Good playback software can eliminate those, e.g. foobar.The problem with mp3 is with live recordings, coming with a mandatory blank that skips between two tracks.
Good playback software can eliminate those, e.g. foobar.The problem with mp3 is with live recordings, coming with a mandatory blank that skips between two tracks.
Medical science surely has a long way to advance in psychiatry, hopefully in a few years the big book of nutters will be consigned to history books along with phrenology. But it's better than what we had before, which isn't much comfort for the people who need help now.A lot of people are something resembling a DSM diagnosis. I'd say that book is one of the most magnificent power grabs I can think of. All they had to do was write and publish it and then, by some astonishing magic I really haven't been able to fully understand, a goodly part of normal human experience was ipso facto pathological and therefore under the professional purview of the shrinks whose club published it. It's so successful that it changed language: ordinary people commonly talk in its terms instead of our own.
Please God, No!!Just give him the polite tip to sign up to ASR
That big book represents, among other things, the result of a concerted attempt to rescue psychiatry from subjectivism that had brought it into a crisis of disrepute. That book is psychiatry stepping out boldly in its new scientific clothing. It's a story quite well told in Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test. It's a funny, short, easy, engaging read I recommend.Medical science surely has a long way to advance in psychiatry, hopefully in a few years the big book of nutters will be consigned to history books along with phrenology.
That is a great book, he is an engaging and interesting writer, his books never end up where you think they will.That big book represents, among other things, the result of a concerted attempt to rescue psychiatry from subjectivism that had brought it into a crisis of disrepute. That book is psychiatry stepping out boldly in its new scientific clothing. It's a story quite well told in Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test. It's a funny, short, easy, engaging read I recommend.
Who on Earth has the arrogance to take upon themselves the authority to define normal human behavior (which the DSM does by elimination, i.e. enumerating all deviations)? To me it is an appalling idea, misguided and unethical at its core. Anyway, the answer is plainly those who warm their soup at that fire.One of the things I don't like about a lot of the current diagnoses is the use of the term disorder or other negative terms, when a lot of it is just classifying types of people who are different from some mythical normal.
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Ghost him. There's no use in trying to extinguish a house fire with a squirt gun.I have a friend that is a ranting technophile that knows little to nothing about audio electronics, audio files and what sounds good and why and he constantly rants and raves about flac files and MP3 being inferior as he listens to 50 year old crappy recordings and claims flac is so much better and look at his topping DAC sampling rate display and how it is so great. He is so unapproachable about facts and figures and rants about facts and figures that he imagines are superior. I have relegated myself to doing the, "Uhu Uhu" thing in effort and hope that the subject will simply pass by. I am near my wits end on the stuff and am becoming very annoyed at his arrogance, rudeness and persistence while using ridiculous analogies to describe electronics and software stuff. I am a polite guy that does not like confrontation and every time I attempt to state facts and figures he gets aggressive and overbearing. How is this experience for you peeps and how do you handle this sort of interpersonal rubbish? I mean we do it everyday here @ ASR but when it is in person it's a whole different dynamic and more annoying. I actually left his pad today with the excuse that I need dinner because I needed to get away. >@^_^@<
You can handle one more, can’t you? Drop of water into the sea…Please God, No!!
Yeah, perhaps he should be pointed to this site but suggested he just reads & lurks for a few weeks until he's absorbed what's going on - might get his audio viewpoints changed just by reading.
Straws, camel’s backs and all that.You can handle one more, can’t you? Drop of water into the sea…
It is pretty normal though to try to get the last word in when having any argument or debate with someone, but it's good not to let things get out of control though, and to try to keep perspective.Interpersonal stuff - it is hard...
I feel you frustration - right here in this forum, many members makes you go bonkers. "Why the insistence on having the last word?" "Why does this person does not recognize that by being here in ASR we agree fundamentally, I am just stating a preference?".
And yes, a lot of the times, I cannot help but to assume personality and/or mental health disorders!
I do try to recognize and reign in my own issues. I am weirdly triggered but many things, real or perceived. I do try to be forthcoming about them, not sure if it is wise around here, but hey, I do feel like the better person for it!
One cannot predict how persons are going to interact and connect. As a minority, my MAGA dear friend from work should scare me, but amazingly, we get along very well, bonding over audio and Rush ( ha! kind of cliche for him, but hey...). So there you go... to the OP, you can let it go, post here as therapy. Just make sure the interaction stays healthy - after all, you used the word friend - be patient and understanding.
IMHO
It'll be good for him though!You're quite the optimist.
I have been keeping my distance and not spending anywhere near as much time with him. I avoid going to his place where he seems the most annoying. Things are better this way. We still gab on the telephone sometimes and meet up in the common area of the building where he usually does not rant.Any updates from @Doodski in Canadia?
Getting in the last word and concluding your correctness is the goal for both sides in every argument. As the temperature rises, especially noticed during recent political views, the idea of censuring the opponent is especially desirable. That way you declare yourself correct, stay in power AND get the last word in. Then Bam! cut him off. Very advantageous.It is pretty normal though to try to get the last word in when having any argument or debate with someone, but it's good not to let things get out of control though, and to try to keep perspective.
Bad idea! Rant could turn to rage. If he goes over the edge you may never see Doodski again. Back away, slowly.Actually, all @Doodski needs to do is link him to this thread after he's advised his friend to have a look at ASR - just so he can see we've been talking about him, lol!
Alright. I had words and he said he is slightly bipolar. He still ran roughshod over me in that discussion but he admitted it. Now I must figure out how to handle a bipolar talking machine.
Sounds fine to me.I have been keeping my distance and not spending anywhere near as much time with him. I avoid going to his place where he seems the most annoying. Things are better this way. We still gab on the telephone sometimes and meet up in the common area of the building where he usually does not rant.
Haven't heard it since the 1970s but used to be a California health food eatery quip: "Breath-airians eat for free."I, not so long ago, ran into some people that sincerely believed that, if you truly tried, you can live on daylight....