The Big Lie 2.0

[rubato]

Haley Barbour, the fattest pig on K-street, shows you how its done:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket ... g-that-bad

LieLieLiar

'Racism 'wasn't that bad' in Mississippi in the 1960s.
'the White Citizen's Councils actually suppressed the Klan'.
'Being a Lobbyist is good training to be President'.

yrs,
rubato

[@meric@nwom@n]

It really hasn't dawned on you yet has it?

[dgs49]

Please state your credentials to make judgments about the state of race relations in Yazoo City, Mississippi in the late 1960's.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Or are you basing your evaluation on your own peabrained impressions, based on years of watching Andy of Mayberry?

[rubato]

It really hasn't dawned on you yet has it?

What has not yet dawned on me?

yrs,
rubato

[loCAtek]

She's going to tell you no one is listening, which contradicts her listening to you, in order to tell you that.

[rubato]

In the larger sense, no one is listening either.

None of the conservatives/republicans on this board has engaged in a conversation about public policy connecting inputs and outputs, defended the Repuglican record in screwing the economy into the worst disaster in 80 years, or been able to justify a tax policy which adds trillions to the deficit solely to advantage the richest 1-5% of the country.

They cannot do so.

I think it is worth pointing this out on a regular basis.


yrs,
rubato

[dgs49]

I am reminded of the old 8-track tapes that I used to have for my car stereo.

If you left them alone, you would hear the same songs over and over again, forever.

But you couldn't record on an 8-track - it was one-way, out only, no input.

[dales]

As an aside...

SONY Corp. did indeed market am 8-Track recorder.

I recorded my LP's onto 8-tracks and saved money by not having to purchase the same music again on 8-track.

eta: BASF of West Germany marketed blank 8-track tapes.

[rubato]

As an aside...

SONY Corp. did indeed market am 8-Track recorder.

I recorded my LP's onto 8-tracks and saved money by not having to purchase the same music again on 8-track.

eta: BASF of West Germany marketed blank 8-track tapes.

I remember the wonderful sound quality as the desert sun gradually erased tapes left in the car for very long.

yrs,
rubato

[oldr_n_wsr]

But you couldn't record on an 8-track - it was one-way, out only, no input.

I had an 8-track recorder.

[dgs49]

Please pardon me if I gave the false impression that 8-track recorders did not exist.

Had you read and pondered my post, it was a metaphoric reference to the constant repetition of rather dubious themes of argument by the person who goes by the name "rubato." The reference to an "8-track" was not intended to be a historically and technologically comprehensive explication of this thankfully-obsolete device.

However, having raised the technical issue, I might point out that such RECORDERS were problematic in the extreme, for a couple of reasons: The sound quality was poor, compared to other technology of the time. The mechanical reliability of the devices and the tapes themselves was spotty. Recording was made very difficult by the fixed duration of the tracks, that is to say, if you didn't want the tape to advance to the next track in the middle of a song, you had to take great pains to time each song, with the invariable result of having long dead spots on your recording.

I still have, in my attic, an extensive collection of music that is not only bad aesthetically, but is recorded on these obsolete cartridges, with no player in sight. And since the storage area regularly reaches ambient temperatures in the 130's (F), they may be garbage in yet another way.

Is the topic exhausted yet?

[oldr_n_wsr]

Is the topic exhausted yet?

Only if everyone wants it to be.

[dales]

Speaking of 8-tracks...

The basic mobius loop technology survived well into the 1990's in broadcasting to play spots, id's and jingles.

(it was a full track system)

[Lord Jim]

I never owned an 8-track...The first car system I had was a cassette player, other than that it was albums...

[oldr_n_wsr]

I had one of those Boom Boxes (I think that was it's real name) that was shaped like one of those boxes you use to set off dynamite with the plunger serving as the track change switch.

Wait, here's a picture of it.