you can be easily killed in moments with simple chinese takeout chopsticks, 1 set, in at least 30 ways off the top of my head.
Go on then. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume these 30 'ways' are all actually variations on stabbing. So what, through the ear, nose, eyes, maybe throat. I don't think a chopstick will go through a rib cage, well maybe if you do it right but probably not consistently. So come on then 20+ more 'ways'? Don't forget the within moments part.
Well good for your country that prices it so cheap I wonder how much they are paying your local folklore records and if they are available anywhere else? Hondo Mclean, Johnny Truant, earthtone9, Skindred. Do me a favour, stick those in and see what comes up I am actually interested. As far as I can tell there's no way to check what music they have before you sign up I would assume you can get most of the big names but again, only if they have signed up because it's not all music is it? And even then it's a nightmare of international rights that even if something is available there's no guarantees it will be in the future. I think it's obvious I don't use spotify but I'm not pretending I'm too good for it, it just doesn't appeal, apparently the same way ripping cds doesn't appeal to you.
The only real upside I can see is that it gives you a modicum of better control over your collection and a backup in case or data loss (albeit with a ton of work to restore).
I think the real difference is people who enjoy music vs people who listen to it. If you just listen you don't care what the song is or who its by as long as there's another one after. Speaking of data loss though, how long is streaming service x going to be available and what happens when it shuts down?
I guess if you're in the hunt for older songs on CDs you can get them for a buck a dozen.
Assuming you live in an area with an assortment of flea markets or Goodwill. Otherwise you're out of luck.
Or ebay, amazon, craigslist etc etc. The internet is good for more than just streaming you know.
A yearly subscription to Spotify gives you access to millions of songs. But only 3 CDs worth of music if you really want to "own" them.
THIS is the thing the "CD forever" people don't get about why their antequated medium is dying.
For the same price as I can buy a few albums, I can stream tens of thousands of albums, more new music than I could listen to in many lifetimes. No way am I going back to the limited selections we had back in the old pre-streaming days.
Once you have infinite music at your fingertips, you are not going back to buying music ever again.
On the other hand, for the same price as millions of shit songs I don't care about I can get a few albums of actually properly good music that I like. If you happen to like genres that aren't pop you've no guarantee they'll have the bands you like, the further you go the less likely, even then there's no guarantee the pop artist you like will be on there either because it's not all music is it? Not even close.
Is that really worth saving the bother of ripping your own cds and maintaining your own collection?
Yes.
Because I barely have any free time and sure as hell I'm not going to waste int in "ripping my own cds" and "maintaining my own collection". I did that 20 years ago, when i was 15 and had all the time in the world. Now? Not so much.
But I still have the "skills" to pirate anything I really want and was "taken away" by some suit who decided I'm not elegible to listen to this song anymore.
And lastly:
GET REAL.
A yearly subscription to Spotify gives you access to millions of songs. But only 3 CDs worth of music if you really want to "own" them.
All the time it takes to click 'rip now' or 'convert cd' or whatever you program of choice says? Yeah whatever, you don't have to babysit the thing. Spotify is $9.99 a month. around the same price as cd. So about the price of 10-12 cds but if you want to treat music as a disposable thing and are only really interested in current pop then that's fair enough. Personally I haven't spent a penny on music in about 10 years. I just kinda got bored of new music and have more than enough in my collection that I don't feel the need to add to it, if there was anything I wanted to but that's a different issue.
Anyway. if you think the trade off is worth it then good for you. But no complaining when spotify shuts down and you're left with nothing but a dick in your ass for the hundred twenty dollars you've put in per year.
Convenient for the vendor maybe, not the user. Sure, it may seem more convenient on the surface. One recurring payment for all the music you could want but once you get past the caveats, advertising, info slurping, streaming, data rates and limits, limited selections subject to change at any time, the risk of the service shutting down and many more. Is that really worth saving the bother of ripping your own cds and maintaining your own collection?
The vast majority of people have spoken: there is no point to having an SD card in a phone. That's why most of them don't support it. If their customers all wanted it, it would have it. The few niche people who need to have their pirate video collection play on their phone have to buy a niche market phone that supports it. End of story. Who the hell watches video on their phone anyway? I see a handful of people do it on a plane. But outside of that, nobody.
My music folder is 12.7gb alone, and that is pathetic next to some peoples, not everyone wants or is able to stream everything. Until the last generation or so there was no way that was fitting on internal storage with enough space left over to do anything else with. As space increases its less of an issue but when they price memory at such a premium do you really want that? What's the price difference between a 32gb and 64gb iphone and what's the cost of a 32gb sd card?
There are many things that are perfectly safe which when we find out what is happening sounds dangerous. There are also a lot of things that we think are as safe is actually quite dangerous.
Let me tell you all about this scary as hell common chemical called DHMO. Deadly in every form it is, and completely unregulated, they put in everything from medicine to toilet cleaner!
I would say it's because TV and music are all getting very samey and a bit shitty but games are kinda doing that too. I'm pretty sure it's the loot boxes.
That explains by Chinese scientists beat the American scientists in placing a spacecraft on the far side of the moon.
Is any one else even trying to do that? NASA are all about Mars these days and the ESA and JAXA seem to be more interested in asteroids and other stuff further out.
You know, aside from me missing an 'n' in an 'an', its kind of ironic. Your sarcasm will be proven wrong, because it is, in point of fact, a seriously cool achievement for the Chinese.
For the Chinese, yeah. Everyone else is like 'oh right, well let us know if you find anything cool'.
You keep telling yourself that...
Can you imagine if the makers of your car decided to throttle your old engine on purpose to, you know, "prevent problems". You pull out to pass someone on the highway and suddenly the car loses a pile of horsepower to "save the engine" and puts your life (and those you're heading towards head on) in danger. You'd lose your shit and you know it.
Loads of cars actually do that. Well the car doesn't know what you're doing but they will give you limited performance is there's an issue. What would make you lose your shit more, pulling out to overtake and losing some power or pulling out to overtake and have your engine flat out die on you? It's not really the same thing though is it?
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you can be easily killed in moments with simple chinese takeout chopsticks, 1 set, in at least 30 ways off the top of my head.
Go on then. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume these 30 'ways' are all actually variations on stabbing. So what, through the ear, nose, eyes, maybe throat. I don't think a chopstick will go through a rib cage, well maybe if you do it right but probably not consistently. So come on then 20+ more 'ways'? Don't forget the within moments part.
Well good for your country that prices it so cheap I wonder how much they are paying your local folklore records and if they are available anywhere else? Hondo Mclean, Johnny Truant, earthtone9, Skindred. Do me a favour, stick those in and see what comes up I am actually interested. As far as I can tell there's no way to check what music they have before you sign up I would assume you can get most of the big names but again, only if they have signed up because it's not all music is it? And even then it's a nightmare of international rights that even if something is available there's no guarantees it will be in the future. I think it's obvious I don't use spotify but I'm not pretending I'm too good for it, it just doesn't appeal, apparently the same way ripping cds doesn't appeal to you.
The only real upside I can see is that it gives you a modicum of better control over your collection and a backup in case or data loss (albeit with a ton of work to restore).
I think the real difference is people who enjoy music vs people who listen to it. If you just listen you don't care what the song is or who its by as long as there's another one after. Speaking of data loss though, how long is streaming service x going to be available and what happens when it shuts down?
I guess if you're in the hunt for older songs on CDs you can get them for a buck a dozen. Assuming you live in an area with an assortment of flea markets or Goodwill. Otherwise you're out of luck.
Or ebay, amazon, craigslist etc etc. The internet is good for more than just streaming you know.
A yearly subscription to Spotify gives you access to millions of songs. But only 3 CDs worth of music if you really want to "own" them.
THIS is the thing the "CD forever" people don't get about why their antequated medium is dying.
For the same price as I can buy a few albums, I can stream tens of thousands of albums, more new music than I could listen to in many lifetimes. No way am I going back to the limited selections we had back in the old pre-streaming days.
Once you have infinite music at your fingertips, you are not going back to buying music ever again.
On the other hand, for the same price as millions of shit songs I don't care about I can get a few albums of actually properly good music that I like. If you happen to like genres that aren't pop you've no guarantee they'll have the bands you like, the further you go the less likely, even then there's no guarantee the pop artist you like will be on there either because it's not all music is it? Not even close.
Quality>quantity
Yes. Because I barely have any free time and sure as hell I'm not going to waste int in "ripping my own cds" and "maintaining my own collection". I did that 20 years ago, when i was 15 and had all the time in the world. Now? Not so much. But I still have the "skills" to pirate anything I really want and was "taken away" by some suit who decided I'm not elegible to listen to this song anymore. And lastly:
GET REAL.
A yearly subscription to Spotify gives you access to millions of songs. But only 3 CDs worth of music if you really want to "own" them.
All the time it takes to click 'rip now' or 'convert cd' or whatever you program of choice says? Yeah whatever, you don't have to babysit the thing. Spotify is $9.99 a month. around the same price as cd. So about the price of 10-12 cds but if you want to treat music as a disposable thing and are only really interested in current pop then that's fair enough. Personally I haven't spent a penny on music in about 10 years. I just kinda got bored of new music and have more than enough in my collection that I don't feel the need to add to it, if there was anything I wanted to but that's a different issue.
Anyway. if you think the trade off is worth it then good for you. But no complaining when spotify shuts down and you're left with nothing but a dick in your ass for the hundred twenty dollars you've put in per year.
> CDs are guaranteed to be DRM free
So everybody just *imagined* this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal) happened?
No, but it didn't install on cd players.
much more convenient.
Convenient for the vendor maybe, not the user. Sure, it may seem more convenient on the surface. One recurring payment for all the music you could want but once you get past the caveats, advertising, info slurping, streaming, data rates and limits, limited selections subject to change at any time, the risk of the service shutting down and many more. Is that really worth saving the bother of ripping your own cds and maintaining your own collection?
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES AND PROPAGANDA NAZI PEDO KEN DOLL
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What are these lies and propaganda? Please expand. Does anyone know what this guy is always on about?
thats what they get for putting a damn notch in my screen.
You're the one who bought the piece of shit.
and I was modded down.
So I guess you don't get to hear my story.
Aw, I'm sure it was a great one too.
The vast majority of people have spoken: there is no point to having an SD card in a phone. That's why most of them don't support it. If their customers all wanted it, it would have it. The few niche people who need to have their pirate video collection play on their phone have to buy a niche market phone that supports it. End of story. Who the hell watches video on their phone anyway? I see a handful of people do it on a plane. But outside of that, nobody.
My music folder is 12.7gb alone, and that is pathetic next to some peoples, not everyone wants or is able to stream everything. Until the last generation or so there was no way that was fitting on internal storage with enough space left over to do anything else with. As space increases its less of an issue but when they price memory at such a premium do you really want that? What's the price difference between a 32gb and 64gb iphone and what's the cost of a 32gb sd card?
Red Dead Redemption 2 (2nd game in the series, but since it's basically "Grand Theft Auto on a horse" you could almost say it's the 17th GTA game)
Red Dead 2 is actually the third in the series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
These days though I basically pour my time into elite and pubg and get way more entertainment than any film or tv show I know of.
Here's a better idea: Let's not shoot lasers at people's faces.
This is about as dangerous as me shooting my tv remote at your face.
There are many things that are perfectly safe which when we find out what is happening sounds dangerous. There are also a lot of things that we think are as safe is actually quite dangerous.
Let me tell you all about this scary as hell common chemical called DHMO. Deadly in every form it is, and completely unregulated, they put in everything from medicine to toilet cleaner!
This has the potential to be dangerous, albeit not lethal with the typical power levels found in a modern phone.
How? These aren't fucking laser guns, not even laser pointers. Exactly what danger do you think they pose?
Beau not working, again?
Don't bite the other hand that feeds.
I would say it's because TV and music are all getting very samey and a bit shitty but games are kinda doing that too. I'm pretty sure it's the loot boxes.
I've just invented colour TV. What do you mean it's inferior and you've moved on to HDR?
They watched the original moon landing on black and white.
That explains by Chinese scientists beat the American scientists in placing a spacecraft on the far side of the moon.
Is any one else even trying to do that? NASA are all about Mars these days and the ESA and JAXA seem to be more interested in asteroids and other stuff further out.
but I seem to remember some pretty harsh passages about homosexuality in the old testament,
Yeah right before the bit that says you're not allowed tattoos or piercing either but you don't see many people protesting outside tattoo parlours.
You know, aside from me missing an 'n' in an 'an', its kind of ironic. Your sarcasm will be proven wrong, because it is, in point of fact, a seriously cool achievement for the Chinese.
For the Chinese, yeah. Everyone else is like 'oh right, well let us know if you find anything cool'.
Your not missing anything.
You are though.
With pro level machines, machines priced for education and the general public to mitigate and ups and downs in sales.
Good one.
You keep telling yourself that... Can you imagine if the makers of your car decided to throttle your old engine on purpose to, you know, "prevent problems". You pull out to pass someone on the highway and suddenly the car loses a pile of horsepower to "save the engine" and puts your life (and those you're heading towards head on) in danger. You'd lose your shit and you know it.
Loads of cars actually do that. Well the car doesn't know what you're doing but they will give you limited performance is there's an issue. What would make you lose your shit more, pulling out to overtake and losing some power or pulling out to overtake and have your engine flat out die on you? It's not really the same thing though is it?