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"MarkA" |
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03 Feb 2005 12:51:47 PM |
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satellite radio |
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
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MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 12:57:21 PM |
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:51:47 GMT in alt.atheism, MarkA (MarkA
<manthony@stopspam.net>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
But can you get Radio 4?
Which is the only proper Radio station.
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| User: "JPG" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 01:42:55 PM |
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:57:21 +0000, Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:51:47 GMT in alt.atheism, MarkA (MarkA
<manthony@stopspam.net>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
But can you get Radio 4?
Which is the only proper Radio station.
US car rental offices seem to offer satellite radio, I noticed when I was in
Maine and Tennessee last September. Am I right in thinking it provides radio
services throughout the continental US to overcome reception difficulties with
FM?
The only problem is, that apart from some public broadcasting and a few classic
rock stations, there was not much worth listening to. In earlier visits to the
US I used to, very sadly, get hooked on these talk stations where they used to
get some guy at the far end of the political spectrum to argue with callers.
JPG
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| User: "Mark Stahl" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 11:47:46 PM |
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"JPG" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:c6a401tgegeo4rbgh8atmp4f7g78hvq8ud@4ax.com...
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:57:21 +0000, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:51:47 GMT in alt.atheism, MarkA (MarkA
<manthony@stopspam.net>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
But can you get Radio 4?
Which is the only proper Radio station.
US car rental offices seem to offer satellite radio, I noticed when I was
in
Maine and Tennessee last September. Am I right in thinking it provides
radio
services throughout the continental US to overcome reception difficulties
with
FM?
I'd say it's probably more content than reception, though of course the fact
that reception is available pretty much everywhere is good.
The only problem is, that apart from some public broadcasting and a few
classic
rock stations, there was not much worth listening to.
Wow, really? I would have thought that with 100s of channels there'd be
*something*. Pretty much every musical genre should be covered. Personally,
I am a sports fan and the chance to listen to all MLB games everywhere while
driving sounds pretty good.
In earlier visits to the
US I used to, very sadly, get hooked on these talk stations where they
used to
get some guy at the far end of the political spectrum to argue with
callers.
JPG
I'm sure they've got that in there somewhere.
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 03:46:45 PM |
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JPG wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:57:21 +0000, Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:51:47 GMT in alt.atheism, MarkA (MarkA
<manthony@stopspam.net>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
US car rental offices seem to offer satellite radio, I noticed when I was in
Maine and Tennessee last September. Am I right in thinking it provides radio
services throughout the continental US to overcome reception difficulties with
FM?
I think the idea behind sat radio is that you get to pay money to
listen to it (you have to subscribe), and you miss out on the
commercial advertisements.
I've gone the mp3 route instead...
--
Jim
Visit the Selectric Typewriter Museum!
http://www.selectric.org
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| User: "GlennGlenn" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 04:20:06 PM |
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In article <FHrMd.5029$Nn1.4888@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, J
Forbes <jforbspam@fastmail.fm> wrote:
I think the idea behind sat radio is that you get to pay money to
listen to it (you have to subscribe), and you miss out on the
commercial advertisements.
We'll see how long that lasts. The earliest pay TV channels were also
commercial-free. The latest purchaser of one of the satellite radio
channels (Sirius, I think) is apparently not the type to let a revenue
source go unexploited.
--
GlennGlenn -- aa#825 --
I am not famous, I am notorious. And if I am rich, it is because I have taken
my wages in people.
‹ Quentin Crisp
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 05:14:35 PM |
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:46:45 +0000, J Forbes wrote:
JPG wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:57:21 +0000, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:51:47 GMT in alt.atheism, MarkA (MarkA
<manthony@stopspam.net>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
US car rental offices seem to offer satellite radio, I noticed when I
was in Maine and Tennessee last September. Am I right in thinking it
provides radio services throughout the continental US to overcome
reception difficulties with FM?
I think the idea behind sat radio is that you get to pay money to listen
to it (you have to subscribe), and you miss out on the commercial
advertisements.
I've gone the mp3 route instead...
Yes, there is a subscription, which is worth it to get rid of the
commercials, which now seem to take up about 40% of the air time. Also,
there is a lot of programming to choose from: music, sports, news, comedy.
Also, being a subscription-only service, the comedians can swear without
incurring the wrath of the FCC Decency League.
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "GlennGlenn" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
04 Feb 2005 03:17:03 AM |
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In article <pan.2005.02.03.17.14.33.835512@stopspam.net>, MarkA
<manthony@stopspam.net> wrote:
Yes, there is a subscription, which is worth it to get rid of the
commercials
.... so far. Times may be a-changin' in the satellite radio world,
however.
--
GlennGlenn -- aa#825 --
I am not famous, I am notorious. And if I am rich, it is because I have taken
my wages in people.
‹ Quentin Crisp
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| User: "TCS" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 03:54:49 PM |
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:46:45 GMT, J Forbes <jforbspam@fastmail.fm> wrote:
JPG wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:57:21 +0000, Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:51:47 GMT in alt.atheism, MarkA (MarkA
<manthony@stopspam.net>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
US car rental offices seem to offer satellite radio, I noticed when I was in
Maine and Tennessee last September. Am I right in thinking it provides radio
services throughout the continental US to overcome reception difficulties with
FM?
I think the idea behind sat radio is that you get to pay money to
listen to it (you have to subscribe), and you miss out on the
commercial advertisements.
I've gone the mp3 route instead...
Same here. In '00, I bought 20G hard drive mp player and loaded my entire CD
collection onto it. In '03 I digitized my LP collection and put that on too.
In '04, I replaced the HD with a 40G drive to make room for audiobooks. It
has enough room for about 750 albums.
I've backed it up to my PC's hard drive and all the music is shared over the
house network. I've also a multimedia PC on the home theater system and
it of course can play anything from the music library.
Meanwhile, the original CDs and LPs are in storage.
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 05:16:17 PM |
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:54:49 -0600, TCS wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:46:45 GMT, J Forbes <jforbspam@fastmail.fm> wrote:
JPG wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:57:21 +0000, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:51:47 GMT in alt.atheism, MarkA (MarkA
<manthony@stopspam.net>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
US car rental offices seem to offer satellite radio, I noticed when I
was in Maine and Tennessee last September. Am I right in thinking it
provides radio services throughout the continental US to overcome
reception difficulties with FM?
I think the idea behind sat radio is that you get to pay money to listen
to it (you have to subscribe), and you miss out on the commercial
advertisements.
I've gone the mp3 route instead...
Same here. In '00, I bought 20G hard drive mp player and loaded my entire
CD collection onto it. In '03 I digitized my LP collection and put that
on too. In '04, I replaced the HD with a 40G drive to make room for
audiobooks. It has enough room for about 750 albums.
I've backed it up to my PC's hard drive and all the music is shared over
the house network. I've also a multimedia PC on the home theater system
and it of course can play anything from the music library.
Meanwhile, the original CDs and LPs are in storage.
At some point, I will probably start recording some of the
music broadcasts. That is probably a violation of some copyright law, but
I have no sympathy for the RIAA.
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 03:58:49 PM |
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TCS wrote:
Meanwhile, the original CDs and LPs are in storage.
I find it interesting how so many people assume that since I'm
listening to mp3s, that I *must* have downloaded them from the
internet! No, I just ripped them from my cd collection. And a couple
dozen LPs, when the turntable feels like working.
--
Jim
Visit the Selectric Typewriter Museum!
http://www.selectric.org
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| User: "Sean C" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 05:25:16 PM |
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In article <ZSrMd.5030$Nn1.1482@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, J
Forbes <jforbspam@fastmail.fm> wrote:
I find it interesting how so many people assume that since I'm
listening to mp3s, that I *must* have downloaded them from the
internet! No, I just ripped them from my cd collection. And a couple
dozen LPs, when the turntable feels like working.
I think it's safe to say most people who have 20+ gb of mp3s didn't buy
most of them. You're definitely the exception to the rule. Even when I
own the CDs I'm interested in, it's simply far easier to get the songs
off the Internet than to go through the trouble of ripping them.
The bad thing about mp3s is that I found they ruined my appreciation of
music. When you have hundreds of songs and you can just instantly zip
to the parts you like, and then go onto another song, you tend to take
the music for granted and it ceases to be as special as when you have
to work a little to get to a song you like. I remember when I could
keep a cassette in the car with my favorite songs and not get bored
with any of them after months of hearing them. Now, I drive with the
remote control in my hand, constantly flipping back and forth to the
best songs on my CD, and changing CDs back and forth. I have to force
myself to not use the remote, and just listen to a whole song, since
the bad parts make the good parts better.
--Sean C
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| User: "TCS" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 05:08:02 PM |
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:58:49 GMT, J Forbes <jforbspam@fastmail.fm> wrote:
TCS wrote:
Meanwhile, the original CDs and LPs are in storage.
I find it interesting how so many people assume that since I'm
listening to mp3s, that I *must* have downloaded them from the
internet! No, I just ripped them from my cd collection. And a couple
dozen LPs, when the turntable feels like working.
I have no fucking idea what you're on about.
I merely mentioned that now that I have my CD and LP collection on the house
network, I've moved it to storage.
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 09:35:45 PM |
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TCS wrote:
I have no fucking idea what you're on about.
I merely mentioned that now that I have my CD and LP collection on the house
network, I've moved it to storage.
Sorry, it has nothing to do with what you posted....carry on....
--
Jim
Visit the Selectric Typewriter Museum!
http://www.selectric.org
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| User: "TCS" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 10:18:21 PM |
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:35:45 GMT, J Forbes <jforbspam@fastmail.fm> wrote:
TCS wrote:
I have no fucking idea what you're on about.
I merely mentioned that now that I have my CD and LP collection on the house
network, I've moved it to storage.
Sorry, it has nothing to do with what you posted....carry on....
Never mind. I realized I overreacted after I hit send.
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| User: "towelie" |
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03 Feb 2005 04:48:53 PM |
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TV's J Forbes wrote:
TCS wrote:
Meanwhile, the original CDs and LPs are in storage.
I find it interesting how so many people assume that since I'm
listening to mp3s, that I *must* have downloaded them from the
internet! No, I just ripped them from my cd collection. And a couple
dozen LPs, when the turntable feels like working.
As soon as I get a new CD, it goes into the old CD-ROM drive and gets ripped
to shreds by CDex. That way I don't have to fiddle with the CD just to
listen to one song.
--
Shake says that books are from the devil, and that TV is twice as fast -
Meatwad
Get off your fuckin' cross. We need the fuckin' space to nail the next fool
martyr - Tool, "Eulogy"
aa #2133
ap #19
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 04:59:58 PM |
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:57:21 +0000, Therion Ware wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:51:47 GMT in alt.atheism, MarkA (MarkA
<manthony@stopspam.net>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
But can you get Radio 4?
Which is the only proper Radio station.
There is one channel labeled "BBC Mundo". I believe it is in Spanish.
Another one is "BBC World Service News". I have not listened to that one
yet, but it sounds promising.
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "Jez" |
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03 Feb 2005 02:37:52 PM |
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Therion Ware wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:51:47 GMT in alt.atheism, MarkA (MarkA
<manthony@stopspam.net>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
But can you get Radio 4?
Which is the only proper Radio station.
5 or 6 years ago I might have agreed.
Now Radio 4 is just...urm...crap.
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
NFS Underground2, Americas Army And MOH-PA
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| User: "towelie" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 04:46:59 PM |
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TV's MarkA wrote:
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
Sounds like the opposite of Pulaski County, Arkansas (where Little Rock is
located.) I was up there earlier this week, and it was refreshing to see
cars still proudly displaying John Kerry stickers. Around here in blood-red
land, all you ever see is those retarded "W'04" stickers. Republicans make
me nervous.
--
Shake says that books are from the devil, and that TV is twice as fast -
Meatwad
Get off your fuckin' cross. We need the fuckin' space to nail the next fool
martyr - Tool, "Eulogy"
aa #2133
ap #19
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: satellite radio |
03 Feb 2005 06:33:18 PM |
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:46:59 -0600, towelie wrote:
TV's MarkA wrote:
I just installed a Sirius satellite radio in my car yesterday. It is
great! Now I can get AirAmerica, even in my little red county in the
middle of a blue state!
Sounds like the opposite of Pulaski County, Arkansas (where Little Rock is
located.) I was up there earlier this week, and it was refreshing to see
cars still proudly displaying John Kerry stickers. Around here in
blood-red land, all you ever see is those retarded "W'04" stickers.
Republicans make me nervous.
It always give me a chill when I see someone who *looks* normal driving
by, then I see a "W04" bumper sticker on the back of the car....
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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