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Well backjob, you should be happy to know that in my mental argument on this topic you managed to score a few good points. But anyway, this whole argument has struck me as actually being somewhat similar to that being given for the iraqi election. Basically i think the argument for can be boiled...

agreed Omaar, i think my buying habits can be sumed up pretty neatly by "I don't support assholes" Basically if i have a choice in the matter i don't want my money going to people doing things that i disagree quite heavily with (this goes for music as well as normal consumer products). I hope...

Parecon anyone? I'm sure at least a few people here must have heard of Parecon ? Created by Michael Albert (editor of ZMag ) and Robin Hanel, it's supposed to be an alternative to both communist and capitalist economies (it's short for Participatory Economics). I'm no expert on it, but I've...

yeah no records for me either, pretty exclusively of the (non-purchased) digital variety. but i'd gladly stand in the audience and yell my approval. hohohoho, burgeoning van city grime scene? that's a massive WTF coming from me right here. course this might also be the sum total number of grime...

Oh man, the "taster round" at the granville island brewery is fucking tops. 4 different beers for $5 or $6 (small beers though). A fine way to spend an afternoon. I've said it before, but if you see their Heiffewiezen buy that shit pronto (they only make it seasonally unfortunately). Mmmmm :D

So iraqis have managed to vote for a government. this is good. Turnout was high in shiite and kurdish areas. this is also good. Turnout was low in sunni areas. sunnis seem to comprise most of the resistance. this is bad. The resistance shows no sign of letting up. this is bad. 44 people died...

So not to sound like i'm now contradicting myself or anything, but basically encryption works, but DRM does not. Because eventually you have decode things into straight analog audio for things to come out of your speakers. And at that point DRM is circumventable. That is, untill we all get chips...

My apologies, i misunderstood your objection. But doesn't that MS talk contradict the point you're making too? I mean, closing the source means it's not as easy to get at the decrypted product, but eventually a bunch of nerds with disassemblers are going to crack even that.

Hmmm, yeah, thinking about why no one uses above encryption method (called PGP-Pretty Good Privacy :D) for DRM type stuff. In order for it to work, everyone would have to have their own private key, and in turn generate a public key which you'd then give to the content supplier. The content...

Don't know too much except that you should use Exeem Lite, which is the spyware-free version. Get it at http://exlite.net/ Network is still in its early stages though seemingly. Fair amount of bugs and I'm having problems connecting to the network. I'm sure it'll get big soon though, given...

Sorry, but this isn't true. The wonder that is modern public-private key encryption is that it doesn't matter if people know how a file is encrypted, in fact the whole idea of a public key is that anyone can use this key to encrypt data. The really cool bit is that once you encrypt a piece of...

Would suggest William Basinski's Disintegration Loops I-IV as definite meditations on the impermanence of music. He had a bunch of old tape loops that he noticed were slowly deteriorating everytime he played them. So he recorded them (thus making permanent thier impermanence) and you can listen...

Point taken. But nevertheless, isn't having a child, an heir to fully merge the two families, still quite important? The binding is just that much stronger when it's made permanent into the next generation. I'd be willing to bet that being married but not having kids has always been frowned...

marriage? Just wondering where marriage fits in to all this family talk. Surely marriage is the keystone in the modern nuclear family? "Get married and have kids" has always been the rule. But that's thing, marriage has been hugely important for millenia and accross many different cultures...

Big up. Also liking all axes of the grime/dubstep world, though true love is still house & techno.

vancouver's got a good share of dirty bars. the downtown eastside is an extremely poor neighbourhood with massive problems with heroin, so plenty of dirty dirty bars there that the cops keep shutting down cuz they also double as open drug/stolen goods markets. The whole area also sits right next...

Maybe one way of looking at the whole canon thing that's not so based on personal opinion is in terms of influence. as in, what artists/bands/whatever were so influential that without their existence huge chunks of their respective genres would never have happened? So obvious things like the...

BTW, that's not to claim i have any sort of corner on the "good thinking" market. in fact there's no guarantee i'm even any good at thinking. but it seems to work for me, and luka seemed to want some specifics, so i thought i'd give it a shot.

wow. lots to talk about. though i do think along literal/language lines, i definitely enjoy good art/movies/scenery, and now that it's been mentioned i do actually tend to respond to them in a non-language way. I find it really hard to articulate why i find somethings beautiful and others ugly...

LOL!! Don't know if non-Canadians are familiar with the brilliance that is the Dance Mix series put out by muchmusic (=Canadian MTV) here in canada. All the biggest "dance" tracks for a given year (dance = cheesy dance-pop) get put on a cd and then advertised to death on muchmusic. I actually...