Pete returns home from work, "hey, I worked 12 hours today," he says, "if I keep going at that rate, I should be able to pay off my student debt in 4 years time. Then I should be able to start paying down the mortgage on this place. What did you do today, Pierre?"
Pierre looks up from the excellent dinner that he's been enjoying for the past 2 hours. "That's great, Pete. How's the love life?"
"Great as usual, Pierre. You know that girl that you said wasn't interested in me? Well, to show her what a great guy I am, I parked my Porsche in her front drive and blew the horn solidly for an hour, and in the end, she let me come in for dinner."
"Really?"
"Yeah, she cooked a great meal. Strangely, she insisted on cooking it herself but didn't eat any. Still, that just shows what a swell guy she thinks I am."
"Err..."
"Not had time to see her since though. (Been laid up with the runs.)"
Given that Air Crapanada regularly cancel east coast flights if there's the merest hint of a thunderstorm that might leave their crews / planes stranded somewhere that would be expensive to keep them for the night, it doesn't surprise me that they don't spend money on a decent back up strategy.
In fact, at the rate that they were (are?) losing money, having their operations shut down temporarily probably saved them a fortune. Sadly it looks like they have not been allowed to go bankrupt.
If one assumes that the aim of legislation like this is not just to create a technocratic totalitarian state, and that it has some value to investigating authorities, then there are limits that should be put on it.
For example, time-limited disclosure. If the FBI think that I'm channeling funds to a terrorist organisation and want to get hold of my paypal records to check on that then fair enough. And if they don't want me to know that they've tried to do it, then fair enough too. Until they establish that I'm not a terrorist. At which point, I want to know what's been happening. So have time-limited secrecy. By default, any use of these powers could be disclosed 3 months (say) after it occurred, unless the investigators have appealled to a higher authority to keep it secret.
Frivolous abuse of power is then discouraged (because every investigation that fails to find anything interesting is published) and systematic abuse of power is at least partly discouraged (because if you want to cover up what's happening, you're going to have to get a judge to agree to it after 3 months).
Are these the same UK creatives that gave the UK 1 channel of television for like 30 years?
Well, the UK had independent channels in the 1950s and a second ad-free channel in 1964.
So no (and creatives tend not to be the ones deciding national television policy).
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The article seems to talk about unused ads. However, I bet that there'd be companies that would be prepared to see an ad that actually aired reused overseas.
A nice side effect of this would be that north americans might actually get to see some witty adverts if they had UK creatives working on them.
Cris Collinsworth "would really like a portable DVD-type device that also had TiVo attached to it". That doesn't sound too hard. Get a laptop (with a TV out). Put something like Freevo on it. Err, that's it.
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Pete returns home from work, "hey, I worked 12 hours today," he says, "if I keep going at that rate, I should be able to pay off my student debt in 4 years time. Then I should be able to start paying down the mortgage on this place. What did you do today, Pierre?"
Pierre looks up from the excellent dinner that he's been enjoying for the past 2 hours. "That's great, Pete. How's the love life?"
"Great as usual, Pierre. You know that girl that you said wasn't interested in me? Well, to show her what a great guy I am, I parked my Porsche in her front drive and blew the horn solidly for an hour, and in the end, she let me come in for dinner."
"Really?"
"Yeah, she cooked a great meal. Strangely, she insisted on cooking it herself but didn't eat any. Still, that just shows what a swell guy she thinks I am."
"Err..."
"Not had time to see her since though. (Been laid up with the runs.)"
"I see. Hence the backed up toilet?"
"Err, yeah, sorry about that. "
In fact, at the rate that they were (are?) losing money, having their operations shut down temporarily probably saved them a fortune. Sadly it looks like they have not been allowed to go bankrupt.
For example, time-limited disclosure. If the FBI think that I'm channeling funds to a terrorist organisation and want to get hold of my paypal records to check on that then fair enough. And if they don't want me to know that they've tried to do it, then fair enough too. Until they establish that I'm not a terrorist. At which point, I want to know what's been happening. So have time-limited secrecy. By default, any use of these powers could be disclosed 3 months (say) after it occurred, unless the investigators have appealled to a higher authority to keep it secret.
Frivolous abuse of power is then discouraged (because every investigation that fails to find anything interesting is published) and systematic abuse of power is at least partly discouraged (because if you want to cover up what's happening, you're going to have to get a judge to agree to it after 3 months).
Are these the same UK creatives that gave the UK 1 channel of television for like 30 years?
Well, the UK had independent channels in the 1950s and a second ad-free channel in 1964.
So no (and creatives tend not to be the ones deciding national television policy).
The article seems to talk about unused ads. However, I bet that there'd be companies that would be prepared to see an ad that actually aired reused overseas. A nice side effect of this would be that north americans might actually get to see some witty adverts if they had UK creatives working on them.
Cris Collinsworth "would really like a portable DVD-type device that also had TiVo attached to it". That doesn't sound too hard. Get a laptop (with a TV out). Put something like Freevo on it. Err, that's it.