Well, guess what. I'm not rich, so I always pay my taxes, so everybody can have schools, hospitals, roads, potable water, sewage, firefighters, police, etc.
The filthy rich bastards in my country transfer their money (illegally, of course) to fiscal havens to avoid having to pay taxes like the rest of us. If you think this is fair either you are filthy rich yourself, or crazy.
Fiscal havens are simply an abomination. This should be so obvious to the common man that I can't understand how there's people here defending the rich that avoid paying taxes while the rest of us have to cough it up and shut up. Tax the motherfuckers!
When you say it takes a lot of hard work from the producers and technicians to make it sound dirty and spontaneous - well, that just doesn't seem right. Why not just let it be dirty and spontaneous to begin with and not worry about small mistakes?
Well, I didn't mean the engineers and producers will make it sound dirty and spontaneous. What I meant is that the producing team has hard work to capture the band in a "dirty and spontaneous" way and make a recording that meets the modern demands for sound quality and clarity.
The White Stripes clearly have overdubs. I listen to more than one guitar in the songs. They may record "live" drums and rhythm guitar, but I suspect that at least the voices and one additional guitar track are recorded separately.
Stevie Wonder produces and plays most of the instruments in his own records. Lenny Kravitz works this way, too. And we're not talking about a small 3-piece band, these guys play a lot of different instruments!
Been there, done that. Recording a band without multitrack is a nightmare (call it direct take). The slightest mistake that any musician may make, and there will be many, will force to re-record everything again. Small live mistakes are acceptable, in a record, they're not.
Even worse, you may record a song with the perfect groove because the band is full of feeling, and it's so perfect it hurts. But the vocalist got one note wrong. Then you stop and start over again and the groove is gone, because of a very subtle feeling of discomfort in the musicians. Maybe they're fed up with all the takes, etc. It's a lot easier to record multitracked and then ask the vocalist to correct only that note. Then you can use beautiful, great recording you couldn't repeat if you tried.
If you have a shitload of money you can simply hire the best musicians in the world and spend lots and lots of studio time to get the direct recording just perfect. But that is not viable for the most situations.
Multitracking is not only about error-correction. It's also about processing each instrument differently and keep the balance. A vocal phrase may be too loud and muffle the band, just drop the volume a little on that part or compress the vocal track. If the guitar solo is not standing out of the mix, equalise only that segment and raise the guitar track level only for the solo, etc. Also, you need to space the instruments across the whole stereo space and equalise them so they don't clutter together.
Great jazz recordings were performed direct in the studio. But that's collective improvisation, it depends heavily in the group dynamics. You can't record a jazz band instrument by instrument, it won't sound right. You can listen to "Kind Of Blue" of Miles Davis. There are small imperfections perfectly audible throughout the whole record. But it's an irrepeatable, beautiful piece of music. Would you throw it away because one sax spilled into the other sax's microphone or you can hear the musicians whisper in the studio? But we're talking about the best of the best musicians possible. And even jazz recordings are multitracked anyway, because the tracks need to be at the very least individually panned, equalised and compressed.
Don't get me wrong, I hate over-produced music. I think the role of production is to serve the music, not the other way around. I like recordings that sound a bit dirty and spontaneous, but you'd be surprised to know the amount of hard work the producer and technicians have to make it sound that way.
Microsoft is a multinational, it has employees and shareholders all around the world. The shareholders don't give a fuck about the USA or any other country.
The 511-ft-high Zipingpu dam holds 315 million tonnes of water and lies just 550 yards from the fault line
China (and by the way the rest of the world except USA, Burma and Liberia) uses the metric system. Your numbers sound like chinese to me and most of the world population.
You write that like it's easy. Righ-wing people tend to think in individual terms and fail to see the society as a whole.
YOU may not resort to crime easily, but take 100 people, subject them to poverty and you will find that a percentage of them turned to crime. It's not that their "evil", or some bullshit like that. If you don't want crime, you can't just expect everyone to be "good" or "smart" like you. Just avoid the conditions that generate it.
It's the same with unwanted children. It's a pretty well known fact that poor people have a tendency to have more children. You don't even need to go to Africa. It happens right here in my 1st World country.
People with less wealth (therefore education) tend to have less control over their own life and accept everything as a fatality. That includes not preventing pregnancy, not doing abortions and not taking care of their children properly. If you compare them to yourself you may say they're dumb. But don't expect people to be like you. In social terms, a percentage of people will react to the circumstances like this. Period.
Also, do you think that in Africa people can buy condoms or pills like you do in your comfortable little town? Or do you think they have sex education at school? Or even attend school at all? Do you think women can just say "no", like in our shining, comfortable countries?
Not by any committee of busybodies trying to save the world.
What if it is a committee of busybodies trying to make a million?
Do you think the pollutant industries we have just now will let anyone do ANYTHING to solve the energy crisis if public powers don't step in? Hell, they're sitting on a resource that's ESSENTIAL to all human activities, and it's growing thinner everyday, which means they can sell it for any price they want in the near future.
Alternative sources of energy available to everyone is their worse nightmare. They will do anything to avoid them, like buying-out all technological breakthrough patents, buying governments, causing wars (they did all this, and will do more) to keep the status quo.
Your laissez-faire utopias put us all in an economical crisis with consequences not yet predictable. I haven't seen any of the prophecies that you free-market fundamentalists are announcing for decades come true. You had your chance. You screwed up badly. Reevaluate your ideals.
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Well, guess what. I'm not rich, so I always pay my taxes, so everybody can have schools, hospitals, roads, potable water, sewage, firefighters, police, etc.
The filthy rich bastards in my country transfer their money (illegally, of course) to fiscal havens to avoid having to pay taxes like the rest of us. If you think this is fair either you are filthy rich yourself, or crazy.
Fiscal havens are simply an abomination. This should be so obvious to the common man that I can't understand how there's people here defending the rich that avoid paying taxes while the rest of us have to cough it up and shut up. Tax the motherfuckers!
Windows Security and On-line Training Courses?
Chinese Democracy and On-line Training Courses?
Christian Science and On-line Training Courses?
Market Self-regulation and On-line Training Courses?
Safe DRM and On-line Training Courses?
It's called "viande de cochon" en français.
Except for the name, it's the same shit everywhere.
Runs for three hours at 3 mph (5 Km/h) on internal batteries; max speed is 7 mph (11 Km/h).
When you say it takes a lot of hard work from the producers and technicians to make it sound dirty and spontaneous - well, that just doesn't seem right. Why not just let it be dirty and spontaneous to begin with and not worry about small mistakes?
Well, I didn't mean the engineers and producers will make it sound dirty and spontaneous. What I meant is that the producing team has hard work to capture the band in a "dirty and spontaneous" way and make a recording that meets the modern demands for sound quality and clarity.
The White Stripes clearly have overdubs. I listen to more than one guitar in the songs. They may record "live" drums and rhythm guitar, but I suspect that at least the voices and one additional guitar track are recorded separately.
In my language we call it "take directo", which translates literally to "direct take". I didn't know the exact term in English.
Stevie Wonder produces and plays most of the instruments in his own records. Lenny Kravitz works this way, too. And we're not talking about a small 3-piece band, these guys play a lot of different instruments!
Been there, done that. Recording a band without multitrack is a nightmare (call it direct take). The slightest mistake that any musician may make, and there will be many, will force to re-record everything again. Small live mistakes are acceptable, in a record, they're not.
Even worse, you may record a song with the perfect groove because the band is full of feeling, and it's so perfect it hurts. But the vocalist got one note wrong. Then you stop and start over again and the groove is gone, because of a very subtle feeling of discomfort in the musicians. Maybe they're fed up with all the takes, etc. It's a lot easier to record multitracked and then ask the vocalist to correct only that note. Then you can use beautiful, great recording you couldn't repeat if you tried.
If you have a shitload of money you can simply hire the best musicians in the world and spend lots and lots of studio time to get the direct recording just perfect. But that is not viable for the most situations.
Multitracking is not only about error-correction. It's also about processing each instrument differently and keep the balance. A vocal phrase may be too loud and muffle the band, just drop the volume a little on that part or compress the vocal track. If the guitar solo is not standing out of the mix, equalise only that segment and raise the guitar track level only for the solo, etc. Also, you need to space the instruments across the whole stereo space and equalise them so they don't clutter together.
Great jazz recordings were performed direct in the studio. But that's collective improvisation, it depends heavily in the group dynamics. You can't record a jazz band instrument by instrument, it won't sound right. You can listen to "Kind Of Blue" of Miles Davis. There are small imperfections perfectly audible throughout the whole record. But it's an irrepeatable, beautiful piece of music. Would you throw it away because one sax spilled into the other sax's microphone or you can hear the musicians whisper in the studio? But we're talking about the best of the best musicians possible. And even jazz recordings are multitracked anyway, because the tracks need to be at the very least individually panned, equalised and compressed.
Don't get me wrong, I hate over-produced music. I think the role of production is to serve the music, not the other way around. I like recordings that sound a bit dirty and spontaneous, but you'd be surprised to know the amount of hard work the producer and technicians have to make it sound that way.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?
Who needs open source when you have MUMPS?
Money has no homeland.
Microsoft is a multinational, it has employees and shareholders all around the world. The shareholders don't give a fuck about the USA or any other country.
120 millions? Wikipedia says it's 196 millions.
Abraços de Portugal, irmão. ;-)
You should go to Portugal or Italy.
I guess they do it ilegally. Pirating Windows is less illegal than the embargo, anyway.
That one already exists in my country, Portugal. It's distributed by our local Communist Party.
The 511-ft-high Zipingpu dam holds 315 million tonnes of water and lies just 550 yards from the fault line
China (and by the way the rest of the world except USA, Burma and Liberia) uses the metric system. Your numbers sound like chinese to me and most of the world population.
And the encryption key is standard also, it's:
f81ce859f77fa8a773d66d538ba7ad3daa1185d8
I like ads in games, but only if I can shoot them.
When did I write that doing abortions is the same as taking care of children? You need to get back to your Logic101 classes.
I was talking about energy industries.
You really think we'll be able to continue to produce food for 12 billion in 20 years?
There, fixed it fo ya.
You write that like it's easy. Righ-wing people tend to think in individual terms and fail to see the society as a whole.
YOU may not resort to crime easily, but take 100 people, subject them to poverty and you will find that a percentage of them turned to crime. It's not that their "evil", or some bullshit like that. If you don't want crime, you can't just expect everyone to be "good" or "smart" like you. Just avoid the conditions that generate it.
It's the same with unwanted children. It's a pretty well known fact that poor people have a tendency to have more children. You don't even need to go to Africa. It happens right here in my 1st World country.
People with less wealth (therefore education) tend to have less control over their own life and accept everything as a fatality. That includes not preventing pregnancy, not doing abortions and not taking care of their children properly. If you compare them to yourself you may say they're dumb. But don't expect people to be like you. In social terms, a percentage of people will react to the circumstances like this. Period.
Also, do you think that in Africa people can buy condoms or pills like you do in your comfortable little town? Or do you think they have sex education at school? Or even attend school at all? Do you think women can just say "no", like in our shining, comfortable countries?
Not by any committee of busybodies trying to save the world.
What if it is a committee of busybodies trying to make a million?
Do you think the pollutant industries we have just now will let anyone do ANYTHING to solve the energy crisis if public powers don't step in? Hell, they're sitting on a resource that's ESSENTIAL to all human activities, and it's growing thinner everyday, which means they can sell it for any price they want in the near future.
Alternative sources of energy available to everyone is their worse nightmare. They will do anything to avoid them, like buying-out all technological breakthrough patents, buying governments, causing wars (they did all this, and will do more) to keep the status quo.
Your laissez-faire utopias put us all in an economical crisis with consequences not yet predictable. I haven't seen any of the prophecies that you free-market fundamentalists are announcing for decades come true. You had your chance. You screwed up badly. Reevaluate your ideals.
Ah, I love the smell of Capitalism in the morning!
Espinosa and Spinoza are the same person. The first spelling is Portuguese, the second is international.