V interesting, thx. Not sure how you find the time! My preferred uk source is the guardian. I find it more thorough than the rest

Would be v interested to know the names of the papers you read...will you share?

Eh? What percentage of home TV setups involve 3rd party audio? I'd be astonished if it's above 10%.

I think you are underestimating the amount of pointless complexity that's out there. Let me give you an example. I have the following kit at home:
- a 5 year old Loewe Xelos, which comes as a screen and separate signal box
- a bluray player
- a Freesat HD box
To get these gadgets to work well together, requires an *insane* amount of cabling and other peripherals:
- the telly and signal box both have powercables, and there are two further cables that carry sound, video and control signals between the signal box and the telly
- bluray requires an HDMI to DVI cable for video and two analogue cables for sound, plus power cable
- Freesat requires an HDMI to DVI cable for video and a digital optical cable, optical-digital coax converter box and digital coax cable for sound, with a power cable for the freesat box and the converter
- there's a DVI switch box, which requires a power cable
- I tried to have digital sound out of the bluray as well, which required a digital audio switch box with its own powercable, but that didn't work and analogue sound wasn't too bad
- finally, the freesat box requires an ethernet connection to a homeplug so that we can watch iplayer

This is a ridiculous and fragile infrastructure. It still doesn't work that well. It is this that Apple will presumably be looking to sort out. Of course, my specific issues are an outcome of the specific equipment I have, and current equipment will eliminate some issues entirely...but only at the cost of introducing others.

I'd hope your experience would have shown you that:
a) there is a downside to every action and also to every lack of action, and that therefore
b) downside must be weighed against upside and now allowed to dominate thinking if you want to conduct the right analysis
That's the experience Voltaire was drawing on to make his famous quotation.

Seriously? You think that's evidence? An assertion that you know some of the people involved?

Erm. You told me it can be found in balance sheets. Presumably you think it's spottable there by laypeople, or else you would have not suggested a self evidently fuckwitted idea. Now, do you have any actual evidence that the situation you assert exists really is the case? Not hand waving, not telling me it really can be spotted, but actual evidence of the sort that wouldn't immediately be laughed out of court, or a newsroom? Let's bear in mind that you have made an assertion that the fraud exists, not me. So you'll only be taken seriously by people who don't yet agree with you, like me, if you have some actual evidence. I suspect that you don't really care much about doing anything other than airing your prejudices though.

Ok, I'm calling horseshit on this. A vague assertion that it's possible to see fraud if you look in balance sheets hardly cuts it as evidence. Especially as if you look in the annual reports of eg the uk fairtrade foundation, you can see the exact value of the premium to producers.

Not sure when godwin got expanded to cover all right wing politics. Nor how many apolitical critics of fair trade actually exist. I've never seen any, that's for sure

I asked for evidence. You kinda made my point about the echo chamber

Legibility? To have an e-copy also? Didn't particularly sound more onerous than the normal security requirements of an institution to me. Ymmv