Posts by Russell Brown
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I want to pay artists, not fat old white men sitting around pools in Vegas.
To be fair, APRA does pay nearly everything it collects directly to creators. Its operating costs are pretty tight. So the Vegas thing doesn't really apply there.
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Indeed -- but Snowe's actually got some credibility as a fiscal conservative left, so her support (and any qualifications she puts on the table) is going to mean something.
For sure. It would be nice if she was running things ...
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TVNZ seems to have grasped how you use breaking news video online.
Prime Minister assaulted on arrival at Waitangi -- they really don't seem to have it sorted out up there. Still.
The weirdest part is hearing Titewhai Harawira giving instructions to the PM afterwards: "Stand still John -- no, no, stand still ... "
I'm guessing this goes down in the debit column for Titewhai's mana.
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Matt Tabibi on Daschle, way back in December when his name was announced:
Obviously there has been some dire news on that front already. When Obama picked Tom Daschle to be the HHS Secretary, I nearly shit my pants. In Washington there are whores and there are whores, and then there is Tom Daschle. Tom Daschle would suck off a corpse for a cheeseburger. True, he is probably only the second-biggest whore for the health care industry in American politics — the biggest being doctor/cat-torturer Bill Frist, whose visit to South Dakota on behalf of John Thune in 2004 was one of the factors in ending Daschle's tenure in the Senate.
But in picking Daschle — who as an adviser to the K Street law firm Alston and Bird has spent the last four years burning up the sheets with the nation's fattest insurance and pharmaceutical interests — Obama is essentially announcing that he has no intention of seriously reforming the health care industry. . . .
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can you outline some examples of net usage in legitimate businesses that might be compromised in such a way. serious question, real world examples, no name calling.
Email, web browsing, e-commerce, VOIP ...
The point isn't that the business relies on copyright infringement, it's that a mere allegation of such infringement could get it cut off.
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don, could you keep it civil please. I'm not calling you anything total or not
Quite. Don, I've grumped at rob plenty. I'd be grateful if you could keep it civil too.
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Jon Stewart on last night's Daily Show.
"I do want to say a quick word for anyone out there who wants to bring change and hope to a divided and suffering nation ... pay your fucking taxes."
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Meanwhile no WTF-age over Tom Daschle
Damn, I read a really funny parody piece about Daschle and I can't find it now.
There's some Greenwaldage on it:
Due to traveling, I've been subjected to far more cable news over the last 24 hours than I typically endure in an entire month. The consensus regarding Tom Daschle seems to be that his withdrawal was necessitated due to (a) Obama's incessant nattering about ethical reform during the election; (b) the poor political imagery from having someone fail to pay his taxes on his chauffered car in a time of such economic turmoil; and (c) the unlucky confluence of similar scandals surrounding Obama nominees with tax problems.
The notion that Daschle would make a poor HHS Secretary because he has so hungrily fed on the legalized sleaze and corruption that drives Washington literally doesn't seem to occur to them
Hey, interesting times for your gal Olympia Snowe. She might buck the refusenik party line and vote for the stimulus package.
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you saw a gulf between ant and bronwyn?
Um, hasn't that been kind of obvious?
Like I said, it was nice to get them in the same room.
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Posted at 12:07AM on 5 Feb 09
It screens tomorrow night at 9.10pm on TVNZ7.
I got distracted while typing. It became Thursday already.
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