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Zogo posted:That's good to know. I didn't realize they allowed anyone to view the OT on the HBO site for free. I had thought you needed to setup an HBOGO account or something which I didn't want to bother with. You have the ability to use HBOGO and you don't want to bother? You're crazy its freaking sweet. Netflix for HBO.
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I don't have HBO anymore but I've been listening to the show for free for like a year through HBO's official Real Time podcast on iTunes. It might sound like  but they themselves put every single episode as well as overtime up there for free every week (but it's audio only). Not really sure what they gain from it, but I'm not complaining 
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ApexAftermath posted:You have the ability to use HBOGO and you don't want to bother? You're crazy its freaking sweet. Netflix for HBO. I think I'll check it out. I prefer watching shows/films on the TV rather than the PC.
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Zogo posted:I think I'll check it out. I prefer watching shows/films on the TV rather than the PC. Got an xbox or a roku device? You should be able to use it on those as well and then you can have it on the tv.
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ApexAftermath posted:Got an xbox or a roku device? You should be able to use it on those as well and then you can have it on the tv. I don't have either of those. I just have a VCR/DVD. My stupid TV doesn't even have the RCA jacks.
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Zogo posted:I don't have either of those. I just have a VCR/DVD. My stupid TV doesn't even have the RCA jacks. But my second thought is that there are so many crappy TVs out there to buy if you don't know what to look for.
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Zogo posted:I don't have either of those. I just have a VCR/DVD. My stupid TV doesn't even have the RCA jacks. Time to upgrade man! The tv will be the most expensive apart admittedly, but everything else is right in line with what it costs to be a dvd owner.
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Hogburto posted:It was the least I've liked anything Maher-related since he was swept up in the anti-Islam movement after 9/11 (Youtube). I'm glad my stupid moments from 10 years ago that I've gotten past aren't on Youtube. Just like Christians can (as a trend of an area and time) either appear to be calm or rabid depending on the context of where and when in history you're looking at them. Good god Gavin Newsom must have been swarmed by girls in his bachelor days. He waits his turn, but when he talks people stop and listen.
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Hogburto posted:Good god Gavin Newsom must have been swarmed by girls in his bachelor days. He waits his turn, but when he talks people stop and listen. I think he still does. He's the Matthew McConaughey of politics. Seriously, if there was a movie about him, McConaughey would be an obvious choice. I think he believes everything he says, but the little speech he gave about what to do in Egypt, you can say about any struggling nation or a developing nation. Anyway, he'd be a good future presidential candidate. I find it amusing that Maher sincerely apologized about not having a "Conservative" on the show. This show was pleasant to watch and not at all grating. Good panel guest too. Do we really need a conservative to spout off what Bill easily quoted? Nope.
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Hogburto posted:Whenever I hear of old TVs like that still in use, my first thought is that the person could buy a new tv and probably recoup the costs in electrical savings while enjoying a modern tv. I'm not sure. I haven't found a good electricity calculator to determine the comparative costs between a ten year old 19" Zenith TV and a newer one. I tend to use things until they stop working. ApexAftermath posted:Time to upgrade man! The tv will be the most expensive apart admittedly, but everything else is right in line with what it costs to be a dvd owner. I'd like to at some point. I don't own a ton of DVDs. I get them mostly from the library.
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ApexAftermath posted:Got an xbox or a roku device? You should be able to use it on those as well and then you can have it on the tv. Comcast doesn't allow their HBO subscribers to use HBO GO on the Roku or XBOX because Comcast has their own bad On Demand service. It's really loving dumb and I wish there was some way to fight that. Long wait for the next episode.
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Bill is returning this Friday. I can't wait, no Bill for 2 months sucks.
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Steinuh posted:Bill is returning this Friday. I can't wait, no Bill for 2 months sucks.
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If there's going to be a token conservative, I'd prefer it be Reihan Salam. He's not necessarily party line and does listen and respond to arguments. It's more than can be said for a lot of the liberal guests on the show.
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Reihan Salam is way too loud and talks over everyone else. Bad panel.
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TedKoppel posted:If there's going to be a token conservative, I'd prefer it be Reihan Salam. He's not necessarily party line and does listen and respond to arguments. It's more than can be said for a lot of the liberal guests on the show. David Frum and David Stockman are two conservatives who are capable of having a reasonable discussion about how their beliefs differ from Maher's without driving the show into the ground. Reihan Salam is a tea party idiot who ruins every panel he's on without fail.
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That's the stuff. "No no no, calm down first of all." I've wanted someone to say that to him for half an hour.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:David Frum and David Stockman are two conservatives who are capable of having a reasonable discussion about how their beliefs differ from Maher's without driving the show into the ground. Reihan Salam is a tea party idiot who ruins every panel he's on without fail. Agreed that Maher was really reaching with finding racism in that GOP ad though. Happy_Misanthrope fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Aug 18, 2012 |
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Reihan Salam is terrible he seriously talked over people and too fast rambling. He probably thinks "if I talk louder than everyone when they're talking I'll win the argument!" Update: I love how Chelsea Handler was like first of all calm down. That was amazing. Steinuh fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Aug 18, 2012 |
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Aug 18, 2012 06:21
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zVxTeflon posted:Did Mark Cuban just say the Chinese did Pearl Harbor? No, he said that, were there a war between the US and China, the Chinese would not attack us like Pearl Harbor (which is true).
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:Not sure if he's a complete tea party ideologue
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Why in the world Maher booked freaking Reihan to start this season off with I can't fathom---agreed that Handler did a good job smacking him down a peg or so. Just a loud panel wasting time decoding and trying to get to actual points from his talking points....even Overtime lacked any real shine.
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Maher seemed a little off too, grasping way too hard to make things about racism. I really enjoy when Mark Cuban is on too, because he's way smarter than you would assume and is a super rich guy saying "Tax me please."
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I couldn't see how the Romney Ad was "racist" it just felt like another ad trying convince the voter that the President just dicked around for 4 years.
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Parts of the show seemed entirely unresearched, as well. Chik-Fil-A discussion went with no substance or actual background on what hate groups the owner actually monetarily sponsors and instead focusing on "is it wrong to patronize the business of a bigot?" They actually had the whole "who created The Internet" discussion which nearly gives validation to the right for even making that a debate in the first place. It's not. DARPA is responsible fro the underlying networking technologies (most importantly TCP/IP), the original infrastructure was Ma Bell's (already in-place), and Tim Berners-Lee at CERN initiated the first standard for web pages. What private industry is technologically responsible for is the Cat-5 cable (which looks quite a bit like a regular phone cord with the pairs twisted) and the ethernet standards -neither of which mattered particularly because of TCP/IP's resilience in running across varying linked network topologies. Private industry was actually late and subsidized investing in the backbone. And frankly, no company had the particular communication needs DARPA had which necessitated creating such a network. Private industry would be decades behind (if ever) in creating The Internet if we waited for it. But instead of researched or thought-out discussion, one guy credits business and one guy credits Al Gore. Both wrong, no discussion had because nobody on the panel knows a thing about it; why even bring it up? gary oldmans diary fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Aug 18, 2012 |
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Anyone else notice that Cuban spilled water again? He usually does that. That was a dud return episode for me at least because I'm not that interested in this coming election. I think that was best encapsulated by Bill himself mentioning that Ryan held some of Obama's beliefs recently (700 billion Medicare cut) and has now done some form of a flip. Bill said a few times "nothing happened while I was on break." There were a lot of topical issues he could've brought up but didn't want to for some reason. We have a big new shooting every week now to talk about but maybe he and the writers thought those have been covered enough. I would've asked Salam why he is SURE that the world is going to be more dangerous each and every year and why we need to proactively spend more money on military/defense each calendar year. Happy_Misanthrope posted:Aggressively shouting and talking at 200wpm... Everyone on the panel was talking so fast from the onset. Might've broken the Real Time words spoken on show record.
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I honestly can't fathom why they keep bringing Salam. Nobody kills a discussion quicker.
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I wouldn't say he kills the discussion. More like he kidnaps it drives away with it into the middle of nowhere.
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I would love to hear from a booker/producer from the show to let us know how hard it is to get guests, especially "conservatives." They have literally no reason to be there unless they are promoting a book or some new teabagger website or something - or just like to troll Bill and the other guests/audience. I guess in some respects the same could be said for the drop in's but since most of them are actors/musicians/tv people who cares. Salam is there because he'll show up. He'll have a list of talking points and crap he's paid to puke out by some think tank and he does it, usually by yelling over everyone else, changing the subject, and being horribly annoying - so it was particularly heartwarming that the crazy Entertainment channel bird shut him the gently caress down right off the bat. As bad as he is he's still better than the Surfer Bob Dornan and screaming Kennedy types.
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Angrily putting your finger in a woman's face because you disagree about a political ad. Classy.
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If it wasn't for Nick Gillispie (?) this dude would easily be the worst guest on the show. This isn't even about idealogy. I disagree with Cuban with virtually everything but he's still a competent guest. This guy is loud as gently caress, talks over people, and talks like Twista rapping. Also why is the right wing so stubborn with not accepting that the government created the internet? zVxTeflon posted:Did Mark Cuban just say the Chinese did Pearl Harbor? I thought I was the only one who caught that.
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:Aggressively shouting and talking at 200wpm significantly devalues any cogent points you have; if you suck at communicating in the chosen medium that's uh...rather detrimental to group conversation. I'm a stenographer. I can assure you that he was incoherent speaking so quickly. He was going at least 250 which is way too fast to get your point understood and would promptly be told to slow the gently caress down in any formal setting. I question how this man was raised. I'm constantly disappointed by the lack of quality guests. If they want to have a serious discussion about technology then have someone proper on. The government initiated innovations bit could have been eye opening for many instead of another Al Gore joke, what the gently caress? Dudebro fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Aug 19, 2012 |
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Honestly, if the "conservatives" are such precious little shrinking violets as to come on the show without carte blanche to be insufferable fools----bring on the proper anarchists, futurists, communists, more socialists, etc on into infinity. Let the audience and panel actually be confronted by and interact with the whole lot in this setting versus the vested media interests against all but R, D, and Libertarians as a sideshow.
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That guy was awful. He sounded like a loving auctioneer half the time he talked. I understand that he wanted to get his point across but slow down rear end in a top hat It's 10PM and some of us are trying to get our drink/smoke on. I don't usually think Bill is that great a guy...but rewatching today he really blew this episode(and the writers too). Yes i am negative Nancy deal with it.
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He was just being his usual smug self. The circlejerk with that blonde lady was pretty annoying too.
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I watched it last night finally and yeah it was pretty bad. If you're going to put that loving motormouth idiot on you need to balance it out with a liberal that can go toe-to-toe with him(and by that I don't mean talk just as fast).
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Bill should have John Moschitta come on one episode and espouse some liberal talking points to combat Salam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK5ZjtpO-M
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Seriously why do they keep having the small angry brown man back on when all he does is scream until everyone else shuts up? The best part of the show was where Chelsea told him to calm down. Is there anywhere I can complain so they don't bring him back yet again? Dr. Citan Uzuki fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Aug 20, 2012 |
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