The high quality Cuban healthcare was available to only the most politically powerful, and even that wasn't as good as many other countries. Everyone else had 2 choices: lousy healthcare and no healthcare.
Batista was evil, but nowhere near as evil as Castro.
Castro was responsible for at least 10,000 deaths and quite possibly more than 100,000. Assassinating him would have been a gift to the whole world.
The average elector has the right to decide what form of government they live under.
Nobody has the right to decide that a murderous thugocracy is the form of government they'll live under, because there are also other people who will have to live under that government. The purpose of elections is to provide a check against otherwise unlimited government. Alas, that check is not always successful.
Unfortunately, those smart enough to go to college are subjected to the propaganda of the leftist majority of college professors. A large portion of students with insufficient intellectual armor are converted into leftists by college, some of which students become the new generation of professors.
Pops and clicks are due to scratches on the record and debris (dust, etc.) in the grooves. This is a flaw in the particular record, and will be different on each copy of the record (assuming the master or an intermediate copy is not damaged.) Some of it can be removed by post processing, even of your digital copies.
Hiss is noise that can come from many sources: microphone, 1st stage microphone amplifier, many places within the analog audiotape recorder used before digital recordings, physical limitations of vinyl, the phono cartridge, and the phono preamp, to name the most obvious.
Rumble is due to deficiencies in the playback equipment, although deficiencies in the cutter are also possible. A warped record will also cause rumble and other problems.
Wow (low frequency speed variation) is again due to deficiencies in the playback or cutting equipment, or due to the record not being centered properly.
Flutter is mostly an analog audiotape problem.
The limitations of a clean, undamaged, properly mastered and manufactured vinyl disk are dynamic range, distortion, and frequency response. Dynamic range is limited by the size of vinyl molecules compared to the size of the wiggles in the grooves that represent sound, and by the physical errors that accumulate from each generation of copy from master to the final stamped record. Dynamic range is also limited by the signal before it reaches the disk (There are records where you can hear relative silence, then hiss (probably from audiotape) as the signal is applied to the cutter.) Distortion is limited by geometry mismatches between the cutting stylus and the playback stylus, and the tendency of the material in a freshly cut groove to rebound somewhat, and other factors. Frequency response is limited by geometrical considerations of the cutting and playback stylus and the linear speed of the groove as it passes the stylus. Frequency response is also limited by the RIAA playback and recording compensation curves, which deliberately reduce response below about 50 Hz.
Digital has won out because it is more convenient, more durable, and easier and cheaper to produce excellent results. The best vinyl results require care and expensive equipment to reduce the flaws that come with sloppy vinyl use. Vinyl can be very good, just not as good as good digital.
MDF, particle board, and plastic are isotropic, so they tend not to develop cracks or stress joints as temperature and humidity change. Wood is anisotropic and in principle can have those problems, although they're unlikely to ever show up. Plywood is midway, but sometimes has voids that can rattle and buzz. In fact, the risk of having veneer delaminate from other materials is a concern similar to plywood.
That said, I use wood when I build speaker cabinets. Deficiencies in drivers, design, and craftmanship will usually show up long before problems caused by natural wood.
To make the average sound as loud as possible, compression is used to raise the softer sections of music. This is the sort of thing that you're complaining about.
Compression is also used if the medium has a poor dynamic range and the source material has a wide dynamic range. Vinyl records have a poor dynamic range, so compression (and manual riding of gain controls) was common in mastering even 50+ years ago. Perhaps the routine use of compression wasn't as severe back then.
(There are other reasons, perhaps not relevant here.)
Advertisements in magazines and newspapers take up pages, which make them heavier. It takes extra energy to carry the extra weight, and making the extra energy requires extra food. Advertisements steal the food from my mouth!
Get real.
The average income by state varies by a factor of a little less than 2:1 from highest to lowest. Since housing costs are lower at the bottom of the list, the actual effective income range is somewhat less. This means that classifying a state as poor is nonsense.
It's not entirely a mystery. One reason has been mentioned several times above, but needs to be clarified. Immigrants, especially illegal immigrants, bring in diseases. Several years ago this was a major political issue, with Democrats (who want open borders to get more votes) and anarchist/libertarians (who want no restrictions on movement on ideological grounds) favoring unlimited immigration. Those partisans denied the disease importation claims and decried the claims as racist and xenophobic, and then took steps to prevent accurate reporting in order to promote their political goals.
In short: it's political action by people who don't care about the well-being of most Americans.
I found his books difficult to use. I read them to understand particular algorithms, but when it came to actually writing code to implement an algorithm I had to go to other people's books.
MakerBot had to pull off two very different coups.
>>> It had to introduce millions of people to the wonders of 3D printing,
>>> and then convince them to shell out more than $1,000 for a machine.
>>> It also had to develop the technology fast enough to keep its customers happy.
Those two tasks were too much for the fledgling company.
"destroying the planet" -- If you expect to be taken seriously, you need to be more specific and more realistic. "Destroying the planet" should be reserved for things like a collision with the moon.
Under low loads, Diesels don't use all the air they take in. Some of the exhaust is unreacted input oxygen. The relation between exhaust volume and load is different in Diesels and gasoline engines.
You're assuming they'll realize their equipment is damaged. If the gizmo just fries their USB port, they'll just not be able to read anything off the device and not know their equipment is broken for days or weeks.
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Codding has to do with codpieces, so the relation to studding is obvious.
The high quality Cuban healthcare was available to only the most politically powerful, and even that wasn't as good as many other countries. Everyone else had 2 choices: lousy healthcare and no healthcare.
Batista was evil, but nowhere near as evil as Castro.
Castro was responsible for at least 10,000 deaths and quite possibly more than 100,000. Assassinating him would have been a gift to the whole world.
Nobody has the right to decide that a murderous thugocracy is the form of government they'll live under, because there are also other people who will have to live under that government. The purpose of elections is to provide a check against otherwise unlimited government. Alas, that check is not always successful.
Unfortunately, those smart enough to go to college are subjected to the propaganda of the leftist majority of college professors. A large portion of students with insufficient intellectual armor are converted into leftists by college, some of which students become the new generation of professors.
Take a look at J.T.'s praise of that murderous, corrupt thief, Fidel Castro.
Only $15,000.
Argh! Such idiocy! (or ignorance).
Pops and clicks are due to scratches on the record and debris (dust, etc.) in the grooves. This is a flaw in the particular record, and will be different on each copy of the record (assuming the master or an intermediate copy is not damaged.) Some of it can be removed by post processing, even of your digital copies.
Hiss is noise that can come from many sources: microphone, 1st stage microphone amplifier, many places within the analog audiotape recorder used before digital recordings, physical limitations of vinyl, the phono cartridge, and the phono preamp, to name the most obvious.
Rumble is due to deficiencies in the playback equipment, although deficiencies in the cutter are also possible. A warped record will also cause rumble and other problems.
Wow (low frequency speed variation) is again due to deficiencies in the playback or cutting equipment, or due to the record not being centered properly.
Flutter is mostly an analog audiotape problem.
The limitations of a clean, undamaged, properly mastered and manufactured vinyl disk are dynamic range, distortion, and frequency response. Dynamic range is limited by the size of vinyl molecules compared to the size of the wiggles in the grooves that represent sound, and by the physical errors that accumulate from each generation of copy from master to the final stamped record. Dynamic range is also limited by the signal before it reaches the disk (There are records where you can hear relative silence, then hiss (probably from audiotape) as the signal is applied to the cutter.) Distortion is limited by geometry mismatches between the cutting stylus and the playback stylus, and the tendency of the material in a freshly cut groove to rebound somewhat, and other factors. Frequency response is limited by geometrical considerations of the cutting and playback stylus and the linear speed of the groove as it passes the stylus. Frequency response is also limited by the RIAA playback and recording compensation curves, which deliberately reduce response below about 50 Hz.
Digital has won out because it is more convenient, more durable, and easier and cheaper to produce excellent results. The best vinyl results require care and expensive equipment to reduce the flaws that come with sloppy vinyl use. Vinyl can be very good, just not as good as good digital.
MDF, particle board, and plastic are isotropic, so they tend not to develop cracks or stress joints as temperature and humidity change. Wood is anisotropic and in principle can have those problems, although they're unlikely to ever show up. Plywood is midway, but sometimes has voids that can rattle and buzz. In fact, the risk of having veneer delaminate from other materials is a concern similar to plywood.
That said, I use wood when I build speaker cabinets. Deficiencies in drivers, design, and craftmanship will usually show up long before problems caused by natural wood.
Compression is done for a variety of reasons.
To make the average sound as loud as possible, compression is used to raise the softer sections of music. This is the sort of thing that you're complaining about.
Compression is also used if the medium has a poor dynamic range and the source material has a wide dynamic range. Vinyl records have a poor dynamic range, so compression (and manual riding of gain controls) was common in mastering even 50+ years ago. Perhaps the routine use of compression wasn't as severe back then.
(There are other reasons, perhaps not relevant here.)
Advertisements in magazines and newspapers take up pages, which make them heavier. It takes extra energy to carry the extra weight, and making the extra energy requires extra food. Advertisements steal the food from my mouth!
Get real.
The average income by state varies by a factor of a little less than 2:1 from highest to lowest. Since housing costs are lower at the bottom of the list, the actual effective income range is somewhat less. This means that classifying a state as poor is nonsense.
It's not entirely a mystery. One reason has been mentioned several times above, but needs to be clarified. Immigrants, especially illegal immigrants, bring in diseases. Several years ago this was a major political issue, with Democrats (who want open borders to get more votes) and anarchist/libertarians (who want no restrictions on movement on ideological grounds) favoring unlimited immigration. Those partisans denied the disease importation claims and decried the claims as racist and xenophobic, and then took steps to prevent accurate reporting in order to promote their political goals.
In short: it's political action by people who don't care about the well-being of most Americans.
Wrong in 2 ways. First, learn about gamma. Second, the lowest brightness level can be defined to be zero, not one.
I found his books difficult to use. I read them to understand particular algorithms, but when it came to actually writing code to implement an algorithm I had to go to other people's books.
MakerBot had to pull off two very different coups.
>>> It had to introduce millions of people to the wonders of 3D printing,
>>> and then convince them to shell out more than $1,000 for a machine.
>>> It also had to develop the technology fast enough to keep its customers happy.
Those two tasks were too much for the fledgling company.
1+1+1 = 2
So you're opposed to hydrogen fuel.
"destroying the planet" -- If you expect to be taken seriously, you need to be more specific and more realistic. "Destroying the planet" should be reserved for things like a collision with the moon.
Under low loads, Diesels don't use all the air they take in. Some of the exhaust is unreacted input oxygen. The relation between exhaust volume and load is different in Diesels and gasoline engines.
You'll make a fine despot. You've already got ordering people around to fulfill your fantasies down pat, all you need is political power.
A Prius can do 50 mpg highway. This is 65 mph with a roof rack, in New Hampshire.
The people in that mode now are Islamic murderers and women mutilators. I'm sure you'll fit in well with that crowd.
You're assuming they'll realize their equipment is damaged. If the gizmo just fries their USB port, they'll just not be able to read anything off the device and not know their equipment is broken for days or weeks.
The concern is that these things will be provided to innocent suckers.
Hey, I've got some really nice freeware on this USB stick. Plug it into your computer at work, it'll save you hours.
Zeners have tolerances on their voltages and soft characteristic curves, especially at low voltages. A zener is not going to adequately protect an IC.
That goes a long way toward providing yet another reason that Buffet opposed a pipeline from Canada.