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There is a saying, that Im too slack to google who said:
me thinks it was some big player in the hindu catalouge - a prince maybe...and well I fear I may be mixing hindu with buddist...but anyway

A religous leader said something like,

[Raaagh sic]
"Religion is like a canoe, once you have crossed the river, it would be fool to continue carrying the canoe"


I always loved that.

And I love this for the same reasons: all that "lotus", "harvest" stuff just confuses the issue. What the deep thinkers 3500 years ago ended upon has a wonderful sentiment,
'Though i observe humans and their scale and scope, I have to admit there are other scales and scopes. The only consistency I really observe is cycles, and...if I completely release myself from my surroundings I can imagine (whilst failing to comprehend) cycles, with scope, and scale, in the infinite'.

That I think, is where the humility comes in.

I'm bout to hit you wit that tradional style of cold rockin
Givin options for head knockin non stoppin
Tip-toppin lyrics we droppin but styles can be forgotten
so we bring back the raw hip-hoppin
Just like the records and tapes you be coppin
Cop some breakdancin, boogie poppin, and lockin
Tic tockin, guaranteed to have you clockin
We only get better and only better we have gotten
This type of flow don't even think about stoppin
Beware, the length of the rhyme flow can be shockin
All music lovers in the place right now
That never understood the way that KRS got down
Yo I'm strictly about skills and dope lyrical coastin
Relying on talent, not marketing and promotion
If a dope lyrical flow is a must
You gots to go with a name you can quickly trust
I'm not sayin I'm number one, uhh I'm sorry, I lied
I'm number one, two, three, four and five
Stop wastin your money on marketing schemes
and pretty packages pushin dreams to the beams
A dope MC is a dope MC
With or witout a record deal, all can see
And that's who KRS be son
I'm not the run of mill, cause for the mill I don't run

Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!
Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!

Yeah, yeah
Everybody on the mic in the party sound alike
until I recite, in black and white what's right
Let me take flight, my style is TIGHT AN GOOD
TIGHT AN GOOD, come is it TIGHT AN GOOD
Old styles I pass dat, slow down on fast rap
All in yo' ass crack, old King go Blast dat
Conjure to ask dat, hyper type of flashback
I publish like ASCAP lyrics for hand clap
No past rappin, youth trackin, talent lackin
MC's more worried about their financial backin
Steady packin a gat as if something's gonna happen
But it doesn't, they wind up shootin they cousin, they buggin
I appear everywhere and nowhere at once
I know my style is bumpin, even though some people front
It's the God of rap, you heard of it
The one that rhymes toward the sky givin airplanes mad turbulence
In rap tournaments, I reign permanent
Don't you think by now the number one spot I'm not concerned with it
The course of rap I'm turnin it
Back to that good old fashioned way of getting cash money by earning it
No bogus hocus pocus, I bring back to focus
Skills if you notice my position is lotus
Now quote this, MC's are just hopeless
Thinkin record sales make them the dopest

hah, ty, and generally play on the Lotus.com servers when i'm on.

In reply to this comment by ponceleon:
Ps. Your avatar cracks me up, you play on a specific server? It would be awesome to get a sift TF2 group going!

"The Lotus effect refers to the very high water repellency (superhydrophobicity) exhibited by the leaves of the lotus flower (Nelumbo). Dirt particles are picked up by water droplets due to a complex micro- and nanoscopic architecture of the surface which enables minimization of adhesion. The self-cleaning property of superhydrophobic micro-nanostructured surfaces was discovered in the 1970s and has been applied since the 1990s in biomimetic technical products."

via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_effect

1. Millie- Lil Wayne- Cookin Soul Remix (Dj Dials Blend w/ Hovatron
Mannie Fresh Tribute)
2. Cerebral Vortex Vrs Robot Koch- Vortex Cookies Instrumental (flako
Remix) Dials Blend with Sebastian's HAL
3. Tweet - Oops Oh My (Hudson Mohawke Remix)
4. Sluggabed- Breadcrumbs and Buttabeans
5. Melt Bananna- We Will Rock You
6. Daddy Kev- Little Doggy
7.Sluggabed- ? MothaFucka (?) dunno! Track 13 from mystery glasgow cd...
8. Cassie- Me and U (manybrain edit?)
9. EPROM- Ghost Hunter
10. Breakbeat Buddah- Hustler's Concerto
11. FINE CUT BODIES "Beaver Blink (Ooah Remix)"
12. Shawty Lo - Dey Know (Hovatron Remix)
13. Hudson Mohawke- ZoOooOooM (Dials Lazer Gucci Blend)
14. Cool Kids- Pennies
15. Powell- Aoc ( Tayeeb Remix)
16. Tobacco- Backwoods Altar
17. 215TFK - Some Poutine
18. Harmonic 313- Neon
19. Tom Burbank- Diesel
20. Boreta- Slide the Dutch rmx
21. Oliver Laric- E
22 Tom Burbank- Juno
23. Lorn- Automation V2
24. Mux Mool- Death 9000 (Machine drum Remix)
25 Hovatron- Facemeltdown Supreme Draft
26. Hovatron- Dumb in my Backpack
27. Sluggabed- Gettobonk
28. Spartan Lover- Polka Grease
29. Clipse- Fast Life (lunice rmx)
30. Lowest Limit - Kush Leaves Instro
31. Hovatron- Made You Look
32. Disruption- Loop Beat 1
33. A-Trak- My Sneakers
34. Nosaj Thing- 1685
35. Lorn- The greatest Silence
36. Bullion- Get Familiar
37. Excision and Subvert- Dirt Nap
38. Harrison Blackoldman- Full Speed
39. My Neck Remix (unknown)
40. Subvert- Big steppa
41. Hot Dolla- Red Monkey Jeans
42. Justice - Genesis (arch cupcake remix)
43. Hovatron- Deboutonner Re-edit
44. 215TFK- Rambunktion- (Boreta Remix)
45. Nasty Feel (biggie vrs MGMT justice)
46. Build 128- Total Shortage
47. Subvert- Size Matters
48. Megasoid- Bun B Remix
49. Hovatron- Discipline Rmx
50. Flying Lotus- Camel (Nosaj thing Remix)

>> ^schmawy:
Maybe I'll get my kletterschuhe back out this summer.
Who's game?


Some of those camera angles even gave me a bit of anxiety. I can't understand how you can be comfortable being up that high schmawy.

I once hiked to the very first base camp of the Matterhorn and I just about crapped myself a few times.

conan dwarfs that little lotus. All of the videos of conan touring are amazing

>> ^southblvd:
Um, guys...
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/01/Darth-
Vader_Ariel-Atom.jpg


Yeah, there is the video of that floating around somewhere that I could not find.

Moving freight, airplanes and battleships requires different solutions (in my opinion) then the problem of getting your kids to the hockey game.

The engines that run minivans are identical to the ones used by freight ships, freight trains, Farm implements, highway tractors, backup generators, battleships and prop planes. The same solution applies to them all. In fact, large enough ships like carriers and subs already run off electricity instead of oil because it is cheaper.


Even if energy storage technology was to rapidly become what we would need it to be, where would the energy come from if the source for more then half of our current use was to vanish?


We have enough sources of uranium and thorium to meet global energy needs for 100's of years. With any luck, we can develop renewable sources like wind,tidal and solar with that kind of time to get them ready. If we're really lucky, maybe we'll even get fusion power before that and then we are good for the lifetime of the solar system. As a bonus, nuclear is cheaper when developed on a large scale, France is making good money running over 80% nuclear power and exporting it's cheaper electricity to the rest of Europe.


A battery won't move an 18 wheeler. The only thing that will move an 18 wheeler is foreign oil, diesel and gasoline, and our domestic natural gas.

That is utter nonesense. Lookup Tesla motors, they've actually managed to use current battery technology to make a Lotus Elise that is FASTER than it's oil driven counter-part. The argument is as silly as when people felt automobiles where worthless because they couldn't go as far as a horse without a fill-up. Batteries don't need to improve too much more to be a viable replacement and then a landslide shift will take place to cheaper more powerfull electric vehicles.


In the mean time, let me know when you've found a battery that can power an ocean liner.


And this is your fundamental and underlying misunderstanding. The navy is currently using compact nuclear generators as giant batteries to power their largest ships more cheaply and without any dependence on oil. The problem for ocean liner's isn't building a battery that is big enough, it's building them SMALL enough. If a battery can be made small enough to replace the gas tank in a car, then you can power ANYTHING bigger than that car as well by using 2,10 or 1000 such batteries. Already with current laptop battery technology we are almost there. We don't need a breakthrough, a few small improvements to weight and cost and the solution is there. Anything to small to be powered by a compact nuclear generator can instead be run off of batteries without a loss in performance or ability.


The social attachment to oil is much deeper the powering the transportation to get to the grocery store or the beach. It is in every piece of food you get at the grocery store or bring to the beach. It is in the road you drive on, the oil that lubricates the engine as well as just the gas tank.


But moving goods is all still part of the transportation network. And ALL of those applications use internal combustion engines that can be replaced with only a moderately improved battery over those available today.


The agricultural attachment to oil is not just that it is used in the production and delivery of the fertilizer that grows the food to feed the citizen or just the fuel in the gas tank of the grain harvester and other farm machinery.


I grew up on a farm. The agricultural attachment to oil is again dominated by the use of internal combustion engines for machinery, which is easily replaced with a better battery.


The political attachment to oil is not just ensuring that a population have access to the cheap energy for their car, but the cheap fuel for the cheap power plant the provides the cheap electricity for to run the fridge for the cheap food brought from all corners of the earth.

Wrong, the cheap power plant runs off of coal, not oil. Coal reserves utterly dwarf oil reserves, that's why not even crazy people talk about 'peak' coal. In fact, many talk about converting coal to oil if necessary.


I'm sorry, but the entirety of the arguments you make NEVER go beyond the assumption that nothing can replace internal combustion engines and so when oil runs out everything using them is doomed. Fortunately that is not the reality we live in. Even with current technology, battery powered electric motors are begining to appear in automobiles. The military has been running their largest ships on electricty and independent of oil for decades. We are not looking at a dire need for a major breakthrough. We only need small, incremental improvements to battey technology to being able to replace internal combustion engines with batteries, and oil with electricity. Then we are free to simply expand the electric grid, which we have been doing for nearly a century already and are getting rather good at.

>> ^Fade:
hmmm the thlot Pickens...
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12/22/bbc_top_gear_tesla/


Boooyah Grandma.

What is so disappointing about this video is that the first half is for the Tesla then the last half is all about destroying it. Same shit they did to Preston Tucker. Also side note Lotus has been producing cars for over 50 years Tesla just produced their first car this year and still beat the Elise. Lost a mild amount of respect for Top Gear.

I just got a couple of Steam invites to TF2 groups you're in - Lotus and Team Fortress 2- anything you can tell me about them?