licentious radio

Monday, September 16, 2002
[6:30:17 PM]

My parrot's adventure as a Sunday talking head: My parrot was the token "liberal" commentator on a Sunday talking head show....

[5:23:22 PM]

Poetry made up of Little George quotes. I smell a new art form:

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush

I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?

They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope,
where our wings take dream.

Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize Society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!

[4:37:38 PM]
More fun with licentious Google: we're #3 at Google for beef subsidy [google.com]. (Points to: Beef subsidy terrorists threatened with nukes.)

[12:22:50 AM]
Web hosting companies played their own big role in destroying those hundreds of billions of dollars. Back when all of this got started, I paid $30/month for up to 20 megabytes of storage. That was back when a 200 megabyte hard drive was reasonably cheap for a desktop computer. Now, I get 30 megabytes of storage. Right? For the same price you get 500 times as much in your PC, but you get 1.5 times as much at the web host.

Then there's bandwidth. Web host companies try to limit bandwidth use by charging through the nose per byte of traffic, when their actual costs are for bytes per second. I confess I don't understand who's screwing who up the chain, but we're all losing out. (Remember all the "dark fiber" out there that no one is using.)

Remember back to Napster. People were sharing files over slow DSL and even dial-up uplinks. It was a pain. What we needed, was to upload the mp3s to our ISP's web servers, where the bandwidth was. But ISPs made that impossible by charging too much for storage and bandwidth. Napster produced a huge windfall for the music cartel. If Napster users had had web host speed and reliability, people would have had time to spend even more money on music.