"It's bad for business if people get for free what they can be made to pay for"

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A complete tangent, but I was reading this article in today's news:

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I'm forced to think 'isn't there some sort of a compromise?' Like couldn't the government provide a partial bailout, enough for the financing company to continue for say 2 weeks, so that they could effectively 'give notice' to all the companies that depend on them, and their employees, rather than leaving everybody just hanging come Friday? It would be cheaper, and, I dunno how to say it, more 'humane' maybe.

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If you're a Doctor Who fan, and have about 155 GB free, you can now download via bittorrent, The First Five Doctors, including reconstructed episodes, which I've read were those where the master tapes were lost by the BBC but some copy was found elsewhere:

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A bit of poetry from an anonymous Dalek poet, related by Kathryn Andersen:

Exterminate! Exterminate!
Your processes we terminate!
Your plants will never germinate
Because we will exterminate!

I find the Daleks to be the absolutely most horrifying villains ever, and also strangely cute, especially when they freak out and go in circles and twitch excitedly.