You are very welcome – Thank goodness the BBC do still put out some brilliant documentaries, yours very much included. I get to watch about 3 a week on the i-player, ” Before the big bang ” & Al-khalili on thermodynamics were some I recently enjoyed, but I guess unlike you I have no idea what the possibilities could be if they were allowed to be fully explored within this artform.

I myself have spent most of my working life working from home as a freelancer so I got to participate in a lot of family things despite often working long hours, & when I did spend time working in an organisation, I still did my own thing only lasting in these positions because my designs sold well.

It does seem to be another or a part of the ” Big Lie ” that success should only be judged on how far a person can climb up the slippery pole & how many things they can acquire along the way, I seem to have ended up reasonably happy & satisfied with my contribution, so far, totally by default.

Golem the capitalist running-dog?

Say it ain’t so!

😉

Perhaps it is even bleaker than Neil Postman imagined:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman

In our pursuit of profit through rampant consumerism, it seems as though we haven’t even managed to “amuse ourselves to death”, but instead “abused ourselves to death”.

Wonderful chilling sobering stuff. Thank you very much for posting it.

In my industry, televisin, the awful thing is it was possible to do wonderful things. Film is such a beautiful, powerful inspiring medium. Things you could feel proud of. But the tide of the last twenty years has been strongly against any such achievements. Those in charge, and I knew quite a few of the top people personally, had turned their backs on the old notion of doing something to be proud of, in favour of a more business approach of getting more viewers and, as the man wrote, shifting more product’.

Over the years it has become harder and harder to get anything wonderful commissioned. Ideas are not wanted. Spectacle and titilation are wanted. Failing those then something soothingly familiar which asks no questions makes few demands and slips past with the least effort is what TV prefers.

And those who make and commission the stuff have the same conversation the Ad man talks about. Everyone pats themselves on the back for how many hours, evenings, weekends and holidays they work – and for what?

http://www.businessinsider.com/its-not-worth-it-linds-reddings-short-lesson-in-perspective-2012-11

Courtesy of Google Translate, I don’t speak Danish.

The True Award celebrating the year’s best films with a total of 9 offers. The evening’s big winner harms people, and a creative customer has been able to hand-pick good craftsmen. Best campaign came from a well-known supermarket chain.

It was sold to The True Award, Friday evening was presented in rustic surroundings of Locomotive Workshop in Copenhagen. The many people were served Denmark’s best commercials of the experienced award-ceremonies, Anders Lund Madsen – and the good mood was by no means broken up by the winners spoke films that were rewarded in the past.

The evening’s big winner was Call Me and “Speak properly., It is contagious” – from the freelance-based agency Jangaard, Mark & ​​Ko. Two weeks ago, it was for Involvement Award at the ram, and True Award was not one, but two awards: Best Film and Audience Award the 2012th

http://www.bureaubiz.dk/Nyheder/Artikler/2012/Uge-40/Her-er-Danmarks-bedste-reklamefilm

I agree the cookie law ranks amongst the more stupid of the mass of legislation that emanates from that place.
I haven’t implemented it on any of my sites because the only traffic I get is from East European spammers and Chinese hackers.
Golem however gets lots of hits from many sources and his posts are well informed and well written enough to get up the noses of TPTB, it is always worthwhile to be prepared.
The article you linked to says they have 0 dedicated staff working on compliance, this is only because they haven’t decided how they will monetize it yet.

Did someone say HSBC were laundering Drug money and facilitating Gun Running again.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/offshorefinance/9665741/HSBC-investigation-Drug-dealers-gun-runners-and-Britains-biggest-bank.html

No duck 🙂 but just as expected an old codger ad, this one trying to get hold of my imaginary £250,000 nest egg, which I suppose is kind of poultry related. There is also a banking expert who wants to talk to me – for a laugh I would imagine.

Wonderful targeting, they fiendishly managed to get my age nearly right.