Stacy Summary: As we have already picked up all the worst habits of the ex Soviet police states, I suppose we can look ahead to the more innovating Chinese police state to inspire Hollywood and other pals of Bono?
China’s karaoke bars are being monitored as part of the government’s crackdown on vulgarity and dissent.
Nearly 180 bars in the city of Chongqing and hundreds more around the country have installed the government’s National Karaoke Content Management System or “The Black Box” as it is more popularly known, which monitors the playlist remotely and automatically calls the police if a warbler selects a vulgar tune or banned song.
The system is also aimed at stopping piracy, as it logs unlicensed imports of music.
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The “National Karaoke Content Management System” ?!!?!!
These guys sure take their drunken bar singing seriously!
So what’s to stop someone from selecting a banned song and leaving just to send the police on a pointless call. I wonder how long until someone figures out that it’s a good way to tie up a lot of police officers chasing Karaoke violations while they go off in another part of town to commit crimes.
Hah!
(not on topic but kind of related; copyright fight, intellectual property, piracy. Will the MSM pick this up?)
ACTA Update:
Who in U.S. Congress wants the ACTA text public?
“…The title is a bit of a fraud, as it highlights the emotive and prejudicial word counterfeiting, while the agreement is about a wide range of intellectual property enforcement issues, of which counterfeits are a small part.
The negotiating text is secret. The names of the negotiators are secret. The actual location of the meeting is secret. The scope of the agreement is secret. Even the reason why everything is secret is clouded with secrecy. Well, actually, the agreement is no secret to hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are cleared advisors or who get access under non-disclosure agreements. It’s just secret from the general public…”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/who-in-us-congress-wants_b_435700.html
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Threat to online free expression from imminent international accord
“… Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the threat to online free expression from measures to combat digital piracy and copyright violations in an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that is currently being negotiated…”
http://www.rsf.org/Threat-to-online-free-expression.html
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Geist: Three strikes and you’re out system draws cries of foul from governments
“… The discussion is likely to turn to the prospect of supporting three strikes and you’re out systems that could result in thousands of people losing access to the Internet based on three allegations of copyright infringement…”
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/755443–geist-three-strikes-and-you-re-out-system-draw-cries-of-foul-from-governments
this is obviously fake right?
If not its about time humanity put a gun to its head.
Instead of simply removing ‘bad songs’ from the playlist,
the chinese authorities leave ‘subversive’ content intact as a form of bait for the would be malcontent. Secret laws, secret prisons, and secret banks,
the new world (i didn’t) order sure has a lot to hide.
Just wait to see these bastards selling the organs of those condemned to death sentences. I am surprised that Texas or one these right wing US extreme right state hasn’t started yet selling human grease. China’s influence is rubbing off on the rest of the world. Remember how some people talked that China would change with all that business with the rest of the world. Well ? Guess what ? It’s the other way. The USA and Europe are becoming more and more fascist, like China.
Oh, on The Black Box thing. If it is monitored remotely that should mean a governmental figure knows what on this karaoke box, so why not delete the dangerous songs the government doesn’t want people to hear instead of luring people into a trap?
It gives me a bad association to the American military tactic of lure insurgents with bait (scattering pieces of weapons, ammunition, cords) and then have a sniper ready to target the suspected insurgent that picks up any of the stuff. no innocent person would pick up weapon, right!
Maybe we should send @SG over there to toughen them all up. I can imagine all the singers rigged up to shock collars with SGs finger on the trigger…
Australia day today so lots of beer, wine, pies, chops and of course thong throwing and toad racing down the local pub.
Happy India day also Bonn hic
Japanese waste treatment plant recovers gold from sewage
http://www.nowpublic.com/strange/japanese-waste-treatment-plant-recovers-gold-sewage
Bono AKA creeping jesus, anyone living in the developing world take, if you should see Bono descend from a plane or disembark off a ship, run for the fucking hills, this cunt thrives on suffering, nothing like a good natural disaster to boost his media presence, if I were Haitian the last fucking thing I’d want right now is that vulture Bono swooping down, picking over my misery just to make the short arsed prick look good, I know one shouldn’t wish one ill, but can’t their be one exception, sanctimonius west Brit.
The chinese have alot to learn. The rest of the world is totally monitored by survilence. Telephone, computer,ect. You say the wrong thing and bing, bing, bing your under more scrutiny.
this really stinks
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23798597-70-year-gag-on-kelly-death-evidence.do
China has subversive music?
@OP
er… there tuff enuff… not sure but I heard the chinese don’t have a word for DEPRESSION… like the russains don’t have a phrase for ‘having fun’… but yeah… I would love to be able to rig up some of the keybaords on here to the mains!!!
Sorry to change the tune, but I am really pissed off that the US edia has turned its eyes exclusively on to Bradjolina & Jeniferpitts. What happened to the disaster in Haiti? And, why can’t I find a single English feed from France that explains the actual situation as viewed from either ‘so-called’ government?
I am sick of ‘tabloid’-news. They ask rediculous questions like: “Sir waht is it like not having a home, or a pot to piss in?” and, “…Who’s fault is it that these flimsy homes all fell down the hill so easily?..”
Reuters: “A Haitian child eats a free meal received from a local restaurant in Port-au-Prince. Photograph: Eliana Aponte/
…Haiti’s government raised the confirmed earthquake death toll to 150,000 today, and said the figure could double as reports from outside the capital are collated.
“Free food?” Hell, they ought to be more grateful! Why can’t the Guardian say something like “Meals arrive slowly, as Hatian’s mourn their lost loved ones.”
Stacy, can you repost a few English, aka: ‘translated’ –french? –links?
@Mep – my guess is that this an off-handed Chinese asian way of flipping the bird to the media conglomerates who want to be paid for the Chinese licensing of their western songs.
The Chinese government is going after these small shops in order to act like they are compliant with WTO intellectual property rights issues. But, they are really just flipping the bird to the big recording companies who want licensing rights for playing the music.
The Chinese gov’t appears to be telling the leftist controlled record labels to go look for money elsewhere.
Der Spiegel on Iran’s nuclear program:
The Secret Nuclear Dossier.
Compassionate conservatism news.
People who receive gov’t assistance–including children who get free or reduced lunches–are “like stray dogs”!
@MEP –
That article is short on facts.
These “unnamed sources” wouldn’t be the same guys who found credible stories of bioweapons and nuclear weapons in the hands of Saddam Hussein in 2002?
@SG. you get up tuffnuff by jimmy vaughn. i would love a sing song.
@ California Doctor – I know. Was hoping that maybe Phil from Germany or someone who knows more about the credibility of Der Spiegel would comment on it. Sounds like another “dodgy dossier” to me.
@Y’All
‘Russian Navy say The U.S. Created the Earthquake in Haiti?’
http://tinyurl.com/ye8h6kv
@SG. we know. what about the sing song?
@Frances… They mentioned Basel II & III,.and for some reason I thought of you! : )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2TDzCLwBns&feature=related
Florida loss: 250m pension fund on shady deal at Stuyvesant/Coopers village:
http://tenantsandneighbors.org/pdf/RobertsvTishmanSpeyerFAQ.pdf
Goodness, Dedo! I feel neon or something!
@Snoot. wanted to say something. i was down when i got home. you made me smile and happy to be human.
@Y’All
All together now!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDtpWfSKeo
@ronron:
AHH! That’s nice!
@Snoot. actually i love all these fucks. i know how they got here.
@Marc
i agree with you. the rest of the world is becomong like china.
just found a link to a new documentary, shadow government, about surveillance, with g. edward griffin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCTtJ39RHyA
@frances
did you see that Stuyvesant property has been handed back to the lenders by Tishman/Speyer?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1395152590&play=1
@ronron
(when are you going to propose to snoot?)
@Marietta. snoot makes me want to be a better human. that’s all.
@ronron
Please don’t take it the wrong way. If we can’t joke, then the humanity is gone.
I was thinking of adopting Bonn.
@Marietta. i hate snoot. hahaha
@Marrietta. he’s fucking skinny. drinks like fuck. but boy can he hit a golf ball.
Jeey, Our Wouter Bos is the first finance minister to support Obama’s bank regulations!
Spend the evening witnessing McKinsey and energy companies presenting their pipe dreams to our political elite. Strategy: We need a European ‘Smart Gird’.
Some gems:
“So let’s agree we do not pin ourselfs down by choosing a specific technology to go with the smart grid at this point.”
“Funny how these remarks could be copied right into your progamms”
“Carbon capture and storage is simple and easy”
“We may need large energy reservoirs using bateries” (while standing in front of a slide showing compressed air storage as much cheaper and more easy to scale up.
Lies and deception.
@Snoot. hope you cool about this i like you thang.
Good news: McKinsey thinks we can be at zero emissions by 2050..
@ME. load off of my mind. party like she’s 39.
thought SG was gonna treat us to jimmie vaughn?
complementary opposites within a greater whole
http://www.1001-tattoos.com/symbols/yin-yang/pics/sy1.jpg
can’t believe some of you blame your boomer parents. bye y’all
Hi Ron
Mike
@Mike/Liverpool. sorry bout the bad call on metal. and hello to you.
It is as to be expected………..IF “Helecopter Ben” gets sacked then the $ might bouce….may be…………but the only way is down.
BTW The Brits are out of “QE” by the end of next week.
Mike
Mike/Liverpool –
teach me more about the UK and British people being out of QE next week.
What do you mean?
@calidoc
Found this article about QE.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/interestrates/5789573/Bank-of-England-indicates-an-end-to-quantitative-easing.html
When you have a bunch of closet sex deviants running a totalitarian repressive regime, you end up with sadomasochistic tendencies. The Chinese government is run by a load of power-starved lunatics. Someone dropped too many hammers on their heads.
bank of england, bank of america, 2 rotten peas in a pod. Like Monsanto and its seeds, the banks are a hybrid of what was once real and nutritious for human nourishment, physical and fiscal.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PLjNWOu-Zn0/Sab8IZkBNxI/AAAAAAAAAUA/ivoRwd35PSk/s1600-h/exploding+banks.jpg
@Max
hey did you know you were in this movie?
the freedom movie
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5002638/13309715
The fact that china is a totalitarian police state is old news. These funny stories about them trying to cope with technology pop up in the western press to make the rest of us feel better off than our enslaved brethren in china. We laugh for a moment, and then return to our own black boxes. i.e. email, electronic ballot boxes, the fed, shadow banking, black ops, even your cable box is black!
Command consumerism is impossible without surveillance.
Dr Murari Lal, IPCC, “co-ordinating lead author” for Asia chapter of AR4 — the 07 climate prediction report — admits inclusion of “2035″ himalayan glacier “disappearance” date was political:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245636/Glacier-scientists-says-knew-data-verified.html
Are the PTB trying to get us ready for an alien invasion? There’s a lot of talk about aliens lately.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7066554/Aliens-might-not-be-friendly-warns-astronomer.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7068765/The-search-for-aliens-should-start-on-Earth-not-outer-space-says-scientist.html
@marietta
If man does meet an extra terrestrial intelligence, lets hope they are nothing like us. When a superior technological culture encounters and inferior culture on Earth, the results have not been pretty.
I hope compassion is a trait of advanced civilizations. Have you ever heard of the Drake equation?
Drake Equation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Calculates the probability of life in the universe. Also conjectures that once life reaches the level of technology that would allow them destroy themselves, they destroy themselves more often than not.
Ron Paul on CNBC’s Squawk Box Monday Morning 1/25/10: Future of the Fed
http://www.dailypaul.com/
@marietta
Prof Conway Morris reasoned that if he were in their shoes “I’m not sure I’d answer the telephone.”
Indeedy if you are stupid you answer the phone. Indians in North America were stupid and let the white man from Europe enter their territory. Same with the South American Indians who even thought the Europeans were Gods in the beginning.
There are however tribes who are smart and kill every SOB who tries to enter their territory. So there was a tribe on some Indonesian Island who already begin shooting their arrows when you try to approach the island.
These tribes were able to maintain their way of living in contrary to the Indians who were massacred by the Europeans.
Does state censorship in an attempt to regulate morality seem nothing more than retarded repression of the human spirit that wishes to live freely through the expression of music ?
I think a better explanation of no response is that 100 years of broadcasting radio messages is just not long enough. The nearest star is what, 4 light years away? How fast do radio waves travel?
I think it’s time for us to put AL Gore into a rocket spacecraft and boost him into space cause Aliens refuse to obey his Cap & Trade agreements. Shame on these Aliens who have no respect for nature and are in fact Climate change deniers.
Loads of CO2 on distant planets http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/3696572/CO2-on-distant-planet-boosts-search-for-alien-life.html
Radio waves travel at the speed of light in a vacuum according to this link
http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sp_en.html#radiosig
So, then how many star systems are within a 100 light year radius of ours?
off topic, but I’m going to start keeping track of these:
Interesting site about Eurasian Minerals land leases in Haiti.
http://www.eurasianminerals.com/s/Haiti.asp
Got to get in there with the army and protect the mineral rights… it’s just like the old west in the US 100 150 years ago.
Loads of CO2 on distant planets!
CONCLUSION: SUVs exists on distant planets so must Aliens cause who else is driving these SUVs?
CONCLUSION: SUVs exists on distant planets so must Aliens cause who else is driving these SUVs?
@youri
did you post the link to the lecture by a CERN physicist that lays out the data that doesn’;t support AGW? It was excellent but i didn’t save the link and now i cant find it. I think it was last week.
@marietta
True, but we are listening to the universe. We could pick up signals from civilizations from thousands of years ago. Millions of years ago if the source was strong enough.
But perhaps radio signals were only used for a short time span in any civilization. Already, Earth is much quieter with the advent of cable and the INTERNET.
I post that CERN lecture several times.
CERN Lecture
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1181073
@marietta
Very smart marietta “Radio waves travel at (near) the speed of light in a vacuum according to this link”
Here you discovered on your own that SETI is BS and probably a disinfo operation cause wouldn’t it be smart to use Light to communicate. Wouldn’t it be smart to use the most fastest traveling waves, light? Not according to SETI.
The national security state destroyed capitalism in 1947, since then the only difference between capitalism and communism has been outsourcing. At least the commies kept their state security national, the u.s. has gone international with it’s state security, and now has to import it from china.
Here’s Gore Vidal’s take
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuSfV4s4_e4
@DanII
Very good points.
And thanks so much for the link.
@marietta
AGW?
Doctors without borders: US military getting in the way of Haiti relief efforts.
Video of NATO troops trying to instigate a riot??!!
Since when does band practice take precedence over delivery of aid? And since when is it appropriate to literally TEASE desperate people with food?!
@Youri
Light and radio waves are the same. Just different frequencies. Same speed.
AGW?
Awkward Genetic Wobbling?
As-hole gets Wacked?
A Good Wormhole?
@youri
AGW – anthropomorfic global warming
Meaning man-made global warming.
Obama gets his Hoover on: will announce spending freezes during the State of the Union address.
@Youri officially it’s
“Anthropogenic Global Warming”
but the unofficial and maybe more accurate term is
“Al Gore’s Wealth”
in honor of his Carbon-Exchange investments and potential upside if the carbon market really takes off.
@Dan II
I always learned that Radio waves travel near and not at the speed of light but that must be in a non – vacuum I guess or they thought me the wrong thing which also is possible.
Interesting: Experts Create Radio Waves Traveling Faster than the Speed of Light http://news.softpedia.com/news/Experts-Create-Radio-Waves-Traveling-Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light-115431.shtml
@tsar
Yes, anthropogenic. Sorry, I’m reading a book about how humans obtain language and i just read a section on ascribing anthropomophic traits to animals regarding language. I have anthropomorphism on the brain.
Software developed in AMERICA
@Youri
different frequencies travel at different speeds through mediums. That is why a prism will separate the components of white light into the constituent colors.
Interesting link. I think they cheated . . . lol
@Dan II
Yeah, of cause Dan the prism explains it all. It has been a long time since I finished my physics class.
Light also bends under influence of gravity from a black hole or a planet so does a radio wave? Although I believe that Dr Paul LaViolette cares to differ If I am correct http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oURVtGKW420
Superwave: Project Camelot interviews Dr Paul LaViolette
@Youri
I’ve seen that video and he is very compelling. I wish he could have the resources to investigate further. Science is more political than most people think. Careers and egos are on the line. Many will not publish ideas because they do not want to be ostracized by peers. It takes a confident and brave individual to go against the grain.
Marietta started all this Stacy
Some people contend that governments have evidence of alien life already. So maybe the next distraction will be the revelation? Something will be vaporized and we’ll blame on the bad aliens.
EARTHLINGS UNITE (IN SOLIDARITY as Tofu would say)
@Dan II “Science is more political than most people think.”
Yep, I completely agree. If you really want to do science best is to NOT go to an University to avoid a lot of BS and dis-info.
Exxon-Shell deal in Iraq
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/05/business/main5533028.shtml
Saddam used to upset the ‘oil markets’ when he would produce more Iraqi oil than opec qutoas allowed, thus dropping the price, especially when he did it in euros. I’m sure exxon-shell will respect opec’s right to price fix. Only when the oil cartel fixes the price of oil can it be manipulated so well by the banks.
On bloomberg I heard an analyst saying chevron was a buy because they ‘know how to find oil’, boy they sure do.
Suddenly got very interested in Werner Herzog’s movie – Encounters at the End of the World (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093824/ Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MImYM87jOtU
Thanks Youri. That does look like a good movie. I just checked and I can watch it on netflix. bye y’all
Re: politization of science: years ago, on the UC Berkeley campus I saw a man dressed for outdoor comfort in a down jacket and matching down pants going thru the garbage scrounging for food. I gave him some money and we chatted. Turned out he was a scientist who had been involved in weapons research until he became horrified at what he was doing and dropped out completely. One of the things he told me was that one method of controlling the kind of research that gets done is, if they don’t like what you are doing they deny you access to the calibration of instruments thru the official government office that controls that, and that stops your research quickly.
saw this add on facebook
came here.
Cant win in poker?
If you keep loosing your money to other poker players its time to get it back in Forex. One deposit and you are set to go.
@Y’All
I went to see donovan in the late seventies… during the gig he suggested everyone “must try jackin’ up heroin!” TWAT… huh… HIPPIES… but I love a drone… when it comes to music… just does something… takes me off into strange other… blah blah blah!!!
Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKCUuyojDI
Encounters at the End of the World: review
Werner Herzog’s new film is an eerily fascinating look at an Antarctic station. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/5207228/Encounters-at-the-End-of-the-World-review.html
@brian –
There are many ways for government agencies to quash good scientific research. The guy at UC Berkeley may have been working through Lawrence-Livermore on nuclear stuff. He may have even been around the Nobel winners.
But, if his ideas were conflicting with some of their revenue, they could have nuked his career.
It’s a nice view from that side of the bay, ain’t it?
@Y’All
John Martyn – Small Hours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLVM560Fok
The quashing of research is just as bad in the social sciences. If the organization or business that contracted a study doesn’t like the research findings (i.e. the research is not favorable to their interests), they can make sure that the research never gets published.
@Y’All
two moh’ for the ‘Sweaty Socks’ ya ken’… out there!!!
Frankie Miller – Sail Away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6iXLP–2gQ
Frankie Miller – Be Good To Yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLmkZOiWqGU
@Mep
. . . never gets published . . .
Where I have heard that before?
@Youri
I highly recommend your suggestion: Encounters at the End of the World. I enjoyed it immensely. I had no idea how developed the Antarctica was.
BTW. An aside not in the documentary – the same location to record temperatures in Antarctica has not changed since there were but a couple of huts there. Now there is a heat island right next to a runway right next to the thermometer. Duh, maybe an increase in recorded temps might be expected?
Anyway, the characters alone make it worth watching. The images are icing on the cake.
Frigid Folly: UHI, siting issues, and adjustments in Antarctic GHCN data
Look at the difference of Rothera Station from 1997 to 2007. It’s a dang metropolis.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/13/frigid-folly-uhi-siting-issues-and-adjustments-in-antarctic-ghcn-data/
Like above also has images from 1976 of Rothera. This location is used to record the temperature all those years. Comparisons are made to determine trends.
Good night.
*Link above . . .
@Y’All
‘The number of children living in poverty in Scotland remains at an “unacceptably high” level’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8479621.stm
@Y’All
The number of UK children living in “severe poverty” rose in the four years before the recession’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8479364.stm
Cruising the intertubes and found something interesting: after 9/11, Faux News actually did a decent 4 part series about Israel spying in the US. I never knew before that Israeli agents were also spying on the Saudis who were here, and who were being spied on by the NSA and the CIA.
@Y’all,…..Same old, same old,…
As long as the “public” think their Government are set up to facilitate the expediency of a utopia,.the sham will carry on indefinitely.
For those who are trapped in the twilight zone,..keep on keeping on! : /
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025204/Life-Mars-Back-70s-standard-living-FALLS-strikes-cost-food-RISE.html
@Y’All
I don’t understand… WHY won’t you talk to me???… I’ve begged and begged… and tried everything… WHY???… sniff sniff….. WHY…. WHY… LONELINESS???
Tom Ze – So (Solidao)
.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOoJ43lFw8g
@Y’All
huh…. AAHH!!!
Tom Ze – So (Solidao)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOoJ43lFw8g
Rather ironic; KTVs here are notorious vice dens, it’s where a lot of the prostitution and drug taking occurs.
Tom Ze rules.