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Interesting Tech-Related Online Talk Radio?
kabrakan writes "Finding myself in an extremely boring tech job, I find the best way to pass the time is to listen to someone speak, specifically an interesting conversation about science, or a comedian. After exhausting NPR's database, could anyone recommend any online repositories of spoken word entertainment, especially talk in the technology world?"
Has all the latest in the high tech world
A lot of it ends up being pseudo-science at best (but still somewhat interesting), but Coast To Coast AM (Art Bell, George Noory) does In fact have some real scientists on. They have a 3+ month archive of their old shows in, get this, MP3 format. It does have a $6.99 monthly fee. Obviously a lot of it is annoying rubish, but some is actually pretty good. I enjoy the show, but I've really only bought into one of the conspiracy theory/UFO/ghost topics.
Somewhat real scientists that have been on the show (And are In the current archive):
Paul Davies - Understanding the Universe
Brian Greene - Physics of the Universe
Kevin Mitnick - Hacking A To Z
Robert Hogg - JPL robotics engineer - The State of Robotics
And others...
The MP3s are great for listening to at work and have most/all of the commercials removed.
And then of course, you get all of the great tinfoil hat callers. It's also good for falling asleep to at night.
Casual Games/Downloads
your work is not boring...it's npr
the friggin Martians invaded. That was it for me.
Oh wait... you said interesting. Sorry.
If you're in to talk radio, and inclined to listen to a liberal slant, try Air America Radio. It's not tech oriented (unless you count electronic voting controversy), but it's a refreshing change from the right-wing dominated talk-radio airways.
No....perhaps we should start one. Slashdot.radio?
http://www.seti.org/epo/seti_radio/Welcome.html
Follow the link to the archives...
try 2600. They keep archives of their show "Off the Hook."
NJOY
Yeah, check out www.geekradio.com. We're about technology.
Another collection for you to exhaust:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/
What about radio.slashdot.org?
The next question from you will be:
Dear slashdot, I got outsourced to India because I listened to the radio and didnt do any work. What should I do with all my free time?
Love,
Your favorite turd burglar?
they're a private company, they can put whatever bias they want into their service.
If you are a java developer using eclipse, the videos on this page might be informative.
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http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/~c
----- If communism is a system where the government owns business, what do you call a system where business owns govern
I use this to record several talk radio shows
during the day/night then timeshift them the next day. Skipping all of the commercials and newsbreaks cuts the total time down by 1/2rd
http://radiorecord.sourceforge.net/
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/
-- "Most people prefer a popular myth to an unpopular truth"
Other than NPR, which is great, you can find some interesting talk at Rant Radio, which is occasionally even tech-oriented. And if you're a politics geek you can listen to anything C-SPAN covers online.
If you're a Macintosh user, you might want to check out "Your Mac Life". It is informative and provides news about Apple and other companies.
Your Mac Life link
Yes! I listen to NYC Speedcore and do math at 3AM. I suggest you try it too.
Your Mac Life is a weekly, three-hour long radio program on all things Apple. I listen every once in a while, most often following big announcements. For example, the WWDC wrap-up show will probably be interesting. It's not rigorously technical, but the questioner might like it.
There's Engines of Our Ingenuity, unless that's the "NPR database" you're referring to. (And as you can see from my URL, I am shilling somewhat. :)
ever try piping man pages through a text->speech app?
you know you want to. hours of, well not quite "radio", enjoyment for all!
Also check out their video archive containing (Moving Images: Prelinger Archives | Computer Chronicles | SIGGRAPH | Net Café | Open Source Movies | MSRI Lectures | Independent News | Feature Films | Election 2004 | Open Mind | Machinima | Youth Media | Brick Films | Shaping San Francisco | Speed Runs).
Archive.org rocks.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Because you're fired!
We have 100's of resume's for your "boring job", none of which will waste company time downloading talk radio shows on the internet. What kind of lameass pirates talk radio shows anyways? That's besides the point. Clean out your cubicle.
Signed,
Your Boss
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
If slashdotters knew where to find interesting tech news, they wouldn't be slashdotters.
I kid, I kid..... mostly
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It's more science than tecnology perse but a great show and they even have stuff in Ogg.
2) Point it here
3) Sit back and enjoy.
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
You can typically buy them at most bookstores, or find them at your public library. Surprisingly, many libraries have very good resources for spoken word tapes and CDs... I think maybe this was once related to having books for people with poorer eyesight. Good luck!
And something I found out about thru Bitpass: Fanboy Radio about the comic industry.
And if you've exhausted the NPR database, try checking out the databases of WAMU or Minnesota Public Radio.
And there's always [cough. plug. cough.] cheap-to-free audiobooks from Telltale Weekly.
Alex.
. . . but try launching Slashdot using this.
Though for news and entertainment in general, I usually take my pick from one of these (World service and Radio 4 I consider to be almost essential for my existence).
Leo Laporte has a question and answer call-in show that he archives at the blog for the radio show. The downloads can be found at the bottom of the show notes.
http://www.popularculturegaming.com -- my blog about the culture of videogame players
And how could I ever forget Geeks in Space. No new content in a long time, but some classics in there. Hey Slashdot guys, when are you going to bring us a new episode?
Seriously, he brags about it often...
http://www.theharrowgroup.com/
Excellent insight. It's pretty old. Used to be called something else, but once he left HP it changed to it's current name. Check it out, you'll like it.
If you want something to make you laugh try LugRadio.
There's also The Linux Link Tech Show.
The Linux Link Tech Show
LUGRadio - from the Wolverhamptojn LUG - loads of interesting stuff
And finally SLUGRadio - Linux guys based in Scotland getting together, drinking and talking about mainly Linux.
On the non-technical side, there is a ton of good talk radio out there. Full gambit of political commentators, both liberal and conservative. And we all know it's a blast to listen to both sides. Scan down the AM dial during work, you might like what ya find.
Geeks could learn a lot by listening to Tom Leykus, though he's 3-7pm PST, not necessarily during the work hours. If you don't like what he has to say, then I'm sure you can find it funny.
A lot of what you can hear depends on where you are, as a lot of stuff is still easier to find on an old fashion radio box.
Old Time Radio Has a very comprehensive collection of old radio shows. Not tech, but there is some sci-fi. There is a paid membership required but it seems to be reasonable.
KHaHa. It's hit and miss (though since what's funny varies from person to person, there's no reason it wouldn't be) but they have a lot of entertaining content.
Before you get too excited about getting a mini iPod with the $100 rebate, please note that all of their merchants are on back order on that particular item.
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
They post a 20-30 minute news show every weekday. Very interesting tech topics. Enjoy. http://www.kenradio.com Rkwn187
Though they don't really have much in the way of technical content, BBCi Radio, in particular BBC Radio 4 is a great place to find very high quality spoken word programs. Plays, book readings, etc...
My job tends to be just a little more interesting (+ demanding?) than yours, so I usually just listen to one of the book programs as a mental break in afternoon. They're typically about 16 minutes too, permissably short for all but the most draconian work environments.
Despite being heavily focused on Microsoft technologies (.NET in particular), DotNetRocks is an excellent radio talk show about everything from software development methodology, to Linux, to the general state of the industry. All shows are available for download as MP3's and you can call in live on Thursday nights.
You can get physics lectures on tape to listen to. I once borrowed lectures by Stephen Hawking, and Richard Fineman from a friend. The Fineman ones were great, but I can't find a link. The Hawking ones were good too, if you could stand the computer voice for hours on end.
Try http://www.wamu.org/kojo/index.html on Tuesdays. Kojo does a Tech show every Tuesday, and the first Tuesday of the month he has "The Computer Guys" who are actually pretty funny.
Quirks and Quarks
mainly science but a well stocked archive holding an interesting array of subject matter
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Guess you have to be in Los Angeles Are though (http://leo.typepad.com/radio/)
Part of the reason geeks feel so ostracised is because they absorb themselves in purely tech sorts of things. Why not listen to something that ISN'T related to technology so that you can relate on different levels, and NOT feel like a total outsider all the time?
Might help ya get a few more dates from time to time.
I've found several comedy streams at ShoutCast. Just search for "comedy", or choose it as a genre in the pull-down menu to the right.
The Green Room with Dorian (was) science-related:
http://www.wfmu.org/GreenRoom/
From www.2600.com/offthehook
Off The Hook airs every Wednesday night at 7:00 PM EST in New York City on listener supported WBAI 99.5 FM.
It is simulcast online via Streaming MP3 and over shortwave radio at WBCQ 7415khz.
Join #offthehook on irc.2600.net to chat during the show.
Very good stuff, well worth listening to, and they have their entire archive available on the ftp server, dating back to 1989.
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The Pacifica radio network (the older but less recognized brother of NPR) has a program focused on technology. The hosts of the program brought were responsible for some of the first DMCA criminal and civil cases to make it to court.
As is typical of Pacifica; the programming is legendary and edgy.
Check out:
http://www.2600.com/offthehook/
If you want an archive to pick threw their use to be a show called "Does Humor Belong in Technology".
They don't have any new shows, but I still find the archive enjoyable.
Have a look at audio books. There are some really good audio books available and while the better ones are usually fiction, there are some nice nonfiction ones too -- mostly history books. Try downloading some using amule to see if you like the style (oops, did I just suggest copyright infringment?) There are sites where you can buy the books for about $5 each.
You could try binrev.com, hbx.us/haxor, or hackermedia.net. All are pretty good radio shows, with the last hosting multiple shows.
"Geared toward a general audience with an interest in all forms of technology, What the Tech! encourages curiosity and the thirst for 'techknowledge.'"
Not exactly radio, but free of charge and in MP3 format: here.
This is hardly off-topic.
This is a reference to H.G. Wells's live radio broadcast of Wars of the Worlds in 1938.
As some of you know, some people missed the disclaimer before the show, stating that this is a story, and and thought that the reports of Martian Invasion everywhere were actually real.
It's actually a very interesting story....Read about it here: http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/
How could I say to men: "Speak louder, shout! For I am deaf!"? -Ludwig van Beethoven
If you want a comedian with a social bend to his wit, try out some Bill Hicks.
There's scads of free audio/video that you can stream from Sacred Cow.
He's a very mind-opening speaker and very funny as well. Some of his best on stage moments are when he lashes back at an unreceptive audience.
Phil Hendrie is a comedien who has all of his shows archived on MP3 for a small monthly fee.
For those of you who have never listened to him before, he is probably one of the most gifted, unscripted artists on the air. His hook is having a caller call in with some absurd topic, then stay on to take calls. People call up outraged at the topic, and argue with the original caller. The thing is, Phil plays both the host and the offensive caller simultaneously. He essentially performs multiple personality radio. It is amazing, hilarious radio.
Phil Hendrie Show
Warning: I had to open his site in Exploder; flash required.
Todd
Every now and then I tune into old episodes of Jim Cramer's financial news radio show at TheStreet.com in the upper right... he's also a commentator on CNBC, voice is a little harsh but given that he made his millions in funds (not communications), I'll listen. You'll have to fill out a registration, and then you can stream in a RealAudio feed of yesterday's ep anytime. I happen to like his witty style of digging into bad companies, and he relly seems more of a "watchdog" when it comes to tech stocks... plus it's better to learn how to invest your money (by someone on the radio) than being told where to invest.
Other than that, New York's WABC 770AM offers a free feed here. The afternoon crowd gets a bit too old school conservative for my liking, but Monica Crowley has her "get the government out" libertarian moments. Oh, they also carry the Drudge Report on Sunday Nights... always an interesting show.
Per the Science Friday Archive page, archived audio is available for shows broadcast after mid-1996. You can search by date & topic. The stream is Real Audio, but appears to sans-membership. You can search by date and topic.
cartalk.com
Informative AND funny - very entertaining even if you aren't a gearhead. They back up almost all their stuff with sound engineering and science.
Geeks in space simply must return. Clearly there is a demand for it.
www.wirelesstechradio.com Mostly slanted towards Wireless ISPs, but some good content there. Not dumbed down for general public.
Do a KaZaa or other P2P search for 'chomsky' and try out some of Noam Chomsky's speeches.
If you want pure entertainment, you can't beat the folks at ZBS Radio who make some great sci-fi shows (Ruby/Jack).
I've always found written work more interesting / inspiring than audio. If you are able to, and like scifi like many slashdotters, check out Baen Free Library and Their not-free subscription service
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
http://technetcast.ddj.com/
I've listened to a few lectures from Guido, Larry, and Linus.
Good Fun.
KCRW is a public radio station here in Los Angeles with a great assortment of eclectic music, npr, and some great programs. Morning Becomes Eclectic every day from 9a-12p PST is daily fodder for me, and then I switch over to the KCRW Music stream when I get back from lunch, which rebroadcasts all the music programs from the previous evening, as the regular station goes to NPR from noon til 8p. The site also has archives of a lot of good programs they have run, including the Complete Hitchhiker's Guide BBC Radio Drama, which has gotten me through a couple of nothing-to-do days. Apple iTunes radio has them listed under public and eclectic I believe as well. I highly recommend this.
in bed.
Taco: "First-time caller, you're on the air--"
Caller: "Frist p0st!" *click*
Taco: "Okay, caller #2, you're on--"
Caller: "GNAA owns the radio waves--"
Taco: "Moving right along. Caller #3, you're on the air with Slashdot radio. What's on your mind?"
Caller: "I for one welcome our new GNAA overlords--"
Taco: "Fucking hell. Is there a single sane individual out there?"
Try here for Google access to over 200 free Internet tehcnology interviews - Java, Linux, Web services, .NET, the works...
Now where's my iPod...
Computer Bits also used to have a good show. They shut down about a year ago, with similar lack of archives.
Part of the problem is that it takes a great deal of effort to produce a show that only a handful of people can listen to due to bandwidth restrictions. Hard to keep up a weekly program if your stream maxes out at 20-30 listeners.
BTW, both of those shows started on AM radio, but lost their stations due to having to pay to get airtime. (Not to mention that fewer and fewer talk stations exists that are non-political.)
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
Try listening to amateur frequencies. Sometimes you can find intelligent people talking about technology. See you there. Ta ta.
http://itconversations.com/ is exactly what you're looking for.
Enjoy,
F.O. Dobbs
interesting, tech-related, on-line: pick any two.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
Anyone know of current radio plays? I heard some good stuff on an in-flight audio broadcast and would sure like to find modern stuff in the vein of Old Time Radio shows.
After reading through the 1st 37 posts i am supprised to find no one recomending ken radio ***www.kenradio.com*** it's great and now about 45 minutes long. he has archives too. Technology Bytes @ ***www.technologybytes.com/index.php***. Their slogan is "We RTFM so you don't have to!" they also have archives. if you like cars try out ***www.cartalk.com***, but coming from NPR you may have already found them. ***cnet.com with techrepublic.com*** (the best technical reference i've found on the web) has audio and video web casts. techrepublic requires free registration, and for a subscription has accress to even better materials. Also consider a stream capture program that will let you record something that airs when you're not at you pc. I checked out all i could find, and settled on Replay Radio from ***www.replay-radio.com***
DotNetRocks is the internet audio talk show for .NET developers. I enjoy listening to the archives here:
http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks/
Entertaining and sometimes off color discussion of Microsoft related technologies.
++Alan
I find the "Kim Kommando" show (tech advice for those with little or no PC background) to be riddled with misinformation and poor advice, and as a result entirely (if not unintentionally) hilarious.
www.itconversations.com has alot of good material
radio freek america,
hacking/phreaking/politics
recorded in bedrooms with a few people on a 3way call. lots of calls to interesting numbers. i think it is very entertaining. you may not.
there was a hundred or so episodes, its no longer going on.
anyone else listened to this?
http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/radio.html
Check out itconversations.
It might not be an option if you work in an office but I work at home and I like to listen to DVD commentaries.
Put on the commentary for a film you like, especially if you like the actor/director who is doing the commentary, and two hours are gone before you know it.
IT Conversations has a bunch of interesting IT audio content. Well, interesting if you want to listen to people like Bruce Schneier, Tim O'Reilly, Joe Trippi, Philip Greenspun and Steve McConnell.
Chances are, your favorite OSS app, distro has a nice channel on some IRC network. Not only is there discussion now you too can take part in it! (Though I'm not gonna deny that there are lots of time-wasting IRC channels too, just avoid 'em).
Sunny Dubey
This is more toward the heavy science area but it demonstrates a genre I would like to find more of on the web, i.e. archived class lectures or conferences on science or tech subjects. This link takes you directly to audio/video media made at a conference on "planet creation" held at The Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, CA. I'm a believer that multimedia distance learning is a wonderful field to be in and many of these engineers and lab guys need a lot of help to creatively present their ideas on the web. If you know of some good sites with archived classes or lectures, please add them to the list.
.NET Rocks is a great internet talk show about all things .Net. Yes, I know this is Slashdot, but the .Net hackers in the audience should give it a listen. There's even a weekly feature called "Linux Vunerability of the Week" to, umm, help Linux users keep their systems secure.
The Linux Show! Live every Tuesday night, 20:00 Central Time (they're in Illinois, USA).
They also have archives (link on the front page), and an IRC channel.
--
Given enough personal experience, all stereotypes are shallow.
Wireless Tech Radio is a good mix of live news and interviews and technical topics all focused on wireless technologies. Wednesdays 10AM Eastern is the live weekly show but the website has archives of all shows. http://www.wirelesstechradio.com
You could try looking for a more interesting job...
I subscribed to audible when I was in Germany for work. I couldn't always get english radio and I didn't have access to TV. Since I have been back, I still listen to it. I really like the audio books (or newspapers or congress sessions...) It has NPR news/entertainment, but also has stuff like 'this mac world' (or whatever similarly titled show I can never remember.)
The Massive Change project has a weekly interview show they put online every week. I've been listening to them and I'm amazed by what I've learned. There's very little more stimulating than smart people talking to each other and the host of MCR is one smart woman. She asks very intelligent questions and lets the interviewee talk, a rarity in interviews with professors and scientists. There's a large backlog of older interviews on there with luminaries such as Freeman Dyson, William McDonough, and Stewart Brand.
Highly recommended.
It seems to me that you should be looking for lists of current job adverts - text to speech if you really want to listen to something ?
Jeffrey Harrow's audio blog, before anyone called it that, used to be called "The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing." It was hosted at DEC while he was a senior research scientist there. Highly recommended.
You should try listening to CyberLine. You can find the archives here.
As you requested, it is tech related talk radio. You can listen live on Saturdays from 9:00 PM to Midnight CDT here.
Also, The Linux Show: The original weekly Open Source/GNU/Linux webcast talk show.
Disclamer: David Mohring/NZheretic is soon going to be more closely connected to the Linux Show.
Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 has a weekly show called In Our Time discussing science, history etc with experts in the field.
Text to Speach is not so bad these days, sure it was there on the spectrum 1982, the Amiga (as part of the OS) 1987, now it is even usable in the fast as lightening, but fairly portable, Java arena...
Now if only there was TEXT on the web worth listening to.
Be Free: Free Software Tuition
Check out This American Life. Leans more toward comedy than tech, but touches on current events, etc. Always very entertaining. But if you're trying to do real work while you're listening, you'll be pretty guaranteed to get distracted. My fiancee and I just got back from a 5-wk road trip, during which TAL eps burned to CD were an invaluable source of entertainment in the car.
So you can't do 2 things at once
A boring tech job doesn't mean that he can't listen to the radio while he works. If his tech job is sytem maintinance or somethign hands on he should be able to listne to radio while he does it.
Besides, soem jobs you can't outsource because they require you to physically be there.
Besides, lack of work ethic and the ability to slack off are what makes corporate america great!
"I'd say, in a given week, I only do about 15 minutes of ACTUAL work" - Peter, Office Space
The Neo-Bohemian Techno-Socialist
Hi Much of my PhD work involves tracking ants as they run around on video clips so I too have a fair amount of mindless time on my hands.
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My recommendations are:
This American Life -- www.thisamericanlife.org 1-hour shows. 4 years of archives online (that's about 400 hours). People seem to either love it or hate it, but I have passed many a long hour tracking ants listening to TAL's crazy stories.
BBC Radio -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/
Like NPR but from an English perspective.
- Also BBC World Service: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml?log
The news is particularly informative as an alternative to the usual US stuff. If you click on the "Start Radio Player" link, it will pop up a box that you can choose from all the day's programs. I try to listen to "The World" most days which is a bit like a news oriented version of All Things Considered. (note if you have a pop-up blocker you may need to right-click and do an "Open in a new window" to spawn the Radio player.
Democracy Now and pacifica radio -- www.democracynow.org / www.pacifica.org
- Left-leaning but quite informative daily news show. 1-hour. I can't always stomach listening to it every day since they seem to never cover any good news, but if mainstream media leaves you feeling like you might not be hearing the whole story, Democracy Now gives an alternative perspective. Although they definitely choose to interview people who don't agree with the current administration, the people they have on often have substantial credential (e.g. Pulitzer prizes winning journalists, etc.).
Hope that helps
Tim
www.infiniteworld.org
I followed a geek radio show, but then they stopped making any more.
www.eFax.com are spammers
Intelligent radio. Enough said.
BBC Radio 4
http://www.joefrank.com/shows.html
This is a absolutely great show, although it has nothing to do with technology: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
Transhumanism, the Singularity and stuff.
Try listening to Total Information Awareness on Wednesdays from 6-7 pm EST, webcast at wrct.org. WRCT is Carngie Mellon's student run radio station. They did a special edition last Friday from Summercon 2004.
I'm a big fan of Air America Radio - very intelligent and thought-provoking talk that's quite entertaining.
Lots of good stuff there - interviews, speeches, conference presentations... good times.
The Army reading list
Multiple streaming formats on their .org site.
It is NPR, but they also have some great local programming like "The Connection"
If you have not already seen it the archives are good for quite a few hours of tech related programming. American University's Kojo Nnamdi show: http://www.wamu.org/kojo/index.html
I'm gonna recommend those guys. I think funnier or at least more reliable than 'the onion'. its not spoken word or radio, but they can be hilarious sometimes.
Antioch Radio. You get old radio serials from the 30s and 40s, including Sci Fi shows.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
not even that.. you're forgetting the most important fact that she's just some dumb ugly ho
For example, they include speakers from:
ETCON 2004
Digital Democracy 2004
Zap Your PRAM 2003
Here is the conference specific area.
AnswerGuru
technomad
If he's your cup of tea, I just hit alt.binaries.howard-stern and download the show so you can listen at your lesiure. I listen every day on the west coast starting around 8:30 or so and depending on interruptions I can get through the 3 hour + show by around 2 or 3.
I used to think that Stern was nothing but dick and fart jokes, but I never really listened or paid attention. It took me a couple of days to get into it, and a couple of weeks to get to know the various characters and format of the show. The stern show is nicely non-extreme left or right wing, which gives you someone who seems to be able to think for himself (he was pro-bush until recently, and now he's very anti-bush). He seems to appeal to people who aren't afraid to think or say what is on their mind, be it politics, or sex. If you don't like it's that's fine, but I recommend that you give it a shot.
There are a great number of interesting underground talk radio shows which have sprung up as of late, many of which deal with network security, computer programming, software piracy, individual privacy issues, etc.
I recommend the following shows:
The ARTS: Artscene Radio Talk Show - show archive
BinRev: Binary Revolution - show archive
RFA: Radio Freek America - show archive
and of course we can't forget Emmanuel Goldstein's Off the Hook which has shows dating back to 1988:
2600's Off the Hook - show archive
TEXTFILES.COM also stores a huge library of other radio shows and rants at its newly branded AUDIO.TEXTFILES.COM.
The only reason to own a radio (unless you're part of the overwhelming majority of the world who actually enjoys music fed to them) - PhilHendrieShow.com
Not tech-y, but "comedy gold!"
Perfectly Normal Industries
are you posting this to try to assure yourself that you're not a flaming homosexual?
www.thelinuxshow.com - discussion of the current news as it affects Linux - Interesting guests - lots of Micro$oft bashing - often very interesting.
"Straddling the sword of technology..."
I miss the good ol' days when just about every radio station and his brother put their content online -- for free! Then some spoil sport had to go and notice that there was not money in that.
Anyway, for something different check out Phil Hendrie. It's not free, but it is a talk show unlike any other. While I disagree with many of his political views... his interviews are hilarious. I'll let you in on the joke -- Phil plays the part of both the interviewer and interviewee. Of course, the people calling in to argue against some ridiculous viewpoint don't know that (hilarity ensues... yadayadayada).
I also wish I could find an online (free or otherwise) audio source for the Lionel Show. We no longer have a local affiliate and I miss his brand of intelligent topics.
Wanted: witty unique signature. Must be willing to relocate.
You said you have exhausted NPR and this might include This American Life, produced by Chicago Public Radio. But if you havent I highly recommend it. It sometimes hilarious, often touching, and always interesting. They have archives going back to 1995. http://www.thislife.org/
yes i love that radio show. I use to listen to that every week, but now its no more :(
although I've been listening to a newer underground radio show called Default Radio alot latley. More focused on phreaking and "default." That show is wonderful, it's about phreaking and things that are just on default, such as default passwords, etc. Very intresting show i think people should check out. Episode 19 is my favorite, it's a good show to hear late at night.
http://www.defaultradio.com/
A good tech show on KPFK in Los Angeles is Digital Village (http://www.digitalvillage.org/home.html)
Shows for 2004 are in MP3 format. Older shows are in Real Audio.
Great, funny guy. You HAVE to listen to his rants!
I know it is M$ but they have some nice archives here.
I'm sure that chick you keep eyeing every time she walks past would like to talk to you.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
thanks! ill check it out, i see some familiar names in the episode guides. theres also binrev radio (http://www.binrev.com/radio/) by some people that were often on rfa, but i cant really get into that one, i find it boring, i havnt listened to any of the recent episodes, they try and just be mostly hacking and not the other stuff (politics, etc)....but i find it a little bland...
I might as well take the opportunity to pimp my own show, Uberleeto. Each week I take the current tech news and do a bit of ranting. Episodes are 15 minutes at the most, great for people with low attention spans.
I'm looking for as much feedback as possible. My email address is at the bottom of the page.
http://hackermedia.net/uberleeto
Hacker Media
Rhapsody's primarily a music service, but they have a lot of spoken word and comedy. There's everything from David Cross to Noam Chomsky to Gil Scott-Heron.
Of course, it does carry a monthly fee, so I don't know if that's quite what you're looking for, but I thought it was worth mentioning nonetheless.
Monkeytreats
Also, it's not usually scientific, but there's educational, and sometimes interesting, video at C-SPAN / BookTV, but their archive doesn't go back very far.
His name is Rush Limbaugh, what he says on his show is so funny because he tries to be serious.
Web Talk Guys. Good show.
http://itconversations.com/.
--Tim
whiterosesociety.org has a great repository of Political talk radio, most from the left wing. all in Mp3 format.
Scroll down the page and you will see this
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/14/172423 6&mode=thread&tid=141&tid=188
Long live the Speaker Bracelet
Rolo D. Monkey
All Geeks all the time, main show is friday night live. 6pm CET. www.skybirdradio.org
I just got out of bed (:r !date gives Tue Jun 15 09:46:03 EST 2004) and it looks like the question has already been answered, but I'd like to provide my input as well (even if the questioner probably isn't looking at the thread anymore).
FreeMatrix is a budding online radio station, sort of 'son of FreeNodeRadio', if you remember that. You can hop onto irc.freenode.net and join #freematrix, they are usually streaming something. The website is http://freematrix.us.
disclaimer: Do not work for FreeMatrix, am just a loyal listener.
--
The last digit of pi is four.
http://www.webtalkguys.com
Pretty good show, I listen to it every week. Whether the show is geeky enough for this audience is a question, but I personally enjoy it.
http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks/
linky linky
The truth doesn't care what I think.
You might wanna use Internet Radio offered by free software at www.winamp.com . It has got Many comedy Channels { I listen to Raunchy Comedy channel} , All kindsa Music and some news channels i guess.
(or)
BBC offers a free radio service.
Hello , this is my way.
Which way is yours ?
btw there is no right way
Great moments in science.
Software patents delenda est.
How about listening to the best? Caltech's Streaming Theater.
Bring it back.
Pretty please?
I'll give you a chocolate chip cookie.
(Okay, it has one bite in it...)
I want my Cowboyneal
Try this:
www.kenradio.com
They have a daily half hour show talking about media entertainment and technology. It's more on the business side of things, but they also follow technology very in depth.
Also, www.webtalkguys.com has a very good tech show once a week.
Well, my favourite radio show is Dr. Michio Kaku's Explorations which is a weekly one hour science show also discussing science in politics. This show is of the highest quality. http://www.kpfa.org/archives/archives.php?id=33 That's the url for the archived programmes back to Oct. By the way, everything else on KPFA should be good albeit heavily biased towards the extreme left. Explorations is all I regularly listen to though since I am into the science tech more than anything else.
How about:
- panel discussions from the H2K2 conference.
- a college course on SF and Fantasy literature.
- the DV Guys focus on the art and tech of video production. (Terrible bumper music. Just suffer through it)
- The Teaching Company has some fantastic for-pay courses on CD and DVD.
- Lastly, I gotta mention The Infidel Guy. The focus is on atheism, so it's not for everyone, but there are some great interviews in the archives with people such as Massimo Pigliucci, Michael Shermer, Paul Kurtz, and Michio Kaku. Lots of contorversial and thought provoking talk on the subject of religion, philosophy, and science.
www.joefrank.com
The best thing I can think of wouldn't in fact be something eduactional--that would be distracting to me. Instead I find comfort in music. Pick up some jazz, big band, R&B, or something else not already in your collection and listen to that. It's a much better way to pass the time. Pop in a CD of the Rat Pack from one of their shows at the Sands and you'll be surprised how fast the time will fly.
Channel9
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MOD up! This is what the original poster really wants!
I lived in Houston for a bit and enjoyed this local show.. they also do streaming so you can listen to it anywhere.
http://www.geekradio.com/
But she's not the type that will repeat a lie or rumor OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again well after it has been discredited. There is no doubt that she is partisan. But she is VERY accurate.
She IS incendiary. And that is VERY deliberate. It's a formula that works and keeps the people who hate her listening!!!!!
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For instance, he recently characterized the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison as harmless frat pranks.
He is a shilling machine. He will defend WHATEVER the Republicans do. ANYTHING that Dubaya does will be great.
A reasonable person will find SOMETHING about a leader they do not agree with. And this is where the liberals differ GREATLY from the conservative broadcasters. They will actually criticize Clinton for not being liberal enough
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Swing over to www.democraticunderground.com and see what REAL liberals (not straw men) say about NPR. They accuse it of being dominated by right wingers.
Personally, I think NPR is about as fair and balanced as media gets. NPR covers stories in detail and seeks out a LOT of different viewpoints. The news stories are typically 3-5 minutes long. To the extent that NPR is detailed, intelligent, accurate and fair, than I guess NPR DOES have a liberal bias. Being liberal means being detailed, intelligent, accurate and fair.
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There show is on Friday from 9pm to midnight. Their streaming link is on http://dishnuts.net/rfd2.m3us /2004 /default.html
Their archive is at:
http://dishnuts.net/archive/tndshows/techthi
They talk about computers to TVRO to DMCA to RIAA stuff. It is a call-in show. Tom & darryl are blind and they started their local LPFM station in Macomb Il.
Did you know that most media in this country are controlled by about 7 companies??? This means it's pretty easy to control the content.
The media has one DEFINITE bias, they are biased towards making money. And they frequently express that bias whenever they can. But the bias means that media sources tend to cow-tow to people who have power and influence.
In case you haven't noticed, the people who run corporate America are largely influential Republicans. These are the people who EDIT the news sources. It doesn't matter who actually writes or reads the news. It has to get passed the people who CONTROL it!!!!!
But it's always easy to construct a straw man out of anybody or anything. You can take a single poll saying that more journalists voted for Clinton and a few incidents that you think are "biased" and make yourself a real good scarecrow man. And then you'll have the ultimate fun knocking your strawman down.
Swing over to www.democraticunderground.com and check out what LIVE liberals have to say. You've been dancing with your straw men for WAY too long.
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Taco: " caller, you're on the air--" Caller: "In Soviet Russia, the Radio show calls you!"*click* followed by the closing caller: Taco: " caller, you're on the air--" Caller: "I think that goatse has a face perfect for radio..."*click*
from http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html:
In 2004, public radio stations and producers will receive $86 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is funded by Congress (that amounts to only 30 cents per American to support local public radio stations). The appropriation from Congress accounts for only about 14 percent of the cost of operating local public radio stations
between 1-2 percent of NPR's annual budget - comes from competitive grants sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
I agree with the poster -- Joe Frank is some of the best radio I've ever heard.
FTP://dhbit.ca/DHBiT/ Enjoy...
www.kenradio.com is pretty good.
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet. It's a daily 1/2 hour show - that's been online over five years, and has got a decent following too.
Basically, they see unregulated capitalism as an unsustainable entity. Eventually, the "winners" consolodate their positions and use their market power to keep out any other players. They stifle new innovation to protect their market position. They drastically reduce the number of people who "work for themselves". Basically, unregulated capitalism quickly devolves into feudalism.
Regulation DOES NOT stifle innovation. Regulation is a set of rules that govern what is considered "fair" and "ethical" play. The rules are set up in order to guarantee that no one player dominates, nor can the existing players keep new ones out of the game.
Regulated marketism is the engine that drives the most successful economy in the world. Every time we de-regulate, the thieves and scoundrels come out of the woodwork to loot the system and steal from the little guy.
The characterization of liberals as "socialists" is a tremendous misnomer brought about by the notion that some things definitely belong in the "public" sector. That is, some things simply CANNOT be done by the private sector effectively because the definitions of "success" are not compatible with "profit". To increase profit, would make the system a "failure".
Finally, progressive taxation schemes can be justified in more than one way. First of all, the police aren't protecting the wealth of the poor. They don't have much wealth to steal (they're stolen from in OTHER ways). The cops protect those WITH wealth. Those who have it pay more.
Second, the affluent are clearly getting more benefit from society, therefore they pay more in the system that supports them so well.
Third, the notion that you have aqcuired wealth all by your lonesome is a complete fabrication. Everyone in this society is co-dependent on others. Those who take a greatly disproportionate share likely have not paid their dues to those who support them in the other areas of life.
If one eliminated all the "leaders" of society, everyone else would be fine. They'd simply elect new leaders. If one eliminated all the "working classes", the wealthy would largely starve to death.
This is the fundamental fact of society. The queen bee is almost completely dependent on the workers. Everything that the more affluent classes of society do would be COMPLETELY impossible without those who provide basic services. The notion that they don't deserve a decent living is outrageous. Without them, you would STARVE!!!!
Of course, there ARE those who are lazy and have no interest in contributing to the system. These people WILL take undo advantage of social welfare systems. But I would argue that while there are little piggies feeding of welfare, there are GIANT SOWS that feed off of Wall St and our financial systems. I am far more worried about the GIANT SOWS than the little piggies.
Finally, if you want to identify the greatest recipients of the welfare state, look no farther than corporate America. You see, everyone is a liberal when it comes to themselves. And corporations are no exception. They leach and suck off the taxpayer tit by insisting that we subsidize THEIR investment costs while they PRIVATIZE all the profits. It exists on the local, state AND federal level: men in $2000 suits with their hands held out DEMANDING subsidies while they pocket the profits.
No one wants their money stolen by those who refuse to contribute. But the real problem is not the little piggies, it's the BIG HOGS. And the VERY WORST offenders are the conservative lawmakers who whore off all their political connections and feed the BIG HOGS.
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"How Public is Public Radio? A study of NPR's guest list"
http://www.fair.org/extra/0405/npr-study.html
And there's a rebuttal:
"NPR Responds to FAIR's NPR Study"
http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0601-06.htm
After I read the articles, I couldn't let NPR stories go by as easily. The questions come up: Why do they have this guy on as a pundit? Is he really a liberal? Is the whole topic of debate something I as a liberal care about?
They did a show on whether Kerry should speak out against Reagan right after his death. It was a useless argument. The real question to be asked is how DO the Democrats speak truth to power, and let it be known the pain he caused to people during his administration. And who SHOULD speak out: Lautenburg looks like a good BS meter.
NPR went for the safe talk, as they have for apparently ten years...
For me, NPR is now called CPR (Centrist Public Radio or Conservative Public Radio, take your pick).
It's a terrible burden on society. It's also a terrible burden on the individual who loses MANY opportunities for personal development.
I'd personaly be in favor of not ALLOWING 16 year old and under girls be guardians. It simply IS NOT POSSIBLE for a child to be the effective guardian of a child. If grandma & grandpa wants to take the responsiblity until the kid turns 18, fine, they can adopt the child. But there should be a basic realization that a child CANNOT be the primary caretaker of another child!!!!!
If grandma and grandpa don't want the responsibility, than the kid should go up for adoption. Society should NOT be made to subsidize the willfull irresponsibility of others.
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60% of the nation does NOT get their news from FOX. Fox News is a cable station and doesn't come CLOSE to the ratings of CBS, NBC and ABC.
Furthermore, FOX watchers tend to be "channel sitters". Fox watchers are far more likely to "LEAVE" Fox on for a long period of time. This schews the statistics. The "Cume" for Fox is MUCH, MUCH lower than that of CNN or the major TV networks.
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Line Interference has a few online episodes. It's not live, but is rather a series of short MP3 episodes focused on different technology issues.
Either way, you'll get your money's worth and more because you will be aware of many things that are going on in our government and our society, and more importantly, it will give you a completely different viewpoint to that of the popular media, which tends to emphasize the leftist viewpoint.
Personally, I have no party affiliation; I'm registered as an independant, but I lean strongly towards the pure libertarian point of view: Anyone can do pretty much what they want, as long as they don't harm those around them, and government keeps its long nose out of everyone's private affairs. I recommend talk radio because it allows you to hear "the other side's" story, and that's important in coming to your own conclusions as to what's right and how things should be done.
A word of warning, though: Know how far each host leans to the right, and remember to combine what you hear with the viewpoints of the left... The truth is somewhere in the middle.
google them
Don't you remember, he sold out quite some time ago. His empire is now part of AOL-Time Warner.
Also, it doesn't matter who writes the text. It matters who approves it. Try doing your little polls on the EDITORS of the news sources your talking about. Then you'll find out who really owns the roost.
There IS conservative media sources though. Fox is front and center where this is concerned. It isn't run by journalists, it's run by Republican operatives.
Honestly, there aren't very many real journalists out there any more. At least none that Edward R Murrah would be proud of. Most of them have devolved into taking press releases from think tanks and corporate offices. What passes for "news" now has been homogonized into blatant shilling for big money interests. Basically, the media is LAZY!!!!!
Contrast this with a REAL journalists like Greg Palast who busts his hump all over the world collecting stories from people on the ground instead of paraphrasing overpaid pundits. Guys like Palast simply cannot get their stuff on the US airways because he shakes the trees and presents stuff that isn't in the corporate agenda.
Finally, you'd be surprised to know that REAL LIBERALS, not your straw man variety, don't like the New York Times. They don't approve of MOST media sources out there besides "The Nation" and NPR, and "Air America". If the media is so "biased" why do REAL LIBERALS HATE IT?????
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Newsmax is a right wing propaganda outlet.
Now to the beef of the issue. Basically, Air America was infiltrated from the inside. They got hoodwinked by some really swarmy folks. Those folks have been fired.
Air America is doing very well for itself now. And Al Franken is getting paid (before he was accepting equity in lieu of salary).
Finally, Al Franken is NOT an extremists. He's the most fair minded person on Air America. Randi Rhodes
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While not only talk, WFMU http://www.wfmu.org/archive.html has a great archive of most of their programs from the past several years. Unfortunately, the archives require RealPlayer, but some of the archives have time-stamped, clickable playlists. The live broadcast is available in most flavors including ogg and mp3. Some of the finest radio to be heard anywhere, though sometimes you just have to turn it off...
The light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
You should check out the l0de Radio Hour. It's broadcast every Friday night at midnight Central time (10pm Pacific).
You can access the audio stream here. Archived episodes (including last week's episode on suicide) are available for download here.
It's actually kind of funny, and they often mention Slashdot. I recommend giving it a listen.
Sorry, they're getting pretty good ratings. That means they have revenue coming in. They're also the #1 audio streamer on the internet (including me). That means people are staying by their computer JUST TO LISTEN to Air America as opposed to being out doing other things.
What Air America has accomplished is really quite remarkable. They started a COMPLETE network with a 6am-11pm cast. It is NOT syndicated. I haven't seen anyone else do this and it's quite impressive.
Air America will be back on in Chicago and LA soon enough. They have good ratings and will find new affiliates.
Finally, Air America is on the air in 16 different markets in addition to Sirius and XM satellite radio. It's not "small time" by any definition.
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Nothing is better than This American Life. If it wasn't for their streaming content my dishes would never get done.
Here's the audio
Dan
Try these...
http://yourmaclife.com/
http://macradio.com/
Both have regular (weekly) online radio broadcasts.
Check out www.publicradiofan.com
Kevin A. Kelly has put together a gem of a site. Find out when your favorite shows are on. View station schedules. Customize 'till your ears fall off.
I may be biased because I work there, but there's a bunch of radio, interviews, news, etc. at Singingfish. For example, a query for KenRadio yields a couple hundred results.
there's
www.airamericaradio.com
www.pbs.com -- some shows are streamed for free
www.realaudio.com -- some talk, a couple of comedy channels
For entertainment, try Project Gutenberg. 10,000 out of copyright books. Science tends to be historic. There are four on astronomy - including one in poetry.
I use festival under Linux for text to speech.
I listen in my car, rather than at work.
-- Stephen.
Try Dorian's Speakeasy (formerly the Green Room.) Plenty of cool interviews. On a quick scan, I see Paul Krugman, economist from Princeton, Richard Dawkins, Biologist from Oxford, David Dill from Stanford CS.
http://wfmu.org/playlists/SE
The BBC site is huge, and has a lot of audio available. Try the excellent archive at Radio 4 especially the show In Our Time.
http://www.audioip.com has links to over 1000 online radion stations from all over the world not just english speaking.
It's a cheezy looking site but straight to the point list and click to start listening.
You may want Radio Free MindFrag. It's not all tech, but it's pretty funny if you want to get away from cheap, recycled, run-of-the-mill american sitcom humor.
a ge =RFMF
http://www.mindfrag.net/staticpages/index.php?p
You can run but you can't hide, except, apparently, along the Afghan-Pakistani border.
I download tons of realaudio, convert it to mp3 and play it on my portables. This American Life is always the first thing I listen to. Simply the best radio show in existence, though I don't much like the David Sedaris segments.
Joe Frank is good too.
I first heard art bell (coast to coast am) in '95, doing late night tech support in san diego. Without a doubt, the best talk radio show ever. If you are up at night...late night....listen to it....it's everywhere...... I've lived in 6 states since then, and its been available in every single one.
And NO, I don't believe all/any of it (depends on the topic)
Also, I think the Cult of the Dead Cows guys were on once before......it was years ago....but I think it was them....
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the absolutely fabulous Feynman lectures in physics. I recently scarfed about 10 of these on one of the binary usenet groups and they are absolutley brilliant, especially the lecture of crystal formation. John
Chaosradio. It's in German though. Live streams available; topics not always interesting; GMT +1:00 with daylight saving time every last wednesday of the month @ 10pm to 1am; broadcasted by Fritz (Bluemoon); presented to you by the CCC (Chaos Computer Club).
BBC Radio 7 has hours of comedey each day as well as science fiction and drama. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/index.shtml?logo
DHBiT
The Linux Show is good.
You can rip Audible audiobooks to MP3s using a program called Goldwave. Just open the Audible file and select save as MP3.
/.ers
Presto! No more DRM
I would reccomend "The Hacker Ethic" "Pattern Recognition" and "Linked" for all
SANS has a great archive of their webcasts. Typically 2 or 3 each month. Just the Internet Strom Center webcasts alone are very much worth the effort. SANS webcast archive .
Future stuff is here.
nice idea, many links - just their navigation needs to be improved. Try finding a spanish stream without going through all links...
http://www.lugradio.org Why slashdot wouldn't take it as a submission, but they will take a submission asking for it I'll never know!
The Prairie Home Companion is a hoot to listen to, and they have great archives.
I think it was because the Bohemian Grove page was hosted on rotten.com, so someone assumed without clicking that it was a link to Tubgirl or something.
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You read too much Newsmax propoganda!!!!
"Insiders cautioned that, while it is standard to use extrapolations as a guide to the performance of a station, they are preliminary and prone to a certain margin of error.
"They're like a second-inning score in a baseball game," said Tom Taylor, the editor of Inside Radio, a trade publication. "But you have to say that the visitors are on the scoreboard."
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., a period that includes Franken's show, WNTD pulled in 3 percent of 25-to-54-year-old listeners in Chicago. That number puts the fledgling network in the same league as WGN-720 AM, which scored a 2.1 percent share of the same demographic, according to the extrapolation of April figures. WLS-890 AM, which airs Rush Limbaugh during the same period, beat WNTD with a 4.8 share.
But in New York, where Air America still broadcasts over WLIB-1190 AM, the network beat Limbaugh's station, Disney-owned WABC, among both 25-to-54-year-olds and 18-to-34-year-olds during the 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. period. In the 25-to-54 demographic, WLIB garnered a 3.4 share to WABC's 3.1; among 18-to-34-year-olds, WLIB won sevenfold with a 2.9 share to WABC's 0.4."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0405
http://www.gogomag.com/cgi-bin/eboard30/index2.
http://radio.about.com/od/airamericaradio/a/aa0
Given the fact that Air America is a startup, they're doing an INCREDIBLE job. They beat Rush soundly in New York.
16 stations for a network that in 3 months old is VERY good. They started out with FOUR stations. That means they've quadrupled their market in 3 months even with the losses of the Chicago and LA affiliates (due to over-billing, not failure to pay bills).
Any business would be EXTREMELY happy to quadruple their market in the first 3 months of operation. CEOs would be flipping their lids for that kind of growth.
So I hope your ready to eat your words when they're at 30 or so stations by the end of the year. Air America's success is due to serving a market that just IS NOT tapped. REAL liberal broadcasting. The networks are all corporate controlled by giant media conglomerates (Republicans!!!!).
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For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors -- between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of the ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.
John Galt
you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made -- before it can be looted or mooched -- made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
Francisco d'Anconia
Sorry,
You're wrong. The conservatives own and operate the major media networks. Take Disney for example. They just tried to block Fahrenheit 9/11 from being released!!!!
Could this have anything to do with Michael Eisner trying to get tax breaks from Jeb???? The fact is that these guys are in a race to buy out all the remaining media properties. They've been cowtowing to this horrible administration and giving them a COMPLETE pass.
The media HUNTED Bill Clinton for 8 straight years. And it was ALL bogus except for Monica Lewinsky.
Flash forward to today when the media would not cover the Plame affair for a solid THREE MONTHS after it came to light. Think about it. Someone in the White House commits TREASON, and it takes THREE MONTHS for that to make the news.
Dubaya is an incompetent rat. And if he got one TENTH of the scrutiny that the brilliant William J Clinton got, his poll numbers would be even lower than the abysmal 40% he is scoring right now.
BTW, Reagan was NOT the most popular president in history. Reagans poll numbers were abysmal after the Iran-Contra scandal!!!!! CLINTON is more popular than Reagan. And I'd take a blow-job loving Clinton over a senile Reagan ANY DAY!!!!!
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With condoms!!!!
Seriously, I don't think it's a good idea for 13 year olds to have sex. I think this is encouraged a bit by the attitudes about teenage pregnancy. It's basically ACCEPTED.
Once upon a time, a girl who got pregnant out of wedlock was ostricized from society. They were sent on "vacations" to family members and the babies were adopted. Today, the government will pay to take care of those babies. And while it's the more "humane" thing to do. I think it unintentionally encourages teenage girls into thinking that they can handle being a mom.
Thats why I think it's probably a good idea to take the decision making process for the child out of HER hands. Grandma and grandpa can assume the responsibility. But a 13-year old CANNOT. And if Grandma and Grandpa won't, than the baby will go for adoption to someone who CAN!!!!
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There are always abusers. And I dare say there a quite a bit of tax cheats who run their own businesses. It's unfair to pick on a particular group. It's a strawman. Their are cheats on EVERY end of the government money chain!!!! Your fixation on the little piggies on the bottom of the food chain is really disproportionate to their impact. The FAT HOGS on the top like Ken Lay (et al) take a LOT MORE out of the system.
The vast majority of citizens are NOT welfare whores. They are hardworking individuals who are largely underpaid for their efforts. And believe it or not, what YOU do would be IMPOSSIBLE without them.
If you live out in the middle of Utah and produce ALL of your own food, and all your manufactured goods, than, yes, maybe you are 100% self-sufficient. But otherwise, you are DEPENDENT on the work of others as we all are. Yes, we ARE effectively a BEE HIVE!!!!
The fact that one bee has done exceptionally well is excellent. You have been compensated for your efforts do to your higher income. And your paying a higher rate because you can. Just remember, that poor folk pay a HIGHER portion of their income when you compare it to their cost of living. You have done well for yourself. Society has helped you along. And society takes it's piece of the action so it keeps humming.
I fully support efforts to ferret out welfare abusers. But the notion of helping people through rough patches in their life is still a solid one. It helps people get back on their feet and back into the system. Just remember, that those on public assistance are consumers as well. And letting them starve would only serve to depress markets.
I would fully support programs that required welfare folks to work time for non-profits so they could serve society in the way it is serving them. And I DON'T think it's correct for able bodied people to live their lives off of welfare.
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Check this out
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/floyd/010817
It contrasts the coverage of the missing employee of Gary Condit vs the DEAD employee found in Joe Scarborough's office. The fact that Joe Scarborough promptly resign from congress for "family reasons" is also interesting.
So ask yourself the question, what made a DEMOCRAT such fodder, while a REPUBLICAN who had a dead girl in his office garnered ZERO media attention??????
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It is decent and has archives. Check it out at http://www.thelinuxshow.com/ .
My vote would be for Air America Radio. You can listen to live streaming at www.airamericaradio.com, or get archived shows from www.airamericaplace.com. And it doesn't have to be boring and stuffy -- there are shows with Al Franken (comedian, SNL performer and writer), Liz Winstead (creator of The Daily Show, comedian), Chuck D (yes, THAT Chuck D of Public Enemy), Jeanenne (sp?) Garofalo (comedian, actress), etc. -- it's usually never boring.
Scarborough signed a three year contract with MSNBC shortly after he resigned from congress in disgrace. He replaced MSNBC's highest rated show that was cancelled because of "poor ratings".
Who did he replace ???? Famed liberal PHIL DOHAHUE!!!!!!
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How about a slashdot webradio call in show. We could get to hear all the /.'ers out there. Nothing like a radio discussion about whether Star Trek or Star WArs is best. ;D
Party at O'zorgnax's Pub! Buy me a Slurmtini aye?
I know I'm late to this party, but try:
Linux Public Broadcasting Network: http://www.lpbn.org
It has a variety of interesting content, not just Linux.
There are a couple of shows on radio.freshcheese.net you might want to listen to. We have a very small fan base, but they're fun to do anyway.
You can find archives of two of the shows at freshcheese.net and allgeeksconsidered.org.
www.thespaceshow.com
Bill Clinton is a pretty straight arrow. I do fault him for a few things. But I fault Reagan, and the Bush's for being so crooked they wouldn't fit in ANY whole.
Reagan's sole saving grace is that he had Alzheimer's. As such, I blame the crooks he hired to run his administration
Just remember. Bill Clinton didn't trade arms for hostages. Bill Clinton didn't bribe the Iranians to KEEP hostages in order to influence an election. Bill Clinton didn't smuggle drugs into Mena Arkansas. That was the CIA and BUSH!!! Bill Clinton didn't use the profits of drug smuggling to finance an illegal war run by terrorists in Central America.
Bill Clinton didn't finance and arm Saddam Hussein. That was Reagan. Bill Clinton's father didn't fund the Nazis. That was Bush's father. Bill Clinton didn't train the Taliban, that was Reagan. Bill Clinton didn't abandon Afghanistan after the Soviets were ousted, that was Bush.
Bill Clinton didn't triple the deficit. That was Reagan. Bill Clinton didn't turn a record surplus BACK into a record deficit. That was Dubaya. Bill Clinton didn't ignore countless warnings about imminent terorist threat. That was Dubaya.
Bill Clinton thwarted half a dozen terrorist attacks. Bill Clinton thwarted the Millenium Bomb plot. Bill Clinton thwarted Holland Tunnel bomb plot. Bill Clinton thwarted project Boijinka which threatened to use 12 highjacked aircrafts to destroy targets in the United States and Europe.
Bill Clinton was NOT offered Osama Bin Laden on a silver platter. The person who offered was a fruit loop in no position to deliver. He now works for Fox News. Bill Clinton's poppy isn't close personal friends with Osama Bin Laden's poppy. Bush IS close family friends of the Bin Ladens.
Bill Clinton wasn't meeting with Osama Bin Laden's older brother on the morning of 9/11. That was Poppy Bush.
Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor DIDN'T lie about threats concerning hijacked aicraft. They knew DAMN well that someone could have thought of the idea. Tom Clancy wrote a book about it called "Executive Decision". The G-8 summit in Genoa was ringed with anti-aircraft batteries to protect against such an attack at the request of the US. The plot for "The Lone Gunman" spinoff of the X-Files was crashing a remotely piloted jet into
Bill Clinton did not embezzle money in Whitewater. Bill Clinton did NOT kill Vince Foster. Bill Clinton NEVER had an affair with Jennifer Flowers. Among Jennifer's famous claims was meeting Bill for the first time in 1981 at a hotel that was not yet built and being Ms. Texas along with a handful of other delusional nonsense.
Bill Clinton did NOT solicit random women with the help of Arkansas state troopers. After being confronted with video evidence, the troopers in question (having been paid substantial sums of money by Richard Mellon Scaife) recanted under oath.
Bill Clinton did NOT sexually harass Paula Jones. I got news for you, before her plastic surgery, Paula was a bit of a dog. And Bill Clinton could do a LOT better than Paula Jones.
Bill Clinton was not a Cocaine user. George W Bush WAS!!!!! Bill Clinton never lied to get out of the military, he broke a promise. Bill Clinton didn't pull strings to get out of serving, he relied on his academic achievement.
Dubaya jumped into a substantial waiting list to get a coveted spot in TANG after scoring 25 out of 100 on his pilots aptitude test. His entrace was a political favor and he took someone else's spot that was more deserving. He was subsequently promoted TWICE without merit. He then REFUSED to take a physical at a time when he would have been administered a drug test. George W NEVER should up in Alabama as he claimed to. He wasted MILLIONS of tax payer dollars to train him and then skipped out on doing his service honorably.
All the other crap that Ken Star the Special Pers
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The LA Times was in Arkansas investigating the Trooper/sex scandals long before David Brock arrived. They didn't break the stories because they couldn't confirm them. They couldn't confirm the stories
David Brock broke the story. And a VERY authoritize source says the story was false
DAVID BROCK!!!!!!
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