How has Google "abused" its position? Is it controlling editorial content in an unfair way? No, it's allowing its editorial policy to be steered by conservative community standards. That's it. Whoopee. Unless you think dollars in Dallas are worth less than Dollars in Austin, you have no basis. Dollars are dollars, and Google has every right to protect their advertiser base by not alienating the eyeballs that bring it revenue.
You're awfully arrogant for a man whose entire premise is failed from the start. You keep harping about people overindulging as if that's the entire cause of the problem. It isn't. As someone who has been "naturally fat" since a child and who has managed to get the weight off only to watch it come back again, I can tell you without doubt I eat far less NOW than I did before I essentially doubled my weight. When I was in my mid twenties I lived at the gym - went in the morning, went again at night. I weighed under 180 and easily consumed 10,000 calories a day. Many nights I would end my day by stopping off at the convenience store on the way home and buying a box of Entemann's chocolate chip cookies and a quart of skim milk; I would then chill an hour in front of the TV before going to bed and down THE ENTIRE BOX OF COOKIES AND the quart of skim milk.
The difference then and now is THEN I WASN'T FAT because I went to the gym. So you're not bitching about me consuming too much, you're bitching about me not giving a shit enough to go to the gym. Well fuck you, charlie - it's twenty miles to the gym fo rme now and I haven't the luxury of spending a few grand a year on shaping my body.
I burned off those calories then - but I CONSUMED MORE then than now. So what you are really bitching about is just you offense at seeing someone who has the NERVE to actually BE fat in public. Do you also bitch about those overpumped apes that pretend to fight one another on television? How about the bricklayers and steel workers?
I can assure you, the governator didn't get to be the terminator by sipping water and eating rice cakes. Maybe we should do something about all those humans working long hours in construction? After all they can consume pretty much what they want and never get fat - my dad did that. He was a pipefitter and could eat damn near anything without gaining a pound because he was working a physically demanding job all day.
It sure seems you would benefit from listening to SOMEONE who's "telling you what you're capable of understanding" because it sure seems you have a basic lack of understanding on this topic.
We subsidize sugar AND corn then cram those sweeteners into every last bit of our food. We inject steroids into cows so they make even more of a product that is already ridiculously underpriced on the wholesale market; we inject other steroids into everything else just to make it bigger, then pretend that's not going to come back on us when we eat the very thing we artificially pumped full of growth hormones. We're shipping manufacturing jobs overseas by the truckload, idling people who are then sedentary AND depressed about their living conditions and we are surprised we have so many fat people? It boggles the mind.
Take a stance? They could easily take a stand - tell Google to fuck off with its ad dollars.
When are y'all going to get this isn't censorship, it's marketing? Advertisers don't want to piss off customers, many of whom may well be backward hicks. Money doesn't care if it comes from a hick or an educated genius, it's still money. Google cannot keep its advertisers if they allow their ad software to be plastering ads for Duncan Hines and Soft Soap all over porn sites, or even sites some of those hicks who buy soft soap and duncan hines might consider questionable in their editorial content.
This is completely protected speech - and they have made their decision: money is more important than "educating" (more likely alienating) a bunch of hicks who can't stand the notion of two people having sex. Whoopee.
Indeed. My/home partition hasn't changed much (except through my own collection of data and evolution of my own tools) for about 5 years. Some things don't migrate - my icons for pan and gftp are broken until I reinstall them after an upgrade, but those are not UI elements they are links to apps that are not included by default.
I'm 48, but you sound to me like an old dude. Why would I NOT buy 8GB of ram? I use a big chunk of it for my thumbnail directory and other temp data that would otherwise go to a real hard disk, and it's NOT expensive. Well, maybe it is NOW but when I bought it it was cheap. Funny to think I could actually have MADE money by investing in RAM back then, as the 4GB "kits" I use are now about twice what they were when I bought them.
Anyway, who uses hibernate? Did you not see the comment about my five disk raid? This isn't a notebook. Who uses hibernate when they have torrents, freenet, and other p2p channels to make use of? You never get a good priority when you're constantly going on and off line.
Sometimes I see my system get bogged down doing copies and even lock up for a few seconds. And when I see this I always become very nervous because usually it means I have a hard disk failure of some sort (sometimes it can be just a bad connector, but still a hard failure).
I just copied about 5GB from my 5 disk raid5 to my main partition WHILE I copied about the same amount of data back TO that same raid WHILE watching a video from that raid and didn't see much of an issue. I saw one little "stutter" for about 100mS and that was it.
I am using LVM. And the braindead way ubuntu configures LVM to put swap in the same LVM partition as your home and system directories DOES cause all sorts of nastiness. This used to drive me nuts before I fixed it simply by disabling swap. I have 8GB of RAM, why do I need swap?
Edit: this "new and improved" page formatting SUCKS. Now the buttons that were right there are hiddden behind DUMBASS popup menus. Fucking "engineers" thinking they know how to improve shit. How do I turn this bullshit off?
In that you are wrong, but only for the wrong reason. Actually, what we SHOULD do is simply cut them off - no mroe trade relations with china, and nullify our debt. Because their currency is so dependant upon OURS, if we undo the damage done by Nixon in the 70's their nation would face a vastly reduced market for their goods, widespread unemployment, and a crash of their currency. Wal-Mart would be seriously fucked for a while, but they'd quickly adapt by moving all that production to Mexico - which would ALSO help us because it would create more jobs in a nation that is near our borders.
Actually... why the fuck haven't we done this? And bomb the shit out of their space program while we're at it.
How long before all the child model sites - long ago kicked off the com, net and org byways and even apparently now finding it hard to exist on the info highways, end up on ".kp?" Littlemodel.amber.kp seems the perfect fit! North Korea, kiddie porn... oh, the irony.
The UK has NEVER been a model for any "freedom" as we think of it here. Remember that whole revolutionary war thing? The one we had to fight TWICE just to be free of the King?
France gave us Lady Liberty. It's a French painting that inspired both the walking liberty and standing liberty coins; it's the French that came in and fought alongside us to kick England to the curb. England is the home USAians left BECAUSE of the lack of liberty.
Link up one citation to this happening in the U.S. Sure, you can be abductd off to parts unknown, tried under a military court and executed, but in a US court we still have a Constitution and the Fifth Amendment.
The chair at the nail salon works pretty well. If only they had those at the barber's, so you could chill while getting a haircut... be a whole lot better than a stupid robot hairwasher.
Didn't Steve Martin invent something like this back in the seventies?
OK, let's take away the roads, the electric utility subsidies, the OIL THAT RUNS YOUR CAR and is subsidized by WAR, the police that keep the neighbors from stealing your shit when you leave the house, and see how many of those dollars you earn...
Dubbing is a poor comparison to ripping? You're kidding right?
With off the air RECORDING we are talking about a high quality source (at the time, the highest) played through state of the art equipment. If you had a decent tuner (and very good tuners were pretty affordable) and were within, say, 50 miles of the station, chances are you had a signal with full quieting and 25db or more separation. That signal, recorded to an off the shelf maxell or tdk tape of the time would FAR outshine a factory purchased cassette - meaning, by "dubbing" a tape from the air one could create a bootleg product that EXCEEDED the quality of the factory made product. Was it better than an LP? Nope - but we didnt make an LP, we made a cassette.
Broadcasting an LP in full didnt mean every person listening was going to record it. Whether or not the content OFFERED was actually made into a copy was up to the individual at the other end operating the equipment.
The advent of the walkman made music portable, so record companies started phasing out albums. They SAID at the time it was because album sales were in decline in comparison to record sales, but my best friend at the time owned a record store and what we saw was something a bit different - it was increasingly hard to find new LP releases, which of course led the way for declining album sales.
So in that five year period they managed to wean everyone off the higher quality LP. Now a new generation of young folks who had pretty much only heard music via the tinny, hissy, screechy format known as factory cassette were chomping at the bit to replace all their horrid sounding Thompson Twins cassettes with pristine CDs...
But those old steel needles had a VERY large contact area and rode in the bottom of the groove. Your technics with the 3 gram tracking force has a stylus riding on the WALLS of the groove in two very narrow patches.
And an LP, played on a machine with a proper stylus that doesn't mistrack, effectively stops aging after about twenty plays. Vinyl is not like shellac - it is resilient and naturally lubricated. Numerous studies have been done on this matter, and every one has shown the only time you have to worry about "wearing out your LPs" is when you're too cheap to buy a decent turntable and tonearm.
Still sucks though. Vinyl can be ok but I hate listening to stuff ripped from vinyl, and I'm really not even crazy about "classic rock" that hasn't been remastered for CD - most of it sounds thin and bottomless.
Wow, you just totally made up a buncha stuff then set fire to it...
I didnt live in NY or LA at the time, but I can assure you the Detroit market was not like you describe. WRIF and WABX both played first run albums. Mike Halleren, while at WDET, often played albums just released that week on his weekly late night alternative show. So now I guess you get to say "those didnt matter either because they weren't mainstream artists" but who is getting sued today? It aint just Madonna and Britney fans getting prosecuted. And the record companies pitched a complete fit over this and lobbied for YEARS for legislation to stop it, so apparently it's not so trivial to many as you imagine it.
An FM radio dub, made to a good quality cassette deck at the time, had FAR higher quality sound than a dub made from those stupid two bay decks (which came much later than the time I am talking about). Factory tapes always sounded like shit, and a dupe made from one on a high copy two bay deck was just a high quality copy of shit. FM radio can have exemplary sound with S/N and frequency response that beat the specs of even the highest quality cassette decks of the day.
"The law" couldnt even get involved then! Apparently you weren't around back in the late 70's and early 80's when radio stations across the country were thumbing their noses at the RIAA by hosting "album parties." Always late in the evening, they would proudly boast they were playing so-and-so album "in its entirety" and would even tell listeners to "get your tape decks ready." We'd get side one without interruption, a brief interlude for the dj to switch sides (and for us to do the same) then we'd get side two.
One-to-many. This is exactly what the radio stations were doing. And guess what? The law could not stop them.
Iridium uses its own network of satellites. Iridium is expensive. A direcway subscription is like 60 bucks a month with about 600MB a day allotment. Seems they could partner with a phone provider to offer a 10MB a day channel for a pretty low fee, what's needed is a means of accessing the technology.
Why hasn't someone created a device like this that uses the widely available direcway/blue sky technology? Given the maximum per channel bandwidth and the relatively small needs of a voice communication device it seems like a fairly low power device should be able to function with acceptable psnr.
OK I give up. I'm just going to call you an idiot now and point out that if you really were smart enough to be in ANY danger of paying such taxes you would not be making such incredibly stupid arguments.And I call bullshit on the private schools part - if anything, by your comments, it's obvious what you really mean is you were home schooled - probably by ignorant, backward redneck parents who themselves watched too much FOX news and thumped your head full of biblical teachings without ever really requiring you to read it for yourself, "just believe what tell you."
Try closing all the public schools, taking away medical care for the elderly, the young, and the disadvantaged, leaving the poor with virtually no safety net save the selfish refrain "get a job" and see jsut HOW LONG YOU KEEP any of that shit you don't really even own because, like I said, you're obviously too stupid to be successful enough to have to worry about it.
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How did this get modded insightful? Your post is urban legend.
How has Google "abused" its position? Is it controlling editorial content in an unfair way? No, it's allowing its editorial policy to be steered by conservative community standards. That's it. Whoopee. Unless you think dollars in Dallas are worth less than Dollars in Austin, you have no basis. Dollars are dollars, and Google has every right to protect their advertiser base by not alienating the eyeballs that bring it revenue.
You're awfully arrogant for a man whose entire premise is failed from the start. You keep harping about people overindulging as if that's the entire cause of the problem. It isn't. As someone who has been "naturally fat" since a child and who has managed to get the weight off only to watch it come back again, I can tell you without doubt I eat far less NOW than I did before I essentially doubled my weight. When I was in my mid twenties I lived at the gym - went in the morning, went again at night. I weighed under 180 and easily consumed 10,000 calories a day. Many nights I would end my day by stopping off at the convenience store on the way home and buying a box of Entemann's chocolate chip cookies and a quart of skim milk; I would then chill an hour in front of the TV before going to bed and down THE ENTIRE BOX OF COOKIES AND the quart of skim milk.
The difference then and now is THEN I WASN'T FAT because I went to the gym. So you're not bitching about me consuming too much, you're bitching about me not giving a shit enough to go to the gym. Well fuck you, charlie - it's twenty miles to the gym fo rme now and I haven't the luxury of spending a few grand a year on shaping my body.
I burned off those calories then - but I CONSUMED MORE then than now. So what you are really bitching about is just you offense at seeing
someone who has the NERVE to actually BE fat in public. Do you also bitch about those overpumped apes that pretend to fight one another on television? How about the bricklayers and steel workers?
I can assure you, the governator didn't get to be the terminator by sipping water and eating rice cakes. Maybe we should do something about all those humans working long hours in construction? After all they can consume pretty much what they want and never get fat - my dad did that. He was a pipefitter and could eat damn near anything without gaining a pound because he was working a physically demanding job all day.
It sure seems you would benefit from listening to SOMEONE who's "telling you what you're capable of understanding" because it sure seems you have a basic lack of understanding on this topic.
We subsidize sugar AND corn then cram those sweeteners into every last bit of our food. We inject steroids into cows so they make even more of a product that is already ridiculously underpriced on the wholesale market; we inject other steroids into everything else just to make it bigger, then pretend that's not going to come back on us when we eat the very thing we artificially pumped full of growth hormones. We're shipping manufacturing jobs overseas by the truckload, idling people who are then sedentary AND depressed about their living conditions and we are surprised we have so many fat people? It boggles the mind.
Take a stance? They could easily take a stand - tell Google to fuck off with its ad dollars.
When are y'all going to get this isn't censorship, it's marketing? Advertisers don't want to piss off customers, many of whom may well be backward hicks. Money doesn't care if it comes from a hick or an educated genius, it's still money. Google cannot keep its advertisers if they allow their ad software to be plastering ads for Duncan Hines and Soft Soap all over porn sites, or even sites some of those hicks who buy soft soap and duncan hines might consider questionable in their editorial content.
This is completely protected speech - and they have made their decision: money is more important than "educating" (more likely alienating) a bunch of hicks who can't stand the notion of two people having sex. Whoopee.
Indeed. My /home partition hasn't changed much (except through my own collection of data and evolution of my own tools) for about 5 years. Some things don't migrate - my icons for pan and gftp are broken until I reinstall them after an upgrade, but those are not UI elements they are links to apps that are not included by default.
I'm 48, but you sound to me like an old dude. Why would I NOT buy 8GB of ram? I use a big chunk of it for my thumbnail directory and other temp data that would otherwise go to a real hard disk, and it's NOT expensive. Well, maybe it is NOW but when I bought it it was cheap. Funny to think I could actually have MADE money by investing in RAM back then, as the 4GB "kits" I use are now about twice what they were when I bought them.
Anyway, who uses hibernate? Did you not see the comment about my five disk raid? This isn't a notebook. Who uses hibernate when they have torrents, freenet, and other p2p channels to make use of? You never get a good priority when you're constantly going on and off line.
Sometimes I see my system get bogged down doing copies and even lock up for a few seconds. And when I see this I always become very nervous because usually it means I have a hard disk failure of some sort (sometimes it can be just a bad connector, but still a hard failure).
I just copied about 5GB from my 5 disk raid5 to my main partition WHILE I copied about the same amount of data back TO that same raid WHILE watching a video from that raid and didn't see much of an issue. I saw one little "stutter" for about 100mS and that was it.
I am using LVM. And the braindead way ubuntu configures LVM to put swap in the same LVM partition as your home and system directories DOES cause all sorts of nastiness. This used to drive me nuts before I fixed it simply by disabling swap. I have 8GB of RAM, why do I need swap?
Edit: this "new and improved" page formatting SUCKS. Now the buttons that were right there are hiddden behind DUMBASS popup menus. Fucking "engineers" thinking they know how to improve shit. How do I turn this bullshit off?
In that you are wrong, but only for the wrong reason. Actually, what we SHOULD do is simply cut them off - no mroe trade relations with china, and nullify our debt. Because their currency is so dependant upon OURS, if we undo the damage done by Nixon in the 70's their nation would face a vastly reduced market for their goods, widespread unemployment, and a crash of their currency. Wal-Mart would be seriously fucked for a while, but they'd quickly adapt by moving all that production to Mexico - which would ALSO help us because it would create more jobs in a nation that is near our borders.
Actually... why the fuck haven't we done this? And bomb the shit out of their space program while we're at it.
How long before all the child model sites - long ago kicked off the com, net and org byways and even apparently now finding it hard to exist on the info highways, end up on ".kp?" Littlemodel.amber.kp seems the perfect fit! North Korea, kiddie porn... oh, the irony.
The UK has NEVER been a model for any "freedom" as we think of it here. Remember that whole revolutionary war thing? The one we had to fight TWICE just to be free of the King?
France gave us Lady Liberty. It's a French painting that inspired both the walking liberty and standing liberty coins; it's the French that came in and fought alongside us to kick England to the curb. England is the home USAians left BECAUSE of the lack of liberty.
Link up one citation to this happening in the U.S. Sure, you can be abductd off to parts unknown, tried under a military court and executed, but in a US court we still have a Constitution and the Fifth Amendment.
The chair at the nail salon works pretty well. If only they had those at the barber's, so you could chill while getting a haircut... be a whole lot better than a stupid robot hairwasher.
Didn't Steve Martin invent something like this back in the seventies?
Oh, that was an electric dog polisher...
Not to mention the human boobs, which get in our face and make the whole trip worthwhile.
OK, let's take away the roads, the electric utility subsidies, the OIL THAT RUNS YOUR CAR and is subsidized by WAR, the police that keep the neighbors from stealing your shit when you leave the house, and see how many of those dollars you earn...
Moron.
Dubbing is a poor comparison to ripping? You're kidding right?
With off the air RECORDING we are talking about a high quality source (at the time, the highest) played through state of the art equipment. If you had a decent tuner (and very good tuners were pretty affordable) and were within, say, 50 miles of the station, chances are you had a signal with full quieting and 25db or more separation. That signal, recorded to an off the shelf maxell or tdk tape of the time would FAR outshine a factory purchased cassette - meaning, by "dubbing" a tape from the air one could create a bootleg product that EXCEEDED the quality of the factory made product. Was it better than an LP? Nope - but we didnt make an LP, we made a cassette.
Broadcasting an LP in full didnt mean every person listening was going to record it. Whether or not the content OFFERED was actually made into a copy was up to the individual at the other end operating the equipment.
This is all different than file sharing.... how?
CDs are great compared to the factory recorded cassette tape.
But so are LPs...
They set it up to be an easy battle.
The advent of the walkman made music portable, so record companies started phasing out albums. They SAID at the time it was because album sales were in decline in comparison to record sales, but my best friend at the time owned a record store and what we saw was something a bit different - it was increasingly hard to find new LP releases, which of course led the way for declining album sales.
So in that five year period they managed to wean everyone off the higher quality LP. Now a new generation of young folks who had pretty much only heard music via the tinny, hissy, screechy format known as factory cassette were chomping at the bit to replace all their horrid sounding Thompson Twins cassettes with pristine CDs...
But those old steel needles had a VERY large contact area and rode in the bottom of the groove. Your technics with the 3 gram tracking force has a stylus riding on the WALLS of the groove in two very narrow patches.
And an LP, played on a machine with a proper stylus that doesn't mistrack, effectively stops aging after about twenty plays. Vinyl is not like shellac - it is resilient and naturally lubricated. Numerous studies have been done on this matter, and every one has shown the only time you have to worry about "wearing out your LPs" is when you're too cheap to buy a decent turntable and tonearm.
Still sucks though. Vinyl can be ok but I hate listening to stuff ripped from vinyl, and I'm really not even crazy about "classic rock" that hasn't been remastered for CD - most of it sounds thin and bottomless.
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Wow, you just totally made up a buncha stuff then set fire to it...
I didnt live in NY or LA at the time, but I can assure you the Detroit market was not like you describe. WRIF and WABX both played first run albums. Mike Halleren, while at WDET, often played albums just released that week on his weekly late night alternative show. So now I guess you get to say "those didnt matter either because they weren't mainstream artists" but who is getting sued today? It aint just Madonna and Britney fans getting prosecuted. And the record companies pitched a complete fit over this and lobbied for YEARS for legislation to stop it, so apparently it's not so trivial to many as you imagine it.
An FM radio dub, made to a good quality cassette deck at the time, had FAR higher quality sound than a dub made from those stupid two bay decks (which came much later than the time I am talking about). Factory tapes always sounded like shit, and a dupe made from one on a high copy two bay deck was just a high quality copy of shit. FM radio can have exemplary sound with S/N and frequency response that beat the specs of even the highest quality cassette decks of the day.
I have to disagree completely with your thesis: there are many FM radio stations whose loss I mourn greatly.
No need to decide what to listen to; easily transported; convenient; available; don't need to take time out of your day to "listen."
Apparently then, radio was the downfall of music... interesting.
"The law" couldnt even get involved then! Apparently you weren't around back in the late 70's and early 80's when radio stations across the country were thumbing their noses at the RIAA by hosting "album parties." Always late in the evening, they would proudly boast they were playing so-and-so album "in its entirety" and would even tell listeners to "get your tape decks ready." We'd get side one without interruption, a brief interlude for the dj to switch sides (and for us to do the same) then we'd get side two.
One-to-many. This is exactly what the radio stations were doing. And guess what? The law could not stop them.
Had to be said...
Iridium uses its own network of satellites. Iridium is expensive. A direcway subscription is like 60 bucks a month with about 600MB a day allotment. Seems they could partner with a phone provider to offer a 10MB a day channel for a pretty low fee, what's needed is a means of accessing the technology.
Why hasn't someone created a device like this that uses the widely available direcway/blue sky technology? Given the maximum per channel bandwidth and the relatively small needs of a voice communication device it seems like a fairly low power device should be able to function with acceptable psnr.
OK I give up. I'm just going to call you an idiot now and point out that if you really were smart enough to be in ANY danger of paying such taxes you would not be making such incredibly stupid arguments.And I call bullshit on the private schools part - if anything, by your comments, it's obvious what you really mean is you were home schooled - probably by ignorant, backward redneck parents who themselves watched too much FOX news and thumped your head full of biblical teachings without ever really requiring you to read it for yourself, "just believe what tell you."
Try closing all the public schools, taking away medical care for the elderly, the young, and the disadvantaged, leaving the poor with virtually no safety net save the selfish refrain "get a job" and see jsut HOW LONG YOU KEEP any of that shit you don't really even own because, like I said, you're obviously too stupid to be successful enough to have to worry about it.