Posts by Don Christie
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St Andrew's
School or University? by the sounds of it, they probably both cater to the same crowd (I know nothing of NZ schools).
Truth be told (you decide), I spent my teenage years being dragged through the UK's Comprehensive system which, funnily enough, also suited boorish boys.
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In Chch, the question sort of gets thrown down the way someone with flair and class might throw down a gauntlet. Reaction will be based on the answer.
Surely one just lies depending on the reaction you want to provoke.
For this audience...I spent many a happy year fagging at "His Royal Highness' High for Incredibly Rich and Boorish Boys".
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Regarding OIA requests (and resisting the urge to defend NZs most successful museum)...
The UK site, http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/, has been going for 1 year and has just celebrated its 10,000th FOI request.
Just waiting for Rob McKinnon to extend theyworkforyou.org.nz in a similar direction, after he's done 'fixmystreet'.
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The cruelness of Twitter.
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Simon, thanks for those insights over the last few pages.
One of the comments made a few times has been about how passionate this debate has become. I suspect there are shysters on both sides.
But I also have a feeling the debate is passionate because the recording industry reps think that they can shit all over an area of 'new' technology with the same successful outcomes they have had in the past.
Their problem this time, however, is that the new tech is not a bit of shimmery plastic or magnetic tape but an intricate infrastructure that has had a most profound affect on how many many people operate. The revolution took seed long before the recording industry took notice.
In other words, this time it is different, this time they are talking about impacting on lives and businesses on a massive scale, and so the push back is likely to be massive and, given the contexts you describe, not without justifiable passion.
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And does this sound familiar MO?
Last November, a Congressional aide named Mitch Glazier, with the support of the RIAA, added a "technical amendment" to a bill that defined recorded music as "works for hire" under the 1978 Copyright Act.
He did this after all the hearings on the bill were over. By the time artists found out about the change, it was too late. The bill was on its way to the White House for the president's signature.
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yes, the key phrase from the Love article is this:
Worst of all, after all this, the band owns none of its work ...
Remind me, who are the pirates?
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please don't make fun of foreigners making the effort to write in your stupid language. Smiley face.
I think, when Italian PA commenters can write so intelligently about cricket everything gets forgiven.
but I see the Guardian Comment Is Free section has done that for me.
Yep, nothing quite like the left turning against themselves. Danyl's still not over the 3rd Labour term :-)
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wanted to walk to the Auckland Art Gallery but couldn't remember where it was
Now that is (or was) located in a reasonably friendly place.
BTW, the Monet exhibition at Te Papa, like quite a few others there, isn't free but it *is* well worth paying to see :-)
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There are an awfully large number of people who reside elsewhere in this country who begrudge Auckland every last cent of taxpayer money that it gets, no matter what it's for or how much tax Auckland contributes.
Well, many Aucklanders seem to return the feeling with interest, especially where Wellington is concerned. It is an easy talk back wind up.
I still really don't get how dumping on, say, Downstage, helps the arts funding issue which is what these two Metro clowns did. I guess setting up an inter-city stoush sells more mags and pulls in the viewers.