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Comment Re:Speakers or headphones? (Score 1) 749

What I see almost every day are DJs with headphones plugged into their laptop and it sounds fine to them. The same track out there on the dancefloor sounds like a horrific wall of distortion.

Pumping out enough sound for a disco at high quality is much, much more expensive than a couple of tiny speakers next to your ears. Disco speakers are designed to be loud and have lots of bass. Fidelity? No one comes to a disco to hear a recital. I often listen to videos in my living room using headphones, partly because it doesn't bother anyone else in the house, but also the quality of the (cheap) headphone sound is about the same or better than the "hifi" (again, cheap, so not audiophile "hi"), and much higher than that of the built-in speakers in the TV.

Comment Re:The Only Surprising portion of the revelation.. (Score 1) 536

Although I don't doubt there are Generals who would have made fine diplomats,

I was being ironic. But yes, some generals are less bloodthirsty than some politicians. But as w hole, look at countries like Burma and various Latin American dictatorships to see how military leaders fare. Not well.

Comment Re:The Only Surprising portion of the revelation.. (Score 1) 536

Again, LBJ, and anyone else commenting, were not speaking as prosecuting attorneys. Just because the US constitution defines treason doesn't mean we all have to use that, and only that, definition. If Nixon took deliberate action that prolonged a war unnecessarily, costing many thousands of lives of his countrymen, that's good enough for me.

Comment Re:The Only Surprising portion of the revelation.. (Score 4, Insightful) 536

It was LBJ who said it was "treason". I assume he knew the definition.

First definitions I found:

  noun: a crime that undermines the offender's government
  noun: disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior
  noun: an act of deliberate betrayal

Satisfies those. Maybe not in US law, but this a a description of the acts, not a legal brief.

Comment Re:The Only Surprising portion of the revelation.. (Score 5, Interesting) 536

a.k.a. Nixon had worse stuff on the democrats

Worse than treason? If Nixon was ready to screw up a peace deal, if he'd had anything on the Democrats, he would have used it. Nixon sent the plumbers to Watergate to dig up dirt on the Democrats in 72.

Putting pure politicians in charge of military decisions (or anything in need of objective reality) is a problem.

Yeah, we should leave diplomacy to the generals.

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