• Nick commented on the post, Backing Away from the Premise

    @jimthefish

    Sorry, doing my best not to get involved in CC’s series. I agree with rather a lot of what you write. CC is a talented writer and producing (sorry show running) but S11 has just demonstrated that […]

  • Nick replied to the topic Doctor Who memories

    @nakoruru

    Your first one sounds like something in Time of Angels (a Matt Smith two part story), but I don’t remember the actual scene so I may be wrong.

  • Nick replied to the topic The Maldovarium

    @bluesqueakpip

    The mechanisms which cause evolution (natural selection, isolation of species, random mutations, and the others) are well understood both in theory and in practice, which is why the scientific community no longer considers evolution to be a theory. The details though, are a different matter.

    The problem with the fossil record is…[Read more]

  • Nick replied to the topic The Maldovarium

    @whisht

    I’m not arguing that @jimthefish is wrong on the changes that are happening, but (in a different way) we’ve been through something similar before which we might use as pointers to what might happen with the way people consume entertainment and that the alliance between content production and money mean that the big TV that drives…[Read more]

  • Nick replied to the topic The Maldovarium

    @whisht

    It started of as a debate about new media arising from a discussion about the importance of ratings and whether we’d past Peak New Who or not (from a UK perspective) which sort of came out of a debate about the standard internet theme of “moff is a poor writer” which itself started of about the Christmas story and my opinion that Moff…[Read more]

  • Nick replied to the topic The Maldovarium

    @jimthefish

    Isn’t Streaming more like listening to a specialist radio station (easy listening, country etc) where you get to listen or watch what you want to (or at least think you want to). Interesting for a while, something good to do occasionally, but ultimately a little dull ?

    Sometimes, I do think the more things change, the more they stay…[Read more]

  • Nick replied to the topic The Maldovarium

    @jimthefish

    I would leave Trump out. He’s President because the US election system is flawed.  You win all electoral college votes from all (most ?) States, even if your vote majority is only 1 person. If electoral college votes were proportional to the actual number of ballots cast, then Clinton would have won, since she got more votes overall…[Read more]

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  • Nick replied to the topic The Maldovarium

    @jimthefish

    New technology has always increased employment in the long term

    Hmm, tell that to a worker in a car plant, or a travel agent, or a typesetter. While it’s true that technology creates jobs that never existed before while getting rid of others, that’s not an endless process (leaving aside the quality of the jobs they create.) We’re looki…[Read more]

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