Podcast for 27 October 2014

[MrBogosity]

[mp3]http://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2014-10-27.mp3[/mp3]


Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and (briefly) Dave Turcotte

Update: SunRail ridership lags, system to rehire ambassadors http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/traffic/os-sunrail-ridership-ambassadors-20141003-story.html

News of the Bogus:

• 3:06 - Entrepreneur's private toll road welcomes 100,000th vehicle http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11149220/Entrepreneurs-private-toll-road-welcomes-100000th-vehicle.html
  
  
  
  • Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3960066,-2.4196838,356m/data=!3m1!1e3
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    Kelston Toll Road (@KelstonTollRoad) | Twitter https://twitter.com/KelstonTollRoad
  • What is the cost of constructing a mile of highway? http://www.railstotrails.org/resources/documents/whatwedo/policy/07-29-2008%20Generic%20Response%20to%20Cost%20per%20Lane%20Mile%20for%20widening%20and%20new%20construction.pdf
  • Ask a Paving / Asphalt Superintendent anything http://jobstr.com/threads/show/4514-paving-asphalt-superintendent
  • Asphalt Facts http://www.alasphalt.com/asphalt%20facts.htm
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  15:26 - Why Did the Supreme Court Sidestep Sentencing Dispute http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202673758615/Why-Did-the-Supreme-Court-Sidestep-Sentencing-Dispute
  
  
  
  • Supreme Court Considers Two Drug Dog Cases | Radley Balko http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/supreme-court-considers-t_1_b_2063820.html
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  18:43 - Anime fan convicted over illegal pictures of imaginary children http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/anime-fan-convicted-over-illegal-7958896

24:51 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Wendy Gittleson http://samuel-warde.com/2014/01/10-reasons-free-market-just-big-fat-blob-stupid/

51:32 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Tracie Harris and Matt Dillahunty (nominated by pretty much everybody) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SXBre5woMw&start=1897

• Does the Internet Prove the Need for Government Investment? http://fee.org/the_freeman/detail/does-the-internet-prove-the-need-for-government-investment

This Week's Quote: "All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from the defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." —John Quincy Adams

[ArtemisVale]

Why wasnt I invited D8

[MrBogosity]

Why wasnt I invited D8

Did you send me a Skype message?

[ArtemisVale]

Did you send me a Skype message?

Yeah

Co-Host with the Mo-Host

[evensgrey]

We had the automated checkouts at the WalMart in the town I work in, but they got rid of them.  They were great...until they broke down, and they seemed to always be breaking down and taking forever to fix.

We've got Red Box up here in Canada, too.  There's one in that same WalMart, and across town outside the Giant Tiger.  (Giant Tiger is another department store similar to WalMart, but generally smaller and with poorer value and selection, although there are a few things they have that WalMart doesn't carry, like Balsamic vinegar.)

The Trabant had one really innovative feature:  Plastic composite body panels.  Of course, it was done that way only because East Germany had no domestic steel production and they were trying to eliminate expensive imports from other Communist Bloc countries.  And the actual manufacture of the panels was piss-poor.

[MrBogosity]

We had the automated checkouts at the WalMart in the town I work in, but they got rid of them.  They were great...until they broke down, and they seemed to always be breaking down and taking forever to fix.

We've had them at the local Harris-Teeter for I don't know how many years now, and they've always worked great. Of course, H/T's policy is that if there's even a second person waiting in line they open a new register, so they've got an incentive to keep people using the self-checkout.

[SideProjectJim]

How long are you going to be making Monty Python references at the end of the sow? I'm waiting for a "Daisy Bumble in her tumble-down cottage"quip.

[MrBogosity]

How long are you going to be making Monty Python references at the end of the sow? I'm waiting for a "Daisy Bumble in her tumble-down cottage"quip.

'Til the end of the year. I'll come up with something different for 2015.

[SideProjectJim]

'Til the end of the year. I'll come up with something different for 2015.

Mystery Science Theater 3000

[evensgrey]

Mystery Science Theater 3000

That could be one year per era.

[Ibrahim90]

Mystery Science Theater 3000

damn it Jim! it's a podcast not a high-level comedy!