Pick someone you can blackmail...

I was stopped by a full of attitude cop, for what he claimed was "speeding". Even though he had no radar gun, he claimed I was doing 50 in a 35mph zone. A lie, I was doing 35. I asked him how he determined that and he said he "paced" me. He was nosing around trying to find something to charge me with, when I said, well, I won't disagree with you, but my car has a data logger, so I guess we''l have to sort it out in court. He wheeled around with a mad look on his face and asked me to explain. I told him that the car records all operational information with a time stamp, (I was fibbing, but, hey, I knew the cop was wrong about speeding), and the data can be downloaded. This made him madder, and he demanded I open my trunk (he was off his rocker- I have a wagon). Then he yelled at me about how I can't record cops. I said, sorry, it's all automatic and it does not record conversations, just data and location, via GPS. Like how long I have been stopped here at this location, how fast I was going, and speeds linked to location, turn signal use, brake use and rate of braking, acceleration etc. He realized that he was in trouble, should he give me a ticket, and I produced the data in court, so he yelled at me for being on the road late at night and drove off. These things can work both ways, you know.

The Power search tool, in the uTunes store is gone. For those who use this to find versions of a song, or research other tunes by artists, this is a valuable tool

impair driving skills. like emotions, anger, fatigue, etc., and there is no way to test for that. I would rather ride with a pot head than a person who just had a fight with his or her SO. Or someone who just got unfairly fired. I think there are way too many people driving who are angry, hurt, stressed, showing off, and they make the worst drivers. But my two cents is that US drivers should be thoroughly tested every five years, and that includes a road test.

has driven the right wingers even crazier. Expect more of this reality free hysteria from them.

and who is the government for, anyway. "Of the people,for the people" and by the people rings a bell? The government serves the people and serves to create, coordinate and direct efforts and money to improve the lives of it s citizens. All you are doing is ignoring what Jesus tell you to do, and using GOP rhetoric to provide an excuse.

This guy says nothing of substance, and has no reasoning ability or logic, nor facts to back up his assertions, with out resorting to name calling as a defense. So he does as all Goopers do when they are cornered- throws a hissy fit and leaves. Proof once again he can't back up what he says.

The GOP still cannot fathom that they ran a campaign based on lies and smears, with no substance whatsoever, and Mitt was a liar and a thief. The GOP got slammed because they lie and steal, and have 35 year long track record of it. EOS

This is what happens when you hire someone based in ideology. The GOP has a history of hiring half wit acolytes, who get where they are by falling upwards. The ORCA debacle is no exception.

And they had 5 of the Ecoplate monsters. They have a sound all to their own - bigger, fuller, warmer, with more depth, that couldn't be duplicated any other way, and Warners had about every type of reverb at the studio. You have to sit in a control room, listening through great monitors like Westlakes, to hear what they do to vocals and drums. For voice, a good C12 and an Ecoplate will put a S$^t eatin' grin on any engineer's face.

goes around trying to force his religious dogma on everybody (while, of course, refusing to do it himself) then whines when his actions backfire on him, so he thinks he's a victim.

there is way more to an aid than what tone is loud and what isn't. there is EQ bands, the number and placement of the center points, compression, compression rates, kneepoints, multi band limiters, and compensating for the varying acoustic anomalies that occur, like occlusion, within the ear canal. Jeez, learn what you are talking about before you post.

the CPU. The programming of the CPU. Writing the software to adjust the aids. the I/O devices. The interface. the cost of making the aid, especially if it is an ITE device, where the works have to be installed inside a custom made shell. Testing. Approval. Putting together a factory. I know a guy in NZ who has a great aid, but can't get it to market, because he doesn't have the cash to get it to market. It costs a lot.

when you buy an aid from a dispenser or audiologist, about half of the cost of the aid is his or her's profit, plus the free follow up visits. So all costs of maintaining an office are passed on to the end user. An audi doesn't sell a bunch of hearing aids - it's not like selling TVs - it's a low volume market. Because the CPUs are pricy to produce, due to relatively low unit sales, many makers share the same CPU, to spread out the R&D and production costs. Some companies like Siemens, can make their own chips. And aids makers are always working on faster CPUs, so the headliner aids are pricy, because the company is trying to recover their production costs before progress creates the next even better CPU, rendering the one they have "old tech". SO a hearing aid company can take its old out of date CPUs and put them in second and third line aids, and charge less, but, as always, if you want the fastest and newest, you gotta pay for it. It's a big race between all the aid makers, all the time. to produce the best aid. Note that, just like all digital audio devices, the fastest CPUs make the best sound, because they have the horsepower to handle it. So an aid company can get maybe three years out of a CPu before it gets outdated. IIRC an aid in raw materials is about $250, then it has to be assembled inside a custom ear mold or BTE unit, and the labor and programming and testing the aid adds to the final out the door cost. And the usual costs of promo and advertising and paying the beta testers, etc. But the cost is still high. A person can go to Costco and buy aids for about half of what an audi wills eel it for, because Costco hires audis on a salary, not on commission, so they are not saddled with having to sell aids to keep the business open. About US$3000 will get you a nice pair of aids.

Mods - so you think this kid's suicide is Score:5, Funny? What the hell is wrong with you?