Wow. The King of Pop is gone. Very controversial figure, but I have to admit he use to be one of my favorite performers. Thiller was the first album I ever bought (1984).
Wow. The King of Pop is gone. Very controversial figure, but I have to admit he use to be one of my favorite performers. Thiller was the first album I ever bought (1984).
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SadHe might be a bit controversial but his works are legendary and will live on. I will miss his works.
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Of course you have to ask yourself, is he really dead. There, I've said it.
Run for your lives!
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1 word.
KARMA
I don't think I heard that one. Was it on Thriller?Originally Posted by valaris
No. Karma as in, what goes around comes around ?...
Oh, so it was on the B-side.
Is this a "wages of sin are death thing"?
I imagine someone like you also believes this about Dr. Tiller, or the dead victims of gay-bashing.
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GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
Someone like me finds child molestation outrageous. Someone like you may feel that a few top 40 records excuse this.
Let me try and explain to you what I find positively outrageous about Michael Jackson.
That after his death, and after this many years since the 1993 allegations and the 2004 trial people still accuse him of child molestation out of complete ignorance and unaccountability.
Michael was acquitted on all accounts and proven innocent.
Jackson cleared of child molestation | Music | guardian.co.uk
It's your prerogative that you may want to ignore a court decision (and thus refuse any faith on the judicial system with all its consequences). It's also your prerogative that you may want to ignore the fact everyone -- absolutely everyone -- who knew well and were close to Michael, among them such irreproachable people as Liz Taylor gave their testimony in court saying that Michael could never have done such a thing to a child. You may even want to ignore the fact that in reality you have no proof he did these things, but still accuse him of such.
God forbid one day you finding yourself on the other side of the walk of life being aired as a pedophile, and after your innocence is proven, you will still have to deal with the ignorant and ravenous of the world who will keep preying on you.
Last edited by Mario F.; 06-26-2009 at 07:07 PM.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
It is interesting that this "major population" referred to by valaris, who probably would have little or no interest in Micheal Jackson (and probably little or no interest in real pedophiles), are united by some kind of cross fixation. This is a wacky form of irony demonstrated by many conservatives because of their unholy pact with outright malevolent hypocrites. Here I am thinking of some nasty catholic priest, secretly engaged in real child abuse, getting up in front of an audience three times a week to set up Micheal Jackson as a straw dog -- y'know, everything satan represents...
@sharke: you're just wrong man, give up. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's a duck. If a double digit percentage of extremely well sold popular people in the recording industry say thing like "I owe it all to MJ" or even "I own a lot to MJ, he was a huge influence" then he was by definition a revolutionary force in pop music, the same way Led Zeppelin could be seen as a revolutionary force in the hard rock music. It may not have been "the revolution" you or I or others would have liked to see, but it would be ridiculous to say he was "just playing along with a trend and doing it well". He came to personally and consciously define the trend.
To be honest, I find him and the Beatles equally boring, but they both were responsible for a lot of nice tunes, and a few very interesting ones that are not boring at all. I used to think it was a lot of hot air that the beatles did anything "revolutionary" or "ground-breaking"*, but I'm now kind of willing to concede the point.
*eg, "no they didn't, they just sold a lot of units and everyone thinks that means something". Of course it means something. And consider the impact MJ apparently had in the non-Western world...
Last edited by MK27; 06-27-2009 at 08:51 AM.
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
Have some respect for the deceased.
He will be missed.
One word: talent.
Keep in mind that he spent his *whole* life in the entertainment business. Last I checked that isn't exactly a recipe for sanity. Think about it: 95% of all child actors are screwed up. Is it any wonder why?
Michael Jackson made some great contributions to music. He wasn't perfect, and he certainly made terrible mistakes (he was human, after all). But he was also a very special person with an incredible gift, and deserves to be remembered on those merits, as well.
Rest in Peace, Michael!
Code:#include <cmath> #include <complex> bool euler_flip(bool value) { return std::pow ( std::complex<float>(std::exp(1.0)), std::complex<float>(0, 1) * std::complex<float>(std::atan(1.0) *(1 << (value + 2))) ).real() < 0; }
Almost everyone in the entertainment business is screwed up to some degree. It's because they spend so much time in a fantasy world - whether it's on set or on stage or at celebrity parties or wherever - they lose contact with the basic metaphysics of reality.
I've had several minor (and one major) celebrities as clients in my business over the years and I've gotten to see the insides of their apartments....one thing I will say they all had in common was that they had wacky self-help books lying around everywhere. How to find yourself, how to get in touch with your inner soul, how to think positively, how to heal your inner spirit, how to love, how to feel, how to communicate with others etc. Now I know that many people read one or two books like this at some point in their lives, but these people really do have tons of these things scattered around, with bookmarks in each as if they're reading 7 or 8 of them at once.
They're always in therapy, always looking for answers which their unreal lives can't give them. There are some sad, sad celebs out there and many of them have mental illnesses. Most of them suffer from paranoia of one kind or another.
