...That’s kinda exactly the point I was making.

- 1:20 intro on a 3:34 video?

If it was built for trains, then it’s doubtful the weight of an SUV would collapse it. It’s still horribly unsafe due to the lack of guardrails and its narrow width, but a bridge that once carried trains has to degrade pretty damn far to not be able to carry an SUV.

“Anywhere you go” so long as that’s the suburbs and urban environments.

All of those car commercials showing people driving off toward a distant horizon while streaming music don’t show that, 10 seconds later, the car goes dead silent.

No need. It’ll be really bright.

They said the rails were removed.

I assume you credit Obama with the stock market performance and record employment levels at every opportunity, so, solid point.

Because Trump had been increasing tensions in the region through unscripted character attacks, moving ordinance onto the border, and general willingness to go to war with a nuclear adversary?

Hopefully you’ll tick off all the other boxes first.

It is political, because bad politics gets us all killed when it comes to nuclear weapons.

The danger comes when some asshole pushes the wrong button resulting in not just public panic - but a knee-jerk, military response because international tensions are higher than normal.

He means that a false alarm in Hawaii could have been responded to by the USA firing nukes off at North Korea because we’re a bunch of fucking idiots. If you need an example, look in a mirror.

I think the problem is that the false alarm was believable, not necessarily that it happened.

Are you implying that our government and President has enough maturity and self-restraint to not quickly overreact to a false alarm?

And here I was thinking we were already at like 12:15am

But the GOP told us to stop believing scientists. Checkmate!

Yeah... But.... 500 MILLION dollars. That’s just an absolutely mind-boggling sum of money. You’d have to be an incredible simpleton to waste a tenth of that with even mediocre management skills...

I owned lots of music that I no longer own. A CD is not forever. You have to store it carefully. Not scratch it. Not lose it. Rip a back-up. Don’t lose the back-up.

In that respect, digital downloads are like cassette tapes were: Cassette tapes were easier to handle than vinyl and, unlike radio, you always got to chose what you listened to, but they didn’t have the quality that vinyl did.

Counterpoint: You shouldn’t.

Until the cost is reflective of the product, you should consider purchasing a physical format that contains a lossless-equivalent digital version that can be converted to your bitrate of choice. If that choice changes as your listening needs change, you can re-rip. Until the quality is…