Posts Made By: James Brown

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

"I'm going to attempt to introduce to the audiophile market......"

I think the audiophile market would want full range bass response, though...

The low E on a bass guitar is 41.2 Hz, the lowest note on a piano is 27.2 Hz.   Kick drums, organ pedals....

Lots of music below 70...

Dave

Rich - David is absolutely correct here.  Assuming you want to sell speakers!  Most audio buyers trust the marketing, including frequency response curves, far more than they trust their ears.  So w/n you or any particular consumer has wide-frequency hearing is irrelevant.  Jim

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

No, don't need a subwoofer.  For one thing, I'm not interested in 70 Hz sounds.  I can't hear below about 40 Hz.  And at around 9 KHz I don't hear anything anyway.  That's on a good day. 

And the SPL as well as the decibel level needed to drive any sounds at the 40 - 70 Hz level would need to be way up there for me to be able to hear it so I've never felt the need to invest in a subwoofer.  It wouldn't add anything to the music I like to listen to. 

Here's a fun test to check your own hearing:  https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/how-high-can-you-hear-video-frequency-hearing-test/

Thanks for the input though!  

Just did L and R ears with my one-sided, office headset. about 11k and 12k respectively.  Pretty good for a 61 year old!   I've never worked construction though, that has gotta take a toll.  

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Trump talked about grabbing pussies and since then anything is fair game and won't affect the MAGA and GOP base no matter what they do. Herschel Walker paid for an abortion when he claims he is a christian and pro-life? So what, it's legal? Gotta own the libs at all costs?

Fer instance, you were okay with the way your boy Donny spoke about his former cabinet secretary and the wife of Sen. McConnell? You didn't fain your outrage in that thread, you never even commented. 

Hi Jim:

I have not done a deep dive on this story, but still - Walker allegedly paid for an abortion.  Maybe he did, maybe he didn't.  If I was a GA voter, I would want to assess both sides of the story as carefully as I could.  

Do you think Justice Kavanaugh tried to rape Christine Blasey Ford in high school?  I do not, based upon all of the evidence and commentary I was able to read, but I know lots of people who believe the allegations wholeheartedly.   We all gotta admit our political bias when faced with these sorts of politically expedient allegations.  Jim

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Rich consistently claims that the GOP is the party of morality and character while the Democrats are depraved and intellectually bankrupt. However, it is impossible to get him to admit that the GOP is a party that has lost its moral compass. It doesn't matter how much evidence you present. He will twist, turn and deflect and ignore all of it. It would be easier to nail jello to a wall than get Rich to admit that the GOP has no conscience when pursuing and exercising power since its embrace of Trump and MAGA politics. I'm not saying Democrats are not capable of political blinders and partisanship, but right now, at this point, the GOP is off the charts regarding their moral collapse.

I get it that this is a politics forum James, but you are painting with a pretty broad brush here.   Trump is not the party, no more than Clinton is/was the Democratic Party.  Heck you were pretty persuasive the other day demonstrating that Trump is at the end of his road.  Joe O'Dea is the party in my state.   Nikki Haley is my preferred candidate for President in 24.  I think they are reasonably moral, although I do not know them personally.  The Republicans I know and work with are as moral as any typical group of Americans.   I'm hopeful that we will get a batch of inspiring and moral candidates in 24, who are not in their late 70s or 80s.  We'll see. 

I believe the last news cycle has been pretty bad for Democrats.  The polling is showing that the Roe effect might be short lived.  Gas prices could re-spike in view of OPECs move yesterday, over Biden's strongest objections.  The recession is still looming.  The major polls show that the voters care about the economy far more than any other issue, and they trust the Rs on the economy by  a lot.  Harry Enten is no partisan hack.  Here is what he says:   https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/republicans-lead-midterms-qualified-enten/index.html

Here is pro-Biden CNN reporting that Biden's efforts to influence OPEC were a total diaster:  https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/white-house-lobby-opec-oil-production-cuts-gasoline-prices-midterms/index.html

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Justice I Like Beer is appointed for life so he's irrelevant to the discussion.

He really isn't irrelevant Jim.  After a lifetime of seeing weakly supported but opportunistically times allegations against candidates and nominees, my default position is "wait and see," not "believe the woman."  I am confident that  many voters feel the same way.  

As an aside, our D governor in Colorado has remained free of allegations of impropriety to my knowledge.  Good for him.  But the two Democrats who proceeded him in the Governor's mansion were well-known womanizers.   At least Hickenlooper was single.  Romer was caught canoodling his aide in a car at the airport.  I don't know if that was when he was Governor or chairman of the DNC.  Apparently he had an open marriage.  At 70!  My point is not that this sort of behavior is OK, or that Walker's hypocrisy is OK if the allegations are true.  My point is that politics seems to attract immoral men.   So does any sort of celebrity.  Power corrupts and so on.  Wilt Chamberlain claims to have slept with 20,000 women.  Probably an exaggeration,  but I am pretty sure that he or any sort of male celebrity, including national politicians, has slept with more women than any of the anonymous regular citizens I know.  Obama and Bush seem to be exceptions.

So, it is hard to get too worked up about it.  Sad but true.  

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

Meanwhile, have you heard this one? Republican nominee for governor of Colorado, Heidi Ganahl, recently announced “Have you heard about this story? Kids identifying as cats. It sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it’s happening all over Colorado and schools are tolerating it.”

What the heck is going on here? Sounds like the pot in CO is a bit more potent than the stuff they're selling here in CA. LOL

Did you read my thread about Joe O'Dea?  the thread is not getting a lot of traction, too local I guess.  Joe is my guy.  Nothing looney about him.  I have not read much about Ganahl.  Certainly have not heard the cat story.  If what you say is indicative of her overall candidacy, I'll have no problem voting for the D Jared Polis.  He is a good governor in my opinion, reasonably well liked and very very likely to win.  Jim

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

Meanwhile, have you heard this one? Republican nominee for governor of Colorado, Heidi Ganahl, recently announced “Have you heard about this story? Kids identifying as cats. It sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it’s happening all over Colorado and schools are tolerating it.”

What the heck is going on here? Sounds like the pot in CO is a bit more potent than the stuff they're selling here in CA. LOL

p.s.  I have never been a pot smoker, not even in high school or college.  But, I know plenty of folks our age who do or have, and according to them, the pot strains nowadays are wickedly strong compared to the weed of the 70s and 80s.  I imagine that's the case everywhere, not just here in the "Mile High" city!

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

The party is completely unrecognizable from the party I used to support.  I have to wonder what people like Reagan or Dole would think if they were to see it now. I'm sure they'd disown it, just like me.

I understand you and James' points.  As James and you both note implicitly, a large chunk of the Republican coalition longs for leadership like Reagan/Dole.  Obviously another large chunk loves the swagger and machismo of Trumpism.  "Own the libs, nothing else matters."  Who will win out this battle for the soul of the party?  The party leadership is malleable.  They will ultimately reflect what the people want.  This is not new.  I like some of the current trends, but Rome was not re-built in a day.   Give it a couple years and we will see.  This election cycle will be informative.  As will '24.

It goes without saying that the left has its own "win at all costs" factions, and it distresses me that so many on the left nowadays try to stifle dissent by any means possible.  (See my thread about Berkeley Law) The current left wing affinity for casting differences of opinion in terms of good v. evil keeps me from even considering joining the Democrats, even though I was happy to vote for Biden.  I feel strongly that the Democratic elites and the mainstream press created Trump by "othering" the gun and bible toting deplorables in flyover country.  The resentment hard-core maga types feel may not be justified, but it is not entirely without basis.  I myself am prohibited from discussing the legal nuances of the Dobbs opinion around my wife's advanced degree family because they would be triggered.  In their view, the only reason to support the justices' reasoning is an evil and mysogynistic soul.  Appreciation of Constitutional law has nothing to do with it.   

I think the process of philosophical reversion to the mean is underway in the Democratic Party too.  I hope so.  Jim

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

However, supporting them with your vote while hoping for positive change only supports the status quo. Losing elections promotes change, which is why I've adopted the slash and burn approach - vote against very R in every election until real change in the party happens.  It's really unfortunate that this is the case. I've said it before; I would like nothing better than to have a tough choice between two good parties/candidates. Obviously, both parties need to change for that to happen. Will I see that in my lifetime? i doubt it, but right now the Republican party is just too toxic.

You live in California though.  Doesn't that make slash and burn easy?  What are the odds of an R winning a national office, even if you voted for her or him?   (Maybe you live in one of CA's few R house districts?)   Also, when will you be satisfied with the real change?  Will Trump losing the primary in '24 be enough?  

Also, supporting new-wave Republicans does not support the status quo!!!  There is nothing toxic about my R Senate candidate Joe O'Dea.  He beat the Trump (and DNC) supported Maga candidate.  (I feel like his Astromart campaign manager by the way, but O'Dea has already secured both available Colorado AM votes).  

If I took your slash and burn theory to heart, I would, in a few short weeks, be voting against a pro-choice, reach across the aisle, anti-Maga, fresh face Republican and instead voting for a stale Democratic do-nothing bureaucrat from the Clinton era who has about as much in common with Colorado as Nancy Pelosi.   I am voting for change, not the status quo!  Especially when there is an outside chance that O'Dea wins, thereby moving the Senate in a direction I like.  How is voting against O'Dea going to help reformulate the party?  I am not naïve, I know that if/when O'Dea loses, the MAGA crowd will say "see, these Romney-like moderates never win!."  So it goes, that is a risk I must take, because if O'Dea wins he can be a catalyst for national change and it will be good for the country! 

Bottom line, I think your slash and burn idea is a horrible idea in states where new-wave Republicans are running and have a chance of winning.   

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Gentlemen.....Our fiscal issues are on the verge of becoming the most significant issue BY FAR over any others. With the national debt hitting 31 trillion that is bad enough. Add the rising interest rates on servicing that debt we are fast reaching the point of being unable to pay the interest and run the government. This is looming hard and fast and it is going to hurt, creating a spiral we may well not be able to overcome without a lot of pain and suffering if at all....

A majority of the country agrees with you.  https://news.gallup.com/poll/402167/americans-economic-pessimism-eases-slightly-september.aspx