If somebody drone bombed my land, tortured me as a simple suspect, and then released me, and let me immigrate to his places without much fuss, I'd first wonder if I am being set up.

The difference in the steps, AKA quantization noise, is minimal since smoothing is applied. But the DA conversion vs. the groove picked up magnetically is possibly the culprit, together with different compression, while noise and different EQ response are less significant factors (simply adding some vinyl noise and EQ profile to digital does not make it sound like vinyl).
Possibly, the less linear analog chain is somehow more pleasing for the ear.

Then there is the issue of stereo encoding on the single groove, which limits the source material in ways which might actually be good for listening (impossible to have big phase differences in the bass range or the record skips).

I would still not classify vinyl as better than digital, it's just different.
Hipsters should anyway concentrate on more esoteric stuff, like hi end analog tape, or analog satellite HD transmissions (still unrivalled IMHO)

> criminals are dumb
Indeed, They put faith in Cirrus after all the warnings about not trusting the Cloud.

we are talking about a single axis, after all.

> an argument for atheism WHICH I DID NOT MAKE
That was my point, yours is not an argument.
> a derisive description of religion
Deriding something which you admittedly can't or don't want to make sense of, is quite... unusual.

The selfish gene is an interpretation. "Life as a single process" is another interpretation that returns the same result ("tougher times, let's breed more females to increase potential yield and variation, the few males will sure be able to bang more than one"). And in both case contraception and males turning down free rides with no string attached for philosophical reasons ("Bros before hoes") prove that the selfish gene or the single process life is in control of the organism no more than the citizen is in control in a modern democracy: very little.
You are in control, whatever "you" means, deal with it.

> I'm trying to envision a physics experiment whose successful outcome depends on someone being harassed.

The paw you now feel on your leg is from schroedinger's cat. Or not. :P

Actually you did not criticize the applicability of the quote, you dismissed it for your own reasons that you explained above.
If I cited Pinocchio we wouldn't have a problem because you would not have reacted to a possible attempt of validating it. Besides I believe there is no possible attempt at validating any religious book, any possible manifestation of a god must occur in this world to be experienced, and can be faked given enough tech.

earlier post: "about begging a magic Sky Daddy for things" implies prayer is ineffective towards a non existing god. A position which could even be wrong in atheist scenarios where prayer works because of natural causes or psychology BTW.

parent post: "I said it was no worse than religious indoctrination by parents"
Nope you said something different, I was not replying to your main point, I was just challenging the atheism that you just put there as self evident. That's a form of circular reasoning, see my other post, which is Exacly how other religions work, so your atheism fights fire with fire.

Or it's a failed appeal to authority, because I may not be familiar with the atheists who wrote the things that you cited. If you want to discuss where they are wrong, please google my comment history, plenty of hooks.

So, maybe, what in your words "makes no sense whatsoever", makes no sense to you instead.

Nice touch the personal attack at the end.

Why it's fairy tales? because I say so, implied.
Why do I say so? because it is fairy tales.

Who hardcoded "If bible then deny" into some people? It's pretty funny to see dogmatic behavior in the camp nominally against dogmas.

The genesis is interesting, it links knowledge of good and evil to sin (if you can't tell them apart, because e.g. you are driven by instinct alone, then you cannot sin but merely malfunction), it features sandboxing of humans (which raises the same problem one would have as the admin of a simulation), which means the authors have raised one good point by accident or they thought things through, or both. Does it prove anything? nope. If pinocchio had been relevant I'd have cited it.

Let me guess, your dad did not take you to a conference discussing circular reasoning.

back to the article "and we played through my collection of lo-fi gems like Asteroids, Kaboom!, Adventure, Combat, and (yes) E.T., but most didnâ(TM)t hold up well."

Asteroids not holding up well? TAKE THE SON AWAY FROM THIS GUY HE IS ILL.

If artificial intelligence emerged from artificial life it would be a competitor if we were so idiot to link the simulation in which the entity originated to the real world.
And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." Genesis 3:22

  If OTOH AI is designed like watson, it is indeed improbable that a malfunction leads to skynet. The human assisted AI is much more likely to end up in extermination, in fact it's happening as we speak.

You might want to try another distro, this one has images for odroids
http://www.voidlinux.eu/#downl...
It has a very fast package manager, But I only tried it out on intel

I have used 4 versions of 3.17 of void linux till now as my primary web and office desktop, not one lockup.

Given that void doesn't feature it, it's obviously a systemd issue. :D