Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to Matthew Poole,
"There’s no clear consensus within the supreme members of the Western intelligence community that Huawei equipment is a viable threat to national security, and we are a small, poor country with limited funds. If it’s good enough for the Brits it’s good enough for us."
It’s hardly just Britain. They’re big in Canada and have 31 local subsidiaries in Europe.
And they now have 1000+ employees in the US, where they’re active in the major standards groups, a member of various local chambers of commerce and the like.
They’re also able to put this on their corporate brag sheet:
• Ranked the fifth most innovative company in the world by Fast Company magazine (Feb 2010)
• Received the 2009 IEEE Standards Association Corporate Award (2009)
• Named by BusinessWeek as one of the world’s most influential companies (Dec 2008)
• Listed as one of the World’s Most Respected Companies compiled by The Reputation Institute and published by Forbes magazine (May 2007)The idea that this is some pariah company is just unsustainable.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
To my horror it was this song by Cat Stevens.
And it was news to me that it's his composition. Dude must have some publishing income!
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to BenWilson,
OK, you got me. Not everything that we hate was once good. There's no moment of vulnerability when such a song would have ever had me tapping my feet. Ironic.
Heh. I'm totally okay with 'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing'. It's a good little pop song.
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I still have nightmares about the music played – at great volume – by a group of hippies camped near us at Glastonbury one year. I think it must have been bad early 70s British folk music.
We were lying in the dark trying to get a little sleep before morning, and they were playing this dreck. I think everyone in range pissed themselves laughing at one point when a song ended and an anonymous camper yelled:
“THAT WAS FUCKIN’ SHIT!”
Eventually, I went over and turned down their PA, which was a bizarre experience. They were all tripping so hard they didn’t actually seem to be able to see or hear me, so I just walked over, turned it right down and went back to bed. It took them a good half an hour to manage to turn it back up again …
Had a similar experience at a UK Womad one year, just Fiona and me in a tiny tent, but the music was the worst reggae I have ever heard. I don't know who the "artist" was, but I do remember one particular chorus went:
She took me to her mountaaaain
And showed me her valleeeeAlthough mere text does not really convey its comical awfulness.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Tom Beard,
There have been times in my life when I'd have been tempted to answer "anything with guitars", but that would rule out New Order. What I really can't stand is rawk, especially grunge: sweaty AND angsty is a particularly grating combination.
Loathe Pearl Jam, love Nirvana, just don't get LA hair metal at all. And Guns 'n' Roses had, like one good song.
#fightin'words
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
The core difference between men and women is encapsulated in your comment. Or maybe it's this: I love it, my partner loathes it:
As I noted somewhere else recently, I once got busted playing 'Search for the Hero' on bFM at, like, 8am on Boxing Day. Caller was enraged at my slipping that one in.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
This is sososo hideous it made Grease preferable at the time
Awww, c'mon. I don't own the first Meat Loaf album but it's a classic in its way. Otoh, Steinman has a lot to answer for for inventing Wagnerian pop.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Shaun Lott,
On the subject of 'Phantom', it seems worth to quote the final lines from Roger Waters' 'It's a miracle.
That is awesome.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
This is a so bad it's bad thread right? I'm tempted to put in some 'so bad it's goods'.
It's not meant to be a "so bad it's good" thread. It's a "so bad I want to self-harm" thread. But, hey, since when have PA threads kept rigorously to topic?
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
How do you do the long url?
Either copy and paste it from the address window in your browser, or click "Share" then choose "Long Link" in the little Options menu and copy and paste that.