Posts by Don Christie
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(after the fashion of Uganda, where Amin was finally dealt to by the remarkably efficient Tanzanian army
That is a good example. If it could be repeated...
the party line in Afirca seems to have been 'he may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch"
Sorry Craig, but you are oversimplifying the attitudes of an entire continent *and* the position of neighbouring states, who, other than SA, are in no state whatsoever to mount and invasion.
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you guys keep going at the drm is evil thing
Which is kind of ironic because you keep going at the "clients are evil". To me that sounds pretty stupid and not a good space for a business to be in, but hey, all I know is software so by all means count me out as having a valid opinion...again.
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I think drm is workable, and a viable solution, its just in draft stage at present.
Rubbish. You have been very badly informed. If that were the case there would be no need for the draconian legislation that Judith Tizard and others overseas have happily whistled through on your behalf.
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Dan, and maybe to robbery's horror, Youtube
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robbery, isn't there a thread on DRM you hijacked a while back that covers all this and more?
The only insight you have given us here us that you think music consumers are scum suckers.If that is what you think of the clientèle why are you in the industry? You must lead a hell of a depressing life.
Anyway, sort of back on the topic of "evil", I do recommend Organisations Behaving Badly: A Greek Tragedy of Corporate Pathology.
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any comment on President Mbeki's role in all this?
Maybe he's looking at Iraq and thinking, "not in a 1000 years", to paraphrase a former ruler of what is now Zimbabwe.
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Michael Laws. The possibilities...to have our very own Mark Thatcher.
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Isn't that, y'know, evil?
Well, if you google "doing evil" the first page that comes up is some Corporate Information.
Way down the list comes the astonishing news that "You can make money without doing evil.".
What, you ask, defines "doing evil"? Well, it seems not being evil is:
you may have never seen an ad on Google. That's because Google does not allow ads to be displayed on our results pages unless they're relevant to the results page on which they're shown. So, only certain searches produce sponsored links above or to the right of the results. Google firmly believes that ads can provide useful information if, and only if, they are relevant to what you wish to find.
(please apply XOR to get values of evil)
So, Lyndon, if the ad placement is relevant and not too flashy it's not evil. Something for would be "axis of evil" members to consider in their defence.
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The ruminator digest is freaky. I was just thinking the other day what a great idea an animated time series for that tool would be. It was going to be my "idea of the week".
Just shows how unoriginal I am...
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where the goal posts never stop moving.
Heh, Craig. I dunno, but I think I speak for a few here who would apply that to the shifting sands that form some of the more interesting online discussions with you.
I mean come on, we are talking about where the hell to find the substantial volume of policy one might expect from 9 friggin years in opposition verses some day to day minutia of parliamentary debate and operation. I really sorry you can't see the difference but it seems to be a failing you share with your party leadership. That's all.
an upcoming ACT ad comparing spending on giant snails with not spending on herceptin
Oh well. At least we now know who is financing ACT this year.