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Great film.Great movie. Spectacular cast. Not to everyone's taste
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MarkS
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The accurate and honest info is readily available to them. All they have to do is listen blind.
So I don't have too much sympathy for them. Caveat emptor.
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I would argue that you don't even need to spend 8K to get an excellent sound and hit diminishing returns pretty hard.
actually what happens when shaped charges don't strike tanks? I actually am genuinely curious, lol
what I do know about shaped charges mostly comes from when they actually strike tanks at the right angle (fusing is extremely important and must balance between speed and safety, the distance the metal lining-turned-projectile must travel must be just right to ensure maximum penetration, the metal lining doesn't actually melt, the ductile metal lining just heavily deforms into a spear-like projectile due to the immense stresses of the explosion, etc)
I had a good friend in ROTC (1980s) who told me about candidates who still placed mines like that backwards in training, provoking an epic chewing out.
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If spending a fortune on superfluous cables makes someone happy so be it. It's good for the economy. I am always amazed when the people who buy such nonsense become angry when one points out that the science doesn't support the extravagant claims about cables. But, if one has the money that's fine.
The claymore is a shaped charge, which means that it tends to put a lot more explosive forward rather than backward, 800 1/4" steel balls and all. What some, um, users did not understand that a large amount of explosive force went backwards as well. So one idiot strapped one on both front fenders of a supply truck and could detonate them from within while driving. He apparently thought that all the force would go forward. Well, he paid with his life to discover that it did not work that way at all. Blew the truck and himself to smithereens at the push of his button.
I agree that the snake oil cables are a waste of money that could go elsewhere and do some good. No question there. Good cable performance is readily affordable, even to us chickens, bedawk! NASA engineers must laugh their heads of at that stuff. Thing is, so much other stuff is the same way, with homeopathy (NO active ingredient in the product) being an arch example of the genre. Then there's the whole health supplement industry that's beyond the boundary of potentially useful things like vitamins & minerals. Gotta have yer minerals, ya know!
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My ex wife spent 500 a month on “dietary supplements” and plenty more on her health advisor, a whacky woman from Florida who thought she could speak to bears. Every time there was a bear attack in the news I was very hopeful…
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That has always been my argument against, specially super expensive audiophile cables, and even more specifically super expensive digital audiophile cables. Doesn't matter
1) If you can afford them
2) If you have the freedom to buy whatever you want
3) If you are happy with them
Give that their benefit is not provable, It is still a waste of your resources. Only only hope that at least the employees of the audiophile cable company are making a living - however, I have always wondered, if they get paid according to the price and not according let's say, number of products manufacture (probably not that many) or sold (probably even less)... Given that there is a good chance that the price of the BOM is way less than the asking price for these things...
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Like the teleportation tweak?
I don't agree. Getting these very rich pple to spend is actually good for economy. We have to understand that these people have so much money that 20-30K for a cable is nothing to them. Even 500K for a pair of speakers is trivial to them too.
At this level, its about brand name rather than value or performance. Just like luxury bags, do you think the BOM cost anywhere close to the bag's price tag? Even services they pay are on differen level from the rest of us. They could spend a few thousands just for a haircut that looks no different from one that cost $50.
Yes, furthermore, its not even a fortune to these pple who can afford it. Its just loose change to them. Their spending means people get income and support jobs. These cable companies need to hire people to make and sell cables. These pple gets paid and they have money to spend, which goes back to these rich pple (their companies).
Its a cycle...Those who studied economics would know about this.
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No, this crap damages our natural resources. Copper for example is harmful to mine and to smelt.
Our "economy" does not exist in a magical unicorn vacuum where products appear from nothingness, and it would be far better served if the rich used their money to buy something worthwhile.
Our "economy" does not exist in a magical unicorn vacuum where products appear from nothingness, and it would be far better served if the rich used their money to buy something worthwhile.
Damage?? Maybe you should ask where most of the copper goes to. Worthwhile?? What is your definition of worthwhile? Do you know that hifi is actually a waste of resource as well? Look at how much resources is needed to make your amp, DAC, speakers etc... All it does is produce sound for personal entertainment. A cheap $20 speakers produces sound and use way lesser resources. Don't get me started on power consumption.....