Posts by giovanni tiso
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The very same.
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And how good was it that Dr Don Abel, an actual Assistant Governor of the Reserve Bank, unexpectedly turned up and spoke at the launch at Parliament? What a dude!
I didn't hear what he had to say due to being mesmerised by his resemblance to Norman Lloyd.
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"friends of Russell" with quotation marks like that sounds like some sort of drug code. Which it probably is, come to think of it.
It was a lovely occasion. Kicking myself for not walking up to the person whose arm tattooes looked just like JackElder's gravatar.
Then sociable Stephen and I fell for the oldest trick in the book: "You guys go ahead and get us a table". I'm quite positive I shall never see any of those people again.
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On the nametags issue... if you don't have an accent and a foreign, easy-to-remember name, you're not trying hard enough and I really can't help you.
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If we have name tags, can I be someone else?
I thought you already were?
Heh... it reminds me of an old Matt Welcome bit where he describes somebody on the telly talking about some terrifying ordeal they went through, ending with: "I thought it was the kind of thing that only happens to other people". To which, Matt: "You are other people. So what's your point?"
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Off topic, but *highfive*! About three episodes from the end of Season Three as we speak. Can't wait to see how Hamsterdam falls to bits...
Season four of The Wire: pinnacle of human civilisation.
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That doesn't particularly surprise me. Lose the data caps and suddenly the income from heavy downloaders goes away. That, in fact, fits precisely with what has been said here: heavy downloaders are a net cost, not a net profit, because they consume more of a scarce (though in Canada it's far less scarce than here) resource for approximately the same income
My point is that they drove the uptake of the fast connections, and it was only once those became uncapped that my friend's ISP started throttling download speeds and discovered they were against p2p. But they had been for it before they were against it, and for reasons of profit it seems to me.
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Gio, to be fair to you, the "the ISPs are raking it in courtesy of all this downloading activity" argument is almost an article of faith with major media. I've seen it trotted out before, to justify the suggestion that the costs of a monitoring solution should be borne by ISPs not by the media industry.
To be clear, that's not what I'm saying - Keir made my original point much better. And it still seems valid to me, but seeing as I'm unable to back it up with numbers, I'll certainly concede it's not as clear cut as I thought.
One thing I recall quite precisely, though, and it's a friend in Canada telling me a few years ago that when the ISPs got rid of data caps over there, after they had been creaming him for his downloading habits for a couple of years, 'coincidentally' they also started a campaign against p2p.
I will certainly be a little less scathing of the costs of the movie industry, based partly on what Peter has said and also on what I've read in researching to contribute.
One needs to have seen just one Pixar movie in the last decade to be less scathing of the costs of the movie industry, surely? Those things have no stars yet still cost a fortune to make. And they are fucking brilliant, I think most people here would agree.
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If folks like Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth don't like the comparsion, perhaps they shouldn't be equally selective about their use of science.
Quite.
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However, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy does not seem to be considered factual history,vetted for suitability, so not every other museum in the world I suspect.
Was it purporting to be true? No? didn't think so.