Squiddie is going too light on you. Driving kills innocent bystanders. Even when drivers are using the car as designed, people get killed. If we are going to ban devices that kill innocent bystanders, the automobile (including buses) are first to go.
I would love to see that as well. The benefit of a trailer is that hookup would be dramatically simpler. Realistically both approaches would be desirable. I do think that a trailer would be easier to phase in, as it would give the impression of less commitment and thus the impression of less risk. Current EVs wouldn't need structural resdesigns. They would only need the connector and a tow hitch.
Give me an all electric that can charge while driving. Most days I don't drive more than 30 miles in a day. Once or twice a month, I drive more than 200. I would be very happy to drive an all electric most days and when I want to go farther, hook the little generator trailer to the back and plug it in. The extra bonus is that I wouldn't have to use fuel hauling the generator or 200+ mile batteries around every day. For those that drive 200+ miles even less than me, no doubt places like U-Haul and Hertz would quickly add vehicle generator trailers to their rental mix. It would be better for them than renting full vehicles, as there would be far less to be damaged and wear out. With standard connectors, you also wouldn't need 20 different models to service the 5 customers that will be renting at any one time.
I would much rather see electric cars that have a standard charger and can charge while driving. Yep. I said charge while driving. Let me have an electric car that I can plug into my home with PV on the roof for my day to day under 30 mile a day driving. then let me hook a small trailer with a generator to my car to do my occasional 200+ mile trips. Since it would just be a generator, I could get a trailer that used anything that could produce electricity. Gas, diesel, ethanol, propane, natural gas, hamsters, small children chained to the wheel of pain... You name it. It becomes an any-fuel vehicle.
She was sexually harassing the men. She was not complaining that why made a penis joke. She was complaining that she did not find hot enough to make a penis joke. The fact hat at the exact same event she made made at least one public penis joke herself shows that beyond a shadow of a doubt, the joke was not the problem.
Calling here behavior immature is letting her off too easy.
I am a bigger fan of convenience than quality with my media, so I certainly can't claim to be an audio snob. My hearing also isn't perfect. What I find is that the low quality speakers/headphones and low quality hearing makes the difference in bigger, not smaller. When I rip a CD using LAME to 192k mp3, there are plenty of albums where the vocals go from understandable to just noise.
Perhaps that has to do with my hearing seeming to be better in the high and low ranges than it is in the middle ranges. I assume this is the case because when I watch TV, I will frequently have to turn up the volume, or adjust the frequencies to be able to hear the actors talking over background music, or effects.
Exactly. Any discussions of file size is pointless. Compressed lossless audio files are are tiny compared to our storage capabilities. We might as well be asking whether 7z, Zip, or RAR is the best choice for compressing our text files.
The only time lossy compression makes sense anymore is when streaming over the internet to low bandwidth devices. Even then it doesn't always make sense.
Back to the original point, I think that your point shows why we should be keeping and distributing music in lossless formats. RAW is gigantic compared to jpg. Pictures also can be huge. Music on the other hand is tiny when compared to our storage methods now. TFS talks about some lossless music collectors having "Terabyte" sized collections. That means that their storage costs are a tiny fraction of the cost involved in collecting their music. A 3TB drive costs less than $150 at Costco. Portable TB drives are well under $100.
I have a relatively large collection of music with greater than 20k tracks. In flac, this is only about 400GB. The entire collection would easily fit on a 500GB portable drive. Those with huge collections would have no trouble putting the entire thing on a cheap 3TB drive.
While available services and software push us towards lossy audio, the only time we really should be using it is in last step streaming, and that is only in the rare instances that the bandwidth is too low to handle lossless streaming.
You are a misandrist. She did not feel that sexual jokes were offensive. The evidence is sitting on her own twitter page where she posted her own sexual jokes from the same event. She was offended by men. By their existence and unwillingness to bow down before her perceived superior gender. This is an ongoing problem, and I know that I am tired of hearing how my son should not have the same rights or future opportunities because someone he has never met treated someone else that he has never met badly. If she wants to be a hero, the fist step is not behaving exactly like the villains.
Only if she was not sexually harassing the men. That is right. She was sexually harassing the men. She did not complain because the joke was sexual in nature, as those kinds of jokes clearly don't offend her, as she was making sexual jokes at the same event. She made the complain because she didn't feel that "men" should be afforded the same rights as women, and she used her position in the media to harass these men.
A draft is not going to push the burden of war on to the wealthy. Just like when there was a draft before, the wealthy will just fit in the "exceptions" category. Whether that is because they can afford college, or they can have one of their cronies arrange for their kid to get a states side posting.
Yes, it is. Do you not use your credit card to buy gas? Do you not use it to pay for dinner when you go out? 99% of the people that you give your credit card to are random people. If your card gets stolen, you report it as stolen, switch to the backup card that you keep for just such situations, and have the credit card company send you a new card that becomes the new backup card.
Sometimes those rules are "don't try to go home". My son has two friends who are currently being held in custody by the state of Illinois with no charges against them. The state is trying to "reeducate" them. They are being told that they will continue to be drugged, and continue to have blood drawn (AKA getting stuck with needles) to make sure they are on drugs until they give up their hope to go home. This has been going on for 8 months. While the judge has signed off on the imprisonment, drugging, and torture, he thankfully cracked and refused to authorize the state's request to transfer the boys to an "undisclosed location" for further treatment.
My son has two friends (10 and 12 years old) who are currently being held by the the state of Illinois without charges. The state of Illinois has been drugging and torturing them. The state lawyer who was "representing them" literally tried to get the court to "transfer them to an undisclosed facility". The US is most definitely not clean when it comes to human rights violations.
I have done both kinds of work. For deliverable contracts, I charge ~3X as much as I estimate it will take, and make the requirement that I have complete control of the environment for the deliverable. It only rarely taken, which is good because when you charge by the deliverable, you have to be a total hard ass about the spec changes, and if it isn't in the spec, I get to choose how it works. This tends to make both me and the client less happy with the outcome.
What kind of car are you driving? I have a Prius and it most certainly doesn't easily get 50mpg. The only car I have ever had that did 50mpg was a Geo Metro, but they don't make those anymore.
A lot of businesses already hold Summer/Winter hours that are different from each other. They also have a tendency to change their hours depending on the day of the week.
It is pretty common. It is also pretty common to buy a $15 thermostat that automatically changes the temperatures multiple times a day. Given how cheap programmable thermostats are now, non-programmable thermostats just don't make sense anymore.
The problem is that the way we track time now really is broken. Way too many conversations are had over and over again trying to figure out what 3:00pm is being talked about. People show up late for work when the clocks change. Others show up early. In both cases people end up sitting around waiting for other people so that they can continue on with their day. How many lifetimes are lost every day to our broken time system. Sure we are not taking all the life from one individual, we are just sucking a little each away from of millions.
I'm not sure if I am missing your sarcasm, or if you really don't understand why that post is ridiculous. If you are being sarcastic, bravo for very clearly articulating the kind of thinking that makes so many things in the world are screwed up.
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Squiddie is going too light on you. Driving kills innocent bystanders. Even when drivers are using the car as designed, people get killed. If we are going to ban devices that kill innocent bystanders, the automobile (including buses) are first to go.
I would love to see that as well. The benefit of a trailer is that hookup would be dramatically simpler. Realistically both approaches would be desirable. I do think that a trailer would be easier to phase in, as it would give the impression of less commitment and thus the impression of less risk. Current EVs wouldn't need structural resdesigns. They would only need the connector and a tow hitch.
Give me an all electric that can charge while driving. Most days I don't drive more than 30 miles in a day. Once or twice a month, I drive more than 200. I would be very happy to drive an all electric most days and when I want to go farther, hook the little generator trailer to the back and plug it in. The extra bonus is that I wouldn't have to use fuel hauling the generator or 200+ mile batteries around every day. For those that drive 200+ miles even less than me, no doubt places like U-Haul and Hertz would quickly add vehicle generator trailers to their rental mix. It would be better for them than renting full vehicles, as there would be far less to be damaged and wear out. With standard connectors, you also wouldn't need 20 different models to service the 5 customers that will be renting at any one time.
I would much rather see electric cars that have a standard charger and can charge while driving. Yep. I said charge while driving. Let me have an electric car that I can plug into my home with PV on the roof for my day to day under 30 mile a day driving. then let me hook a small trailer with a generator to my car to do my occasional 200+ mile trips. Since it would just be a generator, I could get a trailer that used anything that could produce electricity. Gas, diesel, ethanol, propane, natural gas, hamsters, small children chained to the wheel of pain... You name it. It becomes an any-fuel vehicle.
She was sexually harassing the men. She was not complaining that why made a penis joke. She was complaining that she did not find hot enough to make a penis joke. The fact hat at the exact same event she made made at least one public penis joke herself shows that beyond a shadow of a doubt, the joke was not the problem.
Calling here behavior immature is letting her off too easy.
Most people won't have to worry about it. If they did, the services wouldn't have been shut down and they wouldn't have to worry about it.
This is why what what we buy should be lossless.
"If you are hearing a differnce, it's because you ahve a hearing defect."
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I am a bigger fan of convenience than quality with my media, so I certainly can't claim to be an audio snob. My hearing also isn't perfect. What I find is that the low quality speakers/headphones and low quality hearing makes the difference in bigger, not smaller. When I rip a CD using LAME to 192k mp3, there are plenty of albums where the vocals go from understandable to just noise.
Perhaps that has to do with my hearing seeming to be better in the high and low ranges than it is in the middle ranges. I assume this is the case because when I watch TV, I will frequently have to turn up the volume, or adjust the frequencies to be able to hear the actors talking over background music, or effects.
Exactly. Any discussions of file size is pointless. Compressed lossless audio files are are tiny compared to our storage capabilities. We might as well be asking whether 7z, Zip, or RAR is the best choice for compressing our text files.
The only time lossy compression makes sense anymore is when streaming over the internet to low bandwidth devices. Even then it doesn't always make sense.
Back to the original point, I think that your point shows why we should be keeping and distributing music in lossless formats. RAW is gigantic compared to jpg. Pictures also can be huge. Music on the other hand is tiny when compared to our storage methods now. TFS talks about some lossless music collectors having "Terabyte" sized collections. That means that their storage costs are a tiny fraction of the cost involved in collecting their music. A 3TB drive costs less than $150 at Costco. Portable TB drives are well under $100.
I have a relatively large collection of music with greater than 20k tracks. In flac, this is only about 400GB. The entire collection would easily fit on a 500GB portable drive. Those with huge collections would have no trouble putting the entire thing on a cheap 3TB drive.
While available services and software push us towards lossy audio, the only time we really should be using it is in last step streaming, and that is only in the rare instances that the bandwidth is too low to handle lossless streaming.
You are a misandrist. She did not feel that sexual jokes were offensive. The evidence is sitting on her own twitter page where she posted her own sexual jokes from the same event. She was offended by men. By their existence and unwillingness to bow down before her perceived superior gender. This is an ongoing problem, and I know that I am tired of hearing how my son should not have the same rights or future opportunities because someone he has never met treated someone else that he has never met badly. If she wants to be a hero, the fist step is not behaving exactly like the villains.
Only if she was not sexually harassing the men. That is right. She was sexually harassing the men. She did not complain because the joke was sexual in nature, as those kinds of jokes clearly don't offend her, as she was making sexual jokes at the same event. She made the complain because she didn't feel that "men" should be afforded the same rights as women, and she used her position in the media to harass these men.
A draft is not going to push the burden of war on to the wealthy. Just like when there was a draft before, the wealthy will just fit in the "exceptions" category. Whether that is because they can afford college, or they can have one of their cronies arrange for their kid to get a states side posting.
You are fooling yourself. That minimum wage employee you had be your credit card to is not heavily invested financially.
Yes, it is. Do you not use your credit card to buy gas? Do you not use it to pay for dinner when you go out? 99% of the people that you give your credit card to are random people. If your card gets stolen, you report it as stolen, switch to the backup card that you keep for just such situations, and have the credit card company send you a new card that becomes the new backup card.
Sometimes those rules are "don't try to go home". My son has two friends who are currently being held in custody by the state of Illinois with no charges against them. The state is trying to "reeducate" them. They are being told that they will continue to be drugged, and continue to have blood drawn (AKA getting stuck with needles) to make sure they are on drugs until they give up their hope to go home. This has been going on for 8 months. While the judge has signed off on the imprisonment, drugging, and torture, he thankfully cracked and refused to authorize the state's request to transfer the boys to an "undisclosed location" for further treatment.
My son has two friends (10 and 12 years old) who are currently being held by the the state of Illinois without charges. The state of Illinois has been drugging and torturing them. The state lawyer who was "representing them" literally tried to get the court to "transfer them to an undisclosed facility". The US is most definitely not clean when it comes to human rights violations.
I have done both kinds of work. For deliverable contracts, I charge ~3X as much as I estimate it will take, and make the requirement that I have complete control of the environment for the deliverable. It only rarely taken, which is good because when you charge by the deliverable, you have to be a total hard ass about the spec changes, and if it isn't in the spec, I get to choose how it works. This tends to make both me and the client less happy with the outcome.
What kind of car are you driving? I have a Prius and it most certainly doesn't easily get 50mpg. The only car I have ever had that did 50mpg was a Geo Metro, but they don't make those anymore.
A lot of businesses already hold Summer/Winter hours that are different from each other. They also have a tendency to change their hours depending on the day of the week.
It is pretty common. It is also pretty common to buy a $15 thermostat that automatically changes the temperatures multiple times a day. Given how cheap programmable thermostats are now, non-programmable thermostats just don't make sense anymore.
The problem is that the way we track time now really is broken. Way too many conversations are had over and over again trying to figure out what 3:00pm is being talked about. People show up late for work when the clocks change. Others show up early. In both cases people end up sitting around waiting for other people so that they can continue on with their day. How many lifetimes are lost every day to our broken time system. Sure we are not taking all the life from one individual, we are just sucking a little each away from of millions.
I'm not sure if I am missing your sarcasm, or if you really don't understand why that post is ridiculous. If you are being sarcastic, bravo for very clearly articulating the kind of thinking that makes so many things in the world are screwed up.
There is an extra step of stupidity to DST. A lot of businesses change their hours during the summer on top of changing the clocks.