hear hear....tho im not a huge RP supporter, I know enough of the man to know hes not a racist or bigot or anti-Semite, hes just very against the federal govt having all the power they have now...
I agree after reading alot about the founding of this nation, it was to be a UNION of STATES, currently we have states that are ruled over by the feds and even if the citzens of a state want to for example legalize pot, they cant really do it because the feds say "no, is bad, no pot for you"
I would welcome states having more power/control of whats allowed in said states.
Ron should run for pres.... dont agree with him 100% but, at least he seems to understand the net better then around 98% of the people in dc, and understands that fucking with the net in the way big content wants to, would be bad not only for the country but the world in general.
personally I see this as good training for you in the real world, people in meetings and at jobs wont be "on task" or on the same task as you when your in the real world at a job, hell very few jobs I have had ever had everybody on the same task doing the same thing all the time.
and those that did where production work at temp jobs(mindless Representative stuff like stacking plastic stuff and putting it in boxes)
if you cant learn to deal with distractions your not going to do well in most real world jobs....sorry but its a fact...I have been in board meetings where 1/2 the people where surfing youtube or facebook....(at least none of them had the audio cranked up...lol )
The problem is, that the same technique dosnt work for all students, some people are very visual, some very aural, others tactile(see/hear/touch), I am all 3, but the subject needs to be done in a way that engages me if not....i cant force myself to pay attention....
I have had instructors who where GREAT who could engage even the most uninterested students, I have had others who where in subjects that should have been engaging who couldnt keep even 1/2 the class's attention past roll call.
funny enough, one was a communications class....the woman could not teach of communicate to a group(1 on 1 she was amazing to talk with, but to a group....like 2 dif people)
I think some instructors need to stick to being more of a small group or almost like a 1 on 1 type situation, I have seen this kinda thing work where a class had 2-3 instructors who ran it(took turns and such) each able to cover up for the others flaws....but im sure that costs more for the collage then 1 instructor even if they are horrible.
I agree with you to a point, BUT I am one of those exceptions, I have taken classes where I gave little to no attention to the lectures and spent most of the time online or reading a book and still passed, many times with flying colors.
But and heres the thing, If I dont really know the material and the teacher is even somewhat competent I pay attention till I do get it, took an english+writing coarse once(as an audit) and was very interested in some of the lectures, others I found to be "common sense", the funny part was, the instructor use to talk with us for the last 15min of the class and she didnt get upset when she asked me why I was reading a book rather then paying attention and I gave her an honest answer.
infact, about 1/3 of the class had off tasked at that part, the rest it was a mix of barly paying attention and people taking furious notes because they didnt get it at all...
in the end, she tweaked her teaching style and how she ran the lectures on some area's to include more question and answer and class interaction, if a student wasnt getting it the way she explained it, she would ask if anybody else had any ideas of how to explain it....really good teacher.
in the end she learned as much from the class as the students, and nobody failed who had shown up for at least most of the sessions. (had a few who couldnt seem to get out of bed for a 1pm class.....)
she also pulled me aside and told me if I ever wanted to take her class for credit she would just sign off on it as soon as I paid and may even have tried to hire me as her TA...
the funniest part is all thru my public school days i was SPED and treated like a screwup/moron/problem, because I wouldnt/couldnt sit thru classes that bored the living hell out of me...but i did excellent in classes that could engage me, at one point i was pretty much teaching one of the sped math classes(one of the subjects i dislike) because i was better at explaining things in different ways to people, as anybody who knows much about math would know, there are many ways to get to the correct answer not just 1....(thats true for most things in life honestly...)
I once had a math teacher at collage who was teaching a basic math class(i forget the number), the guy was horrible, first class he ever taught, he had just gotten out of uni and had taken all the way up to the highest level math classes...
when he was trying to teach the class a negative minus a negative he went into this 3 white board justification of why it worked the way it did.....(i was in there to review his work)
he didnt get that he just was there to show them how to get the right answer, not to teach them higher math that most of them wouldnt need or wouldnt ever understand..
he also gave incorrect conversion numbers for stuff like converting 32f into Celsius....was really.....entertaining....
he was a nice guy but its pretty sad when the people who came every day had a 87% fail rate, but the people who never came other then to turn in and grab homework passed with flying colors.....
so, so true, many shows I now watch on tv or pay to watch(netflix and the like) i never would have seen if it wasnt for torrenting random shows that where popular.
one big one is big bang theory, never would have bothered with it as the shows adverts sucked, but i love the show now...
never would have watched it on their site because i hate the ads before shows, in shows and at the end on steams.....(could deal with 1-2 short breaks in the show but they always do more then that or long annoying ones...)
1. if a company dosnt put their products into a set market, and somebody imports and sell them, they tend to take on a 1 year warr(if its a legit business)
2. if the company isnt interested in the market, why would they care if somebody gets mad and wont buy their products any more....they have no interest in that market....
3. I have bought and sold many imported products, many non-sourceable any other way other then living in the country of origin.
examples would be media players(mp3/dvd/video/exct), stereos, various random devices from sites like dealextreme.
never had a problem with anybody returning anything or being mad at me or the company who made the product just because they couldnt get easy support.
the funny part to me is, some HK and Korean companies have better support for us here in the U.S. then domestic options...I bought a video player for a friend, it acted up and he contacted the seller, they worked with him and the mfgr and got him a replacement, shipping was like 12bucks to HK (cheaper then had he sent the same exect package coast to coast..lol)
I have worked in businesses where we imported most of our goods direct from china, stuff you cant get here because enlarge the companies making it lack the money or market power/force to penetrate our markets on their own.....
also note: some of said devices dont meet specific state labeling laws, but thats mostly CA and their weird labeling laws....
most of "these idiots" are teens who download low orbit ion cannon and just set it to read whatever the latest feed for attack is.
some however do take up the cause because they are sick of what they are seeing.
Let me be honest, I would install loic but...im to lazy to bother, and I prefer to deal with this kind of thing in a more mature way, like writing or calling those to blame for this kinda crap.....
I do applaud those who do help ddos sites of the mpaa/riaa/ice/exct....its not like its causing real harm but it also causes uproar and that helps spread the word...and hats a good thing.
quite wrong...if you want to see how alot of the anon stuff gets started visit 4chan, if you can stir enough outrage you can get anon users to take up your cause, its happened many times before and it will happen many times again.
if there where a set membership or leadership the govts of the world would have found and delt with them long ago, as anon(legion) has made them look bad more then a few times.
and for both AC's here, the cia/fbi/exct websites being taken down is normally by using a program called low orbit ion cannon by thousands/tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands or even millions of users at once, its not hacking, its called a DDOS, distributed denial of service, you can even do it using a web browser set to refresh a page constantly(way it was done in the distant past)
again, you people need to learn about the net and people on it... legion(anon) is the collective cautiousness of the net no 2 times anon acts will the group have the same makeup
good luck trying to find the leaders of anon.....you will just endup arresting random people for ddos'ing.....
those videos you refer to are all copycats made by varous people, mostly for fun, Anon is not a set group and never has been/never will be, anybody who takes up a cause long with other anonymous users is part of anon at that given time.
example(one you will hate) is that anon was against sopa/pipa, and those of us who joined the fight by spredding the word and sending letters/making calls where all part of anon at that time.
the fact is, if it was a set group, they would have been hunted down and dissapeared long ago, but its hard to hunt down a group thats got no set membership and that is just made up on the fly depending on the situation.
it would be like trying to figure out who was at the mall for a flashmob and who just joined in for the fun....
the war on drugs has been a great success at its intended purpose.
no, the intended purpose was NOT to stop illegal drugs, it was to make rich people richer, rich people sell the guns and other equipment to the govt to fight the war, they also run the prisons these people get locked up in, its all a big scam....its also why they keep pushing to make more and more things illegal to the point you can go to prison for them....hey make insane amounts of money per year housing non-violent drug offenders alone(pot heads who got caught with some weed for example)
as stated by others in reply to your post, vinyl is better due to mastering, It also has a bit more detail (most of it you cant hear without great gear and golden ears)
the thing is, the loudness wars dont effect vinyl because its a dead format(you can now get some newer stuff in it but its pricy as hell and sometimes is made from cd masters...no, im not kidding..)
a good test is to get the latest remasters of some beatles or eagles or boston and compare them to the vinyl versions....its shocking how bad the newer versions are.
good video on there that shows why MOST old versions soundbetter then their modern western masters.
mind you, I have been getting japanese masters or unmastered stuff alot lately because it just sounds better, even when converted down to 16/44 (really cant hear the dif if the files are down sampled and converted properly)
so tired of the loudness wars....makes me wana cry when i can hear the destortion from their shoddy work....
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I agree after reading alot about the founding of this nation, it was to be a UNION of STATES, currently we have states that are ruled over by the feds and even if the citzens of a state want to for example legalize pot, they cant really do it because the feds say "no, is bad, no pot for you"
I would welcome states having more power/control of whats allowed in said states.
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and those that did where production work at temp jobs(mindless Representative stuff like stacking plastic stuff and putting it in boxes)
if you cant learn to deal with distractions your not going to do well in most real world jobs....sorry but its a fact...I have been in board meetings where 1/2 the people where surfing youtube or facebook....(at least none of them had the audio cranked up...lol )
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not that i care....but damn....somebody who thinks bill nye is engaging and fun.....whos out of elementary or jr.high......wow..just WOW!!!
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I have had instructors who where GREAT who could engage even the most uninterested students, I have had others who where in subjects that should have been engaging who couldnt keep even 1/2 the class's attention past roll call.
funny enough, one was a communications class....the woman could not teach of communicate to a group(1 on 1 she was amazing to talk with, but to a group....like 2 dif people)
I think some instructors need to stick to being more of a small group or almost like a 1 on 1 type situation, I have seen this kinda thing work where a class had 2-3 instructors who ran it(took turns and such) each able to cover up for the others flaws....but im sure that costs more for the collage then 1 instructor even if they are horrible.
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But and heres the thing, If I dont really know the material and the teacher is even somewhat competent I pay attention till I do get it, took an english+writing coarse once(as an audit) and was very interested in some of the lectures, others I found to be "common sense", the funny part was, the instructor use to talk with us for the last 15min of the class and she didnt get upset when she asked me why I was reading a book rather then paying attention and I gave her an honest answer.
infact, about 1/3 of the class had off tasked at that part, the rest it was a mix of barly paying attention and people taking furious notes because they didnt get it at all...
in the end, she tweaked her teaching style and how she ran the lectures on some area's to include more question and answer and class interaction, if a student wasnt getting it the way she explained it, she would ask if anybody else had any ideas of how to explain it....really good teacher.
in the end she learned as much from the class as the students, and nobody failed who had shown up for at least most of the sessions. (had a few who couldnt seem to get out of bed for a 1pm class.....)
she also pulled me aside and told me if I ever wanted to take her class for credit she would just sign off on it as soon as I paid and may even have tried to hire me as her TA...
the funniest part is all thru my public school days i was SPED and treated like a screwup/moron/problem, because I wouldnt/couldnt sit thru classes that bored the living hell out of me...but i did excellent in classes that could engage me, at one point i was pretty much teaching one of the sped math classes(one of the subjects i dislike) because i was better at explaining things in different ways to people, as anybody who knows much about math would know, there are many ways to get to the correct answer not just 1....(thats true for most things in life honestly...)
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when he was trying to teach the class a negative minus a negative he went into this 3 white board justification of why it worked the way it did.....(i was in there to review his work)
he didnt get that he just was there to show them how to get the right answer, not to teach them higher math that most of them wouldnt need or wouldnt ever understand..
he also gave incorrect conversion numbers for stuff like converting 32f into Celsius....was really.....entertaining....
he was a nice guy but its pretty sad when the people who came every day had a 87% fail rate, but the people who never came other then to turn in and grab homework passed with flying colors.....
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so very true
one big one is big bang theory, never would have bothered with it as the shows adverts sucked, but i love the show now...
never would have watched it on their site because i hate the ads before shows, in shows and at the end on steams.....(could deal with 1-2 short breaks in the show but they always do more then that or long annoying ones...)
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1. if a company dosnt put their products into a set market, and somebody imports and sell them, they tend to take on a 1 year warr(if its a legit business)
2. if the company isnt interested in the market, why would they care if somebody gets mad and wont buy their products any more....they have no interest in that market....
3. I have bought and sold many imported products, many non-sourceable any other way other then living in the country of origin.
examples would be media players(mp3/dvd/video/exct), stereos, various random devices from sites like dealextreme.
never had a problem with anybody returning anything or being mad at me or the company who made the product just because they couldnt get easy support.
the funny part to me is, some HK and Korean companies have better support for us here in the U.S. then domestic options...I bought a video player for a friend, it acted up and he contacted the seller, they worked with him and the mfgr and got him a replacement, shipping was like 12bucks to HK (cheaper then had he sent the same exect package coast to coast..lol)
I have worked in businesses where we imported most of our goods direct from china, stuff you cant get here because enlarge the companies making it lack the money or market power/force to penetrate our markets on their own.....
also note: some of said devices dont meet specific state labeling laws, but thats mostly CA and their weird labeling laws....
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some however do take up the cause because they are sick of what they are seeing.
Let me be honest, I would install loic but...im to lazy to bother, and I prefer to deal with this kind of thing in a more mature way, like writing or calling those to blame for this kinda crap.....
I do applaud those who do help ddos sites of the mpaa/riaa/ice/exct....its not like its causing real harm but it also causes uproar and that helps spread the word...and hats a good thing.
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if there where a set membership or leadership the govts of the world would have found and delt with them long ago, as anon(legion) has made them look bad more then a few times.
and for both AC's here, the cia/fbi/exct websites being taken down is normally by using a program called low orbit ion cannon by thousands/tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands or even millions of users at once, its not hacking, its called a DDOS, distributed denial of service, you can even do it using a web browser set to refresh a page constantly(way it was done in the distant past)
again, you people need to learn about the net and people on it... legion(anon) is the collective cautiousness of the net no 2 times anon acts will the group have the same makeup
good luck trying to find the leaders of anon.....you will just endup arresting random people for ddos'ing.....
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example(one you will hate) is that anon was against sopa/pipa, and those of us who joined the fight by spredding the word and sending letters/making calls where all part of anon at that time.
the fact is, if it was a set group, they would have been hunted down and dissapeared long ago, but its hard to hunt down a group thats got no set membership and that is just made up on the fly depending on the situation.
it would be like trying to figure out who was at the mall for a flashmob and who just joined in for the fun....
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no, the intended purpose was NOT to stop illegal drugs, it was to make rich people richer, rich people sell the guns and other equipment to the govt to fight the war, they also run the prisons these people get locked up in, its all a big scam....its also why they keep pushing to make more and more things illegal to the point you can go to prison for them....hey make insane amounts of money per year housing non-violent drug offenders alone(pot heads who got caught with some weed for example)
bah....this govt.....
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as stated by others in reply to your post, vinyl is better due to mastering, It also has a bit more detail (most of it you cant hear without great gear and golden ears)
the thing is, the loudness wars dont effect vinyl because its a dead format(you can now get some newer stuff in it but its pricy as hell and sometimes is made from cd masters...no, im not kidding..)
a good test is to get the latest remasters of some beatles or eagles or boston and compare them to the vinyl versions....its shocking how bad the newer versions are.
http://turnmeup.org/
good video on there that shows why MOST old versions soundbetter then their modern western masters.
mind you, I have been getting japanese masters or unmastered stuff alot lately because it just sounds better, even when converted down to 16/44 (really cant hear the dif if the files are down sampled and converted properly)
so tired of the loudness wars....makes me wana cry when i can hear the destortion from their shoddy work....
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but i agree with your post.
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