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I suppose that applies to homosexuals too. But I was trying not to go there.

True, but circumstances are often less than optimum. I honestly can't remember when circumstances were normal....

I haven't a clue what the circumstances that led up to this murder were, but I'm guessing they weren't "normal". The sheer volume of abuse by men against women, children and other men...sex trafficking, slavery, mass murders, suicides, cultlike behavior, the existence of brutish forces like the Taliban.

And none of this is new or different from the centuries and millenia behind us.

And of course this is my personal opinion...what else would it be. I'm often wrong and admit to being stupid at nearly every opportunity.

It's in my nature.

Well over 40% of female homicide victims are killed by an “intimate partner.” In other words, all those women buying guns for their safety would probably be better off pointing them at their old man. (By the way - one of sources I read noted that murder of women by strangers is exceedingly rare.)

Olive is right; this thread is about one woman and one man. But it has been generalized in a way that is both infuriating and,frankly, ignorant.

If you want to talk about this, fine, but educate yourself
as to the size of the problem. Understand that no one cares who you want to “do.” No one cares what was common in previous centuries. Because you know what? While they were looking for this woman’s body, statistically another woman was killed by her “intimate partner.”


I just realized why I’m so angry. I have held you all in a certain esteem. I can’t say that’s true of.

[quote=Ken Condon/]

Ken: the bald truth is I don’t care WHAT you do about it, so long as you don’t use it to justify violence. And as long as you don’t tell me about.

Sorry to be cold - but your sexual urge is not my business and I’d just as soon keep it that way! <grin>

A lot of people may not realize this, but sex is not what rape is about. Rape is about control and power and, Greger, I’d bet that’s also the switch you’re curious about. Sometimes it’s one even, sometime the accumulation of events.

Happy birthday, Martha. Your Alabama friend has put up your ceramic Halloween town.

10% of us men are not like that.

Oh no you di' nt'.

Don't be jelly because we're more evolved™️.

Martha who used to post here?

It's all about bit rate, sample rate and bit depth.
When the industry wrote the CD "red book" standard, a bit rate of 44.1 kHz was considered phenomenal, but bear in mind, a 66mHz processor and 256 mB of RAM was considered unbelievable. A 1 gigabyte hard disc cost FIFTEEN HUNDRED BUCKS!
My current PC processor isn't even measured in mHz (megahertz) and neither is yours, but if it was, mine would be 3400 mHz.

So, 44.1 kHz sample rate means that if you record a sound on a CD that is 20 kHz (supposed to be the highest sound a human can hear, you only get "two samples" to represent that sound. In your mind's eye, picture a gazillion tiny legos trying to portray a Rembrandt.
You can keep increasing the legos but the CD "red book" standard limits that pretty significantly so eventually your ears begin to realize that they are listening to music made up of tiny sonic legos and there aren't enough of them to fill in the details.

If your hearing is as bad as mine you will only notice when you wear headphones.
But the point of all this is, CD tech standards are garbage compared to what we are capable of using now, forty years later.
And yes, if you have good hearing, a fresh virgin piece of vinyl is actually warmer if you're using a nice quality well kept cartridge and stylus and a decent amplifier.

All that having been said, digital audio TODAY is light years ahead of CD, it's just that they haved moved way beyond CD at this point.
And I digitized all my analog audio and 85% of my analog video eons ago, and I didn't bother digitizing in CD format either...not good enough even with my frying pan ears.

Big Autumn Hippie party at Casa de Haas on Saturday! 🤣
Wait till you get a load of Karen's getup.🤣🤣