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Can We Have It Back ?

Well, here we are, London is apparently hosting the next Bretton Woods.. So moronic anarchists (guys, why don’t you just kill each other and get it over and done with before making a mess on our TV screens if that’s your world view…). Actually, let’s keep with anarchists. My local anarchist when I grew up became a town planner,  ended up sending a flyover dug forty foot deep through my home town and built a supermarket on the beautiful, beautiful seafront of my home town. Thanks, Mark. I’m sure you’re now very senior within the council and due to lead the whole of Wales into bunkerdom one day soon.. 

So, anarchists are real people who can’t be bothered to work as hard as the rest of us, who manipulate and use anyone who they come across. And then compromise beyond belief… They are parasites and morons, but thankfully, do not take this the next step into islamic nihilism.
A bit like the bankers they loathe. Except they do things on an industrial scale. The City of London in the past decade makes the British Empire look like a global welfare state.
The bankers have taken trillions from poor people and ordinary people and spent it on their domains in offshore resorts (of course, they don’t pay tax), as well as their houses in the Cotswolds and art by that moron Damian whatshisname, who even managed to take the money people in and got some of that ill gotten lolly into his lil ol bank account – just a half billion or so (nice one fella…). They put up with stupid socialism because it was, well, stupid, like everything else Tony did, and Gordon lapped up with glee and that stupid smile…
So, now. Totally straight question. When do we get our money back, Gordon ? And Tony, when are you going to pay all of that back; a question I couldn’t even ask of that ogre Thatcher ?
You get paid bonuses for success, but there were  no successes, just short term scams. So now, can we have our money back ?
G1, G3, G7, G20, G30, G50. Whatever. Can we now, please, have our money back. And our morality with it ?

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Sign Of The Times

Nothing shows how out of touch the political classes are with modern media than the current controversy about the UK Home Secretary (equivalent to Secretary of State)’s husband (and paid political adviser)’s paying for cable porn shows – and then his wife claiming this -allegedly unbeknowingly - on official expenses.

The irony is that the expenses claim was meant to be for internet access, which is rife with free video porn, which cannot be traced, unlike the 18 rated content itemised by the cable company. Duh!
In fact, in the same week a report for – yes – the Home Office indicated that most children in teh Uk were getting their sex education from internet porn.

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Sports Roundup

The BBC did very well with its simulcast of the first Formula1 race of the season. Considering that it was broadcast at 7am (or was it 8am – this daily hours thing has me confused as usual), and most internet TV video watching goes on during work hours, perhaps the pressure wasn’t that great, but I was able to view the whole race with little buffering on my paltry 2Mbps connection.

Mind you, the quality of the coverage wasn’t as slick as ITVs, but that was made up for by the lack of commercial breaks at key junctures in the race. As I write, the paid for internet TV service from Sky Sports is madly buffering away at medium setting.
Meanwhile, although I’m admittedly not a basketball fan, Google’s decision to stream the March Madness games using Silverlight seems as technically strange as MSN’s adoption of Flash video. However, many content owners still specify WM DRM, which Silverlight supports.
But what value is there to sports online ?
It has long been used as the backbone of mainstream TV services, but its success has been limited online. MediaZone and Perform’s OmniSport.tv are perhaps the stand-out services outside the US, but I’ve heard mixed reports on their relative success and both parties are in the game of paying large guarantees to the right owners. Other service such as Sportal have long fallen by the wayside.

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