I too have some DVDs where the quality is suspect, but that has more to do with the fact that it was translated from a medium where the quality was shit to begin with (such as pre-digital OTA broadcasts). Not much you can do with that unless you own a multi-million dollar digital retouching studio. But if you preserve the recording as close to as it was from when the recording was originally made, it won't degrade any further. A magnetic tape outside of a static-free, oxygen-free environment again will never be as good as the day prior. That's not hyperbole. It's science.
It's called electrical tape. Just tape over the fucking hole and you can copy to your hearts content. Or have you already forgotten how we rolled back in the day?
So with adults back in charge, what's not to love?
Where the fuck do I start? Let's see, the ramrodding of legislation that is grossly unpopular down our throats by the same people we elected, the favors and promises given to special interests directly opposite to the promises of the man who said he would not cater to special interests, the continued transfer of legal power from states to the federal government (which has slowly been occurring for the last 50 years or so), a plan in Afghanistan, the one conflict that has been just in the last decade, that has turned the situation from tolerable to terrible, and a flood of spending that has done absolutely shit to help with economic problems in this country, but will end up funneling more money to horribly run banks and not-for-profits and in return, will make our economic sector worse, not better. You say adults, I say a different flavor of morons, only this time, it will be bad intentions, not incompetence, that will put us in a bad situation. Thank god midterm elections are coming up. I have a strong feeling that a lot of those morons are about to be tossed on the street. If a moderate can be elected in a liberal hell hole like Massachusetts, then it can happen just about anywhere (well, except for San Fransisco, I think Nancy Pelosi is their definition of a moderate which is really scary).
Personally I'd love nothing more than for both parties to get fucked in the ass and let's just start the fuck over. And be done with unlimited terms and a lifetime pension. You want to see real change? Pay congressmen and women on a per diem for the days they actually work, only give benefits for the time they are in office, and limit them to 2 terms in office like the President. Then maybe the radical dick fucks who are in charge right now who want a cushy long-term power trip will go back to their corporate jobs or their lifetime annuities because they have old money and we'll get some people who actually give a half-fuck about what actual people who actually work for a living want. I know, pipe dream. But a man can dream, right?
Do you love the ponies in that fantasy land you live in? I'd like to come visit some time (although I'll already have an exit strategy planned before I arrive).
You say that like a DVD-R is going to go bad in a few years. A DVD-R will easily outlast a VHS tape as long as it's reasonably cared for. I wasn't exaggerating when I said I had DVD-Rs at least 10 years old that worked just the same as the day I copied them. I glanced through the rest of your comment and all I see is the typical FUD from someone apparently not ready for the technology age. You act like it's some sort of monumental task to make a copy of a digital backup or create the backups and maintain them in the first place. I have three copies of all music/videos/photos I have, and it takes little time to keep them up-to-date. One goes into a fireproof safe, a second goes on a portable drive that I can carry on my person should I need to evac for a Hurricane, and the third stays on my laptop, which is fuck easy to maintain.
Never said I believed it (because I really don't). But assuming that there was merit to what the parent said, that would still amount to a nice lovely tourist place surrounded by what amounts to a war zone. I don't give a fuck how nice of a place some areas of Mexico may or may not be. If you have to take a stroll through gang land to get there, I'll stay my happy ass at home.
You know, it's sad that you have to keep a license up-to-date for software you've already paid for. Unless it's just a matter of getting new plug-ins or programs on new CS versions that you use concurrently with Photoshop v.7
20 Year Old DVD-R's are irrelevant. If you have the source in a digital medium, you can continue to reproduce DVD-R's time and again, as long as you maintain the source (which is effectively accomplished through redundant backups). A magnetic tape will never be as good a quality as the day prior, no matter what you do short of storing it in a vacuum (and really, who does that?)
And your issues with recording digitally sound to be a matter of inadequate software/hardware or user error. It has nothing to do with the format. I have a camcorder and record digitally without any of the problems you have stated, all with reasonable hardware and software that is obtainable by the average middle income American citizen (a sub $1000 gaming laptop and a sub $100 video capture card and a sub $300 HDD Camcorder).
Sadly, there are many people who think of them as an honest unbiased source of news. I think of them as a new age Benny Hill show. Funny to watch, grows old after a while, but added absolutely nothing of value to my life.
Dude, I don't have to believe anything. I was alive and had good vision and hearing tests over the last 8 years. Love him or hate him, but the Bush Administration, for at least the last 5-6 years of his stay in office, was all over the news, and most of it was highly inflammatory. Or do you just get all of your news from WhiteHouse.gov?
Well even if everything you say is true, you still have to get past that first 100 miles. Short of flying to Mexico (how many people feel safe flying in a plane that may or may not have a raving lunatic with bombs in his shoes or boxers nowadays), you have to essentially make it unscathed through a war zone to get to the "Disney Version" of Mexico you paint. That'd be like if Disney World itself was surrounded by the roughest ghetto in the states and saying "Well gee, it's a wonderful place that just happens to be 10 miles past this place where people are killing each other in such a fashion as to make Afghanistan look like a peaceful protest." I won't bother to find out first hand if you are right, I'll just have to take your word for it.
You naively assume they'll pay people to make calls for them. They'll instead do as follows:
A) Steal phones and ditch them after using for a bit B) Kill people and take phones, and ditch them after using for a bit C) Clone an existing phone and ditch them after using for a bit D) Get illegal black market SIM cards that likely will be obtained through choices A through C.
Because, to be honest, most people don't really care about fucking themselves up. No one will fess to that, but it's the unfortunate truth. Nor do they also care about how decisions they make affect people around them. We are direct descendants (or in some cases, directly are) of the Me Generation that came about from the 80's and 90's telling us we should care more about ourselves and less about how we impact others. Who gives a fuck if that crack I'm smoking might make me hit a kid running across the street with my car because my reaction time is for shit at the moment. At least I'm happy. And before anyone says "But you know, alcohol intoxication while driving kills more people than drug intoxication does" know that honestly I don't really give a fuck about alcohol either. That shit'll fuck you (and others) up just as much as drugs will and honestly, I really sometimes wonder if it was a good idea to legalize it. Unfortunately, that decision was made a long time ago and I don't see any repeat of prohibition. But just because we fucked up then doesn't mean that by proxy we should fuck up again.
I guess if he's using a fox news tactic and just making stuff up, then that makes you using an MSNBC tactic and just flaming someone for karma because you can't get it any other way. Burn motherfucker, burn.
Congrats on being a scared little bitch too afraid to attach his or her name to a pissant personal attack on the internet. You sir are a man of honor (douche)
Oh how dare you suggest that drugs are bad and that the people that love to use them are unjustified in wanting them to be legal so they could fuck themselves up whenever they want. By golly, I love the random dope heads who move in at the rental property across the street and get cops called on them every other week and who are generally fucked up people that I have literally witnessed almost cause accidents on numerous occasions because when they do fuck themselves up, they are inherently bad drivers even when driving means just backing out of the fucking driveway. Also, they throw tons of wicked parties late in the night that piss off everyone in the neighborhood and generally result in some of the aforementioned police visits. I really want to just go borrow a cup of sugar from them.
But seriously, wish you wouldn't have posted AC so I'd know who to ask for mod points for (would've given em myself if I hadn't already burned through them like a crack head burns through his recent score).
Not only is this President putting out scripts just like the last President (and quite honestly, every President since before FDR), but a good chunk of the press not only prints it, but eats it up. I've never seen as much press love for a President as I've seen with the current one. The same people that are supposed to help hold the government accountable and keep them at least semi-honest are really just reporting what the talking heads are saying. You want to talk about the media questioning anything. First off, the media was all over Bush for most of the 8 years. The boy didn't do a thing without people questioning his motives, for better or worse. Some of it was well warranted questioning, and some of it was just smear campaigns run by the opposing party. This time around it's much different. Almost all of the reporting about Obama on virtually all of the news networks is basically how the mean Republicans are being mean to him and how he's just trying to be a nice man. Some things Obama is getting attacked on by the conservatives are justified, and then some is typical bias smear. But really, you don't see many people honestly and openly questioning anything this current government does, and the ones that are, mainly conservative news outlets, are getting smeared for trying to keep people at least semi-honest, regardless of their own motives (it's well documented that media outlets themselves are only semi-honest at best and have their own agendas, so let's not have that argument). I miss the days when the media was a watchdog against abusive government, and not a cheerleader for it. Those days are long gone, obviously.
Please don't try to pretend that somehow the media is being fair and aggressive in keeping the current administration honest, and also don't try to pretend that the media wasn't all over Bush pretty much from day one, but especially after the Iraq invasion. The man could've saved puppies from a burning tree, and the media would've tried to make him out to be a tyrant for it. The man fucked up plenty, and he did plenty that he was also made to appear to fuck up on and really didn't deserve flak for, but for all of the media reporting you'd have to be really kidding yourself to think that somehow the media gave him a pass on anything. I mean, seriously, please tell me you aren't that naive, are you?
There is a difference between having a private email account and using it to avoid the scrutiny of the public eye when doing business as a representative of the people of the United States of America. If he has nothing to hide as a representative of the people, have a private audit conducted to determine if there is anything that would need to be entered into the public log on his private email. That way if he has nothing that needs to be documented, then his personal email isn't aired out like dirty laundry, and he's kept looking honorable.
And if he has emails that should be documented, then honestly, it shows he has something that he shouldn't be hiding. The whole point of making all email created while doing business under the hat of the US White House public knowledge is to keep the accountability ever present. You just assume that everything done on a private email is private business without at least doing due diligence and it creates a problem with the accountability, even if it's only the appearance of impropriety.
There are a lot of things about the Bush White House that are probably legitimately honorable but because of appearances, took away credibility. Not defending them, but just saying that a lot of things that the Bush White House got smeared about were probably not as big a deal as made out to be, but because of actions they did take that raised questions, a lot of things were looked at as improper. I'd be willing to bet that half of the crap the prior administration took would probably have been avoided if they had been more open with their communication and not all smoke and daggers. Or perhaps there would be indictments for crimes committed. Who knows? The point is, if the Obama White House really wants to be about change, they'll change the way that the White House shows itself to the American People. Because from where a lot of people stand, this WH is hiding itself from public scrutiny (or trying to anyway) just as much as the last one did. Having public staffers who are previous lobbyists, which is precisely what the President said wouldn't happen, already betrays a bit of the trust that voters put in him. But then finding out that this staffer has a lot of private communications with the people he previously lobbied for, whether honest private communication that in no way affects how he advises the President or dishonest private communication that helps to dictate policy advise, appears to be cloak and dagger stuff just like what was seen with Bush 43. And really, appearance is everything.
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I too have some DVDs where the quality is suspect, but that has more to do with the fact that it was translated from a medium where the quality was shit to begin with (such as pre-digital OTA broadcasts). Not much you can do with that unless you own a multi-million dollar digital retouching studio. But if you preserve the recording as close to as it was from when the recording was originally made, it won't degrade any further. A magnetic tape outside of a static-free, oxygen-free environment again will never be as good as the day prior. That's not hyperbole. It's science.
It's called electrical tape. Just tape over the fucking hole and you can copy to your hearts content. Or have you already forgotten how we rolled back in the day?
So with adults back in charge, what's not to love?
Where the fuck do I start? Let's see, the ramrodding of legislation that is grossly unpopular down our throats by the same people we elected, the favors and promises given to special interests directly opposite to the promises of the man who said he would not cater to special interests, the continued transfer of legal power from states to the federal government (which has slowly been occurring for the last 50 years or so), a plan in Afghanistan, the one conflict that has been just in the last decade, that has turned the situation from tolerable to terrible, and a flood of spending that has done absolutely shit to help with economic problems in this country, but will end up funneling more money to horribly run banks and not-for-profits and in return, will make our economic sector worse, not better. You say adults, I say a different flavor of morons, only this time, it will be bad intentions, not incompetence, that will put us in a bad situation. Thank god midterm elections are coming up. I have a strong feeling that a lot of those morons are about to be tossed on the street. If a moderate can be elected in a liberal hell hole like Massachusetts, then it can happen just about anywhere (well, except for San Fransisco, I think Nancy Pelosi is their definition of a moderate which is really scary).
Personally I'd love nothing more than for both parties to get fucked in the ass and let's just start the fuck over. And be done with unlimited terms and a lifetime pension. You want to see real change? Pay congressmen and women on a per diem for the days they actually work, only give benefits for the time they are in office, and limit them to 2 terms in office like the President. Then maybe the radical dick fucks who are in charge right now who want a cushy long-term power trip will go back to their corporate jobs or their lifetime annuities because they have old money and we'll get some people who actually give a half-fuck about what actual people who actually work for a living want. I know, pipe dream. But a man can dream, right?
Do you love the ponies in that fantasy land you live in? I'd like to come visit some time (although I'll already have an exit strategy planned before I arrive).
You say that like a DVD-R is going to go bad in a few years. A DVD-R will easily outlast a VHS tape as long as it's reasonably cared for. I wasn't exaggerating when I said I had DVD-Rs at least 10 years old that worked just the same as the day I copied them. I glanced through the rest of your comment and all I see is the typical FUD from someone apparently not ready for the technology age. You act like it's some sort of monumental task to make a copy of a digital backup or create the backups and maintain them in the first place. I have three copies of all music/videos/photos I have, and it takes little time to keep them up-to-date. One goes into a fireproof safe, a second goes on a portable drive that I can carry on my person should I need to evac for a Hurricane, and the third stays on my laptop, which is fuck easy to maintain.
Never said I believed it (because I really don't). But assuming that there was merit to what the parent said, that would still amount to a nice lovely tourist place surrounded by what amounts to a war zone. I don't give a fuck how nice of a place some areas of Mexico may or may not be. If you have to take a stroll through gang land to get there, I'll stay my happy ass at home.
Everyone knows that Chuck Norris never gets defeated. He only gets bored, and then starts roundhouse kicking everything.
What's the difference between upgrade policy and upgrade police?
Agreed. We use lotus as well and it jacks up on a daily basis.
You know, it's sad that you have to keep a license up-to-date for software you've already paid for. Unless it's just a matter of getting new plug-ins or programs on new CS versions that you use concurrently with Photoshop v.7
And why is this modded offtopic? Poor butt-hurt Apple fans getting mod points = sad slashdotters
20 Year Old DVD-R's are irrelevant. If you have the source in a digital medium, you can continue to reproduce DVD-R's time and again, as long as you maintain the source (which is effectively accomplished through redundant backups). A magnetic tape will never be as good a quality as the day prior, no matter what you do short of storing it in a vacuum (and really, who does that?)
And your issues with recording digitally sound to be a matter of inadequate software/hardware or user error. It has nothing to do with the format. I have a camcorder and record digitally without any of the problems you have stated, all with reasonable hardware and software that is obtainable by the average middle income American citizen (a sub $1000 gaming laptop and a sub $100 video capture card and a sub $300 HDD Camcorder).
Sadly, there are many people who think of them as an honest unbiased source of news. I think of them as a new age Benny Hill show. Funny to watch, grows old after a while, but added absolutely nothing of value to my life.
Dude, I don't have to believe anything. I was alive and had good vision and hearing tests over the last 8 years. Love him or hate him, but the Bush Administration, for at least the last 5-6 years of his stay in office, was all over the news, and most of it was highly inflammatory. Or do you just get all of your news from WhiteHouse.gov?
If you really thought I meant actual Disney Videos, then you are hilarious.
Well even if everything you say is true, you still have to get past that first 100 miles. Short of flying to Mexico (how many people feel safe flying in a plane that may or may not have a raving lunatic with bombs in his shoes or boxers nowadays), you have to essentially make it unscathed through a war zone to get to the "Disney Version" of Mexico you paint. That'd be like if Disney World itself was surrounded by the roughest ghetto in the states and saying "Well gee, it's a wonderful place that just happens to be 10 miles past this place where people are killing each other in such a fashion as to make Afghanistan look like a peaceful protest." I won't bother to find out first hand if you are right, I'll just have to take your word for it.
You naively assume they'll pay people to make calls for them. They'll instead do as follows:
A) Steal phones and ditch them after using for a bit
B) Kill people and take phones, and ditch them after using for a bit
C) Clone an existing phone and ditch them after using for a bit
D) Get illegal black market SIM cards that likely will be obtained through choices A through C.
Because, to be honest, most people don't really care about fucking themselves up. No one will fess to that, but it's the unfortunate truth. Nor do they also care about how decisions they make affect people around them. We are direct descendants (or in some cases, directly are) of the Me Generation that came about from the 80's and 90's telling us we should care more about ourselves and less about how we impact others. Who gives a fuck if that crack I'm smoking might make me hit a kid running across the street with my car because my reaction time is for shit at the moment. At least I'm happy. And before anyone says "But you know, alcohol intoxication while driving kills more people than drug intoxication does" know that honestly I don't really give a fuck about alcohol either. That shit'll fuck you (and others) up just as much as drugs will and honestly, I really sometimes wonder if it was a good idea to legalize it. Unfortunately, that decision was made a long time ago and I don't see any repeat of prohibition. But just because we fucked up then doesn't mean that by proxy we should fuck up again.
I guess if he's using a fox news tactic and just making stuff up, then that makes you using an MSNBC tactic and just flaming someone for karma because you can't get it any other way. Burn motherfucker, burn.
They'll just start using carrier pigeons. Someone for Christs sake please think about the poor birds!
Congrats on being a scared little bitch too afraid to attach his or her name to a pissant personal attack on the internet. You sir are a man of honor (douche)
Oh how dare you suggest that drugs are bad and that the people that love to use them are unjustified in wanting them to be legal so they could fuck themselves up whenever they want. By golly, I love the random dope heads who move in at the rental property across the street and get cops called on them every other week and who are generally fucked up people that I have literally witnessed almost cause accidents on numerous occasions because when they do fuck themselves up, they are inherently bad drivers even when driving means just backing out of the fucking driveway. Also, they throw tons of wicked parties late in the night that piss off everyone in the neighborhood and generally result in some of the aforementioned police visits. I really want to just go borrow a cup of sugar from them.
But seriously, wish you wouldn't have posted AC so I'd know who to ask for mod points for (would've given em myself if I hadn't already burned through them like a crack head burns through his recent score).
Not only is this President putting out scripts just like the last President (and quite honestly, every President since before FDR), but a good chunk of the press not only prints it, but eats it up. I've never seen as much press love for a President as I've seen with the current one. The same people that are supposed to help hold the government accountable and keep them at least semi-honest are really just reporting what the talking heads are saying. You want to talk about the media questioning anything. First off, the media was all over Bush for most of the 8 years. The boy didn't do a thing without people questioning his motives, for better or worse. Some of it was well warranted questioning, and some of it was just smear campaigns run by the opposing party. This time around it's much different. Almost all of the reporting about Obama on virtually all of the news networks is basically how the mean Republicans are being mean to him and how he's just trying to be a nice man. Some things Obama is getting attacked on by the conservatives are justified, and then some is typical bias smear. But really, you don't see many people honestly and openly questioning anything this current government does, and the ones that are, mainly conservative news outlets, are getting smeared for trying to keep people at least semi-honest, regardless of their own motives (it's well documented that media outlets themselves are only semi-honest at best and have their own agendas, so let's not have that argument). I miss the days when the media was a watchdog against abusive government, and not a cheerleader for it. Those days are long gone, obviously.
Please don't try to pretend that somehow the media is being fair and aggressive in keeping the current administration honest, and also don't try to pretend that the media wasn't all over Bush pretty much from day one, but especially after the Iraq invasion. The man could've saved puppies from a burning tree, and the media would've tried to make him out to be a tyrant for it. The man fucked up plenty, and he did plenty that he was also made to appear to fuck up on and really didn't deserve flak for, but for all of the media reporting you'd have to be really kidding yourself to think that somehow the media gave him a pass on anything. I mean, seriously, please tell me you aren't that naive, are you?
There is a difference between having a private email account and using it to avoid the scrutiny of the public eye when doing business as a representative of the people of the United States of America. If he has nothing to hide as a representative of the people, have a private audit conducted to determine if there is anything that would need to be entered into the public log on his private email. That way if he has nothing that needs to be documented, then his personal email isn't aired out like dirty laundry, and he's kept looking honorable.
And if he has emails that should be documented, then honestly, it shows he has something that he shouldn't be hiding. The whole point of making all email created while doing business under the hat of the US White House public knowledge is to keep the accountability ever present. You just assume that everything done on a private email is private business without at least doing due diligence and it creates a problem with the accountability, even if it's only the appearance of impropriety.
There are a lot of things about the Bush White House that are probably legitimately honorable but because of appearances, took away credibility. Not defending them, but just saying that a lot of things that the Bush White House got smeared about were probably not as big a deal as made out to be, but because of actions they did take that raised questions, a lot of things were looked at as improper. I'd be willing to bet that half of the crap the prior administration took would probably have been avoided if they had been more open with their communication and not all smoke and daggers. Or perhaps there would be indictments for crimes committed. Who knows? The point is, if the Obama White House really wants to be about change, they'll change the way that the White House shows itself to the American People. Because from where a lot of people stand, this WH is hiding itself from public scrutiny (or trying to anyway) just as much as the last one did. Having public staffers who are previous lobbyists, which is precisely what the President said wouldn't happen, already betrays a bit of the trust that voters put in him. But then finding out that this staffer has a lot of private communications with the people he previously lobbied for, whether honest private communication that in no way affects how he advises the President or dishonest private communication that helps to dictate policy advise, appears to be cloak and dagger stuff just like what was seen with Bush 43. And really, appearance is everything.
Don't give a fuck because I felt like disassembling an argument for the hell of it detector detected.
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