Posts by Mark Harris
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Nothing goes to waste in my larder ;-)
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Summer of Love didn't get here till the 60s.
Oh, well, that explains a lot, as it got to San Francisco in '67..oh, wait...
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Apparently Amazon is sending DCMA take-down notices to sites hosting the tool kindlepid.py (which enables Kindle owners to buy ebooks from retailers other than Amazon.)
Meh. While I defended the T2S feature of the Kindle in earlier discussion, you'd never catch me buying one precisely because of this sort of crap.
Their time will pass.
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Prunes. Warmed prunes (pitted) and smeared with blue. Unbelievable.
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You'll admit there's a difference between offering an opinion and just making shit up,
I've always known it, but not from your posts.
his is where you go trawling through miles of discussion to find an example of a factual error of mine, see you in a couple of days
You over-rate your importance ;-)
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I rather think paper-books are going to be around for a long time (in human terms) yet...
Undoubtedly, as are vinyl records. I took your complaint to be more about the new technologies not delivering you a revenue stream, and that's not going to change.
You haven't yet enlightened me about "DRM shenanigans", by the way.
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Gah. Sor-ry. I don't quite know how I did that. Apologies, Giovanni
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I'm kind of fond of the Kikorangi (and they're just down the road from me) but Stilton, it's not. Which is okay, a mild blue is good too. But I've yet to find an NZ blue that matches up.
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cance > chance
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What laws set out to achieve and how things work in real life are never really synonymous. People find places, nooks and crannies, within the system where they can be comfortable to do their work. Artists of all kinds have been especially adaptable in doing this.
The thing is, Giovanni, the capacity of those nooks and crannies is diminishing. The new technologies are making them untenable. The new technologies are not going to go away. You have to deal with it or forego any cance, as an artist, to make a living. You can't change this through new law, because thare are ways around those prohibitions. Where prohibition does not agree with the populace's sentiments, prohibition always loses and is a waste of tim.
And despite your protestation to the contrary, i agree with Kyle - you sound very free market to me with the adapt or quit stuff.
Well, now you're both just being insulting. I thought Russ' comments about taking people as they come were valid and I've tried very hard to work within that framework recently.
The thing is you both read what you want to read. You've obviously decided I'm some sort of free marketer and I want all copyright abolished so I don't have to pay for anything, and nothing I say is going to make a dent in that opinion.
"Adapt or die" is not free market ideology - it's simply practical survival advice. You are not going to hold the tide back by standing on a rock and telling it to "go back". If you're answer to the issue is to stand around and wait for a law to be passed to sort it out to your satisfaction, you'll be waiting a long time when you could be earning a reasonable living. There's nothing free market about that.