One of these things is not like the others...the issue with paté is not that it's "bad for you", it's that it is produced via amazing cruelty to animals.
how is it cruelty when the geese by and large like it? they voluntarily line up to have feed shoved into their gullets. they look forward to it. don't believe me? go to a farm where geese are raised for fois gras. properly done "forced feedings" (which is really a misnomer, as the animal isn't "forced to feed") don't injure the animals, and the greatly increased liver size that results doesn't hurt the animal: all it does is take advantage of a process introduced into geese and other birds by natural selection. i didn't realize that the humane society had become a bunch of melodramatic assholes like peta. i did, however, realize that a certain subset of the slashdot community was comprised of uninformed assholes who gobble up propaganda like the geese in question gobble up corn.
"If this is true, it would be the first time intel made anything better than amd"
hardly. the Pentium was better than the K5, the Pentium 2 was better than the K6 and K6-2, the Katmai Pentium 3 was better than the K6-3, the Coppermine Pentium 3 was better than the original Athlon, and the Northwood Pentium IV was better than the Athlon XP. remember that it is only very recently that AMD has come out on top, Intel generally made faster chips than AMD for the majority of their shared history.
You are just lucky that the Paris Model was the one that caught on during the Scholastic Period. If the Bologna Model had been adopted, the student would have grabbed you by the scruff of your neck and kicked your ass to the curb.
teflon is applied to bullets to cut down on lead dust at firing ranges. it has about as much effect on armor piercing ability as dipping the bullets in chicken blood.
while i find your overall post to be overall quite worthwhile, BM Luethke , i find the line about disbelief and and belief in a creator being equal despite evidence to be rather humorous.
if one is going to take a rational, scientific approach to analysing the material world, the default state must be skepticsm. there is no concrete evidence of a creator, so disbelief is the only rational position. while it is correct that the statement "there is no god" is no more valid than the statement "there is a god", the statement "i do not believe in a god due to the paucity of evidence" is more valid than the statement "i believe in a god despite the paucity of evidence". to say otherwise is to merely rationalize away cognitive dissonance. forgive me if i misinterpreted what you meant.
i was taking a rather simplistic approach in response to somebody who apparently has no knowledge of how the current Theory of Evolution works. i still stand by the statement that the Theory of Evolution has nothing to do with the absolute origin of life. as you said yourself, we hit a black wall when we go back far enough.
i wasn't aware there was a popular theory regarding life origins. i know there are several untested hypotheses. since these hypotheses often also talk about such things as historical global floods and demons, i personally doubt their scientific veracity.
what you call "Evolution" isn't about origins, it's simply the leading theory to explain the fact that life forms have changed and adapted over time. it is nothing to do with how life got here in the first place. ID proponents don't have fossil research publications for the same reason that circus clowns don't. personally, i think you should head down to your local library and pick up some introduction to biology books. Darwin's Ghost by Steve Jones is a good place to start, and it's a fun read to boot.
Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek where Picards ship gets caught in a time rift, and they see an older version of their own ship. Tasha goes off to fight and die with that crew.
it was the other way around, the Enterprise-C came through a time rift while defending the Klingon colony of Nerendra III from the Romulans. The Enterprise-C going through the rift altered the "real" present, and without the heroics of the Enterprise-C to bond the Federation with the Klingons, the Klingons fought a bloody war with Starfleet. The Tasha Yar of the alternate timeline stayed with the Enterprise-C when it was found out, and this alternate Tasha became the mother of the "real" Sela, the Romulan bitch. the episode was Yesterday's Enterprise, and i think it was one of the best TNG episodes aired.
tbh I think the reason I can tell is that all my CDs are ripped as lossless, whereas all my AACs are from other sources (origin mostly unknown). I know that means it isn't fair, but my point still stands.
your point doesn't stand. the AAC that you made are no better than the original files, and probably worse. rip an original CD with both lossless and 320 AAC and then try to do a blind ABX. i bet your results are different when some controls are added.
Nice setup by the way.
thanks! i'm a bit broke right now, but it was worth it. tuberolling is an extremely rewarding experience:)
what kind of headphones are you using? i have a set of Sony CD3000's being run out of a Single Power PPX3 w/solen 1 upgrade using a matched pair of NOS National 6CG7's for output and a Cryo RCA Cleartop 6FQ7 for gain and a quite nice Yamaha universal disk player or Airport Express. using this equipment, i can't tell the differnence between 320kbps AAC and Apple Lossless when they are converted to AIFF and burnt to a cd, or when played out of my Airport Express in their native file types. i've done as good of a double blind as possible, given my resources and my easy to bore friends, and i absolutely cannot tell any difference. i have pretty good ears.
the ELP turntable is very expensive and sounds amazing. if you are looking for neutral sound, in other words you aren't interested in the "analog glow" that traditional turntables give due to mechanical coloration, then the ELP makes high end turntables like those made by SOTA and Thorens, hell probably even Transrotor, sound quaint.
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Go back to Leningrad, Stalin. Don't you have a five year plan, or something, to do?
"If this is true, it would be the first time intel made anything better than amd" hardly. the Pentium was better than the K5, the Pentium 2 was better than the K6 and K6-2, the Katmai Pentium 3 was better than the K6-3, the Coppermine Pentium 3 was better than the original Athlon, and the Northwood Pentium IV was better than the Athlon XP. remember that it is only very recently that AMD has come out on top, Intel generally made faster chips than AMD for the majority of their shared history.
You are just lucky that the Paris Model was the one that caught on during the Scholastic Period. If the Bologna Model had been adopted, the student would have grabbed you by the scruff of your neck and kicked your ass to the curb.
even your idol, Iron Joe Stalin, took a cigarette break every once in a while.
Yeah, where are we going to live if you cause our 'brane to rot?
could he turn a flatbed scanner into an optical mouse?
How about teflon-coated bullets?
teflon is applied to bullets to cut down on lead dust at firing ranges. it has about as much effect on armor piercing ability as dipping the bullets in chicken blood.while i find your overall post to be overall quite worthwhile, BM Luethke , i find the line about disbelief and and belief in a creator being equal despite evidence to be rather humorous. if one is going to take a rational, scientific approach to analysing the material world, the default state must be skepticsm. there is no concrete evidence of a creator, so disbelief is the only rational position. while it is correct that the statement "there is no god" is no more valid than the statement "there is a god", the statement "i do not believe in a god due to the paucity of evidence" is more valid than the statement "i believe in a god despite the paucity of evidence". to say otherwise is to merely rationalize away cognitive dissonance. forgive me if i misinterpreted what you meant.
i was taking a rather simplistic approach in response to somebody who apparently has no knowledge of how the current Theory of Evolution works. i still stand by the statement that the Theory of Evolution has nothing to do with the absolute origin of life. as you said yourself, we hit a black wall when we go back far enough.
i wasn't aware there was a popular theory regarding life origins. i know there are several untested hypotheses. since these hypotheses often also talk about such things as historical global floods and demons, i personally doubt their scientific veracity.
what you call "Evolution" isn't about origins, it's simply the leading theory to explain the fact that life forms have changed and adapted over time. it is nothing to do with how life got here in the first place. ID proponents don't have fossil research publications for the same reason that circus clowns don't. personally, i think you should head down to your local library and pick up some introduction to biology books. Darwin's Ghost by Steve Jones is a good place to start, and it's a fun read to boot.
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maybe it's the fact that "discrete" is not spelled "discreet"?
tbh I think the reason I can tell is that all my CDs are ripped as lossless, whereas all my AACs are from other sources (origin mostly unknown). I know that means it isn't fair, but my point still stands.
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your point doesn't stand. the AAC that you made are no better than the original files, and probably worse. rip an original CD with both lossless and 320 AAC and then try to do a blind ABX. i bet your results are different when some controls are added.
Nice setup by the way.
thanks! i'm a bit broke right now, but it was worth it. tuberolling is an extremely rewarding experience
what kind of headphones are you using? i have a set of Sony CD3000's being run out of a Single Power PPX3 w/solen 1 upgrade using a matched pair of NOS National 6CG7's for output and a Cryo RCA Cleartop 6FQ7 for gain and a quite nice Yamaha universal disk player or Airport Express. using this equipment, i can't tell the differnence between 320kbps AAC and Apple Lossless when they are converted to AIFF and burnt to a cd, or when played out of my Airport Express in their native file types. i've done as good of a double blind as possible, given my resources and my easy to bore friends, and i absolutely cannot tell any difference. i have pretty good ears.
wrong. Chimpanzees hunt.
the ELP turntable is very expensive and sounds amazing. if you are looking for neutral sound, in other words you aren't interested in the "analog glow" that traditional turntables give due to mechanical coloration, then the ELP makes high end turntables like those made by SOTA and Thorens, hell probably even Transrotor, sound quaint.