But if you have a choice between the two, why would you choose the lessor quality of the two?
That's kind of my deal...I can buy mp3's...or I can buy a CD and rip it to flac, or buy a flac......with the higher quality one, I keep for the liviing room. I can then rip to a lessor quality one for the iPod for the gym or the car.
But given a choice between two versions, and you KNOW one version is of lessor quality, why would you choose the lessor one?
Well, the reproduction environment and the equipment makes a lot of difference too.
I mean, if you're only listening to ear buds (even $$$ ones are limited in bass response, etc), or in a car (one of the worst listening environments conceived)....then sure it won't make a difference, and portability makes a lot of sense too.
However, in a nice listening environment, with good equipment...it is worth the effort IMHO.
For instance, I have a pair of Klipschorns...paired with a couple of the much older models of the Decware SET amps, running mono to each channel..plus an older 15" 800W Klipsch sub, etc......
Even with my older ears, I can hear differences in recordings and formats. Not as well as I used to be able to, but I figure, WHY would I want anything less than the best I can get for the given time/situation? When listening at home, I rip my music to flac, and have it play on my living room stereo.
And hey....kinda fun to watch the Flintstones in concert volume on tv too from time to time, or hell, once hooked the MAME machine to it....Robotron 2084 is fun with the room shaking around you.
God, my neighbors used to hate me when I live in a place where I had to share walls...
Anyone can playact a childish form of appearing intelligent by asking stupid questions. Real intelligence appears in the form of making a case for one's positions.
Well, not so much in the US. The Constitution and the govt and the courts do NOT grant us our rights, we are born with them inherently. Therefore, it is the proper thing to do to question any time the govt starts to assert new authority or set limits on your free to do activity.
Also, there is nothing wrong with questioning laws already on the books...as that they might not should be there to regulate you.
We're not here to serve the US govt, they are here to serve us...although, they often seem to be forgetting this.
so go make your own society, where such controls don't exist
and after you get ripped off, by... get this... criminals... learn your lesson the hard way
criminality exists in this world. i'm sorry this bothers you, and i'm sorry in your naive rage you blame those who pursue criminality rather than criminality itself
Like another poster said, what about "innocent until proven guilty"?
I mean, if you're in the US, that's the way it is supposed to be.
If you suspect wrongdoing, then get a warrant, investigate....what's wrong with that?
Yeah, wine terminology should be pretty simple for most any adult, I guess except those that do no alcohol whatsoever (God I feel sorry for them, when they wake up in the morning, THAT is the best they're gonna feel all day!!), and I'd guess they'd not be even cooking with wine, since all the ethanol does not burn off.
That being said, I'm really puzzled about why so many people (especially women these days) can't seem to cook?
Didn't ya'lls mom's get you in the kitchen to help when you were young? If for nothing else, mine did to get help in the house, but also to make sure I knew how to take care of myself when I did leave the 'nest'.
But hell, of late, I can't hardly find a woman that knows how to cook shit. What happened there?
Actually, I know...somehow, somewhere along the way...everyone started eating out and eating crap.
I didn't realize this till after Katrina...when I lived with some friends while I got a place to live and job, etc.
I stayed with one family, two small kids...about 8-9 yrs old. The dad was out of town, so just me there with the wife and kids. I was shocked to see that so many meals at night were: Popeye's, Sonic....fast food. The others that were 'home cooked'...frozen, prepared food from the store. The home cooked meal from scratch was a rarity.
Me? I'm the opposite. I love to cook, and tho I don't have a lot of time, I dedicate my Sunday's to cooking. I cook often 2-4 entrees, and the same sides...and eat those throughout the week for lunches and dinner, finishing them by about Friday or so. Or, during the summer, I like to grill things...grill some meats and LOTS of veggies. And during the week, those are quick to warm up for salads, or pita sandwiches (whip up a quick taziki sauce)..or stuff like that.
I'd rather save up my pennies for dining out at a REAL restaurant. Not a chain, but a place with a real chef, and honest to goodness service and good wine, etc. I'd rather blow a good chunk of coin fine dining than a little bit here and there on crap food and no service.
And let's face it...fast food isn't all that cheap anymore. I do occasionally like a crap food day...Taco Bell was nearly $10. Ouch.
But anyway....cooking is easy. Good tools do help, money spent on good knives and pans are well spent. Drop some coin on a good Wusthof-Trident knives (a couple of basic ones will do), and maybe a couple of good All-Clad SS fry pans/pots. Yes, they are $$, but they will last you a lifetime.
Hell, start out with good cast iron, that is cheap and when cared for...will last you the same lifetime.
And then....look at the grocery store ads in your town. See what ingredients are on sale that week. Get on the internet, and look up recipes with those ingredients and pick something fun to try, and do it.
And try this too...to be a bit healthier. When shopping at the grocery store, try to shop ONLY along the outside perimeter of the store, where the real, non-processed foods are: veggies, meats, dairy. (It is ok to venture into the aisles if that's where they keep the beer, wine and liquor tho).
But seriously, it isn't rocket science. Try it. And if you're a guy, you can definitely impress the ladies with cooking skills, AND...it is a great excuse to get them into YOUR house, where you likely have a bed nearby.
If you are shifting that much, you're doing something wrong.
Nevermind the other thing you're doing wrong... which since you seem oblivious to it, let me spell it out for you.
Driving while intoxicated is wrong.
Yeah, well, not everyone is as uptight as you about it. Those people filling the parking lots at the bars? Guess what, they're mostly ALL above the 'legal' limit (artificially low), and they arent' with designated drivers, and they DO have to get their cars home so they can drive to work the next day or do whatever.
Guess what? Most of those people drive home. It isn't that hard, and if you haven't had too much to drive and aren't plowed...you'll get home just fine, if the majority of those people weren't able to do that, then you'd have WAY more traffic wrecks and fatalities, but the truth is, most people that go out and drink are not legal, but they are perfectly ok as seen by the results of them getting home with no problems.
Making handguns unavailable would do a lot to end gangland murders. We have no need to convince you or me to not shoot each other, we need to disarm thugs.
Hey, as long as they are shooting each other...who really cares?
The only time I get upset is when it spills out to hit innocent people, but where I live for the most part, the shootings all happen mostly in the same gang/thug neighborhoods, and if that's how the animals want to live, let them.
I'm surprised tho...I'd think at some point, they'd run out of bodies to shoot there.
The current model Prius has an option for rooftop solar panels. On a very sunny day, they will generate just enough power to run the fan for the air conditioner. Note that is not nearly enough power for the air conditioner itself, let alone actually moving the car.
So I agree, we are not going to see solar powered cars any time soon.
Still, I wouldn't see that as any reason to keep the current administration from pouring about $535M in stimulus money/loans into a company producing these things...
The reason automatics rule in the US is because no one has time to use a manual. We are all busy texting, talking on the phone, eating, watching movies and sleeping. Sometimes, a few of those things at the same time... We only have two hands a knee to drive with!
I've never owned anything BUT a manual transmission.
Then again, I've never owned anything with more than 2 seats (ok, the old '86 Porsche 911 turbo technically had 2 rear seats, but they couldn't house a human back there...barely enough for some groceries).
But I find it fun to shift. And after you've had a few at the bar, having to shift helps keep you alert while driving home.
Sad, but not a good argument...the driver in this case was RUNNING A STOP SIGN.....I'm not arguing for driving like an idiot.
I drive fast, but I stop at stop signs. I drive the speed that is safe for me and those around me, considering how my car can handle given the situation, and at times that is well above the posted speed limit, but I can stop, maneuver and do what it takes to drive without endangering anyone around me (self included).
I fully agree that overly powerful cars should be banned from the roads. Or at least tamed down to "normal" car levels through a "track switch" that can enable the full performance of the car for use at the track (like the Bugatti Veyron's "high speed mode" that can only be activated while stopped with a special key). They are a hazard on the roads - I don't think anyone owns a 350+ HP sports car to drive in a safe and legal manner all the time, and the car commercials (with their trained drivers on a closed course) make that point too.
Man...are you ever the buzzkill. I'm guessing we shouldn't be able to have corvettes or porsches, or be able to mod our cars in any fashion to go over 55mph to suit you?
Where's the fun in that? If you can't handle a performance car, don't get one...but why rain on the parade of those who can?
I've actually been SAVED from a number of accidents by having a car with enough performance to get the fuck out of the way of some other idiots on the road that didn't know how to drive and usually, were trying to drive piece of shit cars like they WERE performance cars.
Just claim to be a member of the NRA and any attempt by the gummint to lower power is infringing your 2nd amendment rights.
Not so much that...as that it seems the govt. figures we are all fucking idiots that can't be trusted with our own judgment to use anything more dangerous than a butter knife, or maybe those rounded edge scissors we all got in first grade.
Typical farm and/or ranch days start at 5am and end at 8 or 9 evening.
Well, considering that there are so few farmers that it isn't even listed as an occupation on the US Census anymore...I'd dare say that can't really be used as a reason for the DST changes any longer.
So you like having the sun come up at 4:00AM in the Summer? I personally have a lot more things requiring daylight going on at 10:00 PM than I do at 3:30 AM.
Err...what?
Why would the sun all of a sudden start coming up at 3-4am?? With or without DST sun comes up here about 6am +/-
Even if Google starts its own record label, that doesn't automatically give Google the right to distribute recordings of copyrighted musical compositions. The music publishers control that.
So, what's to stop Google from getting into the music publishing business too?
They could cover all the bases on media, from publishing, to distribution, etc, and all new media going forward could have the old way, or the new Google way going forward.
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Then, for some of us, we just don't care what the posted limit is.
I drive the maximum speed that is safe for the conditions on the road that I'm on at the time, which is usually much faster than the posted limit.
My two favorite words that have saved me so much $$$$ over the years are: Valentine One.
Eating out all the time, with processed foods, etc....is the road to a quicker death, and possible diabetes.
How much is your time worth, if you are shortening the time you have left on earth?
That's kind of my deal...I can buy mp3's...or I can buy a CD and rip it to flac, or buy a flac......with the higher quality one, I keep for the liviing room. I can then rip to a lessor quality one for the iPod for the gym or the car.
But given a choice between two versions, and you KNOW one version is of lessor quality, why would you choose the lessor one?
So, I would broadly say that in general, this intrusion into how US citizens use and spend their money should be revisited in general....
I mean, if you're only listening to ear buds (even $$$ ones are limited in bass response, etc), or in a car (one of the worst listening environments conceived)....then sure it won't make a difference, and portability makes a lot of sense too.
However, in a nice listening environment, with good equipment...it is worth the effort IMHO.
For instance, I have a pair of Klipschorns ...paired with a couple of the much older models of the Decware SET amps , running mono to each channel..plus an older 15" 800W Klipsch sub, etc......
Even with my older ears, I can hear differences in recordings and formats. Not as well as I used to be able to, but I figure, WHY would I want anything less than the best I can get for the given time/situation? When listening at home, I rip my music to flac, and have it play on my living room stereo.
And hey....kinda fun to watch the Flintstones in concert volume on tv too from time to time, or hell, once hooked the MAME machine to it....Robotron 2084 is fun with the room shaking around you.
God, my neighbors used to hate me when I live in a place where I had to share walls...
Well, not so much in the US. The Constitution and the govt and the courts do NOT grant us our rights, we are born with them inherently. Therefore, it is the proper thing to do to question any time the govt starts to assert new authority or set limits on your free to do activity.
Also, there is nothing wrong with questioning laws already on the books...as that they might not should be there to regulate you.
We're not here to serve the US govt, they are here to serve us...although, they often seem to be forgetting this.
Like another poster said, what about "innocent until proven guilty"?
I mean, if you're in the US, that's the way it is supposed to be.
If you suspect wrongdoing, then get a warrant, investigate....what's wrong with that?
For that matter, WTF should the US govt be notified if I do any transaction over $10K in cash, bitcoins or barter??
How did we let it become the govts business what we do with our money?
That being said, I'm really puzzled about why so many people (especially women these days) can't seem to cook?
Didn't ya'lls mom's get you in the kitchen to help when you were young? If for nothing else, mine did to get help in the house, but also to make sure I knew how to take care of myself when I did leave the 'nest'.
But hell, of late, I can't hardly find a woman that knows how to cook shit. What happened there?
Actually, I know...somehow, somewhere along the way...everyone started eating out and eating crap.
I didn't realize this till after Katrina...when I lived with some friends while I got a place to live and job, etc.
I stayed with one family, two small kids...about 8-9 yrs old. The dad was out of town, so just me there with the wife and kids. I was shocked to see that so many meals at night were: Popeye's, Sonic....fast food. The others that were 'home cooked'...frozen, prepared food from the store. The home cooked meal from scratch was a rarity.
Me? I'm the opposite. I love to cook, and tho I don't have a lot of time, I dedicate my Sunday's to cooking. I cook often 2-4 entrees, and the same sides...and eat those throughout the week for lunches and dinner, finishing them by about Friday or so. Or, during the summer, I like to grill things...grill some meats and LOTS of veggies. And during the week, those are quick to warm up for salads, or pita sandwiches (whip up a quick taziki sauce)..or stuff like that.
I'd rather save up my pennies for dining out at a REAL restaurant. Not a chain, but a place with a real chef, and honest to goodness service and good wine, etc. I'd rather blow a good chunk of coin fine dining than a little bit here and there on crap food and no service .
And let's face it...fast food isn't all that cheap anymore. I do occasionally like a crap food day...Taco Bell was nearly $10. Ouch.
But anyway....cooking is easy. Good tools do help, money spent on good knives and pans are well spent. Drop some coin on a good Wusthof-Trident knives (a couple of basic ones will do), and maybe a couple of good All-Clad SS fry pans/pots. Yes, they are $$, but they will last you a lifetime.
Hell, start out with good cast iron, that is cheap and when cared for...will last you the same lifetime.
And then....look at the grocery store ads in your town. See what ingredients are on sale that week. Get on the internet, and look up recipes with those ingredients and pick something fun to try, and do it.
And try this too...to be a bit healthier. When shopping at the grocery store, try to shop ONLY along the outside perimeter of the store, where the real, non-processed foods are: veggies, meats, dairy. (It is ok to venture into the aisles if that's where they keep the beer, wine and liquor tho).
But seriously, it isn't rocket science. Try it. And if you're a guy, you can definitely impress the ladies with cooking skills, AND...it is a great excuse to get them into YOUR house, where you likely have a bed nearby.
But, but....how do you know if you're winning?
Yeah, well, not everyone is as uptight as you about it. Those people filling the parking lots at the bars? Guess what, they're mostly ALL above the 'legal' limit (artificially low), and they arent' with designated drivers, and they DO have to get their cars home so they can drive to work the next day or do whatever.
Guess what? Most of those people drive home. It isn't that hard, and if you haven't had too much to drive and aren't plowed...you'll get home just fine, if the majority of those people weren't able to do that, then you'd have WAY more traffic wrecks and fatalities, but the truth is, most people that go out and drink are not legal, but they are perfectly ok as seen by the results of them getting home with no problems.
MADD has overblown this thing way too much....
No, not kidding....why?
I've actually heard this same thing from more than a few of my friends.
Hey, as long as they are shooting each other...who really cares?
The only time I get upset is when it spills out to hit innocent people, but where I live for the most part, the shootings all happen mostly in the same gang/thug neighborhoods, and if that's how the animals want to live, let them.
I'm surprised tho...I'd think at some point, they'd run out of bodies to shoot there.
Still, I wouldn't see that as any reason to keep the current administration from pouring about $535M in stimulus money/loans into a company producing these things...
I've never owned anything BUT a manual transmission.
Then again, I've never owned anything with more than 2 seats (ok, the old '86 Porsche 911 turbo technically had 2 rear seats, but they couldn't house a human back there...barely enough for some groceries).
But I find it fun to shift. And after you've had a few at the bar, having to shift helps keep you alert while driving home.
Sad, but not a good argument...the driver in this case was RUNNING A STOP SIGN.....I'm not arguing for driving like an idiot.
I drive fast, but I stop at stop signs. I drive the speed that is safe for me and those around me, considering how my car can handle given the situation, and at times that is well above the posted speed limit, but I can stop, maneuver and do what it takes to drive without endangering anyone around me (self included).
Man...are you ever the buzzkill. I'm guessing we shouldn't be able to have corvettes or porsches, or be able to mod our cars in any fashion to go over 55mph to suit you?
Where's the fun in that? If you can't handle a performance car, don't get one...but why rain on the parade of those who can?
I've actually been SAVED from a number of accidents by having a car with enough performance to get the fuck out of the way of some other idiots on the road that didn't know how to drive and usually, were trying to drive piece of shit cars like they WERE performance cars.
Not so much that...as that it seems the govt. figures we are all fucking idiots that can't be trusted with our own judgment to use anything more dangerous than a butter knife, or maybe those rounded edge scissors we all got in first grade.
I sure miss lawn darts and clackers and....
Seriously?
Any citations?
Ok, then leave it at DST year round...I really don't care which way the hour goes...just pick one and quit changing it.
Well, considering that there are so few farmers that it isn't even listed as an occupation on the US Census anymore...I'd dare say that can't really be used as a reason for the DST changes any longer.
Err...what?
Why would the sun all of a sudden start coming up at 3-4am?? With or without DST sun comes up here about 6am +/-
I don't live at the north pole after all.
So, what's to stop Google from getting into the music publishing business too?
They could cover all the bases on media, from publishing, to distribution, etc, and all new media going forward could have the old way, or the new Google way going forward.
Likely as not, it would save more energy, and certainly help with human internal clocks.
From what I understand, they actually observer statistically distinct spikes in heart attacks and suicides with the time changes each year.