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The Honorable Kevin Fillips, ADCaka Kevin 3.1

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Way that I am by Ingrid Michaelson,

The early videos from May, are slowly being redone, with new footage and better repeat footage. The learning curve for me on Windows 8.1 from xp, is apparently about 9 weeks. Finally things I used to know how to do, are finding their way into my skill-set again. Part c is next.




This song has been a favorie of minew since I heard it on an Iso In Slow Motion video- bathtime.

Thank you Miss Michalson, this song has helped with grief on the loss of my dog.

The Honorable Kevin Fillips, ADCaka Kevin 3.1

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Cortable Numbness and Mental Health

Here are the five works that constitute the reworkings of Mental Hospital 1940

Success from Iggy Pop off Lust For Life

So I took the prints, scanned them then started manipulating them into new designs.  The result is this video to the song Success by Iggy Pop

A working metaphor for net (non) neutrality

In trying to find a simple antonym for Net Neutrality, a surprising lack of substantive choices were found. John Oliver did a terrific job explaining why net neutrality is important. In this blog it is hoped to have people understand what the opposite of net neutrality is.

Balkanization comes to mind, the geopolitical division of things into often competing entities. Apartheid; separate but equal also rings a bell. But I wish to explore a process or experience a +reader may readily understand and dislike.

Anyone forced to ride in the back of a bus, use a separate water fountain, not attend particular schools or perhaps not be married by the state, may understand how separating things that seem to be the same in two separate classes of price etc. is unfair. Take the example of a telephone call. Callers are used to paying by time or perhaps distance. Some carriers offer flat rates. Imagine a world where what you say is how you're charged.

If you call your parent and complain about a neighbor's dog crapping in your yard, you're charged five dollars extra. I imagine calling your boss when you're sick and finding a $35 surcharge added to your phone bill. Those type of charges are related to what you're saying. Net neutrality says it doesn't matter what you say, they must charge everyone for the right amount of time (or data). Telegrams, those text messages of old were charged by the word not by the types of words.

Links

What network neutrality is, and why it matters. - Economist (2015, February 25). Retrieved February 26, 2015, from http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/02/economist-explains-7 Kabil, A. (2015, February 9). How the People Won Net Neutrality - Timeline.com . Retrieved February 26, 2015, from https://m.timeline.com/stories/net-neutrality-fcc-internet Oliver, J. (2014, March 18). Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Retrieved February 26, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3XTzVzaHQEd30rQbuvCtTQ [Link] Wu, T. (2003, June 5). Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. (abstract) Retrieved February 26, 2015, from http://ssrn.com/abstract=388863

Let's think about print news. What if paper newsprint would cost more for the opposition newspaper than for the big conglomerate paper? The carriers like to use a pay TV model such as paying extra for home box office then for basic cable. Do we want to live in a world where content is being rated by fee-taking potential and how much money the publishers can afford to be grifted? The dissenting industries are existing in a world of regulated monopoly.  When the USA had one dominant local phone company, the company was able to justify to the regulators that the equipment was so scarce and complex, it needed to be manufactured and maintained by the telco itself.  Today, consumers balk at not being able to cheaply upgrade their in-contract iPhone to the latest model. True, even though the true price of the current model has not been "paid off" by the artificially high contract monthly plan.

Published yesterday by The Economist, there is a good overview on why Net Neutrality is important . In a rant of under fifteen minutes, HBO's John Oliver is credited by @Timeline_now for tipping the public opinion on net neutrality last summer .

"The cable companies have figured out the great truth of America: If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring."

JOHN OLIVER

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Drive In 466 - DDouBBle Feature

In the 80s, film show times were programmed by me in my capacity as theater manager trainee. It is kind of a souped up theater assistant manager.

Decades later everything has changed.

On YouTube, there exists my newest project. Drive in 466. The number is significant only to me and my peeps. However, there are no shortage of theories. My last name is Fillips, aka Philips Phillips. All three and many more share the same soundex 412 for lps accordingly. F and P are similarly grouped.

Links

DDouBBle Feature[sic] Drive In 466 Channel

That could mean 66 is related to the Phillips Petroleum co. Four, 4, for... And so on

The Drive In 466 is like a video podcast, but it's all online. Videos have been curated, or programmed, into playlists to replicate a night at the drive in theater. Included with the feature are various music videos, cartoons, previews, trailers etc.

A schedule has been created. Each month is assumed to have 20 days. As follows:
Monday - single feature with extras
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - the same.
Friday/Saturday are a double feature picked from the previous M-Th
Sunday is Grab Bag
Each month shall have four each of GB, Mo, Tu, We, Th, DF totaling 20 unique features plus 4 double features this covers 28 days of a given month. The 29, 30 and sometimes 31 will be repeats of the Sunday Grab bags in order, starting with GB2,3,4

Once the base month is filled, playlists will be refreshed at a modified pace.

Today, I introduce the program for the weekend, a DDouBBle Feature of two, count them two Russ Meyer movies.

The emphasis of the programming will be Nostalgia, B grade fare, and Art House. If you must ask about NSFW, assume it to be so. Oscar nominees, may be thrown in to please the board.

On with the show
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8nyLS4hGf5qjShrEPpwhDA/featured

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About my glyph

This image is a monogram of sorts.  To design it, the initials of this blogger KBF were carved into tile, mirrored and printed. The resulting print was then scanned and digitally filtered to its current form. The favicon of this blog should be it in miniature.  Should, is all that needs be expressed on that.  The paternal grandfather of this blogger had the initials HAF and he had something similar, in that he superimposed the A over the H and allowed the vertical of the F be the right vertical of the H.  The letter B always posed a design problem. Runes provided a solution.

In Kindergarten, a project involved spelling our name in block letters and mirroring it was made using construction paper. Kevin became a tribal mask. The nn for the mouth ii and vv for the nose, ee for the eyes and KK for the head-dress.  That design idea was incorporated into this design as well, to give it symmetry.

Interwar Germany, The Marshall Plan & Post Millennial Greece

This post is a published copy of a draft blog found here content should be identical except for tags. The 128bit tag (CDFB2AF9833A4) on this post is identical to the tag on that post.

As a student of history, we learn about events, but sometimes not from events.  Many events within the last century seem to be repeating themselves.  Aggressive dictators slowly grab land based on ancient territorial claims. "Haves" may blame the "have-nots" after possibly enabling the latter to be dependent.

In this post, there will be an attempt to remind the readers of past events, their conclusions and how current events may be similar. Generally accepted western history shows that after the first world war, the victorious powers imposed tough sanctions against the losing powers.  The German Weimar republic suffered and struggled  to pay of its war debts.  Misery in that country led to the election of a loud mouthed populist that promised to give "Dignity" to the German people.  The rise of Hitler and the resulting second world war  was fresh in the victors memory  when Germany was once again defeated at great cost of life.  Europe was devastated. That time a new way was proposed. It became known as the Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP).  Overly simplifying it, basically the victors bailed out the destroyed economies. The United States spent a lot of money and in return earned a lot of it back through the purchase of American goods and services by the beneficiaries.

Timeline, one of my new favorite news aggregators, published a set of stories about public spending and explained the Marshall Plan in context. (see Link Below right #1)