Posts by Paul Litterick
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I need an an OS X upgrade badly but I am holding on until Leopard arrives.
My answer to Lex Miller would be "I choose Macs because they work."
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Perhaps the worst aspect of turning 45 is answering surveys like yours. Suddenly, you are in a new age-range, 45-60. No longer are you grouped demographically with the Thirtysomethings. Instead, old age beckons.
I would go on, but I am making myself miserable.
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Happy Birthday. I remember using a Macintosh for the first time in 1984. It was owned by one Bob Black, who taught Logic at my university. He was an early-adopter, who also had a video disk player. It was all very exciting.
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According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Listener's circulation declined by 5.9% between the end of 2005 and the end of last year. Make of that what you will.
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All part of a failure to engage with and learn from the rest of the world. Like mobile phones - everyone else in the world got the idea of cellphones straight away.
They don't text either - those American teenagers seem too busy thinking about the health system to learn how to send messages.
As for the banking system...
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I remember seeing an episode of ER years ago, in which one of the physicians was in deep trouble and was considering relocating to New Zealand; she summarised this country as being a great place to bring up your kids but cursed by socialised medicine.
You hear that sort of refrain all the time from Americans, and not just those in the medical profession who have a stake in the matter. Canada is depicted in popular mythology as some kind of North Korea, where free healthcare has been bought at the price of Freedom. And people believe it, just as they believe that the rich must pay low taxes and that owning guns makes society safer.
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Yes, Canadian Bacon, especially for the scene where the Mountie demands that the infiltrators write their illegal graffiti in both English and French.
I have not eaten Twiglets for years - they are Worcester Sauce on a stick. Yum.
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I expect the red tops will refer to him as Borat's boffin cousin.
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The story form me is not The Observer's covaerage, which does lack some background, but what on earth was in the minds of the people who set the study up.
The study itself seems to be no more than a statistical survey, which sought to find the incidences of autism, not its causes. The problem is that two of the team had unorthodox opinions about causes. The journalist hung the story on these opinions.
There are so many issues to be annoyed about here. Perhaps this sort of reporting happens because every journalist wants to break another Thalidomide story.
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We all of us have the right to go to Parliament to watch proceedings. We also have the right to watch televised coverage, unmediated by the subjects. If dickheads like Ron Mark choose to behave like schoolchildren, then that should be their problem, not the broadcaster's. We, the voters, have a right to see what is happening.
If media want to use the broadcast footage to satirise or ridicule MPs, that is their right as well. It is called free speech.
Broadcasters should simply boycott this bowdlerised coverage.