And I would give the room more emphasis.
I spent a lot of time building out my listening room.
I have decent but fairly modest equipment but a kick ass room acoustically.
I've been to friends homes with $40,000 worth of two channel stereo equipment in a living room and it was largely wasted.
The sad fact is that it's usually way easier to spend money on equipment than to build out a room.
I was very fortunate in that I was building a new house so I could design a space. Very few people have that luxury.
Part of the reason we pay taxes is because they are good for the economy, as they keep money flowing in the economy and increases employment in the public sector thus increasing consumption by the working class
Yes, thats why I break a random window in the city every day. It keeps the money flowing and therefore increases employment and consumption.
As a software developer I always seek to uncover the fundamental underlying rules from the requirements so...
"Don't stick important thingie into untrusted, but attractive thingie."
In the real world, no studio will ever make much use of this. My oldest son is a trailer editor in Hollywood and he has great stories about the process.
The studios subcontract trailers out to the trailer houses, usually multiple ones for each film. Then they micromanage the crap out of the process at each house. Then they sometimes take all the trailers and re cut in house to come with a Frankentrailer that some committee agrees on.
That's often the best case scenario.
My son has been made to make up dialog that's not in the movie at all before. The talent couldn't be gotten to record something so he was instructed to create a line from phonemes cut and pasted into a file. I kid you not. Sometimes a studio will bring in the dailies and have him start picking stuff knowing that the actual film might not even have the scenes after the final edit.
And then there is the fact that many trailers of different length and content are made for different markets and media.
As a middle aged U.S. white guy, I've had the same treatment going into Canada with my family before 9/11. Stern looks and questions about my job in the U.S., family, etc. All this and we had documentation of the return flight and hotel reservations for the weekend stay. I can't believe they thought we were trying to sneak in as immigrants or something.
We must ban all people from meeting in groups without authorized monitoring... they could be plotting evil....
This pretty much describes Singapore. Any thing that *might* be a meeting has to have a permit. Then the not-so-secret police will be present.
The Singaporeans I know just shrug and say "Don't make trouble and you're OK and this stops problems before they can happen"
Not beating up on Singapore, which is a really nice place to visit as a tourist. Just pointing out that a well educated advanced economy allows this sort of thing with hardly a ripple. This could be the U.S. soon.
By the way, next time an anti 2nd amendment moron points to Singapore as an example of sane gun policy, remind them that there literally no real freedoms enshrined in the Singapore constitution. The police can inspect your home at any time without a warrant, stop and check bags at any time, etc. Nice place to visit, but I don't want the U.S. to become Singapore.
COMPLETELY impossible to unscrew the smart thermostat from the wall, unwire it, and (temporarily) install a traditional non-networked thermostat so you could operate your heat (or AC) while you contact the vendor or manufacturer of the smart thermostat for help.
Yes, it can be. I have a 10 year old system with a thermostat that talks to the controller via some fucking proprietary scheme over cat-5 that simply can't be replaced with a simple switch. It isn't IP addressable, so no problem there, (although, that might be preferable now that I think about it) but when it goes tits up, I'm in a world of hurt. Or around $700 of hurt at current Ebay prices.
So, no, sometimes you can't just wire in a cheap replacement.
It's all bullshit pseudo science.
That's what I concluded from years of following discussions, and I never even tried to start any fad diet.
This stuff isn't magic or unknown. Long established science.
Hormones, hormones, hormones.
"Nutritionists" claim all sorts of crap but endocrinologists, at least the good ones, know that there is a vast amount of actual science on mammalian metabolism.
A good book
To say "Calories = calories" is flat wrong. Attention! Automobile analogy coming: Your car will run differently on gasoline vs diesel vs nitro-methane. No one with an I.Q. in the upper two digits or better would claim that they all have the same effect on a car engine for a given number of calories. Our bodies are the same.
The hormonal effect of the *type* of calories makes a huge difference.
I'm ordained clergy. If someone told me in a counseling session that he was going to commit robbery or murder, I have no obligation to report it to anyone and am in fact directed not to. We are not law enforcement.
Where I live in the U.S., the only things required by law to report are child and dependent adult abuse.
Wow, why all the hate?
This dude has a sweet home theatre room complete with a pile of Tribbles in the corner.
Be happy for the guy!
Mod this up! Why the hate? Just because I probably wouldn't take his theater for free (not my design ethic at all), I don't begrudge him his fun.
And another poster nails it with recognizing that the money spent on it benefits other people directly.
"Why couldn't he just give that money to poor people?" The 2016 US budget just for Pensions, Health Care, Education and Welfare comes to around
2 1/2 trillion. His theater money ain't gonna help.
Good. A doctor (not a surgeon) is mostly making technical decisions.
Not in my experience. The doctors I've seen in the last couple of decades are basically insurance company and pharmaceutical company lackeys. Not exaggerating here at all. For example, I went to an endocrinologist not long ago and after looking at my records showing a loss of 40 lbs, great cholesterol panels, great blood sugar, blood pressure, etc., said, "That's really good!" and then I swear to god, his eyes went a bit blank and he started encouraging me to consider a statin and a diabetes medicine because that's what his patients normally get.
No, the majority of doctors in America at least, work directly for the insurance and drug companies.
They are trying to subvert the foundations of capitalism - ownership.
They are abusing the DMCA - a badly designed law that was created to stop IP theft but has instead become a weapon of fraud to trick people into paying ownership prices for what in reality is merely renting.
It's like if you go to buy a house and you pay $800k, up front, expecting to be able to get a mortgage, leave the place to your kids, and sell it if you have to, only to be told later that you merely rented the place for your life time.
Fraud is fraud - whether it is done by outright lies, or instead by hidden fine print in contracts, that no one but lawyer reads
That is precisly the case now. The government actually owns your house. We get to buy and sell the leases pretty freely, but the government actually owns the property and will kick you out and rent it to someone else if they want to.
Want to fix something in "your" house. In almost every jurisdiction, the actual owner makes you buy permission and then insists on checking your work to make sure that his property is still rentable to others. You'd do the same if you rented to someone.
The same shitsack supreme court that enshrined the power of the government to force Americans to buy the products of large corporations whether they want the products or not also made sure that we don't actually own "our" property. Don't let the fact that the lease termination on "your" property has a process blind you to the reality that the bastards WILL kick you out and rent it to another private entity if they want.
Or perhaps police officers could try and be a bit less twitchy, and not shoot motorists who make a sudden move after being stopped for a broken taillight.
But *do* they shoot every motorist who makes a sudden move?
Really, straight up question. How many drivers are pulled over every day in America? How many of those result in LE shooting someone that might be innocent?
Is it one out of every ten traffic stops? One out of a hundred? One out of 10,000 or one out of a million?
Can't help it, I'm a software developer. I always want to know what the numbers are. Anyone know of a source for the data?
Tragedy always sells papers or at least clicks these days, but what are the numbers?
"Imagine a future society in which everything is perfectly logical."
Mere logic is worthless. Sophistry is often used to justify the control of others.
Why the fuck do you think FBI decided not to prosecute then? It was pretty obvious the director doesnt think they would be able to convince the jury to convict, and it wouldnt hold water in court. The FBI doesnt have like a 93% conviction rate for no reason. Or do you think they should press charges anyway, because it serves your political agenda?
Or they think there might be a conviction and can't take the chance. Anyone who thinks that the Obama administration is going to prosecute an Obama appointee and Democrat politician is a fool.
Then what is the due process for the USA's "terrorist watchlist"?? Thinking there is any due process for ANY of these types of list is a fantasy.
And the answer is: No due process
As an aside, I find it incredible that the LGBT community constantly votes for Democrat politicians that scream for secret lists that can be used to take away constitutional rights. My god, if any group should fear that, it should be the LGBT community.Let's do away with civil rights
In the 60's I'd be scanning the shortwave frequencies and run across WWVand it always made me pause. A station that just tick-tocked and then some dude would say the time and start tick-tocking again.
I knew what it was but it always made me stop for a moment. It was just sort of surreal.
It's not a proper constitution, it doesn't say you can have guns!
It avoids just about all personal liberty and responsibility in every case, not just guns.
Look at the statement on property under Freedoms, for example:
"Everyone has the right to own, use, dispose of and bequeath his or her lawfully acquired
possessions. No one may be deprived of his or her possessions, except in the public interest and in
the cases and under the conditions provided for by law, subject to fair compensation being paid in
good time for their loss. The use of property may be regulated by law insofar as is necessary for the
general interest." (Emphasis mine).
Or the "Freedom" is a feel good phrase meaning nothing:"Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person."
I see post after post discussing the safety and risk aspects of this. How dumb can you be?
The insurance industry will simply reuse the precedent of ObamaCare.
They will once again get laws passed requiring the purchase of their product.
How can any of you be so stupid as to not see that?
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And I would give the room more emphasis. I spent a lot of time building out my listening room. I have decent but fairly modest equipment but a kick ass room acoustically. I've been to friends homes with $40,000 worth of two channel stereo equipment in a living room and it was largely wasted. The sad fact is that it's usually way easier to spend money on equipment than to build out a room. I was very fortunate in that I was building a new house so I could design a space. Very few people have that luxury.
Part of the reason we pay taxes is because they are good for the economy, as they keep money flowing in the economy and increases employment in the public sector thus increasing consumption by the working class
Yes, thats why I break a random window in the city every day. It keeps the money flowing and therefore increases employment and consumption.
Ah, the Zorg strategy!
That's why Detroit is the ultimate national model for the Democrat party.
Same advice my father gave me.
The studios subcontract trailers out to the trailer houses, usually multiple ones for each film. Then they micromanage the crap out of the process at each house. Then they sometimes take all the trailers and re cut in house to come with a Frankentrailer that some committee agrees on. That's often the best case scenario.
My son has been made to make up dialog that's not in the movie at all before. The talent couldn't be gotten to record something so he was instructed to create a line from phonemes cut and pasted into a file. I kid you not. Sometimes a studio will bring in the dailies and have him start picking stuff knowing that the actual film might not even have the scenes after the final edit.
And then there is the fact that many trailers of different length and content are made for different markets and media.
Obligatory Seinfeld reference: "Not that there is anything wrong with hardon collisions."
As a middle aged U.S. white guy, I've had the same treatment going into Canada with my family before 9/11. Stern looks and questions about my job in the U.S., family, etc. All this and we had documentation of the return flight and hotel reservations for the weekend stay. I can't believe they thought we were trying to sneak in as immigrants or something.
For the millionth time, if it's hot it's climate change and we need a totalitarian state to fix it. If it's cold it's weather.
We must ban all people from meeting in groups without authorized monitoring... they could be plotting evil....
This pretty much describes Singapore. Any thing that *might* be a meeting has to have a permit. Then the not-so-secret police will be present. The Singaporeans I know just shrug and say "Don't make trouble and you're OK and this stops problems before they can happen"
Not beating up on Singapore, which is a really nice place to visit as a tourist. Just pointing out that a well educated advanced economy allows this sort of thing with hardly a ripple. This could be the U.S. soon.
By the way, next time an anti 2nd amendment moron points to Singapore as an example of sane gun policy, remind them that there literally no real freedoms enshrined in the Singapore constitution. The police can inspect your home at any time without a warrant, stop and check bags at any time, etc. Nice place to visit, but I don't want the U.S. to become Singapore.
COMPLETELY impossible to unscrew the smart thermostat from the wall, unwire it, and (temporarily) install a traditional non-networked thermostat so you could operate your heat (or AC) while you contact the vendor or manufacturer of the smart thermostat for help.
Yes, it can be. I have a 10 year old system with a thermostat that talks to the controller via some fucking proprietary scheme over cat-5 that simply can't be replaced with a simple switch. It isn't IP addressable, so no problem there, (although, that might be preferable now that I think about it) but when it goes tits up, I'm in a world of hurt. Or around $700 of hurt at current Ebay prices.
So, no, sometimes you can't just wire in a cheap replacement.
It's all bullshit pseudo science. That's what I concluded from years of following discussions, and I never even tried to start any fad diet.
This stuff isn't magic or unknown. Long established science.
Hormones, hormones, hormones. "Nutritionists" claim all sorts of crap but endocrinologists, at least the good ones, know that there is a vast amount of actual science on mammalian metabolism. A good book
To say "Calories = calories" is flat wrong. Attention! Automobile analogy coming: Your car will run differently on gasoline vs diesel vs nitro-methane. No one with an I.Q. in the upper two digits or better would claim that they all have the same effect on a car engine for a given number of calories. Our bodies are the same.
The hormonal effect of the *type* of calories makes a huge difference.
Where I live in the U.S., the only things required by law to report are child and dependent adult abuse.
But it's dry heat.
I quit playing video games over 30 years ago when I started programming for a living. Yeah, I know the games are vastly better now.
I fight in national and international judo tournaments and shoot real guns. Video games? Not for me.
Wow, why all the hate? This dude has a sweet home theatre room complete with a pile of Tribbles in the corner. Be happy for the guy!
Mod this up! Why the hate? Just because I probably wouldn't take his theater for free (not my design ethic at all), I don't begrudge him his fun.
And another poster nails it with recognizing that the money spent on it benefits other people directly.
"Why couldn't he just give that money to poor people?" The 2016 US budget just for Pensions, Health Care, Education and Welfare comes to around 2 1/2 trillion. His theater money ain't gonna help.
Good. A doctor (not a surgeon) is mostly making technical decisions.
Not in my experience. The doctors I've seen in the last couple of decades are basically insurance company and pharmaceutical company lackeys. Not exaggerating here at all. For example, I went to an endocrinologist not long ago and after looking at my records showing a loss of 40 lbs, great cholesterol panels, great blood sugar, blood pressure, etc., said, "That's really good!" and then I swear to god, his eyes went a bit blank and he started encouraging me to consider a statin and a diabetes medicine because that's what his patients normally get.
No, the majority of doctors in America at least, work directly for the insurance and drug companies.
Since everything we do is driven by our brain...
Is it? Or is the brain just the engine that something less tangible uses?
The science isn't in yet.
Bingo! The link between the brain and consciousness is the same between an automobile and the driver.
Damaging (or improving) some part of the automobile will affect the drivers ability to use the vehicle, but the fuel injector ain't the driver.
They are trying to subvert the foundations of capitalism - ownership.
They are abusing the DMCA - a badly designed law that was created to stop IP theft but has instead become a weapon of fraud to trick people into paying ownership prices for what in reality is merely renting.
It's like if you go to buy a house and you pay $800k, up front, expecting to be able to get a mortgage, leave the place to your kids, and sell it if you have to, only to be told later that you merely rented the place for your life time.
Fraud is fraud - whether it is done by outright lies, or instead by hidden fine print in contracts, that no one but lawyer reads
That is precisly the case now. The government actually owns your house. We get to buy and sell the leases pretty freely, but the government actually owns the property and will kick you out and rent it to someone else if they want to.
Want to fix something in "your" house. In almost every jurisdiction, the actual owner makes you buy permission and then insists on checking your work to make sure that his property is still rentable to others. You'd do the same if you rented to someone.
The same shitsack supreme court that enshrined the power of the government to force Americans to buy the products of large corporations whether they want the products or not also made sure that we don't actually own "our" property. Don't let the fact that the lease termination on "your" property has a process blind you to the reality that the bastards WILL kick you out and rent it to another private entity if they want.
Or perhaps police officers could try and be a bit less twitchy, and not shoot motorists who make a sudden move after being stopped for a broken taillight.
But *do* they shoot every motorist who makes a sudden move?
Really, straight up question. How many drivers are pulled over every day in America? How many of those result in LE shooting someone that might be innocent? Is it one out of every ten traffic stops? One out of a hundred? One out of 10,000 or one out of a million?
Can't help it, I'm a software developer. I always want to know what the numbers are. Anyone know of a source for the data?
Tragedy always sells papers or at least clicks these days, but what are the numbers?
... which is essentially a corrupt theocracy. I'd gladly live in a society run by rational ideas over what we have now.
Oh, you mean something like Scientific_socialism.
No thanks.
For the children, of course.
Why the fuck do you think FBI decided not to prosecute then? It was pretty obvious the director doesnt think they would be able to convince the jury to convict, and it wouldnt hold water in court. The FBI doesnt have like a 93% conviction rate for no reason. Or do you think they should press charges anyway, because it serves your political agenda?
Or they think there might be a conviction and can't take the chance. Anyone who thinks that the Obama administration is going to prosecute an Obama appointee and Democrat politician is a fool.
Then what is the due process for the USA's "terrorist watchlist"?? Thinking there is any due process for ANY of these types of list is a fantasy.
And the answer is: No due process As an aside, I find it incredible that the LGBT community constantly votes for Democrat politicians that scream for secret lists that can be used to take away constitutional rights. My god, if any group should fear that, it should be the LGBT community.Let's do away with civil rights
In the 60's I'd be scanning the shortwave frequencies and run across WWVand it always made me pause. A station that just tick-tocked and then some dude would say the time and start tick-tocking again. I knew what it was but it always made me stop for a moment. It was just sort of surreal.
It's not a proper constitution, it doesn't say you can have guns!
It avoids just about all personal liberty and responsibility in every case, not just guns. Look at the statement on property under Freedoms, for example:
"Everyone has the right to own, use, dispose of and bequeath his or her lawfully acquired possessions. No one may be deprived of his or her possessions, except in the public interest and in the cases and under the conditions provided for by law, subject to fair compensation being paid in good time for their loss. The use of property may be regulated by law insofar as is necessary for the general interest." (Emphasis mine).
Or the "Freedom" is a feel good phrase meaning nothing:"Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person."
The insurance industry will simply reuse the precedent of ObamaCare. They will once again get laws passed requiring the purchase of their product. How can any of you be so stupid as to not see that?