Posts by Steve Barnes
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Innit!!!!
Enable Tasman…
Fnahhh
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I'll put an end to this damned piracy let me tell you that for nothing, put yer wallet away I said for nuffing dinneye?
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Russell Brown,
They’re distributing works without the permission of the authors, and in some cases making money
Disgusting, why can't people stick to an honest way of making money like foreign exchange or running a finance company?.
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Alex Efimoff,
But he did copy
Did he???As far as I know Kim Dotcom facilitated the storing and sharing of files. Despite what some deluded National Mps seem to think, Shanks, Lee*, file sharing is not illegal. In fact sharing is good (unless it's a disease I suppose) it is something that is obviously foreign to members of the Right.
What people wish to store in Del Boy's virtual lockup is entirely up to them, who they wish to share their keys with is also up to them. The possibility that some may wish to store their music collection in the same lockup, or even their entire entertainment library, is not, or should not, be Del Boy's problem.
* Melissa Lee actually starts out praising file sharing as an outlet for starving Artists but then goes on to tell us that "The Industry" needs protecting so fuck the artists. -
Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Russell Brown,
Just out of interest,
I believe that has been my stance since before the infamous copyright thread.
And Kim Dotcom is fine by me, certainly more likeable than most with his wealth which, by the way, wasn't "earned" by shitting on the workers. -
With all the interest in the Sky City Casino you would think that this "Government" would see betting on students to be a better return than say, a pokie machine or 500.
They should just take a punt. If a graduate stays their entire life at uni and never pays a cent back they may well become an asset to the university (that don't mean you have a mandate to sell them johnkey) if they go on to get paid squillions and become a world leader in their field (unless that field has been sold to johnny foreigner) then collect your winnings.
My point is that even if someone gets a degree and decides they want to do voluntary work for the rest of their lives then so be it, the "Government" looses out, financially, but the country gains in other ways. If, on the other hand, the student does well, then the gamble pays off and johnkey gets a pocketful of loose change.
This would entail, of course, an increase in interest but a floor on earnings, say 2 times the average wage.
But then again I'm all for free tertiary education, good student allowances and less billionaires, like I've said before, wasn't all this automation in the factories and mines supposed to make us ALL better off?. -
Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Alex Efimoff,
I always keep my baby on my knees during the flight :)
As long as you keep it quiet, damn kids, get off my lawn.
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Ross Mason,
Gag.You read this I hope…not??
My point was that even astrologers know this was an annual event, not some amazing once in a lifetime event as "The Media" would have us believe.
You'll have me spouting explanations of homœopathy next.
Oh, hang on...Law of similars
Hahnemann observed from his experiments with cinchona bark, used as a treatment for malaria, that the effects he experienced from ingesting the bark were similar to the symptoms of malaria. He therefore decided that cure proceeds through similarity, and that treatments must be able to produce symptoms in healthy individuals similar to those of the disease being treated.
A bit like Inoculation using highly diluted or weakened stuff to improve the immune system, like what don't kill ya makes you tough, to paraphrase Friedrich Nietzsche.
Next up. Placebos , are they addictive?<the devil made me do it>
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Joe Wylie,
maybe this is the reason he talks funny.
Love the ACT supporters in the background, you can almost hear them crying out "Braaaiins, if only we had Braaaiins"
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I guess they have an acceptable level of urban collateral damage that they will tolerate, just what does become of any plane they shoot down over a densely populated area?
I was thinking about this last night and the thought that came to me was that all this military hardware in a city the size of London is more likely to encourage a terrorist attack than discourage one.
If a suicide bomber were to hijack a small plane and fly low around the city in a threatening manner, then the crossfire from rockets and guns would cause more damage, physical and political, than any improvised device could.
