How important in the development of ideas into commercial reality is talent? And how important is persistence, determination and hard work? They used to say: “1% inspiration and 99% determination”. The thing is that there are a lot of steps along the way to launching a business, launching a product, or launching a company. At [...]
(Our previous article was the first upset.) This time, Canadians have made the top ten list of countries that are “out to get” the content industries. They share this dubious honour with the following countries. Priority Watch List (Links retrieve country specific pdf reports.) Argentina Canada Chile Costa Rica [...]
The following is from “The Value Of Nothing” by Raj Patel. The late Oxford philosopher Jerry Cohen concieved a thought experiment that helps us understand how money works, and the way that it intersects with the liberty offered by free markets. When the market rations goods on the basis of money, he argued, there's reason [...]
I think we are all agreed that users will share music, TV programs and movies whether it is permitted or not. Users have become accustomed over the last ten years in accepting the referral model of their internet peers as to what is hot and what is not. This has resulted in a [...]
Today we present a point of view that will offend many, please few, but will attempt balance the mainly conservative viewpoints and opinions that Perceptric strives for. “Conservative? Hah!” I can hear from the peanut gallery. “Conservative my arse! Koltai you’re nothing but a leftwing Bolshevist commie agitator.” Thank-you. You are right on [...]
Translation Inventors are important. Without inventors, we would not know what time of the day it was. (Apart from Paul Hogan.) Visionaries are important too, without visionary explorers like Vasco de Gama and Captain James Cook, we would not be sitting on this huge rock called Australia – we would still be huddled around the [...]
In today's Sydney Morning Herald there were two stories about music in live venues. The first story was in the main body of the paper on page 3 and titled “Music off the menu as licensing row heats up“. The second story was in the Good Living magazine section and subtitled “A suitable soundtrack can [...]
In an op-ed piece in the New York Times earlier this week, two prominent members of the financial community criticized President Obama and his team for telling the people one thing and doing another. In this case telling people that the country had moved back from the brink of financial disaster when nothing of the [...]
It will come as a suprise to many readers, but there are those that still watch, free to air television. Those that do, tend to watch the programming on TV and use the advertising segments as convenient toilet or coffee breaks. But those of us that think that advertising is an inconvenient distraction from observing [...]
War throughout the ages has been traditionally declared for the acquisition by one sovereign state (or Warlord) of another’s (sovereign state or Warlords') possessions. The legitimacy of the process is provided for by the Charters and Constitutions of nearly all of the World Governments.Censorship, introduced by those Governments has traditionally been in force to prevent [...]