Future's been using the term for way over a year. I was writing bookazines back in the days before they were mostly reprint. (Yes, I'm that old.) I guess no-one much liked Dennis's 'rival' term, 'magbook'.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Fluffy Clemmy on 01 June, 2015, 06:33:29 PMFor this series, I've found some of the packaging pretty poor (notably those books sent with free gifts), but Hachette has replaced those issues that I deemed in unacceptable condition, with said replacements showing up within a week. My preferred method of contact has been Facebook. I think the longest it's taken to get a reply from them is under two days, which I'm more than happy with.
May decide to sub. How are people finding Hachette? I subbed to the Marvel GN Collection. They were ok until I cancelled my sub then they were a nightmare to deal with.
Quote from: White Falcon on 02 June, 2015, 05:54:02 PMIn which case, I think I'm done with this discussion. Green policy might not be Shark's Perfect Utopia, but there's a hell of a lot of overlap with a whole load of things you talk about, but if you can't even be bothered to read a single manifesto (yet pepper this thread with a range of content), and hand-wave it away with "of course they're all the same", that's unhelpful. Also, any suggestion you would ever engage with the system is clearly laughable if you wave away the bloody Greens as being basically the same as the Tories, Labour, et al.
Of course they're all the same - they all believe that this inhuman system we're saddled with can somehow magically lead to a humane society. All you're asking me to do is read the Koran instead of the Bible. There might be wisdom in there but it's all basically praying to an illusion in the sky. Until that illusion ("authority") is dispelled, anything suggested in its name is pointless.
Quote from: White Falcon on 02 June, 2015, 04:58:29 PMIceland worked out a new constitution on the internet, in full public view and with full public participation.Which basically amounted to shit, sadly.
Quotebut none of the parties are offering anything like thatThe Greens constantly talk about a blank-slate for constitutional reform. But until the electoral system changes, they will 'be' Caroline Lucas (unless the boundaries change, in which case they'll maybe have zero MPs); even under STV, they'd only have a few. (Under list PR: 20.)
Quote from: GordonR on 02 June, 2015, 03:38:35 PMThat's true. After all, France is a republic, and hardly anyone goes there on holiday as a result.Last I knew, France had been a republic for quite some time, not had a change within living memory. We don't know how a switch now would affect the UK. (And, as noted, I'm not thrilled at the prospect of voting in some shitbag every five years, who'll quite possibly be a much worse head of state, yet still cost us a ton of money in security and campaigning? Maybe—just maybe—the UK could mirror the likes of Ireland and Iceland, and have something quiet and simple, but I just get the feeling we'd want to be the USA, just a bit more rubbish.)
Quote from: White Falcon on 02 June, 2015, 03:52:51 PMSimply changing from monarchy to republic is not the only thing we need to...And those things all happen either via some kind of mass revolt that will lead to lots of people getting killed and imprisoned, or by voting in a progressive government that would initiate those changes. But too many of the people who want to see change don't vote.
Quote from: JPMaybe on 02 June, 2015, 02:51:46 PMPutting aside the issue of deciding our constitutional arrangements on the basis of how much money we can fleece from tourists, evidence for this please.The briefest of Googling immediately finds:
Quote from: White Falcon on 02 June, 2015, 12:28:34 PMNot entirely. That's not an argument for the abolishment of the monarchy or a move to a republic per se, but for general reform. But we won't ever get to that stage while one right-wing party calls the shots on a tiny amount of the vote from middle England, largely because huge numbers of people can't be bothered to get off of their arses and vote. It just another case of:
Now you're getting it.
Quote from: Skullmo on 02 June, 2015, 01:21:50 PMI have a trade of it, so yes. Amazon suggests it's had a couple of prints to date: 1998 and 2008. Might be erroneous, though, because, well, Amazon.
Has Space Usagi ever been collected?
QuoteA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: "It is a long established convention that the Queen is asked by parliament to provide consent to those bills which parliament has decided would affect crown interests. The sovereign has not refused to consent to any bill affecting crown interests unless advised to do so by ministers.