Dominic West wow

Flory with fraud 'Flemming'

Penicillin as a viable drug was the subject of a bbc four thing that stared Dominic West who you might know better from the wire (my blog).

It’s nice to see that talent is finally recognised and that British TV can pick up* unknowns without them having to do american acting first.

Subject wise: It is interesting to note that while today we know that we can be healthy but if you go back 100 years a cut or scratch might be deemed dangerous and kill you from the complications.  Such a writer who details this is George Orwell and as i have read his stuff (see blogs i read) it appeared to cover those bases.

* irony

Digital Britain, failed execuitves (Lord Carter) and monopolies and the rest.

This blog post was originally titled “The problems with pay tv in england” which got my attention as Dan Marks had resigned as CEO of Hybrid IPTV Service, BT Vision, which is part of British Telecom (also known in this blog as British India).

Mr Marks Resigned because he got fed up with the UK only having two big pay tv providers and other issues, while his crap system struggled along on the very lame BT plc consumer broadband network which he was demanding that the bbc (the big broadcaster) pay it to provide the content BT plc’s customers request.

So much for network neutrality.

Ironically BT plc then decided to help kill a pay to provider of sports matches by not selling its product – idiotic does not even begin to describe it

It gets worse as his iptv service apparently sucks the life out of the internet connection and so makes the internet pretty unusable according to many reports i read. During the  ‘popular’ hours of 1600 to 2400 every day even you tube grinds to halt on the bt retail network.

All of this probably has to do with the television rights to sports, where it appears all lame brained men go retarded over a same sex team of homosexuals who play with a ball on some grass.   I’ve blogged about the idiots who pay to get tv with adverts as well so you know my position on them – foolish.

Not all of BT is run by subnormal retards, but most of it appaers to be and i cannot for the life me want to stream tv (a read only media) via the internet, its no game where i can participate in.

Many of those subnormal retards bt plc employs mean that they have low aspirations to what the network should do, unlike say in Korea or Japan where networks are fast. If you happen to live in a place where these subnormal’s don’t think it is wise to invest in upgrading its network means no broadband at all for some parts the country.

So if you happen to be the monopoly provider and refuse to install things your customers want – how do you ‘encourage’ mass adoption and how fast should it be ?

Another failed idiot this time from NTL (now renamed Virgin) called Lord Carter was asked to make ‘digital Britain’ a reality. His response ?

• a £6* government tax per year on each phone line to ‘help’ British Telecom install stuff
• cap traffic to 2mb
• etc

So what’s wrong with that ? well if like us you don’t use British Telecom, or a large supplier that gets a tax benefit then i have to pay to upgrade our isps network kit, is 2mb really fast it sounds as if this idiot has been talking to all the wrong people.

Oddly BT is a company which seems to be looking backwards television (plenty of competitors), no investment unless it is in profitable areas and overselling its capacity. It is also want for consumers to pay twice with advertisers geting to adverts on there requested webpages and that affects everybody.

So see any problems ? nah i can’t either.  British Telecom should not be allowed to even run pub let alone run a network or even provide phone lines as there not up to he job.

* estimated, and may go up

Rupert Murdoch your Chinese spy

Somehow this does not come to me as a surprise (bbc).

Mr Murdoch seems to wish to destroy the art of the honest newspaper employee, and the business of news making it into a one man dictatorship.

Sig Heil Murdoch

Newspapers and ’science’ – why paywalls won’t work.

This is review of the book Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, it has an isbn of 9780007284870 ( a revised edition).  I will deal with the paywall aspect later.

Matthias Rath vitamin milionaire - who causes the death of 300,000 south africans a year from hiv aids.

This book is a great read and murders anybody who might think newspapers get it right all the time.  The book covers brain gym, beauty creams, homeopathy,some mass murdering vitamin pill sales men (Matthias Rath,Anthony Brink), and not forgetting the best shit smeller (and millionaire vitamin sales lady too) Gillian McKeith in the media business.

It also covers some very bad statistic reporting on the mmr vacine and mrsa, and something on file sharing too (something i rant about) which have been high in being ‘newsworthy‘ in newspaper circles.

The author is a doctor by trade and writes in the guardian newspaper and covers from the mundane foot spas to shit smellers along the lines of the kellogg family (breakfast cereals) say imdb:tt0111001.

The book shows the misunderstanding of science in the world of Rupert Murdoch who wants internet news as a paid item.  The trouble is that if Rupert Murdoch wishes to report lies and not ever check facts then the news product in any form isnt worth paying for in any case.

So what is the lesson we learn ? well the book is a 5/5 bananas read, and newspapers/media need to do better to make sure the saying garbage in – garbage out (GIGO*) does not apply to evil billionaires

Read the book, ignore newspapers (in any form) is the scientific conclusion i reached.

* perhaps Gillian McKeith** might smell Rupert Murdoch’s shit. ** who bought a fake american phd for $60 us dollars*** – thus anybody can be a ‘nutritionist’ even Bananas in the Falklands. **** Dr Bananas in the Falklands phd anybody ?

propaganda on the bbc

Jonathan Ross says i got this for my love mpaa lies

Jonathan Ross (toff image to the right) i have accused in the past (my blog) of being a bad film critic for the bbc.  I still hold this view.  Recently he recycled a bad film piracy report and churned into one sided ‘fact‘ and broadcasted it.

In fact when briefly i listen to the bbc I get the impression that only bands signed to the big four record labels get airplay, and if like Mr Ross you don’t like the american films he has to review he gets no star guests on his chat show.

The fact that Mr Ross went the extra mile for the mpaa means nobody should take him seriously as a film critic.  The reasons are clear for if you see no evil and hear no evil your just a sheep and we all ask for a sheeps opinions all the time dont we all?.

Why tv news is bad argument 2

Read this now did you hear about it on tv ? It has overtones of this book.

A quote.

The New York Times‘ David Barstow won a richly deserved Pulitzer Prize yesterday for two articles that, despite being featured as major news stories on the front page of The Paper of Record, were completely suppressed by virtually every network and cable news show, which to this day have never informed their viewers about what Barstow uncovered.  Here is how the Pulitzer Committee described Barstow’s exposés:

Awarded to David Barstow of The New York Times for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.

By whom were these “ties to companies” undisclosed and for whom did these deeply conflicted retired generals pose as ”analysts”?  ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and Fox — the very companies that have simply suppressed the story from their viewers.  They kept completely silent about Barstow’s story even though it

I covered the pulitzer in Battlestar Galactica. Oh reason 1 why tv news sucks.

you cannot even make it up…

Bananas in the Falklands was talking to Charlie (who is head of zoo security and has had a mention or too in this blog) and he told me the that those television types have a program called baboon woman*, and one where people pretend to be a pig or other animal for a few days.

the man who became a pig with his new girlfriend

Oddly they found members of the zoo visiting public to become animals for the week**.  Assisted by presenters and associated nut jobs whom have the job role of  ‘pig psychotic’.

Alas being a monkey who sexes chickens presents us with some issues but chicken psychology and chicken role play was not in the how to sex chickens manual.  I informed Sally (an ape of the mind) and she too wondered if it was time for all us apes to stage that planet of the apes revolt.

* not seen ** the things people do to get on television

John Pilger, Hidden Agendas

is a book (isbn: 0099741512) and was picked up since Market Forces (my blog) gave it a mention. Mr Pilger is one of awkward media figures which means he is quite difficult and does not do spin. That’s quite upsetting to politicians, fortunately he see’s the irony too.

The book is a little depressing to read but it makes good on Rupert Murdoch bashing and covers a range of politicians of the left and the right and the usual suspects are there.

His coverage of msm and the few who control it tell an interesting story, he also cautions that not all press barons (Maxwell) have the truth as the priority.

The book wonders globally and points finger both at the left and the right and whatever your politics there’s something here that will make you think. Worth a read

In the copy i read whole pages had been marked in pencil* being important by a previous reader

5/5 Bananas. * dual use wmd material

The War Game

well there was this n bomb and ....

In 1965 the Bbc did a thing on Nuclear war – and it never got showed until 1985 it was called ‘the war game’, (wiki) I’ve discussed the latter ‘threads‘ (my blog) here and so when it came up for a viewing (not on tv) recently it was a ‘must see’.

It is well worth seeing even today, even though our wmd bombers are much better than those of the 1965 an’t progress great !

Being that the population witnessed war first hand, it calmly explains the whys and whatnots of what kills you in a radiological attack. For good measure it throws in experience of the only attacks of h bombs on Japan and firebombs so it does not have to pander to the audience.

Whatever your view – it is a make you think piece of tv that does not get made today. So i do suggest a view

5/5 Bananas

Christmas 2008 tv – awful

pummey hell - lets overact this shall we

Bananas in the Falklands does not watch much television at the best of times and only two things* where deemed to be worth a visit to the zoos security office to tell them to record it for us or a view over christmas.

The first thing was Dr Who on christmas day, we had visitors and so this was recorded.  The Doctor once again did battle with a Charles Dickens story (which i hate) and those non rusty cybermen who it appears escaped for a christmas dinner.

It was terribly overacted by all and sundry oh dear. Most forgettable.

The other thing was a film on after christmas,  that film was superman returns which a search on this blog will tell you i did not see it in a cinema /blue thing/pink thing or disk of any description.

To surmise my post suppermans assets** where digitally reduced just in case some catholic priest had penis envy.  Oh and it was a yet another superhero film.

The film did not do well at the cinema and so turned up on the bbc,  I watched this with Charles and his crack team of zoo security staff one evening it was ok for a tv film but had no innovative feel to the superman story which felt the desire to remake superman again but with a sinking boat action scene, and aircraft ‘rescue’ being new and like the disaster components noted above are stock of quite a few blockbusters.

That was it.  Being a optimist i am looking foward to missing the 1974 comedy repeats on next decemeber***.

*1973 comedy is so funny ** susage and two sprouts under tights and underpants *** much less funnier than the 1973 christmas special