Mon. 7 Blue Sky Court Nashville, TN
w/ Angry Atom. 18+ show.

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Anyone else up for this?

Wesley Willis plays April 7th in Nashville

The Veteran's Administration, plagued by recent budget cuts, has had to resort to charging new veterans entering into its system a yearly fee of $250 in order for them to receive treatment. It is a sad irony that the very people being sent to fight the war are going to have to pay to treat the effects of it.

Support the Warrior Not the War: Give Them Their Benefits!

He was goofing around, and there's only one way to interpret that kind of behaviour just seconds before announcing war on Iraq: the man is an idiot.

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I've seen the footage they're talking about. It's not the hair combing, it's the antics. I watched as he sat there trying to practice his serious face and asking if it was good or not. It was pretty sickening.

George's little antics

flynn23 wrote:
] Decius wrote:
] ] flynn23 wrote:
] ] ] Jello will be performing a spoken word engagement on
] ] Saturday
] ] ] afternoon at the Mercy Lounge (the Cannery). More details
] ] ] later.
] ]
] ] So, can we get a report on this? What was said?
]
] at the last minute, I decided not to go. The weather was too
] nice, the Wings/Avs game was too close, and I was cuddled up
] on the couch with my sweetheart. None of these things are
] sufficient foreplay for political rhetoric. That and the fact
] that scheduling a 4pm show on a Saturday is kinda lame.
]
] I was hoping someone else went.

I went. It was pretty long, I think it ran about 4 hours total. The majority of what I remember was from his latest spoken word album. Jello definately has a stage presence that you just have to see. He did his older "what passes for news in the US" bit where he talks about Time and Newsweek covers. It was fun to actually see him holding up the magazines while doing the bit. He also held up a "Tipper Rocks!" campaign swag item from some Democratic convention he got into. That bit was pretty damn funny.

He had a lot to say at one point about the blowback we can expect from what we're doing in the mideast. I tried to keep up but it went by pretty fast. He hit the bullet points about the warring factions and tribal relationships. I haven't heard that bit recorded anywhere before. He's been doing his homework on this though. Interesting to note that while he was discussing this the showmanship was gone, he wasn't looking down at his papers. He was pretty somber when discussing the blowback.

I brought my MD out but I only got the last couple hours or so, I'll encode it at some point and share. Words were spoken at the end that we should become the media. I can't agree more.

RE: Biafra hits Nashvegas

I keep hearing the same meme since the war started. It always comes in some form similar to the following:

"It was fine to protest the war, but now that is has started, we should all support it."

The first person I heard say this was Zbigniew Brzezinski during an interview on News Hour a few nights ago. Where was the first place you heard this? Did you hear it from a friend or through the media?

I'm not wanting a discussion of the statement itself, just where you first heard it. A study of the origin, if you will...

Nanochick wrote:
] Please, regardless of your political feelings about this war,
] support our troops, no matter what. Stop and think about what
] they are doing for you. Through my tear-filled eyes, I see
] courage that I have never seen before. For the first time in
] my life, I see angels.

Don't forget the Highway of Death:

http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-death.htm

I worked with someone a few years ago who served in Gulf War I. He saw this massacre first hand. I think when he described it to me was when I started trying to see both sides. Don't forget that US troops committed war crimes in Gulf War I. War is hell.

RE: POW footage rant

Listened to the Morning Edition NPR at this link (RealAudio req'd.) 5 minutes long. Pretty interesting blurbs from a battalion in northern Kuwait getting ready for combat. They're switching to MRE's, getting combat ammo, and breaking the seals on their biosuits. This battalion was scheduled to go home this week. Looks like they're staying and getting ready for war instead.

A friend who served in Desert Storm said, "Sounds familiar." I think it will hit in the next couple of weeks, what do you think?

Locked and Loaded

* If deadly radiation knocks on your door, do not answer

READY.GOV :: Helping America Prepare for Fiery Death

Jon Lech Johansen has been acquitted of all charges in a trial that tested the legality of the DeCSS DVD decryption utility he produced, Norwegian paper Aftenposten reports.

Jon Lech Johansen

From John Watkinson, The Art of Digital Audio, 2nd edition, pg. 104:

In the early days of digital audio research, the necessary bandwidth of about 1 Mbps per audio channel was difficult to store. Disk drives had the bandwidth but not the capacity for long recording time, so attention turned to video recorders. These were adapted to store audio samples by creating a pseudo-video waveform which would convey binary as black and white levels. The sampling rate of such a system is constrained to relate simply to the field rate and field structure of the television standard used, so that an integer number of samples can be stored on each usable TV line in the field. Such a recording can be made on a monochrome recorder, and these recording are made in two standards, 525 lines at 60 Hz and 625 lines at 50 Hz. Thus it is possible to find a frequency which is a common multiple of the two and is also suitable for use as a sampling rate.

The allowable sampling rates in a pseudo-video system can be deduced by multiplying the field rate by the number of active lines in a field (blanking lines cannot be used) and again by the number of samples in a line. By careful choice of parameters it is possible to use either 525/60 or 625/50 video with a sampling rate of 44.1KHz.

In 60 Hz video, there are 35 blanked lines, leaving 490 lines per frame or 245 lines per field, so the sampling rate is given by :

60 X 245 X 3 = 44.1 KHz

In 50 Hz video, there are 37 lines of blanking, leaving 588 active lines per frame, or 294 per field, so the same sampling rate is given by

50 X 294 X3 = 44.1 Khz.

The sampling rate of 44.1 KHz came to be that of the Compact Disc. Even though CD has no video circuitry, the equipment used to make CD masters is video based and determines the sampling rate.