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Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

In 2000, Daniel Quinn raised a question without answers.

To quote, he said:

"If we continue ... to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as Hell, when our children, or their children or their children' children are going to look back on us, on you and me, and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monster's were these people?'"

But to demonize us is too easy and not entirely accurate.

A fairer question might have been "My god, how ignorant were these people?"

A more salient questions might be "My god, how unthinking were these people?"

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"Unconscious Thoughts" by "Absolution Project" http://www.absolutionproject.com/

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

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Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could"

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the Fifth chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This chapter, entitled "A Banquet Of Consequences", delves into everything that will happen.

Its not that might happen. Its WILL happen. How we cope is up to us. If we can make a silk purse out of this sow's ear, then we can have a soft landing, one we will be able to walk away from.

It could also be that we're too stupid, stubborn and unrealistic to mitigate the end of the oil era and Mad Max will have been a prophetic vision.

"Tame Thoughts" by "Warm in the Wake" http://warminthewake.com/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

This fifth chapter, entitled "A Banquet of Consequences", explores the pros and cons of a whole lot of things. (Okay, I'm more optimistic than the author, I see some things as pros that he sees as cons.)

Basically he IS right in thinking that this affects every single human being on this planet, and that this will cause a great deal of change to the individuals, the social groups, the cities, and the city states (which I believe are the only way to organize people, because we have had over a century and a half, almost as long as we've had oil, [coincidence, I don't think so!] of wars, genocidal conflicts and simmering hatred to show us the failure of attempting to aggregate human beings into larger groups.)

This chapters covers:

* The Economy: Physical and Financial
* Transportation
* Food and Agriculture
* Heating and Cooling
* The Environment
* Public Health
* Information Storage, Processing and Transmission (I put more faith in the internet's ability to transcend birder's that he does,)
* National Politics and Social Movements
*The Geopolitics of Energy-Resource Competition
** The Middle East
** The Caspian Sea
** South America
** China
** Britain
** The Balkans
** Regional Rivalries and long-term strategy
ending off the sections with something subtitled
* Taking It All In

In a side bar at the end of the chapter called "When, exactly does the party end?" he get into the six things that he believes would herald the end of the end.

He IS right in thinking that we're all going to die.

Yeah, we're all going to die...

Guess what? We're all going to die regardless...

Guess what else? Our way of life is also going to die, as surely as the oil is running out.

Some of the cities we've built are dying right now perched as they are on the edge of some precipice, vulnerable to any natural disaster.

We're going to have to change our attitude towards child rearing from an individual's efforts to a tribal responsibility.

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"I'd never thought" by: "Last Minute" http://www.myspace.com/lastminuteofficialspace

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

Next time we'll explore chapter Six "Managing The Collapse: Strategies and Recommendations"

We'll have reached the end of then book but not the end of the story...

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"I Never Thought it Could Happen" by "nathan timothy" http://www.nathan-online.com/

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.

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This episode featured the following music:

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Unconscious Thoughts" by "Absolution Project" http://www.absolutionproject.com/

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Tame Thoughts" by "Warm in the Wake" http://warminthewake.com/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"I'd never thought" by: " Last Minute" http://www.myspace.com/lastminuteofficialspace

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"I Never Thought it Could Happen" by "nathan timothy" http://www.nathan-online.com/

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

"Thought You Should Know" by "OpheliaX" http://www.opheliax.net/

"Afterthought" by "Conservative Man" http://myspace.com/conservativemanmusic

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This is episode 21

The worst thing about being ambivalent is that you never know if you should be happy about something ... or not!

I've had a roller coster of a time over the past couple of days.

It was bad, then todays its good, and my future's so bright I gotta wear shades but still ...

"I Have a Bad Feeling About This" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that $4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to ASCAP/BMI.

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I have nothing but loathing for the kind of low-lifes you encounter in the world of finance.

I've worked all my life with the scum of the earth, "viz" for banks, and every time I left one contract after another, I prayed that I'd be able to find proper work for somebody making something real instead.

The quick shuffle bull-shit and lying straight to everybody's face is the reason why.

Now lets hope that they've lied their last lie.(Wall Street still has the nice buildings but they've got metaphorical flames roaring from the office windows, and some of these buildings have been refurbished and gone condo.)

Lets hope I never have to do that again.

I like working at the studio here at St. Peter's College.

Never thought of myself as a recording engineer but, if the foo shits, wear it.

Now, "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"I Have a Bad Feeling About This" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Adagio in G Minor (for Organ and Strings)" by "Tomaso Albinoni" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Piano Quartet in A Major, "The Trout" Fourth Movement" by "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Water Music, Suite No.1 in F Major: Air" by "George Frideric Handel" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Appalachian Spring: Excerpt" by "Aaron Copland" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Humoresque in G flat major, Opus 101, No. 7" by "Antonin Dvořák" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Romance No.1 in G Major (for Violin and Orchestra), Opus 40" by "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op. 16 - 2. Adagio" by "Edvard Grieg" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Symphony No.2 in E Minor, Opus 27: 3rd Movement" by "Sergei Rachimaninov" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.
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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

The world is running out of oil.

This is not a theory.

This is not a "Chicken Little" run around in a panic dire prediction of the coming of the apocalypse.

This is a fact.

We're here asking "What'cha gonna do aboud id?"

The time for inaction is past.

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"Snake Oil" by "Jenny Dalton" off of "Fleur De Lily"

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)


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Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could"

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the Fourth chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This chapter, entitled "Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can The Party Continue?", delves into the sources of alternate energy and alternate chemical feed stocks which could/sould/would replace oil.

"Cod Liver Oil" by "Great Big Sea" off of "The Hard And The Easy"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

This fourth chapter, entitled "Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can The Party Continue?",
explodes the myths that the world as we have known it is coming to an end, as much it explodes the the myth that the world can continue without going through a lot of change.

While geo-political reality can continue, there are going to have to be some changes made and some accommodations reached.

That's the part f this that seems to be so difficult to get Americans to understand.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad ] may be a lousy communicator, easily outraged and easily outrageous, but Iran, (meaning the rest of the power structure, made up of unelected imams who can take a longer term view that the four or eight years we have here in the West,) [Iran] is not being stupid or intolerant in wanting to wean itself off of oil.

The leaders of Iran see the writing on the inside of the bottom of the oil barrel.

They want to survive peak oil and to be in some kind of shape to go forward.

Which they won't be if they are dependent on oil, bullied by some foreign power into squandering time, that most precious of resources, and get to its depletion beyond economic recoverability.

Nuclear energy may be one of the most viable long-term sources of alternate energy.

It is not perfect. It is not without its long term waste storage problems.It is not portable or even movable, and it does noting to address the other non-energy components of oil use.

But its a part of a long-term solution.

Most of the solutions come up with so far have fallen well short of even that much.

Bio fuels from corn is utter stupidity. Quite apart from the fact that human beings eat corn as do far to many of our own food sources, corn isn't even that efficient at the conversion.

There are lots of other cellulosic ethanol feed stocks that are much better that corn.

Some of the alternatives, wind, hydro, geo-thermal, nuclear and so on are discussed, along with the shortcomings of each.

While each of them falls short of the black gold standard, in combination they may accomplish enough.

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"The Secret..." by: "Lacuna Coil" off of "Lacuna Coil"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

Next time we'll explore chapter Five: "A Banquet Of Consequences"

We're almost finished folks. As opposed to being wiped out.

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"Pornographer's Dream" by "Suzanne Vega" off of "Beauty & Crime (Bonus Track Version)"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.

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This episode featured the following music:

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Snake Oil" by "Jenny Dalton" off of "Fleur De Lily"

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Cod Liver Oil" by "Great Big Sea" off of "The Hard And The Easy"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"The Secret..." by: "Lacuna Coil" off of "Lacuna Coil"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"Pornographer's Dream" by "Suzanne Vega" off of "Beauty & Crime (Bonus Track Version)"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

"The Word" and "Emily has Compassion Fatigue" by "3 Blind Mice" off of "Good Grief" and Before They Were Famous"

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This is episode 20

I'm still riled about ComCasts's cavalier disregard of its customers and thinking of them as mere bovines to be milked.

I'm not "anyone's" "cash cow."

Its a mistake to even think of anybody that way.

People have not been an asset, to be abused as all assets ultimately are, on anyone's spread sheet since the proclamation of emancipation.

On the other hand, you seem to like the Halloween episode since that has garnered an astonishing amount of downloads. (In checking, it got downloaded several times to the same IP address so there are, uh, "repeat performances." I'm glad you enjoyed (and are enjoying,) the Halloween show. :-)

That tells me I'd better get back to doing my show.

"American Nightmare" by "Kevin K And The Real Kool Kats" off of "Perfect Sin" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that $4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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I'm really NOT trying to give a lecture on MacroEconomics, MicroEconomics or even Business Ethics (I know, that sounds like a oxymoron, like military intelligence, Catholic University or Soviet Justice,) but somethings are just too important to gloss over.

I only wish I had golden pipes like My Radio II Professor or that I could write as engagingly as Terry Pratchett.

I am a flawed vessel, but, regardless of how flawed the container, the message still pours out.

The message is that it is fundamentally self-defeating to look to on to short term gain as a "be all and end all."

Like any mathematical theorem or AI proof on searching and sorting, there are local maximas which, while seeming to yield the greatest benefits for the least effort, are illusory traps, at best.

There are computational islands, with peaks or valleys which are deeper or higher that those surrounding you right now.

They may be local points on a slope whose limits can be much more pronounced than your local scope can ever reach.

But you can only find out by doing your homework and keeping on searching.

Despite the counter intuitive nature of long-term investing being based on something which may not yield immediate benefit, the tactic of "The Company Store" has proved to give the least long term benefit. (And that's to the very company that owns the store! Its an illusory maximum.)

The only ones who pursue it are like monkeys with their hands in a small mouth jar, holding onto a banana for all they 're worth, despite the fact that their holding onto it means that that they're unable to actually eat the banana.

They have stopped searching. Their scope is too limited and too limiting.

The job of a CEO, and that means you Mr. Roberts, is to be able to distinguish between when you're making a profit and when your just a monkey hanging onto a banana in a small mouth jar, and could ultimately make a lot more money by letting go.

What I ran into last week is the worst piece of corporate governance I had encountered in decades.

It is absolutely transparent, illegal, actionable and short sighted.

I'm sorry but ComCast is breaking the law, and several moral codes and ethical edicts as well.

Its not one of these "traffic shaping" p2p issues where there might be so wiggle room to maneuver their butts about, saying "Well its our network and we're just protecting it from Mac using 'creative types,' and the '"communist free-software Linux using peer-to-peer pirates" out there".

This is a clear policy implemented to either get their customers to lease their routers, at their non-competitive prices, and your objection that you already had a perfectly good router cuts no ice with them, or you'll just do without.

Guess what Mr Roberts?

I'm doing without ... Without ComCast.

If the share holders glom onto it, its going to cost ComCast more than they can guess, I guess.

Somebody deserves to be fired immediately, "'sans" golden parachute."

If this was one of my old format shows, I'd have lots of podsafe tunes with lyrics and music appropriately chosen for the theme of corporate greed.

Instead we'll make due with Classical music, written back when opinion was ruled over by fiat, even when the autocrat was obviously insane with syphilis or some other form of venereal disease.

Now, "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"American Nightmare"by "Kevin K And The Real Kool Kats" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Carmina Burana: O Fortuna" by "Carl Orff" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Etude in C Minor, Opus 10 No.12, "Revolutionary" by "Chopin" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Opus 43 Variation No.18" by: "Sergei Rachmaninov" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Tosca: Vissi d'arte" by: "Giacomo Puccini" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Symphony No.6 in B Minor, Opus 74: Fourth Movement" by "Pyotr Tchaikovsky" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Bolero" by "Maurice Ravel" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Violin Concerto in G Minor, Opus 26: Third Movement" by "Max Bruch" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Romeo and Juliet, Opus 64: Romeo at Juliet's Tomb" by "Sergei Prokofiev" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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This is episode 19

And I have a serious point to make.

Interspersed with the music, off of the album "From The New World", I'm going to make some comments about something incredibly pernicious that just happened potentially to all ComCast customers...

"The Revolution Will Be Cybercast" by "Karmella's Game" off of "The Art Of Distraction" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that $4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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THE STORY STARTS with my waking up, way too early, the same as I always do, and going to my computer, the same as I always do.

On Wednesday morning, November 12, 2008, I woke up to find that my ComCast cable modem was dead.

I uttered a few expletives, got on the phone and scheduled a maintenance tech.

I was supposed to wait all afternoon for them.

Well, I have a life. I cant hang around half the day waiting for them.

I have a show to record and put on air. (WSPC's ThymeWarp Episode 18 :-)

Well, I don't know if they came of not, I wasn't here, so I called again.

This time a spoke to a young woman who informed me that I'd have to hook up my PowerBook directly to the internet, WITHOUT my router/firewall. (I already don't like having my machine exposed to all the nasties out on the internet. I wanted to get back behind my firewall ASAP.)

We eventually got a DHCP address from them and I thought that I'd be able to get my router hooked up again and that was going to be the end of it.

Wrong...

It didn't work. After speaking to ComCast tech support, it turned out that they didn't support my router.

'Scuse me? Support my router?

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"Fanfare for the Common Man" by ""Aaron Copland" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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'Scuse me? Support my router?

Why is your modem which is supposed to be a simple dumb device providing a simple dumb service interrogating and worrying about my router?

Oh, I see. One of your supported routers, Like the one you sell?

Meaning that my existing equipment which I bought only months ago is now landfill?

Uh, that's a blatantly anti-competitive, illegal, coercive, strong-arm tactic.

YOUR router will work fine while MY router wont.

Why does your CABLE MODEM even care?

I'm not going to shell out any money for a device which does not do what it says its supposed to do.

If ComCast doesn't "approve" of the equipment (or if the equipment maker hasn't paid a kick-back to ComCast,) then the equipment doesn't work on ComCast's network.

Heck, by extension, lets think big here, there's millions of Digital TV sets about to go live on February 2009, and if a TV set manufacturer doesn't come across with the dough, they suddenly find that none of their TV sets work on ComCast's network.

Oh and if you bought one of those sets... Well you're screwed, blued and tattooed aren't you?

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"West Side Story: Scherzo and America" by "Leonard Bernstein" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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The kind of mentality that can come up with this crap is so small and tight-assed that you can see whence came the "company stores" (for whom you carried sixteen tons and what did you get and ended up owing your soul to the company store.)

Is that the kind of America we have? Where you can only buy crap the company sells you, at the prices they want you to pay, for lease terms they happen to like.

And if it doesn't work very well or for very long, well tough.

Is that the kind of Republican "Uber State" that we're left with after eight years of Bush policies.

Is this any kind of legacy to leave to your children?

If you were in at the creation, good for you because you can forget about any more creation.

Remember when leasing a pink "Princess Phone" was Ma Bell's ultimate expression of condescension to consumerism. (Note leasing, NorthernElectric actually owned the handset.)

I DO. And I'm only fifty five.

I was already six or seven when my dad, feeling flush after a promotion, got a pink "Princess Phone" for our apartment.

We broke up Ma Bell because of their extremely restrictive policies which were a brake on the economy, on innovation and on personal freedom.

I guess that now its the cable co's turn.

We cant afford the kind of blinkered Philistine pig ignorance that would be quite happy at stifling all innovation, so that nothing interferes with corporate greed.

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"Union - Paraphrase de concert" by: "Louis Moreau Gottschalk" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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Now its Thursday afternoon and I'm beginning to think that I may have underestimated how petty and vindictive ComCast might be.

After tweets back and forth with some entity describing themselves as "ComCastCares" where I stated that I was not interested in taking the conversation "off line" with this entity, my connection is now dead.

Its easy enough to do. They just have to disable the IPv6 address of my cable modem. Now I'm renting an ugly RCA door stop.

They're actually making my case for me.

If it wasn't for the internet connectivity available through the school, I'd effectively be silenced.

But guess what guys? You've got some competition.

What next? Am I going to meet with an unfortunate accident?

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"Rhapsody in Blue" by "George Gershwin" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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Screw it!

I call's 'em like I sees 'em.

They think they can push me around. Well, I don't need a wheel chair yet.

Something smells rotten in the walls of Philadelphia where ComCast is headquartered.

If "Seigneur" Roberts, the CEO of ComCast, doesn't like it ... tough.

I can see the slope he wants to push me down.

Its the same one we spent the past five decades climbing up.

Some ignorant intern, the kind of MBA with no memory who expects everybody to be a stupid as he obviously is, without a thought in his head or a scruple in his breast was all proud of this scheme he thought up.

"Oh Mr Roberts, "tugs on forelock", if only we could just make it truly addictive. We could save millions on advertising alone... As it is the suckers'll have to buy our modems, our routers, our TV sets, at the prices we set, serviced on our terms for the most we can gouge the suckers for to watch the cheap crap we shovel at 'em."

ComCast is in serious need of some busting up and some competition.

Lets break up the monopoly over districts that the cable use to prevent you from having any choice in you cable provider.

Lets engage in some "good ole fashioned Trust Busting." The kind of thing that can make an attorney's reputation and do a State AG's political status plenty of good.

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"A Child of Our Time, Negro Spiritual: Deep River" by "Michael Tippett" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Maple Leaf Rag" by "Scott Joplin" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"The Stars and Stripes Forever" by "John Philip Sousa" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Rodeo: Hoedown" by "Aaron Copland" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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This is episode 18

I feel French today.

(As Keyz, a fellow podcaster, remarks, its not the French language he hates, its the actual snooty "nose up in the air, we're so much better than you uncultured swine" typical French attitude he hates.

I pointed out to him that it would help his case if he wasn't so uncooth himself and didn't point with chicken bones at them while laughing, shaking off bits of meat and sauce as he was berating them.

[I made up that last bit. I've have never held his attitude in anything other than the highest regard.

{Please don't kill me Keyz.}])

And to prove it I'm going to play some Piaf.

"A L'enseigne De La Fille Sans Coeur" by "Edith Piaf" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that $4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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I'm going to do something I rarely get the chance to do, which is plug somebody else's podcast show ... but let me give a shout out for "the Awful Show" [ http://www.thamike.com/awfulshow/ ] starring " Da Mike, Nerraux, Keyz, and Jo-el along with a retinue of characters, interviewees, odd-balls, musicians, nerdcore rappers and the like.

Catch their show live (on cringehumor.net ) or on a podcast (on an iPod, a Zune or what ever else you use to catch RSS. They are fun-nee)

As long as you can be cool with the language, (so you've been warned [so coming back at me saying "Ooo, the language. Do they kiss their wives with those mouthes?])

Now: "Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp


"The Flying Dutchman: Overture" by "Richard Wagner" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Sea: First Movement (Seascape)" by "Frank Bridge" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Scheherazade: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship" by "Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Spartacus: Adagio of Phrygia and Spartacus" by "A. Khachaturian" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Le Corsaire, Overture, Opus 21" by "H. Berlioz" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Tintagel: Excerpt" by "Arnold Bax" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

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Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

M.K. Hubbert made a simple statement of fact back in 1956, back when I was three years old, which explained what had happened to the Pennsylvania oil fields and made a straight forward straight-line extrapolation as to when the oil fields in Texas and Oklahoma could be expected to run out: 1970 ± 4 years.

He was ignored because a) nobody wanted to hear him and b) he was making a scientific prediction on resource availability and the cost of extraction in the face of other factors (and it sounded about as urgent as that at the time,) but he was right within the tolerances he had specified.

The oil on the American mainland became economically irrecoverable in 1972.

If it hadn't been for the Saudi oil and gas fields being there and ruled over by potentates, like Ibn Saud, and the various emirs scattered around the middle east who lorded it over corrupt lands filled with corrupt potentates, (and the one exception, Iran, was ruled over by democratically elected Mohammed Mosaddeq until he was overthrown by the CIA in 1953 at the behest of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, (better known as British Petroleum, [and now calling itself rather benignly "Beyond Petroleum." {a.k.a. B.P. which is utter B.S.}])

This deposition of a formally-elected civil government was "a critical event in post-war world history", because it re-installed the unpopular Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who was even more paranoid that Richard M. Nixon and, unlike Nixon who wielded an Old Boy's Club known as the C.I.A. , instead Pahlavi had a murderously efficient Intelligence agency known as the Savak with which to repress any dissension.

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"Addicted to oil" by "Mr. Tunes"

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Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could"

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the Third chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This chapter, entitled "Lights Out: Approaching the Historic Interval's End", delves into M.K. Hubbert and the other bunch of Cassandras who are in the rising chorus of voices warning with dry boring old statistics what is going to happen as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow.

"Blood Is Thicker Than Oil" by "The Undercover Hippy"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

This third chapter, entitled "Lights Out", introduces us to the history of oil extraction, history being a relative term, since it starts in 1859 and the present is only 150 years later.

But it goes into what we've done during these hundred and fifty years.

The story of energy, and specifically the story of oil, is the story of economics, meaning supply and demand.

We are starting to be engaged in the ultimate fight for a dwindling supply, and there is no doubt about that [ http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/4724 ] one quote says "The peakists have won ... to the peakists I say, you can declare victory. You are no longer the beleaguered small minority of voices crying in the wilderness. You are now mainstream. You must learn to take yes for an answer and be gracious in victory."

The source of the quote [ http://www.peakoiltaskforce.net/ ] is the British government, conceding that peak oil is a fact.)

We are facing an increasing demand expected to 40 billion barrels per years, or up by 60% from the levels of the turn of the millennium.

M.K. Hubbert back in the 1950s saw the equations written on the wall.

They spelt out, with mathematical certainty, the curves that the oil and gas fields production yields would trace as the fields reached their maturity (some would say their senescence!)

The chapter is very boring, showing with charts, tables, graphs and power point types of crap that they were well aware or what was going to happen, when it was likely to happen, followed by charts showing what happened when it did happen.

Most of the field yields, of all of the major and the minor oil producers, are examined, in detail.

Some of the other major peak oil Cassandras, people like Kenneth S. Deferyes, L.F. Ivanhoe, Walter Youngquist, amongst others are quoted as well.

Being fair, Hubbert Critics are also given a place.

But there seems something rather Pollyanna about economists piping up about about supply and demand and Pareto curves etcetera, when there is so much they know nothing about,

(lets be honest here, John Kenneth Galbraith and John Maynard Keynes, or even Karl Polanyi, don't strike me as the kind of men one finds up in a derrick wrestling with multi-ton equipment while suspended above a gantry floor.

[Pushing a pencil and making a chart does not give one any perspective nor does it have any influence on what the oil people already know: Like blood draining into the desert sands, "Oil Is Running Out!"])

The point is made, at length and in detail, that peak oil is made up of many little peaks which add up to one big peak.

The book then makes the points for damn near everybody before closing the chapter with the question: "Who Is Right? Why Does It Matter?"

The point is very ably made that the state of the economy of course influences some of the timing and in turn the timing of events in our economy is dependent on the state of events.

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"Computer Bitch" by: "Blood Bank"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

There have been a lot of people involved in telling us the truth which we have not heard because, until the coming of the web, the distribution and dissemination organs were too tightly controlled.

All governmental channels only want you to hear how wonderful "The Great Leader"©™® is, right up until they take "The Great Leader"©™® out to a basement somewhere and shoot or hang him ) or

There is more money to be made selling your ears to "The Good News ©™®" about some "schmijick" or other, paid for by the munificence of some "schmijick" maker or other.

"You want to know about what?

Hey Joe!? ... We got a sponsor called "Peak Oil? ...

Nah? ... Can't help ya..."

But the voices are starting to make a insistent sussurous [ http://www.globaliamagazine.com/?id=482 ].

Next time we'll explore chapter Four: "Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can The Party Continue?"

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"stop writing songs about california" by "Mellow Core"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.

By the way, msbpodcasts (which now includes this show, PeakOil, the thrice a week classical show ThymeWarp, both of which are being recorded for St. Peter's College, as well as the occasional piece I'm doing for my original audience of MSers,) is now showing download statistics around 102,000 downloads.

It seems to be just as popular as it ever was. And I'm getting an evaluation from my Radio II teacher so that it can get better.

(But there are issues and techniques which don't apply with podcasts. (a weather or traffic or news report would be worse than noise

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Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Addicted to oil" by "Mr. Tunes"

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Blood Is Thicker Than Oil" by "The Undercover Hippy"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Computer Bitch" by: "Blood Bank"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"stop writing songs about california" by "Mellow Core"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

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This is episode 17

Ya carry sixteen tons and whadda ya get?

Well, we done that show already, With Scarlatti. I can only lake about an hour of that before it gets on my nerves.

Harpsichord is too punctilious and Scarlatti may have been a genius but there are things about the quality of the sound as it issues forth from the instrument that just overwhelm any performance or performer.

So this time, to recover from that, we're going back to the big bands with an opener I'm betting is going to do much to make amends:

"Seven Come Eleven" by "Benny Goodman Orchestra" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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This episode, you're getting the music I'd picked out for the previous show.

Not one to waste a play list, we'll "Hail Britannia" for under an hour and then you can enjoy your suppers (unless you've caught the podcast so I have no idea of when you're listening,) and go and watch Jeopardy! or get up to whatever devilment your little hearts desire.

Now: "Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" by "Gustav Holst" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture" by "Otto Nicolai" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Fantasia On Greensleeves" by "Ralph Vaughan Williams" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Country Gardens" by "Percy Grainger" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Sir Roger de Coverley" by "Frank Bridge"here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"London: Knightsbridge" by "Eric Coates"here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: Finale" by "Benjamin Britten" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Elizabethan Serenade" by "Ronald Binge" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Banks of Green Willow" by "George Butterworth" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Salvator Mundi" by "Thomas Tallis" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Variations On An Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma" - 10. Nimrod" by "Edward Elgar" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp



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This is episode 16

Now I've pushed it off the table. Real time was an interesting concept but badly flawed. So I'm recording this show on Monday.

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So excuse me if I write some notes while putting this show together.

I'm still feeling strange today. (Its only been an hour since I recorded Wednesday's show. [How Mercurial do you expect my moods to be?])

I forgot to mention that Thursday I have an appointment wit the dentist's hygienist to get my teeth cleaned, oh, and its, well, it was for you, but its going to have been my birthday...

So lets pick out a song for my birthday. Yeouch... 55, the double nickel. .

Hmmm...

Ahhh, how bout something by Tremolo'55

"king biscuit time" by "Tremolo'55" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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I had a program all picked out on "Hail Britannia" but ... screw it.

I like Scarlatti and I just happen to have MIDIs of his 555 sonatas so we're going to listen to 'em for the rest of the hour.

It'll will free me up for some of the other stuff I have to do.

'Scuse me while I set the kitchen timer here and we're going to listen to my iPod shuffle through the list of the sonotas that Scarlatti created as exercises for his Spanish and Portuguese students at their virginals and harpsichords.

Domenico Scarlatti was a talented Neapolitan harpsichordist, son of Alesandro and brother of Pietro Phillipo. (Yeah, I know not exactly top 40 material that's burning up the charts with a bullet,)

In 1719, after many travels through out the various kingdoms on the Italian peninsula he arrived in Lisbon and was a composer at the court of Spanish and Portuguese nobility. (The country of Italy still being centuries in the future, [waiting for its Unification by Garibaldi {yes,its the same Garibaldi that lived on Staten Island.}])

His most enduring works are those little finger exercises he composed for the little flowers that fell from the wombs of the "Iberian Donnas."

Sorry my anti-establishmentarian roots are showing. (Yes its true, your host is one of dangerous types, the gifted who will not bend to anyone's will, but who always question the reason for the existence of somebody's authority. [They would have force-fed me hemlock. :-])

The work was utterly brilliant and he defined the A-B-A partitioning of most of the music composition that followed after and that continues to this day. (Scratch a tune these days and its a direct lineal descendent of the sonatas pioneered by Scarlatti.)

Every piece you're getting today can be found online but you would be better served if you got the 34 CD set recorded by the late Scott Ross [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ross_(harpsichordist) ]

Scott Ross taught at "L'Université de Laval" inches north of Montréal. (Of course you just know I'm blowing the bugle for a friend.)

Now: "Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"k493",
"k176",
"k351",
"k426",
"k422",
"k188",
"k046",
"k082",
"k162",
"k394",
"k308",
"k087",
"k508",
"k547",
"k516",
"k108",
"k335",
"k164",
"k161",
"k336" by Domenico Scarlatti here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

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msb-0344 A special message to my MS wellness group

msb-0344 A special message to my MS wellness group.

Lets pretend that I'm giving away a computer because I feel munificent, benevolent and rich.

I am none of those things.

I have MS just like the rest of us in this wellness group.

I'm pretty lucky that my MS has been in relapse for a while right now and that its not actively trying to kill me.

I am giving this PC away because I had it to give, being one of the thinking man's toys I had picked up when I was still working.

The computer is a thinking man's toy.

Its has been able to start, give some underpinning and some proofs to an entire field mathematics, whole and entire and able to explain nature in an entirely new way.

But fractal mathematics is neither here nor there when you've got MS. Its cute but frankly, unless you're a mathematician, who cares?

We MSers are able to benefit from an entirely unintended consequence of living in this modern world.

We MSers are already benefiting from:

• the result of an experiment in telephony by the DOD who were trying to keep the lines of communications open even if part of the fabric of the network had holes torn in it by nuclear bombs, giving us the internet, and
• the result of some work by the DOD and NASA in miniaturization, to see if we cold lob things over at the Soviets, giving us the microchip.

Combining the power of:

• a really cheap way of putting circuits together, (courtesy of Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby,) with
• a really cheap way of connecting machines together, (courtesy of the Nerds who defied all logic and got the internet working, because they could,) with
• a really cheap way of finding information, the search engine, (courtesy of Larry Page and Sergey Brin who funded Google, the winner of the search engine wars,)

gives us the world as we have it now.

Its a world that I like living in.

Its got plenty of room for me, its got all of data I need, all of the information I need and helps me find out about all sorts of things.

Does this make me smarter?

No.

It does not.

It can't get into my head and make my brain grow. (But we'll get back to that before I'm done this evening, I promise.)

It makes me a better informed person; it makes me someone who, by being better informed, is able to find out what is where and means that I am better able to evaluate drug regimens, medical teatments, (because we live in this country and we're still waiting for what every other industrial country has: single payer universal health care,) insurance plans.

[unboxing the everex]

[setting it up]

[getting onto the web with Google]

[answering questions about Google, and using it to find information about MS, MS treatments, etc.]

[putting it back in the box and raffling it off.]

Now we're back talking about how the internet and the computer can't get into my head and make my brain grow.

That's true, it can't, but it can make my brain grow more interconnections between neurons and solidify existing connections through repeated use of certain neural pathways.

There is a field of medecine which is studying the mechanisms of something called neuroplasticity and it turns out the mechanisms of neuroplasticity are directly opposed to those of Alzheimer's with its increasing plaques and lesions and the death of large parts of the brain.

Will using computers keep you from getting Alzeimher's?

No, but it could give you a chance at dealing with it better than sitting there like a bump on a log until you become no smarter that the log you're sitting on.

MS is a disease of the immune system.

It gives the immune system cues that make the immune system attack the nervous system.

The nervous system is a key component of the command and control system that is the primary element in making us who we are, how well we move, the spasticity we exhibit, how well we feel, the phantom pain we react to.

Lets use the circumstances that led to the internet to create another unintended consequence, the finding if effective treatments and cures for MS.

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Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

We're slowly but surely running out of oil.

It took us a hundred and fifty years to get here, which means that none of the people who started that fire are still around.

And if any of you wonder about the truth of this, there is no oil left in Pennsylvania is there? The source of John D. Rockekeller's money done dried up didn't it. There's no Penn left in Penzoil.

There isn't much oil left in Texas or Oklahoma either. Its either all gone or now too expensive to get at in the scattered small pockets left .

Why? Because its a natural resource and, like the trees on Easter Island, like the forests and grass lands that used to cover the Sahara, like the trees that used to cover Elsemere Island in Canada's arctic for that matter, things change and yesterdays resource filled land is tomorrow's stinking desert.

We are on the point of a quickening slide down a roller-coaster ride where oil and everything made from it are going to cost a whole lot more and more as billions, billions, of people are willing to bid on a barrel of oil.

The price of oil is going up because of that fact alone; but when combined with something observed by M. K. Hubbert in the 1950's, peak oil which led him to predict when the US oil fields would run out, well, we'd better get ready for oil prices without a ceiling and the sky's the limit.

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"Break Everything" by "PATTY HURST SHIFTER" off off "TOO CROWDED ON THE LOSING END"

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We've got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)


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Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could"

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the second chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This chapter, entitled "Party Time", delves into the history of energy use by man, from the discovery of fire to the discovery of oil.

Of course the resource is both a source of energy and a source of raw materiel.

"Broken Windbreak" by "Kwyjibo" off of "The Rise Of Kwyjibo"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

This second chapter, entitled "Party Time", delves into the history of energy use by man,

• since the discovery of fire, in times immemorial,
• through Medieval Europe, when the energy source was wood,
• through the coal revolution, initially occurring in China about 4,000 years ago but spreading to Europe in the thirteenth century when it was used in metal working due to the higher temperatures achieved by coal-fed fires,
• to the use of "petroleum", which is Greek for "rock oil", to make up for the rapidly dwindling biotic supplies of oil, like vegetable oils, whales oils, animal tallows and other sources of lubricants required by an ever expanding industrial regime,
• to the development of the cracking, distillation and other refining of oil and the micacle of fire from a non-biotic source other than coal.

The fortune amassed by legal, illegal and occasional downright criminal means by John D. Rockefeller in both money and power still lasts to this day.

But the story of petroleum shifts from being just an energy source, like fires in a bucket with strikers gathered all round it, huddling for warmth.

The development of Organic Chemistry and the sheer usefulness of petroleum as a feed stock for its processes, led to its adoption in agriculture for fertilizers, for use in the internal combustion engine which revolutionized the field of transportation, which involved warfare, both in the commission of war and of the decisions taken about splitting up the Ottoman Empire and the inevitability of the actual outcomes of both the world wars, led, in an almost direct line to the next topic of the next section in the chapter "Oil, Geopolitics and the Global Economy: 1950-1980.

After a wide ranging exploration, the next section of the chapter "1980-2001: Lost Opportunities and the Prelude to Catastrophe" goes into the sheer blunders committed in the name of securing control over oil.

Virtually everything that has happened since has had no impact on the crisis or the solution. (Over 4,000 dead Americans,and tens of thousands of dead Iraqis and Afghanis and citizens of other countries who's only crime was sitting in a café or walking down a street targeted by some terrorist or other.)

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"Broken Wings (For Chet)" by: "Melissa Forbes" off of "No More Mondays"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

So instead of weaning ourselves off of oil, and onto renewable fuel and energy sources, the price of oil has been controlled to within a few dollars to keep it cheaper than to pursue the hunt for energy alternatives.

Until the US economy has crashed, look at your and/or your parents' 401Ks for irrefutable, dollars to doughnuts, confirmation, and its not burning because it has run out of fuel.

Basically, like the Aesop's the sad tale of "The Grasshopper And The Ant", winter's here and we have put nothing away for the cold wintry days.

Next time we'll explore chapter three: "Light's Out: Approaching the Historic Interval's End"

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"Cherokee's Dream" by "Dreamweaver"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.


This episode featured the following music:

* Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

* "Break Everything" by "PATTY HURST SHIFTER" off off "TOO CROWDED ON THE LOSING END"

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Broken Windbreak" by "Kwyjibo" off of "The Rise Of Kwyjibo"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Broken Wings (For Chet)" by: "Melissa Forbes" off of "No More Mondays"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"Cherokee's Dream" by "Dreamweaver"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

"Party Down The Hall" by: "The Stone Coyotes"

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This is episode 14

We're nowhere near real time and I'm recording this show on Sunday.

How did you like Friday's Halloween special?

How did you like the special Halloween show on after mine featuring "woodstock".

6 to midnight. It kicked some serious, uh, butt, didn't it? :-) Thank heaven for Vincent Price...

A veritable "Tour de Force" wasn't it. And man we were sweating our butts off in that studio. They have got to do something about the heat or the air conditioning or something.

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So I'm now back to doing it the regular way and playing some thing which might well become a classic, (yes, only time will tell.)

But I just love this song and I think it does deserve the kind of longevity that the song refers too.

"This Old Man" by "MC Frontalot" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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BED: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by: "John Philip Sousa"

Don't forget to get out and vote!

Do your patriotic duty.

And remember, you can be a liberal Republican or a conservative Democrat.

The politics don't have a thing to do with the parties.

You could even be, , a free thinking independent.

Just go out and vote.

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There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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The theme of this show is "The Magic of Italy".

I wonder when I'll have done enough magic around WSPC...

I wonder when I'll have shown that the wiki works,

I wonder when I'll have convinced the rest of the people at WSPC that they should get with the program and record all of their promos,

I wonder when I'll have persuaded them that they could/should record any of the shows that don't need interaction with the audience.

Shows with elements like the news, or shows like this one, or P34k O1l, my other show, or Audio Welfare, or KTHKSHI or The 12 O' Clock Rock, The 411@4, The Back Beat, The Cheat Code, The Raven Effect, The Real Music Show, or The Tech Tree.

There's other shows that I haven't listed here, but they would take and respond to any interaction, if they could get some of course.

Anyway this is NOT going to degenerate into a ineffective and ineffectual bitch fest.

"Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Capriccio Italien, Op. 45" BY" Tchaikovsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp.

"Symphony No.4 "Italian" In A Major Opus 90 (1st Movement)" by "Felix Mendelsson" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Roman Carnival, Opus 9" by "Hector Berlioz" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp

"Violin Concerto No.2 In B Minor, Opus 7 "La Campanella" (3rd Movement)" by "Nicolò Paganini" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp

"The Barber Of Seville, Overture" by "Gioachino Rossini" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp

"La Danza Tarantella" also by "Gioachino Rossini" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp


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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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The Unintended Consequence
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intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

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I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

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Feedback comes first, so...

There's nothing to feedback at you except that you still seem to be there, downloading the shows and pushing me over "a hundred thousand downloads."

That's incredible, but its true.

You've put up with my lousy delivery, dubious musical tastes and moods over 100,000 times.

I hope to continue for a while longer.

---- "Mothers Uncle" by: "Ernie Payne" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "A Mothers Love" by: "Roscoe Chenier" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

But I seem to be shedding a lot of weight instead.

It would help if the big media companies could figure out a way to make money off the internet. That would mean that I could too.

I suspect that its going to be a meritocracy, where content will be king and POV will count for everything.

Lets hope that the "unintended consequences" happen sooner than later.

---- "Sweet Mother Blues" by: "Mean Gene Kelton and The Die Hards" http://www.genekelton.com/

"Thesis:"

The unintended consequences that I was referring to in the title of this post are the results of what gets displaced in the tub of commerce when big things like the internet, peak oil and the disintegrating financial markets serendipitously slosh lives and a way of life down the over flow.

Stick with me folks, this is going to be a three episode run plus a wrap-up episode, of heavy-duty thinking (interspersed with music of course,) that should take us through November.

---- "Mother Mary" by: "Bang Tango" http://www.perrisrecords.com/bango.htm

"Synthesis:"

Lets begin with the internet.

The DOD experiment in building a scalable communication system capable of surviving nuclear devastation is at the true heart of the state we're in.

I'm not going to bore you with a history lesson. Its only 50 years old after all. That's not enough time to have a history; that's barely enough time to have a definition.

We're going to explore the the internet from its nature, from its structural and functional aspects.

Taking the tack of a typical five year old who simply accepts that things have always been the way they are, when you can get a fine year old to even admit to thinking, we're going to look at the way things are.

Unlike a typical five year old, we're also going to look around to see what the internet displaced, just a few examples, nothing exhaustive; don't worry.

The internet was initially started as an experiment in a scalable network structures. The idea was that if the phone systems went down, the military command and control structure should be able to communicate with its surviving appendages of the military/industrial complex. (Remember the "Eisenhower's 'Farewell Address' to the nation?" [go back to "msb-0205 Farewell Address {Eisenhower's, not Mine}" if you need to.] That was one of the more fateful speeches uttered by a president.)

That experiment was successful beyond its wildest dreams.

The cold war was getting underway and the phone system of the day was simply not up to the task because of its reliance on a "trunk and exchange" communication system.

That set the stage for what would become DARPA, the X.25 switching network, the internet, e-mail (which started as a hack so that machine A could talk to machine B and as a verification of the connection, so that the operator of machine A could send a mesage to the operator of machine B. (There were no such things as sysops and sysadmins, 50 years ago.)

Well lets look at what this displaced, what slopped over onto the bathroom floor shall we?

The entire internal structure of the telephone network was made entirely digital, packet switched and made essentially faster while it made sending a packet from any point to any point damn near free.

That's a systemic change and entirely "sub rosa".

While extremely expensive, it was paid for by me and thee and was accomplished on the regular equipment maintenance schedule. (It didn't occur to anyone to bother to charge separate fees for this until later [when we "paid for" "fiber to the home" for years, while the telcos delivered exactly and precisely 0 feet and 0 inches of it.])

In the meantime, the developments in electronics, funded by DARPA and NASA, (the DOD and its buddies who were sending "meat in a can" up in space in an effort to put something up there that they could drop on the Soviets,) led to miniaturization and the development by Robert Noyce, who was at Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby, who was at Texas Instruments, of the integrated circuit which solved the interconnection problem. (One of the greatest lacunae in the latter quarter of the 20th century is that this approach is not widely known and emulated.)

Then from intel, Motorola and a host of now smaller players came the 4004, the 8008, the 8080, the z80, the 8088, the 8086, the 80x86, the 6502, the 6800, the 680x0 series, the Pentium series, the PowerPC, the Lisp machine series, the Dandy series from Xerox, the POWER architecture from IBM etcetera, yahdah, yahdah, yahdah. They operated at kilohertz and now they're operating in gigahertz.

RAM went from being little magnetic doughnuts strung on wires to chips (made of silicon or, when you needed speed, germanium,) and measured by the Kb then by the Mb and now by the Gb.

At the same time, storage you could have on your desktop went from bits and bytes, to kilobytes, to megabytes, to gigabytes, to terabytes.

And since then, out have gone the telephone operator, the secreterial pool, the word processing pool (which has come and gone;) the system operator is another highly valued dinosaur, and just as extinct.

The very concept of a cutting room has been left on the cutting room floor of history.

I'm "not" complaining.

The lack of cut up pieces of negatives is a positive as far as I'm concerned.

The truth is that almost nobody has not been affected by the internet and of the information embodied therein.

But with the creation of the internet came the creation of the world wide web and, inevitably, the creation of the search engine, and of Google.

The printing press is becoming HTML, XML, and yesterday's New York Times, or the Mizzima News in Jadhavpur, Kolkata, is becoming distributed without a single tree having been felled.

A billion forms used in govermental business are all .PDFs, transmitted at the speed of light, stored reduntently in RAID storage systems and instantly accessible to anyone with a password or a (in)decent hack.

The grand telephony experiment that began as an attempt to survive the command and control communication problem that the DOD created for itself with the Manhattan project, has certainly evolved, (some might say metastacized, [specially the millions who have seen their way of life disappear.])

The feature creep that military acquisitions are all subject to spread like oil over waters and the heating up of the economy has turned it into a highly combustible vapor. (But we're doing those later...)


---- "Mother Natures Way" by: "Lumberjack Mafia" http://www.lumberjackmafia.com/

"Conclusion:"

The internet is the mother of all unintended consequences, but its own parents, oil dependency and war, and its twin children, "peak oil" and "the meltdown of the financial markets" are combining to change the world in in ways that are quite apocalyptic.

Think on this:

There are more people alive right now than have lived on the planet before, "ever."

More people, corporations and governments are on the internet today than existed and screwing wit the lives of more peple that have been screwed with before, "ever."

Even the poorest Egyptian fellah, Indian peon or Burmese peasant has a cell phone these days with call-waiting, voice mail, text messaging and internet access.

What has this done to the top down autocratic structure?

How can you maintain an autocracy or plutocracy in such an open environment?

Where everybody can see what the king is wearing, or "not" wearing...

Next episode, we'll get into some of the rest of what spilled onto the bathroom floor.

---- "A Mother's Love" by: "Ozark Insight" http://www.saundersstreetrecords.com/

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