You liberals should really stop trying to push this bullshit. The electoral college isn't going any where. I like it how you democrats constantly try to change the rules when you lose. Here is how it works. The population doesn't elect the president, the states do. It was written that way on purpose.
If the popular vote was all that counted then what you have is mob rule, or the tyranny of the majority. If it wasn't for the electoral college blacks would still be using separate restrooms and going to sub par schools.
The electoral college was put in place to protect us from people like you. You don't get to change the rules because you lost. Next time field a better candidate, one who inspires to be president and not a queen.
When the Chinese foreclose on all that national debt the Democrats have been running up, you might wish you had done so.:-D
I'm sure you where just trolling but we can't have you spreading bullshit can we. I fixed you comment for you after all it was Obama, a democrat, that doubled the national debit adding 10 trillion dollars to it. More than all other presidents before him combine.
And for all the poor sound quality of cassette tapes, is it really worse than spotify?
Well this statement pretty much invalidates the rest of your argument, but I'll bite anyway.
No, it's not a large part of people wanting physical things. Most people understand the difference between buying something digital and buying vinyl/CD's. Just as most of them understand the issue with buying something with DRM or no DRM. An no, they are not giving up on streaming or even buying mp3 online. Sales of independant artist mp3 from thier own websites are going up and, like it or not, streaming is the future of music.
There are two kinds of people that buy new vinyl. Millinals with more money than sense, or sometimes no sense and less money, and hippies.
Hippies I have some sympathy for. Most are trying to relieve some old memories that only the hiss, pop, and poor quality sound that only worn vinyl and a well lit bong can bring to the table. Millinals on the other hand are just stupid about it. They think that vinyl is all cool because its "retro," not realizing that a big vinyl collection is only "cool" to some old ass hippies.
After a few months most millinals wake up and realize that paying $40 for some rehashed vinyl from Hot Topic isn't worth the cost. The vinyl collection starts to collect dust in the corner then eventually gets donated or tossed in the bin. Hippies on the other hand tend to be smarter about their vinyl collecting. They realize that Hottopic isn't the place to buy old records and instead seek out used record stores and garage sales. Where they can pickup a used vinyl for $5 a record from a used record store, or $5 for some millinals whole vinyl collection at a yard sale.
Millinals! Keeping hottopic in business and old hippies in music since 1990 something.
I can some what understand the love for vinyl. It has some redeeming value. The covers are big enough to put art on and the sound does appeal to some members of society.
Cassette tapes? They are the worse medium for music devised by man. All the worse of vinyl without any of the art work. Tape stretches and breaks for almost no reason. Sounds like crap after a few plays too.
Ricky, have you been sniffing your own farts again? You honestly believe that aliens shun us because we build a robot that delivers snacks to college students? This makes no sense on any level.
Bullshit. I have a huge plex system but its not close to 32 TB. How many movies/series do you have, what codec do you have them encoded in? Bit rates and resolutions and how long have you been collecting?
I disagree about it being irrelevant. Eventually the stuff the play the physical media will go away. It happens with all physical media. How many places make parts for the Edison wax phonograph?
Do you really believe your streaming service will be around in 2060?
Why not? If it is a profitable business model then why should we not assume it will still be here in 20, 40, or even 100 years from now? Disney has been a profitable entertainment industry for almost a 100 years now and shows no sign of slowing down. Comcast, as shitty as it is, has been in business for close to 50 years.
An if some reason the business model doesn't prove to be viable, something else will come along and take its place.
I hate to pop you bubble there but not even CD's are lossless. Every time a analog is converted into digital something is lost. That is just simply the nature of the beast. The trick is to keep the sampling high enough to make the loss negotiable.
As someone that listens to shoutcast and spotify to find new music, then goes to websites to buy music right from the author. "You're welcome."
I think streaming has done more to level the playing field than any other service. In less than 15 minutes a artist can set up a shoutcast site and be streaming his music 24/7. I would rather see my money go directly to support an artist than have it go to "big music' pockets any day.
I don't trust the streaming services not to be douchy assholes who share my information and violate my privacy,
I assume you are talking about services like itunes and spotify. Then don't use them. You can still stream music anonymously from thousands of shoutcast/icecast sites. I use the XiiaLive app on my phone for streams too. There is literally thousands of stations from all over the world. Any kind of music that I want to listen too is here. I just have to look for it. XiiaLive is just one of the apps there are to stream shoutcast. Pick one and explore. Hell, I can even listen to iheartradio dreck if I want too. Iheartradio seems to use icecast with at 48K AAC stream.
Quite honestly I'm really surprised that more/. people don't use or talk about icecast/shoutcast as being an option.
I understand. I'm looking at it from my point of view, that of being dead. Not the point of view from losing a loved one. I should have thought of that.
I fail to see a problem with this. My daughter keeps saying when I go she is going put my remains in a large garbage bag and leave me by the curb.
Joking aside, I've never understood the desire to pump dead people full of chemicals so the don't decay, then dump them in a hole in a air tight box. What is the point. An all that space taken up by graveyards. I've made it clear that I'm to be cremated and my ashes used to line the cat box. Might as well get one more use out of my dead ass.
That only happens if you are using old protocols. Using a modern bluetooth, 4+, and you won't have this issue. If you value sound quality you won't use a iphone with bluetooth ether. Iphones only have the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP). Which is fine for podcasts and crappy j/pop. For good quality over bluetooth you need a phone that supports aptX, like the Samsung Galaxy lines. Your headphones must also support aptX.
If you got the damn thing in a Otterbox case then good luck on breaking it. Damn nuclear war there would only be 3 things left on earth. Cockroaches, lawyers, and damn iphones in otterboxes.
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You liberals should really stop trying to push this bullshit. The electoral college isn't going any where. I like it how you democrats constantly try to change the rules when you lose. Here is how it works. The population doesn't elect the president, the states do. It was written that way on purpose.
If the popular vote was all that counted then what you have is mob rule, or the tyranny of the majority. If it wasn't for the electoral college blacks would still be using separate restrooms and going to sub par schools.
The electoral college was put in place to protect us from people like you. You don't get to change the rules because you lost. Next time field a better candidate, one who inspires to be president and not a queen.
When the Chinese foreclose on all that national debt the Democrats have been running up, you might wish you had done so. :-D
I'm sure you where just trolling but we can't have you spreading bullshit can we. I fixed you comment for you after all it was Obama, a democrat, that doubled the national debit adding 10 trillion dollars to it. More than all other presidents before him combine.
And for all the poor sound quality of cassette tapes, is it really worse than spotify?
Well this statement pretty much invalidates the rest of your argument, but I'll bite anyway.
No, it's not a large part of people wanting physical things. Most people understand the difference between buying something digital and buying vinyl/CD's. Just as most of them understand the issue with buying something with DRM or no DRM. An no, they are not giving up on streaming or even buying mp3 online. Sales of independant artist mp3 from thier own websites are going up and, like it or not, streaming is the future of music.
There are two kinds of people that buy new vinyl. Millinals with more money than sense, or sometimes no sense and less money, and hippies.
Hippies I have some sympathy for. Most are trying to relieve some old memories that only the hiss, pop, and poor quality sound that only worn vinyl and a well lit bong can bring to the table. Millinals on the other hand are just stupid about it. They think that vinyl is all cool because its "retro," not realizing that a big vinyl collection is only "cool" to some old ass hippies.
After a few months most millinals wake up and realize that paying $40 for some rehashed vinyl from Hot Topic isn't worth the cost. The vinyl collection starts to collect dust in the corner then eventually gets donated or tossed in the bin. Hippies on the other hand tend to be smarter about their vinyl collecting. They realize that Hottopic isn't the place to buy old records and instead seek out used record stores and garage sales. Where they can pickup a used vinyl for $5 a record from a used record store, or $5 for some millinals whole vinyl collection at a yard sale.
Millinals! Keeping hottopic in business and old hippies in music since 1990 something.
This is and other things.
I can some what understand the love for vinyl. It has some redeeming value. The covers are big enough to put art on and the sound does appeal to some members of society.
Cassette tapes? They are the worse medium for music devised by man. All the worse of vinyl without any of the art work. Tape stretches and breaks for almost no reason. Sounds like crap after a few plays too.
Come to think of it last night I was a little buzzed.
Ricky, have you been sniffing your own farts again? You honestly believe that aliens shun us because we build a robot that delivers snacks to college students? This makes no sense on any level.
I am made from the dust of the stars.....
Bullshit. I have a huge plex system but its not close to 32 TB. How many movies/series do you have, what codec do you have them encoded in? Bit rates and resolutions and how long have you been collecting?
Was there anything special about your fucking wife? I do know that there was something special about fucking your wife.
Ricky, is that you? Quite frankly she was special to him and that is good enough for you. Fucking asshole.
I disagree about it being irrelevant. Eventually the stuff the play the physical media will go away. It happens with all physical media. How many places make parts for the Edison wax phonograph?
"You're Welcome."
Speaking of data loss though, how long is streaming service x going to be available and what happens when it shuts down?
What happens when your cd player dies and it can't be fixed and nobody makes them any more? Pretty much the same thing.
Rush, Presto and Heart, Brigade from 1991 or so. Both still play fine. I'm listening to Presto as I type this.
Do you really believe your streaming service will be around in 2060?
Why not? If it is a profitable business model then why should we not assume it will still be here in 20, 40, or even 100 years from now? Disney has been a profitable entertainment industry for almost a 100 years now and shows no sign of slowing down. Comcast, as shitty as it is, has been in business for close to 50 years.
An if some reason the business model doesn't prove to be viable, something else will come along and take its place.
I hate to pop you bubble there but not even CD's are lossless. Every time a analog is converted into digital something is lost. That is just simply the nature of the beast. The trick is to keep the sampling high enough to make the loss negotiable.
As someone that listens to shoutcast and spotify to find new music, then goes to websites to buy music right from the author. "You're welcome."
I think streaming has done more to level the playing field than any other service. In less than 15 minutes a artist can set up a shoutcast site and be streaming his music 24/7. I would rather see my money go directly to support an artist than have it go to "big music' pockets any day.
I don't trust the streaming services not to be douchy assholes who share my information and violate my privacy,
I assume you are talking about services like itunes and spotify. Then don't use them. You can still stream music anonymously from thousands of shoutcast/icecast sites. I use the XiiaLive app on my phone for streams too. There is literally thousands of stations from all over the world. Any kind of music that I want to listen too is here. I just have to look for it. XiiaLive is just one of the apps there are to stream shoutcast. Pick one and explore. Hell, I can even listen to iheartradio dreck if I want too. Iheartradio seems to use icecast with at 48K AAC stream.
Quite honestly I'm really surprised that more /. people don't use or talk about icecast/shoutcast as being an option.
I understand. I'm looking at it from my point of view, that of being dead. Not the point of view from losing a loved one. I should have thought of that.
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I believe what you mean to say is, "Thank you."
To which I reply, "You're welcome." Here let us let The Rock demonstrate in song
https://youtu.be/79DijItQXMM.
I fail to see a problem with this. My daughter keeps saying when I go she is going put my remains in a large garbage bag and leave me by the curb.
Joking aside, I've never understood the desire to pump dead people full of chemicals so the don't decay, then dump them in a hole in a air tight box. What is the point. An all that space taken up by graveyards. I've made it clear that I'm to be cremated and my ashes used to line the cat box. Might as well get one more use out of my dead ass.
From reading the comments here, it looks like most people failed to get your reference. Good job.
Well something good come of this shutdown.
offering to let the tortured choose when and how they are tortured
Oh! I choose to be hung by my toes over a pot of boiling Limburger cheese while being forced to listen to Trumps speeches set to polka music.
That only happens if you are using old protocols. Using a modern bluetooth, 4+, and you won't have this issue. If you value sound quality you won't use a iphone with bluetooth ether. Iphones only have the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP). Which is fine for podcasts and crappy j/pop. For good quality over bluetooth you need a phone that supports aptX, like the Samsung Galaxy lines. Your headphones must also support aptX.
If you got the damn thing in a Otterbox case then good luck on breaking it. Damn nuclear war there would only be 3 things left on earth. Cockroaches, lawyers, and damn iphones in otterboxes.