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    Brooker on 9/11 conspiracies

    Obviously there's no simple end to it. People may or not agree about that business, it's no reason to fall out. That way 'they' win, whoever they are / were. But, there is something else that smells pretty rotten to me here. I'm sorry to have to say that because this is a really good place on...
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    Brooker on 9/11 conspiracies

    Competing narratives. Yes, the poor US of A must contend with those who would claim that the idea of a 'War On Terror' is something of an Orwellian fiction, a hyperstition.
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    Brooker on 9/11 conspiracies

    Why? There are loads of reasons to question the fuck out of this. If you don't think so then fine, whatever. Find out for yourself or don't. But for me much of this thread, why I felt I wanted to comment in the first place, was about the myths of what exactly was being discussed around this...
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    Hipsters: Scourge or Irrelevence

    I wonder if the reason that the disdain you identify is so apparent now is that the phenomenon itself, that is to say subcultural one-upmanship for it's own sake (i.e. that which defines itself entirely in relation to that which it is not, a purely negative formulation), is actually on the way...
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    The Phenomenal Slavoj Zizek

    Sneering at people putting principles into action is sheer hipsterism is it not? The cry of the culturally castrated lashing out at those who still have the balls to believe. ;) That notion that individuals can not make a difference and the accompanying capitulating disavowal of responsibility...
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    Brooker on 9/11 conspiracies

    Obviously semantics is a large part of where the argument is, yes. Aside from the accuracy or otherwise of what you think it means to talk about 'con-theories', broad generalities are not explanations of specificities. The 'reasons' here are still very much of the kind 'all things I say are...
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    Various Artists - 'Le Tour du Monde, Volume 7' (2xLP, France - 1973)

    Yes it is very good, big up. People should download. Perhaps bordering on the prematurely autumnal in tone? Will go down a treat in a couple of months I should think, not that it can't be enjoyed now. Thanks.
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    Pointless But It Makes Me Chuckle to Myself

    Where is she supposed to iron her towels? Down the pub?
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    Brooker on 9/11 conspiracies

    No I'm not. You're just wrong in various different ways. :p Anyway, I think there should be considered at the centre of all this (;)) the conception of what you might call the 'classic' Grand Conspiracy Theory of tradition. This can of course be understood as something arising out of dark...
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    Cable Guy Paradox

    Gettin' deep on a Friday afternoon So, is there a paradox? Of what kind? Or if not, why not? Is it a mathematical 'fallacy' of a kind? A failure to include an observer? Is it to do with comparing unlike quantities? Is it to do with introducing a meta-temporal element in comparing the rate of...
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    Cable Guy Paradox

    It's about the granularity of time and space, man. / The Dude ;) More later...
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    Cable Guy Paradox

    The unarticulated assumption in this 'paradox' is that there is a discrete event, an isolated system, with definable beginning and end points. Or rather that such a thing can be said to 'exist'. This is implicit in the notion that there is a point in time when you can say you have a 'full...
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    Your preferred digital DJ system and why

    :slanted: Just kidding, sort of. Actually I remember Plastician playing the last set at a DMZ a couple of years ago and his stuff seemed quite a bit louder than the set before. Maybe more crisp and harsh than loud as such. Looked like he was using Serato (Serato Scratch, right dave?) then.
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    Cable Guy Paradox

    I propose the use of these ingenious new units of my own devising, then. 1fD = 1 full cone depth 1fA = 1 full cone area Now they will both become numerically smaller than 1 as soon as the water starts evaporating, which is to say immediately and simultaneously. Instead of area or depth being...
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    Cable Guy Paradox

    No, but the area and the depth are related via the angle of the cone, i.e. the ratio, which remains constant.
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