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Post by steev on Dec 16, 2014 22:49:01 GMT -5
I was just going to review these, only to find that they've all been blocked by BBC for copyright reasons. Great! The Monsanto-ization of broadcast media. So anyone who didn't record/"steal" these immediately is SOOL. Lesson learned.
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Post by copse on Dec 16, 2014 23:22:28 GMT -5
Actually, this doesn't look like too bad a deal. You'd likely need a dvd player capable of playing british dvds, although a modern computer would do the trick with something like vlc media player and your dvd drive.
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Post by steev on Dec 17, 2014 0:35:43 GMT -5
That's still talking about buying something that was once freely available. As a devout believer in Freeconomics, I am disturbed by the commodification of knowledge, no less than by the commodification of life-forms.
I may be misinformed, but I strongly suspect that these productions were fully funded before they were produced and that these efforts are about profit (granted, perhaps to pre-fund equally valuable programming), still, the problem remains of "I have it and you can't unless you pay me", which implies that knowledge, and even genetics, didn't exist before patent law.
I think I may have anarchist leanings; hadn't thought of it that way.
I wonder how our ancestors expected to be paid for their knowledge or what they'd built: respect; honor; community support; cash on the barrelhead?
I really think we're screwed as a species, if we can't get beyond this "I have to take care of myself, my nationality, my religion, my race" bullshit. Like it or not, we have achieved globalization; we need to deal with that, or it's gonna bite us in the ass.
We can foster a culture of collaborative sentient beings, sharing knowledge to promote the general advancement, or we can promote a culture of self-interested killer-apes, concerned only with their own perceived benefit.
Sic transit the whole shitterree, if we aren't careful.
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Post by ottawagardener on Dec 17, 2014 7:39:30 GMT -5
I feel your pain Steev.
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Post by homesteaderjeff on Jan 2, 2015 0:26:59 GMT -5
I really enjoyed those videos as well. Lately there's some other gardening series ave enjoyed though. Around the world in 80 gardens. And then gardeners world. The around the world series is mostly formal gardens but there are some very nice ones. Gardeners world is more down to earth with some practical real world gardening going on.
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Post by reed on Jan 3, 2015 17:27:23 GMT -5
I used to like the Victory Garden. Not so much anymore.
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Post by homegrower on Jan 5, 2015 14:28:42 GMT -5
Excellent videos!
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