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This is the smart home thread.  What are you doing to fill your home with chinese spyware?

I’ve recently updated a large part of the living space to Philips Hue bulbs motion detectors. Pretty damn nice to have location, motion, and other automation features.  The fade-on mornings are nice, and the full color spectrum bulbs make the rooms very attractive at night.


I have some amazon prime day stuff on the way.  The big Alexa speaker and a few small ones plus HD exterior cams.  I’m looking to learn more about the home security setups.

https://bitwave.tv/doomtube

Doomtube aggregates Facebook live, YouTube and other streamers into one view during times of national crisis.   When crisis does not occur, documentaries and other interesting content is played.  You can chat without censorship as well.  You can also post entirely in memes if desired.   A curated playlist of eclectic tunes plays as backdrop to the doom and despair on the screen. 

Bonus there is a gorillachannel Feed 24/7

Who likes Apple computer products made by Tim Apple and the ghost of Steve Apple?


I’m an all apple household but holy shit those clowns have lost their way.  They have nowhere to go in terms of innovations in their base products, so they just raise prices and make Shit less user friendly.

Im’ma still gonna buy their shit and drink their kool aid.  But I wonder why they couldn’t be better or less inaccessible.

The 30 shares of Apple stock I bought when I was in college are doing well though.  But for how long.....their venture into producing entertainment content is not innovative, and so far out of their core that they might as well develop a line of skateboards and skateboard apparel .

Summer babe thread.  Post them up.  No nudes

https://youtu.be/tMTJmG5ciWk


Ayyyyyyyy

Well, the technofacists have outdone themselves
And censored 8ch.net.  We should welcome anons here to bellchan.  The ridiculous cat lady boomers and wine aunts will appreciate the QLarps.




Honestly, this is s ridiculous and frightening precedent. Hate is one thing, but censorship Is much worse. Twenty years ago the same people bitching about frog memes on 8ch would be screaming about censorship.




It’s all so tiresome.

I never really fully joined ellgrab. 

What’s the background story to this coming active again?  Does Vanderveedenberg still own it?  What’s the inside baseball here?

I always hear that celebrities always expire in truples.

So far we have Art and Gunny Ermy.


Who does the soulreever visit next?

You two lovebirds need to kiss and make up.  Why not swap shows for a night now that Hollywood Hoagland has the experience and the chops to do entire shows on his own?  Or give him the night off so he can wash his bolo ties or something.


You know it would drive Art crazy.   Be the passive aggressive champion alpha in sheeps clothing that you can be.  Talk about some craters on Uranus or something.  Nobody gives a shit if you make it up.  NASA is just hiding the truth anyways.

Justin won.  Finally, Canada has their own Obama/Mandela smiling teddy bear leader.  Eternal spring has enveloped every province and territory, and mean mister Harper is sent packing to make briefcases full of money at an American investment bank. 

What do you guys think of the outcome, and future of Canada over the next few years?

I think it was time for Harper to go, but Justin and the old idealist that took over for Layton are both sub-optimal weathervanes.   So I don't think they had any good options really.  Too much emphasis on feelings and not enough on results.


Good luck with the new government. 

Tomorrow Dave will have a show on Tooohmurrric and  heretic prosperity gospel.   I understand that all of the paranormal/conspiracy/alt news shows have to have the vitamin / herbal guys on for a segment or two every few weeks, but a whole show dedicated to blatant hucksters?

This is a new low.  The turmeric thing is just plain stupid, but if Dave wants to make half of a show out of it, it is one thing.  It's pretty harmless.  The real danger is the ridiculous prosperity gospel dope that George has on afterwards.m these are not men of God.  They are fakers that lead believers astray after their own glory and bullshit.  These hucksters take poor folks that need the most help for every remaining cent they have by harnessing their inane gullibility and literally buttfucking everyone they contact.

You should be ashamed of yourself George.  I'm sure you'll sprinkle in plenty of mispronounced plugs for paranormalrape.com too.


8/2/15.....the night of ZERO content on George's C2CAM.   Fuck trying to entertain, engage, and educate people when you can associate with people using your show to take advantage of the most vulnerable.      I could be a millionaire ten times over if I had the morals to manipulate the stupid like these guys are George.  But at that point they are victims, and cannot morally accept this.


You're a joke and now you are a fraud for associating with outright frauds.  There is no talking your way out of this one.  Anyone with a brain can see exactly what's going on here... You are half a step away from selling miracle water and then indulgences from sins.



http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2015/08/02

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In the first half of the program, researcher Christian Wilde will discuss how turmeric has been shown in more than 6,000 studies to affect so many illnesses that invade and complicate our lives. In the latter half, author and the editor-in-chief of ChristianMoney.com, James Paris, will share his story of being a multi-millionaire by the age of thirty and bankrupt by forty after becoming the victim of an embezzlement scheme perpetrated by his accountant.

Website(s):
myheartbook.com
christianmoney.com

Does anyone else listen to this?  I know it's a Detroit Area show mainly, but I used to be able to pick it up while in Detroit and Cleveland on business.

Just good news and fun fun music.  Always great perspectives.

http://jcastnetwork.org/jhour/

Just thought you should know.....

Yes, I know you already know.  But that's not the point.

Do you hear that great sucking sound?  No, not the one we've been stuck with for the past 13 years.

http://darkmatterdigitalnetwork.com

Bellgabbers, please predict the weather.

Will a light breeze scatter the microwaves across the high desert and beam the internets all around Antelope Valley?

George.  You should do a show on pants shitting.


I'm giving you TOTAL artistic freedom on this one.  I don't care how you wrap this turd up.  Maybe an expert on wormholes and you ask him what happens if you shit your pants going through a worm hole or something.  Or maybe if you shit your pants in the woods, does bigfoot hear it?   Maybe, if the greys steal you in the night, do they steal your shit out of your lower colon and return you to your bed in someone else's pajamas and transplanted shit?






I thought this would be a good topic because your show is shit.






Please do this.  I would respect you as an honorable arab man if you could do this.






I can even call in and tell you about the times I witnessed people shit their pants.  I can be your Richard C Shitpantslund.






Do we have a deal?

 Good


But I bet he just has another login name.


Just because he doesn't care about his job, doesn't mean he doesn't have an ego.

Its been a while.  George you are still a no talent hack, and a drunk.

Consider becoming a Buddhist monk in your final days.

The vow of silence holds no prejudice about your tongue divots or whatever physical deformation accompanies your mental one,

Bye.

Numerous other forums pretty much say what we say here.  Albeit in slightly less compassionate and collected form, exactly the same criticisms we have for you here.   You have to be very selective and precise in your web searches, but if you have the knack for it, it's pretty revealing that everyone is starting to think you are a boring, disinterested, insurance agent turned radio host at best.

Don't think it's just "us" for a second you lazy slob.

The perception is rampant.

Your next question is the but of jokes, yet too lame to be a meme like Tsoukalouses's "aliens" meme.  Pretty much can ensure that if someone is talking about Fukushima, you are going to ask about portals or angels.   This is verging on water cooler jokes now George. 

Just letting you know.  Have another sip of wild turkey.

Should Quebec not be Canada with a different language.

I'd like to see Canadians involved a nice, neat civil war.  Parted neatly on linguistic lines.

I think it would be pretty cool.  `Murr'cans could go up to the border and watch the Quebecois kick the ass of Loyalist royal subjects of HM Lizard Queen Elizabeth Regina.

It would be pretty cool and we would have a new neighbor with a unique culture and their own trade and economic ideas.

Do you think Quebec should tell Canada to fuck off?  I do.

 



Baby come back.  It's lonely .

C'mon Jorch I'm sorry about all the mean things i said.  Come back and say hi. 

I've been reading about midgits on Wikipedia tonight. I read about the midgit Jews that fought in the polish uprising against the Germans and then were in Dr. Mengele's experiments. I was wondering if we had any midgits here, and if they could share how they have adapted to firearms, and how they have faced public perceptions about their use and appearance with fireamz.

Just curious. Statistically we should have some. But wasn't sure. I know you guys are around us, but I hardly ever see you,


The last time I saw a midgit, I was working late, like 11p.m. Office is dark except for my private office. I hear door open to lobby and some little kid sounding footsteps. I have my Glock in my waistband and go looking in the dark. Someone starts calling out "hello, hello", I don't see anybody in the dark until I rounded the corner of the cubicle farm and literally bumped into the little guy. Scared me shitless. Absolute last thing I expected to see. Anyways the dude was just lost and thought he had his lawyers office or some shit. I locked the doors anyways. I've seen a lot of movies and wasn't taking any chances,


First indisputable midget to come out of the shadows receives a free BBQ Rib meal.

Google glass Glassholes that is....

Thinking of getting some


Worried about Falkie getting some


More worried about Casio getting some.


How do yewwwwww like them?

I don't mean iOS on your iPhones and iPads.  I use shout cast on those.

I had high hopes that the new iTunes would have better streaming radio support, but it is still the same sucky internet radio interface from 10 years ago.  It will stream whatever you have a url for though.  But I am looking for an interface.  iTunes radio is a streaming music service that does not discover content from the various web radio broadcasters, so I'm assed-out there.

But what are you using for the iMacs, macbook air, macbook pros, and mac pros?

I am using Radionline.  I paid $10 for it from the app store.  Seems to have most everything that shout cast has, but not everything.  I am holding shout cast as the gold standard IMO.  I tried to download winamp but couldn't get the shout cast plugin to work.

Any ideas?  Falkie you are a Lexus-driving mac user.  What do you use?

Jesus George.  WTF

Your audience isn't a bunch of two year olds.

Or is he siding with his people in denying the Zionist state?

I never hear George say anything about our need to stand by our Ally, the State of Israel or G_d's chosen people, the Jews of Israel and the diaspora.

It's like he pretends they don't exist.  Maybe because, in his mind, they don't.  Just like some people believe that the holocaust didn't happen.

Sad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAVEN

is he alive?

This was discussed last evening with Art.  Who, depending on your opinion of him, is either a visionary that understands where radio and the concept of audio talk shows as we know it is heading in the iPhone age, or he is an out of touch old fart that cannot comprehend that people use things without dials, tubes, and humming to hear him, and can listen later without the use of a c. Crane cassette thingy.   Now that I barely got that near-run on sentence out, what are your thoughts on the SXM subscription model?

It see clear that they have already target a primarily mobile audience.  Meaning they have largely given up on converting new customers for home reception .  Noting this, their programming would naturally follow driving habits further alienating daytime and prime time customers in favor of commute times and the overnight long haul.  It is clear where SXM is aiming their customer conversion money, and it is in cars only.  SXM has struck new deals with Auto manufacturers to extend demo periods on new cars, and create demo periods for certified pre-owned autos.   For all intents and purposes, they have abandoned the home mArket.

Home listeners would rather stream.  This is a fact as wifi and the "internet of everything " continues.  Smart phones, tablets, smart TV's smart fridges, etc.  no longer is there a need to have a SXM receiver in the home.   SXM home receivers always needed an antenna placed outside of at least in a window in clear line of sight to one of the birds.   I canceled once because my he was in a low spot and the hills had tall spruce trees about 10 degrees over LOS to the birds and I couldn't get  signal.  SXM's current t streaming is an ancillary backup service for
It's inception.  It was never designed to Handle the traffic assigned to it now, or in the future.  Expansion of a new streaming method and network is something that the board will be forced to consider spending the capital on.  If not they will be stuck with truckers who slowly convert to streaming from mobile devices in this increasingly connected world .  ( one thought about truckers is that they are All beginning to be in constant sat or cellular data with their dispatch and logistics management centers anyways.  The data stream to the trucks is quickly becoming universal on omnipotent.  In fact long haul trucks will be the first driverless vehicls on the road in 20 years.)

Pricing:  SXM's pricing scheme has followed a corporate strategy thAt I have seen many a time before, and that is to try to be premium and sell add-ons at a Premium.  This will backfire.  The revenue per conversion will go up, but overall conversions will go down.  And existing listener base will dwindle as standard content is ignored for focus on SXM's incremental value added services that should be in a standard price.   The price is too high to win new membership but revenue would take a severe hit if prices were reduced.  SXM should had reduced prices years ago to near nothing And relied on add revenue more.

I'm pinching one out right now so this is obviously not a complete market analysis here.  I did not look up any investor relations mAterial for SXM but then again I usually am more right when I fly by the seat of my pants anyways.

What should SXM do? 
Capitalize on the Sat recievers in 90% of the cars made In the last 10 years.   Free, no cost live listening on all sat receivers.
Charge a nominal premium for archives access and playback of past shows. ($7-10$ month)
Free live streaming (banner ad and trailer supported)
Increased bandwidth for live stream of archives to subscribers
No ads in player for subscribers
Continue in office type "Muzak" replacement service no commercials.  Streaming and sat

Rationale:  face it, SXM is counting sign ups in two areas, new car sales with complimentary subs, and when they sign someone like Art bell.  Outside of that, SXM becomes a cultural black hole.  People who have not been a subscriber do not suddenly say " hey I haven't heard stern in 8 years, I could use a potty mouthed asshole and his living quivering laugh track in the morning".  No.  Stern has fallen off the radar to everyone but non-subscribers.  SXM has created a walled garden.  Anyone on the outside considers inside content irrelivent unless they have just moved onto the pay service.     Streaming provides ad revenue from banners and Google Adsense type advertising.  This is largely disruptive to the listening experience.  A leader ad in audio or video is also possible before streaming content starts.  This is similar to YouTube trailers.  Further, local targeting could be achieved via geolocation on ad time reserved for local ads to be pushed to local markets simultaneously.  This would bring people into the SXM environment and give them access to the ads which translates into added value for advertisers.  This is the only way for SXM to grow, or even remain competitive.  This would also place SXM truly into direct competition with terrestrial radio, which had become syndicated to the point that it is a like product anyways.  SXM could offer to even promote or allow local shows to foster and develop on XM.  There is a burgeoning podcast culture that is bubbling below the surface and terrestrial goons will never pick it up.  If SXM brings some of this talent In, it would take some of the pressure and reliance off of the stale big name, overpaid, prima-donnas that SXM hired years ago and are just waiting out their multi-million $$$$ contracts to move on.  Face it stern is an old fart 1990's grade fart generator.  O&A is marginally better but not breaking any ground.  10 year contracts mean you are 10 years behind the culture and times by the time you can react to this stale content.



Ok that's pretty stream of thought there.  I am actually quite used to putting such proposals and analysis together in coherent packages with pretty graphs, cited material, etc, etc.  so If you SXM guys want to hear more, I am considering all tenders for my talents.  Please PM me here and we can discuss compensation and deliverables.

Fucking do something about this you lazy slob!

Or I'll quit SXM! 

I already mailed my receiver to Art, so it's just the stream and the radio in my Acura, and you cant have that.

Tell tommy do do something or I'm outta hereeeeeeee

My bet is on magic mop infomercials.  Can't wait to hear him but her the word "Chamois"

1945-2013

I feel like I'm a Scholastic monk about to witness the Dark Ages begin.