Problem is that all the stations seem to go to commercial at the same time.
That's by design. I live in a city with two corporate radio owners, (you probably do too) who each own at least one of each type of station ( classic rock, hip-hop, easy listening etc) which means they are pretty much carbon copies of each other.
They are also competing in the same advertising market, so having all the stations go to advertising at the same time will be a selling point to their customers.
My personal view is that commercial radio is a pretty good deal for the listener, as long as there is a station that plays music you like.
Here I am however listening to a non-commercial classical station. Just heard some bassoon piece that was just great.
After having a quick look at this I am wondering if this is not a good way to get Facebook to give more in campaign contributions, as it says they have spent $7 million over the last 12 years, which sounds like almost nothing.
It could be seen as "We will make your life uncomfortable regularly unless we get more of that sweet, sweet cash".
After all, the way Facebook runs its business is none of congress' business.
It's just waving a bogeyman about to convince easily frightened people and get more of that sweet sweet funding.
Which seems to be what the US military is really for these days.
I am guessing that part of these sorts of articles will come up fairly regularly now that Syria is winding down (or at least out of US control again), Iraq is not the money sink it used to be, and no-one can really remember why US troops are still in Afghanistan at all.
I wonder which country the US will destabilise next?
I re-read the first book a few months ago and was struck by how dated it felt. Not so much in the tech way but more because all the characters smoked.
It just felt really weird.
The sorts of Libertarians that post here are a weird US only thing as far as I can tell.
I guess you have to grow up with an extreme level of right-wing propaganda surrounding you all your life before you can take any of that nonsense seriously.
They're just useful idiots for the US ruling class anyway, ignore them.
That's what I want too:
4.75" screen (or thereabouts)
Micro SD Card slot
Removable battery (looks like they're gone for good though)
Nobody seems to want to make me one, however.
I don't know where you're from, but in my town the MSM love your Mr. Trump.
No-one gets them clicks and views quite like the slightly odd bloke you elected.
Here's a study that sets out the case that America is not really a democracy, and that the elites buy the legislation they want.
In my view the way to tell the US system is not representative is how you have two political parties.
Do 300 million people really agree with each other that much?
I understand a senior manager where I work asked why she could not use her Facebook logon to access the corporate network.
I was not involved in the conversation, but I the realities of security were explained to her quite forcefully.
I am not confident she got the message however, as she works in HR so it probably went right over her head.
Most people aren't laughing at Trump
As a non-American I can tell you that we have laughed at several of your presidents in my lifetime.
Your Mr. Reagan was considered to be a particular fuckwit, but we had confidence you would see through him and elect someone capable of tying his own shoes in 1984, but then you gave him an even bigger mandate which was a bit hard to believe really.
The next couple of guys were sort of bog standard American style arseholes, but at least they seemed to know what they were doing.
I don't know if you're old enough to remember 2000, but it turns out you guys elected a former coke-friend idiot trust fund baby who had even less clue than Mr. Reagan, to the surprise of the whole world.
Never mind we thought, nobody could be worse than Mr. Bush II, but then you elected Mr. Trump and we're not really laughing now, because you've got both stupid and nasty in one package.
You current fuckwit is likely to start killing people because they looked at him sideways.
So what's the story with Gnome then?
I'm really not trolling, and I prefer Cinnamon myself, but both Ubuntu and Redhat make Gnome their default desktop, and they must have some idea what they're doing, surely?
I just can't see why they would push it if their users hate it so much. And yet I am yet to see much love for Gnome anywhere.
Definitely not the US, I am sometimes appalled at what you have to put up with in the US. I understand your employers don't even have to give you annual leave.
Try doing that when working for Steve Jobs at apple, you will be fired.
Fortunately for me, I live in a country where everyone has rights, not just the extremely wealthy, so if my boss sacked me because I went home when he stopped paying me, it would cost him a lot of money.
I am also not prepared to act like some sort of servile lackey.
I've been talking to the Ecuadorian tech guys and they have just changed the wifi SSID to GoHomeNowJulian and the password is Solo ve a casa, podrías.
I don't think he's getting the hint.
Then again, New Zealanders probably weren't too happy with their tax funds being used for this inanity.
I am a New Zealand taxpayer and I would much rather my tax money was spent on this sort of thing than tooling up a bunch of police (who should have known better) to kick someone's door in at dawn when two detectives could have knocked politely at a decent hour.
Now that the raid has been ruled illegal it will be hard to argue anything gained in the raid is admissible I would think.
As mentioned, Kim dotcom might be in danger if he travels overseas however, as the US has a track record of kidnapping people and torturing them.
We have been through this before, when the US government decided that strong encryption was a weapon, and could not be exported.
They lost then and they will lose this fight also because the rest of the world know how to do maths and can't really prevent Americans getting access to the results. This explains the stupidity pretty well.
The big deal about R-Pi is the community and the level of support.
Exactly. I purchased a RPi 3B+ on Friday and set it up with a HiFiBerry DAC + and a 7" touchscreen, then installed Volumio and plugged in a good set of powered speakers.
It runs significantly faster than the old RPi B I had been using, and I am extremely happy, as I now have a nice sounding very small music box that is easy to use.
One issue I am having is that I see the yellow "lightening bolt" that shows the power supply is not quite up to the job. It seems to come on and off occasionally without impacting performance, so maybe I shouldn't worry, but if anyone can point me to a better supply than this one I would be grateful.
I have tried several other SBC type devices, and unless they're X86 or X64 they're significantly worse than RPi just because of the great support RPi has.
New Zealand had a succession of Finance Ministers who saw what your Mr. Reagan and his wealthy friends were selling and went all in.
What we were sold was trickle down economics, and "all boats lift in a rising tide" and "user pays" all of which have been absolute disasters for working people and a huge cash grab for the wealthy, (also as you point out, wealthy foreigners).
When we "negotiate" international trade treaties, we have nothing to offer, as we gave everything away 20 years ago, which is one of the reason we can't sell milk to the Canadians (for example).
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Problem is that all the stations seem to go to commercial at the same time.
That's by design. I live in a city with two corporate radio owners, (you probably do too) who each own at least one of each type of station ( classic rock, hip-hop, easy listening etc) which means they are pretty much carbon copies of each other.
They are also competing in the same advertising market, so having all the stations go to advertising at the same time will be a selling point to their customers.
My personal view is that commercial radio is a pretty good deal for the listener, as long as there is a station that plays music you like.
Here I am however listening to a non-commercial classical station. Just heard some bassoon piece that was just great.
After having a quick look at this I am wondering if this is not a good way to get Facebook to give more in campaign contributions, as it says they have spent $7 million over the last 12 years, which sounds like almost nothing.
It could be seen as "We will make your life uncomfortable regularly unless we get more of that sweet, sweet cash".
After all, the way Facebook runs its business is none of congress' business.
It's just waving a bogeyman about to convince easily frightened people and get more of that sweet sweet funding.
Which seems to be what the US military is really for these days.
I am guessing that part of these sorts of articles will come up fairly regularly now that Syria is winding down (or at least out of US control again), Iraq is not the money sink it used to be, and no-one can really remember why US troops are still in Afghanistan at all.
I wonder which country the US will destabilise next?
I re-read the first book a few months ago and was struck by how dated it felt. Not so much in the tech way but more because all the characters smoked.
It just felt really weird.
The sorts of Libertarians that post here are a weird US only thing as far as I can tell.
I guess you have to grow up with an extreme level of right-wing propaganda surrounding you all your life before you can take any of that nonsense seriously.
They're just useful idiots for the US ruling class anyway, ignore them.
This is a weird way to run a country.
That's what I want too:
4.75" screen (or thereabouts)
Micro SD Card slot
Removable battery (looks like they're gone for good though)
Nobody seems to want to make me one, however.
I don't know where you're from, but in my town the MSM love your Mr. Trump.
No-one gets them clicks and views quite like the slightly odd bloke you elected.
Perhaps the 'knitting' interest group will start to see lots of traffic
It will be the Seamstresses.
Here's a study that sets out the case that America is not really a democracy, and that the elites buy the legislation they want.
In my view the way to tell the US system is not representative is how you have two political parties.
Do 300 million people really agree with each other that much?
It sounds pretty bad, but it's India, so it won't work very well, and most people will pay a small bribe to avoid it in some way.
Have you actually read the Book of Revelation though?
How anyone could take that drivel seriously is beyond me.
I understand a senior manager where I work asked why she could not use her Facebook logon to access the corporate network.
I was not involved in the conversation, but I the realities of security were explained to her quite forcefully.
I am not confident she got the message however, as she works in HR so it probably went right over her head.
As a non-American I can tell you that we have laughed at several of your presidents in my lifetime.
Your Mr. Reagan was considered to be a particular fuckwit, but we had confidence you would see through him and elect someone capable of tying his own shoes in 1984, but then you gave him an even bigger mandate which was a bit hard to believe really.
The next couple of guys were sort of bog standard American style arseholes, but at least they seemed to know what they were doing.
I don't know if you're old enough to remember 2000, but it turns out you guys elected a former coke-friend idiot trust fund baby who had even less clue than Mr. Reagan, to the surprise of the whole world.
Never mind we thought, nobody could be worse than Mr. Bush II, but then you elected Mr. Trump and we're not really laughing now, because you've got both stupid and nasty in one package.
You current fuckwit is likely to start killing people because they looked at him sideways.
So what's the story with Gnome then?
I'm really not trolling, and I prefer Cinnamon myself, but both Ubuntu and Redhat make Gnome their default desktop, and they must have some idea what they're doing, surely?
I just can't see why they would push it if their users hate it so much. And yet I am yet to see much love for Gnome anywhere.
Definitely not the US, I am sometimes appalled at what you have to put up with in the US. I understand your employers don't even have to give you annual leave.
Try doing that when working for Steve Jobs at apple, you will be fired.
Fortunately for me, I live in a country where everyone has rights, not just the extremely wealthy, so if my boss sacked me because I went home when he stopped paying me, it would cost him a lot of money.
I am also not prepared to act like some sort of servile lackey.
I've been talking to the Ecuadorian tech guys and they have just changed the wifi SSID to GoHomeNowJulian and the password is Solo ve a casa, podrías.
I don't think he's getting the hint.
That might be how things work in the US, but here in New Zealand we haven't politicized our judiciary.
Then again, New Zealanders probably weren't too happy with their tax funds being used for this inanity.
I am a New Zealand taxpayer and I would much rather my tax money was spent on this sort of thing than tooling up a bunch of police (who should have known better) to kick someone's door in at dawn when two detectives could have knocked politely at a decent hour.
Now that the raid has been ruled illegal it will be hard to argue anything gained in the raid is admissible I would think.
As mentioned, Kim dotcom might be in danger if he travels overseas however, as the US has a track record of kidnapping people and torturing them.
We have been through this before, when the US government decided that strong encryption was a weapon, and could not be exported.
They lost then and they will lose this fight also because the rest of the world know how to do maths and can't really prevent Americans getting access to the results.
This explains the stupidity pretty well.
The big deal about R-Pi is the community and the level of support.
Exactly. I purchased a RPi 3B+ on Friday and set it up with a HiFiBerry DAC + and a 7" touchscreen, then installed Volumio and plugged in a good set of powered speakers.
It runs significantly faster than the old RPi B I had been using, and I am extremely happy, as I now have a nice sounding very small music box that is easy to use.
One issue I am having is that I see the yellow "lightening bolt" that shows the power supply is not quite up to the job. It seems to come on and off occasionally without impacting performance, so maybe I shouldn't worry, but if anyone can point me to a better supply than this one I would be grateful.
I have tried several other SBC type devices, and unless they're X86 or X64 they're significantly worse than RPi just because of the great support RPi has.
New Zealand had a succession of Finance Ministers who saw what your Mr. Reagan and his wealthy friends were selling and went all in.
What we were sold was trickle down economics, and "all boats lift in a rising tide" and "user pays" all of which have been absolute disasters for working people and a huge cash grab for the wealthy, (also as you point out, wealthy foreigners).
When we "negotiate" international trade treaties, we have nothing to offer, as we gave everything away 20 years ago, which is one of the reason we can't sell milk to the Canadians (for example).
Bandwidth isn't free, pumpkin.
It is if you're AT&T.
This thread seems to be infected with a huge number of AT&T shills trying to defend the indefensible.