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By ketamine and pretentious I assume you’re referring to minimal techno? That scene pretty much died out over 10 years ago at this point, and is generally regarded as the all-time nadir of techno. Some newer stuff I would go see would be something like 999999999 who played Knockdown Center in...

Same for a lot of North American cities.. Around 2010 it was small crappy blog music nights on the smaller scale, or big EDM fests with not much in between. Electronic music had been building up since the house/tech-house revival in the 2010s and then just went insane post-pandemic, mainly...

Well there is the story of Messiah and the end of Konflict. Accounts vary, but supposedly there was a dispute over the ownership of the tune between Kemal from Konflict and Clayton from the Renegade Hardware label, which set off a race to get the DAT tape from Music House. Kemal got to the...

I’ve been revisiting some stuff from this era (roughly bookended by To Shape the Future Remix and Messiah) and I’m surprised at how well a lot of it has aged. Resonates in some way with the current hard techno craze

hey elgato.. I'm the other law student HMLT is referring to. You're wasting your time even attempting to reason with him about international law. btw it's nice to see a legal positivist around here. I'm of the HLA Hart/Joseph Raz vein myself. I've been reading a lot of Hans Kelsen lately...

yes, and the whole point of what I wrote is that you need barely any money to make money in a depression. just some balls and a lack of dependants, hence the ragged trousered capitalist's dream. but since you're not a capitalist I guess that doesn't appeal to you. maybe, but it wouldnt have...

There have been some other interviews with people from his high school released. According to one of his fellow students at one point after each student gave a presentation, and when it was Cho's turn he refused to talk. Then the teacher said he had to or else he would fail. When he started...

pff yeah right. HMLT has already taken care of the absurd capital account surplus argument, but I have to point out the incoherence of your rhetorical posturing. Vimothy, any true ragged trouser capitalist is salivating at this possibility, not crusading against smug doomsayers. here's a...

No, the US army is utterly incapable of seizing and holding Iranian territory at this point. The most that even the hawks are advocating is a bombing campaign. Security via US military power, the (former) strength of the US economy, and most importantly the role as reserve currency. It's...

I think the significance of petrodollars gets way overblown. Iran is already selling lots of oil in basically any currency (they were originally going to accept euros only). I don't think it has had the effect that it should have if oil were the only thing backing the dollar.

Now you can buy a house in America for 6,000 pounds. In some cases 600. Introducing the new Yahoo Foreclosure Center. http://realestate.yahoo.com/Foreclosures;_ylt=AvfSo_r5y_1_7.MyOUz8Gf.kF7kF House listings for Detroit: New Homes: 6 Foreclosures: 11,000

haha I was wondering how long it would take for that to get pointed out. FYI I'm not a libertarian or Austrian economist, although I have some libertarian tendencies and a couple positions in common with the Austrians. Oh I see what you were saying earlier re: pegging gold at $35. The US...

I think most people that actually understand the banking system already have a vested interest in it, if only on the fundamental level of social stability and their own financial security. as Henry Ford said, "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and...

As Tartarsky pointed out, this is a matter of intense debate. Alan Greenspan was a firm proponent of the gold standard, before his famous defection to the Fed and betrayal of the Objectivists (ardent gold supporters). The position of the economists allied with the Federal Reserve (Friedman...

thanks for the videos, hmlt. I was totally unaware of Adam Curtis. I found them immensley interesting. A few points TPON - re: the Straussians. Having watched the film I would say that the Straussians are given a completely fair assessment. Century of the Self & The Trap I really liked...

ditto

In the course I am thinking of we read parts of The History of Political Philosophy. The thing is, you know that you are asking an impossible task of me. I cannot give textual evidence for Strauss's true beliefs because they are communicated esoterically, and are only properly understood by...

Not off the top of my head, but I have read Strauss and been taught by several well-known Straussians. I think I gave a pretty fair assessment of the man's views. I can look it up if you really want, but I'd rather not bother.