"In a sense, the monkeys were hitchhikers."....in a similar sense, citizens in Roman provinces were energetic and willing conscripts, for any battle approved by the Senate.

Neat. Nice mix of contemporary sound with some good riffy parts. Was just talking about how electric bowed instruments are finding their stride while listening to Andrew Bird. Sounds like an extraordinary experience working with Huschke and I've never listened to him before. I've had brushes with incredible talent myself, and they always leave me feeling elevated. I guess that's why we go see them.

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I just saw your cello how-to clip. You should listen to Wolfram Huschke if you're into cello music. I had a chance to get to know him last year. I work in a theater house where he performed. The concert was supposed to be in an open air arena in the atrium of an old austrian empire mantion and he wasn't very enthusiastic to play in a theater hall when we had to change the venue because it was starting to rain just an hour before the concert. he explained to me later (he's very outgoing, energetic, talks a lot even during performances but he really captivates the audience with his simplicity and warm nature. he's a genius on stage) that he was afraid the humidity would ruin his acoustic cello (he is more famous for his electric cello performances but this time he played both, acoustic and electric, uses some cheap guitar effects on that one i was the organiser on that gig and he had to convince me to change venue. i was pressed fot time but he got me laughing right away and i and the whole team worked like hell to get all set up in less than an hour from scratch, the sound system, the lights, everything. we had a chance to talk a bit later (in my lousy german, we than switched to english) but he had to leave that night for another city, he was on a kind of mini-tour through Astria, Slovenia, Croatia and Italy. i have a couple of his cds' he gave me and i like them a lot. i found this low-quality vid of him on youtube if you want to check it out.

I just saw your cello how-to clip. You should listen to Wolfram Huschke if you're into cello music. I had a chance to get to know him last year. I work in a theater house where he performed. The concert was supposed to be in an open air arena in the atrium of an old austrian empire mantion and he wasn't very enthusiastic to play in a theater hall when we had to change the venue because it was starting to rain just an hour before the concert. he explained to me later (he's very outgoing, energetic, talks a lot even during performances but he really captivates the audience with his simplicity and warm nature. he's a genius on stage) that he was afraid the humidity would ruin his acoustic cello (he is more famous for his electric cello performances but this time he played both, acoustic and electric, uses some cheap guitar effects on that one i was the organiser on that gig and he had to convince me to change venue. i was pressed fot time but he got me laughing right away and i and the whole team worked like hell to get all set up in less than an hour from scratch, the sound system, the lights, everything. we had a chance to talk a bit later (in my lousy german, we than switched to english) but he had to leave that night for another city, he was on a kind of mini-tour through Astria, Slovenia, Croatia and Italy. i have a couple of his cds' he gave me and i like them a lot. i found this low-quality vid of him on youtube if you want to check it out.

I agree a lot of his solo stuff is great... but I miss the great chemistry of Ben Folds Five, and they were sooooo energetic and great to see live.

eric #3579, triple posts are frowned upon. I believe. and all of the benefits you listed aren't things were getting from space, they are things we require to eek out a miserable existence in space.

"Energetic radiation exposure can be monitored and planned for, to the extent that some argue inter-planetary travel should be timed to coincide with particular solar activity (that can be better shielded against)." - bamdrew

that my friend, is a load of shit. Yall go to space an git some cancer come back an tell me that to my face.

space is great.

Muscle deterioration can be countered with simple exercises.

Energetic radiation exposure can be monitored and planned for, to the extent that some argue inter-planetary travel should be timed to coincide with particular solar activity (that can be better shielded against).

anyhow, space is great.

I guess for all my talking (and I tend to ramble) I haven't been terribly clear. Maybe I'll try to do my own summary:

1. The political system (and here I mostly refer to the US) is not broken. If people are motivated, and support candidates with good ideas, then they can produce real change.
2. The idea that people have no options, and that the political process can't bring about change, is dangerous - because it keeps energetic people who should be working for change out of the political process (which is the only way change is actually going to come).

Again - I think the only way things will change in America is if voters take more notice of critical issues, and elect candidates who will make responsible decisions. If people abdicate that responsibility because they believe that all the parties are the same, nothing can be done, or that politicians are all powerless puppets of some complex - then that change won't occur.

The other stuff I talked about probably distracted from my point, but basically I was just trying to establish that there isn't some shadowy group of untouchable power-monsters that control everything. Rather, businesses and countries are controlled by people with human motivations and frailties, and generally a desire for the general good (even if they're misguided in how they plan to get there).

In short, I agree with the video's end - the "Wake Up" part. What I disagree with is the hopeless, paranoid tone of the remainder of it.

Hopefully that's more clear.

Lemme summarize JMZero...
1. The economy and political system are not bad.
2. Angry young people are railing at nothing.
3. The economy and political system are not bad and this proves... the economy and political system are not bad.
4. Disadvantaged people don't want to take responsibility for their position.

I'd like to repeat JMZeroes words:
"I feel like there's a movement now where young, energetic voters ... dissociating themselves from effective, real political movements and into a kind of pathetic, hopeless, paranoid whine. And I think that's tragic"

Looking over my previous rant, I don't think I focused on what I meant to focus on: I guess mostly I'm taking issue with statements like "Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice". I'm taking issue with the overall hopeless tone.

I certainly don't mean to suggest there isn't problems. What I would say, though, is that generally politicians, deep-down, want good things. They want to make things better. They want better education. The problem is that many of them have wrong ideas about how to get there, or don't have the skills and intelligence to run things well. Or allow personal ambitions to distract them from more important goals.

This video says "you have no choice, you have owners". If people actually believe that, it could become true. The truth is that politicians aren't just puppets or figureheads. They have power, and voters have power over them. It's absolutely critical to pick smart politicians that will make positive changes.

I feel like there's a movement now where young, energetic voters that have historically motivated government towards positive change are instead dissociating themselves from effective, real political movements and into a kind of pathetic, hopeless, paranoid whine. And I think that's tragic.

Wow, another long parade of sad, tired cliches. Ooh, big rich man holding me down.

Very, very few people (businessmen, politicians, whatever) would want to see poor education so they can have a workforce of obedient idiots. To the extent that the education system is a failure, it's a failure because the people running it don't know how to do it better and because the expectations placed on it are unrealistic. Does someone legitimately believe businessmen are lobbying to - I don't know - lower education funding so that the sheeple are easier to control with their vast media machine?

I've dealt with high placed business people and seen high-level business strategy meetings and documents. It does not match the image of corporate America seen in movies, TV, or rants like this. It just doesn't. Unless the TV show you're talking about is "The Office".

The first, biggest misconception is that the super-rich are only interested in becoming more super-wealthy at whatever human cost. Certainly there's some out there who are only interested in more and more wealth - but in many cases the trend reverses the higher up you look. As a business owner reaches a certain point of wealth, quite often the focus shifts to ego: "How can I be remembered as a great guy?", "What can I do to impress my rich friends?", or "How can I help my son's business without actually cheating by giving him money?".

For example, the common idea that the Iraq war was engineered for money is ridiculous - it's not even looking in the right direction. GWB and the ruling cadre have plenty of ways to get money; what a guy like GWB desperately wants is to be remembered as the president who saved the free world. Glory. And he's pursuing that earnestly, making decisions that he honestly believes are correct. Sure there are profiteers, but they're peripheral to the actual motivation.

I think somehow people prefer the idea that the country is run by an elite cadre of power-hungry super-villains. The alternative, the reality - that it's run by well-meaning but over-confident, incompetent jocks - is scary in a way that people don't seem to want to accept.

If there was one dangerous meme that could actually threaten the slow march of progress, it's the idea that this video conveys: that people are powerless, and that political choices are meaningless. I see the next American election as a crucial choice in terms of foreign policy and basic human freedom. If young, energetic, change-seeking Americans stay home because they buy into conspiracy theories about how everything is fixed and rigged and unchangeable, then I think that's a real loss.

Man, and I thought my cats were energetic.

Bit of a prima donna there. He does seem very non-energetic, but that's how he acts.

BTW, is he talking about the Tribeca the film festival?

Yes, I researched it in some length. It was the non-intuitive part that compelled investigation. I seriously doubt, personally, that it will find it's way into bulk commercial refrigeration though.

They use exceptionally pure, rare earth materials, very expensive, highly tuned lasers, and are only cooling infinitesimal amounts of material. The lasers only cool the atoms directly exposed to the beam which is why the Feshbach resonance method of fliping the spin of the more energetic atoms in the center of the material and ejecting them out of the system with magnets is necessary. As far as the laser cooling is concerned it was the ingenious use of the Dopler effect that really impressed me. Both the magnetic and laser methods are seriously cool...pun intended.

Every recording of this piece, there's a soloist with such an energetic charge for the work.....Nadja Solerno-Sonnenburg at 17 yrs. old, with the Berlin Philharmonic, and Herbert Von Karajan, an all-time fav...

The next administration will show us the true colors of an oligarchy's dominance over another....semantics and their roots aside, what we have in America in a failure to communicate....this is due greatly to a calculated re-wiring of semantics by a dedicated and persistent effort on the part of Newspeakers.....constant barrages until phrases become implanted in order for tolerance, justice, and meaning to be programmed and manipulated....try these on for size, and decide what meaning they have for you:

Hate Speech
Right to Life
Millitant Fundamentalist
Necessary Downturn

So many on the left are quick to describe right as using Orwellian Newsspeak tactics and on the right they do the same, they are both using it to affect and to sell, agendas that are out of touch with all men, and the continuing battle of ideas and words grounded in contrived sensibilities and reasoning, is the box the people in the middle are kept in.....quite insidious, really, give people a team to root for, a coliseum to showcase and unite in a common arena...... the diversion to keep the rabble happy and fucking and making new meat-bots....and paying their bills with monopoly monies,happy to perform when whipped.....up....and diversion will keep them together.....



"The Rectification of Names consists in making real relationships and duties and institutions conform as far as possible to their ideal meanings.... When this intellectual reorganization is at last effected, the ideal social order will come as night follows day - a social order where, just as a circle is a circle and a square a square, so every prince is princely [and] every official is faithful..."

Confucius (as described by Hu Shih)

how about Orwell describing what is being done today, the young energetic minds sucking it up and spitting it out.....(Lot of it around here)
...."Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meaning and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meaning whatever."

When I smell shit, I say it stinks and demand it be dealt with, and look for the perpetrator now-a-days, to whine and wonder why they would possibly be expected to clean it up.......