It used to be r.a.p., rec.audio.pro. It's still r.a.p., but it now
seems to stand for redc.audio.politics. Most of the postings have
nothing to do with audio.

Norm Strong

"normanstrong" wrote in message
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It used to be r.a.p., rec.audio.pro. It's still r.a.p., but it now
seems to stand for redc.audio.politics. Most of the postings have
nothing to do with audio.

I like rec.antagonistic.politics

You're right, but I see this over all the newsgroups I monitor. There's a
serious polarization in this country, and on the internet.

Mike wrote:

You're right, but I see this over all the newsgroups I monitor.
There's a serious polarization in this country, and on the
internet.

Are we in a country here, I thought we just were together?


Kind regards

Peter Larsen


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"normanstrong" wrote in message
news:qukFb.607812$HS4.4447771@attbi_s01...
It used to be r.a.p., rec.audio.pro. It's still r.a.p., but it now
seems to stand for redc.audio.politics. Most of the postings have
nothing to do with audio.

Norm Strong



Hi Norm,

While I'm not going to take the time to count and compare, just taking a
quick glance it seems that a strong majority ( like over 90% ) of the
'initial' posts have to do with music/recording. Unfortunately, the
political threads tend to become huge while audio threads tend to average
around 15 posts. And even worse is when audio threads turn into huge
political threads.

John L Rice

It used to be r.a.p., rec.audio.pro. It's still r.a.p., but it now
seems to stand for redc.audio.politics. Most of the postings have
nothing to do with audio.

Actually most of the posts are directly related to audio. Go back and check
again. I work at a recording/post studio and the discussions we have in our
spare time have a much worse audioolitics ratio than this group. It's when
people *stop* discussing politics that I'll be really concerned. Audio
matters, but it doesn't start wars or otherwise make the planet a ****tier
place to live, autotune excepted.




Joe Egan
EMP
Colchester, VT
www.eganmedia.com

"normanstrong" wrote in message
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It used to be r.a.p., rec.audio.pro. It's still r.a.p., but it now
seems to stand for redc.audio.politics. Most of the postings have
nothing to do with audio.

Norm Strong



That happens every so often, and then there are tons of posts like this.
Then it goes away.

jb

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:10:46 GMT, "normanstrong"
wrote:

It used to be r.a.p., rec.audio.pro. It's still r.a.p., but it now
seems to stand for redc.audio.politics. Most of the postings have
nothing to do with audio.

Norm Strong


Damn liberal :-)

"normanstrong" wrote:

It used to be r.a.p., rec.audio.pro. It's still r.a.p., but it now
seems to stand for redc.audio.politics. Most of the postings have
nothing to do with audio.

Norm Strong

My newsreader shows approximately two political threads, and a whole
bunch of threads of the "stop talking about..." variety. If it
weren't for the latter, I'd pretty much forget the former existed.

"most" would be an over-eggageration. i think the human mind tends
towards hyperbole, to satisfy the mental-drama queen in our heads.

if you do a quick title search on today's posts, for example, you'll
see it's far less than 50%.





"normanstrong" wrote in message news:qukFb.607812$HS4.4447771@attbi_s01...
It used to be r.a.p., rec.audio.pro. It's still r.a.p., but it now
seems to stand for redc.audio.politics. Most of the postings have
nothing to do with audio.

Norm Strong

Yes I agree. I think a lot of people are also frequenting other forums.
The format works better at others as far as there are different topics.
Ones for non audio posts etc. I think the competely non audio talk
should get directed somewhere else. I think it has slowed the traffic
here a little. I still like RAP the best though. I just want to see
audio and music posts. Todd F.

Todd Fitzgerald
Chief Engineer
OarFin Studios Minneapolis
www.oarfinrecords.com

Norm Strong wrote:

It used to be r.a.p., rec.audio.pro. It's still r.a.p., but it now
seems to stand for redc.audio.politics. Most of the postings have
nothing to do with audio.

As long as a thread is titled so that I can tell what it's really about,
it's not going to waste my time or bandwidth without my consent.

I have strong political views which are morally important to me, and
_precisely for that reason_ I make it a point to ignore political threads
most of the time. Verbal sparring seems to invigorate some people's
commitment to viewpoints that are really just props to allow all the
arguing and posturing to go on like an endless, meaningless game.

The one thing which never happens as a result of playing that game is that
anyone ever grasps the reality of what they're supposedly talking about.

Some people's combativeness may be the primary energy source in their
emotional life. I know that from my own experience as a younger person.
Decades ago I was on (one political extreme) for several years before
becoming active on (the other side), and it was all about evading the
enemy in every conversation--imaginary verbal martial arts tournaments
with oneself as the sole judge of every event. I can remember all the
defenses; I could not be bothered by mere facts; no one could tell me
_anything_ that I didn't want to hear.

Nowadays I try not to step into that arena. Once I understand that
someone has a dependency on phony righteousness as the mainspring of
their miserable existence, I can hardly begrudge them for it--but
fortunately I'm not obliged to stimulate and feed it for them, nor to
volunteer as a target for them to throw their monkey droppings at me,
which I know full well will be forthcoming.

What won me over to (the other side) was that the people there were so
much more pleasant, well-informed and interesting to be with. So I've
tried to get as much of that to rub off onto me as possible. The rubbing
part can be rather pleasant, I've found.

Well, plus this past year I've been studying one of the actual martial
arts fairly seriously. It takes way more effort and patience--but is
also much more gratifying--than anything I had going back when verbal
sparring was my "life." (I was just promoted to yellow belt this past
Thursday, and have been semi-euphoric even though that is lowest level
of non-absolute-beginner belt. But after wanting to learn this for 40+
years, it feels mighty good indeed to find out that I really can.)