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Commented on Canada's "TV tax"/"Save local TV" squabble explained
Thanks for posting this - I was rather confused about what was actually being addressed. I'd like to see better Canadian programming, but I've very nearly given it up. The only shows I've really enjoyed in the last 10 years...
Commented on UK stamps to feature famous album covers
Cool! I'll definitely have to pick up a set of the Bowie ones. @timquinn Ziggy Stardust was recorded at Trident Studios in Soho :)...
Commented on The real HAL 9000
The first computer my grandfather had would sing this song. It's probably my first memory of what a computer could do. (I was young.)...
Commented on Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009
RIP Patrick. You were the first movie star I ever swooned over....
Commented on Search Engine's Jesse Brown: Boing Boing Guestblogger!
Yay Jesse! Search Engine is one of my favourite podcasts....
Commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
My mother woke me up when she heard the news of the first plane, and I remember turning on the TV and seeing the footage of the second plane. Then I went to uni because I was going to be...
Commented on IT restrictions hurt productivity
At my office I rarely run into their nannying software (though they do have it, as I once was unable to proceed on a link to a forum post for some reason), but what I hate more is being unable...
Commented on Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
@Darwindr I read all the Great Brain books as a kid, then my mother got rid of them (donated, whatever). I've been collecting them again. Fantastic series. I might have to pick this up as it sounds like I could...
Commented on Visualization of US consumer spending
Not surprisingly I'm well above average on the spending of money on reading. Between new books, used books, and buying out of print books online, I'm pretty sure my reading expenses are between $400-500 a year. Unfortunately more and more...
Commented on Goodbye
I'll miss your writing here, but I wish you the best of luck in your new work :)...
Commented on Canadian cops want to wiretap the net
Michael Geist has a post up: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4069/125/...
Commented on Canadian cops want to wiretap the net
@2 Supernova_HQ - thanks for noting that. I use Shaw as well, and I hadn't heard that they were against it....
Commented on Little Brother, the play, on in Chicago until July 18
Congrats!! As with @1 Rupert, I'd love to read the adaptation. I'd also love to pass it on to some of the kids I know at a local charter school, as I bet they'd have fun with it....
Commented on Cats getting stoned on catnip
@11 Geekman- I don't give my cats catnip either. They don't get to the rolling around stage shown in this video, instead they seem to get cranky and even more high strung than normal. However, honeysuckle wood is an awesome...
Commented on Moist, and other words people dislike
Counterpart, even. Ginch disturbs me so much I can't even spell....
Commented on Moist, and other words people dislike
The word I hate most of all is 'ginch' (or its countepart, 'gonch'). Just the sound of it makes me cringe, and to have someone actually use it to refer to their knickers makes me want to hurl. (this seems...
Commented on Parasitic twin erupts from 30-year-old man's belly button
Reminds me of Barbara Gowdy's short story 'The Two-Headed Man'. Creepy!...
Commented on Canadian MPs don't want Parliament videos in the hands of citizens
@Ted8305 There is a channel that shows Question Period and other footage from Parliament. It's called 'CPAC' (Cable Public Affairs Channel). I could get it when I had cable, but now that I'm using rabbit ears, I can't....
Favorited Canadian Industry Minister lies about his Canadian DMCA on national radio, then hangs up on Boing Boing
Favorited Canadian Industry Minister lies about his Canadian DMCA on national radio, then hangs up on Boing Boing
Favorited Canadian Industry Minister lies about his Canadian DMCA on national radio, then hangs up on Boing Boing
Favorited Canadian Industry Minister lies about his Canadian DMCA on national radio, then hangs up on Boing Boing
Favorited Canadian Industry Minister lies about his Canadian DMCA on national radio, then hangs up on Boing Boing
Favorited Canadian Industry Minister lies about his Canadian DMCA on national radio, then hangs up on Boing Boing
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TooGoodToCheck commented on Canada's "TV tax"/"Save local TV" squabble explained
I don't really watch a lot of TV, and when I do watch a TV show, it's usually on netflix or hulu. The last explicitly canadian show I remember watching is Kids in the Hall. Screw you taxpayer!...
Rich Baldwin commented on Canada's "TV tax"/"Save local TV" squabble explained
The worst of this is how the broadcasters and cable-cos bring this non-issue to the CRTC over and over again - thereby pushing back any interesting conversations about changes that could actually make Canadian TV better. I'm glad they're finally doing these ads; the ads make both sides look bad, and in this case they both should....
Jardine commented on Canada's "TV tax"/"Save local TV" squabble explained
I have a thought about another possible reason behind this. The digital transition. I think that CTV and Global are pushing this "Save Local TV" thing hard right now so that if they don't get fee-for-carriage, they can close down local stations (avoiding having to pay for the new digital broadcast equipment) and blame it on not getting fee-for-carriage. And if they do get it, then they have a new source of revenue that can pay for the equipment....
pidg commented on Canada's "TV tax"/"Save local TV" squabble explained
I was on holiday in Canada a few weeks ago, and the ads confused me beyond belief. Especially as we have the TV license in the UK to cover this sort of thing already, and it seems to work well enough. What struck me was this: there IS no Canadian television. Apart from continuous rolling local news (of the "Oshawa man hits hand with hammer!" type), the ice hockey, and, well, "Being Erica", everything I saw was either US or UK-produced....
David Carroll commented on Canada's "TV tax"/"Save local TV" squabble explained
I don't think the broadcasters are interested in closing local TV transmitters. But they may be interested in shutting down local production. Generally, media don't mind capital costs like digital transmitters, but they really like to get rid of operational expenses. For you non-accountants these are called people, jobs and benefits. CTV for example, already has one master control room in Toronto that controls all of the programming and commercials for all of their affiliates 24/7. If they could get rid of local news they could shut down whole buildings and turf the people in them except for local advertising...

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