Posts by Don Christie
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Eeewww.
Yep. That's why I stopped reaqding Craig's comments. It gets too stomach churning after a while.
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their/there
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I know only one of these men was British, but Stan and Oli are still right up their in my book.
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Player Classic just fine, so I suspect it's the 2nd episode may have some encoding issues.
I get that a lot with Windows media type sites. That's why I love the podcasts of Media7.
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The "recession is inevitable" line is false and that is what Ganesh was trying to say before Bernard cut him off.
A lot of the economic woe stuff ash to do with it being election year, and Don Brash tried *exactly* the same line in 2005. The point I made then was that if Brash had still be Reserve Bank governor then I am sure recession would have been inevitable. Fortunately he wasn't.
Talk to the people who are in work in 2008 that were not in 1998 and ask them whether the economy is failing.
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Sounds to me like you pwnz those shows, Damian.
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If, as would seem likely, he refuses
That is a certainty. So much bad blood between Labour and National right now it has gone beyond funny.
Don Brash's legacy is the destruction of any chance of consensus between our most important political forces.
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No. It's specifically exempted.
Wait, isn't the bill technology neutral? What about the "specific exemptions" that will be required for stuff that hasn't yet been invented?
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I'm sure all parties to debate around the bill will be thinking that it could have been worse
Bollocks. This has to be one of the shittiest pieces of legislation relating to technology for a long time. Kiss the chances of any innovation goodbye and if you want to play your DVD on anything other than an RIAA approved platform you can get lost.
If you don't believe this bill perpetuates a certain monoplies then check out this submission to the select committee. Microsoft asking for the Government to turn even more of its clients and competitors into criminals.
I quote:
While the Bill will extend some protection for TPMs, that extension will be insufficient to deter infringement or to guard against extensive piracy.
They then go on to describe how TPM's should be made even more restrictive and their customers carry even more liability. Would you buy anything for these caring guys?
Tizard takes the biscuit however with here concluding vote of thanks:
I particularly thank the copyright industry: Ant Healey from the Australasian Performing Rights Association, and his predecessor Mike Chunn, Tony Eaton from the New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft, and Campbell Smith from the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand who did an enormous amount of work to make this bill workable.
Workable for whom?
Tizard and her team have ignored or soft soaped just about every view other than those named above. Sickening stuff.
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I organised a car crash. Didn't hurt too much and it helped that no-one was in the back seat.
Thinking about it though, the hard disk was just about all that did survive. Could you try putting it in a vat of Coca Cola?