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"Metallica approached Dead for advice on taper area, copied standard documents
Mark Neumann & Timothy Simpson's 2011 survey of tapers relates stealth stories: various smuggling techniques
Lee Ranaldo -live tape collector in the 70s, created a spreadsheet
Early 80s - forms Sonic Youth
They tapes everything they did from day 1
Fans began taping them, full circle
Robert O'Haire - final performance of Heartbreakers" — Mar 07, 2026 03:17AM
"Metallica approached Dead for advice on taper area, copied standard documents
Mark Neumann & Timothy Simpson's 2011 survey of tapers relates stealth stories: various smuggling techniques
Lee Ranaldo -live tape collector in the 70s, created a spreadsheet
Early 80s - forms Sonic Youth
They tapes everything they did from day 1
Fans began taping them, full circle
Robert O'Haire - final performance of Heartbreakers" — Mar 07, 2026 03:17AM
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"Summary
For families of theories of Power
Two theories of sovereignty - justify Power by right, by God or by the people, center of command. Nominalist, allergic to absorption of man. Divine Right implies immutable law, others make law mutable.
Organic theories - justify Power by its end, moral and material cohesion of society, a zone of light or an organ
Theories start hostile to Power and end up helping it." — Mar 28, 2024 12:30AM
"Summary
For families of theories of Power
Two theories of sovereignty - justify Power by right, by God or by the people, center of command. Nominalist, allergic to absorption of man. Divine Right implies immutable law, others make law mutable.
Organic theories - justify Power by its end, moral and material cohesion of society, a zone of light or an organ
Theories start hostile to Power and end up helping it." — Mar 28, 2024 12:30AM
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"Why did Truman reject an approach many thought was likely to end the war?
Imperial cult - unconditional surrender directly threatened the emperor
Origins of unconditional surrender terminology - Casablanca 1943
Surrender needs imperial sanction
Truman gives more carefully worded speech on May 8
Navy Captain Ellis Zacharias - presidential statement explaining unconditional surrender - Forrestal and Leahy approve." — Jul 31, 2023 06:19AM
"Why did Truman reject an approach many thought was likely to end the war?
Imperial cult - unconditional surrender directly threatened the emperor
Origins of unconditional surrender terminology - Casablanca 1943
Surrender needs imperial sanction
Truman gives more carefully worded speech on May 8
Navy Captain Ellis Zacharias - presidential statement explaining unconditional surrender - Forrestal and Leahy approve." — Jul 31, 2023 06:19AM
“Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.”
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“Power changes its appearance but not its reality.”
― On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
― On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
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“We need’ is always code for ‘I want.”
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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
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