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Public Radio Exchange Site Launches
TheSync writes "The Public Radio Exchange web site has opened its doors. Radio show producers can sign up to upload programming for peer-review and electronic distribution to public radio stations that like the content. Avid listeners can sign up (for free) to listen and review potential programming. PRX just received a $1.5 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and they are looking for a summer intern in Boston."
. . . if this will use a DRM laden, proprietary format like NPR does. Am I the only one that sees something wrong with donation and tax-subsidized radio being locked up in these sorts of formats?
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
and I can get through ClearChannel's "indecency measures."
Please don't be confused. As much as I despise ClearChannel and what they have done to radio it isn't ALL good 'ol Red's fault.
Remember what government agency that shouldn't have power over "decency" does and what they made CC do.
I'll admit that it was kind of funny but I don't see any real insight, unless the mods love his sig so much.
A bit OT, but are there any indexes or search engines for online radio content?
Seems to me online radio once had a lot of potential, maybe still does, but has gone nowhere in the past few years. I thought it would pick up with every man and his dog carrying an MP3 player, but apparently not.
Fortunately, the US does not practice rule-by-uneducated-mobs.
Pledge of Allegiance (removing "under God")
In other words, putting it back the way it was originally. Except that "under God" isn't removed yet, so your argument there holds no water.
Perhaps, but most of the populace in this country is christian is quickly forgets (ignors?) the fact that we have a seperation of church and state. Equal rights are for everyone in this country. Abortion is a touchey issue and the right loves to use the "partial birth" issue however they almost never happen. No one will ever force a women to have an abortion however they are perferable to raising said child in an impoverished household due to the fact that many social programs a being quickly cut. (as one example).
Yes, and if voting by the populace were the way that we made all decisions, women wouldn't be able to vote and southern schools would still be segregated.
+++ ATH0 +++
Fortunately, the founders of the nation were smarter than its members, and made something called the Constitution. Liberals have this whacky idea that the consitution should be followed (although some of them have funny ideas about the 2nd amendment) and as such, tend to go up against the majority of Americans who seem to think the consitution is more convenient as a piece of toilet paper.
That's why they use judges and lawyers and lawsuits to push their agenda.
2nd amendment would be long gone too.
Judges and lawsuits are not used exclusively by liberals. The simple fact is that when we have so many laws, they are going to contradict each other on many occasions. We need judges to decide those situations; lawsuits are the means for these resolutions.
We acknowledge that the state shall not establish religion (as stated by the constitution), a law requiring the daily recitation of "under god" might be just that which is banned, so there is a lawsuit.
Our constitution also requires equal treatment under the law. Many believe that allowing marriage of breeders but not allowing it for gays is not equal, particularly with all of the financial implications of marriage. Personally I think that we need to get government out of marriage all together, but if we can't do that, opening up to gays is the only constitutionally legal action we can take, regardless of the opinion of the majority.
I happen to agree with you about the abortion thing, but that is not because I against a woman's right to choose, it is because I am for the right of the fetus to choose.
I can't remember who said this, but I am going to paraphrase it:
The most important reason for the bill of rights is to prevent a tyranny of the majority.
You better believe that (tyranny) is what we would have if we had strict majority rule, it would be a disaster for freedom.
Finally if the people are so overwhelmingly against something, the forefathers insightfully included a technique for the revision of our constitution.
"I'll have a Guinness, no wait, make that a Coors Light" -Grad student I work with, who shall remain anonymous...
Except in elections.
(Translation, for the humor impaired libertarians out there): Have you bean-counting Ayn Rand junkies really become so dehumanized that you think societal funding for the arts is something that should be destroyed? Does anyone really need to remind you that most of what we consider the great works of art of the ages have been produced with what can be called public funding, whether that be from the pockets of the Medicis, the spoils of the Roman Empire, or the coffers of the Catholic Church?
Ah! But that's right, I forgot -- you guys are the morons who'd like to see my whole block burn down because I forgot to grease my local private firefighter, and have the cops check my wife's RFID tags to make sure her account's been paid before they prevent her from getting raped. Life must sure be great in the mechanized profit-center planet you guys dream about living on. Unfortunately, your fantasy land is worth just about as much as any other pipe dream, so save it for your next Mensa meeting and leave the politics to people who can remember that government is designed to serve human beings, not balance sheets.
Breakfast served all day!
And lest we forget, most recently it was the neo-cons who decided those Fourth and Fifth Amendment things got in the way of fighting terror, so they got a law passed that basically ignored them. We'll search you when we want and where we want, and hold you in prison with no lawyer, no trial date, no charges, no nothing, until Jesus comes again.
So, the liberals want the Second Amendment gone, the conservatives want the First, Fourth, and Fifth gone, and Lincoln wiped out the Ninth and Tenth with the Army of the Potomac. Your Constitution, your Bill of Rights - void where prohibited by law.
...and you run and you run and you can't stop what's been done...