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  54. Emile Berliner established the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellshaft(German Gramophone Company) around the mid-to-late 1870s. His initial trademark on single-sided discs was the Aufnahmende Engerl(Recording Angel) embossed on the unrecorded side of the disc. Within a decade he'd travelled to England where he established a British division called The Gramophone Company Of England Ltd. and it was through the British division that Berliner first acquired the painting that was to provide the new trademark, it was of a Jack Russell Terrier listening to "his master's voice" on, initially a cylinder-based phonograph, but on request, the artist painted over the cylinder machine with a disc-playing gramophone, thus the trademark "His Master's Voice" was born. Ownership of the trademark would be held by Berliner but control of the trademark, and licencing its use would be vested in the British division of Berliner's empire. In the 1890s, Berliner travelled to the USA and set up the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey. The new entity would licence the trademark from the British division. This arrangement lasted until the outbreak of WW1. After that war, Berliner lost control of his British and US companies. The Gramophone Company of England assumed TOTAL ownership and control of "Nipper" as the dog was named in the trademark, and Berliner's DGG had to licence the trademark it once owned, a bitter pill to swallow. DGG could only use the HMV trademark in Germany under the translation: "Die Stimme Seines Herrens", for export, they had to create a new brand, Polydor. In the meantime, Victor in the USA was using the HMV trademark, licencing same from The Gramophone Co. in England. Until 1929 when some reps from RCA came sniffing around the Victor plant, looking for somewhere bigger than what they had, so they could build more radios. RCA started as a division of General Electric but soon took on autonomy after getting hold of the Victor plant and brand-name, but that's all they should've got, no more. The HMV trademark licencing should've ended the minute the ink was dry on the deed of sale of the Victor plant and name to RCA and the Dog & Gramophone should not have been seen in America or Canada again until 1955. WW2 came and went, just prior to that war, The Gramophone Company had merged with Columbia Graphophone Company(a surviving remnant of a failed US venture) to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd.[EMI], the year was 1938. The merger also brought the Parlophone brand into the mix as Columbia had gained this former Dutch-owned trademark as war booty from WW1. After the 2nd war, EMI expanded into Europe, its new German division, Electrola GmbH taking over control of the HMV trademark, leaving DGG having to use Polydor now for domestic as ell as export markets. Berliner himself was spared the ignominy of seeing all this as he was in his grave by then. Siemens bought out DGG. In America a new label, Capitol was launched just after the war, the new entity struggling to find its feet. A decade on and Capitol would become the infant member of the expanding EMI group. Infant, because EMI bought an established label rather than EMI setting the company up from scratch. EMI owned almost 95% of Capitol, the remaining 5-and-a-bit% held by Capitol's founder. It's here that EMI should've brought in the HMV brand, reappearing in the USA to carry the EMI British roster into the American market, particularly in the 1960s: The Beatles, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Herman's Hermits, Manfred Mann, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas etc., drawn from EMI's HMV, Columbia and Parlophone labels, all together on HMV in the USA instead of scattered around the non-EMI labels like they were.
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  326. Donald Trump was the sort of president America was DOOMED to have! And America has ONLY ITSELF TO BLAME for the situation. America's political and governmental system is a total stuff-up and has been from the beginning! America DOES NOT DESERVE SYMPATHY FOR ITS PLIGHT, AS THE PLIGHT IS SELF-INFLICTED! America deserves only UTTER CONTEMPT FOR ITS UTTER STUPIDITY IN HAVING SUCH A SYSTEM! #1 Executive Presidency - A president MUST NEVER BE ANYTHING MORE THAN A CEREMONIAL FIGUREHEAD! Executive powers of government should be vested in a PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET OF MINISTERS WITH SEPARATE PORTFOLIOS. #2 Optional Voting - Voting isn't so much a right as it is a citizen's DUTY TO HIS/HER COUNTRY TO VOTE IN ELECTIONS AT ALL LEVELS, Federal, State and Local Council! Optional voting allows far too easily for vote-rigging(gerrymandering) and deliberate voter disenfranchisement. #3 Election Oversight - The parties themselves run the elections! A DANGEROUS SITUATION IF EVER THERE WAS ONE!!!!! Elections should be organised and run by a SEPARATE STATUTORY AUTHORITY, TOTALLY INDEPENDENT OF THE PARTIES AND KEPT AT 2 ARMS' LENGTH FROM THE PARTIES! #4 Separation of church and State - This is the ONLY good thing and MUST BE STRENGTHENED TO BAR RELIGIOUS LEADERS FROM HOLDING ANY GOVERNMENT OFFICE! If they(religious leaders) wish to run for office, they MUST RESIGN FROM THEIR CHURCH TWO YEARS BEFORE RUNNING FOR OFFICE! And if successful at gaining office, MUST NEVER ALLOW THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS TO INFLUENCE THEIR DECISIONS ON ANY MATTER COMING BEFORE THEM!
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  599.  @lynnenglish8548  A "channel" is not a station! A station is a massive building in the heart of a city, or located in one of that city's suburbs, or it could be a smaller building located in a regional centre. The building will contain offices for General Manager, Programme Manager, Sales Representative, etc. The building will have large areas set aside as studio space, possibly with seating for a studio audience for live-to-air shows. The building will have all the necessary space to contain sound and vision mixing booths complete with monitoring equipment, voice-over announcers, rooms for VTR and Telecine equipment plus much more. A channel has absolutely no physical presence whatsoever! A channel is a six-, seven- or eight-megahertz-wide chunk of VHF or UHF spectrum space over which the station transmits its signal. The station DOES NOT own that channel and can be moved, if required, to a different channel, such as what happened to Station ATV-Melbourne in Australia back in 1980. ATV was transmitting on a channel at the very bottom of Australia's 13-channel VHF allocations(Ch.0 - 45-52Mhz) but that channel was needed for the introduction of SBS Multicultural TV to provide a VHF channel for those whose sets did not yet have UHF tuners(from 1975 a lot of early Australian colour sets did not include UHF tuners but some did). The SBS servise would, for its first few years, simulcast on UHF Ch.28, then on UHF only. ATV was moved from 45-52Mhz up to 208-215Mhz (VHF Ch.10) where it stayed until the end of analogue broadcasting in 2012. There you have it.
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  753. I'll agree on the reverse light, the car should have two, one in each tail-light assembly. That aside, I need to give you some advice when doing piece-to-camera work while outside. Don't rely on your video camera's microphone to pick up your voice too well on outdoor shots. If your camera has a connection for an external microphone, get one with a good, long lead, or get a wireless micophone where the receiver runs on batteries and connect its(the receiver's) output to your camera's external microphone connection. If your camera does not have an external microphone connection(and most cameras don't have such a connection unless they're really expensive up-market models), then use a separate digital voice recorder(which creates a WAV audio file, same as that created by the camera). Start the camera and voice recorder, then give a good, loud clap of your hand, which serves as the synchronising sound for editing. When editing, import the video and the audio files, listen for the clap sound on the video and split just ahead of the clap sound(you'll see a visual representation of the waveform on the audio track under the video track, now mute the video's audio and add the voice recorder's recording to an audio track below that of your video. Listen again for that handclap and split the audio just ahead of that handclap. Unmute the video's audio track, cut the audio recorder's recording to clipboard(Ctrl+X), go to the beginning ov the video and then paste the voice recorder's audio back into place(Ctrl+V), now just nudge the audio from the recorder until the clap sound is in unison(no echo), Then render your clip for use in the final video production(you'll be editing out the handclap sound as ithas served its purpose). Do the initial recording part of this routine as often as needed for each piece-to-camera sequence you need to do.
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  916. America was DOOMED to eventually have Trump as president. The very system of government America employs is, by its own nature, ROTTEN-CORRUPT! America's system of government is THE WORLD'S WORST WITHOUT EQUAL! Even the one-party dictatorships pale in comparison. Fault #1 - Executive president! A president should be NEUTRAL, A CEREMONIAL FIGUREHEAD ONLY! Fault #2 - Immunity from prosecution for crimes! That is the prime corruption of America! A president MUST NEVER BE ABOVE THE LAW! And if he/she whomever holds that position commits a crime whilst in office, the punishments MUST BE 100 TIMES MORE SEVERE! Fault #3 - Optional elections! Voting should be COMPULSORY as it is not so much a "right" as it is a DUTY TO YOUR COUNTRY! Fault #4 - Lack of independent election oversight! The fact that the two political parties actually run the election themselves is BLATANT CORRUPTION! The elections should be managed by a SEPARATE AND INDEPENDENT STATUTORY AUTHORITY charged with the responsibility of setting electoral boundaries to prevent gerrymandering, determining how many polling places and where to locate said polling places, and SIMPLIFYING AND STANDARDISING THE VOTING PROCESS! This leads to the next fault in this list, Fault #5 - Too many voting systems! There should be ONLY ONE METHOD of voting and, in light of the disputed 2000 election that saw George W. Bush elected on a questionable ballot paper, NO MACHINERY OR ELECTRONICS WHATSOEVER SHOULD BE EMPLOYED IN THE PROCESS OF VOTING!
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  964. As a YouTuber, you are entitled to take credit for your efforts. If you've made a certain point that gets tons of thumbs-up clicks("Likes"), meaning a lot of people agree with that point or, on the technical side you've achieved a brilliant edit that makes your video really stand out. your efforts deserve credit and thus you deserve credit. Someone who's a gifted singer(we really have to go back to the 1960s, 1970s and, to a lesser degree, 1980s to find an example), who cuts a record(LP or single, we're talking vinyl here) that sells a million copies and earns that singer the ultimate accolade, the platinum disc award(a step up from the gold disc), then he/she truly has earned and truly deserves that accolade, together with the producer, arranger, recording engineer and contributing songwriters deserve credits for their parts in the production, but if the performer has done all this work him/herself, then he/she alone has every legitimate right to take sole credit for that work. The trick is to keep the ego in check and not boast or brag about your success. The late Cassius Clay(his REAL name, not the one he adopted) used to boast "I am the greatest" about his boxing career. Aside from the fact that boxing is not a legitimate sport, it is no more than glorified thuggery, claiming oneself to be "The Greatest" is an unjustifiable ego-trip. It was for OTHERS to say if he was great or not, not for Clay himself to claim..... "Self-praise is no recommendation!" That's my take on something you said in the course of this video.
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  1193. The land is PALESTINE! And that's ALL OF IT, INCLUDING THE PART THAT IS NOW OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL! In 1948 when the nation-state of Israel was created, it was a United Nations charter which granted a large chunk of Palestinian land to the Jewish people in spite of Palestinian protests. But it was a FIXED amount of land that could not be extended: "You shall have this much and no more!" may have been the words spoken. But this new infant country was GREEDY and set about grabbing more and more of Palestinian land for itself in defiance of the U.N. charter(I use the word "charter" for want of a better name). In the 75 years since 1948, the Israeli governments have persecuted and harassed the Palestinians relentlessly. Now, whether it was Hamass or any other organisation is irrelevant. The fact here is that the Palestinian people have HAD ENOUGH OF THE PERSECUTION AND STRUCK BACK AT THEIR OPPRESSORS! I, for one, have ABSOLUTELY NO SYMPATHY WHATSOEVER FOR ISRAEL! Simply put, THEY HAD IT COMING! The Jewish people had been a marginalised and persecuted people for many centuries, this is historical fact. This persecution culminating in the years of Nazi Germany. But here's the rub, THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE NEVER LEARNED THEIR LESSON FROM THIS HISTORY! That lesson being COMPASSION AND EMPATHY FOR THE DOWNTRODDEN! The Jews claim that Israel is theirs by a promise from god. THIS IS WRONG! As I said at the start, it was the United Nations that granted the land to the Jews AGAINST THE WISHES OF PALESTINE because there was, and is NO GOD!
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  1423.  @lilaclizard4504  Our media is ALSO in an awful mess as our ACMA(Australian Communications & Media Authority [Apologists]) are doing absolutely BUGGER-ALL to regulate our TV, radio and newspapers. We need a MUCH STRICTER authority to regulate our media and our media needs a wholesale shake-up. For a start, only ABC and SBS should be allowed to operate as networks(but first, SBS must lose its privilege of running ads, as SBS has ABUSED that privilege) and all the commercial TV and radio networks be ABOLISHED, leaving the stations as stand-alone broadcasters, they trade programmes across state borders, but on an open market. TCN-Sydney selling to or buying from either GTV-, ATV- or HSV-Melbourne, selling to or buying from BTQ-, TVQ- or QTQ-Brisbane, and the so-called regional "networks" should also be broken up with Bob Hawke's BRAIN-FART of regional market aggregation being dismantled. The incumbant station in each market reverting back to its own region, of the other two, one closed and the other sold to local owners and rebranded. For example, in my own region, Newcastle/Hunter, NBN-Newcastle's licence be seized from TCN-Sydney and handed back, free-gratis to Soul-Patinson (Newcastle-based chemist business) and NOT A CENT paid to TCN in compensation! The NEN(Prime) station be sold to other Newcastle-based owners and the former NRTV(now WIN) station closed down. The Syney stations would then have to sell their shows to two independent regional stations, like it should've been in the mid-1980s and early 1990s.
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  1543. Maybe the better thing to happen should be thus: 1929 Execs from RCA(then owned by General Electric as a minor division) go sniffing around the Victor plant at Camden NJ, see what's happening and suggest to RCA they get into the recording business and making the gramophones to play these records. When they approach Victor to offer to buy the company, Victor accepts the offer, but only for the plant and the "Victor" name, The trademark of HMV DID NOT belong to Victor and they had no right to on-sell that brand. RCA insists it wants the HMV brand and the head of Britain's Gramophone Company which, by then is a separate and wholly-British-owned entity as a consequence of WW1 steps in and BLOCKS RCA's acquisition of the HMV(His Master's Voice) trademark, which is the British company's own property, 100%. Instead of RCA getting their hands on the HMV trademark, The Gramophone Company buys 100% of RCA! and becomes the owner of the Victor AND RCA brands which The Gramophone Company merges together to become RCA and markets the records in Britain under that brand. RCA still does NOT get to use the HMV brand in the USA but markets the records and gramophones under the RCA brand. The Victor brand being phased out under The Gramophone Co.'s orders so RCA WILL NOT BE PERMITTED to use the name "Victrola". Fast-forward to 1955 and The Gramophone Co. merging with Columbia Graphophone Co in England to form EMI in the 1930s, buys out a touch under 95% of an insignificant little record label called Capitol. EMI then imposes the HMV trademark as well as the RCA trademark on Capitol to manufacture and distribute, while RCA is reduced to being the electrical division only. Capitol will be rebranded as EMI North Americas Ltd. and relocated to Toronto, Canada as Canada is a British Commonwealth member country and EMI is British, after all. EMI also buys up CBS so they can use the Columbia name in the USA and Canada(after all, it was Columbia Graphophone, England that re-established the Columbia name in the USA anyway) so that His Master's Voice and Columbia are established as EMI's flagship labels in the USA and Canada, as they already are in EMI's other territories and the Capitol and RCA brands being reduced to their proper status as "two of the other minor insignificant trademarks" in the EMI group. Colour TVs would be made in Britain for the Canadian and US markets, for Canada they'd carry the His Master's Voice brand, for the USA they'd carry the lesser RCA brand. RCA in the USA will be limited to making radios and stereo gear. As for video technologies, EMI would put an Immediate block on RCA doing ANYTHING in that field. That work would be carried out at EMI's British factories. So the CED system would never be made and no money wasted on it. Instead, EMI would licence the Pioneer laserdisc system(I'm not giving credit to Philips here because Philips makes crap!).
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  1554. In 1929 when RCA(still part of General Electric) bought the plant at Camden, New Jersey, and the Victor brand-name, that's ALL they should've been allowed to buy. The His Master's Voice brand was 100% owned by The Gramophone Company of England Pty Ltd., and The Gramophone Company should've IMMEDIATELY REVOKED The Victor Talking Machine Comany's licence to use the HMV trademark. Prior to World War One, The Gramophone Company of England held 50% of the HMV brand, the other 50% being held by what was, at that time, the British company's German parent, Deutsche Grammophon Gesellshaft mbH, under which, the trademark was known as "Die Stimme Seines Herrens". Emile Berliner, who had established the German and British companies, also set up the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey, but only as an afterthought. Victor was an insignificant minor side-operation. It owned not even the smallest fraction of 1% interest in the HMV trademark and the patents on the trademark and the products made, disc-playing gramophones and the discs themselves were registered by DGG and The Gramophone Co. Victor played ZERO part in the development and/or improvement thereof, they just made and sold the product, nothing more. In 1918, after WW1, DGG lost the Gramophone Co and Victor Talking Machine Co. as "spoils of war". Indeed, DGG could now only use the HMV trademark in Germany itself and only under licence from its former division, now fully-fledged independent company, The Gramophone Co. DGG found itself in a similar situation to its insignificant American offshoot, Victor. The HMV trademark was now 100% British-owned and Victor was now paying licence fees to Britain for the privilege of using the trademark and building the HMV gramophone for the US/Canada market and putting its own name on what was basically a British product. So that brings us back to 1929 and two jokers come sniffing around the Victor plant at Camden, initially just wanting greater floor space to expand radio production, but seeing what was going on, deciding to get in on the act, and here is where The Gramophone Co. should've said "STOP! You can buy the plant and the Victor name but the rights to the HMV brand are NON-TRANSFERABLE! The Brand is EXCLUSIVELY the property of The Gramophone Co. of England and will remain so until WE deem otherwise!"
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  1566. The better result would be that in 1929, instead of RCA buying Victor Taliking Machine Co., that RCA AND Victor both end up as being owned by The Gramophone Co. of England. RCA would still not get its grubby paws on the HMV trademark as that trademark would return to the British aforementioned company that solely owns it. Instead, the RCA and the Victor trademarks would be owned by, and used in Britain by The Gramophone Co. as record labels carrying American artists into the British market. When The Gramophone Co. and Columbia Graphophone Co. merged to form EMI in 1938(1931 sounds far too early and Columbia Graphophone was relaunching the Columbia brand in America at the time), then the RCA and Victor brands would be kept separate and used as described earlier. In 1955 when EMI bought out the largest chunk of Capitol, the HMV brand would then return to the USA and Canada. CBS should then be bought by EMI so as to establish in the USA, the HMV and Columbia Brands as flagship labels of EMI North Americas Pty. Ltd., based *NOT in Hollywood California, but in Toronto, Ontario Canada as Canada is a British Commonwealth Country and EMI is a British company! With TV manufacture and marketing, EMI would make the sets for the American/Canadian markets at its British plants. The sets for Canada would be branded His Master'sVoice, the sets for the USA would be branded RCA, but the colour system would be a modified PAL system to accommodate America/Canada's 117 Volt/60 Hz power system. By EMI owning RCA and CBS, this would stop RCA falling into the hands of BMG and CBS into the hands of Sony.
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  1576. One correction: Known STATION at known time! A channel is nothing more than a chunk of spectrum space(7Mhz for PAL-system colour broadcasting, 6Mhz for NTSC in the analogue days - we'll ignore SECAM as it was a rubbish system). Without the STATION to broadcast its programme content across that range of bandwidth, you would get only static hash, same as when the station closed down for the night, as they did in the 1970s. A channel produces nothing, employs no-one, earns no revenue, pays no salaries, it can't, because a channel is ethereal. A channel's only physical representation is in the circuitry of the tuner used to select it. As you turn that knob(in those old days) your set goes clunk-clunk-clunk through 13, 15 or maybe 20 VHF channels but there may only be signals on three, they'd be the NBC, CBS or ABC affiliate for your area, or if your in a small town, you'd have two stations, each independent and carrying their pick of content from the three major networks plus some local shows produced in their own studios. The remaining channels will be blank unless a stray signal comes a-wafting its way past your antenna and it might be a distant independent or a network affiliate that you might sniff it up on Ch.6. Put it this way, if you're in an art gallery and see a painting that grabs your attention, do you give credit to a] the artist who worked and sweated blood to create it, or b] the canvas on which it was painted, ignoring the artist's efforts? Crediting the channel for TV shows is like crediting the canvas for the painting.
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  1618.  Ginnungagap  He IS a Centrist. Here in Australia, a Republican is someone who wants an Australian Head Of State instead of the foreign Queen. The word Republican here has a far different meaning to what it has in America. In America, the word has come to symbolise a political party devoid of scruples and integrity, a party that has done, and will do anything to win at all costs, and will throw the rule book out the window, The Republican Party will use voter fraud, ballot rigging, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and any other dirty trick in its bag of dirty tricks, in order to hang on to power. That's the example of a Right-wing political party. And the sad thing is, there's no independent Electoral Commission in America to prevent the Republicans from using those dirty tricks. Here in Australia, we have the Liberal Party, a wannabe Republican Party in the sense that they share the American party's putrid ideals. The Liberals here see themselves as "born to rule" and they begrudge the Australian Labor Party any time they get to run the country. However, in Australia, we have the Australian Electoral Commission, which is charged with the responsibility of running all elections at local council, State and Federal levels, as well as any by-elections that may arise for any reason. Neither party may interfere with the AEC during the process of elections from the time the writs are issued to the time of the final tally of votes. Plus our voting methods are the same across all states and territories. That's what makes our system far superior to that of America, even though we have some flaws in our method.
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  1642. Those 3" discs really were a fucking waste of time. Their capacity(storage) would've been around 20 minutes, about 125-200 Mb, so-called "CD-singles"..... HAH! A 45rpm record could easily carry an epic song like Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 release, "The Wreck Of The Edmund FitzGerald" which clocks in at over 7 minutes, and is in STEREO as well! Thus making these CD-singles REDUNDANT before they were even developed. What makes the record a "single" is that, on a turntable, one side is face-up and accessible to the pick-up arm, the other is face-down on the platter mat. The disc has the run-in groove leading to the modulated section of that groove, then out to the centre dead-wax(there's only one groove spiralling into the centre, so it's wrong to say "grooves" plural) which means there's no wasted capacity but these "CD-singles" when inserted to play, the laser, though playing one song at a time, has access directly to all the content of the disc(usually 3 or more songs, which means it's not a "CD-single") playing for 15 minutes, leaving 5 minutes wasted..... UTTERLY STUPID! The indented portion of the tray(15:25) was standard in players almost from the get-go, that's an early model player being used. The standard 5" disc with its initial 74-minute, then later 80-minute capacity is best suited to albums, even then you get a lot of wasted capacity as some albums when reissued in the format, may have only played for 30-45 minutes, leaving a lot of wasted capacity.... Ugh! As to ink discolouring the disc surface.... I've never seen that! Probably because the Australian firm, Disctronics took greater care in how they produced their discs.
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  1745. Emile Berliner was the founder of Deutsche Grammophon Gesellshaft mbH in Germany. He also established a British division, The Gramophone Company of England Ltd. It was these two companies that, in the years leading up to WW1 shared ownership 50/50 of the Dog & Gramophone, "His Master's Voice" trademark. Berliner also set up the Victor Talking Machine Company in the USA but did so ONLY as an afterthought. Victor held no share whatsoever in the famous HMV trademark and used it ONLY under licence from DGG and The Gramophone Co. of England until 1918, and from 1918 from the British company only, as DGG had lost co-ownership as a result of the war, and could only use the trademark in Germany under licence from its former division. The Gramophone Co. should've put a halt to RCA acquiring the trademark when RCA bought the Victor name and plant in 1929. RCA already had its own trademark but Victor's only self-owned trademark was its own brand-name, the Dog & Gramophone trademark was NOT Victor's to do anything with except surrender the licence and let the trademark revert to its British owner. In 1938 The Gramophone Co. merged with Columbia Graphophone Company, the successful British orphan child of the failed US company of that name, to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd., bringing together the Dog & Gramophone HMV trademark and Columbia's Magic Notes trademark to become the two flagship labels of EMI, while a third label, Parlophone, a former Dutch-owned label acquired as post-WW1 war booty by either Columbia Graphophone or The Gramophone Co., became the label for novelty acts until 1962 when four Liverpudlian kids were signed to the label....... When EMI bought Capitol in 1955 to make it a subsidiary of EMI(subsidiary = infant child), EMI should've FORCED RCA to relinquish the Dog & Gramophone trademark so it could be used in the USA under its CORRECT name, "His Master's Voice", as well as making Capitol distribute the Parlophone and(in lieu of CBS using the Columbia name), Regal-Zonophone labels as well as any other labels EMI would own in the coming decades, ensuring that ALL EMI's artist & group roster would appear on Capitol-distributed labels instead of getting farmed out to all and sundry non-EMI labels.
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  1913. +Killer Funghoul 1) Keep voting age at 18. 16-year-olds may be politically aware but are often not mature enough to make such important decisions. 2) Postal votes should only be used in sparsely-populated areas where its more than 60 miles to the township from the home. 3) Ex-prisoner voting rights should return after parole has elapsed, however, convicted paedophiles should never ever be allowed to vote, even if they've been released and served out parole. 4) Major fault with this is that it does not allow for anyone whose employment requires them to move houses constantly. 5) In Australia, schools ARE used as polling places, as are community halls, but, in keeping with separation of church and state, don't use churches. 6) Considering the size of America, population-wise, as well as geographically, polling stations should open from 6.00am in each time zone and stay open until 11.00pm in each time zone and Voter Suppression tactics MUST BE OUTLAWED, Attempting such practice by any party, major or minor, should see that party immediately and permanently BARRED from that, and further elections. 7) Minor parties should be able to contest seats, as well as independent candidates. It's entirely up to the populace to form a party or for individuals to run as independents. and one more here, 8) As the Republicans are known to practice voter-suppression tactics, and the Democrats are also likely to have engaged in such practices, America's elections should be managed by a neutral nation, and run according to that neutral nation's electoral laws and practices.
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  2044. For a start, you change the position of President from executive head of government to a ceremonial figurehead ONLY and put in a Prime Ministership as your effective Executive Head Of Government. If you want the best example of this, look to the Australian parliamentary model. Moreover, you should have COMPULSORY voting for ALL citizens of age 18 or over, as long as they are registered on a voting roll which needs to be vetted by an INDEPENDENT AUTHORITY which has neither Democrat, nor Republican members making up this authority.... TOTALLY NEUTRAL! The need for compulsory voting is clearly obvious, even to a blind man. Optional voting means that only those motivated by extreme political viewpoints will actually go out and vote while the larger portion of the population stays at home(apathy). As a result, the extremist wins the seat in government, and if the process is repeated over each voting district(electorate), you'll get a government made up of extremists who will then do away with democratic elections altogether. Compulsory voting ensures the larger vote count cancels out the extremist vote as the votes will, by and large, go to either of the major parties, who, by necessity need to straighten out their membership and expel the corrupt members. In reality, the Australian parliamentary method is, though not perfect, by far the superior method of governance. New Zealand uses basically the same model(with some modifications to suit NZ) and is far superior to the British system, from which we derived our method, that to refer to ours as a "Westminster" system would be a gross insult to our Australian system.... Why? because Britain's upper house(House of Lords) is infested with useless unelected aristocratic twats who wouldn't even know what day of the week it was, let alone what bill they were debating and voting on, whilst in Australia, our Senate is a States' house with members voted in by the populace of each state(and territory). No useless aristocracy here, mate!
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  2083. This goes to show how utterly PUTRID the American electoral system is! For a start, the Presidency should be PURELY CEREMONIAL with NO executive power whatsoever! Actual executive power should be vested in a Prime Minister, but exercisable only upon majority vote in the House Of Representatives(Congress). The party leadership should be determined in-house by parliamentary and rank-and-file membership on a one vote=one value basis. Once determined who the party leader is to be, he/she becomes the nation's Prime Minister provided a] He/she wins his/her electorate(seat) with at least 50%+1 vote, and b] enough of a majority of other members of his/her party also win their electorates(seats) by at least 50%+1 vote. Of course, the higher the vote count, the better for the candidate. With a clear majority of candidates winning their seats, the party leader can then take on the mantle of Prime Minister. From those winning candidates, the Prime Minister then selects his/her "front bench" or "cabinet", i.e. Minister for Roads and Transport, Minister for Education, Minister for Health, etc. Those not selected to become ministers form the "back bench", they remain simply as members representing their constituents. The leader of the losing party is then the "Leader of the Opposition", choosing a "shadow cabinet" and those missing out on shadow cabinet portfolios sit as back-benchers in the opposition. The President's role in all this is simply to witness the swearing of, or affirmation(preferably affirmation in order to keep religion out of governmental matters) of oath of office. Other than welcoming presidents or governors-general, or members of monarchies, the president lies dormant in the day-to-day running of government. For all this to work properly requires one MAJOR INGREDIENT! And than ingredient is COMPULSORY VOTING!!!!!
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  2084. In spite of the word "News" in its branding, "Newsmax" is NOT a station broadcasting ANY news content. Instead, they are a perveyor of gutter-level propaganda! Across the English-speaking countries, and the rest of the western-style democracies, regulations governing broadcasting, be it by radio or TV, or any visual or audio platform, have clauses that utterly prohibit the broadcasting of any material designed or intended to incite violence in the community, or to broadcast any content that contravenes established fact, such as that Congressman for Georgia, Andrew Clyde stating there was NO INSURRECTION on 6/1/2021 and that the crowd at the Capital Building were behaving like normal tourists. This comment made in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary that even we in Australia have seen on our nightly news bulletins, If Newsmax had broadcast this nonsense, they'd be in violation of American broadcasting law. But......and there is a huge but here, and that is that the FCC are a bunch of craven cowards that will not enforce the broadcasting regulations and punish the stations accordingly for their violations. Instead, you'd find the FCC quivering in their boots, sucking their thumbs and shitting their pants rather than perform their sworn duty to regulate broadcasting. Australia's ACMA is the same, a pack of gutless cowards that will immediately run and hide, shitting theirpants, sucking their thumbs..... and quivering in their boots as soon as any media proprietor even so much as look sideways at them.
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  2139. Atheists as murderers? Not bloody likely! Atheists have no reason to murder anyone. Just about ALL the murder has been committed by the three main religions and their adherents. "My religion is better than yours! My religion is right and yours is wrong, and if you don't agree I shall put you to the sword(kill you)". Wars are fought over religion, who's right and who's wrong. Atheists simply try to avoid such arguments because we know these arguments to be futile. Christians argue with Jews and Muslims, Muslims argue with Jews and Christians, Jews argue with Christians and Muslims....it's just an endless loop of argument that gets heated to the point that any one of them will, at some point, pull a gun or a knife and another will be lying motionless on the floor with his/her life trickling away. Buddhists and Jaines(not sure on spelling) don't get involved as Buddha was an actual person who simply gave himself the name and came up with some "wise sayings" and started attracting a following. He never pretended to be "divine" or have any supernatural powers. Jaines(I'm spelling this way as I'm not sure of exact spelling) are, as I've been told, of the belief that every living thing has some kind of soul so they are taught not to kill anything. But Buddhists and Jaines lie outside the three main religions. Sikhes(again, guessing at spelling) and Hindus, I have no idea about them so I won't comment, except to say they are also outside the three main religions. It is the three main religions who/which must answer for all the murder and destruction down through the eons.
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  2463. "His Master's Voice" was developed by Emile Berliner in the late 19th Century, originally in German as "Die Stimme Seines Herrens". The artist, Francis Barraud painted the picture of a Jack Russell Terrier listening to the voice of his master on an Edison cylendar-playing phonograph which Berliner, as inventor of the disc-playing Gramophone, had at first rejected. but when Barraud made the alteration to replace the phonograph with a gramophone, Berliner adopted it as the trademark of his Deutsche Grammophon Gesselshaft and his offshoot, The Gramophone Company of England Ltd., which, between them would own the His Master's Voice name and trademark on a 50/50 shared basis. Berliner then, in the early years of the 20th Century, travels to an insignificant country called America and sets up, as an afterthought, a minor operation called Victor Talking Machine Company to manufacture gramophones to te British/German design and patent specs, and to make discs to play on those machines, again to British/German patents and specs (specifications). Victor would use the HMV trademark BUT NOT EVER OWN ANY PART of it. The HMV trademark would, up to 1914 remain 50/50 with DGG in Germany and The Gramophone Co. in England. Victor would only hold a licence to use the trademark. The only thing the American company owned was the factory at Camden, NJ and the Victor name. WW1, beginning in 1914 saw DGG lose its 50% stake in HMV, name and trademark, and at the end of that war in 1918, DGG had to apply to its former offshoot for a licence to use the trademark combined with the German translation of the name, "Die Stimme Seines Herrens" while The Gramophone Co. assumed 100% ownership of the trademark and name as war reparations. The Gramophone Co. held that 100% ownership until 1938 when it merged with Columbia Graphophone Co. to form EMI, that new entity then assumed 100% ownership of the HMV name and trademark, plus the names and trademarks of Columbia(Magic Notes) and Parlophone(Pound symbol). In 1929, 9 years before the merger, RCA sent a couple of execs to Camden NJ to "suss out" the Victor plant with the view to buying it to make radio sets(RCA was still just a division of GE at the time), saw what was going on, reported back to RCA bigwigs in New York and set about buying the plant and the Victor name, with the HMV trademark, but the snag was that the Dog & Gramophone HMV brand was NOT Victor's to sell, or even sub-lease. The trademark was still 100% the property of The Gramophone Co. The ONLY legitimate way for RCA to acquire the HMV brand was to become a subsidiary of The Gramophone Company, and sunsequently, a subsidiary of EMI in 1938. For this to happen, RCA would have to become EMI(North Americas) Pty Ltd and shift their headquarters to Toronto, Ontario, Canada! They still would not OWN the trademark, but would be allowed to use it provided the Victor name was ditched and replaced with the His Master's Voice name, the RCA brand would be a secondary label WITHOUT the Victor appendage. And in 1955 when EMI buys Capitol, Capitol then becomes EMI Records(USA) Pty Ltd and distributes all the EMI brands under licence except for Columbia, the Regal/Zonophone brand would substitute.
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