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Originally posted by Arvind Birla:
If that is the case then I feel insulted. I'm outta here.
Originally posted by Arvind Birla:
why do you assume they wont understand?
Originally posted by Doug Slattery:
I was going to mention soldering irons
Originally posted by Ben Souther:
"Expect six to eight weeks for delivery".
Originally posted by Bryce Martin:
Saddest of all though, they won't know what its like to go a single day without hearing the word terrorist.
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You're right, but for the wrong reasons. The mob tried very hard to avoid killing non-mobsters (aside from people refusing to pay their taxes/extortion). The rules were that cops on the take would look the other way at the gambling, prostitution, etc. in their districts in exchange for their pay-offs; but when an innocent got caught in mob war crossfire, they'd shut the rackets down until the perpetrator was caught. Typically, the crime family employing the hitman would dump his body in front of the police station; the crime was solved, the public hysteria died down, and everyone could return to business.Originally posted by Joe Ess:
Don't be so sure. The United States was awash with rum-runners, bootleggers, speakeasys and mobsters in the early 20th century. The 21st Amendment wiped them out almost overnight (yes, remnants remain, like the Chicago "machine" and NASCAR, but they aren't what they used to be).
Originally posted by George Harris:
I surprised that nobody mentioned that kids won't understand the word "NO".
Originally posted by George Harris:
I surprised that nobody mentioned that kids won't understand the word "NO".
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Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
I still get plenty of paper catalogs in the mail, but when is the last time you filled out a paper order form and sent it in through snail mail? I honestly can't recall.
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What we need to do is to decide how many tigers, lions, and cheetahs we can afford to lose each year, and auction off hunting permits to ultra-rich sportsmen -- the money going to the people who live in the vicinity. Then those people will have a huge incentive to do whatever is necessary to stop poachers and protect the animals' habitat.Originally posted by Sripathi Krishnamurthy:
Our kids wont understand what is a Tiger , Lion or a cheetah. They are shot and killed for their skin everyday in some part of the world. Just like we imagine and make movies on dinosaur, our kids will make movies on Lion, tiger and cheetah. Believe me this day is not far off..
As on February 12 2008, there are only 1411 tigers in India.
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They might go for the short term vision, and cash in on those 1409 remaining tigers.Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
What we need to do is to decide how many tigers, lions, and cheetahs we can afford to lose each year, and auction off hunting permits to ultra-rich sportsmen -- the money going to the people who live in the vicinity. Then those people will have a huge incentive to do whatever is necessary to stop poachers and protect the animals' habitat.
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Originally posted by Russell Bateman:
But, I grew up with 1/4" tape in addition to those other media and just want to say that if you think the sound reproduction of ear buds and the crapola speaker systems
They miss out on the subtleties of the full rich timbre of the rapper's voice.Originally posted by Russell Bateman:
You know, these days we like to grind on the old vinyls and cassette tapes. But, I grew up with 1/4" tape in addition to those other media and just want to say that if you think the sound reproduction of ear buds and the crapola speaker systems that come with boom boxes is any kind of technological advance over what we were using (admittedly at the higher end of things) in the 1950s and -60s, you'd be in for a surprise. We couldn't afford the "whole wall" speaker systems people were building, but we always had stacks of huge woofers, mid-range speakers and tweeters that easily out-did what most kids seems to be listening to today. I think we've accustomed ourselves to accepting far worse music reproduction than in those days. The only place things are consistently and predictably better is in the car.
Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
They miss out on the subtleties of the full rich timbre of the rapper's voice.
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Originally posted by Nicholas Jordan:
"I had to walk a mile to school."
Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
... I don't know when it all died, but the average college kid in 1970 had stereos that were pretty damn good.
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Originally posted by marc weber:
Music seemed far more important to us when there were no computers, no video games, no cable television, no DVDs (or VHS), no online shopping, no cell phones, no texting... Today, these things all compete for the time, attention, and money that used to go towards music.
Yeah, but all those people recording on independent labels are still people I've never heard of.Originally posted by marc weber:
Also, it used to be that if an artist didn't have a contract with one of the (few) big labels, you never heard of them. Now, independent labels are all over the place.
Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
Yeah, but all those people recording on independent labels are still people I've never heard of...
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Originally posted by marc weber:
I remember a guitar teacher who said something like, "You know how some music is so good it gives you chills? That happens less and less as you get older, and you spend a lot of time trying to find music with that effect." For people hooked on music, I think it's like a narcotic. You keep trying to recreate those initial rushes, but you've acquired a "tolerance" because you need something different to get that same effect, as if you're hearing it for the first time. And the more you've heard, the less there is that's new.
I think this is one reason some people get stuck listening to music of "their own era." Today's music might not be any better or worse than what was around when they were 20-ish, but it's basically playing on the same emotions, so it doesn't have the same effect on an older listener because they're not in that place anymore, and they've already felt that rush. So the new music seems lacking, and they recycle their own memories by playing the "oldies."
Originally posted by Nicholas Jordan:
... How about a MOOG emulator programmed on a 7-bit CDC 7700? ...
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Originally posted by marc weber:
Hmmm... I understand there now are software emulators of Roland's Juno-106. I have one of those collecting dust over my turntables.
Originally posted by Nicholas Jordan:
... Judging from your citation, I need to ask if turntables means Lazy Suzan or turning the tables on ( a person generally ) after building trust...
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Originally posted by marc weber:
A pair of Technics 1200's.