Posts by Mark Harris

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  • Speaker: Copyright Must Change,

    It promoted the concept of "album" as something more than a just a collection of singles

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report

  • Hard News: Problems,

    Instead, they are forever trying to build a usable website and failing.

    For that you can thank Len Cook and his implementation of Lotus Notes, so that Stats could better share data with the Australian Stats department. Not the rest of the NZ government, or the people. I shit you not.

    What history taught me about elephants is that when they panic they don't care whose cavalry they're trampling.

    Ah yes, but they don't trample the guys riding them ;-)

    hey, it's the 21st century. Elephants with lasers

    Get that Zippy a beer!

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report

  • Speaker: Copyright Must Change,

    That works for me, Simon

    Bit like the finance industry at the moment. Ride the bubble and, when it bursts, find someone else to blame.

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report

  • Hard News: Problems,

    At the risk of this becoming yet another copyright thread, I have yet to see anything beyond anecdata that this is a major problem (cue robbery, screaming). Let's see numbers. Let's get a handle on the problem. Let's not live in the fantasy world that Arthur Baystings and company inhabit, where 95% of music downloads are illegal.

    In other news, the copyright thread is now on its 61st page, and we're sure we can be the first thread to get to 100. Please direct any responses to that thread to help us achieve that grand goal.

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report

  • Hard News: Problems,

    I for one am more interested in history than fantasy, but my readings of Julius Caesar's campaigns in Gaul do not inform me on how to deal with the current crisis - unless the answer is to lead an army across France burning and looting as we go.

    Elephants! Let's actually learn from the past and do it with elephants!

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report

  • Hard News: Problems,

    Moi aussi
    (Spoilsport) ;-)

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report

  • Speaker: Copyright Must Change,

    Prime Minister John Key has announced that the government will throw out the controversial Section 92A of the Copyright Amendment (New Technologies) Act and start again.

    Justice minister Simon Power will now meet with officials and rewrite the section of the Act from the ground up.

    No timeframe has been set for whatever clause will replace Section 92A.

    http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/section-92a-be-scrapped-89121

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report

  • Hard News: Problems,

    Prime Minister John Key has announced that the government will throw out the controversial Section 92A of the Copyright Amendment (New Technologies) Act and start again.

    Justice minister Simon Power will now meet with officials and rewrite the section of the Act from the ground up.

    No timeframe has been set for whatever clause will replace Section 92A.

    http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/section-92a-be-scrapped-89121

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report

  • Hard News: Problems,

    You could have mentioned that it was Jane Albrectsen FFS. I wouldn't have bothered...

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report

  • Hard News: Problems,

    I wonder if the last few weeks of Obama's campaign were coloured by a feeling of "Do I really want this job??"

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report

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