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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 10:07:33 AM

They are getting longer, once they get to 4 hours then you are in Great Hall of the People/Make Enver Hoxha Great Again territory....let's hope we never get there.

In the time before time the important thing was to fit the speech into the schedule of network TV.  Now the audience watch steamers.

The length increases revenue

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Norgy - Today at 09:50:35 AM

Isn't it just relative to, say, Alito? 

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 09:40:52 AM

The press really needs to stop referring to Elena Kagan as a "liberal" justice.  She isn't.

Actually, Jackson really isn't either but that's more of a hot take. In her case, it is mistaking temperament for ideology.

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Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by Norgy - Today at 09:10:33 AM

No, we still hate Spanish fishermen. 

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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Duque de Bragança - Today at 07:37:56 AM

And the BFI stream I watched was a superb piece of tele-cine, if that word is even applicable nowadays?

Well, movies are captured and digitised differently these days, but movies, not just television programs, still need to be transferred to home video and streaming.
I believe people say more often than not scanned (original camera negative was scanned at 2K/4K/8K whatever using Data/Tele/cine whatever name brand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine

More info than you probably need. 

#6

Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by Duque de Bragança - Today at 07:31:34 AM

What changed compared to the last times you decided against accession talks?

I mean it's not about actually joining yet, right?

It could be that the US/Greenland situation is doing to Iceland what Russia/Ukraine did to Sweden/Finland.

Especially since Trump did say he wanted to take Iceland. 

Iberian Spanish fishermen lost their bogeymen status?

I see the fishing lobby is still powerful, so alles in Ordnung. 

#7

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Richard Hakluyt - Today at 07:08:22 AM

Re the Baftas mess. I think more than anything I am dismayed by the incompetence displayed by the BBC. They had 2 hours to edit the broadcast so I can't imagine what went wrong. There have been other incidents, such as that dodgy editing of Trump's speech, that have also slipped the net. I just feel that their standards may be slipping at a time when they are already facing existential threats.

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Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by Grey Fox - Today at 07:01:22 AM

Where do you get these words, Leg?

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Richard Hakluyt - Today at 06:57:27 AM

They are getting longer, once they get to 4 hours then you are in Great Hall of the People/Make Enver Hoxha Great Again territory....let's hope we never get there.

#10

Off the Record / Re: [Gay] Gay News from Around...

Last post by garbon - Today at 05:53:22 AM

Not all posts are worth reading.

True. I had taken everyone I had on ignore off of it. Someone definitely went back on with that tirade, though.