You may as well wait for the next evolution of Big Band groups or Disco while you're at it. Well established genres don't tend to change much, other than by forming offshoot genres.
No need to wait. Jazz did evolve. The next evolution of Jazz was that Big Bands were out. That's how it works - you do something new. You don't evolve by continuing to do the same things. Electronic music evolved. Disco splintered into House and Hip Hop. House led to EDM. Rock, on the other hand, seems stuck in a rut. No new Elvis, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, or Sex Pistols equivilent - there's been no revolution in Rock for decades. I think part of the problem is that today's kids just aren't very rebellious. They seem content to mine the past. Which, come to think of it, is probably why they can't get laid.
The kids did move on, your fixation on rock must have made you miss that.
So Rock really is dead this time? I suspected as much. It's not like I missed Hip Hop and EDM, but I was kinda hoping for a revolution in Rock, (as opposed to endless rehashing and fetishizing of the past that it's become).
If I told young people how much sex we had in the seventies, they wouldn't even believe it. The eighties were pretty good, too, and I understand the sixties were, as well. We are living in very conservative times, yet many seem not to realize it. Also, kids, still waiting for you to move on from Punk Rock and create something new in Rock.
Yeah, it's really annoying to always have to remember to turn off Autoplay and Annotations for every video you watch. But, as far as I can tell, it seems most web sites enjoy annoying the shit out of their users. Most web sites are unusable on my phone, with all this crap popping out of top and bottom, leaving you a tiny window to read through. And in my browser, I fucking hate all the shit popping out from all sides, the overlays begging for my email address, as if I need more junk in my inbox, and all the other crap you get which is every bit as annoying as ads. Visiting a modern web site, even with ad-blocking enabled, is like trying to read a book while a bunch of little kids are all taking turns trying to get your attention.
I never see ads on Youtube or get videos that refuse to play with an ad-blocker enabled.
Haven't seen that problem either, (I'm using Ad Block for YouTube, amongst other plug-ins), but I often come across sites that beg me to disable my ad blocking software. Sometimes I do, but more often that not, the site then doesn't seem to recognize that I've disabled ad blocking. That's ok, though. I can live without most of these commercial web sites. I realize we'll never have the internet of 1998 again, but perhaps if everybody used ad blockers, we'd see some improvement? Of course, it's always amazed me that people will sit and watch television, with its endless commercials, and pay good money for the privilege. So, perhaps there are people who aren't bothered much by commercials? Is that possible?
Yeah, couldn't agree more. The promise of Netflix was that, like their movie rental business, you'd have access to virtually every movie, (and TV show), ever made, but instead of waiting for a DVD to come through the mail, streamed instantly over the internet. But, oh no, the studios would not allow that! They seemed content to spend their time whining about "piracy". Meanwhile, the people found a way around their intransigence.
I have Netflix, and finally, after many months of waiting, HBO-Go for PS4. But I'm not going to pay for every streaming app out there so I can get that one show they each have. It's annoying enough to have to switch between three apps, (Netflix, HBO-Go, and Plex). Whatever HBO and Netflix don't have, I am happy to torrent. Also, good on Netflix for saying "fuck 'em" and producing their own content.
The problem is that he did not realize that Hawaii is a place where normal rule of law is not really obeyed, or it is ignored depending on if you are a certain color/race, and you cannot depend on your rights being upheld because you'll get yelled at for antagonising other certain colors/races -- which you cannot defend against out loud because it's politically incorrect.
Right. He didn't understand that the "normal rule of law" that he's used to was imposed upon a culture with an entirely different view of property. Sadly, this is still causing problems for the conquerers since, on the whole, they've become a little more aware of these things. But now, the environment may once again become more conducive to cultural imperialism.
You can keep prices high only when you don't sell much. But if you don't sell much, you will never recover the capital expense of retrieving the asteroid.
Don't worry. No one is retrieving any asteroids. Meanwhile, DeBeers has control over the buying and selling of almost all diamonds, which is why they're so over-priced.
"For most healthy babies there is not a role for home monitoring at all."
Today's parents don't feel like they can ever take their eyes off of their children. The device gives these people a chance to sleep a little. And if catches that one-in-a-million Sudden Infant Death Syndrome case, so much the better. Plus, think of all the data being collected!
If it's one thing I know, it's the LAW, and that's ENTRAPMENT!
If the one thing you think you know is the law, I have some bad news for you. First off, only the police can entrap, (from a legal point of view). Secondly, setting bait does not equal entrapment. And that isn't even what happened here. In short, the one thing you thought you knew, you don't know. That would make you, by your own admission, a know-nothing.
A one carat diamond may be worth $10,000, but if there were suddenly a trillion of them, they would be worth next to nothing, and people would use them as gravel in their driveways.
Unless some company had a total monopoly on diamonds and used it to keep diamond prices artificially high. #debeers
Yeah, I don't get this obsession with "thin". Never, in the past, did I ever say to myself, "Gee, I wish this thing were thinner!" Faster? Sure. More easily configurable? Easier to get inside of? Mos def. But what can you do? Apple has always been a "Father Knows Best" kinda corporation. It kinda worked when Jobs was around, but nowadays, they might want to consider being more responsive to the users. Still, nothing beats OS X, so I'm stuck with whatever Apple comes up with, hardware-wise.
As for 32 GB of RAM, I only use about ten percent of my 16 GB, but the option to use more should be there for those who might need it.
Clinton never grabbed a woman by the pussy, nor endorsed the practice. He got laid, which is different. The problem you and Trump seem to have is that you can't tell the difference between consensual, and non-consensual, sex. They're not equivilent.
I don't have a lot of cash, and I don't have a lot of sales. Unit for unit, on small runs, cassette tape is WAY cheaper than any other medium.
CDs are about a dime each, if you don't mind paper or cardboard envelopes, (which, of course, is a small extra expense). With a jewel case, they're still cheaper than cassettes.
Cassette audio fidelity (or lack thereof) is a fine match for my typical output.
There's no reason cassette tapes shouldn't have high fidelity. After all, tape is what recording studios use. Sure, it's not 2" tape in there, but back in the day, I had a nice Nakamichi tape deck, and believe me, that thing recorded and reproduced high fidelity. It's really more dependent on the source recording.
In my opinion, tapes have the same problems as CDs - namely, broken jewel cases and tracking errors. But for a musician, I think it's smart to sell music on analog. That way, it's not so trivial to RIP and upload. A record, or even a cassette, has an intrinsic value, unlike digital. People, quite rightly, place no value on digital files, and are mostly unwilling to pay for them. People will buy records though, and apparently, even cassettes.
"...a huge object sitting in the middle of a 300 mile wide impact crater."
Yes, I think we can dismiss "asteroid" as too far-fetched. I mean, why would an asteroid choose to specifically land in the middle of an impact crater? Now, a Nazi base for alien flying saucer landings? It's the only thing that makes sense.
I always thought rape was "sex without consent". Is that no longer true?
The dude used fraudulent means to get her consent. In other words, she would not have consented had she understood what the situation really was. It's just like any other fraud. You hand over your money willingly, but only because you've been mislead about what you might get for that money. You've still been robbed.
Well, I have news for the Attorney General, this isn't the only guy doing this. It's such a "thing" now, that I'm surprised they can get any girls to fall for it. Then again, probably not a lot of girls spend as much time on YouPorn as I do.
As for "rape by fraud", I can see that. It's a form of deception. Though I wish they find a different word than "rape".
The hypothesis doesn't really make sense. Chimpanzees do not practice monogamy, yet sex between chimps lasts a few seconds. In a pack or herd animal, the difference between spending a few seconds and spending a few minutes penetrating a female makes a negligible difference to that female's general availability: the male is still not going to be inside her for hours of the day. Oh, and chimpanzees do have a baculum, so the correlation is simply not there between longer intercourse and existence of a baculum.
The idea, I think, is that prolonged intromission gives the egg time to be fertilized before the next dude jumps her. With a baculum, you can stay hard, and stay inside, after you've cum. The baculum of chimps is tiny for the reason you note - they don't need it. In other words it's evolving away, just as ours did, but for a different reason.
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You may as well wait for the next evolution of Big Band groups or Disco while you're at it. Well established genres don't tend to change much, other than by forming offshoot genres.
No need to wait. Jazz did evolve. The next evolution of Jazz was that Big Bands were out. That's how it works - you do something new. You don't evolve by continuing to do the same things. Electronic music evolved. Disco splintered into House and Hip Hop. House led to EDM. Rock, on the other hand, seems stuck in a rut. No new Elvis, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, or Sex Pistols equivilent - there's been no revolution in Rock for decades. I think part of the problem is that today's kids just aren't very rebellious. They seem content to mine the past. Which, come to think of it, is probably why they can't get laid.
The kids did move on, your fixation on rock must have made you miss that.
So Rock really is dead this time? I suspected as much. It's not like I missed Hip Hop and EDM, but I was kinda hoping for a revolution in Rock, (as opposed to endless rehashing and fetishizing of the past that it's become).
Right. Like it's not enough to show that they can be grown in Idaho.
If I told young people how much sex we had in the seventies, they wouldn't even believe it. The eighties were pretty good, too, and I understand the sixties were, as well. We are living in very conservative times, yet many seem not to realize it. Also, kids, still waiting for you to move on from Punk Rock and create something new in Rock.
Yeah, it's really annoying to always have to remember to turn off Autoplay and Annotations for every video you watch. But, as far as I can tell, it seems most web sites enjoy annoying the shit out of their users. Most web sites are unusable on my phone, with all this crap popping out of top and bottom, leaving you a tiny window to read through. And in my browser, I fucking hate all the shit popping out from all sides, the overlays begging for my email address, as if I need more junk in my inbox, and all the other crap you get which is every bit as annoying as ads. Visiting a modern web site, even with ad-blocking enabled, is like trying to read a book while a bunch of little kids are all taking turns trying to get your attention.
I never see ads on Youtube or get videos that refuse to play with an ad-blocker enabled.
Haven't seen that problem either, (I'm using Ad Block for YouTube, amongst other plug-ins), but I often come across sites that beg me to disable my ad blocking software. Sometimes I do, but more often that not, the site then doesn't seem to recognize that I've disabled ad blocking. That's ok, though. I can live without most of these commercial web sites.
I realize we'll never have the internet of 1998 again, but perhaps if everybody used ad blockers, we'd see some improvement? Of course, it's always amazed me that people will sit and watch television, with its endless commercials, and pay good money for the privilege. So, perhaps there are people who aren't bothered much by commercials? Is that possible?
I know you're kidding but adblock doesn't always work on embedded videos.
That's why there's Ad Block for YouTube. I think the buried lede of this story is: There Are Still Some People Who Don't Use Ad Blockers
Yeah, couldn't agree more. The promise of Netflix was that, like their movie rental business, you'd have access to virtually every movie, (and TV show), ever made, but instead of waiting for a DVD to come through the mail, streamed instantly over the internet. But, oh no, the studios would not allow that! They seemed content to spend their time whining about "piracy". Meanwhile, the people found a way around their intransigence.
I have Netflix, and finally, after many months of waiting, HBO-Go for PS4. But I'm not going to pay for every streaming app out there so I can get that one show they each have. It's annoying enough to have to switch between three apps, (Netflix, HBO-Go, and Plex). Whatever HBO and Netflix don't have, I am happy to torrent. Also, good on Netflix for saying "fuck 'em" and producing their own content.
The safest solution is to block outgoing traffic by default and whitelist what you want to allow in the firewall.
And avoid both DRM and Windows like the plague, even if you're not doing something that would get you in trouble with your government.
I'm looking forward to the AI that absolutely destroys the stock market which in turn will end the stock market.
Congratulations on waking up from the coma! I have some good news, and some bad news, about the stock market...
The problem is that he did not realize that Hawaii is a place where normal rule of law is not really obeyed, or it is ignored depending on if you are a certain color/race, and you cannot depend on your rights being upheld because you'll get yelled at for antagonising other certain colors/races -- which you cannot defend against out loud because it's politically incorrect.
Right. He didn't understand that the "normal rule of law" that he's used to was imposed upon a culture with an entirely different view of property. Sadly, this is still causing problems for the conquerers since, on the whole, they've become a little more aware of these things. But now, the environment may once again become more conducive to cultural imperialism.
You can keep prices high only when you don't sell much. But if you don't sell much, you will never recover the capital expense of retrieving the asteroid.
Don't worry. No one is retrieving any asteroids. Meanwhile, DeBeers has control over the buying and selling of almost all diamonds, which is why they're so over-priced.
"For most healthy babies there is not a role for home monitoring at all."
Today's parents don't feel like they can ever take their eyes off of their children. The device gives these people a chance to sleep a little. And if catches that one-in-a-million Sudden Infant Death Syndrome case, so much the better. Plus, think of all the data being collected!
I dunno....
Apple is based out in CA, where pot is legal.
It might just be iHigh.....?
Dude, forget dabs, you haven't truly had your mind blown until you've vaped silicon!
If it's one thing I know, it's the LAW, and that's ENTRAPMENT!
If the one thing you think you know is the law, I have some bad news for you. First off, only the police can entrap, (from a legal point of view). Secondly, setting bait does not equal entrapment. And that isn't even what happened here. In short, the one thing you thought you knew, you don't know. That would make you, by your own admission, a know-nothing.
A one carat diamond may be worth $10,000, but if there were suddenly a trillion of them, they would be worth next to nothing, and people would use them as gravel in their driveways.
Unless some company had a total monopoly on diamonds and used it to keep diamond prices artificially high. #debeers
Yeah, I don't get this obsession with "thin". Never, in the past, did I ever say to myself, "Gee, I wish this thing were thinner!" Faster? Sure. More easily configurable? Easier to get inside of? Mos def. But what can you do? Apple has always been a "Father Knows Best" kinda corporation. It kinda worked when Jobs was around, but nowadays, they might want to consider being more responsive to the users. Still, nothing beats OS X, so I'm stuck with whatever Apple comes up with, hardware-wise.
As for 32 GB of RAM, I only use about ten percent of my 16 GB, but the option to use more should be there for those who might need it.
Clinton never grabbed a woman by the pussy, nor endorsed the practice. He got laid, which is different. The problem you and Trump seem to have is that you can't tell the difference between consensual, and non-consensual, sex. They're not equivilent.
I don't have a lot of cash, and I don't have a lot of sales. Unit for unit, on small runs, cassette tape is WAY cheaper than any other medium.
CDs are about a dime each, if you don't mind paper or cardboard envelopes, (which, of course, is a small extra expense). With a jewel case, they're still cheaper than cassettes.
Cassette audio fidelity (or lack thereof) is a fine match for my typical output.
There's no reason cassette tapes shouldn't have high fidelity. After all, tape is what recording studios use. Sure, it's not 2" tape in there, but back in the day, I had a nice Nakamichi tape deck, and believe me, that thing recorded and reproduced high fidelity. It's really more dependent on the source recording.
In my opinion, tapes have the same problems as CDs - namely, broken jewel cases and tracking errors. But for a musician, I think it's smart to sell music on analog. That way, it's not so trivial to RIP and upload. A record, or even a cassette, has an intrinsic value, unlike digital. People, quite rightly, place no value on digital files, and are mostly unwilling to pay for them. People will buy records though, and apparently, even cassettes.
"...a huge object sitting in the middle of a 300 mile wide impact crater."
Yes, I think we can dismiss "asteroid" as too far-fetched. I mean, why would an asteroid choose to specifically land in the middle of an impact crater? Now, a Nazi base for alien flying saucer landings? It's the only thing that makes sense.
I always thought rape was "sex without consent". Is that no longer true?
The dude used fraudulent means to get her consent. In other words, she would not have consented had she understood what the situation really was. It's just like any other fraud. You hand over your money willingly, but only because you've been mislead about what you might get for that money. You've still been robbed.
Well, I have news for the Attorney General, this isn't the only guy doing this. It's such a "thing" now, that I'm surprised they can get any girls to fall for it. Then again, probably not a lot of girls spend as much time on YouPorn as I do.
As for "rape by fraud", I can see that. It's a form of deception. Though I wish they find a different word than "rape".
Morality and monogamy are both in decline.
That has to be the oldest complaint in the World. It was probably voiced the morning after the World's oldest profession got its start.
Where are you seeing ads? On Slashdot? I'm using AdBlock and Ghostery, and haven't seen any.
The hypothesis doesn't really make sense. Chimpanzees do not practice monogamy, yet sex between chimps lasts a few seconds. In a pack or herd animal, the difference between spending a few seconds and spending a few minutes penetrating a female makes a negligible difference to that female's general availability: the male is still not going to be inside her for hours of the day. Oh, and chimpanzees do have a baculum, so the correlation is simply not there between longer intercourse and existence of a baculum.
The idea, I think, is that prolonged intromission gives the egg time to be fertilized before the next dude jumps her. With a baculum, you can stay hard, and stay inside, after you've cum. The baculum of chimps is tiny for the reason you note - they don't need it. In other words it's evolving away, just as ours did, but for a different reason.