>The fact that a regime that we knew executed millions through forced starvation was in control of that tech was quite scary.
I'm not sure what your problem is with what I wrote.
I was disagreeing with the parent's statement that the Bible-Belt is interested in science. It's not. It never was. Going to the Moon for them was about ideology, not science.
>There is no evidence that religious people in middle America are unwilling to pay for science or oppose the purchase and launch of weather satellites. Indeed, middle America happily paid for the Apollo moon program and took great pride in it
That was 50 years ago. And it wasn't about science, it was about "them godless communists that beat us to space first, but we'll beat them to the moon."
Get back to me when we're not spending billions on wars each month that we're losing in the long run.
Get back to me when there is an accounting for the 6 - some odd billion in *cash* we shipped off to Iraq (or was it Afghanistan? Who cares, same thing) that simply disappeared down the rat hole through simple theft.
No, she didn't get it right, and you didn't read what I wrote.
He only said what he said *after he was captured.* if you read the fucking *transcript* of what she *actually said* which I *pasted* up there which you *didn't read*, she made it sound like his sole purpose was to go and threaten the British soldiers.
>I don't know how it's in Canada, but here in Germany, recording someone without previously having his agreement, is still illegal, even when in public.
If I see you doing a crime in the US, Canada, Germany, wherever, and I have a camera, I'm going to record it, and fuck what you think or what the law says.
Because I'm going to skate since I'm on the right side of the spirit of the law. Nobody will prosecute.
You cannot cram for Northeast history. You simply can't.
"He who warned, uh, the ⦠the British that they werenâ(TM)t gonna be takinâ(TM) away our arms, uh, by ringinâ(TM) those bells and, um, by makinâ(TM) sure that as heâ(TM)s ridinâ(TM) his horse through town to send those warninâ(TM) shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free ⦠and we were gonna be armed."
Fucking read that. When you are confused at the end, read it again. Then read what I said in the previous message where I was *giving her the benefit of the doubt assuming she crammed for it.*
Then you will realize that she was talking utter nonsense and anyone making excuses for her is just stupid, and that includes anyone at NPR.
As someone living up here in the Northeast, when you come up here to lecture us about history (there are 391 years of it here), you'd better know your shit.
But no, she came up here, didn't know, tried to make some sort of point that I'm still trying to figure out, and is arrogant about it. And that's just recent history. Just trying to parse her word salad on a day to day basis must make any political aide or reporter go insane.
Yet she has aspirations to be President some day.
Stupid isn't bad, if you're not bull-headed. Arrogant isn't bad if you know your stuff. Stupid *and* arrogant? You really want that?
I guess i should have been more clear to label it as fiction by making it a high school reunion of "Communist Martyrs High" or "More Science High" and included some Firesign Theatre character names.
This reminds me so much of elementary school recess.
"I'll give you my snack if you eat a bug, Timmy" "No, I don't want to" "What are you a wuss? It's just a bug" (kids start chanting) "Eat a bug!" "Eat a bug!" "EAT A BUG!"
Timmy eats the bug.
Timmy is still known as "that kid that ate the bug" at the 50'th anniversary high school reunion.
That's not the only place it's been. I think it originated on 4chan/g/ but I can't be entirely sure. I believe it came into being during one of the many "mp3/320 vs FLAC" battles.
I have other stuff in my buffer. I assume you are familiar with jerryleecooper?
I have a PhD in Digital Music Conservation from the University of Florida. I have to stress that the phenomenon known as "digital dust" is the real problem regarding conservation of music, and any other type of digital file. Digital files are stored in digital filing cabinets called "directories" which are prone to "digital dust" - slight bit alterations that happen now or then. Now, admittedly, in its ideal, pristine condition, a piece of musical work encoded in FLAC format contains more information than the same piece encoded in MP3, however, as the FLAC file is bigger, it accumulates, in fact, MORE digital dust than the MP3 file. Now you might say that the density of dust is the same. That would be a naive view. Since MP3 files are smaller, they can be much more easily stacked together and held in "drawers" called archive files (Zip, Rar, Lha, etc.) ; in such a configuration, their surface-to-volume ratio is minimized. Thus, they accumulate LESS digital dust and thus decay at a much slower rate than FLACs. All this is well-known in academia, alas the ignorant hordes just think that because it's bigger, it must be better.
So over the past months there's been some discussion about the merits of lossy compression and the rotational velocidensity issue. I'm an audiophile myself and posses a vast collection of uncompressed audio files, but I do want to assure the casual low-bitrate users that their music library is quite safe.
Being an audio engineer for over 21 years, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. While rotational velocidensity is indeed responsible for some deterioration of an unanchored file, there's a simple way of preventing this. Better still, there have been some reported cases of damaged files repairing themselves, although marginally so (about 1.7 percent for the.ogg format).
The procedure is, although effective, rather unorthodox. Rotational velocidensity, as known only affects compressed files, i.e. files who's anchoring has been damaged during compression procedures. Simply mounting your hard disk upside down enables centripetal forces to cancel out the rotational ruptures in the disk. As I said, unorthodox, and mainstream manufactures will not approve as it hurts sales (less rotational velocidensity damage means a slighter chance of disk failure.)
I'd still go with uncompressed.wav myself, but there's nothing wrong with compressed formats like flac or mp3 when you treat your hardware right
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You mean like the Windows monoculture?
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Derp.
Because that's the only word that sums all this up.
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>The fact that a regime that we knew executed millions through forced starvation was in control of that tech was quite scary.
I'm not sure what your problem is with what I wrote.
I was disagreeing with the parent's statement that the Bible-Belt is interested in science. It's not. It never was. Going to the Moon for them was about ideology, not science.
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>There is no evidence that religious people in middle America are unwilling to pay for science or oppose the purchase and launch of weather satellites. Indeed, middle America happily paid for the Apollo moon program and took great pride in it
That was 50 years ago. And it wasn't about science, it was about "them godless communists that beat us to space first, but we'll beat them to the moon."
Context is everything.
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>Your Representatives are very interested in hearing from you.
No... no they're not.
They are interested in how much money they can get from their campaign "donors" to vote one way or the other.
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Ayup, that's the very thang.
The Cheney/Wolfowitz/Kristol/etc White House (you don't really believe Bush ran things, did you?) was planning to invade Iraq in 1998.
Go read the Open Letter to President Clinton on the PNAC website.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
Read the statement of principles
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm
Look who signed.
Why the entirety of the Bush administration is not being tried for war crimes at The Hague is beyond my comprehension.
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Those figures are over 10 years?
That's not even real money.
Get back to me when we're not spending billions on wars each month that we're losing in the long run.
Get back to me when there is an accounting for the 6 - some odd billion in *cash* we shipped off to Iraq (or was it Afghanistan? Who cares, same thing) that simply disappeared down the rat hole through simple theft.
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You know what, I'm resolving right now not to get into any more debates with Palin worshipers.
Feel free to click on the "relationship" button and change it to "foe" so you don't have to see my messages.
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>you know, the way that NPR did.
No, she didn't get it right, and you didn't read what I wrote.
He only said what he said *after he was captured.* if you read the fucking *transcript* of what she *actually said* which I *pasted* up there which you *didn't read*, she made it sound like his sole purpose was to go and threaten the British soldiers.
Derp.
http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.html
You can read Revere's own accounting here:
http://www.masshist.org/database/doc-viewer.php?item_id=99
Use the high-res view to read for yourself.
I read the NPR report and it was unfortunate how it got spun. Go back to Free Republic.
Fuck NPR. Fuck Allison. Allison is fucking wrong.
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>film a crime
>stalking little girls
Fuck you. Meet your new status.
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>I don't know how it's in Canada, but here in Germany, recording someone without previously having his agreement, is still illegal, even when in public.
If I see you doing a crime in the US, Canada, Germany, wherever, and I have a camera, I'm going to record it, and fuck what you think or what the law says.
Because I'm going to skate since I'm on the right side of the spirit of the law. Nobody will prosecute.
And you're going to go to jail.
Leck mich am Arsch!
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Goddamnit Slashdot.
When is this place going to adopt UTF?
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I didn't so much pay attention to what NPR or what anyone else said.
I saw the transcript and made my own deductions.
I wrote about this earlier.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2215710&cid=36356586
You cannot cram for Northeast history. You simply can't.
"He who warned, uh, the ⦠the British that they werenâ(TM)t gonna be takinâ(TM) away our arms, uh, by ringinâ(TM) those bells and, um, by makinâ(TM) sure that as heâ(TM)s ridinâ(TM) his horse through town to send those warninâ(TM) shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free ⦠and we were gonna be armed."
Fucking read that. When you are confused at the end, read it again. Then read what I said in the previous message where I was *giving her the benefit of the doubt assuming she crammed for it.*
Then you will realize that she was talking utter nonsense and anyone making excuses for her is just stupid, and that includes anyone at NPR.
I fucking live here.
Don't tell me my history.
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Again, pointing at a file is not the same thing as copying.
And modding me flamebait for my disagreeing with you is a chickenshit move.
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>but deliberately setting up vectors through which copyright could be infringed upon by others is just as bad as infringing oneself, IMO.
You're just one of those idiots that would have any crime punishable by beheading, because there's no such thing as proportion.
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Except, you know, that Osama's been declared dead by third parties that don't like the US.
Like the Taliban.
If he's not dead, Why is Zawahiri now in charge?
Yeah, just disregard international news like Al Jazeera.
Twit.
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>irrational
Speak for yourself.
As someone living up here in the Northeast, when you come up here to lecture us about history (there are 391 years of it here), you'd better know your shit.
But no, she came up here, didn't know, tried to make some sort of point that I'm still trying to figure out, and is arrogant about it. And that's just recent history. Just trying to parse her word salad on a day to day basis must make any political aide or reporter go insane.
Yet she has aspirations to be President some day.
Stupid isn't bad, if you're not bull-headed. Arrogant isn't bad if you know your stuff. Stupid *and* arrogant? You really want that?
The hatred is not irrational.
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>Where's the evidence that he was killed?
The butthurt Taliban announcing on Al Jazeera that he's dead.
It's like you conspiracy guys can't even do international news. Ever.
inb4 "Al Jazeera is just another face of VOA"
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We've had the birthers.
And now we have the deathers.
I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist, but there has to be a pathology in the DSM IV for this.
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I guess i should have been more clear to label it as fiction by making it a high school reunion of "Communist Martyrs High" or "More Science High" and included some Firesign Theatre character names.
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This reminds me so much of elementary school recess.
"I'll give you my snack if you eat a bug, Timmy"
"No, I don't want to"
"What are you a wuss? It's just a bug"
(kids start chanting)
"Eat a bug!"
"Eat a bug!"
"EAT A BUG!"
Timmy eats the bug.
Timmy is still known as "that kid that ate the bug" at the 50'th anniversary high school reunion.
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Congrats, you know how to google.
That's not the only place it's been. I think it originated on 4chan /g/ but I can't be entirely sure. I believe it came into being during one of the many "mp3/320 vs FLAC" battles.
I have other stuff in my buffer. I assume you are familiar with jerryleecooper?
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I wasn't sure how successful it was going to be.
I certainly did get some fish on that lure. :-D
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I have a PhD in Digital Music Conservation from the University of Florida. I have to stress that the phenomenon known as "digital dust" is the real problem regarding conservation of music, and any other type of digital file. Digital files are stored in digital filing cabinets called "directories" which are prone to "digital dust" - slight bit alterations that happen now or then. Now, admittedly, in its ideal, pristine condition, a piece of musical work encoded in FLAC format contains more information than the same piece encoded in MP3, however, as the FLAC file is bigger, it accumulates, in fact, MORE digital dust than the MP3 file. Now you might say that the density of dust is the same. That would be a naive view. Since MP3 files are smaller, they can be much more easily stacked together and held in "drawers" called archive files (Zip, Rar, Lha, etc.) ; in such a configuration, their surface-to-volume ratio is minimized. Thus, they accumulate LESS digital dust and thus decay at a much slower rate than FLACs. All this is well-known in academia, alas the ignorant hordes just think that because it's bigger, it must be better.
So over the past months there's been some discussion about the merits of lossy compression and the rotational velocidensity issue. I'm an audiophile myself and posses a vast collection of uncompressed audio files, but I do want to assure the casual low-bitrate users that their music library is quite safe.
Being an audio engineer for over 21 years, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. While rotational velocidensity is indeed responsible for some deterioration of an unanchored file, there's a simple way of preventing this. Better still, there have been some reported cases of damaged files repairing themselves, although marginally so (about 1.7 percent for the .ogg format).
The procedure is, although effective, rather unorthodox. Rotational velocidensity, as known only affects compressed files, i.e. files who's anchoring has been damaged during compression procedures. Simply mounting your hard disk upside down enables centripetal forces to cancel out the rotational ruptures in the disk. As I said, unorthodox, and mainstream manufactures will not approve as it hurts sales (less rotational velocidensity damage means a slighter chance of disk failure.)
I'd still go with uncompressed .wav myself, but there's nothing wrong with compressed formats like flac or mp3 when you treat your hardware right
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If you are in mtgox, it takes a day or two, and then you can't directly take it, it has to go to dwalla next, and that's another couple of days.
it's stupid.
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