Now that’s a headline. I actually didn’t come up with it. I was reading a tech news site that was discussing some of the proposals by American Airlines’ stewardesses. News is that American Airlines will now offer inflight internet service. The one nice thing is that American Airlines does not want to hamper the internet service. Which is a good thing since a customer is paying out the nose for inflight wireless net service. I didn’t see anything about the speeds they were offering, but I would hope at that price it would be DSL or better.
Unlike Snakes on a Plane, Porn on a Plane is in reference to the fact some stewardesses are worried about having to tell computer users not to be viewing porn while flying. Step back for a moment and think about that. There are already people working on their ‘mile-high’ club status on any long distant flight. Then there’s the fact that it does take a net connection to be able to watch porn on a lappy. No, the user could easily already have porn videos and DVDs with them. Thus the argument that American Airlines’ stewardesses would have to become the moral police is a bit dopey.
I’m not one for filtering the net. I think that’s the responsibility of the end user. I’m tired of seeing our free society getting bogged down with rules, and laws meant to ‘protect’ us from unseemly content. Grow up, learn to fend for yourself. I don’t have a porn fetish. But that doesn’t mean I care to stop someone else from having a porn fetish – that’s their business. Not mine. I hope American Airlines decides to leave the filters off the internet service. I’ve already experienced what that was like a couple of weeks ago in a small town in Utah. It’s bullshit to have to think about being watched as you travel.
If I had a kid I would school them on the world myself when it came to matters of seeing things like that. I wouldn’t be hiding my head in the sand about it. Which unfortunately seems to be the way so many people in my country tend to do things. Shirk their responsibility and blame it on someone else if it goes wrong. Blah. I’m tired of having so much government to ‘protect’ me. It’s a bloated waste.
Which kinda how I feel what happened to today’s artist is, a bloated waste. I never knew Jason Becker. But I know of him. He put out some incredible guitar playing/guitar shredding type of music a while back and of course when I was learning my chops I did my research on guitarists that shred. Any good student does that. Jason had chops to burn. Incredible chops. Then he got his with a debilitating disease that left him without the use of his hands. Which is extremely sad.
I can’t imagine what I’d do if I lost the use of my hands. I know I’d still be able to write music and I think Jason does via a special computer setup. Which is great. The guy could flat out play. This song Air (get it? Air, planes fly in the air) is indicative of his ability to be able to create classical style lines and do a guitar orchestra. This is the most mellow of all the tunes on Perpetual Burn which is why I chose it. Chances are if you can appreciate this you can appreciate his much more intensely distorted material. I highly recommend delving into the whole album. There’s tons of amazing little tidbits in it.