> Sections 63, 64 & 65 of the Act targeted electronic dance music played at raves. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act empowered police to stop a rave in the open air when "ten or more people are attending, or where two or more are making preparations for a rave". Section 65 allowed any uniformed constable who believes a person is on their way to a rave within a 5-mile (8.0 km) radius to stop them and direct them away from the area; "non-compliant citizens may be subject to a maximum fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale (£1000)"
That's also incredibly dumb, but at least they attempted to criminalize the actual activity they found objectionable. That's at least a rational way to write the law.
This BPM law is a complete joke, though, through and through. It won't actually accomplish what they (supposedly) want, and will just cause trouble for people.
And to be completely fair, my own country is/was dumb too: in the 1920s many places in the US tried to ban jazz music, and I believe they used tempo as part of the regulations. I don't know if there were ever any laws around it, but rock'n'roll also experienced backlash from establishment types.
New York City had laws on the books until 2017 banning dancing in bars that don't have a "caberet license." I remember going out to bars and seeing signs on the wall that said "No dancing." We thought it was a joke until they came up to us and told us to stop dancing. Places could get hefty fines. It took a big activist push to get the law repealed.
Vancouver until fairly recently had the same thing. I remember a hostel downtown that had a boisterous bar where one side had the license and one side didn’t for some arcane reason and they had a three foot fence with a swinging door separating the two sides. Hostel stuff still tried to happen, one night I was there and a guy stood up and started playing saxophone and a bunch of people started dancing and the poor staff had to go into panic mode trying to get everyone to stop.
>All applicants for a cabaret license had to be fingerprinted; to provide extensive financial records; to meet specific zoning, surveillance, physical security, fire, building, electrical, health, and record keeping requirements; and to pay the fees associated with each compliance.
>In 2016, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs claimed there were then 118 cabaret licenses in a city of 25,100 licensed food service establishments.
I don't think it really targeted EDM. It just had to have some kind of differentiator in the law about what is a noise and what's music. And
> “music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.
Is fairly reasonable.
It also seems the law mostly relates to being able to stop the rave and remove people rather than making it a criminal offence to do the thing.
> This section applies to a gathering on land in the open air of [F220] or more persons (whether or not trespassers) at which amplified music is played during the night (with or without intermissions) and is such as, by reason of its loudness and duration and the time at which it is played, is likely to cause serious distress to the inhabitants of the locality; and for this purpose—
Edit - I'm not diving into the depths of this so you are likely be very right in terms of what it's responding to, but I think its important in the framing about what lead to a law and the goal and what it actually says. A law against open air music festivals that cause "distress" may be bad in terms of freedom but it's not as stupid as banning a type of music.
And of course, the crucial legal definition of a rave as a place where the music consists of "sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats."
> “music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.
edit - I should soften this. My understanding here is that it's trying to clarify the difference between some sounds and music. Is a person talking into a mic to a group of people covered by this? No. It's specifically about music. This seems like a very basic description of virtually all music to me.
Not all music is repetitive. But that which isn't at least a little repetitive (looking at you, free jazz) is rarely considered listenable (or, ahem, musical) by the untrained ear.
EDIT: found the original video (set on Maritius?) for Chikadee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTCMMhfKF0
(in the school scene at ~0:50, the desks are in pairs or triples, as they are in my adoptive country, instead of single, as in the opening scene of "one more time": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4 . How are school desks typically arranged in Oz?)
You got me re: Denton - it's not a broomstick or commonplace air guitar physical cheat, bit long for a clap stick, bit red for a vacuum cleaner pipe ... it's quite likely something he found down a city street.
> He was used to messes, and men’s bedrooms, and places where ponies are not usually encouraged, and in his youth had jumped on and off a mess-table for a bet. So he behaved himself very politely, and ate bread dipped in salt, and was petted all round the table, moving gingerly; and they drank his health, because he had done more to win the Cup than any man or horse on the ground. —JRK
It wasn't until I was 18 that I first rode a horse into a hotel in Gippsland, I've always been law abiding and didn't want to get carded and tossed out.
Wow, you all really do ride in "australian stock saddles" (interesting to see some had horns; have ropes been taking over from whips?) Sorry about the gall; normally the string girths are very good against that sort of thing.
(it also struck me how often "proud" came up: my wife asks me "why do americans always have to be proud of things?" when she's watching TV, but maybe it's not just us seppos, but more a general anglophone thing?)
Back to the Ottomans: (could've been much worse, could have been the Dardanelles and Gallipoli?)
2 days stiff march to get told the only water is behind enemy lines is, I guess, a form of motivation. At least it's a little more creative than burning the bridges behind you?
And the turks knew the 4th was there, too, if they were already shelling and sending aeroplanes. I'm guessing the only reason this could possibly have worked is because the turks had expected they'd fight as dragoons, dismounted? (I had heard of this charge before, but not the detail that they were using bayonets as makeshift sabres. The only bayonets I've seen from that period are much smaller than sabres, more kindjal sized)
> the last 200 yards or so was good going and those horses put on pace and next were jumping the trenches with the Turks underneath
That's maybe a bit under 15 seconds — which sounds like a long time to be in the open charging repeating rifles, let alone emplaced MGs. Yikes.
As to Totilas, my wife is a fan; it's a shame they broke that pair up. A very lucrative shame, but a shame nonetheless.
(I myself barracked for Fuego at the time. Lusitanian and hispanic horsemanship owes a lot to the moorish influence [hmm... might moor be cognate to italian "morena"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRDZjj7-tOk ] and therefore they do a lot more to put a handle on a horse [what Kipling —another admirer of Walers— would call being bridle-wise] and aim for a bit more spirited stock than in the "doma clasica")
In other news I was trying to figure out how to rejigger "American Pie" for Down Under and I think I have the chorus:
So, bye-bye, Miss Straya-an Pie
Drove my Holden to the station, but the station was dry
And them battler blokes were drinkin', swatting the flies
Singin', "This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die"
but the verses are a bit of a slog, eg:
I was a lonely teenage outlaw beaut
With a pink corella and a tradie ute
But I knew I was ??? ??? ???
The day the music died
EDIT: just checked the The Lighthorsemen (1987) scene. They have the bayonet detail; I don't know how accurate the rest is but unlike the real time of Star Wars IV, it seems too extended: final charge as depicted is started over 1km from the trenches and they had already picked up pace 3:20 away (another 1,5km?).
EDIT 2: according to the map they assembled (at 16.30) 1,6km from the trenches and according to the text departed after 17.00 with 400 m to the ridge, so the real charge would've been 900m at pace and 300m flat out; I guess that to be about 1:10 to the trenches, not the 4:30 of the movie.
> Lusitanian and hispanic horsemanship owes a lot to the moorish influence..., and therefore they do a lot more to put a handle on a horse
This is arguable, as one of the earliest surviving records of horsemanship in Portugal was by Dom Duarte, a king who reigned briefly around 1280. His influeces are directly from Xenophon ("nothing forced is beautiful," etc). For the prior millennia, horsemanship had spread westward and then southward from the mongols. Islam had fantastic influence on architecture, math, language, music, and all aspects of culture, but horses were something more received for them. It has also not persisted, as outside buzkashi played by arabs and throughout central asia, their horse culture has not evolved. Especially not since the renaissance when the italian, and then french, and spanish high schools developed.
If horsemanship were indeed their advantage, the kingdom of Jerusalem could not have been established either. It's fashionable to say europe was uncivilized but for its invaders, but its horsemanship predates islamic invasions.
I'll have to get a hold of a copy of Bennett, Conquerors: Roots of New World Horsemanship by Dr. Deb Bennett to check her arguments that Persian horsemanship[0] went both north around the Med (via Xenophon) and south (via the north Africans).
Certainly the Byerley Turk (1680s), the Darley Arabian (1704), and the Godolphin Arabian (1729) are some post-renaissance contributions to one[1] of my favourite breeds.
Whether the moors included pre-Hellenistic Persians would be the crux of this statement, as typically that refers specifically to Islamic invaders almost a thousand years later whose architecture and culture influenced Iberian penninsula, and not to the whole African continent.
Breeding and horsemanship were also separate, as the modern school that survives today came via Grisone, Pignatelli, de Pluvinel, and eventually l'Hotte & Baucher, with not a lot of written innovation since. These are all european. However, to dresser means to be arranged and fit for a purpose, and arabian stock are used for arabian purposes. (https://youtu.be/D89RO-5oSeM?feature=shared) Personally, I prefer to ride.
True, but it's evening here so I'm done riding for the day.
What sort of riding do you do? My three main interests are (a) will the horse crowd other stock under pressure, (b) how quickly can it roll back*, and only then (c) top speed.
I am not saying moors included persians; I am saying Bennett's hypothesis was that the vaquero style of riding in california came via spain, the moors, and the arabs, from persia (and maybe they got it from Kikkuli?). Naturally anything that passed along the south of the Med would also have travelled along the north as well.
What you are calling arabian purposes in that video is called a "halter class" for any breed; you can even find halter QHs which bear the same resemblance to working cow horses that show dogs have to working dogs.
see also https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_parure_des_cavaliers_et_l%2... ; I don't read arabic so I'm much more familiar with the authors you mentioned (in particular Pluvinel, de La Guérinière, and some englishman in exile whose name I forget; Baucher I find worthless: he himself was obviously talented, but he never developed a method, as none of his students reproduced his results) than with any of the arabic literature, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furusiyya .
Consider that if the iberian cavalry had been superior to moorish cavalry, the Reconquista would not have taken ~750 years.
If you want I'll try to dig up the reference, but one of Napoleon's cavalry generals during the Egypt campaign said something like "3 of them can take 10 of us, but 100 vs 100 is an even match, and 300 of us can take 1'000 of them", so I think he admired their individual horsemanship, while acknowledging the advantage of european unit discipline in larger formations. The french would later get outdone at this by the prussians, who took minimal trooper skill, maximal unit effectiveness to its logical conclusion in the Franco-Prussian War.
Maybe something we can agree upon is that lusitanian/iberian riding has some unique features (from wherever they arose) because of the nature of extensive, pastoral, cattle herding?
* > "By the Blue Gums of the Back Blocks," snorted the troop-horse, "do you mean to say that you aren't taught to be bridle-wise in your business? How can you do anything, unless you can spin round at once when the rein is pressed on your neck? It means life or death to your man, and of course that's life and death to you. Get round with your hind legs under you the instant you feel the rein on your neck. If you haven't room to swing round, rear up a little and come round on your hind legs. That's being bridle-wise."
the riding i do is mainly portuguese, working equitation and related classical stuff. Iberian horsemanship is formed and preserved in mounted bullfighting, which itself is ancient. The riding is the art in a ritual that dignifies the nature of the animal and the participants. Lisbon is older than Rome, they say, and this is why I'd say european horsemandship via bullfighting does not have an islamic origin. There are apparently references to fighting aurochs and the ritual of the corrida is so old the hebrew aleph symbol is apparently a reference to them, it's a deep history.
Cool, why didn't you say the mestre was redundant? Sounds like we have similar interests; if you want to chat, feel free to drop by anytime.
Mounted bullfighting as currently practised is unfortunately an asymmetric game: the bull is a rank amateur[0], but the cavaleiro tauromaquico is an experienced professional (and furthermore has remounts). I always felt a better way to preserve the art —and it is an art!— of rejoneo would be to play a symmetric game: matching mounted pairs against each other[1].
As for the bull, retiring from the match might be sad for the toristas[2], and I guess if you're going to wind up on a plate anyway it might be going out in style, but I'm pretty sure the bulls themselves might argue they have less stressful ways to spend their days.
[0] Goya may beg to differ with me on this point.
[1] If you'd like to try this, please don't surprise me: do it properly and have your second get in touch with mine :-)
[2] I am a torista myself, because we are all the toro:
- we can't win
- we can't break even
- we can't even quit the game
so the best we can hope for is keep our heads high and an obol in the pocket:
It's the white in his knuckles
The gold in his buckle
Just watched the original movie, I guess the video I had timed was recut to go with the 2 Steps From Hell audio. In the original movie, it takes them 9:15 to cover 1200m (<8 kmh, a fast human jog!) and there's a turk calling out distances that have no relation to either the map from your article or to what horses are physically capable of.
They just can't help them selves with the backronyms can they?! Politicians and the US military must spend a significant proportion of their time coming up with clever names.
Yes, despite his state (Delaware) not even really having a rave scene. He was widely despised among politically-minded folks in the electronic music scene.
Biden sponsored the "RAVE Act" as part of his long-term focus on writing extreme "war on drugs" legislation. He previously also wrote the legislation that created the Federal drug czar position, and he was chairman of the Senate Drug Caucus. When it came to drug laws, he was to the right of Reagan and George HW Bush, criticizing them for not being tough enough on drugs.
1) blackholing every possible subdomain of business-i-dont-like.com, and
2) return a single IP address for any and all internal subdomains of a private ___domain - they all go to the same proxy then, and it's just one setting to set and forget.
(I may have completely misunderstood this feature though, and I would welcome correction)
… because influencers also don’t “look like influencers” if you don’t do proper lighting and posing plus a bit of photo/video shop... additionally, only take pictures and video footage after hungering periods, then use the picture material over the next few month..
Yeah this was a pretty stupid article. I mean I go to the gym regularly and see some amazingly good looking people, some of whom are no doubt fitness influencers, and guess what... none of them look like fitness influencers on Instagram.
Because it's all fake. It's all doctored. It's lighting, airbrushing, filters, and whatever other increasingly advanced AI-augmented techniques are being used to make digital images look hyper-real and impossibly good.
If anything amazes me it's how many people fail to understand this. I guess the millions doomscrolling on the couch in their underwear have not seen what an actual great body looks like, so they believe the fitness "photos" on IG are real. Thus the scrolls continue and the money flows...
> I guess the millions doomscrolling on the couch in their underwear have not seen what an actual great body looks like, so they believe the fitness "photos" on IG are real.
perception is reality, and most people are bombarded by these images in TV, movies, video games, and social media. that is their normal, and they've been getting those images since they were kids, when He-Man and Barbie were their role models.
Getting a pump, having good downlighting, and being picky about what you eat that day are all things that will make a lot of people who appear soft in other conditions look freaky.
I’ve seen it for myself. Downlighting and a pump is your real body.
As someone who was advised to wait 6-12 months for a tax refund in Finland (not a standard payroll/prepaid tax) [1] I'd say it's because 'the system' is still the old system from the past that hasn't entirely kept up with the fact that in this day and age:
- A limited company is not always a giant manufacturing concern
- An ever increasing amount of the population will not have been born in and will not be living their whole lives in Finland.
IT is a nice frontend for it and can serve you in many languages and with the latest and greatest UX - but the actual processes and decisions are not keeping pace. Changing these is a high-friction, low-reward endeavour for politicians.
I am talking about transfer tax on property which is completely different.
In my opinion, the tax card system effectively just moves the deadline for the tax return to Nov/December so you can ensure it's completely up to date then and not pay anything extra.
Can someone who knows more about the practical aspects of shorting stoks as an individual investor opine on how one would try to profit from Hindenburgs reports? (Let’s say if one can aford to loose 100k)
I am aware of the risks of shorting and have no inclination to do so. I’d just like to hear the considerations of someone well versed in this kind of activities.
You get a margin account from your broker and request permission for shorting... then open a position by selling x number of shares of the stock (assuming the stock is available to short). You make sure you have enough $$$ in your account so that in the event of the stock price going up, you aren't forced to sell at a a loss.
Grossly oversimplifying things, rather than short, you can also buy put options on the stock which will increase in value if the stock goes down. Taking an options position is far more time sensitive than an outright short.
What are the best options to solve this problem? It’s a hard problem imho for most threat models.
If the booting machine has been compromised and i use my usb connected keyboard to enter the full disk encryption key I would run into the exact same issues, no?
The ultrablue project I linked to solve exactly this problem, with TPM and a smartphone, but it's targeted at unlocking your laptop and uses Bluetooth to communicate with the smartphone for unlocking - and I don't want to have Bluetooth on my NAS ^^
Theoretically you could use secure boot with custom keys to ensure that your boot chain is not modified and you could use TPM for SSH host keys storage to ensure that it's not possible to copy them.
