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Welcome to simple logic lesson 1

What's with all these "courteous drivers" all of a sudden?

Have you ever been stuck behind one of these morons? Well I am on a daily basis and I'm here to tell ya. They would far better drivers if they were a little more selfish (a la moi)

I'm driving to work each day. I leave the house in a positive mood, I have jimmy barnes playing on my i-pod, everything is fine... right?

Wrong, I, along with all the other road users will inevitably get stuck behind 'the courteous driver'. One minute you're driving along fine and then without any warning what-so-ever the car infront slows down to a stop to let the old boy turning right go before him (and the rest of us)... okay.. I'll let that go.

But 200m down the road, he'll stop again to let someone coming the other way make a right turn, then a further 300m later he'll stop to let a family of ducks cross the road...

Here's the deal folks.. If you really want to be a courteous driver, there is no logic in making way for 1 car if you're going to delay the 20 cars behind you... so next time you plan on holding a ramdom stopathon, do humanity a favour and check your mirrors (it's kinda what they effing are for Y'see).

what is with the governments anti-dvd piracy propoganda already?

here are a few FACTs that the Federation Against Copyright Theft fail to mention.

1, FACT will lead you to believe they are filmed in cinemas and the quality is terrible

in reality, many dvds are direct copies from originals either bought or preview copies distributed to production companies, distributers etc. Also with new and expensive digital cameras recordings within the cimena are excellent quality (better than VHS) also they are filmed by cinema employees when the theatre is empty so you do not get the silouettes of big headed patrons along the bottom of the screen.

2, FACT tell us that you do not get a refund from these del-boy traders

in reality, they will be more than happy to exchange any damaged or faulty disc. Discs cost pennies and I have yet to see any street trader argue about accepting returns.

3, FACT claim that the proceeds of pirate dvd sales goes to fund organised crime and international terrorism

in reality, this is bullshit. C'mon... why is it whenever they get desperate they play the organised crime card, and more recently they've replaced that with terrorism. They may as well tell us that if we buy a copy of superman returns that gangs of paedophiles will take over the planet. The majority of dvd merchants are ordinary working class folks with a dvd writer and a broadband connection trying to make a quick buck for his family.

Hands up who's seen the video piracy is a crime advert in cinemas? Y'know the one... "you wouldn't steal a car.. you wouldn't steal a wallet... you wouldn't steal from a friend... you wouldn't steal from a poor little old lady... downloading movies is a crime"

pretty emotive stuff I'm sure you'll agree... but hold on a second... put your tissues away for a minute.

2004 WORLDWIDE GROSS PROFITS FOR SIX STUDIOS

(Billions of dollars)

SEGMENT Gross Revenue (MPA) Cost of Sales & Residuals Margins Gross Profits
Theatrical $7.4 $9.62 ($2.22)

(DVD & VHS) $20.9 $6.95 $13.95

Television $17.7 $1.77 $15.93

so, there we have it. In 2004 the 6 major hollywood studios made just under 30 billion dollars profit. How much did you make that year dear reader?

remember these figures the next time you see the "you wouldn't steal from a poor innocent old lady would you?" and Y'know something else... if I were somehow able to receive a sequence of intangible binary digits from a faceless and ruthless 'old lady' I think I probably would....... now that they put it that way.

it would appear to me.. an impartial and objective bystander that charging johnny consumer £20 ($40) for a dvd which cost 2p to make is the real theft. Who remembers when dvd's came out and they all told us that they were more expensive than VHS because of "production costs".. but hold it... we all know that VHS costs far more to produce than DVD so why the disproportionate retail prices still?

WWTA?

why is it that the ones who know the least
always seem to know it the loudest?

I'm not doing something I'm supposed to do, I'm doing something I'm not supposed to I don't know about that I don't know about that I don't know nothing bout nothing like that. Destroyed my people are destroyed. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge I wonder if I'm happy wonder if I'm mad I wonder why the whole wide world's so wonderfully sad I don't know 'bout that but I can tell you this That when I drink a lot of beer y'know I gotta piss...off People should be pissed off People should be pissed off for lack of knowledge. Read read read read read read read everything can read and learn learn learn learn learn learn learn Everything can learn Cause there's no tomorrow like today and There's no today like tomorrow and they will stick And they will stick you... in the end.