Because material that can better be directed and performed by robots, should be performed by robots.
When it comes to contemporary repertoire, the more "robotic" the conductor, the better the performance. This is because usually composers try to write exactly how their music should sound, extending the notation if necessary, instead of leaving it up to the judgement of the conductor, who might come up with something completely different. I can imagine the micromanagement - "trumpets with Schilke 14A4A mouthpiece" and "cellos with Appaloosa-hair bows, downstrokes to be executed 3 inches from the bridge and upstrokes 2 and 2/3 inches to rehearsal letter seven, then switch to Cleveland Bay bows and the metric system."
Husa with a 'tude!
If this is how they compose, they should give up on people entirely and start using AU & VST softsynths. They can make their own softsynths and control every blessed sample.
Instead of spending so much effort trying to make humans sound like robots, they could spend it making robots sound more human -- if this is why they bother with humans at all. I suspect these composers have severe control freak issues heavily laced with masochism, and removing the humans would remove their reason for composing.
I know, I'm a relict with a soft spot for Solti. Solti couldn't even control his principal trumpet player! It's the interaction that makes it rock.
BTW, I've used a bored-out 14A4A while being conducted by Husa (the mouthpiece choice was my own). I know nothing about which horses make good bow hair and wood glue.
So while I get why this discovery is totally awesome, I don't get what they mean by "fourth fundamental circuit element". Anyone got the skinny? It's the fourth passive fundamental circuit element.
The other doodads you talk about, like transistors, are classified as active elements.
It would have been good if the editors would have inserted a clarifying "[passive -eds]" to the submission.
At best given the explaination provided, the emails are not lost, they are simply unsorted. Somebody filed an email for penis enlargement under the folder for Prius enlargement!
Maybe the DoJ and all other government agencies should be permanently banned. Would you please include all of the publicly-financed miseducational institutions in that magic killfile?
One component is the argument that high food prices is bad for the third world. The argument seems confusing when you discover that these are usually the same people that argue farm subsidies are causing food prices to be too low. The price is too low here, while it is too high there.
Even the same price can be both too high and too low if you take geography, culture, topography, and so forth into account.
Some farm subsidies keep prices artificially high. All farm subsidies create opportunity for the Invisible Foot.
Rice for example, has shown the same percentage jump and yet does not compete with corn acres. They do not compete in acres, but they do compete in markets. If corn prices go up, rice prices go up as people switch to rice.
Behold the Socialist version of the Trickle-Down Theory in Practice! With Reagan's T-D, the downside was whining leftists. With Socialist Trickle-Down, the downside is food riots in Egypt of all places!!
if it produces large enough quantities of simple sugars to sustain high densities of other microbes feasting on simple sugars What you see as a problem, yeast and me see as an opportunity!
This seems to work on the SAME exact principle as the Depleted Uranium Penetrator. Regular missile with a core of DU, when it strikes, the regular projectile cannot penetrate, but the friction that is created as the DU core moves forward through weapon metal as well as armor metal, heats it up to the point where it doesn't just punch through armor, but ignites and melts its way through. The kinetic energy of the penetrator is what gets converted to thermal energy. Not friction.
Geez, people these days, never used a hammer on a nail....
Therefore, it seems DARPA in usual fashion is looking at the best way to help keep raising the national debt level. If anything, the military industrial complex has been the bankers best friend, it has managed to keep spending at insane levels, This part of your analysis is as flawed as your knowledge of the physics of the subject.
They also said the prisoners of war were treated fairly Real Prisoners of War are given all privileges outlined in the Geneva Conventions and then some.
Captured terrorists and guerrillas are not Prisoners of War, and should never be given the same consideration as genuine Prisoners of War. Their designation under the Geneva Conventions is illegal combatants.
And always remember: we do not need to take prisoners. It is a courtesy. It is a burden. It might be better, in our lawyer-ridden country, to just shoot the scum in the field. No muss, no fuss.
In reality, things are mostly going rather well over there. Hospitals, schools, and businesses are being built. It sounds like you have served over there. "You can really see the difference," according to my latest source who is fresh back from a 15-month deployment.
Not that he painted a postcard picture - he had to make life-and-death decisions in zero time, and then put up with the fucking lawyers second-guessing those decisions.
The lawyers are there purely to appease the treasonous Democrat party and their lying yellow dog press.
They're "for the troops." Which really means they're for the troops hesitating in the heat of battle, wondering if he can legally make the shot to save his platoon. Is it Friday? He cannot shoot in the general direction of Mecca on a Friday! Then he's dead.
Democrats are for the troops being dead.
We could float our fleets on their crocodile tears.
I see you only believe what comes out of the MSM for your Iraq news. I have spoken with another veteran who expressed complete disgust at the bullshit the MSM broadcasts w.r.t. Iraq.
If it's not.mil it's.bs!
Now what's truly, sickeningly sad is that people want to believe MSM crap. Instead of seeking out vets or even Iraqi pen pals, they lazily swallow whatever Katie Couric and Steven Colbert pass out their ass.
They think they're well-informed, the TeeVee tells them they are. They believe the TeeVee. The TeeVee has told them that the veterans are misguided, their presidential candidates call the soldiers stupid, so it is better to believe what the Dummycrat TeeVee tells them.
They are incestuously comfortable with their prejudices.
Best of all...not much India bashing I have tried twice now to think of a funny India bash for you, but I always start giggling when I think that this is one huge Tata, needs a back-up to make a pair of huge tatas, something about if you buy four Jaguar cars you could make a joke about jaguar tatas and little cars suckling contentedly....
One thing's for sure, the Tata company will play a huge role in my international pun toolkit.
THIS is what makes it so obvious that all this "Homeland Security" is primarily *against U.S. Citizens* Too bad nobody listened to President Bush when he was against a cabinet-level department.
Actually, it's too bad nobody listens to President Bush.
His speeches are online, and those critics of his who can read, should read them.
Something like 14 of the 19 September 11th hijackers had no idea theirs was a suicide mission. Those would be the Saudis that the racist Democrats love to hate on. Only the "pilots" knew it was a suicide mission, and only one of them was Saudi, Hani Hanjour.
By hiring a lot of Saudi muscle, the terrorists were able to get the racist Democrat party on their side.
A transparent move, really, but who said racists were smart?
This discrepancy, Miller suggested, is the result of a deep discomfort with the fact that evolution is grounded in the random occurrence of mutations. Fundamentally, people don't want to think they were the product of a chain of accidents. This is a problem with the Lawful Good character alignment;-)
They need to feel embraced by Nature and Nature's God. Randomness and chaos scares them.
We should point out that each and every random mutation obeys the Laws of Chemistry and the Laws of Physics and the Laws of Mathematics as far as we know.
That mutations happen in accordance with Natural Laws.
Are the Laws of Chemistry random? No, they derive from the Laws of Physics. Are the Laws of Physics random? We do not know, many physicists say they seem "dialed in," so this question is still in the province of metaphysics, and far removed from questions regarding biological evolution. This should be taught in a way that does not smell of a passed buck; students should be encouraged to explore these questions with faculty whose subjects are closer to physics and philosophy.
From mathematics, biology teachers should teach a proper understanding of the word "random." That random processes can at least be modeled with mathematics, and math is all about Laws and Proofs and other certainties which should appeal to the Lawful Good Authoritarian mindset. Get out the 2d6 and show how 7 is the peak of their Gaussian distribution! That "random" is not scary at all and obeys Mathematical Laws.
As an aside, usually the Republicans promote freer markets. If you can understand Adam Smith, you can understand biological evolution! Crappy companies go out of business, crappy species go extinct. Public tastes are often inexplicable and at least as random as any mutation (the solution space is larger, as a base pair can mutate to only one of three other pairs). Many ideas of trade and evolution are quite parallel, even running on the same conceptual engine, selfishness.
The selfishness of genes leads directly to Cain's Question and answers in the affirmative: from the gene's viewpoint we are certainly our brother's keeper.
Stipulating some game theoretic insights, many other Moral Laws can be derived - the Prisoner's Dilemma brings forth some reasons for cooperation.
And always, when a student's question is really beyond what the teacher and even science knows, the answer should be "I don't know" or "we don't know." Honesty and no buck passing! They may need a knowledge gap to house their God, and a militantly agnostic attitude should be taken by teachers when the students ask Those Big Questions. Did God "dial in" the physical constants? We do not know we are literally agnostic.
I think that a lot of the backlash against BSG in the last season was the product of the discomfort a lot of us geeks have toward religion being mixed into our scifi. I do not speak for all geeks, only most of them.
Religion in SF can be great. It's why I think Babylon 5 is better than Battlestar Galactica, so far. I have high hopes that Season 4 of BSG will reverse the situation.
Razor Spoilers Ahead ^L ^L ^L The old hybrid who got killed.... I think he was the Cylon God. Not only that, I think he was our Earth monotheisms' God. Yes, that one, "Yahweh" or "Allah" depending on your accent. There may be timeline issues with this idea, but I don't care, because -
I love it when gods die. SF provides us mere mortals with the weapons to sic semper the tyrannic gods.
Time claims that "nobody cares" about the Government's increased spying powers and that "polling consistently supports that conclusion." They don't cite a single poll because that assertion is blatantly false. Just this weekend, a new poll released by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University proves that exactly the opposite is true. That poll shows that the percentage of Americans who believe the Federal Government is "very secretive" has doubled in the last two years alone (to 44%) The submitter idiot complains that Time magazine did not cite a single poll.
The submitter idiot then grabs a poll to his liking, which has little if anything to do with the subject of the Time magazine article.
People think the government is very secretive. What does that have to do with eavesdropping on international phone traffic? Are all secretive things exactly identical?
Damn, the submitter is an idiot.
Here's something all the paranoid little shits need to understand: after the next terrorist attack on the United States, your blood will be flowing in the streets. It was exactly this kind of legalistic barratry which allowed 9/11 to happen. Now that the Dummycrat party is back in power, all they have done is make America less safe.
The Dummycrats caused 9/11, and they are working on the next 9/11. Americans will be forced to defend ourselves from Dummycrats. We will call it pre-emptive self-defense, and it will be a lot of fun.
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Nationalism is bad, especially if you (generic) are American, and that goes doppel fur Germans.
But nationalism is good if you are:
1. French
2. Mexican, or American who thinks and wishes he was Mexican
3. Scots
Who else?
Just want to make sure who has the correct permissions to be proud of their country!
Shhhh....you'll upset the idiots.
Republicans are the Party of Science. Democrats are the party of whining about science.
Because material that can better be directed and performed by robots, should be performed by robots. When it comes to contemporary repertoire, the more "robotic" the conductor, the better the performance. This is because usually composers try to write exactly how their music should sound, extending the notation if necessary, instead of leaving it up to the judgement of the conductor, who might come up with something completely different. I can imagine the micromanagement - "trumpets with Schilke 14A4A mouthpiece" and "cellos with Appaloosa-hair bows, downstrokes to be executed 3 inches from the bridge and upstrokes 2 and 2/3 inches to rehearsal letter seven, then switch to Cleveland Bay bows and the metric system."
Husa with a 'tude!
If this is how they compose, they should give up on people entirely and start using AU & VST softsynths. They can make their own softsynths and control every blessed sample.
Instead of spending so much effort trying to make humans sound like robots, they could spend it making robots sound more human -- if this is why they bother with humans at all. I suspect these composers have severe control freak issues heavily laced with masochism, and removing the humans would remove their reason for composing.
I know, I'm a relict with a soft spot for Solti. Solti couldn't even control his principal trumpet player! It's the interaction that makes it rock.
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My proggy compositions.
My modern softsynths.
Tom Gersic's Giant Free Audio Plug-In Site.
KVR Audio Plug-In Clearinghouse.
BTW, I've used a bored-out 14A4A while being conducted by Husa (the mouthpiece choice was my own). I know nothing about which horses make good bow hair and wood glue.
The other doodads you talk about, like transistors, are classified as active elements.
It would have been good if the editors would have inserted a clarifying "[passive -eds]" to the submission.
It's a catastrophe!
Why not?
Even the same price can be both too high and too low if you take geography, culture, topography, and so forth into account.
Some farm subsidies keep prices artificially high. All farm subsidies create opportunity for the Invisible Foot. Rice for example, has shown the same percentage jump and yet does not compete with corn acres. They do not compete in acres, but they do compete in markets. If corn prices go up, rice prices go up as people switch to rice.
Behold the Socialist version of the Trickle-Down Theory in Practice! With Reagan's T-D, the downside was whining leftists. With Socialist Trickle-Down, the downside is food riots in Egypt of all places!!
Let me expand an acronym for you -
Read The Fucking Article!
It's easier than guessing.
Geez, people these days, never used a hammer on a nail.... Therefore, it seems DARPA in usual fashion is looking at the best way to help keep raising the national debt level. If anything, the military industrial complex has been the bankers best friend, it has managed to keep spending at insane levels, This part of your analysis is as flawed as your knowledge of the physics of the subject.
Congress quit funding aircraft whose designations begin with "A" sometime during the Reagan Administration.
If you want a strike aircraft, you must give it an "F/A" designation. "F" is "fighter" and cool.
Yes the Congress is that shallow.
Too damn bad the Dummycrats and the Jersey Whores forced the DHS on the citizens of the United States.
Captured terrorists and guerrillas are not Prisoners of War, and should never be given the same consideration as genuine Prisoners of War. Their designation under the Geneva Conventions is illegal combatants.
And always remember: we do not need to take prisoners. It is a courtesy. It is a burden. It might be better, in our lawyer-ridden country, to just shoot the scum in the field. No muss, no fuss.
Not that he painted a postcard picture - he had to make life-and-death decisions in zero time, and then put up with the fucking lawyers second-guessing those decisions.
The lawyers are there purely to appease the treasonous Democrat party and their lying yellow dog press.
They're "for the troops." Which really means they're for the troops hesitating in the heat of battle, wondering if he can legally make the shot to save his platoon. Is it Friday? He cannot shoot in the general direction of Mecca on a Friday! Then he's dead.
Democrats are for the troops being dead.
We could float our fleets on their crocodile tears. I see you only believe what comes out of the MSM for your Iraq news. I have spoken with another veteran who expressed complete disgust at the bullshit the MSM broadcasts w.r.t. Iraq.
If it's not
Now what's truly, sickeningly sad is that people want to believe MSM crap. Instead of seeking out vets or even Iraqi pen pals, they lazily swallow whatever Katie Couric and Steven Colbert pass out their ass.
They think they're well-informed, the TeeVee tells them they are. They believe the TeeVee. The TeeVee has told them that the veterans are misguided, their presidential candidates call the soldiers stupid, so it is better to believe what the Dummycrat TeeVee tells them.
They are incestuously comfortable with their prejudices.
Too bad Democrat voters are too stupid to use the optically scanned ballots.
One thing's for sure, the Tata company will play a huge role in my international pun toolkit.
Actually, it's too bad nobody listens to President Bush.
His speeches are online, and those critics of his who can read, should read them.
By hiring a lot of Saudi muscle, the terrorists were able to get the racist Democrat party on their side.
A transparent move, really, but who said racists were smart?
They need to feel embraced by Nature and Nature's God. Randomness and chaos scares them.
We should point out that each and every random mutation obeys the Laws of Chemistry and the Laws of Physics and the Laws of Mathematics as far as we know.
That mutations happen in accordance with Natural Laws.
Are the Laws of Chemistry random? No, they derive from the Laws of Physics. Are the Laws of Physics random? We do not know, many physicists say they seem "dialed in," so this question is still in the province of metaphysics, and far removed from questions regarding biological evolution. This should be taught in a way that does not smell of a passed buck; students should be encouraged to explore these questions with faculty whose subjects are closer to physics and philosophy.
From mathematics, biology teachers should teach a proper understanding of the word "random." That random processes can at least be modeled with mathematics, and math is all about Laws and Proofs and other certainties which should appeal to the Lawful Good Authoritarian mindset. Get out the 2d6 and show how 7 is the peak of their Gaussian distribution! That "random" is not scary at all and obeys Mathematical Laws.
As an aside, usually the Republicans promote freer markets. If you can understand Adam Smith, you can understand biological evolution! Crappy companies go out of business, crappy species go extinct. Public tastes are often inexplicable and at least as random as any mutation (the solution space is larger, as a base pair can mutate to only one of three other pairs). Many ideas of trade and evolution are quite parallel, even running on the same conceptual engine, selfishness.
The selfishness of genes leads directly to Cain's Question and answers in the affirmative: from the gene's viewpoint we are certainly our brother's keeper.
Stipulating some game theoretic insights, many other Moral Laws can be derived - the Prisoner's Dilemma brings forth some reasons for cooperation.
And always, when a student's question is really beyond what the teacher and even science knows, the answer should be "I don't know" or "we don't know." Honesty and no buck passing! They may need a knowledge gap to house their God, and a militantly agnostic attitude should be taken by teachers when the students ask Those Big Questions. Did God "dial in" the physical constants? We do not know we are literally agnostic.
Religion in SF can be great. It's why I think Babylon 5 is better than Battlestar Galactica, so far. I have high hopes that Season 4 of BSG will reverse the situation.
Razor Spoilers Ahead
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The old hybrid who got killed.... I think he was the Cylon God. Not only that, I think he was our Earth monotheisms' God. Yes, that one, "Yahweh" or "Allah" depending on your accent. There may be timeline issues with this idea, but I don't care, because -
I love it when gods die. SF provides us mere mortals with the weapons to sic semper the tyrannic gods.
SF gives mere mortals the tools to become gods.
The submitter idiot then grabs a poll to his liking, which has little if anything to do with the subject of the Time magazine article.
People think the government is very secretive. What does that have to do with eavesdropping on international phone traffic? Are all secretive things exactly identical?
Damn, the submitter is an idiot.
Here's something all the paranoid little shits need to understand: after the next terrorist attack on the United States, your blood will be flowing in the streets. It was exactly this kind of legalistic barratry which allowed 9/11 to happen. Now that the Dummycrat party is back in power, all they have done is make America less safe.
The Dummycrats caused 9/11, and they are working on the next 9/11. Americans will be forced to defend ourselves from Dummycrats. We will call it pre-emptive self-defense, and it will be a lot of fun.