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Published: Oct 14, 2008
Author: wadosy
Post Date: 2008-10-14 03:40:10 by wadosy
Keywords: music, youtube
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the basic ideas of government by psychohistory... 1. you must have a reasonably truthful account of history... these accounts of history will be used to test and calibrate mathematical expressions that are developed to predict and manipulate human behavior... aka, "future history". 2. you need sophisticated mathematical descriptions of human behavior. 3. if your history is truthful and your math is sophisticated enough, you can predict trends in mass human behavior, although you will still be unable to predict behavior of individual humans. 4. you can spot unwanted trends in mass human behavior hundreds of years before they become problems, and head them off with a minimum and undetectable application of force. 5. your predictions and even the guild of psychohistorians itself must be kept secret, lest the resistance counterpredict and nullify your predictions. 6. the public will be fed lies tailored to produce the desired response. . so given the value of truthful accounts of history, it's probable that there are historians that know the whole story of, for instance, 9/11. the chance of the truth being acknowledged by any of the responsible parties approaches zero.
Today, Asimov's vision is no longer wholly fiction. His psychohistory exists in a loose confederation of research enterprises seeking equations that capture patterns in human behavior. These enterprises go by different names and treat different aspects of the issue. But they all share a goal of better understanding the present in order to foresee the future, and possibly help shape it. Asimov's ‘Foundation’ theories on society move from fiction to academia Jewish World Review July 16, 2004
look what they've done to my song
they put people in the house with the bear bait and locked them in. it was an old two-story frame house, flimsy, weather beaten, dilapidated, grey... the bears would break in, easy. i went round the back and there they were, opening packages of bacon, thick- sliced slabs on a bench of warped one-by-twelves, and the bear was already there, watching, but they didnt care. it seemed to be part of the plan: they, too, would be eaten. at which point i bailed out of the dream.
you've got to be at least mildly fucked up to listen to wilson phillips, mostly because their songs are about a minute too long for sober people. i have to admit that one of those girls really believes in that song... the soprano goes haywire godly sometimes.
One of my all time favs, just downloaded to mobile phone.
hard to say how badly i've damaged myself by crying (in front of people who saw through me) while listening to that song.
the pointless gallantry gets to you, sometimes.
Back to the music:
_________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ huh! from the ridicuous to the sublime with a pit stop in dixie.
Just wait until you open this one:
_________________________________________________________________________ On December 9, 2008, bassist Stevie Benton was quoted by the Associated Press as considering it an honor that the U.S. military was using Drowning Pool's music to inflict music torture upon captured prisoners. *shrug*
i'll tell you exactly what pisses me off... what if, after i start posting my songs, somebody picks one of them up (if the internet survives long enough), overhauls it, it kicks the shit out of pretty much everything, and i'm too goddamned dead to enjoy it.
oy! i just may be a lunatic you're looking for
all these japanese people will go to hell because they believe more in this song than they do in jesus. well, that's tough shit, isnt it?
this handsome beetle-looking bug is flitting in an uneven six or eight foot circle, low, over the gravel. ...iridescent, pale blue, quick, looking for something, maybe. chased by a dirt-colored salamander-looking creature with eight legs that branch off into two sets of feet, each... about three times the size of the beetle... following very quickly, very closely... i thought the salmander was trying to catch the beetle to eat him, at first. but they'd stop and huddle for a few seconds, then go off round the circle again. then i woke up.
just when i needed you most dolly parton
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Asimov's "Foundation" novels — the most famous science-fiction trilogy between "Lord of the Rings" and "Star Wars" — described a new science of social behavior called psychohistory. Mixing psychology with math, psychohistory hijacked the methods of physics to precisely predict the future course of human events.
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baker street
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all time favs
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"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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Just wait until you open this one...
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