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From: David Kennedy on 18 Apr 2010 11:11 Bruce Horrocks wrote: > On 17/04/2010 21:27, Richard Tobin wrote: >> In article<1jh3za4.gw5i4h12elt8gN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, >> Steve Firth<%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Except they didn't, in the end, ban his work. >> >> They realised that the ban was a publicity disaster, so they pretended >> it was a mistake. > > In the comments to one of The Register stories, an iPhone developer says > he had his (pass through app that aggregates headlines, or similar) > rejected because there were some 'unfortunate' headlines on the day it > was reviewed. He implied that he'd resubmitted it with no changes and it > had then been accepted. > > So it rather sounds like Apple's vetting mechanism is robotic with no > initiative allowed to be displayed by the staff doing it. > Sounds about right. -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Dr Geoff Hone on 18 Apr 2010 17:51 On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:45:47 +0100, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: >I've never seen a political cartoon from the last 30-odd years of the >USA worthy of the name. They've all been castrated, every one. So you have seen precisely how many? USA Today usually has a good cartoon, with about one in three being the equal of most UK cartoons Other papers to the same standard of cartoon are: San Francisco Examiner San Jose Mercury Orlando Sentinel Boston Globe The Examiner shares its cartoonist with the Washington Examiner, but the other three all put their editorial cartoons on-line. Geoff
From: Rowland McDonnell on 18 Apr 2010 23:27 Dr Geoff Hone <gnhone(a)globalnet.co.uk> wrote: > real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: > > > >I've never seen a political cartoon from the last 30-odd years of the > >USA worthy of the name. They've all been castrated, every one. > > So you have seen precisely how many? [snip] Such a question is trollish, since the question is both unanswerable and unreasonable. Your trollish behaviour is unwelcome here - just shut up. Rowland. (who's spent the last 30 years looking at political cartoons from all over the place, tens of thousands of 'em - tens of thousands) P.S. Your various other points are not worthy of a response, since they are trolling. Such up. P.P.S. You tell me: exactly how many poltical cartoons have *YOU* read over the last 30-odd years: what makes you think that your opinion on this subject has any worth at all? I ask because anyone who thinks that the cartoons in USA Today are up to any kind of tolerable standard clearly has a very poor ability to judge the worth of political cartoons. My ability is much better than yours, so I reckon the reason for this is that I've read a lot of such cartoons since I was about ten years old (more than 30 years back); and that you know nothing to speak of about political cartoons, but are just trolling. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 19 Apr 2010 01:20 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > Apple's shown its true colours some time ago - when it explained to the > > EU that it was right for Apple to break the law in Europe by denying > > cross-border purchases to EU residents, and it was right because Apple > > wanted to do it. > > As I understand it it was the record labels that enforced that, not > Apple. [snip] <sigh> Where is your evidence for this nonsensical allegation? Oh look, you have none whatsoever! Do you have anything to go on except your knee-jerk assumption that it's Rowland's idea and so must be wrong? No? Nope. I thought not... So just shut up unless you've got some facts, eh? Lay off, Jim - you're got a morbid obsession with me, and you really ought to try to calm down and put a lid on it. Rowland. P.S. The record labels cannot `enforce' illegal action against the power of the law, as you allege: that is what makes your claim nonsensical. The record labels insisted on consumer rights limitation tech; Apple didn't want it. Apple's sales policy regarding refusing to operate in a legal fashion regarding cross-border EU sales was as far as I'm aware purely Apple's idea, Apple's standard sales behaviour, the way Apple has always behaved. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jim on 19 Apr 2010 02:01
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > As I understand it it was the record labels that enforced that, not > > Apple. > > [snip] > > <sigh> > > Where is your evidence for this nonsensical allegation? > > Oh look, you have none whatsoever! Oh, for pity's sake... I take you _do_ know what 'BICBW' means, right? "But I Could Be Wrong". In other words _I was stating that what I posted was nothing more than an impression_. I assume you'll now post a link that proves what you state? And no, just posting STFW won't do. [snip usual nonsense] Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK Please help save Bletchley Park - sign the petition for Government funding at: (open to UK residents and ex.pats) http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BletchleyPark/ Thank you. |