Almost all people eligble to vote in Australia vote (it's not a right to vote it's a priviledge and if you're registered to vote there's a fine if you don't and once you're on an electoral roll the only way off is to die). The participation rate is usually >99% of enrolled voters and there may only be a few percent of eligable voters who aren't enrolled to vote).
If doing something like this put up the cost of broadband by 20-30% and it will impact a lot of voters - you don't think that it could potentially cause the government some pause for thought no matter how much lobbying was done?
I forsee a senate review committee in the future of any legislation that attempts to implement deep packet filtering inspecting for copyright infringment and 3 strikes and you're out concept. In a review committee it will be considered and debated for many years.
Even if it did go ahead Telstra isn't playing ball these days and would probably take everyone (including the RIAA and record companies - that's Recording Industry Association of Australia) to court demanding that they pay for it all if they want it. Not because they care about their customers but they would find it hard to charge even more for broadband (although they try) and it would lower broadband participation rates. I'm not even sure Telstra would need a reason these days, they'd sue everyone to hold up legislation simply because they could. It would also probably put quite a few small ISPs out of business.
I have a question about something that I don't understand related to this.
Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim relate that a man came to Ibn Abbas (Allah be well pleased with him and his father) and said, "My livelihood comes solely from my hands, and I make these pictures. Can you give me a legal opinion about them" Ibn Abbas told him, "Come closer,' and the man did. "Closer," he said, and the man did, until he put his hand on the man's head and said: "Shall I tell you what I heard from the Messenger of Allah, Prophet Muhammed (Allah bless him and give him peace) I heard the Messenger of Allah say, "Every maker of pictures will go to the fire, where a being will be set upon him to torment him in hell for each picture he made. So if you must, draw tress and things without animate life in them."
If the prohibition is about depictions of anything living and television is after just a series of still pictures (mostly anyway) why is there not a similar outcry against television in general in the Islamic world? Surely Islamic cameramen realise that they're going to go to hell and that everyone who watches the pictures that they've taken is sending them there (I hope that they get hazard pay for this)?
Are Cameras and Camera phones prohibited as well since taking a picture depicting animate life would guarantee you a spot in a certain place in the afterlife? I would expect if they're not that they come with a warning indicating that taking pictures of animate life will immediately consign you to hell when you die!
I'm no longer concerned about who wins the war since I've got a player for both now (360 and PS3, the later being free with a new TV). Having watched both types of movies however I prefer HD-DVD over Blu-Ray becuase of interactivity and features (the mandatory dual decoders makes interactive picture in picture for some extra feature types much much better than Blu-Ray), I also think it looks better. I also travel occaisonally to the US where I purchase HD-DVD titles because they have no region coding and for Blu-Ray Australia is in a different zone to the US.
With the cheapest Toshiba player with a US$150 price tag and Amazon selling the 360 addon drive for ~US$180 there will be some more life added into this war if the 360 add on drive has to go below US$99 price to make it attactive. You can't justify the price of the addon drive for more than the cost of a standalone player.
Comments here also assume that one or the other format will win over the entire world, it's still possible that one or the other may win in different places leading to two formats in different places. Assuming that does happen for HD-DVD owners (because of no region coding) that means that even if Blu-Ray wins where you are it's still possible to get movies from elsewhere. It's still entirely possible that most consumers will "just say No" and neither format will be viable commercially in the longer term and the world jumps directly to online distribution.
This is not about Sony fans vs Microsoft fans it's about which format offers you more. At this point in time most of the Blu-Ray titles in Australia are mostly back catalog titles (from what I've seen) and the more interesting releases (i.e. new or Sci-Fi and Action/Adventure) are HD-DVD releases (We get the EU/UK releases of movies for HD-DVD but most of them are just silk screened differently and are actually the US versions). That may change over time (and is likely to) but if Toshiba do sell a lot of players that is going to be hard to pass up for the content providers.
Heroes Season 1 on HD-DVD is simply beautiful to watch in Full 1080 HD.
Please let's at least get the history correct. English (Old English) is actually decended from Frisian from about ~1500 years ago. Frisian is a Germanic language but it is not "German". It's had a lot of influences over time since then.
It's also not a bastardised language it's a dynamic language that changes and adapts and incorporates new influences very quickly. Meanings change over time influenced by the needs of the time, did you know "decimate" used to mean "reduce by one tenth"?
The "brits" didn't have that much control over the language, any attempt to control English (except for dictionaries) over any period of time has been a failure (within a range of abject to total).
Music will always be with us. The music industry is not identically equal to the large labels, it will take more than their stupidity to strip music from society.
There are lots of independant sources of music and ways for individual consumers to fund the creation of music on the internet (http://www.sellaband.com/ (more individial and friendly), http://www.slicethepie.com/ (more combative and competition like)) if you believe crowdsourcing is likely to produce music that people will want to hear.
If the big labels die the future is likely to hold (a vastly) greater (and bewildering) choice and less manufactured pop stars to distract everyone (with artists getting a greater cut of whatever the proceeds will be). That choice is actually already here but noone gets to see it because of the noise from the big labels and their marketing machine telling them what they should like.
Offer a solid damn service and let people fight Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, etc over device issues. It's like expecting the gas station attendant to fix your tranny after he tops you off.
I sir am quite frankly shocked that you would take your transvestite (tranny) partner to a gas station attendant to be "fixed". I have no idea what it entails but please other users of the gas station may prefer that whatever it is that you did it at home! I also do not what to know how the gas station attendant "tops" you off. Disgusting!
As the saying goes "What's good for the goose is good for the gander". If the RIAA can press for wide ranging discovery that is intrusive for the defendants, they have to be able to do the same to plantiffs when they're after information that is relevant to their defense.
I would hope that a judge wouldn't accept costs more of than 70c per song since that's about how much they get from iTunes (the cost per download shouldn't include Apples cut of the 99c since of course that's Apples income not the Record Companies). I'd run whatever they come up with past an accountant though given the recording industrys penchant for creative accounting.
I am actually looking for new music but unless it's an artist that I must have (Pete Murray) I will not purchase music from an RIAA assocated label (consider it a moral obligation not to finance an imploding group of companies actively putting themselves out of business).
That leaves me finding a lot of really good independent music.
After a day or two I'm going to go through all of the suggestions and start looking at the sites people have suggested.
Yes, I am actually willing to pay for music. While I'm not interested in most "chart" music there is music out there that I like and I'm prepared to support artists who produce it to allow them to continue to do what they love doing. These are people who have jobs and try to make really good music semi-professionally.
Rewarding them for work well done has a positive effect (even if it's just to make me feel better). But only if I know that they're getting most of the money, not some undeserving middle-man.
It was more tongue in cheek than informative, but perhaps we could have Guiness records for number of comments about ECMA propaganda, ISO standards, and IEEE standards as different categories.
Perhaps someone can submit it to the Guiness World Records folks? There can't have been too many other standards with as many (or more) comments.
It may not end up being a standard, but with a bit of help it can be a really good joke.
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Crikey! Bonza mate - sounds like a fair dinkum idea to me!
Almost all people eligble to vote in Australia vote (it's not a right to vote it's a priviledge and if you're registered to vote there's a fine if you don't and once you're on an electoral roll the only way off is to die). The participation rate is usually >99% of enrolled voters and there may only be a few percent of eligable voters who aren't enrolled to vote).
If doing something like this put up the cost of broadband by 20-30% and it will impact a lot of voters - you don't think that it could potentially cause the government some pause for thought no matter how much lobbying was done?
I forsee a senate review committee in the future of any legislation that attempts to implement deep packet filtering inspecting for copyright infringment and 3 strikes and you're out concept. In a review committee it will be considered and debated for many years.
Even if it did go ahead Telstra isn't playing ball these days and would probably take everyone (including the RIAA and record companies - that's Recording Industry Association of Australia) to court demanding that they pay for it all if they want it. Not because they care about their customers but they would find it hard to charge even more for broadband (although they try) and it would lower broadband participation rates. I'm not even sure Telstra would need a reason these days, they'd sue everyone to hold up legislation simply because they could. It would also probably put quite a few small ISPs out of business.
I believe that's what is called sophistry, I'm pretty sure that if you took a video of a picture of Mohammed you'd still have just as much an outcry.
I have a question about something that I don't understand related to this.
Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim relate that a man came to Ibn Abbas (Allah be well pleased with him and his father) and said, "My livelihood comes solely from my hands, and I make these pictures. Can you give me a legal opinion about them" Ibn Abbas told him, "Come closer,' and the man did. "Closer," he said, and the man did, until he put his hand on the man's head and said: "Shall I tell you what I heard from the Messenger of Allah, Prophet Muhammed (Allah bless him and give him peace) I heard the Messenger of Allah say, "Every maker of pictures will go to the fire, where a being will be set upon him to torment him in hell for each picture he made. So if you must, draw tress and things without animate life in them."If the prohibition is about depictions of anything living and television is after just a series of still pictures (mostly anyway) why is there not a similar outcry against television in general in the Islamic world? Surely Islamic cameramen realise that they're going to go to hell and that everyone who watches the pictures that they've taken is sending them there (I hope that they get hazard pay for this)?
Are Cameras and Camera phones prohibited as well since taking a picture depicting animate life would guarantee you a spot in a certain place in the afterlife? I would expect if they're not that they come with a warning indicating that taking pictures of animate life will immediately consign you to hell when you die!
I'm no longer concerned about who wins the war since I've got a player for both now (360 and PS3, the later being free with a new TV). Having watched both types of movies however I prefer HD-DVD over Blu-Ray becuase of interactivity and features (the mandatory dual decoders makes interactive picture in picture for some extra feature types much much better than Blu-Ray), I also think it looks better. I also travel occaisonally to the US where I purchase HD-DVD titles because they have no region coding and for Blu-Ray Australia is in a different zone to the US.
With the cheapest Toshiba player with a US$150 price tag and Amazon selling the 360 addon drive for ~US$180 there will be some more life added into this war if the 360 add on drive has to go below US$99 price to make it attactive. You can't justify the price of the addon drive for more than the cost of a standalone player.
Comments here also assume that one or the other format will win over the entire world, it's still possible that one or the other may win in different places leading to two formats in different places. Assuming that does happen for HD-DVD owners (because of no region coding) that means that even if Blu-Ray wins where you are it's still possible to get movies from elsewhere. It's still entirely possible that most consumers will "just say No" and neither format will be viable commercially in the longer term and the world jumps directly to online distribution.
This is not about Sony fans vs Microsoft fans it's about which format offers you more. At this point in time most of the Blu-Ray titles in Australia are mostly back catalog titles (from what I've seen) and the more interesting releases (i.e. new or Sci-Fi and Action/Adventure) are HD-DVD releases (We get the EU/UK releases of movies for HD-DVD but most of them are just silk screened differently and are actually the US versions). That may change over time (and is likely to) but if Toshiba do sell a lot of players that is going to be hard to pass up for the content providers.
Heroes Season 1 on HD-DVD is simply beautiful to watch in Full 1080 HD.
Meh (LOL)
See http://www.amiestreet.com/ for mp3 version of NIN songs for sale legally, max price 98c lots of songs less than 98c at the moment.
Please let's at least get the history correct. English (Old English) is actually decended from Frisian from about ~1500 years ago. Frisian is a Germanic language but it is not "German". It's had a lot of influences over time since then.
It's also not a bastardised language it's a dynamic language that changes and adapts and incorporates new influences very quickly. Meanings change over time influenced by the needs of the time, did you know "decimate" used to mean "reduce by one tenth"?
The "brits" didn't have that much control over the language, any attempt to control English (except for dictionaries) over any period of time has been a failure (within a range of abject to total).
Noone controls English, English controls you.
Music will always be with us. The music industry is not identically equal to the large labels, it will take more than their stupidity to strip music from society.
There are lots of independant sources of music and ways for individual consumers to fund the creation of music on the internet (http://www.sellaband.com/ (more individial and friendly), http://www.slicethepie.com/ (more combative and competition like)) if you believe crowdsourcing is likely to produce music that people will want to hear.
If the big labels die the future is likely to hold (a vastly) greater (and bewildering) choice and less manufactured pop stars to distract everyone (with artists getting a greater cut of whatever the proceeds will be). That choice is actually already here but noone gets to see it because of the noise from the big labels and their marketing machine telling them what they should like.
I sir am quite frankly shocked that you would take your transvestite (tranny) partner to a gas station attendant to be "fixed". I have no idea what it entails but please other users of the gas station may prefer that whatever it is that you did it at home! I also do not what to know how the gas station attendant "tops" you off. Disgusting!
Yours an indignant Burgundysizzle
Errm, you're not from around here are you?
This story was submitted by a lawyer (the almighty Ray Beckermann) who has been involved in this stuff for quite a while now.
As the saying goes "What's good for the goose is good for the gander". If the RIAA can press for wide ranging discovery that is intrusive for the defendants, they have to be able to do the same to plantiffs when they're after information that is relevant to their defense.
I would hope that a judge wouldn't accept costs more of than 70c per song since that's about how much they get from iTunes (the cost per download shouldn't include Apples cut of the 99c since of course that's Apples income not the Record Companies). I'd run whatever they come up with past an accountant though given the recording industrys penchant for creative accounting.
I am actually looking for new music but unless it's an artist that I must have (Pete Murray) I will not purchase music from an RIAA assocated label (consider it a moral obligation not to finance an imploding group of companies actively putting themselves out of business).
That leaves me finding a lot of really good independent music.
After a day or two I'm going to go through all of the suggestions and start looking at the sites people have suggested.
Yes, I am actually willing to pay for music. While I'm not interested in most "chart" music there is music out there that I like and I'm prepared to support artists who produce it to allow them to continue to do what they love doing. These are people who have jobs and try to make really good music semi-professionally. Rewarding them for work well done has a positive effect (even if it's just to make me feel better). But only if I know that they're getting most of the money, not some undeserving middle-man.
It was more tongue in cheek than informative, but perhaps we could have Guiness records for number of comments about ECMA propaganda, ISO standards, and IEEE standards as different categories.
Perhaps someone can submit it to the Guiness World Records folks? There can't have been too many other standards with as many (or more) comments. It may not end up being a standard, but with a bit of help it can be a really good joke.