Recent content by John_C

IIRC Devin considered the original to be one of his worst mixes.

Might not be new to many, but http://vasarat.com/ I would recommend Tuhuju off Huuro Kolkko

It sounded to me more like you were showing examples of practical failings in the UK implementation of those ideas, which is what I was agreeing with. You might say that those failings or others like them are inevitable, but you didn't state that. I guess I would just draw on my personal...

Correct on all points*. However, I wasn't really trying to make a US/UK comparison. *(except the women stuff. I am entirely unconvinced by the stats on domestic abuse and gender. The balance of power in a confrontation is incredibly important: If my gf slapped me as hard as she can, I'd just...

[devils advocate] State provision and strict regulation *enable* basic freedoms for those with less power/money: The freedom to leave your abusive partner who forced you out of work because you know you'll able to survive ok until you find a new job. The freedom of a better chance of a long...

I'm by no means a communist, but seriously? That's quite scary. Sounds kinda like something Ayn Rand would have said after too many Benzedrines.

My girlfriend doesn't really care about my music, but she doesn't get in the way. My Ex was interested in the music but bitched about me spending money and time on it anyway. Crazy people are crazy, but metal girls are special crazy.

Let me guess, you've got some recording that's got that voice printed all over it and you want to cancel it out? Good luck, but if i'd been designing such a tag i'd have put some random phase variation and other stuff in the voice to make it impossible to (easily) remove. Maybe you'll be lucky...

Corporate influence on government = bad. Everyone agrees on that. But (and it's a big but): I believe government has an important role to play in an economic system, as the *elected* counterweight to the unelected meta-corporations who would otherwise entirely dominate the worlds economics (and...

Ah ok I wasn't interpreting him as actually calling for a war. Yeah that would be dumb.

Genuine question: How is it "fascist"? It seems to me at worst crude. Or are we not on the same page as to what fascism is?

Yeah there's a girl at my little brothers school who used to do that, although not as extreme. She'd learnt to sing listening to massively auto-tuned pop and therefore sang in perfectly even individual notes with a weird digital sound to it. Luckily she got over it and is just a really good...

Clearly. There's nothing gayer than discussing women's bodies with an eye to fucking them.

Don't like unhealthily fat women. Don't like unhealthily thin women. Don't like women who obsess over their looks, however good the results are. I like *happy* women.

Flummoxed is not *quite* the same as perplexed. Very perplexed would be a bit closer. It's quite common in British English. I always think of flummoxed as "Whhuuuu???" with appropriate confused look and gesturing. Osmotically is pretty obvious if you know what osmosis is, which I would have...