In between this and the Sugarcubes, Bjork was definitely involved in a few other things. She was in a kinda New Wave-ish band called Tappi Tikarrass, which you can see perform in a documentary "Rock in Reykjavik" (1982), as well as having a bit part in a club scene in an Icelandic movie called "New Life" (1983). After that she was in a band called Kukl, they were a noisy experimental band on Crass records (ala the political punk band) that came out with a couple albums. Bjork and 2 other members of Kukl then formed the Sugarcubes.
I don't only think there is a lot of potential for abuse. The whole concept in and of itself constitutes abuse. It is a creepy, dystopian revenge fantasy.
She didn't say she was afraid of an opossum baring its teeth at her. She was saying that the images of baring their teeth, or lying dead and rotting in the road is a barrier to automatically thinking of them as cute. At least where I live, a lot of people tend to think of possum as disgusting, etc., much like many people think of rats.
While the strongest contributing component to Type 2 Diabetes may be genetic, the reason the number of cases has doubled over the last 30 years in the US is not due to a change in genetics. Incidently, the US also has roughly double the number of deaths due to complications from Diabetes than is average globally. I'm going to guess that obesity is the leading contributor to this historical growth trend. If preventing Diabetes from occurring is your concern, I think obesity and diet is the place to look for prevention. Sources: http://www.naturalnews.com/020035.html and http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=USA+diabetes
This is simply the coolest thing ever. We must immediately make peace with Iran! This whole nuclear thing has been a distraction. Israel and the US are worried about a nuclear Iran... meanwhile they have 24,000 ninjas. Well played. Even during the U.S. peak ninja power in the 80s, I doubt we rivaled Iran's current ninja reserves.
He constructed the theory based on that episode of ST:TNG? Something about that strikes me like coming up with a theory about a sphere around a star based on that ST:TNG episode with Scotty having lived in the transporter beam for decades. I mean, I love me some ST:TNG, but clearly those ideas are old hat based on much older science fiction books.
Well, its edited footage for a TV show. The point of the bit was to show goofy people getting scared. Undoubtedly many interactions were edited out for the bit, wouldn't you think?
Man, I love these posts. The early ones that somehow people took dead serious, and the later ones now that people just "I don't like" about. To be honest, I hope they all get compiled into some kind of book. They kind of have a Church of the Sub-genius meets Mad Magazine meets Dead Kennedys liner notes thing going on. Some of them comment on things pretty clearly, others are just for fun, all good.
I think you can make an argument that they should be shut down. Even given that, however, I think it is still fair to call the whole deal ridiculous due to the "sweep the premises with handguns drawn" factor. I mean, imagine an illegal hotdog vendor, and a squadron of cops come through sweeping the area with handguns drawn... It just seems way too aggressive, threatening, and overall hostile given the nature of the infraction or any reasonable assessment of the risks.
I don't think you can say any instrument is ever obsolete. Instruments all make different sounds, and so if you want those sounds in your music, you'll need the instrument, at the very least to sample it. Also, the mechanics of an instrument shape how you play it, leading to different musical tendencies for the player. Additionally, extended techniques possible with an instrument are probably not available in a simulation or sample on a synth. I mean, just in guitar, just things like pinch harmonics, pick slides, strumming behind the nut, the sound of slack strings getting pulled into the pick-ups, etc. would all be, at best, a huge pain to do on a "modern synth", and certainly not as easy to do on the fly.
A few people now have referred to infestation rather than seeding. They are somewhat synonymous, except that infest has a negative connotation. Now, whether life exists or not is of no moral consequence in itself. Life is not good or bad, just a process. So, it seems to me that these "infestation" people are for some reason anti-life. They prefer a lifeless universe, or at least believe we should somehow not effect or manipulate the universe and let it roll on as if we didn't exist? Or maybe they fear our seedling microbes would somehow displace native life, which is evil when humans do it, even unintentionally. Of course, if panspermia or extinction is caused by anything other than humans, it isn't evil, just natural, eh? A strange morality that seems to set us outside of the natural world, and excuses all actions except those made by humans, who's actions can not be in any way explained by natural processes, but must have been chosen by free will with some malevolent sinful intent. I find that a pretty depressing world view.
I have never seen such a concentration of misanthropes. Some commenters are so misanthropic that they have read things into the article that aren't even there, just so they can tell us how awful we are. Just like a human, to sprinkle microbes on sacred barren rocks, defiling the whole universe. With such a cancerous, sinful infestation, if the universe had any brains it would hit us with the biggest asteroid it had around. Until that happens, we should probably sit around and feel guilty, and hopefully die, I guess.
I hate tipping. I hate feeling social obligation, and being put in a situation of judgement, just because for some reason servers aren't paid normally. When I go out, I want things to be easy and fun. Give me the bill, I'll pay it. Instead, I get a meal, and if I am paying cash and don't have the right amount on hand, I am stuck leaving some huge tip or one that will get me disliked. Or maybe you do some odd thing where you ask the server for different change? I mean, I've been helped in a store very well before, but no tips. Tipping makes me feel like a capricious rich jerk deciding someone's fate. I want a business to make my life easy, and not introduce some awkward point of potential guilt and protocol. Seriously, what the hell?
He was just a good time.
I don't think you can say any instrument is ever obsolete. Instruments all make different sounds, and so if you want those sounds in your music, you'll need the instrument, at the very least to sample it. Also, the mechanics of an instrument shape how you play it, leading to different musical tendencies for the player. Additionally, extended techniques possible with an instrument are probably not available in a simulation or sample on a synth. I mean, just in guitar, just things like pinch harmonics, pick slides, strumming behind the nut, the sound of slack strings getting pulled into the pick-ups, etc. would all be, at best, a huge pain to do on a "modern synth", and certainly not as easy to do on the fly.