Posts by nzlemming
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You going to toss your hat in the ring for Neil Walter's job? ;-)
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Hard News: Getting to the bottom of…, in reply to BenWilson,
We have to manufacture demand.
Bingo! When the economy/society is based around consumption rather than sufficiency, the rest is inevitable.
This is not to say Soviet Russia had the answers with their 5 year plan(s). The problem for them was that they tried to out do the US without the built in money pump of consumerism. Their military was their industrial complex. What they missed about the US MIC was that the industrial component has other customers besides the military. If the USSR had decided not to be a superpower and threaten to take over Europe etc., they might just have mad it work. Or not – it’s all theoretical now.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Heh, the Doh! was for me, not you ;-)
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I'd just like the American media to remember that China/India/Whereeverstan did not steal those jobs - they were freely sent there by American corporate managers.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Steve Barnes,
In what way? I’ve been agitating about ACTA for, what, 3 years now? The final version is considerably less than it started out as, though I’d still prefer that Parliament did not ratify it. The one to watch is the TPP, which we understand contains all that was dropped from ACTA and more. Makes SOPA and PIPA look like kindergarten rules.
Edit: which I now realise is the thrust of the article. Doh! Your link goes straight to the comments.
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Being real, he has to do it because his manager ripped him off, not the "powers that be".
There's a fascinating insight into the redoubtable Kelly Lynch here, in the comments.
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Just watched tonight’s Megaupload-tastic #Media7 show and the extended #Media7 interview with film producer Neil Peplow
Good stuff with Simon and Rick. Nicely nuanced and wide ranging. But Peplow – am I the only one who’s seeing a giant chip on his shoulder about tech companies? That he saw the SOPA/PIPA protests as being about tech companies instead of individuals is quite revealing. I’m glad Russell pulled him up about the French 3 strikes law, but it seemed that he’s waiting for other people to fix his problems.
Edit: Also, that was the first time I'd ever heard of the film in question. Just saying
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Russell Brown,
No, just the former. Asking you to review all the content would be a bit cheeky.
Whew. I'd hate to fight it out with Keith for bragging rights!
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Sacha,
hipsters love pdfs
#oldskoolEven the blind ones?
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Russell Brown,
As in looking at the nature of the documents and their release? 'Cos I'm not hugely able to actually review all the content (100 papers ~89MB!) ;-)
Yeh, but it will be for next week.