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The powers-that-be in the USA who are trying to pass various incumbency protection measures, have uncharacteristically decided that it is unwise for the Federal Election Commission to try and regulate private political speech on the internet. Is this because they are good guys after all? Of course not, it is because they know it is completely unenforceable. March 23rd, 2006 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
 “The role of government is to provide good health care for our seniors. We made that commitment, interestingly enough, when Lyndon Baines Johnson was the President.” March 17th, 2006 | 38 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Government provision in water has overseen millions of deaths through lack of sanitation and unsafe water. Bringing in private sector expertise and investment is needed, both to meet the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, but to actively contribute towards social justice the world over. In the vast majority of cases, where the private sector has been called upon, it has delivered the goods – even in cases decried by critics as ‘failures’.” March 5th, 2006 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
Whoever said “there is no such thing as bad publicity” obviously never had their career “Dan Rather’ed” into tiny pieces by the twenty thousand bloggers. February 24th, 2006 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
We have a free press and this freedom of expression is a vital and indispensable part of our democracy and this is the reason why I cannot control what is published in the media February 3rd, 2006 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
February 1st, 2006 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Understanding politicians and what they are likely to do is much easier once you realise that almost everyone in politics (even the ‘nice guys’ who wear sensible cardigans and remind you of Wallace and Gromit) have more in common psychologically and morally with your typical member of a street gang than with most of the people who actually vote for them [by request] January 25th, 2006 | 46 comments - (Comments are closed)
Fire up Google and type in “chav stakhanovites“… and you get us! January 24th, 2006 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
We all knew Galloway was a wanker before now anyway but by going onto Big Brother all he’s managed to do is simply broadcast this to a public who previously didn’t know who he was or thought he was that guy who told the American Senate a thing or two. The funniest thing has been the hard left loonies (and others) who applauded his cock sucking antics with Saddam, Assad, Hamas and the Al Aqsa Bastards Brigade but then decided that robotic manouvers in a leotard were beyond the pale. January 24th, 2006 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong January 20th, 2006 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
Copy protection is guaranteed to fail because it’s a house of cards. No matter how sophisticated the software, it takes only one person to break it, once, and the music is free to roam and multiply on the peer-to-peer file-trading networks. – Damian Kulash, lead singer of OK Go January 12th, 2006 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
I have been poking around AllofMP3.com, a Russian music site with a huge catalogue and an excellent interface and even better prices (a typical track can be downloaded typically for around 12¢). The way the system works is you pay ‘by weight’ of the music file: the tracks are coded-to-order to your exact specifications via a vast CD jukebox, thus if you download an mp3 file with a bit rate of 192 (excellent sound quality), you will pay more than if you download the same file in smaller size at a bit rate of 64 (fairly crappy sound quality). The system can be accessed either via a web front-end or an excellent browser application. It occurred to me that I more or less stopped buying music CD’s about eight years ago and went from someone who maybe once dropped $2000 per year on music to someone who spent pretty much nothing. Yet in the last month, I have spent $70 at AllofMP3.com because the service is good (and secure: they use Chronopay who are totally above board), the interface is intuitive and the price per download makes hunting around fly-by-night peer to peer networks simply not worth the hassle. I have no pecuniary interest in this operation (sadly) but I cannot recommend them highly enough. This is the future of the music business and it does not matter a damn whether or not Sony or BMG like it. It is here and it works really well. Music business: adapt or die… music buyers: enjoy like never before! January 5th, 2006 | 38 comments - (Comments are closed)
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