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What happens when the sheep that we inject with human genetic material gains our intelligence and level on sentience? What happens when it gets feelings and can learn? What happens when it becomes as smart as us? Is it still alright for us to wantonly slaughter it? And yeah... with so many animal viruses popping up nowadays I think we should proceed with caution. My money is on synthetics rather than cloned stuff - if it breaks, put in a new one.

If Snake can't do it, then GOD HELP US. It is a possibility that this could spark a war. So often in history a small event such as this sparks a huge debate over territorial boundaries and jurisdiction, and one aggressive side sees the need to go to war to resolve the dispute.

HA! I don't even like System of a Down but HOLY JESUS is that terrible. The pictures make it even funnier though. I'll see your Avril and raise you with a more difficult song to play:

Led Zeppelin shoplifted so many melodies and riffs from blues bands of yesteryear it's not funny. Jimi Hendrix is not really brilliant, he's more groundbreaking. Equate it to the Ramones - one of the least-talented bands of all time, and yet the most revered of the genre. It's because they were first. That said, Jimi's Fuzzface sound is awesome! Either way, I say... Buck Dharma! Or Ritchie Blackmore.

Self-teaching works if you're serious about everything. As in, you ask people relevant questions and are playing because you want to, not for girls, not so you can play the solo to Seek and Destroy and impress your friends, and not so that you can become rich and famous. And ESPECIALLY not so you can post stupid pictures of you and your guitar on Myspace. If you are truly serious and self-motivated about things, then you can teach yourself with ease, so long as you have friends that you can ask about stuff (and so they can check you on your technique). I've come fairly far for somebody that's been playing for about two and a half months, especially as compared to many of my friends. One of them has been playing with lessons for a year and four months, and he can't hold a decent rhythm, doesn't know any scales, can't tune by ear, and strums so inconsistently it's not funny. In short, if you are truly motivated and willing to put time, effort, and not develop sloppy habits, you can easily teach yourself. Granted I can't do anything but play rhythm, and solos are far and away for me (tapping doesn't count!), not to mention the fact that I bug the hell out of my more gifted friends when I see them with questions, but I take immense pride in the fact that with willingness and determination I've come a sizeable way. Analagously, if you aren't truly willing to go the distance, then a teacher won't help you one bit. My advice to you is this: if your bother has a guitar, then ask him to loan you a halfway-decent one that he doesn't mind getting banged up. Get a chord chart, some basic tabs, and some kind of basic theory book and try to play by yourself for a month or so, and get him to see if you're on the right track. If you feel you need a teacher than you can always go out and get one.

Supertramp is great. I don't like lots of their material but they're still incredible.

Holy. F*cking. Sh*t. The Gym Class Heroes need to go die in a fire even more so now. Breakfast in America is an incredible album, most especially Gone Hollywood.

To me, Megadeth is pretty darn heavy. They manage to "get your blood pumping" pretty good, I think, as do many speed/thrash bands from that era. But since we seem to be talking about "hardcore" as an industry label, I can't recommend anything personally. Anything heavier gets almost unintelligible, both vocally and musically. And, did you know that the average Slipknot fan is 9 years old?

Heard about this today :cry:. What's so sad is that Britney Spears' rehab gets higher billing than this, as does Boston's worse songs just because they were in Guitar Hero. Nobody remembers "Long Time," when they hear the name Boston, and to my generation Boston's just "that band with that one song," when in fact they hold the record for best-selling debut album by a group. Rest in peace, man, rest in peace.

Ha! Absolutely. If we need licenses to drive cars then we should have licenses to bear children - that is, in certain areas, as you said. However unfortunate it is, the more "intelligent" sections of the American population flat-out refuse to do work that is alotted to less educated and well-off workers. That's one big paradox of immigration right there - if you don't want illegal Mexicans in the country, then your steahouse burger is now $20 because you must pay somebody $30,000 a year to wash dishes.

i kno liek bush is teh sux i mean he r teh in iraq n we r all diein n ts all bushs fault tat i r fail mi classes. Jesus H. Christ, you're disillusioned. One thing to keep in mind is that George W. Bush is a single man, and no matter how much willpower he has he can't get past the fact that everything must be ratified by Congress as well as the House. Any budget changes and the fiscal budget are not dictated solely by him. Additionally, local municipalities have more dictation over what funds are diverted where than the President does - they only receive a small amount of federal aid. Before you go on an anti-Bush tirade, figure things out. It's not as simple as "o cigrets r bad raise teh tax lol." Personally, I'm going to be moving to Finland or somewhere like that to avoid the impending nuclear war between a self-aware Google and a swollen government-controlling Microsoft. I'm not going to have kids though, they're a pain in the butt and I don't think I could live with myself if I messed them up. It was only a while ago that I realized that my parents have zero experience raising children, which is why my dad expects me to balance his business checkbook :roll:

get off the comp and listen to some music son Get off your high horse and figure out that some people don't listen to such music. In fact, any band that has a fallout with another [terrible] band regarding their use of a cover song isn't worth anything in my book. Once again, it's not the band I don't like (even though they're not really my thing), it's their fans I can't stand...

I like certain-themed song lyrics the best, most especially sci-fi/fantasy ones or ones that are just generally mystic and/or awesome. Or cryptic, in this second case is (although people offer their theories). Don McLean - American Pie :wink: )

How come you're so up your own [wagon] about everything you do? Hm, I don't recall being up my own wagon about ANYTHING. I recall being rather saddened by the fact that everyone seems to think that the same chord formation is the answer to all of their worries. I am by no means very good at playing, in fact I blow, but I do take pride in the fact that I'm not as excessively bland as other players. I don't see why you need to be up my wagon and spamming the thread.

I'm straight and don't care about homosexual people. So many people I know profess to be the same way, but they act so much differently around them and chuckle like "oh he's so funny because he's gay" and do things like that. To me, I'm not out to make love to guys, only girls, so I'm secure in myself enough to not act differently around gay people. They're normal people more often than not, and have feelings too.

http://chordfind.com/ All you'll ever need for chords. Nice to see people doing majors and stuff rather than just being like "OMG I CAN DO FIFTHS LAWL"

Y'know, most of the people that refuse to eat fast food or say that school food is gross end up eating equally malnutritious/disgusting things other times. For instance, I eat pretty much whatever is put in front of me with the exception of something that is blatantly uncooked or tainted. I eat whatever the school food looks like and whatever McDonald's serves up. But, I remember one time I brought in a Gourmet magazine to school because I had to cut some pictures out of it for a project, and it was "The ULTIMATE Barbecue Issue." It had a picture of the best looking burger I'd ever seen on it - it had blue cheese, carmelized onions, and some cheddar jack cheese, cooked rather rarely. It was awesome looking. And yet all the kids that called the school food I eat gross were like "eww those onions r worm s eww that blue chese looks like sk33t haha." From that point on I stopped thinking of foods in terms of standards and more of food in terms of spectrums, mine being quite wide. In short, being as involved in foodservice as I am, I know stuff happens that's minor, like a cook dipping his finger in some soup to see if it's ready and tasting it - that's minor, so big deal. But there are places where quite unreputable things go on, and more often than not you can tell such places as soon as you walk in, so it's best to simply leave at that point. On the other end of the spectrum, there are places that look like dumps that actually have quite sanitary kitchens, and for whatever reason morons like to spread nasty rumors about such establishments. In short - eat it unless you have doubts with regards to the sanitation of the establishment. More often than not, if you can see the people cooking it you're safe as well.

This entire thread is spammy. And the topic starter obviously has zero social skills. Screw those people and get on with life.

omg paintball (thats american for shootin lil balls of paint) give me airosft any day. oh gee, maybe i could write somethin useful here, but i guess not. --- Anyways, you always hear about [football] riots, and the league finally decided to do something about it. Good call, I say. If the fans are deprived then they'll learn that the only way they can see it all is sans the violence.

You don't need to know any of that stuff when you're learning. Why learn what a perfect or augmented 4th is, when you're just gonna read along with a tab? The most important thing when beginning is to play songs you enjoy playing in order to get your fingers used to being on the fretboard. Understanding the neck is important, yes, but you have to get hooked first. Also, Mixolydian is a mode, not a scale. I'm not quite sure what is what since I've heard the terms interchangeably, and since I technically don't know any scales besides the Chromatic and Pentatonic Major/minor I can't really talk. It's also not really my problem that people don't learn stuff like that early on, but that they don't learn it all and then profess themselves to be musicians. To me, a musician is someone versed in music, and being versed in a way of writing that caters to ease of reading but lacks more intricate expressions does not readily apply. And when you just read tabs, what incentive is there to learn anything about theory at all?

Tab is perfectly fine for an absolute beginner to be playing with. When you first get a guitar, you just want to play some songs. So I'd suggest that this guy ignores your advice, learns some songs, and has some fun. Having fun is the key to sticking with an instrument - Don't bore yourself with theory before you're ready for it. He doesn't need to learn the frickin' mixolydian scale. He needs to know about 12 half-steps being the octave, how to form all the basic chords, power chords, what people mean by fifths, fourths, diminished fifths... basic stuff like that. That takes all of ten minutes to learn. Then when he finally learns a song via tabulature he can make things easier to play. Take "Carry On My Wayward Son," a song I liked before Guitar Hero came out and that I looked up tab for: e|-----------------------------------------------| B|-----------------------------------------------| G|-----------------------------------------------| D|-------------------------5---------------------| A|-------3~--------5~--5/7---7p5-3--5----5-------| E|-5-3-5-----5-3-5--------------------3~---2~----| Becomes... e|-----------------------------------------------| B|-----------------------------------------------| G|-----------------------------------------------| D|------------------0---2-5p2-0------------------| A|-------3-----------------------3--5----5-------| E|-5-3-5-----5-3-5--------------------3----2-----| A bit easier than having to negotiate a span of four frets on two string, I think. Things like that.

Alrighty. The MC was originally the Master of Ceremonies, the man behind the mic that gave life to street parties in Jamaica and New York City (with the likes of DJ Kool Herc). The MC eventually evolved into a fast-talking, rhyming "rapper" that rapped over Jamaican Dub or sampled breakbeats. This fusion hit the mainstream as hip-hop, commercialized, allied with Aerosmith to make a terrible single, got on MTV, then keeled over and died as the truly controversial representatives of the Golden Age got shot, retired, or sold out, and the original East Coast rappers stopped appealing to the hardcore G's that liked the harder Western variety of rap and got their own shows on VH1. End of story. An MC is a "master of ceremonies" in the strictest, most traditional sense. Classically-speaking (late 1970s into the 80s) he was a rhymin' BEAST. Now we have some sort of odd distinction. My vote - Run-DMC could beat them all up. RIP Jam Master Jay. And what the f*ck is with all the skits and intros in rap nowadays? I downloaded the Three 6 Mafia album because my friend recommended it and I liked it just a bit. But what's with all these fabricated stories and cheap jokes on a MUSIC CD? Further degradation of the genre, that's what.

READY TO POUNCE AT THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON... Man dude, you rock. My system's locked in on military gluttons. ;P Dude. Steve Vai's awesome. Satriani's better. Problem with all the virtuousos is that they kinda lack "soul" as opposed to other artists. Except Michael Angelo Batio - he's incredibly technical, but he really manages to do halfway decent instrumental covers of good classic songs and write a few good ones as well.

READY TO POUNCE AT THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON... Man dude, you rock.

That is the worst argument anyone anywere has ever used for anything! (the most commonly used) Im not going to say why because users here without dead brain cells might take offense, Im sure all the non of the non-stoners here need me to explain were not ALL idiots. Absolutly 100% FALSE. Weed doesnt make less inteligent, nor does it stop your brain of functioning to full capacity. Weed gives you a high, it doesnt make you mentaly unstable. Ok come to my city oneday and ill take you to Greylands Hospital so you can meet your fellow stoners. Ill give you my computer if you can still smoke weed after seeing what I can show you! Another unoriginal person I have a question Have you ever drunk bleach? I think you should try it before knocking it! Sig'd!