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Isn't this why there are top level .gov sites?

France.com is not running a government site. Just because the government owns it doesn't mean it isn't being used for commercial purposes.

Feel like visiting Australia? You're better off going to http://www.australia.com/ than you are http://www.australia.gov.au/

Likewise the French government domains are hosted under {purpose}.gouv.fr

Let's cut to the chase, they are probably eyeing the Australian immigration system https://www.australia.gov.au/i..., like it and want to, hmmmm, crossgrade https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki... to it (not going to make an up or down, distinction to that, no way, now how, not that I could give a fuck about the corporate funded SJWs doing their idiotic divide and weaken bullshit, the fake left, not the far left, the make the rest of the left look bad, fake left, fuck em, but it should be a democratic decision made by the majority of citizens). Of course the US will tweak it their way (making it less functional), rather than just copy some other countries system.

I know you meant *mad.

Do any of you guys living in the US realize how little consumer protection you have? The entire lack of price regulation means that shops/companies can advertise one price, and then charge you another at the till. IT DOESN'T MATTER where the extra charges come from, Government taxes or otherwise. The entire rest of the western world realizes that consumer protection is important, and has regulation to guarantee a customer that the price they see is the price they pay. There are NO technical arguments against this, and the reason I'm shouting and frothing a little is because whenever I mention this in person to US citizens I am awe-struck at the barrage of apologist statements I am subjected to. I am left thinking WTF is going on with these people?!?!

So, the USA celebrates free speech, free market, and a capitalist ideals, yet smothers its consumers with bullshit advertising and confusing pricing schemes. Remember that one of the basic tenants of capitalism is an "informed customer". I'm sorry, but as an outsider looking in, I simply don't understand how any of you can honestly not realize how much you're getting fucked over. Anyone? What the fuck is wrong with you people? ...

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Not APK

PS: Written with US spelling to help with reading comprehension.

Finally! Hopefully now we won't have to use those hideous Interactive PDFs that the Electoral Commissions force us to use for digital submissions.

Is there some kind of catalog or web site I can browse to see examples of what's legal and not?

www.australia.gov.au

...and not?

Pretty much everything else on the internet.

I'm pretty sure they've outlawed "ridiculing Australian censorship laws" a few years ago, so this post is a prime example of what's not legal.

Checking into this I was shocked to find that http://www.australia.gov.au/secret_files and http://www.australia.gov.au/super_secret_files and http://www.australia.gov.au/ultra_super_secret_files were not secured with a password protected login! If I get the nerve up I'm going to see if I can find the PMs pron protected with Username: username Password: password

Wish me luck,
l33t3r k1Dz

Checking into this I was shocked to find that http://www.australia.gov.au/secret_files and http://www.australia.gov.au/super_secret_files and http://www.australia.gov.au/ultra_super_secret_files were not secured with a password protected login! If I get the nerve up I'm going to see if I can find the PMs pron protected with Username: username Password: password

Wish me luck,
l33t3r k1Dz

Checking into this I was shocked to find that http://www.australia.gov.au/secret_files and http://www.australia.gov.au/super_secret_files and http://www.australia.gov.au/ultra_super_secret_files were not secured with a password protected login! If I get the nerve up I'm going to see if I can find the PMs pron protected with Username: username Password: password

Wish me luck,
l33t3r k1Dz

Checking into this I was shocked to find that http://www.australia.gov.au/secret_files and http://www.australia.gov.au/super_secret_files and http://www.australia.gov.au/ultra_super_secret_files were not secured with a password protected login! If I get the nerve up I'm going to see if I can find the PMs pron protected with Username: username Password: password

Wish me luck,
l33t3r k1Dz

Don't you mean http://www.australia.gov.au/sheeps_backdoor?

http://www.australia.gov.au/backdoor ?

Conroy .. said [the list] would also block sites depicting ... "revolting and abhorrent phenomena" that "offend against the standards of morality".

Latest site added to the list:

          http://australia.gov.au/

I guess it all depends on your point of view.

Here in Australia we have a program where land owned by "whitey" is returned to the original owners. Whilst it's a rather polarising issue I do think there is some validity in returning property to an owner if the owner is still around, and to answer your question of who gives a shit who lived there - the following generations of those removed do.

See: http://www.australia.gov.au/Land_Rights
See Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_title

To pull out the infamous car analogy, if someone stole a car, does it just become their car after awhile, or is it still a stolen car that should be returned to it's original owner? What if the stolen car is sold to another person; should the car still be returned to its original owner and does the person who paid money for a stolen car lose out?

The law says, yes & yes. (Here atleast).

Good points, I was a bit vaugue about automatic counting in my post and it pays to be explicit about these things.

"I've been an election integrity activists for about 2 years now."

My interest came about from the diebold machines a few years ago, I wouldn't call myself an activist but I usually put my $0.02 in on the many /. discussions. The electorol commision here in Australia was investigating the plausability of using diebold systems over here. The investigation IMHO was an "honest assesment" that basically said they wouldn't touch "paperless elections" with a cattle prod. Had they gone the other way I may have become more of an activist. ( The report itself is probably somewhere in this list )

The thing I think that smelt the worst in the last US election was the exit polls, one or two "odd counts" I can see as a statistical possibility, but as I understand it the "odd counts" were much more that that - so "odd" that it prompted Putin to make snide remark about the validity of the result. (Not saying that Putin is any kind of benchmark, but it was an extrodinary thing for him to say)

I don't know how the handle things in the US so I guess I am in the same boat as you.

In Australia the mobile phones use a completely different number set. All mobiles have a 04 prefix and are 10 digits long. Land line phone numbers are 8 digits with a 2 digit prefix for different states. None of the 2 digit prefixes (add a zero to the front of the linked numbers) conflict with the mobile prefix. It is always clear that you are dialing a mobile number.

It would be a pretty dumb system to have a geographical code for mobiles, something that isn't tied to a physical location.

that I read at 76 AU to mean 76 Australians.

So Wikipedia is your only resource? You should probably check a little further than the open source encyclopedia, or perhaps check the full article for consistency... The Wikipedia entry variously states that the land masses are 'Australia' and 'Australasia' while referring to the same 'land masses'. Referenced from the Macquarie Dictionary (4th Ed.): Australasia: (noun) Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighbouring islands of the South Pacific Ocean. Australia: (noun) the continent south-east of Asia,lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the smallest continent in the world...2. a federal parliamentary state consisting of the continent of Australia and the island of Tasmania; comprised a number of smaller colonies before federation in 1901. Referenced from the Readers Digest Universal Dictionary (1998): Australasia: an imprecise term referring to lands of the Pacific Ocean. The name is used in a broad sense to include the Malay Archipelago, Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia in addition to New Zealand, the island of New Guinea and Australia. It is used more commonly to refer simply to Australia, New Zealand and their dependencies (or former dependencies) such as Papua New Guinea. Australia: Official name - Commonwealth of Australia. Island commonwealth lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans... If you still want to believe Wikipedia, then I'd suggest reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Australia' Or try: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/1/686/1/ PA005910.htm This may give you some ammunition as it states that 'when used in a geographical sense, includes the external territories'. However, neither New Zealand, nor New Guinea are external territories of Australia. Christmas Island, Lord Howe Island and a few other smaller islands (and a large section of Antarctica) are external territories. I will happily accept the Wikipedia 'continent' entry once the entry is referenced. Without references, you or I could say that all of Eastern Russia is part of America, or that New Zealand is part of Australia even. You may also note that the entry specifies that it is a geological association, which is different to the geographical association. Perhaps this site may help: http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia-1conti nent I have contacted Geosciences Australia who may respond here. Any responses to me personally from Geosciences will be posted here. If I am wrong, I will happily apologise. Cheers

The site was hosted on Yahoo and the domain name registeres with Melbourne IT. The site is still on Yahoo's servers and can be downloaded using an IP address and an absolute URL (so their virtual server knows which website you want. By way of explanation, here is something I previously submitted as a story:

At the request of the Australian government, domain name registrar Melbourne IT has removed DNS entries for a political opponent of a ruling political party and its policies in Iraq.

Richard Neville created a parody of one of the Australian Prime Minister's speeches and posted it on a the website www.johnhowardpm.org. After a day the website mysteriously disappeared from the Internet. Melbourne IT, domain registrar for johnhowardpm.org, and Yahoo, the website host, both denied knowledge.

Tim Longhurst has been investigating. After two days two anonymous Melbourne IT technicians have come forward and told him that "johnhowardpm.org" was removed from DNS at the request of representatives from the Australian government, without the knowledge of the domain owner. Normal proceedure is for the domain owner to at least be notified.

Australian Internet users can no longer read www.johnhowardpm.org. Yahoo's DNS server (yns1.yahoo.com) still resolves johnhowardpm.org and the pages still exist on Yahoo's server (premium7.geo.vip.re4.yahoo.com = 216.39.58.74). They may be retrieved by sending a http GET request using telnet, or by setting one's HTTP proxy to 216.39.58.74 and typing "http://www.johnhowardpm.org/" into a browser address bar.

Given that the parody was not obscene, and its facts were well backed with references the only justification seems to be political censorship by Melbourne IT and the Australian government. The Internet equivalent of a political assassination to shut someone up.

If "The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it.", what is the future for Melbourne IT as a registrar? The High Court of Australia has also ruled that the Australian Constitution contains a right to freedom of political speech.

Outside of England, no major ally has given aid or supported us with Iraq.

No, there are no other major countries that came to Iraq. None at all. Especially countries that are on Osama's "countries to destroy" list, along with the US, and have also been attacked.

But if the government does something, odds are, it won't be good. You've put through DMCA, if something happens, you won't be loosening restrictions. And if you make things tighter, it'll happen over here.

Yet another tempting moment for emigration to the EU beckons.