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On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 21:55 +1100, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:<BR>
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LCA used to be an event where you could bring children along,
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Children would be bored shitless, teenagers, likely wouldnt care too much unless they were interested in FOSS.<BR>
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teenagers would be in a safe environment to learn about technology.
Are you seriously suggesting there is nothing wrong with sharing
content that the Broadcast Services Act would ban to a child-safe
time?
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That's exactly my point, the BSA would NOT ban anything I heard or saw in that presentation.<BR>
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Why, because it is a registered event, ie, joe blow just cant waltz in off the street at will, like he/she is walking in and out of a shop.<BR>
Liken it to PayTV, which has this language and depicted vision 24/7.<BR>
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I've watched the keynote and while it made me only mildly queasy
(cause I'm old enough for such stuff), it immediately made me judge
the speaker as unprofessional, non-technical and not worthy of an LCA
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Times change. Kids these days tell their parents to F off, if I did that when I was a kid some 40 odd years ago I'd have been skinned alive.<BR>
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keynote. I would have walked out if I had had my child along at that
keynote.
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you may have, many would not. as they say, "each to our own".<BR>
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