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  4. recommended: lower u.s. drunk driving threshold

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    Drunk drivers...by the time they're tested and still are considred legally drunk.....they really shouldn't be driving from the start.

    That's keeping in mind we're talking about a single drink between .08 and .05 no matter how obese anyone happens to be and they're not binge drinking.

    I am not defending drunk drivers. Nobody should get behind the wheel if they are drunk. Period.

    I am, however, saying consumers need to take personal responsibility for their own actions. Further, restaurants and pubs have a right to do business in this country. Alcohol is a legal beverage. Hence, the government will only deter business, not drinking. People can do that at home, too.

    A drunk will still drink irrespective of any laws and then get behind the wheel. This law is not for them.

    The 0.05 level now cuts into the population of responsible drinkers and that, my friend, is my problem with it.

    This has nothing to do with "personal responsibility." Not if that person is driving and endangering others by their actions.

  6. After two weeks of denials, Burger King admits...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    Just out of idle curiosity, when was the last time you eat a hamburger at a hamburger or fast food 'joint' ?

    Try as I might I cannot remember, I think it might have been a ' Burger King' in Sheffield about three years ago.

    Half of it went in the bin.

    Do In'n'Out or Five Guys count?

    God, I hope so!

    While I have no love for McD's burgers, I do have a soft spot for Carl's western bacon cheeseburger - my fast food burger of choice (from a national chain). .

  9. Lance Armstrong

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    Something I wonder about, not just with Armstrong, but with athletes in general - if everybody's juiced, then nobody's juiced, right? More or less.

    I know, personal honor and honest endeavor and all that, but...tell it to Wall Street, tell it to Main Street, tell it to everybody who knows good and goddamned well that cheating sucks and destroys your soul, but unless and until you get caught, it also puts money in your bank, prestige on your profile, and power in your aura. What's a little lost soul relative to all THAT?

    Tell that, and also that very, very few cheaters who get caught actually get outright ruined by it. Those who are are more often than not plagued by dumbness more than by the cheating impulse. For everybody else, they expeirince setbacks of one degree or another, but keep going.

    Cheaters, the odds are in your favor over the long haul. Definitely.

    But fuck you anyway.

    Hey, you don't have to convince me! I've been saying for years now that an all-juiced Olympics would be loads of fun!

  12. Sony Issues Bob Dylan CDs to Extend Copyright

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    In the Dylan case, much of the previously unreleased stuff has been available for decades on unofficial bootlegs... and Dylan has pretty much looked the other way at fans who have traded (and let's face it, sold) it over the years. By pressing only 100 "real" copies, it seems clear they've also accepted that fans would be downloading and trading this material. Sure, it's a legal move to retain copyright - and more power to them for that - but also (imo) a tacit acknowledgement that the outtakes are of limited value except to the most die-hard fans. They want to keep shady record labels from profiting from these, but not necessarily fans from hearing them. I'm sure it's a compromise of sorts as what label wants to just "give stuff away," but it also suggests that they're well aware of the real life implications of their actions.

    Or what Jim said... ;)

  15. Real Gone Music: Some new BN reissues!

    in Re-issues

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    FWIW, Gene Harris Of The Three Sounds is the last listenable BN he recorded. Not great but not gaak-invoking either.

    So sayeth the Gene Harris Fanatic.

    What about the next one, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow? I have never been able to find that one in the blogosphere, but it looks promising on paper. According to Lord, it is a trio only, recorded in Detroit, and they do tunes like On Green Dolphin Street, Love For Sale, After Hours and Li'l Darlin'. It is coming out in Japan in March, so I have been thinking of getting it.

    I have heard most of Gene Harris's subsequent 1974-77 output, and it is indeed 70s Blue Note at its worst, but I had some hopes for the 1973 album.

    Y, T & T is more of a mixed bag, imo, then Of the Three Sounds. The title is highly apt as there are "Yesterday" tracks which aren't as great as the original trio but still good, and then there are "Today" and "Tomorrow" tracks that are putrid. For me, that is.

    I actually like (most of) YT&T and I think even included one track on one of my blindfold test discs years ago. Dan's right, though, as it's real hit or miss. I think we would have seen this released earlier if it could have fit on one CD (it's a 2-fer LP), but it runs just over 80 minutes iirc and would have had a hard time selling domestically at a 2-CD price point.

  16. Bob Dylan's "Copyright Extension Collection, vol. 1"

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by RDK

    [link deleted]

    Supposedly only 100 sets made and sold, resulting (not unexpectedly) in this...

    http://www.ebay.com/...=item25792a1b40

    Given Dylan, I can't help but think he's expecting his fans to simply download it. But I'm wondering what the label's "bigger picture" might be. Preserving their rights while at the same time distributing the stuff "unofficially?" (They'd be terribly naive not to think that doing this like this wouldn't result in fans simply downloading it freely.)

    Sorry - didn't realize the above article included download links. This isn't as succinct, but more info here...

    http://www.imwan.com...t=82181&start=0

  21. Dave Brubeck - RIP

    in Artists

    Posted

    He was the kind of you you just figured was going to live forever...seemed to be blessed like that.

    I've been up and down and back and forth with his musics, but what always comes through is that this was a good, decent man, not at all fooled or trapped by his success. If only for that,, Brubeck FTW.

    RIP, and thanks.

    Indeed. The fact that he was married for 70 years - and in the profession he was in - says an awful lot about the man.

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