Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday music: Worst DJ ever, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Could that be because the broadcast was in “Stereo” and not 5.1 audio and so not producing a sub-woofer signal? or does your system use a left/right mix through a low pass filter to the sub?.
It defaults to all-channel stereo. But the opening ceremony sounded great. It was really odd how technically poor the closing was.
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Hard News: Friday music: Worst DJ ever, in reply to Paul Williams,
I think the Perth clip is a little off for PA? It mightn’t be intended, but comes across as baiting a bloke who is probably in need of help.
I thought he seemed to be in on the joke when I watched it yesterday, but on reflection I've removed it.
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Hard News: Friday music: Worst DJ ever, in reply to Chip Matthews,
Think at some point, a collection of the best remixes will need to be bundled together. Has been some absolutely fantastic ones.
Great idea.
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Hard News: Friday music: Worst DJ ever, in reply to peter mclennan,
Heard these Homebrew remixes from the mighty Jet Jaguar?
Ta. I've been playing the hell out of this:
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
John Hartevelt went to school a million years ago.
He's not that old. And he's not a bad journalist either.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Matthew Poole,
The US situation is utterly fucking ridiculous.
And it doesn't stop there, of course. "Three strikes" and mandatory minimum sentences -- both of which play to public hysteria -- have, with the assistance of lunatic prosecutors, done a great job of putting thousands of the wrong people in jail for ever.
The small-c conservative American Bar Association released a damning report on those elements of the US judicial system a few years ago, concluding that they tend to make crime worse, not better. Nothing changed.
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Hard News: The question of Afghanistan…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
A number of the conversations I've had with Jon Stephenson about Afghanistan could be summarised as "it's complicated".
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Joe Wylie,
When I had to deal with a neighbour from hell situation, where the police and my MP proved ineffective, I checked out the person concerned on Sensible Sentencing’s online register. Should I have refrained from doing so on principle?
I use that information relatively regularly, actually. It's all in the public domain and generally reliable.
I was referring specifically to the US situation – where people have been placed on 10-year "predatory sex offender" registers for having a pee in an alleyway (I am not exaggerating – this happened to a friend of a friend). Boys have been put on registers for age-of-consent violations with their girlfriends. A couple have committed suicide as a result.
But in a general sense, it’s unhelpful to have many people believe things about criminal justice policy and the level of crime that simply aren’t true.
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Hard News: The question of Afghanistan…, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Either we leave and accept that religious zealots will take over. Or we stay as long as neccessary – estimates say Saudi Arabia might run out of oil in 2070. Or we try somethingelse.
If there were ever any "good" options, there certainly aren't now.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Hilary Stace,
However, in the situation I am talking about the woman was publicly named and vilified by the offender and his family who blamed her for ‘causing’ the offending. Because he got permanent name suppression she can never clear her name or reputation.
Ugh. What an awful situation.
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