yes an Apple Lisa, with an Mac mod chip, for the display. still in my attic.
Any offers?
Yes, actually, I'm very interested with a serious offer. We have no place to store our empty luggage, sleeping bags, old photo albums, old family films, boxes of framed photographs and diplomas, mothballed clothes, blankets and flags, a pair of upholstered chairs we're not using, boxes of Christmas ornaments, decorations, lights, and the artificial tree. How about $25 per month?
I've worked on a number of systems that people referred to as 'beowulf clusters,' but not a single one was actually running the Beowulf software.
I see... so that's not a car, it's an automobile!!
I think you pedanted yourself right out of making any sense. What you describe are indeed Beowulf clusters.
No particular piece of software defines a cluster as a Beowulf. Beowulf clusters normally run a Unix-like operating system, such as BSD, Linux, or Solaris, normally built from free and open source software. Commonly used parallel processing libraries include Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM). Both of these permit the programmer to divide a task among a group of networked computers, and collect the results of processing. Examples of MPI software include OpenMPI or MPICH. There are additional MPI implementations available.
Ironically, the bigger assholes here are Zuckerberg's attorneys, and they're being assholes to Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg doesn't need to sue anyone, nor does he need to track down the owners, nor does he need any fucking attorneys to acquire ownership of that land, and he doesn't even need to buy it.. All he needs to do is pay the back taxes on it, continue paying the taxes on it, and live there 20 years while improving the property, and ownership of the land passes to him via Hawaiian adverse possession laws.
Mr. Zuckerberg, your attorneys are fucking you. I hope you can enjoy it as much as everyone else is.
There is necessarily some overlap to these plagues
1) AOL (1990's Internet gateway confused with the actual Internet)
2) hotmail/msn
3) spam/malware
4) Penguinistas (from the advent of Linux until Linux became a stable and mature OS, c. 2004/6; subsequently, for the most part, it's all good, ignoring the systemd pimple)
4) Adobe Flash
5) poorly implemented Javascript (still continues, never ends)
6) Apple and the development and ubiquity of the iOS-dominated mobile web (this ruined nearly everything for mobile device power-users)
7) unrestrained web developers and site feature creep, KISS is replaced with incomprehensible complexity (slow steady march to WWW apocalypse)
WWW/Internet never needed any of these things. Some of them started out innocuously enough, and turned evil (like Flash), and some started out evil and turned to goodness (such as Linux and it's irrational popularity prior to become mature and stable).
Based upon this record it is the recommended decision of the administrative law judge that the substance 3, 4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine, also known as MDMA, should be placed in Schedule III.
Dated: MAY 22 1986
Francis L Young, Administrative Law Judge
I don't know the process here between FDA and DEA, which has which ultimate powers regarding final say on drug scheduling, but I have a feeling the drug is going to be rescheduled by the FDA (it is a "good," drug, a miracle drug, and the benefits to patients far outweighs the damage to those who abuse drugs), and then something fishy will happen at the DEA, and someone will overstep their authority, just like last time, and it will again be decided in court who gets their way, the nanny-staters and asshole control freaks or the doctors, scientists, and patients that need the drug.
Contrary to your small beliefs, President Obama has a valid point, whcih is that Edward Snowden hasn't been formally charged with any crime. Short of President Ford pardoning President Nixon prior to any formal charges being made (President Ford's attempt to get the country to move on), I know of no other similar pardon. The vast majority of pardons require a conviction, and time served, and five years of waiting after the time served before a pardon is considered.
There is a rather glaring contradictory issue with pardoning Snowden. A pardon is a forgiveness. While I personally admire him immensely for his sacrifice for the greater good, Mr. Snowden brazenly believes he has done nothing wrong, and believes he has the moral high ground. Yet he is asking for a pardon, he is asking for forgiveness. To paraphrase this contradiction, "I have done nothing wrong, so you should forgive me!"
IMO, Mr. Snowden never should have tried shopping for a pardon. He never should have commented on it. He never should have commented on anything he did. I hope he has better luck and makes wiser choices under the next administration.
The "nuclear is expensive" claim is only true because the anti-nuclear lobby has made it that way.
This is unequivocally false. Nuclear power has been the most expensive way to generate energy since its inception. The only possibilty and the only way nuclear power in practice has been economically feasable is more or less due to the quote in the summary:
"does better in a socialist economy than in a capitalist one, because nuclear energy prefers to have the public do the cleanup, do the insurance, cover all of the losses and it only wants the profits."
Breeder reactors are a great idea, but do nothing to mitigate the insane and massive cost already incurred, and will continue to cost, indefinitely. Clean up nuclear power's current problems first, pay off the massive subsidy-debt to governments (to the people that payed for it), solve the waste problem (the current one, as it is, without invoking the largely non-existent messiah breeder reactors), and then you can once again receive massive government subsidies for energy companies to build their breeder reactors, take all the profits, with none of the respinsibility.
Or, you know, spend that money on alternative energies and actaully get what you pay for without incurring insane massive debt and the possibility of any sort of nasty waste that lingers as a dnager for a millenia.
With that kind of attitude, you'll never pass any software engineering practical exam, and thus never become legally licensed to practice software engineering in the civil, academic, corporate or industrial world. On the other hand, programmers never needed such things, will need no stinking license to practice ever, won't need tuition debt, and certainly don't need a stinking framed degree with a fake and insulting euphamism for "programmer" printed in fake caligraphy. Real software engineers are actually spoiled rich and bored programmers trying to prove something. Programmers simply program, otherwise they are not programmers, but hacks (not to be confused with 'hackers').
In the last 15 years, we have seen the death of habeas corpus, the death of the Fourth Amendment, and the death of the Sixth Amendment (and of course the bastardization of the 2nd Amendment). Recently, there have been assaults to the 1st Amendment... and your post appears to be on the wrong side of that battle.
I don't think for long, now they have named Mr. Gates as a target, the world's richest man's (more or less) decadently well-funded security team is very likely now targeting them. I wonder how many ex-special forces work for him, and how many more will now be hired.
The FDA is making a mistake only in this regard. FDA seems to only care about nicotine regulation. Nicotine is pretty dangerous stuff, but the fact of the matter is it is simply not the most dangerous element of vaping. How many nicotine poisonings or deaths have there been since the industry's birth? Probably none. Yet FDA absolutely should be stepping in to hold manufacturers in line, but FDA need to see where the very real danger lies: lithium batteries. Lithium cells need understanding and care to be used safely. The one line warning that lithium cells may have, without any benefit of instruction or best practices, is clearly insufficient. It is kind of nuts what modders think they are clever doing with sub-ohm coils and 100W vapes... rest assured more children will be maimed, and apparently FDA is currently blinded to this fact because nicotine is a drug and all drugs are bad. For all the good intentions of the nanny state, it rolls right over the actual real dangers from which they should be protecting consumers.
It isn't too much of a surprise that the economics of producing biodiesel from used restaurant oil are shaky; and it also wouldn't be much of a surprise if on-site/near-site illicit dumping by individual operators looking to avoid paying for collection would be pretty common; but I am a little surprised that, if you are going to go to the trouble of collecting the stuff, it isn't economic to burn in less demanding applications.
Could be that their fuel tax has something to do with it:
With state gas taxes now up to 44.5 cents a gallon, adding in the current federal gas tax of 18.4 cents, the total per gallon gas tax in Washington is now 62.9 cents.
A free barrel of grease used for fuel now costs $18.69 in Washington State.
Why don't you just use the word "similar," if it is not precisely identical? Perhaps your point is thin. As much as the plot is like IV, it is like I and VI, because he plots of I and VI are indeed very similar to IV. In regards to similar plots, the original 6 have similar plots as well. Even smaller scenes can be compared to the larger acts, in similarity. Sometimes, the shots from one of the films is entirely duplicated in another. Lucas created his masterpiece like a musical piece. Do you complain that the 3rd movement of a musical piece is "basically identical" to its 1st movement?
Perhaps you believe you are insightful, but your observation is as shallow as it gets. Basically, your insight is worthless. Let me rephrase that. Your insight is worthless.
However I object to the term 'ontological confusions', some people's philosophies aren't founded on logic
I object to your obvious confusion about the terms you're using. Why would anyone believe ontology has anything whatsoever to do with logic??! FYI, the things religious people believe has everything to do with metaphysics. Otherwise, nice massive Strawman fallacy of a post there!! And then more ridiculous people mod parent insightful? I know you think you're deep, alright, but you should stay in the shallow end.
Look, 'software developers' are, to a large part, engineering software. They're making a machine, an engine designed for a specific purpose.
Someone at Subway engineered all those sandwhiches. Someone at the bar engineered all those drinks. A software engineer's engine, code execution, running on processors and memory is a loose metaphor for a literal engine. I argue that programmers are certainly engineers, metaphorically speaking. A parent, however, is an engineer in the literal sense, if you accept that a human body is a literal engine in that it converts power to motion, does Work as in W = F * d. Some code, I have no doubt, can do W=fd. Those programmers are literal engineers, but others are metaphorical.
Some type Bash commands, but never call it programming, and believe most who script would only describe it as such to one who never heard the term "scripting," because it is literally programming, but simpler and perhaps rudimentary compared to the big programming projects... there are other language examples. Many scripters are programming at the level of software engineering projects. But we all agree without ever raising a vote that scripters are not quite programmers, even though they absolutely are. Graphic Designers were once artists, and then there was WWW and suddenly page/site designers are developers.
The United States doesn't lock up its crazy people and doesn't provide a reasonable option for their mental health treatment.
Ah, it didn't take long to blame mental illness over lack of rational gun control laws. Turns out, however, that while 1% of the mentally ill are homicidally violent (just like in the general population), 100% of shootings are actually fully caused by gun owners. Why can't the NRA police its own instead of pointing fingers? Because gun owners are nuts? Not likely. Most are closer to being children than being nuts. Put down the deadly toys, children. Time to grow up.
What every bloodthirsty news consumer fails to see is that car emissions hardly matter, globally speaking, compared to other air pollution sources. One supertanker produces more emissions than 50 million cars. Shipping and energy production produces the vast majority of air pollution. VW was perhaps dishonest, but shrewd when you realize that US emissions regulations and checking on cars is bullshit, putting too much emphasis on a pollution source that is insignificant next to shipping, enegy, and the BIG POLLUTORS. This is a distraction. This is only going to serve to make people rich by devaluing VW stock temporarily, while at the same time allow the real polluters to go unniticed and unreported. And if the air seems stale, idiots will blame car manufacturers and traffic. Whatever this story is, it simply doesn't matter to our air and lungs, but we will exaggerate its importance anyway.
Science is not about great schisms where meanings and understandings are suddenly reversed from one generation to the next.
False. Science paradigms, for better or worse, remain in place for as long as it takes (Plato to Copernicus/Kepler, anyone?) for a paradigm shift to come along and pull the rug out from under the previous paradigm. This is how its always been. BTW, "modern physics" is always wrong... because its only a model, and NOT REALITY, and merely the best model we have to explain observations as close as we can. What science observes is reality, but the description and explaination is a model, a fictionional likeness of reality, but not reality itself. You're probably thinking of mathematics.
Clothing is among the fundamental elements of civilization. Clothes make the man -- always hated this, but seems true enough: dress affects behavior, behavior determines performance. It certainly doesn't seem fair that those among us with poor taste should be punished for it, but nearly everyone I've ever encountered is very quick to judge based on incredibly short and shallow impressions. If one desires success in corporate career, one will make themselves more attractive, less offensive, and embrace a level of vane pageantry. Yet most prefer to dress how they feel, or as an adjustment to their attractiveness to increase or decrease the level of their social engagement.
The reason guns kill people is because of a spring mechanism in guns, causing the hammer to fall, causing the primer to ignite, causing the projectile to....
The reason most music sounds like shit is because the sound engineers...
must obey the artist they are recording
FTFY
Though there are sound engineer unions, there has never been any movement within these groups to ruin music with dynamic nor bit compression. The trend of national music, known as the Loudness Wars, made possible by audio technology (not necessarily new or cutting edge, either) and those that competantly operate it and engineer audio, but only at the command of producers and artists.
IOW please stop blaming audio engineers, because its the same thing as blaming gun violence on springs
Once upon a time for a few decades, engineers perfected tracked and reproduced audio, perfected in the sense that, with intention and understanding of the underlying processes, the national product always had certain aural qualities such as separation and dynamism that worked with the artistic piece itself effectively making the audio reproduction science into a subtle or not so subtle artistic instrument that could be reasonably reproduced even on really crummy components.
Then artists got rich and decided they knew more about audio engineering than audio engineers.
There are some artists, of course, that took the time to actually learn engineering audio, just like there are writer-director-producer-actors in the film industry. But most recording artists have their one strong suit, and its in performance, composition, poetry and music, and not in visualizing the shape of the sound of how one instrument's single note at that particular time index pokes through the layered and spectrum overwhelming frequencies the other instrument happens to be filling. The artist with their technically untrained ear just says "yeah, but I can't hear the bass" or "you gotta turn my guitar up and my vocals down."
So please don't thank President Obama sarcastically and don't blame photographers for gimpy runway fashion models and what they're wearing... it was some artists with control-issues and a distinct lack of critical ear, and a commercial trend, that ruined recorded music; it certainly was not professional audio engineers.
. The US at large doesn't give a shit, and would on the balance prefer to not have their regular traffic/TV coverage messed with over a niche sport only played in the suburbs by children. I'm perhaps exaggerating
Not an exaggeration, but I have some OT points. There is a lot more money in World Cup Soccar than in, say, NFL American Football. Actually, that's an understatement. The coverage of NFL, the professional production ethics, the skill of the techs and producers, and the resulting broadcast makes World Cup look like what it is, really really shitty production. I can't tell you how many matches I've attempted to watch where it seems like the company producing the footage is using like maybe 3 cameras, and switches the audiences' view between them. What ever non-american production company gets that contract to produce the footage to televise soccar games is going to be very well compensated, and subsequently, very rich. Why can't they produce a broadcast that isn't painful to watch?
I submit that all it would take is for an American production team capable of covering NFL in the way we're all now accustomed to get the contract to cover the soccar games for the popularity of soccar in the US to increase. Actually, I think if some American film students got the contract, it would make the World Cup games 1000% more digestable to American audiences... and the international community would shit kittens at the increase in quality of the sports coverege.
Again, OT, or skew to the point of FIFA corruption, its obvious the corruption isn't merely at the top but extends to all business of the World Cup... otherwise, how could ONLY shitty foreign production companies land a contract to cover the richest sport in the world?
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yes an Apple Lisa, with an Mac mod chip, for the display. still in my attic. Any offers?
Yes, actually, I'm very interested with a serious offer. We have no place to store our empty luggage, sleeping bags, old photo albums, old family films, boxes of framed photographs and diplomas, mothballed clothes, blankets and flags, a pair of upholstered chairs we're not using, boxes of Christmas ornaments, decorations, lights, and the artificial tree. How about $25 per month?
I've worked on a number of systems that people referred to as 'beowulf clusters,' but not a single one was actually running the Beowulf software.
I see... so that's not a car, it's an automobile!!
I think you pedanted yourself right out of making any sense. What you describe are indeed Beowulf clusters.
Ironically, the bigger assholes here are Zuckerberg's attorneys, and they're being assholes to Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg doesn't need to sue anyone, nor does he need to track down the owners, nor does he need any fucking attorneys to acquire ownership of that land, and he doesn't even need to buy it.. All he needs to do is pay the back taxes on it, continue paying the taxes on it, and live there 20 years while improving the property, and ownership of the land passes to him via Hawaiian adverse possession laws.
Mr. Zuckerberg, your attorneys are fucking you. I hope you can enjoy it as much as everyone else is.
There is necessarily some overlap to these plagues
1) AOL (1990's Internet gateway confused with the actual Internet)
2) hotmail/msn
3) spam/malware
4) Penguinistas (from the advent of Linux until Linux became a stable and mature OS, c. 2004/6; subsequently, for the most part, it's all good, ignoring the systemd pimple)
4) Adobe Flash
5) poorly implemented Javascript (still continues, never ends)
6) Apple and the development and ubiquity of the iOS-dominated mobile web (this ruined nearly everything for mobile device power-users)
7) unrestrained web developers and site feature creep, KISS is replaced with incomprehensible complexity (slow steady march to WWW apocalypse)
WWW/Internet never needed any of these things. Some of them started out innocuously enough, and turned evil (like Flash), and some started out evil and turned to goodness (such as Linux and it's irrational popularity prior to become mature and stable).
What will be the next scourge of the Internet?
Here's the ruling
here is the story
I don't know the process here between FDA and DEA, which has which ultimate powers regarding final say on drug scheduling, but I have a feeling the drug is going to be rescheduled by the FDA (it is a "good," drug, a miracle drug, and the benefits to patients far outweighs the damage to those who abuse drugs), and then something fishy will happen at the DEA, and someone will overstep their authority, just like last time, and it will again be decided in court who gets their way, the nanny-staters and asshole control freaks or the doctors, scientists, and patients that need the drug.
Contrary to your small beliefs, President Obama has a valid point, whcih is that Edward Snowden hasn't been formally charged with any crime. Short of President Ford pardoning President Nixon prior to any formal charges being made (President Ford's attempt to get the country to move on), I know of no other similar pardon. The vast majority of pardons require a conviction, and time served, and five years of waiting after the time served before a pardon is considered.
There is a rather glaring contradictory issue with pardoning Snowden. A pardon is a forgiveness . While I personally admire him immensely for his sacrifice for the greater good, Mr. Snowden brazenly believes he has done nothing wrong, and believes he has the moral high ground. Yet he is asking for a pardon, he is asking for forgiveness. To paraphrase this contradiction, "I have done nothing wrong, so you should forgive me!"
IMO, Mr. Snowden never should have tried shopping for a pardon. He never should have commented on it. He never should have commented on anything he did. I hope he has better luck and makes wiser choices under the next administration.
The "nuclear is expensive" claim is only true because the anti-nuclear lobby has made it that way.
This is unequivocally false. Nuclear power has been the most expensive way to generate energy since its inception. The only possibilty and the only way nuclear power in practice has been economically feasable is more or less due to the quote in the summary:
Breeder reactors are a great idea, but do nothing to mitigate the insane and massive cost already incurred, and will continue to cost, indefinitely. Clean up nuclear power's current problems first, pay off the massive subsidy-debt to governments (to the people that payed for it), solve the waste problem (the current one, as it is, without invoking the largely non-existent messiah breeder reactors), and then you can once again receive massive government subsidies for energy companies to build their breeder reactors, take all the profits, with none of the respinsibility.
Or, you know, spend that money on alternative energies and actaully get what you pay for without incurring insane massive debt and the possibility of any sort of nasty waste that lingers as a dnager for a millenia.
With that kind of attitude, you'll never pass any software engineering practical exam, and thus never become legally licensed to practice software engineering in the civil, academic, corporate or industrial world. On the other hand, programmers never needed such things, will need no stinking license to practice ever, won't need tuition debt, and certainly don't need a stinking framed degree with a fake and insulting euphamism for "programmer" printed in fake caligraphy. Real software engineers are actually spoiled rich and bored programmers trying to prove something. Programmers simply program, otherwise they are not programmers, but hacks (not to be confused with 'hackers').
Apprently, Sega Saturn is also emulated with MESS, part of the hugely successful and popular MAME project.
In the last 15 years, we have seen the death of habeas corpus, the death of the Fourth Amendment, and the death of the Sixth Amendment (and of course the bastardization of the 2nd Amendment). Recently, there have been assaults to the 1st Amendment... and your post appears to be on the wrong side of that battle.
I don't think for long, now they have named Mr. Gates as a target, the world's richest man's (more or less) decadently well-funded security team is very likely now targeting them. I wonder how many ex-special forces work for him, and how many more will now be hired.
The FDA is making a mistake only in this regard. FDA seems to only care about nicotine regulation. Nicotine is pretty dangerous stuff, but the fact of the matter is it is simply not the most dangerous element of vaping. How many nicotine poisonings or deaths have there been since the industry's birth? Probably none. Yet FDA absolutely should be stepping in to hold manufacturers in line, but FDA need to see where the very real danger lies: lithium batteries. Lithium cells need understanding and care to be used safely. The one line warning that lithium cells may have, without any benefit of instruction or best practices, is clearly insufficient. It is kind of nuts what modders think they are clever doing with sub-ohm coils and 100W vapes... rest assured more children will be maimed, and apparently FDA is currently blinded to this fact because nicotine is a drug and all drugs are bad. For all the good intentions of the nanny state, it rolls right over the actual real dangers from which they should be protecting consumers.
Wasn't it Hillary using her own personal email server?
How else would you prepare for your MCSE? Experience is the best teacher, especially with the likes of XCHNG.
Which Godwin? The attorney? Or Frankenstein's grandfather?
It isn't too much of a surprise that the economics of producing biodiesel from used restaurant oil are shaky; and it also wouldn't be much of a surprise if on-site/near-site illicit dumping by individual operators looking to avoid paying for collection would be pretty common; but I am a little surprised that, if you are going to go to the trouble of collecting the stuff, it isn't economic to burn in less demanding applications.
Could be that their fuel tax has something to do with it:
A free barrel of grease used for fuel now costs $18.69 in Washington State.
basically identical
Why don't you just use the word "similar," if it is not precisely identical? Perhaps your point is thin. As much as the plot is like IV, it is like I and VI, because he plots of I and VI are indeed very similar to IV. In regards to similar plots, the original 6 have similar plots as well. Even smaller scenes can be compared to the larger acts, in similarity. Sometimes, the shots from one of the films is entirely duplicated in another. Lucas created his masterpiece like a musical piece. Do you complain that the 3rd movement of a musical piece is "basically identical" to its 1st movement?
Perhaps you believe you are insightful, but your observation is as shallow as it gets. Basically, your insight is worthless. Let me rephrase that. Your insight is worthless.
However I object to the term 'ontological confusions', some people's philosophies aren't founded on logic
I object to your obvious confusion about the terms you're using. Why would anyone believe ontology has anything whatsoever to do with logic??! FYI, the things religious people believe has everything to do with metaphysics. Otherwise, nice massive Strawman fallacy of a post there!! And then more ridiculous people mod parent insightful? I know you think you're deep, alright, but you should stay in the shallow end.
Look, 'software developers' are, to a large part, engineering software. They're making a machine, an engine designed for a specific purpose.
Someone at Subway engineered all those sandwhiches. Someone at the bar engineered all those drinks. A software engineer's engine, code execution, running on processors and memory is a loose metaphor for a literal engine. I argue that programmers are certainly engineers, metaphorically speaking. A parent, however, is an engineer in the literal sense, if you accept that a human body is a literal engine in that it converts power to motion, does W ork as in W = F * d . Some code, I have no doubt, can do W=fd. Those programmers are literal engineers, but others are metaphorical.
Some type Bash commands, but never call it programming, and believe most who script would only describe it as such to one who never heard the term "scripting," because it is literally programming, but simpler and perhaps rudimentary compared to the big programming projects... there are other language examples. Many scripters are programming at the level of software engineering projects. But we all agree without ever raising a vote that scripters are not quite programmers, even though they absolutely are. Graphic Designers were once artists, and then there was WWW and suddenly page/site designers are developers.
At the end of the day, it is protected speech.
The United States doesn't lock up its crazy people and doesn't provide a reasonable option for their mental health treatment.
Ah, it didn't take long to blame mental illness over lack of rational gun control laws. Turns out, however, that while 1% of the mentally ill are homicidally violent (just like in the general population), 100% of shootings are actually fully caused by gun owners. Why can't the NRA police its own instead of pointing fingers? Because gun owners are nuts? Not likely. Most are closer to being children than being nuts. Put down the deadly toys, children. Time to grow up.
What every bloodthirsty news consumer fails to see is that car emissions hardly matter, globally speaking, compared to other air pollution sources. One supertanker produces more emissions than 50 million cars. Shipping and energy production produces the vast majority of air pollution. VW was perhaps dishonest, but shrewd when you realize that US emissions regulations and checking on cars is bullshit, putting too much emphasis on a pollution source that is insignificant next to shipping, enegy, and the BIG POLLUTORS. This is a distraction. This is only going to serve to make people rich by devaluing VW stock temporarily, while at the same time allow the real polluters to go unniticed and unreported. And if the air seems stale, idiots will blame car manufacturers and traffic. Whatever this story is, it simply doesn't matter to our air and lungs, but we will exaggerate its importance anyway.
Science is not about great schisms where meanings and understandings are suddenly reversed from one generation to the next.
False. Science paradigms, for better or worse, remain in place for as long as it takes (Plato to Copernicus/Kepler, anyone?) for a paradigm shift to come along and pull the rug out from under the previous paradigm. This is how its always been. BTW, "modern physics" is always wrong... because its only a model, and NOT REALITY, and merely the best model we have to explain observations as close as we can. What science observes is reality, but the description and explaination is a model, a fictionional likeness of reality, but not reality itself. You're probably thinking of mathematics.
Clothing is among the fundamental elements of civilization. Clothes make the man -- always hated this, but seems true enough: dress affects behavior, behavior determines performance. It certainly doesn't seem fair that those among us with poor taste should be punished for it, but nearly everyone I've ever encountered is very quick to judge based on incredibly short and shallow impressions. If one desires success in corporate career, one will make themselves more attractive, less offensive, and embrace a level of vane pageantry. Yet most prefer to dress how they feel, or as an adjustment to their attractiveness to increase or decrease the level of their social engagement.
Note copyright, lower left quadrant. With these new images its surprisingly clear that Pluto's copyright predates Disney's.
The reason most music sounds like shit is because the sound engineers...
FTFY
Though there are sound engineer unions, there has never been any movement within these groups to ruin music with dynamic nor bit compression. The trend of national music, known as the Loudness Wars, made possible by audio technology (not necessarily new or cutting edge, either) and those that competantly operate it and engineer audio, but only at the command of producers and artists.
IOW please stop blaming audio engineers, because its the same thing as blaming gun violence on springs
Once upon a time for a few decades, engineers perfected tracked and reproduced audio, perfected in the sense that, with intention and understanding of the underlying processes, the national product always had certain aural qualities such as separation and dynamism that worked with the artistic piece itself effectively making the audio reproduction science into a subtle or not so subtle artistic instrument that could be reasonably reproduced even on really crummy components.
Then artists got rich and decided they knew more about audio engineering than audio engineers.
There are some artists, of course, that took the time to actually learn engineering audio, just like there are writer-director-producer-actors in the film industry. But most recording artists have their one strong suit, and its in performance, composition, poetry and music, and not in visualizing the shape of the sound of how one instrument's single note at that particular time index pokes through the layered and spectrum overwhelming frequencies the other instrument happens to be filling. The artist with their technically untrained ear just says "yeah, but I can't hear the bass" or "you gotta turn my guitar up and my vocals down."
So please don't thank President Obama sarcastically and don't blame photographers for gimpy runway fashion models and what they're wearing... it was some artists with control-issues and a distinct lack of critical ear , and a commercial trend, that ruined recorded music; it certainly was not professional audio engineers.
. The US at large doesn't give a shit, and would on the balance prefer to not have their regular traffic/TV coverage messed with over a niche sport only played in the suburbs by children. I'm perhaps exaggerating
Not an exaggeration, but I have some OT points. There is a lot more money in World Cup Soccar than in, say, NFL American Football. Actually, that's an understatement. The coverage of NFL, the professional production ethics, the skill of the techs and producers, and the resulting broadcast makes World Cup look like what it is, really really shitty production. I can't tell you how many matches I've attempted to watch where it seems like the company producing the footage is using like maybe 3 cameras, and switches the audiences' view between them. What ever non-american production company gets that contract to produce the footage to televise soccar games is going to be very well compensated, and subsequently, very rich. Why can't they produce a broadcast that isn't painful to watch?
I submit that all it would take is for an American production team capable of covering NFL in the way we're all now accustomed to get the contract to cover the soccar games for the popularity of soccar in the US to increase. Actually, I think if some American film students got the contract, it would make the World Cup games 1000% more digestable to American audiences... and the international community would shit kittens at the increase in quality of the sports coverege.
Again, OT, or skew to the point of FIFA corruption, its obvious the corruption isn't merely at the top but extends to all business of the World Cup... otherwise, how could ONLY shitty foreign production companies land a contract to cover the richest sport in the world?