Posts by Rich Lock
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Mozart composed without any significant copyright protection. He created for the creation.
Um, dude, you have seen 'Amadeus'*, right?
Mozart and his financial patron, the not-entirely-penniless Emperor of Austria?
Dying penniless once he fell out of favour, and being buried in a paupers grave?
*yes, I'm aware it's not a documentary.
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You could also surmise along these lines with respect to the 1970s crime wave: the baby-boomer cohort reached crime-committing age.
The 'Freakanomics' guy has already surmised at some length along these lines.
Links for those interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect
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But how do I know it's true?
Becasue Russell just told you it was.
Are you daring to question the judgement of the queen bee of the PA hive mind?
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Reminds me of some of the stories my wife tells me about when she was sixteen. I on the other hand had a very sheltered upbringing, and find all this sort of stuff kind of jawdropping.
I enquired about signal inhibitors for the home today, blank all cellphone signals from any given time (say 10pm on a week night).
Seems such a thing doesn't exist.
I'm sure signal inhibitors do exist. I remember reading about them in the UK. Some newspaper imported one (possibly from Japan...?) and had a merry old afternoon cutting people off who were using their mobe in public with no consideration for others.
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Every time I read something like this from some advertising slime I am inevitably reminded of the words of wisdom of Bill Hicks:
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I was more using it in the context that that sort of phrase ("if you don't like it, go back to Russia!") became a standard response from certain quarters during the cold war to any criticism of the USA. The implication being that anyone who had the terminity to even dare to question US policy rather than lap it up unquestioningly was a filthy commie.
I've been waiting to use it as a reversal on a capitalist big beast for some time.
"I think we as a nation have a lot we could learn from unrestrained firesale stripping of state assets"
"Hey man, this is New Zealand! Learn the rules! If you don't like it, go back to Russia!"
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I was completely unimpressed by the Weekend Herald's trumpeting of Taranaki-born Stephen Jennings, one of New Zealand's richest men.
I was also extremely unimpressed with the feature on the Taranaki carpetbagger.
If he likes it so much, he should go back to Russia.
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beer!
I think you've has had quite enough for one evening, don't you sir?
Perhaps you should go home now. Everything will seem better in the morning.
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Rich, that's a brilliant combination of Paul Henry and one of Mr Slacks' haiku. I salute you in this time of billboards.
Possibly needs a bit more polishing:
So. Farewell then
Win. And Welcome,
Fail.Coffee should be
drunk before
you post.Rookie mistake.
O death,
where is they sting? -
It's a couple of years old now, but John Rogers' I Miss Republicans post still seems appropriate.
I was about to post that up in another thread, given that Craig's (entirely sensible) position seems to be that the republicans need to spend a generation on the naughty step thinking about what they've done before they're fit to come and play with the adults again.
He did a follow-up: he still misses republicans.
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-still-miss-republicans.html
I thought that in Scotland the word “scone” referred to a type of physical activity normally occurring outside a pub at closing time.
That, too.