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Australian Government Redacts Anti-Piracy Consultation Paper
First time accepted submitter coolstoryhansel writes "You might have heard the Australian Attorney-General published a consultation paper considering the implementation of a streamlined process of getting private information about subscribers from ISPs? Well perhaps not. The Attorney-General's Department have now apparently redacted that document, removing all mention of the controversial proposal, without telling anyone."
Backlash made them rethink it? Or just pretending to go back on it, to reveal it all at the last moment again?
TFA says that 2 sections were removed from the original document. Redacting is different from removal, as one just hides text while the other just makes it go bye-bye. Plus there were some other edits and additions. Shouldn't this be viewed as 'version 2.0' as opposed to 'redacted?' Yes, it seems they tried to slide the changes by quietly, but the word redacted encompasses a whole different set of issues.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
Will they actually use a redact feature in their document editor, or do black font on black background (or just draw a black rectangle object over the text)?
Down the memory hole.
I judge everybody based upon their use of oxford commas.
You're currently failing.
TOPPLE YOUR CRAPPY GOVERNMENT. Before it comes to Canada. Historically they push through all the fascist draconian policies there in Aus first as a test run before deployment in the rest of the commonwealth.
We were always at war with privacism!
Fifteen minutes of hate for Attorney-General Imanuel Goldstein!
Double plus good!
we've finished taking over the World...
What part of Australia are you from? That sounds like a lot of work... I just want to go to the beach. :/
My guess: Tasmania.
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1) Morbidly obese
2) Insanely religious
3) Loud and arrogant
4) Ignorant and barely literate
Man, you nailed it with those four. These are never discussed very openly but by repeated example they are promoted as virtues. The message is, you must really be something special if you can afford to be like this. I.e. "you'd be loud and arrogant too, if only you had the confidence", as though you could not be confident and assertive without needlessly imposing on others. I think a whole generation of never allowing kids to feel real defeat and always telling them how special they are to give them false self-esteem has made them a bunch of insecure idiots who constantly feel a need to compensate with a lot of false bravado.
The obesity one is especially noticable. Personally, I hardly view it as a physical issue. I see it as a mental disease. A healthy, sound mind would do something about it during its early stages and would never even make the transition from "overweight" to "obese", let alone from "obese" to "morbidly obese". It takes time to accumulate 50-100 pounds of excess body fat. It is not something that can suddenly sneak up on you.
It's so basic, there are only two things to understand: 1) if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight and 2) only an insane person practices the same habits over and over and expects a different result. If what you're doing now makes you gain weight, you can expect to continue gaining weight if you don't change. How much simpler could it get? If the suggestion that you as an adult person should be able to comprehend and practice simple things offends you, I am sure you can find a nice big emotional bucket of comfort food to use like a drug to get your few minutes' relief.
The other items you gave better describe the US government. Most of the regular folk aren't this way. They've just had the wool pulled over their eyes for entire generations and have come to believe it is merely the way of things.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
Nah, if he was from Tasmania he's be too busy shagging his cousin to vote. You know you can marry your cousin in Tasmania. (Yes, I realise you can legally marry your cousin anywhere in Australia. Never let facts get in the way of giving Tasmanians shit, or Kiwis for that matter.)
Australia finally threw out the worst of the fascist garbage in its last federal election whereas my dumbass fellow Canadians just handed a majority to the worst corporofascists possible.
You might want to educate your brain cell before you voice your 'opinion'.
Hang on - was that meant to be "giving shit to taswegians and giving shit to kiwis", or "giving shit and kiwis to taswegians"?
These things are important.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
I have this sudden vision of a ball of adipose floating around trying to sneak it's way up on Victoria Beckham, hiding behind street lights every time she looks around, ducking into doorwarys, lurking behind parked cars, inching closer and closer.
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Governments seems to be run by those who write and understand the laws, and that group would be a very small percentile of society. I think it's time we brought out the guillotines.
We have a right to share any information unobstructed.
well, only (5) is false; but you added (4) and (6) as if they're bad things. loud and greedy arrogance is actually mostly harmless fun if you're not ignorant and economically; politically; and morally bankrupt.
alas, we are.
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Typical of the current Australian government, a politically sensitive policy that is redacted, classified or somehow protected as a trade secret. Rather than face legitimate scrutiny by the people paying for the project, the Australian government is currently more interested in public relations rather than developing sound policy.
Isn't taswegia just evidence that kiwis can swim? (To answer the question, I meant "giving shit to taswegieans and kiwis.")
As I recall it, in Australia you can marry almost anyone, including your aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, even grandmother. You cannot marry your mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister, or grandfather. I've never heard of anyone that close getting married though - just imagine the wedding though: Friend of the bride or the groom? Yes.
I said - don't look Ethel!..., but it was too late..., she'd already looked.
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Follow few basic trading rules and we are sure one can earn huge amount in the Indian stock market only by trading in NSE and BSE
Do they come in blue?
What are you talking about. Australia wants nothing other than to be the US with an accent. Everyone there desperately wants to be just liek the US. It's sad really. You'd think that someone so desperate to be something would pick something better to emulate.
I have this sudden vision of a ball of adipose floating around trying to sneak it's way up on Victoria Beckham, hiding behind street lights every time she looks around, ducking into doorwarys, lurking behind parked cars, inching closer and closer.
Hah. That might be enough for me to believe "it's not my fault!" etc. Or I'd just say she needs better situational awareness.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
You can only hope, Lardy McFatCow
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Australians have such lovely accents. When you speak, it's like fingers down a blackboard. Australian chicks can etch glass with their voices. They sound like a hyena that has got its nuts caught on electrified barbwire.