Moreover, there are plenty of Li-ion batteries out there that haven't overheated, burned, detonated, or imploded into naked singularities causing the annihilation of life as we know it.
Osama's won. Our society's changed for the worst and the current Administration has helped keep us in fear of ourselves. All Al Queda has to do now is threaten to hack the server of the kid selling lemonade on the corner and the TSA puts us on Orange alert and we all have to be on the look out for strange people doing strange things while holding 3.1oz. of fluid in hard to see-through bags. God help us if a TSA agent drives through North Hollywood, CA on his way to work one night. He'd lose his mind and we'd go to Red alert and DEFCON 1.
Commenting on just the "People are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of the law in the US" statement...
That only applies during the trial.
If the law presumed you were innocent then most arrests wouldn't happen (you're innocent after all, aren't you?). For the few arrests that did occur, it would then be rare for the DA to indict you (you're innocent after all, aren't you?). No, our system assumes guilt for the purpose of arrest and bringing charges and only presumes innocence during the trial.
I can't name the guy but there was the son of a responder that died when the Towers fell who O'Reilly invited on the show. When the man tried to" give his opinion about the Iraq invasion (i.e. something anti-Bush), O'Reilly is said to have told him to shut up. Not sure if it made it on air but it was in the show transcript. Al Franken talks about it in his book, "Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them." I'll check the book tonight and re-post if I was mistaken.
O'Reilly has lived in his own reality for so long that he doesn't realize how disconnected he is. He's probably that last person short of Rush Limbaugh who can safely accuse any group of people of being divorced from reality. And for that matter, who's reality is he talking about? His Neo-Con, GOP Cheerleader, Reality? Gimme a break.
This might not count for much in this day of digital audio but anyone who still listens to vinyl records have the RIAA to thank for something: The RIAA Equalization Curve
The RIAA Equalization Curve is used to describe the property of a specially tuned audio amplifier that boosts low frequencies and then slowly tapers to unity gain as it approaches the higher frequencies. In effect, an audio amplifier with a "permanent" graphic equalizer feature.
Without this curve, the sound coming from a record player would be tinny and totally lacking in bottom-end. Those little record player pre-amps they sell at Radio Shack are low-voltage amplifiers that implement this curve so you can connect your record player to your modern AV unit that lacks a Phono input but has a Aux input.
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Osama's won. Our society's changed for the worst and the current Administration has helped keep us in fear of ourselves. All Al Queda has to do now is threaten to hack the server of the kid selling lemonade on the corner and the TSA puts us on Orange alert and we all have to be on the look out for strange people doing strange things while holding 3.1oz. of fluid in hard to see-through bags. God help us if a TSA agent drives through North Hollywood, CA on his way to work one night. He'd lose his mind and we'd go to Red alert and DEFCON 1.
Commenting on just the "People are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of the law in the US" statement...
That only applies during the trial.
If the law presumed you were innocent then most arrests wouldn't happen (you're innocent after all, aren't you?). For the few arrests that did occur, it would then be rare for the DA to indict you (you're innocent after all, aren't you?). No, our system assumes guilt for the purpose of arrest and bringing charges and only presumes innocence during the trial.
I can't name the guy but there was the son of a responder that died when the Towers fell who O'Reilly invited on the show. When the man tried to" give his opinion about the Iraq invasion (i.e. something anti-Bush), O'Reilly is said to have told him to shut up. Not sure if it made it on air but it was in the show transcript. Al Franken talks about it in his book, "Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them." I'll check the book tonight and re-post if I was mistaken.
O'Reilly has lived in his own reality for so long that he doesn't realize how disconnected he is. He's probably that last person short of Rush Limbaugh who can safely accuse any group of people of being divorced from reality. And for that matter, who's reality is he talking about? His Neo-Con, GOP Cheerleader, Reality? Gimme a break.
She farts in bed? Still not a deal breaker. :)
This might not count for much in this day of digital audio but anyone who still listens to vinyl records have the RIAA to thank for something: The RIAA Equalization Curve
The RIAA Equalization Curve is used to describe the property of a specially tuned audio amplifier that boosts low frequencies and then slowly tapers to unity gain as it approaches the higher frequencies. In effect, an audio amplifier with a "permanent" graphic equalizer feature.
Without this curve, the sound coming from a record player would be tinny and totally lacking in bottom-end. Those little record player pre-amps they sell at Radio Shack are low-voltage amplifiers that implement this curve so you can connect your record player to your modern AV unit that lacks a Phono input but has a Aux input.