Many people like Car Talk, about 1.4% of the US listen to them. Would it kill you not to be an ass? I mean, it's fine you don't like them, but man you sound like an asshole. Frankly, the Internet has enough of those already.
Thank you for that little pearl of wisdom. Nothing like a bit of blatant ad hominem, with no attempt whatsoever to deal with the point, to break up the day.
Anything else you'd like to say about the completely irrelevant topic of your perception of my personality, you amusingly stupid mucksavage?
Car Talk? Are you f***ing kidding me?! Two assholes with abrasive Boston accents sit there laughing like hyenas at everything the other one says? How anyone listens to that garbage I do not know. Every time it's about to come on I have to dive for the radio and switch it off because I can't even stand the sound of "Suppoht foh cah tawk..." intro, to say nothing of the fingernails-on-a-blackboard country music that follows.
Click: "You know what?"
Clack: "What?"
Click: "I got up early this mohning! Hwahwahwaaaa!"
Clack: "Hwahwahwa! Really?!"
Click: "Yeah! Hwa hwa hwa!!!"
Click and Clack in unison: "Hwa hwa hwa!"
Makes me want to punt the radio into next week.
RadioLab's okay, but the annoying editing is just...uh oh, here it comes... annoying, like when you're tuning into what someone's saying and his voice starts fading out yadda yadda yadda... narrator cuts in across the front of him to comment on who he is or what he's talking about. It'd be much easier to listen to without the gimmicky editing.
This American Life is okay, but I find Ira Glass' creaky voice a little hard to listen to sometimes. Sounds like he's constantly nervous.
As for the local announcers here on KQED, some are better than others. There's one guy who shall remain nameless who I have yet to hear complete a sentence without stumbling over himself, and there's a female announcer who's not much better. People like that wouldn't last long on the BBC. Maybe they're dyslexic or something and have a hard time reading what's in front of them, and I have nothing but sympathy, but they shouldn't be on the air.
But in general I find the quality of NPR's production values a lot higher than PBS. I guess it's a lot easier to do a good job on radio than on TV, so you don't need the BBC's massive budget to nail it.
well it comforting to know that the same government that managed this program is now moving on to something as *truly* important as our and our childrens healthcare.
right?
I'll bet your Thanksgiving dinner table is a real barrel of laughs. What is it with you mad hatters that you have to turn every discussion into an anti-government / anti-Obama rant?
Mods, mark this moron as off-topic and let the rest of us discuss the actual topic.
His point is that this "We're #1" hubris is a bit misplaced when it was the Russians that got just about every single first in the space race. Year the moon landing was slick and the joyride on the surface in a rover with a driver's seat was kinda cool, but don't go around saying America was first in everything.
This complacency is going to be America's undoing, and the standard racist/. reaction to every non-American space venture is just a symptom of it.
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If you "don't want to be surrounded by skyscrapers" then move to the suburbs or the wilderness. Living in a place like San Francisco and complaining about the city's evolution and increasing density is the very definition of stupid.
Higher density (which is better for the environment, you know) is the only thing that's going to solve this problem, not standing like an idiot in front of a coach and angrily waving a sign.
Essentially you have people that can see the time coming when they will have to move and it's directly the result of Google and its employees.
You were doing fine until you got to this part. It's not the fault of the Google employees, it's the fault of the protestors. If they'd stop blocking new residential developments at every turn and trying to shorten the tall apartment buildings that do manage to get built, the city would stand a better chance of building enough housing stock to meet demand and rents wouldn't be so high in the first place.
They are total fucking morons. Their problem is with rising rents. Rising rents are a result of a shortage of housing in the city falling way short of demand. Shortage of housing in the city is the result of these same idiots objecting to every residential development taller than a gas station. Who do they blame? Not themselves, they prefer to scapegoat some tech workers, most of whom spend money in local businesses and help the local economy anyway. These ignorant cretins are so fucking stupid on so many levels I don't even know where to start.
Animals are an inherently inefficient means of getting energy into the human body. Eating meat is also much more prone to health problems, obesity being the most pressing.
Black slaves weren't bred for food, and weren't slaughtered on industrial production lines.
Slavery was an institution that many people thought was sacrosanct and was so entwined into all aspects of society that it was unthinkable that it would ever be abolished. But a more evolved sense of morality prevailed. My comparison is entirely valid.
Nice try, AC, but as you know China is still going through their own industrial revolution. We got the working conditions thing sorted out in the west a long time ago, and we're not going back to Dickensian working conditions despite the best efforts of some people.
In one hundred years we'll look back at the practice of eating meat with the same horror that we look upon slavery now.
In one hundred years, we'll look back at the practice of eating natural meat with horror. Would you have a problem with lab-grown meat?
I would have no problem with lab grown meat as long as it's safe and healthy. As long as a living animal didn't have to suffer and die, that's fine by me.
Cows and especially pigs are highly intelligent animals. And they are totally delicious. Let's change our minds about those before we beat up the Japanese too badly, shall we?
Pigs are definitely highly intelligent. As clean, smart, and affectionate as dogs, by all accounts.
Wild animals in the food chain don't have much of a choice as to how they survive. Humans, on the other hand, do. We have reached a point where we no longer need to eat meat, plus it has a ton of other disadvantages (inefficient and expensive use of energy, it's better to get it direct from the plant, hygiene and safety issues, etc.). If we have the option of getting by without having to torture and murder animals, we should take that option if we want to be considered civilized.
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The doctrine of porcine infallibility has been given a kick squarely in the bollocks.
It's the British Isles.
The Irish Isles.
Many people like Car Talk, about 1.4% of the US listen to them.
Would it kill you not to be an ass? I mean, it's fine you don't like them, but man you sound like an asshole. Frankly, the Internet has enough of those already.
Thank you for that little pearl of wisdom. Nothing like a bit of blatant ad hominem, with no attempt whatsoever to deal with the point, to break up the day.
Anything else you'd like to say about the completely irrelevant topic of your perception of my personality, you amusingly stupid mucksavage?
Car Talk? Are you f***ing kidding me?! Two assholes with abrasive Boston accents sit there laughing like hyenas at everything the other one says? How anyone listens to that garbage I do not know. Every time it's about to come on I have to dive for the radio and switch it off because I can't even stand the sound of "Suppoht foh cah tawk ..." intro, to say nothing of the fingernails-on-a-blackboard country music that follows.
Click: "You know what?"
Clack: "What?"
Click: "I got up early this mohning! Hwahwahwaaaa!"
Clack: "Hwahwahwa! Really?!"
Click: "Yeah! Hwa hwa hwa!!!"
Click and Clack in unison: "Hwa hwa hwa!"
Makes me want to punt the radio into next week.
RadioLab's okay, but the annoying editing is just...uh oh, here it comes ... annoying, like when you're tuning into what someone's saying and his voice starts fading out yadda yadda yadda ... narrator cuts in across the front of him to comment on who he is or what he's talking about. It'd be much easier to listen to without the gimmicky editing.
This American Life is okay, but I find Ira Glass' creaky voice a little hard to listen to sometimes. Sounds like he's constantly nervous.
As for the local announcers here on KQED, some are better than others. There's one guy who shall remain nameless who I have yet to hear complete a sentence without stumbling over himself, and there's a female announcer who's not much better. People like that wouldn't last long on the BBC. Maybe they're dyslexic or something and have a hard time reading what's in front of them, and I have nothing but sympathy, but they shouldn't be on the air.
But in general I find the quality of NPR's production values a lot higher than PBS. I guess it's a lot easier to do a good job on radio than on TV, so you don't need the BBC's massive budget to nail it.
well it comforting to know that the same government that managed this program is now moving on to something as *truly* important as our and our childrens healthcare.
right?
I'll bet your Thanksgiving dinner table is a real barrel of laughs. What is it with you mad hatters that you have to turn every discussion into an anti-government / anti-Obama rant?
Mods, mark this moron as off-topic and let the rest of us discuss the actual topic.
His point is that this "We're #1" hubris is a bit misplaced when it was the Russians that got just about every single first in the space race. Year the moon landing was slick and the joyride on the surface in a rover with a driver's seat was kinda cool, but don't go around saying America was first in everything.
This complacency is going to be America's undoing, and the standard racist /. reaction to every non-American space venture is just a symptom of it.
Stand by for a bombardment of "Haha look at those cute non-Americans trying to land on the moon" wankers in 5-4-3-2-1...
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...for producing the first informative post on this whole sorry thread.
Gawd slashdot has gone downhill over the years!
Made a fortune on the internet.
Started a car manufacturing company producing high-tech electric vehicles that make anything produced in Detroit these days look like a Model T.
Building spaceships to take tourists out of the atmosphere.
"Just lucky in life"? Maybe, but it makes me wonder what you've achieved lately.
"Why would you buy 500 snowplows and salt trucks and have them sit around for 1,000 days, waiting for the next event?"
If only the same thinking were applied to defense spending.
If you "don't want to be surrounded by skyscrapers" then move to the suburbs or the wilderness. Living in a place like San Francisco and complaining about the city's evolution and increasing density is the very definition of stupid.
Higher density (which is better for the environment, you know) is the only thing that's going to solve this problem, not standing like an idiot in front of a coach and angrily waving a sign.
Essentially you have people that can see the time coming when they will have to move and it's directly the result of Google and its employees.
You were doing fine until you got to this part. It's not the fault of the Google employees, it's the fault of the protestors. If they'd stop blocking new residential developments at every turn and trying to shorten the tall apartment buildings that do manage to get built, the city would stand a better chance of building enough housing stock to meet demand and rents wouldn't be so high in the first place.
They are total fucking morons. Their problem is with rising rents. Rising rents are a result of a shortage of housing in the city falling way short of demand. Shortage of housing in the city is the result of these same idiots objecting to every residential development taller than a gas station. Who do they blame? Not themselves, they prefer to scapegoat some tech workers, most of whom spend money in local businesses and help the local economy anyway. These ignorant cretins are so fucking stupid on so many levels I don't even know where to start.
Animals are an inherently inefficient means of getting energy into the human body. Eating meat is also much more prone to health problems, obesity being the most pressing.
While the liberals tend to live in a fantasy world where nature is paradise and every animal yearns to live free.
Is it okay to eat your straw man?
Why is it that some people seem to care more about the death of 200 dolphins than the death of 200,000 Syrians?
Why is it that some people care more about the death of 200,000 Syrians than the death of over a million jews during WWII?
See? I can find a bigger problem too.
At the base level, our brains see nothing wrong with killing these animals for food.
Speak for yourself.
the discussion of the morality of eating animals is a slippery slope to veganism.
In other words, veganism is the only logical outcome of a discussion about the morality of eating animals.
Black slaves weren't bred for food, and weren't slaughtered on industrial production lines.
Slavery was an institution that many people thought was sacrosanct and was so entwined into all aspects of society that it was unthinkable that it would ever be abolished. But a more evolved sense of morality prevailed. My comparison is entirely valid.
Nice try, AC, but as you know China is still going through their own industrial revolution. We got the working conditions thing sorted out in the west a long time ago, and we're not going back to Dickensian working conditions despite the best efforts of some people.
In one hundred years we'll look back at the practice of eating meat with the same horror that we look upon slavery now.
In one hundred years, we'll look back at the practice of eating natural meat with horror. Would you have a problem with lab-grown meat?
I would have no problem with lab grown meat as long as it's safe and healthy. As long as a living animal didn't have to suffer and die, that's fine by me.
In one hundred years we'll look back at the practice of eating meat with the same horror that we look upon slavery now.
Spoken like someone who doesn't know the taste of a truly nice piece of meat.
I became vegetarian two years ago. I'm 38. Chances are I've eaten more meat in my lifetime than you have.
1 - It's not just about dolphins. It's about human treatment of dolphins.
2 - That's your prerogative. Personally if I lived in the revolutionary war period I'd prefer it if my legacy was on the abolitionist side.
3 - The question of "morality" in other life forms is irrelevant. Morality is a human trait.
Cows and especially pigs are highly intelligent animals. And they are totally delicious. Let's change our minds about those before we beat up the Japanese too badly, shall we?
Pigs are definitely highly intelligent. As clean, smart, and affectionate as dogs, by all accounts.
Wild animals in the food chain don't have much of a choice as to how they survive. Humans, on the other hand, do. We have reached a point where we no longer need to eat meat, plus it has a ton of other disadvantages (inefficient and expensive use of energy, it's better to get it direct from the plant, hygiene and safety issues, etc.). If we have the option of getting by without having to torture and murder animals, we should take that option if we want to be considered civilized.