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I'll see you... on the dark side of the moon...

        -- Pink Floyd</p>

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So... so you think you can tell

Heaven from Hell?

Blue skies from pain?            Did they get you to trade

Can you tell a green field        Your heroes for ghosts?

From a cold steel rail?            Hot ashes for trees?

A smile from a veil?            Hot air for a cool breeze?

Do you think you can tell?        Cold comfort for change?

                    Did you exchange

                    A walk on part in a war

                    For the lead role in a cage?

        -- Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here"

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In a minimum-phase system there is an inextricable link between

frequency response, phase response and transient response, as they

are all merely transforms of one another.  This combined with

minimalization of open-loop errors in output amplifiers and correct

compensation for non-linear passive crossover network loading can

lead to a significant decrease in system resolution lost.  However,

this all means jack when you listen to Pink Floyd.

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I don't need no arms around me...

I don't need no drugs to calm me...

I have seen the writing on the wall.

Don't think I need anything at all.

No!  Don't think I need anything at all!

All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.

All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.

        -- Pink Floyd, "Another Brick in the Wall", Part III

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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

        -- Pink Floyd</p>

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We don't need no indirection        We don't need no compilation

We don't need no flow control        We don't need no load control

No data typing or declarations        No link edit for external bindings

Hey! did you leave the lists alone?    Hey! did you leave that source alone?

Chorus:                    (Chorus)

    Oh No. It's just a pure LISP function call.

We don't need no side-effecting        We don't need no allocation

We don't need no flow control        We don't need no special-nodes

No global variables for execution    No dark bit-flipping for debugging

Hey! did you leave the args alone?    Hey! did you leave those bits alone?

(Chorus)                (Chorus)

        -- "Another Glitch in the Call", a la Pink Floyd</p>

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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day

Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown

Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine        And then one day you find

Staying home to watch the rain        Ten years have got behind you

You are young and life is long        No one told you when to run

And there is time to kill today        You missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking

And racing around to come up behind you again

The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter        Hanging on in quiet desperation

                        is the English way

Never seem to find the time        The time is gone, the song is over

Plans that either come to nought    Thought I'd something more to say...

Or half a page of scribbled lines

        -- Pink Floyd, "Time"

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Eleventh Law of Acoustics:

    In a minimum-phase system there is an inextricable link between

    frequency response, phase response and transient response, as they

    are all merely transforms of one another.  This combined with

    minimalization of open-loop errors in output amplifiers and correct

    compensation for non-linear passive crossover network loading can

    lead to a significant decrease in system resolution lost.  However,

    of course, this all means jack when you listen to Pink Floyd.

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        `O' LEVEL COUNTER CULTURE

Timewarp allowed: 3 hours.  Do not scrawl situationalist graffiti in the

margins or stub your rollups in the inkwells.  Orange may be worn.  Credit

will be given to candidates who self-actualise.

    (1) Compare and contrast Pink Floyd with Black Sabbath and say why

        neither has street credibility.

    (2) "Even Buddha would have been hard pushed to reach Nirvana squatting

        on a juggernaut route."  Consider the dialectic of inner truth

        and inner city.

    (3) Discuss degree of hassle involved in paranoia about being sucked

        into a black hole.

    (4) "The Egomaniac's Liberation Front were a bunch of revisionist

        ripoff merchants."  Comment on this insult.

    (5) Account for the lack of references to brown rice in Dylan's lyrics.

    (6) "Castenada was a bit of a bozo."  How far is this a fair summing

        up of western dualism?

    (7) Hermann Hesse was a Pisces.  Discuss.

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With/Without - and who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about?

        -- Pink Floyd</p>

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How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

        -- Pink Floyd</p>

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We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control.

        -- Pink Floyd</p>

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Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?

        -- Pink Floyd</p>

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    All that you touch,        And all you create,

    All that you see,        And all you destroy,

    All that you taste,        All that you do,

    All you feel,            And all you say,

    And all that you love,        All that you eat,

    And all that you hate,        And everyone you meet,

    All you distrust,        All that you slight,

    All you save,            And everyone you fight,

    And all that you give,        And all that is now,

    And all that you deal,        And all that is gone,

    All that you buy,        And all that's to come,

    Beg, borrow or steal,        And everything under the sun is

                        in tune,

                    But the sun is eclipsed

                    By the moon.

There is no dark side of the moon... really... matter of fact it's all dark.

        -- Pink Floyd, "Dark Side of the Moon"

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Declared guilty... of displaying feelings of an almost human nature.

        -- Pink Floyd, "The Wall"

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