Um, no. (I'm a US citizen too btw)
Just because historically uninformed people throw the words 'socialist' and 'communist' around interchangeably (which I guess to Merriam make make them vernacular 'synonyms') that doesn't mean they're the same thing, any more than Sweden and China are the same by virtue of being socialist. Communism was an outgrowth of socialism, it is a *kind* of socialism. There are others, just like there are different kinds of systems for practicing capitalism.
On 11/30/12 10:46, Paul Garfunkel wrote:
It's funny that those who historically take from the US, have their countries defended (rescued) by the US think they know how to do things better then the US. I only wish those people could look through the looking glass and realize that without the US they would not have the freedoms they have today.
When you have disasters we give you money and assistance.When we have a disaster you do nothing, where is the out poring of world support for Hurricane Sandy ?You point fingers and do nothing to better your situation without our assistance.BTWCommunism is a synonym for Socialism
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:39 PM, realafrica <paul.gambia@gmail.com> wrote:
Nice points Lokks but most of the sheep on this planet, especially in USA it seems, think that socialism is either Communism or Farcebuck.
On Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:06:20 PM UTC, lokkerman wrote:John
Very valid points and for those of us that care, it appears that profit, or in a lot of circles greed, comes foremost over global stability, well-being, the use of resources and the things us all need to have.
We are in need of the word that has now become a stigma and that is true socialism, which is not by any means related to old world communism, but the fact that we need to build a society that is balanced and cares and that it is not financed by the people at the bottom. It is most obvious that over the last ten years that the least pay for the most, which is by nature anti-society.
From: surrou...@googlegroups.com [mailto:surrou...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Kleitz
To: surrou...@googlegroups.com
Sent: 29 November 2012 20:29
Subject: Re: [SurroundSound] Re: Surround in the car
Point taken, Promise to shut up now. Ta
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Steven Sullivan <ssu...@panix.com> wrote:
proudly ignorant of topic: check
expresses vehement opinion about that topic: check
declares itself a troll: check
makes typo while boasting of superiority: check
You do keep rising to expectations, I'll give you that.
On 11/30/12 01:36, lokkerman wrote:
On nil to me
From: surrou...@googlegroups.com [mailto:surrou...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steven Sullivan
Sent: 29 November 2012 20:05
I know you haven't a clue. No need to elaborate the point further.
On 11/30/12 01:30, lokkerman wrote:
And hey I do know that someone who has followed tosh research, with tosh dummy heads can come up with tosh dummy science
But in fact it is academically proven (BS, BS. BS) by the tosh dummy heads themselves, now how’s that for a fact….?
But then if you subscribe to tosh dummy head philosophy, peer reviewed by peer tosh dummy heads, it has to be correct hasn’t it? Cos’ if it wasn’t it wouldn’t be accepted by the tosh dummy heads, therefore got to be right? Accepting that tosh dummy head science is correct in the first place, however to challenge it you need to be a tosh dummy head. Now watch you grab this one?
From: surrou...@googlegroups.com [mailto:sur...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steven Sullivan
Sent: 29 November 2012 19:23
And the ignorance continues. If you understood what perceptual coding is, you would understand that that analogy is ludicrous.
On 11/30/12 00:47, lokkerman wrote:
SS
If I come to you and remove 5kg of your flesh and give you 5Kg of similar tissue (but not yours) as a replacement; would you accept it?
From: surrou...@googlegroups.com [mailto:sur...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steven Sullivan
To: surrou...@googlegroups.com
Sent: 29 November 2012 19:11
Subject: RE: [SurroundSound] Re: Surround in the car
Maybe someday this list will get beyond the ignorance that lumps all MP3s together , ignoring the roles of bitrate, codec, characteristics of the source music, and playback equipment. But today is not that day, apparently.
On 11/28/12 13:48, lokkerman wrote:
Cannot agree more and a lot better put than me
From: surrou...@googlegroups.com [mailto:sur...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of realafrica
To: surrou...@googlegroups.com
Sent: 28 November 2012 07:33
Subject: Re: [SurroundSound] Re: Surround in the car
I won't attempt to cover everything, point by point, in reply to pj-mckay
I am a great fan of new technolgy, even though it was me saying I have to play cassettes in the car because it has no CD player and I would not swap out cassettes for CD anyway. I have some CDs but they are a very minor part of my music collection.I was looking for a way to swap it out to play flac. I fully agree that SD cards / USB sicks (both) would be fine as carriers instead of spinning discs or tape and their cases all over the place! But, why! oh why! degrade sound to MP3 when one can use flac, just as conveniently? Much more conveniently for me, as I don't possess any MP3s to play and I'm not about to convert my 8TB music collection to MP3 when it is either flac already or easily converted to flac.
I have never bought into the con of iTunes walled garden, mostly because, before Apple, $ony had ATRAC as their propriety empty3, and software that played them. I bought many of them. Then $ony ditched both ATRAC and their player and I could no longer play the files I had bought from them!
WTF!
Since then, I boycott $ony and side step the potential for the same scenario with iTunes. Historically, iTunes could not play my growing collection of flac either, so they were pretty useless to me anyway, as I'd moved on to lossless flac and grown up enough to no longer have a use for empty3. But that's just me. If others are satisfied with the iTunes deal let them enjoy it.
I just can't get it through my head why this free, open source format called flac is not as readily available to use in car audio as that other free open source format called mp3?
pj-mckay I like your SD cards, I like USB sticks, even SSDs in the future maybe, but why not put some nice flac on them rather than empty3? Well I gues you are forced to aren't you? After all what car audio can play any flac? It's outrageous, it's not sensible. It's just market forces that always get dumbed down to cater for the masses and I protest it!
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