nostr:npub1trdnqrfstufc45awha43p6xy2n0v6czuhapzh4r09hap08dg0c6s9gussx (also BCG are neoliberal ghouls marketizing and NPMing their way through as many public utilities as they can, spreading destruction and incredible cost overruns in their wake)
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> BCG are neoliberal ghouls
Good to know. I'll keep this background in mind when I get back and read the whole thing properly. But even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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> From the quote this sounds like a horrible way for anyone to actually work
How about from reading it in the context of the whole article? I haven't read it all but my first impressions were quite different.
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> Ryan’s pitch meetings never fail to get a chuckle out of me
I wonder if we could convince him to set up a PeerTube channel for PM...
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> Ryan’s pitch meetings never fail to get a chuckle out of me
Favourites? Especially among the older ones? I only started watching regularly about the time Ryan set up the separate PM channel.
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>bGST as a regressive tax, which I think is generally accepted
Certainly is on the left. It came in with Rogernomics/ Ruthenasia, so it's mysterious to me that no left political party has proposed abolishing it since the Alliance.
> better for local retailers who have to compete with imports that, if small enough, have no GST (or has that been 'fixed'?)
Well beyond my expertise. Any accountants in the house?
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> better for local retailers who have to compete with imports that, if small enough, have no GST (or has that been 'fixed'?)
Well beyond my expertise. Any accountants in the house?
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Gareth Morgan in 'The Big Kahuna' described GST as a regressive tax, which I think is generally accepted. But then he didn't include removing it in his plans. I didn't understand why. I think I asked on the book's website/forum thing, but never got a response.
But it would make things so much simpler, and better for local retailers who have to compete with imports that, if small enough, have no GST (or has that been 'fixed'?)
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>bGST as a regressive tax, which I think is generally accepted
Certainly is on the left. It came in with Rogernomics/ Ruthenasia, so it's mysterious to me that no left political party has proposed abolishing it since the Alliance.
> better for local retailers who have to compete with imports that, if small enough, have no GST (or has that been 'fixed'?)
Well beyond my expertise. Any accountants in the house?
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> Don’t know if you’ve been following Eurovision
Not really a thing in Aotearoa, although I loved the Will Farrell movie about it. Link me?
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> way too dependant on my Android
Have you tried the Anbox tool discussed in the linked article for running Android/Linux apps on a GNU/Linux distro?
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> And less investment to improve what you are doing, e.g water companies and sewage in the UK
... and dodged taxes.
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> People currently are using a wifi usb dongle
Been there, done that. It's a faff. I'll wait. Thanks for the info.
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> the open access requirement will be met by researchers paying journal publishers
Ah. Regulatory Capture it is. The good news being that if they chose to corrupt it instead, it would seem the lobbyists didn't believe they could *stop* an Open Access push by the US federal government.
> You cannot just post a copy of your article on another service (legally) like ResearchGate
But... is it "open access" if it's under an ARR copyright? Isn't something like a CC license required?
#Twitter. It is an X parrot.
*bows*
Thanks you, you're too kind, I'll be here all week...
nostr:npub1rs0r68700ws7qx87hpaf0e2y44y8qvpse0r377zrwsgvlg8g9wws5pe2eq Rewatching from the start now. So worth it! That opening number, and the way they did the opening theme, gold!
nostr:npub1rs0r68700ws7qx87hpaf0e2y44y8qvpse0r377zrwsgvlg8g9wws5pe2eq I think it's the meta-awareness the crew have, of the fact that they're singing at that it's weird. But they manage to avoid making it hammy, it's understated and hilarious.
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> I skipped it, but you've encouraged me to watch it now!
I started watching at ridiculous o'clock and started nodding off half way through. I enjoyed what I remember of the first half so much, I think I'll just rewatch from start.
nostr:npub1rs0r68700ws7qx87hpaf0e2y44y8qvpse0r377zrwsgvlg8g9wws5pe2eq Rewatching from the start now. So worth it! That opening number, and the way they did the opening theme, gold!
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> Elsevier and the other uber profit-makers are very excited about this - and no doubt were lobbying for it
I don't think Open Access means what you think it means. But the devil is in the details, as always. If you have some evidence of this lobbying, and some explanation for what exactly they got out of it, I'm all ears. Are you pointing to Regulatory Capture?
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> Elsevier and the other uber profit-makers are very excited about this - and no doubt were lobbying for it
I don't think Open Access means what you think it means.
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> Eternals definitely should have been a series
Hell yes. I posted about that the other day. So much potential. Wasted.
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> I'm probably more interested in the comic-book-as-a-series-of-movies experiment than I am the movies themselves
That's an interesting point. Imagine if Synder had been given a series of movies to do Watchmen (WCU) or the Wachowskis had been given a series to do V for Vendetta (VCU?).
nostr:npub1gwu0hv66kpy6wpvphf4tzern3q7fsjmge7x0zc290kyzt8c0e3dq3dsvwp But in some ways I find movie series less interesting than the potential of a series of 8-12 episode seasons, FletNix style.
I mean, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are an amazing body of work. If it wasn't for the lousy final season (or two), Game of Thrones would be too. Still is if you're willing to do without an ending. But if the quality had been maintained to the end, it would have been even more amazing than the Lord of the Rings trilogy (not The Hobbit movies, they sucked).
"Gizmodo publisher G/O Media is also forging ahead with AI-generated blog posts, despite one that was widely mocked for getting a chronological list of Star Wars movies and TV shows very wrong. That and other AI-generated articles that appeared across the G/O network this month infuriated the company's human writers and editors."
#KrisHolt, 2023
#MOLE #AI #Gizmodo
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> I'm probably more interested in the comic-book-as-a-series-of-movies experiment than I am the movies themselves
That's an interesting point. Imagine if Synder had been given a series of movies to do Watchmen (WCU) or the Wachowskis had been given a series to do V for Vendetta (VCU?).