To compose music that's interesting and expressive, the shareware and free samplers are probably going to get boring in a short time.
If you can't afford Reason & Acid, I suggest finding a used version of Cakewalk Kinetic for <$99. That's what I've used for 7 years, and it has kept me busy. There are hundreds of instruments and hundreds of effects, and they sound comparable to those in video game tracks, if not professional ones.
I hope you create some fun stuff and work your way up to Reason & Acid!
Plants inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. There is a balance among these elements in this atmosphere that automatically occurs as long as plant life is not abused. More CO2 means more plant life and more life in general.
A net decrease in plant life would increase carbon levels over the long term, as less carbon would be used by the fewer plants. Aluminum increases soil acidity which harms most plants.
Our bodies do not expel aluminum; when we inhale particulates of aluminum, they travel to the brain and stick to neurotransmitters (Alzheimer's disease) and clog the arteries (heart disease, stroke).
Isn't this plan to reflect sunlight with aluminum aerosols, basically an outline for the use of a chemical weapon to commit genocide around the globe?
Record flooding has caused authorities to close the Mississippi River at the port in Natchez because barge traffic could put more pressure on the levees.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough said the port was closed Monday, leaving two vessels waiting to head north and one waiting to go south. The U.S. economy could face a bill running into the hundreds of millions of dollars a day if the lower Mississippi River is closed to shipping for days or weeks, port officials said. It wasn't clear when the river would reopen to traffic.
First Hurricane Katrina, then the Macondo Bay oil spill, now the worst flooding in recorded history closes the river. What will it take for us to reconsider inhabiting this area so heavily?
UCSF’s Dr. Jay Levy, who co-discovered the HIV virus and is one of the most respected AIDS researchers in the world, said this case opens the door to the field of “cure research,” which is now gaining more attention.
“If you’re able to take the white cells from someone and manipulate them so they’re no longer infected, or infectable, no longer infectable by HIV, and those white cells become the whole immune system of that individual, you’ve got essentially a functional cure,” he explained.
How would a cure for HIV & AIDS impact health in the USA and abroad?
Will stem cell research secure more funding due to this development?
Fukushima Dai-Ichi had up to 1,286 tonnes of it (7,000 spent fuel rods, each weighing 183.3 kg), stored on top of the reactors for the past 40 years.
Some of the strontium-90 and cesium-137 may have decayed entirely, but this is, at minimum, three times worse than Chernobyl already.
Let's pray this does not continue for six months or longer.
And where is the International Atomic Energy Agency? They hounded Ahmadinejad for playing with nuclears on General Electric Corp.-controlled media every week. Now GE & the IAEA have suddenly lost their obsession with the dangers of nuclear energy?
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) admitted for the first time on May 15 that most of the fuel in one of its nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant had melted only about 16 hours after the March 11 earthquake struck a wide swath of northeastern Japan and triggered a devastating tsunami.
...And nothing has stopped this reactor and the other reactors melting down since the earthquake. They are still in meltdown; they have been in meltdown for 66 days.
Radioactive iodine, cesium, tritium, strontium, uranium oxide, and plutonium oxide.
The biggest difference between a criminal entering your home and an officer is that in the case of criminal there's no question as to the legality, while with an officer there is a gray area that your average citizen is unqualified to sort out.
Are police officers superior citizens?
How can consent of the governed (from which law is derived) be violated, yet the law remain unviolated?
The state governments and the federal government derive their powers from the governed citizens; therefore, anything that a government officer can do, a citizen must have been able to do only to have ceded that power to the government for the purpose of maintaining a civil order.
The United States Supreme Court has ruled in Chisholm v. Georgia that a citizen of any state in this country is a Sovereign.
Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.
In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer's entry.
"We believe ... a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence," David said. "We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest."
...
Justice Robert Rucker, a Gary native, and Justice Brent Dickson, a Hobart native, dissented from the ruling, saying the court's decision runs afoul of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
"In my view the majority sweeps with far too broad a brush by essentially telling Indiana citizens that government agents may now enter their homes illegally -- that is, without the necessity of a warrant, consent or exigent circumstances," Rucker said. "I disagree."
Rucker and Dickson suggested if the court had limited its permission for police entry to domestic violence situations they would have supported the ruling.
But Dickson said, "The wholesale abrogation of the historic right of a person to reasonably resist unlawful police entry into his dwelling is unwarranted and unnecessarily broad."
This ruling also nullifies Section 11 of Indiana's own constitution:
Section 11. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable search or seizure, shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or thing to be seized.
Do you agree that police ought to be able to enter a home with neither a warrant nor a reason?
The USA subsidizes corn syrup and gives McDonald's Corporation an exemption from the coerced healthcare law (which is effectively a subsidy).
Another problem is the shallowness of the culture here. For many folks, stress is relieved by eating, and gaining weight begets more stress via feelings of insecurity.
The coming high gas prices ought to motivate some folks to walk more often. And the higher food costs may make overeating prohibitively expensive for some.
The major obstacle is the medical industrial complex, which profits from illness and obesity. If everybody were healthy, the pharmaceutical companies would nearly go out of business, and their CEO's might be able to take only one yacht trip per month, rather than seven.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to open the Morganza Spillway to avoid sending 20 to 40 ft. of the flooding Mississippi River into New Orleans.
The opening of this floodgate would redirect the surging river to 3,000 homes in the bayou west of New Orleans, inevitably obliterating all of them.
Religion does not use inductive reasoning, and science has to use inductive reasoning to function.
Religion says, "When you do this, this occurs." For example, "When you pray, the Lord shall heal you," or, "When you ask for forgiveness, the spirit of *** shall enter your body."
This way of thinking is induction; what has happened under this particular set of circumstances in the past, shall truly continue to happen under this same particular set of circumstances in the future.
Both religion and science use induction. Science tries to be more methodical about it, not that method is any different than object where induction is involved.
You mean like mountains, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.?
I meant, "The nature of life is to reproduce," or, "The nature of predators is to seek prey." Explain what "nature" means in this context, if you please, as it is fundamental to biological science.
So you're claiming a correlation as causation, then?
I claimed evidence, supporting correlation. Never did I mention causation. I assert merely that there is better correlation between beneficial advancement and religion, than there is between beneficial advancement and science.
Take statin drugs, for example. Years ago, the pharmaceutical industry claimed before all medical programs in major American universities, that statins would serve to reduce the instances of heart disease by a significant margin.
Instead, the data shows that heart disease has, since statins were introduced, remained at the same rate as it was years ago, which is unsettling because smoking has declined precipitously in the past decade, so heart disease should have declined somewhat.
Statins ended up blocking both good cholesterol and bad cholesterol; they damaged the immune systems of those taking them, and induced heart disease, as well as Alzheimer's disease.
What evidence do you have for a lack of social achievement following public education?
An economy based on financial services, comprised mainly of fraudulent derivatives of a fiat currency.
Superficiality and decadence in advertising.
The fact that today I walked down my street with a wheelbarrow full of litter I'd just picked up, and I stopped to tip my hat to some women walking their horses, and they told their horses not to be afraid of me stopping. They felt no attraction to the opposite sex, and they lacked even a basic civic awareness.
Any schmuck can question the foundations of a field. Competence is only required to do so convincingly.
You're not convincing.
Only because the thread was closed before any expository debate could take place-- closed by you. How dare you accuse my arguments of not being convincing, for you refuse to entertain them to begin with, much like the Roman Catholic Church refused entertainment of Galileo Galilei's revolutionary discoveries. No matter, they shall find an audience in time.
Enough with this tangent. The point for this thread is that children beat video games, which cost $50 apiece. Public education costs $100,000,000 a year or something, and children have more knowledge of video games than they have skills for real life. Public schooling has failed to empower the youth. Reading an encyclopedia at home would be more productive and cost fewer social resources.
At the very least, education ought to be condensed into the top professors giving seminars over the internet. The present educational system is a burden to our society.
Blinking Spirit, it ought to be obvious that I do not lack in mathematical competence, for I have questioned the foundations of mathematics, which is something that can be done only by one who is competent-- nay, adept-- in his comprehension of the subject.
Structures, such as bridges, can indeed be built holistically. Bees & ants do it. Numbers are merely placeholders for relative measurements, anyway.
It is simply less complex conceptually to approach the subject of calculus with concept as primary and numbers as secondary, rather than vice versa. There is less ambiguity and extrapolation.
Now, do you deny that pre-teens beat video games handily?
Critical thinking leads to questioning, and ultimately abandoning, religious belief. The only time when this isn't the case is when you allow yourself to remain ignorant, also called self delusion.
Please give an example of a belief that is not based on induction, as religious belief is.
Again, why do you get to tell me that my cells all know God, and that I'm struggling to ignore them, but I can't tell you that I don't "hate" God, because you can't hate something you don't think exists (unless you're not rational).
Because you believe that "nature" exists, which is just as nebulous a concept as ***, if not moreso. What is "nature?" Show me a "nature."
The concept is an iteration along the abstraction process initiated by the ego when it desires to place itself above the Creator. Here are the levels of thought up to modern civilization:
Sentient thought
Binary thought
Relative thought
Analogous thought
Comprehensive thought
Scientific thought
Rational thought-- here's where the concept of a "nature" arises.
Do you have evidence of this as being the best way to "engender curiosity in a child", or are you pulling this from the land of make-believe?
The evidence is the abundant social achievement made throughout history in religious societies prior to the advent of systematic, coerced public education.
This is an extremely dangerous path to suggest that we take our country. It seems you would have us abandon science and embrace religion as the answer to all our questions. Do I need to explain to you why this is a bad idea?
I would like you to explain what science really is. A scientist imposes a mechanism on the subject of experiment (by controlling the dependent variable), then he proceeds to observe a mechanical result. This shows nothing about objective reality, as scientists sometimes claim it ought; rather, it demonstrates merely that mechanism can be conserved over time.
Induction is no sound basis for education, especially when it intentionally overlooks the observer's role in outcomes.
You do know that we've observed speciation happen, right? We've even replicated the result. It's not actually that hard to do through geographic segregation and multiple bottlenecks, coupled with flies having an incredible turnover rate. The problem is that being able to recreate speciation doesn't help us out much other than for the sake of doing it, which is exactly why we stopped doing it since the 90's.
I would like to point out that, merely because speciation has been observed and replicated by scientists, does not mean that speciation must be the mechanism that facilitates life on Earth.
Evolution, in the most general sense of the word, means development that occurs when all of the following are present:
1. Selective Pressure - some varieties of a thing do better than others
2. Inheritance - things have traits from the previous generation
3. Variation - things are not exact copies of the previous generation, they are somewhat different
Causation is another necessary factor in evolution; without causation, the fitness of particular varieties would lack basis to associate to their survival. A species' traits must cause its survival.
The way to realize what you want to do, is to look inside yourself and listen to your inner voice-- something public schools refuse to consider encouraging.
Find a twelve-year-old and try to teach him basic calculus in a week.
It's easy to comprehend the relations among curved lines & planes and velocities, when the concepts are presented holistically and the number system is not invoked.
Calculus, a dozen main concepts, comprises the mental equivalent of the video game "Banjo Kazooie" (Copyright 2006 Nintendo).
Certainly, you'd admit that today's pre-teen figures out how to beat video games pretty quickly?
And, by the way, may I show you my father's website, so you can cease questioning my intellectual honesty?
I don't hate gods anymore than I can hate faeries or big foot. I find it to be a large waste of time to hate things that don't exist. What I dislike is religion.
Each cell in your body knows that the Creator exists, and it takes a lot of conscious effort to resist their collective communication to your pre-frontal cortex. Whether you want to call this effort "hatred" or something else, it is a dreary feeling the upkeep of which is tiring, and it is facilitated by the public education system.
If this is something you feel you could fix in a week, there are a lot of people who would love to hear your methods.
I fear there aren't a lot of folks who want to acknowledge that the best way to engender curiosity in a child, is to begin by saying, "The Creator is in control of everything, so you do not need to learn this, but let's investigate it just for fun anyway, and see where we go."
Where we then shrug off schools and turn to the churches to become a better society, right?
"Shrug off" is too politically correct a term, I think. I want something like Prohibition in the last century, but for public education. We ought to view compulsory schooling in these acculturation centers as a clear and present danger to the public welfare, or as an institution of slavery.
EDIT: How can folks claim that the Civil War was right to have freed the slaves, but compulsory public schooling is acceptable? It's a double standard.
If you can't afford Reason & Acid, I suggest finding a used version of Cakewalk Kinetic for <$99. That's what I've used for 7 years, and it has kept me busy. There are hundreds of instruments and hundreds of effects, and they sound comparable to those in video game tracks, if not professional ones.
I hope you create some fun stuff and work your way up to Reason & Acid!
Plants inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. There is a balance among these elements in this atmosphere that automatically occurs as long as plant life is not abused. More CO2 means more plant life and more life in general.
A net decrease in plant life would increase carbon levels over the long term, as less carbon would be used by the fewer plants. Aluminum increases soil acidity which harms most plants.
Our bodies do not expel aluminum; when we inhale particulates of aluminum, they travel to the brain and stick to neurotransmitters (Alzheimer's disease) and clog the arteries (heart disease, stroke).
Isn't this plan to reflect sunlight with aluminum aerosols, basically an outline for the use of a chemical weapon to commit genocide around the globe?
First Hurricane Katrina, then the Macondo Bay oil spill, now the worst flooding in recorded history closes the river. What will it take for us to reconsider inhabiting this area so heavily?
Will stem cell research secure more funding due to this development?
Fukushima Dai-Ichi had up to 1,286 tonnes of it (7,000 spent fuel rods, each weighing 183.3 kg), stored on top of the reactors for the past 40 years.
Some of the strontium-90 and cesium-137 may have decayed entirely, but this is, at minimum, three times worse than Chernobyl already.
Let's pray this does not continue for six months or longer.
And where is the International Atomic Energy Agency? They hounded Ahmadinejad for playing with nuclears on General Electric Corp.-controlled media every week. Now GE & the IAEA have suddenly lost their obsession with the dangers of nuclear energy?
Radioactive iodine, cesium, tritium, strontium, uranium oxide, and plutonium oxide.
Discuss.
If the legal system has forfeited the presumption of innocence--
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Presumption+of+Innocence
--why ought we expect that this legal system will grant equitable redress?
Redress comes from the due process of law--
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Due+Process+of+Law
--from which THE STATE OF INDIANA CORPORATION has now absconded itself.
Are police officers superior citizens?
How can consent of the governed (from which law is derived) be violated, yet the law remain unviolated?
The state governments and the federal government derive their powers from the governed citizens; therefore, anything that a government officer can do, a citizen must have been able to do only to have ceded that power to the government for the purpose of maintaining a civil order.
The United States Supreme Court has ruled in Chisholm v. Georgia that a citizen of any state in this country is a Sovereign.
This ruling also nullifies Section 11 of Indiana's own constitution:
Do you agree that police ought to be able to enter a home with neither a warrant nor a reason?
Another problem is the shallowness of the culture here. For many folks, stress is relieved by eating, and gaining weight begets more stress via feelings of insecurity.
The coming high gas prices ought to motivate some folks to walk more often. And the higher food costs may make overeating prohibitively expensive for some.
The major obstacle is the medical industrial complex, which profits from illness and obesity. If everybody were healthy, the pharmaceutical companies would nearly go out of business, and their CEO's might be able to take only one yacht trip per month, rather than seven.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to open the Morganza Spillway to avoid sending 20 to 40 ft. of the flooding Mississippi River into New Orleans.
The opening of this floodgate would redirect the surging river to 3,000 homes in the bayou west of New Orleans, inevitably obliterating all of them.
Ought Nature be interfered with like this?
How does experimentation alter the rationalization in science?
Religion says, "When you do this, this occurs." For example, "When you pray, the Lord shall heal you," or, "When you ask for forgiveness, the spirit of *** shall enter your body."
This way of thinking is induction; what has happened under this particular set of circumstances in the past, shall truly continue to happen under this same particular set of circumstances in the future.
Both religion and science use induction. Science tries to be more methodical about it, not that method is any different than object where induction is involved.
I meant, "The nature of life is to reproduce," or, "The nature of predators is to seek prey." Explain what "nature" means in this context, if you please, as it is fundamental to biological science.
I claimed evidence, supporting correlation. Never did I mention causation. I assert merely that there is better correlation between beneficial advancement and religion, than there is between beneficial advancement and science.
Take statin drugs, for example. Years ago, the pharmaceutical industry claimed before all medical programs in major American universities, that statins would serve to reduce the instances of heart disease by a significant margin.
Instead, the data shows that heart disease has, since statins were introduced, remained at the same rate as it was years ago, which is unsettling because smoking has declined precipitously in the past decade, so heart disease should have declined somewhat.
Statins ended up blocking both good cholesterol and bad cholesterol; they damaged the immune systems of those taking them, and induced heart disease, as well as Alzheimer's disease.
An economy based on financial services, comprised mainly of fraudulent derivatives of a fiat currency.
Superficiality and decadence in advertising.
The fact that today I walked down my street with a wheelbarrow full of litter I'd just picked up, and I stopped to tip my hat to some women walking their horses, and they told their horses not to be afraid of me stopping. They felt no attraction to the opposite sex, and they lacked even a basic civic awareness.
Only because the thread was closed before any expository debate could take place-- closed by you. How dare you accuse my arguments of not being convincing, for you refuse to entertain them to begin with, much like the Roman Catholic Church refused entertainment of Galileo Galilei's revolutionary discoveries. No matter, they shall find an audience in time.
Enough with this tangent. The point for this thread is that children beat video games, which cost $50 apiece. Public education costs $100,000,000 a year or something, and children have more knowledge of video games than they have skills for real life. Public schooling has failed to empower the youth. Reading an encyclopedia at home would be more productive and cost fewer social resources.
At the very least, education ought to be condensed into the top professors giving seminars over the internet. The present educational system is a burden to our society.
Structures, such as bridges, can indeed be built holistically. Bees & ants do it. Numbers are merely placeholders for relative measurements, anyway.
It is simply less complex conceptually to approach the subject of calculus with concept as primary and numbers as secondary, rather than vice versa. There is less ambiguity and extrapolation.
Now, do you deny that pre-teens beat video games handily?
Please give an example of a belief that is not based on induction, as religious belief is.
Because you believe that "nature" exists, which is just as nebulous a concept as ***, if not moreso. What is "nature?" Show me a "nature."
The concept is an iteration along the abstraction process initiated by the ego when it desires to place itself above the Creator. Here are the levels of thought up to modern civilization:
The evidence is the abundant social achievement made throughout history in religious societies prior to the advent of systematic, coerced public education.
I would like you to explain what science really is. A scientist imposes a mechanism on the subject of experiment (by controlling the dependent variable), then he proceeds to observe a mechanical result. This shows nothing about objective reality, as scientists sometimes claim it ought; rather, it demonstrates merely that mechanism can be conserved over time.
Induction is no sound basis for education, especially when it intentionally overlooks the observer's role in outcomes.
I would like to point out that, merely because speciation has been observed and replicated by scientists, does not mean that speciation must be the mechanism that facilitates life on Earth.
Causation is another necessary factor in evolution; without causation, the fitness of particular varieties would lack basis to associate to their survival. A species' traits must cause its survival.
It's easy to comprehend the relations among curved lines & planes and velocities, when the concepts are presented holistically and the number system is not invoked.
Calculus, a dozen main concepts, comprises the mental equivalent of the video game "Banjo Kazooie" (Copyright 2006 Nintendo).
Certainly, you'd admit that today's pre-teen figures out how to beat video games pretty quickly?
And, by the way, may I show you my father's website, so you can cease questioning my intellectual honesty?
http://www.user.shentel.net/lbachman/files/cottab3/html
What does that mean, if not, "Critical thinking demands you stay away from religious belief?"
Each cell in your body knows that the Creator exists, and it takes a lot of conscious effort to resist their collective communication to your pre-frontal cortex. Whether you want to call this effort "hatred" or something else, it is a dreary feeling the upkeep of which is tiring, and it is facilitated by the public education system.
I fear there aren't a lot of folks who want to acknowledge that the best way to engender curiosity in a child, is to begin by saying, "The Creator is in control of everything, so you do not need to learn this, but let's investigate it just for fun anyway, and see where we go."
"Shrug off" is too politically correct a term, I think. I want something like Prohibition in the last century, but for public education. We ought to view compulsory schooling in these acculturation centers as a clear and present danger to the public welfare, or as an institution of slavery.
EDIT: How can folks claim that the Civil War was right to have freed the slaves, but compulsory public schooling is acceptable? It's a double standard.