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I don't see how dropping them "resolves nothing", but I would drop them entirely between siblings. That's simply not part of English language performance, and thus must be liquidated.


Last-names only. "Hey, Smith!"
Used to be the rule in English boarding schools, by the by.


"John" instead of "Mr. Smith".

Oh, I agree perfectly that the "under god" is simply an arcane ritual one needs to submit to in the courtroom. It's just like a witness being instructed that he shouldn't lie: Everyone already knows that he shouldn't, and everyone knows that he will. The institutional setting however requires it to be made explicit - ritual.

But, your earlier question looked to me as though you were speaking in favour of the "under god" keeping anyone from lying, which I reject. What stands between people and the most outrageous lies is not the "under god", but the threat of severe legal punishment if they get caught.

The basis of perjury being a serious offence and heavily punished?
The law, to quote M.L.A. Hart, in this is "the gunman situation writ large"; no gods necessary.


What's even more funny is that anyone would believe that adding "under god" grants protection against communists. It's like a medieval spell against frost, or something.

They need to be dropped and rendered differently.
This may be notoriously hard to do in modern English, with its different sense of politeness, but it is simply one of the requirements an able translator must meet.

A graceful, consistent English text is most important to me.

I'd be out the door within seconds.
I enjoy animal rutting as much as lovey-dovey soft sex, and over the years I've come to terms with dominance play, but intentionally inflicted pain is where I draw the line. S&M is a hell no for me.

Kindly follow instructions below:

I'd take the oath as prescribed, win the case and go home, done. A courtroom is rarely the appropriate place for political protest, especially when just a small fraud case is on trial.
The courtroom as an institution simply does not smile upon infractions, no matter how minor. This has little to do with the courtroom being biased against atheists; it's biased against obstructionists. The most wise course of action, if you wish to win a small trial like that, therefore is to swallow your pride and conform to the arcane conventions of the court one hundred per cent, and win the case because you put up no resistance to the institution and its rules.

Once, in middle school, when a bunch of turkish kids tried to extort money from me by way of force, and never again.
I abhor violence and I despise all those who resort to it.

Cumulus and ResourceSpace are digital asset management systems which function as an interaction interface between the object cloud and the user.
The user builds custom collections out of the general object pool by choosing either object-inherent attributes, or by choosing user-attached attributes.
The user may then view, edit, export or share selected objects or collections.

This means that the user may access data without worrying about actual data management; for large-size object pools (20000+ objects), manual management (e.g. by means of file hierarchy) becomes quickly unfeasible and is best left to automation.

For more information on how to use ResourceSpace, kindly refer to the Quick Start Guide or the Official Documentation.

Relevant related identical thread.

intelligence requirement met by user IQ=500

That.
More moral freedom, less hysteria.
Less idiots on the internet.

Prove to whom, why and how?

First you claim there's no audible difference between lossy and lossless formats, then you do an about-face and claim you can hear it. So, which one is it? Choose your master!

I don't see the sense in proving it, and whom you'd want to prove it to as the one and only person mattering in how you store your music is: you.

Proving it is easy enough, though, as lossy compression employs psychoacoustic masking, which is always designed to accommodate an ideal average listener, which means it will produce acceptable quality for most real listeners, but perfect quality for no real listener. Furthermore, the masking model is always optimized against a limited set of reference samples, which can never do the real-world range of acoustics justice. These facts alone provide ample theoretical proof that lossy and lossless compression will inevitably never sound exactly the same.

As for practical proof, book a sound proof room with reference equipment and a staff of independent experts and do a double-blind test on a sizable set of samples extracted both from music you habitually consume as well as reference audio (such as the infamous EBU V3/SQAM), and you will soon hold your proof in hand - whatever good it may do you.

This is my very mature revenge for not having been on YOUR all-deciding, meaningful list of cool kids who can come out and play -

/wrists.

I like all people who are nice to me, as opposed to those who make it a point to piss all over my face from day one! I also like people that make good posts.

folks who have stood out thus far, off of the top of my head:
mattarat: has always treated me with outstanding friendliness from day one out. an all around nice guy to talk to, too.
tranquility: likewise extraordinarily friendly and level-headed. A pleasure to speak with.
doswillrule: I've rarely met anyone as unrelentingly civil on the entire internet.
tegumi: I appreciate a working sense of sarcasm, and a clue. Tegs has both.
rbz: Knows a cute douche when he sees one. Knows what I like.
kuroneko: I force him to watch movies. He grudgingly obliges.
penelopesays: Always been nice to me. Likes La Jetée, AND THEREFORE HAS TASTE. Can't forget the importance of taste!
fierypenguinofdoom: One of the handful of people that make SD really interesting, because while we may disagree every now and then, his posts lead me to reflect on my views every so often.
whitelion: A pleasure to argue with, because he tends to present a well-reasoned argument and maintains a certain civility (which I appreciate) even in the most heated debate.
ziggyotaku: I enjoy her posts, she's friendly and often has an entertaining little story to tell.
gentle jichan: Джимми, пой! Держи гитару!

vio: makes the best nosebleed threads.

Relevant related thread.

My choice from there:

That's basically what pulp writers do.
A tough and warlike field of work, and unlikely to reap huge profits, because so fiercely contested. But a tried and tested one.

Neither. That dichotomy sounds like it will make for horribly bad sex.
I tend to assume a passive role in bed, but I'm not an inanimate corpse.

This thread demonstrates very efficiently what's so terrible about 4chan even only existing: People can't even troll properly any more these days. They think they're being witty, yet they end up being as lame and boring trolls as the OP.

Nonetheless I will dispense knowledge:

1. FLAC makes sense as a format because it's lossless compression, meaning that you have a compressed (conserving storage space), yet clean source from which to transcode into different, other formats. How this makes FLAC the dumbest thing ever (you acknowledged this purpose yourself in your OP) can only be explained through terrible trolling.

2. FLAC makes sense as a format because people with an absolute sense of hearing can easily distinguish between FLAC and 320kbps mp3 and often experience the mp3 format's inherent optimization ("sparkle") as highly unsettling.

3. Finding portable mp3 players that play back FLAC takes about five seconds worth of googling. Mine can!

The following are what you seek:
1. Canto/Cumulus, the very mother of DAM.
2. ResourceSpace (free) might also be able to play in a native window without calling an external player, you'll need to check for yourself.

Frankly, that is just the prolonged arm of the Dolchstosslegende and a laughably poor excuse for genocide and military aggression.