And maybe when the cyborg oligarchs like Cirrus and Clearchannel finally fade away, we'll get back the character and spontenaity of local radio. Stuff like DJs who fuck up and then laugh at themselves. Or DJs who take requests that aren't on their song sheets.
Stations like that have appeal because they are recognizably staffed by human beings instead of computers programmed by marketers.
Look, this may sound ludicrous to you, and it is quite possible that my apprehensions will not be borne out by events, but I am leery of beaming microwaves into my skull. It may indeed the case that these things are harmless, but I plan on waiting a few years for some of the long-term health studies to publish their results. There's anecdotal evidence, and some inconclusive medical studies, either of which may count as nothing to you, that there are adverse health effects from cell-phone usage.
You can only do FM on a digital music player that uses magnetic storage, i.e., any type other than a CD player. In most markets, except the big cities, that precludes talk shows and sports. Which is too bad, because I think a good high capacity digital player that had the features you outlined would fly off the shelves. I would pay full price for one.
Maybe the layoffs are the result of increased automation, as has happened in other countries. It makes sense, doesn't it? I mean, they are a computer company. They should know a thing or two about increasing productivity.
Well, that's the thing--MTV is educating our kids. The incapacity to think rationally, so carefully cultivated in public schools, is what makes propaganda of the sort that appears on MTV so effective.
Check out the link under my nick. The website's author is a celebrated public school teacher and his manifesto is available for free online. It's a real eye-opener.
Well, to be fair to the guy, he was hoarse and suffering from a cold at the time of the imfamous "scream." Anybody else attempting the same vocal feats under identical circumstances would have sounded equally ridiculous. Frankly, what I saw was genuine, unscripted enthusiasm. But the bottom line in the whole Howard Dean saga was that he was not the Politburo's chosen man and his campaign was gathering momentum. The groveling press did the rest.
Public schools, man. All of this stupidity is the work of public schools. They've killed critical thinking and instilled a doglike sence of obedience in the masses. These are the fodder of tyrants.
Problem is, NASA would never, EVER, use foreign technology in their beloved space program. They'd rather spend billions to develop the wheel inhouse than get it from another country.
Precisely. Our legion of subsidized aerospace contractors would never tolerate NASA's purchase of a fully-functioning design from a foreign manufacturer. Rest assured that NASA's new vehicle will be a gold-plated turkey of the sort the Pentagon favors, not a simple, robust vehicle like Soyuz or Klipper.
Zahn's trilogy would be the effin' bomb if properly adapted for the screen. He captured the spirit of the films better than any of the other post-Jedi writers, and Lucas would be nuts to consider any other source.
I've a better idea (well, perhaps.) Buy the albums of your choice online, used. Yes, that means buying the entire albums, but you get the album art, libretto or booklet, and actual physical media in it's original glory. Plus, you can burn as many backups as you want in a format of your choosing.
I never buy them new unless there is no other choice. Savings are generally 50% or better over the purchase price of a new CD, or an album's worth of lossy AAC garbage. iTMS is reserved for solitary downloads of songs I don't consider it worthwhile to buy whole albums for.
Well, bully for Toshiba, I guess. May they make money hand over fist from this technology. Likewise, may their rivals scramble to catch up however they can so that we can enjoy the benefits of price competition.
The pace of development in display technology is astounding these days. We're almost at the point where people will be tossing their old picture tubes en masses, which leads me to another topic: the technology to dispose of all the old CRTs. I am envisioning an imminent surge of lead and PCB-laden appliances in the waste stream.
I've thought the same thing on more than one occasion, but the time for MS to have made that decision was years ago, before they spent all that money on anti-Unix advertising.
It would be hard for them to talk their way out of the rhetorical position they're in, where (it is claimed) Unix is inferior/dead/too expensive.
It's too bad, because I think they would be in a stronger position had they gone the Apple route. Can you imagine how different things would be if they had released a Unix-based OS a couple of years ago? Unthinkable.
In many areas of the U.S., particularly the Northeast, the gap made by the wolves' extermination has been filled by coyotes, who are extraordinarily adaptable and defy eradication efforts better than larger predators. Visit the northern woods and you'll see (if you're very lucky, that is) coyotes that weigh twice as much as their relatives in the Western U.S. It's quite amazing, actually; they have evolved in a very short span of time to take down the larger prey that wolves and cougars once hunted, though some of this is attributed to cross-breeding with the red wolf population. Coyotes are, in a real sense, becoming the wolves. I think this is a long-term shift in the ecological balance that will not be reversed, even as large predators are slowly introduced into the areas depopulated by extermination campaigns.
But the public in most areas is largely unaware of what sort of damage the burgeoning deer population can do to the woods. They just graze and graze and cause automobile accidents. And interestingly enough, they are involved by far in more fatal attacks on people than any other North American wild mammal. Yet people fear the quite miniscule numbers of wolves and cougars...
I'm not an Old Testament kind of guy, really, but there are times when I think aspects of the old Judaic legal code would serve us well, such as the one about bearing false witness against one's neighbor.
Here's how it worked. Say you knowingly made a false accusation against another person for which they could be legally reprimanded. Under the old Judaic system, you would be subject to whatever punishment could be meted out to the accused. So things could get pretty drastic for the defamer if they were caught.
While I'm not necessarily advocating a 1:1, eye-for-an-eye kind of ratio, I think implementing a milder version of this in our system would constitute a reform. I'm not referring to libel, for which civil penalties already exist (for those who can afford the legal expertise,) but cases where criminal charges can be brought against the accused.
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Stations like that have appeal because they are recognizably staffed by human beings instead of computers programmed by marketers.
"They don't swell, they don't tell, and they're grateful as hell." Probably not an exact quote, but close enough to get into the mind of the man.
Sure, I take them every day.
Really? I thought Software Tycoon was kind of cool.
Look, this may sound ludicrous to you, and it is quite possible that my apprehensions will not be borne out by events, but I am leery of beaming microwaves into my skull. It may indeed the case that these things are harmless, but I plan on waiting a few years for some of the long-term health studies to publish their results. There's anecdotal evidence, and some inconclusive medical studies, either of which may count as nothing to you, that there are adverse health effects from cell-phone usage.
That's right, when some part malfunctions, just falls off, or starts rusting for no reason, it costs more to replace.
You can only do FM on a digital music player that uses magnetic storage, i.e., any type other than a CD player. In most markets, except the big cities, that precludes talk shows and sports. Which is too bad, because I think a good high capacity digital player that had the features you outlined would fly off the shelves. I would pay full price for one.
Maybe the layoffs are the result of increased automation, as has happened in other countries. It makes sense, doesn't it? I mean, they are a computer company. They should know a thing or two about increasing productivity.
Check out the link under my nick. The website's author is a celebrated public school teacher and his manifesto is available for free online. It's a real eye-opener.
Well, to be fair to the guy, he was hoarse and suffering from a cold at the time of the imfamous "scream." Anybody else attempting the same vocal feats under identical circumstances would have sounded equally ridiculous. Frankly, what I saw was genuine, unscripted enthusiasm. But the bottom line in the whole Howard Dean saga was that he was not the Politburo's chosen man and his campaign was gathering momentum. The groveling press did the rest.
Public schools, man. All of this stupidity is the work of public schools. They've killed critical thinking and instilled a doglike sence of obedience in the masses. These are the fodder of tyrants.
Sounds like Section 58 of the Soviet penal code. That one had a clause for everything--pure, arbitrary despotism at its worst.
They're good for video games, too.
Precisely. Our legion of subsidized aerospace contractors would never tolerate NASA's purchase of a fully-functioning design from a foreign manufacturer. Rest assured that NASA's new vehicle will be a gold-plated turkey of the sort the Pentagon favors, not a simple, robust vehicle like Soyuz or Klipper.
Zahn's trilogy would be the effin' bomb if properly adapted for the screen. He captured the spirit of the films better than any of the other post-Jedi writers, and Lucas would be nuts to consider any other source.
Well, there are worse places than Ireland to turn up smashed in. I hear the domestic Guinness is quite good there.
I never buy them new unless there is no other choice. Savings are generally 50% or better over the purchase price of a new CD, or an album's worth of lossy AAC garbage. iTMS is reserved for solitary downloads of songs I don't consider it worthwhile to buy whole albums for.
And the rest of us use his app to download porn with. It's the sort of situation for which the word "tragicomic" was coined.
The pace of development in display technology is astounding these days. We're almost at the point where people will be tossing their old picture tubes en masses, which leads me to another topic: the technology to dispose of all the old CRTs. I am envisioning an imminent surge of lead and PCB-laden appliances in the waste stream.
It would be hard for them to talk their way out of the rhetorical position they're in, where (it is claimed) Unix is inferior/dead/too expensive.
It's too bad, because I think they would be in a stronger position had they gone the Apple route. Can you imagine how different things would be if they had released a Unix-based OS a couple of years ago? Unthinkable.
But the public in most areas is largely unaware of what sort of damage the burgeoning deer population can do to the woods. They just graze and graze and cause automobile accidents. And interestingly enough, they are involved by far in more fatal attacks on people than any other North American wild mammal. Yet people fear the quite miniscule numbers of wolves and cougars...
"Quantum crash?" Let me guess how that works:
If you predict that it will crash, then it won't, and if you predict that it won't crash, then it will.
Here's how it worked. Say you knowingly made a false accusation against another person for which they could be legally reprimanded. Under the old Judaic system, you would be subject to whatever punishment could be meted out to the accused. So things could get pretty drastic for the defamer if they were caught.
While I'm not necessarily advocating a 1:1, eye-for-an-eye kind of ratio, I think implementing a milder version of this in our system would constitute a reform. I'm not referring to libel, for which civil penalties already exist (for those who can afford the legal expertise,) but cases where criminal charges can be brought against the accused.