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Re: PSYCHO JELLO, [[MORE]]Does anyone feel that certain songs by...

Adam Turetzky — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:46:36 -0000

I think if you take some time away from the mainstream outlets (and hearing them) the songs become fresh again. I don't listen to radio. I don't think I've heard a Doors tune in 5 years. When I go and play "Light My Fire" it's actually a jam again. Same for Hendrix. I haven't heard "Purple Haze" in a long time unless I go and purposely play it in iTunes or Spotify. I probably stopped listening to the radio when I got a scroll wheel iPod in 2001. The past month I've occasionally heard Chicago classic rock radio (97.9) and you're right, they play the same 3 Led Zeppelin songs (and others) over and over again.

Re: Steve Dahl Tweets Something Not-at-All Dickish About Chicago Tornado Coverage

Adam Turetzky — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:10:39 -0000

Steve Dahl can do no wrong! And he's right. The coverage is ridiculous.

Re: Chicago's Speeding Cameras Issued Nearly 205K Warning Citations In First Weeks Of Operation

Adam Turetzky — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:07:00 -0000

Yup, sorry, my mistake. I read that as Sept 28th.

Re: Chicago's Speeding Cameras Issued Nearly 205K Warning Citations In First Weeks Of Operation

Adam Turetzky — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:24:05 -0000

That one part is a little confusing. But the time period isn't 38 days, it's 7 days. That thing wrote two hundred thousand tickets in a week! There's gonna be riots! LOL Our laws (certainly traffic) weren't written for constant enforcement like this.

Re: Metal Health (Bang Your Head)

Adam Turetzky — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:15:16 -0000

!,,!-_-!,,!

Re: Shaming Racists On Social Media Continues With New Tumblr - by Fruzsina Eördögh

Adam Turetzky — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:16:02 -0000

That's not what this is like. The site isn't causing any physical harm which would surely happen if these people tried this in physical space. Have them go stand on a city street corner with a sign that has one of these Twitter missives on it and see how long it is before someone punches their teeth out or an entire crowd gathers, removes the sign and then physically forces them to leave. They have the right to publish speech but as has been said a couple of times surrounding this, there are consequences to speech. And one of them is you will become very, very noticed for what you say if that speech is extremely controversial and especially if it's hateful and it may not be the type of attention you enjoy. And in some of these cases it may result in jail if the speech is illegal (like murderous threats to the President of the United States).

Re: Shaming Racists On Social Media Continues With New Tumblr - by Fruzsina Eördögh

Adam Turetzky — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:17:34 -0000

This isn't any different than social interactions in meat-space. These people would get and should expect the same response to their speech as if they said it on a crowded train, street corner or bar. The only difference "the internet" makes is how long and how many people see what they said. If someone were to say this stuff at work, a party, or in public people would shun them, shame them and then gossip about what they said for some time. It would just be on a smaller scale in some cases.

Re: TC Electronic Flashback X4 Delay

Adam Turetzky — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:15:21 -0000

I saw a demo of it the other day. It looks pretty damn cool!

Re: FromAbbey RoadtoNevermind: 10 Iconic Album Covers

Adam Turetzky — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:50:34 -0000

Kiss Alive 1. http://cl.ly/IHGP

Re: Chart: What Killed Us, Then and Now

Adam Turetzky — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:12:01 -0000

We no longer require the use of the appendix but just because we don't understand it today doesn't mean it's a useless "malfunction". Again, nature doesn't work that way. We seemingly evolved to no longer use the appendix (although not everyone agrees on this, some say it was/is used to aid in the digestion of raw food, others say to fight disease similar to the tonsils) and at the same time we also evolved to have adult lactase tolerance. DNA research shows that 50,000 years ago almost all humans past the age of 2 were lactose intolerant.

Re: Chart: What Killed Us, Then and Now

Adam Turetzky — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:06:49 -0000

Quoting the research found here: http://www.beyondveg.com/bi...

Cancer. As Eaton et al. [1994, p. 361] note:Medical anthropologists have found little cancer in their studies of technologically primitive people, and paleopathologists believe that the prevalence of malignancy was low in the past, even when differences in population age structure are taken into account (Rowling, 1961; Hildes and Schaefer, 1984; Micozzi, 1991).Eaton et al. [1994] also analyzed the factors involved in women's reproductive cancers and developed a model that indicates that up to the age of 60, the risk of breast cancer in Western women is 100 times the risk level for preagricultural (e.g., hunter-gatherer) women.
Cancer in Africa. The famous medical missionary, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, writing in Berglas [1957], reports the following [Berglas 1957, preface]:On my arrival in Gabon, in 1913, I was astonished to encounter no cases of cancer. I saw none among the natives two hundred miles from the coast.I can not, of course, say positively there was no cancer at all, but, like other frontier doctors, I can only say that if any cases existed they must have been quite rare.
Williams [1908] reports that cancer is extremely rare among Australian aborigines and in the aboriginal peoples of Africa and also North America. (Note the date of the citation: 1908, a time when there were far more hunter-gatherers than there are today.)
Cancer among the Inuit. Stefansson [1960] describes the search of George B. Leavitt, a physician on a whaling ship, who searched for cancer among the Inuit of Canada and Alaska. It took him 49 years, from 1884 to the first confirmed case in 1933, to find cancer. (Stefansson [1960] describes a possible but unconfirmed case of cancer in 1900, and Eaton et al. [1988] describe cancer in a 500-year-old Inuit mummy.)Schaefer [1981] reports that breast cancer was virtually unknown among the Inuit in earlier times, but was one of the most common forms of malignancy by 1976.

Re: Chart: What Killed Us, Then and Now

Adam Turetzky — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:23:37 -0000

Nature doesn't work that way. In non-westernized/industrialized cultures it's almost impossible to find cancer. Species aren't evolved to naturally malfunction.

This guy spent the last part of his career researching this around the globe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

http://www.westonaprice.org...

Re: Chart: What Killed Us, Then and Now

Adam Turetzky — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:36:37 -0000

Maybe the lower cancer and heart disease has much more to do with food and diet. Vegetable oils didn't exist, plastic didn't exist, flash ripening didn't exist, sugar was something new and very expensive. Artificial flavoring didn't exist, high fructose corn syrup didn't exist, high carb low fat didn't exist. Dextrose and Xanthum gum didn't exist. Monosodium Glutamate didn't exist. Saying people just didn't live long enough to develop cancer or heart disease, as if that's a natural end to human life (it's not), is absurd.

Re: Gibson releases Sheryl Crow Southern Jumbo Special Edition

Adam Turetzky — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:42:44 -0000

I agree with DocRoss and was going to quip before I read his comment; is anyone else sick of all these instrument manufactures producing these "signature" models?

I don't want to buy and play, an instrument that's stamped as some other artists' tool. Manufacturer; fine. Icon who invented a significant part of the instrument; fine. Practically obliterating a product line with nothing but signature collectables; not fine.

Hell go look at Dean or ESP guitars home pages. It's hard to tell if they even make regular instruments anymore.

Re: http://leo.tumblr.com/post/22413581723

Adam Turetzky — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:40:05 -0000

I hope this is just a checkup and not an emergency room visit!

Re: Man Dies At "L" Station After Coming In Contact With Third Rail

Adam Turetzky — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:09:43 -0000

His twitter feed is eerily prophetic https://twitter.com/#!/zacc...

Re: Ferdinand Porsche dead at 76

Adam Turetzky — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:14:24 -0000

And Les Paul earlier in the year. This is a bad year for classic icons.

Re: AmpKit LiNK HD guitar interface for iPhone, iPad and Mac

Adam Turetzky — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:04:57 -0000

Looks nice. I wonder how it compares to the Apogee Jam? I currently have the iRig but have been looking to get something better.

Re: Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV

Adam Turetzky — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:17:33 -0000

But the police have always and still can do this physically to anyone without a warrant. And the citizen's only recourse has always been a civil suit for harassment. You think the police need a warrant to rent the apartment across the street from a suspected criminal (or just have an unmarked car with an officer in it at the end of the street) and note and photograph every coming and going? Or to follow a motorcycle club around and photograph and note where they go, etc? Or infiltrate a citizen political group? They don't.

As I've said already, I agree that this GPS issue should require a warrant. But not for the reasons it seems most commenters here believe; that the police already need a warrant for any level of surveillance on a citizen. When in fact they don't and never have.

Re: Evanston Man: Anti-Immigration Graffiti "Was Looking Out for Only the Interests of All White Americans"

Adam Turetzky — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:30:21 -0000

Agreed. It's a weak denial is what it is. But what it certainly does not say is "I was only looking out for white Americans". It's more of an attempt at saying "I didn't write that because I was only looking out for white Americans"

Re: Evanston Man: Anti-Immigration Graffiti "Was Looking Out for Only the Interests of All White Americans"

Adam Turetzky — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:58:54 -0000

While I don't condone what this man was actually saying the author of this article has completely misquoted the Northwestern Daily article and this man's statement in it and by doing so has completely altered his meaning and inserted a much different one. The quote is:

""I didn't write what I did because I was looking out for only the interests of all white Americans,""

Re: Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV

Adam Turetzky — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:14:08 -0000

Well sure it's relevant and to the point. The guy has garnered enough suspicious circumstance to not only warrant public surveillance (for which the police do not, ironically, need a warrant) but also enough probable cause that the authorities probably have already applied for and been granted a warrant to wiretap his phones.

The only real question here is; does machine based public observation require a warrant and judicial oversight? Currently in-person public observation does not. The police may follow this guy around in public 24/7 without a warrant or probable cause. It's just in this case they're using a machine to do it to his car.

Personally I do believe it should require a warrant and judicial oversight due to the ability to scale the effort beyond what is physically possible (theoretically the police could monitor the movements of everyone using this technology which would be nearly impossible to do with physical officers).

Re: Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV

Adam Turetzky — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:41:37 -0000

"It most likely involves a criminal drug investigation centered around his cousin, a Mexican citizen who fled across the border to that country a year ago and may have been involved in the drug trade as a dealer ... “He took off. I think he was fleeing. I think he committed a crime,” Greg told Wired.com ... [Greg then] bought the SUV from his cousin in June, paying cash for it to a family member ... A month later, he drove his cousin’s wife to Tijuana. Greg says he remained in Mexico a couple of days before returning to the U.S."

And he wonders why the DEA/FBI or Modesto Police might be interested in him? You bought a car from an illegal alien who might have been involved in the drug trade and fled the country and then you yourself drive the drug dealers car and the drug dealers wife to Mexico and back?

Nothing to see here, move along.

Re: 14 guitarists that influenced me

Adam Turetzky — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:48:39 -0000

I think we're almost the same age Jim and similarly influenced by the period so your list pretty much sums up mine, but a list of my earliest influences (including duplicates) would be:

1: Glenn Tipton
2: Ace Frehley
3: Ted Nugent
4: Eddie Van Halen
5: Dave Murray
6: Randy Rhodes
7: Angus Young
8: Michael Schenker
9: Matthias Jabs
10: Rik Emmett
11: Alex Lifeson
12: Brian May
13: Al Di Meola

And I would be remiss in omitting the guy who taught me how and set me on the path, Michael Angelo Batio who was my guitar teacher every Monday at 4:00 p.m. from age 11 - 14. This was way before he got that whole 2 neck guitar idea and started a couple of musical projects called Holland and Nitro.

Re: ∞ Netflix loses Starz streaming

Adam Turetzky — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:38:20 -0000

Wow, it felt like Starz was half their content. That's going to be a huge hole in their catalog now.