Afghanistan's Dreams of Rock 'n Roll by Niki2

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Afghanistan's Dreams of Rock 'n Roll

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 17:45
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 10:37 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Well, I think it's neat:

http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/05/afghanistans-dreams-of-roc
k/?hpt=Sbin

"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 11:40 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I wonder if I can sneak a PS2 and a copy of Guitar Hero into our next equipment drop, I'm sure the kids would love it...
*snicker*

I got a nice visual of a bunch of Talitubbies being pounded into the ground by the audio assault of several Marshall stacks kickin out White Zombies Thunderkiss 65, a tune appropriate for Afghanistan in so many ways it ain't even funny.

Now you got me wondering... their comm security sucks, pysch warfare, hmmm.
*maniac cackle*

-Frem

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 12:52 PM

DREAMTROVE

Would be nice if they played some of the music. It sounded from what you coudl hear and what they said like it was american, but there's a pretty strong regional trend in modern music which is really quite distinct.

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 12:59 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Careful with the PS2 idea, Frem. There might be some issues getting them into Afghanistan; apparently you can daisy-chain the processors together pretty easily and come up with a VERY powerful supercomputer.

I've heard a few of the metal bands coming out of Iraq recently; there have been a few shows on NPR about them. Can't remember their names, though. It didn't sound *bad*, it just sounded like kinda plain metal.

ETA: Ah-hah - found 'em. ACRASSICAUDA. Also, there's a film, "No One Knows About Persian Cats", which deals with musicians in Iraq, including metal bands and any kind of "subversive" music.

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 1:13 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Subversive eh ?

I'm likin this already.

-F

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 1:49 PM

KWICKO

Isn't the best music always at least a little bit subversive?

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 1:56 PM

DREAMTROVE

PS3, Mike, you can daisychain the PS3. Someone broke into Wall Streets super-secure stock transaction system with that trick. Maybe we should be more worried about Indian Muslims giving them a hand.

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 2:10 PM

KWICKO

Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
PS3, Mike, you can daisychain the PS3. Someone broke into Wall Streets super-secure stock transaction system with that trick. Maybe we should be more worried about Indian Muslims giving them a hand.

Fairly sure you can do it with the PS2 as well, though. The PS3's cell processor is allegedly "hack proof", and Sony has offered rewards for anyone who can hack cheats for PS3 games. So far as I know, no one has succeeded. Yet. There are always ways...

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 2:14 PM

DREAMTROVE

Perhaps I recall incorrectly, but I thought it was the PS3

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 2:15 PM

DREAMTROVE

Double post

I see both

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/us-air-force-buys-2200-playstation-
3s-to-daisy-chain-into-supercomputer-20091130/

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 3:08 PM

KWICKO

I'm not even sure it's anything unique to the PlayStation platforms, since the new cell processor is so different from the older PS2 processors. I think the key is more in the number of processors, rather than in the particular KIND of processors.

But I'm a Luddite on things like this, so that could be just whacky talk... :)

Still, there does come that unwarranted sense of "kewl" realizing that my li'l game console is coveted by the military for its processing power.

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 5:45 PM

DREAMTROVE

Mike

It's probably the bus speed, so it is somewhat connected to the platform. The game machine undoubted has a bus speed much closer to the processor speed, making it easier

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