Flat universe!? Some people still need to be convinced that the earth is not flat. Now this? We'll need to send Columbus to the "new" universe to prove them wrong.
If the Americans wanted Castro out, thet would have done what they did to Allende in Chile and various other leaders of other countries. Maintaining the status quo has more to do with cash flow than nay kind of ideology. Somebody is propping Castro up. He simply wouldn't be there otherwise.
When you're mired in it, it's pretty hard to see what you're mired in. Anyway, the politicians are living pretty well. Stupid are the people who elect them. Ignorant really. I don't think they would get elected if the voters actually made an effort to find out the truth about the people they're voting for. If not ignorant, then apathetic, if not that, then despicable, because they actually want censorship of "undesirables".
The next big things are already here. They are bio-tech, high temperature superconductors, and nano-carbon materials.
No way! The next BIG thing will be faster than light travel, teleportation, mind-body seperation, etc. etc. etc. Things that are considered impossible today.
It sure is funny to see you constantly rant on the falsehood that we don't want artists to get paid. What's it called? Red herring? Strawman? You seem to be an expert at applying them. I'll have to assume that your little red herring is well understood by most everyone that responds to your posts and feels no need to mention it. Honestly, I shouldn't take you seriously at all. I don't think that you actually believe what you post either. You might even be a script... a bot...well, in our state, motorized trolling is prohibited.
Yeah, he even raised a fuss as it turns out. Good for him. Let's see if the party lets him run for president. As these people go, he seems pretty clean.
Only ten years old? I got some 80 year old Edison records that are still listenable. And I don't need electricity to do it.
They've always been stored inside my warm, dry house, always in cases out of the light, but the silver film has become discoloured on some of them (with a gold-ish tinge around the edges) or even started to break up with pin-prick holes appearing in the film.
Exactly my point. Properly stored records are virtually guaranteed to last 50 years, usually even longer. Film compares to tape and DVDs in the same way. In fact, tape will laster longer than your DVDs.
It pays to take good care of your records. With CDs and DVDs, it won't matter, they're going to rot. The aluminum(not silver, maybe it is, I always thought it was aluminum) will corrode and the clear plastic will fog up, and so will the lens on the laser in your player. And when you have to buy a new player, it might not play your disks. The digital tech we use today is pure gimmickry. It was designed as a sales tool, little else. It's convenient and all, but I don't consider it truly advanced or better than what we had. And the real reason for that is because it is done so badly. Built in obsolescence is the real motivation behind it. And I still think digital sounds harsh(shrill?). You just can't reproduce a 5khz sound accurately while taking little more than 4 samples. It will get mangled. I don't miss the pops and clicks though.
that the disks are marginal when they're new, and that there is no way they will last as long as vinyl (contrary to all the hype about durability and tolerance for scratches), I don't think it's a viable market at all. On the other hand, they are quite viable as long as you can convince people to buy them. It's the PR that will keep them afloat. It's certainly not the tech. The whole thing is just too dependant on too many different technologies that have to come together exactly in the right way. I can listen to record on a potter's wheel and a straight pin with a paper cone. In fact, I don't see any of the "new" tech as durable in any way. Virtually all of society's infrastructure runs on century old technology (phones, internal combustion, in fact the consumption of petroleum in general). The new stuff by itself can't handle it. All this applies to DVDs as well. Talk about marginal quality...P.T. Barnum (not really) comes to mind.
So it seems to me that a real majority also disagree with the result.
We'll just have to wait until November to see who's right. That's the only approval rating that is relevent. Everything else is hype and propaganda. I do like the idea of being able to throw a person out of office when his approval rating (Q?) dips below a set threshold. Oops. I just realized you said real majority. I was talking about the majority of voters. However, unless the "real" majority goes out and votes, they simply don't exist.
They are all welcomme to throw as much money as they want into the elections. We have the choice to not be influenced by it. The big money thing is our problem. We are the ones that are most affexcted by it. It shows in our voting records and in theirs, but we are the ones that can change that. What this all shows to me is that we are just as corrupt as the people we elect. Gore Vidal wrote a wonderful, if a little harsh, treatise on the subject. I can't remember where or how to find it. It was written quite a few years ago.
you were saying? Oh, I forgot. They're communists. Americans don't harass their press. This is a "legitimate" criminal investigation. More like a fishing expedition, I say.
That's how you deal with an intrusive government in Soviet America.
Silly me. I always thought you could vote in qualified people that actually represent you, the voter. I guess as long as you simply vote for the guy with the most money, then that is what the candidates (and party) will represent. It seems to me that they are doing an excellent job of that. If big money is what gets them into office, it's because we vote for big money. Waddaya know, the system works!
The law doesn't matter. It's the perception. The gov't operates by pure public relations. The people that you elect merely work in the PR department. You will never know to whom you're giving the real power. Unless, of course, you (en masse) really want to know. It's as easy as you want it to be.
You missed the point entirely. If there is a difference between what your employer tells you what you are getting paid and what you actually take home, then the employer is lying to you. What you take home is what you make. That's what you should negociate. Everything else is irrelevent. It costs the company more to employ you than what you get paid. Those details should be of no interest to you. Just stay focused on what is actually on the check. Let them deal with the accounting.
That's just nature in action, and like it or not, we're just another species of animal in this world, fighting for survival.
That has been obvious to me for a long time. It appears that's how you want it to stay. I would prefer that we progress away from that type of thinking. I'll take my chances with the next life in order to keep peace in this one. I don't care to spend my time always looking over my shoulder. I don't see the point of fighting to maintain an advantage over others...for what? To have a slave at my beck and call? Someone to shine my shoes? Clean my house? It takes quite a bit of force to acquire those services. Economic if not physical. I recognize that 'you and yours' have exactly the same rights as 'me and mine', no more no less. Your line of thinking is turning the planet into a prison yard.
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Flat universe!? Some people still need to be convinced that the earth is not flat. Now this? We'll need to send Columbus to the "new" universe to prove them wrong.
If the Americans wanted Castro out, thet would have done what they did to Allende in Chile and various other leaders of other countries. Maintaining the status quo has more to do with cash flow than nay kind of ideology. Somebody is propping Castro up. He simply wouldn't be there otherwise.
Yes. Now that they went public. They have to answer to shareholders (and to the gov't apparently), not the community.
When you're mired in it, it's pretty hard to see what you're mired in. Anyway, the politicians are living pretty well. Stupid are the people who elect them. Ignorant really. I don't think they would get elected if the voters actually made an effort to find out the truth about the people they're voting for. If not ignorant, then apathetic, if not that, then despicable, because they actually want censorship of "undesirables".
The next big things are already here. They are bio-tech, high temperature superconductors, and nano-carbon materials.
No way! The next BIG thing will be faster than light travel, teleportation, mind-body seperation, etc. etc. etc. Things that are considered impossible today.
How many times did you say it while reading this? Just replace yet with for now.
It sure is funny to see you constantly rant on the falsehood that we don't want artists to get paid. What's it called? Red herring? Strawman? You seem to be an expert at applying them. I'll have to assume that your little red herring is well understood by most everyone that responds to your posts and feels no need to mention it. Honestly, I shouldn't take you seriously at all. I don't think that you actually believe what you post either. You might even be a script... a bot...well, in our state, motorized trolling is prohibited.
Easy to use is even nicer.
Yeah, he even raised a fuss as it turns out. Good for him. Let's see if the party lets him run for president. As these people go, he seems pretty clean.
The newspapers were discolsing secret details of crime investigations..
Sounds just like the reasons that the Chinese lock up their journalists. Anyway, if we have no right to privacy, neither do they.
It can also be opened by a court order to give up your key.
In case you haven't noticed, the Fourth Amendment (and the First) has been repealed by the patriot act. Papers please...
Only ten years old? I got some 80 year old Edison records that are still listenable. And I don't need electricity to do it.
They've always been stored inside my warm, dry house, always in cases out of the light, but the silver film has become discoloured on some of them (with a gold-ish tinge around the edges) or even started to break up with pin-prick holes appearing in the film.
Exactly my point. Properly stored records are virtually guaranteed to last 50 years, usually even longer. Film compares to tape and DVDs in the same way. In fact, tape will laster longer than your DVDs.
It pays to take good care of your records. With CDs and DVDs, it won't matter, they're going to rot. The aluminum(not silver, maybe it is, I always thought it was aluminum) will corrode and the clear plastic will fog up, and so will the lens on the laser in your player. And when you have to buy a new player, it might not play your disks. The digital tech we use today is pure gimmickry. It was designed as a sales tool, little else. It's convenient and all, but I don't consider it truly advanced or better than what we had. And the real reason for that is because it is done so badly. Built in obsolescence is the real motivation behind it. And I still think digital sounds harsh(shrill?). You just can't reproduce a 5khz sound accurately while taking little more than 4 samples. It will get mangled. I don't miss the pops and clicks though.
which last year passed 100-0...
Damn! So much for Mr. Feingold...Thought we had a winner for a second.
that the disks are marginal when they're new, and that there is no way they will last as long as vinyl (contrary to all the hype about durability and tolerance for scratches), I don't think it's a viable market at all. On the other hand, they are quite viable as long as you can convince people to buy them. It's the PR that will keep them afloat. It's certainly not the tech. The whole thing is just too dependant on too many different technologies that have to come together exactly in the right way. I can listen to record on a potter's wheel and a straight pin with a paper cone. In fact, I don't see any of the "new" tech as durable in any way. Virtually all of society's infrastructure runs on century old technology (phones, internal combustion, in fact the consumption of petroleum in general). The new stuff by itself can't handle it. All this applies to DVDs as well. Talk about marginal quality...P.T. Barnum (not really) comes to mind.
Just read the history books of Asia and Europe.
Bah! Who needs a book when we can see it live...same story, different actors.
So it seems to me that a real majority also disagree with the result.
We'll just have to wait until November to see who's right. That's the only approval rating that is relevent. Everything else is hype and propaganda. I do like the idea of being able to throw a person out of office when his approval rating (Q?) dips below a set threshold. Oops. I just realized you said real majority. I was talking about the majority of voters. However, unless the "real" majority goes out and votes, they simply don't exist.
They are all welcomme to throw as much money as they want into the elections. We have the choice to not be influenced by it. The big money thing is our problem. We are the ones that are most affexcted by it. It shows in our voting records and in theirs, but we are the ones that can change that. What this all shows to me is that we are just as corrupt as the people we elect. Gore Vidal wrote a wonderful, if a little harsh, treatise on the subject. I can't remember where or how to find it. It was written quite a few years ago.
...it's ultimately a human that makes the decision to fire.
Hmmm...not sure if that's always a good thing.
At least you've learned your lesson.
I most certainly have...Majority rule is a miserable failure.
you were saying? Oh, I forgot. They're communists. Americans don't harass their press. This is a "legitimate" criminal investigation. More like a fishing expedition, I say.
That's how you deal with an intrusive government in Soviet America.
Silly me. I always thought you could vote in qualified people that actually represent you, the voter. I guess as long as you simply vote for the guy with the most money, then that is what the candidates (and party) will represent. It seems to me that they are doing an excellent job of that. If big money is what gets them into office, it's because we vote for big money. Waddaya know, the system works!
The law doesn't matter. It's the perception. The gov't operates by pure public relations. The people that you elect merely work in the PR department. You will never know to whom you're giving the real power. Unless, of course, you (en masse) really want to know. It's as easy as you want it to be.
There is NO excess!!!
You missed the point entirely. If there is a difference between what your employer tells you what you are getting paid and what you actually take home, then the employer is lying to you. What you take home is what you make. That's what you should negociate. Everything else is irrelevent. It costs the company more to employ you than what you get paid. Those details should be of no interest to you. Just stay focused on what is actually on the check. Let them deal with the accounting.
That's just nature in action, and like it or not, we're just another species of animal in this world, fighting for survival.
That has been obvious to me for a long time. It appears that's how you want it to stay. I would prefer that we progress away from that type of thinking. I'll take my chances with the next life in order to keep peace in this one. I don't care to spend my time always looking over my shoulder. I don't see the point of fighting to maintain an advantage over others...for what? To have a slave at my beck and call? Someone to shine my shoes? Clean my house? It takes quite a bit of force to acquire those services. Economic if not physical. I recognize that 'you and yours' have exactly the same rights as 'me and mine', no more no less. Your line of thinking is turning the planet into a prison yard.