"if you're making a mint" are the key words. Most are just struggling along not making rent which many somehow think they're entitled to. Or like me, not monetizing, so I don't get to play the angst game - and don't care. I'm just glad google is willing to store and stream my bits, more or less free, under what we know are the conditions - they have all my info anyway.
No one wants to turn that rock over. Like Jill Stein's investigation that found more blue votes than there were voters. That got shut down real quick. They're all dirty - wake up.
It's all greater fool. When GM went bankrupt, I couldn't trade my stock for a drill press or robot - only bondholders get to do that, and in GM's case, they got screwed too, thanks to the O administration, and most are still very butt-hurt about it, just ask one. Stock has zero intrinsic value - it's a loan to the company that they don't have to pay back - you still have to find a greater fool. The company may - at their discretion - pay a dividend, but there's no legal requirement to do so. Hey, I traded for a decade or so, I kinda experienced a lot of this first hand. Nope, I didn't get into crypto as there are far more greater fools who believe underlying value in some corp means anything to the value of that stock certificate (which you don't even get nowadays, it's just bits - fully imaginary and by-agreement of the parties). .
Um. Greece, Italy, Spain....wealthy? The people who owe them money that will never be paid back but pretend otherwise? The failed socialist societies now having to re-figure since their wealth was based on resources that are dropping in price or running out? Ummm...Ok, let's watch and see what actually happens. The whole developed world is a debt bomb, and how that gets resolved when the world decides to address that - separately or together - will matter more I think.
I see homeless, migrants who won't assimilate, wealthy MIC, high Gini coefficients wherever I look, and a tendency to turn inward as though it was all the fault of "those other guys" - and have heard lots of noise about the EU being quite the failed experiment. The exit meme isn't just about the UK.
The obvious reason for that is the decoupling between the money sources and sinks, the running of big deficits is not enforced. So those who think they are wealthy now have a day of reckoning coming where they find out their wealth is a bad loan -aaaannnnd it's gone. Sound familiar?
If the EU wasn't free-riding on the UK why are they acting so petty about them leaving?
When you got money, you got lots of friends..when things get tough you find out who the real ones are. Maybe it's hard to see in a mirror.
I'm not calling anyone or entity blameless in this.
Just look how this scheme has worked out for the **IAA, or for the guys who wanted google to pay for linking their stuff and sending them customers, and so on. This scheme won't fly, just like they didn't, and for the same reason.
From normal commerce. We'll see how that plays out. Sure, demanding more money always results in more money, no one ever turns away and finds another fungible source for the same stuff, right? - unless you're exceptional and unique. Don't they lambaste Americans who think that kinda stuff?
Maybe the Brits are leaving a sinking ship just in time...
There is, it's just that those who call themselves the good guys aren't any longer. They're the problem. They even fear logic and downvote things like I posted above about where this leads. It's a stupid last gasp - censorship only keeps the real fools from being shown as what they are...but agency employees trying to keep that pay coming aren't that smart - or are depending on you being dumb.
I'll just leave this here. Note the date: https://phys.org/news/2011-10-...
I think you can work out the implications on your own.
"Give me 6 lines written by the purest of men, and I'll find wherewithal to hang him in them".
The breakthough is not needing those 6 lines at all.
If they get the law they think they can get (by blackmailing the politicians? Dragnet had to include them, probably them first) - they can then demand you decrypt random bits - and bust you if you can't - or they can - make/dev/random say what they want to believe.
It won't matter if you use effectively unbreakable crypto - the laws of math and all that. It'll only make it worse.
You only went back to 92. Young guy? Bad parenting began before the internet - most modern tools just make bad parenting easier, as well as convince people it's OK.
Idiots who never learned to read, spell, or use the grammar of our native tongue.
We've certainly become dumber, not sure it's all on google, though. How about this new world where no one reads things that have been properly edited.
There really is a difference between lose and loose, to and too and two...and so on, English isn't phonetic. "bonics (not necessarily E) don't get it for me, personally.
And when they use a spiel checker, they rape what they sew. Sometimes automation makes it easy to not-learn. If you can't write or speak correctly, how in heck can you think properly?
OP is correct, and sometimes nothing but good broadband "flat" spectrum will do. I'm off the grid, and started at a time when anything that saved energy was worth it compared to $6/watt solar panels. Then and now (and still off grid) I keep a few halogens around in the lab/shop for when I really want to examine something carefully. Even once CCFL's got to a pretty good point, their main use was as a few narrow lines (you could see in any diffraction grating - or a CD) - and sometimes that wasn't stupid, but...
Initial LEDs were even worse, with that too-high color temperature from short wave LEDs with some phosphors trying to restore a decent spectrum. I wasted endless money on those for my off grid homestead. Now all in a cabinet, the ones that didn't go bad...and a few old CCFLs that have *better* color renditions than the older leds.
Now they are passing/OK, and I use mostly all leds. But I stocked up on various incandescents as they are still for example superior "self healing fuses" with that 10::1 hot to cold resistance ratio and make good series protectors, far better than any other solid state device - with a free indication that they're working. I also use them as elements in pirani vacuum gages. Now, anyone who wants things like that to cost $70 instead of 70 cents...raise your hand now! It'll come back to you in other bills you pay if hackers can't get cheap devices with unique characteristics...
Sadly, that even happens in real life. You don't have to like it, but it's pretty hard to stop unless you're wise enough to not need validation from cattle.
Take away their safe harbor protection, since they are no longer one. If they curate, it's no longer just the comments of the participants, it's now "journalism" and things like libel apply...which would of course, shut down all the people on the "other side" from the ones they're silencing as well, and we could go back to kitty pix and meals and platitudes....in peace.
Oxygen - not air. Lithium reacts with nitrogen too. As Bruce said - this is a "give me money" clickbait press release. Think of the issues of first having pure oxygen - and then solve the rest, heh. Li reacts with a lot of things, nitrogen, water, and carbon dioxide among them. The reason we use it in batteries is that it's the lightest strongly electro-positive element. Another way of saying "really reactive...".
I see these BS science press releases near daily. If 1 millionth of them came true, we'd have solar panels with 5000% efficiency, batteries that would launch a settlement to the planets, all disease would be cured, and we'd live 300 years. After awhile, you learn not to pay too much attention, and/or learn enough to know that while they may not be out and out lying, they're doing politician-speak - making some BS sound good and leaving out all the unpleasant parts.
And once you learn how to parse that, politics BS detection will make you more cynical...
I think that was just a way to let them save some face if they then did the right thing. Of course a lawyer might not understand the details of possible internal CPU interactions. They should, or not have been hired, but hey...I liked that "fire from a cannon" remark above.
What's absolutely not acceptable is a lawyer who doesn't understand the law, the customer base, the Streisand effect...and a bunch of other similar things - that's supposedly their expertise.
These things are demonstrably NOT the expertise of whatever management probably drove this. Who also need the cannon treatment, maybe more than some wet-behind-the-ears new-hire inexpensive lawyer.
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I think these things are probably well understood by all parties except the unwashed who don't think about things like this in detail. EG, as I said above, it was probably a sound-bite suggestion on how to save a little face, which indeed often facilitates then doing the right thing. Not a stupid way to get things to happen, even if it IS stupid that such diversions are helpful at all.
I tried advertising online and got the responses I mentioned. To add detail, offers in the range of 10 cents/tube.
Yeah, I sold the big few audio tubes for decent money right off- now about that other 6-10,000. Bizarre CRT's with a deflection electrode in the center for early radars...a box of matched and tektronix-serialel 6au6s...an egg crate full of 866's (merc vapor rectifiers - some people would call that a serious hazmat). People forget that nearly all the tubes you youngn's know about now were a tiny fraction of the total number that existed. Half this collection is the old fat-pin types for example, tubes with 2 digit numbers.
IRE - no interest at all other than from museums who wish that not only would I give them free, but pay for the packing and shipping. So perhaps they can make money from it in some way. You know what it'd cost to pack and ship a bookcase 4' by 7' tall?
But I'll be a bad man if I put all that kinda stuff in the dumpster...instead of saving it for posterity.
Maybe if I bundle in the 500 lbs of UTC linear-standard transformers, but only if you take it all - and that Grass-Telefactor lie detector...and the racks of GAP-r opamps.
All that happens at my cost - of at least time - I had to pay a few thousand just to get an incomplete listing of what it is I have (much is inherited)...It sucks.
Dunno about that - being a pretty ready rural dweller, owning extra tools and even vacuum tube stuff, with solar power and so on - All EMP proof for example..and having good neighbors also well equipped - and who farm "stuff" to eat, might be the very most valuable things you could "own" in a pinch.
Depends on the pinch. Doubt there'll be any much better place to live than where I do already if climate change kicks in, but then as an old fart, I'm not going to be able to hold my breath too long either. If you think you're going to have to move, do it now when it's easier...fewer zombies in the way./s
It can be worse when they last too long, too. What am I gonna do with a building full of out of date data books, obscure vacuum tubes, WWII through 60's electronics? Don't tell me ebay - no one will pay enough to be worth the drive to the post office for any of this stuff.
The idea of dumpster turns me green... an almost complete copy of every IRE proceedings, through IEEE, dead tree? That's a pretty decent truckload, BTW.
At some point your stuff starts to own you. Not that I favor the "rent" model, and "everything as a service" either. That might be why people own less - they've already been nickled and dimed to death, while as has been said, buying stuff with money they don't have to impress people who don't care...
Not sure the time period, it's been awhile to be sure. I did not know anyone was doing frequency compression, and to be honest, having done some of the original work on nonlinear audio editing, and having been born to the guy who did the first formant synthesizer in the USA...I have my doubts how helpful that is if it screws up the relationships between formants, which are the key to knowing the vowels.
At the time the company that took our tech and made a big success of it was Miracle Ear.
But if it helps it helps.
The rest of my "anecdotes" are faithful representations of the truth as observed by an honest guy.
And of course and app can attempt to substitute for judgement, or instead actually be useful - I've seen more of the former, haven't you? IBM' Watson hasn't done that well it seems. Your key word (good choice) was "could". "Will" is another matter entirely. Kind of like stories with that word in the headline, and the answer is nearly always no.
I worked in the aid biz for awhile and have some mixed feelings about audiologists, but not all bad.
Aids don't frequency shift, it's more like a graphic EQ that boosts the regions of loss - to a point. It's not as simple as just measuring loss and adjusting the EQ to the inverse. Because even if you have loss - SPLs above a certain level will cause even more - the short term palliative treatment kills the rest of hearing in the longer term.
Good aids (like the ones we (developed and some others) help with localization - a common complaint among the old at least, and have noise gating and output limiting to handle noises you normally wouldn't think of as bad, but after the boost are dangerous - clattering silverware is a classic example.
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Supposedly, it's not just a hearing test you get at the audiologist - a *good* one would be at least looking into the "why" a little bit, as an aid might not be the whole answer to your issues - the cause of the loss might be ongoing and at least somewhat correctable.
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Just like a doctor or a lawyer, a bad audiologist will take your money, do the simplest/highest-profit thing, and send you out the door.
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We worked with one fine lady who had serious loss (not an audiologist) who made the decision that even though enough boost to make her hearing useful would destroy it the rest of the way in a few years - it was worth it for her. Her audiologist went wild, but a person's choices are their own, in my opinion, along with the consequences. If I'm not paying for your bad choices, I don't care. Of course, no one in politics takes a stance like that - it angers both sides of a false dichotomy.
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Nah, it's just hacked together in perl...https://xkcd.com/224/
Right, Kaenneth - so why talk at all? Oh, to encourage greater fools, I get it. EG, pretty slimy.
And you're so sure you had the confidence to post with your real nick, or even your real name, right?
"if you're making a mint" are the key words. Most are just struggling along not making rent which many somehow think they're entitled to. Or like me, not monetizing, so I don't get to play the angst game - and don't care. I'm just glad google is willing to store and stream my bits, more or less free, under what we know are the conditions - they have all my info anyway.
No one wants to turn that rock over. Like Jill Stein's investigation that found more blue votes than there were voters. That got shut down real quick. They're all dirty - wake up.
Yeah, those. They suck and shouldn't be handed this power to prevaricate and instigate further "need" for themselves and the MIC.
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My god, it's full of bits!
The obvious reason for that is the decoupling between the money sources and sinks, the running of big deficits is not enforced. So those who think they are wealthy now have a day of reckoning coming where they find out their wealth is a bad loan -aaaannnnd it's gone. Sound familiar?
If the EU wasn't free-riding on the UK why are they acting so petty about them leaving?
When you got money, you got lots of friends..when things get tough you find out who the real ones are. Maybe it's hard to see in a mirror.
I'm not calling anyone or entity blameless in this.
Just look how this scheme has worked out for the **IAA, or for the guys who wanted google to pay for linking their stuff and sending them customers, and so on. This scheme won't fly, just like they didn't, and for the same reason.
From normal commerce. We'll see how that plays out. Sure, demanding more money always results in more money, no one ever turns away and finds another fungible source for the same stuff, right? - unless you're exceptional and unique. Don't they lambaste Americans who think that kinda stuff?
Maybe the Brits are leaving a sinking ship just in time...
There is, it's just that those who call themselves the good guys aren't any longer. They're the problem. They even fear logic and downvote things like I posted above about where this leads. It's a stupid last gasp - censorship only keeps the real fools from being shown as what they are...but agency employees trying to keep that pay coming aren't that smart - or are depending on you being dumb.
I'll just leave this here. Note the date: https://phys.org/news/2011-10-...
I think you can work out the implications on your own.
"Give me 6 lines written by the purest of men, and I'll find wherewithal to hang him in them". /dev/random say what they want to believe.
The breakthough is not needing those 6 lines at all.
If they get the law they think they can get (by blackmailing the politicians? Dragnet had to include them, probably them first) - they can then demand you decrypt random bits - and bust you if you can't - or they can - make
It won't matter if you use effectively unbreakable crypto - the laws of math and all that. It'll only make it worse.
You only went back to 92. Young guy? Bad parenting began before the internet - most modern tools just make bad parenting easier, as well as convince people it's OK.
There really is a difference between lose and loose, to and too and two...and so on, English isn't phonetic. "bonics (not necessarily E) don't get it for me, personally.
And when they use a spiel checker, they rape what they sew. Sometimes automation makes it easy to not-learn. If you can't write or speak correctly, how in heck can you think properly?
OP is correct, and sometimes nothing but good broadband "flat" spectrum will do. I'm off the grid, and started at a time when anything that saved energy was worth it compared to $6/watt solar panels. Then and now (and still off grid) I keep a few halogens around in the lab/shop for when I really want to examine something carefully. Even once CCFL's got to a pretty good point, their main use was as a few narrow lines (you could see in any diffraction grating - or a CD) - and sometimes that wasn't stupid, but...
Initial LEDs were even worse, with that too-high color temperature from short wave LEDs with some phosphors trying to restore a decent spectrum. I wasted endless money on those for my off grid homestead. Now all in a cabinet, the ones that didn't go bad...and a few old CCFLs that have *better* color renditions than the older leds.
Now they are passing/OK, and I use mostly all leds. But I stocked up on various incandescents as they are still for example superior "self healing fuses" with that 10::1 hot to cold resistance ratio and make good series protectors, far better than any other solid state device - with a free indication that they're working. I also use them as elements in pirani vacuum gages. Now, anyone who wants things like that to cost $70 instead of 70 cents...raise your hand now! It'll come back to you in other bills you pay if hackers can't get cheap devices with unique characteristics...
You're making sense AND you got voted up. Is this still slashdot, or am I in some alternate universe?
Sadly, that even happens in real life. You don't have to like it, but it's pretty hard to stop unless you're wise enough to not need validation from cattle.
Take away their safe harbor protection, since they are no longer one. If they curate, it's no longer just the comments of the participants, it's now "journalism" and things like libel apply...which would of course, shut down all the people on the "other side" from the ones they're silencing as well, and we could go back to kitty pix and meals and platitudes....in peace.
Oxygen - not air. Lithium reacts with nitrogen too. As Bruce said - this is a "give me money" clickbait press release. Think of the issues of first having pure oxygen - and then solve the rest, heh. Li reacts with a lot of things, nitrogen, water, and carbon dioxide among them. The reason we use it in batteries is that it's the lightest strongly electro-positive element. Another way of saying "really reactive...".
I see these BS science press releases near daily. If 1 millionth of them came true, we'd have solar panels with 5000% efficiency, batteries that would launch a settlement to the planets, all disease would be cured, and we'd live 300 years. After awhile, you learn not to pay too much attention, and/or learn enough to know that while they may not be out and out lying, they're doing politician-speak - making some BS sound good and leaving out all the unpleasant parts.
And once you learn how to parse that, politics BS detection will make you more cynical...
What's absolutely not acceptable is a lawyer who doesn't understand the law, the customer base, the Streisand effect...and a bunch of other similar things - that's supposedly their expertise.
These things are demonstrably NOT the expertise of whatever management probably drove this. Who also need the cannon treatment, maybe more than some wet-behind-the-ears new-hire inexpensive lawyer.
.
I think these things are probably well understood by all parties except the unwashed who don't think about things like this in detail. EG, as I said above, it was probably a sound-bite suggestion on how to save a little face, which indeed often facilitates then doing the right thing. Not a stupid way to get things to happen, even if it IS stupid that such diversions are helpful at all.
I tried advertising online and got the responses I mentioned. To add detail, offers in the range of 10 cents/tube. Yeah, I sold the big few audio tubes for decent money right off- now about that other 6-10,000. Bizarre CRT's with a deflection electrode in the center for early radars...a box of matched and tektronix-serialel 6au6s...an egg crate full of 866's (merc vapor rectifiers - some people would call that a serious hazmat). People forget that nearly all the tubes you youngn's know about now were a tiny fraction of the total number that existed. Half this collection is the old fat-pin types for example, tubes with 2 digit numbers.
IRE - no interest at all other than from museums who wish that not only would I give them free, but pay for the packing and shipping. So perhaps they can make money from it in some way. You know what it'd cost to pack and ship a bookcase 4' by 7' tall?
But I'll be a bad man if I put all that kinda stuff in the dumpster...instead of saving it for posterity.
Maybe if I bundle in the 500 lbs of UTC linear-standard transformers, but only if you take it all - and that Grass-Telefactor lie detector...and the racks of GAP-r opamps.
All that happens at my cost - of at least time - I had to pay a few thousand just to get an incomplete listing of what it is I have (much is inherited)...It sucks.
Dunno about that - being a pretty ready rural dweller, owning extra tools and even vacuum tube stuff, with solar power and so on - All EMP proof for example..and having good neighbors also well equipped - and who farm "stuff" to eat, might be the very most valuable things you could "own" in a pinch. /s
Depends on the pinch. Doubt there'll be any much better place to live than where I do already if climate change kicks in, but then as an old fart, I'm not going to be able to hold my breath too long either. If you think you're going to have to move, do it now when it's easier...fewer zombies in the way.
It can be worse when they last too long, too. What am I gonna do with a building full of out of date data books, obscure vacuum tubes, WWII through 60's electronics? Don't tell me ebay - no one will pay enough to be worth the drive to the post office for any of this stuff. The idea of dumpster turns me green... an almost complete copy of every IRE proceedings, through IEEE, dead tree? That's a pretty decent truckload, BTW.
At some point your stuff starts to own you. Not that I favor the "rent" model, and "everything as a service" either. That might be why people own less - they've already been nickled and dimed to death, while as has been said, buying stuff with money they don't have to impress people who don't care...
Spreads beyond Hollywood. News at 11. Frank Zappa was right - again.
Not sure the time period, it's been awhile to be sure. I did not know anyone was doing frequency compression, and to be honest, having done some of the original work on nonlinear audio editing, and having been born to the guy who did the first formant synthesizer in the USA...I have my doubts how helpful that is if it screws up the relationships between formants, which are the key to knowing the vowels.
At the time the company that took our tech and made a big success of it was Miracle Ear.
But if it helps it helps.
The rest of my "anecdotes" are faithful representations of the truth as observed by an honest guy.
And of course and app can attempt to substitute for judgement, or instead actually be useful - I've seen more of the former, haven't you? IBM' Watson hasn't done that well it seems. Your key word (good choice) was "could". "Will" is another matter entirely. Kind of like stories with that word in the headline, and the answer is nearly always no.
Good aids (like the ones we (developed and some others) help with localization - a common complaint among the old at least, and have noise gating and output limiting to handle noises you normally wouldn't think of as bad, but after the boost are dangerous - clattering silverware is a classic example.
.
Supposedly, it's not just a hearing test you get at the audiologist - a *good* one would be at least looking into the "why" a little bit, as an aid might not be the whole answer to your issues - the cause of the loss might be ongoing and at least somewhat correctable.
.
Just like a doctor or a lawyer, a bad audiologist will take your money, do the simplest/highest-profit thing, and send you out the door.
.
We worked with one fine lady who had serious loss (not an audiologist) who made the decision that even though enough boost to make her hearing useful would destroy it the rest of the way in a few years - it was worth it for her. Her audiologist went wild, but a person's choices are their own, in my opinion, along with the consequences. If I'm not paying for your bad choices, I don't care. Of course, no one in politics takes a stance like that - it angers both sides of a false dichotomy.