I don't know about bullying a guy that had spent a couple hundred hours learning from a fencing instructor... light saber or other wise he could probably grab a broom stick and do some damage.
We have footage of actual lightsaber duellists, and I'm not sure the bullies are worried.
Isn't a big part of this, the fact that real time response basically doesn't exist on a modern PC OS?
There is absolutely no difference in latency, or "real time response" between a Windows PC and Mac. You have to dump some unnecessary processes and background shit, but you have to do that with a Mac, too. You really don't want your OS telling you that there are 5 updates available in the middle of a set or recording session.
There hasn't been a technical reason to use Mac over PC for pro audio for a long time. The last thing that was keeping me with Macs was the Logic DAW, which is useful for certain things that are clumsy in other DAWs, like Pro-Tools, etc., but now the other DAWs have caught up.
I can do 40 pushups if I'm absolutely required to (I just tried after seeing this article), but I wasn't at all happy about doing them. In fact, I had to quickly drink a pint and a shot to recover. Does anyone know if you have to be able to do 40 pushups cheerfully to be healthy?
However, I can do the plank for 2 minutes without complaining. Especially after a pint and a shot. I actually think the plank is overall a healthier exercise than pushups, unless you're looking to grow big bodybuilder tits.
In case you don't know how to do a plank, here is a YouTube video of a fitness bro demonstrating a plank. If you're interested in learning how to drink a pint and a shot, you can meet me at the pub and I will teach you as long as you're buying.
I don't know, just about every DJs I have seen (in person and in pictures) have a MacBook proudly exposed on stage.
Yes, as I said, the EDM crowd still show off their MacBooks like gold chains on a rapper. But if you keep an eye out for the working DJs, you'll see Windows machines. And in the professional recording/production world, Windows machines have been taking over.
It's a big change. I cut my teeth using Macs for music production. The advantages have been diminishing and Windows advantages have been increasing. I used to buy a new Mac Pro every other year for production, but that stopped five years ago and now the Mac version of my preferred DAW is markedly inferior to the Windows version.
Pro audio users have been abandoning the Apple platforms for years. You'll still find some trust fund EDM kiddies who use it, but this is a sector I pay attention to and a lot of people who cut their pro audio teeth on Macs are now using Windows machines instead. Linux will eventually get there, but now it's mainly a platform that pro audio users run as an adjunct to a main Windows DAW.
Unfortunate Events is one (it was tried a couple times), and Planet Earth, and Wild, Wild Country. Online streaming has made it possible to find niche audiences for things that wouldn't have been made before.
All good points, and that Wild, Wild Country is really something else. I've seen a bit in my long life and yet I still spent a good part of that series with my jaw dropped and mouth agape.
Yeah, OK. I've seen some good Japanese stuff on Netflix, and Unfortunately Events wasn't bad, but that only covers one month of that subscription.
Storage isn't an issue, so why not have some pre-Code 1930s films and pre-1990 foreign films and maybe some early animation. Avant Garde films of the 20th century, like that. The royalties would be miniscule and there is definitely an audience. Meanwhile, I've had to add back in the DVD option for Netflix and pay extra so I can see some of the old and less mainstream stuff.
There's going to be a shakeout in the streaming video sector and until that happens things are going to get more confusing and expensive, I'm afraid. But I'll tell you one thing: I'm not sending Disney one single cent.
1) Get rid of all the shows people would actually watch and replace them with cheaply made true-crime documentaries and bad stand up comedy specials. 2) Assume people are too lazy to cancel their monthly subscriptions. 3)...
Seriously, Netflix has gotten rid of their once-impressive back catalog of classic movies, bought a bunch of cookie-cutter European copies of American cop-shows, and has been sucking increasing ass.
But I'm part of the problem I guess. I'm too lazy to cancel my monthly subscription and even though I keep telling myself it's time to cut them loose, I keep thinking they've got to improve sometime but they never do.
A critical thinker will often change his mind, sometimes his whole outlook on life without falling into a deep crisis, or resisting the change out of a subconscious fear of that change.
Bang on.
That is a pretty rare kind of human being I've unfortunately come to realise.
Not so rare, I think. I've been encouraged recently by people who are wiling to open their minds. I'm old enough to remember when miscegenation was considered shameful and in some places, illegal. People's minds changed on that, and widely. There was a time when most gay people were closeted. Gay marriage was unthinkable. That changed completely in less than a decade. I was alive when people only admitted to being socialists in anonymous mimeographed newsletters. Now, there are socialists elected to congress.
If you look closely, you can even see minds changing around here.
A lot of the flat earthers I've met are really just trolling other people.
Does it matter if they're "just trolling"? You can find many strongly-held beliefs where there is always doubt as to whether proponents are "true believers" or "just trolling", but functionally they are the same.
How many supporters of Donald Trump are "just trolling" and in what way do they differ from those who are actual believers that he has been ordained by God to lead America? How many were 4chan shitposters who do what they do for the lulz and how many honestly believe he is the greatest of all American presidents? Does it matter?
Irony has been weaponized against us. The "just trolling" crowd is being used by people in power and people who mean us no damn good. The goal is to make us believe that nothing is true. Orwell warned us this would happen, but we didn't realize where the real threat would come from.
Address unknown, not even a trace of you Oh what I'd give to see the face of you I was a fool to stay away from you so long I should have known there'd come a day when you'd be gone Address unknown, oh how could I be so blind? To think that you would never be hard to find? From the place of your birth to the ends of the earth I've searched only to find, only to find, address unknown Address unknown, honey child, I ain't even got a trace of ya You know one thing? I'd give anything in the world just to see the face of ya I was a fool to stay away from you and everything else so long I should have been diplomatic and figured that some day You'd be solid gone Address unknown, oh how could I be so blind? Who'd think that you would never be hard to find? From the place of your birth to the ends of the earth I've searched only to find, only to find, address unknown
By all means, let's start taxing corporations on their income instead of their profit. That would help clear the dead wood.
While I understand the sentiment, I don't think that's the best approach. The only real "income" a corporation makes is profits. Taxing revenue would end up hurting consumers. Taxing profits does not.
This discussion is of Amazon not paying taxes, and those were income taxes. If you want to change the discussion, we can do that too.
It's why sales taxes are considered regressive and income taxes are progressive. The idea of a progressive income tax on individuals and corporations is actually quite an innovation. It's the fairest way to pay for a civil society.
Corporations don't pay taxes period, that's just the cost of doing business. You, the consumer, are the ones paying the tax.
This is not true, except in the sense that all corporate profits are ultimately from consumers.
Taxes are paid on profits, not on revenue. If you forced Amazon to pay taxes, and they had to accept $8 billion in after-tax profits instead of $11 billion, what are they gonna say, "No, we don't want $8 billion"?
The notion that corporations pass income taxes on to consumers is not supported by any data whatsoever.
Uh huh, and where pray tell is it you think the money comes from that they use to pay those taxes?
From profits, dumbshit. If you'd ever taken a first-year economics course, you would know that prices are not dependent on profits. Just because a company decides they want to make more profit doesn't mean they can just raise prices, since there are other companies selling the same product. Remember, companies don't pay taxes on revenues, but on profits.
The marketplace sets the price. Whether or not the company can make a profit is dependent upon whether they can make the product for less than they sell it for.
Taxes come later. After the product has been sold, and after the employees have been paid and after the cost of making the product.
The money comes from revenues and either you have to cut costs (employees) to make it up from existing revenues or increase revenues (aka pass on to consumers) or some combination of the two.
I can't believe you don't see the other option: Just accept a little less after-tax profit. Do you think Amazon would go out of business if after taxes they had $8 billion instead of $11 billion? Remember, "profits" is what's left over after expenses are paid. You think they'd say, "No, we don't want to make the $8 billion"?
No, they wouldn't say that because a competitor would come along and say, "Yeah, $8 billion in annual after-tax profits sounds pretty good to us".
It's a shame that Bruno Ganz is only known here as the guy who played Hitler. He's performed so many excellent roles in classic films. His performances in Wings of Desire and The American Friend were some of the greatest of the 70's and 80's. I recently watched Väter und Söhne, and he was otherworldly (as was Julie Christie).
Those of you who are capable of reading subtitles should go watch those right away. You'll never think of Bruno Ganz merely as Hitler again.
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We have footage of actual lightsaber duellists, and I'm not sure the bullies are worried.
https://youtu.be/H_Z9orDS84c
You sound like my wife.
I can accept that bullying is sad and bad and at the same time understand its motivation.
I guess nerds don't do nuance.
The longer I live, the more I understand why nerds get bullied.
Some of them are old nellies.
There is absolutely no difference in latency, or "real time response" between a Windows PC and Mac. You have to dump some unnecessary processes and background shit, but you have to do that with a Mac, too. You really don't want your OS telling you that there are 5 updates available in the middle of a set or recording session.
There hasn't been a technical reason to use Mac over PC for pro audio for a long time. The last thing that was keeping me with Macs was the Logic DAW, which is useful for certain things that are clumsy in other DAWs, like Pro-Tools, etc., but now the other DAWs have caught up.
I can do 40 pushups if I'm absolutely required to (I just tried after seeing this article), but I wasn't at all happy about doing them. In fact, I had to quickly drink a pint and a shot to recover. Does anyone know if you have to be able to do 40 pushups cheerfully to be healthy?
However, I can do the plank for 2 minutes without complaining. Especially after a pint and a shot. I actually think the plank is overall a healthier exercise than pushups, unless you're looking to grow big bodybuilder tits.
In case you don't know how to do a plank, here is a YouTube video of a fitness bro demonstrating a plank. If you're interested in learning how to drink a pint and a shot, you can meet me at the pub and I will teach you as long as you're buying.
https://youtu.be/pSHjTRCQxIw
Yes, as I said, the EDM crowd still show off their MacBooks like gold chains on a rapper. But if you keep an eye out for the working DJs, you'll see Windows machines. And in the professional recording/production world, Windows machines have been taking over.
It's a big change. I cut my teeth using Macs for music production. The advantages have been diminishing and Windows advantages have been increasing. I used to buy a new Mac Pro every other year for production, but that stopped five years ago and now the Mac version of my preferred DAW is markedly inferior to the Windows version.
Pro audio users have been abandoning the Apple platforms for years. You'll still find some trust fund EDM kiddies who use it, but this is a sector I pay attention to and a lot of people who cut their pro audio teeth on Macs are now using Windows machines instead. Linux will eventually get there, but now it's mainly a platform that pro audio users run as an adjunct to a main Windows DAW.
All good points, and that Wild, Wild Country is really something else. I've seen a bit in my long life and yet I still spent a good part of that series with my jaw dropped and mouth agape.
Yeah, OK. I've seen some good Japanese stuff on Netflix, and Unfortunately Events wasn't bad, but that only covers one month of that subscription.
Storage isn't an issue, so why not have some pre-Code 1930s films and pre-1990 foreign films and maybe some early animation. Avant Garde films of the 20th century, like that. The royalties would be miniscule and there is definitely an audience. Meanwhile, I've had to add back in the DVD option for Netflix and pay extra so I can see some of the old and less mainstream stuff.
There's going to be a shakeout in the streaming video sector and until that happens things are going to get more confusing and expensive, I'm afraid. But I'll tell you one thing: I'm not sending Disney one single cent.
1) Get rid of all the shows people would actually watch and replace them with cheaply made true-crime documentaries and bad stand up comedy specials.
2) Assume people are too lazy to cancel their monthly subscriptions.
3)...
Seriously, Netflix has gotten rid of their once-impressive back catalog of classic movies, bought a bunch of cookie-cutter European copies of American cop-shows, and has been sucking increasing ass.
But I'm part of the problem I guess. I'm too lazy to cancel my monthly subscription and even though I keep telling myself it's time to cut them loose, I keep thinking they've got to improve sometime but they never do.
You took us to a dark place there, Hog. I'm not complaining, mind you.
Bang on.
Not so rare, I think. I've been encouraged recently by people who are wiling to open their minds. I'm old enough to remember when miscegenation was considered shameful and in some places, illegal. People's minds changed on that, and widely. There was a time when most gay people were closeted. Gay marriage was unthinkable. That changed completely in less than a decade. I was alive when people only admitted to being socialists in anonymous mimeographed newsletters. Now, there are socialists elected to congress.
If you look closely, you can even see minds changing around here.
Does it matter if they're "just trolling"? You can find many strongly-held beliefs where there is always doubt as to whether proponents are "true believers" or "just trolling", but functionally they are the same.
How many supporters of Donald Trump are "just trolling" and in what way do they differ from those who are actual believers that he has been ordained by God to lead America? How many were 4chan shitposters who do what they do for the lulz and how many honestly believe he is the greatest of all American presidents? Does it matter?
Irony has been weaponized against us. The "just trolling" crowd is being used by people in power and people who mean us no damn good. The goal is to make us believe that nothing is true. Orwell warned us this would happen, but we didn't realize where the real threat would come from.
Address unknown, not even a trace of you
Oh what I'd give to see the face of you
I was a fool to stay away from you so long
I should have known there'd come a day when you'd be gone
Address unknown, oh how could I be so blind?
To think that you would never be hard to find?
From the place of your birth to the ends of the earth
I've searched only to find, only to find, address unknown
Address unknown, honey child, I ain't even got a trace of ya
You know one thing?
I'd give anything in the world just to see the face of ya
I was a fool to stay away from you and everything else so long
I should have been diplomatic and figured that some day
You'd be solid gone
Address unknown, oh how could I be so blind?
Who'd think that you would never be hard to find?
From the place of your birth to the ends of the earth
I've searched only to find, only to find, address unknown
Start public killings of investment bankers. Watch how fast the rest of them start to behave.
While I understand the sentiment, I don't think that's the best approach. The only real "income" a corporation makes is profits. Taxing revenue would end up hurting consumers. Taxing profits does not.
This discussion is of Amazon not paying taxes, and those were income taxes. If you want to change the discussion, we can do that too.
It's why sales taxes are considered regressive and income taxes are progressive. The idea of a progressive income tax on individuals and corporations is actually quite an innovation. It's the fairest way to pay for a civil society.
No. Pay attention: income taxes are taken out of profits, and profits only exist AFTER COSTS ARE ACCOUNTED FOR.
In fact, if you were to do your books and use the companies income taxes as a cost item, you could go to jail.
This is not true, except in the sense that all corporate profits are ultimately from consumers.
Taxes are paid on profits, not on revenue. If you forced Amazon to pay taxes, and they had to accept $8 billion in after-tax profits instead of $11 billion, what are they gonna say, "No, we don't want $8 billion"?
The notion that corporations pass income taxes on to consumers is not supported by any data whatsoever.
From profits, dumbshit. If you'd ever taken a first-year economics course, you would know that prices are not dependent on profits. Just because a company decides they want to make more profit doesn't mean they can just raise prices, since there are other companies selling the same product. Remember, companies don't pay taxes on revenues, but on profits.
The marketplace sets the price. Whether or not the company can make a profit is dependent upon whether they can make the product for less than they sell it for.
Taxes come later. After the product has been sold, and after the employees have been paid and after the cost of making the product.
I can't believe you don't see the other option: Just accept a little less after-tax profit. Do you think Amazon would go out of business if after taxes they had $8 billion instead of $11 billion? Remember, "profits" is what's left over after expenses are paid. You think they'd say, "No, we don't want to make the $8 billion"?
No, they wouldn't say that because a competitor would come along and say, "Yeah, $8 billion in annual after-tax profits sounds pretty good to us".
It's a shame that Bruno Ganz is only known here as the guy who played Hitler. He's performed so many excellent roles in classic films. His performances in Wings of Desire and The American Friend were some of the greatest of the 70's and 80's. I recently watched Väter und Söhne, and he was otherworldly (as was Julie Christie).
Those of you who are capable of reading subtitles should go watch those right away. You'll never think of Bruno Ganz merely as Hitler again.
Where do I sign up to go to a Li'l Wayne video?
The data suggest otherwise.