Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Picture, pictures, lessee...
Ah OK, that is what I pictured, but it didn't match my assumed shape of dumplings (er round?) so I was confused. Interesting.
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Are these the people you'd want making your financial decisions?
I think you get what you vote for. Sadly in these instances.
And probably no better than the Wall Street types who went along with the whole crazy sub-prime mortgages in the first place. Those are the ones that have been making most of the financial decisions for the past few years.
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Nice. I think you should wait for cricket season, then you can get really angry at me
Well people keep complaining how the seasons cross over so much, why shouldn't the bitching cross over too?
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Just an idea, but could the cricket team stick with a playing uniform for two seasons in a row, as a minimum?
I mean there's an uproar if the All Blacks put a logo on their breast, the cricket team seems to be advertising just where their breasts are these days.
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Apparently basketballer Sean Marks was a year ahead of me at my school. You'd think you'd remember someone that tall who went on to the NBA, but I had no idea.
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I like the quote in the Herald article:
Family Party candidate Richard Lewis, a former frontline policeman, said: "It's a sad day when a long-time servant of the people gets treated like that at a public meeting."
My first reaction was "is he talking about George Hawkins, or about the bible?"
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OK, I need to see a photo of that meal completed. The instructions lost me about 1/2 way through, somewhere around the masher.
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Sorry, what do people object to exactly?
I think both are rude, I think the actions of politicians are 'meh', TV3 is the real disappointment.
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The issue is about stifling others and taking away other peoples' freedoms to maintain your monopoly.
But copyright doesn't prevent that. It simply requires that you get permission from the copyright holder before reproducing their work. I have to do it sometimes for my job and I've hardly ever been turned down by an artist, cartoonist, or writer, and I've never had to pay a cent for the right.
In my experience a lot of the holders of copyright aren't concerned about preventing their work being used, they're concerned about how and where it's used. It is after all their work, and has their name on it.
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If it's inherited, in order to provide income to the inheritors it must continue to be successful.
This also applies to copyrighted works. If they don't continue to be successful (ie, reprinted, reproduced, re-released) then they don't provide income to the creator.
Yes, that success is passive, but it originates from the creative endeavour, which was completely unrewarded. It's the nature of copyrighted works, as Keir has pointed out, that the income flows from the later use, not the actual creation.