Posts by Ben McNicoll
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As for pokies, they involve too much work for the novice player--all those button and options, which conceal the possibility that all your coins are going down a one-way shute.
I think the operative word should be probability.
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I describe it as like cicadas you can't hear... if that makes sense. Until you listen for them.
Or like an invisible balloon that you know is red.
But maybe mine isn't that bad yet.
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I feel for them too - people want no-DRM, full-access, free-to-distribute, easily-copied examples of their work and seem to see no ground to be given.
I do wonder if the larger media companies had been willing to re-examine their business model earlier, and had not made legitimately purchased downloadable product so unattractive by tying it up with poorly implemented DRM, and restrictive conditions, then perhaps the current user might not have got into the convenience of pirated product, and wouldn't expect all that for free.
I'm thinking particularly of situations such as pc games that no-one can install because of the DRM, so purchasers have to use cracked copies just to get what they paid for, or Microsoft's "Plays for Sure" (think i've got that right?) DRM that they just stopped supporting from one day to another with no warning.
But then another bit of me (the cynic) says it's hard to be more attractive than free.
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At first glance i thought it was Dennis Franz, but Ron Jeremy would make more sense.
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And is there such a thing as reverse blackout bingo? This page is a winner so far
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My biggest problem with it. If you want a law that is only applicable to hard-core pirates, then make a law that is only going to be applicable to hard-core pirates, not every single person in the country.
Hear, hear. I believe this is one of the strongest arguments, and the one proponents of s92a are trying to fudge around with the whole "so you're in favour of piracy, then?" red herring.
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I'd argue nothing a 6th form english student couldn't get the basic gist of.
I'd hope the 6th form English student could do a better job of editing and proofing it.
Seriously, dude.
Punctuation makes things readable. And lack of it changes meaning.
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obama on prime now
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I'm quite liking how the NYT's Presidential Big Board somewhat resembles the health bar from Street Fighter.
Gets my vote as the best of the interactive results apps i've seen so far.
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This music video from Auckland band The Hot Grits has been banned by TVNZ for "inappropriate content".
The video was shot by local production house The Downlow Concept, whose intention was to “demonstrate the child-like greed with which adults conduct themselves whilst on the road to excess”.
The TVNZ censor felt that images of children drinking milk from shot glasses and a funnel, and their general behaviour, were inappropriate.
Polical correctness gone mad in an election year?