Comment has it really been nearly thirty years? (Score 3, Interesting) 42
I remember that day as vividly as if it were yesterday, and how I cried for the Challenger Seven.
I remember that day as vividly as if it were yesterday, and how I cried for the Challenger Seven.
FYI: in the UK the RIAA equivalent would be the BPI (British Phonographic Institute) and the PRS (Performing Rights Society). The PRS are the ones who go round extorting £300 "fees" out of shop owners who like to listen to commercial radio in the back office and it just happens to drift through to the public area. BPI are the ones who chase six year olds who share the latest Miley Cyrus video on Facebook.
Parliament is the result of the agreement reached which directly resulted in the drafting and point-of-the-sword ratification of Magna Carta, by which agreement the People governed themselves by way of a council of elected commoners (House of Commons) who decided laws with a group of hereditary barons (the House of Lords) as the check with the Monarchy to ensure that laws passed did not tend treasonous (as they have done since 1911, yet another point-of-sword agreement which merely ensured the continuation of the United Kingdom as a Constitutional Monarchy rather than a violent revolution into a Republic). Since 1999 the Hereditary Peers in the House of Lords have been abolished, hence the final check against treasonous Laws being passed has been removed - handily, the capital crime of treason has also been abolished.
buggery was decriminalised back in 1993(?) when the age of consent was reduced to 16 (it was 18 for hetero couples and 21 for homosexuals).
don't even go there, I'm still thirty years from mandatory retirement but I'll never see a pension since Gordon Brown fucked off with the pot.
I was thinking more along the lines of Phase II or Continues, both fan-financed (the former pretty much entirely paid for by the producer out of his own pocket for the first season, they now have a faithful reproduction of the entire Desilu sound stage including some original parts such as the GNDN corridor panels). Continues has James Doohan's son, Chris, reprising his father's role as Scotty (and he totally looks like him!), while Phase II boasts guest stars from all over Trek including Nichelle Nichols, Garrett Wang, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Cirroc Lofton, the late great Grace Lee Whitney, Ethan Phillips... and guest directors including Tim Russ (who also directed Renegades).
(disclosure: I am a huge fan of the Phase II and Continues projects)
fuck off, Jamie Bulger's murderers were out after 8.
Seriously. You get less for fucking babies.
it's relevant for those who still use DVD for home theatre.
Thank you, come again.
I had an A77! It was a Mk.III given to me by my old French teacher, stood me in good stead for six years until I lost it in a move. They're apparently making a bit of a comeback as retro audio gear goes, I wouldn't go out of my way to find one tho... I like my minidisc too much..
I have a dozen minidisc recorders and a case of blanks, so I'm good until they stop making AA batteries. You can't get media anymore, they stopped making blanks about two and a half years ago.
Are vinyl records still "hip"? Still got loads of those and spare cartridges for my player. As far as I know you can still get vinyl.
BTW, I still run my home automatics (lights and socket timers) on an Epson HX-40, which also happens to have been my first Z80-based computer (yep, got that one even before my first ZX81). My home webserver runs on a Dell Latitude CP, which is a Pentium II with a battery that lasts for frickin' ever. What more could you possibly need for a media portal?
touché.
and the Starbucks, and the McDonalds, and the Subways, and the ASDAs, and the Aldis...
the Duchy of Lancaster was worth something like £320million in rents last year. Most of the public spending on the Royals is actually the Duke of Edinburgh's stipend, who is the only one since 2012 to actually get a stipend.
I'm not an audiophile (hate labels) but my idea of recording live is a stereo microphone on a boom made from a ten foot fishing whip, fed into the line input of a minidisc recorder. For the win.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
