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BARRY COURTER: Lisa, there are a couple of festivals on the horizon that I'm thinking you are likely interested in. South Pittsburg is hosting the National Cornbread Festival on Saturday and Sunday, and there is another big event in Polk County this weekend that has your name written all over it. Can you guess what it is?
LISA DENTON: Har-de-har. Now who's name-calling? At least Butterbean was a term of endearment. Don't make me teach you a Soddy karate lesson.
For your information, the Ramp Tramp Festival is named for the mountain hike to harvest wild onions. They dig 'em up, clean 'em up, cook 'em up and finally serve 'em up on Saturday, along with generous helpings of bluegrass music at the Polk County 4-H Camp in Reliance.
Bluegrass is also part of the proceedings at the Cornbread Festival, with Rhonda Vincent & The Rage headlining on Sunday. You can also find cornbread-eating and buttermilk-chugging contests, if you want to take your appetite and head to South Pittsburg.
BARRY: Whatever do you mean? I just know how much you like diggin' up wild onions, that's all. Ramps, for those not from around here, are a wild leek or onion, and people love them. Not only do they go well with bluegrass, they're pretty good in omelets or with pinto beans and cornbread.
It occurs to me that we've gotten a lot of calls from people who have recently moved here, and both of these events would be a great way for newbies, especially folks from up North, to get a good taste of how we do things.
LISA: Taste being the key word there. The folks in South Pittsburg have a neat setup they call Cornbread Alley, where you can pay one price for nine samples of cornbread-based goodies. This year's sampler includes Cornbread Pizza, Deep-Fried Sweet Potato Tots and Pineapple Cream Cheese Cornbread Cake.
In Polk County, the menu is more limited, but where else do you get the chance to feast on a plate of fried ramps in eggs, fried potatoes, streaked meat, white beans and cornbread? That there's a Mayberry meal.
BARRY: A plate of Polk County heaven. A sip or two of that clear stuff that is served in a Mason jar would make it perfect. Or a glass of buttermilk. Actually, I'm kidding about the buttermilk. I know some folks soak their cornbread in it, but I just can't do it.
We should also mention that Leftover Salmon, the legendary jam band that took some time off, is back together and will play at Track 29 on Thursday.
LISA: And don't forget that the Tennessee Aquarium is celebrating its 20th anniversary Saturday with Party at the Peaks and the opening of its new "River Giants" exhibit. National Geographic's Zeb Hogan will be the special guest.
For event information, read Current every Friday in the Times Free Press or visit current.timesfreepress.com.
Barry Courter is staff reporter and columnist for the Times Free Press. He started his journalism career at the Chattanooga News-Free Press in 1987. He covers primarily entertainment and events for ChattanoogaNow, as well as feature stories for the Life section. Born in Lafayette, Ind., Barry has lived in Chattanooga since 1968. He graduated from Notre Dame High School and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a degree in broadcast journalism. He previously was ...
Lisa Denton is deputy features editor and content editor of Current. She previously was a lifestyle, entertainment and region reporter/pod leader for The Chattanooga Times, which she joined in 1983. Lisa is from Sale Creek and holds an associate's degree in journalism from Chattanooga State Community College. Contact Lisa at 423-757-6281 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Structure of Industrial Revolutions
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This post originally appeared on the brand new Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (Synberc) Blog. Check it out for other new posts by Jay Keasling and Linda Kahl on intellectual property law and synthetic biology. —————— Synthetic biology is often referred to as "the field of the future," the foundation of a third industrial revolution" [...]Keep reading »

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Away from the key piece, the other way to attempt this trend is by dipping into the safari colour palette. Lots of designers used shades of taupe, beige, caramel, chocolate and khaki in their collections, experimenting with layers (like Proenza Schouler's sleeveless jackets) or fabrics (like Versace's silk shorts) to add a bit of individuality.
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"The 2000 Summer Adequacy Report" indicated that there were sufficient resources on both a regional level and within California. The chart summarizes the reserve margin, by month, for the WSCC, California, and the ISO. 3
The WSCC estimates for California and the ISO implied a satisfactory margin of loads over resources for this summer-a margin above 15 percent. The WSCC estimates depended on a low level of imports-2,000 MW over the summer months. 4
Notwithstanding the foregoing, from June 23rd through the end of the summer, the ISO declared 38 separate emergencies. In each case, the ISO announced that its reserves had fallen below the appropriate trigger level. Each emergency was characterized by high prices as the ISO entered the larger WSCC bulk power market for "out of market" purchases to meet its system peaks in real time.
The contradiction between the ISO and the WSCC estimates has been difficult for the industry to resolve. As a matter of industry tradition, reliability issues are not matters that are subject to deception-declaring a false emergency is the equivalent of "crying wolf." At the same time, the ISO's frequent emergencies did not reflect the experience of the summer at any other utility in the region. (The only echo of the ISO's continuing difficulties that occurred elsewhere on the West Coast was a single day-Aug. 22, 2000-when the Bonneville Power Administration advised the national Marine Fisheries Service that low flows might threaten its environmental obligations. BPA officials later noted that they were amazed at the quantity of offers they received the next day from potential suppliers.)
Nevertheless, despite this puzzling difference between estimates, the explanation turns out to be relatively straightforward.
Every other utility in the region makes its reliability arrangements on a reasonable prospective planning horizon. As a matter of industry practice, each utility owns or has contracted for sufficient capacity to meet summer and winter peaks-even after forced outages. 5 The ISO, on the other hand, depends on day-ahead offers of capacity to meet summer peaks. Simply put, the ISO declared each emergency when the offers of capacity were insufficient to meet its reliability criteria. It is, of course, significant that, without exception, next day real-time sellers were available to avert the ISO's emergency, but at murderous market-clearing prices. The mystery is why the ISO allowed itself to be so repeatedly deceived. This fact alone may explain why the FERC insisted in its Nov. 1 order 6 on eliminating the generators' representatives from the ISO board.
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Megaupload case near collapse: report
An American district court judge has cast doubt over the whole Megaupload trial, telling the FBI the criminal charges against Kim Dotcom may never make it to trial. The New Zealand Herald is reporting that during a hearing in Virginia the judge, Liam O'Grady, doubted if "we are ever going to have a trial in this matter" when …
The New Justice[tm]
Music execs! Movie bosses! Can't get what you want? That annoying snot overseas still making your blood boil? No worries, here's your answer: For a special fee, get the FBI to trump up some charges, they'll handle the interpol paperwork and have the locals raid your target, and then see to it that the charges are dropped for some silly reason or another. Your target's business destroyed, no trial to lose, what's not to love? You win, they lose, what's not to love? Special rates on request! Call today!
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To your list of "Music execs and movie bosses" could you add: small, independent developers just trying to make a living to feed their families by writing games, who'd really appreciate it if some german bloke didn't get rich off making it easy for people to copy for free what we've spent years working on. Ta.
The small independent developers are making millions. I guess those are the ones who went for other business models. Not the ones that are impossible to follow now.
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"if some german bloke didn't get rich off making it easy for people to copy for free what we've spent years working on"
Dotcom invented the file-copy command...?
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Yeah, I pretty much ditched writing games for Windows and went for iPhone instead where the copy protection is much better. I don't think it's a coincidence that the device that makes it hardest to pirate apps is also the one that gets the most attention from developers and ends up getting the best apps written for it, which helps make it the best device to buy.
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Last time I looked, the games for Windows were far better than those for the Mac.
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I appreciate that small development companies are likely to be those least able to afford the loss of earnings that software piracy will likely entail, but... you're not really suggesting that going after someone like Kim Dotcom in such a way as to fumble the legal process and thus potentially derail the court case is a good idea, are you? Nobody wins from that.
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"Trump up charges" ? You can't be so naive that you don't think Megaupload was about piracy, so why even bother to dress up your bias?
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Thing is, no matter how much the software developers (whose point of view I do appreciate) complain about MegaUpload, it had legitimate uses, like every other file sharer on the net. When MU went dead, so did half the links in the KDE theming/widget system, as the hobbyists who made all that stuff used MU as a reliable, fast method of distributing it. Everything on the net that copies anything can be used for piracy - should we just shut the net down? Allowing attacks like those seen against MegaUpload set a precedent that basically any service can be taken down any time the music/record/software industry says so.
Which is bullshit.
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Nobody is saying that copyright violation is right or that it didn't go on with Megaupload. Nobody knows how much of the business was built on this (well, maybe Dotcom), but it would apply to any online digital locker. Either you force them all to be private and not allow everyone to see the downloads, or their function cannot exist if you take copyright to be more important than everything else. Reality is, copyright is important, but there are other more important things.
It's a bit like napalming your garden to get rid of some weeds. Yes, it does the job, but you kill a lot of flowers as well and given a short period of time, the weeds will just start spouting again. So, overall, you've done a lot of damage for what?
Even the American military have begun to realise this by using guided missile rather than squadrons of B52s for bombing. Seems like the civilian areas of America are behind the times again.
You can take as many dotcoms out of business as you like, but copyright violation will happen just as much, maybe more. The answer is to adapt your model and make it irrelevant.
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Read the post. No one said anything about the Mac. He said iPhone.
What were you looking at?
iDevices are not Macs.
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@Matthew 25.
I know iDevices are not Macs. What he was saying is that the best games go to the most protected platform, citing his move from Windows to iPhone. I countered that by saying in that case, the best games should be on Mac not Windows as Macs are more protected than Windows. However, that is not true, i.e. his argument is false. I wasn't trying to suggest iDevices are Macs or anything, but actually answering the point he made with another example.
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Macs have the same copy protection as Windows PCs
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I am a small independent developer who has had an app cracked and released. My ability to make a living to feed my families isn't rooted in a german being blocked from a file sharing website, but rather, in my ability to protect my application from being cracked/released/shared. If you can't feed your family because of a file sharing site, you are doing it wrong and should focus on a more secured way of making money. Plus, I would much rather have the private free-flow of information (even if the information are my bytes) then to have something like CISPA, SOPA, PIPA, or any remarkably unintelligent approach to securing my own inadequacy.
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You sound like Saul Goodman! http://www.bettercallsaul.com/index.php (is there no way to link here?!)
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The way to subvert the MPAA/RIAA thuggery is to encourage and support file sharing as much as possible. Take away the financial lifeblood from the parasites. That's what their nightmares are made of and we have the power to bring that about.
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You say "the device with the greatest copy protection" but fail to notice games and software deployed over say Java also make millions. How is that so if there is no real copy protection to Java? Oh, perhaps customer loyalty and concentrating on markets that work, instead of those that don't?
I know it's sad to see the software get copied and no money paid for it, but it seems a lost cause right now. Open source and other funding methods seems the only way to beat the pirates at their own game. Especially if you make it legal for your customers to share!
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I see, so any company producing film and music, or acting on behalf of those doing so, which has employees in sufficient number to need an 'exec', or a 'boss', deserves to have its business destroyed, by thieves?
These are not "trumped-up charges", we are talking about the destruction of hundreds of thousands of jobs, and the destruction of the music and film economies, and with them the destruction of the opportunity for new and old artists alike, to be paid to master their art. All because a lot of angry children - such as yourself - won't tolerate policy measures which apply and strengthen existing and good law, such as protects property.
You write of Megaupload's "business" being destroyed - yet the last time I checked, stealing the fruits of others' labour, and helping others do so, was not a business, but a malenterprise, by any measure whatever.
You write "special rates on request", yet, it is entirely legitimate that individuals' and companies' livelihoods, and their shareholders' interests (who are often pension funds of low-paid workers) are protected by law. Theft is an evil - markets must be protected from petulant, insanely selfish child-minds such as your own.
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@ Mad Mike
"You can take as many dotcoms out of business as you like, but copyright violation will happen just as much, maybe more. The answer is to adapt your model and make it irrelevant."
Adapt one's model how? Stop making things to sell them? Sell them for as near zero that downloader thieves feel almost no difference paying for them than stealing them? "Go on the road"? Please don't just make that hollow proposition without properly fleshing it out and providing what you think should be the model - as as it stands it is just a figleaf for theft.
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@ Jim 40
"Parasites"? We're not talking about people putting a price on oxygen, or engineering a price-spike in other essentials are we? We're simply talking about people charging reasonable sums for entertainment, to enrich people's lives, and which people only ever partake of completely voluntarily.
And before you tell me you shouldn't have to pay for your CD licences again where the CD corroded, I agree that's a problem and don't have an answer to it, but don't think it legitimises all of the theft which people say it does.
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Maybe shops should give stuff away. That would stop theft.
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The problem is that the the MPAA/RIAA will not be happy until they have killed the internet as we know it. That's not my theory it's the basis for political parties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_%28Sweden%29 and is supported not only by many internet observers http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/20/twenty-fighters-open-internet but also by actions such as the crushing of Megaupload and Wikileaks beforehand.
It can also be seen in the extension of copyright to 70 years after the death of the creator! How is that reasonable, fair or just? I've no objection to content creators being reasonably remunerated but the current system has no sensible rationale that I can detect.
It's like watching the Luddite movement in reverse. In the face of a new technology an old system seeks to retain its power and control. If so called capitalist systems really believed in the tosh they spout they'd leave the market to decide the matter but no, they want to use force just like any other totalitarian regime.
It's really not too dramatic to say that this is a war for who controls the Internet, us or them.
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Trying to "protect" your app from being cracked is a fruitless and counter productive exercise...
Whatever protection you introduce will be cracked sooner or later, and most people who would pirate you app aren't going to magically buy it because, they're just going to wait for the crack.
On the other hand, the more "protection" you implement, the more inconvenience you foist upon paying customers... I've seen many buggy drm and license enforcement schemes cause chaos for paying customers, and even if not struck by bugs such schemes are often an unwanted administrative overhead.
Meanwhile the pirates are running a cracked version which has all this removed, and so have problem-free use of the app.
Also worth considering, is that while pirates may not have paid you directly, they are providing free marketing if nothing else. Wasn't it bill gates who said that if people are going to pirate, he'd much prefer they pirate his stuff than a competitor?
Piracy is an unavoidable issue when selling an infinitely reproducible good, all you can do is make your app compelling and widely known so that those who are willing to pay will do so. Those who aren't, won't, but they might have friends who will so better for them to see your apps than someone else's.
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Sell cheap, make it up on volume... If you sell cheap enough and make it convenient, piracy won't be worth the extra hassle and most people won't bother. As it stands now, piracy not only offers price savings but its also far more convenient and often provides a better (eg free of artificial restrictions) product. When your product has marginal reproduction costs, a cheap price is still profitable and a lower price will increase sales.
For music, go on tour... Actually work for your money, and treat recorded copies of music as promotional material designed to encourage people to buy tickets for your live events. Encourage sharing because the more your music is shared, the more famous you become and the more people will attend your live shows.
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Make Easy? - MegaUpload didn't make anything. Rapidshare had already been there for half a decade when Dotcom launched his service. The difference being in the details and the pricing. Before that there was (and stil is) bittorrent, and before that various applications in the P2P world, and before that was Napster, the first really huge sharing system. And of course before that for decades was the private ftp server network, which is still used by "The Scene" today.
Now, computer games was always a target for hacking. I personally had countless hundreds of floppys with hacked C64 games in my youth. I also had hundreds of cassette tapes with music recorded from the radio or from records owned by my friends. No, sharing copyrighted stuff is not new and was certainly not neither invented nor made more rampant by Dotcom and MegaUpload. It was just a new twist on a many decades old gambit.
Now, instead of trying to intimidate people into not doing what they've always been doing (a futile effort at best), they need to figure out how to live with it. First of all they need to understand WHY people download illegally. Unfortunately while the reasons are well-documented by countless studies, the copyright holders completely ignore this and apparently assume that people do it exclusively because they're evil and because they are freeloaders.
The studies reveal that only about 10% are freeloaders, i.e. people never willing to pay no matter what the price. Another 10% are people willing to pay a reasonable price but find the current prices too high. The rest are actually people willing to pay the full asking price if they were able to do so, but geo-discrimination and format blackouts prevents them. This is the big one and strangely enough it's also the one most easy to change. Yes, the copyright holders could cut piracy with 80% quite easily by simply changing their policy.
Want examples? - A new movie opens in the US (and Canada) but not in Europe for weeks/months. People in Europe have the choice of waiting or piracy. And a US consumer that rather want to watch the movie at home? - Nope, go to a cinema or wait - or grab it from the pirates. The solution is simple: Simply release the movies and the music globally on all formats simultaneously and everybody is able to enjoy it the way he or she prefers and to do it with a clean conscience as they've paid for the privilege.
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...and Kimble manages to not only skate scot free but look like a damn hero while doing it. My hat is off to you...that's one hell of a coup.
"Scot free"?
If having your companies dismantled by a foreign power without legal grounds counts as such, I suppose.
Re: "Scot free"?
I can see the case for compensation right now. Whatever the merits or not of Dotcom as a person, his business has been destroyed by a combination of the NZ and USA authorities. Now, it looks like they won't be getting him for anything. Even if they go after him on copyright charges in NZ, that'll be dubious as it looks like a personal vendetta rather than proper police work and justice.
So, who'll end up paying the bill? I find it unlikely he'll allow them to destroy his business and not pay compensation and they seem to have so royally screwed up that liability can be assured.
Wonder what the final bill will be.
Re: "Scot free"?
Certainly "Scot free" - no Scots were involved in this case.
Re: "Scot free"?
This is Kimble. Look at his history. It's hardly the first time his million dollar "ventures" have been dismantled and yet he keeps coming back. He WILL be back, and he will be a millionaire again. He's already become the "messiah" of downloading freedom thanks to this case...he's a huge opportunist (ie YIHAT) and anything that makes him look like Robin Hood is going to help him rebuild his millions. Not only did the feds lose, they basically handed him his comeback.
Re: Wonder what the final bill will be.
A better question would be:
"WHO will be paying that bill"?
I seriously doubt it will be members of the MAFIAA; and more likely US taxpayers.
After all, we here in the good ole USA have "The Best Government (the MAFIAA members) Can Buy!".
This botched FBI operation just proves it.
Can that prosecutor please explain...
... how the company being out of jurisdiction is a non-issue because the FBI's target is, er, a German citizen in New Zealand, ie possibly even more out of US jurisdiction?
Whatever the guy's antecedents, I find it... curious how the US public puts up with a "justice" system at least as crooked as the people they're going after. Whatever their motivation, it's not about having the moral high ground. And it's not about a fair fight either.
Re: Can that prosecutor please explain...
No because they love that their government acts like world police when no crime has been committed, as long as it doesn't turn on them.
It is absolutely bizarre and the only way they'll learn is through having to pay out massive amounts in damages - except they won't because it's not their money they're throwing away.
Bankers anybody?
Re: Can that prosecutor please explain...
"No because they love that their government acts like world police"
Umm, no actually we don't. We actually would prefer that our gubbermint stop acting like the tyrannical teething baby it too often is. Please don't confuse the vast majority of us with the megalomaniacal fucks who buy and sell candidates to both parties in the Republocrap Democant cartel. Oh joy we get another election, big deal, maybe folks will get tired of politics as usual and vote for their choice of mayo or mustard but regardless of which they pick it's going on the same shit sandwich and we'll have to eat it for another four years when maybe we'll get the honor of being able to choose ketchup.
And FFS if all you've got to say is just the verbal equivalent to the skid marks in your pants there streaky, the least you could do is choose the icon more carefully. It's pretty clear you wanted the one just to the left of what you clicked.
Re: Can that prosecutor please explain...NO PROBLEM
The US has delusions of grandeur, they think just because they have 19,000 drones around and can kill anyone, anywhere including US citizens - that their law overrides all others.
Holder, (Obama's attorney-general), and Biden (V-P & hatchet man for the movie industry) might have to face the fact they screwed up.
What's more, the US Constitution prohibits retroactive laws!
Re: Can that prosecutor please explain . . .
"they think just because they have 19,000 drones around and can kill anyone, anywhere including US citizens "
A bit harsh for downloading crap movies, donchyathink?
Re: A bit harsh for downloading crap movies, donchyathink?
Well, they already bought those drones and Osama is dead, so they gotta use them on someone. After all, they have to justify buying new ones soon, otherwise poor Lockheed Martin or Boeing might not turn record profits.
Re: Can that prosecutor please explain . . .
I don't know about punishment for downloading movies, but death-by-drone seems to be the punishment in Pakistan for using a camera:
Re: Can that prosecutor please explain...
... how the company being out of jurisdiction is a non-issue because the FBI's target is, er, a German citizen in New Zealand, ie possibly even more out of US jurisdiction?
Because some factions of the Amerikan reich believe that that are the world power and that every other country and business in the world is subservient to them.
Re: Can that prosecutor please explain...
"...they love that their government acts like world police..."
We don't. We detest it.
Here in the 'land of the free' the actual news is: Hollywood! Gosh we love our stories! We can't get enough of people behaving badly...and we also have lost the ability to detect the difference between truth and lip service (lies, for short). A LARGE percentage of the population drop out of high school - and why shouldn't they: the people's educational system is bloated with administrators, basically warehousing young people away from the 'adults', cheats the teachers out of a fair living wage as less important than acquiring real estate and "juice" in the halls of power, yet is highly successful as a political concept: save our schools save the children etc.
One must search for a while, if one is so inclined, for any higher level of discourse, for access to world media and viewpoints other than the addlepated jingoism provided at every turn - Google News features the lamest US publications and seems filtered. So whatever you might think the American people are for or against, first check if they KNOW about it. I am not being facetious!
Also - the rhetoric and fantasy that the US so much more advanced than other countries - this is trumpeted over and over without specifying in what area or discipline - it cannot be true for everything. And isn't, at all, consistently true for many things. I keep wondering why, the Cowboy of the World having shot itself in the foot so many times, it is still trying to lurch along on its old myths.
I passionately love my country. So do so many of us, who understand that what happens to me, happens to you... the web analogy. When force-fed lies day after day, it is not surprising that people have lost the taste of truth. Thankfully there are some people willing to go through the leavings to find it.
Re: A bit harsh for downloading crap movies, donchyathink?
I'd say you're right, but I think the underlying reason is slightly subtler.
If you compare the bulk of the Lockheed Martin/Boeing manufacturing base against the voting stronghold (or sometimes, simply residency) of the presidents that START wars, you'll find a pretty strong correlation: The ex-confederate states of the American South.
Yes, it's about money, but only to the extent that money can be converted to power.
Re: Can that prosecutor please explain...
@Eddy Ito
"Umm, no actually we don't. We actually would prefer that our gubbermint stop acting like the tyrannical teething baby it too often is."
So why do you collectively keep voting for such politicians then? The US is a democracy, so the government reflects the true choice of the population. Same in Greece where the population is wishing now that they'd had better governments for the past few decades.
Democracy will not result in effective government unless a majority of the population takes a dispassionate reasoned view of the value to the greater good of the candidates on offer. Just voting for the guy who looks good and pulls on the emotional/religious heart strings won't work in the long run. The only country I know off that does it properly is Australia where voting is compulsory but the voters are given the official option of 'none of the above'. The UK sort of solves the problem by having an apolitical civil service which generally discourages freshly elected politicians from doing things are just too crazy. That doesn't explain Germany where AFAIK their civil servants are employed by the winning party, not the state. Given that Germans as a whole take important matters seriously it is not surprising that it seems to work quite well for them.
One simple thing the US could do to stop itself appearing to be the world's worst cop is to stop paying its prosecutors bonuses based on results.
Re: Can that prosecutor please explain...
Damned touch screen keyboards - can't type for toffee on one. Apologies for the typos.
"So why do you collectively keep voting for such politicians then?"
That's the whole mayo vs mustard thing. The majority of political news coverage is about a few selected talking points that really differentiates one candidate from the next. Candidates that really are different from the rest are typically labeled kooks because they aren't savvy enough to keep their mouth shut on subjects that give the media laugh tracks instead of sound bites. This ensures that regardless of which candidates remain at the end the basic authoritarian core remains intact.
Add to that the fact that the primaries are mainly attended by only the extreme members of either party and the authoritarian model is a lock. Notice there is about 50% of voters who typically stay out of primaries because they look at the field and shudder at the usually horrid selection but more importantly there is a re-run of Married with Children on that night which takes precedence.
That said, yes it's very true that we need to strip economic incentives from our law enforcement and judicial governmental departments.
Coincidentally I came across this Businessweek article by Paul Barrett on Richard Feldman and I couldn't help but think Mr. Feldman is only scratching lightly on the corroded surface of justice in the U.S.
Worst intentions?
I'm beginning to wonder if reaching a court hearing was the original intention of this case - or if, in fact, it's to leave Kim Dotcom et al dangling in legal limbo & controversy long enough to wreck the Megaupload business entity & "send a message" to similar online services. The US Gov. & the FBI give the appearance of being bothered less & less about international law & protocol these days, and the scent of corporate collusion is not unnoticeable. And if it comes back to bite them, I'm pretty certain it will be expertly handled by their spinmeisters. Regardless of Megaupload's legal bearing in this case, there are ways to mount & pursue a lawful challenge. For me at least, the way this was done looks more like simple bully boy standover tactics.
Just my 2 bob's worth.
How disgusting... from what I've been reading it's like they want this case dismissed... funny and sad thing is even if it is, Megaupload is cooked, the company is dead, and from what others have said they can't even sue the U.S government to recoup their loses because it's "immune" to lawsuits...
RE: they can't even sue the U.S government to recoup their loses
Imagine the individual MAFIAA members facing the possibility of having to pay damages?
That is WHY (sovereign Immunity) the MAFIAA bosses got the FBI to 'do the dirty work'.
They win, taxpayers and legitimate Mega Upload customers LOSE!
Re: Worst intentions?
Or you might also theorize that the US government's legal team screams of incompetence?
Right, with the financial crisis lingering for the past 3 years, there are legions of talented lawyers looking for a job and yet those responsible for the Megaupload indictment showed nothing worthy of their title.
After all consideration, I agree with Spud2go that it merely comes down to a case of legal bullying (and sheer arrogance) from the US government towards a company it has no jurisdiction on.
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I woke up early and had my breakfast with Dad. He's excited about the party. After we ate, I ask him to fit the tux that I picked for him.
I ordered a special tailored tuxedo for him to wear at the party. We have a family friend in Italy that usually makes our outfits for special occasions.
"Come out already Daddy. I want to see if it looks good." I said while waiting outside his dresser in his room.
He comes out wearing a very neatly tailored grey tuxedo matching with a black tie. He looks so manly and powerful.
"Wow! You don't look your age dad!" I squeal.
"You always pick the best clothes for me sweetheart. Thank you." he said while checking himself in the mirror.
"You're such a debonair!"
He fixes his tie and then shot me a look, "How about you? I thought you'll have your shopping today." He said.
"Oh yeah. I'll be going with the guys today. Of course I have to be good looking too when you're that handsome!" I answered cheekily.
"You'll always be beautiful just like your Mom." He said with a wide smile.
"Thanks Dad." I answered. My phone rang and I quickly answered it.
"Hi lovely. We're ready to go. I'll fetch you in your room." Harry said with excitement really heard in his voice.
"Hi to you too. Just meet me at the lobby. I'll be there in a sec. See you." I said and hung up and told my father that I'll go already.
"Have a good time. You still have to tell me about that Harry." My father said while smiling wide.
"See you later Dad. Love you."
I saw Harry and the others waiting in the lobby and then I approach them.
"I'm sorry to keep you waiting guys." I apologized.
"It's alright Jo. We're not in a hurry anyways." Eleanor said.
Harry approached me and kissed me in the cheeks.
"Oh Lovey dovies in the early morning." Niall squealed.
We all laugh and then head straight to the limo. Harry grabbed my hand and kept holding it even though we're inside the limo. All throughout the ride, Harry kept his hand in mine. I looked at him and I find him staring too. His green eyes always piercing through mine. Green to green... Our eyes locked for I don't know long.
"If the two of you won't stop staring to each other, there's a high chance you'll both melt." Louis said loudly that made us broke our eye connection.
I suddenly blush as they laugh cheekily.
We arrived in the mall where there are many shops to pick from. The girls and I are so excited to pick our gowns.
Harry let go of my hand because Eleanor, Perrie and Danielle nudged me from him. We entered the shop that specializes in suits and dresses.
"I think we should first help the boys pick up their suits then we should buy our gown without them so it's a surprise for Saturday." Dani suggested.
"That's a good idea." Perrie added. And we all agreed.
"Hey guys, we'll first pick your suits and then we have to go our separate ways for a moment while we pick our dresses. We want it to be a surprise." Eleanor said.
"Girls are so cheeky sometimes."
"Girls stuff…pfft"
The girls and I laugh while the boys continued to rant about those girls stuff.
We started to search for the suits while the boys also pick something to try on.
Harry is beside me while I scan the suits that are displayed.
"I'll pick a great suit for you to wear. You're always dressed in a suit so I guess it will not be a hard task." I smile while talking to him.
I pick three sets of suit for him to try on. Liam and Zayn are also in the fitting room. While they are there, all of us girls helped Niall to find a suit for him too.
"Thanks ladies. I really think I should find a girl soon so I have someone too." Niall said while giving us his puppy blue-eyed stare.
"Lou, you're such a baby. All of the boys are trying their suits now and here you are can't pick a single one." El said while scolding Louis.
"I am like a girl. I am meticulous with what I wear. You know that already honey." Louis answered sassily.
We all laugh with their 'little' fight. Lou and El have been together for almost seven years now. I am so amazed with their relationship. They were like best of friend and a match made in heaven.
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Global sales of camping tents must be skyrocketing, because reports are coming in from many corners of the globe of iPhone fanatics queuing up days in advance of the phone's launch, just to ensure they're first in line. In New Zealand, for example, 22-year-old student Jonny Gladwell pitched his tent outside an Apple store …
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Yeah Yeah, Apple is great, Apple is shite, I'll let others have that argument.
What I'm interested in is the list of 'most wanted smartphones' that is displayed on the right hand side of reg hardware articles.
I can't be guarantee this, but I'm fairly certain that list hasn't changed in like 6 months or more. As a reader on El Reg, it's quite noticeable that the amount of phone reviews is quite high, so you would think that the most wanted (Not most bought, or best, just wanted) would have changed a bit by now?
Plus, who the hell is Mwg anyway? I mean I've seen their phone at the top of the list for quite a while, but the manufacturer? Never heard of em, and possibly for that reason I know I don't want one, and trust me I want a lot of things, shiney new things, with flashing lights, and weird features I'll never use, I want them all..
Just curious
Apple addict?
that's a feeble collection of Apple gear!
i've got about twice that much apple hardware!
(admittedly, yes, i am going to be queuing outside my local O2 on friday morning)
These are ALL just Apple Sheeple ... fortunately.
The sick, pathetic, the no life other than blow their wad ($$) on over-priced Apple Gadgets and most of all - stupid Sheeple (sheep-people) - are the only ones that follow the word of Stevie Gods everytime a new crApple product comes out to replace the previous one released just months previous.
Fortunately for the sane world, crAppleTards are only a miniscule minority. (of course these same fools will vote for another big iPhony - Barak Hussein Obama)
If it helps...
...I'm camped out in front of my computer. A bit more comfortable than Regent Street today.
It's well known...
...that New Zealand has more sheep than people... It's just unusual to find one that owns/requires a tent and can verbally reply to interview questions.
Webster Phreaky
Man, you really need to get a girlfriend.
Why bother camping out?!
I'm going to walk into my local CPW on the way to work and pick up the one i've reserved today...
@Webster "The Bore" Phreaky
While this violates my normal 'do not feed the troll' policy, I just thought I'd mention that you appear to be a bit of an arsehole.
And no, I don't own a single piece of fruit-themed electrical equipment.
Confirmation ..
Just had my confirmation email so I won't be queuing in the street, mine will be hand delivered by a man in a red and yellow uniform whilst I sit and read about how long it takes for it to be jailbroken.. I reckon 36 hours, anyone else want to start a sweepstake?
"Man, you really need to get a girlfriend."
Yes, they look good and cost a fortune too. ;)
Camping tents?
I don't think I've ever heard the phrase 'camping tents' before - is that 'London-speak'? Are they a bit like 'eating spoons' and 'wearing socks'?
Also, no more of these 'Apple fans are sheep' comments, people! Grow-up, for Gods sake - if you don't use or want an iPhone then fine, but don't pretend that your Windows Mobile or Symbian phone is oh-so-unique.
HTC Touch Diamond here I come :-D
Come on Webster
I know you're at the oxford Street iStore. I'm suprised the Reg reporter didn't get a picture of you.
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> Man, you really need to get a girlfriend.
Eurgh... not me... I'm gay and in love with Bill Gates.
@Webster "The Bore" Phreaky
I too own no apple hardware. I second AC's comment.
bring back the ginger iphone smasher
If my memory serves me correctly , didn't el reg do a story of some anti-gloablisation protestors who smashed an iphone and ipod on stage at some festival?
It may not be anti-globalisation, but something else. Apologies if i have it incorrect.
Hopefully he will be back to do the same for the new holy grail of phones.
Anyway, we could do with that fella as a new icon.
Queueing for a phone?
It does seem peculiar. The updated firmware will be available simultaneously for the old 2.5G iPhone, so surely if you're desperate enough for the iPhone 3G to schedule hours or days to staying in one place then the smartest thing would be to get an old iPhone (to be honest, if you're queueing then you probably already have one), add the new firmware, then sit next to a wifi router? Maybe grab a 3G later, when they're plentiful.
iPhone at Apple retail in UK
I thought they weren't able to sell the iPhone in the Apple retail stores here in blighty as the staff were unable to do the 02 contract stuff?
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To be honest, I've been pretty immune to the iPhone madness, but if Rumour #1 is true, and TomTom will be available for the 3G iPhone, and not Rumour #2 that it won't be, then I can see myself actually getting one of these. Otherwise, it's an HTC Diamond for me I guess, to replace the trusty (but now rather old) TyTN. Either which way, I shan't (and I hope I will be only one of 60 million others) be queuing up for a phone of all things....
webster sqeaky
"everytime a new crApple product comes out to replace the previous one released just months previous."
yeah, the iphone only came out 12 months ago... wait.. thats actually called a Year on some planets!!
and apple are the only one who bring out new products every few months... no-one else does.. they have the decency to leave it at least a year or 2 (or 6 of you buy microsoft ! lol)
Its called 'progress' you muppet, move out of the stone age. Things move at a different pace now. If you cant keep up, then leave the stage.
@ Webster Phreaky
Gotta agree with Lee on this one. You got some obviously serious issues, and man was that was quite an erratic rant. Ever thought of getting some professional help? If not, could you at least be a good chap and spare us of your haphazard invective in the future? Most of us are here for serious technical news and occasionally a good laugh. Not for your therapy sessions.
Q. What is the first thing you learn at Journalism school?
A. Globes do not have corners.
That is assuming one went to Journalism school and didn't just do GCSE media studies.
Mine's the one with Pedant on the back.
Good luck if you think you've reserved
There are *no* reservations for the iphone 3g. Some store managers decided to do so and have now had to backpedal based on the number they're actually getting (as in the reservation list is many times the size of the stock allocation) and the fact that O2 is clamping down to stop the practice.
As a local store is verified as having only 6 16gb phones for the launch (and I can easily see that being an average) if you're not there at 7/8am when the doors open forget it for a few weeks. It's going to be as scarce as the Nintendo Wii.
I think I'll just fuel-up the cat and take my grandson fishing and let somebody else drool over this new-fangled contraption.
@ Lee and the "Anonymous Coward" ... yes you are.
The BEST you can do is a personal attack? No rebuttal with facts, not retort with substance (other than the substance you smoke) That, everyone normal reading this, is your TYPICAL Apple Kool Aid Drinker Retard.
Here's the facts: After 20 years of VERY HEAVY advertising Macs are STILL less than 5% of the world and US market. Fact, the iPhony is STILL only in a distant THIRD PLACE in Smart Phone Sales, a tiny blip on the radar in total mobile phone sales (per Gartner Research and other non Apple pimp market analysts). Fact, Apple is an iNOvator, they copy other innovators products and then claim the breakthrough as theirs - iPud a rip off of the Rio, OS X a rip off of BSD UNIX and Windows, and Apple is LAST to 3G on the iPhony which was a rip off of LG's GUI interfaced Smart Phone shown CeBIT Germany a year before.
Face it Apple Sheeple, YOU are the losers. You CAN'T even carry on a debate.
O2 rep says 24 phones per store on Friday!
I called O2 today to query the status of my order.
I was told that yes, an iPhone 3G has been earmarked for me, along with a number--not that a new number matters to me, as I will request my old one be ported across. But, by the time my order was accepted by the O2 system, the company had already run out of stock to be pre-allocated.
The rep I spoke to placed the blame quite unequivocally on Apple, telling me that insufficient supplies of the iPhone 3G had been shipped to the UK in advance of Friday's launch, because Apple is launching in 22 countries without having produced enough units to go round.
I was also told that Apple and O2 are in discussions taking place on an hourly basis (for 'discussions' read 'heated arguments', perhaps?) to address the stock shortfall as quickly as possible, with iPhones being redirected from other countries to Britain. I suspect that's a reference to Apple not supplying Canada with as many iPhone 3Gs as originally promised, because Steve Jobs is personally angry, according to a number of reports, at the outrageous tariffs being offered by the Canadian telecoms partner. So it looks like a lot of their iPhones are coming here instead!
I asked if it was possible for me to attend my local O2 store early on Friday morning to pick up an iPhone 3G there, but was told if I did that then I'd have two iPhones. And, while I could cancel my online order ahead of Friday, I was asked to bear in mind that the most iPhone 3Gs available to O2 stores around the country on Friday would probably be two dozen units each.
So... if anyone does queue on Friday, and is number 26 in the line or even further back, they'd better pray everyone ahead of them is a bad credit risk and won't emerge from the store, um, victorious. Otherwise, forget it unless you're insane and prepared to camp out on the street starting now.
Needless to say, I kept my online order. The rep I spoke to couldn't say when new stock would arrive, but did say she thought that extra supplies were already arriving and set to arrive daily from now on. So hopefully I won't have to wait a considerable number of days or even weeks--or, gods forbid, months. But really, the simultaneous worldwide launch by Apple is looking increasingly like it was very poorly prepared for. And I'm likely to be without a mobile phone altogether for a while, as my contract with T-Mobile ends next week. If I didn't let it end, I'd have to give them another month's notice of termination and I don't want to end up with two phones on the go, costing me money, at the same time.
I'll bite
"the iPhony is STILL only in a distant THIRD PLACE in Smart Phone Sales"
After one year in the market. What terrible performance. I'm calling my dealer and selling my Apple shares. Right now.
"OS X a rip off of BSD UNIX"
No it really is. The BSD license specifically says "don't rip us off man - we wrote this code and there's no frickin' way you hippies can use it". The Regents of the University of California must be turning in their graves.
No backwards Apple wristwatches?!
> "One Apple addict said he wants a white 3G iPhone to expand his already booming Apple hardware collection, which includes an iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, iPod Touch and, of course, an Apple T-shirt."
Guess they don't make those Apple wristwatches anymore? The ones that ran backwards, hands moving the wrong way around. Pity.
Dear Webby
I almost didn't believe it was you until you STARTED using capitalised WORDS again. I now feel better.
Hmm, with regards to the explanation the 'sheeple' = 'sheep people'. Did you think you were so clever coming up with that it needed spelling out? I'm afraid we all above that type of show and tell here. We'll give you a pat on the head for the effort though.
Yo, Webster
Steve Jobs is a multi-billionaire.
You aren't.
Why do you think that is?
(p.s. and what's 'Kool Aid'? Some toxic Yankee confection?)
@ Webster Phreaky - Just can't resist...
"The BEST you can do is a personal attack?" - No. But that'll come later.
"No rebuttal with facts, not retort with substance..." - Here ya go...
"After 20 years of VERY HEAVY advertising Macs are STILL less than 5% of the world and US market"
So? I never understood this whole market share argument. As if having the largest market share has anything, anything at all, to do with being the "best". However you happen to define that. And Apple defines that by being Apple. BMW, Porsche, Bang & Olufsen, Apple, Ferrari etc... all have less than massive market share in their respective niches. Some would say that's part of what makes their brands what they are. In any event, Apple is doing what Apple does, and they definitely are NOT focused on dominating the desktop market. That would unequivocally be looking backwards for them, and probably the sentiment of most people who truly understand the convergence of computing and media.
"Fact, the iPhony is STILL only in a distant THIRD PLACE in Smart Phone Sales , a tiny blip on the radar in total mobile phone sales"
Fact. It's been out less than ONE year. Fact, the smart phone market has been trying to become more than a blip in total market sales for nearly a decade. The flush of recent `Me Too's' is an obvious indication they have made an impact on what has been a staid market (in sales growth). We'll see where it goes from here, but nothing flatters like imitation.
"Fact, Apple is an iNOvator, they copy other innovators products and then claim the breakthrough as theirs"
No they don't. For a really good coverage of this 'fact', I suggest the Economist cover article "Apple and the Art of Innovation." Very clearly spells out that Apple does not suffer from `Not invented here' syndrome. They take ideas from wherever they find them, clean up the user interface and dial in the user experience. That's always been their forte.
"Face it Apple Sheeple, YOU are the losers. You CAN'T even carry on a debate."
Now for the personal attack. Do you obsess much? Seriously, this much hatred and fume for a piece of cheap electronics? My god man, I simply can not imagine how you manage to muttle through life with such fixation, mania, and neurosis. Please see my previous posting, and especially Lee's --- Get a girlfriend, get a boyfriend, get some help.
Seriously though...
Do you really have that little external stimulation in your life that you'd go through this shite to buy this inane product from a company headed by a serial twat like Steve Jobs?
You need to see through the fog because Apple are no better than MS. You just believe their shit because you've bought into some Harvard marketing BS that values aesthetic over content.
Morons the lot of you.
Gee Freaky
Gee Freaky, there seem to be a lot of Noobs on here tonight who havent experienced your "humour" before.
Webster Freaky did actually admit in a previous comment he does own, and continue to buy apple Hardware, he just posts the way he does cos he thinks its funny to make fun of fanboys.
Its not that he's off his meds, its that he thinks he's funny. Its up to you to decide whether he's right or not.
I'm suprised El Reg hasnt actually got Freaky (and amanfrommars for that matter) their own column yet. Regular articles from them would be a great way to spend all that advertising revenue from those annoying ads that cover up the articles. No I dont want to do a survey darnit!
>"The BEST you can do is a personal attack?"
this from the man who resorts to calling people sheeple and Losers! lol
ok... now for the debate:
Apple are are 4th over all, slightly behind Acer. Quite good for for a company with a proprietary OS. The have full control over their own hardware and OS, not dependant on M$. This is especially important now with the lacklustre performance of Vista. Other Hardware manufacturers are seeing low sales because of the failure of a major supplier. Terrible position to be. Simple economics for any business.
Despite only being in the mobile market (OS and Hardware) for only one year, having only one model and it only being 2G, Apple have got 3rd position and climbing fast. Not bad.
If the ipod is a ripoff of the Rio, how come the Rio didnt get 80-90% market share? Possible answer.. its not as good?
OSX a rip of off windows/unix??? please. come on. If you are going to debate, please do it properly. Dont show your foolishness. I will give you the benefit of the doubt on this on that you meant a different point.
Doing a product in a different way is not a ripoff. Doing the SAME is a ripoff.By your reasoning, at this stage you could class ALL products as a rip off. thats just stupid. Ferrari ripped of Ford??
Lastly, Apple have , what, 20billion in cash reserves?? What a failure!! If you have done better, then you are qualified to shoot them down.
ah, but sure, you are gas anyway. always good for a laugh.
dumbpeople ?
Is it just me...
Or does the 'the future first Japanese owner of the iPhone 3G' seem to be wearing very strange trousers?
iPhone? who wants that? Back in my day we had a cup attached to a piece of string attached to another cup. And we made do. And you know what? we got much better reception back in them days...
Shoot me for saying this but.......
I'm actually considering an iphone sometime after release, but I'm not that desperate to camp outside an O2 shop to get one. Pleh....I'll get one in a few months when the excitement has worn off and they've released several firmware fixes for them.
And no, I'm not an Apple fan. If I purchased an iphone it would take the grand total of Apple appliances that I own to 1. I'm only considering it because you can supposedly get them free on a £45 a month contract and that's not much more than I pay anyway.
Re: anti-glob
"didn't el reg do a story of some anti-gloablisation protestors who smashed an iphone and ipod on stage at some festival?"
That was the Gates and Ballmer show, wasn't it?
Anyway, for all you anti-Apple folks out there (especially the hilarious Mr Freaky) - look, the second-gen iPhone is actually a half-decent product. It's pretty much the first smartphone not crippled by a rubbish OS, with lots of features on there that actually make it useful. Sure, I don't think it's going to take over the Blackberry market (not having a proper keyboard for a start will always hinder it), but it's hit that sweet spot of being innovative and useful at the same time. Much like the second-gen iPods did. Once the fuss calms down I might even get one.
And yes, Apple are money-grabbing evil Capitalist scum, as are Microsoft, IBM, Sun etc; that's capitalism for you. Get used to it. It's better than the alternatives.
Re: Webster Phreaky
Gentlemen, Webster is a national treasure. While BOFH attracted me to ElReg, readers' comments (Orlowski, *please* allow comments on your articles) are what makes me a regular reader. Especially Webster's fascinating rants and typically British sarcastic humour.
If I was less sane/more on hallucinogens, I'd say the same for amanfrommars. As it is, I'm using him for sanity calibration... if his posts start making sense, I'm in obvious need of vacation/large quantities of alcohol.
"Especially Webster's fascinating rants and typically British sarcastic humour"
Rants they are, but typically British sarcastic humour? Phreaky doesn't know the meaning of sarcasm, he just produces bile.
Anyway, I can't believe he's British. His grammar's rubbish and he makes too many references to something called kool Aid. Kool Aid is something unknown in the UK. If he was British he would refer to Tizer.
Amanfrommars is definitely British though. His grammar is nigh on perfect and he uses words in a subtle and very intelligent manner, often producing long sentences that Bernard Levin would have been proud of.
@ Ivan Headache
Damn, that's what happens when you learn English by watching "Star Wars"... Yoda I'll listen to no more.
Let me reformulate my statement, to be clear on what I wanted to say:
"Especially typically British sarcastic humour (ElReg staff, various readers) and Webster's fascinating rants."
There. :-)
@ Those new to Webster
I have to agree with Svantevid, Webster is a treasure.
I don't think he's British, he is most likely located at the Lane County Psychiatric Hospital (151 West 5th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon 97401)... right between Redmond and Cupertino.
A week gone by without a comment from Webster or amanfromMars, is a bad week!!!
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