Posts by giovanni tiso
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I haven't seen hurt locker, but Strange Days was a pretty shining example of feminist cinema I thought.
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You don't really buy those plants, you lease them. Well, it's complicated. You could also say that it's the hybrid manufacturers that lease the land of the grower.
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Well, that's pretty minimal. Plants get pruned, really there's not much of an argument there.
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It can be a massive investment of the time of the artist to make a CD that is meant to earn them a living.
You might recall I was a pretty strong proponent of that point of view in the copyright thread of death. But they're just radically different industries, there is no way for the hybrid manufacturers to make any money except by selling the plants, and you have to start big - can't make a new cultivar in your garage and distribute it free to get your name out.
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Who isn't a fan of Zespri gold? I go to all of their gigs.
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However, in the case of plants, it is because the law says it is.
It does. And the difference with other forms of IP theft ought to be obvious. Download my Cd, I can still make more music. Plant a hybrid I've invested a ton of money in, you can make as many as you want, and there's my investment gone.
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Heh!
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I can testify that it was met in Italy by a chorus of "and they should know".
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I found Shirley Valentine to be a touching film about a woman's struggle against a number of oppressions.
Jane Campion's Sweetie fits that particular description for me.
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Shall we talk about how few women directors there have been in the history of Western cinema?