the balance of power is held by the fashionably left-leaning Democrats
I thought that Meg Lees now holds the balance of power, if the Democrats vote with Labour and the independents vote with the Libs. (It's all a bit hard to work out at the moment, before the current state of affairs has been tested on the floor of the Senate.)
And given that Natasha Stott-Despoja prefers to be fashionably anti-corporate, Meg would vote for pro-corporate laws just to spite her.
OK, rephrase that as "part-privatised telecommunications monopoly", with both major parties wanting to sell the rest, and wanting to sell it as a monopoly instead of enforcing some sort of structural separation (services division & technical division, for example).
They were bastards when they were a "government-owned corporation", and they're still bastards now. Grrrrr. The least they could do, given their dominant position and the inability of the Government to enforce any regulations on them, is use their market power to give us better access and themselves more money -- but no, they'd prefer not to invest any money at all on improving their networks, they're spending it all on Asian telecoms and sports stadiums (A$100m for the naming rights to the "Telstra Dome" -- this when they have some 85% of the market.)
Oh, I own a 56.6 modem, it's just that the line quality here is crappy enough that it always drops out after 10 minutes. So I have to use an older one (actually it's 33.6, not 28.8 -- fat lot of difference that makes).
That's what a telecommunications monopoly will do for you (Telstra, in Australia) -- as does their anticompetitve restriction of local loop access and bandwidth pricing. I live in a city of over a million people, but apparently it would cost them too much to provide decent services...
Sorry about the delayed reply -- I keep getting "You can't post to this page." errors.
Anyway, as I was going to say yesterday...
One of my history classes was covered entirly from the perspective of Monty Python Sketchs.
Sounds good:) One film where I found education in the subject matter useful was Shakespeare in Love -- Tom Stoppard's script was full of in-jokes to people who'd read a fair bit of the Bard.:)
We also watched Rocky Horror Picture Show in health class, w00t.
Hopefully from the perspective of what *not* to do...?
Tom Baker -- a good Doctor, but the series did go through some odd times with production etc. Getting back on topic, in one season, Douglas Adams was script editor, and (re)wrote quite a chunk of that season's scripts.:)
It was Hot Shots! 2, I think, where Charlie Sheen, going upriver in a gunboat, sees Martin Sheen coming from the opposite direction in the Apocalypse Now boat... they both do some weird finger-pointing thing and simultaneously say "Loved you in Wall Street".
Also had the Kill-O-Meter -- more violent gun deaths than any film to date!
Speaking as a web developer here -- it usually means that they've special-cased their code for IE and NS4 and the scripts they've written break on any browser which doesn't identify itself as one of those (especially as the netscape 4 test involves something to do with layers). Decent web developers write to the spec, and then and only then put in fixes for broken browsers that they know of.
Mozilla doesn't support a few DOM access methods that IE does, because they're not in the W3 specs... they use alternative methods that IE also supports, but this leads some people to say that Mozilla's scripting support is 'broken'.
(Tangentially, I was reading on Bugzilla about some performance problems with Mozilla's JavaScript & DHTML, but that was more speed-related than functionality-related, I think.)
A choice bit of rhetoric from the instructions: A leaky craft full of filthy boat people. Must be stopped at all costs, for the good of the nation. Say it with me: We don't want people like this in our country!
Wow, here in the US, we had people who might say such things -- they were call the Ku Klux Klan!
Unfortunately, here in Australia we have to call those people "the Prime Minister" and "the Minister for Immigration and Aboriginal Affairs". And the general public has voted for them *three bloody times* in succession.
I'm waiting for the entire idea of mobile services to mature before I buy in. For me, the service provided isn't worth the cost -- but if I could do many more things while on the go then it might be.
The cowboy nature of the industry, complete with dodgy pricing schemes, hasn't made me feel like taking up something I don't really feel a need for yet anyway:)
Figure out what people would have said about... cell phones thirty years ago had someone suggested they would exist. "Thats ridiculous..why would anyone EVER want that? I have my phone in the house... Why carry around something that needs batteries?"
I said that when mobile phones first came out, and I still say that now, and I've never owned one. I seem to be becoming more and more isolated on that count, though...
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I watch 2 hours of 60minutes a week.
:)
How does that work? Do they repeat it, or do they need to rename it 120 Minutes?
(I'm not from the USA, in case you're wondering.
the balance of power is held by the fashionably left-leaning Democrats
I thought that Meg Lees now holds the balance of power, if the Democrats vote with Labour and the independents vote with the Libs. (It's all a bit hard to work out at the moment, before the current state of affairs has been tested on the floor of the Senate.)
And given that Natasha Stott-Despoja prefers to be fashionably anti-corporate, Meg would vote for pro-corporate laws just to spite her.
Those who can, do.
:)
Those who can't, teach.
And those who can't even do *that* become critics.
Too lazy to look it up, but it wouldn't surprise me if an author was the source of that comment.
OK, rephrase that as "part-privatised telecommunications monopoly", with both major parties wanting to sell the rest, and wanting to sell it as a monopoly instead of enforcing some sort of structural separation (services division & technical division, for example).
:)
They were bastards when they were a "government-owned corporation", and they're still bastards now. Grrrrr. The least they could do, given their dominant position and the inability of the Government to enforce any regulations on them, is use their market power to give us better access and themselves more money -- but no, they'd prefer not to invest any money at all on improving their networks, they're spending it all on Asian telecoms and sports stadiums (A$100m for the naming rights to the "Telstra Dome" -- this when they have some 85% of the market.)
I'll stop ranting now...
Oh, I own a 56.6 modem, it's just that the line quality here is crappy enough that it always drops out after 10 minutes. So I have to use an older one (actually it's 33.6, not 28.8 -- fat lot of difference that makes).
That's what a telecommunications monopoly will do for you (Telstra, in Australia) -- as does their anticompetitve restriction of local loop access and bandwidth pricing. I live in a city of over a million people, but apparently it would cost them too much to provide decent services...
Out here in the real world, some of us are stuck using 28.8K modems.
Hmmmph.
Sorry about the delayed reply -- I keep getting "You can't post to this page." errors.
:) One film where I found education in the subject matter useful was Shakespeare in Love -- Tom Stoppard's script was full of in-jokes to people who'd read a fair bit of the Bard. :)
Anyway, as I was going to say yesterday...
One of my history classes was covered entirly from the perspective of Monty Python Sketchs.
Sounds good
We also watched Rocky Horror Picture Show in health class, w00t.
Hopefully from the perspective of what *not* to do...?
Tom Baker -- a good Doctor, but the series did go through some odd times with production etc. Getting back on topic, in one season, Douglas Adams was script editor, and (re)wrote quite a chunk of that season's scripts. :)
the Spanish Inquisition ... was covered
I didn't expect that!
isn't "The Waste Land" pre-conversion, though? "Four Quartets" is more explicitly religious, while TWL is more like spirituality in search of a home.
The feature the best Doctor from the Doctor Who series
Which one is that? I'm rather partial to Patrick Troughton, myself.
It was Hot Shots! 2, I think, where Charlie Sheen, going upriver in a gunboat, sees Martin Sheen coming from the opposite direction in the Apocalypse Now boat... they both do some weird finger-pointing thing and simultaneously say "Loved you in Wall Street".
:)
Also had the Kill-O-Meter -- more violent gun deaths than any film to date!
A quality bad film, that one.
Would countries go to war over a breach of the Berne convention?
Hell yeah -- their owners would force them to.
but no one in this country will go hungry
I'd be out there donating to homeless people if you want to make this prediction true.
Does that second step have something to do with underpants? :)
I'm a Mac user, I have expensive tastes... ;-) ... and you're used to paying for them.
:)
I'm a Linux user -- I'll be expecting Free Beer until I fall over.
... but given the prices Mac users have been paying for years, they'll be used to taking a hit in the hip pocket :)
[Seriously, I'd love to get a recent iBook running Mac OS X... all I need now is the money to pay for it.]
Speaking as a web developer here -- it usually means that they've special-cased their code for IE and NS4 and the scripts they've written break on any browser which doesn't identify itself as one of those (especially as the netscape 4 test involves something to do with layers). Decent web developers write to the spec, and then and only then put in fixes for broken browsers that they know of.
Mozilla doesn't support a few DOM access methods that IE does, because they're not in the W3 specs... they use alternative methods that IE also supports, but this leads some people to say that Mozilla's scripting support is 'broken'.
(Tangentially, I was reading on Bugzilla about some performance problems with Mozilla's JavaScript & DHTML, but that was more speed-related than functionality-related, I think.)
A choice bit of rhetoric from the instructions:
A leaky craft full of filthy boat people. Must be stopped at all costs, for the good of the nation. Say it with me: We don't want people like this in our country!
Wow, here in the US, we had people who might say such things -- they were call the Ku Klux Klan!
Unfortunately, here in Australia we have to call those people "the Prime Minister" and "the Minister for Immigration and Aboriginal Affairs". And the general public has voted for them *three bloody times* in succession.
This country is seriously fucked.
Probably apocryphal, and rather offtopic, but...
Innocent Young Lady: "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!"
Mae West: "Goodness had nothing to do with it, sweetie."
It's good to figure out the delivery constraints before starting to code...!
:/
Tell that to my clients.
Macromedia keep their source releases and SWF spec releases one version behind the current one, and even then the license terms are very restrictive.
I'm waiting for the entire idea of mobile services to mature before I buy in. For me, the service provided isn't worth the cost -- but if I could do many more things while on the go then it might be.
:)
The cowboy nature of the industry, complete with dodgy pricing schemes, hasn't made me feel like taking up something I don't really feel a need for yet anyway
Three words: Y2K.
:)
I really don't see how learning COBOL in an attempt to cash in on the cluelessness of PHBs will benefit us here.
Figure out what people would have said about ... cell phones thirty years ago had someone suggested they would exist. "Thats ridiculous..why would anyone EVER want that? I have my phone in the house... Why carry around something that needs batteries?"
I said that when mobile phones first came out, and I still say that now, and I've never owned one. I seem to be becoming more and more isolated on that count, though...