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  • Russell Brown, in reply to James Butler,

    The copyright of all the code I write is owned by my employer, as it should be – I mean seriously, what would I do with it? Optimize supply chains at home in my spare time?

    I'm saying you're just the crazy kind of guy who's gonna do that.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to James Butler,

    (EXCEPT- Humber Super Snipes, a car I am still vaguely in love with

    The largest Commer trucks had a really fantastically innovative two-stroke engine.

    I think with three of us, we could turn this into a car thread. My ARA Bus Yellow (the old ones – think back a few years) Hillman Superminx was a keeper, until I sold it to a friend and replaced it with a Singer Gazelle. Ahh, the Rootes Group. They don’t make ’em like they used to. Suspension never had such freedom.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Megan Wegan,

    Re: tone argument.

    As with mansplaining, it is a thing. Women aren't meant to be angry, so it's a way of saying 'stop worrying your pretty little head over it', and play nice. It's just another way of shutting down argument.

    But so is "stop tone argumenting me!!!!1!"

    Welly • Since Jul 2008 • 1275 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Russell Brown,

    With bonus copyright

    ding ding ding

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Russell Brown,

    Sayin'

    ding dong

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • James Butler, in reply to giovanni tiso,

    I also have no beef with Disney holding on to Mickey Mouse to be honest. It’s not as if it’s a life-saving drug or anything.

    Mickey Mouse is a weird one. In my childhood memories Mickey has no association at all with anything other than branding of various dubious consumer tat - the classic cartoons I watched as a kid were all Warner Brothers, and all Disney was good at were terrible boring "family" comedy films. I think Disney long ago forgot that Mickey was ever anything other than three black circles and a ™ sign, and have thus lost any of the claim to children's hearts that they still seem to bank on.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2009 • 856 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to Sacha,

    ding dong

    Yeah, I mean if it hasn't reached copyright or been Goodwinned by page 7, we just aren't doing it right.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso, in reply to Russell Brown,

    22% of PA readers describe themselves as “Professional or Senior Government Official”, vs 23.84% at Pundit. A couple of per cent of us are beneficiaries, so yeah, some privilege there

    Not to worry, some of those government officials will be crossing over to beneficiary soon enough.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • James Butler, in reply to giovanni tiso,

    Not to worry, some of those government officials will be crossing over to beneficiary soon enough.

    Whatchoo talkin' 'bout? There's heaps of jobs on TradeMe!

    Auckland • Since Jan 2009 • 856 posts Report Reply

  • Don Christie,

    I think what we do with copyright needs to be finer-grained than what you suggest.

    Yes, I think you are right. Though not necessarily in the commercial/non-commercial split. I think that split is false and certainly something that is (mostly) avoided in the free/open source software world.

    I do wonder just how much revenue copyright itself drives. It is interesting that so many have access to free "pirated content" and yet when given the opportunity to pay reasonable for the same content they will often do so. I don't think copyright on its own explains that phenomenon.

    Which is not to do away with copyright, just to suggest that its effect can be overstated.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1645 posts Report Reply

  • Don Christie,

    I also have no beef with Disney holding on to Mickey Mouse to be honest.

    Maybe. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with them holding the rights over the works of AA Milne for longer than absolutely necessary.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1645 posts Report Reply

  • 81stcolumn,

    It's not as if it's a life-saving drug or anything.

    You are quite right but mickey mouse as an entertainment and cultural device has now seen three generations of use. I think artists are entitled to see mickey as a legitimate creative device to be re-worked. We might have got from here to here but what about this, this and this?

    Nawthshaw • Since Nov 2006 • 790 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to Russell Brown,

    all that special-vocabulary-as-weapon stuff

    Had to go back a page to catch up. It's not generally like that here, but the editorial oversight committee has some pretty big props apostrophe but even my years as an EFL teacher didn't prepare me for the high standard of prose encountered here for the most part.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Don Christie,

    Optimize supply chains at home in my spare time?

    Well, you could - http://www.adempiere.com/ADempiere_ERP

    But you knew I was going to say that, right?

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1645 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso, in reply to 81stcolumn,

    We might have got from here to here but what about this, this and this?

    I think if you were to suggest that our culture lacks the means of doing mash-ups and pastiche, that would be... a hard sell. Anything that limits our obsession with recycling stuff honestly at this point is fine by me. That said, Mickey-wise, it's not as if the current provisions prevented this.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • James Butler, in reply to 81stcolumn,

    We might have got from here to here but what about this, this and this?

    Gah, unmarked NSF(certain kinds of)W...

    Auckland • Since Jan 2009 • 856 posts Report Reply

  • James Butler, in reply to Don Christie,

    But you knew I was going to say that, right?

    No, that's very interesting - thanks for the link.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2009 • 856 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to James Butler,

    Gah, unmarked NSF(certain kinds of)W…

    +1

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to recordari,

    Had to go back a page to catch up. It’s not generally like that here, but the editorial oversight committee has some pretty big props apostrophe but even my years as an EFL teacher didn’t prepare me for the high standard of prose encountered here for the most part.

    And people like me and a few others, who can write really quickly. I can see how that's all daunting. And also that there's a performance element to commenting here.

    But I'm really proud of people like the artist Steven Crawford, who came in here dyslexic and struggled to express himself well on some sensitive (not least to him) topics. It used to take him ages to craft a one-paragraph post. He got in some scrapes. But he gradually got pretty bloody good at the kind of writing that goes here. I'm impressed by that.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to recordari,

    Let’s have a go- tho’ I think it will succumb from lack of suitable lovers…

    I learned to drive on my father’s 1956 Humber Super Snipe (under my mother’s tuition.)*
    Which is why I can say I’ve been driving for 50 years.
    I’ve driven the Snipe through a mud plug- no 4WD, just heaps of power & traction (they were heavy beasts.)
    I once owned a weird hybrid, a Singer-Morris (had been converted to a half-deck truck, and carried most of the building supplies I used for here. Last seen as a hunting/shooting/brake round Whataroa.
    Annnd, my very first car was a 1948 series E Morris – I was so proud when it (&self)
    survived driving over Skippers- before it was sealed!

    *He died in 1958 - the Snipe carried all the flowers in his funeral cortege.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to Russell Brown,

    +1
    He, and Ben Wilson, are stellar people here - who didnt exactly kick off on the right foot.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Jackie Clark,

    Can we talk about privilege, or rather the use of that word as a weapon of sorts? Am I sticking my neck out on this? I had never come across cis privilege etc till fairly recently. I'm a normative woman myself - as in, that's the term I prefer. Less threatening word? I don't know. All I know is that I find that telling people how privileged they are by dint of birth isn't enormously useful - especially if that person, over their life, hasn't been as "privileged" as their birth circumstances may have prescribed. I appreciate that there are many people in the world for whom life is easier than others. I don't think that's anything to apologise for - au contraire, I think it's something to use for the good. Pay it forward. That's all that "privilege" or, as I like to call it, good fortune, is good for.

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    I believe that's the argument that helped end The Stroppery, isn't it?

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to Jackie Clark,

    Jackie – I so agree.
    Thank you for articulating an underlying meaning for much of what I write.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to Russell Brown,

    I’m impressed by that.

    Also, when people fall off the rails, you don't just abandon them to the wolves (unless they deserve it, of course ;-) ), you put effort into maintaining the ethos of the community, while acknowledging the needs of the individual, often behind the scenes. As a recipient of such efforts, it was appreciated, just so you know. Emma deserves a special mention here too, among others.

    Damn, and I was going to talk about cars.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

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