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The film is an entertaining, but mindless whodunnit, interspersed with fairly blunt humor (bruno and his world).

Of course what postmodernism describes as specifically postmodern is really already very much a phenomenon of modernity. Postmodernity is merely a popular form of modernity's self-description.

and probably also because of a general slavophobia, and a general disregard for the fate of the poor -- both continuing to some degree to this day. The stalinist crimes were not ignored by the governments of those states who knew they were scheduled to be next in line for stalinist imperialism...

You don't spend much time round socialists and marxists, it seems.

hahaha, that's typical for me! Only a month off, that's not too bad. have been a year late for a lecture once! thanks i didnt talk my friends into trekking all the way to the elephant"

Did anybody go? I really wanted to but found myself unable to talk my friends into coming along. didn't want to go on my own, and stayed in.

Sorry to be pedantic, but any melody implies/has rhythm. hence all the rules about only using chromatic/non-chord notes on weak beats etc that you find in every guide to melody writing. Rhythm is the most indispensable element in music, since all music unfolds as s sequence of pitch/sound...

That's an ace remix (well, i have the "hardhouse remix, probably the same thing). took me 14 years to track down after i had heard it at soundshaft underneath charing cross station in the summer of 1992. Doesn't leave much of the original intact, good thing too!

I agree, and i think that's a fundamental shift in modern working practices, even for my parents it was a case of: you get a job and then expected to do it, or something fairly similar, for the rest of your life. There's the additional issue that going to university is in most cases more fun...

that's good for your brother, but exceptional. statistically, uni graduates do better than school leavers. very very few top jobs are staffed by school leavers. That's what matters.

Military research may be different, i don't know. It seems that the military/arms producers will pay signigicantly more than comparable civilian employers, simply because many would not want to work for such morally dubious employers. I agree, in business things are different, partly because...

I went to 2 of the world's top univerities, studying computer science. Not sure I recommend that course of life to anyone, it's really hard work. But if you want to make a career in science, it's pretty much mandatory that you have been educated in such environments. Alas, and contrary to...

Hahaha! You are clearly not familiar with how university funding works.

Yeah, why on earth should a university care about scholarly achievements?

I think the reason is quite different: HH as a m usical form is less following the "nice melody, nice harmony, AABA" type song structure that sells to the masses (young males, the main HH audience). In other words, cloning Motown is more mainstream compatible, in t erms of musical structure.

yeee, see also here!

Not quite sure i feel all the love Umbrella gets here, and why it's an 80s ballad (they rhythm of the vocal phrasing is just too different i recon), but since we're on the subject, is there some microtonal action going on with ella-ella-ella, eh-eh-eh? each of the "ella"s and each of the echoed...

I suspect that the pitch- and rhythm following-modules in the brain that allow the creation and appreciation of music co-evolved with the evolution of language. So music was vital in shaping humans. There are some books on the subject like "The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music...

I agree with all this, but it is at the supra-individual, organisational level, and hence orthogonal to the question whether a given soldier is a mercenary or not. To be sure, this organisational level is much more important than the individual's reason for doing what they are doing.

I am not psychologised the issue. I am well aware of the social context, and have repeatedly pointed to it. what i do for analytical purpose is to distinguish the social (i.e. communication) from the psychological (inferrable via observation in others and accessible by introspection in oneself)...