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I'm driving south on 101 to the LA area. Is it worth it to take the 154 shortcut near Santa Barbara, or is that road full of slow-driving idiots. I know it's 2-lane. Or is it just faster to take 101 along the coast to SB.

Thanks

I saw this little exercise in Spin magazine back in fall of '04 (props if you can find it in an archive). The basic premise is to create a supergroup of your favorite musicians from the past and present, and describe what kind of sound you'd like to hear from the group and what sort of dynamic you think they'd likely have.

There are a few allowances and rules:

1) you can use people from past and present, and they can be dead or alive

2) the people you choose must be able to work together as a cohesive band. even if you love them all, you wouldn't put prince, jamiroquai, and michael jackson in the same band because they would clash personally, they would all kind of serve the same purpose, and the band just wouldn't work.

3) it's not concrete, but it's encouraged to at least pick a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, and a singer, and you can add onto that as necessitated by your conceptual design.

4) please don't be unimaginative and say something like "led zeppelin is my supergroup" or "the who with david gilmour instead of pete townsend." the idea is to create an original concept/sound.

So, I'm curious as to who everyone in the community would choose for their supergroup, and can you describe how they would sound and how they would work together to create your perfect band. I'll tell you mine to start off:

Guitar: John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra)

Bass: Les Claypool (Primus)

Drums: Thomas Pridgen (Mars Volta)

Vocals: Jon Anderson (Yes)

Keys: Herbie Hancock

Production/Songwriting/Sound effects/Guitar: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (Mars Volta)

So I imagine this as a largely instrumental group, a combination of prog sensibilities (long songs, focus on the album as an art form, space/fantasy concepts) and a hard funk-fusion sound akin to the song Vital Transformation by the Mahavishnu Orchestra and the bass-heave rock-out parts of a lot of Yes songs.

I feel Geddy Lee would be more appropriate than Jon Anderson if this were the only style we're going after, but I think he'd bring a certain softness and sense of dynamics that would work against the raw funk of Pridgen and Claypool.

I think all these guys are still alive so there is hope. Descrbie the concept of your band too.

Is the person we thought we were last week already dead, and we merely inherit his/her memories? Do we have a concrete identity/self?

There is no diety, so if you think there is, don't bother.

We were driving north on 1 and just as the sun was setting there was like a really fast, bright light way up in the sky that traveled out toward the sea. It left a trail like an airplane but it was wayyy faster, like a comet or a shooting star. This must have been 10 miles out and as high as an airplane.

Then we saw about 10 emergency vehicles heading south on highway 1 from Monterey and PG.

Any idea what this could have been?

My roommate was in an accident and wants to sue for "emotional damages," doctors fees, and her totaled car, which I'm against. Essentially she pulled out too far at a stop sign at a T intersection to see if anyone was coming. The car that was coming didn't see her in time and clipped the front of the car, spinning her around a bit. The other people were okay, my roommate went to the doctor's office with a headache and got some pain meds with instructions to return if it persists. She maintains she almost got killed (this is in a residential neighborhood and the speed limit is at most 35, AND she was most likely at fault), and she'll need psychological help to move on with her life. She's forever "emotionally traumatized" and told me she wants to sue for $100,000 or more to this young couple that may not have been paying the best attention, but definitely wasn't majority at fault.

In any case, any civil suit will rely on who is at-fault. This is in California by the way. The other driver didn't have a stop sign so they had the right of way, she's just a really bad driver and moved too far out into the roadway.

So I'm wondering who's at fault, and what the results of such a seemingly-stupid lawsuit could entail. Thank you.

I'd like to have Milkdrop 2 (the great winamp visualization program) to respond not to a music file but to something coming either from youtube or maybe even from an audio input like a microphone. is it possible for winamp to handle an input like this (perhaps via a general reading of whatever sound is coming out of the computer), and then have milkdrop react in the same way it would to an mp3 file.

difficult question i know. thanks for any help.

I have two output/headphone jacks on my laptop. I'm wondering if I can separate the left channel and send that through one jack and the right through the other. This is for DJing purposes. The computer came with IDT Audio control panel. Any insight would be great.

I saw this little exercise in Spin magazine back in fall of '04 (props if you can find it in an archive). The basic premise is to create a supergroup of your favorite musicians from the past and present, and describe what kind of sound you'd like to hear from the group and what sort of dynamic you think they'd likely have.

There are a few allowances and rules:

1) you can use people from past and present, and they can be dead or alive

2) the people you choose must be able to work together as a cohesive band. even if you love them all, you wouldn't put prince, jamiroquai, and michael jackson in the same band because they would clash personally, they would all kind of serve the same purpose, and the band just wouldn't work.

3) it's not concrete, but it's encouraged to at least pick a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, and a singer, and you can add onto that as necessitated by your conceptual design.

4) please don't be unimaginative and say something like "led zeppelin is my supergroup" or "the who with david gilmour instead of pete townsend." the idea is to create an original concept/sound.

So, I'm curious as to who everyone in the community would choose for their supergroup, and can you describe how they would sound and how they would work together to create your perfect band. I'll tell you mine to start off:

Guitar: John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra)

Bass: Les Claypool (Primus)

Drums: Thomas Pridgen (Mars Volta)

Vocals: Jon Anderson (Yes)

Keys: Herbie Hancock

Production/Songwriting/Sound effects/Guitar: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (Mars Volta)

So I imagine this as a largely instrumental group, a combination of prog sensibilities (long songs, focus on the album as an art form, space/fantasy concepts) and a hard funk-fusion sound akin to the song Vital Transformation by the Mahavishnu Orchestra and the bass-heave rock-out parts of a lot of Yes songs.

I feel Geddy Lee would be more appropriate than Jon Anderson if this were the only style we're going after, but I think he'd bring a certain softness and sense of dynamics that would work against the raw funk of Pridgen and Claypool.

I think all these guys are still alive so there is hope!!!

In California, it's like these people are oblivious to common courtesy -- get out of the left lane on the freeway unless you're passing, you're causing a dangerous situation when someone changes (sometimes many) lanes to get around you, and disrupting the flow of traffic.

So I've tried flashing brights, turning on my left turn signal, tailgating, honking...I've even seen a sign you put on the top of your windshield that says Move Over if you look at it in a mirror (I would never get that, it's just awesome). So my question is how do you typically get these idiots out of the left lane, and is there an appropriate way that is universally accepted?

This is my biggest pet peeve...it's like walking down a hallway really slowly and not letting anyone pass.

I'm in my 3rd semester now and I'm interested in traveling to the Middle East eventually. I know there are big differences in colloquial from Modern Standard Arabic, including fewer verb conjugations, lack of the dual tense, fewer ways to negate, tendency to begin the sentence with a subject rather than a verb, lack of voweling, etc.

I'm wondering if there is anything else I should know about...are most of the actual words different, for instance? If I go around speaking fus-ha will that sound extremely weird (I'm obviously not Arab in appearance). How difficult is it to learn, say, Egyptian vs. Levantine with a basic grounding in MSA?

Thanks in advance.

This price is flexible, but not too flexible. I'd like to find the best laptop I can get for this amount of money...something that will be quite good now and still be at least usable in 5 years.

I don't play processor-taxing games, but I do video editing, sound recording and editing, and I tend to just do a lot of tasks at the same time.

The Dell Studio with upgrades seems like the best bet right now. Can anyone offer some advice?

I doubt anyone knows, this song is cool and I was just wondering. It's off Eazy-Duz-It by the way.

If Genesis 1-11 is viewed primarily as an oral tradition rather than actual history (which I believe most scholars would agree with), how can we corroborate the events that happen in the rest of the Torah?

How can we even prove that people like Isaiah, Daniel, Ezra, and the other Old Testament "prophets" even existed, or if their books were even written at one time by one person, without the original documents? To construct the current Old Testament, aren't we really just going on bad Greek translations made 3-4 centuries after the events happened?

We of course have corroborating documents like the Dead Sea Scrolls, but those are dated using dreaded carbon-14 data (which is of course only accurate when proving the Judeo-Christian tradition).

So basically, do we have a definitive chronology of the Old Testament writings, whether they were written by single authors and not changed in translation later on?

Also (kind of unrelated), are there any specific and accurately-dated "prophecies" in the OT that you find compelling. I mean, Isaiah 52-53 supposedly describes Jesus, but it really could descibe anyone delivering a captive people from dominance. And who's to say it wasn't a self-fulfilling prophecy (Jesus took on the characteristics prophecized in old writings to be more effective), or one that was amended at a later date?

I'm an atheist, but open minded.

Thanks in advance for any answer you can give me.

I'm an atheist, but I have been told of a number of quite specific prophecies that were made in the Old Testament that seem to have come true. For instance, the prediction of the consolidation of the nation of Israel in May 1948 in Ezekiel and Leviticus (explained very well here:)

http://www.pytlik.com/observe/deliverus/timetv-03....

So the question is, what are some other compelling biblical prophecies with EMPIRICALLY VERIFIABLE and SPECIFIC predictions.

More importantly, why do Christians seem to have the message of "let me show you how great god is"--as if that's some justification to believe--before presenting someone with good historical evidence?

It seems like airlines like Mexicana have to add 70% of the ticket price in taxes. So a $350 ticket bought from the US would cost $750 with taxes and surcharges.

Why is that? (does it have anything to do with the recent privatization of the industry?)

Are the Mexican authorities retarded for making such a high tax? Do they not want people to fly on their airlines?

Is there a way to get around paying such high taxes?

In 06 I was Flavor Flav, with a giant glow in the dark clock, viking hat, glasses, and I even went in blackface (lol).

In 07 I was the Hamburglar, with the hat, mask, cape, jailbird costume, burger tie, and mcdonalds cup for my beer.

I'm going out to some clubs this friday, wondering what would be a good costume. I can't pull off anything skimpy unless it was designed to show off my beer gut in a hilarious way. I was thinking about being Billy Mays, the really loud guy with the neckbeard from the OxyClean infomercials. Or the Shamwow guy with the head microphone and lame hair.

I'm going for semi-recongnizable cultural references (nothing cliche like Obama or Joker) Any other unique ideas?

What is the purpose of each, and how are they different?

How effective are they?

Why can't this be handled under one organization?

What is the likelyhood of a Bretton Woods II, and will these organizations survive?

What sort of organization do economists, politicians, and the public think should regulate international trade...will it be a more European-looking system, and if so, what does the EU have to offer to America in exchange for adopting its policies as a new worldwide model?

While the dollar remain the reserve currency?

I don't know a whole lot about macroeconomics, but I'm interested in the geopolitical implications of restructuring the economic world order. Thanks!

How do dating techniques (like carbon 14 and potassium-argon dating) work and how accurate are they?

Also, how much of the evolutionary history can we fill in, and is this based on one or two samples per Era or 100-200 or whatever.

Thanks

He must have been subconsciously anxious after not eating, and sitting under a tree for 49 days. I mean, outside of being a good person, really the only characteristic of "enlightenment" seems to be dissociation with emotion, desire, and the Self. Like you're watching life from afar, and actions come naturally and without a sense of personality and attachment. That sounds like an ancient description of depersonalization and depression to me, both symptoms of anxiety disorder.