Re: Way to go Pelosi!
- From: Rumpelstiltskin <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:07:28 -0800
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:23:05 -0500, Gary <not@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I agree with the idea that capitalism is only good for things the
consumer does not require to live a safe and healthy life. As you
say -- police, military, education and health care.
Capitalism is great when it comes to making a cheap pair of drawers or
socks in China -- which Walmart can import and sell to us. The
making and selling of knick-knacks and doo-dads is the life blood of
capitalism. If you don't believe it, take a walk through your local
mall and observe all the window displays. Try to imagine somebody
actually needing all that junk.
I'm almost never in malls, for that very reason.
I was trying to locate a receiver with a mono-mode
switch on it yesterday, after looking at a receiver at
Best Buy and not seeing any indication that it had one.
There were all kinds of whizbangs on it that are
completely mysterious and even offensive to me, such
as Blue Tooth and 6.1 channel input and Dolby
pro-logic decoder. I don't know what they are and
don't care. Just having to read the words makes me
want to move back to the 18th century, the "Age of
Reason", when life made a bit more sense.
I phoned Best Buy, and after being transferred to a
supervisor, found that there is indeed no mono switch
for the receiver I was looking at (and probably not for
any of their receivers, I'd guess). As I told the person
I was speaking to, a mono switch is really the only
thing I care about, because stations that are
unlistenable in stereo because of all the interference
often come in fine in mono, and who needs stereo
anyway? It seems hard to find a receiver with a mono
switch these days, and god help you if you'd like the
receiver to include a CD player too, especially one
that will play MP3 files.
I did finally pull out the instruction book for the
receiver I have, and look at the antenna connections.
When I'd attached the antennas to that receiver,
which I only hauled out of storage because my other
one (which DID have a mono switch), finally passed
on to the pearly gates, I'd just connected up the
antennas to whatever connections in the back struck
my fancy and seemed to work when I touched the
wires to them. It turns out that I had the connections
wrong for both the FM and AM antennas though.
The AM didn't make any difference, but the classical
music station on FM, which was the reason I'd
wanted a new amplifier with a mono switch, is at
least listenable now that I've hooked up the antenna
correctly. It would sound a lot better still if I could
switch to mono, though, as I could do with my late
and much-lamented old receiver.
.
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