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About Jason

Jason R. Koepke is Founder and Data Strategist at GNT LLC, a risk-analysis and data strategy firm that provides analytical and technical services to the public and private sectors. His work and research has been featured in the academic, financial, and technical industries.

Album Reviews

1—–>3—–>5
Terrible—->Fantastic

5
VA – Negro Prison Blues & Songs
VA – Negro Work Songs & Calls, 1930-1940
VA – Paguyuban Krido Iromo
Siouxsie & the Banshees – Scream, The [Deluxe Edition]
Suko Raras – Ramayana Story Highlights [Instrumental Version]
Wirkus, Paul – Deformation Professionnelle

4
Byrne, David and Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Cooder, Ry and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt – A Meeting by the River
Future Sound of Tokyo EP [NHS117]
GZA – Pro Tools
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band – a bunch of miscellaneous stuff
Moore, Thurston – Sensitive Lethal
Morton, Jelly Roll – a bunch of miscellaneous stuff
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Piaf, Edith – 100 Chansons
Q-Project – a bunch of stuff
Roots Manuva – Slime and Reason
Stereolab – Chemical Chords
Tinariwen – Amassakoul
Tjader, Cal – Hip Vibrations
VA – Va Si, Para Usted the Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba
Vitalic – OK Cowboy
Vitalic – Onurb

3
Flying Lotus – Los Angelos
Freuer – Get Us Out of Here
VA – Future Sound of Cambridge 2 EP [NHS106]
VA – Future Sound of Cambridge, The [NHS74]
Justice – Cross
Kool Keith – Live
Kool Keith – Personal Album, The
Lamb – Back to Mine (The Voodoo Sessions)
London Elektricity – tons
Madlib – Beat Konducta, Volume 05
MC 900 Ft Jesus – Hell with the Lid Off
Merzbow – Metalvelodrome Exposition of Electro-Vivisection
My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything
VA – NME Love Music, Hate Racism
Nu Tone – tons
Peter Nice Trio, The – NHS1
Peter Nice Trio, The – NHS2
Phuturistix – Beautiful [NHS61]
Phuturistix – Beautiful [NHS61R]
Phuturistix – Feel it Out
Real, Ed – Hard House Anthems, Volume 02
Seba and Paradox – Move On
Seba and Paradox – NHS85
VA – Soviet Avant-Garde Music
Stereo MCs – Dubble Bubble
Streets, The – Everything is Borrowed
Tinariwen – Radio Tisdas Sessions, The
Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals

2
Asian Dub Foundation – Punkara
Bloc Party – Intimacy
VA – Future Sound of Budapest, The
VA – Hospital Mix Drum & Bass Selection, Volume 01 [NHS39CD]
VA – Hospitalised
VA – Music of India Rough Guide
VA – Out Patients EP, VOlume 01 [NHS18]
VA – Out Patients EP, Volume 03 [NHS57]
VA – Out Patients, VOlume 03 [NHS7003]
Rawls, J – Liquid Crystal Project, II, The
Syncopix – NHS79
Syncopiz – NHS99
Teamtendo – Divers
Teamtendo – We EP
VA – Weapons of Mass Creation, VOlume 02 [NHS7005]

1
Lamb – Daft Jazz
Lamb – Lamb
Lamb – Remixed and Unplugged
Lamb, Linda and Vitalic – All You Can Eat EP
VA – Moonshine Sessions, The
VA – Out Patients EP, Volume 02 [NHS32]
VA – Out Patients, Volume 03 [NHS59CD]
Pussycat Dolls, The – Dolls Domination
VA – Risky Roads, Volume 02
Vitalic – Colette, Number 02 (CD02)

Besmirching Medical Professionals, Part 1

I plan to write a massive critique of the medical profession, but for now I want to quickly criticize their interaction with patients. They treat patients as idiots unable to understand numbers, basic scientific research, and entities incapable of doing cost/benefit analysis. And while many people may suffer from one or more of these conditions, the opportunity for others to have their doctors geek out on them should be available (and bad decisions by the patients tolerated and chalked up to free will).

For example, in my initial wave of research on liver transplantation, no Web site provides numbers, references to research studies, detailed analysis of the situation, and/or in-depth discussion of post-op survival rates. Instead, each and every one of the many sites I visited–this included reputable university medical centers, renown private medical centers, and organizations dedicated to the situation–take a superficial and ultra-basic approach. While this is nice for an introduction or for people who do not care, it is unsatisfactory for those who want, or need, to know more.

While this is an extreme example, Web sites like liverdisease.com, which was recommended by USC’s Liver Transplant Program not only should have been banned from the Internet in 2000, but are criminal. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone familiar with 419 is involved.