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18 August 2003

Back

Was busy motorbike riding and socialising last weekend. Last night I had an ISP outage to contend with. Oh well, I'm back now.
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Quote of the day

And I think you'll all agree that via my mathematically quantifiable analysis, Arnie should be president of the world and Heath Ledger cleaning public toilets on Pluto.

- Tony Taylor
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The ideal replacement

Yobbo has found the perfect guy to take Hugh Mackay's spot at The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Yowza

If you ever want to convert someone to motorcycle racing, show them a tape of last night's MotoGP race in its entirety.
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Hero picture

One of my personal gods: Kif - the ever-suffering starship officer from Futurama.


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Discomfort in The Mother Country

Jason Soon aint much enjoying the English summer.
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The Green Left Weekly spreads hoax

The stinky, brain-dead ones are growling about the latest Evil American Cultural Outrage.

A woman’s place is in the struggle: Hunting for Bambi

After mud-wrestling, we didn't think it could get much worse. “Hunting for Bambi”, the latest form of “adult entertainment” for some in the US, is a sadistic twist on the already sadistic sport skirmish (paintball).

“Hunting for Bambi” involves shooting paintballs at naked women within a hunting scenario. The punters, dressed in army fatigues, pay up to $30,000 for a game, which is taped so they can take it home and show it to their buddies.

The women aren't allowed to wear any form of clothing, only sneakers. According to founder Michael Burdick, “The main goal is to be as true to nature as possible . I don't go deer hunting and see a deer with a football helmet on, so I don't want to see one on my girl either.”

Yikes. Those American capitalist pigs. Hey, it's another excuse for really, really deep greenie cultural analysis:

The appalling welfare system in the US also leaves many women financially desperate. This will get worse if US President George Bush succeeds in planned reforms to crack down on single mothers getting money to live on.

The US media constantly reaffirms that to be valid and part of the US community, one must be affluent. Yet wealth is available to very few. For example, 20% of the global population consumes 80% of the world’s resources, the remaining 80% of people have to fight over the crumbs. This division is also evident in the US.

Those who have limited funds, and limited ability to earn more because of poor education, are forced to degrade themselves to live up to expectations.

By blaming women, furthermore, the misogynist instigators of games like “Hunting for Bambi” get away with it, and can continue to profit out of the objectification of women.

Thank god we have the greenies to keep track of all the evil in the world. Too bad the whole thing is a hoax.
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Fellating Fidel

Misha examines the BBC's fawning coverage of the left's favourite tyrant.
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Jeebus, not again

Niall Cook has another interminable post in which he waffles at length about non-issues before finally spitting out his justification for using my money to fund the ABC. What can you say to this lunacy?

I don’t have to justify spending YOUR money, which it isn’t anyway, anymore than I need to justify spending MY money, which it isn’t. Taxation is not our money.

Um, where did they get it from then?

But before then, we have his attempts at argument:

Southpark is televised on SBS, which doesn’t help Tex’s argument much given that he decries the very existence of the national broadcasters,of which SBS is one.

Mmmm, well seeing as I'm forced to pay for SBS, I have a right to watch it. Should the opportunity arise for me to withdraw my involuntary support, I will quit watching it. By the way, I have seen exactly 3 episodes of South Park, one of which was in the USA.

And here's his reponse to my posting statistics proving the unpopularity of public networks:

Says who, Tex? Says Tex, that’s who.

No, says the ratings figures. Here's the SBS figures (which Niall provided, proving his memory is as bad as his reasoning ability) and here's the ABC figures which are actually worse than the 16% I quoted first.

C’mon, at least make a fist of it. Don’t simply resort to a Bandwagon Fallacy because you have no other avenue.

Um, here they are again stupid guy:

% of taxpayers funding the ABC 100%
% of taxpayers watching the ABC 16%
% of taxpayers funding SBS 100%
% of taxpayers watching SBS 5.5%

Can't refute them? Didn't think so. He does however whinge about them:

Just a note to readers: The above ARE NOT definitive data. The above are selective representations of what Tex would have you believe. The realities of television viewing public over an extremely small programming sample as Tex has attempted to use, as opposed to overall users of national broadcaster electronic programming would be vastly different to the above. I originally provided the example in refutation of his 'near-zero' premise. Now it's being taken as the be all & end all in ratings evidence. I’m left to wonder just which out of Tex or myself, is living in the real world.

So? Provide different figures. The fact that you have not speaks volumes. I'm providing them out of context? The provide the context. Show us these "vastly different" ratings figures...... the silence is deafening.

The bottom line is that Tex is not comparing like with like in his argument that the ABC should not exist because it can’t compete.

No, it shouldn't use my money to exist. If it can survive via private subscription then that's just fine by me. How many more times do I have to explain this for you to understand, you dolt?

The ABC is a NON-COMMERCIAL broadcaster. Capitalised so it catches Tex’s attention. Its funding comes from Joe Bloggs.

Well, D-U-H. Niall sez it's taxpayer funded. Did anyone else not get that impression from my last three posts?

I’d love Tex to explain to me why, if because it cannot avail of commercially based funding and cannot compete on the same level, the Corporation still participates in Logie awards, indeed wins a few too. Surely one needs ratings to win awards, or are they just handed out because the public don’t rate the broadcaster? I’m sure Tex will have the answer to that one.

Niall, the ABC wins the industry voted awards, not the popular voted ones, on account of the ABC not being popular and all.

You want to break up the ABC, per se, because YOU don’t like it and YOU believe YOUR viewing and listening choices are superior to mine.

No I don't. I want you to pay for your choices, and for me to pay for my choices. You are not paying for my Foxtel channels, but I am paying for your ABC.

Tex, it’s clear that you have a gripe, but it’s a gripe you can’t substantiate.

Aside from proving hardly anyone who pays for public broadcasters actually watches them of course. Niall considers this point unimportant.

It’s a gripe you can resolve by opting out of the system which you are a part of. If you’re willing to do that, then be my guest.

No, I can't opt out, because paying for the ABC and SBS is mandatory. Get it?

Continual argument through the use of Ad hominem and a host of related logical fallacies does nothing to further your reasoning.

Statistical proof with links are dismissed as logical fallacies. Well, Niall is a far-leftie after all.

It’s painfully obvious to me that you can’t hold a debate and simply need a lever off which to pivot your ludicrous need for vitriolic comment.

As refuting simple statistical evidence, elementary reading and knowledge of simple principles of taxation are little beyond your abilities, it seems debate is not something you know much about.

This is like trying to teach algebra to a hamster.
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