What about all those other countries who do compassionate release who have sensible health care systems?

Please, share with us your understanding of the Scandinavian mindset.

When he started wandering off into the casual sexual relationships of martian giants I thought he'd kind of lost focus, the same with Niven and Ringworld to be honest, I don't know what it is about scifi writers and sex with giants but whatever it is, I want no part of it.

I know for a fact more of my money goes to power and fuel companies than does to university research. So what does that mean?

I love how Americans are so proud of having kicked out a King but seem so keen to make new ones at every opportunity.

No, more like the word "Liberal" as it is commonly used on Slashdot.

Something tells me if you can cross interstellar space a gravity well the size of a planet isn't going to be too scary for you.

As opposed to all those other fields where they say "treat everyone like a dick to go up"?

You might have noticed though that this bold libertarian freedom you have in mind is less free than the freedom you are currently enjoying and seems to involve even more jail for stupidity rather than crime.

Now we get to the root of libertarianism
"you're free to do whatever you want!"
"Great, I'm not going to get vaccinated"
"That was really stupid why did you do that, go to jail"
FREEDOM!

I largely agree with your comment but I'm not too sure about the lack of lines. Why don't you show us how far past light speed you can go.

Whales aren't fish, that's why he survived! Take that science.

At least they're not so paranoid they think they need to be wandering around armed for battle.

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This is just about the wrongest thing I have heard today. All video containers have a header that defines the audio rate, it is almost impossible to make the mistake you are discussing here.

The RIAA curve is added at the cutting stage by the preamps on the lathes and isn't relevant to the studio master which in the days you were discussing would have generally been done to 1/4" tape prior to the digital days. So it shouldn't affect any subsequent remasters which would be done from the 1/4" master tape or remixed especially for CD. The problem was just shoddy engineering and despite the "Loudness wars" argument a lot of early CD remasters were mixed too quiet because they thought they had so much dynamic range, unfortunately trying to use all that range leaves the amplifiers sounding sterile on most systems that don't have a lot of power.