Posts by Sacha
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Those outtakes are great. So cute
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Oh I recall previous mentions..
Isn't it great when unpleasant working relationships become distant memories (please reassure me)?
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I bought a wind-up radio
You're having us on
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unable to get Aucklanders to fully appreciate the natural hazards the city faces or to prepare their households for a possible emergency.
But we're building more and wider motorways to escape on - to Helensville and beyond!
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Amerkin, then?
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How Northshore to have a 'house' fire as opposed to a hiphop one
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Airlines testing low-altitude flights, desperate to get in the air again? I imagine some interesting conversations with insurers.
Dodgy bankers, dodgy volcanoes
Best line I saw on Twitter (from @Chelfyn or our @DavidSlack, I believe):
"It was the last wish of the Icelandic economy that its ashes be scattered over Europe"
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I need to re-listen but he did seem to miss many points for an expert. Thanks, that reference is a coherent challenge to some fundamental myths - a recommended read.
It is vital to understand that these side effects are not accidents, not unexpected consequences of an otherwise well-intentioned effort to protect artists. Rather, they are an integral part of a strategy that, at bottom, has nothing to do with encouraging creativity. The purpose of this three-pronged industry effort — the publicity campaign, the legal campaign, and the hardware "protections" — is simply this: to prevent the Internet experiment from being carried out to completion. Any organization that is deeply invested in the concept of copy control cannot be pleased to see a system arise that makes copying as easy as clicking a mouse. To the extent possible, such organizations would like to see the same pay-per-copy model that we've been using for centuries continue, even though the fundamental physics of information have changed to make pay-per-copy obsolete.
Although the copyright lobby succeeds in getting new laws passed, and even in winning some court cases, these victories rest on a disintegrating foundation. How much longer will the public continue to believe in the copyright myth, the notion that copyright was invented to make creative work possible? The myth has been maintainable so far because it always had a tiny a grain of truth: although copyright was not inspired by authors, and was not enacted to protect them, it did enable the widespread distribution of many original works.
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T'would be pretty selfless given their lack of web feed
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OK, who conned c4 into playing a show of 80s electro tonight?