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I prefer not to have high expectations about almost anything. It's better to have pleasant surprises than bitter dissapointments. Three dissapointments i can recall from the previous years are Back To Space, The Inner Shift and Unearthly.

Many "normal" people cannot discern house from ambientrance or don't appreciate music or listen to Beyonce, Cyrus etc.. very "normal".. Well, i got hooked on the first era in my teenage, and i can't see 2004-2007 other than an effort, sometimes in the original spirit, other times divergent. I guess someone that began with the full-on rise will feel that as a golden period.

More or less, you need to search for good releases or for tracks to catch your attention. All in all, i feel both hot & cold for the new scene, mostly depending on the sound & the creativity, but also depending on the mood.

Whoa! You're gone too far and it's not even the other music's section. Jazz/funk or somethin? Wellplayed, good skills, but not very attracted by the theme. I'll give a 6 out of 10 trying to rate it from a jazzy point of view.

This one found here was quite caustic! *translates to something like: It takes all kinds to make a world.

I think the forum misses a thread about quotes, dictums, aphorisms and morals. Quotes of famous writers, poets, gurus, thinkers, scientists, everyday people, or this forum's members. Quotes about life, feelings, reason, reflections, critique, sarcasm, humor, beliefs, metaphysics, science etc.. Wisdom of everyday life & teachings/lessons learned. Criticise, disagree, argument. Give your lights to the others!

I can think of two options available here. First option is to convert your CDs with EAC enabling the "freedb" information. The second one is with the help of the "Discogs Tagger" component using Foobar2000 to make the convertion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6mW5hQOiiI I strongly doubt that the body is still alive, atleast most of the body functions and the vital ones, but i wonder if there is any support or state of conciousness, awareness, thinking, feeling, in connection to the soul of this person/monk. Cases of mummifications by natural causes can be also found elsewhere around the globe. Unfortunately, the corpse hasn't been found in it's original position & place, which would allowed the scientists to study the environmental conditions and come close to the causes of the mummification of this monk. Still, i think, other examples of (naturally or technically) mummified buddhist monks' bodies exist in Asia.

I'm socialist by conscience, but not in an economist/class perspective. My socialist concern derives from cultural/spiritual values. For me the main substances of democracy (or of the republic) have to do with the idea of an organized society upon the principles/values of dignity, quality, high spirit and respect for these principles and for the phenomenon of life. A great leap from the jungle condition to an urbane & humanitarian standard of life. Plus, the virtues which are the essential expressions of such perception and pillars of this standard, a sine qua non necessity. Decency, concern, fairness, studiousness, dialectic, diligence, reliability, well, these can sound good and highly acceptable, even kind-hearted, but in real life such value-driven deeds, except that require a human weaknessess' overcome, constant effort and character forging, can put you into alot of trouble and make you unpleasant. In other words, republicanism or democratic attitude flow from qualities of character. Veracity, courage, modesty, honesty, sedateness, pride (which is dignity + high spirit, not macho attitude). These principles' cultivation is what a serious republic should have as a priority. Because Rights come from Obligations. This is a rule that applies to everything, directly or indirectly, this is a law of reality. Where this isn't followed, there's a state of privileges. And this is what freedom abuse is all about. And here is where there's a common place ' many speak for democracy, rights, freedoms or socialism but how many really mean it and prove it with their actions and their life-stance? What i'm talking here has nothing to do with public relations and savoir vivre, cheery attitude and shiny smiles. Many people haven't or can't understand that herd/crowd mentality and easiness isn't republicanism or culture. Humans are not born equal in spirit and perceptive intelligence. No one is born a wise superhero, but what makes the difference is the volition to learn and evolve, an inner impulse to discover what is beyond the veil of impermanence, unseen laws of nature and truths of life, to ascend from the mud of temporariness and perishability. It's a difference of perceptiveness on the importance of how every man has responsibilities towards the ground & the soil that sustains him, the flora & the fauna that environs & born him, the water & the food that feeds him, the civilization & the culture as a mother & a principle' that the stars, the suns, the skies, the seas, the mountains, the rivers, the plants, the animals, the other people and the societies were not made for anyone's luxury, creed, vanity or amusement. Some have this volition and sensitivity alot, others have it lesser, but some don't have it while others have a negative intention from the beginning. The more this perceptive intelligence lacks, the bigger the degree of selfishness is, worse the blindess or the vice is. This lack is manifold, some are bold but unjust, others are temperate but thoughtless and others are thinking but amoralist. Irresponsibility, creed, arrogance, cretinism, viciousness, duplicity, demagoguery, amoralism and sybaritism. As lower as it goes the more nightmarish becomes to many, the more mazy to others. Some would feel or be imprisoned, but some others see this as a necessary evil or even an amusing way of life. And here's the major problem. When people immature or with "low spirit", with low quality of character or a very materialist perception of life come to positions of a lesser or greater responsibility in politics or economy, generally in the society's function, then corruption or decay is a matter of time. But the worse, institutions loose their effect, their height and perfectness. And this happens more easily when the institutions are not build on and orientated towards cultural/spiritual values. The meeting of positive virtues with success in every aspect of life is an unfailing criterion of quality for civilizations. Without the primacy of positive virtues nothing can stand or exist, whatever, socialism, democracy, republic, society, culture.. you name it, nothing. Freedom in what matters the development of personality, research and artistic/creative expression is respectfull and important, but when it comes to economy and private enterprise/enterprising leads then these have to be submitted to a culture and its political instrument, the republic, not unrestrained but for contributing to the wellness of the general quality of life and the general good of life. Technique or technical knowledge and economy remain nothing more than tools as much as useful or needful can be. And a tool can be as much as destructive as creative. It depends on the hands that hold the tools. So, it can't work fairly if it isn't culturally driven. The moralization of the best self-interest hunting and the idealization of antagonism is ridiculous and philosophically thoughtless and has eventually led to "elitism" and "social darwinism". The so called "free market" has to be redefined by strict rules and restrictions in size & extent so to be truely free (which means pluralist) and civilized, and not end in a pyramidical oligopolian asphyxiation. The "big heads" among the international community seems to neglect the truth that resources are not unlimited and consequences-free in social & environmental terms, that the earth is a small planet and human life impermanent. Therefore, i disagree with liberal capitalism's camouflaged amoralism. The super liberal market hasn't relied culturally on nothing more than the lifestyle's superficiality, public relations' fakeness and gossip subculture's paranoia we have been fed by the media so much, a manically distorted reality based on hedonism & luxury pursuit. Man is not a static item in need of technical tutoring to gain freedom (more access) to the markets to find self-realization. Technical tutoring, sophistication of transaction, image making, all these do not make man essentially advanced. Humans are not robots and blind/lifestyle driven consumerism is not of essential character and doesn't grant substantialness. Life is not a game or gamble because it's ridden by uncertainty and tragicalness and oftenly ends unhappilly, life looks more like a difficult school and a long rough uphill path in the fog. Although, i distance myself from chauvinism and prefer to have a more cultural consciousness (indo-european spirituality/romanticism), i'm also opposed against homogenization or ethnocide policies (like the one in Tibet) and always find myself a friend of tribal/traditionalist cultures and ethnopluralism. People come together through culture and arts, not by force, wealth or obsessions. Arts, nature-loving, athletics, science, philosophy, this is what is essential in life. And this is what i love about the traditionalist aspect, that what values in life and what is perceived as accomplishment is not commercial success or accumulation of wealth, but the expanding of conciousness by understanding Nature, its essence and its mysteries, by searching the first causes of the cosmos and existance and its evolution, by identifying man's possibilities and responsibilities, by advancing fair manners and noble way of living, by perfecting arts and literature, by guidance through the spirit's transformations. And why? Why all these? Because mortal life, life on earth, is only a state of existance. Furthermore, existance is not random, pointless, nonsense, or even worse perceived as a soulless machine subject to human arbitrariness and each being's existance is a part of this larger existance, of a self-conscious or an impersonal/collective conscious nature ' of nature, light, gaia, cosmic soul, universal mind...

A beautiful film of the old pre-occupation Tibet.

Is there any way to keep the integrity of the digital files perfect beyond the usual verification like sfv file offers (simple file verification)? Are mp3s doomed to corruption or data alteration in time?

The world cannot be yours, never. Birth and death, fusion and dissolution, creation and decay, power and friction. Excellent is the one that understands it and respects this order.

None. I think none at all in this category. To ignore in this case is better.

Impossible to give only 3 Nova Albedo Fahrenheit Projects (plenty of tracks) H.U.V.A. Network Distances Hol Baumann Human Hybrid Leisureland Scroll Slide Solar Fields Extended Solar Fields EarthShine Asura Life² Cell Hanging Masses