Monthly Archives: August 2013

Outsourced wifi is effectively pollution

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The cloud , btfon , etc and the other commercial wifi providers who operate in public are effectively just noise, its also evident to me that large coffee chains and hospitals , airports who use them are being lazy ? Just because they don’t understand wifi provision , they think outsourcing it to these companies is a good solution when in reality an open network would cost them very little, or even having these commercial wifi allow connections on the basis of registered device mac addresses which the router firmware determines by checking against a web located MySQL database, so that no web login is required for a provider once you have registered a device with them, as logging in takes too long, every time, what with flipping session timeouts, and bandwidth restrictions too small for streaming video etc, adding to the equation it’s all a real waste of life hidden under the catchphrase “free wifi here” certainly not free of pointless hassle, especially if the login web page doesn’t load immediately, and you have to try and force it to load, such pages loading are dependant on DNS being set to the router ip sometimes which is also real shitty. Basically I consider most of these wifi networks pollution and in fact it’s often faster to turn off wifi and use some of your 3G data plan for small web sessions or are on the move as your device may make the base connection to the wifi providers network and get jammed up, in data provision until wifi is turned off to allow priority for 3G data. If you have 3G etc, but really the demise of the free open networks in favour of these outsourced crappy commercial providers with web logins and charges is a very very sad affair, indicative of the shitty denominator things will nowadays collapse to in British culture, when reliant for provision of public services on the free market philosophical mantra.

Stephen Fry using his fame for a politically active agenda

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Dear Stephen much as I did and still do admire your wit at points, your attempt to use your fame to unfairly sway political / societal agenda at every turn in cultures other than your own, and for the seemingly un-ending array of pet causes, I would take the advice of your agent whomever that may or may not be in imagining you may already be over exposed, your are not this ages Oscar Wilde, as a person who believes people of any sexual denomination can be decent people and have rights to their own sexual behaviour within their own home, they do not IMO whether heterosexual or lgbt have the right to shove their sexuality in other people’s faces, as I believe western culture if anything is over sexualised , and the idea of “sexual rights” a rather odd phrase in the sense that society has rarely any way of guaranteeing any rights ? they generally must garner them for themselves, the governments responsibility on the matter is to make clear, and this I think we can agree on . . . active prejudice toward other people of differing sexual orientations LGBT etc is emphatically wrong, to the extent that governments may not by their silence on such matters encourage societal hatred or physical violence toward such groups.

I on the other can also see Russia’s right to say That they do not wish to encourage the idea of allowing the dissemination of literature that biases or encourages minors below the age of 18 to identify with or sway their sexual orientation one way or another, it is also their democratic right as a nation to make such a choice. Sexuality isn’t something people should be encouraging people to make their mind up about, before the age of 18, Secondarily Russians might say that much older wealthy posh gay men from foreign more liberalistic cultures using their fame to try and tell russians how their culture should be, might seem a little arrogant, especially from cultures whose media class in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s seemed to quite extensively provide silent approval of the sexual abuse of minors by much older people. And there are a few words and phrases that describe sexual life stances I would like to discourage, regardless of whether people are heterosexual or lgbt.

Sexual promiscuity and unfaithfulness, this encourages disease transmission and is not to be perceived as good and normal and should not be promoted by any culture imo at the societal level.

Age abusive sexual predatory behaviour from the old and powerful to the younger less powerful members of society.

Prostitution I don’t think I need to describe why ?

Unprotected recreational casual sex between people in short term relationships.

Culture that promotes the casual-isation of sexual activity or the overt sexualisation of people and culture.

Review : The Hours

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90 out of 100

A film that really succeeds in its attempt to time slice and stitch multiple stories across time together unlike so many others that fail at this, solidified by a strong cast and acting at a high level meryl streeps performance was mesmerising and julliannes also superb, Kidmans prosthetic nose as Virginia Wolfe was a little distracting, yet she provides such a good performance she acts her way out of you noticing it after a while. Ed Harris pulls out an amazing perfomance in this film, in fact to be honest this is one of those rare films in which every actor seems to have simultaneously magically brought their A game into a single confluence of genius. Fantastic work all round, everyone who worked on this film should rightfully be proud of it, great casting, fantastic writing with believable dialog, believable characterisations. A strong film in which both users and critics reviews are seemingly in agreement a good sign, if you only like action or violent films then don’t view, if you want to see a portayal of the range and depth of human psychological existence and life then you will enjoy this film. Philip Greens soundtrack is masterful and moving, this film is what the ‘art’ of cinema was invented for, beware it may well move you to tears as real human existence can.

Au Hasard Balthazar Review

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Critics sometimes with a zeal bind together in pact of unquestioned praise toward a film, Au Hasard Balthazar is a very good film, but just because its of a certain age, shot in black & white and made by a french director does not make it a 10. 8 to 8.5 would be more accurate. The film scenes are often very compact yet still somehow not taught, the pausing shots and the pointed lingering gazes the characters endlessly offer up, seem in this day and age a little heavy handed and serve to irritate more than they succeed in forcing contemplation, also I think some of the actors used though good, seem not of the first order of the best of french acting in this era, some characters seem a little stilted and artificially shallow in presentation Marie endlessly abused, Gerard consistently mean and sadist, the father soppy stern and prideful etc etc. its as though all seems to have been extracted from the general play of realistic dialog, except for the miserable moments.

But still make no mistake this a great film, I just think is been fatly fed of the gilding of ego’d critics, to keen to demonstrate their intellect through protestation-al love of french art house cinema, for viewing i would advise being ready to match pace with the film to get the best out of it and not desire any jollity or resolution from the viewing. If the purpose of the cinema is to unrealistically depress then I would say it succeeds. some elements of plot movement and dialog are stilted or often merely implied, leading the viewer to interpret what has occurred in the gaps, this can be viewed as just plain awkward or a way of attempting to encapsulate through implication more than the film actually contains.

Though this film uses the donkey centrally to link its characters, its a rather vile portrayal of the intrigue of drab french rural life in a small village, and how the unredeeming characters attempt to use each other, just as the donkey is used, maries sad path in this film has been deliberately calibrated to irritate the decency inherent in the viewer, in a way that seems contrived and very depressing with implied, if off camera rape, it seems as if all the characters have been engineered to agrravate as there is too much shade and not enough light, given that none of the characters seem to get or give a break to each other, in the relentless sadness of it all, but the general jist is that for all that we think we might gain for ourselves there is a lacking in life, that leads us in the end even with free will, often to be no happier in life than the seemingly martyred silent donkey in the field.

Cloud atlas review

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This film I guess is a valid attempt at a great film like “The Hours” that just fails to hit the mark. Pretty vapid and bad, the metaphors the morals, the quotes, the philosophy’s expressed the time sliced plot switching are all awful, the parables trite, if this is representative of the novel, I pity the novel to. This film seems to be a barometer of those who think they can identify a quality film, whereas really its just an idiot test. The themes are played too much Hollywood / Disney style similarly the stereotyped characters, the oppressed winning through, the cultural reversal, the playing upon other story’s too greatly, soy-lent green anyone ? its all so very child like and ham-fisted. And not helped by the fact they have used the same actors for so many parts with only poor make up, to set the characters apart as different from the small range of the actors faces used, and it doesn’t really work, nor is it convincing or even logical, and certainly if the intention was to make the cross time parallel character scenario pairings rub nose obvious, its awkward and unnecessary, European’s trying to play Asian’s, Asian’s trying to play western belles and Mexicans etc it just comes off as awkward in fact I don’t see how its any less racist than blacking up, you want to portray people of a certain race ? why not simply hire people to play such roles ? instead of using makeup and prosthetics to this extent , or was it a budgetary constraint ? yes one can quite clearly see how it would tickle an actors ego, to be in such a film as they get to attempt to demonstrate their range in the same film, but really its just jarring for the film and there is an effort to try to crudely and artificially stitch the time lines to each other in some ways cross time to end up with some many lives interacting metaphor etc, but some of the lines in this film are heinous and hackneyed, most of the scenario and character relationships you see coming before they’re even on the screen practically. The fact this film is rated is so highly is an indictment, I find it hard to believe people cant see through this films general film flam. Its valid to attempt such films but when it fails, its seems more dis-ingenuous, then those films that are at least honest about limited intellect popcorn schlock. It also mildly wreaks to some extent vague populist propaganda of white European’s and intolerance of any sort to anything as bad and other globally exported American cultural philosophies. Worst point it plays to a American multicultural audience with ponderous stereotypes, the pseudo Mexican Asian woman (again real bad makeup) who quips “don’t call me a wetback” over the corpse of the evil white gunman who she has bludgeoned to death for shooting her Chihuahua dead, this is cheesy playing to the audience style humour. The philosophical lines such as : “love could outlive death” and “it will never amount to more than a single drop in a limitless ocean” which was sadly followed by – “what is an ocean but a multitude of drops” – I mean really really … if this kind of trite display of child philosophies that appeal to the masses then I guess my review is nought more than … let me see … which rubbish metaphor shall I pick? … A drop of intelligence in an ocean of ignorance?

I also submitted this review to IMDB not that it will be visible amongst the flood their.