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.< 6:23:12 PM  >ProSoundNews Online Daily - DVD-Audio Breaks New Ground In Canada 'In an effort to push DVD-Audio, EMI has partnered with one of Canada's leading DVD production facilities: Asset Digital. Presently Canada's only DVD-Audio house, Asset Digital has completed two projects for EMI: Trapeze, The Tom Cochrane and Red Rider Collection, and Machine Punch Through, a MOIST compilation.' .< 6:20:09 PM >The US Criminal Justice System Must be Reformed. America now has in excess of two million of its own citizens in jail, from a population of 286 million (0.7 %). For comparison China ,which most would consider to be an authoritarian police state, has a prison population of 1.4 million from a population of about 1.3 billion (0.1%). This is the largest proportion of any country in the world. Twelve percent of all black American males between the ages of 20 and 30 are presently in jail. A black person who killed a white person is 40 times more likely than a white person who killed a black person to be sentenced to the death penalty. The changes I suggest probably go against popular opinion in the USA, but popular opinion and moral hypocrisy are largely responsible for the problems of the present system. [Kuro5hin.org] shocking. Home of the . . . what? .< 6:12:11 PM >The Net: A Cause of Social Disconnect Do media/entertainment technologies connect or disconnect people? That Americans have become increasingly disconnected from one another and the social capital that binds people since the rise of TV and the Net is an idea much debated since Robert Putnam published Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community three years ago (the book is now out in paperback). The Net -- ironically the world' s most connective medium -- could be radically advancing that trend. [Kuro5hin.org] I believe it. I'm in touch with many many more people who are further away, but I spend less F2F time with people who are near by. |
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