Actually the telegram says IF the U.S. entered the war THEN Germany would ally with Mexico. Had the U.S. stayed out of war, minded its own business, and not interfered with an internal European conflict, Germany would not have bothered us at all. - If God forbid a civil war broke-out inside the European Union, do we have any right to interfere? NO. They didn't interfere with our civil war, and we should not interfere with theirs. It's a European matter and the EU's responsibility to fix, not ours.
Same applies to the Great War of 1914. Especially after Wilson was re-elected upon his promise to stay out of it.
It's also worth nothing that American interference in European matters set-up the genesis for World War 2. Had Americans not interfered, rather than a defeated Germany, the Great War would have ended with a stalemate, Germany would have retired from the battlefield with honor, and there would have been no opportunity for the Nazis to rise to power.
>>>The government only sucked away $25,000 in taxes, not $30,000.
Only? That was over 40% of my earnings. That means I was a virtual slave of Uncle Sam from January to June 2nd, where all the money earned during that time was sent to the U.S. or State governments.
>>>it's not like "the government" is some guy who's taking all your money and using it to sip margaritas on the beach.
You might want to rethink that. There are "some guys" in Congress who do exactly that, or else use taypayer-paid government planes to fly themselves (and their kids) to Europe for a vacation, or..... I could go on and on.
>>>You were driving on your private roads on the way to work
Since roads are funded by a toll paid at the gasoline pump, there's no reason for government to be sucking money from my paycheck to pay for roads. The cost was already paid when I filled-up the car.
Well it turns out you're right. S/PDIF doesn't use error correction. It's as error-prone as analog. What idiot would design a digital transmission protocol without built-in error correction?
That's a difference in the codec software. I've observed the same with m PS2 which plays DVDs just fine, but doesn't apply any kind of filtering so dark scenes look pixelated. The same DVD on my Sony 5-disc player applies post-processing filters to smooth the pixels and create a near-flawless image.
I like your post but there is a minor error. OS X is not open source. It's derived from NeXT which is a closed-source OS from the 1980s that was ported to the PowerPC platform, and is still closed source today.
Wow. I can't believe I just defended Apple. That's like defending Chrysler's practice of taking a Dodge Stratus, rebadging it a chrysler sebring, and then adding 10,000 to the pricetag. Honda/Acura and Toyota/Lexus do the same deal.
I have a Sears-branded record player, but of course Sears doesn't manufacture anything so I opened it up. It had a Panasonic label on the circuit board, so I got a better quality unit that what I originally thought.
I design computer chips. Nothing high-speed, just 500 megahertz, but even I know it *is* possible to eliminate clock jitter. You can make the final received data look as good as the original source, such that even with an oscilloscope you can't see any difference.
I've got some amazing Denon wire here, personally spit-polished to ensure the absolute best in digital transmission quality. And at only $249 this is a real bargain! (audiophiles stampede into the room). My god. It's almost like being Timothy Geitner - I'm printing my own money.
>>>ahem. as both a designer and builder of digital audio equipment, I have to say you are DEAD WRONG.
(falls over laughing)
Oh that was good. A digital audio designer? Yeah. I believe that. Well then you should know that digital audio is self-correcting. It does not matter if the twisted-pair wires are unequal or equal, because you will get the same result regardless. That's the advantage of digital audio - it's unnecessary to buy a $500 cable because error correction makes even a $5 cable work perfectly, such that the received bitstream is identical in both cases.
Stupid audiophuck. We're not in the error-prone analog world anymore.
>>>ethernet cable (modern spec) has UNEQUAL LENGTH WIRES. This will 'mess' with digital audio clock and data (i2s).
Even if we assume that's true, digital error correction will correct any clock skew, so it does not matter if the wire are unequal. You will get the same result as if the wires were equal. That's the advantage of digital audio - it's self-corrects.
You're the typical audiophile who is still thinking in analog terms (which can be affected by inferior wire), and not realizing the new digital formats make it unnecessary to buy a $500 cable because error correction makes even a $5 cable work perfectly.
Not true. Those laws still would have passed Congress, been signed by the President, and become law.
But the States would have (probably) declared them "unconstitutional" because Congress doesn't have the authority to regulate such things as who I hire or don't hire in my small store. ----- Now if Congress wants to add an amendment to the Constitution to enable them to regulate who gets hired or not, based upon color or sex, then they could do that. But without that amendment the Congress has no such power.
Also there have been a lot of BAD laws that deserved to be declared unconstitutional by the States. Like the Fugitive Slave Act which required northern free states to return escaped blacks to southern slave states. Bad, bad law. This amendment, had it existed then, would have killed that bad law within 1-2 years of its passage.
The Constitution exists for a reason - to be ignored is not that reason. It's a limitation on the central government's power so it does not become a tyranny, like it's rapidly becoming. (Example: Telling us we MUST buy health insurance, or join an HMO, or else be fined.)
Actually I'm anti-materialism, so I have zero interest in cars, TVs, or other junk. Hell the computer I'm typing on was built in 2002! Instead I'd probably follow in Benjamin Franklin's footsteps, save the extra ~$25,000 per year in my bank, and then retire when I'm circa 40.
After that I'd just tinker around, trying to help people wherever I could.
BTW it isn't "the government's money". They didn't sweat and labor to earn it. I did.
Actual the real problem was arrogance. The European leaders thought the war would be over in just a few months. Had they known in advance it would be 4 years of hell, they'd likely have said, "These treaties are just words on a page," and not gone to war over one man's death.
I also think President Wilson's lie to "keep us out of war" and then turn-around and enter the war anyway... grants him the award of Greatest Liar in American history. The U.S. had no business interfering with a war that was basically an internal Euro matter. We didn't interfere with the Napoleonic Wars or the British-French wars - neither should we have interfered with the 1914 War.
>>>I doubt the State government would overrule the Federal
It's happened in the past. In the early 1800s the Northern States refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, effectively nullifying Congressional law. More recently states are ignoring the U.S. prohibition on marijuana and making it legal for use by doctors (via prescription).
I think giving States the power to declare laws "unconstitutional" would effectively shackle Washington, and keep them from doing idiotic, tyrannical stuff (like fining me $2500 for not joining an HMO). Checks and balances on power. Just like we learned in school.
Bad assumption. People often operate things at a loss, simply because they enjoy it. For example the niteshdw.com website (which had been sued by MPAA) was operating at a loss. The owner kept it going by using his own salary from being a full-time engineer.
Illogical. The threat from nuclear annihilation is higher now than it was in 2007, thanks to Iran's and Pakistan's recent experiments with missile launches and nuclear bombs. They could nuke the European Union or the Russian Federation.
It should have been moved close to midnight but I suspect these guys, like the Nobel Foundation, are in love with the new president. They think the world is all rainbows and poppies now, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Well that's what happens when you have a Central government that pretends the People's Constitution does not exist. The government just does whatever the hell it feels like. It's leadership unconstrained by laws.
Proposed Amendment XXVIII
Section 1. After a Bill has become Law, if one-fourth* of the States declare the Law to be "unconstitutional" it shall be null and void. It shall be as if the Law never existed.
Section 2. This article shall be inoperative, unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths* of the several States by the date January 1, 2050.
That's an awfully big assumption. Sure he collected $34,000 from donations but if his online billing/expenses were $40,000 then he's not really getting rich, is he?
The Authors Guild probably would sue libraries if they didn't already have hundreds of years of history behind them. The only reason online sharing of books is illegal is because it's a new concept. The Boston Public Library is allowed to exist, but bostonlibrary.com is not.
I just met a woman like that yesterday. I asked her a couple questions about, "How do you know peanuts are at fault for your illness?" hoping she'd provide some evidence to back-up her claims, butshe refused to answer. She just saying she "knows" it's the peanuts, and I some stop asking annoying quesions.
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Actually the telegram says IF the U.S. entered the war THEN Germany would ally with Mexico. Had the U.S. stayed out of war, minded its own business, and not interfered with an internal European conflict, Germany would not have bothered us at all. - If God forbid a civil war broke-out inside the European Union, do we have any right to interfere? NO. They didn't interfere with our civil war, and we should not interfere with theirs. It's a European matter and the EU's responsibility to fix, not ours.
Same applies to the Great War of 1914.
Especially after Wilson was re-elected upon his promise to stay out of it.
It's also worth nothing that American interference in European matters set-up the genesis for World War 2. Had Americans not interfered, rather than a defeated Germany, the Great War would have ended with a stalemate, Germany would have retired from the battlefield with honor, and there would have been no opportunity for the Nazis to rise to power.
>>>The government only sucked away $25,000 in taxes, not $30,000.
Only? That was over 40% of my earnings. That means I was a virtual slave of Uncle Sam from January to June 2nd, where all the money earned during that time was sent to the U.S. or State governments.
>>>it's not like "the government" is some guy who's taking all your money and using it to sip margaritas on the beach.
You might want to rethink that. There are "some guys" in Congress who do exactly that, or else use taypayer-paid government planes to fly themselves (and their kids) to Europe for a vacation, or..... I could go on and on.
>>>You were driving on your private roads on the way to work
Since roads are funded by a toll paid at the gasoline pump, there's no reason for government to be sucking money from my paycheck to pay for roads. The cost was already paid when I filled-up the car.
Well it turns out you're right. S/PDIF doesn't use error correction. It's as error-prone as analog. What idiot would design a digital transmission protocol without built-in error correction?
That's a difference in the codec software. I've observed the same with m PS2 which plays DVDs just fine, but doesn't apply any kind of filtering so dark scenes look pixelated. The same DVD on my Sony 5-disc player applies post-processing filters to smooth the pixels and create a near-flawless image.
I like your post but there is a minor error. OS X is not open source. It's derived from NeXT which is a closed-source OS from the 1980s that was ported to the PowerPC platform, and is still closed source today.
Wow. I can't believe I just defended Apple. That's like defending Chrysler's practice of taking a Dodge Stratus, rebadging it a chrysler sebring, and then adding 10,000 to the pricetag. Honda/Acura and Toyota/Lexus do the same deal.
This also works in the opposite direction.
I have a Sears-branded record player, but of course Sears doesn't manufacture anything so I opened it up. It had a Panasonic label on the circuit board, so I got a better quality unit that what I originally thought.
I design computer chips. Nothing high-speed, just 500 megahertz, but even I know it *is* possible to eliminate clock jitter. You can make the final received data look as good as the original source, such that even with an oscilloscope you can't see any difference.
(shines ethernet cable)
(attaches fake Denon label)
I've got some amazing Denon wire here, personally spit-polished to ensure the absolute best in digital transmission quality. And at only $249 this is a real bargain! (audiophiles stampede into the room). My god. It's almost like being Timothy Geitner - I'm printing my own money.
>>>ahem. as both a designer and builder of digital audio equipment, I have to say you are DEAD WRONG.
(falls over laughing)
Oh that was good. A digital audio designer? Yeah. I believe that. Well then you should know that digital audio is self-correcting. It does not matter if the twisted-pair wires are unequal or equal, because you will get the same result regardless. That's the advantage of digital audio - it's unnecessary to buy a $500 cable because error correction makes even a $5 cable work perfectly, such that the received bitstream is identical in both cases.
Stupid audiophuck. We're not in the error-prone analog world anymore.
>>>ethernet cable (modern spec) has UNEQUAL LENGTH WIRES. This will 'mess' with digital audio clock and data (i2s).
Even if we assume that's true, digital error correction will correct any clock skew, so it does not matter if the wire are unequal. You will get the same result as if the wires were equal. That's the advantage of digital audio - it's self-corrects.
You're the typical audiophile who is still thinking in analog terms (which can be affected by inferior wire), and not realizing the new digital formats make it unnecessary to buy a $500 cable because error correction makes even a $5 cable work perfectly.
Not true. Those laws still would have passed Congress, been signed by the President, and become law.
But the States would have (probably) declared them "unconstitutional" because Congress doesn't have the authority to regulate such things as who I hire or don't hire in my small store. ----- Now if Congress wants to add an amendment to the Constitution to enable them to regulate who gets hired or not, based upon color or sex, then they could do that. But without that amendment the Congress has no such power.
Also there have been a lot of BAD laws that deserved to be declared unconstitutional by the States. Like the Fugitive Slave Act which required northern free states to return escaped blacks to southern slave states. Bad, bad law. This amendment, had it existed then, would have killed that bad law within 1-2 years of its passage.
The Constitution exists for a reason - to be ignored is not that reason. It's a limitation on the central government's power so it does not become a tyranny, like it's rapidly becoming. (Example: Telling us we MUST buy health insurance, or join an HMO, or else be fined.)
What's wrong with QWERTY?
Actually I'm anti-materialism, so I have zero interest in cars, TVs, or other junk. Hell the computer I'm typing on was built in 2002! Instead I'd probably follow in Benjamin Franklin's footsteps, save the extra ~$25,000 per year in my bank, and then retire when I'm circa 40.
After that I'd just tinker around, trying to help people wherever I could.
BTW it isn't "the government's money". They didn't sweat and labor to earn it. I did.
I don't know what YOU are thinking, but I was thinking of the Wizard of Oz - rainbows and poppies.
Actual the real problem was arrogance. The European leaders thought the war would be over in just a few months. Had they known in advance it would be 4 years of hell, they'd likely have said, "These treaties are just words on a page," and not gone to war over one man's death.
I also think President Wilson's lie to "keep us out of war" and then turn-around and enter the war anyway... grants him the award of Greatest Liar in American history. The U.S. had no business interfering with a war that was basically an internal Euro matter. We didn't interfere with the Napoleonic Wars or the British-French wars - neither should we have interfered with the 1914 War.
Paypal charges 30 cents per transaction, so you'd end up with nothing.
I gave one hundred. I'd give more if the government had not sucked-away almost $25,000 in taxes last year.
>>>I doubt the State government would overrule the Federal
It's happened in the past. In the early 1800s the Northern States refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, effectively nullifying Congressional law. More recently states are ignoring the U.S. prohibition on marijuana and making it legal for use by doctors (via prescription).
I think giving States the power to declare laws "unconstitutional" would effectively shackle Washington, and keep them from doing idiotic, tyrannical stuff (like fining me $2500 for not joining an HMO). Checks and balances on power. Just like we learned in school.
Bad assumption. People often operate things at a loss, simply because they enjoy it. For example the niteshdw.com website (which had been sued by MPAA) was operating at a loss. The owner kept it going by using his own salary from being a full-time engineer.
Also add:
Illogical. The threat from nuclear annihilation is higher now than it was in 2007, thanks to Iran's and Pakistan's recent experiments with missile launches and nuclear bombs. They could nuke the European Union or the Russian Federation.
It should have been moved close to midnight but I suspect these guys, like the Nobel Foundation, are in love with the new president. They think the world is all rainbows and poppies now, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Well that's what happens when you have a Central government that pretends the People's Constitution does not exist. The government just does whatever the hell it feels like. It's leadership unconstrained by laws.
Proposed Amendment XXVIII
Section 1. After a Bill has become Law, if one-fourth* of the States declare the Law to be "unconstitutional" it shall be null and void. It shall be as if the Law never existed.
Section 2. This article shall be inoperative, unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths* of the several States by the date January 1, 2050.
*
* [This is called a constitutional majority.]
Profit?
That's an awfully big assumption. Sure he collected $34,000 from donations but if his online billing/expenses were $40,000 then he's not really getting rich, is he?
The Authors Guild probably would sue libraries if they didn't already have hundreds of years of history behind them. The only reason online sharing of books is illegal is because it's a new concept. The Boston Public Library is allowed to exist, but bostonlibrary.com is not.
I just met a woman like that yesterday. I asked her a couple questions about, "How do you know peanuts are at fault for your illness?" hoping she'd provide some evidence to back-up her claims, butshe refused to answer. She just saying she "knows" it's the peanuts, and I some stop asking annoying quesions.
She had no reasoning ability whatsoever.