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Equal Time For Tesla?
Will I, as an online car colonoscopist, be forced by the FCC to give "equal time" to people outraged by my doubleplusungood articles about Tesla and electric cars generally? Will men in black visit me if I "deny" what they call "climate change" (such a convenient term given that climate changes constantly in whatever direction, so anyone who touts warming or cooling or both is always right) and refuse to publish a rebuttal?
This is what's coming – in the guise of "Net Neutrality."
Which is now, alas, "the law."
Ostensibly – what the media talks about – is as innocuous-seeming as Taylor Swift. They – our Dear Leaders – are merely making sure that everyone online has the same access (bandwidth-speed-wise) to the Internets. That big meanie providers such as Comcast won't stomp the little guys. Same load speeds, data transmission and so on. Like (back in the pre-Net days) making sure people in out-of-the-way areas had access to land line phone service.
But I've yet to hear the mainstream media big-smiling bimbos and cheery chuckleheads say much about the fact that a federal agency – the FCC – will now have regulatory authority over the Internet (read more here). That is, the FCC will – it now has – the same authority over the Internet that it has over terrestrial radio. Which of course, the FCC destroyed. (Does anyone listen to FM radio anymore?)
Will the FCC destroy the Internet?
Or merely transform it into the online equivalent of NPR?
That is, something boring and expensive that no one listens to?
This business has been a long time brewing. An ear-whisperer to El Jefe Obama named Cass Sunstein has for years advocated an online version of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." (Read his book, On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done). Sunstein once wrote that "… limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government."
Hence individual choices must be limited by government.
The Fairness Doctrine as applied to the Net would require that any web site publishing material that could be construed as expressing an opinion would also have to publish contrary or opposing opinions.
Thus, if I write an article criticizing Tesla's fleecing of the masses for the benefit of millionaires and near-millionaires (as well as billionaires such as Elon Musk, Tesla's honcho) I would, under this doctrine, be required – that is, forced – to give space to rebuttals and "alternative views." Failure to do so would trigger gathering-in-strength repercussions beginning with letters insisting on compliance with "the law" to fines (increasingly onerous) meant to either shut me up or – over time – achieve the same by attrition.
Result? Either it will become financially untenable to maintain the site or it will become so onerous, so annoying, to be constantly harassed by the FCC that I (and others in the same position) will simply give up.
Which is precisely what's wanted.
To stifle.
Jefferson once wrote that to compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves or abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
But Cass Sunstein – and Barack Obama – beg to differ. They believe you have a positive obligation to furnish funds – and more! – for the propagation of ideas you disbelieve and abhor. It's not just having tax money taken out of your hide to fund NPR this time. It is also (if you're a web publisher, like me) being forced to provide the venue, too. As publisher of EPautos.com I pay a couple hundred bills each month for servers and I had to pay someone to build the site and there is the small matter of the time and effort (years) I put into building its audience… all of which must now be handed over to people who take issue with my views so that they have an "opportunity" (at my expense) to voice their contrary opinions. Every web publisher, large and small, is facing the same hideous prospect… notwithstanding that old-timey 18th Century nonsense about freedom of speech.
The last thing it'll be is free henceforth.
What's particularly egregious about this whole business is that the one semi-sane argument used by the FCC and "fairness doctrine" advocates to justify their red, white and blue Stalinism over the airwaves – the limited number of slots (so to speak) on the radio dial – manifestly does not apply to the Internet. Like the universe, the web is effectively without limit in terms of the number of URLs that can be created. No one is denied the opportunity to broadcast. No one's contrary views are muzzled. There are web sites out there catering to literally every imaginable interest, opinion and agenda. In a way that terrestrial radio never could be, the Internet playing field is flat-earth level. Anyone can give it a go. If Tesla – and fans of the perpetually "just around the corner" breakthrough in battery design that will make electric cars functionally and economically viable – resent my rantings, nothing is standing in the way of their countering my rants on their turf.
But that's not the problem. The problem is contrary ideas (those contrary to the ideas of the Sunsteinians out there) are spreading. This is why the frantic push – by fiat, it's important to point out – to give FCC "decider" authority over the Net.
But, all in all, I find this business encouraging rather than discouraging. Here's why: They – the Cass Sunsteins and Barack Obamas – are losing the debate. Which is why they are trying to to stop the debate. It's too late for that. Just as it was too late when the Catholic Church tried to stomp the spread of post-Gutenberg ideas about the Bible.
There is a saying: First, they ignore you. Then the mock you. Then they fight you.
Then, you win.
We are now entering the final stage. Take heart. Our enemies are cowards and thugs. Such people may prevail for awhile, but never for very long.
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Tor Libertarian March 19, 2015 At 1:23 am
Elon Musk the Pig Fucker comes out of the totalitarian closet and openly announces his advocacy of forced gay orgies of bureaucracy and full spectrum mass consumer buttfuckery.
Elon Musk: In the future, human-driven cars may be illegal
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Tuesday, March 17, 2015.IMAGE: NVIDIA
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The days of humans driving their own cars are numbered, according to Elon Musk.
The reason, he said, is advances in sensor and software technology will eventually make cars' onboard computers safer and better drivers than humans wielding "two-ton death machines." The Tesla CEO shared his thoughts on the future of self-driving vehicles during the keynote presentation at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, where he appeared onstage with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
"In the distant future," he said, "They may outlaw driven cars because they're too dangerous." [he cackled with evil glee while viciously gnawing on a half-eaten recently aborted human fetus]
This future is not actually as far off as you might think, Musk said, adding that he considers autonomous vehicles to be a "solved problem" and that the larger issue is making the software and hardware reliable enough to conform to safety standards that regulators will expect. He predicted regulators won't come on board until at least two to three years after self-driving cars become safer than human-driven ones.
"Autonomy is about what level of reliability and safety do you want," Musk said. Part of that safety is ensuring the security of self-driving cars. While something like an onboard infotainment system may be hackable, Musk said it's important that elements like the steering wheel and braking system are secured separately and have controls that allows drivers to take control if necessary.
Tesla, known now for its electric vehicles, will be the leader in the future self-driving car industry, the CEO said.
Musk told Huang he believes NVIDIA's work will be a "big enabler" for Tesla's efforts. Huang revealed more details about Drive PX, the company's developer platform for self-driving cars first revealed in January. Drive PX will be available to "automakers, Tier 1 automotive suppliers and research institutions" in May for $10,000.
The event comes just days after Musk teased an upcoming announcement that would ends Tesla owners' "range anxiety." The update, slated for Thursday, will come in the form of a new software update to Tesla owners, but Musk declined to provide further details Tuesday.
Musk later clarified his comments on Twitter, after Tuesday's event. [adding that you will all be assimilated. and that resistance is futile.]
http://mashable.com/2015/03/17/elon-musk-nvidia/
Phillip the Bruce March 18, 2015 At 7:23 am
What's better than batteries?
http://themindunleashed.org/2014/04/car-runs-100-years-without-refuelling-thorium-car.html
Phillip the Bruce March 16, 2015 At 3:06 pm
The Bionic Mosquito bites again –
http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-legends-supporting-american-religion.html
Sorry, this is not a new post, but I recently came across a link to it.
eric March 16, 2015 At 3:27 pm
Very good stuff!
PS: I'm about to go on-air again; Bryan Hyde show…. Utah station…
Tor Libertarian March 16, 2015 At 3:40 pm
Husband, father, radio host, writer, seeker of truth. Southern Utah. Bryan Hide.
Anyone who pursues a liberal arts education wonders what the ultimate pay off for their sacrifice will look like. Mine was losing my job.
I'm Not A Risk-Taker
Five years ago I took the one of the biggest gambles of my life.
Within the space of 6 months, I resigned from two full-time radio jobs, moved my family to Cedar City, Utah and enrolled as a full time student at an unaccredited school.
Getting Downsized Was My Reward. The White Rose Society. "Someone, after all, had to make a start"
The Bryan Hyde Blog. Philosophical ammunition for defenders of freedom.
https://bryanphyde.wordpress.com/
Just got done/off-air. Bryan seemed like a nice guy; we talked a lot about Clovers!
The White Clover Society – A lesson in dissent.
Today, every American, German, Swiss United Spaces, and UK Commonwealth of Nations Member knows the story of The White Clover.
A square at Hunter Thompson University in Roanoke is named after Larken Rose, Kent McManigal, Josie Outlaw, Marc Stevens, Eric Peters and the rest of the Decent Dozen. And there are streets, squares, and schools all over New Switzerland named for the members of The White Clover.
The freie Menschen movie The White Clover is now found in video stores throughout the world and in Galtarian Enclaves in Germany and the United States.
In the vogue words of the time, these pioneers and their friends represented the "other" America, the land of poets, mechanics, and thinkers, in contrast to the America that was reverting to barbarism and trying to take the world with it.
What they were and what they did would have been "other" in any society at any time. What they did transcended the easy division of good-American/bad-American and lifted them above the nationalism of time-bound events. Their actions made them enduring symbols of the struggle, universal and timeless, for the freedom of the human spirit wherever and whenever it is threatened.
People are taking batteries from Tesla and other wrecks and installing them in their solar homes.
Battery Hackers Are Building the Future in the Garage
A day trader cannibalized a Tesla to go off the grid. That's the spirit igniting a revolution in solar energy.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-03-11/battery-hackers-are-building-the-future-in-the-garage
Tor Libertarian March 3, 2015 At 4:03 am
WCBU	89.9 FM	Peoria	Bradley Univ	Classical/News & Information
WVIK	90.3 FM	Rock Island	Augustana College Classical/NPR
WNIU	90.5 FM	Rockford	Northern Illinois Univ Classical
WILL-FM	90.9 FM	Urbana	Board of Trustees of Univ of Illinois Classical
WKCC	91.1 FM	Kankakee	Kankakee Community College Classical
WFMT	98.7 FM	Chicago	Window to the World Communications Classical
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Illinois
Without Govt imposed scarcity, there would be vastly more broadcast offerings for the 13 million residents of Illinois
Partial list of pirate radio stations in the US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio_in_North_America#Partial_list_of_pirate_radio_stations_in_the_United_States
BrentP March 3, 2015 At 11:43 am
Tor, college stations are typically very low wattage and around here cannot be picked up much further than the campus from which they are broadcast from.
kevin mccune March 2, 2015 At 8:46 pm
I used to hate "Just Imagine"till I turned the conservative filter down a little in my addled brain.Its sad but true how many people have died for intangibles,my favorite thing to say to my Church friends is,"Be nice if Micheal or Gabriel,had a office were you could go meet with them" I have firm belief in God and know that one I will get to see Him,but I am sorely disappointed in the people who work for Him.If we believe in "Divine Right" and" Emminent Domain" what would stop us from trampling others?Wouldnt the World be a better place if we took responsibility for our own actions,rather then believing in a Divine Mandate or a Boogeyman?Like I have said earlier about the evidence of past advanced civilizations,If we cant learn and evolve,we are doomed.
Tor Libertarian March 2, 2015 At 3:16 pm
The equal-time rule specifies that U.S. radio and television broadcast stations must provide an equivalent opportunity to any opposing political candidates who request it. This means, for example, that if a station gives one free minute to a candidate in prime time, it must do the same for another candidate who requests it.
The equal-time rule was created because the FCC thought the stations could easily manipulate the outcome of elections by presenting just one point of view, and excluding other candidates. It should not be confused with the now-defunct Fairness Doctrine, which dealt with presenting balanced points of view on matters of public importance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
Talk shows and other regular news programming from syndicators, are also declared exempt from the rule by the FCC on a case-by-case basis.
Phillip the Bruce March 2, 2015 At 3:36 pm
the equal time rule is the reason Fred Grandy – aka Gopher from the Love Boat – dropped his Congressional bid in Iowa. Any time a TV station ran a rerun, his opponents demanded equal time.
Grandy's political interests preceded his acting career. In high school, he was the roommate of David Eisenhower (grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower) at Phillips Exeter Academy and later was best man at Eisenhower's wedding to Julie Nixon. He served as a speechwriter for Iowa Congressman Wiley Mayne.
Grandy, a Republican, won the election to an Iowa United States House of Representatives seat in 1986 by 3,000 votes. He tried to distance himself from his acting career while in office, yet in an interview admitted: "If there were no Gopher, there would be no Fred Grandy for Congress."
During his four terms in Congress, he served on a variety of committees, including Ways and Means, Agriculture, Standards of Official Conduct, and Education and the Workforce.
In 1994, he entered the Republican primary race for Governor of Iowa against incumbent Terry Branstad; he lost the election by 4 percentage points.
Post-Congressional career
Grandy later served as President and CEO of Goodwill Industries International from 1995–2000. He became a political commentator for National Public Radio and served as a visiting professor teaching a course on non-profit organizations at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park.
From 2003 to 2010, Grandy and radio veteran Andy Parks were the hosts of The Grandy & Andy Morning Show, a conservative radio talk show on 630 WMAL in Washington, D.C.. In May 2010, the program was reconfigured and was afterward called The Grandy Group. He left the radio station in 2011
Grandy was the host of a show on Retirement Living TV called Daily Cafe (with MSNBC anchor Alex Witt).
He has been a Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs at the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, developing and managing projects on domestic terrorism and counter intelligence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Grandy#Political_career
Gopher resigns from WMAL radio show after being told to keep quiet about radical islam
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/05/ex-rep-gopher-leaves-radio-pressure-islam-comments/
Eric_G March 3, 2015 At 2:05 pm
That "artificial" scarcity* you speak of is what justifies the equal-time rules. Of course There is a minor technical argument in favor of regulation of the airwaves. By keeping tight control over the availability of bandwidth, the government has to make sure it is being used "fairly." The solution, of course is to treat it like real estate, although as anyone who lives under an HOA, that's no guarantee you can do whatever you want…
https://mises.org/library/spectrum-should-be-private-property-economics-history-and-future-wireless-technology
However, once established, a "natural monopoly" is likely to develop, as it is much easier for a company who has installed all the equipment to deliver signals on one frequency should have no problem incrementally adding frequencies, as opposed to a new entrant who will need to recreate all the existing infrastructure. It's a tough problem, and I can't say I have an effective argument. But in the case of a wired, closed, private network, there's no reason for governmental intervention in any way.
*There is a finite amount of useful bandwidth, and technology drives the minimum amount necessary for effective communications. What we are seeing today is a massive change in technology creating more bandwidth and also making better use of it at the same time, but it is still very much a finite resource. Hence the quotes around the word artificial.
RE: 'artificial' scarcity – remember a few years ago when, lo and behold, the portion of the spectrum used for broadcast TV was suddenly found to be able to host 3 or more channels in the bandwidth previously used for each one. So what did the FCC do, auction off the newly available 'space'? No, they let the existing licensees expand into the space that had previously been reserved for them as needed.
Gunvermin always favors the status quo. And vise versa.
clarification – UHF TV (channels 2-13)
The reason for net neutrality is because Hollywood is scared to death that what happened to music and newspapers will happen to video, and they'll do whatever is necessary to prevent it. The big media conglomerates did a fantastic job of convincing the public it was in their best interest to support regulation that wasn't needed (or even understood). It wasn't that long ago that any discussion of regulation was met with a hostile response from the digital media. These days they're all in, mostly because they know how easy it is for new content to take over.
Think of newspapers and what they were like even just 20 years ago. When your local paper upgraded their presses to allow for color pictures every day it was a big deal. Sunday morning was spent reading the paper, cover to cover, looking for whatever nugget of interest could hold your attention. Thanksgiving day meant eating, watching fooooottbahl and planning the attack for "bargains" on black Friday.
Remember radio? Remember when a new album from your favorite band was released? The DJs would announce when they'd be playing the new single -exclusively on WDVE! (if you grew up near Pittsburgh), usually on a Friday during afternoon drive time, so you could head to the mall and pick up the new album on the way home.
All that's gone now. But television is hanging on. They learned the lesson the other media didn't, and so far are managing to keep control over their content. Now they want laws that will let them to establish massive server systems that will facilitate one-way communications, using bare-minimium thin clients. See, Wall St is also very aware of what happened to the industry and they need some assurance that the same thing won't happen to TV, since the investment is much greater. Cable TV 3.0 is here. Oh sure, that Chrome TV dongle is super-cheap at $35, but note that you can't do anything other than consume with it. Consume content that Google allows to pass over it. Oh, they'll let anyone put content on it, but you'll have to pay up if you want anyone to actually know about it. Hollywood is happy to pay up, because it's much cheaper to pay Google and dump content from the datacenter than it ever was to launch satellites and run million-watt transmitters.
TV on the Internet means running a "stream" of data from the servers to your house. This was necessary a few years ago because of limited bandwidth and memory on end devices. You can see this happening with the little progress bars. Usually there's a little grey section in front of the cursor. That's what's been downloaded (buffered) to your client. If you're watching on a PC or even a mid-end tablet your client is able to load far more data, and even a full length of a movie can be downloaded in a reasonable time. But if that were to happen, Hollywood would lose control over the file. Much of the debate over Net Neutrality has been centered around "fast lanes" and other gibberish. The reality is that the network was built to move packets, as efficiently as possible, from point A to point Z, then release the line for the next user's packet, and so on. There's plenty of bandwidth available today with little/no need for restrictive data rate shaping. ISPs constantly upgrade their networks to handle the constant growth in traffic. Yes, there is some packet prioritization for low-latency applications like phone calls (and 911 calls are prioritized over most other traffic), but that's a technological, not a business reason. They might not upgrade networks at a pace the 20% of hard core digital users want, but for the other 80% of subscribers it seems to work well enough.
Streaming video is more like circuit switching, where a connection is held between two points, with a set amount of bandwidth allocated, for the duration. It is NOT an efficient way to transfer data, but it does make it easy to build dumb terminal clients for consumption, and creates a system that is slightly more secure than sending complete files to clients. Instead of slowing down during peak times, the streams just buffer until enough packets get through. ISPs have had to design their networks for peak traffic, instead of average traffic and minor slowdowns during peak times. This raises CAPEX spending, lowers profits and makes Wall St nervous.
But get the FCC to regulate and you're sure to make everyone happy. Hollywood gets to define "lawful content." Wall Street gets markets that have built in barriers to entry. ISPs get a standard business model and the ability to blame the regulators for blocking advancements. The poor innovator loses, but big business doesn't want him around anyway, threatening their business and all that. Of course the public also loses in never knowing what might have been, but at least they'll get to watch TV on their iPads.
Enjoy your VT-100.
and Bastiat strikes again with the Seen/Unseen paradigm.
We'll never know what we are missing.
Joel March 2, 2015 At 1:15 pm
Gary North had a recent comment on this…I frequently don't agree with him on technology issues, but this is more of a government issue, and I think/hope he's correct: The FCC is Toothless and Feckless (http://teapartyeconomist.com/2015/02/27/the-fcc-is-toothless-and-feckless/)
Maybe it's because I'm too young to remember the Fairness Doctrine, but I have a really hard time imagining anyone sitting still for Sunstein's version.
Phillip the Bruce March 2, 2015 At 10:21 am
Good post from the New Yorker re: Legaize Pot and Criminalize Congress –
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/americans-favor-legalizing-pot-and-criminalizing-congress
They talk about how 10, 20, 30 years of 'service' affects the brain, and how Congress is a 'gateway' office often leading to running for President. Then they call it satire. But I've seen it – when I was living in Texas, I voted for Dick Armey when he first went to DC. Before that he was an economist and teacher. Same for Phil Gramm in the Senate (thought I voted for Ron Paul in the primary that year – 1984).
ancap51 March 2, 2015 At 10:51 am
That's what Eric could do. Just use the satire disclaimer on his posts.
Elon Musk is a "pigfucker" that's why I "hate" him. "just kidding". The breakthrough in battery technology is "just around the corner" that will make Tesla legitimate. Who would believe that, other than dumbshit's like clover? Just kidding clover, we love your dumbass. "Seriously, kidding". Your not a stupid lying sack of shit clover. We love you. scouts honor.
Clover will take full advantage of equal time. Maybe there could be "clover corner" right here on the site. Clover could post counter arguments to Eric's. I'm sure clover would agree. That would satisfy the equal time issue. An d clover would do a damn fine job as always, I'm sure. The FCC would probably take it easy on Eric. They'd say "look, EPautos is letting a retard post. Good for him. What a nice guy". Just kidding though clover. Your not retarded. I "could care less" what they say about you. You're top notch in my book.
Can we not handle real freedom?But what the gov't doesnt understand is that good neighbors and Darwin will take care of a lot of the percieved problems,I think the FCC blows,because of thier SA resrictions et al; If somebody keeps walking all over some others in the airwaves ,sooner or later they are in jeopardy,problem solved,I do not like a lot about the FAA either,If I crack up a small plane,I do not want a State Storm Trooper giving me the third degree(have you noticed that the government has almost made it impossible for someone of fairly modest means to own a high performance aircraft and boy the govt is hogging supersonic for itself(the more freedom we have,the harder we are to control(how about the attempted ban on the 50 cal? and the effort to keep the best body armour out of the hands of the public?.Just watch now when Clover gets control of the internet,bye,bye internetno more tax breaks and we will directly be paying for most content,not to mention the value added taxes on formely free transactions(excuse Me I'm on the verge of Hurling.I'm not mad at Tesla these technologies have a future place,but,(the big but) there are some things that are just not suitable for battery tech(I dont care that the tesla will hand a hellcat its lunch on takeoff)I just dont see anyway for battery power to haul 30 tons cross country without frequent stops and I dont think you will power a D11 on Li ion batteries,some things are just done better with petrol.
Ostracize me if you will though,I do believe hybrids have a place in the future scheme of things,currently I'm lusting after a Raven hybrid combo ATV-riding mower,its very capable and though its expensive,its cheaper then a similarly capable pure electric rider.So each to His own,but Gov't"Lead.Follow or get out of the way" And I say emphaticly"Get out of the way"Give us a chance we will ,prosper-dont level the playing field because we are doing alright,level the playing field to allow us to climb to your level,we have worked for it.
ancap51 March 3, 2015 At 2:09 am
If the government got out of the way, Tesla would be done tomorrow.
The only way Tesla will be "feasible"(not really)is if they change batteries at stations all the way down the freeway on trips–an idea that has actually been thrown around.
I agree that electrics aren't good for trucks and construction equipment. I have an excavation business along with my taxi business. If batteries aren't good for cars, even with the government pumping hundreds of millions into the technology, they sure as hell aren't going to work for trucks and equipment. Hell, pickups are out of the picture.
You aren't going to be banished, Kevin. If clover isn't banished, why would you be?
The belief that government can or will level the playing field never was and never will be.
Eightsouthman March 3, 2015 At 12:58 pm
ancap, how many loads of batteries does it take to operate that new excavator you have?
I'm constantly at one building site or another. It's amazing the huge electrical feeds required when building something and then take out all that temp stuff and run the really big stuff in when finished or near finished. Everything is running #2 fuel oil up to that point and most will continue as long as it's on site. If you had sites close enough together and enough of them, then electric rail service would ostensibly work(you see I'm just trying to imagine this as I go along)for some things such as regular supplies as well as personnel if the personnel lived close to the rail facility. So now we're back to the way things were 100 years ago when electric trains did service close communities and were replaced by private vehicles once people were further apart. The govt. tried during the 30's to get rural people into towns with the govt. dole, and were successful to a large degree but so many where I grew up and lived on a farm said they only heard about the recession and didn't much realize the effects since the entire reason for small farms was self-sustainability for an entire family, maybe the extended family. I've seen lots of Sears gasoline washing machines in my day and Westinghouse ice boxes when somebody finally had a local ice house and delivery service.
I know a great many libertarians lament the REA but I'd still be without reliable power without it. In Tx. and I suppose other states, you have a choice of power provider which I see as more govt. oversight since some specific power company built certain parts of the grid. I get the questionnaire every year and I can check any power provider I like but to this day there's still only one that serves me. It's a consumer owned coop that works well. I know of any other company that provides power at a rate as cheaply as we get it. Now that most(and it's certainly not a given you have power out here where I live)have power, it's easy to second guess HOW power should have been provided 80 years ago but so far, no one has come up with a solution that would have provided power to this area. There were large corporations that provided the actual electricity and built the infrastructure to get it to communities but that was only a fraction of the people in all these rural counties in Tx. Without help to bring electricity to the rural farms, I'm still rural enough that I'd fairly much be in the dark most of the time.
Some people, wealthier than nearly everyone else, could provide some power with wind generation and later with available natural gas generators if you have it on your land. There is no big push by the large electric providers to take over the rural parts now since it's not really worthwhile and would merely drive prices up for everyone. I sometimes wonder if the rural providers wouldn't now be able to get competitive loans to keep rural people in power but i'd bet it would be extremely expensive and once again, rival personal electrical production in price. The greenies probably like this idea. I'm sure they'd like to see us move to a town and ride a bike or walk……but they'll have to pry my Duramax out of my cold, dead hands first….ha ha. No doubt this will come about if people don't wise up to TPTB who want the same thing to some extent. Then again, the banking industry is almost solely dependent on car loans right now and has returned to the bad loan making that we had in '06 and we all remember how that worked out. Now where did I put my Hil in '16 bumper sticker? She'll fix me up real good without a doubt.
ancap51 March 3, 2015 At 6:21 pm
Eight,
It takes 4 batteries to power my biggest excavator. It's an 05 330 Cat. That "around the corner technology" sure as hell will never power an excavator. The best batteries do is supplement power steering and things like that on massive mining trucks. The secret being that it works like a hybrid car……except the batteries on equipment actually are economically viable, unlike hybrids so far.
How much diesel is burning for the cigafactory? A hell of a lot, I'm sure.
"though" – not "thought"
Eightsouthman March 2, 2015 At 4:11 pm
PtB, I found it difficult to believe anyone with a brain, or a thinking brain, could take Phil seriously once he'd open his convincingly stupid mouth. I would have voted for Tammy Faye given the choice. Like the Shrub, she knew what she did by what her "gut" told her. Phil tried to give reasons, shoulda just spilled his guts…..but it was others guts he was intending to spill. And now the real War Party is beating the MSM drums. The Dems continue to read the playbook the Shrub left lying out when they left……accidentally…..of course….wink wink, nod nod
Well, 8SM, I was still a Republican back in those days. I have improved since then.
Fred Reed says you should need a 145 IQ to vote –
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/03/fred-reed/to-vote-you-should-have-a-145-iq/
I guess that lets out Clover.
If you ignore authorities and consider only technology there is no scarcity or limits for broadcasting and communication operations. There's whole new worlds to discover and create within.
What we call the internet could just as easily be broadcast in the AM FM VHF and other frequencies. We could all transmit and receive to each other in an infinite variety of protocols and modes of our choosing. We can multiply ourselves in this new low density transparent world that is all around us.
We could even broadcast at the same frequencies and protocols of our brainwaves. We can create a biological internet and communicate with each other and other forms of life.
Everything that is proprietary could potentially be made free and open source. It doesn't have to be the binary narrative of capitalism and communism. Us and them. Mine and yours. Whoever insists on not being a part can be left in peace.
But there are many who are willing to try and to share and break new ground. Explore new territories. Wikipedia and IRC chat can expand to be real places of Wikilandia and IRC think, feel, and experience. Mind control can be an individual, non-collective market with spontaneous disorder and total creative freedom.
A world of unlimited riches is already here. A walkie talkie could have a touchscreen and multiband transmitter and receiver. Meld it with your sail fawn and your keyless ignition fob and garage door opener.
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Your remote control could be modified to start your car and access all the diagnostics and electronic parameters. Think of the John Lennon song Imagine. You could lose your fear of the government. Lose your fear of the
loss of YOUR things, because all that could be taken is a replica.
There's a whole universe available. Where beings and objects exist at whatever the density of radio waves is. And all the other spectral waves and matter. There's a whole new life to be lived there. In much the same way there's a whole universe of life in the oceans.
These proto-universes can be liberated and brought to fruition. There's also a high density mechanical universe of machinery and industrialization. A universe of nuclear energy and super dense uranium and other slow fissioning high density metals.
The human body exists at a density of 1.06 kg/m^3 on average. Another way to say this is we exist as matter being continually broadcast at 1.06 kg/m^3. We're not the same transmission from years ago. Every cell of us has been reformed and rebroadcast several times over since our birth. There are all manner of alternate universes at different densities all around us existing simultaneously
For now, we die when our telomeres become too short, and we can't make a new copy of our cells. That is why we degrade and die. We become unable to broadcast ourselves any longer. But that is something we can change.
Instead of the strict separation of current broadcasts. We can find a way to create living broadcasts that continue to be a part of us. For now we broadcast in alpha waves mainly, which are neural oscillations in the frequency range of 7.5–12.5 Hz arising from synchronous and coherent electrical activity of thalamic pacemaker cells in our brain and gut neurons.
Certainly we can hack ourselves. Train ourselves. Create bio-communicative interfaces with ourselves. We will develop a biological internet soon that will open all kinds of new realms.
We can continue in our mission to hate the state and never submit. Yet all the while open ourselves to emerging possibilities and brave new worlds where the tyrants do not reign.
Everything we now no can be overwritten in a single generation. We have the power to change the world, if we only survive, become fruitful, and multiply. All the clovers and jackboots have a limited number of cell divisions still available to them. They'll come to the end of their telomeres, and then perish. And everything they forced on us can be forgotten. We can replace it all with whatever we can imagine and provide.
We can finally begin what Wozniak and Jobs implied in that 1984 superbowl ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
There is no need to fear ideas or change, if only we master ourselves and those we surround ourselves. From that mastery outward, can flow a mastery of the universe and principles of creation without limit.
We need not kill each other over our own proprietary gathered sticks like so many savages. Rather we can learn how is a tree broadcast into the spectrum perceivable by our senses. How do we imagine and then grow a living broadcast of the infinity of trees of our own imaginations. Trees that can then be harvested for as many sticks as we should desire.
BrentP March 2, 2015 At 1:33 am
It's worse that being forced to publish contrary opinions, the fairness doctrine assumes there are only two sides. The sides of the 3×5 card of acceptable thought. In reality there are infinite opinions but the government wants that narrowed to two options that are very acceptable to it.
Mike in Spotsy March 2, 2015 At 11:20 pm
Brent, you have described not just the fairness doctrine, but also the electoral process in the USSA.
of course, everything I see, everyone I talk to, well you're either D or R… and that's who represents you. What a steaming pile.
I guess that's life on earth. A very narrow spectrum of awareness in everything.
Demlicans and Repubocrats – what's the difference? One will say "you can have your corporate welfare as long as you let us have personal welfare" and the other flips it back.
BTW, I just realized the AGW doesn't only stand for anthropogenic global warming – it also stands for "Al Gore Wants _____" just fill in the blank.
Here's another good one from Mencken –
"All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are."
JelloCastro March 1, 2015 At 5:48 pm
"There is a saying: First, they ignore you. Then the mock you. Then they fight you"
But "they" didn't have ABSOLUTE power back then. They have near-perfect surveillance and tracking….They can destroy and murder on whim and with near-perfect precision. We have provided the money counterfeiter/political psychopath class with super technology…We sold them the rope they will use to hang us with.
They win. Prepare for their 1000 year Reich. It will be like having a boot on your face – forever.
NPR is for retarded and entitled liberal public school monkey-children brats. I bet the Internet will move in that direction. Doesn't "A Law" require a Congressional vote? Huh. I thought only Congress could vote to steal the Internet.
I do listen to NPR, because I enjoy Classical music. We have 2 in the area, 1 in DC and 1 in B'more. There used to be a commercial station too, but they couldn't compete w/the tax subsidized stations.
Phillip, speaking of listening to radio, did you ever catch Ron Smith on WBAL? He had, imo, the best political talk show anywhere…far better than any of the nationally syndicated ones. Sadly, Ron passed away from pancreatic cancer at far too young an age a couple of years ago.
MiS – no, I never happened to catch him, though I have heard good things about him. I listen to AM radio only for traffic reports.
richb March 2, 2015 At 11:55 pm
We used to have a commercial classical station here in Chicago too. Way better then the NPR station, all music, no politics. They REFUSED recorded ads, all ads were read from copy by the stations hosts. Very classy, low key. But run on a tiny amount of money. They held out a long time (it was owned by a family rather then a corporation). But when the older generation passed on, the new generation couldn't afford to keep on. Like many family businesses, the death tax also means the death of the business.
There used to be two classical stations for the chicago area. Both were pretty similar. Now I think there is one. Anyway it's the station on my alarm. Works just like you describe. I don't know their ownership condition they do pledge drives from time to time. At least someone told the morning guy to stop playing marches in the morning. I was about to go back to a beeping alarm.
richb March 3, 2015 At 6:36 pm
Yeah, your waking to WFMT most likely, the public station, and they did take some cues from the station I am referring too, the late WNIB (1955-2001).
Even though WFMT was (is) better known nationwide, WNIB was the ratings leader in classical music the majority of the time, during its last two decades. It was far more approachable, and less snobby then WFMT. It was run by a family with a tiny staff, the station owner was also the station engineer. Due to that tight fiscal management, the station managed to last until the 21st century. It was a quirky station that you won't ever see again, at least in a major market. Sometimes you would hear one of the resident studio dogs barking in the background (they had cats and dogs living at the studio), yes, really.
Jason Flinders March 1, 2015 At 4:20 pm
I would just put the site up on an overseas server and tell the federal scumbags to go fuck themselves.
eric March 1, 2015 At 5:09 pm
That's the plan, Jason.
I won't play ball, if it comes to that. I'd rather burn the whole thing down. For hate's sake.
David Ward March 2, 2015 At 12:09 am
That's what lavabit.com did. They use to be my primary mail provider. Edaard Snowdens too! They closed down and encryptly wiled the data from their servers rather than turn it over tk the goons at the NSA. I was pretty impressed and proud of the owners even though it inconvenienced me mightily. Let's hope you won't be faced with that dilemma any time soon.
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Giuseppe Crowe March 2, 2015 At 1:00 pm
Eric, et al,
I'm on the fence between some degree of hope that this whole thing will come crashing down soon and cynicism that based on the brainwashing of the populace, the hoi polloi will simply and meekly submit to whatever the GiP (goons in power) rain down upon them. There is absolutely no hope that the larger populace will ever develop any intellectual understanding of what's going on in the USSA. Public schooling has rendered the overwhelming majority neutered when it comes to critical thinking….hell, even basic math.
This latest chapter, in which the FCC just decided behind closed doors that it has the power to regulate the internet as a "public utility" just demonstrates how far from "consent of the governed" the ferals have deviated. Interestingly, a lot of the leftists in the tech world also oppose this madness. This is yet another example of bureaucrats just creating law from thin air on a whim. That people are more interested in sports in the USSA than opposing such egregious tyranny gives me no hope. This system was rotten from the start and thus no "reform" was ever possible. Well, pass the non-gluten snacks, it's going to be one hell of a show..
P.S. – Eric, you can consider hosting your website overseas. I sure as hell would. You probably don't need a dedicated server and in any case, it should not cost hundreds of dollars a month.
I know some here don't care for Gary North, but he says that so little of the WWW is located inside the USSA that the FCC has very little authority. There will be some inconvenience as those who don't want to comply move to 'offshore' servers. The real losers will be the domestic servers who lose customers.
You forget, the goons of the united States Government claim their jurisdiction is the entire world. After all the shutdown New Zealand based Megaupload.com or was that Megadownload.com? Any you get the point.
Jean March 2, 2015 At 10:29 am
Not to mention invasion of Swiss banking.
And the "nation-building" that's going on around the world… (Actually, chaos creation, as we all know. "…Remind them why they NEED US!" – Chancellor Sutler, V for Vendetta.)
Speaking of V? Did anyone else see that there was a law passed, that THEY said would not apply to legitimate protests, will now result in a 10-year prison sentence? Canadian law – but Canada is just the 51st state anyway… 😛
http://rt.com/news/canadians-ten-years-protesting-masks-965/
Note the twist of phrase, "unlawful assembly." And the discretion of the Pigs to determine WHEN the assembly becomes unlawful.
Sounds like the intent is to remove any opposition.
Add in the "black sites" known to exist (chicago is the big one right now) – the writing is f*cking BRIGHT FLASHING NEON LIGHTS, but no one wants to see.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/shock-report-domestic-black-sites-now-operational-when-you-go-in-no-one-knows-whats-happened-to-you_032015
Obviously, it's not the only one, given what we know of the NDAA.
I can't udnerstand why no one will actually start DEALING with the problems. They are human, they can be smushed with a car, easily… (For example; I prefer fire to cars.)
Me2 March 2, 2015 At 1:07 pm
More totalitarian bullshit.
These laws don't really matter anyway. Look at the G20 Toronto fiasco. People were detained and arrested for violation of laws THAT DID NOT EXIST. Repercussions, none.
Oh, BTW, this is The Great White North. Four months out of the year, you keep your face covered to prevent frostbite.
Me2, people were assaulted and detained who were merely going about their business during the '04 Republican convention. Nothing happened, no outrage since the MSM is bought and paid for. I knew it was a done deal then and spent the next several years telling people that was a major turning point, even worse than Chicago in '68. I was shouted down by Republican statists who now claim to be Libertarians but their email belies their claims. I'm amazed they can't see it but they couldn't see it back in '68 so why would I think that? I've been waiting for people to catch on for 50 years…..no sign yet of it happening.
yes, I remember hearing about the 'Free Speech Zones' at W's appearances duing the 04 campaign. And thinking "according to the 1st Amendment, anywhere within the US is a free speech zone."
I like fire that's controlled, preferably the type that is very brief but powerful and can move other objects. As my wife so succinctly said "What so great about 2,000 rpm, that's not fast". Hon, that's rounds per minute….not revolutions, although we can hope they lead to that.
Yeah, what was the 'rpm' of Puff the Magic Dragon on those choppers in Nam?
PtB, "Puff" was the nickname of C-47's with side firing mini-guns, 7.62mm electric Gatling guns that operated off a two-speed motor delivering either 3,000 rpm or twice that. Those old planes were slow and perfect for the job. The Vietnamese are very superstitious and word spread of "Puff the Magic Dragon". Being camo'd and sporting no lights, it(the fire from 3 mini-guns) appeared as a dragon's breath of red fire. They instantly stopped many firefights. 18000 rpm is devastating regardless of who was being targeted. They could only fire 3 second bursts before causing the plane to get off-target. In one engagement, the pilot wiped out an entire battalion of VC, 400 bodies counted the next day.
I remember seeing video where they were firing Willy Pete every 10th round and it looked like a solid streak. Somehow I had it in my mind that it was a chopper though.
David Ward March 2, 2015 At 8:14 pm
Willie Pete or a tracer round? White Phosphorous normally isn't a tracer round. Just saying…
OK, you're probably right w/tracer.
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I was wondering what the trend for electronegativity was, is it the same as ionization energy?
Yes they have similar trends. Both increase as you move right across a period and up a group/family.
Yes. The electronegativity trend is that it increases as it goes up and to the right on a periodic table.
The trends are the same. They increase up a group and across a period. It usually helps me to draw a diagonal line up and across the periodic table to remind myself of this trend during tests!
yes the trends are the same!
Electronegativity increases across a period and up a group, so it is the same trend as ionization energy.
chrisavalos- 1K wrote: I was wondering what the trend for electronegativity was, is it the same as ionization energy?
Yes, the trend for electronegativity is the same as the trend for ionization energy.
Electronegativity increases as you go up the periodic table and as you go across the periodic table. Same goes for ionization energy.
Electronegativity increases as you go up the periodic table as the energy level is lower so electrons are held closer to the nucleus with lower atomic radii and an increased effective nuclear charge. As you go across the periodic table electronegativity also increases as the energy level remains the same but atoms increase in atomic number and the increased number of protons also increases effective nuclear charge pulling electrons tighter increasing electronegativity. As effective nuclear charge increases so does electronegativity.
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Did I mention it's Boris Johnson's brother, Jo, who is in charge of this?
I've written before about TEF and its various problems. You've delighted to read that despite many such critiques, the government is pressing on with this, in a broadly unchanged form.
The Framework will still try to differentiate universities by their teaching, initially at institutional level and then by broad discipline groups (e.g. social sciences for politics).And to measure the quality of the teaching, it'll measure…um…not teaching itself, but a bunch of other metrics, like progression rates, student satisfaction and graduate employment.
With British universities currently in a bit of a tizz about Brexit, TEF has not had the kind of focused opposition that might have been anticipated, and the government doesn't seem to be in the mood to spend too long consulting on it either. TEF 1 is happening this academic year, and TEF 2 probably next year, despite the need to give effect to all the necessary policies, procedures and metrics.
As one of my colleagues has noted, this makes it a great teaching moment for students, to understand how public policy occurs and is formulated, albeit in a 'learning from likely failure' kind of way.
But beyond this, as has been noted by various commentators of late, the issue is not so much the TEF per se, but institutions' responses to it. As with all regulation, incentives are created that may – or may not – align with the ultimate intent of the policy.
In the case of TEF, it strikes me as a convenient collision of two broad agendas. The first is the increasing awareness in Higher Education that teaching matters and that the benign neglect of the past has probably not been that benign: more crudely, some universities worry they'll lose market share if their teachign doesn't match up to the their research profile.
The second is the funding bottleneck that government has created with past policy. The switch to fees, and the political inability/unwillingness to uncap those fees, has meant that HE funding has contracted, even at a time when economic modernisation suggests that highly-skilled workforces are very desireable.
TEF is essentially a quid pro quo between these two ideas: using the improvement of standards to break the fees cap. And by focusing on metrics that already exist, it can be relatively low-cost, low-impact as a process.
Of course, in practice TEF has grown into a much more complex beast, as those involved in L&T has tried to get more meaningful measures of teaching quality included, alongside recognition of the myriad differences between different bits of 'university education'.
The resultant messy policy – as far as we have it – suggests that we need to keep two basic ideas in mind as those of us at the operational end of things get to grips with it.
The first is that we need to be very alive to institutional pressures to game the metrics. Some of those things are within our control, but many are not. Universities will come under pressure to select students who perform well in the chosen subject and then go into graduate positions straight away. With many politics graduates heading into internships that don't hit this second part – even if they are excellent gateways to later career opportunities – that might make universities less keen to expand intakes in our field.
The second is that we also need to recognise the limits to our agency. At this stage, only some genuinely catastrophic event would stop TEF – even a different government would do little more than tinker with the basic idea, for the reasons outlined above. That means we need to put more effort into making sure we don't put ourselves into harm's way.
This doesn't have to mean loving the TEF and all it does, but rather understanding what it involves and how we might use it to pursue the idea that I'm going to assume we all share of providing good learning environments for our students, whatever they're like. The more we can focus on that, the better for all involved.


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An Accra District Court has adjourned the case involving the three police officers alleged to have connived to rob an Nkawkaw GCB bullion van, leading to the death of the van driver.
The three have been charged with conspiracy to commit a crime, and murder. The prosecutors told the Magistrate, Stephen Yeboah, that they were still gathering evidence to prove the charges brought against them.
Present in court, were two of the three accused persons. The magistrate has subsequently adjourned the case to the 20th of September.
The attempted robbery by the three, led to the death of the driver, David Kofi Sarpong, aged 52, after a heated exchange of gunfire between the police officer in the van and the suspects.
Two of them were arrested following the incident, but they subsequently escaped.
The escape of the two led to clashes between the police and angry residents in the Afram Plains district, who alleged that the Police allowed the suspects to escape.
Afram Plain protests
The initial escape led to protests in Donkorkrom, Maame Krobo and Tease with the protesters vandalizing the police station and some properties.
Police in the areas fled their post following demonstrations. The IGP announced a withdrawal of police personnel from the areas, until the residents helped to fix the vandalized stations.
Police may rescind decision to leave Donkorkrom if… – IGP
Meanwhile, the Inspector General Police (IGP), John Kudalor, has indicated the administration may review its decision to withdraw personnel from Donkorkrom and its surrounding communities, after a security assessment on Monday.
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Practitioners 34: Masamune Shirow
July 5, 2011 by Steve Penfold	in Practitioners p-t and tagged Annapuma, Appleseed, Atlas fanzine, Bonaparte, Braireos Hecatonchires, Cyberpunk, Dark Horse, Deunan Knute, Dominion, Dominion: Tank Police, ESWAT, Ghost Hound, Ghost in the Shell, Harumichi Aoki, Leona Ozaki, Makoto, Manga, Masayuki, Masumune Shirow, Mecha, Olympus, Original Video Animations, OVA, Seisinsha, Seuin Award, Shinreigari, Shirow Masumune, Solid State Society, Tank Police, TANK SWAT 01, Taro, Unipuma	| Leave a comment
Masumune Shirow (is an internationally reknowned manga artist, born Masanori Ota on November 23, 1961 in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
Masamune is a pen name, and a good one, based on a famous swordsmith, Masamune. Shirow is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into two anime movies, two anime TV series, an anime TV movie and several video games. He is also known for creating erotic art, some of which finds itself in sparingly in certain sections of Ghost in the Shell.
Born in Hyogo Prefecture capital city of Kobe, he studied oil painting at Osaska University of Arts. While in college, he developed an interest in Manga, which led him to create his own complete story, Black Magic, which was published in the manga fanzine Atlas. His work caught the eye of Seisinsha President Harumichi Aoki, who offered to publish him.
The result was Appleseed, a volume of densely-plotted drama taking place in an ambiguous future. The series follows the adventures of ESWAT members Deunan Knute and Braireos Hecatonchires in in future cityscape Olympus. Like most of Masamune's work, Appleseed merges elements of cyberpunk and mecha genres with a heavy dosage of politics, philosophy and sociology. The series spans four volumes, released between 1985 and 1989. It has been adapted into an OVA, two feature films and a series of video games. It was a global sensation, its themes broadening its appeal massively and won a Seuin Award for Best Manga. After a professional reprint of Black Magic and a second volume of Appleseed, he released Dominion in 1986.
Dominion: Tank Police was a two volume Manga series. Set in the fictional city of Newport, Japan, ina future in which bacterial air pollution has become so severe that people must wear gas masks when outdoors, the series follows a police squadron that uses tanks. Dominion has been adpated into three OVA (Original Video Animations – animated features specifically designed to be released in video format – you were wondering, I know you were) series: Dominion Tank Police, New Dominion Tank Police and TANK SWAT 01. Dark Horse Comics carried the imprint of the English translation. Dominion: Tank Police is deliberately wry and isn't a completely serious dystopian scifi. The lithe image of Annapuma and Unipuma are the most prominent image of Dominion Tank Police; two beautiful android catgirls that develop beyond their artificial programming to become criminals. The central characters are the Tank crew, including Leona Ozaki, who is obsessively protective of her tank which she calls 'Bonaparte'. It's all pretty bonkers but the lighter and more deliberately aloof plotting made Dominion: Tank Police popular in the US, Australia and the UK as well as on home soil.
Two more volumes of Appleseed followed before he began work on his master work; Ghost in the Shell.
In 2007, he collaborated again with Production IG to co-create the original concept for the anime television series Shinreigari / Ghost Hound, Production I.G's 20th year anniversary project. A lighter animation with more traditional themes, three boys with traumatic childhoods, Taro, Makoto and Masayuki, observe strange occurrences happening in their small town and cross over to the spirit world to resolve their childhood traumas.
Ghost in the Shell remains Shirow's best known piece of work. A multimedia franchise it spawned two anime films, Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence; two Anime TV series, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIF, an OVA sequel of the TV series; Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State Society; and three video games on Playstation, Playstation 2 and Playstation Portable game.
Ghost in the Shell focuses on the activities of the counter-terrorist organisation Public Security Section 9 in a futuristic, cyberpunk Japan. Blending, again cyberpunk and mecha along with espionage and themes of creation and the nature of being Human. Ghost in the Shell used CG graphics, colour and B&W traditional ink work in an incredibly complex and detailed world. Multiple layered and densely plotted, GITS (as it will now be unfortunately known) is raw intelligence presented in a powerfully dynamic and intense package. Shirow was no doubt overseeing the publication from his writing and supplying his own artwork but GITS must be the result of multiple art teams working hard to achieve the final result. Because of the nature of publications in Japan it will always be hard to know. If it is just Masumune then it is a superhuman effort.
Masumune Shirow developed concepts a decade and a half before they were adopted by Hollywood. Things we're seeing now as mainstream developments existed in the pages of Ghost in the Shell decades ago. A thinker miles ahead of his time, Shirow is a visionary. Even launching multi-media franchises years before that became a mainstream practice.


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PHOTO RECAP: Rachael Yamagata With Special Guests Radnor & Lee at City Winery Chicago January 29 & 30, 2019
ChiIL Live Shows On Our Radar
Check Out My Full Set Of Live Rachael Yamagata Show Shots In The Slideshow HERE and more favorites Below (City Winery Chicago 1/29/19):
It was my pleasure to catch Rachael Yamagata With Special Guests Radnor & Lee at City Winery and shoot stills for ChiIL Live Shows. Rachael's sultry vocals and witty banter between ballads made this a great date night choice for my husband and me.
I was interested to learn that Rachael made Chicago her home for a decade and performed her first open mic right here in a little bar on Lincoln Avenue. She laughingly confessed it was an unmitigated disaster and she stopped performing in public for 5 years after that. Fortunately for her fervent fans, she did give it a go again, eventually joining Chicago funk band, Bumpus.
At Tuesday night's show, we got to see Rachael's on stage "bass debut", as well as her stylings on grand piano and guitar.
She played a number of old favorites, new tunes, and even an excellent encore number of Fleetwood Mac's The Chain, garnering a standing ovation. Check out her site here.
Radnor & Lee were folky and fun as openers, with a clever vintage suitcase drum and foot tambourine.
Does Josh Radnor's face look familiar? He's a creative guy, rockin' a bunch of titles: American actor, writer, director, filmmaker and musician. He's most often recognized as Ted Mosby from the Emmy Award-winning CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. He wrote and directed the 2010 comedy drama film Happythankyoumoreplease, which won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. In 2014, Radnor portrayed Isaac in Tony nominated Broadway play, Disgraced. You may have also seen him as Dr. Jedediah Foster on Mercy Street, the PBS American Civil War drama and as Lou Mazzuchelli in the musical series Rise. Check out Radnor & Lee's Facebook Page Here.
Check Out My Full Set of Radnor & Lee Live Show Shots In The Slideshow HERE and more favorites Below:
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Called "the troubadour of heartbreak," Rachael Yamagata bears the "old soul" singer/songwriter essence that calls upon Todd Rundgren, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, The Carpenters, and Elton John, while sonically gravitating towards the darker stylings of Nick Cave, Tom Waits, P.J. Harvey, and Danny Elfman. She has toured with The Swell Season, Ray LaMontagne, Ryan Adams, and Sara Bareilles. Yamagata has also opened for David Gray solo at Madison Square Garden; and she has shared the stage at Carnegie Hall with R.E.M. and Patti Smith. She released a new EP, Porch Songs, in October 2018. Yamagata returns to City Winery for two intimate performances.
Yamagata unlocks your pain and gives it permission to breathe.
"Along with the bad-assery, Yamagata brings a world-weary passion to her singing. Her voice is a soul-baring, sultry instrument that commands center stage at all times. She has that deliberate, I'll-sing-the-note-when-I'm-ready pacing that helped make Amy Winehouse great, and before her Billie Holliday." Associated Press
"The singer-songwriter unveils a dark fire burning within her obstinate self." Paste
"Some singer/songwriters wear their hearts on their sleeves. Some of them also make sure they're dripping with blood. Case in point: the ultra-emotive singer/pianist Rachael Yamagata." Digital Trends
"Catchy and engaging, but consistently smart to boot" -- Mother Jones
"Like Screaming Jay Hawkins meeting Patsy Cline in a studio built by Sam Phillips and David Gold with Daniel Lanois producing, Tightrope Walker is all soul-fever dreams and bittersweet echoes, Yamagata's breathy, sensuous vocals leading rumbling drums and swampy guitars, ghostly keyboards, and sorcerer's tones." - Electronic Musician
'More classy soul-baring pastorals from upstate New Yorker... a sonically rich experience that repays closer listening... Yamagata's voice is superb at evoking languid heartache... This is an album of immersive and emotive pleasures' – Uncut
Opened in 2012, City Winery Chicago is a fully operational winery, restaurant with outdoor patio, concert hall and private event space located in the heart of the West Loop at 1200 W. Randolph, in the historic urban Fulton Market district. Once a refrigerated food distribution warehouse, the 1911 building has been transformed into a contemporary 33,000 square foot haven for those passionate about wine, music and culinary arts. The décor evokes the romance of being in wine country, from the exposed stainless steel fermenting tanks and French oak barrels, to the aroma of fermenting grapes. The West Loop's only fully operational winery has produced dozens of in-house wines sourced from vineyards in California, Oregon, Washington, Argentina and Chile, including a Wine Enthusiast 92-point 2015 Verna's Vineyard Reserve Pinot Noir. With more than 400 unique producers from around the world City Winery is recognized with 2014 and 2015 Best of Awards of Excellence "for having one of the most outstanding restaurant wine lists in the world" by Wine Spectator. The globally inspired, locally sourced, wine-focused food menu is conceived for pairing and sharing. The concert hall accommodates up to 300 guests, all seated at tables with complete beverage and dining service, ensuring a comfortable "listening room" experience enhanced by a state-of-the-art Meyer Sound system. Riedel is the official and exclusive provider of glassware, showing City Winery's commitment to enjoying quality wine in a quality vessel. American Airlines is the Official Airline and Virgin Hotels Chicago is the Official Hotel of City Winery. For more information, please visit www.citywinery.com.
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Labels: Chicago, City Winery Chicago, concerts, How I Met Your Mother, Josh Radnor, original photos, photo recap, RACHAEL YAMAGATA, Radnor & Lee, shows on our radar
PHOTO RECAP: HELEN MONEY Avant-Metal Cello Virtuoso at Chicago's Empty Bottle 12/22/17
ALISON CHESLEY aka HELEN MONEY is a cellist who has become known for her adventurous sound, bold compositions, and compelling stage performance. Called "A classical-cellist-turned-avant-metal virtuoso" by the Boston Phoenix, CHESLEY channels her sensibilities and experience as a rock musician through a classical instrument, altering both genres without apology.
She has played on over 150 albums with artists such as Disturbed, Bob Mould, Mono, Anthrax, Broken Social Scene, Russian Circles, and Archer Prewitt among others.
Full Set Of Shots In The Slideshow Here.
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It was truly a treat to see Helen Money in action. She was a thrill to shoot and even better to hear! Check out her YouTube videos and catch her in person if at all possible.
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Labels: 25th anniversary, Avant-Metal Cellist, Cello, Empty Bottle, Helen Money, live show photos, live show shots, Metal, original photos
PHOTO RECAP: SANFORD PARKER at Empty Bottle
Here's ChiIL Live Shows' photo feature of the one and only SANFORD PARKER opening for YAKUZA on 12/22/17 at Chicago's Empty Bottle.
All Shots in the Slideshow Here.
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Empty Bottle Says: These days, if it's metal and recorded in Chicago, chances are SANFORD PARKER was at the mixing board. His own bands, MINSK and BURIED AT SEA are super killer as well. We're honored to witness a master at this craft this evening. Pay close attention and maybe you'll learn a thing or two!
Labels: 12-22-17, Buried at Sea, Chicago, Empty Bottle, live show photos, live show shots, Metal, Minsk, original photos, Sanford Parker, Yakuza
Five Blistering Nights of Reverend Horton Heat at City Winery Chicago 10/11-15
The City Church of the Reverend Horton Heat featuring Unknown Hinson w/ special guests Koffin Kats - 10/11/17
Reverend Horton Heat, Riot Fest 2012
Photo credit for all shots: Bonnie Kenaz-Mara
This Wednesday, we'll be ChiILin' in Chi, IL at City Winery for the first of a streak of five shows by Reverend Horton Heat with support by Unknown Hinson and Koffin Kats. Here at ChiIL Live Shows, we've seen Reverend Horton Heat many times over the years, but I'll have to say my favorite is still Riot Fest 2012 when I had press credentials and got to shoot them from the pit. They always put on an excellent, high energy, live show that's a must see for rockabilly lovers. We have press credentials once again for Wednesday's kick off to the City Winery run, so check back soon for our full review and photo recap.
THESE ARE STANDING ROOM SHOWS - Limited seating is available for $55 and standing room tickets are $28 in advance and $32 on the day of the show.
The undisputed Godfather of Psychobilly, The Reverend Horton Heat, invites its congregation to join them this October in Chicago for five white-hot nights as City Winery is transformed to The City Church of The Reverend Horton Heat.
Making the run even more special, each show will feature a unique line-up with very special guests. Get ready as hot rods, lowriders and choppers descend on Chicago's West Loop for The City Church of The Reverend Horton Heat.
10/11 - featuring Unknown Hinson w/ special guests Koffin Kats
Loaded guns, space heaters, and big skies. Welcome to the lethal littered landscape of Jim Heath's imagination. True to his high evangelical calling, Jim is a Revelator, both revealing & reinterpreting the country-blues-rock roots of American music. He's a time-travelling space-cowboy on an endless interstellar musical tour, and we are all the richer & "psychobillier" for getting to tag along.
Seeing REVEREND HORTON HEAT live is a transformative experience. Flames come off the guitars. Heat singes your skin. There's nothing like the primal tribal rock & roll transfiguration of a Reverend Horton Heat show. Jim becomes a slicked-back 1950′s rock & roll shaman channeling Screamin' Jay Hawkins through Buddy Holly, while Jimbo incinerates the Stand- Up Bass. And then there are the "Heatettes". Those foxy rockabilly chicks dressed in poodle-skirts and cowboy boots slamming the night away. It's like being magically transported into a Teen Exploitation picture from the 1950′s that's currently taking place in the future.
Listening to the REVEREND HORTON HEAT is tantamount to injecting pure musical nitrous into the hot-rod engine of your heart. The Reverend's commandants are simple. And no band on this, or any other, planet rocks harder, drives faster, or lives truer than the Reverend Horton Heat. These "itinerant preachers" actually practice what they preach. They live their lives by the Gospel of Rock & Roll.
From the High-Octane Spaghetti-Western Wall of Sound in "Big Sky" — to the dark driving frenetic paranoia of "400 Bucks" – to the brain-melting Western Psychedelic Garage purity of "Psychobilly Freakout" — The Rev's music is the perfect soundtrack to the Drive-In Movie of your life.
Jim Heath & Jimbo Wallace have chewed up more road than the Google Maps drivers. For twenty-five Psychobilly years, they have blazed an indelible, unforgettable, and meteoric trail across the globe with their unique blend of musical virtuosity, legendary showmanship, and mythic imagery.
Rev your engines and catch the sermon on the road as it's preached by everybody's favorite Reverend.
Click HERE for tickets and more show info about the City Winery Chicago run.
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Taft High School Alumni Honors / Terry Kath Induction
Taft High School Alumni Association/Chicago, IL
terrykath.spruz.com
Update (Posted October 11, 2010)
A Terry Kath Tribute Concert was held in May 2010 at Taft High School. It featured special performances by original Chicago drummer: Danny Seraphine, Kenny Cetera (Peter Cetera's younger brother) and legendary producer Jim Guercio. A plaque with Terry's picture was presented to the school which now is on display outside the music department. To view photos of it, feel free to visit the tribute website: www.terrykathtributeconcert.com.
We are continuing to push for Terry's official induction to the Taft HOF. Help us do that by encouraging other fans and friends to sign the petition AND by joining the official Cause page on facebook: http://www.causes.com/causes/246685?m=4e2f81c3
UPDATE (Posted May 19, 2009)!
On Thursday, May 15 the Taft Alumni Board met to decide two things: a) changing the criteria for election to the hall of fame, and b) voting on this year's hall of fame inductees.
First item for consideration was whether or not to change the criteria regarding allowing deceased alumni into the hall of fame. That passed overwhelmingly with a 7-2 vote. Now all worthy, whether living or deceased, can be inducted.
Then the board voted on the nominees. There were 12 on the ballot. The first eleven were voted on verbally. Unison "yay's" were taken...no official way to count them and no "no's" were asked for. The first 11 all got in, even though several were not qualified in the past.
The 12th name on the list was Terry Kath (Taft class 1964), co-founder of the rock group Chicago. Instead of a verbal vote as was done for the others, his was held by "Secret Ballot." He lost by one vote.
The board did say that a plaque of Mr. Kath could be put on the music room door. That's nice and maybe even better, but we are wondering why he's good enough to be honored that way and not with the hall of fame? And why is he considered a notable of Taft in other places, such as the Chicago Public Schools Alumni page and not at his own school?
Compared to the others up for induction, Mr. Kath had equal if not more qualifications to be inducted. This egregious break in the traditional voting methods clearly shows bias against this particular candidate. If something isn't done to correct this now, it surely will happen again. Some get in with little to no discussion, while others are singled out and "raked over the coals."
We are glad the critieria has changed so deceased can now be inducted. However, we are continuing our fight to see that Kath gets the recognition he deserves.
FOR TAFT ALUMNI:
If you are a Taft Alumni, please include that and the year you graduated in the comment section of the petition. To be notified of updates and/or events related to this at Taft or the area surrounding the school, make sure to include your email address on the same screen where you put your basic information. Email addresses ARE NOT made public.
Since the petition's posting on October 9, an alumni officer has supplied more details regarding the hall of fame criteria.
1. In addition to the Hall of Fame, there is a Book of Honor which celebrates the lives of those who are deceased.
2. The Hall of Fame requires its inductees to be living persons. One of the purposes of the Hall of Fame is to introduce to Taft students to those alumni of high values and accomplishments (not necessarily "famous" people) that they can look up to and speak to, and see that they come from the same beginnings at Taft as do their students.
3. The nomination criteria is not a secret, nor is there a conspiracy among the officers. TAA publishes the nominating criteria when it is timely prior to each induction in our TAA newsletter for the benefit of all of our members. This occurs approximately every four years, however, beginning with this induction, the information will also be published permanently on our website, as our bylaws are already.
Regarding Terry Kath specifically, "he and all other deceased alumni are disqualified for no reason other than their deaths. If the criteria were to change in the future to allow the induction of deceased alumni, only then would their individual qualifications be evaluated."
Taking the above into account, WE still feel that ALL deserving alumni should be honored as a whole whether living or deceased. It's a way to be proud of the school's rich history.
While the officer claims that most young folks are rarely inspired by the deceased, we beg to differ. Every one of us can attribute our attitudes, our feelings, our beliefs, our passions and our inspirations to not only the people who are still in our lives, but to the vast historical body of intellect that is part of our collective history, whether it is in music, politics, writing or any other endeavor we have chosen to pursue.
Why put the deceased in what is essentially a book of the dead? Plus, if the above criteria is not changed, then those on the Hall of Fame list would have to be removed when they are no longer living.
This is only the beginning of changes that need to made not just for Terry but for the benefit of all future Taft graduates.
"In attempting to make this petition as accurate as possible, and to eliminate any falsehoods or statements that might be misleading, we would like to state that while the original description/background of the petition claims that 'Terry pioneered the hammer-on harmonic guitar technique' we need to clarify that it was culled out of several postings on the internet. We acknowledge that that technique is actually TWO different styles of playing, and there is debate whether or not Terry "pioneered"either. This is an apology for misleading anyone by not doing more thorough research." The statements referring to the above have been removed.
Background/Description
Beginning in 1989, Alumni Officers of Taft High School in Chicago, IL initiated a "Hall of Fame" to recognize former students "who exemplify the best of Taft," as well as "bring honor to the name of Taft High School through their accomplishments in their careers, personal achievements, service to others, leadership and courage" (taken from the TAA website: http://www.taftalumni.org/Taft_Hall_of_Fame/HOF_Index.htm).
According to a recent conversation with a Taft Alumni Officer, the criteria also state that those nominated and/or inducted must be "living". (NOTE: NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO OBTAIN THE TAA HONOR AWARDS CRITERIA IN WRITING. SO FAR, THE OFFICERS WHO HAVE ACCESS TO IT HAVE NOT MADE IT AVAILABLE.)
Taft High School has a terrific history. That's why the school should recognize as many of their distinguished graduates as possible. Those who were a part of it and made contributions should be celebrated, whether living or deceased. One of the former students who deserves that honor is Terry Kath/Class of 1964.
Terry Kath (January 31, 1946 - January 23, 1978) went from being a self-taught musician to being a co-founder, lead guitarist and vocalist for one of the top selling bands of all time: Chicago. His brilliant guitar skills give the rock edge to classic hits such as: "25 or 6 to 4," "Feeling Stronger Everyday," and "Questions 67 & 68." His fiery guitar combined with Chicago's brass gave the band its signature sound.
Kath's voice was equally as vital to the classic Chicago sound. "Color My World," "Make Me Smile," and "Wishing You Were Here" are just a few of the hits that feature his unique, soulful voice. In total, Kath performed on eleven Chicago albums from 1969-1977 all of which earned at least gold certification. He was considered the onstage "leader" by his fellow band members on numerous sold out tours.
Kath's talent paved the way for Chicago's tremendous success. Chicago has earned over 120 million in record sales and is the second top-selling American band of all time (behind the Beach Boys). Sadly, Terry Kath passed away in 1978 from an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound. Yet, his memory lives on in the music that continues to Color Our World today.
We, the undersigned Alumni, fans, and friends of Terry Kath petition the Taft Alumni Association to:
a) Change the criteria so that ALL distinguished former students (both living and deceased) can be nominated and inducted to the Taft Alumni Hall of Fame rather than put deceased alumni in an "honorary" book separate from the others.
(Newly added) We realize the current criteria is set for those still living because current students would be able to "meet" those alumni for guidance. We have a different view on this and feel that every one of us can attribute our attitudes, our feelings, our beliefs, our passions and our inspirations to not only the people who are still in our lives, but to the vast historical body of intellect that is part of our collective history, whether it is in music, politics, writing or any other endeavor we have chosen to pursue.
b) Set the criteria so that each nominee is awarded solely for the contributions and/or accomplishments they made to society, whether still living or deceased.
c) Publish the nomination and induction criteria on the TAA website after all current officers have had a chance to review agree on it.
d) Nominate and induct new honorary members fairly, without bias.
Furthermore, we petition the TAA to allow Terry Kath to be inducted into the school's Hall of Fame. Currently, he is ineligible because he is not living and because a few officers of the Taft Alumni Association feel the way Terry died is a poor role model for today's youth even though official reports show his death was an accident.
Terry Kath's contributions to music history and continued inspiration to others far outweigh the tragic circumstances surrounding his death. Therefore, he should rightfully earn a nomination and induction into the Taft High School Hall of Fame. We urge you to bestow the honors on Terry Kath that he justly deserves. He is just one example of why the current TAA Hall of Fame criteria need to be changed.
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