Rattle wrote: ] Apply Achem's Razor. Which one is the simplest option? Google will tell you that by far the most widely accepted spellings are Occam's Razor, with 160,000 hits, and Ockham's Razor, with 128,000 hits. Occham's has only 980 hits. Your spelling gets only 78. (Wikipedia files under Occam's.) ] Wait! There is something more to this.. Its Hollywood. Out ] in LA, porn runs through the streets like the stories of gold ] told to the immigrants. Democracy. Whiskey. Sexy. LA is ] also home to the same people causing issues for the technology ] folks creating new ways to distribute content. Interesting you should characterize it as such; that's one contemporary interpretation. Perhaps you might be interested in some Los Angeles history. I refer you to "Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology", at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931082278/ "Here are fascinating strata of Los Angeles history, from the 1920s oil boom to 1980s graffiti art, from flamboyant evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to surf music genius Brian Wilson, from German emigré intellectuals to hard-bitten homicide cops. Here are fragile ecosystems, architectural splendors, and social chasms." You can read the book at Amazon. Search for Iowa, Baptist, and so on. A few choice excerpts: The osteopaths, chiropractors and other such quacks had long marked and occupied it. It swarmed with swamis, spiritualists, Christian Scientists, crystal-gazers and the allied necromancers. They ranged from melancholy High Church Episcopals, laboriously trying to interest retired Iowa alfafa kings in ritualism, down to struggling Methodists and Baptists, as earnestly seeking to inflame the wives of the same monarchs with the crimes of the Pope. The Iowans longed for something that they could get their teeth into. They wanted magic and noise. They wanted an excuse to whoop. Of the three million population of Southern California, at least half come from the Middle-Western farming states: Iowa leads with 400,000, but Illinois and Missouri are not far behind with 350,000 and 300,000. Do a Google search for Aimee Semple MacPherson. From a Library Journal review of a biography about her, courtesy of Amazon: "Once considered the premier evangelist and faith healer of her day, Sister Aimee built a church in Los Angeles called The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. A mixture of evangelism and the cult of personality, the church is today valued at over $300 million." RE: Under New Chief, FCC Considers Widening Its Reach |