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WCDT strips 3676 to 3680 (12th to 16th February 2018)
Case:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 12 Feb 2018, 12:55 ---
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 12 Feb 2018, 03:07 ---...I'm genuinely starting to think Emily needs help.
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Freud's definition of mental health was the ability to love and to work. She clears that bar.
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IIRC, Adolf Eichmann was assessed by five psychiatrists prior to his trial in Jerusalem, none of whom found anything out of the ordinary.
Normal is a majority vote.
ckridge:
They were not going to arrive at a verdict that might interfere with killing him.
I wonder whether he was capable of love. Probably, under a special, restricted set of circumstances.
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: anahata on 12 Feb 2018, 02:25 ---We still have a shelf full of VHS videos at home, and a VHS player that still works.
I was also a big fan of minidisc in its time.
I was quite shocked yesterday to discover that the 2018 Nissan LEAF doesn't have a CD player at all. For all I know, no new cars have CD players any more. And I have hundreds of CDs...
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Automakers have also talked about getting rid of the radio. :?
TheEvilDog:
That's largely due to smartphones. Why have a radio in the car when someone is going to connect their phone to their car, after all its got Youtube, the owner's own music and of course a radio if needs be.
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 12 Feb 2018, 13:44 ---That's largely due to smartphones. Why have a radio in the car when someone is going to connect their phone to their car, after all its got Youtube, the owner's own music and of course a radio if needs be.
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So many reasons...
- There are many places in the US where mobile phone coverage isn't good enough to provide good streaming audio.
- OTA radio is not subject to data caps.
- Terrestrial radio pays lower royalties than online "stations", so the former are more viable as business entities.
- I have Sirius XM in the car. But NPR's premium newscasts (ME and ATC) aren't on Sirius XM.
- OTA stations are located in specific places and have social and financial connections to those places. If they havent been taken over by iHeart they may have a local "lean" on their playlist that might let me hear something I wouldn't otherwise. Internet streaming "stations" don't do that.
- Many local stations do have online feeds. But just try finding one when you're in a strange city. There is no consistency or pattern to their URLs and I can't find an app that gives me a "scan up" button for searching for streams of local stations for wherever I happen to be. With the car radio I have a steering wheel button to do that. (And there is an "NPR station finder" app on my phone... it doesn't link me to their feeds, though!)
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