In your original comment you didn't distinguish between a $100 turntable and a $20,000 turntable. Your subject was "Vinyl is imperfect", not "People spend too much on turntables".
But if that's what you meant then apparently we agree.:D
That's my point. It's not about reproducing the original sound perfectly. It's because they like the distortion that vinyl introduces and that's is what they want to hear.
It's like you're saying I'm fooling myself by playing my electric guitar with the distortion on. Turning off the distortion may "reproduce" the sound of my guitar better, but it's not what I want.
Bahahahaha. This is the most hilarious thing I have read on this site.
According to your premise, someone who is fully functioning but chooses to squander it is better than someone who is diseased and so has no choice.
"Paraplegics are losers. Real winners are born with functioning legs but choose to sever their spinal cord."
+1 Insightful is certainly a valid moderation. This post has definitely given me new insight into... something. What exactly, I'm not sure. I'll figure it out once my sides stop splitting.
They fool themselves into thinking its better reproduction of the original source that digital - its anything but.
I don't think it's that people "fool" themselves. It's that we (humans) actually like distorted sound. The distortion is what makes music, well... music.
An electric guitar and a trumpet can both play the same note, but they don't sound even close to the same. They both introduce different distortion into the sound and that is what our ears find pleasant. The medium itself is no different. The distortion introduced by vinyl was part of the music, and so when newer types of media didn't contain that same distortion, people found it was "missing" something.
I made a submission a while ago about the Game Theory behind nuclear standoffs, and how Trump's approach actually made a lot of sense from that perspective. Here's a quote from the article:
Imagine you’re Trump or Kim Jong Un, essentially playing a game of chicken. You’re driving at high speed directly toward your opponent who’s also racing toward you. Neither of you wants to chicken out and veer away, but neither wants to die, either. Your best strategy? Rip off your steering wheel, make sure your opponent knows you’ve done so, and hit the gas.
Not a Trump supporter, but hey I'm not gonna complain when a broken clock gives me the right time.
No, it's not obvious. OK so you knew, and a possible interpretation of what you said is correct.
But most people actually believe we owe $20 trillion to China. I have had this conversation many times with people I consider to be very intelligent and well informed.
It is a rampant misconception, and one that I myself held until someone else corrected it for me.
But your point is well taken, it is a good thing that the Republicans cut tax revenue further in December so that debt well pile up even faster. MAGA!
Exactly. People keep blaming Presidents for the debt, even though it has pretty steadily increased under 3 different administrations with 3 fairly different economic policies.
The one constant throughout most of that time is Congress. They are to blame for the debt, plain and simple. Until we get a Congress that begins to pass surplus budgets, the debt will continue to increase. It's basic math.
Congress constantly deflects that responsibility to the Presidency, and because many people don't understand how the government works, they follow right along.
Trump is not to blame. Obama was not to blame. Bush was not to blame. Congress is to blame.
Foreign nations don't own all the US debt. Most of the debt is actually borrowed against the future value of social security, or some such financial nonsense.
Honestly I don't understand how it works but as of February only $6trillion or so is owed to foreign countries.
You are one of those people that sets a zero point for history arbitrarily and then references everything to that as if nothing before that ever happened.
So say all the historical documents, where you have German generals, politicians, and the Emperor repeteadly pushing for war in the 1890s and 1900s.
These same documents of course also show that during this time the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russians, etc. were all pacifist nations. Clearly, only German leaders looked favorably on conquest as a means to an end. No one had ever heard the word "Empire" until the Germans came up with it. Expanding your power and territory through military conquest? The British and French would never do such a thing! It's inconceivable!
Please. Germany was following the example set by every European power since... well, since there were European powers.
What was different about WWI was the technology and the alliances that brought so many nations into the conflict at once. If not for those 2 factors it would not have been the "Great War", but rather just "another war" in a very long (and incomplete) list of wars between European nations.
However Germany *was* the main culprit in WW1, the main reason for the most destructive war in human history up to that time.
Says who? The victors write the history books. The Germans were only the main culprits because they lost.
The Triple Alliance/Entente balance was supposed to make war impossible, instead it made it inevitable. It ensured that any minor conflict would become a major conflict. Coupled with the rise of new technology, this ensured the war would be the bloodiest in history. It's not like the Germans were the only ones making machine guns.
What Germany did in WWI did not warrant the Treaty of Versailles. What Germany did in WWII did warrant what happened afterwards.
And I would caution digging too much into European history looking for "who started it". You know, before there was Napoleon III, there was Napoleon I. Just like turtles, it's warmongering dickheads all the way down.
We should also look at countries that have almost no automation. Some examples are Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Mozambique, Guinea, Somalia, and Mali. If automation leads to poverty then by avoiding it, these countries should be doing GREAT! Are they? I haven't checked.
This is like saying there can never be too much oxygen in the atmosphere, because people with too little oxygen suffocate.
Pretty much everything in the Universe is non-linear. Almost anything that appears linear is only within a particular domain. Outside that domain, things become non-linear again. Clearly, if every job is automated, then everyone will be unemployed by definition. However, as you point out, there have been huge economic benefits to automation.
It's a fundamental law of mathematics that any function which is increasing at one point and decreasing at another contains at least one extrema in between.
Haven't you ever checked the oil in your car? You do know there is a minimum AND maximum marker on the dip stick right?
OK, but that definition is completely useless because it's basically a synonym for "software". It defines a category so broad that it loses any real meaning.
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I know Poe's law makes it hard to tell, but I'm pretty sure this person is a troll. Just the username "SJMage" is a pretty dead giveaway IMO.
In your original comment you didn't distinguish between a $100 turntable and a $20,000 turntable. Your subject was "Vinyl is imperfect", not "People spend too much on turntables".
But if that's what you meant then apparently we agree. :D
Lol, I bet you're one of those people who constantly tells "libtards" to "get over it (the 2016 election)".
Meanwhile you're still bitching about something that happened almost 10 years ago and has almost no lasting effect.
Would you feel better if I called the WAAAAAMbulance?
Trump is definitely smarter than 1000 tiny ice crystals. No arguing with that.
That's my point. It's not about reproducing the original sound perfectly. It's because they like the distortion that vinyl introduces and that's is what they want to hear.
It's like you're saying I'm fooling myself by playing my electric guitar with the distortion on. Turning off the distortion may "reproduce" the sound of my guitar better, but it's not what I want.
Bahahahaha. This is the most hilarious thing I have read on this site.
According to your premise, someone who is fully functioning but chooses to squander it is better than someone who is diseased and so has no choice.
"Paraplegics are losers. Real winners are born with functioning legs but choose to sever their spinal cord."
+1 Insightful is certainly a valid moderation. This post has definitely given me new insight into... something. What exactly, I'm not sure. I'll figure it out once my sides stop splitting.
They fool themselves into thinking its better reproduction of the original source that digital - its anything but.
I don't think it's that people "fool" themselves. It's that we (humans) actually like distorted sound. The distortion is what makes music, well... music.
An electric guitar and a trumpet can both play the same note, but they don't sound even close to the same. They both introduce different distortion into the sound and that is what our ears find pleasant. The medium itself is no different. The distortion introduced by vinyl was part of the music, and so when newer types of media didn't contain that same distortion, people found it was "missing" something.
I made a submission a while ago about the Game Theory behind nuclear standoffs, and how Trump's approach actually made a lot of sense from that perspective. Here's a quote from the article:
Imagine you’re Trump or Kim Jong Un, essentially playing a game of chicken. You’re driving at high speed directly toward your opponent who’s also racing toward you. Neither of you wants to chicken out and veer away, but neither wants to die, either. Your best strategy? Rip off your steering wheel, make sure your opponent knows you’ve done so, and hit the gas.
Not a Trump supporter, but hey I'm not gonna complain when a broken clock gives me the right time.
No, it's not obvious. OK so you knew, and a possible interpretation of what you said is correct.
But most people actually believe we owe $20 trillion to China. I have had this conversation many times with people I consider to be very intelligent and well informed.
It is a rampant misconception, and one that I myself held until someone else corrected it for me.
I was merely contesting BlueStrat's use of the word "all". It's a common piece of misinformation that many people believe and is simply not true.
Frankly, to me it is FAR more worrisome that we are somehow able to owe most of our national debt to ourselves. That. Is. Fucked.
But your point is well taken, it is a good thing that the Republicans cut tax revenue further in December so that debt well pile up even faster. MAGA!
Exactly. People keep blaming Presidents for the debt, even though it has pretty steadily increased under 3 different administrations with 3 fairly different economic policies.
The one constant throughout most of that time is Congress. They are to blame for the debt, plain and simple. Until we get a Congress that begins to pass surplus budgets, the debt will continue to increase. It's basic math.
Congress constantly deflects that responsibility to the Presidency, and because many people don't understand how the government works, they follow right along.
Trump is not to blame. Obama was not to blame. Bush was not to blame. Congress is to blame.
Foreign nations don't own all the US debt. Most of the debt is actually borrowed against the future value of social security, or some such financial nonsense.
Honestly I don't understand how it works but as of February only $6trillion or so is owed to foreign countries.
That only refers to the size of the Gate, not the width of the transistor which is the dimension that is used when manufacturers specify "size".
You are one of those people that sets a zero point for history arbitrarily and then references everything to that as if nothing before that ever happened.
So say all the historical documents, where you have German generals, politicians, and the Emperor repeteadly pushing for war in the 1890s and 1900s.
These same documents of course also show that during this time the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russians, etc. were all pacifist nations. Clearly, only German leaders looked favorably on conquest as a means to an end. No one had ever heard the word "Empire" until the Germans came up with it. Expanding your power and territory through military conquest? The British and French would never do such a thing! It's inconceivable!
Please. Germany was following the example set by every European power since... well, since there were European powers.
What was different about WWI was the technology and the alliances that brought so many nations into the conflict at once. If not for those 2 factors it would not have been the "Great War", but rather just "another war" in a very long (and incomplete) list of wars between European nations.
However Germany *was* the main culprit in WW1, the main reason for the most destructive war in human history up to that time.
Says who? The victors write the history books. The Germans were only the main culprits because they lost.
The Triple Alliance/Entente balance was supposed to make war impossible, instead it made it inevitable. It ensured that any minor conflict would become a major conflict. Coupled with the rise of new technology, this ensured the war would be the bloodiest in history. It's not like the Germans were the only ones making machine guns.
What Germany did in WWI did not warrant the Treaty of Versailles. What Germany did in WWII did warrant what happened afterwards.
And I would caution digging too much into European history looking for "who started it". You know, before there was Napoleon III, there was Napoleon I. Just like turtles, it's warmongering dickheads all the way down.
We should also look at countries that have almost no automation. Some examples are Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Mozambique, Guinea, Somalia, and Mali. If automation leads to poverty then by avoiding it, these countries should be doing GREAT! Are they? I haven't checked.
This is like saying there can never be too much oxygen in the atmosphere, because people with too little oxygen suffocate.
Pretty much everything in the Universe is non-linear. Almost anything that appears linear is only within a particular domain. Outside that domain, things become non-linear again. Clearly, if every job is automated, then everyone will be unemployed by definition. However, as you point out, there have been huge economic benefits to automation.
It's a fundamental law of mathematics that any function which is increasing at one point and decreasing at another contains at least one extrema in between.
Haven't you ever checked the oil in your car? You do know there is a minimum AND maximum marker on the dip stick right?
BUDGETS ARE SET BY CONGRESS NOT THE PRESIDENT.
Damnit filter, I want to yell. I will yell this until it gets through to thickheaded ACs and users alike.
Yeah, Trump HATES golf. Well known fact.
If I hear one more person claim rape isn't a sex crime
??? Do people say this?
Sadly, Americans still think they have the best and greatest in the world.
Yeah, you know who never makes fun of America? Americans.
In a country in which you can get $20 million from a corporation because you spilled coffee on yourself? No, you're right, they probably wouldn't.
Good thing there is no such country, since you are completely ignorant of the case you think you are referencing.
OK, but that definition is completely useless because it's basically a synonym for "software". It defines a category so broad that it loses any real meaning.
Damn. Well said.
Great. Not sure what that has to do with what I said.
That has nothing to do with what I am saying.
You can have farms inside cities that grow some things and farms like we have today to grow the rest.