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[quote name='cheddatom' post='349654' date='Dec 9 2008, 01:07 PM']I deal with Bax/Schenker all the time so if you have any problems.....[/quote] Thanks Tom but so far it looks peachy. I paid the fees and theoretically it is with me tomorrow!!!

[quote name='Rusty Shackleford' post='349635' date='Dec 9 2008, 12:55 PM']Is bax global hte company of an evil super villan?[/quote] Given how much I got charged, possibly yes. [quote name='Rusty Shackleford' post='349635' date='Dec 9 2008, 12:55 PM']remember to let us know how the decade is.[/quote] Don't worry. There will be a full report.

[quote name='skywalker' post='349017' date='Dec 8 2008, 08:37 PM']I think you will find that it is Schenkers, but I will check tomorrow and let you know. Schenkers Heathrow is 0208 890 8899[/quote] Thanks, you're correct. it was obvious from the Bax website once I'd looked at it properly. Thanks for the phone number.

My Lakland Decade has arrived from Chicago to Heathrow via Bax Global. Who takes over from Bax in the UK or do they do it themselves? Anyone know?

I haven't used anything but flats for some years - usually TI Jazz Flats but also D'Addario Chromes. Love that thummp; hate that zzing. However, yesterday I restrung my Precision BEAD using TI Jazz Rounds - the very light .118 B string requires no nut filing. Not too bad for a round string but if I take to the BEAD tuning I'll be getting the nut filed and some flats.

Four - Lakland Skyline Decade (2008); Fender American Deluxe Precision (tuned BEAD) (2006); Fender Jazz Fretless (1999); Michael Kelly Dragonfly Acoustic (2002).

I've got a five bass/guitar version of this. Sits upstairs on the landing in it's own little corner and gets used for guitars and basses, including acoustic, semi-acoustic, solid bodies and an offset Jazz bass. Not had any problems at all with it. You do need to allow the space behind up to the wall so that the headstocks have room. I'd be less convinced about it for stage use however when people are going to be climbing over it.

That does look extremely nice. Congrats.

It all depends what is meant by 'best' I guess but I'd say Carol Kaye for the extent of her influence. [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OU4pysL_vyg"]The First Lady of Bass[/url] Let's not get into the Kaye/Jamerson debate again.

No interest from me. The ramp is solving a problem that doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. So I'm out.

Rear of the headstock is wrong too:

Left hand piano from Ray Charles [i]Hallelujah I Love Her So[/i].

[quote name='martthebass' post='344618' date='Dec 3 2008, 07:22 PM']wish my 5er was a pound (and a half) lighter. But, musn't grumble [/quote] Most of that extra weight is the two 5-string MFDs.

Very nice, congrats to you.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='343703' date='Dec 3 2008, 12:04 AM']Lets not forget there's not only competition between people, but also competition between species. Anyone who has dealt with a pest infestation of some kind will have experienced this first hand, I'm sure.[/quote] There's also a great deal of cooperation between species. It's called symbiosis. In fact we couldn't live without it. Bacteria in your gut, for merely one example.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='343487' date='Dec 2 2008, 08:41 PM']Many socialist political theories avoid or repress the issue of competitiveness. Isn't that what it all boils down to at the end of the day?[/quote] Well, according to cooperative socialist and anarchist theories, the answer is no, competitiveness is not what it all boils down to at the end of the day. For example, like most people, I spend the great majority of my time not competing but cooperating with others: when I queue for a bus, when I play music with others, when I take turns with my partner to cook each evening, when I manoeuvre as I walk down a crowded pavement to avoid bumping into others, when I buy my round in the pub, when I come to the mutual aid of a family member, or a friend, or an acquaintance, or even a stranger, I might well be said to be cooperating rather than competing. One theme in the remake of the seventies TV series 'Survivors' - now showing on BBC1 (I think) on a Tuesday - is the battle between competitiveness and cooperation. To put it mildly, it seems to me that it is by no means obvious that human nature is purely competitive; although also not obvious that human nature is wholly cooperative. It may also be extremely difficult to separate human nature from human nurture. Nonetheless, while individualist liberals of the right have claimed competitiveness as a key factor in human nature, collectivist socialists and anarchists of the left have claimed cooperation or mutual aid as a key factor in human nature. [quote name='Crazykiwi' post='343487' date='Dec 2 2008, 08:41 PM']Is it possible for a society to repress its collective, competitive urges?[/quote] You seem to assume that these 'competitive urges' are innate in human nature; so you seem to be claiming a particular view of human nature which, as I suggest above, is exactly what is in dispute here. [quote name='Crazykiwi' post='343529' date='Dec 2 2008, 09:20 PM']Competitiveness wouldn't exist without inequality. Without inequality, species wouldn't adapt and we wouldn't have evolution. Therefore a non-competitive society wouldn't survive for very long (and by that I don't mean the society would die, but its state of non-competitiveness wouldn't perpetuate.)[/quote] This kind of theory has been commonly known as [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism"]Social Darwinism[/url]. The theory doesn't actually go back to Darwin and in fact predates him historically, owing more to Herbert Spencer who coined the phrase [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_of_the_fittest"]'survival of the fittest'[/url].

[quote name='bremen' post='342819' date='Dec 2 2008, 11:21 AM']Aren't socialism and anarchism mutually exclusive? Isn't anarchism just another word for laissez-faire capitalism? I'm going to wish I hadn't started this...[/quote] I'm going to wish I hadn't answered. You could argue that anarchism and socialism are mutually exclusive if you thought anarchism was merely another word for laissez-faire capitalism. However, anarchism is a 'broad church', as they say, and includes people who do not see eye to eye. To keep it simple, which it is not, the left-wing anarchists are collectivists and cooperativists who are commonly known as anarcho-socialists or anarcho-communists or anarcho-syndicalists or even libertarian socialists. These kinds of anarchists have much in common with socialists and are more likely to be European. The right-wing of anarchism has much more in common with classical liberalism than with socialism and is most commonly called anarcho-individualism or anarcho-capitalism and tends to be strongly linked with a very laissez-faire approach to the economy. This kind of anarchist is more likely to be American. What generally separates anarchists (of whatever kind) from other political ideologists (whether socialists or liberals) is their denial of the necessity of a state, even of a minimal kind.