+1 for Bandcamp. It is by far the best site out there. Everything is available as high-quality MP3 or lossless, with sensible tagging, embedded cover art and a discovery-to-download process that is ridiculously easy.
I also greatly appreciate the fact that most of my money goes directly to the artists (minus a small cut for Bandcamp), and that the prices are much less inflated as a result. Especially for the genres I listen to (extreme metal, synthwave, that sort of thing), the selection is absolutely huge. I wish more artists would get on it, it would make everything so much easier for me, instead of having to buy CDs, wait for them to arrive, rip them and then throw them in a box somewhere.
Nuclear Blast's FLAC downloads from their site are a close second, but they obviously only feature their own artists.
There are tons of lesser-known bands that play shows all over, with ticket prices around $10-$25, and they're always a complete blast. The more mainstream a band is, the shittier the crowd is IMHO. Clutch played here recently, and while I love the band, the crowd was packed with shitlords who had absolutely no understanding of crowd etiquette.
Some of the best shows I've been to lately have been High on Fire and Red Fang. All-out rowdy partying, no assholes or fighting, just people having a good ol' time.
> I'm going to guess there is no evidence of medical benefit to applying deodorant every day, but FFS please do
Actually - please FFS don't. Instead eat fruit and veggies as prime nutrient sources, and use a mild soap (and 3 out of 4 days just rinse the less hairy bits). Wear (thin! high thread count!) wool inner layers when possible. Once dermal fauna adjusts, and once the last of the junk food has finished sweating out, most people don't actually smell bad at all - most people have a very very mild scent. But drink cola, eat burgers chips and put butter and cheese on everything, and scrub till skin squeaks so that dermal fauna restart from almost nothing every day, and most people smell pretty atrocious.
There's caveats - some swarthier persons have a stronger scent in particular. Sandalwood goes a long way, but a rinse before and after work seems to work well.
No, I'm calling the Mises Institute libertarian, I didn't mention anything about Alliansen, I was speaking about the current political climate in Denmark, which I am most familiar with. Maybe I should have clarified that.
Socialism is state ownership. Communism is the lack of a state.
Unfortunately, most people (especially in the US) think socialism means "anything I don't like" and communism means "very dangerous!", and that's about as far as they care to think about it.
Uh no, in an actual true communist society, there would be no state, as it would have withered away. It is an utopia, but the core idea is that when all means of production are shared, there will be no need for a government to keep corporations and so on in check.
It's about as realistic as the libertarian vision of the 100% free market, but there you have it.
First off, you're citing the Mises Institute, one of the most hardcore libertarian FYGM organizations around. Of course they'll spin some free market-friendly spiel.
Which three countries are in the top 5, above the US? That's right, the Scandiavian social-democratic countries. I know our classical liberal and libertarian shitheel politicians have been trying to run the system into the ground for a while now, but we're dealing with them in due time.
Please stop talking about Europe as a whole, as if you can paint the whole continent with one brush. There are vast cultural and political differences from north to south, and east to west.
The social programs have been raised to the maximum sustainable level - really, they couldn't be any higher without creating a positive feedback loop, eliminating more of the private sector in favor of benefits, as some argue already has happened to some extent.
That's funny, because around here we have much more extensive and well-funded social programs. Oddly enough, no such positive feedback loop has happened. Rather the opposite, in fact.
Sure, but have you done the calculations for how much energy you need to burn off to melt even a 5cm layer of snow? Even if the grid wasn't strained enough as is, this idea would completely murder it.
We don't need self-clearing roads, we need adequate mechanical clearing and cars with good winter tires. Cheaper, easier and less waste.
You're talking about a panel with electronics, solar panels, LED lights and an engineered glas surface that is both durable and sufficiently transparent to let sunlight through, while having enough friction to function as a road surface. Never mind all the support infrastructure, cabling etc.
And you're saying it's both cheaper and more durable than tarmac or concrete? Are you insane?
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+1 for Bandcamp. It is by far the best site out there. Everything is available as high-quality MP3 or lossless, with sensible tagging, embedded cover art and a discovery-to-download process that is ridiculously easy.
I also greatly appreciate the fact that most of my money goes directly to the artists (minus a small cut for Bandcamp), and that the prices are much less inflated as a result. Especially for the genres I listen to (extreme metal, synthwave, that sort of thing), the selection is absolutely huge. I wish more artists would get on it, it would make everything so much easier for me, instead of having to buy CDs, wait for them to arrive, rip them and then throw them in a box somewhere.
Nuclear Blast's FLAC downloads from their site are a close second, but they obviously only feature their own artists.
The Cloud-to-Butt extension for Chrome is really pulling its weight in this thread :-)
Proof?
So the most secure option is still to hop on a VPN immediately after connecting to wifi, no matter which security protocol it uses.
How then would you properly secure a wireless network?* WPA-Enterprise with a RADIUS server?
* The correct answer is obviously to use a cable, but a lot of devices are badly designed with no ethernet ports. For shame.
Don't go to mainstream shows, then.
There are tons of lesser-known bands that play shows all over, with ticket prices around $10-$25, and they're always a complete blast. The more mainstream a band is, the shittier the crowd is IMHO. Clutch played here recently, and while I love the band, the crowd was packed with shitlords who had absolutely no understanding of crowd etiquette.
Some of the best shows I've been to lately have been High on Fire and Red Fang. All-out rowdy partying, no assholes or fighting, just people having a good ol' time.
I've been seeing a lot of kickass beards in the pits lately. Pretty awesome, actually.
Well, you can either learn to love the sausage, or just let loose and have fun at shows, and find somewhere else to awkwardly hit on girls.
I'm sad that you have only been to shitty shows, apparently.
Around here, there are a lot of $10 shows with 2-4 decidedly non-mainstream bands at tiny venues. People get fucking rowdy in those crowds.
Come to a metal or punk/hardcore show. Youngsters can still party hard :-)
> I'm going to guess there is no evidence of medical benefit to applying deodorant every day, but FFS please do
Actually - please FFS don't. Instead eat fruit and veggies as prime nutrient sources, and use a mild soap (and 3 out of 4 days just rinse the less hairy bits). Wear (thin! high thread count!) wool inner layers when possible. Once dermal fauna adjusts, and once the last of the junk food has finished sweating out, most people don't actually smell bad at all - most people have a very very mild scent. But drink cola, eat burgers chips and put butter and cheese on everything, and scrub till skin squeaks so that dermal fauna restart from almost nothing every day, and most people smell pretty atrocious.
There's caveats - some swarthier persons have a stronger scent in particular. Sandalwood goes a long way, but a rinse before and after work seems to work well.
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No, I'm calling the Mises Institute libertarian, I didn't mention anything about Alliansen, I was speaking about the current political climate in Denmark, which I am most familiar with. Maybe I should have clarified that.
Socialism is state ownership. Communism is the lack of a state.
Unfortunately, most people (especially in the US) think socialism means "anything I don't like" and communism means "very dangerous!", and that's about as far as they care to think about it.
Uh no, in an actual true communist society, there would be no state, as it would have withered away. It is an utopia, but the core idea is that when all means of production are shared, there will be no need for a government to keep corporations and so on in check.
It's about as realistic as the libertarian vision of the 100% free market, but there you have it.
First off, you're citing the Mises Institute, one of the most hardcore libertarian FYGM organizations around. Of course they'll spin some free market-friendly spiel.
Secondly, look at the median income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Which three countries are in the top 5, above the US? That's right, the Scandiavian social-democratic countries. I know our classical liberal and libertarian shitheel politicians have been trying to run the system into the ground for a while now, but we're dealing with them in due time.
Please stop talking about Europe as a whole, as if you can paint the whole continent with one brush. There are vast cultural and political differences from north to south, and east to west.
The social programs have been raised to the maximum sustainable level - really, they couldn't be any higher without creating a positive feedback loop, eliminating more of the private sector in favor of benefits, as some argue already has happened to some extent.
That's funny, because around here we have much more extensive and well-funded social programs. Oddly enough, no such positive feedback loop has happened. Rather the opposite, in fact.
Phillips is a standard for cross-end screws, not a manufacturer.
Cross end? Do you mean Phillips, Pozidriv, JIS, Frearson, Mortorq or Supadriv?
Sure, but have you done the calculations for how much energy you need to burn off to melt even a 5cm layer of snow? Even if the grid wasn't strained enough as is, this idea would completely murder it.
We don't need self-clearing roads, we need adequate mechanical clearing and cars with good winter tires. Cheaper, easier and less waste.
If the surface isn't smooth, how is it going to let any sunlight through to the solar panels?
"cheap and durable"
You're talking about a panel with electronics, solar panels, LED lights and an engineered glas surface that is both durable and sufficiently transparent to let sunlight through, while having enough friction to function as a road surface. Never mind all the support infrastructure, cabling etc.
And you're saying it's both cheaper and more durable than tarmac or concrete? Are you insane?
Well, that's certainly convenient for you. Now you get to make up a whole set of "evidence" to support your assertions.
Isn't the whole point to generate electricity?
If you believe that, I've got a bridge for sale.
No matter how you spin it, glass is not a good surface for a roadway.