The other thing to remember is, the internet is international. What is "free speech" where you are is not necessarily "free speech" where the reader is. Your laws don't apply everywhere (for whatever value of your).
Also "free speech" does not mean freedom from consequences.
While what you was once true, that is no longer the case.
From the EFA (Electronic Frontiers Australia) page on defamation (http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/defamation.html):
On 25 October 2005, the Queensland Attorney General Linda Lavarch announced that a Bill (Defamation Bill 2005) to amend Queensland's defamation laws, in accord with proposed uniform national laws, had been introduced into Parliament and was expected to become effective from 1 January 2006. In a media release titled Queensland Moves To Adopt National Uniform Defamation Laws the Queensland Attorney General stated that key features of the legislation include:
* "preventing corporations (other than non-for-profit organisations or small businesses) from suing for defamation, addressing current community concerns that large companies could stifle legitimate public debate by beginning defamation action;
* establishing a defence of "truth" to replace the previous defence of "truth and public benefit";
* reducing the time limit for bringing a defamation action from six years to one year (or three years if the court is satisfied an action could not have been brought within one year);
* abolishing the awarding of exemplary and punitive damages in civil defamation proceedings; and
* limiting juries to determining whether a person has been defamed, leaving the awarding of damages to judges."
This was passed in to law in all Australian states and territories. So truth is a defense in Australia.
This discussion has got me wondering just what kind of person is always expecting everyone to stab him in the back. I understand caution and reasonable preparation for calamities human and otherwise, but the PHB crowd really fixates on the paranoia.
The reason is quite simple.
Most of those PHB's got their position by stabbing someone in the back, so they are expecting every one else to do the same to them.
If there really was a genetic pre-disposition to MS then you can guarantee Bill would be trying to get gene therapy in to colleges to introduce the gene to as many people as possible. And the way college students screw around you can bet the genes would be spread pretty far.
I remember Loom from back in the day. Was a lot of fun for the time.
On your idea of a modern day update, there was an issue of the Grimjack comic published back around 91-92 that had this theme. In one of the Dimensions that Cynosure interfaced with irregularly, sound was used as a weapon and Grimjacks signature power riff was one of the most powerful. Grimjack and a group of others had to protect the Heart of rock and Roll from the attack of the bad 80's hair bands.
hen you take a hit for looking incompetent. No one in their right mind wants to trust mission critical stuff to a guy that's proven they're sloppy. Playing "stupid" as you put it makes you look stupid. Plus it's gutless. Think about this: Who wants to promote someone that's gutless and stupid?
Based on my experiences dealing with managers, promoting the gutless and stupid seems to be the norm. Being sloopy, gutless and stupid is almost guaranteed to get you onthe fast track to senior management
And I failed at Uni three decades ago because I spent all my time in the common room playing cards.
Students failing is nothing new, just the reasons change. It doesn't matter if it is cards, beer, girls or computer games, students will always find something more interesting to do than go to lectures.
The problem is Ruddock, Costello and Howard want to drag Australia kicking and screaming in to the 1950's when they where all young and everything was rosy, children respected their parents and we were a loyal vassal of Great Britain.
A minor point, but Telstra started out life as a part of a government department (the department of the Post Master General). It was then split off in to it's own entity (Telecom Australia) which was renamed (Telstra), then partly sold off. I remember the old manhole covers with PMG on them.
I gree with the parent. If you want a distro 'that just works' on your laptop Ubuntu is the way to go. I have had Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop for some time and have never gotten around to getting Wireless Networking working properly. The Ubuntu liveCD detected everything out of the box and 'just worked'.
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The other thing to remember is, the internet is international. What is "free speech" where you are is not necessarily "free speech" where the reader is. Your laws don't apply everywhere (for whatever value of your).
Also "free speech" does not mean freedom from consequences.
If you're not doing this as part of your testing, you don't really have backups
This
Any company serious about long term storage of data is still using tape. Particularly for archival storage of data
China leads the world in piracy, bro. Asia as a whole beats out Australia + West.
Australia leads on a per-capita basis. We don't have as many people, but we make up for it by torrenting a metric shitload of stuff!
Being in Western Australia, it's always annoyed me when US-ians refer to Washington as WA as if no one else uses that abbreviation
When I first looked at it I thought it said "UKIP Chief" and as wondering what Farage was rambling about now
Every Australian knows, if you take the proper precautions and put Vegemite behind your ears then you don't get attacked by Drop Bears
they had multiple failures. The primary air con failed, and so did the backups
http://blog.iinet.net.au/statement-chief-technology-officer-mark-dioguardi/
Australia made the transition back in 1974.
You'll survive.
I was in early Primary School when we changed.
I think in both. My parents think in imperial and convert in their head.
You adapt.
I guess we should count ourselves grateful we got New South Wales not NSW.
Yes, you should be grateful you got NSW. We got WA. That's Western Australia. Not Washington. Western fucking Australia!
While what you was once true, that is no longer the case.
From the EFA (Electronic Frontiers Australia) page on defamation (http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/defamation.html):
On 25 October 2005, the Queensland Attorney General Linda Lavarch announced that a Bill (Defamation Bill 2005) to amend Queensland's defamation laws, in accord with proposed uniform national laws, had been introduced into Parliament and was expected to become effective from 1 January 2006. In a media release titled Queensland Moves To Adopt National Uniform Defamation Laws the Queensland Attorney General stated that key features of the legislation include:
* "preventing corporations (other than non-for-profit organisations or small businesses) from suing for defamation, addressing current community concerns that large companies could stifle legitimate public debate by beginning defamation action;
* establishing a defence of "truth" to replace the previous defence of "truth and public benefit";
* reducing the time limit for bringing a defamation action from six years to one year (or three years if the court is satisfied an action could not have been brought within one year);
* abolishing the awarding of exemplary and punitive damages in civil defamation proceedings; and
* limiting juries to determining whether a person has been defamed, leaving the awarding of damages to judges."
This was passed in to law in all Australian states and territories. So truth is a defense in Australia.
This discussion has got me wondering just what kind of person is always expecting everyone to stab him in the back. I understand caution and reasonable preparation for calamities human and otherwise, but the PHB crowd really fixates on the paranoia.
The reason is quite simple.
Most of those PHB's got their position by stabbing someone in the back, so they are expecting every one else to do the same to them.
You're post is funnier than you realise. We already have an Auusie Jack Thompson. He's an actor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860233/
And for the geek connection, he was in Star Wars II
If there really was a genetic pre-disposition to MS then you can guarantee Bill would be trying to get gene therapy in to colleges to introduce the gene to as many people as possible. And the way college students screw around you can bet the genes would be spread pretty far.
On your idea of a modern day update, there was an issue of the Grimjack comic published back around 91-92 that had this theme. In one of the Dimensions that Cynosure interfaced with irregularly, sound was used as a weapon and Grimjacks signature power riff was one of the most powerful. Grimjack and a group of others had to protect the Heart of rock and Roll from the attack of the bad 80's hair bands.
hen you take a hit for looking incompetent. No one in their right mind wants to trust mission critical stuff to a guy that's proven they're sloppy. Playing "stupid" as you put it makes you look stupid. Plus it's gutless. Think about this: Who wants to promote someone that's gutless and stupid? Based on my experiences dealing with managers, promoting the gutless and stupid seems to be the norm. Being sloopy, gutless and stupid is almost guaranteed to get you onthe fast track to senior management
And I failed at Uni three decades ago because I spent all my time in the common room playing cards.
Students failing is nothing new, just the reasons change. It doesn't matter if it is cards, beer, girls or computer games, students will always find something more interesting to do than go to lectures.
While I agree Human Nature[1] is a crap band, I think banning them is going a bit far
[1] Australian boy band
The problem is Ruddock, Costello and Howard want to drag Australia kicking and screaming in to the 1950's when they where all young and everything was rosy, children respected their parents and we were a loyal vassal of Great Britain.
"The same executives wouldn't keep sensitive paper documents in an unlocked drawer, though."
They would however, leave a pile of papers on their desk, or give them to their secretary for filing without a second thought.
This argument all boils down to the same thing: "Do you trust your employees?"
But Riff's not on http://www.penny-arcade.com/, he's on Sluggy Freelance http://www.sluggy.com/!
Well it certainly beats "I used to think the letters to Playboy were made up until..."
A minor point, but Telstra started out life as a part of a government department (the department of the Post Master General). It was then split off in to it's own entity (Telecom Australia) which was renamed (Telstra), then partly sold off. I remember the old manhole covers with PMG on them.
I gree with the parent. If you want a distro 'that just works' on your laptop Ubuntu is the way to go. I have had Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop for some time and have never gotten around to getting Wireless Networking working properly. The Ubuntu liveCD detected everything out of the box and 'just worked'.
Now to find time to install Ubuntu properly.
Perth also has direct flights to Canberra once a day.