Why fish and wildlfe scientists hate America... (and I'm sure the same is true of canada too)

"When two public-interest groups sent a survey on scientific integrity to 1,400 scientists at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, agency administrators warned the scientists not to respond -- not even in their personal time. Now that 414 of them have defied the warnings, it is clear why the bureaucrats were nervous. More than half of the respondents reported that agency officials had reversed or withdrawn scientific conclusions in response to industry pressure. One in five said that they had been directed to withhold or alter technical information from reports, and almost half claim they were pressured to avoid making findings that might lead to greater protections for endangered species. As to this political interference, an agency spokesflack responded, "There's nothing inappropriate about people higher up the chain of command supervising the work of people below them and reaching different scientific conclusions." Uh ... there isn't?"

don't you just love it when the media actually reports the truth?

"These (decisions) should get scrutiny. That's what they pay these folks for," he said. "The question at hand is, are they doing their job properly and in accordance with the law? The answer is yes. Does everyone like it? No. But they are doing it properly."

uh, great, so as long as they're doing their job properly, it doesn't matter that endangered species are dying... awesome.

makes me think of this Martin Luther King Jr. Quote I just got e-mailed: "The Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White's Citizen's Council-er or the KKK, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who constantly say, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action".

so... let's do things properly... I mean, we can't be stepping on anyone's toes here, no sir.

ditto.

Paras charged with Iraqi murder

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARAS

pictoral representation of my eyeballs.

Crazy, I found that exact same midi-page a few weeks ago when I was researching making my own v-drums. I decided that interfacing through your own chip is too fuckin hard. I'm just gonna buy the manufactured drum-sampler unit (it only costs about $400) and then hook up my v-drums (which I'm planning to make this summer) into that. That way I can even interface through my computer. Paying $400 for the sample-box isn't so bad when you consider that buying the whole set would be more like $4000. I'm basically saving $3500 buy making the v-drums myself. What a fuckin scam.

MSG from Adrian to Taylor:

http://www.audiomulch.com/midipic/

So I was just about to post a comment about how Pitchfork announces the break-up of The Unicorns when I already broke the news to you guys like a month ago or so. So I searched "the unicorns" on here to find the post I made... turns out Eric already posted what I was just about to post, except he posted it YESTERDAY. dammit, so much for gloating! Oh well... here's the links though:

I was thinking the whyte ave one just kuz it was closest anyway.