TL/DR = No! You're completely wrong, now I'll prove you right!

tl;dr: No, not really and no, probably not.

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MP3 compression methods are pretty good these days. A well encoded mp3 sounds quite good at 224k. 320k is ideal, but 224k sounds fine to me.

I think most people would be incredibly hard pressed to tell the difference between a well encoded 320k MP3 and a FLAC file.

To showcase this and hopefully answer your question through demonstration, I've put together an odd sound file here for ya: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/837649/soundtest.wav

It's a 24bit 48kHz wav file of a piece of bright and full audio thrown together just for this (using 24-bit 48kHz audio sources). The audio loops a few times and each time it loops it's in a different format or quality.

The odd part is that I've dropped the audio volume down all the way to just barely above the 16-bit noise floor before exporting into each format, then cranked the volume back up again. Just to see what would happen.

Anyway, the play order is as follows:
1. Original 16-bit audio (sound normal, as it should.)
2. 16-bit audio re-gained (noise city - the 16-bit FLAC was the same.)
3. 24-bit audio re-gained (Sounds as good as the original.)
4. FLAC 24-bit re-gained (Sounds as good as the original.)
5. MP3 8 k re-gained (What?)
6. MP3 64 k re-gained (Sounds like a bad MP3, because it is. but, do note it's mostly just dull and a bit unstable sounding, not all weird like the 8k one.)
7. MP3 128 k re-gained (Pretty good, but still a bit dull. Not horrible though.)
8. MP3 224 k re-gained (Sounds as good as the original? Pretty close, I'd say.)
9. MP3 320 k re-gained (Sounds as good as the original as far as I'm concerned.)

This is just one test though. There are most certainly songs or sounds out there that wouldn't fare as well as this one. No idea what those would be though, as everything I've MP3-ified in the last decade or so sounds absolutely fine to me.

What about Dr. No?

Ron Paul is an active youth organizer and deserves to be in the limelight of presidency. Keep things up in the good work. The Bernanke testimony on the Federal Reserve and its role in the current state of economic affairs was hotly awaited, and anyone that knows anything about him knows that Ron Paul was waiting in the wings. The Fed and its chairman are the favorite targets of the Texan libertarian, and he pulled no punches in letting Bernanke know he wants him out of business, and running for payday loans if necessary. The Representative known as Dr. No grilled Bernanke about the fed's activities, disclosures, and interaction with the International Monetary Fund. Ron Paul is sponsor of a bill which would grant auditory power to Congress over the Federal Reserve.

Has someone alerted Dr. No yet?

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Well that seems at the least a reasonable expectation, if not what one should expect of all politicians. Making compromises to reflect the actual needs of citizens rather than ideology. I guess I'm just a bit more cynical, in that I don't think they'd compromise at all, specially given their voting records, they don't call RP Dr.No for nothing. Personally I love most of Kucinich's positions and proposals, I just don't think the rest of America would be too keen on them, and no matter how good a plan is if it doesn't have any support it's bound to fail.

I'm not sure if I've said this before but I really do wish I lived in a world where RP or Kucinich's plans were viable, where everyone believed in them, and truly followed the core tenants that would lead to their plans being successful. If the rich weren't always looking for a way to screw the poor out of more money, or if people weren't always looking for a way to cheat government programs. If personal and public responsibility and integrity meant anything to everyone. And it's not even an whether most people would comply because it'd only take a minority to ruin it for everyone.

Even though I support 'the candidate of hope' I really don't have a whole lot myself. I don't have hope in people as a whole, individuals are generally pretty smart reasonable, but when made part of a mob everything reverts to the LCD, aka a pack of feces flinging monkeys. My glass is half empty

You're misinformed/wrong on a number of points. First of all, you assume that scientists at Princeton don't make mistakes. There is a reason why Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research got shut down. Hint: it's not because they were making huge breakthroughs. The place has been a joke for those of us on campus for years. Oh, and also only one of the researchers under PEAR was a full professor. Science does not stand under the name of an Ivy League university, or at least it shouldn't. Appeals to authority aren't exactly scientific. And we don't even need to ask the researchers in person. They publish papers in journals. Simple enough.

Second of all, you assume that the CIA, the military, and the government aren't capable of making million-, billion-, or even trillion-dollar mistakes. For fuck's sake, they experimented with creating beams that made the target homosexual. GAY BEAMS. WE SPENT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, IF NOT MILLIONS, OF DOLLARS TRYING TO MAKE GODDAMN GAY BEAMS. We waste millions of dollars on dumbass projects that have no scientific grounding whatsoever that get written off in the name of national security all the damn time. Also, cold fusion.

Third of all, skeptical science writer != scientist. A real investigation would look into the procedural and statistical methodology of the experiments that were carried out, not the amount of funding being given to the research or how super-secret the CIA was or any of the other useless information one can present.

tl;dr: No, Virginia, there's no such thing as psychic powers.

Like you said, great if you live in a state like Oregon, but if you live in a state like Louisiana and happen to be African American you're probably going to get the short end of the stick when it comes to just about everything. I don’t think we should turn a blind eye to civil injustice just because it’s happening in another state. One of the jobs the federal government serves is that of a check on the state governments. Unfortunately our system of checks and balances has been trampled over as of late.

I gotta agree with you about Homeland, most worthless pile of fecal mater the government has created in recent years. The problem with the CIA is that it has become too politicized. I think it’s a critical department as far as national security is concerned, but it’s apparently way too easy for people with political agendas to influence it.

I suppose why Ron Paul is so refreshing is because his voting record reflects his rhetoric (Dr. No), and he’s pretty straight forward with it, though I still think there’s a lot of reading between the lines that needs to be done.

The revolution I’d like to see is our political and election process not getting dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Where two words like “fuzzy math” aren’t used to flippantly dismiss a whole argument. Where people like Wolf Blitzer don’t ask questions on complex issues like, “the importance of human rights vs. national security” in yes or no format or ‘buzz words’ like WMD don’t beat the drums of war that lead this country into Iraq. A lofty dream I know, but hey change has to start somewhere.

I've said before that there are a few things that are going to keep Ron Paul from winning office, money, the AARP vote and his Dr. No reputation. Let's say he does get a crap lot of money and convinces the skeptics he's not crazy, will he be able to win over the old folks who are not on the internet that have no knowledge of him? That's a question for you Ron Paul supporters out there.

Sorry, "No" for Dr. No.

Hehe, Dr. No and Evil spoof.

He doesn't go into great detail here in the video as to why he's the only candidate committed to upholding the constitution. The reason he's so alienated from everyone in congress is for that reason. I'm telling you if the constitution would make murder legal, "Dr. No" would vote against a bill banning murder. He's that radical with his votes.

The people I feel sorry for are his constituents. Since he's so out of place with his fellow members he can not get a decent seat on a committee.

A couple of possible fixes for deaded vids of yours from that enormous list:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Dr-No-Trailer - dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAu20TEk-ag - fix?

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-1970-Brazil-Team - dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqVo86yhH9c - fix?

If any of you doubt the integrity of Ron Paul, check his voting record. He votes against EVERY single bill that is unconstitutional and has done so for decades. And when I say "unconstitutional", I mean it in the strict-construction stance, not the current "we'll interpret it however we think it fits our so-called modern needs" stance. In fact, he votes against unconstitutional bills so regularly - even when he is the only in either party doing so - he has come to be known by the nick-name "Dr. No" by his peers in congress.

Check out his record, some press, some of his writings, etc -

http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=BC031929
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/ron-paul-pf.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html
http://www.house.gov/paul/bio.shtml

Once you check out his record, you will no longer have any doubt in your mind about his sincerity about restoring the constitution and American liberty, both social and economic.

Clip from the 1995 colorized version of the 1962 war film epic The Longest Day produced by Daryl F Zanuck, featuring an early appearance from a young Sean Connery, right before the success of Dr. No, also features Kenneth More.

* During the filming of the landings at Omaha Beach, the American soldiers appearing as extras didn't want to jump off the landing craft into the water because they thought it would be too cold. Robert Mitchum, who played General Norm Cota, finally got disgusted with them and jumped in first, at which point the soldiers had no choice but to follow his example.

* The Rupert paradummies used in the film were far more elaborate and lifelike than those actually used for the decoy parachute drop (Operation Titanic) which were actually just canvas or burlap sacks filled with sand. In the real operation six Special Air Service soldiers jumped with the dummies and played recordings of loud battle noises to distract the Germans.

* At $10,000,000, this film was the most expensive black-and-white film made until 1993, when Schindler's List was released. (Source: Turner Classic Movies).

* The bagpiper is the same person who participated in the real assault on D-Day.