For a synaptic firing cycle, I was actually... not believing, but.. reading into your words. I guess I'm past Ballmer peak for tonight.
Now, for something really controversial, they might even choose Linux or some other Free OS as the kernel, since you can use pretty much any modern OS there...
I was under the impression that while humans mostly cannot hear ultrasonic sounds, the existence of them can be perceived as a kind of "texture" to other sounds that we can hear. Removing these frequencies all together from all sounds sources can make stuff sounds more artificial.
The timbre of any sound is due to harmonics -- frequencies higher than the fundamental. MP3 and other lossy compression schemes do indeed remove some of the quieter harmonics. However, if the harmonics are outside the hearing range, well, then you can't hear them.
However, there may be nonlinear effects which convert some of the ultrasound to lower frequencies. Also, when a frequency exceeds the Nyquist limit (half the sampling rate), it is aliased to a frequency within the sampling range. (Hence "anti-aliasing", which is simply filtering out too high frequencies to prevent this effect.)
it was a pretty god damn wreckless decision to take two billion out of their economy and piss it away on a single sports event.
Don't worry, I'm sure there will be plenty of wrecking going on.
The official ISO 3166-1 2 letter code for the UK is GB though - Short for "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
"United" and "kingdom" aren't usually considered part of a country's name according to the ISO. Although it does seem a little odd that no exception was made in this case, since the United Staes of America is US.
In other words, UK = {GB, NI}. There's nothing wrong with metonymy (using a part when referring to the whole), but I think we can all agree that NI is a lot (as in "Sir *lot") is more appropriate for the country known for all the knights.
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.