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The Writing of Tokusatsu as of late
Discussion in 'Henshin Justice Unlimited' started by Japaneseseriesfan, May 22, 2019.
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NeonZ said: ↑
The online fanbase just seems oddly forgiving of early Gokaiger compared to Zi-O, probably since most people were just happy they were even bringing back guest actors at all, after Decade. Characters like MagiRed and GaoRed had very different portrayals in Gokaiger just to set up some kind of conflict for their appearances and yet there's hardly any bitterness associated with that like you see with Zi-O.
MagiRed grew as a character over Magi and it's clear he matured even more since the end of the series. They even kept his hairstyle from the last episode of Magi to keep with continuity in a good way. Compare that to Faiz and Kaixa just appearing in the show for no reason, despite some sources citing that they died.
All of the early Gokaiger team-up episodes were good. They weren't amazing, but returning characters had reason to be the episode and actually contributed to character development of the team. They combined Shinkenger tribute with first actual plot-related two-parter and Kaoru still managed to leave an impression and feel like a part of Joe's story there. Weakest one was probably Gekiranger, but it still brought back one of the villains back and we saw Jan actually teaching Ahim and Doc something, instead of focusing on "insert name of that victim of the week guy from Zi-O you can't remember".
The best character interaction in first 10 episodes of Zi-O was when Takumi and Sougo wandered about school for some time (Now that's what I call proper crossover material!). Because they at least spent some time together, even if they didn't do anything interesting.
Bandai's executives seemed to believe that a self-referential "meta" theme had a ceiling and that by going in that direction Zi-O would have lower sales than other recent series like Build and Ex-Aid.
...then why do anniversary series at all? Are they actually stupid? You're advertising old toys anyway, since the whole deal of Zi-O is "hey, our guy transforms into X guy from the past, isn't this cool?". They've been releasing legacy versions of items every year since freaking W and used pretty much all of them on-screen since Rider Medals, they've specifically advertised returning characters in Heisei Generations Final. Are those guys aware of which people would be interested in anniversary series at all?
And IF they had their fears... why bring back past heroes at all? Let them sell all their obligatory toys at first and test the water with guys like Decade and those Future Riders. Then you can start doing actual crossovers at some point like guess what show? Mebius, which did exactly that.
And even this side, if they didn't want to make heroes transoform, there was still a way to make them relevant like maybe focusing on them instead of one-note Another Riders show seems to like so much more than its actual predecessors.
Or maybe they had to sideline them sine they had to market the new toys and when that wasn't an issue anymore they could do better? Just compare how Build's characters are treated in the first two episodes and then Heisei Generations Forever, which was produced shortly after that.
Geiz could have brought all Watches they needed to shill from the future and used them/given them to Sougo one at time, so that show could have been more more free with its approach, but no one was clearly interested in putting any effort into this. And why exactly need to shill toys suddenly became an excuse for bad writing? It doesn't matter what you do as long as Zi-O uses the damn watch. Why couldn't we have more "past-involved" tributes from the start? They spent TWO episodes on each Rider, while Gokaiger managed most tributes in one.
You could have done so much with Build first two-parter. Setting up future big movie crossover in a interesting way, Build loosing to Time Jackers and sacrificing his powers/memories/whatever for Sugo, setting up actual stakes and tension for the story (imagine if Sugo's journey was a hard choice between saving Riders and their history which would ultimately lead him to becoming Oma Zi-O in the future or letting Time Jackers change things that would destroy past Riders as we know it, but in the long run things may not end up as bad as Oma Zi-O future. That truly could have been story with the franchise legacy at stake).
Instead the whole thing is treated like a joke. Everyone keeps deleting Riders from history and one one really cares all that much.
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The biggest problem with the MCU is, actually, a variation of the problem with tokusatsu today: too much stupidity. Whereas with the latter it's wacky anime hijinks, with the former it's sophomoric humor that only the dumb masses in the theaters who laugh at the drop of a hat could like. There's only so many times I can tolerate Tony Stark dressing and snarking like a child rather than the middle-aged adult he is, or even Strange's unfunny quips.
I agree that Marvel humour can be hit and miss (Guardians 2 was just painfull for the first like half of an hour), but I always thought people overblow how bad it is with the whole franchise.
It's Whedon-esque yeah, but people constantly name Buffy and Firefly some of the best TV Series of all time and they are just as quippy as MCU. It doesn't bother anyone there? I think it's mostly Guardians that up humour to insufferable (though second Antman movie and Thor stuff in Endgame were almost just as bad).
Then are MCU movies like Doctor Strange and Black Panther which are mostly devoid of humour compared to the rest of MCU (BP had like three jokes in total?). Doctor Strange movie even acknowledged that Strange's jokes aren't particulary funny and tied it to character development in a small way. I thought it was pretty neat.
I'm glad I'm not the only one unimpressed by Guardians. Some good ideas and visuals doesn't save it from annoying characters and stupid jokes that never cease.
Yeah, I had similar issues. People constantly talk how amazing it was that movie had "a tree and a talking raccoon" but... so what? I've kinda warmed up to the characters over time (and following movies) I guess, but I just don't see what's the fuss about them. I always saw GOTG as just a weaker version of Firefly and it didn't have story nearly as good as any episode of that show.
Kamen Rider IXA, May 24, 2019
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You need to frame all these statements as subjective statements instead of speaking for everyone and making it seem like your statements are the most objective ones possible.
Everyone frames their posts like that, why should I be forced into special treatment?
Geed is so by the books it's lazy.
Being by the books is usually the best thing you can ever do.
Drive didn't "fill a void" that Gaim left
There was a big monster of the week void Urobutchi failed to fill while Drive filled up enough to cover Gaim's.
Makai no Hana is subpar at best
Unless you're talking about music I don't see how.
Ex-Aid has more than you're giving it credit for.
It was more proof why soap opera drivel needed to die with Ryuki.
Tokusatsu, as much as the name of the genre would disagree, is not all about special effects and action.
Wrong, tokusatsu means special effects, therefore you concentrate on special effects only.
Those are bonuses that thrown in to enhance narrative.
No it doesn't, you go into an action movie for action, fantasy for fantasy, horror for horror, thrillers for thrills, adventure for adventures, crime for criminal activity, war for war, and the like. The whole "muh plot N karukterz only" is just a meme created by elites used to keep sheeple in line. Don't be a sheep.
You do realize it almost takes no effort to write a fight scene from a writing standpoint if you're familiar with how it works
Any line of work can have that same priniple, you work on enough brain surgeries and brain surgery becomes easy.
What have you been watching, I honestly want to know.
I've seen more than most people.
Because Zi-O is filled with action scenes that I can only describe as "action for action's sake", and TOO much of it.
So it is redeeming Kamen Rider if not tokusatsu as a whole after the tyranny of Kamen Rider Build created a hole of pure darkness, gottcha.
You almost sound like someone who's lived a very sheltered life and can't be bothered to dive deeper narratively speaking.
More like I don't live a sheltered life, I have bothered to dive deep, and 19 times out of 20 my opinion does not change. It's almost like I don't fall for memes because I am not a sheep.
So I guess you're fine with all bizarre things happening in Kiva's second half, like characters dying and coming back to life with no explanations?
It's tokusatsu, I'd be less fine if weird things WEREN'T happening.
Of all the problems with modern tokusatsu, talking? Really?
Watch Shin Godzilla or Daimajin Kanon some time and you'll get it.
First of all, the amount of conversations (or calmer slow-paced scenes in general) in toku is close to zero now.
I'll believe this when there is data backing up not just anecdotes, based on experience there is more jibbering than ever.
Second, why is characterization (which is what "talking" is pretty much 90% of the time) in toku such a big problem for you?
Characterization isn't a problem, the problem is too much of anything is bad.
early 2000s Kamen Rider didn't really have that problem
That was their main problem until Kiva took it back behind a shed and stuffed it in a meat grinder.... Then the morons writing W played necromancer.
Why Kyuranger of all things?
Because it is the best.
You can remove half of cast there without changing anything, most of villains are all boring, forgettable and heroes fight same three of them for like half of the show.
Why did we change the subject to Hurricanger? I thought you were talking about Kyuranger.
BS things like that roulette, which shows that writers couldn't handle such big cast or them starting in space and going to Earth to spend majority of time there (despite being a SPACE Sentai) alone make this series subpar.
Ah, you were talking about Sun Vulcan, my bad.
Captain Shark, May 24, 2019
Captain Shark said: ↑
It's because "everyone" usually refer to common knowledge in fandom. No one forces you to agree with what people say, but if you gonna casually claim things like "Gaim's disappointed everyone" even though you can look up archives on this forum alone to see dozens of people talk about how much they love that show, you're gonna get some questions about what the hell are you smoking by saying that.
I don't agree with people who claim that Ghost and Wizard are the worst Kamen Rider series, but it's pretty common knowlegde that they are regarded as such by a sizable portion of fandom and have way more detractors than Gaim or W.
If you're not familiar with those things, don't speak on "everyone's" behalf.
Kiva's second half had so much soap opera it leaves most of the other series in dust, yet you praise it. Why?
Why does tokusatsu being special effects automatically means you have to concentrate on them alone? Why do you discourage creativity so much?
I've watched both and talking isn't a problem with either.
So you're fine with writers not caring about things like consistency as long as they throw shining lights at you? Even in the show as character-driven as Kiva?
You have all the evidence you need. Compare 555 with literally any Phase 2 Kamen Rider series. Tokusatsu have become a lot more fast-paced, so there is much less room for long conversations.
Name a single reason why Hammie had to be in Kyuranger. Or Spada. Or Garu. Or evil Dr. Anton. You could remove pretty much anyone who isn't Lucky, Stinger, Scorpio, Tsurugi and Quervo and still have more or less the same show, because Kyuranger circlejerk Lucky so much it forgets to actually do intersting things with rest of the team apart from Stinger, whose arc ends after like 18 episode and he spends rest of the series being as irrelevant as everyone else.
The combined cast of either half of Sun Vulcan (including CC) is about twice as small as the entire (overblown) cast of Kyuranger.
Japaneseseriesfan A simple passerby...
I was actually sitting here for a day and half deciding whether I want to rip Captain Shark here a new piece of if I wanted to ignore his ignorance. Thank you, Kamen Rider IXA for taking my place in my indeciveness. Honestly, Captain Shark, as much as you'd like to think you aren't sheltered, you actually REALLY are. I don't know what f**king meme you're referring to "muh characters and plot", but I've been born LONG before that dumb shit excuse of a meme culture existed. And, literary criticism has existed SINCE literature existed. Humans have told stories since caveman times, what with their shitty paintings and their ambiguous nature. You might dive deep intellectually, but as long as you don't begin to associate yourself with people you know society deems "bad" on purpose like I have, and I have shared my personal experience in this thread for that very purpose, you wouldn't understand human connection or have the right amount of empathy to even begin to discern why humans do what they do on the psychological basis. This is me, speaking as someone who was pretty much reliant on the books as a young person (11-13), as you are "by the books being the best", and going against that to just find out why book smart =/= street smarts. You can have all the technical knowledge you want. Doesn't mean you actually can apply it practically. This is why I went out of my way to study animation, and in that I learned how aesthetics informed narrative. I hated how Fourze looked as a design, till I learned from someone on this forum by arguing with them that it looked shit, doesn't mean it isn't aesthetically pleasing considering what went into consideration to designing it. Even then, I would still argue I wouldn't watch a show with a character that looks so aesthetically out of place as a Rider, just because I don't like his rocket head, EVEN IF it's aesthetically done well. I learned filmmaking AND acting to discern what is objectively good and what is constantly overdone to form my opinion to begin with. This is all for the sake of deviating from the norm as much as I can. Anything that is common that is going the same route, I constantly dislike. Anything that stands out both in design, and isn't going the normal route, yet somehow still retains the hero's journey (or completely subvert it) in newer, creative ways that isn't written in books, I thoroughly enjoy.
You're like that second detective they introduce in Season that no one liked of Psycho Pass 2. You're a child of this system. In every sense, you ARE a sheep, THE BEST of them, that's probably why you don't think of yourself as one. I believe I've already cited my reference to that story, and how I know myself, and that if I was in that system, I would be classified as a Latent Criminal. I'm far a sheep. In fact, I'm a black sheep of my own family, and of society. No one thinks like I do, and I don't expect them to. I have never felt any kind of camaraderie with people of my own race (I am of Indian ethnic origins, but my family as adopted Thai culture for three generations, we have a Thai-Indian society here, it's very small, but even I don't fit in with them at all, and the only reason I'm drawn to them is because of cultural proximity. Heck, I don't even speak my own mother tongue. I am pretty much, a third-culture kid), of the people of the same religious background I was raised in, or even the society I live in, nor any other society I've ever moved to. I've only felt it with rare anomalies like myself. Abandoned geniuses society deemed to have had "no value". If you've actually dived deep like you claim you have, you wouldn't be saying "being by the books is the best thing you could be". Do you realize, that's the dumbest, most lazy, most boxed in train of thought someone who hasn't properly lived life can say? I'm gonna paraphrase a quote from C.C. from Code Geass here (mostly because I don't remember EXACTLY what it was she said, but I got the meaning of what she said) "To live in a never-ending life, that is not living at all. That is just an experience."
You've relied on the experience of knowing your "logic" works. You actually haven't lived other people's experience, and that is only possible when you've cried with someone else OR cried in their place, when you laugh with someone else out of genuine humor, and when you've shared their pain for years. Take some time for yourself to step out of this thinking of "No one can change my mind", and actually try to put yourself in other's people's shoes without your logic, but THEIR logic and emotions. That's what it means to imagine what it is to walk in someone else's shoes. If you say all these asinine things such as "If I were you, I wouldn't this", and then apply YOUR logic to it, you're not even stepping out yourself to understand THEIR subjective nature. You're only putting YOUR subjective logic that has been informed by whatever you perceive as Objective in your mind and saying they're wrong without considering whatever weight they carry as a person or why they even have such burdens. THAT is what storytelling is. It's not some simple bad guy vs good guy, black and white as you'd like to think.
Japaneseseriesfan, May 25, 2019
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Since I still can't find the edit button, I'll add this. I looked at your signature. You claim to be a "victim" of Cyber bullying since 2006. But are you really? I've been to therapy before, and even group therapy for recovering addicts for substance abuse as well (I only had weed and alcohol on my list, everyone else had WAY worse substance to go off) and even THEY can admit when they were "playing the victim". In fact, after these meetings, people I would meet in real life displayed signs of doing exactly what these people claimed they did, just that they weren't a substance abuser. So the conclusion I drew was this: Addicts and normal people aren't different went it comes to acting like they were the victim. It just so happens, one stopped recieveing an excessive amount of chemicals that rewarded their brain, and the other kept what society would consider "moderate" (possibly unhealthy though, could have been they were an excessive masturbator, or a compulsive liar, or just addicted to sugar or coffee) level of whatever they consumed. You don't sound like someone who's a victim. As far as I know, victims don't go back to the place that caused them harm, or a place where, as you said "why should I be given any special treatment?" if they were actually a victim of cyber bullying. I for one, hesitated to tell people my ethnicity online when I was young since 9/11 happened. You know how many people assumed I was a child of the Taliban and how many times I've had my head flushed in the toilet? Yet, like may victims, I've never seen someone declare it online. Or even want to speak about it. So your openness about it confuses me.
Because it felt more like an actual tokusatsu than the jibber fests of its last few predecessors minus Den-O.
Why does tokusatsu being special effects automatically means you have to concentrate on them alone?
Because it is in the name of the genre.
Why do you discourage creativity so much?
Why do you think I do.
I'm impressed you think that way.
So you're fine with writers not caring about things like consistency as long as they throw shining lights at you?
Never said or imply that.
Compare 555 with literally any Phase 2 Kamen Rider series.
And yet Ex-Aid and Build existing (and to lesser degrees W and Gaim) prove that's just not true and Faiz feels like it moves faster than those snails.
Name a single reason why Hammie had to be in Kyuranger. Or Spada. Or Garu. Or evil Dr. Anton.
To be rangers (and a villain).
You could remove pretty much anyone who isn't Lucky, Stinger, Scorpio, Tsurugi and Quervo and still have more or less the same show
Episodes, dialogue, and attacks would be different so no.
because Kyuranger circlejerk Lucky so much it forgets to actually do intersting things with rest of the team apart from Stinger
If you insist, I think it's rather lucky.
Honestly, Captain Shark, as much as you'd like to think you aren't sheltered, you actually REALLY are
I'm not.
I don't know what f**king meme you're referring to "muh characters and plot"
The meme that according to "critics" that's all that matters which simply isn't true.
And, literary criticism has existed SINCE literature existed. Humans have told stories since caveman times
Stop right there A) Cavemen didn't write things down since writing as we know it only dates back to ancient Mesopotamia and B) there is no reliable citation what you're saying existed this far back- Actually no C) Paleolithic or Neolithic?
what with their shitty paintings and their ambiguous nature.
By what metric? Comparing cave paintings to something like Greco Roman paintings is unfair.
You might dive deep intellectually, but as long as you don't begin to associate yourself with people you know society deems "bad" on purpose like I have, and I have shared my personal experience in this thread for that very purpose, you wouldn't understand human connection or have the right amount of empathy to even begin to discern why humans do what they do on the psychological basis.
So what you're saying is intellectuals are required to hang around low lives to get human psychology?
This is why I went out of my way to study animation, and in that I learned how aesthetics informed narrative.
Good for you? I couldn't care about aesthetics (I nickname them ass tic tacs as a joke) because they serve no function.
I learned filmmaking AND acting to discern what is objectively good
Determined and enforced by who exactly? I can guarentee those who use mouths to talk up dialogue eventually because the non-nutrient mush of cherry ice cream. In other words putting a bunch of letters and words together to form sentences and paragraphs are not evidence, facts are.
You're like that second detective they introduce in Season that no one liked of Psycho Pass 2.
Ah, referencing an anime I've never seen, one critics like Digibro likes, one involving Gen Urobuchi, and.... Thought I had a fourth point. Point is never seen it AND you're using the "no one liked" generalization you and IXA complain I use.
You're a child of this system. In every sense, you ARE a sheep, THE BEST of them, that's probably why you don't think of yourself as one.
You didn't even establish what the system I'm a part of is and my views are wildly different from others so I don't even know what you're going on about.
I believe I've already cited my reference to that story
Nope, this is a first.
If you've actually dived deep like you claim you have, you wouldn't be saying "being by the books is the best thing you could be".
And yet I have and still say that. Consistency is a good thing.
Do you realize, that's the dumbest, most lazy, most boxed in train of thought someone who hasn't properly lived life can say?
There is no way to "properly live life". Only sheeple use phrases like that.
I'm gonna paraphrase a quote from C.C. from Code Geass here
One of my least favorite anime characters of all time, already you're losing me.
"To live in a never-ending life, that is not living at all. That is just an experience."
That's because mortal bodies are incapable of immortality thanks to the forces of entropy, cholesterol in the arteries, and the fact our brains can only store about two centuries worth of information before being filled.
You actually haven't lived other people's experience, and that is only possible when you've cried with someone else OR cried in their place, when you laugh with someone else out of genuine humor, and when you've shared their pain for years.
Shortly after this you give me a long speech about your hardships trying to one up any suffering I've had in my own life like you know anything about me.
Take some time for yourself to step out of this thinking of "No one can change my mind", and actually try to put yourself in other's people's shoes without your logic, but THEIR logic and emotions.
Did that all my life.
THAT is what storytelling is.
Citation required.
It's not some simple bad guy vs good guy, black and white as you'd like to think.
You remind me of people that stand idle in the face of right and wrong which always serves wrong, in this day and age we call them centrists and Gary Johnson voters. Congratulations for allowing republicans to destroy America and by extension the planet's climate.
I think this is the only thing I should actually reply to. One, it speaks volumes of what you assume. Firstly, you assume I know or am remotely interested in American politics (to a certain degree, I am, but I'm not American, even if I did receive an American based education in school). The only thing I'm remotely concerned when it comes to Americans and other first world countries is how they utilize their capital to in a sense, colonize (and I'm purposely using this word) businesses in third world countries (where I live) and play it off as "it's just business" simply by the fact their currency is stronger and trying to expand their reaches worldwide (yet Trump is somehow concerned with immigrants coming over and "stealing jobs" when his own people have come over and "taken" things, in his own wordings just by mere boasting of capital wealth as if that's somehow more right. To me, this is clear strong vs weak. Double standards all the way.
You can take that "congratulations" and shove it. I'm more concerned with the welfare of the world. The fact that one country was even allowed to be a "leading" country and represent and making decisions on behalf of half the world was asinine to me to begin with. One country and the world, obviously, the choice isn't hard for me to pick.
I don't blindly categorize people as "right" and "wrong". That's f**king judgmental of you. Then again, that's evident when the first thing you bring up when I say Psycho-Pass is Digibro (someone whose nature is very controversial) and that it's a Gen Urobuchi show, almost as if he had nothing thought-provoking to say besides going off the anti-intellectual argument that he's just all about nihilism and cynical stuff. In that essence, how have you dive deep, exactly? You didn't even test the waters and then you say you dive deep. And yes, I have cited my reference to Pyscho-Pass to other people in this thread. Just goes to show how you only read people's responses and nitpick to try and have an argument when it suits you, doesn't it? Meanwhile, I actually read everyone's responses and make an effort to remember what they said. That's also why I don't call someone else a low-life just because there are lack of fundamental support functions in their family dynamics or society to even begin to give them a chance. I weigh things before I make a decision. Is this right? If so, is it fair? Those two rarely fall on the same page. I can sit here and tell you that, and you can probably see examples of it for yourself. Democracy is fair, but is it right? How many times have you ended up with the wrong President just because it's fair?
Also, and in this instance, I don't think it's right, but it's fair game at this point to call YOU a low-life, thinking you're better than everyone just by how you present yourself when clearly you don't stand above anyone.
The world ain't fair to begin with. People are born handicap, mentally, physically, or economically. Yet, in Buddhism (which is the "religion" Thailand approves of, which is asinine to me why we even call it a religion. Lord Buddha specifically said it's not a religion, it's a way of life, because he knew the dangers of organized religion having been born a Hindu prince himself) we are told there are karmas we have to clear. Some people have very good reasons for re-incarnating as handicapped. I try to consider that perspective, because I give every school of thought value that needs consideration and extensive thought to be put into before deciding which ideology to follow through at any given time. I don't devalue someone's way of thinking just because it doesn't "compute" with me.
And I just remember, the full quote C.C. said was "A life that never changes is not living. It's just an experience." Go ahead and disregard it as much you like. I'm not gonna provide you with any "citation" when I say things like "that's not how life is meant to be lived". I ask you this, who the fuck was born with a manual? That's why you ARE a sheep. You follow whatever you deem to be "the authority", and that can be a combination of many things, not necessarily one person, idea, or thing. I'm beginning to get why people steer clear of you in this forum. You're the bully you seem to want to go against. I don't know if bullying took in place in your real life somewhere in some place at a certain point in time, but you're clearly overcompensating for it here with your intellect... which is clearly being wasted and strained. Life changes at every turn. One moment, you're a sperm, the next you're a nucleus, the next you're a fetus, then you're a baby, then you're a child, then you're a teenager, then you're an adolescent, then you're an adult, then you're a parent, then you're old, then you're a grandparent, then you're dead. Butterflies goes through the same metamorphosis, in fact THAT is what every being in this life goes through. The cycle of life and death. Science is all about observation and testing hypothesis by observing the reactions. Well, that's what life is about. Change/Transformation. Ironically, that's also what "Henshin" means. To change your form, metamorphically, literally, and symbolically. If you don't want to change, sure, go ahead. Remain stagnant. But you aren't even living then. Shame, really. I was once told by someone plenty of Souls wished they could back to incarnate on Earth, but because they have other things to do or aren't able to, they can't. Don't know if this is even a true concept, but at the very least, there might a soul who could have very well taken your place and do a better job than you can when it comes to Empathy.
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Japaneseseriesfan said: ↑
The only thing I'm remotely concerned when it comes to Americans and other first world countries is how they utilize their capital to in a sense, colonize (and I'm purposely using this word) businesses in third world countries (where I live) and play it off as "it's just business" simply by the fact their currency is stronger and trying to expand their reaches worldwide (yet Trump is somehow concerned with immigrants coming over and "stealing jobs" when his own people have come over and "taken" things
Regardless of how Trump has done business over the decades, it is a fact that the industrial base of America was hollowed out decades ago and many businesses seek out either illegal aliens or H1B visas that they can pay at cheaper rates than native-born, native-educated Americans; also true that many illegals, especially those from Latin America, are illiterate in their own language let alone English, and have little to no education.
Yet, in Buddhism (which is the "religion" Thailand approves of, which is asinine to me why we even call it a religion. Lord Buddha specifically said it's not a religion, it's a way of life, because he knew the dangers of organized religion having been born a Hindu prince himself) we are told there are karmas we have to clear. Some people have very good reasons for re-incarnating as handicapped. I try to consider that perspective, because I give every school of thought value that needs consideration and extensive thought to be put into before deciding which ideology to follow through at any given time. I don't devalue someone's way of thinking just because it doesn't "compute" with me.
Sorry, but I have to take issue with that point. I've always hated it when people say "Buddhism is not a religion, it's a philosophy". First off, you can boil any religion down to a "philosophy" once you take away all of the "supernatural" stuff, and Buddhism is full of that. Second, did any belief systems with clergy, rituals, mantras, etc. birth from the teachings of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc etc? Hardly. Dismissing Buddhism's religiosity always came off to me as a penchant of lapsed Christians or lapsed Jews in the West who globbed onto Eastern religions as an "exotic" alternative to their parents' "stolid" churches and synagogues, that they think validate their own debaucheries because they never actually studied Buddhism or knew real Buddhists.
Lord Buddha mentions deities, heavens, hells. The Jatakas mention them frequently, particularly Sakra. His comment about "not a religion" should be taken in the context of the time when people often would create gods out of thin air and say do this or that to gain favor. Even today people create or chase after false idols, or consider themselves as like gods.
Black Fang, May 27, 2019
I see, I'm quite aware of the illegal immigrants part that you're talking about, and I don't agree with that kind of practice either, but the issue I took with his "we have to stop immigrants" is well... simply because his messages was too provocative, and I understand that's his shtick, I just didn't think it was appropriate. As someone who moved to the U.S. at one point to search for work, there were many racists and bigots who felt empowered by him, and to them, that validated their treatment of someone of my ethnic background. There was even a time where I was almost robbed and was told to "go back to your slum country". I just think his way of doing things just allowed all the closet racists to come out in the open because they, in their own words "we have the President backing us now"... which I know, Trump is actually sponsoring these people personally, it's just the message he sent out validated their actions.
In regards to Buddhism, I get the point you're getting to with how people use it as an exotic form of the same thing. I've met people who claim they've read up on Buddhism who are exactly what you described. But I don't know, I grew up in a Buddhist country. I know it's flaws and it's insides out at the back of my hand, and I'm willing to believe (or I simply wish they are true, don't know, maybe it's all just wishful thinking) in the supernatural/spiritual aspects. For example, I can point out the hypocrisy of people here. We'd have Vishaka Bucha day or any other Buddhist holidays right, and all people do, to prove that they are "religious" is to go to the temples, take selfies, and post it online, as if to prove a point that they're "good" people. Like, my past friends have done this. To me, it's kind of disingenuous, why does the world need to know you are a "good" person? Shouldn't entering a temple be for your own sake, your own "spiritual" wellbeing, even if it's a religious holiday? What's the point of this narcissistic-validation behavior you seek from social media? Isn't that counteractive to what the point of it is?
Regarding when Buddha talked about deities, heavens, and hells, well... I've met a lot of Buddhist monks in my life, and I've also seen a lot of art that depicts it, although I can't say this is conclusive proof, but the general idea of it was, some of it might just be anecdotal and metaphors. Also, from my understanding, these were pretty much terms in Hinduism as well, and Buddha dealt with that religion in his time. So, in an essence, he might have resorted to using their vernacular, their metaphors and such to prove a point that Hinduism at that time was just used to enhance the caste system. Well... the same thing pretty much happened to Buddhism though, cause I guess people got lost in the supernatural/spiritual anecdotes and metaphors too much. Sometimes I would really sit down and try to dissect these words myself. See if it was being literal or if it was metaphorical. If I'm supposed to apply exo-Jesus or iso-Jesus. I don't exactly have the answers, but for me it's just what I'm used to. I mean, I wasn't raised a Buddhist don't get me wrong. I was raised a Sikh, and it's pretty close to Buddhism, so I found it kind of valuable to get that perspective too.
The whole creating Gods out of thin air though, I still know people who abide by these Gods created out of thin air. Sometimes, I feel like maybe these Gods never existed, but since human consciousness, which is heavily associated with the Spirit or Soul (both those seem to have different definitions to where they are sometimes considered different from each other too) has placed some value in it, or emphasized it a lot to the point where it's in the public consciousness, maybe that's what actually gave birth to these deities. Since there's that age old argument of maybe everyone was once one person, and that was "God", if you will, everyone in an essence has the power to "create", but since humanity has divided itself multiple times over, that power has been distributed equally.
Honestly, these are just my ways and trying to make sense of it and applying other philosophies to it where I can. But when I said it was a way of life, and there are "Four Noble Truths" that's just constantly preached to us since we are young. "Birth, Old Age, Pain/Suffering/Plague (this one seemed to have had a lot of variations), Death". I just take that as a way to approach life honestly. Don't be surprised when these things happen. Just accept it's the way things work and you'll be fine... although that's easier said than done. Maybe I haven't done a proper criticism of Buddhism as a whole, but I like what the Four Noble Truths are, in concept. To me, I think that's the basis for where the philosophy began.
^ Trump isn't* actually sponsoring. I swear to god, I don't have the "Edit" option in my account.
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I swear to god, I don't have the "Edit" option in my account.
I've answered this one so many times that I really can't be bothered to type it out yet again, so see this quote from past me:
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Yes you can; The button is white-on-white though so it's basically invisible until/unless we get some new skin options. If you look at the bottom of your post it will say your name and the date/time you made your post. The invisible edit button is right next to it. Be sure to drag over to highlight it first though as the 'Delete' and 'Report' buttons are also there and you don't want to hit the wrong one.
And now that all of you also know where the edit and report buttons are, actually talk about toku instead of arguing like kids. This isn't twitter.
Toku Prime, May 27, 2019
^I only see "#30" next to the "reply" option, that's the only thing that was invisible. For other people's comments, I see "Like" next to their "reply". I've been highlighting this thing for the past 10 minutes. There is no permalink, nothing else around here that will allow me to click. I've hovered my mousepad over the area multiple times.
We'll get back to Toku, but I don't get the reference to Twitter. I don't even use it. Is it supposed to be really bad or something? Like maybe this is just me, but I try to distance myself from social media as much as I can.
I think this is the only thing I should actually reply to.
Which is why you just proved to be a bad debater.
I don't blindly categorize people as "right" and "wrong". That's f**king judgmental of you.
You imply I do anything blindly and I don't, I do my research.
Then again, that's evident when the first thing you bring up when I say Psycho-Pass is Digibro
That's because I haven't seen it and I'm at odds with critics like him.
almost as if he had nothing thought-provoking to say besides going off the anti-intellectual argument that he's just all about nihilism and cynical stuff.
Aside from Gargantia what anything has he worked on without that?
In that essence, how have you dive deep, exactly? You didn't even test the waters and then you say you dive deep.
Wrong, thanks for playing.
Meanwhile, I actually read everyone's responses and make an effort to remember what they said.
I did too, a lot of it wasn't within reason of responding.
That's also why I don't call someone else a low-life just because there are lack of fundamental support functions in their family dynamics or society to even begin to give them a chance.
I don't do that either, nice assumption.
How many times have you ended up with the wrong President just because it's fair?
The electoral college stole five presidencies so I will say five.
"A life that never changes is not living. It's just an experience."
Heart is beating, lungs are breathing, stomach is digesting, and the brain still has electrical signals, it is technically living. Science disproves the quote/
Go ahead and disregard it as much you like. I'm not gonna provide you with any "citation" when I say things like "that's not how life is meant to be lived".
That's because I use science.
That's why you ARE a sheep.
I am as far above a sheep as one can be, you fail.
You follow whatever you deem to be "the authority"
Well there's a knee slapper of the "I think I know you even though I am so wrong" variety.
You're the bully you seem to want to go against.
I don't bully people, I merely defend myself from the onslaught of words you keep trying to shovel in my face.
I don't know if bullying took in place in your real life somewhere in some place at a certain point in time, but you're clearly overcompensating for it here with your intellect... which is clearly being wasted and strained.
And you yourself are attempting to act like a bully using outdated and weak insults, try again.
Remain stagnant. But you aren't even living then. Shame, really.
By what metric? Some guy on the internet who relies too much on paragraph sizes without evidence? This is why you cite sources.
many businesses seek out either illegal aliens
Aliens apply to all organisms, immigrants is the more humane term.
also true that many illegals, especially those from Latin America, are illiterate in their own language let alone English, and have little to no education
It is also true there has been a steady yet firm decline in immigration overall in the US since 2004 to the point where southern border crossings are far and few in between making complaining about the subject dated.
There was even a time where I was almost robbed and was told to "go back to your slum country".
Sorry that happened you, hopefully the cops will catch that guy.
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Gurung has been in the hiding with state police conducting raids to arrest him. The stage is also set for yet another confrontation between Bengal government and the centre over the issue.
As National Investigation Agency (NIA) team initiated primary enquiry in Darjeeling for various cases of blasts, arms haul and murder of a police sub inspector, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) chief Bimal Gurung welcomes the move. NIA is yet to officially take over the cases, which are presently being investigated by CID.
Interestingly senior GJM leaders including Bimal Gurung is accused in many of the cases, some under UAPA sections. Gurung has been in the hiding with state police conducting raids to arrest him. The stage is also set for yet another confrontation between Bengal government and the centre over the issue.
"We have not received any notification. If they wish to take up the cases we will co-operate," said a senior official of CID. According to sources, the NIA sent a three member team to the Hills on Friday, who are busy collecting case details and other documents. The team after their return will file a report to higher ups in the agency and a decision will be taken whether or not to take up the cases.
Sources revealed that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is preparing the notification for official takeover of the investigation by NIA into the 12 deaths in alleged police firings in June and July, the four bomb blasts in August and the killing of SI Amitava Malik and the arms haul on October 13.
GJM chief Bimal Gurung welcomed the proposed NIA takeover of the investigation. In a press release issued on Sunday, the GJM supremo said that they had repeatedly urged Home Minister Rajnath Singh for NIA or CBI probe into the killings, bomb blasts and the arms haul.
"Given the grave national security concerns involved with the region, we therefore whole heartedly welcome the NIA probe in the bomb blast and arms haul case and request Request Union home minister Shri Rajnath Singh ji to initiate a CBI probe into the killings Barun Bhujel (GJM councilor who died in a Kolkata hospital under jail custody recently) activists including police officer Amitava Malik… " wrote Gurung.
"We extend our heartfelt gratitude to government of India and Union Home Minister Sri Rajnath Singh ji for their support to the highest ideals of fairness and justice in initiating this NIA probe. More importantly we are grateful to Hon'ble MoS and Darjeeling MP Sri S S Ahluwalia ji for tirelessly working for the people of this constituency despite all public perception to the contrary.." said Bimal Gurujng in his press release.
Gurung further wrote that the Bengal government has framed cases against GJM leaders, but failed to investigate in the real cause and culprits behind such incidents. Gurung in his press release stressed on the sensitive location of Darjeeling and stated that subversive activities are a threat to the nation. GJM leaders like Roshan Giri have met with union home minister a number of times to press for central probe into the incidents.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on numerous occasions has alleged that Bimal Gurung and his followers are hand in gloves with insurgents of North East and is backed by a foreign power. According to Section 6 (5) of the NIA Act, 2008, the central government can issue directions to suo motu take over the investigation of a case if it finds it to be a 'schedule offence' or an act seen as a national security threat.
According to Section 6 (6) of the same Act, the state government or any of its agencies investigating the agency shall not proceed with the investigation and transmit all relevant documents and records to NIA.


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Rodent Proof your roof and attic!
Once a litter of baby racoons are born, it can take up to 4 months for them to leave the nest, duirng which time they reak havic on your attic and draw many parasites, especially fleas.
Snakes often drop from trees and enter your attic through open voids in your roof, as small as 3/4". Snakes see out shelter and follow prey which may be nesting in your attic.
This nest has an opening from the roof top most likely under loose shingles or a hole caused from any number of concerns you may be faced with from an aging roof.
This mother opposum found its way into an attic & gave birth to her young in the insullation. During the period before the young leave the nest, there is ample time for feces deposits, drawing in worms, maggots, fleas and other parasites.
Compromised by a roof rat or squirrel, this void allows entry to a dry, warm, safe haven. Additionally, a major leak is now presented and damage is occuring further into the home interior.
A colony of bats has made its way into this attic and return to the same spot each day to rest, as bats are nocturnal. Bats and bat guano carry many diseases and produce a very foul smell.
Its that time of year for rodents to be on the move. With spring coming, nesting areas will be sought out, and your attic is a prime target for rodents to move in to and raise their young.
In our many years of experience, we have seen even the smallest entry areas become a gateway for rodents such as bats, roof rats, raccoons, squirrels, and opossums. Even bees, wasps, hornets, birds, snakes, and spiders will be looking for a dry, warm shelter from the spring rains.
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Athens, Ohio Learns from Neighbors and Considers Fiber Investments
Posted January 5, 2015 by tanderson
Recently, we ran a story on the Columbus suburb of Dublin, which has a growing fiber optic network that has paid huge dividends in public savings, economic development, and facilitating technology research with the Ohio State University. Apparently others are taking notice of Dublin as well: Athens, a city 90 miles to the Southeast, has its city council discussing how to get fiber in the ground and the possibility of a public WiFi network.
After meeting representatives of Dublin's economic development department at a conference in November, Athens mayor Paul Wiehl came away impressed enough to start a discussion with the city council about how the Dublin model of extensive conduit networks and fiber access for businesses and public buildings might be adapted to Athens. Athens is a college town, home of Ohio University, which may mean that like Dublin (which is only a few miles from the Ohio State University) it could be well positioned for research partnerships using fiber optics.
While specific plans have not yet been worked out,
[Mayor] Wiehl said that the city's public works director, Andy Stone, recently has been looking at ways to incorporate fiber-optic line capacity into city infrastructure projects. The lines likely would be maintained by the city, and probably would run only to local businesses, who would pay the city for use of the Internet service.
Unfortunately, Athens' city leaders may be overly enamored with the idea of citywide Wi-Fi. DubLINK launched a citywide WiFi network several years ago, but like nearly every other citywide WiFi system in the country it has not been able to deliver reliable high speed connections blanketing the entire city due to technological limitations. WiFi can still provide considerable value if deployed intelligently in specific public spaces as a supplement to other forms of access. But if Athens officials are expecting a cheap and easy answer to providing robust home access over a wide area, they are likely to be disappointed.
Still, Athens offers an encouraging example of how good connectivity policy ideas can spread from one community to another. Dublin's example has helped to put fiber investments on the agenda and in...
Minnesota's Chaska.net to End Service in 2015
Posted December 29, 2014 by lgonzalez
The rumors have been swirling for months now that the city of Chaska was considering putting an end to its municipal Wi-Fi service, Chaska.net. A recent Chaska Herald article confirms that city staff recommends the Council choose to end its residential service. If the Council follows the recommendation, the remaining business Wi-Fi customer, KleinBank data center, and School District 112 will still receive Wi-Fi service.
According to the article, the city explored the possibility of selling the system to the private sector, but the idea did not garner a favorable deal:
[City Administrator Matt] Podhradsky said that it appeared that the proposals were more of an attempt to gain access to the city's water towers. "We started asking ourselves, 'Should we be in the business of picking winners and losers?'" said Podhradsky. "We decided that's just not the right direction for us."
City staff is recommending that the service end when the contract for support for the existing equipment ends in July. They also recommend that the last four months of service be offered free of charge. Customers will be notified by letter in early 2015.
The end of Chaska.net is bittersweet. When it was new, it was much celebrated as one of the first municipal Wi-Fi networks in the U.S. The past few years, however, have proved difficult. Waning subscriptions, competition from private providers, and old equipment have taken a toll. In order to replace the aging equipment, the city needs to spend $3 million.
Podhrasky said the city is proud of what it accomplished with Chaska.net. "When you think back, there were a lot of cities that tried things and spent a lot of dollars to get something like this off the ground."
He noted that the goal of the Internet utility was to provide high-speed service at an affordable cost until the market caught up. "We were a gap," he said.
Today, that market has caught up. "It sort of feels like we completed our goal," said Podhradsky.
Read more about Chaska's fiber network and Wi-Fi investment in our recent report, All Hands On Deck: Minnesota Local Government Models for Expanding Fiber Internet Access.
Posted December 12, 2014 by tanderson
Award-winning supercomputing apps, medical research, economic development, and quantum computing advances. What do they all have in common? They all depend on the DubLINK network running underneath Dublin, Ohio, a suburb on the Northwest edge of Columbus. The city of 43,000 people has 125 miles of fiber optics in the ground, both within its own boundaries and in the form of fiber purchased by the city within metro and regional networks.
DubLINK began in 1999 as a public private partnership with the Fishel company to build an institutional network. In the wake of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Dublin worried that a recent massive investment of $70 million in streetscaping would be undone as competing providers dug up newly paved streets to install fiber optics. To avoid this, the City signed a franchise agreement with Fishel to install a multi-conduit system, with the city receiving some conduit for its own use.
Using 1.25" conduits installed in the city's existing sewer system, the network runs for 25 miles underneath Dublin's business district and connects six city buildings, who use their own lit fiber for data and voice services, eliminating expense leased line fees. This has allowed the city to save approximately $400,000 per year for the last 12 years in connectivity and information technology expenses.
In 2004, Dublin spent $3.5 million to purchase 96 strands running 100 additional miles through Columbus FiberNet, bringing the total length of the DubLink network to its current 125 miles. FiberNet is a duct system that runs throughout a significant portion of central Ohio, including Columbus and its surrounding suburbs.
The following year, the City of Dublin struck a deal with the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet). OARnet is a 1,600 mile statewide fiber backbone connecting K-12 schools, colleges, universities, federal research labs, and other institutions. A $500,000 grant from the Ohio Board of Regents allowed DubLINK to make its connection with OARnet, and the city gave OARnet an indefeasible right to use 4 of its 96 fiber strands throughout its entire 125 mile network. They called their partnership CORN, for the Central Ohio Research Network. Earlier this year, the Ohio State...
Community Broadband Media Roundup - November 30, 2014
Posted December 1, 2014 by rebecca
This week in community broadband, more communities are adding broadband to the list of essential utilities, and many of them are turning to Chattanooga as a model "gig city."
As Times Free Press's Dave Flessner reports, the great thing about Chattanooga's approach is that it's not just about Internet. In fact, the broadband boom is really an unintended benefit of the city's cutting edge smart grid, which keeps the city's lights on and powers the economy as well.
"What we're going to try to do is bring some of the brilliant people from Warner Bros., Fox, Disney and IBM down here to Chattanooga to help them get their heads wrapped around this notion that you've got to stop worrying about scarcity," [Annenberg Innovation Lab director Jonathan] Taplan said.
Last year, T-Bone Burnett, a Grammy Award winner, performed "The Wild Side of Life" from a Los Angeles studio with Chuck Mead, a founder of the band BR549 who was on stage in Chattanooga.
"They sang a song together over 2,000 miles apart," Taplin said. "That's the power of gigabit Internet. I think we're just beginning to think of the possibilities of what this thing can do."
And Android Authority's William Neilson Jr. explores the desire for faster connections and more choices.
"Isn't it amazing how much faster broadband speeds are in parts of the country where there are a number of broadband options available to residents? How many times am I going to write an article detailing a broadband provider telling a city that they don't need "fast" speeds even though the city is universally angry at their lack of broadband options?"
Of course, we see the product of how increased competition brings better service even more clearly in communities that have municipal networks, not just in Google's Kansas City network. It is an outcome that all communities can achieve if they regain the authority to do so.
In the beginning, Lafayette, Louisiana created its own utility system. And it was good. Steve Stackhouse Kaelble goes back to the very beginning of...
The Dalles Pays off Its Network Debt Ahead of Schedule
Posted October 8, 2014 by tanderson
Of the more than 400 communities around the country that have built and benefitted from community networks, the town of The Dalles in Oregon may have a case for the title of "most bang for the buck." Their commitment of $10,000 12 years ago to leverage a $1.8 million "QLife" fiber optic network has lead to a massive, $1.2 billion dollar investment from Google in the form of a huge data center, employing nearly 200 people and generating millions in tax revenues for the local community. And at the end of September, the QLife board of directors announced that they had paid off the loans used for network construction more than three years ahead of schedule.
We covered part of The Dalles' network story two years ago: a small city of just 13,000 was told by Sprint in 2000 that it would have to wait 5 to 10 years for broadband Internet access. Meanwhile, local manufacturing was declining and employers were overlooking the town due to its outdated infrastructure. Before building the QLife network, The Dalles had no access to the major long haul fiber pathway that happened to run right through town. As city manager Nolan Young told Andrew Blum in an interview for his book "Tubes," it was like "being a town that sits next to a freeway but has no on ramp."
The city decided enough was enough, and partnered with the county and the local public utility district on a plan for a $1.8 million, 17 mile fiber optic loop through the community that would connect anchor institutions and offer middle mile access to private providers.
The nascent network faced opposition from a local telecom in the form of a lawsuit, which scared the public utility district away from the partnership. It had another setback when a private partner declared bankruptcy, saddling the public agency with an $800,000 loan. The city and Wasco County pressed forward with their partnership, however, and secured half of the needed $1.8 million in state and federal grants while covering the rest with loans. The city made a one-time contribution of $10,000. QLife pursued a cautious strategy, building in successive phases only after enough subscriber revenue commitments were in place to cover the requisite loan payments.
North Carolina Town Saves Public Dollars With Its Own Network
Posted July 25, 2014 by lgonzalez
On June 18 Holly Springs, home to approximately 25,000 people, started saving money with its new fiber I-Net. Last summer, the Town Council voted to invest in fiber infrastructure as a way to take control of telecommunications costs. Just one year later, the 13-mile network is serving community anchor institutions.
After exploring options with CTC Technology and Energy, Holly Springs determined that deploying their own $1.5 million network was more cost effective than paying Time Warner Cable for data services. Annual fees were $159,000; over time those costs certainly would have escalated. According to the Cary News, Holly Springs anticipates a future need for more bandwidth:
"And we wouldn't have been able to actually afford as much (data) as we need," [Holly Springs IT Director Jeff Wilson] said. "Our costs were going to be getting out of control over the next couple of years."
Because state law precludes the town from offering services to homes or businesses, Holly Springs plans to use the new infrastructure in other ways. State law allows the community to offer free Wi-Fi; the town will also lease dark fiber to third-party providers. According to the News article, the town has already entered into a 20-year contract with DukeNet, recently acquired by Time Warner Cable. DukeNet may expand the fiber to the Holly Springs Business Park for commercial clients.
The community's free Wi-Fi in public facilities is approximately 20 times faster than it was before the deployment, reports the News:
When the town activated the network on June 18, "People told us they could tell the difference immediately," said Jeff Wilson, Holly Springs' IT director.
According to the News, the fiber network allows the city to expand free Wi-Fi to more green spaces. Cameras at baseball fields now stream live video of games; parents and grandparents can watch activities online if they cannot attend games in person.
For more on the community and the project, check out Chris' conversation with Jeff Wilson in...
Holly Springs Finds Savings with Muni Fiber - Community Broadband Bits Episode 107
Posted July 15, 2014 by christopher
Holly Springs, a town of about 25,000 in the Triangle region of North Carolina, has built its own network to connect community anchor institutions and has an interest in using it to spur economic development and other community benefits but a 2011 law pushed by Time Warner Cable makes some of that more difficult.
City IT Director Jeff Wilson joined me for episode 107 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. We discussed why they decided to build a municipal network and how they have just finished the actual build.
We also discuss the savings they anticpate from owning the network and how local residents were hopeful that the network could be expanded to connect homes and businesses before learning that state law restricted them from doing that.
Read our additional coverage of Holly Springs.
Read the transcript from our discussion here.
We want your feedback and suggestions for the show - please e-mail us or leave a comment below. Also, feel free to suggest other guests, topics, or questions you want us to address.
This show is 13 minutes long and can be played below on this page or via iTunes or via the tool of your choice using this feed.
Listen to previous episodes here. You can can download this Mp3 file directly from here.
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Thanks to Waylon Thornton for the music, licensed using Creative Commons. The song is "Bronco Romp."
Wireless Commons Part 1: Interference Is a Myth, but the FCC Hasn't Caught on Yet
Posted July 2, 2014 by tanderson
This is the first in two-part series on spectrum basics and how we could better manage the spectrum to encourage innovation and prevent either large corporations or government from interfering with our right to communicate. Part 2 is available here.
We often think of all our wireless communications as traveling separate on paths: television, radio, Wi-Fi, cell phone calls, etc. In fact, these signals are all part of the same continuous electromagnetic spectrum. Different parts of the spectrum have different properties, to be sure - you can see visible light, but not radio waves. But these differences are more a question of degree than a fundamental difference in makeup.
As radio, TV, and other technologies were developed and popularized throughout the 20th century, interference became a major concern. Any two signals using the same band of the spectrum in the same broadcast range would prevent both from being received, which you have likely experienced on your car radio when driving between stations on close frequencies – news and music vying with each other, both alternating with static.
To mitigate the problem, the federal government did what any Econ 101 textbook says you should when you have a "tragedy of the commons" situation in which more people using a resource degrades it for everyone: they assigned property rights. This is why radio stations tend not to interfere with each other now.
The Federal Communications Commission granted exclusive licenses to the spectrum in slices known as bands to radio, TV, and eventually telecom companies, ensuring that they were the only ones with the legal right to broadcast on a given frequency range within a certain geographic area. Large bands were reserved for military use as well.
Originally, these licenses came free of charge, on the condition that broadcasters meet certain public interest requirements. Beginning in 1993, the government began to run an auction process, allowing companies to bid on spectrum licenses. That practice continues today whenever any space on the spectrum is freed up. (For a more complete explanation of the evolution of licensing see this excellent Benton foundation blog post.)
Although there have been several redistributions over the decades, the basic architecture remains....
New York Media's MetroFocus Talks With Chris About City Wi-Fi
Posted June 19, 2014 by lgonzalez
In an effort to bring better connectivity to New Yorkers, the City is transforming old pay phones into free Wi-Fi hotspots. Rick Karr, reporter for MetroFocus from New York Public Media, reached out to ILSR's Chris Mitchell to discuss the project.
Chris and Karr discuss the challenges faced by lower income people in our digital age, many of whom depend on mobile devices for Internet access. From the video:
"Low income people and especially minority populations really depend on mobile devices. So having WiFi that they can use when they're on the go is going to be a good way of keeping their costs down. But you're not going to see kids writing term papers on mobile devices," said Mitchell.
Mitchell said that low-income people need better and more affordable options. "Possibly, something run by the city so that it can ensure that low-income people have access in their homes and they don't have to go outside in order to use their devices."
According to the New York City Information Technology & Telecommunications website, over 20 locations already offer free municipal Wi-Fi. The City intends to expand the current program and has called for proposals from potential private partners due by the end of June.
Mayor de Blasio has stated that his administration will make free Wi-Fi a priority in order to help reduce the City's income inequality. Maya Wiley, de Blasio's chief counsel told the New York Daily News:
"High-speed Internet access is now as fundamental as water, as fundamental as the railroads were in the 18th century," Wiley said in an interview with the Daily News.
"If you are low-income and you want to find a job, increasingly, you need high-speed broadband to do it," Wiley said.
Plan for FTTH in Chanute Looking Positive in Kansas
Posted June 6, 2014 by lgonzalez
Chanute has been exploring available options for a citywide FTTH network. In addition to offering residential service, city leaders want to expand the business use of its municipal fiber network. A limited number of businesses currently join schools, government, and utilities on the fiber infrastructure.
The community incrementally built a fiber network to serve government, utilities, and schools with no borrowing or bonding. The broadband utility continues to expand and uses WiMAX for public safety and to connect several businesses. For the full story of this central Kansas community, download our case study Chanute's Gig: One Rural Kansas Community's Tradition of Innovation Led to a Gigabit and Ubiquitous Wireless Coverage.
As we reported previously, the City Council began reviewing potential scenarios to bring fiber to each premise. The Wichita Eagle reported that Utilities Director Larry Gates recently presented price and speed estimates to a City Council study session:
When complete, the city system will offer service at a speed of one gigabit per second.
City residents will pay $40 a month; it will cost $50 outside the city limits and $75 for businesses.
To put that in perspective, Chanute will offer the same ultra-fast connection speed as the Google Fiber system being rolled out across the Kansas City metropolitan area, but 42 percent cheaper than Google's $70-a-month charge.
Or, to use another comparison, Chanute's fiber-to-home system will be 14 times faster and cost 60 percent less than the best Internet service the town's residents can get today.
Wow! And recall that this would not be possible if the cable lobbyists had their way earlier this year in the Kansas legislature. Kansas briefly considered making it impossible for communities to build their own networks and will likely take up the matter again next year.
We contacted Gates, who elaborated on Chanute's plan. The City will provide Internet only; a third party provider would use the network to offer voice and video. The service area will include...
Government's role is to take into account the public good. Just as government decides where highways, roads and streets go to serve the public good through careful planning, design, implementation and maintenance, the same approach should apply to broadband. To elaborate, government plans and designs the nation's road infrastructure, frequently overseeing the construction of it by private companies and then manages the finished product. This infrastructure serves the public good, including the delivery and transport of private commerce as well as ensuring that we were able to travel on a series of federal, state, county and local roads to this meeting today in Eagan.
This same approach can be used to ensure that broadband serves the public good. Just as we would not leave the design of our road systems to the trucking industry, because each company has a limited need, and understandably so, therefore government has taken a leading role in the nation's road infrastructure to ensure that it serves everyone's needs.


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Openly Gay Actor Jussie Smollett Has Been Hospitalized After Alleged Hate Crime (Updated)
Written by Stephan Horbelt on January 31, 2019
Updates to this story about the attack on Jussie Smollett appear below.
He's starred on the FOX series Empire since the show's premiere back in 2015, and now openly gay actor Jussie Smollett finds himself in the headlines for the worst of reasons. According to TMZ, Smollett was the victim of a hate crime in Chicago and is currently hospitalized.
The hate crime allegedly took place around 2 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 29, in Chicago, where Jussie Smollett lives while filming Empire. According to a report, two men wearing ski masks approached him and placed a noose around his neck.
From TMZ:
Sources directly connected to Jussie tell TMZ, the actor arrived in Chicago from New York late Monday, and at around 2 a.m. he was hungry and went to a Subway. We're told when he walked out, someone yelled, "Aren't you that faggot Empire n*****?"
The 2 men — both white and wearing ski masks — viciously attacked Jussie as he fought back, but they beat him badly and fractured a rib. They put a rope around his neck, poured bleach on him and as they left they yelled, "This is MAGA country."
According to another outlet called The Grape Juice, Smollett had recently received a harassing letter that read "You will die black fag."
A picture of the letter sent to Jussie Smollett is pictured below. It appears that where the return address should go, it reads "MAGA," an abbreviation of the phrase "Make America Great Again" that was used by Donald Trump in his election campaign for president.
TMZ says the Chicago Police Department is investigating the apparent hate crime against Jussie Smollett as a battery.
The actor was reportedly treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital following the attack, and he's already been released.
On the show Empire, about a Black family with strong ties to the recording industry, Smollett's character Jamal is also openly gay. Back in November 2018, Smollett spoke about the importance of the series showcasing a loving relationship between two Black men, which is still rare on TV.
UPDATE, 4:42 p.m. PST, Jan. 29: As of Tuesday evening, Chicago police have said they've canvassed the neighborhood where the alleged hate crime took place but have thus far found no security images or video of the incident. The police did, however, confirm footage of Jussie Smollett inside a Subway sandwich shop, alone, near the location of the reported crime.
Police spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi has said Chicago police have a dozen detectives on the case, along with FBI assistance.
CNN's Don Lemon says he has personally spoken with Smollett, who confirms the attack indeed took place. He was reportedly "shaken and angry" and told CNN he fought back against his attackers.
The substance which Smollett was doused with is reportedly still being tested, with no confirmation yet.
The Chicago police have also confirmed they are "taking this investigation very seriously and treating it as a possible hate crime."
UPDATE, 1:45 p.m. PST, Jan. 31: NBC News reports Chicago police have said Smollett is refusing to turn over his cellphone to detectives who are investigating the alleged attack.
Smollett has told police that he was on the phone with his manager at the time of the attack, and his manager has claimed he heard the alleged assailants say "This is MAGA country" during the assault.
According to CPD spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi, when police asked the actor for his phone and records to confirm that call, he refused to share them. It's unknown whether Chicago police will attempt to obtain them independently.
Smollett's family has released a prepared statement today, saying, "Jussie has told the police everything from the very beginning. His story has never changed, and we are hopeful they will find these men and bring them to justice."
After reviewing hundreds of hours of footage from more than a dozen surveillance cameras, the CPD says it's unable to find footage of the alleged attack, though has found footage of Smollett heading to and from the neighborhood where the alleged incident occurred. And police have released photos taken from area cameras featuring two "potential people of interest."
The Smollett family's statement also included the following:
We want people to understand these targeted hate crimes are happening to our sisters, brothers and our gender non-conforming siblings, many who reside within the intersection of multiple identities, on a monthly, weekly, and sometimes even daily basis all across our country.
Oftentimes ending fatally, these are inhumane acts of domestic terrorism and they should be treated as such. They will continue to occur until we hold each other accountable.
Make no mistake, words matter. Hateful words lead to hateful actions. Radical love is the only solution, but passivity will be our downfall. We, as a family, will continue to work for love, equity and justice until it reigns supreme in our nation and all over the world.
UPDATE, 3:25 p.m. PST, Jan. 31: U.S. President Donald Trump officially weighed in on the attack during a Thursday press conference.
"That I can tell you is horrible," Trump said about the Smollett assault. "I've seen it. Last night. I think that's horrible. Doesn't get worse." You can watch that part of the press conference below.
Trump thereafter launched into a rant about a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, calling the lack of a barrier there "the worst sin of all."
UPDATE, 9:20 a.m., Feb. 1: The actor has officially broken his silence, saying, "Let me start by saying that I'm OK. My body is strong but my soul is stronger. … The outpouring of love and support from my village has meant more than I will ever be able to truly put into words."
Smollett says he's working with the Chicago Police Department and has been 100% factual and consistent in his accounting of events, though has "frustrations and deep concern" with "inaccuracies and misrepresentations that have been spread."
"I still believe justice will be served," he says.
On the topic of his phone, Smollett says that while he refused to hand over his physical phone, he did not refuse to hand over phone records, according to TMZ, whose sources say police "informally asked" if the actor would surrender his phone, but the actor felt uncomfortable doing so.
TMZ claims Jussie Smollett has said he will provide phone records and is in the process of gathering them.
There's also more information about the piece of rope used in the attack. TMZ has confirmed that Smollett kept the rope around his neck until cops arrived at his building 42 minutes after the attack to "preserve the evidence."
We will continue to update this story about the attack on actor Jussie Smollett.
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Limited edition blue swirl vinyl release of Galaxie 500's This Is Our Music
Posted by Andy on 12 July 2019
Blue swirl This Is Our Music
Galaxie 500's final album is getting a limited edition re-release exclusively through Newbury Comics.
Following on from the lovely orange vinyl On Fire released earlier in the year, 20|20|20 are releasing a blue swirl vinyl copy of Galaxie 500's brilliant (and criminally under-appreciated) final album This Is Our Music. The album pressed from the 2009 remaster will be available exclusively through independent record shop Newbury Comics and is limited to 500 copies.
The record is available to order now and will be released on the 19th July.
Galaxie 500's ambitious final album, remastered for LP in 2009. The nine song set originally recorded in 1990 includes their cover of Yoko Ono's 'Listen, the Snow is Falling'.
This Is Our Music Exclusive LP
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(By: Universiteit Leiden/LION) Professor Renata Kallosh (Stanford University), one of the world's leading theoretical physicists, will be this summer's Lorentz Professor at the Leiden institute for theoretical physics. Her main areas of interest are cosmology and string theory. She studied physics in Moscow, where she also obtained her PhD in 1968. After being a Professor at the same institute, she moved to Switzerland in 1989 to work at CERN and a year later to California where she currently conducts her research at Stanford University. She will start her Lorentz Professorship in Leiden on June 12.
What do you expect from your Lorentz Professorship?
About your work: you study the cosmological implications of string theory. Is it possible to explain this in words?
To outsiders, string theory is famous for being a theory that is impossible to prove. Will string theory shrug off this image?
What is the most promising upcoming observation regarding confirming your theoretical work?
As a student, what attracted you to cosmology in general and string theory in particular?
You will be in a long list of Lorentz Professors since 1955. Whose work do you admire most?


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WFP calls for more investment in school meals by West African governments
The United Nations World Food Programme urged governments in West Africa to invest more money in school meal programmes so these can act as a catalyst for improved economic and social welfare communities across the region. The call was made on African Day of School Feeding which is being celebrated for the third year in a row.
WFP partners on school meals programmes with some 40 countries in Africa, providing more than nine million school children annually with daily meals in school. In some countries, WFP itself implements the school meals programme while in others it offers technical support to the government provider. In most countries, WFP offers a combination of both services.
"It is a win-win opportunity which governments must seize," said Abdou Dieng, WFP Regional Director for West and Central Africa. "Children enjoy healthy meals that make it more likely that they will stay in school and learn for a better future while jobs are created and businesses develop."
Increasingly, school meals in Africa are of the home-grown variety. This means that the food for the meals is sourced from smallholder farmers within the community. The idea is that home-grown school meals provide local farmers and businesses with a predictable outlet for their products, leading to more stable incomes, more investment, higher productivity and the creation of jobs for youth and women in the communities concerned.
In Burkina Faso, for example, the introduction of yoghurt in school meals has had multiple benefits – a women's group that collects milk locally has recently set up a processing plant for yoghurt that is now delivered to schools by young people on motorcycles.
Some governments in the region are showing a growing interest in investing more in national school meals programmes. The Government of Benin has allotted US$47 million to feed 400,000 children over the course of five years in partnership with WFP, using a home-grown school meals model.
"We applaud Benin for showing leadership in investing in its future generation. This is a standard that other governments in the region should follow," Dieng said.
WFP's regional school meals programme, which aims to assist about 2.7 million children this year, faces a US$60 million funding gap. Without proper financing, the programme will fall short, leave many vulnerable students hungry and at risk of dropping out of school.
Original source: WFP
Published on 1 March 2018
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WHAT ARE THE GENERAL STREAM ADJUDICATIONS?
The general stream adjudication is a judicial proceeding to determine or establish the extent and priority of water rights in the Gila River system and the Little Colorado River system. Thousands of claimants and water users are joined in these proceedings that will result in the Superior Court issuing a comprehensive final decree of water rights for both river systems. The adjudications are conducted pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes 45-251 to 45-264.
HOW DID THESE ADJUDICATIONS START?
The Gila River and Little Colorado River adjudications trace their origins to proceedings initiated in the 1970s under the then-existing general adjudication procedures set forth in Arizona Revised Statutes sections 45-231 to 45-245. On April 26, 1974, the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association (SRP) filed a petition with the Arizona State Land Department (SLD) to determine the water rights in the Salt River above Granite Reef Dam (but excluding the Verde River). On February 24, 1976, SRP filed a similar petition for the Verde River and its tributaries. On February 17, 1978 and on April 19, 1978, utilizing these same statutes, the Phelps Dodge Corporation filed petitions with SLD to determine the water rights of the Gila River system and source and the Little Colorado River system and source. These petitions sought adjudication of the Upper Gila River watershed and of portions of the Lower Gila River watershed. On April 3, 1978, ASARCO, Inc. filed a petition with SLD for the adjudication of the San Pedro River and its tributaries.
On December 24, 1980, the Buckeye Irrigation Company filed a motion to intervene and a petition to enlarge the scope of the adjudication with respect to areas of the Gila River watershed not included in the previously filed petitions. This motion and petition were granted on March 17, 1981, and included the Agua Fria River watershed and portions of the Lower Gila River watershed. At the time, there was litigation pending in federal court which sought an adjudication of the Santa Cruz River watershed in Pima and Santa Cruz counties. Because of this litigation, the Maricopa County Superior Court, by granting the Buckeye Irrigation Company petition for adjudication of additional rights, did not include that portion of the Santa Cruz River watershed located in Pima and Santa Cruz counties. Following the conclusion of that litigation, on October 30, 1985, the Buckeye Irrigation Company filed a petition, granted by the Superior Court, for the inclusion of those portions of the Santa Cruz River watershed.
In April 1979, the Legislature amended the general adjudication procedures. Under these amendments, the Salt River, Verde River, and Gila River adjudications were transferred from SLD to the Maricopa County Superior Court. The San Pedro River adjudication was transferred to the Cochise County Superior Court. In November 1981, the Arizona Supreme Court consolidated these adjudications into one proceeding assigned to the Maricopa County Superior Court under the caption In re the General Adjudication of All Rights to Use Water in the Gila River System and Source, Nos. W-1, W-2, W-3 & W-4 (Consolidated).
Under the amended statutes, the Little Colorado River Adjudication was transferred to the Apache County Superior Court where it is litigated under the caption In re the General Adjudication of All Rights to Use Water in the Little Colorado River System and Source, No. 6417.
These cases were assigned to the Maricopa and Apache County Superior Courts because these are the counties where the largest number of potential claimants reside. Pursuant to the amended statutes, summons were issued in both adjudications and served on potential claimants in each watershed. Copies of the summons were served upon all persons listed in property tax assessments in each watershed and on all persons in the watershed who had, at the time, any kind of water rights filing on record with the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR). In July 1984, a special notification was made to owners of registered wells in the Upper Salt River and San Pedro River watersheds. The summons required the filing of a statement of claimant with ADWR if the person claimed a water use from a well in the watershed.
Original deadline was May 1, 1982. Next deadline was set for June 30, 1985 after Supreme Court held that the McCarren amendment removed any federal impediment to Arizona state courts jurisdiction over Indian water rights.
WHO WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE GENERAL STREAM ADJUDICATIONS?
Any person or entity who uses water or has made a claim to use water on property within the Gila River system or within the Little Colorado River system, potentially may be affected. The legislature has charged the Arizona Superior Court with quantifying and prioritizing validly existing water rights claimed in these watersheds. The final court decrees will establish the existence and ownership of claimed water rights, as well as important characteristics of the water rights including location of water uses, quantity of water used, and date of priority of the water rights.
WHAT IS THE POSITION OF SPECIAL MASTER?
WHAT DO I DO IF I DID NOT FILE A STATEMENT OF CLAIMANT?
A statement of claimant may be filed, without leave of the Superior Court, before the conclusion of hearings by the Special Master for a subwatershed or federal reservation. After the Special Master has completed hearings on a subwatershed or federal reservation and has filed a report with the Superior Court for the entire subwatershed or federal reservation, a claimant must file a motion with the Superior Court for permission to intervene and file a statement of claimant. The court may grant the motion if it finds that the intervention would not unduly delay or prejudice the adjudication of the rights of the original parties.
HOW DO I FILE A STATEMENT OF CLAIMANT?
Claims are asserted by filing the appropriate Court-approved statement of claimant (SOC) form and submitting the required filing fee. There are four statements of claimant forms: Irrigation, Stockpond, Domestic, and Other Uses. The forms may be obtained by calling the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) at 1-866-246-1414 or by downloading from ADWR's website www.azwater.gov.
The filing fee for an individual is $20.00. The filing fee for a corporation, municipal corporation, the State or any political subdivision, or an association or partnership, is two cents for every acre-foot of water claimed, or $20.00, whichever is greater. The filing fee can be paid with a credit card or by check or money order made payable to the Arizona Department of Water Resources. ADWR will forward all SOCs and fees to the Clerks of the Superior Courts. An SOC will not be considered by the court or Special Master unless the filing fee for the SOC has been paid.
All statements of claimants must be filed with ADWR at 1110 West Washington, Suite 310, Phoenix, Arizona 85007. According to Arizona Revised Statutes § 45-254(F), "[A]ny potential claimant who is properly served and who failed to file a statement of claimant as prescribed by this article for any water right…is barred and estopped from subsequently asserting any right that was previously acquired on the river system and source…and forfeits any rights to the use of water in the river system and source that were not included in a properly filed statement of claimant." You may lose the right to use the water of the river system and source if you fail to file a statement of claimant. This may happen even though you have received a permit, certificate or other approval from ADWR. A statement of claimant filing is not permission to use water. A person does not obtain a right to use water by filing a statement of claimant form. Rights to use water must be acquired in accordance with state or federal law.
WHAT DO I DO IF I RECEIVE A NEW USE SUMMONS?
SHOULD A CLAIM BE FILED FOR SOME POTENTIAL FUTURE USE?
No. Under the Arizona system of water law, water rights cannot be established or reserved for some potential future use. Water rights can only be established through proper legal appropriation and putting the water to actual beneficial use.
CAN I AMEND A STATEMENT OF CLAIMANT?
A statement of claimant should always be current. An SOC may be amended, without leave of the Superior Court, before the conclusion of hearings, by the Special Master, for a subwatershed or federal reservation. After the Special Master has completed hearings on a subwatershed or federal reservation or on the SOC and has filed a report with the Superior Court for the entire subwatershed or federal reservation, a claimant must file a motion with the Superior Court for permission to file an amended statement of claimant. The court will exercise its discretion to grant or deny the motion.