How very Labour (and not to make too fine a point of it, how very ungrateful for services rendered)
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June 5, 2013 at 10:58am
King Carnival, Jose Herrera, will be giving us three carnivals a year. So very….cultural and creative.
There’s a new APP created to bypass the timesofmalta.com paywall. It’s called Taghna Lkoll.
Well, those who helped create Frankenstein’s monster are now having to deal with him – as are, sadly, those of us who played no part in it at all.
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“Hu Go Fik” Times of Malta.
I see Muscat cannot face his predicament.
He is after all, the same individual who raved about the Chinese government’s tactic of creating engineered opinion on the net.
As European as a straight banana.
Given The Times’ role in the hounding of Dr. Gonzi and in promoting Franky Tabone as a sane individual, I must say I’m finding it quite difficult to feel sorry for them.
Very difficult indeed.
I agree fully. The Times did a big disservice to its readers and to the electorate by giving credibility to someone who was evidently not all there.
The Times gave credibility to the entire Labour Movement, from the Great Leader to the fossils. It was the duty of The Times to tear apart the Labour masks (and I do not refer to the ones they will be wearing three times a year if Jose has it his way) before 9 March 2013.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is an APP?
[Daphne – An application for use with smart-phones etc]
This one’s for Google Chrome.
Oh app! Is it android or iOS based? I’m pretty sure both platforms are very strict when it comes to copyright breaches.
So sad indeed.
How very unfortunate for us who did not play a part in it at all. I have just lost my job in ‘Malta Taghna Lkoll’ and considering my age – hitting 50, I do not have any hope to find one, even if I have ample qualifications, vast experience and believe in long-life learning.
Jose’ Herrera said that, to him, carnival is a priority. That must be why he appointed Jason Micallef as chair of V18.
We can now look forward to 5-year build up to a total mockery of the cultural capital project, featuring carnival parades and live sex shows, headed by Jason Micallef. One hopes that ir-re tal-pjanti will not be tempted into awarding himself a starring role.
How about putting Jason Micallef as the prime King Carnival. Oh we have so many carnivals all year round why add only three?
Jason will be fine as King Carnival.
In 2012 we already had three carnivals. The Valletta carnival, Jum il-Helsien, and Mintoff’s funeral.
So much for ‘Bidla fid-direzzjoni’.
I have to agree with the App producers on this one. I understand that the services being provided by The Times require full time journalists who need to be paid for services rendered, however there are other better ways of generating an income.
What a great idea for John-Opportunist-Bundy to compose a new song: Pajjiz tal-Karnival!
Is that App for real? If so could someone post a link for IPad please? Much appreciated.
It’s not an app. It’s a Google Chrome extension, TOM Taghna Lkoll. And obviously, it only works with the Google Chrome browser.
Maybe the Mala del Brenta could now strike a ‘Carnevale di Venezia a Malta’ deal…
I never understood the bond between the MLP and the carnival enthusiasts. Traditionally, the carnival is once a year and not all year round. It is also a lot of work and expense to build an entertainment truck .
From the 1960s onwards it has become a “tal hamali” pastime so naturally the MLP has a natural affinity to those types of people and those types of people have a natural affinity for the MLP.
And about the carnival happening three times a year, these people have the ” more is better” mentality.
If a bit of icing on a cake is good then lots of icing on a cake is even better, ‘ain’t it?
So, we already had two this year. When is the third one?
Maybe next November when the Labour Party present their Budget?
Been trying to look for it on my smartphone to no avail, unfortunately.
It’s a computer-based App located in the Chrome store.
They should have named the APP ‘Jew b’xejn jew xejn’ – another of their favourite clichés and in this circumstance is more suitable.
Now why am I sadistically happy about this?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-06-05/news/mobc-privatisation-hindered-by-sammut-tabone-court-told-1758461954/
Look whose name cropped up again, bless him.
Risking sounding like a geek: you don’t need any apps. Just disable Javascript from your browser’s settings and the paywall vanishes.
If you use Google Chrome as a browser, you can specify that you want to disable javascript only for http://www.timesofmalta.com (a quick google search will show you how).
What I really need now is a setting or app to filter out some of those blood-boiling comments. I think if some genius manages to develop this (maybe based on a software grammar test and anything that matches the text “privitera”) it would make the site gentler on the stomach. I would probably still change to cnn.com after a few boring seconds anyway.
You are so very right. My stomach churns every time I read certain comments. I try to discipline myself not to read the comments especially in the evenings because they make me feel so angry.
It exists :)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tom-comment-mute/dlloblkjmgemkjmidffghppadofofgob
Minister Herrera must have forgotten that in Malta we have carnival all the year round, especially now that we have a Labour government.
Only 3? We have 365 of them and sometimes more than one every day. Long live King Carnival.
Jose Herrera is ably putting the pieces together for the nation’s vision of Valletta – Capital of Carnivals 2018.
Jason’s appointment as Chairman of the event was the first sign of the things to come.
According to the roadmap, Natius is expected to be in charge of the Brazilians. Valletta must beat the Rio Carnival’s samba schools. It will be an opportunity to re-focus on what carnival really stands for: the supremacy of the meat – at least three times a year.
Inspired by Dr Herrera’s world-first measure of holding 3 carnivals each year, I humbly ask our positive Prime Minister to start holding 3 Christmases every year too.
There are evident advantages in my humble proposal, including tourism-related and commercial benefits, not to mention another day of rest to our haddiema. Pity, this splendid idea did not occur to me before the last election; I’m sure Dr Muscat would have included it with the rest of the long (and confidential) list of promises made to several people.
I’m also sure that Minister Scicluna will hasten to patent these ideas so that Malta can reap the financial benefits of these proposals! The royalties will counter the Excessive Deficit Procedure.
What a wonderful country! What a wonderful Government…really, Gvern li jisma’.
On another point – Minister George Vella has told his counterpart from Montenegro that Malta will back its bid to join the EU. That’s rich coming from someone who did his utmost to keep his own country out.
Meanwhile, Tony Zahra ,,,
“”It’s going to be the perfect summer… We have the perfect script. There is the weather and the flights… Other countries have problems, such as with flooding…
“It is incredible that you guys… the hoteliers… are discounting your rates…why? I can’t understand this…help yourselves don’t discount rates as you don’t gave to… It makes it hard for us to convince governments that hotels need help to remain sustainable,” he said.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130605/local/tourism.472669
All of a sudden we have the perfect script. Before the general election it was all doom and gloom.
Why should the government help hotels stay afloat? There are plenty of them – if they can’t make it they should just leave the market. And by the way, Mr Tony Zahra the EU has rules about state aids and giving unfair competitive advantages to certain operators.
Isn’t this tantamount to price fixing and stifling of competition?
How about three more Gensna productions to go with the three carnivals?
No please no. Do not dare passing on your suggestion, please, please.
No need to download any apps to view timesofmalta.com content. Just open the web page from your browser, right click anywhere and press ‘View page source’ or ‘View Source’. If you scroll down you’ll see all the content anyway.
Thanks. Tried it and managed to read whatever article I wanted to – after finding my way through technical details meant for ‘computer consumption’.
So much for the Times trying to prop up its finances.
I suspect, however, that the paper will find a way of blocking our efforts.
In a land of clowns and jesters, three carnivals won’t be enough.
Don’t know about this app, but if you would like to read for free premium content on the TOM website, just disable scripting in your browser. For example in Internet Explorer go Tools – Internet Options – Security – Custom Level, then scroll down to Scripting and click Active Scripting – Disable, then ok. And don’t forget to enable scripting again when ready, otherwise you would lose certain features like for example watching videos on YouTube. Enjoy!
[Daphne – How awfully time-consuming, irritating and complicated. Reminds me of those people who used to go to all sorts of trouble to smuggle food into expensive beach-clubs. Much less hassle and certainly more stylish to subscribe, which is what I have done. It’s not as though it’s going to break the bank of anything.]
It’s not a question of ‘breaking one’s bank’ – but simply a question of suddenly finding one’s way barred by an unjustified fee system capriciously introduced overnight and overcoming the barrier.
[Daphne – The fee system is fully justified. The service costs money. Expect to pay for it. The money to provide that service has to come from somewhere. The cost of running a newsroom is huge.]
I also see it as a question of trust: why give a full complement of details that can serve to pinpoint individuals?
In the whole of the pre-election period, The Times did not act in a trustworthy manner and the provision of investigative journalism across the board was sorely lacking.
When they add a paypal possibility to their portal, I may find it interesting to subscribe to the full service. Since their agenda remains unclear, why then the expectation for readers to trust them with their full details?
Surely they were not unaware from the outset of the recent online subscription implementation that this current system can be by-passed.
Trust is a valuable intangible that should work both ways.
What I find to be ironic is that the original intention behind this article was to express anger and a little disgust at the people who have produced the app rather than paying full price, however what you have actually done is created a space where people can share their techniques for accessing the material.
He’s just doing that make his followers feel more at home since they all belong in a carnival with the way they act and think.
For those using Safari as browser they should go on Preferences, disable JavaScript et voilà.