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Of course it is the answer. The A Bomb was the answer in WWII...but if we'd waited on it and done nothing to stop the spread of that disease they'd have been in NM long before we could even test it. Dave

Well, my opinion on the law is no better than yours on simulation algorithms. But I would hope so and that if this really starts going to hell such negligence will be a recognized offence. Dave

Except those who insist that it is their inalienable right to spread death as they see fit are still with us in numbers high enough to kill untold numbers. Dave

Rather partial to Galveston Bay crab, oysters, and shrimp. IMHO in oysters and shrimp nothing from anywhere comes close to Galveston Bay. For shrimp, I know why. I love the taste of iodine in shrimp and these are MUCH more red stained than those I've eaten elsewhere around the world. As to oysters, rather doubt that is it...just preference. Dave

Guys, on topic I suggest you read the attached PDF from my local paper today. The statisticians credibility is high due to his position and working with Dr. Ben Neuman who is eminent in virology nationwide. This is VERY serious. Note his demonstrated margin of error is 1-2%. I don't know about you, but if someone predicted a tornado who had that degree of demonstrated accuracy I would GET IN A HOLE! I meant what I said, but most of you know it takes an awful lot to get me riled. This has me riled as I feel like the house is on fire and some are saying, "It'll be OK" or "It's just your imagination." Dave CovidTX.pdf

Agreed. Some parts of Texas if you serve a group something you call chili and it has beens, somebody is going to say "This stuff's got beans in it." That will be followed by another saying "Get a rope..." Dave

STFU! If this keeps up and I continue to drool I will have to start hiding posts...😜 Dave

Stay away from induction. At full blast the are likely to ignite fusion. Dave

Absolutely not. The mere mention makes me want a Cuban or grouper sandwich. Some good eats down there... Dave

Fascinating. I'd starve. I have soft boiled eggs at least twice a week and they turn out absolutely perfect every time. Of course, scramble is about the level of boiling water. Perfect basted fried eggs is a bit of an art, but once you get there it's automatic and failure is very rare. Rarely do poached and some of the lesser used methods but none require a great deal of effort. Dave Good thing you aren't in Texas. Any Texan who can't make credible Texas Red or BBQ brisket is at risk for pickup by Texas ICE for immediate deportation to some culinary area they fit in, like Rhode Island. Dave

Is THIS sarcasm? Being unable to cook an egg is simply incomprehensible. Dave

Agreed. Not sure where that is from but no adult could survive on that per week for very long and work. My folks were adults and they said it was hard but I do not recall them ever saying that had such miniscule amounts of meat, sugar, flour, bread, etc. Dave

From this I'd say you are good. Most people these days spout a party line even about science. As I said, I have had it with those who somehow know the TRUTH and ignore the rest of us who don't. All we know is that people are getting sick and dying, and some of us have targets painted on us. Dave

Gents, consider this a shot across the bow. Next one will be below the waterline and into the magazine of this thread. I am perhaps the most permissive moderator on the Forum but you will be seeing my aggressive side here. I truly value freedom of expression whether I agree or not. Love a good debate. BUT the science deniers here who somehow believe it is their constitutional right to ignore science and put others lives at risk have my attention. I really feel like locking this cesspool is perfectly justified, but in times like these we NEED to be able to discuss this existential threat to our lives and our nation. So. will leave it be. I buried a beloved friend who apparently joined the "hoax" movement and faked her death, funeral, and burial very convincingly and was probably infected by a true denier who refused to wear a mask and infected her. I am high risk of drowning with a tube in my throat alone if those idiots who refuse wear masks in public keep it up. Even if you doubt science the least you can do is give it the benefit of the doubt unless you really do not care if you kill me or someone else. If you claim this is a political plot to take your rights and you insist on your right to breathe on me or whoever you want, I will hide your post. If you do it a second time I WILL BAN YOU FOR LIFE and do so without a second thought regardless of how long you've been here. Go ahead, make my day. Your friend, Dave

Appears to be about right...

And we are fighting it the way we handle police actions. We need to fight it like WWII with victory as the only option. Dave

Agreed. Real wars are battles to survive, not police actions. The American way of total war was proven by Sherman. Fact is that Sherman loved the south and its people. However, his job was to quell the rebellion and he killed every soldier or sympathizer in his path across Georgia, destroyed everything in his path, and took anything of value with him. But he publically said that all they had to do to make it stop was to lay down their arms. When when Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to William T. Sherman on April 17, 1865, Sherman agreed to let them keep their weapons, horses and pretty much to be simply turned loose. That was promptly rejected by the Union cabinet in Washington. Another meeting had to be held (April 26) to agree on military terms only, in line with Robert E. Lee’s recent surrender to Ulysses S. Grant. This effectively ended the war. Since then, major successes in that level of conflict were demonstrated by Patton and the A-Bombing, and most recently by Operation Linebacker II which broke the back of North Vietnam in the fall of 1973 with total air war exceeding the thousand plane raids of WWII and resulted in their caving in to the Paris Peace Accords in January. Yes, I am sadly aware of the myth of "...the only war we ever lost..." but it is just that, pure myth. WE failed in that when NV totally broke the treaty two years after we were completely gone except for embassy guards, our national will was as weak as it is today and we choose to let the honor of those who fought and won that war mean nothing. It really is a downer to note how few know anything about history. Dave

Of course, I was not around for that but all the adults I knew were and it was only a few years in the past so was talked about constantly. Never heard a single one say the bomb was not the best thing we did in that war. There was no sympathy for the Japanese. Everyone knew our soldiers gave up trying to take prisoners as they simply refused and tried everything they could to resist...so we simply burned the, bayoneted them or whatever. Of course, it WILL happen again. We've just been lucky. But when it does we need to forget about this "humane war" crap or we'll be incinerated or enslaved. War is about the last side standing, nothing less, nothing more. The victor decides what war crimes are and who committed them. We certainly didn't charge hardly any of our own during WWII even though such crimes were committed on a large scale and daily as the war went on. Yes, their was Calley in Vietnam, but we darned near "humaned" ourselves to death there and left the dirty tricks to the enemy for the most part. Having been there, I certainly know many who committed such "crimes" but fully understand why the did what they did. Calley was a real war criminal and the officer who put his Huey between Calley and the South Viets was a true hero. Dave

Always have...but we have not been in a war since WWII. Some we sort of acted like we were, but none have been fought as a war should be and with a formal declaration. We did our last truly heroic fighting defeating the Tet offensive even though it was very much like Pearl Harbor or the Battle of the Bulge and with Operation Linebacker II where we destroyed the enemies will to resist resulting in the Paris Peace Accords. Of course, they broke the treaty after we were two years gone and claimed the victory...but claiming victory over an absent foe is pretty weak. Later stuff is techno victory against those who cannot be considered worthy enemies. A worthy enemy cannot be fought humanely if you want to survive. They must have ruin brought to them until they surrender or are destroyed or they will do that to you. The current generations simply know little or nothing of the experience of war. Dave

Whole thing is a non-debate. Far more were killed by conventional bombing. Many times more would have died without the bomb. Once you are in a war, you kill people and break things until the other side stops. Humane warfare is a contradiction in terms. Dave

I was a teenager before ever tasting mayo. Threw the sandwich away as I thought it was Miracle Whip that had gone bad. I can eat it now, but not on ham or BLT sandwiches. When I was growing up even the burger places used MW. The homogenization of cultures brought on by the chain restaurants changed everything. Dave

Seems to me most of the world ran on 12AX7s when I was a kid. Dave

Violent disagreement here. I was asked to transcode PWK's entire personal library of R2R to digital. I did it in accordance with IASA and National Archive standards using a top of the line R2R and dsf ADAC. Some of these were made as early as 1954 and are equal to anything being made on the finest equipment of today and far better than the vast majority of it. It is completely unreal and I am thrilled to the bone everytime I listen to them. Jazz, pipe organ, choral, and his incredible "Johnny took father's shoe bench and set it down over here" imaging tests that really set the standard for mic placement. Like his Cardinal Rules, to the extent one deviates from his recording methodology the fidelity suffers. Get in touch via email and we can discuss how you can sample some of it. After all, you are a tube guy. Classic ribbon mics and vacuum tube condensers from many decades ago are still state of the art. 15 IPS vacuum tube R2R is as well for the same reasons. The only reason I don't use R2R for location work today is that it is extremely expensive and bulky. DSF equals it if used with vintage analog gear. Dave

I can tell you that from my well over half a century of engineering and listening I would hear no significant difference not requiring far more money than the small improvement that might be noted except in source quality. As a recording engineer, maybe that is the bias I just by just as you've learned to hear things that do not matter to me. I am sure you are long past, as I am, debate about that for which there can be no objective proof. As one of our Forum members signature line states: "If it measures good and sounds bad, you MAY be an audiophile. If it measures bad and sounds good, you MAY be an audiophile." Some are equipment hobbyists, some are music hobbyists. I tend towards music though have to pay attention to the reproduction chain to get as close to the live experience as the recording will allow. The easy way to determine the type of audiophile you are is to ask yourself "Does your favorite music create that special feeling regardless of the quality of the reproductive chain?" A music lover will say yes. My son and I were sharing port and cheese the other night and he put on FM of some solo keyboard material. Material, performance, and engineering were outstanding. We were listening in the kitchen on a vintage Panasonic SA-XR25 Class D HT receiver with Radio Shack LX-5 speakers (Lineum 360 degree tweeters). At the moderately loud volume we were listening I had zero desire to run to my listening room for the Heritage setup. Further, it made me tell the story of my own highly regarded piano recording methodology. As you probably know, the piano is often the make or break instrument for recordists. I developed what I consider to be a rather unique approach and made my first test of it in 1998 using a DAW of my own design, 1936 RCA ribbon microphone paired with a Russian Octava ML-56 ribbon (RCA DX-44 knockoff of excellent quality) and a vacuum tube preamp. I was headed somewhere and when I came out and started the car I heard a piano recording that I could tell was extraordinary and assumed it was the radio. I marveled! Got the "I wants" for it right away. After a couple of minutes I realized it was MY recording that my wife had apparently been playing on a CD. Self double blind test is pretty hard to arrange! Anyway, that is the source of an aphorism I created that defines my approach to audio: "It's all about the source material. You can't fix crap." Dave

Beg to quibble. Maynard didn't offer a theory...he quoted history and measurements. Your second line in caps IS true. "If it sounds good, it IS good." You mentioned 18,000.00 interconnects earlier. I have always said it is metaphysically absurd for a person to think they can know what another hears, so I never cry "humbug" about such things even though I hear nothing now between K'horns on zip cord or those on pricey "special" wires and did not in my younger years when my hearing was judged to extend to at least 22.5khz. I've decided that some teach themselves to hear differences and then they decide one is better than the other. In my case, I hear even now, massive differences in source material accuracy on even a car radio and can still determine whether it is the material or a component in the equipment chain causing it. Different wires? Nothing, though I insist on 100% copper just to be safe. 😜 I'm rather glad I never learned to discriminate in such areas. Top quality speakers and reproductive chain as per PWK is expensive enough. Dave