral horror!
Original Ruski Sub here.
This will come back to stick Americans up their backsides.
Already nationals of any nation can make fun of US Americans without their having any idea they are talking about locos americanos or Américains fous, or сумасшедшие американцы.
Getting Ready for Summer.
Here in Calgary, summer is like a fart in the wind. You spend all year looking forward to it, then it's over in the blink of an eye. The season of summer starts June 21, and runs through September 21. That is the warm season here -- only 3 months. In Calgary, there are really only two seasons, winter and summer. Fall lasts for the month of October, and spring is mid-May until summer. From November 1 until May 15 it's winter.
Everyone here tries to make the best out of our fleeting summer. Despite being cold most of the year, we have a ton of outdoor patios to enjoy. My mom's house is FULL of plants that she can't wait to get into her gardens. The leaves on the trees are finally popping out. The grass is more green than brown. Last week, I had the street cleaners come by and take the gravel away.
Summer here is a fevered frenzy as everyone tries to book and plan their vacations. Here in Calgary, that usually means going to one of the many lakes in B.C. I've got my first vacation booked. My wife, daughter and I are going camping at McDonald Creek Provinal Park. We have 5 nights booked there in early July.
I've been busy getting ready for summer too. My campervan stopped working last Fall --technically Summer -- after a scary-ass snowstorm near Bow Lake (seriously look at this picture. I think it's prettier than Moiraine Lake or Lake Louise) We were coming back from camping near Jasper and it started SNOWING. Like fat flake spring snow. I was in my van - a 1985 dodge - and it was terrifying. When I'm in my car with my winter tires, I LOVE driving in the snow. In a heavy-ass van with summer tires and no ABS/ASC, it's not fun. The snow packed down and created sheer ice on the mountain highway. Traffic was moving at 20km/h and I gave us a 50/50 chance of ending up in the ditch. We made it home safely, but after that the van woudn't start.
For the last few weeks, I've been trying to get the van going again. I'm not a mechanic. I'm not handy, but I'm learning. I asked my Uncle to come over and help me out one day and together we found that the starter relay wasn't grounded properly. I fixed that, but it still woudn't start. I replaced the starter, and it started(!), but the second start had a not-good-sounding grinding noise. Turns out I got a defective replacement starter. I got it swapped out for another and the van is working great! I was really proud of myself because I've never done actual car work like that before. I'm sure replacing the starter is just about the easiest part to replace, but I'm celebrating my victory.
With the van running well, I'm ready for summer. Like I said before, my first trip is first two weeks of July. I normally like doing things in September when people are back at work too, so hopefully I can get something lined up there as well. I'd also like to try 'random' camping on crown land here. Apperantly there are hundreds of free camp sites all over the place. I've never done that before, so I'd like to try a couple nights like that this year and see if that's my thing.
That's the plan! I can't wait!
Linux is pissing me off...
Having come from the Unix world, 25 or 30 years ago, it was obvious to use Linux on PCs. I had Windows as well, and some years I used Windows more, other years Linux more. Frankly, both sucked, in different ways. In the early days, Linux driver support was pretty awful. Meanwhile, Windows was pretty much a rattle-trap catastrophe with malware and bluescreens. Both have improved over the years. Probably 10 years ago, I decided to go basically full-time Linux, except for Adobe applications and games.
With Steam, even most of my games now work on Linux, and I thankfully no longer need any Adobe applications. I haven't booted into Windows for months.
So...is Linux trying to drive me back into the arms of Microsoft? A couple of months ago, I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04. On both of my machines, Ubuntu now starts up with error messages, some system problem or other, and asks if it should report this to Canonical.
Installed printers randomly appear and disappear. Plugging in external hard drives or other devices - sometimes they appear, sometimes not. Re-plug and pray. Just now, I rebooted my PC after an update (which seems necessary more and more often - shades of Redmond), only to have the machine freeze. Hard reset, reboot, and it seems to be back. On my laptop, suspend/resume no longer works, even though it worked just fine under previous versions.
Where's that Linux reliability? I just want to get stuff done - I don't have time or desire to switch to a different distro or fiddle with settings or chase driver problems. I just want it to work.
Sorry to report, Dog, Alt-right Dogs, also rejected.
Hey! Going to limit to friends and friends of friends, just to see what happens. No Runaway posts, I take it. But here is the deal. Softball submission, about dogs, which janrinok more or less requested. And, of course, rejected. I despair that we Soylentils may have a rational discussion on the issues of the day, if even dog posts are banned, censored, and deep-sixed by the editors. I begin to suspect chromas, who may be a beard for Ncommander, our founder and alt-right syncophant? Perhaps. Maybe the game has been rigged from the beginning.
Or, the editors are all cat-people. We could have had This fine Submission about a dog sucked into the alt-right. But, rejected without comment, message, and not even left in the queue for more than a couple hours. Censorship, of dogs! This aggression will not stand, man! Peed on my rug.
