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mu
mu (my¡, m¡)
noun
The 12th letter of the Greek
alphabet.
[Greek, of Phoenician
origin; akin to Hebrew mêm.]
The JAMMs
_The Queen & I_ MP3
- The iconoclastic Justified Ancients of Mu Mu released their first
album
in 1987, called _1987: What the Fuck’s Going On?_ It included many
tracks that contained
uncleared samples of popular music, but this one got them into
particular trouble when they were sued by the Swedish group Abba for
using almost all of _Dancing Queen_ MP3
. The album was deleted and remaining copies
destroyed. The record’s original label read: "All sounds on this
recording have been captured by The JAMs in the name of Mu. We
hereby
liberate these
sounds from all copyright restrictions, without prejudice." (The
JAMs are also known as the KLF, which stands for
Kopyright Liberation Front.). The end
of the track also features a sample from the
Sex Pistols' _Anarchy In The UK_ MP3
- "destrooooy!"
short for Lemuria
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a "lost continent" mythos, similar to
Atlantis (possibly the same)
mu meson
muon
muon
(my¡´òn´)
noun
Physics.
An elementary particle in
the
lepton family (not a meson),
having a mass 209 times that of the electron, a negative
electric charge, and a mean lifetime of
2.2 × 10-6 second. Also called mu meson.
Colonel James Churchward - supporter of the theory of the lost continent of Mu
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Across the dark blue sky
six red bands spread representing the original ancestors of the
Tibetan people: the six tribes called Se, Mu,
Dong,
Tong, Dru and Ra which in turn
gave the [twelve] descendants. - explanation for the Tibetan flag
symbolism.
mu /moo/
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The correct answer to the
classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?".
Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the
answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your
wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you
have one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians
and Douglas Hofstadter the correct answer is usually "mu", a
Japanese word alleged to mean "Your question
cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions".
Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical
inadequacies in
language, and many
have adopted this suggestion with
enthusiasm.
The word `mu' is actually from Chinese, meaning `nothing'; it is used
in mainstream Japanese in that sense. Native speakers do not recognize
the Discordian question-denying use, which almost certainly derives
from overgeneralization of the answer in the following well-known
Rinzai
Zen
koan:
A monk asked Joshu, "Does a dog have the Buddha nature?" Joshu retorted, "Mu!"
See also has the X
nature,
Some
AI
Koans, and Douglas Hofstadter's _Godel,
Escher,
Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid_
- _The New Hacker's
Dictionary_
by
Eric S. Raymond
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IDM/Drill & Bass label owned by Mike Paradinas - Planet Mu
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