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Aight, no takers. Here's my 10 (alphabetical). Audition - Japan - 1999 City of God - Brazil - 2002 Oldboy - Korea - 2003 Possible Loves - Brazil - 2001 Rashomon - Japan - 1950 The Road Home - China - 1999 The Seven Samurai - Japan - 1954 Shiri - Korea - 1999 Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War...

That's what I was saying -- here, it'd be Asian or Hispanic immigrants. I'm one that is thankful we have hard-working immigrants with high aspirations here in the US -- their entrepeneurism and work ethic is the backbone of lower-class labor. 1. I actually have a nice car, but it's not...

Item by item... 1. Agreed, that's another option. 2. Agreed. 3. Working an 8-hour day with no breaks is illegal in the US, too -- I'm just saying that an 8-hour day, with breaks for lunch and "personal time" (typically 2 15-minute breaks in the US), is not "hard labor". 4. The US is pretty...

I'm interested in everyone's favorites in third-world cinema...top 10 list, anyone? I'll post one soon. I'm thinking Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American, African, Indian, etc. Non-English-speaking.

I'll take these a point at a time: 1. Yes, the MTA shouldn't be running surpluses. They should have their funding cut, and correspondingly, taxes should be cut. 2. It's not that bus driving is easy. It's that it's not a skilled job. If you can replace $55,000/yr bus drivers with...

It's not about my viewing their work as menial -- it's about my viewing each of them, individually, as not indispensible. My point is that when everyone can do that job, to pay them more money than more skilled jobs is, as you say, 'ludicrous'. And I'm not suggesting that decent conditions...

Yeah, I'd like to see Kano do whatever he feels. But grime is the key to his potential success, I think.

Are you serious? Do you think people are supposed to just go to work and hang out? Work when it's mentally healthy for them? If you want a cupcake job, you should be paid accordingly. I don't understand why anyone should be paid to just laze their way through a job.

There's always going to be people on the top and on the bottom -- it's a simple mathematical necessity. Stated differently, any motherfucker can drive a bus. You want to make bank and get great benefits? Go to medical/business/law school.

Capitalism is the production, delivery, and consumption of goods with no (or little) active guidance. The only guidance comes from passive factors, such as supply of goods, demand for goods, and the relative cost of the production, delivery, and consumption thereof. Capitalism has never caused...

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I think that's a gross overgeneralization of the basis of the popularity of music. That may have been true in the past, but so-called "black music" has been so far at the forefront of musical taste for such a long time, I think it's a bit odd to say that it's a rebellion against things "white"...

Oh, absolutely. But what you're talking about is the influence that those factors have on the creation of the music, not the commercial success of that music. There are certainly factors that go into grime being a "London thing", poor kids from the city, racism, etc. -- but that's not...

The average transit worker in NYC makes $48,000-$55,000. Transit workers. No sympathy here.

The 2-Charming Crew presents... DELIVERY || 1/1/2006 || No Cover __________________________________ Delivery is about quality, not genres. It is a vibe, a style, a way of thinking about music beyond the limitations of beat patterns and tempos. There is no better way to wind down (or wind up)...

The hotness.

First post here, forgive me for not reading the entire thread. Don't have that kind of attention span. Can Grime/UKHH blow up in the US? As an independent genre? I think not. People here don't get all zapped into genres, except the sorts of insular genre/social clubs that spring up from...