In the US, free speech is protected by the Constitution. Courts consistently rule to protect it here. There's no such constitutional protection in Europe on speech.
That's funny, because I seem to remember the Danish Constitution of 1849 saying something on the subject. Oh yeah, this:
"Anyone is entitled to in print, writing and speech to publish his or hers thoughts, yet under responsibility to the courts. Censorship and other preventive measures can never again be introduced."
Other European contries have similar clauses in their constitutions or similar documents, and the EU also explicitly enshrines the protection of free speech in its Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Those were the deaths at the major camps. Millions of others died in raids, attacks and outright fighting. It was all rather thoroughly documented, as presented at the Nürnberg trials.
Scientists have never found any evidence of Zyklon B gas or gas chambers (there were forced labor camps), and there has never been anywhere close to 6 million bodies found
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
I've been to the camps, I've seen the chambers, including the hatches where the Zyklon B pills were poured in, and I've seen the massive doors with clear scratch marks on the inside.
And no, of course that many bodies haven't been found, because they were cremated, you moron.
The Auschwitz Camp sign has been changed from ~6 Millions of Jews, to ~1 Million Jews, so, catch up friend, you are behind the latest revision. My mental problem is that I question everything, well almost everything. I firmly believe the earth is roundish, an oblate spheroid I believe it is.
I've been to the camps. I've seen the hatches where the Zyklon B pills* were dropped in. I've seen the massive strong doors and the scratch marks from the victims.
You have literally no goddamn clue what you're talking about, son.
* Zyklon B came in pill form, in cans. The pills were dropped into the chambers, and the temperature and humidity in the tightly-packed chambers caused the pills to break down and release the cyanide gas.
>> All of those are audibly transparent, ie. indistinguishable from CD-quality audio (or "hi-res" snake oil).
Even if you believe that high-rate lossy compression sounds as good as CD, most true audiophiles laugh at CD. I know of at least 3 people that buy vinyl and swear its significantly better-sounding than CD.
Well, then you know at least 3 people who are blithering idiots.
"Hi-res" audio is indistinguishable from a CD-quality version of the same master, it has been shown in tests several times.
What really works for my vegetarian friends are mushrooms. They give that meaty, filling, umami sensation that meat has. Will it taste exactly like a juicy steak? No, but fried mushrooms are pretty damn awesome in their own way.
I rarely watch a movie more than once but I listen to the same songs rather often. I don't care for concerts, so I'm afraid I cannot relate on that matter.
So you buy those albums that you love, as you have always done. But don't discount streaming services, by virtue of their huge user bases and gigantic libraries, they can generate really good recommendations for new music that may fit your taste. I haven't even used Spotify for that long, and I'm already discovering awesome new bands I'd never heard of before, and bought a couple of new albums from them.
And honestly, you're missing out by not going to concerts, really. The music simply comes alive in a completely different way, especially classical music in a good concert hall.
It's convenient as long as you have access to it. I put my entire music collection in FLAC on a microSD card and can listen to it when I walk my dog without worrying about if my phone has enough charge, data rates, cell phone coverage or any other bullshit because I have dedicated media player.
That's why GPM and Spotify (and probably others) have an option to download a number of tracks, with Spotify the limit is 3000 downloaded tracks at any given time. Sure, you have to do this beforehand, but it's really no different than moving files to a microSD card.
Of course, you still need to keep a charge on your phone, but don't act like it's some unsurmountable task.
it's no greater crime to rent a music collection than to lease a car.
You're right, it's not but it is equally as foolish.
If you replace your car every ~3 years like a lot of people do, leasing actually makes sense. Personally, I don't feel a need to do it, but I can understand why some people do, fascination with something new and different is a powerful force.
I am a large consumer of music. I love discovering new bands, hearing new songs, and sharing recommendations with my friends. Before I got Spotify, I would spend around $50-60/month on new albums and I would still torrent a lot of music on top of that. Now I spend $10/month on Spotify and buy maybe one album each month of music I really love, usually at concerts (generally 3-4 shows per month).
I feel the exact same way. So much great new music is coming out all the time, and I like the variety. It would be horribly expensive for me to actually buy all of those albums, so in the past I resorted to illegal downloads.
But I did buy the albums that I ended up loving, and I still do that. The only major difference is that my biggest source of new music is now legal $10/month, instead of illegal. And Spotify has some pretty good automatic recommendations that you don't get with torrents.
You can mark albums for download in Spotify, and they'll download when you're on wifi (or on mobile data, if you allow it). I believe the limit is 3000 songs.
With GPM, you can download albums to times AFAIK, but they'll play in any player. With Spotify, you have to use their app, but there is no limit on how many times you can download an album.
Just like already happened with streaming audio, the people that actually give a shit about stuff like audio/visual quality and lag will be in the definite minority, and they will be increasingly marginalized until there are so few of us left, they can just stop supporting us without any impact to their profits.
Spotify streams 320kbps Ogg Vorbis. Google Play Music streams 320kbps MP3, Apply Music streams 256kbps AAC, Tidal streams 320kbps AAC (or CD-quality FLAC if you pay extra).
All of those are audibly transparent, ie. indistinguishable from CD-quality audio (or "hi-res" snake oil).
My Netbook was definitely a laptop replacement for me, it replaced my (painfully slow) Thinkpad T42. It was decent for web browsing, it played DVD-quality movies and was even a decent machine for gaming (Diablo II, baby!) on the road.
7 years after I bought it (at $270), my dad it still using in for on-the-road reprogramming of electronics. Hasn't missed a beat in all that time. The battery life is obviously shit at this point, but that's it.
And in two years with heavy use the battery has lost half its life and needs replacing for any reasonable runtime.
That's why I bought the Chromebook with a 12-hour rated battery. Even if it does eventually lose half of its capacity, I still have 5-6 hours of useable battery life. I bought it 2½ years ago, and it's still at 93% battery health, and I routinely use it for 8-9 hours before I even think about plugging in the charger.
My dad still uses an old Eee 1001 for when he's out working and need to reprogram radios and other electronics. It's tiny, runs Windows and has USB ports, that's basically all he needs. Not bad for a $270 laptop, bought 7 years ago.
Oh yeah, one more complaint, it can't handle 60fps Youtube videos. Luckily, there are extensions available to force 30fps, and it plays those perfectly without noticeable frame skipping.
If I upgrade to a newer Chromebook in the future, I would absolutely go for a 1080p or better screen and 10+ hour battery life again. 1366x768 or 1280x600 is equivalent to torture.
Last I checked, SSH wasn't really possible in a mature way, but it has been a while since I checked last.
I've been extremely pleased with my Acer Chromebook 13 for a couple of years now. 10+ hours of battery life, thin+light, 1080p screen*, decent keyboard, great trackpad, it's just a great device for anything that can be done in a browser. The only complaints I have are the power plug, which is a little bit flaky, and the fact that it's too old to get the Google Play Store with Android apps, even though it's using an ARM processor. It also does tend to bog down when multitasking, but that's the tradeoff for using a power-efficient ARM processor.
Oh yeah, and no decent Spotify client, but that's on Spotify for not making a proper app, and crippling the web player. The official recommendation is to install the Android app (which is great!), but that goes back to my "no Play Store" complaint.
Other than that, it's been great. The battery life is especially nice, I find myself treating it almost like a smartphone. Charge at night, use throughout the day, still have 10-20% battery life left in the evening.
* It's a crappy TN panel, so colors are... less than good, but it's good enough for text and Youtube videos
Use the $10/month streaming service to discover new bands, through functions such as recommendations, related artists, curated playlists. Enjoy the gigantic selection of good music that is available to you.
If you happen to discover a band that you keep listening to, buy their albums!
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In the US, free speech is protected by the Constitution. Courts consistently rule to protect it here. There's no such constitutional protection in Europe on speech.
That's funny, because I seem to remember the Danish Constitution of 1849 saying something on the subject. Oh yeah, this:
"Anyone is entitled to in print, writing and speech to publish his or hers thoughts, yet under responsibility to the courts. Censorship and other preventive measures can never again be introduced."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Other European contries have similar clauses in their constitutions or similar documents, and the EU also explicitly enshrines the protection of free speech in its Charter of Fundamental Rights.
No.
Those were the deaths at the major camps. Millions of others died in raids, attacks and outright fighting. It was all rather thoroughly documented, as presented at the Nürnberg trials.
Scientists have never found any evidence of Zyklon B gas or gas chambers (there were forced labor camps), and there has never been anywhere close to 6 million bodies found
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
I've been to the camps, I've seen the chambers, including the hatches where the Zyklon B pills were poured in, and I've seen the massive doors with clear scratch marks on the inside.
And no, of course that many bodies haven't been found, because they were cremated, you moron.
The Auschwitz Camp sign has been changed from ~6 Millions of Jews, to ~1 Million Jews, so, catch up friend, you are behind the latest revision. My mental problem is that I question everything, well almost everything. I firmly believe the earth is roundish, an oblate spheroid I believe it is.
STFU and source your claims.
I've been to the camps. I've seen the hatches where the Zyklon B pills* were dropped in. I've seen the massive strong doors and the scratch marks from the victims.
You have literally no goddamn clue what you're talking about, son.
* Zyklon B came in pill form, in cans. The pills were dropped into the chambers, and the temperature and humidity in the tightly-packed chambers caused the pills to break down and release the cyanide gas.
That's because the flat earth society has yet to be involved in a massive genocide, despite having supporters around the globe.
>> All of those are audibly transparent, ie. indistinguishable from CD-quality audio (or "hi-res" snake oil).
Even if you believe that high-rate lossy compression sounds as good as CD, most true audiophiles laugh at CD. I know of at least 3 people that buy vinyl and swear its significantly better-sounding than CD.
Well, then you know at least 3 people who are blithering idiots.
"Hi-res" audio is indistinguishable from a CD-quality version of the same master, it has been shown in tests several times.
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/brows...
I don't see why the muscle fibers could not be worked artificially, for instance through electrical stimulation.
It's actually a really interesting subject.
Fried mushrooms in particular. A big ol' fried portobello is pretty awesome.
What really works for my vegetarian friends are mushrooms. They give that meaty, filling, umami sensation that meat has. Will it taste exactly like a juicy steak? No, but fried mushrooms are pretty damn awesome in their own way.
I rarely watch a movie more than once but I listen to the same songs rather often. I don't care for concerts, so I'm afraid I cannot relate on that matter.
So you buy those albums that you love, as you have always done. But don't discount streaming services, by virtue of their huge user bases and gigantic libraries, they can generate really good recommendations for new music that may fit your taste. I haven't even used Spotify for that long, and I'm already discovering awesome new bands I'd never heard of before, and bought a couple of new albums from them.
And honestly, you're missing out by not going to concerts, really. The music simply comes alive in a completely different way, especially classical music in a good concert hall.
It's convenient as long as you have access to it. I put my entire music collection in FLAC on a microSD card and can listen to it when I walk my dog without worrying about if my phone has enough charge, data rates, cell phone coverage or any other bullshit because I have dedicated media player.
That's why GPM and Spotify (and probably others) have an option to download a number of tracks, with Spotify the limit is 3000 downloaded tracks at any given time. Sure, you have to do this beforehand, but it's really no different than moving files to a microSD card.
Of course, you still need to keep a charge on your phone, but don't act like it's some unsurmountable task.
it's no greater crime to rent a music collection than to lease a car.
You're right, it's not but it is equally as foolish.
If you replace your car every ~3 years like a lot of people do, leasing actually makes sense. Personally, I don't feel a need to do it, but I can understand why some people do, fascination with something new and different is a powerful force.
I am a large consumer of music. I love discovering new bands, hearing new songs, and sharing recommendations with my friends. Before I got Spotify, I would spend around $50-60/month on new albums and I would still torrent a lot of music on top of that. Now I spend $10/month on Spotify and buy maybe one album each month of music I really love, usually at concerts (generally 3-4 shows per month).
Spotify is amazing for someone like me.
I feel the exact same way. So much great new music is coming out all the time, and I like the variety. It would be horribly expensive for me to actually buy all of those albums, so in the past I resorted to illegal downloads.
But I did buy the albums that I ended up loving, and I still do that. The only major difference is that my biggest source of new music is now legal $10/month, instead of illegal. And Spotify has some pretty good automatic recommendations that you don't get with torrents.
You can mark albums for download in Spotify, and they'll download when you're on wifi (or on mobile data, if you allow it). I believe the limit is 3000 songs.
With GPM, you can download albums to times AFAIK, but they'll play in any player. With Spotify, you have to use their app, but there is no limit on how many times you can download an album.
When OTA radio only plays shitty music (not even mediocre, most of the time), that's not an option.
Just like already happened with streaming audio, the people that actually give a shit about stuff like audio/visual quality and lag will be in the definite minority, and they will be increasingly marginalized until there are so few of us left, they can just stop supporting us without any impact to their profits.
Spotify streams 320kbps Ogg Vorbis. Google Play Music streams 320kbps MP3, Apply Music streams 256kbps AAC, Tidal streams 320kbps AAC (or CD-quality FLAC if you pay extra).
All of those are audibly transparent, ie. indistinguishable from CD-quality audio (or "hi-res" snake oil).
Ever written any amount of text longer than a tweet on a touch keyboard? It's painful.
$100-150 is just way too cheap for what you're asking. There is no decent laptop form factor device available at anywhere near that price.
My Chromebook has 4GB RAM and a 1080p, but it runs an Nvidia Tegra ARM processor, and it was $300 on sale, 2½ years ago.
My Netbook was definitely a laptop replacement for me, it replaced my (painfully slow) Thinkpad T42. It was decent for web browsing, it played DVD-quality movies and was even a decent machine for gaming (Diablo II, baby!) on the road.
7 years after I bought it (at $270), my dad it still using in for on-the-road reprogramming of electronics. Hasn't missed a beat in all that time. The battery life is obviously shit at this point, but that's it.
And in two years with heavy use the battery has lost half its life and needs replacing for any reasonable runtime.
That's why I bought the Chromebook with a 12-hour rated battery. Even if it does eventually lose half of its capacity, I still have 5-6 hours of useable battery life. I bought it 2½ years ago, and it's still at 93% battery health, and I routinely use it for 8-9 hours before I even think about plugging in the charger.
My dad still uses an old Eee 1001 for when he's out working and need to reprogram radios and other electronics. It's tiny, runs Windows and has USB ports, that's basically all he needs. Not bad for a $270 laptop, bought 7 years ago.
Oh yeah, one more complaint, it can't handle 60fps Youtube videos. Luckily, there are extensions available to force 30fps, and it plays those perfectly without noticeable frame skipping.
If I upgrade to a newer Chromebook in the future, I would absolutely go for a 1080p or better screen and 10+ hour battery life again. 1366x768 or 1280x600 is equivalent to torture.
Last I checked, SSH wasn't really possible in a mature way, but it has been a while since I checked last.
I've been extremely pleased with my Acer Chromebook 13 for a couple of years now. 10+ hours of battery life, thin+light, 1080p screen*, decent keyboard, great trackpad, it's just a great device for anything that can be done in a browser. The only complaints I have are the power plug, which is a little bit flaky, and the fact that it's too old to get the Google Play Store with Android apps, even though it's using an ARM processor. It also does tend to bog down when multitasking, but that's the tradeoff for using a power-efficient ARM processor.
Oh yeah, and no decent Spotify client, but that's on Spotify for not making a proper app, and crippling the web player. The official recommendation is to install the Android app (which is great!), but that goes back to my "no Play Store" complaint.
Other than that, it's been great. The battery life is especially nice, I find myself treating it almost like a smartphone. Charge at night, use throughout the day, still have 10-20% battery life left in the evening.
* It's a crappy TN panel, so colors are... less than good, but it's good enough for text and Youtube videos
Here's a novel idea:
Use the $10/month streaming service to discover new bands, through functions such as recommendations, related artists, curated playlists. Enjoy the gigantic selection of good music that is available to you.
If you happen to discover a band that you keep listening to, buy their albums!
It's not an either/or situation.
We definitely agree that the article is mostly (all?) just standard corporate drivel.
Try "IT Executives in the late 1980s", instead.
ITIL (a framework of recommended practices for ITSM) was first published between 1989 and 1996. There really is nothing new under the sun.