How do we know he didn't touch the water during the 2 hours they cut the video?

I recently spent about 2 weeks in Europe and disagree. Some look like Starbucks, but most don't, especially outside financial districts. For instance, in Gamla Stan, Stockholm (old town), you'd be hard pressed to find anything resembling Starbucks. Not only that, but you also don't see yuppies on their notebooks and phones in there. It's always at least 2 people having a drink, pastry, and conversation.

About the Dutch & Dutch 8c studio monitors, I'd sure hope they'd sound great for what they cost and the job they're created for, which is basically an active speaker. The good is that they packed everything into a manageable size, compared to the behemoths that sit in front of me (NHT 3.3). They're also sealed with dual-woofers (I would not call those sub-woofers as they're only 8") which helps with delivering tight bass at the expense of 3db. I never understood why people go for ported designs. And as you indicated, it's everything in one box, so fiddling with different components talking to each other is kind of a moot point.

But that's exactly one of the reasons why I'd have an issue with them. Nobody makes great everything. Linn made great transports. Nobody touted their amplifiers as being great. Thorens made great LP players. They weren't known for their speakers. I never understood the rationale for having a rack full of Sansui, Sony, or Pioneer. Doing so, you'd be admitting that you're automatically settling for not the best. I'd much rather have the freedom to choose the component that's right for the job.

Two other issues I have with those monitors is that they go against what I've come to believe through my many decades of messing around with audio equipment, in that less is more. Having all those components in the path of the signal is really unnecessary. The more you add, the more manipulation of the signal there is. This is especially true if your source is analog to begin with, like vinyl or R2R.

I also still am not fond of class D amps, but I'm sure for that price, they've got much better quality amps than what $300-$400 would get you. I was also dismayed when I went to their web site and the links to the specification and the manual were broken, but I won't hold that too much over their heads.

Came here to say just this. Seems like our use of Ad Blockers is costing some people their jobs!

Indeed. I put my turntable (Technics SL-D202) through mods and upgrades , like decent stylus, cartridge, filled the bottom with clay, converted spring legs with solid ones, rubber bands on the tone arm, record weight, and scale to measure the weight of the stylus. The result? Now I can hear the imperfections in the vinyl even better than I did before! At this point the only reason why I use my record player is for nostalgia only, even though I have over 500 LPs. That's the exact same reason why I ever use my wound up 78 player.

If there's one thing I've learned over my whole life of fiddling with stereo equipment it's that less is more. For instance, in my current setup I only have 4 components (not including wire): the source, a passive volume control, the amp, and the speakers. If my source is my record player, I have a dedicated phono-stage for it. And in the passive volume control (which I built myself) I have a loop switch so I can loop in an equalizer if I need to for a specific recording, but the equalizer sits out of the loop most of the time.

People also spend crazy amounts of money on the wrong components. My speakers (NHT 3.3) cost more than everything else in my system combined. My speaker cables are 12 gauge zip cords and my interconnects I made myself out of cheap, but decent cable and connectors. My amp, an ATI AT-1502 (which can be had for as low as $600) is rated higher than any other amp on audio review, including Krell and Aragon. I listen to 6-7 hours of music on this set up on a daily basis during the week while I work and do not believe any higher quality anything in my set up would improve the sound in any meaningful way, at least not to my ears.

Glad some folks agree with us since you got +5 insightful. When I talk about things like YouTube being a monopoly, everyone jumps down my throat with links to other non-viable options for watching videos, sites that offer zero videos on subjects I ever look up. It's as if others think I just go to YouTube and let it select what videos I want to watch.

Depends on how they do it. If they do it based on IP address, you may be out of luck. If you share an IP address through a proxy or NAT you just fucked over all the other users by giving them pause.

Any site on the Internet can be considered non-essential. The IRS still sends me snail mail and provides a phone number on everything they send me. Even all the credit card companies and banks still offer phone numbers to call to resolve things or get things done. YouTube, like other sites, is a "nice to have" web site. They're all conveniences.

We have argued before about your "$15,000" figure. It used to be $20,000. See my post below with proof that cars can be had for less than $5000.

Which is it? I read in places that homework is on its way out, because researchers say so. Then you come in, anecdotally, and say your kids are doing more homework than we ever did in the 80s. Then U.S. News comes and says the amount of homework hasn't really changed.

I raised two daughters. One is a lawyer, the other medical student. It really wasn't that hard besides laying down some ground rules and sticking to them, ground rules that most parents would not put down today and certainly wouldn't stick to them. It's the fault of parents if the kids don't come up right. Things may have changed today, and any parent that can't adapt to seeing that and instill in their kids to adjust to circumstances fails as a parent. I still believe that hard work will pay off in the long run. Yes, you may find yourself in a situation where you're working hard and not appreciated. When you see that, you see something that's better. That's no different than how we used to do things. Just put your head down, continue to work, and stop complaining. If you're any good, your value will be known and you'll get your worth shortly. If you're not that good, well, then you're a dime a dozen and again no different than when you and I started the workforce 30 some years ago.

That's referencing getting started with a brand new billboard. I all likelihood, a few companies own all the billboards as they have leased the ground from the owner and have worked with the state/county/local to get all the permits, with some caveats being in the contracts, like no profanity, no nudity (breasts, ass, and genitals most likely, since I've seen many for strip clubs in the i-80 tri-state corridor), and that's probably about it. I am fairly certain that if I wanted to advertise my consulting business on an existing billboard using the company that's renting the face of the billboard, the state/county/local would not be reviewing the content.

It's not anecdotal when a listing on completed listings on eBay for used cars that sold for less than $5000 returns 841 listings.

Quonset does have a point. The signs the feds are referring to are above the road and not on the side, like this one, and the messages they're referring to are ones like this. The corporate ones are these.

There is a difference. Humor and jokes have no place on the safety notice boards above the highway and those should not distract drivers unless the message is urgent. What gets put on the side of the road is only lightly controlled by the government and the government doesn't have much control over them, nor should it.

Depending on your definition of "native English speaker", I guess you could propose that I'm not. But my sentence was correct and it is you who's having a misunderstanding. I wrote:

You, yourself, wrote that what one finds on a random website could potentially be true. But you also wrote:

If what I saw on a website can possibly be true, then it's not necessarily nonsense and could have some merit to it.

I don't think there's any convincing you otherwise, though and, as such, I'll leave the conversation. If you must have the last word, go ahead and respond, but I won't be anymore. You're not worth my time.

You contradict yourself here. If I'm regurgitating nonsense, then it can't be true, but in your second sentence you say "It's not that what you find on some random website can't be true", so it could be true and therefore not nonsense.You said the current push for "back to the office" in large corporations.

I never made the original claim. The Biden statements were made by "furry wookie", "noshellswell", and "Austerity Empowers". I just provided the supporting links.

Oh, I'm sorry. Do you have another method that works better? Those "somewheres" that I referenced appear to be legitimate sites, albeit usually slanted to the left.