gehringer_2

this is the crux. American is great place to live if you are upper middle class or above. But we are a society completely segregated both by race and class. You can easily just stay in your social cocoon and you never need to worry how the other half lives. For most everyone else it's been getting worse since the 80's. I can't help but find that....disappointing. As a nation we have also become terribly cavalier about killing people around the world, but that's a whole 'nother digression.

to me one of the stranger things is human race hatred history is that the Nazis latched onto the word 'Aryan' when the real Aryans probably looked mostly like Persians or even Indians, certainly not any kind of Germanic/Nordic idealization.

it's curious, they say once you reach 90 your odds of dying in any given year level out. They are still pretty high of course......

It ain't over till the fat lady sings (the one in the Bronx that is)

I don't see how that can not be a factor. That and that election expenditures are capped so money/=speech to a much lesser degree in England.

sure, there is the phenomenon of getting to where you play instinctively without thinking and at that point everything you do is faster, but Zadina still doesn't do much for me. Maybe I was over optimistic to think he had the legs for it but I saw Zadina as a potential Draper or at least Glendening type player who could be disruptive on the defensive fore check apart from his scoring, but I'm not seeing any reason to keep believing that. I imagine he has has the rest of this season to show improvement, but if he doesn't I won't be surprised not to see him next year.

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When I started ripping vinyl, I figured at the rate of decline for the cost of storage eventually even portable devices would eventually have enough memory for wavs. Not quite there. But 256 variable is really very good, pretty close to lossless. When I rip something I take two copies, a wav and a 192 variable mp3. The wavs go into the library the house sound system plays from, the mp3s to portable devices, but even on my laptop I have a 256 gb SD with most of the library as wav.

My doubts are about his processing speed. He seems to have skills but he is too often too late for them to be profitably applied.

yeah - there are always guys that teams fall in love with at the combine and private workouts so things are sure to shift, but who knows in which direction?

John U keepin' it real.

mp3's are compressed, and no question at all quality can suffer greatly there depending on how much compression is requested. The MP3s played by many radio station for instance, are total trash (those on streaming sevices vary). But a CD, which is the correct comparison to an LP, is not MP3s, it's made of .wav files, which is not a compressed format. In a wav file the input audio stream is digitized 44,100 times per second and 65536 (16 bits) possible volume levels on each channel. There is no loss detectable by human hearing (which tops out at about 15,000 Hz), and just as importantly, no recording device with more than 16 bits of dynamic range for making a recording. There is something missing in digital recordings, it's that little bit of white noise from the master tapes (from old stuff) and the 'grey' noise from the vinyl surface. That can 'soften' the sound of recordings make in too live an environment and make it sound 'better'. But it is not a more 'faithful' reproduction - you're mostly exposing poor production choices. It's sort of the same effect as the need to soften the focus on high res cameras when shooting close-ups in film. It can be disconcerting to see a face in that kind of detail across a 30 ft screen. But don't blame the camera.

In sort of a strange sort of political symmetry, COVID is going to end up killing pretty close to the same number of people in the US that immigrate here in one year. Not drawing any meaning here, just an observation of scales.

It appears that in COVID, Bejing has found the perfect vehicle to strangle Hong Kong..... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/27/covid-hong-kong-quarantine-omicron/

LOL - I guess if people like to hear the sound of a stylus scrapping vinyl as the perfect background to their music because they were conditioned to it for decades, that's their business, but please stop with the silly attempts to justify the sound as a better reproduction. OTOH, I will grant that the loss of LP cover art and good liner notes has been tragic.

nothing can possibly be more insane than the re-emergence of vinyl.

From what I've read in the past, Gorsuch sometimes parts from the conservatives because he will work from property rights perspective. The idea of unjustified government 'takings' figures may in his thinking --like in McGirt v Oklahoma, which puts on a more anti-gov footing than the rest of the conservative block - or least Thomas, for whom no government action ever seems to needs limitation. As pure philosophy - it's very, very....very old school

says the guy who complains that his city is too dangerous to be out and about in.

With an interim University Prez now at the Fleming Bldg, a lot of things could end up stuck where they are for a while. Which may be OK since the Athletic Dept was not exactly Coleman's forte in her first go round.

there are 10 counties in MI at under 50%. And I wouldn't say 'organized' is even the important question. If India has vaccinated 50% of 1.5 billion people they have still accomplished a heck of a lot more in absolute terms than we have. And I would put it that I don't have as much as dim view of American as a simply frank one, the dim view view is more a matter of impatience with those who can only see her through myth and rose colored glasses.

He's just setting down the markers for his authoritarian inheritors.

I have no independent data but I don't see any great push back about India's claims. Why can't people who are poor be socially organized? India has a huge pharma industry and a well developed public health infrastructure. Certainly fair to question a Modi government but I wouldn't be at all surprised if India has achieved a higher vax rate than the US.

LOL - sadly spot on.

true. I admit finding it hard to take VP choices as a serious consideration (well, at least other than ones that are all 'mavericky' - )

though not mutually exclusive, in the case of Obama vs Bernie they were not running in the same elections.