On 22-2-2011 3:51, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> On 2/21/2011 4:01 PM, andrel wrote:
>> On 21-2-2011 23:34, Darren New wrote:
>>> andrel wrote:
>>>> On 21-2-2011 21:19, Stephen wrote:
>>>>> On 21/02/2011 7:34 PM, andrel wrote:
>>>>>> If you can see that and I can, but Patrick can't what does that
>>>>>> tell us
>>>>>> about Amazon?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know, enlighten me.
>>>>
>>>> In that case it looks like Amazon is filtering results based on IP
>>>> number. In this case apparently to prevent US citizens to obtain
>>>> highly subversive material.
>>>
>>> The link works fine for me.
>>
>> good to hear (assuming you can also 'find' it, as that was what Patrick
>> claimed to be the problem). So it might not be subversive afterall.
>>
> Snort. As I said, I wasn't specifically looking for that one, at the
> time, and if I was... I may have been looking through some other method,
> like Pratchett, instead of Discworld. Hell, Amazon has "Going Postal"
> listed in his movies, and its not even the one based on *his* book, but
> some other one that just happens to share the name. Biggest issue with
> search engines, no matter whose, is sometimes the apparently obvious
> request sends you to the far corners of nowhere, or worse. lol

Wasn't it Gilles that once remarked that you should always look for 
Parus major and Equus africanus by their latin names?

Anyway this changes the whole thread IMO

> In any case, I originally found some of the stuff via Youtube, and
> thought, "Hmm. Didn't see that the last time I looked for some of them,
> but maybe I could get it free this way."

See why I think it changed? I am surprised the whole movie is on 
youtube, and even more surprised that someone in this newsgroup decides 
to download it even if it can easily be bought.

>  Turned out that it was also the
> *only* complete one on Youtube, other than the two animated ones. You
> can just figure I didn't look too hard.

yes, I figure you didn't. ;)

> In my experience finding
> *anything* that isn't from the US is like throwing a dart, blindfolded,
> while someone moves the dart board, in another room, and trying to bank
> the shot off a door that is swinging open and closed. You might get
> lucky, or you might find that everything from the direction you are
> facing, to the position of the door, to the fact that the guy holding
> the board set it down to take a lunch break, all conspire to refuse you. ;)

Nice hyperbole but I don't think the nationality of the maker has 
anything to do with how easily you can find it. If it is not from the US 
the exposure in the US in other media will in general (but not e.g. 
Harry Potter) be lower and you may not know about it's existence, but it 
shouldn't influence results too much.

-- 
Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per 
citizen per day.

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