Posts by mark taslov
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Of youtube, I was appalled a month or so ago, when Youtube, started opening as youtube NZ. Never having registered an account or email address in New Zealand, never having accessed youtube in New Zealand, the nationalization of the corporate internet, is a huge concern. Sure I can understand when sites have the "this is not available in your region" kind of thing, but there seems to be a whole new level of government/IT corporate collusion in our midst, which bodes no good for anyone. Of course this is China, so...but that is Youtube. Seems to me the day will surely come to pass when people will just start getting billed, this 92a disconnection furor seems to be a gambit towards the implementation of a billing system. 92a on it's own makes no economic sense.
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Having not seen the show, are APRA supporting 92A and the disconnections, or are they proposing a scheme whereby the users downloading material, are billed by their ISPs for downloads so they can distribute the money to their artists?
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Essentially, making the episode in question available beyond the national borders as a minor consideration, before opening it up for discussion wouldn't be unwelcomed by the offshore readers.
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woot, 6 wickets!
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But Sacha if you move on I am left arguing with myself; D
like i said from the get go, Russell's quote, echoed the voices from the ministry.
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I'm more along the lines of perceiving national culture as not one but a collection of ideas. observaeable yet undefined. that no force will exist without causing equal and opposite forces to manifest, and that any such attempt to define, force, tailor or manipulate the status of 'natural' organism such as national culture, is at best a very slow game.
I'd say the silver scrolls are a great celebration of music. and leave it at that.
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Again, I don't see how merely saying that something is a force for an idea is the same as saying that it is "required" or even the only such force.
only you saying that Sacha.
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Mark, to me there is a big difference between the idea of a national culture and actual state-annointed propaganda.
I can see how something like APRA's silver scrolls might fit into the former but not the latter, so some of the comparisons upthread seem a bit of a stretch.
To me Sacha, there's a big difference between, national culture and a force for the idea of national culture.
I'm not refering to APRA. Further up I was dwelling on Russells statement. He was speaking of APRA as a force for the idea of national culture. I discussed that with no relation to APRA. I discussed that phrase purely on it's own merits with an eye to the NZonAIR organization than arguably played a big role in spreading the state-annointed propaganda along just those lines;
ie. that a force for the idea of national culture is required.
So no, there were no such comparisons made by me, nothing to do with APRA. Not really interested in APRA. As I just said Sacha, revenue distributors.
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Maybe it's just me but I don't get what the non-government organisation APRA has to do with state-enforced culture.
Yeah Sacha, I was wondering the same thing. I don't see them as quite a
"real force for the idea of a national culture."
as Russell. The silver scrolls is just an awards show. They're just revenue distributors
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No, and neither is Peter Jackson -- and I've some reliable (and agenda-free) first-hand reports that when he loses his temper, it truly is a sight to behold.
Mr Bale was shooting at my school sometime in 1990-1991. One night the was an 'incident' resulting in a standoff with the 7th formers. Not sure about many of the details, or who provoked who, but anger management has long been an issue for the guy. I kind of feel sorry for him. Not many child stars make it this far.