This extension has it backwards. Why allow everyone to blare noise at you, and then have to dig around and find who it is? The right thing to do is to deny everyone the ability to make noise, and only grant permission as needed.
Going into debt can be a good strategy to becoming debt free. Suppose you're out of work and have a small amount of debt, but don't have a car. If there are no jobs in walking distance it might make sense to borrow some money for a car. This will help you get a job, pay off your car loan and your existing debt, and hopefully start saving.
Of course, this isn't what the US is doing. We are borrowing without a plan to become solvent in the future. This deserves all the vitriol it gets.
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One thing the Republican party; and yes I will call them out on this; and their supporters on various blogs and the media won't tell you is this.
There are two sides to the Laffer curve. Raising high taxes decreases revenue. Lowering low taxes decreases revenue. Taxes are already at historically low levels, so it's pretty obvious what we should be doing to increase revenue.
I've never seen a leftist or Democrat of any type, extremist or moderate, deny that the downward slope of the Laffer curve exists. On the other hand, denial that the upward slope of the Laffer curve seems to be axiomatic for Republicans.
There's a simple problem with social networking with pseudonyms: you can't find people from real life.
That's not a bug, it's a feature. If you know someone in real life, ask them if they have an account. This lets them decide who they want reading their page.
you can working out who someone is from their connection on a social media site so long as you already have enough background knowledge
That's assuming they have links on their social network that connect back to them IRL. It's entirely possible to have a completely online group of friends, and to keep that world utterly separate.
If I were to join a social network with a pseudonym, and then add my mom as a friend, then of course you can figure out who I am. If I join a social network with a pseudonym and only add people I know from IRC, who have no reason to know my real name, then it's not possible to figure out my real name.
You know, whether or not the original article is BS, why is the very first point that the rebuttal piece linked above makes the fact that the original article uses the word 'alarmist' umpteen times? This is like counting the number of times the word 'denier' appears in the rebuttal. Both sides call each other names.
Because a journalist isn't supposed to take sides. The journalists job is to take the science and communicate what it actually says to the general public. It is not their job to spin science or make it conform to talking points.
The repeated use of the phrase "alarmist computer models" shows that this is not a work of journalism, but one of propaganda.
Nonsense. The Supreme Court is composed of fallible (and corruptible) human beings. If you believe in the rule of law, and not men, they cannot simply change the constitution by disregarding what the constitution actually says. When the Supreme Court fails in their obligation to uphold the constitution, it doesn't make unconstitutional acts constitutional, it makes the US government illegitimate.
Amplifiers are audio reproduction devices. Quality is fidelity, nothing more.
To press on your analogy with painting, consider if Van Gogh's Starry Night was destroyed. Would you rather have an accurate high resolution photograph to remember it by, or are the works of imitators sufficient?
His call to "spread the wealth" isn't far left through government confiscation?
No, that's moderate. Taking care of the least advantaged is one of the essential services of government. Denying that basic fact is far right.
Nationalizing health care isn't far left?
Obama's health care plan is to the right of Nixon's. Was Nixon a leftist?
His constant campaigning against anyone more right than himself isn't far left?
Obama is a right leaning Democrat. Anyone to the right of him is a Republican. Of course he's going to campaign against them. Also, you're forgetting that he's appointed several Republicans, as well as people like Timothy Geitner. Hardly something a leftist would do.
The appointment of left-wing wacko's like Van Jones isn't far left?
As special advisor for green jobs? Sounds like busy work.
Left leaning anarchists (e.g. Bakunin) predicted the tyranny that would follow if a Marxist revolution ever occurred. I'd say that makes them at least a bit more realistic than Marx was.
The secret hope of left leaning anarchists is little more than seeing todays successful democratic socialist governments taken to their logical conclusion. More direct democracy and more direct ownership of the means of production.
But I can think of many comics with great story lines that aren't common household names.
If they're not household names, why would the average household make a night of seeing them in a movie? The whole point of a super hero movie is a recognizable license. If you don't have that you might as well write a new story. That's why the Watchmen didn't live up to expectations. Nobody except for hard core comics nerds ever heard of it before.
If a large enough percentage of profit is pumped back into the creators, you'd see an explosion of people vying for that market with new and original ideas.
There are already too many people with movie ideas. Ideas are the easy part. Creative people are happy to create, nobody is eschewing hollywood for wall street.
The problem is getting people to fund and market new and unique ideas. New ideas are scary and risky for investors.
Solid state is much more linear and low noise than any tubes could hope to be. You might think they sound "better" because you like the characteristics of the distortion they produce. But that's unrelated to what we normally consider audio quality.
Quality is mostly subjective anyway. Good marketing has a much bigger influence on your subjective impression of quality than actual linearity in response and low noise floor. We got to the point of diminishing returns on audio quality decades ago.
Nonsense. In the absence of political power to constrain it, economic power fills the void. Nothing makes money better than money, so any concentrations in money (and therefore power) will amplify over time. You have to abolish both.
Remember what Bakunin said, "freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality".
If the Republicans caved on the tax cuts, it would be a major concession.
If the Republicans caved on the tax cuts, it would be a major concession for the Republicans. If the Democrats caved on the tax cuts, it would be a major concession for the Democrats. The Democrats have caved. They have made major concessions. The Republicans have made none. They don't know the meaning of compromise, and neither do you.
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What?! 900,000?! There is no way that could be right.
This extension has it backwards. Why allow everyone to blare noise at you, and then have to dig around and find who it is? The right thing to do is to deny everyone the ability to make noise, and only grant permission as needed.
Going into debt can be a good strategy to becoming debt free. Suppose you're out of work and have a small amount of debt, but don't have a car. If there are no jobs in walking distance it might make sense to borrow some money for a car. This will help you get a job, pay off your car loan and your existing debt, and hopefully start saving.
Of course, this isn't what the US is doing. We are borrowing without a plan to become solvent in the future. This deserves all the vitriol it gets.
One thing the Republican party; and yes I will call them out on this; and their supporters on various blogs and the media won't tell you is this.
There are two sides to the Laffer curve. Raising high taxes decreases revenue. Lowering low taxes decreases revenue. Taxes are already at historically low levels, so it's pretty obvious what we should be doing to increase revenue.
I've never seen a leftist or Democrat of any type, extremist or moderate, deny that the downward slope of the Laffer curve exists. On the other hand, denial that the upward slope of the Laffer curve seems to be axiomatic for Republicans.
There's a simple problem with social networking with pseudonyms: you can't find people from real life.
That's not a bug, it's a feature. If you know someone in real life, ask them if they have an account. This lets them decide who they want reading their page.
you can working out who someone is from their connection on a social media site so long as you already have enough background knowledge
That's assuming they have links on their social network that connect back to them IRL. It's entirely possible to have a completely online group of friends, and to keep that world utterly separate.
If I were to join a social network with a pseudonym, and then add my mom as a friend, then of course you can figure out who I am. If I join a social network with a pseudonym and only add people I know from IRC, who have no reason to know my real name, then it's not possible to figure out my real name.
You know, whether or not the original article is BS, why is the very first point that the rebuttal piece linked above makes the fact that the original article uses the word 'alarmist' umpteen times? This is like counting the number of times the word 'denier' appears in the rebuttal. Both sides call each other names.
Because a journalist isn't supposed to take sides. The journalists job is to take the science and communicate what it actually says to the general public. It is not their job to spin science or make it conform to talking points.
The repeated use of the phrase "alarmist computer models" shows that this is not a work of journalism, but one of propaganda.
One thing I don't see is where the power comes from. Is there power available over HDMI? Or is there another port for a wall wart?
Indeed. This will be pretty neat to tinker with at hotels.
Doesn't anyone test the source tarball to ensure you can recreate the binary from it?
ALDI will sell anything it can get at ridiculously low prices. You have to take the ridiculously low quality with it.
The more these patent trolls do their thing, the closer we get to legislation that puts an end (or at least seriously hampers) such behavior
Boy are you naive. This is the system working as intended.
Nonsense. The Supreme Court is composed of fallible (and corruptible) human beings. If you believe in the rule of law, and not men, they cannot simply change the constitution by disregarding what the constitution actually says. When the Supreme Court fails in their obligation to uphold the constitution, it doesn't make unconstitutional acts constitutional, it makes the US government illegitimate.
in order to try to rush through a renewal of the FISA Amendments Act, which unconstitutionally allowed warrantless wiretapping in the U.S.
Amplifiers are audio reproduction devices. Quality is fidelity, nothing more.
To press on your analogy with painting, consider if Van Gogh's Starry Night was destroyed. Would you rather have an accurate high resolution photograph to remember it by, or are the works of imitators sufficient?
His call to "spread the wealth" isn't far left through government confiscation?
No, that's moderate. Taking care of the least advantaged is one of the essential services of government. Denying that basic fact is far right.
Nationalizing health care isn't far left?
Obama's health care plan is to the right of Nixon's. Was Nixon a leftist?
His constant campaigning against anyone more right than himself isn't far left?
Obama is a right leaning Democrat. Anyone to the right of him is a Republican. Of course he's going to campaign against them. Also, you're forgetting that he's appointed several Republicans, as well as people like Timothy Geitner. Hardly something a leftist would do.
The appointment of left-wing wacko's like Van Jones isn't far left?
As special advisor for green jobs? Sounds like busy work.
Oral sex may make your day, but anal sex makes your hole week.
McCain WAS a moderate republican. Now he's just senile. Obama is a moderate republican.
Left leaning anarchists (e.g. Bakunin) predicted the tyranny that would follow if a Marxist revolution ever occurred. I'd say that makes them at least a bit more realistic than Marx was.
The secret hope of left leaning anarchists is little more than seeing todays successful democratic socialist governments taken to their logical conclusion. More direct democracy and more direct ownership of the means of production.
Yea but if it was what people preferred, then it was better.
I've got to disagree fundamentally with this statement. When it comes to audio reproduction quality is accuracy, nothing else.
But I can think of many comics with great story lines that aren't common household names.
If they're not household names, why would the average household make a night of seeing them in a movie? The whole point of a super hero movie is a recognizable license. If you don't have that you might as well write a new story. That's why the Watchmen didn't live up to expectations. Nobody except for hard core comics nerds ever heard of it before.
If a large enough percentage of profit is pumped back into the creators, you'd see an explosion of people vying for that market with new and original ideas.
There are already too many people with movie ideas. Ideas are the easy part. Creative people are happy to create, nobody is eschewing hollywood for wall street.
The problem is getting people to fund and market new and unique ideas. New ideas are scary and risky for investors.
Solid state is much more linear and low noise than any tubes could hope to be. You might think they sound "better" because you like the characteristics of the distortion they produce. But that's unrelated to what we normally consider audio quality.
Quality is mostly subjective anyway. Good marketing has a much bigger influence on your subjective impression of quality than actual linearity in response and low noise floor. We got to the point of diminishing returns on audio quality decades ago.
Nonsense. In the absence of political power to constrain it, economic power fills the void. Nothing makes money better than money, so any concentrations in money (and therefore power) will amplify over time. You have to abolish both.
Remember what Bakunin said, "freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality".
If the Republicans caved on the tax cuts, it would be a major concession.
If the Republicans caved on the tax cuts, it would be a major concession for the Republicans. If the Democrats caved on the tax cuts, it would be a major concession for the Democrats. The Democrats have caved. They have made major concessions. The Republicans have made none. They don't know the meaning of compromise, and neither do you.