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All that will happen is the big studios will either become consumers or go out of business. Their power is the distribution channels and back catalogue, but you can burn the back catalogue for all I care, I want it new and fresh. And ok, fine it is perhaps easier to watch TV on the computer using a DVB dongle, but it just the same old tripe. Currently I am watching One Tree Hill, might be a new episode but who the hell knows they all just merge into one really. We need to let the writers free, may get something a bit more punchy. The internet is the perfect distribution medium and this move will further spear head the expansion of bandwidth for us all. And what about interactive TV, perhaps we could have seamless multiple endings, depending upon one's viewpoint.
Doug Clarke: C.C. failed as ‘The Man,’ so Carmona can’t
Well, isn't this a fine kettle of chowdah? As the actor John C. McGinley says to Sgt. Barnes (Tom Berenger) in "Platoon" when he's asked to lead a small band into the jungle one more time, "I got a bad feeling about this one, Skip." The Cleveland Indians are, for the third time in these American League playoffs, going to have to send a boy out to do The Man's job. No usual boy, this Fausto Carmona kid, but still a boy when it comes to this grown man's game of major league baseball. On Thursday night, C. C. Sabathia — ostensibly The Man and in the hunt for the Cy Young Award along with his mound opponent, the estimable Josh Beckett — took the hill in a situation that called out, nay, begged for a strong stomach, if not utter brilliance, from two men. One came running, the other didn't even bother to answer the bell.
How stripping the streets of traffic lights and signs may be a life ...
The report accepts that climate change is a reality and says that Mediterranean weather could increase travel to and within Britain, resulting in added congestion. It cautions that flooding and falling trees will be a growing threat to the transport infrastructure. It also points to the increased likelihood of sudden structural failures resulting from subsidence and landslips because of soil saturation and the scouring action of rain and rivers. The report does not regard biofuels as a viable solution on the scale required to replace fossil fuels. It points out that biofuels would be competing for limited land with much needed food crops. It calls on the Government to put in place legislation and financial incentives to encourage conversion to hydrogen as the road transport fuel of the future.
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