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[TMac3000]

Enya

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I wonder, are there any genuine antiviruses left these days?

Linux

 

[Cras]

The Beatles are from the past, they are not around anymore, thus music was better in the past.

 

[Urwumpe]

The Beatles are from the past, they are not around anymore, thus music was better in the past.

the Music by the Beatles was better in the past. Give the world a few years and Ringo Starr might be the only Beatle alive.

 

[MattBaker]

As somebody whose music taste is pretty limited to "some orchestral music you can have on in the background as white noise"...does this mean I'm nostalgic for the 1800s?:lol:

 

[Cras]

the Music by the Beatles was better in the past. Give the world a few years and Ringo Starr might be the only Beatle alive.

Well it seems the Beatles are dying off in order of talent, so as long as Ringo is still around 'Sir Paul' has nothing to worry about....

 

[Izack]

I'm tired of the attitude that everything today is bad and everything in the past was better.

I was griping about popular music. Obviously there are great and terrible examples of all eras of music. The stuff that won awards in the 70s is rather different than our idea of the great music of the 70s. That situation is much worse today. The popular music scene is more popular than music. The industrialisation of music which started in the previous century is at a more advanced stage now, in my humble opinion.

Linux

Linux is an antivirus? :idk:

 

[Mojave]

I'm tired of the attitude that everything today is bad and everything in the past was better.

Well, we landed men on the moon and launched space shuttles in the past, and now we do neither.

I think I'm done here.

 

[Andy44]

Well it seems the Beatles are dying off in order of talent, so as long as Ringo is still around 'Sir Paul' has nothing to worry about....

I know it's fun to make fun of Ringo, but the fact is that in an age before click tracks and drum triggers Ringo was and is an absolutely solid drummer with almost metronomic timing who is always right where he needs to be. Sure his songwriting wasn't on par with Lennon and Maca, but it's still better than most forgotten "stars", and I actually like his singing voice.

I mean, come on, the guy is a frickin' Beatle, there's no way he isn't good.

That said, I gotta post this:

 

[C3PO]

One of the factors in music taste that most people overlook is that the situation and company means as much, if not more than the music. It's similar to food in that way. That's why teenagers seldom like their parent's favourite music, unless they both play an instrument.

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Agreed! The main reason Ringo Starr isn't counted as a songwriter is mainly that he was in a band with one of the most influential composer duo in the 20'th century.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Linux is an antivirus? :idk:

Perhaps better known as, "so difficult to set up software across all distributions, virus writers probably dont even bother" :lol:

 

[MattBaker]

Well, we landed men on the moon and launched space shuttles in the past, and now we do neither.

And today you can have a double lung transplant and other cool medicine stuff which will frankly impact lives much more postively than if Neil Armstrong hops around on the moon for a few hours.

Nothing against Neil Armstrong or spaceflight, but medicine will always impact more people and while we might have regressed in terms of spaceflight achievements (which I disagree with too) medicine now versus medicine 40 years ago is a clear case.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

The popular music scene is more popular than music. The industrialisation of music which started in the previous century is at a more advanced stage now, in my humble opinion.

Yeah, I really started noticing it with the Stock Aitken and Waterman "production line" we were bombarded with back in those days, when the "no one is indispensable" business philosophy was introduced to music; they just needed a face or a "temporary icon" that would continue to make them money, not any real talent. It was about the same time I stopped listening to mainstream myself. Sure, it must have been going on before that, to an extent, but never before so blatantly obvious as with this united trio. I feel so, at any rate. No apologies to those who might happen to like SAW productions, by the way. It sucked then and still does, in my opinion.

So am I, but I understand it.

There is plenty of good music, but it's not in the mainstream anymore. Radio rock is all uninspiring rock with no real vocal hooks or catchy riffs, lots of heaviness but no substance. Avenged Sevenfold and bands of that like are quite boring to me. And pop music is now a bunch of girls who all sound similar, sing about the same inane stuff, and use the same software to make up their forgettable dance-beat backing tracks.

(...)

But there is a lot of really good music out there; you find it around the internet and if you pay attention to the live music scene. Whatever it is you like personally, it's out there and it's only a few keystrokes away.

I can but only completely agree with that post. There is a lot of good stuff going on, from "revivals" of older styles, like psychedelic, to new genres no one hears about, much, as with martial industrial. I ignore any implications or inuendos therein of bygone political doctrines, underground movement support, "illegal" practices, and etcetera, which PC is attempting to deem NSFW, so to speak, regarding these productions. It is part of the hype to keep some artists out of the lucrative side of the "business" if they don't join the band wagon, far as I can see. Yeah, sure, that in itself is still a bit of a business, by the very fact that these "indies" and "alternates" do get to be published, but it is certainly much more of a sideline business by comparison. I am not interested in all that, anyway.

Oh yeah, there's a song describing "all that", now that I come to comtemplating it ...

 

[Linguofreak]

Well, we landed men on the moon and launched space shuttles in the past, and now we do neither.

I think I'm done here.

The first is a step backwards, the second is a step forwards, and frankly, the fact that we once launched space shuttles is likely a large contributing factor to why we do not currently land men on the moon.

 

[Mojave]

And today you can have a double lung transplant and other cool medicine stuff which will frankly impact lives much more postively than if Neil Armstrong hops around on the moon for a few hours.

Nothing against Neil Armstrong or spaceflight, but medicine will always impact more people and while we might have regressed in terms of spaceflight achievements (which I disagree with too) medicine now versus medicine 40 years ago is a clear case.

The first is a step backwards, the second is a step forwards, and frankly, the fact that we once launched space shuttles is likely a large contributing factor to why we do not currently land men on the moon.

T'was a joke, guys.

Wasn't meant to be read so deeply into. Of course we're better off today, that's not even a debatable issue. I was just having fun with the original post.

 

[Cras]

I know it's fun to make fun of Ringo, but the fact is that in an age before click tracks and drum triggers Ringo was and is an absolutely solid drummer with almost metronomic timing who is always right where he needs to be. Sure his songwriting wasn't on par with Lennon and Maca, but it's still better than most forgotten "stars", and I actually like his singing voice.

I mean, come on, the guy is a frickin' Beatle, there's no way he isn't good.

That said, I gotta post this:

Dont read me wrong, I love Ringo. I will take Octopuses Garden over Maxwells Silver Hammer, among other McCartney songs, anyday of the week.

And love the meme. Pretty much how he treated George Harrison during the Get Back Sessions and Abbey Road.

 

[Artlav]

Perhaps better known as, "so difficult to set up software across all distributions, virus writers probably dont even bother" :lol:

Don't forget about Wine.
It can run a lot of consumer grade "viruses".

 

[MattBaker]

Maxwells Silver Hammer

The prime counter-argument of "XYZ makes our youth violent!" I mean, that dude murdered his girlfriend, his teacher and a judge in that song, you can't get more explicit than that, can you?

 

[TMac3000]

Linux is an antivirus? :idk:

No...but you don't need anti-virus software if you have it, which is just as good

 

[Urwumpe]

No...but you don't need anti-virus software if you have it, which is just as good

Blind faith is no replacement for proper maintenance.

You have a lot of malware targeting Linux systems - that's a fact. Just ignoring the threat is not helpful at all... Linux and other Unix-like systems are just well-protected, not immune.

Especially: For being harmful, a malware does not need root-access. There are quite many examples of user space attacks.

 

[kamaz]

And pop music is now a bunch of girls who all sound similar, sing about the same inane stuff, and use the same software to make up their forgettable dance-beat backing tracks.

It's worse than that -- the mainstream music industry is actively destroying talent. It has managed to take a very talented Quebecois jazz singer

singing exactly like another pop star

Despite the fact that the latter is 20 years younger and from Barbados, so you'd expect some difference in style just on just that. But - no. A pop singer nowadays is completely devoid of both their individuality and cultural heritage. It's all the same stuff, formatted to appeal to the lowest common denominator worldwide.

Meanwhile, the metal scene thrives on cultural diversity: