Yep. My power amp has a pair of big, blue meters on it. It's only about six years old, but McIntosh certainly hasn't stopped using them. Indeed, the trend has been towards ever larger meters. My truck - 2012 Peterbilt - has fourteen or fifteen analog gauges, (and six digital gauges). It would be more costly to use a display large enough to accommodate that many gauges, which you want to have visible at a glance. While it's certainly feasible in a car, I notice some manufacturers, like Cooper, have opted for analog, simply for looks. But it is true you see fewer analog meters anymore. They've pretty much been eliminated from soundboards these days, mostly I suspect because they take up more space.
Coulda swore I just read that the FBI was green-lighting dope smokers because they couldn't find enough qualified people otherwise? Ah, yes, here it is:
If they're gonna screen out downloaders, I mean, isn't that almost anyone who knows how to work a computer? The only people I've met who don't download media are those who haven't yet figured out how it's done.
You don't have to go nuts wiring the whole house, (although that would be ideal). You could have one or two rooms wired, and use slower wireless elsewhere in the house. It's not like you always need gigabit. I have two desks in two different rooms where I can plug into the ethernet, Elsewhere, I just use the wifi. Not that I even have gigabit internet - I'm a Time/Warner Monopoly slave.
Ha! I remember playing whack-a-mole with my hosts file. Some people need a hobby, I guess, but I'd rather let someone else do the work of keeping track of every new ad and tracking vector that pops up. When ad blocking software first appeared, I jumped on it. Thank you, writers of ad blocking wares throughout the years! Besides, do you really imagine the sub-literate moron who made that post, an idiot too lazy or stupid to install ad blocking software, whose Karma is so bad on this site that he doesn't have the option to turn off ads, a person who writes and behaves like a child, do you really think he'll be able to figure out hosts file editing?
That's correct. Ending alcohol prohibition did not eliminate the gangs it spawned, but it did weaken them by cutting off their major source of funding. But they quickly moved onto other prohibited items and plain ol' theft. The lesson we need to learn is that prohibition creates criminals.
Or even if they're not in pain. There's nothing at all wrong with heroin, and it's quite safe for even chronic use. Opiates are among the safest and most studied drugs we know of, next to cannabis and psychedelics. The bad consequences of opiate use all result from prohibition, particularly the artificially high costs imposed by the black market.
Corporate personhood has nothing to do with the ability to hold a corporation liable for debts and crimes. I wish it did - I'd love to see them convict and execute a corporation for murder. Corporate personhood is about corporations gaining constitutional rights, such as the right to free speech. If it were about taking on liability, do you think corporations would be clamoring for it like they do?
In most societies, with rights come responsibilities, (at least when it comes to actual persons). Instead of granting rights to animals, with god knows what unintended consequences, we should should be holding humans to their responsibility not to harm animals.
I wonder where they think people will get the money to buy their products? Even a right-wing nut like Henry Ford understood that he was creating customers by paying a decent wage. If American corporations keep outsourcing and automating jobs, soon enough, no one in the US will have any money to buy their wares.
What is it about this topic that compels certain boys to proclaim their hatred of queers, loudly and emphatically? Why so sensitive about this topic? Your insecurity is showing, kid.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, people of common sense have NEVER signed up with Facebook using a real goddam name.
I think there's a divide between people who've been online a while, and people who came to the internet more recently. Those of us who've been around a while learned to always use a nick online. Newer people, many of whose first experience online was Facebook, did not absorb that culture. Then, here's FB telling them explicitly to use their real names online, so it's not surprising many of these people did.
I tried having two profiles: one with my real name, simply so that people could find me, (and I could sort through who I wanted to find me and direct them to my real profile), and then my real profile with my fake name. But it became too difficult to deal with because of the cookies and other stored data, and FB's habit of blabbing that the two were related, so I finally just deleted the "real name" profile.
This "real name" policy may have made sense when FB was strictly for college students, although that's arguable too, but since it became public, it only serves the purpose of allowing FB to build up and sell a dossier on you. And then there's the problem of employers, and the like. But you're right, in spite of the policy, you needn't, and probably shouldn't, use your real name.
And have you noticed that many religious types aren't very trustworthy themselves? I'm speaking mainly of Christians, of course. I suspect this is because they expect easy forgiveness of their sins later on, (especially the evangelical types).
We don't choose our religion. We are indoctrinated into it, first, by our parents, secondly, by the culture. Certainly it takes some intelligence to question this kind of received wisdom, and atheism does correlate with intelligence, but high intelligence does not automatically equal atheism. Humans are hardwired for magical thinking.
It will be interesting to see how religion responds to the notion that life exists all over the galaxy, (if indeed it does). But this would merely be the next step in discovering our place in the universe, which over the years has gotten further and further from the center. As we've seen, most religions eventually adapt to reality. After all, in the world of make-believe, anything goes, so religions can adapt when they're ready to. But, I don't think we'll be seeing incontrovertible evidence of intelligent extra-terrestrial life in our lifetimes. I think the best we can hope for is the detection of certain molecules in an atmosphere which may indicate the presence of biological activity.
As a US citizen, it makes me feel better to know other governments are just as ridiculously paranoid as ours. Let someone else's government take a turn being the World's laughingstock. I care not one whit whether the pigeons actually had their little assholes probed. That is the story, and I'm sticking with it.
Good catch for someone who can't tell the difference between a spelling error and a grammar mistake. But, if you're going to criticize the writing of others, you ought to first be sure to capitalize and punctuate properly, and learn to form complete sentences yourself, (yes, I'm assuming you're a none-too-bright teenager). After all, if your own writing is atrocious, you don't come off as too smart while criticizing the writing of others, do you?
I wouldn't even say commercialization was welcome. At least, not by me. I see most of what the web has become as pollution. I had hoped the first internet bubble would be the end of it, and that these commercial interests would go away having realized that the internet was free. *sigh* I'm so naïve sometimes....
I'm glad I'm not the only who noticed this bastard child of Andy and Barney. But, back to the original topic...
"In the end, that might mean that the Internet becomes completely ungovernable..."
That's how these idiots see the internet - as something to be governed. So far, it's been reasonably ungovernable, but as it's gained popularity, we've seen more and more "regulators" try to step in and control what happens on the internet. These nanny types have been very successful in other areas of public life, and they never seem to go away, so I'm very concerned. After all, we've already seen what dictators can do, so a clamped-down internet is technically feasible. I'd hate to see a situation where, in order to maintain freedom of information, we have to resort to a darknet model, and we lose useful things like search engines because those sites can no longer be indexed. But maybe that would be for the best? Either way, I'm not very optimistic.
I have to agree - it's next to impossible to get good coffee in the US. Trust me, I've been almost everywhere in the US. Hell, I went into a supermarket yesterday (Food Lion, in the southeast Carolinas) and they had no whole bean coffee! It's one thing to not find decent coffee in restaurants, but to have trouble buying beans just blows my mind. Yes, I went to Starbucks.
Well, both heroin and cocaine are cheaper and purer than ever, so here's one government plan that seems to be working.
Hate to go back to the original topic, but, hey CIA guys, you can give any name you want! Although I have to admit, I sometimes forget which exotic-sounding name I give to clerks, causing them to call it several times before I remember that I'm Paco, Goober, or whoever.
All nice systems, but my password manager popped up these choices instantly:
howl#6crusher
vetch*402tweed
Aswan56]japans
shared-69.cocoA
scarfs488/fats
tank59)Madelyn
All solid enough passwords, (entropy ~80 as measured by Keychain, but you can move the slider if you want longer/stronger ones), and memorable if you need to memorize one. And whichever one you choose, it's saved forever, along with the rest of your login info in the password manager. There is a free password manager included with Mac OS since at least 2002, called Keychain, which is well integrated with other apps, and password managers are available for other OS's. I've never had an account compromised, and if one were, it would not affect any of the others.
Also, why am I getting double line breaks with the BR tag?
Why is this post modded down? A password manager is an excellent solution, and teaching people to use them while they're young would save them (and me) problems for the rest of their life. Aside from storing passwords, a good password manager can be used to generate solid, unique, (and memorable, for those few you need to memorize), passwords for each site. I don't know about you, but I'm sick of having to jump through extra hoops in order to accommodate the lazy and ignorant. Please teach these kids to use a password manager.
There have been 29 Moon landings. Six manned, twenty-three unmanned. The US hasn't gone since then because, it's fucking expensive, and the pissing war with the Soviets ended. But even if they flew your dumb ass to the Moon and rubbed your face into one of the many footprints on the surface, you'd think up some convoluted way that they must of faked it.
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Yep. My power amp has a pair of big, blue meters on it. It's only about six years old, but McIntosh certainly hasn't stopped using them. Indeed, the trend has been towards ever larger meters. My truck - 2012 Peterbilt - has fourteen or fifteen analog gauges, (and six digital gauges). It would be more costly to use a display large enough to accommodate that many gauges, which you want to have visible at a glance. While it's certainly feasible in a car, I notice some manufacturers, like Cooper, have opted for analog, simply for looks. But it is true you see fewer analog meters anymore. They've pretty much been eliminated from soundboards these days, mostly I suspect because they take up more space.
Coulda swore I just read that the FBI was green-lighting dope smokers because they couldn't find enough qualified people otherwise? Ah, yes, here it is:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/want-work-fbi-pot-smokers-welcome-chief-says-n110911
If they're gonna screen out downloaders, I mean, isn't that almost anyone who knows how to work a computer? The only people I've met who don't download media are those who haven't yet figured out how it's done.
You don't have to go nuts wiring the whole house, (although that would be ideal). You could have one or two rooms wired, and use slower wireless elsewhere in the house. It's not like you always need gigabit. I have two desks in two different rooms where I can plug into the ethernet, Elsewhere, I just use the wifi. Not that I even have gigabit internet - I'm a Time/Warner Monopoly slave.
Ha! I remember playing whack-a-mole with my hosts file. Some people need a hobby, I guess, but I'd rather let someone else do the work of keeping track of every new ad and tracking vector that pops up. When ad blocking software first appeared, I jumped on it. Thank you, writers of ad blocking wares throughout the years! Besides, do you really imagine the sub-literate moron who made that post, an idiot too lazy or stupid to install ad blocking software, whose Karma is so bad on this site that he doesn't have the option to turn off ads, a person who writes and behaves like a child, do you really think he'll be able to figure out hosts file editing?
That's correct. Ending alcohol prohibition did not eliminate the gangs it spawned, but it did weaken them by cutting off their major source of funding. But they quickly moved onto other prohibited items and plain ol' theft. The lesson we need to learn is that prohibition creates criminals.
Or even if they're not in pain. There's nothing at all wrong with heroin, and it's quite safe for even chronic use. Opiates are among the safest and most studied drugs we know of, next to cannabis and psychedelics. The bad consequences of opiate use all result from prohibition, particularly the artificially high costs imposed by the black market.
Corporate personhood has nothing to do with the ability to hold a corporation liable for debts and crimes. I wish it did - I'd love to see them convict and execute a corporation for murder. Corporate personhood is about corporations gaining constitutional rights, such as the right to free speech. If it were about taking on liability, do you think corporations would be clamoring for it like they do?
In most societies, with rights come responsibilities, (at least when it comes to actual persons). Instead of granting rights to animals, with god knows what unintended consequences, we should should be holding humans to their responsibility not to harm animals.
I was gonna say, Google oughta know. They've got the best spy ring going.
I wonder where they think people will get the money to buy their products? Even a right-wing nut like Henry Ford understood that he was creating customers by paying a decent wage. If American corporations keep outsourcing and automating jobs, soon enough, no one in the US will have any money to buy their wares.
What could possibly go wrong?
What is it about this topic that compels certain boys to proclaim their hatred of queers, loudly and emphatically? Why so sensitive about this topic? Your insecurity is showing, kid.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, people of common sense have NEVER signed up with Facebook using a real goddam name.
I think there's a divide between people who've been online a while, and people who came to the internet more recently. Those of us who've been around a while learned to always use a nick online. Newer people, many of whose first experience online was Facebook, did not absorb that culture. Then, here's FB telling them explicitly to use their real names online, so it's not surprising many of these people did.
I tried having two profiles: one with my real name, simply so that people could find me, (and I could sort through who I wanted to find me and direct them to my real profile), and then my real profile with my fake name. But it became too difficult to deal with because of the cookies and other stored data, and FB's habit of blabbing that the two were related, so I finally just deleted the "real name" profile.
This "real name" policy may have made sense when FB was strictly for college students, although that's arguable too, but since it became public, it only serves the purpose of allowing FB to build up and sell a dossier on you. And then there's the problem of employers, and the like. But you're right, in spite of the policy, you needn't, and probably shouldn't, use your real name.
The Apple haters are [out] in full force. So, is it fair to bust Apple's chops over it without knowing the root cause?
This is a rare opportunity. Jeez, let them enjoy themselves a little.
And have you noticed that many religious types aren't very trustworthy themselves? I'm speaking mainly of Christians, of course. I suspect this is because they expect easy forgiveness of their sins later on, (especially the evangelical types).
We don't choose our religion. We are indoctrinated into it, first, by our parents, secondly, by the culture. Certainly it takes some intelligence to question this kind of received wisdom, and atheism does correlate with intelligence, but high intelligence does not automatically equal atheism. Humans are hardwired for magical thinking.
It will be interesting to see how religion responds to the notion that life exists all over the galaxy, (if indeed it does). But this would merely be the next step in discovering our place in the universe, which over the years has gotten further and further from the center. As we've seen, most religions eventually adapt to reality. After all, in the world of make-believe, anything goes, so religions can adapt when they're ready to. But, I don't think we'll be seeing incontrovertible evidence of intelligent extra-terrestrial life in our lifetimes. I think the best we can hope for is the detection of certain molecules in an atmosphere which may indicate the presence of biological activity.
As a US citizen, it makes me feel better to know other governments are just as ridiculously paranoid as ours. Let someone else's government take a turn being the World's laughingstock. I care not one whit whether the pigeons actually had their little assholes probed. That is the story, and I'm sticking with it.
Haha, China!
Good catch for someone who can't tell the difference between a spelling error and a grammar mistake. But, if you're going to criticize the writing of others, you ought to first be sure to capitalize and punctuate properly, and learn to form complete sentences yourself, (yes, I'm assuming you're a none-too-bright teenager). After all, if your own writing is atrocious, you don't come off as too smart while criticizing the writing of others, do you?
I wouldn't even say commercialization was welcome. At least, not by me. I see most of what the web has become as pollution. I had hoped the first internet bubble would be the end of it, and that these commercial interests would go away having realized that the internet was free. *sigh* I'm so naïve sometimes....
I'm glad I'm not the only who noticed this bastard child of Andy and Barney. But, back to the original topic...
"In the end, that might mean that the Internet becomes completely ungovernable..."
That's how these idiots see the internet - as something to be governed. So far, it's been reasonably ungovernable, but as it's gained popularity, we've seen more and more "regulators" try to step in and control what happens on the internet. These nanny types have been very successful in other areas of public life, and they never seem to go away, so I'm very concerned. After all, we've already seen what dictators can do, so a clamped-down internet is technically feasible. I'd hate to see a situation where, in order to maintain freedom of information, we have to resort to a darknet model, and we lose useful things like search engines because those sites can no longer be indexed. But maybe that would be for the best? Either way, I'm not very optimistic.
I have to agree - it's next to impossible to get good coffee in the US. Trust me, I've been almost everywhere in the US. Hell, I went into a supermarket yesterday (Food Lion, in the southeast Carolinas) and they had no whole bean coffee! It's one thing to not find decent coffee in restaurants, but to have trouble buying beans just blows my mind. Yes, I went to Starbucks.
Well, both heroin and cocaine are cheaper and purer than ever, so here's one government plan that seems to be working.
Hate to go back to the original topic, but, hey CIA guys, you can give any name you want! Although I have to admit, I sometimes forget which exotic-sounding name I give to clerks, causing them to call it several times before I remember that I'm Paco, Goober, or whoever.
I was gonna say, I think we are ruled by hype.
All nice systems, but my password manager popped up these choices instantly:
howl#6crusher
vetch*402tweed
Aswan56]japans
shared-69.cocoA
scarfs488/fats
tank59)Madelyn
All solid enough passwords, (entropy ~80 as measured by Keychain, but you can move the slider if you want longer/stronger ones), and memorable if you need to memorize one. And whichever one you choose, it's saved forever, along with the rest of your login info in the password manager. There is a free password manager included with Mac OS since at least 2002, called Keychain, which is well integrated with other apps, and password managers are available for other OS's. I've never had an account compromised, and if one were, it would not affect any of the others.
Also, why am I getting double line breaks with the BR tag?
Why is this post modded down? A password manager is an excellent solution, and teaching people to use them while they're young would save them (and me) problems for the rest of their life. Aside from storing passwords, a good password manager can be used to generate solid, unique, (and memorable, for those few you need to memorize), passwords for each site. I don't know about you, but I'm sick of having to jump through extra hoops in order to accommodate the lazy and ignorant. Please teach these kids to use a password manager.
There have been 29 Moon landings. Six manned, twenty-three unmanned. The US hasn't gone since then because, it's fucking expensive, and the pissing war with the Soviets ended. But even if they flew your dumb ass to the Moon and rubbed your face into one of the many footprints on the surface, you'd think up some convoluted way that they must of faked it.