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It's like a video that never moves. Like...a picture.

Excellent! B)

The vox remind me of Judas Priest, circa Screaming For Vengeance. That was hilarious. Thanks Matt.

Roger wilco Dude!

And we should start recruiting new members. Read these: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=413109 (Methods of recruiting for your region) http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=301514 (Open Letter to Regional Recruiters) http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=455270 (List of Invader/Defender Groups/Regions) http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Gameplay (Lots of info on gameplay with lots of links)

Thats why you create your UN puppets from some OTHER ip addresses than the one(s) you have used to play the game thus far with your UN member nation, and to use a different email address than you used to create your current nation(s). But it can be done, because I did it this past year with another region I created. VERY IMPORTANT DON'T log onto the UN puppet unless you are at that other IP address. Recommendation--use some computer that you are near often but haven't used to play nationstates--school, work, nearby library, next-door neighbor's girlfriend's house, wherever, just not from the IP address you usually play from. I deleted our http:// address from the beatkingdom page at NationStates so that it will be more difficult to read our plans. As far as the non-BK members at 0000 BeatKing, it's not as if they could not have come here at any point in time before I deleted the address yesterday. But we can discuss general invasion plans over there, to a point. I don't think it would be a good idea to post the info on how to set up extra UN puppet states on the boards over there. Invading other regions though is not illegal, and some regions on NationStates are very good at it. There are other regions that go around trying to protect invaded regions from predation--we may run into some of them in this endeavor. I would hasten to add that our recruiting efforts in attracting new members will be key in pulling off almost any serious invasion attempt, unless it were an extremely weak region. We need a goodly number of older/longtime members to stay put in 0000 BeatKing to protect ourselves from the very same sort of invasion, and use newly created nations for the invasion force. The game is weighted to favor long-time members when it comes to ejection/banning from a region, which some invaders might try to do to us in retaliation for invading them, if they make allies/are allies with an established invader region. Dude, are you or are you not the king of spam?! I am surprised at you! Actually, I figured that posting all this on the old thread would not attract the attention of our jaded former members the same way a totally new thread announcing the intent to start a war would.

More info here.

Not your country Spud, our region. We can combine its member states, and en masse, invade another region and seize control of the UN delegate position via our superior numbers and endorsements, and make the region our own. It has actually happened to our region a couple of times when we weren't paying much attention...

Then move it here

To create a new nation, click here.

Takeover strategy First. We need to get as many of our nations into the UN as possible. Everyone who wants to start taking shit over, join the UN. If you are new to this, then start a new nation, join our region 0000 BeatKing, and then join the UN. It takes about a day to get accepted into the UN once you apply. Second We need to create scouts. Everyone should create a puppet state, and we should begin scouting around--just move to new regions and see how powerful they are. Or not. We should practice taking over relatively weak regions first. Third We could create UN puppets. This is totally against the rules of the game, so be very very careful about this, or you'll get banned. The way to do this--start a new email address--don't use the one you used to start any of your other countries. Just go onto hotmail or yahoo or whatever free email service you want and create a new email address. Once you have done this, log onto NationStates from a different IP address than the one you usually use to play NationStates, and create a new nation. If you only play at home, than log on at work, or at school, or at the library or your next-door neighbors--just DON'T log on from where you normally play, or you will get ejected from the UN and possibly banned from the game. If you have access from several different IP addresses, then theoretically one could create as many different UN puppets. Once we have "bulked up" with UN member states and done some scouting and found some targets, then we can begin. I will go into the UN Factbook for our region with the nation I used to found 0000 Beatking and remove the link back to here so locating this information will be more difficult.

People at a concert were drinking and taking drugs? That's news. It must be because of all the illegal filesharing.

Some of us here who play NationStates when we're not spamming the BK forums have decided that we are going to start attacking other regions in NationStates. Anyone here who used to play, resurrect yourselves and come back. Anyone who is new to Beat King and wants to join in, can read up on the history of our region here. The pinned thread is also where we are going to coordinate some of our activities, because some of the stuff we might try to pull off should not be spoken about in the Regional Headquarters lest mods/admins read what we're up to and ban us. Let's start taking shit over!!

My neighborhood came out as a 31, which translates as "Not Walkable: Only a few destinations are within easy walking range. For most errands, driving is a must." But my neighborhood has great sidewalks, a pond, and is great for taking an evening stroll. And though a bit far to walk almost every store imaginable is within a 2 mile radius, so taking the car out whenever we need, well, nearly anything, is a very short trip. Had to chuckle too, when I input where I used to live for 20 years, it came out as a 0. Middle of NOWHERE it was. Hell, the nearest street light was miles away!

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So, what's your call? :)

Not entirely. I agree that Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. belong on there paired at the top, but I would have have paired Dino Jr's Bug with Daydream Nation instead of with "You're Living All Over Me"--I remember both albums coming out right about the same time in '88 and being struck then with how similar they were in sound and approach--both were in heavy almost non-stop rotation with me that year. It is nearly impossible not to have included Husker Du and The Minutemen either. And Joy Division. But the Pixies Surfer Rosa...as much as I loved it then and hate to say it now, the impact that album had at the time was not so much-- by the early 90's they had become a force and their records had more of an impression (and then would be compared back as not quite as good as Surfer Rosa then being seen as the masterpiece that is). But if this is a look at the 80's, there's other bands on the Honorable Mention list (see below) I would elevate first. Or some that didn't even make that . Like Primus first outing Suck On This--came out in 1989--totally spun the local college radio stations on their heads--nothing like the frantic energy of Suck was anywhere else. Or Mudhoney...same year, extremely influential band and incredible album, but not even on the Phoenix also-ran list. But then they put in...REM. No. No. NO! GOD NO!! REM's WAY too commercial to be in on this. Even in '83. I might mention Gary Numan here too, if we're going to delve into some commerciality with this--"Cars" after all was the big hit of 1980. But I digress. I really don't have a negative opinion against the others, like the Smiths or the Replacements. But skimming through the Honorable Mentions, I would have to bring some up which would toss these bands off. Steve Albini's noise outfit Big Black, for instance (I recently had one of their's on my weekly track "Kerosene"). Or Nick Cave's Birthday Party, rather than his later work with the Bad Seeds. And especially Butthole Surfers, though I would either go back to 1984's Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac or jump ahead to 1988 and Locust Abortion Technician. Rembrandt Pussyhorse is interesting, but they were still playing "Moving To Florida" (from the Cream Corn EP) on the college radio stations around here long after Rembrandt Pussyhorse came out and nary a thing off of RP--it's like it had no effect, at least in these parts. And Flipper? X? Meat Puppets? and especially Mission Of Burma? I'd put MOB in the top 10 along with Big Black and Butthole Surfers. And not remove Dino Jr, Sonic Youth, Husker Du, the Minutemen or Joy Division to do it.

Putin had best relinquish his foolhardy claims or suffer the consequences--the North Pole belongs to ME.

What is their policy on distributing dubs/remixes/material that may include samples or loops from previously copywrited materials? What about copywrites in general--does the music they distribute have to have been copywritten? I looked, but there wasn't anything in the general/pre-sign-up FAQ. Edit: Found this in the About Us...seems the answer to my question is yes.

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They were, by definition, misfits. They were artists who truly could not be pigeonholed by the schlockmeisters pushing Styx and REO-Speedwagon product like used-car salesmen, because their music was unlike anything that came before. When alternative rock was a genre yet to be coined, when underground was truly subterranean, while MTV beckoned with piles of cash, these artists blazed new trails, created new paradigms, and ignored commercial prospects. They were a handful of inspired mavericks who created the raw materials for an alternative future. The setting for all this was the 1980s, a decade in which the demographic fragmentation following the punk rebellion took hold, leaving a great cultural and commercial chasm between the underground and just about everything else. Of course, it wasn’t all as serious as that may sound. The bands and artists who made a difference in the ’80s weren’t afraid to poke fun at themselves and others, or, at times, to be sophomoric idiots. It’s no accident that so many of them, tongues firmly in cheek, covered classics they’d grown up on, recasting songs like Kiss’s “Black Diamond” (the Replacements) and Peter Frampton’s “Show Me the Way” (Dinosaur Jr.) as sources of genuine inspiration, even as they took the piss. Ultimately, the inmates took over the asylum. Alternative rock found a place in the mainstream, and indie labels like Sub Pop, Matador, Merge, and Epitaph became training grounds for commercial success. We know that now. But before 1991 and the Nirvana juggernaut, none of that was clear. One of the albums that embodied the spirit of the ’80s hodgepodge movement, Sonic Youth’s 1988 double-LP Daydream Nation, has over the past year finally started to receive the attention it was always due. In 2006, the Library of Congress honored the disc by placing it in the National Recording Registry. This year, Daydream Nation was re-released as a deluxe two-CD set, and Sonic Youth are celebrating by playing the entire album live, start to finish, in a US tour that begins this weekend. With that in mind, we’ve reopened the vaults and gone back to Daydream Nation and nine other seminal albums from the ’80s underground. The parameters are narrow. The 10 albums we’ve chosen are part of a narrative that’s cohered over time — a narrative inspired by the increasing acceptance of Daydream Nation as part of the larger rock canon. (A parallel tale that deserves its own chapter, of course, is the rise of hip-hop.) These are the 10 albums that generated the right conditions for the rock that would follow. But they weren’t mere stepping stones. Each has its own story, suggesting other albums and artists that have a place somewhere in the rock pantheon. As Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo explains in the 33-1/3 book devoted to Daydream Nation, “We were learning from and being inspired by bands from around the country in this really cool, secret indie world that the mainstream media still doesn’t know anything about. What was really happening in the ’80s — no one has captured any of it. What happened on MTV and what happened in the clubs was totally different. Everyone was drawing from the Velvet Underground and Captain Beefheart and Iggy and the Stooges and Television. . . . That part is lost so far.” This is our effort to find it. Read the rest here

CNN and Truth in the same sentence? Be still, my beating heart!

Because. They all suck.