...but lets not pretend that the reason you identify police on Waze exists for any other reason but to let other speeding drivers know to slow down until they pass the cop and speed back up to well above the speed limit.
it also causes traffic jams when cops pull people over. It's for route selection. You can "avoid" routes that may have speed traps, as well as possible slow-spots from cops pulling people over.
How about illegally low speed limits? The State of Texas sets out guidelines for setting limits. The places setting them must abide. Most don't. They set the limit the lowest they think they can get away with. This causes traffic jams and unsafe conditions. If a cop is sitting on the side of the road running radar, that's "proof" that the limit is unreasonably low.
Then, if the US abandons the dollar, what would be the options? GBP is too small now. With the Euro, it's less accepted in Europe. I think one of the reasons the EU pushed for a unified currency is to get away from the pound. Many places in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and elsewhere took the pound alongside the local currency, making the GBP the default currency of travel.
The AUD, SGD, and others in Asia-Pac are too small to handle the demand of the US, though Aus would do whatever the US asked. The Yen is in no better shape and the RMB/Yuan is closest, but the US couldn't ever pull that off politically. So if the US abandoned the USD after a collapse, what would the US use? Canadian dollars? Peso?
It's the only other currency large enough to work at the moment. And I didn't think there were multiple printers of it, but a single issuing authority. Wasn't that the whole deal with Greece? They wanted to inflate their way out of debt, but Germany didn't want inflation, and there's a single act for it. Just add the US to the EU zone. Other than the militia members that would see it as a cause for open revolt.
You are wandering off topic again. Would the worse damage to the economy come from defaulting on bonds, or printing to pay them off? In my opinion, the damage would be the same (presuming you use the tactic to wipe the debt, not just to extend it or pay off a small portion of it), and defaulting is simpler. So the discussion of printing to pay off the debt (all of it, not the "inflate it down" tactics that have/are being used) is pointless. It's the worst way to accomplish the task.
Just default on any and all debt. At least then, much of the damage will be international, while printing to eliminate the debt will do 100% direct damage only domestically (with follow-on effects that will affect the world, but not directly). So many bonds are held internationally, that the damage will be more spread around the world to simply default.
Though in either case, it would be less damaging to swithc currencies at the same time. Adopt the Euro when eliminating debt, so you don't have any concerns about lack of "faith" in your currency.
They are not on the fucking wrong side if you put them on inside out. And it's not like that social faux pas will be my biggest of the day, so if it makes it easier to dress, put on your wife's shirt, and wear it inside out.
Why can nobody else figure these solutions out. Genius I say.
So button up pants, and women's shirts on inside out. Shoes are optional, but not a fucking hat.
often use "you own you" to explain how property rights flow from individual rights.
It's always the other way around. Libertarians are against "collective" land ownership. And in an ideal land of 100% private land, the land owner has rights, but nobody else.
Is that not the libertarian ideal?
So you latch onto some phrase so you can create ludicrous interpretations of what they say in order to justify your hatred of them.
Nah, I just ask them to explain their views. A few directed questions, and they generally always directly say that the land owner has rights, and nobody else. So the rights aren't based on "person" but on "property". The rest derives from there.
And before you look for the long winded libertarian explanation of how I'm wrong (I've been linked to it multiple times when I've pointed out this part of libertarianism), I'd note that the fact it was obvious enough it needed a denial gives it credibility. That, and if you watch it, and pay attention to the "simplest" answer. The explanation was that people have the right to self, and that requires the right to ownership. All other rights derive from that ownership. There wasn't a single right that wasn't derived from property rights. So the obvious point is the property has the rights, and the person doesn't. But you can add a surpurfulous step to claim the property only has rights because people exist, then it's all people's rights. But that's needless complication to cover up the fact that libertarian rights are derived from property, not persons.
I've looked at a lot of receivers, and you typically have to spend over $500 just to get downscaling, let alone deinterlacing.
I linked to one that was the first one I looked for (because I have an Onkyo, I am relatively familiar with their general line). Under $500. And does downscaling and deinterlacing. Would you like the link again? Reality trumps your opinion.
I spent $20 on my DTS receiver (only 5.1, though) and repaired a bad solder connection to a relay.
So you bought broken used trash, and managed to fix it up. Not representative of the norm. But then, you assert that $440 is greater then $500.
And then, it still wouldn't be half as good as what XBMC can do while playing my media.
Kodi is software, not hardware. Your DTS receiver doesn't run Kodi. So I'm not sure why you brought up that irrelevancy. How many HDMI inputs does your HTPC have?
Ideally, movies shot on film and edited at 24fps are encoded and shown in "film mode" at 24fps. Most dedicated DVD players support this, and these days probably most TVs as well. PAL DVDs have more lines, and are still 24fps in film mode, so ideally films are presented in PAL film mode for the highest resolution and most accurate frame rate.
So we should use 48 Hz, rather than 50 or 60 for the TV? Interpolate, or double-expose for the frame-doubling?
I have one of the expensive de-interlacers. Comes "free" in any reasonable receiver. I feed it anything, SD, 720i/1080i, 4k at any frame rate and tell it I want it at 720p 60 Hz, and it comes out looking better than "native" all the way through. Something like http://www.cnet.com/products/o... for under $500. Mine is an Onkyo, but not a current model.
Yes, but as I said, between WA and WAP, WAP is proven to have already acted in a fraudulent manner (by infringing on trademark to confuse users), so WA is more trustworthy than WAP, unless more information is known.
You've told me how many times, and how is anyone supposed to know it was you, when you are just some A/C? That, and wasn't your first reply after my last post saying it? So you've told me no more than once, you just did so in multiple places.
I don't know where you get the idea that some people are out buying new TV's every year,
Do you not know how to read? The post I was replying to said "This upgrade-your-TV-every-6 months crap is getting old."
I didn't question him. I know I don't upgrade my TV that often. Sounds like you are agreeing with me in a most disagreeable manner.
Were you going RCA video out? HDMI is 2-way, and the player and monitor negotiate. But most of the other video standards, like RCA, composite, S-video and such are 1-way. It would be *impossible* for the system to "know" that the TV doesn't match. I found a "cheap" DVD player with a PAL/NTSC output switch, and it was (naturally) region free. It's never had a problem playing anything on everything. Same as playing a DVD on a computer. I've never had any DVD played on a computer (or by association, out the computer's video out) that cared about PAL/NTSC.
At least with HD, PAL/NTSC is gone. They still technically exist, but are now compatible so that everything plays on everything, so long as you are 720i or better.
PAL/NTSC doesn't really exist in DVDs (yes, I know people will argue that, but I can put any DVD from any region, NTSC or PAL into my old DVD player and it'll output what NTSC or PAL based on a software switch). That's a function of the player. And my best results in my current player come from having the player output at 1080p, and have my receiver downscale to 720p. Showing a DVD on 720p is much better than broadcast 1080p on a 1080p TV.
I have a 4 year old TV (5 if you count the TV model years). It's a 55" 720p plasma. I'm still constantly asked by people if it's a 4k. People buying and upgrading crap yearly are doing it wrong. The kids TV is a 7 year old 46" 1080p LCD. The new one wasn't an "upgrade" but a new TV to fill a new space in a new house with a larger TV.
You want to know how noticeable? You can see the little hairs on peoples arms, that's how noticeable it is.
I can't see the hairs on real people 10 feet away (for normal arm hair), if I can see the hairs on someone's arm on TV, why are they zoomed in on someone's arm?
They would not be investing so much money into 4k if it was just a marketing gimmick like you say.
By that standard, 3D isn't a gimmick. But nearly everyone still agrees it is. And, so long as people with 1080p at home, look at my 720p and ask if it's 4k, I'll believe that there's something else to it. Good settings on the TV, high quality input material, scaled properly seems to make more of a difference than pixels. At least with people with 20/20 or worse vision (nearly everyone, though it seems all the exceptions on the planet post on slashdot, mostly as A/Cs).
I got one of the last active-glasses 3D TVs from LG. A 55" 720p plasma. They canceled the line, and went to RealD, for cheaper glasses, and when you buy one of the last of a line of 3D TVs, with no glasses available in plasma 720p (hadn't been made for months, not in stock in any official dealers), you pay about 1/4 list price (when the list was already discounted for clearance). I couldn't have gotten a better TC for twice the price at the time.
And I'm constantly asked if my 720p is a 4k. A good receiver for proper scaling, and good input quality make all the difference. Certainly more of a difference than 720p to 4k makes at reasonable watching distance (and not having them side-by-side, as they are in stores).
And everyone that's come into my house and watched a BluRay movie on my 720p has commented on how clear and crisp that new HD is. About half ask if it's a 4k TV.
Yes. If all my friends were jumping off a cliff, it's probably because they are jumping in a body of water to avoid a forest fire bearing down on us. So I'd be dumb to not follow.
Your fix is wrong. WhatsApp can verify the code of WA, but not WAP. Theirs is true. They may not be saints, but they know what their code does. Only WAP knows what WAP does, and the fact it's infringing trademark to "sneak" in puts them in a higher risk category.
The US gets sick leave, it's called "personal days".
Not sick days. When you have separate use them or lose them sick days, then you are more likely to call in sick when you are sick. In the US, it's common to work sick, infecting the rest of the office (and visitors/customers) because every "personal day" you take reduces your vacation days.
They are by definition and use, not "sick days" because they are not restricted or dedicated to that use.
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Well, it's final. The Right of First Sale has been revoked. Soap, Ballot, and Jury boxes haven't worked. What's next?
...but lets not pretend that the reason you identify police on Waze exists for any other reason but to let other speeding drivers know to slow down until they pass the cop and speed back up to well above the speed limit.
it also causes traffic jams when cops pull people over. It's for route selection. You can "avoid" routes that may have speed traps, as well as possible slow-spots from cops pulling people over.
How about illegally low speed limits? The State of Texas sets out guidelines for setting limits. The places setting them must abide. Most don't. They set the limit the lowest they think they can get away with. This causes traffic jams and unsafe conditions. If a cop is sitting on the side of the road running radar, that's "proof" that the limit is unreasonably low.
Then, if the US abandons the dollar, what would be the options? GBP is too small now. With the Euro, it's less accepted in Europe. I think one of the reasons the EU pushed for a unified currency is to get away from the pound. Many places in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and elsewhere took the pound alongside the local currency, making the GBP the default currency of travel.
The AUD, SGD, and others in Asia-Pac are too small to handle the demand of the US, though Aus would do whatever the US asked. The Yen is in no better shape and the RMB/Yuan is closest, but the US couldn't ever pull that off politically. So if the US abandoned the USD after a collapse, what would the US use? Canadian dollars? Peso?
It's the only other currency large enough to work at the moment. And I didn't think there were multiple printers of it, but a single issuing authority. Wasn't that the whole deal with Greece? They wanted to inflate their way out of debt, but Germany didn't want inflation, and there's a single act for it. Just add the US to the EU zone. Other than the militia members that would see it as a cause for open revolt.
You are wandering off topic again. Would the worse damage to the economy come from defaulting on bonds, or printing to pay them off? In my opinion, the damage would be the same (presuming you use the tactic to wipe the debt, not just to extend it or pay off a small portion of it), and defaulting is simpler. So the discussion of printing to pay off the debt (all of it, not the "inflate it down" tactics that have/are being used) is pointless. It's the worst way to accomplish the task.
Just default on any and all debt. At least then, much of the damage will be international, while printing to eliminate the debt will do 100% direct damage only domestically (with follow-on effects that will affect the world, but not directly). So many bonds are held internationally, that the damage will be more spread around the world to simply default.
Though in either case, it would be less damaging to swithc currencies at the same time. Adopt the Euro when eliminating debt, so you don't have any concerns about lack of "faith" in your currency.
They are not on the fucking wrong side if you put them on inside out. And it's not like that social faux pas will be my biggest of the day, so if it makes it easier to dress, put on your wife's shirt, and wear it inside out.
Why can nobody else figure these solutions out. Genius I say.
So button up pants, and women's shirts on inside out. Shoes are optional, but not a fucking hat.
often use "you own you" to explain how property rights flow from individual rights.
It's always the other way around. Libertarians are against "collective" land ownership. And in an ideal land of 100% private land, the land owner has rights, but nobody else.
Is that not the libertarian ideal?
So you latch onto some phrase so you can create ludicrous interpretations of what they say in order to justify your hatred of them.
Nah, I just ask them to explain their views. A few directed questions, and they generally always directly say that the land owner has rights, and nobody else. So the rights aren't based on "person" but on "property". The rest derives from there.
And before you look for the long winded libertarian explanation of how I'm wrong (I've been linked to it multiple times when I've pointed out this part of libertarianism), I'd note that the fact it was obvious enough it needed a denial gives it credibility. That, and if you watch it, and pay attention to the "simplest" answer. The explanation was that people have the right to self, and that requires the right to ownership. All other rights derive from that ownership. There wasn't a single right that wasn't derived from property rights. So the obvious point is the property has the rights, and the person doesn't. But you can add a surpurfulous step to claim the property only has rights because people exist, then it's all people's rights. But that's needless complication to cover up the fact that libertarian rights are derived from property, not persons.
I've looked at a lot of receivers, and you typically have to spend over $500 just to get downscaling, let alone deinterlacing.
I linked to one that was the first one I looked for (because I have an Onkyo, I am relatively familiar with their general line). Under $500. And does downscaling and deinterlacing. Would you like the link again? Reality trumps your opinion.
I spent $20 on my DTS receiver (only 5.1, though) and repaired a bad solder connection to a relay.
So you bought broken used trash, and managed to fix it up. Not representative of the norm. But then, you assert that $440 is greater then $500.
And then, it still wouldn't be half as good as what XBMC can do while playing my media.
Kodi is software, not hardware. Your DTS receiver doesn't run Kodi. So I'm not sure why you brought up that irrelevancy. How many HDMI inputs does your HTPC have?
You need smarter relatives.
UHD content is played constantly in every store selling them. If they were so shocked, had they never been to a store before?
Ideally, movies shot on film and edited at 24fps are encoded and shown in "film mode" at 24fps. Most dedicated DVD players support this, and these days probably most TVs as well. PAL DVDs have more lines, and are still 24fps in film mode, so ideally films are presented in PAL film mode for the highest resolution and most accurate frame rate.
So we should use 48 Hz, rather than 50 or 60 for the TV? Interpolate, or double-expose for the frame-doubling?
I have one of the expensive de-interlacers. Comes "free" in any reasonable receiver. I feed it anything, SD, 720i/1080i, 4k at any frame rate and tell it I want it at 720p 60 Hz, and it comes out looking better than "native" all the way through. Something like http://www.cnet.com/products/o... for under $500. Mine is an Onkyo, but not a current model.
Yes, but as I said, between WA and WAP, WAP is proven to have already acted in a fraudulent manner (by infringing on trademark to confuse users), so WA is more trustworthy than WAP, unless more information is known.
As I've told you many times,
You've told me how many times, and how is anyone supposed to know it was you, when you are just some A/C? That, and wasn't your first reply after my last post saying it? So you've told me no more than once, you just did so in multiple places.
I don't know where you get the idea that some people are out buying new TV's every year,
Do you not know how to read? The post I was replying to said "This upgrade-your-TV-every-6 months crap is getting old."
I didn't question him. I know I don't upgrade my TV that often. Sounds like you are agreeing with me in a most disagreeable manner.
"TV system doesn't match"
Were you going RCA video out? HDMI is 2-way, and the player and monitor negotiate. But most of the other video standards, like RCA, composite, S-video and such are 1-way. It would be *impossible* for the system to "know" that the TV doesn't match. I found a "cheap" DVD player with a PAL/NTSC output switch, and it was (naturally) region free. It's never had a problem playing anything on everything. Same as playing a DVD on a computer. I've never had any DVD played on a computer (or by association, out the computer's video out) that cared about PAL/NTSC.
At least with HD, PAL/NTSC is gone. They still technically exist, but are now compatible so that everything plays on everything, so long as you are 720i or better.
PAL/NTSC doesn't really exist in DVDs (yes, I know people will argue that, but I can put any DVD from any region, NTSC or PAL into my old DVD player and it'll output what NTSC or PAL based on a software switch). That's a function of the player. And my best results in my current player come from having the player output at 1080p, and have my receiver downscale to 720p. Showing a DVD on 720p is much better than broadcast 1080p on a 1080p TV.
I have a 4 year old TV (5 if you count the TV model years). It's a 55" 720p plasma. I'm still constantly asked by people if it's a 4k. People buying and upgrading crap yearly are doing it wrong. The kids TV is a 7 year old 46" 1080p LCD. The new one wasn't an "upgrade" but a new TV to fill a new space in a new house with a larger TV.
You want to know how noticeable? You can see the little hairs on peoples arms, that's how noticeable it is.
I can't see the hairs on real people 10 feet away (for normal arm hair), if I can see the hairs on someone's arm on TV, why are they zoomed in on someone's arm?
They would not be investing so much money into 4k if it was just a marketing gimmick like you say.
By that standard, 3D isn't a gimmick. But nearly everyone still agrees it is. And, so long as people with 1080p at home, look at my 720p and ask if it's 4k, I'll believe that there's something else to it. Good settings on the TV, high quality input material, scaled properly seems to make more of a difference than pixels. At least with people with 20/20 or worse vision (nearly everyone, though it seems all the exceptions on the planet post on slashdot, mostly as A/Cs).
I got one of the last active-glasses 3D TVs from LG. A 55" 720p plasma. They canceled the line, and went to RealD, for cheaper glasses, and when you buy one of the last of a line of 3D TVs, with no glasses available in plasma 720p (hadn't been made for months, not in stock in any official dealers), you pay about 1/4 list price (when the list was already discounted for clearance). I couldn't have gotten a better TC for twice the price at the time.
And I'm constantly asked if my 720p is a 4k. A good receiver for proper scaling, and good input quality make all the difference. Certainly more of a difference than 720p to 4k makes at reasonable watching distance (and not having them side-by-side, as they are in stores).
And everyone that's come into my house and watched a BluRay movie on my 720p has commented on how clear and crisp that new HD is. About half ask if it's a 4k TV.
Measles moves on its own,
So it doesn't move via sneeze or touch, but just jumps out of pores and flies to the next person. Got it.
Typhoid Mary was a specific case, you are not talking about specific cases, but the public at large.
"The public at large" is a sum of specific cases. No more. No less.
Yes. If all my friends were jumping off a cliff, it's probably because they are jumping in a body of water to avoid a forest fire bearing down on us. So I'd be dumb to not follow.
A trademark case would be slow and expensive. They are being faster and more innovative in their solution.
Let me fix that for everyone:
Your fix is wrong. WhatsApp can verify the code of WA, but not WAP. Theirs is true. They may not be saints, but they know what their code does. Only WAP knows what WAP does, and the fact it's infringing trademark to "sneak" in puts them in a higher risk category.
Smoking is considered more addicting than cocaine. there is a difference.
The US gets sick leave, it's called "personal days".
Not sick days. When you have separate use them or lose them sick days, then you are more likely to call in sick when you are sick. In the US, it's common to work sick, infecting the rest of the office (and visitors/customers) because every "personal day" you take reduces your vacation days.
They are by definition and use, not "sick days" because they are not restricted or dedicated to that use.