| Anyone using K-metering ? [message #91050] |
Sat, 06 October 2007 08:53  |
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John [1]
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Registered: September 2005
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DC
>You are so right. I sent a little doggie to the other side a few years
>back. My eyes were off the road for probably one second. In that weensie
>little bit of time, I could have braked just enough to have avoided him...
> Hope all your leftovers get taken care of quickly.
>MR
I've done that one too, except I did not lose even a moment of concentration,
he just ran out like a bullet....
I cried for hours, I must admit. Sometimes this world really sucks.
thanks for the nice words.
DC"DJ" <animix _ at _ animas _ dot _ net> wrote:
>Be glad your daughter's head didn't impact the windshield. This happened
to
>me in a rearender when I was just a little kid and .........well........you
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| Re: Anyone using K-metering ? [message #91144 is a reply to message #91131] |
Mon, 08 October 2007 11:06  |
Dedric Terry
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>>getting to hang with Bono? Suppose there is no one to
>>save us? then what?
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>>DC
>>Instant runoff voting or some other preferential voting system would
>help avoid "lesser of two evils" voting.
I do like your thinking, but I believe there are some issues with it.
IMHO...
Firstly, the implementation paradox. Neither of the major parties are likely
to bring in something to diminish their duopoly as "THE major parties". Hence
it seems likely you'd need a minor party/candidate to win in order to get
it happening. In other words, to change the system so that a minor candidate
can win, a minor candidate has to win. Catch 22.
Secondly, we have preferential voting here in Australia, and while I do think
it's, well, preferable, it's not some wondrous solution to the faults of
democracy. Our federal election is in a month, and a recent poll just showed
that the leading party has 47% of the primary vote (ie 47% of Australians
are going to choose them as no.1 option). In other words, while we are perfectly
able to do otherwise, for some reason the general population votes for the
major parties as first preference regardless of the fact that you can, effectively,
vote for both the majors as the last two options, and in effect, your vote
ends up with one of them and has the same strength as it would have if you'd
voted them as no.1 if you get my drift. In some ways it makes things worse.
I don't think it's "the problem" as such.
The problem, fundamentally, in both the U.S. and here, is that the public
think there are only two options and vote accordingly because they don't
want some "weirdo" getting in (ironic really). One would suggest that a massive
education campaign is required to explain to the common man why this line
of thinking is flawed, but who is going to do it? The major parties obviously
won't. Nobody reads books (well, not enough). The media? The media would
argue, and disappointingly they have a point, that their role is to report
the status quo, not alter it. I realize they are far from doing this well
in many cases, but they actually do it reasonably in this case. The media
would simply say that:
(*) It's not our job to enforce deliberate change.
(*) The major parties are currently most likely to win.
(*) Because the majors will win, we should focus reporting on them.
And you and I would say:
(*) It's because you focus reporting on them that they win.
And they would point out that:
(*) Even if we adjusted our reporting, the public is so set in the idea of
voting for a major party that most will do so anyhow.
(*) The only way to change this mindset would be for the media to deliberately
re-educate the public for a decade, perhaps several. At what point are they
pushing their ideals, when their role should be to simply report what goes
on.
See my point? It's an unfortunate collaboration of catch 22's.
The only way around it that I can say is to have some amazingly intelligent,
charismatic, ethical, and powerful individual take leadership of one of the
existing major parties in order to enforce some major changes and help educate
the public. Unfortunately I've got other things on at the moment. ;o)
Cheers,
Kim.I cant get any bandwidth from either server. guess ill have to wait a week
for some bandwith. get half way and the server ju
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| Re: Anyone using K-metering ? [message #91146 is a reply to message #91144] |
Mon, 08 October 2007 11:50 |
John [1]
Messages: 2229
Registered: September 2005
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mix
>that only contained 1 track of UAD plugs..Uad Fairchild and =
Cambridge. I
>still got clicks and pops (about 6 total). when I get rid of all the =
UAD
>plugs there are no cl
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