Let's consider minimum wage. The people unworthy of minimum wage will be unemployed. Most of those are young and inexperienced. Unable to get legal employment, they turn to crime, quite often to distribution of illegal drugs. It is not just coincidence that gangs consist mostly of nominally unemployed youths. So minimum wages laws have contributed to gang violence and drug trade. Young women unable to get legal work frequently turn to prostitution.
So there's the result of the minimum wage that you think so highly of: drugs, violence and prostitution. Then prison. Nice.
The essence of the word reform is "to make better". The current legislation demonstrably makes thing much, much worse. Hence the current legislation is not reform.
While there are a great many pop artists generating crap, there are also a great many with a whole lot of ability and training generating pop music. Training and ability does not guarantee good results. Frank Zappa even admitted that he might not have good taste.
If you have more than one lens available to you, you should test each beforehand and choose the one with the least barrel/pincushion distortion. This varies with focal length for zoom lenses, so you may be able to choose a focal length without such distortion.
IIRC, Dent's claim was that based on certain historical metrics, the Dow-Jones Industrial Average should be at a particular value at that time. His claim was not that it would be at some price.
It's been 10 years since I lived near Fry's, but back then they had a reputation for putting stuff returned as defective back on the shelves untested. Fry's is a lot of fun and has some good deals, but it's strictly buyer beware.
It is long established that the person who owns the film at the time the photos are taken owns it afterwords unless there is a specific contract to the contrary. Any other approach just becomes a legal nightmare.
You need to do some reading from reputable sources, or you'll believe the crap you post. Edison made some of the inventions himself, others were made with the assistance of what we would today call technicians, still others were made under his guidance and close supervision.
Brutus and Cassius deserved no such fate. Assassinating Julius Caesar is equivalent to assassinating Hitler or Stalin. Caesar went around killing a lot of people, then overthrew the established government of his own country and made himself dictator.
Lead was added to tin to make a good solder long before sizes were small enough to make whiskers a problem. Lead-tin solders are close to the eutectic point, which makes them much easier to melt than either pure lead or pure tin.
Judging by the rest of your post, you are referring to governmental "healthcare". Removing the obfuscation, you are promoting stealing from the healthy and productive to pay for the self-induced illnesses of the obese, smoking, lazy, unemployable winos.
If you like something initially, it takes a lot of repetition for it to become boring to you. If you dislike it initially, you're likely to continue disliking it and call it boring even if what you feel is distaste.
Baroque music, particularly on plucked keyboard instruments, is quite easy to be found boring by an inattentive listener, and most teens are easily distracted. They're looking for a quick shot of something distinctive, catchy, and instantly recognizable. The < 3 minute songs that have been popular for at least 60 years qualify in spades; most can be recognized by the first note. Try recognizing a piece on a clavichord by the first note, good luck.
You've overshot by a bit. 24 bits is 146 dB, so if you set the ceiling at the threshold of pain (+120 dB), the low end is 26 dB below the threshold of hearing and almost as much below the noise level of air. Even allowing for the fact that noise added to a tone might allow you to detect a tone 10 dB below the threshold of hearing, we're still only talking about 21 bits from detection to pain.
Practically speaking, when it's so quiet that you're struggling to hear anything, the fact that quantization is creating distortion is irrelevant. As long as the dynamic range is properly centered, anything over 20 bits is wasted.
Like most places on major bodies of water or waterways, the bulk of the population of California is within a hundred miles of the coast. All 10 of the largest cities are within 100 miles of the coast; all but Sacramento are within 15 miles of the Pacific Ocean or the San Francisco Bay. Most of the places more than 100 miles from the coast are desert or mountain and not particularly easy to inhabit (the central valley is the main exception). Furthermore, California is "only" about 200 miles wide (East to West). That doesn't leave a whole lot of population for "pretty conservative". Alas. Corruption and dependency grow in densely populated areas; San Francisco is a prime example and Los Angeles has been an infamous example of corruption for a century.
When a legislator's idea of "good" is to impoverish or imprison everyone who disagrees with him, it is perverse to claim that the laws have "good intentions". Furthermore, a law is not a living thing, thus a law cannot have an intention.
1965, Christopher Anvil. More severe than a one-time event that kills electrical devices, "The Day the Machines Stopped" posits a world in which all materials become weaker and electrical systems can never be restored.
An EMP event, after all, does not mean that the system can't be rebuilt.
August 26 to September 1. That's 6 days for people to figure out that trouble might be coming, and broadcast to the general public that "we're going to shut down the electric system for a couple of days to prevent general destruction." If the disaster comes, the Electric Companies that shut down, disconnected their transformers, and survived, will be heroes. If the disaster doesn't come, they'll look like fools and be subject to a lot of criticism. Tough choice. A way to make accurate predictions would help, as would the ability to shut down quickly.
Water flows downhill, and most cities are located on the coast. The problem is distributing enough bleach to make it safe to drink. The more serious problems are heat and food. Heat can be solved to some extent by getting large numbers of people into small places and relying on body heat. Food is the difficult item if the transportation system can't recover adequately in a couple of weeks, and I have no solution for that.
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Let's consider minimum wage. The people unworthy of minimum wage will be unemployed. Most of those are young and inexperienced. Unable to get legal employment, they turn to crime, quite often to distribution of illegal drugs. It is not just coincidence that gangs consist mostly of nominally unemployed youths. So minimum wages laws have contributed to gang violence and drug trade. Young women unable to get legal work frequently turn to prostitution.
So there's the result of the minimum wage that you think so highly of: drugs, violence and prostitution. Then prison. Nice.
The essence of the word reform is "to make better". The current legislation demonstrably makes thing much, much worse. Hence the current legislation is not reform.
Current best estimate is that China's population will never exceed 10% more than what it is today.
CO2 is very soluble in water. Once in the water, a lot of it forms carbonates, some of which precipitates out.
While there are a great many pop artists generating crap, there are also a great many with a whole lot of ability and training generating pop music. Training and ability does not guarantee good results. Frank Zappa even admitted that he might not have good taste.
Both short and long duration music has been around for centuries. The long format has tended to be "serious" music, the short to be dance music.
If you have more than one lens available to you, you should test each beforehand and choose the one with the least barrel/pincushion distortion. This varies with focal length for zoom lenses, so you may be able to choose a focal length without such distortion.
IIRC, Dent's claim was that based on certain historical metrics, the Dow-Jones Industrial Average should be at a particular value at that time. His claim was not that it would be at some price.
It's been 10 years since I lived near Fry's, but back then they had a reputation for putting stuff returned as defective back on the shelves untested. Fry's is a lot of fun and has some good deals, but it's strictly buyer beware.
I'll second your wish for Popular Electronics, although I think that Radio-Electronics was a better magazine.
It is long established that the person who owns the film at the time the photos are taken owns it afterwords unless there is a specific contract to the contrary. Any other approach just becomes a legal nightmare.
You need to do some reading from reputable sources, or you'll believe the crap you post. Edison made some of the inventions himself, others were made with the assistance of what we would today call technicians, still others were made under his guidance and close supervision.
Brutus and Cassius deserved no such fate. Assassinating Julius Caesar is equivalent to assassinating Hitler or Stalin. Caesar went around killing a lot of people, then overthrew the established government of his own country and made himself dictator.
Lead was added to tin to make a good solder long before sizes were small enough to make whiskers a problem. Lead-tin solders are close to the eutectic point, which makes them much easier to melt than either pure lead or pure tin.
Judging by the rest of your post, you are referring to governmental "healthcare". Removing the obfuscation, you are promoting stealing from the healthy and productive to pay for the self-induced illnesses of the obese, smoking, lazy, unemployable winos.
If you like something initially, it takes a lot of repetition for it to become boring to you. If you dislike it initially, you're likely to continue disliking it and call it boring even if what you feel is distaste.
Baroque music, particularly on plucked keyboard instruments, is quite easy to be found boring by an inattentive listener, and most teens are easily distracted. They're looking for a quick shot of something distinctive, catchy, and instantly recognizable. The < 3 minute songs that have been popular for at least 60 years qualify in spades; most can be recognized by the first note. Try recognizing a piece on a clavichord by the first note, good luck.
You've overshot by a bit. 24 bits is 146 dB, so if you set the ceiling at the threshold of pain (+120 dB), the low end is 26 dB below the threshold of hearing and almost as much below the noise level of air. Even allowing for the fact that noise added to a tone might allow you to detect a tone 10 dB below the threshold of hearing, we're still only talking about 21 bits from detection to pain.
Practically speaking, when it's so quiet that you're struggling to hear anything, the fact that quantization is creating distortion is irrelevant. As long as the dynamic range is properly centered, anything over 20 bits is wasted.
So if someone finds you aesthetically displeasing they should do what?
Like most places on major bodies of water or waterways, the bulk of the population of California is within a hundred miles of the coast. All 10 of the largest cities are within 100 miles of the coast; all but Sacramento are within 15 miles of the Pacific Ocean or the San Francisco Bay. Most of the places more than 100 miles from the coast are desert or mountain and not particularly easy to inhabit (the central valley is the main exception). Furthermore, California is "only" about 200 miles wide (East to West). That doesn't leave a whole lot of population for "pretty conservative". Alas. Corruption and dependency grow in densely populated areas; San Francisco is a prime example and Los Angeles has been an infamous example of corruption for a century.
When a legislator's idea of "good" is to impoverish or imprison everyone who disagrees with him, it is perverse to claim that the laws have "good intentions". Furthermore, a law is not a living thing, thus a law cannot have an intention.
1965, Christopher Anvil. More severe than a one-time event that kills electrical devices, "The Day the Machines Stopped" posits a world in which all materials become weaker and electrical systems can never be restored.
An EMP event, after all, does not mean that the system can't be rebuilt.
August 26 to September 1. That's 6 days for people to figure out that trouble might be coming, and broadcast to the general public that "we're going to shut down the electric system for a couple of days to prevent general destruction." If the disaster comes, the Electric Companies that shut down, disconnected their transformers, and survived, will be heroes. If the disaster doesn't come, they'll look like fools and be subject to a lot of criticism. Tough choice. A way to make accurate predictions would help, as would the ability to shut down quickly.
Water flows downhill, and most cities are located on the coast. The problem is distributing enough bleach to make it safe to drink. The more serious problems are heat and food. Heat can be solved to some extent by getting large numbers of people into small places and relying on body heat. Food is the difficult item if the transportation system can't recover adequately in a couple of weeks, and I have no solution for that.
In any case, you've got other problems to worry about than skin cancer.
There are plenty of places in Manhattan where I wouldn't live even if I were paid to live there. Like... like all of Manhattan.