I was an audio snob for quite a while, but after years of live performances and listening to recordings at levels sufficient to appreciate a wide dynamic range, my ears are permanently ringing.
At this point a transistor radio would sound about the same as anything else to me.
I will note that the ringing in my ears is incredibly detailed and has amazing fidelity...
Carver of Carver amps did exactly this (add distortions) to his amps to address those who claimed only tube amps could really reproduce sounds correctly.
It was successful in that the tubies praised the sound...
Hmm, push the price of gas up really high, fund the development of cars that can only go 40 miles a day, push for mass transit that delivers people to select destinations.
Why, none of that could have anything to do with trying to stop unrestricted travel...
If you want to get corporations out of government, you need to get government out of corporations.
The payoff for a good regulation is enormous - it can stifle your competitors and grant you a monopoly... It can even create an entire industry.
There is no way on this earth that someone is going to not go after a prize like that. Reduce the regulatory power of the government, and you reduce the incentive of corporations to meddle in politics.
Alan Kay said 'The best way to predict the future is to invent it'.
I tend to believe that the more accurate our societal modelling becomes, the more it will be used to control societies, almost certainly to benefit those in control.
Perhaps an equally relevant SF reference would be Leto's golden path...
Presumably 'facts straight' means not getting information from the internet but instead getting it from some less questionable source like Hollywood or a politician.
It would just be so much easier without that pesky internet.
Exactly right. Obama wins back the young people crowd, saves Hollywood some money since they are going to support him regardless, and after he is reelected they'll seal the deal.
Require a supermajority or even higher for anything that adds a regulation or increases spending. Tyranny of the majority isn't as much a factor when a large percentage of us agree we want to be tyrannized.
Implement the converse proposition - require a superminority to remove a regulation or reduce spending - and I think we'd have an eminently well behaved government.
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Microcosm
And they said perpetual motion was impossible...
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At this point a transistor radio would sound about the same as anything else to me.
I will note that the ringing in my ears is incredibly detailed and has amazing fidelity...
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It was successful in that the tubies praised the sound...
Things really never change :)
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The only way to get corporations out of government
If government is going to pick winners and losers then surely the corporations would be fools not to try to influence the outcome.
The current state of things is a natural evolution of the government trying to get more and more involved in pretty much everything.
The only way to stop this is to get the government out of anything it doesn't absolutely need to be in.
Libertarianism, sure, but also reality.
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Why, none of that could have anything to do with trying to stop unrestricted travel...
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Remove the incentive
The payoff for a good regulation is enormous - it can stifle your competitors and grant you a monopoly... It can even create an entire industry.
There is no way on this earth that someone is going to not go after a prize like that. Reduce the regulatory power of the government, and you reduce the incentive of corporations to meddle in politics.
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I tend to believe that the more accurate our societal modelling becomes, the more it will be used to control societies, almost certainly to benefit those in control.
Perhaps an equally relevant SF reference would be Leto's golden path...
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It would just be so much easier without that pesky internet.
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The Hollywood and Obama show
Political theater at it's finest.
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Implement the converse proposition - require a superminority to remove a regulation or reduce spending - and I think we'd have an eminently well behaved government.
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