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• CatinaDiamond commented on The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all)
  Ok, Ryan. The OpEd by host is called: The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all) My last post contained: 1) Communication Breakdown by Led Zepplin (you'll probably want to check the lyrics and the list of songs on the album, esp. the next one and the iconography of the Hindenburg. This is how its done, and why Rob "gets it".) 2) Quotation on the differences between data, information and knowledge. 3) Library (of Babel) and YouTube. 4) One literature reference - V. Woolf. 5) One philosophy reference: Heidegger. 6) Picasso's Guernica (you might also want to look...
• Mike Collins commented on The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all)
  Catina. Communication is a two way process. It takes work by both sides. If you want to communicate the fact that you are a strange and knowledgeable person your previous posts have established that. Your last post explaining a previous one shows that it wasn't worth the trouble of deciphering it. Try just writing instead of meta/meta/meta etc communication. I have clicked on your links and found them mostly unhelpful. I can't stand having other peoples music forced on me - it's like being in a shopping precinct and particularly annoying if (as in the case of Led Zeppelin) it's...
• Bravo Lima Poppa 3 commented on The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all)
  And Catina, there are those of us that literally get nothing from music except the lyrics. Speaking as one of the literally amusical here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusia And for the curious, its congenital, not acquired and runs in my dad's side of the family....
• Bellinghman commented on The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all)
  Ah yes, amusia. My wife has been taking part in some studies at Goldsmiths College in London on amusia. She's not herself amusic, but is one of their controls. As an example, they'll play a sequence of randomly created notes three times, with one iteration having one note that is oh-so-very-slightly different from the other two, and ask her which sequence was different. She could do that down to a seventh of a semi-tone. That's in laboratory conditions in an anechoic room so well sound insulated you can hear your heartbeat in your ears. And they've done fMRI scans on...
• CitizenOfAzad commented on The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all)
  (NB: created an account because I wanted in on this conversation. Judge that as you will.) So, I did as you indicated, listened to the Led Zep song while reading your post. First chorus is at the line about "knapping flint to make a steel sword." The guitar solo started just as I clicked the Guernica link. Average adult reading speed is 250-300 words per minute, the post is 234 words, the solo starts at 1:25. I don't think I get it. Maybe I read too slowly. I'm honestly curious what you're trying to tell us though. The environmental stuff...