MystikIncarnate

To be fair, if a record is made correctly, it actually has significantly more sound information than any digital recording.

It's hard to compete with analog since analog doesn't really have a bitrate or anything. The precision is functionally infinite.

Meanwhile, they gave us the Redbook standard and unless you go looking for it, pretty much everything is a similar quality or worse, digitally. Digital is convenient, but not higher quality.

Records (true, genuinely analog records) are the Holy Grail of sound quality as far as I am concerned. The problem is that a lot of companies are taking CDs and just playing them back on to vinyl, making them sound like complete shit.

To demonstrate the point. Have you been on hold recently? Hold music sounds like shit huh?

What if I told you that hold music used to be kind of decent. That's right, most companies are using VoIP, which is lower quality than the old analog phone lines of old, so anything that's played is compressed to all hell and back. You don't really notice it with voice, but as soon as that hold music kicks in, you can hear that something is wrong with it.

Depending on how sensitive you are to the musical distortion of digitisation, that can be similar for CD quality content.

I'm not crazy over vinyl, I can't be bothered with the inconvenience of maintaining a player, and I don't have the money they're asking for a new player; so I'm firmly in digital media. I just understand the appeal of vinyl.

Oh man, this reminds me of the Sony Trinitron my family had growing up. We inherited it from my grandparents on my dad's side when I was very young.

My grandpa died before I was old enough to remember him being alive, and my grandma we lost to dementia/Alzheimer's not long after.... So we got their TV.

Worked great for so many years, but somewhere around the 25-30 year mark, the picture had all but lost most of the color and I'm pretty sure that we had a failure in one of the emitters so one of the colors would only sometimes be there. We didn't keep it around after that started happening regularly.

It was like this, a huge cabinet on wheels, and it was flanked by two massive speakers the full height of the unit, and about 10" off each side of the screen.

That TV was home to our NES and SNES consoles for a long time, and eventually our Sega Genesis.

We had a lot of good times sitting on the floor playing games on that thing.

Breathalyzer interlocks should be more common.

This is exactly it.

Does anyone want to talk about the "share with Facebook" and other similar social media links that track you?

No?

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My boss disagrees with this.

I think their entry requirements are doing exactly what they're supposed to.

The problem is that intelligence, even if we could measure it correctly, doesn't and shouldn't imply what a person knows, nor their experiences and the wisdom that they carry.

Someone can be learned with a low IQ. Someone can be wise and similarly low IQ. In the same way, someone with a high IQ can be unwise.

The problem with having only one individual metric for a group which believes themselves to compose the smartest people, is that they're arrogant. I know plenty of people who are so extremely intelligent that I am certain that they could be a part of Mensa; yet, they are not. When they looked into it, they decided it would be unwise to become a member, given the requirements and the attitudes of, and about, the group.

Hell, there's a decent chance I could get in. I've never tried and I don't care to, for all the same reasons, so I would never know if I could "make it" or not.

Their arrogance and hubris is their undoing.

... Or wisdom.

You won't get a down vote from me.

Anyone who has tried other methods and had to resort to this because it's the only thing that worked... That's respectable effort. Using an adjustable collar and slowly ramping up until it provides the desired effect is also key in my mind.

After that, as long as you're not intentionally sitting on the remote until the collar runs out of power, I'm pretty okay with getting things done using the methods that are required to do it (as long as the outcomes are not illegal, that is).

Lovely dog. I'm glad you were able to provide a good home to them. Take care.

What about crating your children?

Asking for a friend.

In the instance you specifically cite, depending on the laws in their specific jurisdiction, that can certainly happen. I'm aware that there are laws in some/many areas (honestly not sure how common it is), that I've heard referred to as "Romeo and Juliet" laws. They specifically exempt people from such charges if their ages are too similar.

Of course the specifics are going to depend on the laws in the specific jurisdiction where it happened, when it happened.... But I'm aware such laws exist.