Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Emma Hart,
What would make it work is if someone organised a big, visible Offsetting Campaign, where people who were going to EG could very obviously donate to a specific pro-marriage-equality fund. This has just come to me as I type, and it seems like a pretty sweet idea. Mostly, tbh, because I imaging it would really annoy the piss out of Card.
That sounds like so much fun! Wonder how much Event or Hoyts charge to rent out a theatre for an event like that - I know they do corporate bonding sessions.
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OMG, I'm not the only one! I'm having my second 21st birthday next year and I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up... In five or ten years, the kids will be moving out, and then what? Time for an OE perhaps...
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Damian! I love it! Will you have my children
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
That ethical guide brings up an option not mentioned here thus far - offsetting. If OSC is getting a portion of your ticket price, and a portion of what he get will go to a cause that you are opposed to; donate to that cause's opposition. If I'm paying $15 bucks to go see Ender's Game, odds are the amount OSC gets from that is measured in fractions of a cent, so if I donate $30 to a pro-equality cause, that not only counteracts any money I gave to Card, but offsets pretty much the rest of the theatre as well.
Is that a valid way to have my cake & eat it too? The upside is that all the other people in the film, and making the film, will get their legitimate cut and dues; a bunch of promising young actors won't have the black mark of a bomb against their records; and Harrison Ford will be able to afford to demand script approval for the next Star Wars flick.
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There is that, considering that, at the same time as trying to stamp it out, the studios are tracking downloads as much as possible to use in their metrics of how popular a work is. c.f. Game of Thrones producers & HBO kerfuffle recently.
I guess I'll wait for some reviews to arrive - if the nerderati declare it to be worse than Episode 1, then the problem becomes moot. Its easy to boycott something you no longer want to see...
OTOH I still can't pay to see Game of Thrones in a reasonable time period at a reasonable cost :-(
And when is someone going to attempt a Malazan Book of the Fallen epic series? -
Maybe he meant criminals with brazillians - Although how he could tell their nether-waxing status, I'm not sure...
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So, resurrecting this thread after a Twitter convo.
IF you are of the opinion that Ender's Game is actually quite good, and a re quite excited about the possiblility of the movie being quite good, BUT are also quite aghast at the crap falling out of OSC's mouth and very much not in favour of doing anything to directly, or indirectly send money to him so he can spend it on causes that are abhorrent to you, THEN (correct me if I'm wrong) your options are: Wait, see it on TV, rent it from video shop, buy it second-hand (all legal options that send little, or no money to OSC, but involve delaying gratification) or download it illegally.
Since all the scare-ads make the point that illegally downloading deprives artists, and leaves their children starving in the gutter, is this a legit option? Bearing in mind that OSC is not the only one gaining a livelihood from this movie, can you handle being responsible for Harrison Ford going hungry?
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For reasons against extending the term to four years, add to the list: 33% more Richard Prosser.
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Hard News: What did you do yesterday?, in reply to BenWilson,
It's the biggest pool in the whole world. Covers most of the surface of the Earth!
They closed the ocean because of a poo?! ;-)
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Hard News: What did you do yesterday?, in reply to BenWilson,
That's an impressive pile of compost!
And also, you get tsunamis in your swimming pool? How big is it?!