Posts by Simon Grigg
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You need to be cleverer: certain bold alternative music artists in NZ have become quite adept at creating scarcity and then hauling the last box out from under the bed to cash in on the fanboy market. If you hadn't been having such a good time you might have thought about that at the time, hey?
Both Bryan Staff and Harry Ratbag did exactly that. We had an approach about doing a limited AK79 vinyl run a while back, and Bryan was aghast...he has a box somewhere under the bed. Rumour has the Russell family still has a bunch of Herco Pilots somewhere, although Harry denies it
I actually kept a few copies of the early Propellers and the other Propeller distributed stuff (Gordons, Steroids, Mockers etc), but time diffused them. The big earners are the Suburban Reptiles though....$505 for Sat Night on Trade me and US$300 for the Megaton 12" on a collectors site...damn it all. only 500 of each pressed.
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Can I get a cut of the Trade Me and Ebay prices some of my early stuff hauls in now then? I like this idea....
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Copying of PS games is a lot more difficult than just digitising your CD, and that's OK, I can't think of a good legal reason for copying PS games.
It just requires a Mod chip. Pirated PS1 &2 games are freely available everywhere in Asia so it can't be that tricky. My daughter has an Indonesian purchased PS2 which comes with the chip as factory standard (probably since you can't buy the legit software here).
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Sikorsky Apache Attack Helicopters, now they were great for milking development budgets (Version 2), however,
the AH-66 I think...the Pentagon loves those drawwwwn out fat filled development programmes, like the V-22, which has had to go back the drawing board several times...a turkey in any language (and you can bet your F-111s Australia will buy a few) .....some 30 years between inception and squadron service. Those $2000 toilet sets on the C-5 had nothing on the way the US taxpayer is milked now by the Pentagon and its contractors.
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whoops "much of Australia's defense posture..."
And I'd even previewed that bugger....
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Rich...sadly Australia's much of defense posture over the past four decades has been based upon the ludicrous assumption that Indonesia has some desire, assuming they even had the ability, to invade. God knows how many billions they've spent defending themselves against that Don Quixotic assumption.
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"...If they needed to fly to Los Angeles to do a piece to camera in front of a building, it seemed, they just did it."
Any particular story in mind?
Sixty Minutes did a story in 1996 on OMC when we were sitting in London for seven weeks (actually flying back and forth some four times over the period). They allocated a film crew to us for the best part of three weeks, wined and dined us, spent god knows how much on calls from NZ to my cellphone, and followed us everywhere. It was a very pleasant time, but in the end they used three sequences, one on Abbey Road crossing, one Top of The Pops exterior, and one interview on the roof of NZ house. About 20% of the programme, which then cut into NZ filmed sequences and videos etc. An enormous waste of money with glaring factual errors.
The 2007 20/20 story on Pauly was quite a different beast in terms of budgets and approach (although I've yet to see the final cut..I have a VHS but no player)...it took two years to negotiate but only a few days to film.
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The faux-international style (over substance) took hold at TVNZ sometime in the late '80s,
when TV3 arrived and they felt some odd need to, you know, compete. TV One didn't ever need to compete, it just needed to be TV One and hold it's head high, a la ABC and BBC 1.
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On turbofans - aren't a lot of supersonic military aircraft like the F-16, Typhoon, F-22 and F-35 turbofan powered?
all of those are essentially 20th century technology. The F-16 being 1970s technology. It simply takes so long to bring a military aircraft to production now, they're inevitably somewhat dated, especially when one considers the speed of computing advances in the private sector. One criticism of the F-22 is that it was designed to fight the Soviet Union over Europe, despite the fact it's entering squadron service now.
The youngest B-52 is now 45...the equivalent of using Wright Flyers in 1948.
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Apple is now talking about going into the song rental business. Frankly it feels like Jobs is floundering around as much as the major Record Companies now. This is getting more bizarre by the day. Apple / ITMS look more and more like a large cul de sac off the road to the future.
And, whilst I'm in a grump...why do these American commentators continue to throw US figures around as it they are global...the US is slightly less than the EU in market share now, and shrinking.