Posts by Che Tibby

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  • Hard News: Inimical to the public good,

    Is there a youtube video I can sample before I buy?

    otoh, *everything* pop is post-__The Strokes__ these days, innit...

    the back of an envelope • Since Nov 2006 • 2042 posts Report

  • Hard News: Inimical to the public good,

    Is there a youtube video I can sample before I buy?

    Why, yes there is. I think I might buy now.

    be nice to the environment and buy that off itunes.

    i'm assuming they are on itunes, aren't they?

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  • Hard News: Inimical to the public good,

    What I haven’t heard from anyone on this thread is a suggestion of how you balance fair use of the Internet with the rights of people who are having their property stolen using it. So please if you have a suggestion I am all ears.

    the problem is that the business model of controlling distribution and wailing about "theft" is broken, and will never ever be repaired. so my personal opinion is to change the business model.

    you're pushing sand uphill to try and stop people downloading stuff, so why expend resources doing it? instead, encourage them to download *even more* and extract revenue at another point in the chain. or... create a chain.

    for instance, offer value-added services to complement the downloaded material. selling self-printing liner-notes online so that downloaders can "make their own CDs" is a (slightly weak) example.

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  • Hard News: Inimical to the public good,

    view was that it was practically impossible, and certainly unreasonable, to mount a court action over every single breach.

    and very few regulators attempt to do so. the two models commonly adopted by governments are:
    1. only pick prosecutions you're guaranteed to win
    2. igore many small infractions and occasionally *crucify* some schmo with extreme prejudice as an example to the rest.

    however, most agencies these days are talking 'modern regulation', which means (partly), getting the industry to set their own rules. you then monitor the rules with the occasional recourse to point two...

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  • Up Front: Just Answer the Question,

    Only your men. Your women remain highly prized.

    this emma, she speaks the truth.

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  • Up Front: Just Answer the Question,

    Do excuse me for not joining in the laughter, won't you.

    @stephen come now, you missed a great opening there.

    7/ If you had to ban one race from entering New Zealand, which one would it be and why?

    when they came for the gingas, i was silent...

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  • Cracker: Caution Boaties,

    makes a difference, aeh?

    the heart trouble meant i had to weight off the binge drinking, and i've since had that much more time to live with i'm not always sure what to do with it all.

    i was initially also flush with cash....

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  • Hard News: Have you met thingy?,

    She doesn't go out with more than one Phil at a time, guys. Jeez, you make her sound like a phil-popper

    nice. u brought it all the way back around to 'she speeds'.

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  • Hard News: Have you met thingy?,

    i think we should all just start calling people "tiger".

    it could be the main marker of Brown's Syndrome.

    party host: "hi che"

    person with Brown's Syndrome: "hey there tiger' <kapow fingers>

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  • Hard News: Have you met thingy?,

    Really?

    yeah, but mostly i put it down to some type of unexplained connection. like maybe an unexplained propensity that can lead to ASD children.

    i remember having a discussion with keith and david hayward where we couldn't work out how you're able to process information off the web as fast as you do. keith was baffled by it. i put it down to years of experience sifting noise for signal. either way, it's unusual.

    another example. one of my uncles is extremely gregarious, and always has been. but my male cousin is quite far down the spectrum into 'non-social' (wouldn't look me in the eye when i met him, has lots of OCD behaviour).

    in this context the only contributing factor to my cousin's autism i could imagine is my uncle's extremely high intelligence (he is far and away smarter than all my other uncles, who are mostly as bright as buttons).

    so maybe there's a link science hasn't cottoned on to.

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