I trained on libraries of pirated books.

A lot of test equipment (think your drug testing lab) still use windows nt and windows 2000.

I can either pay $30 a month for cable TV and not get my downloads capped or I can pay $30 extra to have the download cap removed.

I see people arguing the digital is better than analog. They are really just different and are treated as such.

Things like classical recordings can sound much better digital. This is because you want the most accurate reproduction possible. Stick two nice mics over the front of the stage and record. Edit as little as possible.

With Rock and Roll or Punk, or even country etc all of the parts become the instrument. Drums are close miked with mikes that are more designed to be fat and big sounding but not 100% accurate. Cymbals are miked with more accurate condenser mikes but all the low end is pulled out. Guitar amps are close miked etc. Vocals are recorded with large diaphragm condenser mikes. Then digital, analog and tube processing is used to alter and even distort the sound. Art and science becomes mixed. You create and mix for a sound, not accuracy. All of the products used, mikes, mixers, tape, tubes, analog processors are like brushes, palettes and colors to a painter. Different artists, both musicians and engineers, will have favorite tools and will be known for their sound using them.

This continues to the mixout and even the final product. Engineers and the musicians in the 60s, 70s were thinking about the final output being on tape or a record and recorded for the best sound on those devices. If you take the the final mix of a 70s recording and just transfer it to digital you will not get what the engineer in the studio was after. He expected those imperfections and in some cases is counting on them to give the sound he/she wants.

Yes, you can duplicate many of the analog effects used in the digital world but its not the same. They feel different when you are working with them. When you listen to a record from the 60s or 70s on a good stereo you are hearing what the artist and engineers want and expect you to hear. I have worked for years with both digital and analog. Both are great and useful but things like a kick drum really sound great on 2" tape,but that sound does not transfer to digital, god knows I have tried .

Records are not better or worse than CDs, just different. Both have their place.

Some products appeal more to white people than black people and vise-versa. Also some products appeal more to men than woman.

Someone buying a spots on Facebook does not want to waste money paying to show their products to people who are not interested in their products.

duh..

Im using a 5 year old i7 with windows 7/Linux on it. Why would I change before it breaks? A new i7 will be ~$1000 and only be 5% faster.

Before this computer I used to upgrade every year.

In Florida we have loser pays. You can offer a $1 settlement (or any amount) . If they dont win at least the amount you offered in the settlement they have to pay your legal fees.

HIPAA?

Back in the 70s (Im #$%b old) We used to grow psilocybin mushrooms in aquariums. By injecting CO2 you could get mushrooms the size of a small pizza.

Comcast uses cablecards. I have one in my TIVO.

Jeb had a private email server too.

Have you been paying attention to the republican plan?

1. Track Aliens
2. Put walls up at both Canada and Mexico
3. Destroy Public schools
4. More private prisons
5. Stronger drug and other sentencing to fill said prisons.
6. Bigger war machine
7. No minimum wage
8. Cut taxes for rich and business, increase tax for everyone else
9. Health care plan "Let them die"
10. Reduce voting of poor people.

These people are no longer republican, they are fascist. Yes, they are going to want to see your papers.

After watching this video Im pretty sure the cars can detect gestures to pull over.

As the car is doing the driving it should follow the demands of a police officer (as opposed to the passenger) although Im sure it will be hacked around at some point.

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Not as many farriers or blacksmiths though.

As an older IT guy/programmer I can tell you most non geeks over 60 have no idea about IT stuff.