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Open Thread – ESRR

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  February 15, 201412:20 am| 31 Comments

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  1. 1.

    srv

    February 15, 2014 at 12:28 am

    Where are the threads to celebrate the gloriousness of Mt. Gox and the bitcoin?

    Do you not hear all the glibertarians shrieking out as though on Alderaan?

    Oh, and because I care to send the very best, here’s a flappy for you: http://corpsmoderne.itch.io/flappy-space-program

  2. 2.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 15, 2014 at 12:37 am

    Sadly Vampire Weekend has kept resurfacing in my mind. Not danceable, but I thought this thing was cool. Mystic seaport reference and the idea that Cape Cod is filled with vampires, come on.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    February 15, 2014 at 12:39 am

    A more measured perspective on the Comcast/TWC deal.

    …Even those who think the announced merger is bad for consumers say that the combined company is more likely to upgrade its broadband network to gigabit speeds, in part because the bigger company would have pricing power over equipment suppliers.

    (And yes, Bloomberg tilts pro-business, but is generally not slavish about it.)

  4. 4.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 15, 2014 at 12:42 am

    @NotMax: Still not sure the deal will be approved. If it is, it is a step closer to cable becoming a regulated utility like electricity.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    February 15, 2014 at 12:44 am

    As it is a music-related thread, repeating from downstairs.

    Not sure beautiful is the right term, but certainly visually mesmerizing.

    There’s also a free music player download which visually animates any MIDI file.

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    February 15, 2014 at 12:48 am

    @Omnes Omnibus

    There are still rumblings which surface from time to time from a particular side of the political spectrum calling for deregulating electricity.

  7. 7.

    JGabriel

    February 15, 2014 at 12:50 am

    Rom-som-som A-rom-som
    Cuni-cudi-cudi-cudi Rom-som-som
    Ai-ki-yay Yippie-ai-ki-yay
    Ah-hoowah-hoowah Ee-kee-chee

  8. 8.

    jl

    February 15, 2014 at 12:50 am

    Thanks for the tune, SPaT. What was the chorus again?

  9. 9.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 15, 2014 at 12:58 am

    @NotMax: I have seen those visual representations before and they don’t work for me. Were I to imagine music visually, it would be more curvaceous or spiky – depending on the music, but rectangles would not be a part of it.

  10. 10.

    JGabriel

    February 15, 2014 at 1:03 am

    Bloomberg via NotMax:

    Even those who think the announced merger is bad for consumers say that the combined company is more likely to upgrade its broadband network to gigabit speeds, in part because the bigger company would have pricing power over equipment suppliers.

    Why do business reporters and other pro-monopolist shills always say a company will do something just because now they can do it for less money?

    No large corporation with no competitors will spend one red cent to improve service, no matter how cheap it is for them. It’s like no one has learned anything – or at least thinks we haven’t – from the last 32 years of deregulation, consolidation, and corporate chicanery.

    The only way Comcast will upgrade its broadband network is if they are compelled to do so by regulation or competition. They’re not going to do it out of the kindness of their cold, black, abyssal, non-existent hearts just because it got a little cheaper for them

  11. 11.

    jenn

    February 15, 2014 at 1:10 am

    I’m watching Wednesday’s Colbert, and just laughed so hard I cried!

  12. 12.

    Joel

    February 15, 2014 at 1:13 am

    No Incognito/Dolphins threads today? Seems like the big Friday news this week.

  13. 13.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    February 15, 2014 at 1:15 am

    @NotMax: We tried that in CA, it was a cluster f***.

  14. 14.

    MattR

    February 15, 2014 at 1:16 am

    Former NFL offensive lineman Mark Schlereth has the perfect response to all those who claim that Jonathan Martin broke “the code” of the locker room with his accusations against Richie Incognito. The entire piece is really good.

    What about “the code” that says we love one another? We play hard for one another? We set aside our differences and bond together as one? What about that fraternity, that code? The code of championship locker rooms, in which men sacrifice for each other, in which they consider others more important than themselves, in which they embrace — not ostracize — each other. That’s the locker room I grew up in and the code I adhere to,

  15. 15.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    February 15, 2014 at 1:19 am

    In honor of St. Valentine, who was, as I was told by many different friends on the Book of Faces today, beaten with clubs before being beheaded:

    The Pagans What’s This Shit Called Love?

  16. 16.

    Alison

    February 15, 2014 at 1:25 am

    Yo people, go watch Ellen Page’s super touching, sweet and lovely speech where she comes out and sends my little lesbian heart a-flutter :) http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/02/14/ellen_page_coming_out_speech_juno_star_makes_her_sexuality_public.html

  17. 17.

    Sarah, Proud and Tall

    February 15, 2014 at 1:32 am

    @jl:

    Um.

  18. 18.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 15, 2014 at 1:34 am

    @MattR:

    Might explain why the Dolphins suck, and aren’t like the Broncos, the Pats, the 49ers, or the Seahawks…

  19. 19.

    mdblanche

    February 15, 2014 at 1:40 am

    Since it’s still Valentine’s Day for half the country, here are a couple of Tom Lehrer classics suitable for the occasion.

  20. 20.

    aangus

    February 15, 2014 at 2:19 am

    Just in case nobody is paying attention.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tctzUNMp5po

    : )

  21. 21.

    aangus

    February 15, 2014 at 2:46 am

    Also, too….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxLAT2U1bCc

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    February 15, 2014 at 3:05 am

    Interesting, this: Per the Jerusalem Post, kosher/halal slaughter of meat animals is banned in Denmark, effective Monday. It is already banned in Poland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

  23. 23.

    Suffern ACE

    February 15, 2014 at 3:25 am

    @Amir Khalid: somehow, I don’t think the animal rights activists who are aghast by the giraffe are much happier regardless of whether or not the cows are stunned before slaughter.

  24. 24.

    Ian

    February 15, 2014 at 3:32 am

    @Amir Khalid:
    While the traditional slaughter of animals is widely decried in western countries as unethical, industrial slaughter of animals is just peachy…
    A pragmatic answer to this problem would be a universal standard of animal rights. Such an answer would elict extreme reaction from right wing groups and farmers / rural property owners. The most likely solution would be for consumers to continue to demand ethical meat production. I am genuinely curious how you think this problem can be unraveled without costing the poorest Americans (and other countries citizens too) a heavy toll.
    For the record- I don’t agree with animal abuse, just I don’t see how the proposed solutions are A) effective, B)enforceable

    Additionally, Denmark has been among the leaders of the world in banning antibiotics and other malpractices in agrobusiness

  25. 25.

    Suffern ACE

    February 15, 2014 at 3:45 am

    @Ian: looking at the history of these laws, the Scandinavian countries have had theirs on the books for decades, but the Netherlands is recent. I don’t think the evidence is there to support that stunning makes a difference when compared to swiftly cutting the arteries and trachea.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    February 15, 2014 at 4:04 am

    @Ian:
    Do the governments of these countries expect their Jews and Muslims to choose between obeying the law and obeying God? (Yes, if you’re devout it does come to that.) On the other hand, Muslim and Jewish religious authorities need to continually review slaughtering practices to keep up with current understanding on what is most humane. Cultural inertia is not a good reason to stay with practices inherited from thousands of years ago.

  27. 27.

    PurpleGirl

    February 15, 2014 at 6:48 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Thread may be dead but I have to say this… A regulated utility like electricity. Really? Really?? Since the the late 1990s and early 2000s, regulatory systems have been changing and regulation reduced.

  28. 28.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 15, 2014 at 9:38 am

    @PurpleGirl: Pendulums swing both ways.

  29. 29.

    The Pale Scot

    February 15, 2014 at 11:12 am

    I sorta prefer the original

    Thela Hun Ginjeet

  30. 30.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 15, 2014 at 11:34 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    An imminently reasonable approach. Which is why it will be rejected by both sides in this controversy, as both sides are entrenched and talking past each other.

  31. 31.

    Paul in KY

    February 17, 2014 at 8:53 am

    @JGabriel: Have seen then in concert! Tina & Chris ended show with 4 Talking Heads songs. Thought they did them better than Dave.

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