I swear society is moving to the extreme right, there is no tolerance these days, don't go with mainstream belief? Then you're obviously a nutjob, a loser.
We're moving backwards, misogyny and racism all to often get a free pass, look at gamer-gate or Ellen Pao, look at the hatred of all Greek people because a few people didn't run the country well enough and austerity finished them off.
Apparently now if you don't believe the US gov'ts absurd conspiracy theory of how 9/11 went down then you're a crazy, never mind that the gov't story really doesn't hold water - not believing what the gov't says makes you a conspiracy theorist, and that means you're crazy!!
All prejudices are equally bad in my eyes, so why doesn't saying 'you're prejudiced' sound as bad as 'you're racist'? It should.
The reason most music sounds like shit is because the sound engineers compress the hell out of it, and balance it to make it sound louder. The streaming services can only stream what they're given.
To confuse matters there are two kinds of compression - there is the compression you use to save space - MP3 etc and there is volume boosting that is done before mastering to CD.
The effect of volume boosting is far far more deleterious upon sound quality than the effect of encoding some music to 128kb or more mp3.
And to those people who think they can tell the difference between a decent lame encoded 128kb mp3 and the rip it's made from, I would call you on that and ask you to ABX test your claim - ABX software is available for free for PC.
and potentially risked a fire by plugging an unknown device into an electrical socket.
^ Lame.
Disciplined for charging a phone? You employers are retards.
No good reason why parents shouldn't charge their phones.
You are getting pissy about 0.1c worth of electricity and a risk of fire so low it's not worth thinking about.
And I'm not talking tiny state schools, but large independent (private) schools where pissing off a parent costs you more money than you earn in a year if they pull their kids out. But still we don't let them do it.
You're a control freak and a really stupid one at that.
Lol, the comment is both utterly retarded and ignorant, Iran is not land-locked and there is no good reason why a land-locked country can't test missiles... perhaps the gp is getting missiles mixed up with nukes and thinks testing a nuke requires nuking a small island, IDK it's hard to mind-read a person without a brain.
As a cyclist I'd like for motor vehicles to all have black boxes and to collect data. But that data should only be accessible to the police in the event of a crime an accident involving the car.
Smart TVs that upload your viewing habits, phones that help themselves to your contacts and phone habits, cars that also want to track your every movement. 1984 is nothing compared to this.
a further indicator that the future of postal drone delivery may be an exclusive and expensive one.
Rubbish, are these postal drones going to be paid? Healthcare? Holidays?
Once they've got it worked out and the local sorting offices fully automated then a lot of postal people could easily lose their jobs. That doesn't sound like more expensive mail to me.
If you're a delivery driver then you should definitely be looking to change your career before drones and autonomous vehicles make you redundant.
I doubt that, I used to smoke, I could easily have lit a cigarette with my eyes closed. The cigarettes ends feel different, a lighter doesn't need sight to work and an ashtray is easy enough to use by touch.
By rejecting austerity and failing to implement reforms, you don't leave many choices
They didn't reject austerity, they had years of austerity which caused the economy to downwards spiral.
Austerity = taking money out of the economy - how can you expect the economy to do well and grow if you take money out of the system? Answer = you can't, you get what happened in Greece and the same has happened over and over again when the IMF has forced countries to wreck their economies just to pay back the debt.
IMF don't lend money out of the kindness of their hearts, IMF are heartless bastards who lend money to gain control of the country they are lending to, inevitably they want these countries to put their resources into the hands of conglomerates run by their mates. IMF don't give a flying fuck how many people starve because of their policies
The sooner autonomous cars take over the better, people crashing cars is causing the weight of cars to be fixed at very high levels.
If cars were all autonomous they could weigh 650Kg and safety would not be a concern because crashes would be so much fewer. Heavy vehicles could be restricted to motorways and speed restricted to 20mph when in cities.
In theory, it doesn't look like they have an actual working car and the '0-100 km/hr in 2.2 sec' is pure hypothesis, if they really had a car that could go this fast, the least I'd expect is a video showing such on their youtube channel.
A better example would be shower facilities. If you offered homeless people a shower, only had room for one communal facility so decided to limit it to just women, would that be sexist?
Of course it would be sexist, why are you even asking? The solution is simple and obvious - put a lock on the inside of the facility like most normal bathrooms.
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I swear society is moving to the extreme right, there is no tolerance these days, don't go with mainstream belief? Then you're obviously a nutjob, a loser.
We're moving backwards, misogyny and racism all to often get a free pass, look at gamer-gate or Ellen Pao, look at the hatred of all Greek people because a few people didn't run the country well enough and austerity finished them off.
Apparently now if you don't believe the US gov'ts absurd conspiracy theory of how 9/11 went down then you're a crazy, never mind that the gov't story really doesn't hold water - not believing what the gov't says makes you a conspiracy theorist, and that means you're crazy!!
All prejudices are equally bad in my eyes, so why doesn't saying 'you're prejudiced' sound as bad as 'you're racist'? It should.
To confuse matters there are two kinds of compression - there is the compression you use to save space - MP3 etc and there is volume boosting that is done before mastering to CD.
The effect of volume boosting is far far more deleterious upon sound quality than the effect of encoding some music to 128kb or more mp3.
And to those people who think they can tell the difference between a decent lame encoded 128kb mp3 and the rip it's made from, I would call you on that and ask you to ABX test your claim - ABX software is available for free for PC.
And their plugin check page still doesn't work for me.
And the page doesn't show a link to get flash.
I won't be making any amendments, the last times I amended incorrect info, Google switched straight back to the wrong info.
Why bother?
Prejudice & stereotyping right there (as bad as racism).
I'm quite happy for all cars to have dash-cams, forwards and backwards, in fact I like that to be mandatory.
That's some utter bullshit right there, you just pulled that straight from your arse.
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I doubt the numbers are hugely different where you are - care to link some evidence of what you said?
^ Lame.
Disciplined for charging a phone? You employers are retards.
No good reason why parents shouldn't charge their phones.
You are getting pissy about 0.1c worth of electricity and a risk of fire so low it's not worth thinking about.
You're a control freak and a really stupid one at that.
Top trolling there.
Lol, the comment is both utterly retarded and ignorant, Iran is not land-locked and there is no good reason why a land-locked country can't test missiles... perhaps the gp is getting missiles mixed up with nukes and thinks testing a nuke requires nuking a small island, IDK it's hard to mind-read a person without a brain.
+5 to that.
So many seem to ignore or are ignorant of this history. Or worse, think it's somehow ok.
As a cyclist I'd like for motor vehicles to all have black boxes and to collect data. But that data should only be accessible to the police in the event of a crime an accident involving the car.
Smart TVs that upload your viewing habits, phones that help themselves to your contacts and phone habits, cars that also want to track your every movement. 1984 is nothing compared to this.
Then you have little imagination.
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Eh? This seems like a great way to save rhinos, no rhino has to die or have it's horn cut off.
Honestly I don't understand, why?
Raise you one:
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And why would anyone bother selling real Rhino horn when they could just print one cheap and sell that instead.
And if the people selling the Rhino horns think they can fake them and still sell them then they obviously will - far more profit.
Rubbish, are these postal drones going to be paid? Healthcare? Holidays?
Once they've got it worked out and the local sorting offices fully automated then a lot of postal people could easily lose their jobs. That doesn't sound like more expensive mail to me.
If you're a delivery driver then you should definitely be looking to change your career before drones and autonomous vehicles make you redundant.
I doubt that, I used to smoke, I could easily have lit a cigarette with my eyes closed. The cigarettes ends feel different, a lighter doesn't need sight to work and an ashtray is easy enough to use by touch.
They didn't reject austerity, they had years of austerity which caused the economy to downwards spiral.
Austerity = taking money out of the economy - how can you expect the economy to do well and grow if you take money out of the system? Answer = you can't, you get what happened in Greece and the same has happened over and over again when the IMF has forced countries to wreck their economies just to pay back the debt.
IMF don't lend money out of the kindness of their hearts, IMF are heartless bastards who lend money to gain control of the country they are lending to, inevitably they want these countries to put their resources into the hands of conglomerates run by their mates. IMF don't give a flying fuck how many people starve because of their policies
Greece doesn't have a 'fed' / central bank, they are beholden to the ECB, IMF etc.
Er, are you talking about the US (ed snowden, nsa, guantanamo bay, man in prison whole life for shop-lifting as a teen) or China?
The sooner autonomous cars take over the better, people crashing cars is causing the weight of cars to be fixed at very high levels.
If cars were all autonomous they could weigh 650Kg and safety would not be a concern because crashes would be so much fewer. Heavy vehicles could be restricted to motorways and speed restricted to 20mph when in cities.
In theory, it doesn't look like they have an actual working car and the '0-100 km/hr in 2.2 sec' is pure hypothesis, if they really had a car that could go this fast, the least I'd expect is a video showing such on their youtube channel.
And you can't work out a solution to that?
Good, hopefully people will have less children overall. They should come up with lots of reasons for people not to have children.
Of course it would be sexist, why are you even asking? The solution is simple and obvious - put a lock on the inside of the facility like most normal bathrooms.