I'm not a fan of Bush by any stretch of the imagination...but geez, the things that were said and published about him....if you tried going even a fraction that far with Obama...you'd better watch out.
Like claiming him to be unfit for the position as president, calling him a traitor, calling him a muslim terrorist, accusing him of setting up "death panels", claiming that he is destroying the economy, claiming that he aims to turn the US into an islamic theocracy, claiming that he is killing children because he's "takin' are guns!" etc. etc. etc.
The American political right and the christian right in particular is unbelievably virulent, racist and aggressive. Bush was criticized, but not to this level of hatred and outright racism.
And the members of Socialist International aren't even that socialist. In Denmark, we have two significant political parties that are even further to the left than the Social Democrats, who are members of SI.
The Socialist People's Party (SF) and the Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten), and SF is even part of the current government.
American politics are fucked up. The commienazifascistabortionmurderers in the Democratic Party would be well at home alongside the Conservative People's Party around these parts.
I don't own an electric car myself, but I have driven a couple, as we have them at work for external meetings within city limits.
My experience is that they drive like the perfect ideal of an automatic gearbox since you never have to change gear and you have instant response whenever you press the accelerator. You don't have to wait for a downshift, it just goes. It really is like a bumper car in that respect, press one pedal to go, press the other to stop.
Acceleration is one long smooth pull, you get no jolts from imperfect shifting.
In every other respect, it's just like driving any other car. Everything works just like you're used to, except you have a kwh counter instead of a fuel gauge.
There are plenty of electronics for grownups, but you won't find them in the big box store.
Denon and NAD among others make some really great shelf stereo systems that are straightforward to use and aren't garish to look at. Unless you need to fill a large room with disco sound levels, you could use one of their systems for the rest of your life and not miss anything.
What you ask for is available, but you have to be prepared to pay a 100+% premium for quality. I don't mind, I've been using my straightforward Pioneer stereo since 1996. It wasn't cheap back then, but it has never ever put a foot wrong or failed to work because of some obscure feature that suddenly decided to bug out.
Nice ride, but it could have been a base 'Vette or a Z06, based on your username. Hell, it could have been a hopped up '69 Stingray for all I know from your username:-)
I also keep traction control off in that car most of the time (I do wish I could keep it disabled by default), and on one of my other cars I actually disable ABS (I disconnect the EBCU entirely) in icy/snowy weather because ironically it adversely affects braking by being overly-sensitive (probably due to 335mm/13.1" wide tires - and no they are not slicks), greatly extending stopping distances, even when braking gently.
You really should put winter tires that are as skinny as possible on your car during the winter season. They exert a higher pressure per area and cut through the snow and slush better. Wider tires tend to skate across and be ineffective.
I believe FLAC decoding in hardware has been possible since at least 2003, when the Rio Karma was released. As far as I know, it was the first portable player with Ogg Vorbis and FLAC playback.
I'd recommend the 1990 MFSL CD version "Breakfast in America" or one of the many good CD versions of "Dark side of the Moon". I own both and there is definitely a difference to be heard.
By all means, use 24-bit/96kHz (or above!) for mastering, you want as much headroom as possible when you're mixing, EQing and so on.
But for final distribution, 16-bit/44.1kHz is more than good enough, 96dB dynamic range is huge if you actually use all (or most) of it. In fact, there has not been a single verified double-blind ABX test where any difference could be heard between a 24-bit/192kHz recording and a properly dithered and downsampled 16-bit/44.1kHz version of the same recording, even on top studio-quality equipment.
The CD format is solid, 99% of modern mastering practices are not, due to overcompression. I agree 100% with you that some compression is a good thing, but it is a powerful tool that must be wielded with extreme care.
I live in an apartment building constructed in the mid-1930s and it looks like most of the wiring dates from back then, too.
Apart from the kitchen, which was remodeled 10 years ago by the previous owner, all of the wiring consists of cloth-insulated individual conductors inside copper tubing. I had to replace a light switch last year and the insulation literally crumbled to dust wherever I wasn't extremely gentle with it.
Ground wires? Well, the oven and the washing machine have safety grounds. Everything else has had the ground plugs removed to fit in the old-style two-prong sockets, the only ones that will fit. Besides, only the kitchen has an actual safety ground anyway.
The way my apartment is wired up to the mains, I have a theoretical 3-phase 400V connection. I say "theoretical", because in actual fact, one phase supplies the entire apartment with 10A 230V and the remaining two phases supply the kitchen with 2x 16A 230V. My electrician friend just shook his head and mumbled "goddamn Copenhagen wiring" when he saw it.
I have drawn up a budget for replacing the old wiring, but it would involve tearing down the beautiful stucco ceilings and basically remodeling the entire apartment in one go.
Tut tut, only 70%? They're barely any better than the Americans!
Although, having worked with a fair number of Swedes, it doesn't really surprise me. They're also highly annoying with their talk of "true Swedish viking blood" and whatnot, I think they need a healthy dose of humility.
Try giving Bulletstorm a go. It was sadly overlooked and not as successful as it deserved, but it is stonkin' great fun, does away with all the current cover-based realism dullness of most modern FPSs and actually has humor.
Why do enemies fly away in slow motion when you kick them, while the rest of the world continues at full speed? So you can riddle them with bullets, of course! For FUN!
I am amazed at how you apparently know me and my habits better than I do. Who are you to judge me on imagined pretenses?
Listen here, I do support up-and-coming independent or semi-independent artists, just not you, partly because I have never heard of you and your website. I'll have a look, but I won't promise anything. I am not against shilling your own products, especially if you're independent. But I am against starting said spiel by calling bullshit on your potential customers, that's really bad PR.
Yes, I will go back to my old habits of buying the music I like once march is over (mostly semi-obscure 60s and 70s rock). No, I will not increase my buying of content to "make up" for march. That's ludicrous.
I bought The Silent Comedy's debut album "Common Faults" because I think it's amazing, even though I had to pay more than the price of the album in shipping because the album isn't even for sale in Europe. That is how much I believe in supporting independent artists. I like them, I like their music, I like their sponsors (Ernie Ball, woo!) and I think they deserve to be successful.
I said most of my reading material comes from the public domain. For the rest (and music, movies etc.), I prefer small publishers.
A gas tax will work in discouraging some people from driving excessively large vehicles, namely the ones who can no longer afford it. The rich and powerful elite will continue to do whatever the hell they want, the gas tax will just be a tiny added expense to be forgotten.
Meanwhile, it completely shafts the poor who can just barely scrape together enough money for gas so they can get to work. For many of them, their (cheap, used) car is their only hope of holding down a semi-steady job.
I routinely drive 175 miles round trip to visit my family for the weekend, once or twice per month. My commute is 30 miles round trip every day, not counting shopping and so on.
I do this in a 70hp turbodiesel hatchback getting over 55 MPG with no issues at all.
The problem isn't how big the US is (and it is big!), it's how big the engines in your cars are.
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I'm not a fan of Bush by any stretch of the imagination...but geez, the things that were said and published about him....if you tried going even a fraction that far with Obama...you'd better watch out.
Like claiming him to be unfit for the position as president, calling him a traitor, calling him a muslim terrorist, accusing him of setting up "death panels", claiming that he is destroying the economy, claiming that he aims to turn the US into an islamic theocracy, claiming that he is killing children because he's "takin' are guns!" etc. etc. etc.
The American political right and the christian right in particular is unbelievably virulent, racist and aggressive. Bush was criticized, but not to this level of hatred and outright racism.
And the members of Socialist International aren't even that socialist. In Denmark, we have two significant political parties that are even further to the left than the Social Democrats, who are members of SI.
The Socialist People's Party (SF) and the Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten), and SF is even part of the current government.
American politics are fucked up. The commienazifascistabortionmurderers in the Democratic Party would be well at home alongside the Conservative People's Party around these parts.
It's even right there in both articles. How slow do you have to get to mess that up?
Oh right. Slashdot.
I don't own an electric car myself, but I have driven a couple, as we have them at work for external meetings within city limits.
My experience is that they drive like the perfect ideal of an automatic gearbox since you never have to change gear and you have instant response whenever you press the accelerator. You don't have to wait for a downshift, it just goes. It really is like a bumper car in that respect, press one pedal to go, press the other to stop.
Acceleration is one long smooth pull, you get no jolts from imperfect shifting.
In every other respect, it's just like driving any other car. Everything works just like you're used to, except you have a kwh counter instead of a fuel gauge.
There are plenty of electronics for grownups, but you won't find them in the big box store.
Denon and NAD among others make some really great shelf stereo systems that are straightforward to use and aren't garish to look at. Unless you need to fill a large room with disco sound levels, you could use one of their systems for the rest of your life and not miss anything.
What you ask for is available, but you have to be prepared to pay a 100+% premium for quality. I don't mind, I've been using my straightforward Pioneer stereo since 1996. It wasn't cheap back then, but it has never ever put a foot wrong or failed to work because of some obscure feature that suddenly decided to bug out.
Nice ride, but it could have been a base 'Vette or a Z06, based on your username. Hell, it could have been a hopped up '69 Stingray for all I know from your username :-)
Can you even get winter tires in that size?
I still hope those are snow tires at that width. Anything else is suicide.
Also, those are some damn wide stock tires, what you do drive?
I also keep traction control off in that car most of the time (I do wish I could keep it disabled by default), and on one of my other cars I actually disable ABS (I disconnect the EBCU entirely) in icy/snowy weather because ironically it adversely affects braking by being overly-sensitive (probably due to 335mm/13.1" wide tires - and no they are not slicks), greatly extending stopping distances, even when braking gently.
You really should put winter tires that are as skinny as possible on your car during the winter season. They exert a higher pressure per area and cut through the snow and slush better. Wider tires tend to skate across and be ineffective.
A drop or two of ice-cold water will open of the flavor of good whiskey. Ice cubes are just taking it to the next level.
No, you narrow-minded racist, diversity does not destroy trust and create paranoid communities.
Insular communities lacking exposure to different ideas and cultures do, however.
By "the productive class", do you mean the fat sleazeballs in their multi-million $ mansions sitting on their asses?
Or the actual workers doing the actual fucking work?
Length is overrated, it's all about girth, baby.
Hence, the ideal penis must be shaped roughly like a soup can.
Also, if you are doing anything scripted on a Linux system for dynamic content generation Sox does not fully support FLAC.
That's odd, I've been using SoX to dither+downsample 24-bit/96kHz FLAC files to CD-quality for a while now and it seems to work perfectly well:
sox -G infile.flac -b 16 outfile.flac rate 44100 dither -s
It even preserves tags.
I believe FLAC decoding in hardware has been possible since at least 2003, when the Rio Karma was released. As far as I know, it was the first portable player with Ogg Vorbis and FLAC playback.
Sansa Clip Zip - $40
Rockbox firmware - $0
Sennheiser PX-100 headphones - $60
Total - $100
I'd recommend the 1990 MFSL CD version "Breakfast in America" or one of the many good CD versions of "Dark side of the Moon". I own both and there is definitely a difference to be heard.
By all means, use 24-bit/96kHz (or above!) for mastering, you want as much headroom as possible when you're mixing, EQing and so on.
But for final distribution, 16-bit/44.1kHz is more than good enough, 96dB dynamic range is huge if you actually use all (or most) of it. In fact, there has not been a single verified double-blind ABX test where any difference could be heard between a 24-bit/192kHz recording and a properly dithered and downsampled 16-bit/44.1kHz version of the same recording, even on top studio-quality equipment.
The CD format is solid, 99% of modern mastering practices are not, due to overcompression. I agree 100% with you that some compression is a good thing, but it is a powerful tool that must be wielded with extreme care.
I live in an apartment building constructed in the mid-1930s and it looks like most of the wiring dates from back then, too.
Apart from the kitchen, which was remodeled 10 years ago by the previous owner, all of the wiring consists of cloth-insulated individual conductors inside copper tubing. I had to replace a light switch last year and the insulation literally crumbled to dust wherever I wasn't extremely gentle with it.
Ground wires? Well, the oven and the washing machine have safety grounds. Everything else has had the ground plugs removed to fit in the old-style two-prong sockets, the only ones that will fit. Besides, only the kitchen has an actual safety ground anyway.
The way my apartment is wired up to the mains, I have a theoretical 3-phase 400V connection. I say "theoretical", because in actual fact, one phase supplies the entire apartment with 10A 230V and the remaining two phases supply the kitchen with 2x 16A 230V. My electrician friend just shook his head and mumbled "goddamn Copenhagen wiring" when he saw it.
I have drawn up a budget for replacing the old wiring, but it would involve tearing down the beautiful stucco ceilings and basically remodeling the entire apartment in one go.
If it ain't broken, don't fix it :-)
Tut tut, only 70%? They're barely any better than the Americans!
Although, having worked with a fair number of Swedes, it doesn't really surprise me. They're also highly annoying with their talk of "true Swedish viking blood" and whatnot, I think they need a healthy dose of humility.
Well no, it's more of a throwback to the simpler times of fast-paced gameplay of yesteryear's FPS games.
Sounds like you'd like the STALKER games quite a lot, actually.
Since my programming skills are definitely inadequate, I just donated $20 to you instead.
Thank you for a great piece of software, screen+rtorrent will never be beat, as far as I'm concerned.
How are you doing, neighbor? 100% honest wallet-returning greetings from your old pal, Denmark :-)
Try giving Bulletstorm a go. It was sadly overlooked and not as successful as it deserved, but it is stonkin' great fun, does away with all the current cover-based realism dullness of most modern FPSs and actually has humor.
Why do enemies fly away in slow motion when you kick them, while the rest of the world continues at full speed? So you can riddle them with bullets, of course! For FUN!
I am amazed at how you apparently know me and my habits better than I do. Who are you to judge me on imagined pretenses?
Listen here, I do support up-and-coming independent or semi-independent artists, just not you, partly because I have never heard of you and your website. I'll have a look, but I won't promise anything. I am not against shilling your own products, especially if you're independent. But I am against starting said spiel by calling bullshit on your potential customers, that's really bad PR.
Yes, I will go back to my old habits of buying the music I like once march is over (mostly semi-obscure 60s and 70s rock). No, I will not increase my buying of content to "make up" for march. That's ludicrous.
I bought The Silent Comedy's debut album "Common Faults" because I think it's amazing, even though I had to pay more than the price of the album in shipping because the album isn't even for sale in Europe. That is how much I believe in supporting independent artists. I like them, I like their music, I like their sponsors (Ernie Ball, woo!) and I think they deserve to be successful.
I said most of my reading material comes from the public domain. For the rest (and music, movies etc.), I prefer small publishers.
A gas tax will work in discouraging some people from driving excessively large vehicles, namely the ones who can no longer afford it. The rich and powerful elite will continue to do whatever the hell they want, the gas tax will just be a tiny added expense to be forgotten.
Meanwhile, it completely shafts the poor who can just barely scrape together enough money for gas so they can get to work. For many of them, their (cheap, used) car is their only hope of holding down a semi-steady job.
I routinely drive 175 miles round trip to visit my family for the weekend, once or twice per month. My commute is 30 miles round trip every day, not counting shopping and so on.
I do this in a 70hp turbodiesel hatchback getting over 55 MPG with no issues at all.
The problem isn't how big the US is (and it is big!), it's how big the engines in your cars are.