Posted on 11/18/2002 9:27:20 AM PST by SlickWillard
It looks like Rush is no longer supplying free audio streams over the internet. The old link [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/rush8.asx] no longer works. His website now sports a list of affiliates, but as far as I can tell, all of their servers have crashed under the load.
He wants you to pay to listen to his stream now. Memo to Rush: What the hell is this, capitalism or something?
Bottom line: They didn't want to continue paying for the free stream.
Also: "It's not fair to the people who are subscribing..."
Frankly, he sounds a little defensive. [Actually, more than a little...]
Hey, it's a free country. Don't pay. No problem. I don't pay either. Too tight a budget. But guess what? I hear him free on the radio, when I'm off. Sometimes I get his show taped on cassette.
In a way, though, Rush made me. He promoted Windows 95. I used Windows to get on-line. So, he laid the ground work to a large extent for the internet boom, which aided this forum's growth.
FReegards....
Huh? I'm forced to pay the advertisers? I never saw the bill in the mail....
However, the economic argument does not hinge entirely on the transfer of money- because theree ARE advertisers, you are more or less forced to use some of your time listening to their pitch.
Oh, you say, I always turn the volume down, so I get to skip the advertisemnets... In that case, you are "paying" by having fewer minutes of actual programming to listen to.
Of course, if you subscribe to Rushes premium website, you can listen to any show broadcast over the past 14 days, WITHOUT any interruptions, anytime you choose. I find this to be worth the twelve cents a show it costs me.
You may not- I don't make my living trying to convince people to lisyten to Rush, so it doesn't matter to me what you do. But the complete lack of understanding of basic economics bothers me. (Of course, it really isn't taught in American schools, except as a subset of the Socialist indoctrination that goes on there...)
TANSTAAFL"
By subscribing, I can hear the entire 3-hour Rush show at anytime or place I wish (including at work), plus I can hear it in under two hours, because all of the "breaks" are trimmed out for me.
I make $50.00 + an hour- so I figure that I am actually MAKING at least $50.00 every time I listen!
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