Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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TiVo in New Zealand will be more open, more networkable and more expandable than MySky. It's a powerful brand. But the 30,000 people most likely to want a TiVo already have a MySky. It's not going to be easy to sell an $800 box to the rest of the country.
I lust after a Tivo. I'd have a MySky, except you gotta pay for Sky to use it, which doesn't work for me. Sky doesn't offer me the bang for my buck that would make it good value for me. Plus the kids would constantly need crowbarring off the cartoon channels.
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To what extent would Coraline freak the fuck out of my kids, should we choose to take them with us?
The book creeped me out. Looking forward to the flick. Might not take my youngest The Wolves In The Walls freaked him out enough, and that was a picture book.
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Wait - is it going to be the stereogram thing all over again? I might just kill myself to save time.
Nah, not that bad. If the old-school blue & red lens 3D glasses work for you you'll be fine. If not, headache city.
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Re: 3D
Its all well and good and gosh-oh-wow, except for the 10-20% of the population who for various reasons can't see it. If your eyesight varies significantly from one eye to the other, odds are 3D won't be that wonderful for you. That's fine when its an option, but if it gets to the point where significant movies are 3D or nothing, then the outcry will begin. Cause they tend to look like crap without the glasses.
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__Isn't she is the adult film actress who entered Italian politics?__
Don't make me get out the Italian stereotype bingo card, 'kay?
Noted. I'll refrain from mentioning the Italian politician who entered... etc.
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What if we don't like either option, Stewart? Perhaps we'd like to watch the evening news without being dragged into a dungeon and recounted the horrors of a brutal murder, day after day after day.
As someone else said - the TV coverage is ratings driven. If people don't watch it, ratings drop, ad $$ fall, TV gets the message, things change.
If people insist on watching it so they'll have something to rail against, ratings don't drop, nothing changes.Of course it makes no difference whether the switch is on or off if you don't have a Neilsen box in your lounge, so you're left with letters to the editor, the channel and the BSA.
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My thoughts too. Child pornography that requires the abuse of actual children is obviously abhorrent, exploitative and illegal, and I don't think anyone here would support it.
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But there's a middle ground - say, drawings or animations of child sex abuse that appear intended to arouse desire in paedophiles - that requires careful attention: it doesn't require abuse for its production, but it could normalise or encourage abuse.Creep happens. There have been many, many things blocked or banned from all sorts of places on either 'kiddie porn' or 'might incite the pedophiles' grounds. Camera shops that won't hand over pix you've taken of your sprogs in the bath, pictures of kids at play being removed from school websites, etc. Not so much in NZ, but not uncommon in the US.
Additionally, the depictions of child sex that don't involve abusing actual real children (FYI - Lisa Simpson isn't real). Obviously not a practise many will stand up to support, but I think there is an obvious double-standard that doesn't get pointed out often: molesting kids is wrong, mmkay? There's laws against that.
Killing people is also a no-no, likewise, against any number of laws. Apparently CGI kids being molested is nearly as bad as real kids because is encourages the pervs to go out and touch real kids. But also apparently, CGI people being murdered is fine, as are highly detailed cinematic representations of slaughter & mayhem on big and small screens everywhere - I'm told there's no sufficiently reliable research linking TV violence with actual violence (not sufficient enough to ban it anyways). -
You know you are getting old:
When you first hear your parents words coming out of your mouth, usually directed at your children
Or you start whinning about how language is starting to go down hillI do keep wondering about my father's ventriloquism act - making his words come out of my mouth from 100km and 30 years away!
But I do enjoy watching the ever changing English language at play - Versing wasn't a word much used when I was a lad (except by the odd poet perhaps). But now, if my boy's team is playing versus the Hawks, then the Aliens are versing those birds of prey. Of course the past tense applies, last week the Aliens versed the Eagles.
Way to anglicise the latin kids! -
I was getting used to going to the pub again and now I've got a gap with no real reason to go out drinking.
Pub Trivia. Gets me down my local for a few quiets with the team. Plus whipping a bunch of PhDs makes us feel good :-)
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At the risk of crossing the threads (satorial pun intended) I'm pretty sure Rick Wakeman would have the purple frock coat of which you speak. Probably tailored slightly on the tall & lanky side though.