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#123,181
Miles_ONeal said:
Oh, yeah. Especially in the summer, we'd take off for hours. So long as we turned up when expected (or a friend's parent called, etc.), no problem. Up the street, blocks away at a playground, and y 8 or so, out roaming the desert.

It's one of the reasons we live outside cities, in non-HOA neighborhoods with big lots. So long as the kids aren't running out in front of cars or something, no one cares.
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My daughter can't conceive of me during the summer leaving home at 9am, being home for dinner and leaving again until the street lights came on. She asks what we did outside all that time (already knowing that there were no cell phones or video games). All I can say is we played, rode bikes, and had fun.

What is more horrifying is that as parents, we live in fear of "the authorities". A complaint from a neighbourhood busybody (or an ex-spouse) to an aggressive child welfare agency can result in losing custody of children and a long court process to attempt to regain access/custody.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
played a gig on Sat with my Markbass Little Mark 800 into a MB 2 X 10 box and about one third into the first set the amp starting popping/crackling and sounding like it wanted to sh1t the bed...I quickly swapped the whole thing with my Eden 350 into an Eden 2 X 10 and boy, what a difference....clearly a modus tollens syllogism that decent tone is proportional to weight....
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A 'modified toll road'?
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
played a gig on Sat with my Markbass Little Mark 800 into a MB 2 X 10 box and about one third into the first set the amp starting popping/crackling and sounding like it wanted to sh1t the bed...I quickly swapped the whole thing with my Eden 350 into an Eden 2 X 10 and boy, what a difference....clearly a modus tollens syllogism that decent tone is proportional to weight....
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I recall that in the 80s one of the hallmarks of quality stereo systems was weight. The cheap ones were a cheap pressboard box containing the flimsiest aluminum chassis. The good ones had a substantial box (usually wood and brushed aluminum) and a steel chassis.
 
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#123,184
Cat butt and Thunderbirds.

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PillO said:
I recall that in the 80s one of the hallmarks of quality stereo systems was weight. The cheap ones were a cheap pressboard box containing the flimsiest aluminum chassis. The good ones had a substantial box (usually wood and brushed aluminum) and a steel chassis.
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yes, in this case however, it's more about the Class D vs. Class AB... don't get me wrong, the MB stuff is well constructed....it's more about overall design philosophy..
 
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Larry V said:
My 15 y/o daughter calls people she's never met friends because she plays video games with them and they belong to the same "fighting group" or "clan" and they do "missions". I think it's sad but I guess I just don't understand that part of it. I'm happy that she has balance though and she has real friends as well and outside interests beyond computer games.
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that's good...my boy does as well but easily gets sucked into car racing games with participants from all over the globe...seems like he would rather drive the TR-6 in his game than the real thing!......baffling...i console myself by thinking.."well there's one less clutch to replace"...:laugh:....can help but wonder though, where this experiment will lead to....are they going to be more savvy in life because of their innate computer skills?.....dunno, but what goes around comes around... as kids, we used to ask old folks if they were around before electricity and indeed some had been...we will now be asked if we were around before computers/smartphones and many of us here were....thing is, it takes two conductors to provide electrical power......cut one of those and we are back to the 19th century....gnarly thought....
 
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PillO said:
My daughter can't conceive of me during the summer leaving home at 9am, being home for dinner and leaving again until the street lights came on. She asks what we did outside all that time (already knowing that there were no cell phones or video games). All I can say is we played, rode bikes, and had fun.

What is more horrifying is that as parents, we live in fear of "the authorities". A complaint from a neighbourhood busybody (or an ex-spouse) to an aggressive child welfare agency can result in losing custody of children and a long court process to attempt to regain access/custody.
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It cuts both ways. When my son was in middle school, my wife picked him up at school. Somehow, they got crosswise, which isn't a surprising thing to have happen with a 7th grader. He was big enough and old enough that he could fend for himself, and she stopped the car. He got out and refused to get back in. I guess he thought she would circle the block and pick him up after he made his point. She didn't. She let him walk home, because she'd had enough and was really irritated. Later on, when the tempers cooled, she was completely mortified about what might happen and what people might say. Word got out, of course, and she became a hero to the other parents. They were delighted to have fairly well behaved kids for a while, since the threats were suddenly a lot more credible.

Nothing bad happened, and the kid made it home an hour or two later. He didn't misbehave very often, anyway, so it's a bit of an anomaly.
 
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GonePlaid said:
A 'modified toll road'?
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Actually a scientific theory applying the modus tollens syllogism to the reality proposed by the main empirical enunciations that ensue from its epidemiological designs. This method is frequently deductively refuted because of the non-fulfillment of auxiliary assumptions that would act as reciprocal potential falsifiers in multi studies. Thus taking the logical form of a bi-conditional argument of the type: (a) Heavier vs lighter and (b) fuller vs wimpy sounding. Therefore the lack of weight becomes a set of potential falsifiers of robust sound as part of the explicit falsity content of the bigger is better argument.

Disclaimer: I don't even know what the hell I just said, it's amazing what you can do with the simple cut and paste feature and a bit of creative wordsmithing.:roflmao::roflmao:
The original source...
A landmark for popperian epidemiology: refutation of the randomised Aldactone evaluation study. - PubMed - NCBI
 
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