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Have a fantastic Scotch, beer and friends filled day Mikey!

We had a long weekend in Istanbul three years ago, and were struck with the relaxed atmosphere and the gracious people there. But given the current tensions, protests, terrorist bombs, attempted coup and extensive reprisals, there is absolutely no way we would return at this point. A real shame - it is a fine country with an amazing heritage.

Yes, you went there, didn't you The Donald's fave debate tactic seemed to be to throw whatever he was accused of back at the accuser. He did start ranting about the election/system being rigged. Maybe he was referring to it being rigged... for him? EDIT: and sorry, I've been drinking....

I want that cake whisky!!! Thanks - I killed this Macallan other night with Al and Ric. (thanks to Travel Team for bottle) I will be opening a new Birthday bottle for this year tonight - a rare one maybe.

Happy Birthday Chris. I need to come up with a reason to be in DC again soon so I can buy you a drink.

Well, as Aziz Nesin said "%60 of Turkey's population are idiots" He is right. Most of the population see Tayyip as Padishah. They do as he commands. There is no democracy in Turkey (Well I don't believe there can be democracy in any country anyway). Most of the terrorist attacks caused by government to legitimize martial law. AKP supported f.cking Al-nusra for years against Esad. A year ago El-nusra joined Isis. For they have similar (actually same: Isis believes in Wahhabism which is based on Salafism, Al-nusra accepts Salafi movement as their way). And this is the hecking point: Isis and Al-nusra based on their belief system, they do not see any sunni or other muslims as "muslims". So for their perspective, Turkish people are all kafirs. Protests were all peaceful till government's police (yea, they are) tried to cease them. And 2 bombings during protests in Ankara and Diyarbakır (made by Al-nusra cuz as I've seen on paper, minister of internal affairs asks MIT to fully support them) actually supported by government. (if you dig in wikileaks you can see papers that support this idea) Other bombings that made by ISIS are caused by government too. Cuz at first our government selling and giving away guns (pretty big ones, and they arrested 2 journalist (one of them well known "Can Dündar")) cuz they revealed it. And now, they (government and all of their organs) arrested nearly all Cumhuriyet Newspaper's journalists and writers cuz, as government says "supporting PKK and PDY" without being members of any of these terrorist movements". FFS, Cumhuriyet has ben always opposed them, and actually they are arrested once before for going against PDY, but then our government was going good with PDY. (PDY is an organization which Fetullah Gülen leads) And ofc they arrested nearly all HDP's (one of the opposing parties) deputies, leaders for supporting PKK. Not finished, now they are going against CHP (the oldest party, The party which Ataturk established) for supporting HDP and Cumhuriyet newspaper. I'm not even talking about "the palace" Tayyip builded for himself, The unemployment fund, GSS, SGK... FFS they fucked up the people of Turkey. They are trully all internal imperialists. The unemployment fund raising by the mandatory cuts from all working people, and only %10 of the unemployment people gets the payments. 90 billion Turkish liras are either missing or not been using. And not a soul tries to do something. Opposing parties are yelling but none of the Tayyip's subjects is hearing anything. Turkey is nearly finished, we're going back to Ottomans. And with Trump, I'm pretty sure middle east is fucked up as female rabbit. BTW, I hate Ottoman empire, they were nothing but imperialists (failed ones tbh) and bunch of losers who believes themselves are chosen. And about Turkish people: Most of them are as peaceful as gorillas. They try to lynch you if you support any idea against them. I've been beaten nearly every day for being an Atheist and Far Left wing supporter during high school. I've been stabbed once. Gray wolves raided my house and burnt my books. I was only 15 ffs. Most of them are blinded by fanaticism of nationalism and religion. Even mild Left wing supporters. And they have fear of "others" as paranoid as it can be. It has always been like this. Just check "how many journalists and writers got killed in Turkey" Turkey is great place for visiting, not for staying. And actually I may get arrested for this post, but I do not care for I've been arrested before. Sorry for long post but I'm extremely angry about the shits going on in Middle East, Turkey and USA.

Some interesting details of getting an SPDIF interface to work properly are here http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=45330.0 Although, even if you get the data transmission perfect with SPDIF you still have problems with clock recovery, the principles outlined can be applied to any digital link at all - as Pars said, a digital link of any sort is high bandwidth RF engineering, and many (most?) audio system designers do not understand this. Which would explain why different digital cables sound different on a particular system - if the impedances at high frequency are not well controlled, and significantly different from what they ought to be (50, 75 or 110 ohms say), then it is open turkey shoot for fiddling with digital cables to mitigate this.

Fixed that for you. Just to interject, and I know most of you aren't jitter believers (beliebers? :)), but some theorize that clocking errors in the recording chain (i.e., pro audio) have ill-legitimized much (all?) of the digital recording legacy and library. Source of info is jockohomo, but I for one take note of what he might say on the subject, as obtuse and inferral as he may be. Scary thought, eh? My point relevant to this discussion being that any opinion on an interface should be taken from a grounded reference of a known entity performing in a known acoustic space. If it sounds like the real deal, then there might be some merit in the technology, but keep in mind that there might be problems in the recording chain as well (blasphemy, I know). SPDIF has a multitude of problems, whether coax or optical. USB had a shitload of problems prior to asynchronous or whatever they call it now (Wavelength Audio IIRC). All of this shit (the clocking, and the transmission) is in the RF analog domain, and the implementation matters.

Pro audio has been fooling around with ethernet for a while. High track count and long cable runs are some of the main advantages. MADI and Dante are the most common so far. Merging Technologies is using the AES67. http://www.merging.com/products/pyramix/ravenna Dante: +allows 96 kHz without loosing any of 128 channels +64 channels at 192 kHz +redundancy (on most units) +flexible routing +cables are easy to get +Dante Virtual Soundcard MADI: +soundcards with DSP available +USB and ExpressCard interfaces available +most units have optical interface (long connections and galvanic isolation) +it isn't a proprietary protocol +more second hand gear available

Starting with a delicious biscuit to celebrate Brent's imminent deportation. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Followed by braised beef cheeks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Let's have a (really sad) PhotoShopBattle: "What the hell is this! I SAID I want it to be at least 60 stories! How am I going to impress Putin with this crap!" "Bitch please, I said gold! Not yellow! " A small lawn of a million dollars. "I don't care that you're the groundskeeper, GET OFF MY LAWN!" This is fine. "There's yuge improvements to be made. Tremendous ones." The Whig Party. Subtle AF. "I bet the Chinese did this!"

I hate this editor so much.

Left work early. In a total funk today. Just didn't see this coming. Never thought I'd be embarrassed to be an American.

I'm actually not sure who the last two are. Louis Clyde Stoumen - Self Portrait in the Mirror (1956) Isle of Skye, Scotland. Lake Minnewanka, AB, Canada. Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii by Howard Ignatius. Split rock at night, Mt Sproatt, Whistler, Canada. Maroon Bells, CO. Siilinjärvi, Eastern Finland. The 2016 National Geographic Photo of the Year, by Hasan Baglar. Milky Way and Stars over Nederland Colorado. Along the East River in NYC. Big Bend National Park, TX. 30 second exposure of Moulton Falls Bridge outside of Battleground, WA. Moon Shine- Nags Head, NC.