It's hard to justify as it's mostly subjective but objectively I think having music archived in a lossless format allows me to transcode to more practical lossy codecs as things evolve.

It's kind of like in the olden times owning the CD and you could re-rip anytime and whatever format you needed/wanted.

Don't sweat it, still a cool little thing.

Interesting it's as specialized as it is but many dams pump water up the reservoir during low consumption times to store for periods where power is needed.

I loved Bancamp because you could download CD-quality FLAC. Yeah, I can stream my music there but I want to load it up to my personal media server and just have it in the best reasonable quality possible (I know there's better than CD quality).

There was a BBC Connections episode that showed eager power distribution people watching a famous English show.

The thing was that it was so popular they knew to expect kettles going off simultaneously all over the country the minute the show ended creating a spike they had to manage.

There's the Unibomber for one.

We have a grim, and painful life to look forward to. At least it will be brief so there's that.

So you rather die grinding in the factories, in prison, as emperor-corpse food or horribly in battle? Tough choice.

"Bad Day"

Fund extremists to prevent the Palestinians from getting their shit together and making headway towards their own state and then act surprised when said extremists backfire hard.

And of course, it's innocent civilians on both sides that pay the price.

Wrong movie.

"Flanderize" refers directly to a Simpsons character (Ned Flander).

And many people and organizations rightfully protested the Iraq invasion. The French refusing to get into that part of the mess is how some idiots come up with the "freedom fries".

I remember vividly thinking the US going all out into Afghanistan in retaliation was probably exactly what the terrorists wanted. I'm certain this applies to the current situation as well. Hamas is hoping to provoke Israel into going full throttle against and into Gaza with the intention of triggering a wider Jihad.

"We're sorry we got caught"

[monetized]

This advice may not apply to Australia but in general, it's true.

Maybe having licensed such a big IP they aimed for the stars.

Khashoghi died because he funded a campaign against the Saudi Twitter bot army.

And the shitty militantism was accented/triggered by Christianity's shitty militantism. Thanks crusades, the gift that keeps on shitting on.

Blame Rockstar for 3.

HBO kind of canceled itself. What is it called now? Just "Max" or something ridiculous.