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ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned on Friday against legalising drugs, calling addiction an "evil" which he said had to be resisted without compromise.
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Setting himself against the trend in several western countries to allow the use of so-called soft drugs like marijuana, Francis said narcotics were putting more and more young people in danger.
"Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise, he said in remarks to a drug enforcement conference in Rome carried on the website of Vatican Radio.
The remarks came a day before the pontiff is due to visit Italy's Calabria, home of the powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia, which controls a significant share of the global trade in illegal narcotics.
"Here I would reaffirm what I have stated on another occasion: No to every type of drug use. It is as simple as that," he said.
Francis, who has spoken out against drug use several times, said that to ensure young people did not fall prey to drugs, society had to say "'yes' to life, 'yes' to love, 'yes' to others, 'yes' to education, 'yes' to greater job opportunities".
"If we say 'yes' to all these things, there will be no room for illicit drugs, for alcohol abuse, for other forms of addiction," he said in remarks to a drug enforcement conference in Rome carried on the website of Vatican radio.
"The scourge of drug use continues to spread inexorably, fed by a deplorable commerce which transcends national and continental borders," he said.
The comments came as the state of New York prepared on Friday to pass measures that should lead to its becoming the 23rd U.S. state to allow medical use of marijuana.
Uruguay, which has already legalised the production and sale of cannabis, also said it would also allow doctors to prescribe the drug to treat certain conditions.
"Attempts, however limited, to legalise so-called 'recreational drugs', are not only highly questionable from a legislative standpoint, but they fail to produce the desired effects," the pope said.
(Reporting by James Mackenzie; Editing by Larry King)
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Holiday Pops: Songs of the Season
December 13, 2013 at 8:00 pm at the Hylton Center
Capture the sheer joy of the Christmas season when this talented pops orchestra comes home for the holidays with a jubilant concert of cherished Christmas carols, holiday tunes, guest soloists, and the traditional sing-along. This jubilant concert features a spectacular program that includes the American Festival Pops performing favorites "Christmas Festival" by Leroy Anderson, "Carol of the Bells, "Blue Christmas" and an entertaining twist on the holiday classic, "The Nutcracker Suite," with selections performed in both traditional (Tchaikovsky) and jazz stylings (Duke Ellington). AFPO is also pleased to present Hylton Center's Executive Director Rick Davis performing a narration of "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Don't miss these festive and sentimental favorites and more. Under the baton and leadership of founder and artistic director Anthony Maiello, these gifted musicians from the greater D.C. area bring an evening that is sure to fill everyone with Christmas cheer.
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Holiday Pops: Songs of the Season
December 14, 2013 at 8:00 pm at the Center for the Arts
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October 13, 2012 at 8:00 pm at the Hylton Center
Enjoy favorites from the Beatles to Charlie Daniels, and Duke Ellington to Elvis Presley! Featuring guest artists Chris Vadala, saxophone; Darden Purcell, jazz vocals, and AFPO's own Concertmaster, Peter Wilson, violin, the American Festival Pops Orchestra presents an entertaining program including "Devil Went Down to Georgia," "Yankee Doodle," "Take the A Train," "In a Sentimental Mood..." and more. Founder and Artistic Director Anthony Maiello has gathered 60 of the finest musicians in the D.C. area to create this extraordinary orchestra, which has delighted audiences at the Hylton Center with its interpretations of classic pops music. "Classic, upbeat, popular Americana performed with professionalism, affection, and more than a bit of pizzazz." (Washington Times) There's something for everyone in this celebration of pop, rock, country, and jazz!
Holiday Pops: Songs of the Season
December 21, 2012 at 8:00 pm at the Hylton Center
Anthony Maiello, conductor
The American Festival Pops Orchestra comes home for the holidays with a joyful performance of beloved Christmas carols, holiday tunes, and seasonal melodies that will warm the hearts and lift the spirits of young and old alike! This festive concert features the AFPO Holiday Brass Quintet, a special guest narration of "Twas the Night Before Christmas," and festive favorites including "The Holly and the Ivy," Jingle Bell Rock," and Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride." Under the baton and leadership of Anthony Maiello, this orchestra features the finest musicians in the greater D.C. area in an this evening of traditional holiday music complete with an audience sing-along!
Holiday Pops: Songs of the Season
December 22, 2012 at 8:00 pm at the Center for the Arts
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The Gospel Truth
March 30, 2013 at 8:00 pm at the Hylton Center
Northern Virginia's very own jazz orchestra presents an evening of down-home sophistication in The Gospel Truth, an evening of blues-drenched hand-clapping American music with a gospel twist. Bobby Floyd, an accomplished jazz pianist and organist whose natural ability was first discovered at the age of two, has shared the stage with legends such as Dionne Warwick, Doc Severinson, and Arturo Sandoval and now he joins this ensemble of gifted musicians from the D.C. area. Artistic director and alto sax virtuoso Jim Carroll's long and illustrious career has included performances with the likes of Michael Jackson, Nancy Wilson, Maynard Ferguson, Billy Taylor, Woody Herman and His Thundering Herd, and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Most recently, he led the Mason Jazz Ensemble on a whirlwind tour of China, where they played to sold-out houses. Join us for what is fast becoming a Hylton Center favorite!
Cinema Magic
April 13, 2013 at 8:00 pm at the Center for the Arts
Join this spirited ensemble for a journey through the world of film in a delightful program that includes some of the best music of the silver screen, including favorites from film giants John Williams, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, and Danny Elfman. The music also includes "Gabriel's Oboe" (the theme from The Mission) played by former New York Philharmonic Orchestra Prinicipal Oboist, Joe Robinson. Then, get an inside look into the film industry when motion picture and television composer, Vincent Oppido, leads a live film score recording. "Professionalism, affection, and more than a bit of pizzazz," raves the Washington Times about this Northern Virginia pops orchestra sensation.
An Evening of Classics
October 5, 2013 at 8:00 pm at the Center for the Arts
Enjoy a splendid evening listening to your favorite music presented by Northern Virginia's very own pops orchestra. For this special concert, American Festival Pops Orchestra performs hits from Broadway and Hollywood, light classics, and rousing anthems of the Armed Forces. Conductor and Artistic Director Anthony Maiello leads this accomplished ensemble, composed of 60 of the most talented musicians from the greater D.C. area. A longstanding favorite at the Center for the Arts, the orchestra has a large following of devoted fans who find their performances of treasured pops music thoroughly delightful. "[American Festival Pops Orchestra] performed crisply and with great enthusiasm under the baton of Maestro Maiello." (Washington Times)
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Prior to the French Revolution, women had few or no true economic or civil rights. They were commodities, chattel to be passed from father to husband. Women were beholden to church law, expected to obey whichever male possessed them. Marriage contracts, inheritance laws, tax and property laws, and child custody were always in favor of the husband. A Frenchwoman could not sell property, make contracts, or "bring court action" over any said property, unless it was exclusively hers, and such a situation was exceedingly rare. A woman could not control her own assets, as they were automatically combined with her husband's upon marriage, and he held sole control over them without exception.
There was no such thing as divorce unless physical abuse or "defamation" could be proven. A man's adultery was not grounds for divorce, while a woman's almost certainly would be. She could then be confined to a convent permanently, and any estate given to her children.
When revolutionary arguments for the equality of all citizens began to increase, many insisted that women had to be included in the "all". Women's groups and the first "feminists" became deeply involved in the evolution of the new France. After the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was adopted in August of 1789, Olympe de Gouges, of the Cercle Social (a front for the women's political group Society of the Friends of Truth), wrote Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in response to the National Assembly's failure to address women's rights. She also wrote a feminist rejoinder to the famous Social Contract of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in which she demanded equality in marriage - another "women's" issue blatantly ignored by the revolutionary front. During those turbulent times, she was very active, publishing endless missives in support of the spirit of the changes taking place in her country, but was vehemently against the reign of terror and the streams of executions taking place, including that of the royal family. Besides being an ardent feminist, she was also an outspoken abolitionist.
The Revolutionary Constitution of 1791 specifically denied citizenship to women, and all women's clubs and gatherings were declared illegal in 1793. Olympe de Gouges was declared an enemy of the revolution because of her criticism of its leader, Maximilien Robespierre, and his bloodthirsty methods, her defense of King Louis XVI and his family, and was labeled a reactionary for constantly demanding equal rights for women. The National Convention unquestionably made their feelings about those matters clear when they guillotined Olympe de Gouges in November 1793.
The Terror of which Olympe de Gouges was so critical did come to an end in 1794 with the execution of Robespierre, but France was still not a land unified in peace and equality as the revolutionaries dreamed. There were philosophical changes slowly taking root - the belief in "liberty, equality, and FRATernity" (note the lack of feminine wording) spreading across the land - but actual codification and universal practice of those ideas had yet to come to pass. Various areas of the country still operated under different sets of laws, leaving chaos and an inability to put the ideas of the Revolution into effective action.
Enter Napoleon Bonaparte, General of the French and Italian Armies, a great hero and conqueror for his country. He sought to bring together Revolutionary concepts, which heretofore had failed to be codified, and set them out as "a complete statement of principles rather than rules." He wanted courts to have guidelines to which they could apply their own reason in each situation over which to rule the people. In 1799, with the assistance of certain members of the Directory, Napoleon staged a successful coup against the remaining ruling bodies (known as the 18th Brumaire), and became Consul for Life in 1800. It was at that time he began to construct his principles (with the assistance of Rousseau, who held an exceedingly low opinion of women himself), which by 1804 were completed and finally put to use throughout the land.
The Napoleonic Code was not a positive change for women. Even what small philosophical strides might have been made during the Revolution, such as consideration of declaring spousal abuse a crime, were lost. While Napoleon declared his desire to integrate the past and the future of law, the only real feminist idea that survived the death of Olympe de Gouges and her sisters was their idea that marriage should be a social contract between a man and a woman, rather than a direct transfer of ownership from father to husband. The Code declared that women were still subject to the control of their father or husband, and they were not allowed to engage in any exchange of "immovable" property without the particular man's consent. Even if her husband was in jail, a Frenchwoman was required to wait until his release to gain permission to engage in commerce. It is interesting to note, however, that the husband was required to keep an accounting of the wife's community property in the marriage, and give it to her upon request. If he was found to be wasting or abusing that community property, hers could be separated from his and she would regain control of her own assets.
Women had more or less control of their own lives depending on the specific area covered by the Code. For example, she could not be forced to marry against her will, or marry at all before age 21 - but then not without the permission of her parents or grandparents. She could write her own will without her husband's input or permission (although how many did can certainly be questioned). Divorce was possible, but extremely complicated. Adultery was still not reason for separation if committed by the husband unless he brought his lover into the marital home. For a woman, however, she could not only be divorced for adultery, but lose her community property and be jailed, as well. Other valid reasons for divorce on either side included "outrageous conduct, ill-usage, or grievous injuries," "either party being condemned to an infamous punishment or mutual consent where the parties had been married at least two years but not more than twenty, where the wife was no more than 45 years of age but more than 21 and where the husband was at least 25. For the last ground of divorce one also required the consent of parents and other descendants of the spouses." It hardly seems worth the trouble! Any woman who wished to marry again after divorce was required to wait ten months.
Guardianship of children in a marriage could be even more grievous for a woman. The father was automatically the guardian and administrator of all children's affairs while s/he was a minor. If the father died while the mother was pregnant, a conservator would be chosen by a "family council" to make any decisions necessary for the health and well-being of the child until it's birth. The mother would then become the guardian, and the conservator would remain "deputy" guardian. If the mother decided to marry again, she must call the "family council" once more and ask permission to continue guardianship of her own child. If the council decided to refuse, she would permanently lose custody to the deputy guardian.
Napoleon is said to have declared, upon passing his Code in 1804, "Women ought to obey us. Nature has made women our slaves!" An opinion clear in the law he wrote and enforced. His codified misogyny echoed across decades, oppressing women throughout Europe who lived in areas where the Napoleonic Code was either law or the basis for law. In France itself, women couldn't work outside the home without their husband's permission until 1965, and only gained full autonomy and independent citizenship in 1970.


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Act Your Age - Champaign Urbana
A young out-of-work actor does research for the role of an old man by spending time in a nursing home, where he learns to respect the elderly and ponders his own life choices.
CITY: Champaign
Bentley's Pub
This traditional pub in Downtown Champaign is off the beaten path and likes it that way. A great selection of beers and a crowd of regulars keep this bar hopping. Live music weekly.
CITY: Champaign
Beverly Cinema
Located in the heart of the shopping district take some time away from shopping, and come watch the latest premieres in the film industry!
CITY: Champaign
Boomerang Bar & Grill
This laid back local bar has pool tables, great food and no cover charge except when bands play.
CITY: Urbana
Canopy Club
Canopy Club is committed to diversity in the entertainment it provides for its diverse patron base. The Canopy Club also strives to foster an environment of activism for positive social and environmental change through hosting various benefits and informational gatherings. In striving to achieve the highest level of entertainment, the Canopy Club prides itself on being able to offer entertainment for all walks of life. Whether you like rock, country, hip hop, jazz, funk, indie or anything in between, the Canopy Club has something to offer you. If you're a fan of live music and entertainment, the Canopy Club is your home in central Illinois! Come see live music at the Canopy!
CITY: Urbana
Champaign County Historical Museum at the Cattle Bank
The museum is located in the oldest commercial building in Champaign County, the beautifully restored Cattle Bank, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Exhibits showcase more than 150 years of Champaign County's people, events, architecture and lifestyles. A feature of the museum is the 19th century dry goods store and businesses. The museum has a gift shop and publishes the Champaign County Historical Quarterly.
CITY: Champaign
Cinema Gallery
The landmark Busey's Hall/Princess Theater in downtown Urbana is home to Cinema Gallery, representing over 50 professional artists of the Midwest. Media on display are ceramics, drawings, glass, mixed media, paintings, sculpture, and studio furniture. The gallery also hosts 7 special shows each year.
CITY: Urbana
Country Chics
Filled with antiques and primitives, folk art, candles and more. Country Chics has an amazing selection of on-of-a-kind items you won't find anywhere else.
CITY: Fithian
David S. Palmer Arena
Visitors to Danville can watch special events such as concerts, trade shows, circuses and other performances throughout the year. The arena hosts the annual Dustbowl basketball tournament, Danville Dashers hockey and public ice skating.
CITY: Danville
Downtown Champaign
Discover cute boutiques housed in historic storefronts in downtown Champaign, including antique and consignment shops. Be sure to stop at PACA's Architectural Salvage Warehouse, where you'll find everything from vintage stained glass to ceramic tiles.
CITY: Champaign
Fischer Theatre
Historic Fischer Theatre, owned by the Vermilion Heritage Foundation, was built as the Grand Opera House in 1884. From Lillian Russell to silent movies, this theater provided entertainment to the community until it's closing in 1982. As work continues toward the goal of complete restoration, the lobby is used for many public events. The theater also houses the "Stage Presents The Fischer Gift Shop" where you will find creations by local artists and artisans, as well as products highlighting the area's famous stage, movie and vocal artists.
CITY: Danville
Fithian Home
The 1855 Victorian mansion was the home of Dr. William Fithian, a friend of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln spent two nights here in 1858.
CITY: Danville
Foellinger Auditorium
Foellinger Auditorium is a unique facility situated at the Southern end of the U of I Quadrangle. Since its construction in 1907, Foellinger Auditorium has been a cultural and entertainment center for the campus by serving two distinctly different functions: classroom and performance.
CITY: Urbana
Framer's Market
Framer's Market is a full-service framing shop that has been designing custom frames and enhancing art since 1981.
CITY: Champaign
Glass FX
The Glass FX Gallery offers an ever-changing display of decorative glass for sale. Our artists create beautiful works of art to last well into the future.
CITY: Champaign
Griggs Street Potters
Come see some of the best pottery in the Midwest and East Central Illinois at Griggs Street. Either just browse around, or purchase what you like and enjoy it all the time as apart of your lives.
CITY: Champaign
Heartland Gallery
Heartland Gallery specializes in contemporary Irish art and Celtic art and crafts. As a small performance venue, Heartland Gallery has hosted many events including concerts by internationally-known musicians such as Dublin harpist/singer/songwriter Claire Roche, master of the Celtic harp and spoken-word artist Patrick Ball, legendary Irish piper Paddy Keenan, and Scottish singer/songwriter/guitarist Jim Malcolm. The gallery also hosts local and national storytellers, actors and other performing artists including Irish and Scottish dancers.
CITY: Champaign
High Cross Art Studio
The primary purpose is to provide an environment which fosters artistic excellence and creative growth of the individual artists working there.
CITY: Urbana
Hoop Dreams - University of Illinois
This Oscar-nominated documentary follows the lives of two inner city Chicago youths as they pursue their dreams of becoming basketball stars. The movie filmed extensively around Chicago's Cabrini Green public housing complex, as well as at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
CITY: Urbana
Illiana Genealogical & Historical Society
The Illiana Genealogical and Historical Society hosts a library of over 10,000 volumes used for genealogical research in Illinois and Indiana. The library is one of the oldest and largest in Illinois and welcomes guests from all over the United States and around the world.
CITY: Danville
Images Framing & Fine Art
Primarily a picture framing destination with thousands of framing choices, Images also serves as a gallery for 2-D and 3-D artists. With 30+ years in business, Images Framing and Fine Art provides you with expert advice that will help you select the correct frame and mats to compliment you and your art.
CITY: Danville
International Galleries
International Galleries was first established over thirty years ago in the heart of campus. We are proud of our long history in this community and look forward to continuing to serve our friends and neighbors here in Urbana-Champaign.
CITY: Urbana
Japan House
Japan House offers the public an opportunity to learn about traditional Japanese culture through tea ceremonies, workshops and special events through the year. The beautiful Japan House gardens are open from dawn to dusk for you to stroll through and enjoy. The Japan House closes during the summer. Call for information on tea ceremonies and tours.
CITY: Urbana
Joe's Brewery
Serving only the finest bar food available, Joe's is the home of the Super Bird and a great place to grab some tasty wings or burgers, as well as the best fish sandwich you'll find anywhere. Joe's continues to provide a high energy atmosphere only available on a college campus as well as great food at a reasonable price. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
CITY: Champaign


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Software Engineer3
- Company: Bridge International Academies
- Deadline: Tuesday 31st January 2012
- Location: Nairobi
Job Description
Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model. The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our "school in a box" systems. Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their costs and create a profitable central organization at scale. We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, we will double in size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across the continent.
About the Position
We have and are continuing to develop one of the most sophisticated approaches to providing affordable education to MILLIONS of children in one of the most challenging environments in the world. We have a need to recruit for the position of Software Engineer to build software tools that will support the operations for the network of schools.
- Writing code for new software systems and maintenance of existing software systems
- Designing databases and writing queries in SQL
- Testing and debugging software
- Providing second line technical support to in-house users of software developed by our team
About You
Successful candidates must possess:
- Good problem solving skills
- Be detail oriented
- Good time management skills
- Good analytical skills
- Ability to work with a team
- Ability to be adaptable and flexible
- Good communication skills
Specialist knowledge required
- Knowledge of multiple programming languages and frameworks
- Ability to independently develop software
- Experience with C#, MS SQL Server, PHP, Java, Android, MySQL or SugarCRM
- Knowledge and experience of professional software practices including source code control, defect tracking, unit testing and code reviews
How to apply
You can apply and view detailed job requisitions on the Careers page at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com
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AUBURN – It was the year of the unrestored car at the Parade of Classics in downtown Auburn Saturday.
Following Grand Marshal and racing icon Bobby Unser and Barry Weiss from Storage Wars, well over 200 Auburns, Cords and Duesenbergs – restored and unrestored – drew oohs and ahhs from the crowds around the Courthouse Square and lining downtown streets.
Chuck McCarthy of Barrington, Ill., is the owner of a rare Auburn 8-95 phaeton sedan. His car is even rarer because it has not been restored but is still in the pristine shape it was when it rolled out of the Auburn factory in 1930, when it sold for $1,395.
The car is one of only six left in the United States, and – as far as he can tell – the only one of the six that is unrestored and still in its original condition.
The car was parked in an old barn in Ottawa, Ill. – along with several other cars that were not Auburns – and mostly forgotten from about 1952 until 1979, McCarthy said.
A childhood friend and neighbor who was crazy about cars found the car and sold it to McCarthy's father about 20 years ago, and in 2007 McCarthy bought it from his dad.
It's still 100 percent original and unrestored and looks and runs great, said Tracy Disch, McCarthy's girlfriend.
McCarthy has been a member of the ACD Car Club for about 10 or 12 years, he said.
Ironically, on his first visit to the festival, in 1984 when he was 22, he was invited to attend as a guest of the previous owner of the Auburn phaeton.
The car is the only Auburn McCarthy owns and shares garage space with two American Austins.
Thomas Parkinson of Niles, Mich., also has an unrestored car, a 1937 Cord, but his is not drivable. Although his brother and father rebuilt the engine and the transmission, that's about all that is working in the car. There are no doors, seats, windows, lights or even brake or gas pedals.
That doesn't stop Parkinson from attending the ACD Festival, however. He tows the car and describs it as a work in progress.
His father bought the car for $150 at a used car lot in Cleveland in 1950, Parkinson said. His father kept the car for years, he said, and in 1971 it survived a garage fire with only minor damage.
In 1980, Parkinson bought the car from his father, although it came with a warning that it was a white elephant, Parkinson said with a chuckle.
Parkinson said he would like to restore the car faster than he has done so far, but restore' is an expensive word.
I work on it as I can afford it and when I find the money, he said.
To fully restore the car would cost between $45,000 and $50,000, Parkinson said.
Parkinson would like to rebuild the car and make it street worthy, so that it looks respectful from 20 feet away, he said.
He would drive it only locally, he said, and mostly just to watch the heads turn.
That's not to say his car doesn't turn heads now – it does. But once restored, it will lose the hands-on approach from onlookers, Parkinson said.
Right now people can touch it and grab it and check it out, he said. But once it's restored, it will be more of a look, don't touch' like all of these other Auburns, Cords and Duesenbergs, Parkinson said, sweeping his arm toward the vintage cars parked for viewing on all four streets surrounding the Courthouse.


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Stacy Blang, DPT
Stacy Blang, DPT - Physical Therapist:
Stacy is a physical therapist for patients at the Fort HealthCare Therapy and Sport Center. "I became a PT because I have seen remarkable recoveries through rehabilitation; physical therapy is so amazing! It can mean helping somebody recover from nearly complete paralysis or it can be as simple as changing one exercise or habit for somebody to take away their pain. I especially love educating people about their body and empowering them to take better care of it."
Stacy speaks, reads, and writes Spanish fluently. She has a special interest in the spine and teaching basic body mechancis and postures to prevent injuries. She also does vestibular rehab and treats vertigo.
Stacy's Interests:
"In my free time I love to dance (salsa, meringue, bachata, cha-cah), lift weights, play tennis and other sports, listen to music in Spanish, travel, read, and soak up the sun (preferably on the beach)!


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Problem with Taxing "Top Two-Percent" above $250,000
Does anyone see what is wrong with Obama's $250,000 threshold and top 2-percent chant?
First of all, business owners file their company's earnings on their personal Federal 1040's.
The same 1040's where you and I report our measly salaries. Then they use Schedule C
or Schedule E to report the company's income and expenses.
This would easily mean that in many cases, they would have more than $250,000 under
Income under "Gross receipts" or "Rental Income." From this they have to deduct the costs associated
with that Income. This in no way implies that they pocket the $250K.
I am also dubious that only the top TWO PERCENT of the American workforce is above that
$250,000 figure which Obama keeps citing. That is why there is such a strong backlash against
raising tax rates on the TOP TWO percent. Is it really going to be the TOP TWO percent?
Obama, go back to "Community Organizing!" Please.


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|Collection Name:
|Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada Oral history Collection
|Repository Name:
|Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada [Repository Details]
|Repository Location:
|Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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"At the request of the diocese of New Westminster, and on my own behalf, I would like to apologize to gay and lesbian members of our church for the slowness of the process of your full inclusion in the Body of Christ," said Bishop Ingham. "We apologize to you for your treatment, and sometimes mistreatment, in the life of the church, for our slowness in recognizing you as sexual beings, created in the image of God, desiring a deeper communion with God and the freedom and responsibility of life-long permanent and committed unions in body, mind and spirit with those you love."
Bishop Ingham, whose British Columbia diocese has struggled with its ministry to its large gay and lesbian population, gave a short history of New Westminster's dialogue on sexuality. His diocese has twice in recent years voted by a narrow margin to ask the bishop to bless same sex unions but Bishop Ingham has declined, stating he would require a greater majority. After last June's vote, after which Bishop Ingham withheld consent despite a diocesan synod voted favouring same-sex blessing by 56.5, synod asked him to apologize to gays and lesbians for how slowly the church is moving on fully welcoming homosexuals.
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I disagree
I use the iPlayer on my laptop and its great, it just takes a little bit of forward planning. It is not click and watch which is clearly what some people may have been expecting.
At the end of the day 20 or 30 days is more than enough time to watch what I download on iPlayer. I have watched hundreds of shows in hotel rooms in an evening when working away.
I find it useful.
Sure, it's not exactly cutting edge. But when I miss a TV show, I know I can just download it via iPlayer and watch it later.
In any case, I'm perfectly happy with the BBC spending millions on this, as it's useful to me. Spending millions on Jonathan Ross, on the other hand...
BBC Archive Trial
The online access to the BBC archive was a far more interesting and innovative project. You seriously felt their pain when watching the background material on the issue of obtaining the rights to rebroadcast old programming.
The streaming aspects of the iPlayer seemed to have ended up in the archive trial. Along side this the great use of meta-data made the archive material pretty easy to browse and hopefully is the model for future iPlayers.
Download is the only option
I can't speak for anybody else, but the only internet TV service I am interested in is platform independent download, preferably free of the idiocy of DRM .
There is no practical difference between recording a broadcast and keeping the recording, and downloading the same program from the internet and keeping it.
Downloading GOOD, DRM Media Player BAD
My preferred choice would be, DIVX or XVID via a P2P cluster with the tracker hosted by the beeb (who could refuse tracker connections outside the UK if they wished, or give access to a version with adverts to non UK viewers). But not pure streaming, there just isn't the bandwidth at peek viewing time to guarantee the video will play.
The download choice was fine, it was the best choice, but it was the DRM and the choice of Media player that weren't.
(The Flash knock up is only viable because it's for a limited audience.)
Adding the DRM immediately meant that you could only play it on a PC, and only a *Windows* PC and then only if you'd agreed to Microsoft EULA terms, which in turn required WGA installed and and and ... it was effectively hijacked by Microsoft.
It didn't just restrict who the content was delivered to, it restricted how it could be played too. Even an iPod won't play those files.
BTW, Miro player works perfectly well, is P2P and doesn't have all that baggage associated with it.
Apart from...
The stumbling block with iPlayer is that many independent producers have obviously not allowed it to distribute their programmes, Dragons' Den being one obvious example.
Apart from that, I quite like it. When it works, which I'd say is about 80% of the time.
Is this the same department that...
removed the BBC news player from Windows Media Centre online content a couple of weeks back? BRING IT BACK YOU NUMPTIES! IT WAS GREAT!
I didnt know it was in fact beta - nothing about its use betrayed its staus - until you told me so in the same popup where you told me you were killing it off!
"In focussing on DRM and Linux interoperability, campaigners have missed the bigger picture."
Damn straight. But at least we don't have to pay campaigners money to get it so very wrong.
To the downloaders
Just to reiterate: I'm not saying downloading is rubbish, just that those of us that do it don't represent the vast majority of licence fee payers, and never will. The BBC already turns a blind eye to BitTorrent et al. It doesn't need it's own expensive, crappier version.
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It's the author of this article who is missing the point
"we want to make it clear we're not making a happy-clappy anti-DRM argument against the iPlayer. The BBC has unshakeable obligations to producers who spend vast sums on the expensive telly-making process."
Well I invite you to think again and to make that argument.
Noone stopped the BBC from selling the downloads in high-quality, non-DRMed format, thereby honouring their "unshakeable obligations".
Stream low quality for free, sell high quality downloads - is that so difficult to understand? After all their IQ has extended to selling programs on DVDs through HMV, why not downloads through the 'net?
Don't tell me "DVDs are protected" because most definitely they are not.
I would have been happy to be able to download full-D1 6000 kbps MPEG2 versions of rare programmes, which I cannot find in HMV, and pay a couple of quid per title.
With DRMs and the lousy quality I won't touch iPlayer and its content, ever.
max's your downstream, good quality and no DRM.
Re: It's the author of this article who is missing the point
"Noone stopped the BBC from selling the downloads in high-quality, non-DRMed format, thereby honouring their "unshakeable obligations".
The obligations we're talking about are legal contracts with independent producers that force it to use the most effective DRM if it wants to distribute via downloads. Like it or not, they say means Microsoft. As other commenters have noted, some production companies think even this isn't strong enough protection, and won't allow their shows on iPlayer. Competition regulations mean the BBC has to use independent producers.
"Stream low quality for free, sell high quality downloads - is that so difficult to understand? After all their IQ has extended to selling programs on DVDs through HMV, why not downloads through the 'net?"
The public have already paid for these programmes to be produced and distributed and the BBC Charter would not allow them to be sold back to their owners - us. Physical sales arrangements are negotiated separately and handled by BBC Worldwide, a separate commercial company.
- Chris
To all the posters saying "Oh no, works lovely..."
I've got the supposedly golden combo of XP, Media Player & internet exploder and it crashes more often than Richard Hammond.
I wanted it to work as it said on the tin, it didn't, I went to the torrents, the unofficial archive of the 21st century.
I've hardly used it at all, largely becuase the interface is just so rubbish.
Given that auntie has given us one of the nets most useful little apps - the radio player, from ewhere I get at least 50% of my media fix - it beggars belief they didn't adopt that same simple uncomplicated approach to the TV interface.
Too much style (and that's being generous) and too little substance.
Unshakeable obligations?
Well, the BBC may have contractual obligations to its co-producers in other countries, but there isn't any *good* reason why the general public who paid for the production should not have an unfettered right to view the material within the UK without further payment. Admittedly, getting paid many times over for the same piece of work has become very fashionable disguised as "monetization", but just because it's fashionable doesn't mean it's right. A simple change in the law could remove BBC productions from the scope of UK copyright law (without affecting overseas rights), solve the distribution problem and provide the basis for a vast new creative industry [as indeed would adopting the same approach to OS mapping...]. There'd be a bunch of whining thesps, but they're not exactly in short supply or likely to sulk too long if they had to do so out of the limelight.
The 'i's have it
Why is seemingly every consumer tech innovation, especially wonderful web two dot zero bollocks, now branded "iSomething"? What have I missed in the last x years which has led to this global phenomenon? Are they all hanging off the back of the iPod, was the iMac before that or something else? Is iGoogle copying the branding of the iRiver? Is iPlayer competing with the iPhone and iTunes?
Have I missed something or is it all a load of iShte?
"but there isn't any *good* reason why the general public who paid for the production should not have an unfettered right to view the material within the UK without further payment."
You're not a lawyer, I'll bet.
"A simple change in the law could remove BBC productions from the scope of UK copyright law .... solve the distribution problem and provide the basis for a vast new creative industry"
Did you come here in a space ship?
@Chris Williams
Thanks for clarifications of the legal position.
It is still frustrating that instead of using their negotiating power and influence to try to make the producers see some sense, the BBC resorted to the easy option of spending millions on a useless product (if it can be called that).
They could designate the Internet sales as a Commercial Service, set up a subsidiary and get an "appropriate Minister's approval" if it is deemed that the sales of downloadable content constitute a "subscription service".
An opportunity sadly missed.
"just that those of us that do it don't represent the vast majority of licence fee payers, and never will."
any statement with 'never' in it is a very bold one to make!
Re: errr...
"any statement with 'never' in it is a very bold one to make!"
It's an opinion and I could end up being wrong. But at least me taking the risk won't have cost £4.5m, eh?
Could be useful...
I actualy could find the service useful. I love the 40D service which also uses Verisign's Kontiki 'platform'. It works well, and it's on demand or for downloading - great stuff, well implemented.
I don't care about the DRM - it works fine on my machine which is all well and good. I can see the hate for the P2P delivery if users are on crappy ISP's that limit uploads, but again people do have a choice to use a propper ISP if they want to. Pay peanuts, get a monkey service.
However the BBC iPlayer is awful. When I play any content the DRM restrictions are obviously so tight that I can't play the content back on my PC. (It's ancient, but 4OD and porn all play fine on it!) So it's useless to me. Plus there is no streaming - which sucks.
The 4OD service (still based on Kontiki) is great - I really recommend it. However the iPlayer is a bag of crap. I use 4OD for watching peep show, father ted etc. Anything from the beeb is going to have to be BitTorrent...
It seems to me that they only had to wait for someone who knows about software and who would want to be associated with the Beeb's (still) global brand to offer their services for free. The Great Accountant (Birt) has much to answer for.
Disney model
the Beeb should adopt the Disney pay model. Disney's voice actors supposedly all get the same daily wage and sign over all character rights, no matter how big and famous they are, which (Robin Williams aside) reduces problems afterwards.
When you do a programme for the BBC, productions companies should have to automatically agree to a standard set of rights and marketing distribution which gives the BBC complete control of what way the programmes are distributed. The BBC logo is on the show so the production company is getting the kudos of being on the BBC and signing over these rights means that sensible options (like selling the shows on iTunes) become practical.
Individual Programs have it..
The likes of Newsnight, Daily Politics and Working Lunch let you watch the last program straight from the web site, no software (except Real Player or Media Player) is required. Why not extend this to all BBC owned stuff (obviously imports like Heroes wouldn't ever be allowed to be streamed) - much better IMO.
Why it's wrong?
Led by a twat at the top (Highfield)
Poor user experience (how many windows open?)
Ugly design
Impossible to install and sign up for
Poor range of content (about 30% of the programmes?)
Poor quality encoding
DRM (I understand their worries, but I just go elsewhere)
How about them apples?
My use of iPlayer
I use iPlayer on my PC at work, in conjunction with some cunning Auto It scripts which, as soon as a download finishes, pulls it from the download directory and runs it through FairUse4WM so that I can watch the WMV file through VLC on my (Ubuntu) laptop when I get home. I also have a big, fat "Kill Kontiki processes" button which does exactly what you would imagine.
It's not perfect - it needs Windows, and IE for that matter - but a little scripting has turned a white elephant into something actually useful.
They don't understand the audience
I think one of the reasons the iPlayer is effectively a failure is the DRM. And not the idea of DRM, but more it's implementation. I'd consider myself IT literate, and I have experience of DRM elsewhere (so probably not your typical iPlayer user, or at least not the target user), but the beeb's model is absolutely baffling. My understanding is that you download a show, which you can keep for X days, when you start to watch it, the period you can keep it for changes to Y.
For the average Joe on the street who just wants to watch Eastenders, it's a step too far and will completely baffle them.
OK but needs streaming
I use 4oD and iPlayer (on Vista) and if anything, 4oD is more problematic. At least in iPlayer you have the option to suspend kservice.exe after it's finished downloading. There is no such option with 4oD. In otherwords, regular users are forced to constantly upload blocks (against their knowledge or consent) using 4oD but have the option with iPlayer to turn it off. I even found a quick and dirty hack from Google:Tales of an English Coffee Drinker that uses a modified khost.exe to automatically disable kservice.exe when you close the Kontiki control panel. Yeah, it's a big ol' hunk of junk compared to what could be achieved, but it works. ITV streams live very well, so it's doable and we can see 40D content being streamed welll using Kontiki. I fear many of the BBC iPlayers woes are attributable to policy rather than technology. So if you're wondering where all that money went, I suggest you look in the direction of the beancounters rather than the coders.
Selling BBC programming
Seems to me I have about ten old long-playing records of the BBC Goon Show. Seems to me I bought these from a store. The sleeves have "BBC" printed on them.
Now, if that didn't violate the BBC Charter, why would selling downloads of old video from the vasy BBC archives violate the BBC Charter? Was the Charter rewritten for television?
As for DRM, there was nothing to stop me from making audiotape copies of those old Goon Show albums.
As for independent producers who won't allow their sacred works to be distributed without DRM, I'm sure the BBC must have decades of video that is not so encumbered. We could start with that and wait for the holdouts to soften their stance in the future.
Behind all this I can just sense an ingrained Fear of Digital. But fear won't make it go away.
The BBC... who?
There was time when the BBC was relevant around the world... If it is true that the BBC is now something of a lap dog for Microsoft's plans to dominate video on the internet (fat chance) then they have chosen the route of becoming irrelevant.
I have used Linux for 10 years (using Debian for five years). The Internet and video work very well indeed with all of the modern Linux distributions. With Firefox and several other web browsers available for Linux, video over the internet is simple now.
So it is sad that the only website of its type (The BBC is somewhat singular and historic with its background) is without usable functionality with any video ( it certainly should have been a player in the world )... is the BBC.
So I have to ask... is the BBC useful as a news service or a source for important information or even documentaries anymore? Are they qualified to comment on technological content given their absolute failure to see the world is moving away from a Microsoft centric computing environment? Especially on the Internet Microsoft never was dominant, Nor is it so in Supercomputers.
Conservatively speaking there are 30 plus million Linux users on the desktop now.
The smart money says that Microsoft will not be the dominate OS in the world, ON THE DESKTOP, by 2014... Is that news to anyone.
And were will the BBC be?
In the days of Radio and Television the BBC was relevant.
But they are lagging now and if they stick with Microsoft... The once mighty BBC will sink with Microsoft into the back pages of future computing technologies yet to come.
Come to think of it the entire UK is lagging in computer technologies by sticking with a Microsoft centric view... wake up, the world is out there.
Linux is on the rise :)
Technologically superior in every respect.
It's not the IPlayer that's the disaster.
It's the pathetic broadband speed we get in the UK (especialy in rural area's) and the complete and total lack of investment, even now!!!! At least the BBC had some vision.
"Linux is on the rise :)
Technologically superior in every respect."
So what? Beanus sniffus.
History is littered with technologically superior failures. Betamax anyone?
With you in spirit, but only when there is a lull in the relentlessly disturbing harsh reality field called "life", when I can dare to wear my rose-tinted specs for a while.
err the BBC produce programming, Linux is a OS kernel that runs on a computer. (pat head)
I think you are a very confused individual, go and have a lie down somewhere in the shade.
Re: Did you come here in a space ship?
"You're not a lawyer, I'll bet".
No, And neither are you, I gather. But I'm sure we both know that the UK has international copyright obligations secured by treaties which require the UK to respect copyright established in other jurisdictions and in return require those juridictions to respect UK copyright.
So, what? That does not require the UK to have any copyright provisions for UK-originated works within the UK or for the term of their copyright within the UK to be the same as agreed internationally. Hence apparent "anomalies" such as the copyright status of Peter Pan within the UK. We're not taking about buy-ins, but BBC-financed productions shown within the UK, so international treaty rights aren't in scope.
And in any case, the ownership of rights is a matter of contract. The BBC routinely agrees rights agreements with staffers which permit their contributions to be aired ad nauseam without further remuneration. There is no legal impediment to a similar agreement with entertainment providers and I'm sure such agreements could be concluded if it weren't for the powerful union stranglehold over both the "talent" and technical sides of broadcast production.
There's a very good case to be made for there being at least a very limited rights duration *within the UK* for BBC-originated material . It's a reasonable quid pro quo for the Licence Fee. BBC accounts show that it makes a negligible amount from its commercial sale of rights, so as an organisation it has nothing to lose financially from the loss of a small proportion of an already-small revenue.
Of course it would cause similar upset to the end of Spanish Practices in Fleet Street - which is why it would almost certainly have to be done by government through amending copyright law and/or by making changes to the BBC Charter - but that doesn't make it illegal, impossible or undesirable.
I can understand that Planet Journalism may be hostile to the notion of copyright limitation, but back in the real world, surgeons don't get paid for that new hip every time it climbs a staircase and plumbers don't get paid for every flush. It may be convenient to imply that there is some legal justification for this, but there isn't - quite the opposite when it concerns a bunch of people have a legally-sanctioned right to dip their hands in the nation's pockets and to come back and take more whenever it suits them.
Which, of course, is what DRM is there to support and why the BBC have wasted so much money on it. A complex technical "fix" when it would be in (almost) everybody's best interests simply to change the rules.
[The obligations we're talking about are legal contracts with independent producers that force it to use the most effective DRM if it wants to distribute via downloads.]
Well NO DRM is effective. It's predicated on encryption technology which only works if the hacker and recipient ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. DRM has the hacker and recipient as the same person.
And I'll ask you the question: are the producers of the 60's ToTP being served by their stuff being deleted? How about the beatles' recordings dying off? How well is this paying them?
After five years, anything the BBC produces should be free to download. If producers of content don't want that, then they can sell it to ITV or not sell it here in the UK (how much is it worth when nobody is buying? You can use your house, car or toaster but IP isn't real property like they are.
Anything currently there should be either
a) digitised at the BBC's expense and given "freely" to TV license payers (heck, mail it with the TV license, if you like, have them fill in a form of what they'd like to have)
b) given back to the producer and the BBC recompensed for storage costs etc (and the producer should keep it available until copyright expires, otherwise that's abandonment and you LOSE your right to real property under abandonment laws)
If the BBC is keeping it, then the producer isn't interested in making money off it any more. They've been paid (same as recording artists' work is a work for hire in the US and so no ongoing royalties are due) and if they aren't making money NOW with the exclusive right, what have they lost if the BBC gives away the exclusive right? NOTHING.
You know I take my hat off to Chris and Andrew for responding to the beard stroking, Linux crybabies that have absolutely nothing to contribute to this debate other than a lot of fucking wingeing. Stop being cowards and just admit you use the iPlayer like straw-man in the way you do in any other argument when you can vent your ideological rage against Microsoft. Personally if I had anything to do with The Reg I'd shut down these pages that let you respond publicly to articles as the sort of chumps writing in have nothing intelligent to put forward. You embarrass the whole language of criticism.
"Conservatively speaking there are 30 plus million Linux users on the desktop now."
You can substantiate that, can you? More than 30 million Linux *users*, rather than 30 million recorded downloads of Linux? I'd take your bet regarding the dominant desktop operating system in just over six years, too.
Furthermore, iPlayer is specifically limited to UK residents. I doubt Linux is the primary desktop operating system for more than a handful of them, and I'm sure they're all quite happily downloading their visual entertainment from secret bittorrent trackers that can only be accessed by the raw IP address anyway.
Reg: Can we have angel/devil icons for that stupid penguin, please?
@Charles Platt
This isn't (necessarily) a digital fear, it is a fear of the accountants. To them, if someone makes money, you've lost that money, whether you would or wanted to make it is irrelevant.
This is why fansubs are taken down: the anime isn't being sold by the distributor, but if someone is making a copy available, EACH and EVERY download is a "lost sale" (though how it can be when it isn't being sold by ANYONE is, as I've said, irrelevant).
That's why lyric sites are taken down. For the accountants, anything to do with their product must be done only by them. Failing to do so is to lose a sale. Again, that they aren't selling isn't relevant.
They don't know anything about their product so they don't know where sales can come from, so they don't investigate (RIAA killing downloads rather than using them is an example). They see every use that could *possibly* be a revenue stream as something they have the sole right to do (compnies sueing Spiderman for the visibility of their billboards in the movie is an example, and the idiocy continued in their attempt to sue the movie for digitally removing their billboards from that movie rather than pay:"It's a derivative work!!!").
The accountant doesn't understand the business. They understand money. They have lawyer friends who understand laws. They are getting in charge of everything now. And since all the understand is the money, they only care about the money.
Too many platforms
When are we going to see a collaborative application to merge iPlayer, 4OD and others? One application (with all its faults) is bad enough!
Nice Space Ship, Jon, can I have a go?
You mention the unions, acknowledging their pivotal involvment, the extent of change required, and the almost certain need for Government intervention and a change of law.
But all we need is a "simple" change in the law.
Presumably your space ship uses the Infinite Improbability Drive?
Unfortunatly not entirely accurate.... 4OD also demands the Microsoft/XP or Vista monoploly, time this was investigated officially as an anticompetitive abuse of position.
Rubbish article.
Hold on, I'm sorry, but this article is rubbish.
* For a "multi-million pound failure", iPlayer signups are running well ahead of the BBC's projections, even before the full launch that's advertised happens… Man, I hate it when my projects fail like that.
* So, the BBC "inexplicably binned" streaming in 2005 and then "cobbled together" streaming in 2007. Err… no. How likely does that sound. The iPlayer has always, always, always had streaming on it. That sticking "iPlayer" and "streaming" into Google doesn't bring up anything written in 2006 isn't exactly proof that it was somehow abandoned.
* The article doesn't mention *at all* the public value test that Ofcom did. Which accounts for well over a year of the iPlayer's development time, and a significant part of the cost, and a large part of the restrictions on what the BBC can and can't do.
* There's this bizzare insistence that streaming is so much more desirable than downloads that isn't backed up by any sort of logic or evidence. People use YouTube a lot? Not nearly as much as they peer to peer download, and the argument that "people who download want to keep the content forever" is frivolous and simply wrong. And lets look at Joost and YouTube shall we? They're nigh useless on many people's machines, given the speed and reliablity of broadband in this country. And if everyone did start using a mass streaming solution like you propose in watchable quality, oversold contention ratios would mean the UK's entire online structure would slow to an unwatchable crawl anyway. Not to mention being able to put downloads on portable media players, or access content offline, which is still rather important to most people in this country. BT Vision is a financial catastrophe.
* No addressing that, since the BBC can't wrap the streams in advertising, the BBC are financially disincentivised to provide high quality streaming - the more people stream programmes, the more it costs in bandwidth, the more money is taken away from programme making.
* Streaming is more interoperable on mobile platforms? Is it hell.
* No mention of BBC Worldwide's plan to sell programming that's downloaded . Kangaroo is actually a pretty compelling proposition - download programmes to catch up from the BBC for seven days, and if you like it or want it after that point, pay BBC Worldwide and the DRM comes off. In addition, Kangaroo, which is going to be built on the iPlayer by the looks of things, looks like it will feature most of the content from all the UK's major broadcasters - that's an extremely compelling selling point, and is likely to push the service into the stratosphere.
* If the time limited download concept is so rubbish, why have both Channel 4 and NBC copied it?
* You seriously attempt to suggest that the BBC should have sat on it's arse for four years about how to distribute this content, at the same time as saying the market even now is "immature". On that basis, why wouldn't they wait another four years? And before you know it, we're all dead before there's a service at all.
* A completely throw away coment at the end that the whole download client should be abandoned, contadicting any sort of common sense or logic.
Sorry, poorly researched rubbish. Not that some of the comments above are any better.
Waste of time
I am not one of the loons out there who run around screaming about the evils of DRM, or the lack of compatibility. I actually feel they made the correct decision on not supporting insignificant market shares for the majority in the first place. But the overall model which they followed does seem all wrong now we're used to things such as YouTube etc. It's still a much more prefered medium for viewing BBC content than anything the BBC actually provides.
But, my big gripe with the project, was the lack of streaming off the site, and also lack of choice on it. Probably the lack of content is the bigger issue. If it's supposed to have 50 years of old TV we can wonder through, where is it? 400 staff and what the heck did they do? obviously not digitalising content.
And come on, what could be more useful for the beeb to get users watching it that doing things people want to watch. How about watching an England sporting disaster live at work, via your browser with only having to whack in you license fee number? No client, no faff. Thats how it all should of been.
Re: Rubbish article.
"For a "multi-million pound failure", iPlayer signups are running well ahead of the BBC's projections".
Sign ups yes. Usage? Well, the Beeb isn't saying.
"So, the BBC "inexplicably binned" streaming in 2005 and then "cobbled together" streaming in 2007.Err… no."
Err... yes. Try this backstage podcast: http://blip.tv/file/483043
"The article doesn't mention *at all* the public value test that Ofcom did."
That's because Ofcom didn't do the public value test, the BBC Trust did. Ofcom carried out a market impact assessment. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/08_august/31/test.shtml
"BT Vision is a financial catastrophe."
Says who? Do you have access to BT's internal accounts?
"If the time limited download concept is so rubbish, why have both Channel 4 and NBC copied it?"
God knows.
"And if everyone did start using a mass streaming solution like you propose in watchable quality, oversold contention ratios would mean the UK's entire online structure would slow to an unwatchable crawl anyway."
"BBC are financially disincentivised to provide high quality streaming"
So why is the Beeb doing it?
"People use YouTube a lot? Not nearly as much as they peer to peer download."
Just not true. ISP data shows YouTube accounts for about 13 per cent of web traffic now, on the basis of low bitrate Flash video. That's a lot more actual viewing than the vast music, film and software BitTorrent streams that account for about 40 per cent of total traffic.
"Saying the market even now is "immature". On that basis, why wouldn't they wait another four years?"
Because they made a bad decision, which was kind of my point.
"Sorry, poorly researched rubbish."
You said it.
@Mark Rendle
Well, given there's no activation and a single download can be copied onto hundreds of machines (well, unlimited, really), 30million downloads actually used MUST mean more than 30 million installations of Linux and also is highly unlikely to be less than a fraction more than 30million users of Linux.
So even if 30 million doesn't actually get used, it's likely to be a lot more than 30million installed machines with linux and quite likely to be around 30 million users of linux.
Unless you have hard facts and figures that you were asking of Cyfaill
Oh, and AC, who's the crybaby? You're the Daily Mail reader that complains about all this money being spent on things you don't use, aren't you. Well, Linux users can't use windows-only products.
keeping an open mind
Where can I find a beta of the streaming Flash iPlayer for Linux?
It works really nicely, and they handled the p2p kontiki issue far better than channel 4 or sky. At least when you switch it off, it stays off.
The article above sounds like a mac fan boy ranting/crying.
Please stop printing tripe on the reg, the quality of the material is really going downhill. I really liked it when it produced insightful and witty content.
"Your one source said this and another source said this" is really an infantile way to write a supposedly serious article. Please do your research instead of quoting your mates down the pub.
Re: Disagree
I can confirm that I hate all computers equally. The piece makes the point that interoperability arguments are an (albeit entertaining) diversion when it comes to iPlayer.
Anonymous sourcing is an essential part of journalism. If you don't like it you can read the BBC's press releases.
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