Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 23 Oct 2012 @ 3:06pm
Re: They'd jail Churchill under this law.
Oh you don't need to go nearly as far back as Churchill...
"Like being savaged by a dead sheep." - Denis Healy ,Chancellor in the late 70's, describing an attack by Geoffrey Howe of the shadow cabinet.
"A semi-trained polecat." - Michael Foot on Norman Tebbit in the 80's
"The honourable member for two tube stations." - Nicholas Fairbairn on Frank Dobson, MP for Holborn and St Pancras
"Atilla the Hen." Clement Freud on Margaret Thatcher
"The Self-appointed king of the gutter" - Michael Heseltine on Neil Kinnock after an attack on Margaret Thatcher
"If I was in the gutter, and i ain't, he'd still be looking up at me from the sewer." - Kinnock on Heseltine
Rowan Atkinson is right... it would be a little hyperbolic to suggest that the erosion of free speech by nannying, dare-not-offend-anybody political correctness is destroying the UK "democracy", but I'd say it could have a good shot at making the top 20 list.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 22 Oct 2012 @ 1:00pm
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then blame piracy for low sales rather than we made them wait 6 months longer than everyone else and still wanted to charge a premium price.
Surely Sir you lie! They are the very paragons of timeliness and coherent release schedules!
For example, I'm sure the fact that Hoodwinked Too hasn't had a UK release date hasn't encouraged "piracy" of it at all. And I'm sure that if they do release it the fact that most of the target audience will have forgotten that the first one was fantastic won't affect sales of what I've heard is a rather more mediocre 2nd effort either.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 22 Oct 2012 @ 12:20pm
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So what's the real, popular UK opinion on libel tourism?
I can't speak for the whole population, but for myself and most people I know the opinion is along the lines of "Oh for f*ck's sake!". IANAL so I don't follow case law but it looks like a stupid law with a ludicrously broad definition of libellous and still worse for allowing the kind of libel tourism we see now often on the most tenuous of grounds.
Frankly since the US corporate government seems determined to stick it's nose in to other countries' laws so much it'd be nice if, instead of bullying countries to prop up their own industies, they used some of that muscle to broker an international agreement on rules to fairly determine the jurisdiction of the many aspects of modern life that cross international boundaries, especially virtually.
Oh, and
In 2010, the U.S. had to pass the SPEECH Act to protect Americans
Really? Good for you. God I wish the UK governemnt would pass some laws to curb the massive overreach from the US, or at least stop importing the worst aspects of US law on top of somethign already pretty broken.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 22 Oct 2012 @ 8:17am
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You may believe, sir, that I am prejudiced against the English position on free speech.
And you think that a 200 year-old citation accurately reflects the opinions of the current UK polulation on free speech? Or that current UK law does? After all, look how much the US interpretation of that 200 year-old document has changed in the last couple of decades alone including free speech.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 20 Oct 2012 @ 4:14am
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That '10 seconds' requires data to be transmitting.
Again IIRC (and I'll admit I'm shakier on this one), not so much. In WEP authentication the initial handshake is done in clear so I think you can make a connection attempt yourself and decrypt the key out of the challenge response.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 19 Oct 2012 @ 6:17am
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The impression I get is that freedom's the last thing he wants, preferring to be so tightly girded by law that breathing requires special permission. Or perhaps that's only supposed to apply to "everyone else".
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 18 Oct 2012 @ 3:24pm
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Just for the change of pace you could forgoe the usual pedantic legalese nuances and realise that everyone on the planet who isn't a lawyer would say a "nutella milkshake" is "a milkshake that is made with nutella as opposed to another brand of chocolate nut spread" and that the afor-mentioned non-lawyers are all going to:
a/ Not think nutella themselves made it
b/ not care whether nutella themselves made it
c/ be informed correctly as to the purchasing decision they may be about to make because that's how real language works
and
d/ think nutella are a bunch of morons if they happen to hear about this case whether nutella happen to be "legally correct" or not.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 18 Oct 2012 @ 1:44pm
Competition
All-in-all, the Dutch proposal has to be one of the most foolish ever presented by a government in this area
Oh, I dunno... I rather liked the time the US government wanted to put a big backdoor in all networking equipment to allow the government to "check security"...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 18 Oct 2012 @ 3:20am
Re: PWYW gone wrong
On average, people paid more for the digital version than for CD and Vinyl!
You mean maybe a digital format is what people actually want and they're willing to pay more for it when they don't have to? Nah! That can't be right... they're all a bunch of freeloading pirates and should all be grateful to be allowed to pay whatever you thought it's worth for whatever format you thought was best.. surely?*
/sarcasm
* Disclaimer: this is not a pop at you Andy, just at the usual arguments that get trolled round here.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 13 Oct 2012 @ 2:07am
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Many of us don't consider the record labels "our best sources of music".
...and those that do probably haven't bothered to look anywhere else for music and just take what's put in front of their nose.
What the people generally crave, what they generally seek isn't the unknown, but the known.
Again, [citation needed].
Hey give a guy a break - that's as close to correct as he's likely to get... that's why marketing works. Nothing whatsoever to do with "good music", people just "want" what people are told is good day in day out in every media they come into contact with. The fact that the experience continually dissapoints rarely prevents people from buying the next lie (um.. I meant marketing campaign). This is especially true when for many people, music is a background to whatever else they are doing so they don't care enough to seek out other sources if they can get it without effort.
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Re: They'd jail Churchill under this law.
"Like being savaged by a dead sheep." - Denis Healy ,Chancellor in the late 70's, describing an attack by Geoffrey Howe of the shadow cabinet.
"A semi-trained polecat." - Michael Foot on Norman Tebbit in the 80's
"The honourable member for two tube stations." - Nicholas Fairbairn on Frank Dobson, MP for Holborn and St Pancras
"Atilla the Hen." Clement Freud on Margaret Thatcher
"The Self-appointed king of the gutter" - Michael Heseltine on Neil Kinnock after an attack on Margaret Thatcher
"If I was in the gutter, and i ain't, he'd still be looking up at me from the sewer." - Kinnock on Heseltine
Rowan Atkinson is right... it would be a little hyperbolic to suggest that the erosion of free speech by nannying, dare-not-offend-anybody political correctness is destroying the UK "democracy", but I'd say it could have a good shot at making the top 20 list.
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For example, I'm sure the fact that Hoodwinked Too hasn't had a UK release date hasn't encouraged "piracy" of it at all. And I'm sure that if they do release it the fact that most of the target audience will have forgotten that the first one was fantastic won't affect sales of what I've heard is a rather more mediocre 2nd effort either.
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Frankly since the US corporate government seems determined to stick it's nose in to other countries' laws so much it'd be nice if, instead of bullying countries to prop up their own industies, they used some of that muscle to broker an international agreement on rules to fairly determine the jurisdiction of the many aspects of modern life that cross international boundaries, especially virtually.
Oh, andReally? Good for you. God I wish the UK governemnt would pass some laws to curb the massive overreach from the US, or at least stop importing the worst aspects of US law on top of somethign already pretty broken.
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a/ Not think nutella themselves made it
b/ not care whether nutella themselves made it
c/ be informed correctly as to the purchasing decision they may be about to make because that's how real language works
and
d/ think nutella are a bunch of morons if they happen to hear about this case whether nutella happen to be "legally correct" or not.
just sayin'
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/sarcasm
* Disclaimer: this is not a pop at you Andy, just at the usual arguments that get trolled round here.
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Hey give a guy a break - that's as close to correct as he's likely to get... that's why marketing works. Nothing whatsoever to do with "good music", people just "want" what people are told is good day in day out in every media they come into contact with. The fact that the experience continually dissapoints rarely prevents people from buying the next lie (um.. I meant marketing campaign). This is especially true when for many people, music is a background to whatever else they are doing so they don't care enough to seek out other sources if they can get it without effort.
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