GDAY WORLD 197 - Climate Change, Fake Bombs, and Comments
John Howard *still* doesn’t want to do anything about climate change. The Cartoon Network pays $2 million in fines in the cheapest ad buy this year. And I review some of the recent comments on the blog. All that and not much more on tonight’s show.
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February 7th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Oh yes, I think what you meant to say was you pull the pieces out that support your argument even if they don’t really support your argument when taken in the full context. And after your interview with the “God Files” author don’t you mean you Cheated/Copied that stuff?
And how come you get to reply to comments in audio but we can’t make the comments in audio even though your using a plug-in (podpress) that supports it?
Molly
PS. On the “not going to quote the whole paragraph”, perhaps you should ask your Journalist wife about the proper way to quote. Maybe this is the ideal oppertunity to get her on the show and explaining quoting. You definitely need the lesson!
February 7th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Oh, and on the Bomb scare, check out the dudes charged with the offenses press conference coming out of jail. Gold!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2fGzmphx4U
Molly
PS. Any chance for a joost token?
February 7th, 2007 at 11:48 am
that video is funny as hell.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:51 am
You’ve been able to leave audio comments for a year but you never have Molly. http://odeo.com/sendmeamessage/cameronreilly
GO for it!
February 7th, 2007 at 11:59 am
No, thats not Audio comments! How do others listen to my comment unless you put it in the show! The Podpress audio comments appear in the comments section and gives everyone the chance to hear the crap I go on about!
Molly
February 7th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Well I’ve installed the podpress comments and I can see the ‘record’ button but can’t see the test comment I left earlier. WTF?
February 7th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Testing Audio Comments.
Molly
February 7th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Cam, Odeo has seriously borked. I am now unable to retrieve audio that has been left. The explanation from Odeo was “bug”. Great! A lot of help that is. We left the Odeo button off this weeks show notes because we don’t trust it. Nice work with the audio comments button.
The service looks like it is run by MyChingo and I know a few podcasts that use their services. You can get a free membership that gives you 2 minutes of record time per message. I might start using it on the Global Geek Podcast for audio feedback.
The big problem with this type of feedback is encouraging people to use it. Maybe if we all start using it to respond to our listeners then they will follow the example. Thanks Molly for being brave!
February 8th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Good stuff in the beginning, good at the end, with the usual christian/god bashing shit in the middle.
Cam if you have spent all that time reading both books of the bible and all you took away with you was the view that god was a vicious vendictive racist, then dude…… I feel truely sorry for you and that you wasted so much time.
Good and bad exist in everything. Getting rid of religion because of the extreme interpretation of the bible some people have is as rediculus as banning the life saving cancer treatments and the power generation of nuclear energy because it also has the potential to destroy the planet.
still……. moving on……..
I did agree with your thoughts on climate change. The problem is that its fine for people to wax lyrical about how we should be doing all we can to save the world. But the problem is that people are not prepared to give up anything to do it. While the sucess of a country is measured in terms of economic growth this will not change. Economic growth means consuming more and more of what we have left
I still stand by what I have already said, that the prices of our most valuable resources should reflect their true value
it may be unpopular but petrol should be $2.50/litre, water should be 10 times its current cost and electricity double. The extra money could go into developing alternative ‘green’ technologies.
Only when it becomes uneconomic for the individual to use excessive amounts of our resources will they consider cutting back their consumption.
Just a thought
J
February 8th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
John, Cam didn’t get that point of view from reading the entire Bible, he just read “your Mr. Dawkins” (as father Bob would say).
Molly
February 8th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
OH…. I thought I heard him say he read both books the original (old testament) and the sequal (new testament)
J
February 8th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
I reckon I’ve read the bible more times than 99% of so-called Christians. If you have, and *didn’t* come away from the experience shocked at how violent and intolerant it is, then I worry about how desensitized you are to it.
As for climate change, I met a gentlemen yesterday by the name of Peter Ellyard who will be coming on the show next week. He spoke to me of the idea that around the world people are moving away from being “nationalist” in their outlook and are becoming “planetist”, in that they are thinking about issues such as global warming in terms of its effect on the planet, not just on their country. Interesting perspective I thought.