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Comment on UK Democracy still functions by Matthew’s Website » A retraction

Matthew’s Website » A retraction — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:56:56 +0000

[...] I feel I owe a retraction from my previous piece: matthewhutton.com/2009/03/uk-democracy-s… [...]

Comment on Mathematics by Eraserhead

Eraserhead — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:27:15 +0000

Unfortunately for you my site is all done with Wordpress now.

Comment on Mathematics by Graham Handley

Graham Handley — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:02:12 +0000

Hi Matthew, just stumbled across your site whilst trying to work out how to add a pdf to download on my site (created in iweb), is your site still created using iweb? Just wondering how you added the diary and also how to create a form to capture people email address, it looks neat and tidy on yours, we used wufoo but don’t really like it. Would really appreciate your help, sorry for the generic request!!! Regards Graham

Comment on About Me/Contact by Eraserhead

Eraserhead — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:20:04 +0000

I can’t really help you off forum, that isn’t really fair to me.

I certainly wouldn’t use Java to develop Cococa applications these days, its depreciated so use Objective C, if you need to use Applescript you can use it with that.

Comment on About Me/Contact by Chan

Chan — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:14:18 +0000

Hi Matthew,
I was following one of your thread at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=193143
I was wondering if you could help me out “HOW DO I PASS PARAMETER” here.

Waiting for you help.

Regards
Chan

Comment on Copyright Reform: Updated by Eraserhead

Eraserhead — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:59:57 +0000

PS The Economist is currently running a debate on this very issue at http://www.economist.com/debate/debates/overview/144

Comment on Copyright Reform: Updated by Eraserhead

Eraserhead — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:50:46 +0000

BartX

Now to reply to your first post. My Arstechnica post is probably being a little cocky and unfair.

I suppose as you did vote for a candidate who voted the right way last time, then you do have a leg to stand on with regards to outrage on the position the parliament have taken. Though Arstechnica did have a post earlier in the week talking about this vote, so it seems to be reasonable to expect the readership – especially the commenting readership – to have taken the time to contact their EU representatives, and maybe that would have been enough to make a difference.

The thing is that if noone (or very few people) lobby against changes like this but the record companies do, why shouldn’t they get their way? From the EU parliaments perspective they can assume that noone else really cares.

PS Thanks for linking to the transcript, I’ll take a look at that to find out how my MEP’s voted.

Comment on Copyright Reform: Updated by Eraserhead

Eraserhead — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:07:01 +0000

I’ll reply in detail to this later, I have to go to work.

But I can reply to your final comment:

As I’m not a lawyer I really can’t say what the legal ramifications would be for continued use and this doesn’t constitute legal advice. However I’d imagine that you wouldn’t be able to use them anymore.

Comment on Copyright Reform: Updated by BartX

BartX — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:30:51 +0000

Maybe one additional remark:
Any idea what would happen to sound recordings that were in the public domain (over 50 years old) but will not be anymore (under 70 years old)? And what happens to the people that are using them as such?

Comment on Copyright Reform: Updated by BartX

BartX — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:05:24 +0000

Hey Matthew While I agree somewhat with your comment at Ars Technica:

To be perfectly honest anyone criticising the EU for doing this who lives in the EU better have at least written or communicated with their MEP about this otherwise you don't really have a leg to stand on.

I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Pages 123-124 of the detailed report of the EP's session on 2009-04-23 show clearly that the people (and even party) I voted for about 4 years ago, voted against the proposal. So don't I have a leg to stand on or have I made the correct choice 4 years ago? Did you make the correct choice or didn't the candidate of your choice get elected? BartX PS This might have something to do with the hugely different ways voting works within the EU. We don't have a the-one-with-the-most-votes-in-a-region-wins-and-the-others-get-nothing system. (Our system might be called "proportional", but I'm not sure.) PPS My first try at a properly formatted WordPress comment …