"Refuse to be trendy, refuse to be a moron. Socialism undermines your prosperity and restricts your liberty. Be willing to recognize it. Don't join the crowd, capitalism rocks and you know it."

Come on blanky. This is dreck. Post something real.

mmm still did not like, contrast be damned. to each their own? I prefer to have meaning behind the songs I listen to, personally. Like, if you are going to cover a song, it should have meaning to you, and that is why you do it, and since these songs have vastly different meanings, I find this to be musically dishonest. My critique of their choice standing on trendiness and popularity rather then depth and meaning is very much what is wrong with the music industry nowadays. But don't take my word for it, i'm just a lowly sound engineer, local music promoter, and lifelong musician.

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Sorry, did not like this. Not because of musicianship, or production qualities, ect but because these two songs have vastly different meanings, and the attempt just comes off as trying very hard to mash these together so hard that you end up breaking both as a result. I like both songs separately, however, as i'm not really a fan of most covers to begin with, taking a song about religious indoctrination, childhood fear, and uncertainty about the unknown, and gluing it onto a song about hard times and making your own way, just makes a frankensong with no meaning for existing.I'd really appreciate an explanation of what these two songs have to do with one another, other than being really trendy, really popular songs, from the same time period.


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Sorry, did not like this. Not because of musicianship, or production qualities, ect but because these two songs have vastly different meanings, and the attempt just comes off as trying very hard to mash these together so hard that you end up breaking both as a result. I like both songs separately, however, as i'm not really a fan of most covers to begin with, taking a song about religious indoctrination, childhood fear, and uncertainty about the unknown, and gluing it onto a song about hard times and making your own way, just makes a frankensong with no meaning for existing.I'd really appreciate an explanation of what these two songs have to do with one another, other than being really trendy, really popular songs, from the same time period.

that would have been allot better if it was only 2 min long , and didnt have the anoying TRENDIES in it

I doubt any of us here are climatologists, but we are people. As people, we can expect people doing science on climate to not be entirely dissimilar to us. While they my process possess information regarding a particular area, they are not immune to the culture they live and work in. Quine talked about this a lot. That science doesn't evolve like the romantic picture that is painted. Rather, like pop culture, science shifts its entire focus from one foundational theory to another. Einstein doesn't extend Newton, it replaces it. Why do we not, rather, adapt the math of Newtonian physics to incorporate the data of relativity and keep the same mindset of forces instead of space time warps? Quines answer is that, like pop culture, a mans theory only lasts as long as he is around to extend it. Eventually, no matter if your theoretical construct was correct, if you aren't around to sort out the sometimes minor technicalities...your out. The people after you will eventually supplant your theory with something else more trendy. That science is subject to the same rules of the schoolyard as anything else. Peer review is more of a contest of popularity and not overall truth value.

As such, the very act of peer review is subject to the cultural perspective of the day. The moral and political climate of the day speaks volumes to what peer evaluated papers support or don't. Peer review is the best we have in science to approximate how we experience the universe, but it is not without its short comings. Let us not fall into the fallacy of authority, and majority in stating x group of people are more correct than y group opposed. Instead, judge things on merit of the argument.

To that end, I find that I am undecided on the whole debate. Moreover, I hesitate to put government in control of saving the environment...such was already their responsibility in the gulf. I don't want to live in a world of wrappers and smog, and to that end, I am motivated for cleaner technologies. Being wasteful has always felt somewhat despicable. To me, I remain skeptical of mans prowess of weather prediction. Year after year there is tail of "the worst hurricane season in history" that fails to show itself. If you say it enough I guess eventually it will be right, but that takes some of the wind out of the sails(har har har).

Furthermore, where is the data to support that global warming would even be bad? The only fact to the end that I am even familiar with is more extreme weather, and that dried up lake in Africa. I have lived next to lots dried up lakes and rivers...so that seems like more of a social disaster than an environmental one.

In the end, I feel like there is some snake oil salesmanship over the whole ordeal. I think we want to believe that we are the next greatest disaster. We will entwine any evidence into the web of belief . And ostracize anyone that deviates. We have always been at war with Eurasia, after all.

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Remember the beats? When they were around people just thought they were weirdos. Obscured by their own ideas, they made their own art, listened to their own music (Harry Partch, anyone?), created their own culture, they were the original punks. Then the hippies came along... and ruined everything until krautrock, metal/stoner metal was made in retaliation of that culture.

If people enjoy creating their own culture - then how dare you label them. I'm not saying that there is not such a thing as a "trendy f^&king hipster" but many a folk could fit these rash/snotty generalizations are genuinely doing their own thing, not because it's "cool" or "trendy" but because they believe in it. Don't forget that. Do what you want but fuck off with your ignorant generalizations of people and likewise people that fit your jealous generalization mold will probably refrain from calling you a brain-dead, culture less, consumer-slut, square that listens to Van Halen and lives a boring life.

Oh, I forgot to add an ironic: GOOBERS!

I like that Dad has the correct trendy glasses to be using a MacBook.

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What part of "magic and revolutionary" don't you understand Blankfist?

Steve Jobs is by all accounts a real asshole. I still like the products. Not because it's cool, trendy or makes me feel superior. I like it because it works best for me. I agree with @kronosposeidon that HTML5 and other open technologies will eventually supplant the stopgap that is Flash.

Google is pushing it themselves with their recent in browser game project for Chrome. They give faint praise to Adobe and talk about Flash collaboration, but I don't think there is love in the heart of the Google hacker for proprietary Flash. I do realize that the compiled .SWF format is kind of open- but the .FLA most definitely is not - am I right? I know there are some 3rd party tools that can compile SWF like Swift3D, but Adobe has a stranglehold on a "complete" authoring tool for Flash- and intends to keep it. Open indeed.

And just because I'm feeling cantankerous - I'll let Trip Hawkins put some icing on this cake - in a post aimed at professional developers who would actually like to make some money off their creations.

@Sagemind

Apparently it's teal pill or orange pill. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it...

Speaking of color gradient stuff and the Matrix...even though the sequels were crap, I always thought having a green tint on everything inside the Matrix was a pretty sweet way of giving everything a sort of "offputting" and artificial feel. Plus, it made all color really stick out when used.

I have to agree with the teal/orange hate...but it's just like any trendy meme type thing, it gets annoying when overused...especially if you've known what it's all about from the beginning. For example, I didn't really notice it in Transformers, but after seeing a few more movies and hearing someone complain about it, I finally knew what I couldn't quite put my finger on.

Those "Terrorist Neckerchiefs" seem pretty trendy these days. They go with a wide variety of ensembles.

Would it be seen as bad if some overweight lady came in, dressed nicely or not and they said "There's nothing for you here, please leave." Maybe she came in to check for stuff for herself, and then again...maybe not. Maybe she's shopping for her daughter, a friend, daughter-in-law....whatever.

Would shoppers stand up for this big lady? Nope, they would assume the store has either had in there before and she's caused problems...maybe trying to fit into things she can't...complaining about lack of bigger sizes......or whatever the problem may have been.

And while I can't prove it, I would say that a store rejecting big sized girls would just improve their numbers with the clientele they carry clothes for. IE, if you are buying clothes at XYZ store, you're thin...female and...trendy/rich/snooty/whatever.

So.....if a store rejects ...black people? ... non-english speakers? ... hispanics? ... handicapped? ... elderly?

You can draw conclusions from the people you see shopping there, and the people you see them chasing off. And the excuse you'll give yourself is that the store has had problems with that person before, and they know what's what....and in the meantime you can be glad you don't share any traits with the person being removed.

I think most stores already cut down their customers by offering specific services or items...and they can carry what brings in the people they seek out.

seems trendy enough, williamsburgh, eh?

@GeeSussFreeK: http://www.videosift.com/video/Balls-Out-Jeans-Its-New-and-Trendy

Try it out

Grandpa jones was a regular on 'Hee Haw'. Like most of the regulars he was a characature representing the 'hillbilly' stereotype. He had many hits including 'pickin time' which was covered by now trendy
jonny cash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sz7eUj46aE

Another hillbilly characature from hee haw was stringbean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uOy3WdT3mY
Their music have become staples in the current bluegrass or 'newgrass' as it is sometimes refered. Here's one of my favorites from this generation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrcWTuWwBrI