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Here in Australia, the Government funds a TV network called the ABC. That doesn't stop people from challenging what the govt does and even getting arrested for it.

Not unless flying the Canadian flag is against the law. It wasn't sophisticated enough to break any Canadian laws. There was a Canadian flag on the car and a sticker with an APEC logo which read:

"This vehicle belongs to a member of The Chaser's War on Everything. This dude likes trees and poetry and certain types of carnivorous plants excite him."

Contrary to CNN's official misinformation (or should that be CNNNN?) the "motorcade" was not stopped police. They only got picked up when the fake motorcade stopped outside the Intercontinental Hotel and "Osama" hopped out of the car. If you look at the picture in the SMH Article Osama "Chas " Bin Laden isn't being pulled from the car by police but leisurely stepping out of his own accord. The doorman is not a cop but one of the Chaser's own crew.

The only crime committed here is to make the NSW Police and their political masters look like idiots.

Not unless flying the Canadian flag is against the law. It wasn't sophisticated enough to break any Canadian laws. There was a Canadian flag on the car and a sticker with an APEC logo which read:

"This vehicle belongs to a member of The Chaser's War on Everything. This dude likes trees and poetry and certain types of carnivorous plants excite him."

Contrary to CNN's official misinformation (or should that be CNNNN?) the "motorcade" was not stopped police. They only got picked up when the fake motorcade stopped outside the Intercontinental Hotel and "Osama" hopped out of the car. If you look at the picture in the SMH Article Osama "Chas " Bin Laden isn't being pulled from the car by police but leisurely stepping out of his own accord. The doorman is not a cop but one of the Chaser's own crew.

The only crime committed here is to make the NSW Police and their political masters look like idiots.

On the one hand I can see that the police and the millions of rent-a-cop types have to take everything ultra seriously just incase one of the leaders (though according to most of the news George "Nucular" Bush and some Chinese guy nobody knows the name of are the only ones in town) does end up karking it in Sydney... it would look bad. On the other hand it's all a big farce.

The police bought a truck mounted water cannon (but NSW rents a water crane to battle bushfires every summer, priorities eh) for this event and cleared jails to make room for the protesters the police plan to arrest. I guess if they can boast they managed to jail a guy that looks like Osama Bin Laden they'll get the merit badge they were after.

On the one hand I can see that the police and the millions of rent-a-cop types have to take everything ultra seriously just incase one of the leaders (though according to most of the news George "Nucular" Bush and some Chinese guy nobody knows the name of are the only ones in town) does end up karking it in Sydney... it would look bad. On the other hand it's all a big farce.

The police bought a truck mounted water cannon (but NSW rents a water crane to battle bushfires every summer, priorities eh) for this event and cleared jails to make room for the protesters the police plan to arrest. I guess if they can boast they managed to jail a guy that looks like Osama Bin Laden they'll get the merit badge they were after.

On the one hand I can see that the police and the millions of rent-a-cop types have to take everything ultra seriously just incase one of the leaders (though according to most of the news George "Nucular" Bush and some Chinese guy nobody knows the name of are the only ones in town) does end up karking it in Sydney... it would look bad. On the other hand it's all a big farce.

The police bought a truck mounted water cannon (but NSW rents a water crane to battle bushfires every summer, priorities eh) for this event and cleared jails to make room for the protesters the police plan to arrest. I guess if they can boast they managed to jail a guy that looks like Osama Bin Laden they'll get the merit badge they were after.

I've had a chance to play with a interactive whiteboard i think it was from these people...
They have just done done a study into many different brands for use in schools in NSW, Australia. I'll post more when i get to work, I haven't had a chance to read the report yet.
more here

Case 1
* FOX doesn't pay their taxes. "Don't worry about it" says Congress. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/02/ 99/e-cyclopedia/302366.stm http://www.vision.net.au/~apaterson/politics/econo mist_murdoch.htm Presidential Candidates eagerly take handouts from FOX http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070802/ap_on_el_pr/ed wards_news_corp
* Guy videos FOX's Simpson movie. Goes to Jail. http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/simpsons-filmed-on- mobile/2007/08/17/1186857730452.html

Case 2
* SONY regularly cracks the security on customer's computers. No prosecution.
* Some guy does it. 21 months jail. http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/20 05/05/va_threatkrew2.html
* Congress decide life jail for hackers would be better: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/02/507 08

Case 3
* Disney Wants the law changed. Law gets changed. http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_s prigman.html http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2002/02/21 /web_copyright/index.html
* What's Congress done for you lately? Health Insurance? Told their own kids to enlist?

Says Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "There is a growing trend for hacking gangs to break into innocent people's computers to spy, to steal, and to cause damage. This sentence sends out a strong message to other hackers that infecting others with Trojan horses and other malware is not acceptable." So Justice Department: You going to do anything about this, or are you corporate shills too?

It was reported that this would be the case, as a requirement of the Free Trade Agreement in '06.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/games/new-laws-target-m odchip-users/2006/09/14/1157827083369.html
Initially I read about it on here, but can't seem to find the article anymore.

I'm not really sure where it went from there, but this article seems to suggest that it's not holding up so well, at least in some cases.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/06/ 1211211

If you don't go to the store in the first place you are committing theft!

Even if you are a supplier who's product doesn't meet arbitrary profit margins you are committing theft and must pay!!

If corporations don't make their unrealistic profit margins due to failed business models, government must step in and force consumers and suppliers to cough up the money, it's pure capitalism and if you don't believe in it you're a damn commie!

Admittedly he's motionless, but fifteen minutes two seconds is pretty amazing: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/10/11865305 69468.html

Many US state attorneys-general want laws that would require children to get permission from their parents before joining such sites,
and would require those sites to verify the parents' age and identity.

I spent alot of time in China working in the CE industry and this does not suprise me at all. The local culture is that to copy and improve is natural and not illegal.

However that had not stopped Chinese firms using our own IP systems against us by patenting just about everything they can get their hands on and then seeking money via the courts.

In a very real sense, they are having their cake and eating it as well.

My favorite story was the fake NEC firm and thats also mentioned in TFA :"In 2006, NEC, one of the 25 biggest consumer-electronics firms in the world, went public with the results of a two-year investigation. The company had been receiving complants about products it didn't even make: DVD players, cellphones, MP3 players. Investigators from International Risk, a private security firm employed by NEC, ultimately uncovered a shadow version of the company operating out of corporate offices in China, with ties to more than 50 manufacturing facilities. "On the surface, it looked like a series of intellectual-property infringements, but in reality a highly organized group has attempted to hijack the entire brand," says Steve Vickers, the former Hong Kong police inspector who was in charge of the investigation for International Risk. Executives had their own NEC business cards and e-mail add-resses. They had marketing plans and distribution networks in place. Some "company" facilities even had electronic signs bearing huge, lighted NEC logos. Most bold of all, the bogus NEC actually charged the manufacturers it worked with royalties on its designs. The investigation led to raids last year on 18 of the manufacturing sites and the seizure of nearly 50,000 fake products. Yet the factories themselves are still operating, just not using the NEC name. The ringleaders of the scam have yet to be caught; like the Samsung copiers, they are thought to still be making fakes."

I suspect the biggest problem was trying to persuade them that they had been breaking the law in the first place.

For more information on Chinese patents see..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6939 767.stm

For more information on the fake NEC firm, see
http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/slick-pirates-s eize-entire-brand/2006/05/29/1148754904830.html

To see some fake chinese brands..
http://www.hemmy.net/2007/04/29/chinese-fake-brand s/

The data itself, i.e. the XML feeds, or just the schedule? I can't see the legality of either of those claims, personally (though of course this comes with the obligatory IANAL, or, indeed, even Australian). As I understand it one cannot copyright facts (the schedule itself) so how they could copyright either the feeds or the schedule is beyond me.

But before you do, let me just fill you in on how the Australian experience went, and why paying may not be such a bad thing.

Historically, there's been no XMLTV guide data source for Australians. So there have been a litany of screen scrapers that downloaded guide web pages, massaged them into XMLTV format, and passed them on to MythTV and friends.

The only problem is, the program guides are controlled by the TV networks, and the TV networks hate us. Ouch, but true. They've made the leap of logic that, if we had program guide data on our DVRs, we can skip the commercials.[2] So they've been arguing that they own the copyright to the guide data[3] and any unauthorised use of it (i.e. screen scraping) is a breach of their terms.

The only commercial company to publish guide data for DVRs is IceTV and they've been a lawsuit magnet from abovementioned TV networks. Not many people would pay a monthly subscription to something that could be killed at any time.

Meanwhile, in screen scraping land, it's been a game of cat-and-mouse. Find a web site that publishes guide data. Write a screen scraper (or wait for someone else to). In a few months, notice that nothing's been scheduled for a few days - the screen scraper has broken because they've (intentionally) changed the format to deter this. Find another web site. Repeat.

They did all sorts of things to deter us. Obfuscation through JavaScript. Only allowing n page views per hour. After they converted all the guide details to GIFs, we gave up. Most people have moved to IceTV or ozTiVo.

The ozTiVo guide is an interesting idea. It's essentially a wiki that people manually fill in with guide data. Then you can use its XMLTV interface to get guide data out. You're reliant on other people to fill it in, and (due to above copyright issue in Australia) a lot of program details are generic or omitted. But it's workable. This is a model which other people may be interested in setting up.

Fortunately for IceTV, in the last few days, it won its court case and is now happily legit.

So, to sum up, we in Australia are actually happy to pay for quality guide data. Because we know the alternatives. If someone wants to set up a screen scraper, good luck to you - we fought the good fight and lost, but maybe you won't.

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[1] Ladies too!
[2] No, I don't know how they came up with that either.
[3] In Australia, this has historically been a grey area.

Sydney Morning Herald, one of Australia's largest newspapers, had a fairly pro-Def Con article about it too. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/04/11856481 97448.html

So, has anyone yet found the lost original tapes of the Apollo 11 landing?

and it can and has been done, more or less

"I'm not aware of any significant/recent examples of $COUNTRY's government being inept or corrupt, therefore it must be a beacon of hope in the world."

Fair enough if you want to think that, but I still disagree. NZ rates first equal on last year's Transparency International Corruption Perceptions index.

We definitely have immature politicians, including ones who act badly, try to cover things up, and whatever else, but the design of the system makes covering things up hard to do. If journalists, opposition politicians, or random people on the street, suspect politicians or government entities of something, there are lots of avenues for them to seek further information.

Government entities are required (by law) to provide any information requested of them by a citizen, unless they can specifically justify why it shouldn't be provided... and then they have to convince an ombudsman that it's justified. (Here's a more complete discussion in a Sydney Morning Herald journalist's weblog.) The whole environment leads to government departments that have an entire culture of transparency, and of publication whenever possible rather than withholding information whenever possible, because it's just a whole lot easier that way. It also means that politicians who try to manipulate the system don't tend to stay around very long.

But yeah, if it's revealed one day that New Zealand has a closed an corrupt national government, I'll be happy to withdraw my statement.

modded: Flamebait? Obviously the sarcasm was missed...

Sorry, but being a sarcastic asshole myself and since today I was put in my place (don't ask) and hence did googled myself...

why-is-sarcasm-the-lowest-form-of-wit
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    http://www.smh.com.au/news/big-questions/why-is-sa rcasm-the-lowest-form-of-wit/2005/08/18/1123958169 522.html

it would be more funny if it weren't so sad.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/human-greed -takes-lions-share-of-solar-energy/2007/07/02/1183 351126304.html

This guy looks like he couldn't reproduce unless test tubes were involved. Then there is this guy. Wolf!!! Then, look at these studmuffins here. Which one do you want has your wingman? I am not saying sex is impossible with any of these chaps (except maybe the second one) but it will take a lot of work. They have to put down the Linux sometime. In your case, Ubuntu is basically giving up on the whole hardcore linux crap for a social life. Just ask this playa.

The faces of Microsoft aren't much to look at. But hey, they are rich and can buy all the tail they need!

If this guy can sell these. He shouldn't have any trouble smooth talking a lady. This guy doesn't seem to have a problem. I say Mac users are a happy bunch.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention the BSD folks. Their OS is "infirmed" but they got heart. Just look at their mascot. These guys are classy.

Your comments remind me of an article
that I read about the other day. It is similar to what you say, except from an economists view. Have a read, it's very enlightening.

Hopefully the internet will better educate future consumers. I know I try to research any purchases that I make, and the internet has been invaluable for that.

It's all RIAA/MPAA-manufactured crap to convince shill politicians to pass pro-MPAA/RIAA laws. Here's a story published in Australia yesterday accusing it of the same thing:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/digital-music/pirates-l ike-us/2007/07/11/1183833529685.html

China has the right idea. Keep a steamroller mothballed, ready to pull out for the bi-annual "Drive over some CDs" Show.

Even reviewer Harvey Rosenfield, who is usually very kind to Apple, was quoted as saying 'some of them might be waking up now, wondering who they got in bed with.'"

Actually, it's because Canada is Microsoft's #3 exporter of staff, behind India and Japan (link) and an L visa is obtainable after a year.

Also, Microsoft DOES have R&D in China, India, Ireland, among other places, so opening one in Vancouver is incredibly overdue.

Sorry, I'm just nitpicking and I agree with your post, Mr. Lightning. This message isn't for you. However everybody else who posted trash about Microsoft opening an office in Canada because it's cheaper:

FUCK YOU

You assholes obviously haven't spent much time in Vancouver or Toronto in the last decade or Alberta in the last year. Stop posting shit about nonsense you have no fricking clue about. Have you guys actually sent your resumes to Microsoft? Geez. Sound like the neighbor's barking dogs.

Oz

Pop star George Michael said the same thing to BBC radio in 2004, talking about his impending retirement from commercial music.

"I think it's ("Patience") going to be my last commercial promoted release. I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money," he said.

Now, he added, he would "really like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free".

"Believe me, in the modern world if you take yourself out of the financial aspect of things, ie. if you're not in anybody's chart, you're not making anybody any money, you're not losing anybody any money, believe me, I'll be of very little interest to the press in a certain number of years."

Frankly I don't see why not. Once you've got "enough" money why not sell-out entirely to your own creative impulses? It's certainly better then wearily pumping out material you're no longer interested in just because you've become accustomed to life as a hamster on a pop-star wheel.

I thasnk Mr. Michael, Prince, and every other artist for sharing their talent with us. If their non-commercial expressions discomfort trade cartels and music store chains then so be it, artists have no obligation to support music industry chattel. Perhaps the record stores would like to have parents stop singing non-commercial lullabyes and birds be required to have performance licenses.

Roxanne Gould, Spokesweasel for the American Electronics Association says 'Our bottom line is we're opposed to anything that demonizes RFIDs'

Sounds crazy? In Australia kids doing advertising letter box drops (for below minimum wage*) have been fitted with GPS tracking devices, and the privatized Telstra teleco tracks employees time spent in the toilet or making coffee. RFID is the sort of thing these employers would love. Nice to see Government (well, at least one person in Government) being pro-active, as opposed to retro-active or more usually not doing anything at all.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2007/s19520 54.htm
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/junk-mails-s pyinthesky/2006/05/22/1148150175310.html

* = below minimum, since they have to bag and rubber-band the advertising materials on their own spare time. News limited advertises "We even provide the bags and rubber bands for you!" like they're doing you a favor. They at least now advertise "No GPS tracking device required" because no one wanted to do it. Imagine that.

"Unfortunately for now, the only solution to this fountain of stupid is to get your "obscene" goods from Europe or Asia, where civilization comes from!"

Actually, it's been banned in the UK and Ireland, and Italy's Communications Minister has asked that Rockstar cancel their planned release. Might want to scratch Europe from that list.

Remember - This is the same Prime Minister of Australia (John Howard) who phone spammed the continent prior to the last election, then paid his smug looking son to email spam the nation.

The reason Howard's talking about broadband (apart from the fact that he's running scared from a buoyant & surprisingly competent opposition with a better broadband plan) is because this will give him access to more Australians to spam, spam spam.

My apologies for being ontopic. I now return you to your scheduled 'why broadband is crap in the US' offtopic flamewar.

What country has sane gun laws? Japan? Australia?

If you care do do a bit of research you'd find that Australian gun laws changed after the Port Arthur Massacre, and semi-automatic weapons were banned. The results? No mass shootings since 1995.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/gun-deaths-in- rapid-decline-since-buyback/2006/12/13/11656857524 21.html

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/14/australia -gun.html

http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/ 12/6/365

http://www.physorg.com/news85298565.html

Now while it is true there's been an increase in armed robberies in Australia in the last 11 years, it must be remembered that it has always been illegal to carry handguns here, so there has never been the deterrent of an armed citizenry; the change in laws had absolutely no effect in that regard.

"law enforcement" and "the military". Their purpose is no longer to protect and defend, now their function is to control and suppress.

s/no longer/not/
s/now/""/

You are right that we mustn't allow systems like this in place. There is an growing infiltration of our societies by people like this who if they can gain control will certainly use it for oppression.

The UN Human Rights Declaration (UDHR) may be Western biased, but that's what we've got, even if it is somewhat toothless. As a reference point, it's better than nothing.

I see the merit in your point on democracy, yet I'd choose American style democracy over any flavour of monarchy from the Middle East on any day of the week (and I'm not American).

Is China 'Evil'? I don't know, but it does seem to be run by a bunch of assholes, IMHO. The Basic Law in Hong Kong is a joke. The Chinese government routinely tortures and imprisons people for their beliefs. Corruption is a way of life. Censorship is way over the top. Last year there was that video of Chinese army soldiers shooting Tibetan refugees in Nepal.

I recognize that I may be biased since the bastards tried to poison us the other month.

You really think an armed revolution would produce a positive change?

I think that if the government considered this a realistic possiblility things might change. It's supposed to be the limitation on governments power, since the constitution is just a piece of paper and has to be enforced. It's not rational to think that the government will enforce limitations of the governments power if they can help it.

Not a single internal armed revolution has led to better leaders being put in than those who left.

Assasinations on the other hand, can lead to better government: "We find that the successful assassination of autocrats produces institutional change - substantially raising the probability that a country transitions to democracy," say the American economists Benjamin Jones and Benjamin Olkin in a paper published yesterday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. But that's not really the point as I see it. Both revolutions and assasinations remove the current leaders. The possibility of them happening is a motivation for the current leaders to be better, not a guarantee that any future government would be better.

The goal isn't to have a revolution, it's to have the government fear to be tyrannical. Think of it as a transferance of negotiating power to the people, rather than active planning for revolution. Your right to Habeas Corpus was gained this way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta no ruler deposed, but a show of force by the Barons opening the way for the common law rights we have today.

HMAS Sydney find 'nonsense'

You're not alone. Apparently this story came out last week and Akers' claims already rejected by those searching for the ship.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/hmas-sydney-fi nd-nonsense/2007/06/03/1180809320635.html

FTA -
But Ted Graham, the chairman of the Perth-based volunteer company HMAS Sydney Search (HMA3S), says finding the shipwreck using the methods Mr Akers said he employed was impossible.

"All the advice we're getting is saying Tim's claims are technically not possible," Mr Graham told AAP.

"We've spoken to a whole lot of people and got advice from various people including technical people in government departments and they have all stated that what Tim's claiming is complete rubbish.

"I think it's just complete nonsense."

Sorry, but watching from Australia, the whole gun-control debate in the US is a farce.

Really? According to this article at the Sydney Morning Herald it seems to be that gun-control laws are the farce:
"Homicide patterns (firearm and non-firearm) were not influenced by the NFA, the conclusion being that the gun buyback and restrictive legislative changes had no influence on firearm homicide in Australia,"

You only have to look at the firearm fatality rates per capita of western countries to realise the US is massively out of whack.

And yet Canada and Switzerland have a high rate of gun ownership (including automatic military weapons in Switzerland) but not the murder rate of the US, so it would be logical to think that the US murder rate is affected by other issues. In addition to that, any review of gun deaths to determine the effects of gun control really should take into account deaths of civilians at the hands of the government, not just civilian murders. Approximately 100 million in the last hundred years by various despots. Regardless of gun laws, no western country is experiencing or ever seems likely to experience the level of civilian criminal activity necessary to compete with despots for death rates, and the surest prevention of despotism is an armed citizenry.

Not exactly what you asked for (or what the GP said) but: "We find that the successful assassination of autocrats produces institutional change - substantially raising the probability that a country transitions to democracy," say the American economists Benjamin Jones and Benjamin Olkin in a paper published yesterday by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Note: I am not arguing for or against this behaviour, just giving a relevant link.

Who's we sucker ?

Of course you're not getting rich, and I'm certainly not. But you can bet your ass that there are people out there literally making billions out of Iraq. Where do you think all this funding for Iraq goes to?

Well it's pretty simple it's going to a lot of companies and who profits from these companies?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/up-to-15-per-cent -of-iraq-oil-output-missing/2007/05/13/11789950000 73.html

Oil is being pumped out of Iraq every day, money for 15% of the oil that has been shipped from Iraq has simply disappeared. No one can account for it. Just google 'iraq corruption', you will see enough smoke to realise there's a pretty intense fire there. If you're still not convinced go check Haliburton's stock price in the last 6 years. If you think for one second that people are dying in Iraq today for any other reason than oil and money you are totally deluded.

I suggest you actually go to the middle east, India, or China, talk to an average joe, you'll soon understand what modern day enslavement is about and how money works to enslave people. Iraq is all about making a small minority of people a whole lot richer and making the rest of us relatively poorer. More for the conquerors, less for the non-conquerors, that is the true nature of conquest, plain nasty ruthless greed. It's very simple.

Anyhow getting back to the penatgon....

Here's a theory... have a look at your one dollar bills, hmm what's that pyramid doing there? And how about that washington monument, that seems a little familiar doesn't it?

Ummm just maybe that pentagon is a Freemason thing? Just a wild guess.

Sly Stallone was caught recently in Sydney Airport importing (heh heh... drug smugglers smuggle, but Celebrities "import") quantities of Testosterone and Human Growth Hormone. Maybe Sly is updating his image for the YouTube generation. He wants to not only be a big troll, but a big scary troll too:

"I want... what they want... what those trolls. They just want to be heard. {grabs mike} Bill Gates, I'm comin' to get you!" (Whacks Steve Balmer with chair and dives out the window with DRM lawyers in pursui

Sly sad it was prescribed by his doctors for a "mystery medical ailment". No, seriously.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/stallone-sorry -for-illegal-hormones/2007/05/15/1178995115011.htm l
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/stallones-full -apology/2007/05/15/1178995136992.html

Don't panic, Rambolovers and Rockettes. Being a 51st State of America, Australia extends immunity to Hollywood Celebrities too. Sly will gush about he loves Australia and walk free. Just as well. Here's to Rambo IV, where he goes back and kicks the ass of the Tabliban guys he freed in III.

Sly Stallone was caught recently in Sydney Airport importing (heh heh... drug smugglers smuggle, but Celebrities "import") quantities of Testosterone and Human Growth Hormone. Maybe Sly is updating his image for the YouTube generation. He wants to not only be a big troll, but a big scary troll too:

"I want... what they want... what those trolls. They just want to be heard. {grabs mike} Bill Gates, I'm comin' to get you!" (Whacks Steve Balmer with chair and dives out the window with DRM lawyers in pursui

Sly sad it was prescribed by his doctors for a "mystery medical ailment". No, seriously.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/stallone-sorry -for-illegal-hormones/2007/05/15/1178995115011.htm l
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/stallones-full -apology/2007/05/15/1178995136992.html

Don't panic, Rambolovers and Rockettes. Being a 51st State of America, Australia extends immunity to Hollywood Celebrities too. Sly will gush about he loves Australia and walk free. Just as well. Here's to Rambo IV, where he goes back and kicks the ass of the Tabliban guys he freed in III.

Are you sure? This is what she looks like;

Aussie-American Love

Hard to say. Do you think this might have something to do with it?

"I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again," the declaration quotes Ballmer. "I'm going to fucking kill Google."

They pulled some video clips from Youtube after Thailand threatened to sue them. More here

Snyder did her student-teaching at Conestoga Valley High School in 2006.

Conestoga Valley officials told the college they would stop accepting student-teachers from Millersville if she went unpunished, the lawsuit said.

One of the concerns that Ms. Snyder's cooperating teacher, Nicole Reinking, expressed to Ms. Snyder throughout the semester was the importance of maintaining a professional working relationship with the students and not to become overly familiar with them regarding her personal life.

This extradition isn't much on the scale of how much Australia sucks up to the USA. Would any other country close down all major city roads just to give visiting US vice president Dick Cheney a "clear ride"?