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Listed below are comments made by Auqakuh between Thursday, 12th November 2009 and Tuesday, 22nd December 2009.

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A European team for the 'noughties' 12:11pm on 22 Dec 2009 For the record, the decade (probably) started in 2000 (although you could argue for 2001). The millenium, on the other hand, definitely started in 2001. There was no 0AD, so 1 + 1000 + 1000 = 2001.
The cup that runneth over 4:47pm on 04 Dec 2009 "Summat" is not a word. :|
Bad in Japan 9:29pm on 02 Dec 2009 Great, a graph with three tyeps of blue, none of them distinguishable from the other...

That clears things up. :p
Facts about file-sharing 6:48pm on 02 Dec 2009 'Being a "mere storyteller" myself and having spent, oh, I don't know, 20 years on working towards becoming the published variety, I find your suggestion that 20 years of study and hard work is somehow not "work" because it doesn't involve manual labour.'

I forgot the word "absurd". Just sliiiide it on in there...
Facts about file-sharing 6:27pm on 02 Dec 2009 @71 "Books will follow soon with e-readers, good"

Really? Music I can understand; singing artists for example are pretty well paid and earn a huge amount of money for, let's be honest, doing something we can all do in the bath to varying degrees of skill.

Authors on the other hand earn something like 10% of the monetary gain of their creative product, spending in some cases many thousands of hours effort on that product. The publishing house then prints it and takes the majority of the cash.

How exactly is it justifiable in this case to steal the little income that authors do get from their work? Granted some authors earn a -lot- more, but that's just because they're popular and well-known and therefore the publishers can't slap them around as easily.

Being a "mere storyteller" myself and having spent, oh, I don't know, 20 years on working towards becoming the published variety, I find your suggestion that 20 years of study and hard work is somehow not "work" because it doesn't involve manual labour.

I can understand the point that music is over-inflated with cash and not really at all about music anyway anymore - but with writing it's a whole other kettle of fish.
Facts about file-sharing 6:21pm on 02 Dec 2009 What would we lose if the music industry died? Nothing.

People would still make and sell music.

I therefore fail to see why I should care if the industry loses money. Last I checked the artists who stand to lose the most aren't being forced to live in cardboard boxes under bridges because people with far less money than them want to listen to their music but perhaps don't have the money to do so as much as they'd like.

I myself do not steal music (although I have in the past, mostly back in the Napster days), but I certainly couldn't afford to buy as much music as I'd like to. Meanwhile, talentless autotune-reliant pretty faces swan around in limosines and snort various expensive drugs straight out of the pockets of their fans.

I have so much sympathy, honestly. Those poor rich people. How do they cope.
Wenger boys against men 7:27pm on 30 Nov 2009 Woah. Robbo didn't say "owt" or "by gum lad" or whatever it is he usually litters his blogs with.

I am shocked. Shocked.
Touchline bullies must be silenced 6:39pm on 29 Nov 2009 @4 Hahaha, that's pretty funny. "Finishing 17th is now considered a great season for many teams." How many?

One, I presume...
Ed Miliband replies 10:45am on 18 Nov 2009 I like how Milliband does not understand the common euphemism "in your back yard" and apparently thinks the asker of the question literally meant back yard.
Football's forgotten superstar 5:07pm on 12 Nov 2009 I think it's all much Adu about nothing.

Sorry. Someone had to say it.

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