Isn't part of that just due to the fact that it's a war economy?
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A conductor performs a number of essential functions for an orchestra:
- Offering a pulse. You may think this is trivial if your experience with music is through rock bands and smaller ensembles, where the musicians can just listen to eachother. But keep in mind that a large orchestra takes up a lot of space, to the point where the speed of sound becomes a major barrier. A symphony orchestra easily spans an area of more than 30 meters, meaning people on the left hear what people on the right play 0.1s late. The 'beat' shown by the conductor arrives with the speed of light, keeping the musicians more together.
- Setting the tempo. Orchestral music tends to have more deliberate tempo changes and fermatas (points where a note is held longer than the implied beat would require).
- Controlling the dynamics and timbre that people play with. A lot of that tends to get ironed down during rehearsals, and sometimes it will be explicitly mentioned in the score, but it can be really helpful for players to reminded that, hey, perform this bit light and playful, and over here, be loud and solid. Especially in longer pieces.
- Cueing players when they have to start playing. In orchestral music, some instrument groups may have large swaths of time where they don't have to play anything (especially percussionists).
Generally the conductor is also responsible for the interpretation of the music. Orchestral scores don't tend to be black&white, and there are a lot of decisions to be made in how to approach a piece. The conductor is the one who makes those decisions.
I'm assuming you own these machines and are forced to pick them open because you lost the key
That definitely would be my assumption. Otherwise it would be stealing from the land-lord, hoo boy, we wouldn't want that would we?
The problem with the anti-SJW grift was always that there were like 5 videos of 3 different activists that kept going through re-runs, at the end of the line there wasn't enough fuel for the fire of outrage that it fed upon.
As a Dutch guy, I just can't relate. Not that I needed extra reasons not to emigrate to TERF island, but this would definitely be one of them if I did.
Tibetan funerals actually involve feeding you to the birds. Which is not to say 'turning your dead skull into a relic' isn't intended to be disrespectful.
Our goal involves creating a compelling progression path for all of our players. There's a lot of content at launch with even more coming via live service, and we'll continuously adjust our progression mechanics to give players a sense of accomplishment as they explore all of Battlefront 2
And then you remember the bunch of clowns currently elected to parliament.
Moonfall was funny bad. Atlas is just bad bad.
My torrent client just pinged me that it finished downloading it an hour ago. I watched about 30 minutes, then I figured my time was better spent organising my pocket lint.
Support for victims of genocide, if they are recipients of pell grants and operate a business in a minority neighbourhood for at least two years.
I think he made that up after the fact once it became abundantly clear how dumb hyperloop was. US states, generally, don't need the help of a billionaire to stay car-brained public transport deniers.