When the Republicans stop being evile, then Slashdot won't post more evil news.
EVERY news outlet (national and local, well, maybe except FoxNews) is reporting about how slimy Republicans are this election season (fear mongering, race baiting, mother of all negative campaign).
I mentioned some of these things in an earlier leaked EULA to my wife and she stated that she'd rather put Linux on our computers than be micro-managed by any software company.
Aw, C'MON, give me a break. The above quote clearly states that you have no wife or a girlfriend (at least not of any female kind).
Most Americans believe that US government is FAR more generous with international aid than they really are.
Second,VAST MAJORITY of charitable giving in US if for US citizens. 9/11 funds and Katrina funds raised billions... all for us. There are not that many BIG TIME charitable organization that target overseas (Gates Foundation being one prime example of the few). And must of the percentage includes giving to the local church, which as you probably know, in US comprise a significant majority of charitable giving.
What would you do as an alternative? The options are pretty limited. Put them into the criminal justice system where intelligence data cannot be provided and they end up walking the streets in the US?
I call shenanigans.
We tried AND convicted the terrorists who planted and exploded a car bomb at the WTC. Those guys are in PRISON today, and not "walking the streets" Your options are not limited at all IF you follow the law. Your options are only limited when you want to go above the existing law and keep it secret.
A guy disappearing for over a year with no access to a lawyer (even after he was publicly announced) is not an example that I would put as "system worked the way it's supposed to".
Hmmm when 99% of your incoming message is spam, it is time to rethink your opinion about whitelists.
My whitelisted hotmail account works like a charm and I have rarely lost any friend email due to the whitelist (if I missed it, I just ask them to resend and add them to whitelist, but that is pretty rare). I will NEVER go back to the days where I had to wade through hundreds of junk email to find one real email.
It does not take much to throw off the BMI scale.
I am considered Overweight by BMI (5'7", 165lbs, BMI=25), but I still wear the same size pants (31) I did in college when I used to weigh 125lb.
It is not like I am huge muscle guy, but I do go to the gym 2-3 a week and have a good muscle mass. If you have any kind of muscle beyone average, it is going to throw off the BMI scale.
Yes, but that is 60 days of 80' weather with no humidity where you can actually go out and do stuff.
I think I will take that over 180 days of temperature so hot, you can't go out anyways weather.
Good thing Nobel prize is based out of Sweden. If it was based out of US, I am sure by now the Bush Administration and the Christian Right would have positioned themselves on the Governing Board and the results would be significantly different.
I can just see the list of this year's Nobel Prize winners, if the Nobel Prize was based in US.
Nobel Prize in Physics - Henry Morris and John Whitcomb on their ground breaking work The Genesis Flood which proved that earth is only 6000 years old.
Nobel Prize in Physiology - Michael Behe, who, using irreducible complexity, proved beyond doubt that evolution is just a "theory".
Nobel Prize in Literature - Ann Coulter Treason, who exposed the greatest perils that free societies face today - Gutless Lying Liberals who will sell your daughters and sisters to Kim Jong Il.
Nobel Prize in Peace - George Bush, who freed millions of Iraqis from a brutal dictator.
those who ALREADY have that predisposition to violence will find it just that much more easy to enact thier fantacies after they have seen it done numerous times before.
Hmmm... plausible.
But how about this?
Those who ALREADY have that predisposition to violence will find that playing a violent game allow them an avenue in which to release much of their pent up anger. That it is EASIER to live a normal life having a place to act out their desires, even if it is just virtual.
I believe my argument is just as valid as yours. Only way it can be settled is through a long-term study, but the samples we have so far are inconclusive at best.
Again, gun and knife makers know their products can be used to commit homicides in the wrong hands yet can't be held accountable so neither can the game producers.
I don't know about knife makers, but gun makers are safe from being sued. Why? Because your HARD WORKING Congress passed a law (at the urging of NRA) that indemnifies gun manufacturers (the ONLY industry where indeminified by law).
And to all of you who believe in 9/11 government conspiracy, don't you find it odd, that some loner just HAPPENED to storm a high school and kill a pretty girl on the same day these bills were passed? And how EVERY newspaper and cable news is BURYING the real story of the day and are practically foaming at the mouth talking about how the girl might have been sexually abused before being killed? If you ask me, all of these news networks are PRAYING that she was abused so that they can talk about it endlessely for the rest of the year.
And unlike the 9/11 conspiracy, this only involved one person, which means it would have been INFINITELY easier to set this up and keep quiet...
Congress can pass any sort of restrictions on his power that they want, the administration will just ignore it
But Congress is not even passing ANY restrictions. In fact, they are passing EVERYTHING Bush the Dictator (tm) is telling them to pass.
How did things go so FUCKED up that we have bill that passes that takes away one of the FUNDAMENTAL rights of a free society Writ of Habeas Corpus (right to a fair trial), there is nary a protest from citizens? Is it because people believe it will only apply to Muslims?
I've got a news for ya. Let's say you give a direction to some guy in car, he goes and bombs someplace. Now, the government has the right to make you vanish, for years, without notice to anyone, no right to a lawyer. Even if they decide to bring you to a trial, you will not be able to see any evidence against you because they are "classified".
Hero - Used to be someone doing something they weren't expected to do at great personal risk. Now it is applied to everyone ("everyday hero", UGH) or people doing the job they are paid to do (i.e. firemen rescuing people from fires).
MAN, I could not agree with you more. It is shit like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higglytown_Heroes) that makes this even worse. They try to teach kids that EVERYONE (janitor, plumber, baby-sitter, etc.) is a freakin hero. That just demeans the real heroes among us.
In the same vein, we need add this:
Survivor - It used to be someone who went through hellish life-threatening event. Now it is ANYONE who had ANY experience that had ANY remote possibility of harm.
I understand why you are not backing up some of your earlier claims and resorting to some very feely, mumbo jumbo stuff, but your earlier statement still stands - you stated that you KNOW vinyl is better than CD and that people who don't notice the difference just don't have the right equipment.
You even stated that you conducted "double-blind" test with yourself and friends and proved as such. Well except for the fact that you probably had no idea what "double-blind" means and open tests such as yours usually just provide results that you want in the first place.
My response is simple. If you TRULY conducted a REAL double-blind test, you will not be able to tell apart between vinyl and CD. I am not arguing whether or not vinyl sounds "warmer" or whether vinyl has more detail, I am simply stating is that when a test is conducted properly, you will not be able to tell them apart. And you don't have to rely on my "overintellectual, egomongering philstine" opinion, you can rely on your own listening skills.
Just setup a TRUE blind test like I have mentioned in the parent post. Do a test, see how it goes. Every other test conducted in such experiments have failed to produce people who can discern a difference. But who knows, with your "timbral preferences and immense listening skills and ear training", you will be that one in a million guy who can truly tell apart the difference. I doubt it, but you can try.
Otherwise, you are just stating an opinion, a very biased opinion at that. And you really have no standing to say that your opnions are worth more than facts.
I have been able to demonstrate it in tests I've performed with myself and my friends, and I haven't seen anyone link to any actual scientific study that disproves this widely held perception of vinyl as warmer.
First, science does not prove a negative, it proves a positive.
Second, if your test is so "valid" publish the results and test methodology and have it peer-reviewed. It really is not that hard and I am SURE the vinyl player companies will LOVE to talk to you as all of them have refused to cooperate in any sort of real scientific comparison test (because they know they cannot prove it).
Small caveat, to be a TRUE double-blind test, you need to setup a test where you have a vinyl player and a high quality CD recordings of that vinyl player (so that you are comparing apple to apple). If you just use the standard recordings (of the same music), it really is not valid as you will be able to tell easily which one is a CD recording by the lack of noise (thus, it is not blind anymore). And to REALLY make sure that it is double-blind, you need to move the components to another room so that the test subject can only see (and hear) the speakers. You should stay in the other room and play a given number of snippets and choose which input (CD/or Vinyl) to use by flipping a coin, no communication between you and the test subject should occur during the testing. The test subject will note his/her guess and have a third party compare the notes when you are done.
Oh, your "blind" test didn't do all that? Then it really isn't a blind test, is it? And you have not "demonstrated" anything, have you?
That is because it is inherently more difficult to de-interlace than to upconvert.
You have to remember that when you have an interlaced signal, the two interlaced frames are not from the same time frame. With CRT's it is not a big deal as your eyes and brain fill in the difference nicely (between scans). But when you have to convert it to a digital display, it becomes a very difficult problem.
Once you have 1080P, it will look superior to 720P since you are skipping at least one additional upconverting step.
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EVERY news outlet (national and local, well, maybe except FoxNews) is reporting about how slimy Republicans are this election season (fear mongering, race baiting, mother of all negative campaign).
I mean seriously, have Republicans no shame?
Aw, C'MON, give me a break. The above quote clearly states that you have no wife or a girlfriend (at least not of any female kind).
Yeah, I used to live in a neighborhood with this type of protection. They were called Mafia...
So ANY attack is justfied in you world? I mean, c'mon, ANY nation can claim grudge against ANY other nation.
Most Americans believe that US government is FAR more generous with international aid than they really are.
Second,VAST MAJORITY of charitable giving in US if for US citizens. 9/11 funds and Katrina funds raised billions... all for us. There are not that many BIG TIME charitable organization that target overseas (Gates Foundation being one prime example of the few). And must of the percentage includes giving to the local church, which as you probably know, in US comprise a significant majority of charitable giving.
A guy disappearing for over a year with no access to a lawyer (even after he was publicly announced) is not an example that I would put as "system worked the way it's supposed to".
My whitelisted hotmail account works like a charm and I have rarely lost any friend email due to the whitelist (if I missed it, I just ask them to resend and add them to whitelist, but that is pretty rare). I will NEVER go back to the days where I had to wade through hundreds of junk email to find one real email.
It does not take much to throw off the BMI scale. I am considered Overweight by BMI (5'7", 165lbs, BMI=25), but I still wear the same size pants (31) I did in college when I used to weigh 125lb. It is not like I am huge muscle guy, but I do go to the gym 2-3 a week and have a good muscle mass. If you have any kind of muscle beyone average, it is going to throw off the BMI scale.
Yes, but that is 60 days of 80' weather with no humidity where you can actually go out and do stuff. I think I will take that over 180 days of temperature so hot, you can't go out anyways weather.
Uh... what he said about no hot chicks is true (no joke).
Question, Did you even work at MS as an FTE? If not, aren't you just blowing smoke up your ass?
Who are these hos, and how can I party with them?
I can just see the list of this year's Nobel Prize winners, if the Nobel Prize was based in US.
Nobel Prize in Physics - Henry Morris and John Whitcomb on their ground breaking work The Genesis Flood which proved that earth is only 6000 years old.
Nobel Prize in Physiology - Michael Behe, who, using irreducible complexity, proved beyond doubt that evolution is just a "theory".
Nobel Prize in Literature - Ann Coulter Treason, who exposed the greatest perils that free societies face today - Gutless Lying Liberals who will sell your daughters and sisters to Kim Jong Il.
Nobel Prize in Peace - George Bush, who freed millions of Iraqis from a brutal dictator.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Discontinued.
Hmmm... plausible.
But how about this?
Those who ALREADY have that predisposition to violence will find that playing a violent game allow them an avenue in which to release much of their pent up anger. That it is EASIER to live a normal life having a place to act out their desires, even if it is just virtual.
I believe my argument is just as valid as yours. Only way it can be settled is through a long-term study, but the samples we have so far are inconclusive at best.
Don't fuck with SatanicPuppy...
I don't know about knife makers, but gun makers are safe from being sued. Why? Because your HARD WORKING Congress passed a law (at the urging of NRA) that indemnifies gun manufacturers (the ONLY industry where indeminified by law).
People are free to sue the game producers.
That is like saying "Indeed it is a love of my puppy that inspires me to beat the crap out of my puppy every day, so that no one else can abuse him."
What planet are you from?
And unlike the 9/11 conspiracy, this only involved one person, which means it would have been INFINITELY easier to set this up and keep quiet...
Congress can pass any sort of restrictions on his power that they want, the administration will just ignore it
But Congress is not even passing ANY restrictions. In fact, they are passing EVERYTHING Bush the Dictator (tm) is telling them to pass.
How did things go so FUCKED up that we have bill that passes that takes away one of the FUNDAMENTAL rights of a free society Writ of Habeas Corpus (right to a fair trial), there is nary a protest from citizens? Is it because people believe it will only apply to Muslims?
I've got a news for ya. Let's say you give a direction to some guy in car, he goes and bombs someplace. Now, the government has the right to make you vanish, for years, without notice to anyone, no right to a lawyer. Even if they decide to bring you to a trial, you will not be able to see any evidence against you because they are "classified".
When did US become a fascist state?
Hero - Used to be someone doing something they weren't expected to do at great personal risk. Now it is applied to everyone ("everyday hero", UGH) or people doing the job they are paid to do (i.e. firemen rescuing people from fires).
MAN, I could not agree with you more. It is shit like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higglytown_Heroes) that makes this even worse. They try to teach kids that EVERYONE (janitor, plumber, baby-sitter, etc.) is a freakin hero. That just demeans the real heroes among us.
In the same vein, we need add this:
Survivor - It used to be someone who went through hellish life-threatening event. Now it is ANYONE who had ANY experience that had ANY remote possibility of harm.
Isn't Google on a crusade to stop people from using "Google" as a verb? I guess it is time to sue good ol' George.
You even stated that you conducted "double-blind" test with yourself and friends and proved as such. Well except for the fact that you probably had no idea what "double-blind" means and open tests such as yours usually just provide results that you want in the first place.
My response is simple. If you TRULY conducted a REAL double-blind test, you will not be able to tell apart between vinyl and CD. I am not arguing whether or not vinyl sounds "warmer" or whether vinyl has more detail, I am simply stating is that when a test is conducted properly, you will not be able to tell them apart. And you don't have to rely on my "overintellectual, egomongering philstine" opinion, you can rely on your own listening skills.
Just setup a TRUE blind test like I have mentioned in the parent post. Do a test, see how it goes. Every other test conducted in such experiments have failed to produce people who can discern a difference. But who knows, with your "timbral preferences and immense listening skills and ear training", you will be that one in a million guy who can truly tell apart the difference. I doubt it, but you can try.
Otherwise, you are just stating an opinion, a very biased opinion at that. And you really have no standing to say that your opnions are worth more than facts.
First, science does not prove a negative, it proves a positive.
Second, if your test is so "valid" publish the results and test methodology and have it peer-reviewed. It really is not that hard and I am SURE the vinyl player companies will LOVE to talk to you as all of them have refused to cooperate in any sort of real scientific comparison test (because they know they cannot prove it).
Small caveat, to be a TRUE double-blind test, you need to setup a test where you have a vinyl player and a high quality CD recordings of that vinyl player (so that you are comparing apple to apple). If you just use the standard recordings (of the same music), it really is not valid as you will be able to tell easily which one is a CD recording by the lack of noise (thus, it is not blind anymore). And to REALLY make sure that it is double-blind, you need to move the components to another room so that the test subject can only see (and hear) the speakers. You should stay in the other room and play a given number of snippets and choose which input (CD/or Vinyl) to use by flipping a coin, no communication between you and the test subject should occur during the testing. The test subject will note his/her guess and have a third party compare the notes when you are done.
Oh, your "blind" test didn't do all that? Then it really isn't a blind test, is it? And you have not "demonstrated" anything, have you?
You have to remember that when you have an interlaced signal, the two interlaced frames are not from the same time frame. With CRT's it is not a big deal as your eyes and brain fill in the difference nicely (between scans). But when you have to convert it to a digital display, it becomes a very difficult problem.
Once you have 1080P, it will look superior to 720P since you are skipping at least one additional upconverting step.