The 507 Effect

There’s blood in the water, and the sharks are circling.  Why is it that when you mess up in this world, there is always someone there to make money?  Why is it that when you are sick, there is always someone there to make money?  Why is it that when God touches your heart, there is always someone there to make money?  Our worlds belief structure creates a self perpetuating vicious cycle of greed and fear.  Everyone alive has had a moment where they were down, whether physically or spiritually.  Its what you do when you are down that this is all about.  Most people break when they are down.  They give up, succumb to control, and admit defeat.  They allow their lives and energy to be leached off of by the vampires who set this whole system up.  Most people become bitter, dwelling on what could have been, or stewing with envy and rage at someone who threw them off course.  They forget that light kills Vampires…  To have someone tell you about climbing a mountain is one thing, but to climb the mountain yourself, that is a whole other story.  Tribulation brings understanding, and understanding brings true compassion.  And The Compassionate ONE is what this world is starving for.  The Compassionate ONE drives the sharks and vampires away with the power of thought, voice, and action.  The power of inner light.  Cry not for yourself, cry for the millions oppressed worldwide.  Sing the Song of Their Liberty!  Take the fear and greed of the vampires and sharks and let it fire up your will to succeed!  For the Greatest Revenge is Success!

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Will computers think for themselves?  Will humans be able to reprogram our own biology, making us “super human”?  Will our kids be born into a world where every item is “smart”.  Michio Kaku, another one of my favorite modern philosophers and Great Minds tackles these questions in “Visions of the Future: The Intelligence Revolution“

This video does a great job illustrating the vast changes underway on our world.  By 2020 a microchip with the computing power of a modern cellphone will cost about $.01.  As this draws nearer, chips will begin to be embedded in everything truly leading to the “ubiquity era” with thousands of computers per user.  Humans will then (if not already) begin hard-wiring our minds with more processing power and altering our DNA to dramatic results.  Humans may no longer be Homo Sapien and may self selectively evolve into Cyber Sapiens.

THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR!

Question of the Day:
Do you think humans will achieve this great change in our very essence?

For as long as there has been recorded history, people have had the liberty to experiment with their minds and bodies. Indigenous cultures worldwide revealed the Shaman, and the lessons and wisdom that he brought back from the medicine quest. Some people speculate the apes that ate psychedelic mushrooms and with that deep insight developed math and religion, evolved into modern humans. It is only in today’s context of mind control and oppression that “drugs” are stereotyped as “wrong” or even “evil”. Mind expanding substances are not looked kindly upon by someone attempting to control your mind.
What is a drug? Any substance that when taken into the body, alters bodily function. There are good drugs, bad drugs, legal drugs, illegal drugs, all natural drugs, processed drugs, street drugs, government sanctioned drugs, soft drugs, hard drugs, drug gumbo, drug soup…. And the ever looming WAR ON DRUGS. Or more correctly, The War on (SOME) Drugs, drugs that actually heal both the mind and spirit. Because that is what is happening. Pharmaceutical companies are feeding millions of people “Drugs” that are ultimately lead to both addiction and disease. I’ll write that line again. The “Drugs” coming out of pharmacies are doing far more damage to both the human body and the world then drugs that are illegal. Prohibition of drugs also does more damage to our culture and world then legalization. It was during Alcohol Prohibition that the Mob gained a strong foothold in the United States. And it is this current prohibition of “(some) Drugs” that has allowed pharmaceutical companies to grab a foothold on peoples hearts and minds, and now their DNA.
Prohibition is a truly a multi faceted jewel of feces. On one face, making “(some) drugs” illegal, pushes the market for them underground. At the same time both creating and funding a massive black market, and depriving the economy of money. On another face, spending Hundreds of Billions of dollars each year to surveil, arrest, prosecute, house, and rehabilitate (some) drug users, also leaches money from our faltering economy, and hurts our families and culture. Prohibition is a “Gateway” mentality. By making marijuana illegal, it allows people interested in trying only marijuana to have access to other hard/street drugs.
People have always used “drugs”. Drug users are not criminals.
End The War on (some) Drugs!
Set the captives free!

HAPPY 420!!

JAH LOVE ETERNAL!
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Announcing the birth of Luke O’Day. Luke is the baby of Julie and Kevin O’Day. He is destined to be a rhythmic master like his father Kevin.
Congratulations Julie & Kevin!

Much love to everyone who has been checking out The 507 Effect lately!  Please take time to check out OmegaProjectMusic.com
The Omega Project, based out of Santa Cruz, are truly growing exponentially to new levels.  So thanks for the love and support.
Also, please leave some comments, so that I know who is reading.  Thanks again! 

SET THE CAPTIVES FREE!

JAH LOVE ETERNAL!
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Big thanks to Radical Russ, Cannabis Karri, and NORML for the interview on April 10Th’s Daily Audio Stash. And for including us in the Weekend Music Stash. It was Carlos’ 27TH birthday and everything went great. The conversation danced around the absurdity of the War on (some) Drugs. Allow me to recap: Over 800,000 arrests each year for marijuana. Over 700,000 of those are for possession only. 5 states spend more money on corrections then education. 60% of prisoners are incarcerated for drugs. 3 strikes law means 3 felonies = natural life!!! 5000 years of recorded cannabis use and not 1 recorded overdose. Global Warming, resource wars, pharmaceutical companies shoving pills down our throats, Its time to legalize cannabis for medical, recreation, and industry. END THE WAR ON (some) DRUGS!! Set the Captives Free! Cannabem liberemus! Hear them both: April 10Th’s Daily Audio Stash Weekend Music Stash

April 10ths Daily Audio Stash Blog Post

Whether you’re a frustrated songwriter or a shower-time crooner, you may long to hear your lyrics put to music. New software from Microsoft promises to provide just that – instant musical accompaniment to singing.

The software, called MySong, was developed by Dan Morris and Sumit Basu at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, Washington, US, and Ian Simon at the University of Washington in Seattle.

“The idea is to let a creative but musically untrained individual get a taste of song writing and music creation,” Morris told New Scientist. “There was nothing out there that could take a sung vocal melody as an input and then generate appropriate chords to accompany it.” (Watch a video of the process here.)

Their software does two things: it generates a file containing the sequence of sung notes – a process known as “pitch tracking” – then uses that sequence to work out a suitable musical backdrop – a technique called “chord probability computation”.

Hear an example of vocal input, MySong’s automatically generated chords and a full musical arrangement after passing the arrangement through a program called Band-in-a-Box.

‘Elevator music’

Since people rarely sing at precise frequencies, MySong compares a sung melody to the 12 standard musical notes. It then feeds an approximate sequence of notes to the system’s chord probability computation algorithm. This algorithm has been trained, through analysis of 300 rock, pop, country and jazz songs, to recognise fragments of melody and chords that work well together, as well as chords that compliment each another.

Because there is no single “correct” chord accompaniment for any vocal melody, MySong produces a variety of chord sequence and possible accompaniments. To move between different accompaniments, a user slides an on-screen bar for “happy factor” and “jazz factor”.

“I suspect musicians will argue that this is another step towards homogenised elevator music for all,” says Peter Bentley, a computer scientist at University College London, whose team has previously coaxed computers into improvising jazz melodies. “But I see a big market for this, whether it’s liked by musicians or not.”

Cellphone version?

Researcher and composer Tod Machover of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is also impressed with the system. “Interacting with a music creation system by using our own singing voice is the most interesting aspect to this software,” he says.

“The voice is our most intuitive and intimate interface and it’s one that has been curiously under-exploited in interactive systems,” Machover adds.

For MySong to be useful to untrained singers, however, Machover reckons it will need to be very forgiving for those who are “not be perfectly in-tune or accurate”.

Microsoft has yet to decide when or how it to market the technology. “There is nothing computationally demanding about MySong,” says Morris. “It could even run on a cellphone.”

MySong was demonstrated at the annual Computer Human Interaction meeting in Florence, Italy, this week.

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Big Thanks to NewScientistTech for the story.  Although the video is marketed lame, the concept is groundbreaking!  Combine software like this with Melodyne Direct Note Access and music has changed forever!  Musical revenue will totally shift to live shows.  Making music will become so common, so long tailish, that playing an actual instrument will become highly specialized.  With tools like Photoshop, Melodyne DNA, MySong, Facebook, Garageband, and a host of others, people growing up in today’s hyper computerized world will be some of the most creative and most productive of all Time.  THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR!

END THE WAR ON DRUGS!

SET THE CAPTIVES FREE!

NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) has a daily podcast, entitled Daily Audio Stash.  Hosted by Radical Russ, it is the most popular podcast of its type and content in the world.  Carlos from The Omega Project will be interviewed tomorrow Thur. April 10Th.  The show airs online at 4:20 east-coast 1:20 west-coast time.  Big Thanks to Allen St Pierre for the support and wisdom!  Not enough praise can be given to NORML, HIGHTIMES, and WAMM.  3 great organizations pushing herb awareness into the mainstream consciousness.  This Thur. April 10Th is Carlos’ 27Th birthday so please join us on NORMLs Daily Audio Stash.

JAH LOVE ETERNAL!
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