Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Welcome to socialism!
Thank you, I have been here a while. ;-)
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Matthew Poole,
that’s plainly impractical and ultimately leads to a closed market with sky-rocketing prices courtesy of the legislatively-captive purchaser.
[citation needed] I think. I can't see why. If the captive purchaser is legislative, ie. Government then they have the power to control this. They could, in fact, control inflation, to an extent, by controlling their own contract pricing.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Andre,
If it costs a lot more to buy local then the government should buy overseas.
I have been arguing against this kind of thinking for years. If you pay someone to mow your lawns the money goes out of the family purse, if you pay your Son, or Daughter, to mow your lawns and then charge them rent it will cost you nothing but the cost of fuel (even I wouldn't be cruel enough to insist they used scissors) Filling Government contracts locally has a long onflow effect. Company employs more workers, less welfare payments for unemployed. Company makes more profit, Government collects more tax. Workers spend more at the shops, shopkeepers make more profit and collect more GST and pay more tax. Shopkeepers spend more in other shops, other shops employ more people and so on ad-infinitum.... It is the gift that just keeps on giving golden geese.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Gabor Toth,
she was also pretty upset the other day when in 60 seconds on TVNZ7 we went from "Giggles" at 7.59am to scenes of devastation and distraught people in Christchurch
Just had a vision of Suzy Cato reporting on the earthquake... weird.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I have a HD recorder, and as far as I'm aware, if I'm watching something through Freeview, I can't record something else on another channel. So what to do?
Well, what I would do and bear in mind some people think I am totally insane, would be to get a small laptop (the latest eeepc running windows 7 is what I would choose @ $500 ish a good buy) and a tuner card and install GBPVR.
With the right setup, using ts Mux you can record multiple channels. GBPVR also supports Comskip which will, most of the time, automatically skip commercials.
Grtting an extra laptop may seem a bit over the top but you end up with not only another laptop but you can take it on holiday and be able to watch all your favourite shows. (as long as you take your satellite dish or UHF aerial with you you can continue to record Jersey Shore, owhy)
It really isn't as difficult as it sounds.
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ETA. If you still use the HD recorder you can record absolutely everything and never have time to watch it. ;-) -
Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Oh dear. I had to go and look that one up.
You disappoint me Matthew, I thought you knew everything.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Islander,
Kinda gives a hint about the letter-writer’s seriousness eh?
Prozactly
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PAS seems to have its own version of "Godwin's Law"
Should we call it "Copyright Threading"?
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
He can be wherever he happens to be and still be in contact. He does not need to be in Christchurch, or even in New Zealand.
So, he might as well be at John Key's place in Hawaii then?. Gimme a break, what about the " symbolic moral support to the citizens and the rescue/recovery effort." coming from a man who could actually organise a response?
His job is in Wellington, where he’s got ready access to all the best advisers MCDEM has at its fingertips.
Sigh, so he has to be "on the ground" for advice but not for leadership?.
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Hard News: Nothing important, just some tunes, in reply to Sacha,
You mean customers who decided not to continue buying albums?
If they did not continue to buy then they are not "customers" anymore, they are lost customers and I don't think prosecution has ever gained loyal customers..
Mr Grigg has provided the supporting evidence here many times.
Hmmm, what thread was that on again?.
I seem to remember there was more than one side to that argument.