Posts by Finn Higgins
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I found it on the first guess, not that it's worth it for any reason other than a general dislike of being held in suspense. I wonder what he's doing on his holiday to Thailand, what with a picture collection like that to work with?
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Readers may be amused by the Kiwiblog thread on the Jimmy Mason case, in which many participants show a rather thrilling estrangement from reality.
Going over there's really a bit like watching Friends. There's the usual set of characters all acting in a completely predictable way and it's completely asinine and boring. Where's the amusement?
Every single bloody Kiwiblog thread is the same. DPF posts something with a rather obvious chunk of right-wing-rage talking points tacked in there somewhere (or, alternatively, something that appears to resemble a public-school attempt at wit - but we'll ignore those threads) and then...
* Joey shows up and writes some stuff about socialist oppression and leftie traitors.
* Ross calls Joey some names and tells Rachel she's a hypocrite
* Rachel gets annoyed at Ross and points out that she's a bastion of integrity and good humour, but Ross is really getting on her nerves.
* Somebody else makes the mistake of talking to Joey, who immediately flies off into a paranoid rant about how there's an organised campaign of lefties out to supress him. He talks in the third person throughout.And so forth.
Where's the amusement?
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On the tag-clouding and speech-filtering business, might there not be some fun in training up some kind of Bayesian classifier using past statements from politicians and their subsequent factual veracity? Maybe hooked up to some kind of portable bullshit buzzer? ;)
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I'll tell you what, I would have been bloody suicidal if the school leaving age had been raised to 18 when I was a teenager. Me and structured general education parted ways for good at 16, and as far as I was concerned that was about.. uh.. four years later than I would have been happy with. I had an awful time with school, and compulsory education is generally very bad at dealing with exceptions who don't suit their environment. Education only really got somewhat more tolerable after compulsion ended, because the institutions started making an effort to acquire and retain students instead of relying on the law to mandate their presence.
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I've written that one verbatim a number of times. Sounds soooo professional.
And it's never a total lie until somebody uses the word __synergy_...
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I'm all good with that, the endless circles were making me dizzy. And really I'm just still happy about that Jay Z video. Does anybody know if you can get that Unplugged performance on DVD?
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Oh, and just to spread the content-filter-troubling filth from the other thread a bit, after the groove about four minutes into that video I'd totally stare at pictures of ?uestlove looking skanky on a faux leopard-skin couch. For hours. And I'm straight...
Are you listening, Dominion Post?
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doesn't play the ones I've extracted from youtube in the last couple of weeks..
All else aside, this definitely ain't right unless it only applies to certain videos. I just went and grabbed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeSWMG6Tlhg and it plays fine on VLC 0.8.6c/Linux here. Mplayer had a bit of a hissy fit about the audio format, but VLC is fine.
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the nature of software and its nature.
Also on its nature, and the nature of its nature...
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if that were the case wouldn't your quote have read 'All' software covered by ilok? not wanting to annoy you or anything cos you're quite unpleasant when you're annoyed
I'm starting to suspect you're just trolling, mate. No, the fact that some software hasn't been cracked does not prove it uncrackable. That's a logical fallacy of the highest order. Every post you make has some screaming howler like this one in it, and every time somebody calls you on one you just change the subject. In fact, you do that so rapidly anyway that it's impossible to actually pin you down to honestly evaluating any position you make - classic troll tactics.
I gave you a good robust discussion (with no personal animosity) on the nature of software and its nature. I can keep going on that point if you have questions relating to the veracity of anything I've said. But instead since I posted that we've had:
* But "some software" isn't cracked, so therefore it's uncrackable. Logical fallacy. Does not follow.
* Everybody's going to go back to vinyl anyway. Sure, whatever.
* DRM failing is a bad thing. Irrelevant to the point as to whether it is actually possible in the first place, which is what I've been trying to discuss with you.
* VLC can't play FLV files. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html - bottom of the table.
* Musicians don't want to give their music away. Also kind of irrelevant if DRM doesn't work and isn't going to.Some of the things you're talking about are actual points, and I'd be more than happy to discuss musicians and what they do and don't like about the music industry or the moral correctness of a strict user-pays sales model for music vs one where people share content. That'd be great. But when virtually every post changes the subject, fails to address salient points made to you and/or contains a blatently incorrect statement it's really hard to see that you're doing anything other than deliberately trolling.
If you want to pick a subject, stick to it and actually discuss points substantively then maybe you might find people a touch more respectful towards you.