On Episode 19 during the Tech Top Three, Carl and I discuss Amazon’s music service plans, Google et al.’s overseas biz practices, and the first virus/worm for OSX. On the Gaming Table, we take a look at a report on the high cost of the PS3 and a potential partnership between MS and DirecTV for the 360. On Boston in Brief, we mention some neat exhibits at the MFA and a metal show every headbanger should attend.
Episode 19 (28.6 MB , 01:02:22)
Show Notes:
- Proposed Laws on Tech-China Cooperation (CNet)
- Amazon Music Service to Rival iTunes? (Wall Street Journal)
- First OSX Virus in the Wild (MacRumors)
- DirectTV and Xbox 360 to play together? (Joystiq)
- PS3 to be late and expensive? (Ars Technica)
- Exhibits at the MFA (Museum of Fine Arts)
- Colin gives props to a local Metal band (Beyond the Embrace)
Also, Carl was wrong. The song Back to Life was not, in fact, sung by En Vogue. It was Soul 2 Soul. Carl sez, “Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.”
Oh, and Carl also adds that Colin’s attempt to create a Donnie & Marie moment by singing I’m a Little Bit Country was just…. sad.
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Soul II Soul sang ‘Back to Life’. Not En Vogue. Crazy boy!
Same thing. They both sucked.
Thamior. Thamior Belhaven was Colin’s character in a previous campaign.
Names used by Colin:
Gilgoran Covan
Thamior Belhaven
Meiji Underdark
Kin Do
Which are incredibly creative, when you actually think about it. Good names.
Names I have used, by contrast:
Silverius Jenselar
Kurzan Beld
Polonius Beld
Angus McAngus (of Clan Stonelost)
Lorken Starfall
Honestly… not as original as Colin’s, IMO.
It was Kin Dun not Kin Do
Comments on stuff that stuck in my head on the drive home.
Carl, you really need to stop mixing your rant targets. You’ll be much more effective this way. You get all pissy about the US’ stance on google in China, but as an example of the gub’mint’s hypocrisy, you use a couple telcos whining for tiered internet traffic? You’re dangerously nearing the class of whack-jobs who use the phrase “military-industrial complex” and actually mean it.
But… when you look at Halliburton and Boeing, how can you deny the existence of such a complex?
Uh-huh.
Sorry, I’m paranoid by nature, and I wholeheartedly believe in the existence of the military-indsutrial complex. Eisenhower believed it, and I think he’d be appalled at what he’d see today. Billions spent on defense research that doesn’t go anywhere ($17 billion on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, for example), no bid contracts handed off to the company the veep formerly ran, ports handed over in apparently secret negotiations between the prez and his friends?
I just see examples of corrupt politicians, not some coherent, organized corporate conspiracy. And how does Verizon whining about wanting to double-dip on their internet pipes tie into Haliburton again?
Saying “corrupt politician” is a bit redundant… like saying “dangerous mountain lion.”
You really think Halliburton will go away when Cheney does? For how many decades have numerous defense contractors gone uncontested in the halls of the Pentagon?
And I see Verizon as an example because companies like them all seem to have unfettered access, and I firmly believe this has been cultivated through years of calculated machination. One can only hope that if enough people scream loud enough for long enough, something good will happen, instead of something very bad.