When mayor Rudi had an unfortunate tendency to legislate lifestyles (most famously when he decided to enforce an age old rule that a bar had to have a particular kind of license to have dancing, yes, there were bars with DJs where the bouncers would stop you from dancing), but by and large was a pragmatic conservative administrator. He also caved on some municipal union issues, but it's a little tricky beating up on the fire department right after 9/11. I think he would make a fine president during four years that are probably going to demand a lot of shaking and
emptily) about 'Change.' Well hos, you don't need to agitate for change, > it'll be here soon enough. What the hell are you going to DO about it? That > said, the rest of the Democrats are so completely contemptible I couldn't > think of voting for them. Additionally, Obama seems very, very smart, and > perhaps most importantly very willing to learn from other people. Let's face > it, 95% of being president is picking the right people and the right advice. > > Lastly, and I might get in trouble here, I like the fact that he is black. > Dark skinned people have an intuitive, visceral understanding of what it's > like getting screwed over by white people. I can't imagine that a black president > would view situations like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Afghanistan, > Chechnya an the rest of the former Soviet states, etc. and so forth in the > same way as a white president. This isn't a policy thing, it's an issue of > perspective. > > Lastly, what I really wish would happen during a debate is for a reporter > to say, 'We ha
ose fine people," and others say other things. None of which will be fully correct. Some of which will be mostly wrong. I'm not singling us out personally, although we don't escape this human trait. But I'm constantly astounded at how easily people are herded and divided via the hooks of their confirmation biases. Which is the working basis of deceptive PR, and of politically motivated sleight of hand and obfuscation. By which I mean lying and pandering. And smear campaigns. We are all, to an extent susceptible to those approaches. > I still think suing anyone because your house was flooded in a major > flood zone with a near ground level water table, in the midst of a major > hurricane borders on a single digit IQ. So naturally these events will reaffirm your notions. But someone else may come to another conclusion based on different knowledge of specifics with a different, and also possibly legitimate, perspective. To me, it depends on each case. I can imagine specific situations in Nawlins where lawsuits might make sense. And plenty of cases where they wouldn't. So I'm not ready to make a blanket statement supporting or dismissing lawsuits there. I do think government planning and preparation was negligent, slow and mired in politics. I do think response was inadequate. I also think individual planning, preparation and response is open to criticism. So like I said earlier, there's plenty of blame to go around, but pointing the finger one way doesn't necessarily excuse other screw ups. > I just think personally looking at a levee next to my neighborhood with > water flowing above the level of my yard would run up a few common sense > red flags - somewhat similar to living below Mt. Kilauea (no one does > afaik) and watching lava flow past my house on a daily basis, wondering > if I might have chosen a little safer location to enhabit *before* the > ground starts shaking, instead of pointing toasty charcoal fingers after > it's too late. Probably you wouldn't have been buried at Pompei, had you lived back then. :^) > On that note, to prevent boring the rest of the ng, back to soldering > cables, discussing candidates with only 2 initials, and wondering what > NAMM and Mac World will bring. ;-) I vote for a new laptop for Jamie! :^) And it would be nice if NAMM brings more MIDI/USB keyboard controller choices... Cheers, -Jamie www.JamieKrutz.com > Dedric"Jamie K" <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote in message news:478936af@linux... > No, what I mean is that people like you and me and everyone else who sits > in armchair judgment of events like this will take what we hear and filter > it through our own confirmation biases. But it's pretty easy to put 3 quadrillion and lawsuit together and reach a rather objective conclusion, and that was my whole point, not judging each of the 489,000 others. :-) And, you have to admit, we are a litiga
ying both citizens and the government as an > entity. :-) But consider this...people make up government. It is not a > separate entity of beings called "them" or "they" that reside in a different > dimension playing by different laws of physics and at constant odds with the > beings in this dimension known as our country. Yep, I think you're restating what I thought I was saying. :^) > Better ethics, > responsibility, integrity, and honesty in general means better people in > office too (it goes a little deeper than just those qualities, but that's > enough for now). New Orleans and Louisiana would do well to consider the > less than stellar performance of their own elected officials - just so we > aren't laying blame anywhere in particular Right, and the fed government, too. More integrity, honesty, ethics and responsibility for all. and considering both sides, > without committing to either one.... ;-)) :^) There's a difference, though, between commitment and jumping to conclusions that merely support existing outlooks. Also, there are usually more than two sides to anything. And even when only two people are involved, there's one side, the other side and the truth. At any rate, blame will be figured out by the courts. That's what they're for. I'll bet some of these Nawlins lawsuits don't go very far, and some of them do. Then I'll bet that the ones that don't will be heralded by those who think they're all groundless, and the ones that do will be heralded by those who think they're all valid, and no one will have to go through the bother of changing their mind about their initial reaction to lawsuits over Katrina. >> News hype is an interesting topic in and of itself. Many of the same >> people who complain about "the media" being biased actively seek out >> blatantly non-objective sources of news and commentary to reassure their >> own confirmation biases. It's ironic. >> > Sure, but how does that apply to our roles in this conversation? A > generalization perhaps? But isn't that an assumption made without really > knowing both sides of the equation, or any individual's thought process? It wasn't directed at our roles in this conversation, just a general observation. > The same concept applies as above - better ethics, responsibility, > integrity, honesty, etc... there are people working in the news industry as > well, most with at least some power to decide how to report a story. Sure. Ethics everywhere. Real journalists take it seriously: http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp > Dedric > > I'm guessing Korg might be building a new keyboard line on the M3 - since > that's basically what some of their website lit says. Don't know if we'll > see any derivatives at NAMM, but it's possible. Interesting. There have also been pre-announcements of a couple of new toys I've been looking forward to: a new electronic drum kit from Yamaha and another one coming from the original developers of the DDrum. From what I've seen so far, though, it looks like both are short of the features I had hoped for. But I'll withhold final judgment until I have more of a chance to hear them and hopefully play them. Three days to laptopville! Cheers, -Jamie www.JamieKrutz.com >>>> I vote for a new laptop for Jamie! :^) And it would be nice if NAMM >>>> brings more MIDI/USB keyboard controller choices... >>> I vote for that as well. ;-)) >> Woo! :^) >> >> Cheers, >> -Jamie >> www.JamieKrutz.com >> >> >>> Regards, >>> Dedric >>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> -Jamie >>>> www.JamieKrutz.com >>>> >>>> >>>>> Dedric >Bill L <bill@billlorentzen.com> wrote: >You are spot on. Our educational system started to decline in the late >'60s and has never recovered > >In analyzing a changing trend in a statistic, such as the decline in the >quality of the US school system, what you must do is look just BEFORE >the change occurred to find what caused it. What changed in the US >school system that has caused the drastic reduction in results? > >Discuss please... Taking the emphasis off competition, pass/ fail grading and passing students along without them being able to accomplish the coursework.On 1/12/08 6:50 PM, in article 47896ef5@linux, "Jamie K" <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote: > But actually, the idea of how much litigation is the right amount is an > interesting question. I'd say zero, ideally, but to get there we need > some improvements in behaviors that may take litigation to accomplish... :^) I hear you on that, and ditto. Maybe we should consider something besides litigation to get there... perhaps a little ole fashioned butt kicking? ;-) Just kidding of course.... then again.... hmmm.... > > > Yep, I think you're restating what I thought I was saying. :^) No actually I think you are restating what I was saying you were saying. ;-)) or something like that. lol > Interesting. There have also been pre-announcements of a couple of new > toys I've been looking forward to: a new electronic drum kit from Yamaha > and another one coming from the original developers of the DDrum. From > what I've seen so far, though, it looks like both are short of the > features I had hoped for. But I'll withhold final judgment until I have > more of a chance to hear them and hopefully play them. > > Three days to laptopville! Nice. I'm hoping it won't be the potential 8-12 months before we see PC support for the Euphonix. Maybe NAMM will bring more encouraging info along those lines. > Cheers, > -Jamie > www.JamieKrutz.com > > > >>>>> I vote for a new laptop for Jamie! :^) And it would be nice if NAMM >>>>> brings more MIDI/USB keyboard controller choices... >>>> I vote for that as well. ;-)) >>> Woo! :^) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -Jamie >>> www.JamieKrutz.com >>> >>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Dedric >>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> -Jamie >>>>> www.JamieKrutz.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Dedric >>.......from an email I received from my cousin's better half. Subject: The Whys of Men The Why's of Men 1. WHY DO MEN BECOME SMARTER DURING SEX? (because they are plugged into a genius) 2. WHY DON'T WOMEN BLINK DURING SEX? (they don't have enough time) 3. WHY DOES IT TAKE 1 MILLION SPERM TO FERTILIZE ONE EGG? (they don't stop to ask directions) 4. WHY DO MEN SNORE WHEN THEY LIE ON THEIR BACKS? (because their balls fall over their butt-hole and they vapor lock) 5. WHY WERE MEN GIVEN LARGER BRAINS THAN DOGS? (so they won't hump women's legs at cocktails parties) 6. WHY DID GOD MAKE MEN BEFORE WOMEN? (you need a rough draft before you make a final copy) 7. HOW MANY MEN DOES IT TAKE TO PUT A TOILET SEAT DOWN? (don't know.....it never happened) And the personal favorite: 8. WHY DID GOD PUT MEN ON EARTH? (because a vibrator can't mow the lawn) __________________________________________________________ One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash his Sweat-shirt Seconds after he stepped into the laundry room, he shouted to me, 'What setting do I use on the washing machine?' 'It depends,' I replied. 'What does it say on your shirt?' He yelled back, ' University of Oklahoma ..' And they say blondes are dumb... _____________________________________________________ A couple is lying in bed. The man says, 'I am going to make you the happiest woman in the world.' The woman replies, 'I'll miss you...Why do women have breasts? So men will talk to them.Self esteem replaced achievement."DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote: > >Why do women have breasts? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >So men will talk to them. ARF!!.......dood!!!..that was tacky!!! What's the definition of a woman?Agreed. I'm using this mobo on both my Cubase rigs. Best AGP based 939 mobo/chipset ever made, IMO..........the only conflict I ever had with mine was when I attempted to insert a thumb drive with an image of Ron Paul which crashed it immediately. "John" <no@no.com> wrote: > >from my notes at www.kfocus.com/paris under setup/motherboards > >A bit hard to find these days, and a bit "old school", but they are still >out there. >Gigabyte K8NS Ultra 939. Works like a charm with XP and 4 EDS cards, and >two dual-head Nvidia VGA's. >I Highly recommend it. No problems with IRQ's etc, just plug in >all cards, and install XP. Easy. > >and > > > >Subject: Re: BTW: Paris XP, K8NS ultra939...any pitfalls??..IT SEEMS >NOT! (yet..) >Date: 13 Jul 2006 22:02:56 +1000 >From: "Kim W." >Newsgroups: IDEA.EMUEnsoniqPARIS > >Hi, John. >No sound card, as all slots are full. >For any multimedia sound, I use the spdif out into my old Sony >DAT recorder. >The first two slots have the Nvidia Quadro dual heads. >(Obviously the first slot being the AGP, and the PCI version is >next to it.) >The other four PCI slots (The K8NS ultra 939 has five), have >my four EDS 1000 cards. >As mentioned, I disabled SATA, as I don't use it, and also the >parallel and game ports. >Firewire is active, so if I need to I can hook up my Maudio >Firewire Audiophile. (The K8NS has the Texas Instruments 1394 >chipset, which is cool!). >RAM is generic 768mb DDR in DDR slots 1&3. (Dual channel would be >better ofcourse, but I used what I had in my old comp.) >Drives are Western Digital 2500JB (boot) and whatever else I have in my removeable >caddies (Mainly WD's), for audio. I use the boot >drive as backup storage for works in progress. >Nice and quick, as the two are on seperate IDE channels. > >One thing I did initially during windows install, was to use a >single Nvidia MX400 geforce graphics card. After a flawless setup, >I then installed both Quadras with drivers, then the EDS's. >Yes, and I HAVE imaged every step of the way. >(Haven't had to roll-back yet.) > > > >BTW John, >In case you were referring to my actual Paris.cfg when you >asked about my final config, here is a cut/paste: > >*************************** >*** PARIS Configuration *** >*************************** > > >*** ENGINE configuration parameters *** >* Cache Size in MB >CacheSize=40 > >* Overview cache size in KB >OvwCacheSize=8192 > >* I/O configuration >IOSize=96 > >* SubMix Cache Size in KB >SubMixCacheSize=256 > > >ManualRecDelay=8192 > > >RecXFadeLen=20 >Use32BitWinMTC=0 > >DisableDirectX=0 > >MIDIPlayDisabled=1 > >MasterOutputCard=0 > >ScrubMaxRate=1 > >WheelSensitivity=20 > >WheelInertia=68 > >CSProVersion=EFGH > >VSTDirectory=C:\Program Files\E-MU\PARIS Pro\Vstplugins\I think you got it, Don. Psychologists pretending to know something decided that discipline and competion were harmful to children's mental health. S "DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote in message news:4789a15e$1@linux... > > Self esteem replaced achievement. > >Well, predictably, that made me laugh pretty hard. Thanks dude. :) S "Deej" <noway@jose.net> wrote in message news:47899c10$1@linux... > > ......from an email I received from my cousin's better half. > > Subject: > The Whys of Men > > The Why's of Men > 1. WHY DO MEN BECOME SMARTER DURING SEX? > (because they are plugged into a genius) > > 2. WHY DON'T WOMEN BLINK DURING SEX? > (they don't have enough time) > > 3. WHY D
>public is way too stupid to put future survival above their immediate >desires. > >We gotta wake up NOW. > Bill, I think there is a lot of truth to what you say. We are headed to a third world educational level which in turn will bring about third world capabilities. Perhaps we should start preparing for the role in this world that we have created for ourselves. DeejWell done, class! Your answers are all correct, but as usual our bright young lady is most astute. In the '60s psychiatry started a campaign to influence the schools and school systems and the teaching colleges in a big way. In the '50s at an annual convention, the head of American Psychiatric Association publicly declared their new goal of creating a "Value Neutral Society". Their aim was to blur and eradicate the distinction between right and wrong. They knew that the sure way to change society was by influencing the children. Psychiatrists have gradually introduced to our schools the mass drugging of children and even infants (approximately 8 million on Ritalin type drugs), Outcome Based Education (doesn't matter how much or how well children learn, just that they felt good about it) and the rest of their psuchobabble notions of how people should think and behave. Who was the most influential proponent of the "drug culture"? Not coincidentally, a psychologist and college professor, Dr. Timothy Leary. When you hear someone derided for being "judgmental", that is the influence of psychiatric double speak. Smart, ethical people used to be regarded as showing "good judgment", but now that positive attribute of being able to rightly judge people and situations has been slyly skewed into a bad thing. I'm sure you have noticed other examples of how illogical psychiatric concepts have replaced good reasoning. When you look around our society and see the delineation between right and wrong, logical and illogical, smart and stupid being blurred it is no accident. Look to the only group who has for over 50 years had that as their stated aim: psychiatry and psychology.<b
r /> We can fix our schools but we must first recognize the source of the problem and erase its influence or it will only get worse. Our children are our responsibility. rick wrote: > yup, a bunch of egotistical numbnuts. it astounds me the level of non > educated college graduates we're churning out...with pride. > > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:29:11 -0800, "Sarah" <sarahjane@sarahtonin.com> > wrote: > >> I think you got it, Don. Psychologists pretending to know something decided >> that discipline and competion were harmful to children's mental health. >> >> S >> >> >> "DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote in message news:4789a15e$1@linux... >>> Self esteem replaced achievement. >>> >>> >Bill L <bill@billlorentzen.com> wrote: >Well done, class! Your answers are all correct, but as usual our bright >young lady is most astute. In the '60s psychiatry started a campaign to > influence the schools and school systems and the teaching colleges in >a big way. There's more to it than this. Part of it is also the cult of IQ and the separation of values reasoning and virtue from cognition. It's all intelligence, it's all cognition. But because we have been told we want a values-free education and are foolish enough to accept the illusion of detached neutrality, we separate out certain functions of the mind and call them intelligence while dismissing others as "not intelligence" but wisdom, virtue, honor, decency, etc. So we end up with Teddy Roosevelt's famous comment coming true in our lifetimes: "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Today, the very idea of society, as a system of shared values and assumed decencies is seen as laughable by a lot of people, while "intelligence" is treated by the quasi-educated as silicone is treated by porn stars. I don't like psychiatry much more than you do Bill (though I think there is a place for it in extreme cases where treatment has prevented suicides and murders) but it is not the source of the culture we live in. It is a symptom not a cause. I am with you on drugs though. I HATE drugs. I have seen more lives, bands, marriages, and great minds ruined by drugs, (and some of them prescribed drugs), than almost any other single factor. DCThen your MB is crap if it can't run Ron Paul ! :-)> >In the '50s at an annual convention, the head of American Psychiatric >Association publicly declared their new goal of creating a "Value >Neutral Society". Their aim was to blur and eradicate the distinction >between right and wrong. > bill, can you provide any hard evidence of this? A link perhaps? thanks, DJThank you for your responses so far. I am now looking for a K8NS mobo. Next ? What is a good processor with this mobo? What is a good video card, I'll be using 1 HP w2007 to start maybe add one l more later. Good PS. and good rack mountable case. Sorry for so many ?'s JimDeej, when I get some time I will work on that. Which points exactly? Deej wrote: >> In the '50s at an annual convention, the head of American Psychiatric >> Association publicly declared their new goal of creating a "Value >> Neutral Society". Their aim was to blur and eradicate the distinction >> between right and wrong. >> > > bill, can you provide any hard evidence of this? A link perhaps? > > thanks, > > DJ >Bill L <bill@billlorentzen.com> wrote: >Deej, when I get some time I will work on that. Which points exactly? > Just some authoritative reference to the fact that this particular agenda was actually endorsed at a meeting of the APA. I couldn't find anything at all on this on Google or Snopes. Snopes it pretty good about investigating stuff like this, and they are very aggressive about debunking sensationalist allegations. This is pretty sensational, to my thinking. Since I find nothing on Snopes about it, either they aren't aware of it (not likely if it has been previously the subject of some major flamewar forum t
ately, I had finished the chicken noodle soup BEFORE I watched it. pab"Gregb" <funkykeys1@verizon.net> wrote: > >Is any
at Scientology usually demands specifics and personal >observation, but when it comes to psychiatry, it's all broad generalities. >I know a fair number of psychs through my job, and if there's an evil >conspiracy to ruin humanity, I think someone forgot to clue them in. Now, >the pharmaceutical companies . . . that's another story.<