Posts by Steve Barnes
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If you wanted something to do what a computer does, why didn't you try ..... a computer?
instead of a fashion accessory.
There, fixed it for Ya.
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But you are from Dundein, they still serve scones on two tier plates down there.
Fnahh Fnahh. I bet they still spin at 78rpm too.
It's all bagpipe music down there anyway.
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whether or not you are comfortable with Steve Jobs deciding he is king of the world.
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No, I am not obliged to buy it or listen to it. However, there are enough people out there gullible enough to feel the need to buy into it that the commercial radio stations pump it out continuously like oil into the Gulf.
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But artists are getting paid for a lot of that wallpaper, which is good.
There's nothing wrong with good wallpaper, unless it is pretending to be a painting. Know what I mean?. Selling us garbage like Lady Gah Gah (sic) does a disservice to music.
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Given the iPad has no camera
It could be as simple as, like most people on the planet, the powers that be at be at Yankee Stadium can't believe the iPad has no camera or, indeed, a USB port.
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Then in part two, he looks at what's happened to record shops
Can someone look at what has happened to all the Blacksmiths Shops? My Horse needs new shoes and the buggy needs new rims.
Conflating the issue of music sales with book sales is a bit pointless as the latter is more to do with corporatism and "the bottom line" than the ubiquity of music in modern life, it no longer has a rarity value and sadly, is becoming more like wallpaper, however good it is. -
..and the recent Prime series didn't really change my lukewarm opinion of much of their work. I agree that some of it hasn't dated well--especially their portrayals of screechy harridans (they didn't seem to like women much). I have warmer memories of Spike Milligan's Q and really going back, Hancock.
Monty Python was a product of its time and was heavily influenced by both Hancock and Milligan.
I have a friend who actually despises all British humour, he is a Kiwi Easty Boy (you know who you are ;) and speaks highly of McFail and Gadsby, who seem to have influenced Rahderahderubbish. -
one of the TM's they applied for was 'futureproof'.
As in "No Future"? Mr Bryers previous attempts to be a successful businessman do not suggest any chance of success in the foreseeable future, however, his fiddling about in fiduciary fun and frolics pale into insignificance compared to US banking lobyists. I fear another bout of Monetary madness is not so far off into our future.
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Oh, OK Craig. Your point is?
Do you approve of the way in which the Government is setting up the new Auckland Council (the 'Super City')?
No: 8118
Yes: 358
Total: 8476
Yes: 4%
NO: 96%Seems like a thing we should be taking notice of but you seem to think a quote from an octogenarian correspondent to the paper enough to dismiss all this out of hand with a Nazi smear?
What the guy, actually, said was"Somebody compared Rodney Hide with Adolf Hitler, which I find not quite fair. Perhaps he could be likened to the ortscommandant."
which I find quite appropriate.
Your admiration of Mr. Hide is quite unsettling.