Re: Bass guitar amps
Yes, I hear "Ampeg" occasionally. but I hear "Acoustic 360/370" much more frequently, and much louder (both in my dreams, and live.)
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Indeed, the newswire's source, "who was briefed on the meeting that included Twitter's general counsel and public policy chief", claimed the prez "spent a significant time" questioning Dorsey about where 204,000 of his followers had disappeared in July 2018.
Well, it's clear why that would be important to him, if he expects Gucifer 2.2020 to steal another election for him.
AB 25 – authored by committee chair Ed Chau (D-49th District) [...]AB 846 – authored by Assemblymember Autumn Burke (D-62nd District) [...]
AB 873 – from Jacqui Irwin (D-4th District) [...]
AB 874 – also from Irwin [...]
AB 1564 – from Marc Berman (D-24th District) [...]
These people are Democrats?!? I know it's hard to be a card-carrying Republican in California, but really??? I wonder what real Democrats like Elizabeth, Eric, Pete, et al...even Bernie1 would think of these DINOs?
1OK, so Bernie isn't a real Democrat in the strictest sense...he's an independent caucusing with Democrats. Still, as he aspires to be the Democratic Party's flag-bearer, I'd be interested on hearing him weigh in on this.
Increasingly the law of common sense seems to be missing in US law
The law of common sense was repealed officially when the Second Bush Regime was inaugurated. Never mind that idiocy of Security Theater that was put into play after 9/11, consider John Ashcroft's cover up of 2 statues he considered too revealing in the Justice Dept as Exhibit A.
I think a lot of them spend too many months basking in their accomplishment of getting elected and a sense of their own importance, and expect to be sitting at a desk fawned over while they sign things and end up dithering while they collect a huge salary (and gifts from contacts in business) and push paper around your desk (and usually off the desk into the bin when no ones looking) when it becomes apparent the work doesn't involve 'changing the world with a hand gesture and (what their PR person has settled on as) the best photogenic smile they are capable of.
i.e. Herr Drumpf.
Except, of course, for the smile thing. No one has successfully figured out how to make a cat's anus smile photogenically.
Have you ever wondered how some issues become so entrenched in American society that they become impossible to resolve despite widespread frustration from both the public and the majority of lawmakers - topics like abortion and gun control? Well, this is how. Net neutrality is now officially an impossible topic.
Kieran, from this and the rest of your screed, one could easily assume you are a "I want it all, and I want it now" immediate-gratification Millennial. And possibly, one from the other side of the Pond, to boot. To quote the Firesign Theater, "You don't understand how radio works!" Yes, this is posturing, to a degree. but the Democrats have learned from the Republicons how to play a Long Game (or at least, a longer game). Democrats have now demonstrated to their base, each other, and to the Republicons, that they can win on this issue. Looking forward, you may well find this buried in, say, an appropriations bill, or maybe, a military authorization, that the Republicons (and Herr Drumpf) wouldn't dare veto. Plus, they have just given themselves yet another campaign issue they can beat the Republicons over the head with come 2020.
A chess game is not won on the first move. Patience, Grasshopper....
It is remarkable that the White House comms team didn't seek to license the music, perhaps because they were concerned it wouldn't be approved.
Well, given Herr Drumpf's absolute disdain for any of the laws of the country1, that his campaign staff ran this out in clear violation of said laws should surprise no one with a pulse, and most of those without one. Of course WB wouldn't grant this asshole rights. Just more lawlessness from the Law-Breaker in Chief.
1Except, of course, the Libel laws, which he wants strengthened to insure he can pop anybody who has the audacity to state that the Emperor has no clothes. That law he'll insure gets enforced.
The move is one of the provisions in the ironically titled Taxpayer First Act, [...]
Those of you on the right side of the Pond might be surprised to learn that, here in the Colonies, our Government has refined the art of Titular Misdirection to a very fine point. (Or not....) So you can be assured that anything labeled the Taxpayer First Act will ensure that the Taxpayer so identified will find him/herself trailing the elephants in the parade.
If they are seizing your equipment under color of law, then they have to follow the rules, don't they? ;-)
Short answer: No
Longer answer: Shirley, you jest. This is the USofA, Co, Inc. Fuck Yeah! We (and only We) decide what the rules are for this hour subject to change without notice and yer gonna like it whether you like it or not!
Not to be outdone, Greg Walden (R-OR) started his statement by pointing out that only one witness was a Republican and then – seemingly unaware of the obvious contradiction – complained that the Democrats on the committee weren't considering a bipartisan legislative approach.
Typical Republicon -- never let the facts get in the way of a good party-defined-and-dictated talking point.
"Our choice is are we involved, are we trialling, are we engaging, are we finding ways to make this technology work in a way that benefits people, or are we just going to sit back and let it happen?" said the Canberra government's chief minister Andrew Barr in a recent interview to a national news outlet ABC.
And we are voting your dead asses out of office!
One of the facets of a monopoly is erecting barriers to entry of a market. Facebook has done that repeatedly (you did read the article, didn't you?), by leveraging their dominant position in one market (so-called "social" communications --- much of which is not all that social) to erect barriers in others (ref. SnapChat). That is textbook monopoly.
Here's a little experiment for you: Go ahead and create a competitor to one of Facebook's niche, perhaps a little Instagram, and then observe first-hand what a monopoly can do.
I just had a little deja-vu. Don't know where it came from...oh, yes. I remember now...it came from posting many posts like this one back in the early-to-middle nineties when some uneducated sod would try to tell all and sundry that Micros~1 wasn't a monopoly, either.
A bit unfortunate for Linux fans, those not in the vanishingly small group of Edge users, or those simply giving Google's products a wide berth.
Since the vast majority of Linuxistas eschew both of those groups as if they were lepers, I can't imagine why they would even consider this; they would instead use the client.
For that matter, why in the world would anyone want to use a Web-based Skype, even if it did work on something other than the most notoriously leaky browsers on the face of the planet?