3 July 2007 · Podcast

G’DAY WORLD #259

Richard M. Giles of Scouta joins me again today to discuss a list of bothersome subjects, including (but not limited to, user’s experience my vary, please refer to terms and conditions before you set any expectations and refer all complaints to your local member… pffft, I said “member”):

  • Scouta’s recent DMCA take-down notice
  • What’s the good of being President if you can’t stop your friends from going to jail? (I bet Paris wished she’d got on his good books)
  • Universal Music Group tells Apple to stick iTunes up their ass
  • iPhone mania
  • Twittermania – what’s the business model?
  • The Jesus Seminar featured in this month’s Free Inquiry magazine
  • George Monbiot and the One World Democracy
  • More on TRANSFORMERS – Did GM get value for their product placement? And should Megan Fox be Wonder Woman? (Check out this picture)
  • And we also namecheck Bronwen Clune, Chris Saad, Mike Mick Liubinskas, and some others….
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    17 comments
    1. Hey, how long is the mp3? I was listening to it, and it got cut off around the iphone talk. Is it only 23 min?

      The pardon thing, is also called indult.
      It is very common in Argentina too, but they do it as soon as they assume mandate. They don’t bother what the public says. Menem who “ruled” 1989-1999 pardoned 1200 people!
      Here’s a link transalted by babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=es_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarin.com%2Fdiario%2F2006%2F03%2F25%2Felpais%2Fp-00402.htm

      cheers,

    2. I’ve been talking to my car too (not that I didn’t do it before watching the Transformers)…. ‘Autobots – Roll out’!

      Excellent movie!

      Also, isn’t is Mick Liubinskas? 😛

      I see marriage as the most basic way the state regulates its population. (This is also an idea reinforced in Foucault’s work.) The state needs a (sustainable) population to exist. Get married, produce babies to feed the population, stay in the work force to feed the babies etc. It is a very powerful idea which serves law, religion and government more than it does the person. (Unless you count the financial benefits couples have over singles – but I think that’s just a way of sucking people in – tho it could be argued that couples are being rewarded for playing by the rules) Mind you, this isn’t a rant against long-term committed relationships. It is targeted at the ‘great’ institution of marriage itself.

    3. sheesh… you guys….

      And Rich, now Naomi P is telling me I have to put your name in the TITLE OF THE SHOW when you are on, so she knows it’s a show worth listening to!

      Now I remember why I fired your ass in the first place…. as Zaphod said: “If there’s anything bigger than my ego around here I want it caught and shot immediately!”

    4. Hey cam,
      Saw transformers last night and as a child i was obsessed with them and watched every episode of the cartoons even after Optimus Prime died.
      And it was brilliant, they stuck to the story so well, everything was as it was in the cartoon
      (except JAZZ now has the voice of Barry White). Sam was great and the chick even though she cant act was hot.
      But one thing disturbed me, in the part where Megatron was blowing shit up and trying to kill sam in mission city there is a part where Sam gets hit by a black SUV and the rich girls inside the car are outraged he dented their car. Not the driver but the girl in the back seat looked suspiciously like PARIS HILTON! No mention in IMDB and i was suffering fromt he flu so i may be wrong.
      And Hugo Weaving as the voice of Megatron – what a legend.

    5. I see Duncan Riley has posted about Scota’s problems and made it to front page of Techmeme. tHis could also be good additional publicity for Scouta along with reporting on heavy-handed DMCA notices.

    6. Who has the time?? That’s what I say about Tangler. Funny. We should team up on a solution to that question dude.

      I know it’s Mick. Or “drunken bastard”. It was just a typo.

    7. Come, lemme solve your time issues….

      Mick, stop having a conversation via comments and go listen to the podcast.

      Cam, stop comment conversing and go log onto Tangler!

      Done!!
      *sits back with air of contentment*
      😛

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