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The Blackbox Debate

Thu, 2 Nov 2006, 07:24 pm
Cassie_Dart30 posts in thread
I write regarding the closure and censorship of the below thread - Blackbox Management: Good or Bad? http://www.theatre.asn.au/node/5973 I recently had a young actress write to me and ask a question about her agency, so I sent her this link. It is a tradgic shame that dozens of people's comments have been censored, but I respect Theatre Australia for having posted that these messages were deleted as a result of one John W. of Blackbox Management. It is made clear to everyone what is really going on. This young actress was, suffice it to say, not happy in her current situation. Will you delete my post for saying that?

Wow.

Tue, 14 Nov 2006, 06:12 pm
Walter Plinge
I totally agree that the deleting of comments makes a bigger statement than what the comments said themselves. So I was thinking of applying, I'd received the call from them and everything, etc etc. Told my parents that they ask for $165. Parents freaked out, saying that they've been scammed before in the past with similar stuff. I was skeptical towards my parents at first, thinking 'why would they scam you?' So their address in Melbourne is The Focal Building 325/299 Spring Street Melbourne, VIC, 3000 Dad looked it up in the Melways.. You see how it says the 'Focal Building'? In the Melways: "Focal Apts" i.e. focal apartments. Out of curiosity, I typed into Google, 'define:black box'. It came up with several electrical definitions. As well as: "A securitization issue where no or scanty details are known about the collateral, that is, underlying assets. Normally this is the case where the SPV issues securities backed by receivables of multiple originators." "When the exact operations of a given system aren't known outside the system, it is referred to as a black box. This means that its inner workings can't be seen." Interesting. Shows that I am indeed still a gullible, naive young'n :P

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