Obama released his certification of live birth before being elected president. That is Prima Facia evidence of being a Natural Born Citizen which stood up to several court challenges.
Bull puckey. Under Hawaiian law the previous short form Certification of Live Birth released year ago is just as much a birth certificate as this recent document.
Being born on US soil makes you a full blown natural born citizen with the sole exception of a child of an ambassador or occupying army. This is 400 year old English common law and was affirmed in the Supreme Court decision United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898).
Neither of these exceptions applies to the president.
Anything else is birther delusions.
"It thus clearly appears that by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country, and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, and the jurisdiction of the English sovereign; and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject, unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign state, or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born. III. The same rule was in force in all the English colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the constitution as originally established."
It isn't a matter of reading specs. Speakers, almost more than anything else you can buy tell you nothing about the performance you get from their specifications.
It's a knowledge of basic physics plus looking at designs plus having listened to a lot of speakers and having read reviews of the BL5 by people who also understand these principles.
There is a reason that you don't see omnidirectional or vertical axial radiating speakers in critical installations like mixing studios. A key factor in sound reproduction is that the sound field gets muddled by reflections from the room walls. Acoustic treatment of listening rooms always has management of reflection points as a key goal.
Speakers designed like the BL5 have a lot more of these reflections. Add in other design factors like the double flanges and the two midranges and you are going have issues. It's Acoustics 101.
If you are interested in the science, get some of the books by Leo Beranek and Floyd Toole. Baranek was a professor at MIT and founder of Bolt Beranek and Newman who were famous for designing the acoustics of the Unite Nations Assembly Hall along with having a key role in the founding of the internet. Dr. Floyd Toole ran the acoustics testing program for the Canadian National Research Council which was responsible for the success of several Canadian speaker companies, and later became the head of Research at Harman (parent company of JBL, Infinity, Revel etc).
The Beolab 5 like all omnidirectional speakers can generate a very pleasing sound effect. The Beolab 5 also uses some nice components. HOWEVER there are some fundamental flaws to the design that make it unsuitable for critical music reproduction. In particular this design is subject to what is known as the "flanging effect" that makes creation of a good stereo image impossible because of the upper and lower discs. It is an interference or comb-filter in the audio spectrum. These speakers also have a dip in the upper bass / lower midrange which may or may not be to your taste, but is certainly not accurate.
It's a gimmick speaker which will sound unique in a pleasing manner and sell well - but not to people who have developed a critical ear.
Go listen to Dynaudio, Wilson, Revel, B&W, Aerial and so on. It takes a while to develop a good ear for these things and the only way to do it is to get out there and hear them. If you can swing it buy some examples of these speakers and live with them. You can get some really good deals on used ones, and speaker technology doesn't change very fast. It's mostly about electromechanical components and getting the best materials, then refining the crossovers and cabinets.
Bose is way overpriced for what you get. They are a lifestyle product with a really huge marketing budget. There are many competitors who do a better job.
BOSE = Buy Other Sound Equipment.
If you want to hear good sound go to an audio dealer who carries Revel.
I don't really think that is the correct question. Perhaps we should be asking the question "Do we want to continue to pay for governments sending us physical mail rather than using more efficient technology?"
There is nothing going on here that requires you to use this email address for your own personal communications.
Outsourcing is a threat because senior managers are under financial pressure and think engineers are a fungible commodity. They don't learn the truth until they wreck or nearly wreck their company going down that road.
If you want to see the results of outsourcing on a massive scale, Google 'Dreamliner delay'.
I find the quality and reliability of these streams to be pretty bad. Not to mention that every now and then the aggregation sites are seized by the DOJ/FBI/DHS.
I call BS on that. The fact is that there is damn little that I want to watch available vie streaming. My Netflix queue has less than 10% of it's content available for streaming. Add in the fact that few of the movies available for streaming can be had in surround sound, (forget anything good like DTS-MA) and even now a fair number of them are still only available in 4:3 SD. Then add in the issues with subtitles etc. it just is not the experience I want.
Then add in the fact that the studios are playing games by jacking up the content prices on Netflix, some have actually withdrawn titles from streaming availability, and so on, I am firmly on board with the idea physical media is the best way to view a film.
I have a wire in my house that gives me thirty-five million bits a second.
I want the HD physical media. Streaming puts you at the mercy of the content owner who can and does make content available or unavailable at whim. Look at the shenanigans on Vudu and Netflix if you don't believe me.
But but the file size isn't the same. It is the largest file size for a movie that I have ever heard of. Not to mention that they could well be using a variable bit rate.
That's your particular life. No problem. But the fact is as the article stated that half of all disk players being sold are now BD. That isn't exactly floundering. That's rapid growth considering that a mere two years ago their market share was 5%.
Anyone who wants decent sound quality to go with their movies needs disks. Seriously the sound quality on Netflix is abysmal. Modern movies in stereo when DTS-MA 7.1 is available? You have got to be joking.
That's because FOTR was mastered at lower resolution than Two Towers and ROTK which are pretty good on BD. The release of the extended editions includes a remaster of FOTR and since the movies are being split across two 50 GB disks it looks like the bit rate will be very high too.
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Obama released his certification of live birth before being elected president. That is Prima Facia evidence of being a Natural Born Citizen which stood up to several court challenges.
WHAT THE FSCK MORE DO YOU WANT!!!
Bull puckey. Under Hawaiian law the previous short form Certification of Live Birth released year ago is just as much a birth certificate as this recent document.
Rejecting it is just birther idiocy.
Being born on US soil makes you a full blown natural born citizen with the sole exception of a child of an ambassador or occupying army. This is 400 year old English common law and was affirmed in the Supreme Court decision United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898).
Neither of these exceptions applies to the president.
Anything else is birther delusions.
"It thus clearly appears that by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country, and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, and the jurisdiction of the English sovereign; and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject, unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign state, or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born. III. The same rule was in force in all the English colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the constitution as originally established."
It isn't a matter of reading specs. Speakers, almost more than anything else you can buy tell you nothing about the performance you get from their specifications.
It's a knowledge of basic physics plus looking at designs plus having listened to a lot of speakers and having read reviews of the BL5 by people who also understand these principles.
There is a reason that you don't see omnidirectional or vertical axial radiating speakers in critical installations like mixing studios. A key factor in sound reproduction is that the sound field gets muddled by reflections from the room walls. Acoustic treatment of listening rooms always has management of reflection points as a key goal.
Speakers designed like the BL5 have a lot more of these reflections. Add in other design factors like the double flanges and the two midranges and you are going have issues. It's Acoustics 101.
If you are interested in the science, get some of the books by Leo Beranek and Floyd Toole. Baranek was a professor at MIT and founder of Bolt Beranek and Newman who were famous for designing the acoustics of the Unite Nations Assembly Hall along with having a key role in the founding of the internet. Dr. Floyd Toole ran the acoustics testing program for the Canadian National Research Council which was responsible for the success of several Canadian speaker companies, and later became the head of Research at Harman (parent company of JBL, Infinity, Revel etc).
The Beolab 5 like all omnidirectional speakers can generate a very pleasing sound effect. The Beolab 5 also uses some nice components. HOWEVER there are some fundamental flaws to the design that make it unsuitable for critical music reproduction. In particular this design is subject to what is known as the "flanging effect" that makes creation of a good stereo image impossible because of the upper and lower discs. It is an interference or comb-filter in the audio spectrum. These speakers also have a dip in the upper bass / lower midrange which may or may not be to your taste, but is certainly not accurate.
It's a gimmick speaker which will sound unique in a pleasing manner and sell well - but not to people who have developed a critical ear.
Go listen to Dynaudio, Wilson, Revel, B&W, Aerial and so on. It takes a while to develop a good ear for these things and the only way to do it is to get out there and hear them. If you can swing it buy some examples of these speakers and live with them. You can get some really good deals on used ones, and speaker technology doesn't change very fast. It's mostly about electromechanical components and getting the best materials, then refining the crossovers and cabinets.
Bose is way overpriced for what you get. They are a lifestyle product with a really huge marketing budget. There are many competitors who do a better job.
BOSE = Buy Other Sound Equipment.
If you want to hear good sound go to an audio dealer who carries Revel.
Here in New Jersey USA I get 30/5 uncapped for $45 USD.
The secret is competition; both FIOS and Cablevision serve my area.
Which is why I am not switching to FIOS. Technically the service is fine, but billing and service are abysmal.
The issue is not uptime. It is the loss of sensitive data. If Sony is holding personal data they have an obligation to protect that data.
Are like excuses. Everybody has one.
Your facts are rather reminiscent of Baloney. Let's just pick one:
"BP not being sued or fined or anything over the GoM disaster"
A quick Google search picks up the following:
BP, Drilling Partners Sued by U.S. Government Over Gulf Oil Spill for 21 billion dollars.
BP Sued by Pointe Au Chien Indian Tribe Over Spill Damage, Fishing ..
BP sued by $132.6 billion New York State pension fund - Jun. 23, 2010
Most of the other citations you list are equally dubious.
As far as the Sony case, there are already class action lawsuits in progress in the US. I am sure they will be saying a lot more than "Sorry".
The big worry is that somebody will use the information garnered to create a new credit card account in your name, take out a bank loan, etc.
If I were in this situation I'd put a lock on my credit histories.
They should pay for credit account monitoring and identity theft insurance for all involved.
But that's ok, we are going to see some lawyers make a bundle on this.
I don't really think that is the correct question. Perhaps we should be asking the question "Do we want to continue to pay for governments sending us physical mail rather than using more efficient technology?"
There is nothing going on here that requires you to use this email address for your own personal communications.
Outsourcing is a threat because senior managers are under financial pressure and think engineers are a fungible commodity. They don't learn the truth until they wreck or nearly wreck their company going down that road.
If you want to see the results of outsourcing on a massive scale, Google 'Dreamliner delay'.
What is this outside you speak of?
I find the quality and reliability of these streams to be pretty bad. Not to mention that every now and then the aggregation sites are seized by the DOJ/FBI/DHS.
I'm almost there, however live sports is a hard thing to find an alternative channel for.
You may get a more unvarnished opinion from this site.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/search.php?searchid=17645769
I call BS on that. The fact is that there is damn little that I want to watch available vie streaming. My Netflix queue has less than 10% of it's content available for streaming. Add in the fact that few of the movies available for streaming can be had in surround sound, (forget anything good like DTS-MA) and even now a fair number of them are still only available in 4:3 SD. Then add in the issues with subtitles etc. it just is not the experience I want.
Then add in the fact that the studios are playing games by jacking up the content prices on Netflix, some have actually withdrawn titles from streaming availability, and so on, I am firmly on board with the idea physical media is the best way to view a film.
I have a wire in my house that gives me thirty-five million bits a second.
I want the HD physical media. Streaming puts you at the mercy of the content owner who can and does make content available or unavailable at whim. Look at the shenanigans on Vudu and Netflix if you don't believe me.
But but the file size isn't the same. It is the largest file size for a movie that I have ever heard of. Not to mention that they could well be using a variable bit rate.
That's your particular life. No problem. But the fact is as the article stated that half of all disk players being sold are now BD. That isn't exactly floundering. That's rapid growth considering that a mere two years ago their market share was 5%.
Anyone who wants decent sound quality to go with their movies needs disks. Seriously the sound quality on Netflix is abysmal. Modern movies in stereo when DTS-MA 7.1 is available? You have got to be joking.
That's because FOTR was mastered at lower resolution than Two Towers and ROTK which are pretty good on BD. The release of the extended editions includes a remaster of FOTR and since the movies are being split across two 50 GB disks it looks like the bit rate will be very high too.
Hopefully this release will be top notch.