or it could just be that The Anti Mike has/had a very particular writing style and was generally ridiculed, to the point where anyone writing with that style is going to get such a responce, the meaning of which amounts to 'yeah, this guy's got no idea what he's talking about'.
also, the constant accusations that other ACs are Mike is...umm... a total give away.
seems less ...urm.... insane? than most industry-associated opinions i've encountered before, but something about this seems very off...
something akin to 'the best lie is the one that deviates as little from the truth as possible' or something. (not that i'm really accusing anyone of lieing about anything, i don't know enough to be able to judge that)
mostly the PRS recruitment spiel... but also a certain slippery 'not actually answering the question asked' type thing in some places (one gets very adept at noticing when that happens after watching political debates where i live :-S)
still, it made an interesting read. (though late night after a busy day is not the best time to do so if one wants things to stick in the brain, apparently...)
if i understand it right, it means simply that those in charge of the party are playing 'pin the blame on the underling', whether to keep the party or themselves out of trouble, or both, who knows?
no, we just have politicians. *sigh*
it should be noticed that this has not made the news yet.
well, not on the sites i keep track of.
which, to be fair, might have something to do with the major news places being owned by either the government or American interests, and me having been a bit swamped the last few days and thus not checked alternative sources
actually, that there is a hack mostly indicates that there was someone (or a group of someones) willing to take the implied challenge present in the existence of security software and that it was not obscure enough to escape notice.
remember please that (assuming my memory is correct from previous articles on this subject), for most bands, the vast majority, if not only, money they ever SEE is from live concerts, and sometimes merchandise. not CDs and such.
the rest gets eaten by dodgy record label contracts, or doesn't exist in the first place.
humm. 'course, you could look at the countries where the cops, excepting S.W.A.T analogs (in NZ's case, the Armed Offenders Squad, occasionally with military support if things have gone really pear-shaped.) don't carry guns in the first place.
it's actually less dangerous for all concerned, including the cops. (no possibility of the criminal managing to disarm them and turn the gun on the police officer, the likelihood of which is one of the major reasons armed police officers end up shooting people, and the criminal in question, feeling less threatened, is less inclined to act violently in the first place.)
that said, such police officers are usually well trained in hand to hand combat, commonly carry batons of some description or other bits of equipment which can be easily made to serve the purpose, and do wear body armour when heading into potentially hazardous situations.
'course, it's a heck of a lot harder for random crazies to get hold of usable weapons in the first place, here, especially ones with any range.
it is possible that it is neither, or a little bit of each and a whole lot of something else, mind you. fanboyism and wishful thinking go a long way all by themselves.
here, at least, with the standard channel selection being free to air and broadcast via radio waves, rather than cable, it strikes me that, really, only two things could be holding such a concept back: lack of demand and the non-existance of anything light enough to actually be portable which does not need an external power supply and is actually set up to receive TV signals. (plenty of things hit two out of the three, mind you)
i have a sneaking suspicion that lack of demand might be the big one...
come to think of it, video phones (no, not just mobile phones with cameras in them) seem to fall in a similar slot. the tech's there, it's a nice idea, but almost no one actually seems to want it.
the whole cable tv thing never made much sense to me either, unless it was using some sort of 'pay per view' set up rather than the usual liner channels, really...
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also, the constant accusations that other ACs are Mike is...umm... a total give away.
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something akin to 'the best lie is the one that deviates as little from the truth as possible' or something. (not that i'm really accusing anyone of lieing about anything, i don't know enough to be able to judge that)
mostly the PRS recruitment spiel... but also a certain slippery 'not actually answering the question asked' type thing in some places (one gets very adept at noticing when that happens after watching political debates where i live :-S)
still, it made an interesting read. (though late night after a busy day is not the best time to do so if one wants things to stick in the brain, apparently...)
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Re: how?
step 3 is '???'
step x-1 is Always '???', where x is the last step, and = profit.
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it should be noticed that this has not made the news yet.
well, not on the sites i keep track of.
which, to be fair, might have something to do with the major news places being owned by either the government or American interests, and me having been a bit swamped the last few days and thus not checked alternative sources
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wow.
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the rest gets eaten by dodgy record label contracts, or doesn't exist in the first place.
(there are, of course, exceptions)
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it's actually less dangerous for all concerned, including the cops. (no possibility of the criminal managing to disarm them and turn the gun on the police officer, the likelihood of which is one of the major reasons armed police officers end up shooting people, and the criminal in question, feeling less threatened, is less inclined to act violently in the first place.)
that said, such police officers are usually well trained in hand to hand combat, commonly carry batons of some description or other bits of equipment which can be easily made to serve the purpose, and do wear body armour when heading into potentially hazardous situations.
'course, it's a heck of a lot harder for random crazies to get hold of usable weapons in the first place, here, especially ones with any range.
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...
yeah, that was sarcasm.
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yah? :D
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and the end result is something you wouldn't get otherwise, combined with the ability to go 'yeah, i helped make that!'
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here, at least, with the standard channel selection being free to air and broadcast via radio waves, rather than cable, it strikes me that, really, only two things could be holding such a concept back: lack of demand and the non-existance of anything light enough to actually be portable which does not need an external power supply and is actually set up to receive TV signals. (plenty of things hit two out of the three, mind you)
i have a sneaking suspicion that lack of demand might be the big one...
come to think of it, video phones (no, not just mobile phones with cameras in them) seem to fall in a similar slot. the tech's there, it's a nice idea, but almost no one actually seems to want it.
the whole cable tv thing never made much sense to me either, unless it was using some sort of 'pay per view' set up rather than the usual liner channels, really...
well, that's my thoughts on it anyway.
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also telco execs and RIA(wherever)s
and newspaper execs
and...
ok, there's way too many.
oddly, probably not cosmonauts though.
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