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7 August 2003

Quote of the day

Could the real reason why social conservatives oppose gay marriage be much simpler? They oppose it because they hate gay people. They think it's disgusting what these faggots do. They think the state should punish them for their depravity.

If not, could they perhaps explain themselves?

- Alex Singleton, Samizdata
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A battle of wits with an unarmed opponent

Niall has responded to my criticism of his lame ABC defence with this bizzaroworld interpretation of market forces:

Dear oh dear, it seems Tex just doesn't get it. Television, radio in fact practically any form of persistent public media depends on popularity ratings to survive.

Really? SBS has been surviving for over twenty years with near-zero ratings. And the ABC marches on, despite not being able to get anywhere near the commercial networks. In short: they aint popular, but they're surviving thanks to public funds.

Publicly funded broadcaster or not, Tex. Use your brains, if you have any, and wake up to the realities. If people like yourself stopped watching/listening and what's more, whinging about not getting something you have to pay for, then eventually, you wouldn't have to pay for it, because it would atrophy and die.

Talk about thinking with yer arse: if I stop complaining then people would make me not pay for it? How does that work? "Excuse me minister: we have had zero complaints about the ABC this month. We'd better shut it down or we'll be killed by indifferent voters at the next election!"

Public broadcasters rely on taxpayer dollars. As long as they get those dollars, they've survive. And they continue to get them because people are forced to pay for the ABC whether they like it or not.

Having a national broadcaster is a means for government to deliver some of the services that broadcast technology offers.

Well, why do they have to?

Simply because it doesn't suit everyone's political ideologies is not a valid excuse to have the concept blackballed.

I agree. The ABC should be canned because the government has no right to extract money from people for a service they don't want.

Then again. you'd most likely prefer the murpack monopoly. It's aimed at the brainless.

I prefer the murpack "monopoly" (note dude: it can't be a "monopoly" of there's more than one supplier) because I don't have to pay for it.

And don't ya love leftie elitism? They're more popular, so they're "brainless". Nice going Niall, you egalitarian you.

There's far more of interest and edification on the ABC and SBS networks than ever appears on commercial or pay-to-view broadcast networks.

Great, you should have no problem getting private funds to run it then.
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Cars, cars, cars......

Tim Blair is horrified by my potential four-wheeled purchases. As are most of his commentators (including Lileks). And I've gotten a ton of e-mail about this too.

Paul Bickford writes:

Blair's giving you a right good slagging off over your choice of four-wheeled transport, and rightly so; why would you want one of those horrible little buzz-boxes?

Coz they've got 4 wheels and they're cheap, dude. It's transport, you dig? That's the only reason I'm buying a car: transport. 4 wheels and a roof. It's to drive to work in, transport people and carry things, and that's it. Spending money on anything else is a waste of money. If I want speed thrills, I have my ZX-9, which can blow any car off the road. Why spend money I can't afford on something to get speed thrills I already get with my bike?

Jake D. sez

Before you make the worst decision in your life please take a moment to think. All those cars suck more than a $2000.00 hooker on speed. Perhaps consider an older Ute or station-wagon - both can carry heaps of stuff and no one will ask you if it's your girlfriend's/Mum's.

1. Anyone who buys a car on the basis of what other people think is a dick.
2. My mother is dead and my girlfriend doesn't drive.

The ute is a possibility though, They seem to be doing good deals on the Hilux. The bench seat can carry the driver + 2 passengers, so the giving-people-a-lift part is covered. And I can take my bikes in the back.


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Another Richard Neville essay

As they're all pretty much unintelligible as a whole, here are excerpts from this one: "Slam Bam Thank You Frisco"..........

- Australia's policy toward (so-called) refugees is likened to the Nazis:

The architects of the Final Solution for refugees, our Prime Minister of Lying, John Howard, and the equally deceitful Minister of Immigration, Philip Ruddock, have been caught with their pants down and their hands extended.

- Richard's interesting views on parenting:

The father of David Hicks recently encaged himself on Broadway, New York, to draw attention to the illegal depravities of the US military, and, in a righteous world, would be crowned Father of the Year.

Mmmmkay.....

- here he agonizes over the existential horror of American hotel pastry:

As usual, the World Futures Society held its annual conference in that branded monument of unsustainable corporate dreaming, the Hyatt Regency Hotel, this time in glorious San Francisco, where the cost of an in room croissant would - in any other setting - incite a rebellion. Instead, it was just a lot of grumbling.

- and he's squealing his tits off again about technological progress (get a load of this):

Everyone agreed the pace of change is accelerating exponentially in all areas of science, technology, medicine and much else. Such a frenzied pace is leading to psycho-cultural clashes at all social levels, whether it’s Venus meeting Mars, the stone-aged dwellers of the Amazon adopting mobile phones or the abolition of middle-management hurling worker bees against the silvertails. “In order to survive, it is imperative to develop a new mindset”, suggests Maureen O’Hara of Saybrook College, who believes the levels of consciousness once expected of leaders, is now expected from everyone. The European enlightenment no longer applies: “We are all immigrants, we are all refugees”. Yes! What is being asked of us is beyond what we have been socialised to achieve, she told the delegates. The choice is stark. Either regression or transformation.

Wait, there's more...

The former is manifested by western political leaders, the vultures who retreat to the reassuring fantasy of borders and boxes: them/us, win/lose, good evil. Such simplification and rigidity and can only be countered by an emerging consciousness of solidarity and collaboration, one which accepts multiple stories, permeable boundaries, a relishing of paradox, the joy of complexity.

Or maybe everyone will just get on with their lives like they always have, you stinky old fart.
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