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Danger_dave
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 07:36 pm: | 
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>>dull to hear now <<
But still tempting to play the riff every time you pick up a guitar.
OK points awarded.
I couldn't think of one.
I even picked a up a compilation CD of 'B' sides the other day - read the list and put it back down again thinking - yup they wuz all deefinately bees.
Will revist Rain forthwith. |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 07:44 pm: |
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Rain was supposedly about Lennon's dabbling with heroin... at least that's the urban legend we had going in high school. |
Brumbear
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 09:11 pm: |
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"been through the desert on a horse with no name it feels good to be out of the rain"
I just pulled easter pics out from 1973 I swear my mother has me dressed like Austin Powers blue plaid suit big lapels white frilly shirt big #ss shoes and white socks (extremely fammable) |
U4euh
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 10:29 pm: |
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CARtoon's mag, w/Krass and Bernie & readers drawings. Still got 5 or six of them lying around with the iron ons still in tact!!
Man the days. Just imagine where the world will be when our children grow up and say 'remember when we used to have PSIII and Ipod this and that. And the cell service was so so out in the, what was that called, the woods? |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 12:25 pm: |
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Recess in school, getting your a$$ paddled for knocking over a 70 year old teacher with one of those big red balls. All of the kids being friends with all of the kids.
Doing 'Cold War'duck and cover drills in between fire drills. At six, sensing big things were wrong when Kennedy was assassinated.
At nine, delivering news papers, mowing lawns all over town. Summers pumping gas, changing tires at the local gas station. Collecting pop bottles for the nickel refund. $3.00 would buy penny candy and pop all week, and the same 1:25 scale model cars my son builds today.
At ten, pedaling a bicycle every where within an eight mile radius and showing up at home in time for dinner. Gone with friends all day with no cell phones and no dime to call home on the party line.
Being a 'real' Boy Scout. Camping in the wilderness, sneaking into state park campgrounds to spy on girl scouts.
Swimming in a swift creek that was 45F in mid summer until we were blue, no parents, no life guards, we weren't allowed to, but by the time we got home we were dry.
Being so Damn happy all of the time! |
Buellshyter
| | Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 10:43 pm: |
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This should make everyone happy to be older...
Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future
Richard Norton-Taylor
Monday April 9, 2007
The Guardian
Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe's drops as fertility falls. "Flashmobs" - groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups.
This is the world in 30 years' time envisaged by a Ministry of Defence team responsible for painting a picture of the "future strategic context" likely to face Britain's armed forces. It includes an "analysis of the key risks and shocks". Rear Admiral Chris Parry, head of the MoD's Development, Concepts & Doctrine Centre which drew up the report, describes the assessments as "probability-based, rather than predictive".
The 90-page report comments on widely discussed issues such as the growing economic importance of India and China, the militarisation of space, and even what it calls "declining news quality" with the rise of "internet-enabled, citizen-journalists" and pressure to release stories "at the expense of facts". It includes other, some frightening, some reassuring, potential developments that are not so often discussed.
New weapons
An electromagnetic pulse will probably become operational by 2035 able to destroy all communications systems in a selected area or be used against a "world city" such as an international business service hub. The development of neutron weapons which destroy living organs but not buildings "might make a weapon of choice for extreme ethnic cleansing in an increasingly populated world". The use of unmanned weapons platforms would enable the "application of lethal force without human intervention, raising consequential legal and ethical issues". The "explicit use" of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons and devices delivered by unmanned vehicles or missiles.
Technology
By 2035, an implantable "information chip" could be wired directly to the brain. A growing pervasiveness of information communications technology will enable states, terrorists or criminals, to mobilise "flashmobs", challenging security forces to match this potential agility coupled with an ability to concentrate forces quickly in a small area.
Marxism
"The middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role envisaged for the proletariat by Marx," says the report. The thesis is based on a growing gap between the middle classes and the super-rich on one hand and an urban under-class threatening social order: "The world's middle classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest". Marxism could also be revived, it says, because of global inequality. An increased trend towards moral relativism and pragmatic values will encourage people to seek the "sanctuary provided by more rigid belief systems, including religious orthodoxy and doctrinaire political ideologies, such as popularism and Marxism".
Pressures leading to social unrest
By 2010 more than 50% of the world's population will be living in urban rather than rural environments, leading to social deprivation and "new instability risks", and the growth of shanty towns. By 2035, that figure will rise to 60%. Migration will increase. Globalisation may lead to levels of international integration that effectively bring inter-state warfare to an end. But it may lead to "inter-communal conflict" - communities with shared interests transcending national boundaries and resorting to the use of violence.
Population and Resources
The global population is likely to grow to 8.5bn in 2035, with less developed countries accounting for 98% of that. Some 87% of people under the age of 25 live in the developing world. Demographic trends, which will exacerbate economic and social tensions, have serious implications for the environment - including the provision of clean water and other resources - and for international relations. The population of sub-Saharan Africa will increase over the period by 81%, and that of Middle Eastern countries by 132%.
The Middle East
The massive population growth will mean the Middle East, and to a lesser extent north Africa, will remain highly unstable, says the report. It singles out Saudi Arabia, the most lucrative market for British arms, with unemployment levels of 20% and a "youth bulge" in a state whose population has risen from 7 million to 27 million since 1980. "The expectations of growing numbers of young people [in the whole region] many of whom will be confronted by the prospect of endemic unemployment ... are unlikely to be met," says the report.
Islamic militancy
Resentment among young people in the face of unrepresentative regimes "will find outlets in political militancy, including radical political Islam whose concept of Umma, the global Islamic community, and resistance to capitalism may lie uneasily in an international system based on nation-states and global market forces", the report warns. The effects of such resentment will be expressed through the migration of youth populations and global communications, encouraging contacts between diaspora communities and their countries of origin.
Tension between the Islamic world and the west will remain, and may increasingly be targeted at China "whose new-found materialism, economic vibrancy, and institutionalised atheism, will be an anathema to orthodox Islam".
Iran
Iran will steadily grow in economic and demographic strength and its energy reserves and geographic location will give it substantial strategic leverage. However, its government could be transformed. "From the middle of the period," says the report, "the country, especially its high proportion of younger people, will want to benefit from increased access to globalisation and diversity, and it may be that Iran progressively, but unevenly, transforms...into a vibrant democracy."
Terrorism
Casualties and the amount of damage inflicted by terrorism will stay low compared to other forms of coercion and conflict. But acts of extreme violence, supported by elements within Islamist states, with media exploitation to maximise the impact of the "theatre of violence" will persist. A "terrorist coalition", the report says, including a wide range of reactionary and revolutionary rejectionists such as ultra-nationalists, religious groupings and even extreme environmentalists, might conduct a global campaign of greater intensity".
Climate change
There is "compelling evidence" to indicate that climate change is occurring and that the atmosphere will continue to warm at an unprecedented rate throughout the 21st century. It could lead to a reduction in north Atlantic salinity by increasing the freshwater runoff from the Arctic. This could affect the natural circulation of the north Atlantic by diminishing the warming effect of ocean currents on western Europe. "The drop in temperature might exceed that of the miniature ice age of the 17th and 18th centuries." |
Mortarmanmike120
| | Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 01:27 am: |
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This thread started with 'Red light, Green light.'
Rick, you're a buzz-kill.
Happy Easter. |
Brumbear
| | Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 08:15 am: |
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BOOO
Don't worry pulse aint as dirty as nukes marxism will fail as it always does the pulse will make the brain chips obsolete and fossil fuel will be so expensive only MOTORCYCLES will rule there I feel better already |
Interceptor
| | Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 01:27 pm: |
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How 'bout having to replace the "exhaust" on your bicycle because the baseball card was all worn out.  |
Strato9r
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 01:28 am: |
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Atlas Shrugged. Naked Lunch. On the Road. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas........... |
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