I still don't think I've ever seen anyone with a Bose Wave, no matter how many infomercials and -color glossy ads they run in tech magazines. Especially considering that the first ones from the 1990s were mainly just a radio, and I know I equate FM radio with high fidelity. :lol:
Hehehehe. Sounds like they were saying "it's popular, so it sucks" rather than anything about witchcraft or any other pseudo-religious twaddle.
Not really. It's more like that one popular book that offended them got targeted while 10 books that did the same thing but had less press snuck by due to relative obscurity.
Hehehehe. Sounds like they were saying "it's popular, so it sucks" rather than anything about witchcraft or any other pseudo-religious twaddle.
Not really. It's more like that one popular book that offended them got targeted while 10 books that did the same thing but had less press snuck by due to relative obscurity.
Did they ban A Series of Unfortunate Events?
Hardly anyone did, apparently the author was really disappointed.
Also I went to a Catholic school, so my school banning the Harry Potter books is to be expected.
Also the school sent home a parent-teacher letter when the HDM movie came out, basically telling our parents that if they took us to see it they'd burn in hell.
tbh I kinda wish more games were plotless like that nowadays.
Don't get me wrong I like deep-story indie stuff as much as the next John McElroy, I just sometimes feel that games for games' sake is kind of a lost art anymore.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Hi people.
I'm up earlier...all that sleeping I did last night made me un-tired this morning. It'll come back to bite me later, but *shrug*
The first post in this thread, as run through Gizoogle.
Thou shalt not discard too nuff piecez of trash at one time fo' realz. A phat rule of thumb is ta discard two and three at da most thugged-out, if yo ass straight-up feel tha urge ta do so yo, but generally stick ta one.
Thou shalt not discard excessively big-ass trash items here. Generally bustin lyrics, Supreme Court decisions, novellas, polistical n' religious tracts, n' chartaz of posse institutions is also not trash. But fuck dat shizzle yo, tha word on tha street is dat even if it aint nuthin but trash, like fuckin a miserable big-ass pile of adenines, disposin em here makes tha higher-ups supa pissed fo' realz. And when higher-ups git supa pissed, our crazy-ass asses can no longer smoke up ill thangs, like fuckin havin a place ta discard our trash.
It is estimated that Bose has spent more dollars on advertising last year than ALL other high-end companies COMBINED. Does it have an effect? Sadly, yes. A few years back, the United States Air Force signed Bose onto a multi-million-dollar contract to design noise cancellation headsets for Air Force flight crews. Bose won the contract over two other companies simply because of their "more established name" (brand recognition). The concept of a noise cancellation headset is to actively monitor the noise frequencies emitted from a jet engine and the turbulent wind, and reproduce the exact signal 180 degrees out of phase, thus theoretically canceling it out completely. Many reputable manufacturers have successful done so as well. Bose produced a model that cost approximately $1000 per unit, which failed to cancel out a significant amount of noise. The company used the contract as an opportunity to unload obsolete parts from years back. Bose pawned off thousands of outdated interface connectors for which there were no longer commercially available mating jacks, and incorporated them into the headsets. The Air Force, proud as it was, didn't scrap the project, but instead spent countless millions more replacing the consoles in a number of aircraft to make them compatible with the said headsets. In the end though, the Air Force did terminate the contract when test crews found that the headsets were ineffective and non-durable.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I can't recall any books being banned at my school, which strikes me as weird in retrospect since it was relatively rural and conservative as hell.
We had a pretty extensive list. Including a book that was only banned after I brought up its contents to our principal, because I was a little prick at the time.
Also Walk Two Moons was banned for some reason. Even though it was still in the library.
I don't quite get that one either, iirc it was on the list for promoting racism or something weird like that, which makes no sense at all, though it has been a long time since I read it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The one thing I do remember was when we read the first Harry Potter book in seventh grade.
The teacher sent home a handout that said, basically, "Hey parents, we're reading Harry Potter in class, sign this if you want your kid to get an alternate assignment."
really i thought banning books was against the law until like 3 minutes ago
Not in schools it's not. Especially not in private schools.
There was a big list tacked on to the library with single-sentence reasons behind each banning. Some of them made sense (His Dark Materials), others really didn't (Walk Two Moons, The View From Sunday, Sophie's World).
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
It is estimated that Bose has spent more dollars on advertising last year than ALL other high-end companies COMBINED. Does it have an effect? Sadly, yes. A few years back, the United States Air Force signed Bose onto a multi-million-dollar contract to design noise cancellation headsets for Air Force flight crews. Bose won the contract over two other companies simply because of their "more established name" (brand recognition). The concept of a noise cancellation headset is to actively monitor the noise frequencies emitted from a jet engine and the turbulent wind, and reproduce the exact signal 180 degrees out of phase, thus theoretically canceling it out completely. Many reputable manufacturers have successful done so as well. Bose produced a model that cost approximately $1000 per unit, which failed to cancel out a significant amount of noise. The company used the contract as an opportunity to unload obsolete parts from years back. Bose pawned off thousands of outdated interface connectors for which there were no longer commercially available mating jacks, and incorporated them into the headsets. The Air Force, proud as it was, didn't scrap the project, but instead spent countless millions more replacing the consoles in a number of aircraft to make them compatible with the said headsets. In the end though, the Air Force did terminate the contract when test crews found that the headsets were ineffective and non-durable.
Oh wow
And you'd think Bose would do a better job, considering that the AIR FORCE is a pretty high-profile client. :P
The part about disposing of obsolete parts bugs me the most. Military equipment is expected to last a while (10-20 years at minimum, I hear), and you'd think they'd at least use standard parts that are available from multiple sources and weren't about to be end-of-lifed.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I went to a private school for a few months when I was 6.
Thankfully this was still about two years before I became an atheist, so the religious aspect confused me but it didn't grate on me like it would have later.
I've labeled myself as apatheist. I find religion interesting from an observer standpoint but have no particularly strong feelings on faith one way or another.
It is estimated that Bose has spent more dollars on advertising last year than ALL other high-end companies COMBINED. Does it have an effect? Sadly, yes. A few years back, the United States Air Force signed Bose onto a multi-million-dollar contract to design noise cancellation headsets for Air Force flight crews. Bose won the contract over two other companies simply because of their "more established name" (brand recognition). The concept of a noise cancellation headset is to actively monitor the noise frequencies emitted from a jet engine and the turbulent wind, and reproduce the exact signal 180 degrees out of phase, thus theoretically canceling it out completely. Many reputable manufacturers have successful done so as well. Bose produced a model that cost approximately $1000 per unit, which failed to cancel out a significant amount of noise. The company used the contract as an opportunity to unload obsolete parts from years back. Bose pawned off thousands of outdated interface connectors for which there were no longer commercially available mating jacks, and incorporated them into the headsets. The Air Force, proud as it was, didn't scrap the project, but instead spent countless millions more replacing the consoles in a number of aircraft to make them compatible with the said headsets. In the end though, the Air Force did terminate the contract when test crews found that the headsets were ineffective and non-durable.
Yeah, you just wish you were as cool as Charles Knight.
I sometimes get teased for being sincerely devout in a room full of cynics. Then again, I'm the sort of person who believes that all religion is above human criticism and question, and gets uncomfortable when anyone disagrees with the Pope.
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You must have studied Shakespeare.
^Well yes, but his plays not his sonnets.
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark was not.
"Bose" made me think of
(I have never seen the movie this song is from)
pretentiousnesssss Did they ban A Series of Unfortunate Events?
Hardly anyone did, apparently the author was really disappointed.
At one point we had a teacher who read the first book to us, and she regularly stopped to ask if we really wanted to continue, though.
yea
seamus heaney is cool. he likes bogs
i have bose earphones, they are okay
my speakers are dreadful but its not like i have any money to spend on speakers
hahahahahahahahahahaha
hold on
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
ooh boy.
Also I went to a Catholic school, so my school banning the Harry Potter books is to be expected.
Also the school sent home a parent-teacher letter when the HDM movie came out, basically telling our parents that if they took us to see it they'd burn in hell.
So good I ripped it off.
tbh I kinda wish more games were plotless like that nowadays.
Don't get me wrong I like deep-story indie stuff as much as the next John McElroy, I just sometimes feel that games for games' sake is kind of a lost art anymore.
The first post in this thread, as run through Gizoogle.
Also Walk Two Moons was banned for some reason. Even though it was still in the library.
I don't quite get that one either, iirc it was on the list for promoting racism or something weird like that, which makes no sense at all, though it has been a long time since I read it.
Oh, hey, it's my Monocle-Wearing distant Relative, Ghilorst the Cognizant. You can't see his monocle because it's on the other side of his head.
Dude should really stop posing naked for sketch artists, though.
Lolita and Fifty Shades of Grey are banned at my school.
Not in schools it's not. Especially not in private schools.
There was a big list tacked on to the library with single-sentence reasons behind each banning. Some of them made sense (His Dark Materials), others really didn't (Walk Two Moons, The View From Sunday, Sophie's World).
He wants to be drawn like one of those French girls.I would've preferred to go to public school yes.
But I didn't exactly pick my own education.
I hated private school.
Initially I got picked on for being the only genuinely religious kid, then later I got picked on for being the only genuinely non-religious kid.
Also I got into a fight in 8th grade and lost a tooth. That was fun.
Yeah, you just wish you were as cool as Charles Knight.
I sometimes get teased for being sincerely devout in a room full of cynics. Then again, I'm the sort of person who believes that all religion is above human criticism and question, and gets uncomfortable when anyone disagrees with the Pope.
stop
get on the floor
everybody
d o t h e d i n o s a u r
Listening to a tape by DJ Clarknova, otherwise known as Jason DeMarco.
It's actually alright.
R.I.P.