So you're saying that if a Muslim held me hostage they would probably be nice and not have bad intentions? I think you need to get a grip if you think that hostage takers are likely to be nice. Of course from your previous comments I can see that it may be that your logic skills have been insufficient for you to comprehend the statement. Just to be clear it means:

I would prefer to be taken hostage by someone who (is a hostage taker AND is a wack-job)
to someone who (is a hostage taker AND is a Muslim)

I want to avoid Google spying on me. Does the NSA have some servers I can use?

Chances are the fake films are better than the one you thought you were getting.

Certainly true that compressed (as in dynamic range) audio is far more tiring to listen to. Puts me off buying new music to a large extent. I tend to buy stuff from indies which outside EDM is rarely buggered like this.

Have a virtual mod point. That is very interesting and quite surprising. Still working through the comments.

A lot of this argument IMO hinges on when you grew up/got into music. I'm quite happy to accept (as an old git) that high resolution digital audio beats an album on vinyl hands down in terms of true fidelity. However, to *my* ears, because I grew up with vinyl, I find that sound more appealing and enjoyable. I have albums on everything from cassette, vinyl, CDs, MP3s to FLAC. Even some 24bit high res files. Yes, there's some incredible detail in there with modern formats. However, for whatever reason, I just don't enjoy listening to it as much. In many cases it's because they're mastered too hot and have stupid waveforms with almost no dynamic range, although the high res formats are better in that respect. I find vinyl just more enjoyable and relaxing to listen to. Plus of course there's the well worn stuff about the cover, reading the lyric sheet without a magnifying glass etc. As far as crackles/pops/wear and tear goes, I've got records that are nearly 40 years old but still more enjoyable to my ears/brain. It beats me how people's records get so beaten up, are they tracking too heavy? Pouring grit down the sleeve? Maybe 5% of mine from 30+ years ago have anything more than a little surface noise when the stylus hits the lead in groove. After that, no pops or crackles.

Not sure where all this revisionism is coming from. The Loudness Wars and the move to very hot mixes was driven purely by the demands of the record companies wanting their tracks to stand out on commercial radio stations, who were already doing the same thing themselves anyway. Anything that can make your song stand out (and loudness works) was deemed a Good Thing.

My old Technics SL-B2 (http://www.vinylengine.com/library/technics/sl-b2.shtml) was belt drive and has the strobe and adjustment. Quite a few manufacturers had the same on belt drive. Not seen it on an idler driver deck though.

I'd rather be held captive by a whack job than a Muslim. Someone might be able to persuade the whack job that he was acting wrongly.

More like "War on Poor People/Pensioners","War on Small Business", "War on Manufacturing", "War on Wind Farms", "War on Students".

But of course, the fact that this government has announced an intent to do this is almost certain death for the idea. They are so disorganised and so incompetent that they could never get it done.

Sounds like his research was essentially meaningless, or rendered meaningless because he chose the wrong hypothesis.

Its just as valid to claim from that basis that Africans are smarter than Europeans. After all, the data did not rule that out.

You have a point, that name could be taken the wrong way. You could use a code-name that describes it's benefits while avoiding that problemmatic pronunciation. How about: ""Another Plug-in Proc Succor"?

Hmm... upon reading my comment, I realize that C *IS* guides

C doesn't really guard anything. It does keep you from having to roll your own multiword arithmetics or integer division algorithms, and from dealing with architecture-related things that are mind-boggling for a human, but just another set of rules to a compilers (pipelines, delayed instructions, etc.), and takes over things like optimizing register usage.

On a computer, all the guides come at the cost of performance. Sure, you can make a programming langugage where buffer overflows are alway caught, but that language will spend a lot of CPU cycles on checks.

So he is saying that Africans are more intelligent than Europeans?

Actually the point of this discussion is that the statement One must note that environmental science is best at observation, and typically poor at prognostication. is in fact unsubstantiated. Simply repeating that assertion multiple times does not substantiate it.