REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS

Afghanistan's Dreams of Rock 'n Roll

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 17:45
SHORT URL:
VIEWED: 549
PAGE 1 of 1

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

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

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

NOTIFY: N   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

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.

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

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

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 1:13 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Subversive eh ?

I'm likin this already.

-F

NOTIFY: N   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 1:49 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)


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

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

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.

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 2:10 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)


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...

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 2:14 PM

DREAMTROVE


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

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 2:15 PM

DREAMTROVE

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 3:08 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)


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.

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

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

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

YOUR OPTIONS

NEW POSTS TODAY

USERPOST DATE

OTHER TOPICS

DISCUSSIONS
Khamenei, One of Most Evil People in History, is Dead
Fri, March 20, 2026 23:18 - 184 posts
In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
Fri, March 20, 2026 21:01 - 6845 posts
Midterms 2026
Fri, March 20, 2026 12:08 - 398 posts
Rep. Jasmine Crockett confirms member of her security team killed by Dallas police
Fri, March 20, 2026 10:55 - 2 posts
ASEAN, Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, the Asia-Pacific zones
Fri, March 20, 2026 10:53 - 10 posts
Putin's Russia
Fri, March 20, 2026 10:51 - 105 posts
Ghislaine Maxwell, in prison for sex trafficking, calls meeting Jeffrey Epstein the "greatest mistake of my life"
Fri, March 20, 2026 10:50 - 53 posts
Australia - unbelievable...
Fri, March 20, 2026 10:44 - 50 posts
Consider how bizarre the history of the 1940s would seem if America had attacked China in retaliation for Pearl Harbor.
Fri, March 20, 2026 10:42 - 15 posts
What the British Empire thinks about YOU
Fri, March 20, 2026 10:41 - 7 posts
Sri Lankan madness?
Fri, March 20, 2026 10:41 - 21 posts
What are our national goals? What about the international rules of the road? And who are "we", anyway?
Fri, March 20, 2026 10:39 - 59 posts
 VIEW MORE TOPICS 

FFF.NET SOCIAL