Dude, can we go back down to earth for a second, PLEASE?
Didn't you read the article? Some drunk guy throwed a vodka bottle to a cop, and they killed him for that. Are we going to kill every drunk guy who makes something stupid? Really?
Same with guys being stopped by a cop, do you need to kill them? Do you need to assume the cop's life is in danger ALWAYS? What if it was a teen who stole his dad's car, do you need to shoot him because he got scared and tried to run away?
Didn't the london police kill a guy at the underground a few years ago, mistaking him for a terrorist? The guy started to run and they just fired at him. And killed him. Turns out, the guy wasn't a terrorist. It was an illegal immigrant.
This is what you all just don't seem to understand. Looks like you have been brainwashed into thinking a cop's only method of submission is killing someone, and that is just plain wrong.
Shooting someone in the leg is still lethal force (since it's still possible for them to die that way), but also says "I didn't think I was actually justified in using lethal force". Intentionally shooting someone in the leg is, therefore, a very bad thing.
the worst thing i think that can happen is if BART kills someone and we all just go about thinking 'well, thats normal.'
Have you been reading the comments around here? Did you notice that everyone is justifying the cop for their actions? Even saying that A COP IS REQUIRED TO KILL SOMEONE who is threatening him.
I've seen that a lot from american people. Excess 'respect' for the police. Fear, actually. And when you're afraid of the cops, you're fucked.
But they seem to forget that they're not robocop. They don't have hardcoded laws that will keep them from pulling a trigger. It's all up to their judgement (and their own fear) at the moment they're being "threatened". And that misjudgement could cost your OWN life some day. You never know what's gonna happen. You can't say "it's never going to happen to me because I'm a good person".
And lastly... YOU DON'T NEED TO SHOOT SOMEONE TO DEATH GOD DAMN IT, you can shoot him in the leg, shoulder, arm, whatever. Cops know about that. You don't need to execute someone that was just pointing a knife at you. Hell, if all he had is a knife, you could have maced him and he was out. I honestly don't know how people can not only justify the execution of a man by police, but also protests. Claims like "oh but it was private space". Sure, you know what? For what it's worth they could have also go through your phone and delete your pics too...
I don't really want to get into an argument about wether the engineer adds his own style to someone else's music, or if he makes it sound LIKE the artist wanted. Because, you know, your voice sounds very different inside your head than it sounds to everyone else. And a band sounds much worse than they think. That's why you see amateur kids sounding like shit until they get a record deal and suddenly their sound is much more professional. Guess what? It's a sound engineer making it sound like they actually intended.
Unless they're a band that really knows their shit and their engineer and record label are changing their sound (like the Beatles and Spector's Wall of Sound).
Anyway, you're completely missing the point (I bet you won a medal at the debate team of your school).
Go talk to your engineer friends and ask them if loudness and compression do any good to music. Yes, it makes it sound better in shitty earphones, at the expense of making every other audio system sound like shitty earphones as well. And that was what my point was really about.
Most recording engineers will try to make the recording awesome, and their attitude is, "Here is an awesome sounding CD, it makes the output stage of your CD player do awesome things. If you think your amplifier and speakers are awesome, we welcome the awesomeness your system induces on the recording, and it's my job to make sure I'm giving you the best source material possible for whatever configuration you may have, The customer is always right."
I don't know what kind of magical transistors you are using, but fried transistors are a nearly daily occurrence for me.
Yes, when you short or overload a transistor (or get a faulty one), it blows. But a vacuum tube slowly degrades by itself under normal operating conditions.
The rest of your comment is stupid hate spewing I don't need to address. I already know about the "nice" distortion of tube, first-order harmonics, etc.
OK, let's be honest, what you described isn't a "personal" computer, as very few people use that for *personal* use. What you described is a Workstation. The fact that PCs are powerful enough to be workstations is another story.
It doesn't. Tube amps *have* distortion, that's why they're good for distorting guitars. Transistor amps don't distort (under their acceptable input range), take less power, generate less heat, have unlimited service life, etc. The difference is that transistor amps distort sharply and tube amps distort "gracefully".
It's a lot like film vs. digital photography. Film gives you grain, colors are distorted (depending on what film you're using. Velvia doesn't look the same as Portra). Nowadays, digital looks just perfect. No grain under appropriate light conditions, and the colors of a pro digital camera can be calibrated to look exactly like a test chart. You CAN (I do) use film for artistic purposes. And there are parallels with transistor vs tube distortion: Digital photography overexposes sharply and film overexposes "gracefuly". Curious.
In short: using a tube amp at the output stage of your CD player is stupid. You're distorting what the mixing engineer recorded on that CD. And if you are all about playing it as the artist intended, then why the hell are you distorting it then?
Well I saw enough NatGeo documentaries about North Korea to see what it's like. In rural areas people don't even have cars, there are no gas stations. Just like in Cuba, there are supermarkets for rich people with imported goods. Power is unreliable and blackouts happen several times a day. Medicine is just basic and for any serious treatment they have to wait for humanitary help. And only a while ago they started getting cell phones.
And it's a country of 24 million sharing 1024 IP addresses. From wikipedia:
Kwangmyong is a North Korean internal nationwide network opened in 2000. It provides email, web, and news services. Only a small number of government-authorized people are allowed to use the Internet, so all other people must use Kwangmyong. Filtered content from the Internet is placed on it.
NK is another failed communist dictatorship, with the standard Soviet formula of social classes:
People who work IN the party People who work FOR the party People who DO NOT work for the party
I live in Argentina. I see protests every day. And for much less than this, the police deploys a much larger operation. Several trucks, tens (if not hundreds) of men wearing all sorts of protection, helmets, and large shields. This is common after every football (soccer for americans) match, where usually 1500-2000 men are deployed inside and around a stadium.
If you take a look at HOW a riot is controlled, you will see much more organization that this show put by the UK government. If they wanted to control the riot, I'm sure they could have done it already. When you have a mob throwing stones and chairs, you don't use a small shield. Damn it, this is not a RPG, this is the real life. You use large shields, and a tight formation. Like the romans did centuries ago. Like what you see in Asterix cartoons. Behind this line, guys with tear gas grenade launchers fire at the crowd in different angles (to maximize the area covered by smoke). This disperses the crowd, and leaves the most vicious still standing. Once you have them identified, slowly advance towards them. When they're close enough, order the shielded guys to jump at them and proceed to arrest them. You just can't arrest everyone who participated, so just stick with the high profile ones, who are usually the instigators.
The key here (big cops dressed in black, with helmets, shields, armed,etc) is INTIMIDATION.
This is only 1 example. There are several tactics. And lots of resources: rubber bullets, high pressure water (colored for later identification. They catch the painted guys at subways, trains or buses here). Even the mounted police is useful (remember, intimidation. A horse can run faster than you).
What you should read from these events is that the UK government has something else in mind. This is either distraction for some other political maneuver, or they're using this for leverage in order to tighten "security" laws.
Sure buddy, gotta catch them first. Do you see the police even trying? And the government is just whining and blaming twitter. Fuck people like you. Wake up and realize the problem is the government NOT DOING SHIT, and not the people rioting and looting.
Just drop a few tear gas grenades and rubber bullets, and this ends today. But the government isn't doing it. And as long as they don't, this will go on. NEWSFLASH! you can't arrest and charge everyone on the street at the moment of the protests. There are more protesters than policemen.
Hello? Seriously, no one here think that the government and the police are to blame - not for "shooting someone", but instead, for letting the situation escalate to this?
Hello? Tear gas? Water jet trucks? Rubber bullets? Seriously, look at the images. The UK cops don't even have decent riot shields! What are they going to do, blind people to death with their yellow vests?
Apparently slashdotters here are up in arms when there's a "privacy" issue, but if a policeman shoots someone - even if he executes him summarily - it's OK, because the policeman represents "good". This mentality is what leads to unprepared police. This has nothing to do with being a developed country, or an educated society. Riots turn violent sooner or later. Even in the most tame societies, and for the stupidest reasons (Canada and hockey...)
If you were to also double corporate taxes, which brought in about $191 billion, you would be much closer. However, a corporate tax is really just a hidden sales tax. Corporations don't pay taxes, consumers do. Of course, since the US government can only tax corporations in the US, it's a sales tax for domestic goods only. This gives imported products an advantage over domestically produced products both here in the US and overseas.
Yes, because there are no import taxes. Or there are but they CANNOT BE RAISED for some mythical reason. No, jerkbag, is because companies into import/export control the congress and they pressure them to keep import taxes low.
Why not just charge a sales tax on all non-necessity products (food and medicine could be exempt from sales taxes, for example).
No, sorry. Fair is fair. If you can't raise taxes on the rich, then you can't cut taxes on food and medicine. It's only fair.
See, companies sell stocks to expand their business. When companies expand, they create jobs. Why is this so hard to understand?
Not every company sells stocks, Why is this so hard to understand?
As for those "asshole speculators" you mention, these guys are one trade away from bankruptcy.
No. That's not how it works. Also, big players don't gamble their own money. They work for banks and they gamble YOUR money. And when they lose, they demand the government to rescue them. Are you mentally challenged or have you been living on an island for the last 3 years?
I understand that you hate people who have more than you do
No one said anything about hate. I don't hate people who have more than I do, I would just rather have them pay more. See, if you have a $4000 a month income and have to pay taxes, you really notice when taxes are raised. If you have a $ 400.000 a month income, you barely notice the tax raise. You don't need to do any sacrifices to pay those taxes, and still keep your same level of life.
but you have to understand that there are those that have less than you do that are just as likely to hate you and come after YOUR property
I understand you are racist, it's ok, it's not your fault - since you were raised like that, it's not your fault to be a complete idiot. But you see, mexicans, puerto ricans, cubans, etc... they don't go to the US "AFTER YOUR PROPERTY!!!!!!", they go there to live the american dream, and work to have a decent living. The rest of the world don't hate you, americans, for what you have. They hate you because your biggest business (war) is what keeps them from having internet conection, running water, climate control, and other luxuries.
Why don't you give what you have to some poor person in Haiti, for example? This is what you are proposing we do to the rich in this country, right?
No. Please, stop putting words in someone else's speech. Raising the taxes on the rich is not about charity. It's about fairness. How many houses and cars do you need to live?
Let me put it another way: Someone who lives in a house across the street from central park, NY. And who has 1 car and 1 limo there, and a beach house in Malibu (with a couple nice convertibles) and a couple more around the country, and does shopping in Milano and Paris (flying in their own private jet, of course)... That person doesn't have a problem. That person DID NOT bust his ass working on a mine, on a production line, or working in a construction 300ft from the ground. And, go figure, persons who work in mines, production lines, or construction DO NOT HAVE A CHANCE to be as rich as that guy from central park. None, they don't. And hey, when the guy from park avenue gets sick, he can get the best medical attention - not the working class guy. If the miner guy needs a new lung after years of mini
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So it's OK to kill someone to save your career.
Only in America!
Are you retarded?
You're more likely to die from a shot to the chest than being tasered.
Dude, can we go back down to earth for a second, PLEASE?
Didn't you read the article? Some drunk guy throwed a vodka bottle to a cop, and they killed him for that. Are we going to kill every drunk guy who makes something stupid? Really?
Same with guys being stopped by a cop, do you need to kill them? Do you need to assume the cop's life is in danger ALWAYS? What if it was a teen who stole his dad's car, do you need to shoot him because he got scared and tried to run away?
Didn't the london police kill a guy at the underground a few years ago, mistaking him for a terrorist? The guy started to run and they just fired at him. And killed him. Turns out, the guy wasn't a terrorist. It was an illegal immigrant.
This is what you all just don't seem to understand. Looks like you have been brainwashed into thinking a cop's only method of submission is killing someone, and that is just plain wrong.
You have been watching too many lawyer shows.
I hope you have a kid some day and he gets shot by a cop some day for something stupid.
Have you been reading the comments around here? Did you notice that everyone is justifying the cop for their actions? Even saying that A COP IS REQUIRED TO KILL SOMEONE who is threatening him.
I've seen that a lot from american people. Excess 'respect' for the police. Fear, actually. And when you're afraid of the cops, you're fucked.
But they seem to forget that they're not robocop. They don't have hardcoded laws that will keep them from pulling a trigger. It's all up to their judgement (and their own fear) at the moment they're being "threatened". And that misjudgement could cost your OWN life some day. You never know what's gonna happen. You can't say "it's never going to happen to me because I'm a good person".
And lastly... YOU DON'T NEED TO SHOOT SOMEONE TO DEATH GOD DAMN IT, you can shoot him in the leg, shoulder, arm, whatever. Cops know about that. You don't need to execute someone that was just pointing a knife at you. Hell, if all he had is a knife, you could have maced him and he was out. I honestly don't know how people can not only justify the execution of a man by police, but also protests. Claims like "oh but it was private space". Sure, you know what? For what it's worth they could have also go through your phone and delete your pics too...
OH MY FUCKING GOD, you are an idiot, really. Wow. Really, can anyone be that stupid? Apparently in america you can.
Wow. Just wow.
I don't really want to get into an argument about wether the engineer adds his own style to someone else's music, or if he makes it sound LIKE the artist wanted. Because, you know, your voice sounds very different inside your head than it sounds to everyone else. And a band sounds much worse than they think. That's why you see amateur kids sounding like shit until they get a record deal and suddenly their sound is much more professional. Guess what? It's a sound engineer making it sound like they actually intended.
Unless they're a band that really knows their shit and their engineer and record label are changing their sound (like the Beatles and Spector's Wall of Sound).
Anyway, you're completely missing the point (I bet you won a medal at the debate team of your school).
Go talk to your engineer friends and ask them if loudness and compression do any good to music. Yes, it makes it sound better in shitty earphones, at the expense of making every other audio system sound like shitty earphones as well. And that was what my point was really about.
You're so cute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
It's not about making it sound "good" in any hi-fi system, is making it sound better in shitty iPod earbuds!
Yes, when you short or overload a transistor (or get a faulty one), it blows. But a vacuum tube slowly degrades by itself under normal operating conditions.
The rest of your comment is stupid hate spewing I don't need to address. I already know about the "nice" distortion of tube, first-order harmonics, etc.
OK buddy.
Arguing on the internet is like special olympics. Even if you win, you're still a retard.
We should ban TV too...
OK, let's be honest, what you described isn't a "personal" computer, as very few people use that for *personal* use. What you described is a Workstation. The fact that PCs are powerful enough to be workstations is another story.
I'm still on a 3Mbps DSL connection. I don't see it going to Gigabit anytime soon. So your point is moot.
It doesn't. Tube amps *have* distortion, that's why they're good for distorting guitars. Transistor amps don't distort (under their acceptable input range), take less power, generate less heat, have unlimited service life, etc. The difference is that transistor amps distort sharply and tube amps distort "gracefully".
It's a lot like film vs. digital photography. Film gives you grain, colors are distorted (depending on what film you're using. Velvia doesn't look the same as Portra). Nowadays, digital looks just perfect. No grain under appropriate light conditions, and the colors of a pro digital camera can be calibrated to look exactly like a test chart. You CAN (I do) use film for artistic purposes. And there are parallels with transistor vs tube distortion: Digital photography overexposes sharply and film overexposes "gracefuly". Curious.
In short: using a tube amp at the output stage of your CD player is stupid. You're distorting what the mixing engineer recorded on that CD. And if you are all about playing it as the artist intended, then why the hell are you distorting it then?
I think he just finished reading Michael Crichton's "Prey"
Dude the network you described is NOT connected to the public internet!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)
Well I saw enough NatGeo documentaries about North Korea to see what it's like. In rural areas people don't even have cars, there are no gas stations. Just like in Cuba, there are supermarkets for rich people with imported goods. Power is unreliable and blackouts happen several times a day. Medicine is just basic and for any serious treatment they have to wait for humanitary help. And only a while ago they started getting cell phones.
And it's a country of 24 million sharing 1024 IP addresses. From wikipedia:
NK is another failed communist dictatorship, with the standard Soviet formula of social classes:
People who work IN the party
People who work FOR the party
People who DO NOT work for the party
So please, don't try to sell us what it's not.
When I see a building burn in flames, I'm pretty sure it's a tacit admission that other tactics are no longer working...
Sure. But your cities are on fire, and mine aren't. You fail.
I live in Argentina. I see protests every day. And for much less than this, the police deploys a much larger operation. Several trucks, tens (if not hundreds) of men wearing all sorts of protection, helmets, and large shields. This is common after every football (soccer for americans) match, where usually 1500-2000 men are deployed inside and around a stadium.
If you take a look at HOW a riot is controlled, you will see much more organization that this show put by the UK government. If they wanted to control the riot, I'm sure they could have done it already. When you have a mob throwing stones and chairs, you don't use a small shield. Damn it, this is not a RPG, this is the real life. You use large shields, and a tight formation. Like the romans did centuries ago. Like what you see in Asterix cartoons. Behind this line, guys with tear gas grenade launchers fire at the crowd in different angles (to maximize the area covered by smoke). This disperses the crowd, and leaves the most vicious still standing. Once you have them identified, slowly advance towards them. When they're close enough, order the shielded guys to jump at them and proceed to arrest them. You just can't arrest everyone who participated, so just stick with the high profile ones, who are usually the instigators.
The key here (big cops dressed in black, with helmets, shields, armed,etc) is INTIMIDATION.
This is only 1 example. There are several tactics. And lots of resources: rubber bullets, high pressure water (colored for later identification. They catch the painted guys at subways, trains or buses here). Even the mounted police is useful (remember, intimidation. A horse can run faster than you).
What you should read from these events is that the UK government has something else in mind. This is either distraction for some other political maneuver, or they're using this for leverage in order to tighten "security" laws.
Put them in jail.
Sure buddy, gotta catch them first. Do you see the police even trying? And the government is just whining and blaming twitter. Fuck people like you. Wake up and realize the problem is the government NOT DOING SHIT, and not the people rioting and looting.
Just drop a few tear gas grenades and rubber bullets, and this ends today. But the government isn't doing it. And as long as they don't, this will go on. NEWSFLASH! you can't arrest and charge everyone on the street at the moment of the protests. There are more protesters than policemen.
Hello? Seriously, no one here think that the government and the police are to blame - not for "shooting someone", but instead, for letting the situation escalate to this?
Hello? Tear gas? Water jet trucks? Rubber bullets? Seriously, look at the images. The UK cops don't even have decent riot shields! What are they going to do, blind people to death with their yellow vests?
Apparently slashdotters here are up in arms when there's a "privacy" issue, but if a policeman shoots someone - even if he executes him summarily - it's OK, because the policeman represents "good". This mentality is what leads to unprepared police. This has nothing to do with being a developed country, or an educated society. Riots turn violent sooner or later. Even in the most tame societies, and for the stupidest reasons (Canada and hockey...)
Yes, because there are no import taxes. Or there are but they CANNOT BE RAISED for some mythical reason. No, jerkbag, is because companies into import/export control the congress and they pressure them to keep import taxes low.
No, sorry. Fair is fair. If you can't raise taxes on the rich, then you can't cut taxes on food and medicine. It's only fair.
Not every company sells stocks, Why is this so hard to understand?
No. That's not how it works. Also, big players don't gamble their own money. They work for banks and they gamble YOUR money. And when they lose, they demand the government to rescue them. Are you mentally challenged or have you been living on an island for the last 3 years?
No one said anything about hate. I don't hate people who have more than I do, I would just rather have them pay more. See, if you have a $4000 a month income and have to pay taxes, you really notice when taxes are raised. If you have a $ 400.000 a month income, you barely notice the tax raise. You don't need to do any sacrifices to pay those taxes, and still keep your same level of life.
I understand you are racist, it's ok, it's not your fault - since you were raised like that, it's not your fault to be a complete idiot. But you see, mexicans, puerto ricans, cubans, etc... they don't go to the US "AFTER YOUR PROPERTY!!!!!!", they go there to live the american dream, and work to have a decent living. The rest of the world don't hate you, americans, for what you have. They hate you because your biggest business (war) is what keeps them from having internet conection, running water, climate control, and other luxuries.
No. Please, stop putting words in someone else's speech. Raising the taxes on the rich is not about charity. It's about fairness. How many houses and cars do you need to live?
Let me put it another way: Someone who lives in a house across the street from central park, NY. And who has 1 car and 1 limo there, and a beach house in Malibu (with a couple nice convertibles) and a couple more around the country, and does shopping in Milano and Paris (flying in their own private jet, of course)...
That person doesn't have a problem. That person DID NOT bust his ass working on a mine, on a production line, or working in a construction 300ft from the ground. And, go figure, persons who work in mines, production lines, or construction DO NOT HAVE A CHANCE to be as rich as that guy from central park. None, they don't. And hey, when the guy from park avenue gets sick, he can get the best medical attention - not the working class guy. If the miner guy needs a new lung after years of mini
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