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Are you supposed to type 1980 in the search field? I did that and just got a list of auto-fill suggestions like "1980's movies" and "1980's shows" and so on.

Huh? What was that suppose to accomplish?

I know what you're getting at, but you can't just "put hydrogen in your gas tank". There's an investment involved in converting existing fuel technology to new, or replacing it entirely, and an whole industry focused on petroleum. It's not a trivial matter to just replace existing energy sources with new ones.

But fusion power plants wouldn't solve the problem of petroleum-based vehicles.

I'm not very familiar with S.U.N. Project, and I hadn't heard that song before, but holy shit that intro sent chills down my spine! It's awesome! The rest of the song is pretty good too, but for me the intro is really the best part of that one. However... To me a "filter sweep" is much slower than what I heard in the S.U.N. Project song. A filter cutoff usually modulated manually by a mod wheel or knob, not by an envelope. They're much more common in classic and prog rock, music where keyboards are played live much more than in electronic music.

Allow me to be the devil's advocate here: In music, aren't genres defined by certain common conventions? And thus, if a piece of music doesn't follow any of the conventions of a particular genre, it can't be considered part of that genre? That doesn't mean it's not good music, but if it doesn't look like a duck, doesn't walk like a duck, and doesn't quack like a duck, why call it a duck?

Exactly. Finding a replacement isn't the issue. We already have multiple models of fully-electric and "plug-in hybrid" (which is much more on the electric side than 'normal' hybrid) vehicles.

Nice info Anoebis, thanks!

^ Wow, that intro is soooooooooooooooooooooo Pink Floyd! I must admit, I have absolutely no knowledge of post-Ozzy Sabbath.

Not like modern metal, but yeah they have some faster songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQBttKoetqo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPD0ZBiMs0

Holy shit, that was a nice looking studio! Too bad.

Maybe you misunderstood me. I meant that the story is fine as it is (clear good & bad guys) and that if they DID try to explore the "maybe Neo & gang aren't entirely in the right" aspect, it would be an unfortunate distraction. I was disagreeing with Rotwang's criticism that the story ignored those aspects.

Yeah. I actually watched the video at work earlier, but without sound. I wanted to watch it with sound.

Trying to watch a video on cnn.com. My computer hates CNN for some reason. All the pages take a long time to load, videos take super long to load except when they don't load at all...

To me it boils down to the simple notion that some people just don't like to be duped, even if living the lie is more comfortable. I sympathize with that; I'd prefer reality over a lie. But I think expecting an action movie to explore all the subtleties of philosophy is asking a bit much. Moviegoers like heroes and villains, and they tend to dislike ambiguity. Leave that to the low budget art films.

I haven't seen any of them for a while, but here's what comes immediately to mind: - The first one was a cinematic milestone, and thus any sequel would obviously be held to a very high standard. And people's tastes are so varied it's no surprise there will be some vocal critics. - I recall reading somewhere that the creators of the movie DIDN'T intend to make more than one movie. - I've read somewhere that substantial aspects of the story are direct, or thinly veiled ripoffs of existing material. Again, I haven't seen any of them for a while, but from what I recall, the first movie was a message-bearing storytelling gem encased in an action, sci-fi wrapping. The sequels were just action with little intellectual value, but not bad for what they were.

Here's my physical collection of goa/psy. I figure showing a picture of the cases is kind of useless, and I don't have so many that text isn't a problem, so:

Well, I'm afraid I can't help you, but those songs aren't bad! They are, however, REALLY fast for old school goa. I wonder if the DJ was playing them at a faster than nominal speed.

I'm going to lock this thread because it's redundant. Please visit the Show me your record/CD collection thread.

Is there a meaning to life? Lol. I have nostalgia all the time, but I don't like it because it makes me think of how great things were in the past and how much they suck now. But that's just me.

I'm old, and I've stuck with CD's and don't see myself ever going an all-digital route (side note: it irks me to differentiate "CD" and "digital", since CD's are in fact digital! But you know what I mean). Also, my prediction for the future is that, not counting the Biebers and Gagas of the music world, no one will be able to make a living just playing live/DJ'ing and making albums. It's pretty much that way already, even more so in the electronic world. But I also think that there will remain, as now, a small industry for commercial CD releases that aren't mega-superstars. Because some people, like me, just prefer having a physical thing. And in those genre-specific industries, a balance will naturally develop between what an artist expects as compensation and what the label can reasonably offer. In obscure genres like (the less-mainstream types of) psytrance, artists expecting big bucks from album sales will be in for a rude awakening, as well as label owners thinking they can make their living off the label. That's been the case for a while now, in fact, but I think there are still some of those people out there, and I think eventually they'll fade out of the scene or change their attitudes. So to say "times are tough" really just says that a particular model of the artistic-economic structure of the music industry is declining. This doesn't mean people will stop making music, or that people will stop trying to make money in the music industry, it just means the model will change. And anyone unwilling to change with it will get left behind.

Wow.

I just found out about a show in November with Slayer and Gojira. That will be awesome.