I am truly blown away by the absolute brutal commentary of the ESPN crew at today's Texas A & M/Rice football game. To start with, Johnny Manziel didn't start the first half yet the entire game ESPN continued to talk about what is to come. Not only that but they have a special half time show all about Manziel. Then when Johnny goes off and gets a penalty towards the end of the game and gets removed from the game my his coach, this ends up being the big news at the end of the game show on ESPN as well. Here's a rookie that wins the most prestigious award there is in College Football, returning for his 2nd year with the media never letting up the constant smothering of this guy even when he isn't playing. I might add that A & M was already leading the game BEFORE Manziel started the 3rd quarter and in order to win the game you need a TEAM so lets remember that. So when Johnny gets the penalty and the coach makes him sit out the rest of the game and then ESPN spends the first part of the end of the game show discussing it.. all I can say is "come on man!"
Yes, Johnny needs to use his head and think about the repercussions for the rest of the team and that will come in time, but it certainly doesn't help when he is the one and ONLY thing the ESPN crew decide to talk about and show (at the end of every play they were taking a shot of Johnny on the sidelines during the first half) nothing but Johnny Manziel. It is truly too bad this Sports Network production has to be so one-sided and has lost all focus of what their job is.. to provide a un-biassed production of the football game.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Farmer’s Almanac Apparently Doesn’t Know About Global Warming
Global Warming-What's that? The farmers almanac has been around a lot longer than the 2000's buzzword "global warming'
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2013/08/31/farmers-almanac-apparently-doesnt-know-about-global-warming/
The Life And Awesomeness Of Bill Gates
Well yeah, after grounding Microsoft, if not almost burying it. Someone needs to dig it out from the current hole it is in. Much like when Jobs returned to save Apple, it makes sense that Gates should come back to save Microsoft. The difference being Gates never totally left MIcrosoft and still had a pretty big say in what was going on. It should be an interesting year ahead!
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-life-and-awesomeness-of-bill-gates-2013-8
That's Not How You Use That: Leeching Wi-Fi at the Coffee Shop [feedly]
For starters the wifi is typically 1mbps if you are lucky and those that are in there have typically purchased one coffee hours ago. Not to mention the coffee is $5 for a large. 4 coffees and you can have a months worth of internet at LTE speeds!
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/tnhyut-coffee-shop-leeches/
Over 50% of all mobile apps are dead in the water
This is why it is important to read the reviews as well as use free apps like appshopper to know before you buy. Even then you are sure to have a few duds on your device that you may use a few times and then never again.
http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-features/78628-over-50-of-all-mobile-apps-are-dead-in-the-water
Friday, August 30, 2013
Several cups of coffee per dayor 400 mg of caffeine reduces suicide risk by 50 percent
Oh yeah? on what authority? I would love to know how they can make such a study since I believe suicide is not usually that pre-meditated.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/08/several-cups-of-coffee-per-dayor-400-mg.html
Good deal: Microsoft’s Surface price cuts are permanent
I really don't see what is such a good deal about an operating system with hardware that is essentially extinct the moment you buy it! With Microsoft rushing out RT because the Surface PRO was not ready for release, knowing they had to get something out in order to (try) and compete with the other tablets already out there. Now that Surface Pro is out, which is Windows 8, it means that any further development is certainly not going to go towards the RT platform. So with Microsoft permanently lowering the price on these units, may help but only for those people completely oblivious to the tech world. It is very sad that Microsoft would stoop so low!
http://gigaom.com/2013/08/30/good-deal-microsofts-surface-price-cuts-are-permanent/
A CNN Anchor Is On A Mission To Ban Babies From Business Class — But It Will Never Work
I'm not a fan of screaming babies as I am sure most people aren't, however trying to segregate an aircraft just because of babies is not going to solve anything since there are always those obnoxious drunk and just plain loud passengers anyway!
http://www.businessinsider.com/ban-kids-in-business-class-controversy-2013-8
What the Same Train Ride Looked Like in 1953, 1983 and 2013
This video is a great idea, great concept however by speeding it up you really don't get to see the changes that have taken place, especially since the track doesn't change nor do things within about 200 feet on either side of the track. It is the scenery from the train that you really want to take notice of.
http://gizmodo.com/what-the-same-train-ride-looked-like-in-1953-1983-and-1224610511
Predator drone joins wildfire battle in California [feedly]
Drones being use to kill fires instead of people.. such a novel idea! and to think this may be a way to get so many millions of them commissioned in the future!
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/world/Predator+drone+joins+Yosemite+wildfire+battle/8847644/story.html
No Agenda Show for Thursday August 29th 2013 Kosovo Protocol
No Agenda Show for Thursday August 29th 2013
Kosovo Protocol
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Clooney in Venice for film festival
Nothing too see here..possibly the distraction of the week.
Clooney in Venice for film festival
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Hollywood stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock arrive in Venice to open the city's film festival with their sci-fi thriller Gravity.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Why CNN gave Miley Cyrus top spot over Syria
You already know this if you listen to the No Agenda Show! CNN's ratings have dropped so much with viewership tanking that they will do whatever it takes to re-claim them, including making a 24 Hour News Channel in to an Entertainment Channel for the teens. Adam Curry knows first hand from working at MTV which was THE 24 Hour Music Video channel in its hay day. Today you will find it difficult to find a music video playing at all on the same channel.
http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/35208/f/653965/s/306ccaed/sc/38/l/0Lboingboing0Bnet0C20A130C0A80C260Cwhy0Ecnn0Eput0Emiley0Ecyruss0Epig0Bhtml/story01.htm
RSS Readers going Pro
With the most recent release of the PRO version of Feedly, the news reader that quickly became the leader for aggregating the RSS feeds once Google Reader shut down, I truly do want to go pro but find myself questioning the need for this. I must admit I was seconds from signing up for the lifetime plan when it was announced for $99 but figured I would sleep on it.. that ended up with me not getting it at all due to it being sold out. Now, with the $5/month or $45/year plan available I am teatering on whether or not I really need this. That is, until I went to do a search within my feeds and get pushed to 'go pro now' page. It appears they have teased us with all these wonderful features only to take some away for those Pro users. I guess it makes sense because really, what else is the need to go pro? Sure you can have one click to Evernote but you can still do it in two clicks if by no other way then utilizing your email address that comes with every evernote account and simply mailing the story to yourself there.
Then I think about the fact that, 'what's $5/month or even less then that when you go $45/year it's only $3.75 per month, when I have spent $2, $3 and even $5.99 on various news reader apps for my iphone/ipad over the years (REEDER WAS GREAT). I guess for me, I'm wishing they would bring back the $99 lifetime deal because then I know I wouldn't hesitate. I think for me, maybe its the recurring fees that I just can't get in to when it comes to internet services like reading my news.
Then I think about the fact that, 'what's $5/month or even less then that when you go $45/year it's only $3.75 per month, when I have spent $2, $3 and even $5.99 on various news reader apps for my iphone/ipad over the years (REEDER WAS GREAT). I guess for me, I'm wishing they would bring back the $99 lifetime deal because then I know I wouldn't hesitate. I think for me, maybe its the recurring fees that I just can't get in to when it comes to internet services like reading my news.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
No Agenda Show for Sunday August 25th 2013 Gender Dysphoria
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Gender Dysphoria
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Mac 'n' Cheese Balls on the No Agenda Show!
For when you are tired of the normal Mac-n-cheese or you want that something special while listening to the No Agenda Show it's...
http://www.castanet.net/news/Food-and-Drink/96923/Mac-n-Cheese-Balls
Signs Of The Times: Ohio School Hosts 'Counter-Terrorism' Bus Hijacking Drill
It appears we should be very afraid.
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Signs Of The Times: Ohio School Hosts 'Counter-Terrorism' Bus Hijacking Drill
Nothing makes schools safer than preparing for eventualities that will likely never happen. Fire drills may seem mostly useless, but fires are still common enough that a little precaution is a good idea, especially since schoolchildren tend to rank nears cats on the Herdibility Index.
But a simple fire drill can't teach today's kids about the number one threat to buses and bus safety -- a hijacking by some sort of terrorist.
Leonore Skenazy at Free Range Kids finds the whole thing (correctly) baffling.
Yes, it's a terrorist drill on a school bus.Compare that writeup with 13abc.com's, which makes it sound like those excluded from the "counter-terrorism" drill are some of the unluckiest students alive.
I truly could not understand from this report (or Googling) if the students knew the attack was fake or not. They probably did, or just imagine the lawsuits. Nonetheless, it is nothing less than bizarre that while they were being "hijacked," school administrators and sundry responsible adults sat in folding chairs in a parking lot across town watching a big-screen live feed of the event.
And then, as the audience watched, into that lot drove — the bus! A waiting SWAT team took over, puncturing the bus tire and "liberating" the hostages.
ROSSFORD, Ohio - A training exercise this Rossford Wednesday morning left students literally hanging on to the edge of their seats.This is most notable for its injudicious (and apparently sincere) use of an exclamation point, which makes it sound more like a sudden but somewhat expected turn of events in a lousy YA novel rather than a bit of perverse showmanship in servitude to the War on Terror. Skenazy points out that the DHS considers bus drivers to be point men in our nation's anti-terrorist efforts, as buses are theoretically "soft targets" for attention-seeking hijackers.
In the scenario: A school bus is en route to an event when suddenly it's hijacked! A camera inside the bus captured the whole thing while an audience of school teachers, administrators and transportation directors watched it all unfold on a live feed.
The hijacker even tied some of the students up and told them to keep their heads down. The bus eventually ended up at Owens Center for Emergency Preparedness.That's where first responders and SWAT teams were ready to move in.
Now, the kids who participated were informed that something out of the ordinary would be happening during this bus trip to a parking lot according to Chief of Police Glenn Goss:
Thank you for your concern for the students and children within our school district and community. I too would be concerned for any child who unwittingly was held hostage, tied up and threatened at gunpoint. The problem is: none of this happened.There it is again -- the baseless claim that a bus hijacking is "very possible in our world today." And the addition of "our world today" makes it clear that Goss has bought everything the DHS is selling -- that we are in infinitely more danger today than we were pre-9/11. The more "dangerous" our world is, the more "necessary" these training exercises are, and the more "necessary" they are, the less likely anyone is to roll back policies or cut off funding.
This was a well planned training exercise in which all participants (children and bus driver included) knew well in advance that they were participating in a training exercise to prepare for such an event to take place – which is very possible in our world today.
Each student and participant signed waivers that acknowledged their participation in this training.
And, make no mistake, this drill had everything to do with the War on Terror.
The Rossford Police Department is very proud to be part of a community that prepares for such incidents, even though we hope we never encounter them. Our proactive approach to counter-terrorism, active killers and other such incidents hopefully will save lives in the future…especially the lives of our children.Thank god for the "proactive approach." It allows agencies like this to advance the notion that kids should live in fear and trust their government. And it's nice to know that "active killers" are being prepared for. I would hate to see federal dollars being thrown at "inactive killers," the kind that can't be bothered to load their weapons, much less get off the couch. Altogether, the whole thing looks like nothing more than an excuse to break out the SWAT gear and let the locals know where all those tax dollars went. It does absolutely nothing to make anyone safer.
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Canadian City Uses Drone To Chase Off Geese
Since when did a simple remote controlled aircraft become a DRONE?
Canadian City Uses Drone To Chase Off Geese
http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/302f8e8e/sc/8/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A80C20A0C18292320Ccanadian0Ecity0Euses0Edrone0Eto0Echase0Eoff0Egeese0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm
Canadian City Uses Drone To Chase Off Geese
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Monday, August 19, 2013
No Agenda Show for Sunday August 18th 2013 Tools of Slaughter
No Agenda Show for Sunday August 18th 2013
Tools of Slaughter
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Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous
Here's one for The No Agenda Show.. because it's SCIENCE and it is FACT!
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KZag6ajbuC0/story01.htm
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Friday, August 16, 2013
AREA 51: THE TRUTH by the CIA: Official dossier blows lid off US secrets [feedly]
Perfect for second half of show on The No Agenda Show
AREA 51: THE TRUTH by the CIA: Official dossier blows lid off US secrets
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/cia_u2_archives/
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Flood Aid Concert celebrates indomitable spirit
You do have to wonder if this "aid concert" is going to be any different than other aid concerts whereas the end cut in what should be all profits ends up in the right hands.. probably not
Flood Aid Concert celebrates indomitable spirit
http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Review+Flood+Concert+celebrates+indomitable+spirit/8795855/story.html
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No Agenda Show for Thursday August 15th 2013 Assume the Position
No Agenda Show for Thursday August 15th 2013
Assume the Position
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No Agenda Show for Sunday August 11th 2013 War on Weed
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War on Weed
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