Not sure, I'm on broadband and haven't monitored it and I think it varies between the different projects. The people on the forums at the site in the link were very helpful when I had questions. They can probably help you.
It's all very fine to point the finger at immigrant workers and blame them for vanishing jobs, but the question to be asked is why are they needed?
There is no finger of blame here.
There is simply the suggestion that the answer to your question "why are they needed?" is that they aren't, at least in current numbers/skill levels. The statement that "IT immigration bias exists because the demand for IT labor exists" is all well and good but it should be proven. According to a news story I just saw 60% of IT university places in Australia are now filled by overseas students as it is becoming a less attractive career option to local people due to lack of demand. Part of the reason it is still attractive to overseas students is a good chance of getting residency through the skilled migrant program even though there isn't necessarily a shortage of entry-level programmers.
The skilled migrant program is a good thing and can benefit both migrants and Australia as a whole. However it does need to be considered carefully and designed to meet everyones needs.
why are immigrant IT workers getting jobs over the natives
I don't think that is the question at all, especially as it relates to entry level programmers. It's not about 'stealing jobs'. It's about whether the demand is really there warrant luring people from around the globe with the promises of residency and prosperity.
Sometimes for whatever reason, a nation might produce fewer skilled workers per capita in an industry than another nation does.
Interestingly I heard someone talking about this on the radio news on the way home today. The reasoning they gave for decreasing 'importing' people was that a lowering in wages was decreasing the desirability of IT courses to Australians (compared to other courses) and therefore Australia is producing fewer IT workers now. So, according to him at least, the "importing" of foreign IT workers was a cause of under producing native workers and getting more would in fact make the problem worse, as sort of a vicious circle.
To me it makes sense that a country should try and maintain a certain level of native competancy in skills, not that I have any idea what that level would be.
Increases in that sort of safety may decrease insurance premiums which may make people consider them more. It probably won't be a major consideration though but such features do tend to become more standard over time.
In social security and medicade/ medical care - everyones worried about how will we take care of the needy and elderly and noone talks about the people that need to be financially coerced to make these systems work.
In the genocide of the poor - noone would even dare mention that the best solution would be to arm them and seciure their right to bear arms first.
Er, so buying medical assistance for the poor is bad but buying them guns is good?
For a solution that "noone would even dare mention" various governments have certainly done quite a lot of it.....and with amazing results too!
Australia does have Fair Use (or "Fair Dealing") provisions in copyright, it's just that home recording/time shifting isn't one of those provisions.
Australian Fair Dealing provisions allow for:
- research or study
- criticism or review
- reporting of news
- professional advice given by a legal practitioner or patent attorney
"These laws" are just Australia's standard copyright legislation. Our "fair use" rights don't include time shifting. It's just the way it's always been but has been routinely ignored (or unknown) by the general public and no-one is really going to sue you for it because (I believe) it would be a civil case where all they could gain are "damages" which would be so minimal as to not be worth the effort (As it's just single use in the home the inflationary costing that peer to peer copying allows them to claim isn't there).
While this is being suggested as a "win" for the people I'd expect there is strong motivation from business to sort this out too. It doesn't suit them for copyright law to be seen as flexible and routinely ignored now that distribution is so easy for people to do.
Ah, yes. The classic response of "you don't get it." No, I don't like it.
Nothing in the post he replied to indicated that you did "get" the aspects of the show he discussed.
At the end of the day I can understand how people don't "like" BSG05 because it is a show with an edge and a style of it's own. I think though that even if you don't "like" it as a matter of taste you should be able to see that there is much there to be appreciated.
I disagree. I think the horrific nature of the depiction really made the uglyness of it hit home.
I don't see how it can have had the same effect no matter how expertly it was implied at hinted at because there's no way my imagination would have filled in the details and 'reality' of what we saw.
Certainly not for Take Two if it get's whatever game they are pimping in the news again. The publicity will mean extra dollars to them.
Ultimately I suppose there may be an argument that the industry has to fear increasing regulation but I'm not sure it should worry them. We have reached a time where adults are people who have known games for their entire lives and see it as a 'traditional' form of entertainment. Even if government does add legal weight to ratings the adult market is big and only going to get bigger.
Why does that particular post not have the [thepiratebay.org] after the URL like posts normally do (assuming you have that option checked in your profile)?
Indeed, it doesn't look like the data would provide evidence as much as it would provide leads to be investigated.
After the failed London bombings didn't they track some guy down in Europe by following a mobile phone call he'd made? Seems like it would be useful for that sort of thing.
Encryption will do fuck all in regards to this directive because encryption only acts on content.
The data retention laws do not apply to content. They apply to who, where and when, not what:
data necessary to trace and identify the source of a communication;
data necessary to trace and identify the destination of a communication;
data necessary to identify the date, time and duration of a communication;
data necessary to identify the type of communication;
data necessary to identify the communication device or what purports to be the communication device;
data necessary to identify the location of mobile communication equipment.
As far as I can see government isn't monitoring everything as in 1984. Rather the data is held by the respective service providers so the government can get specific information if it has specific reason to.
Even if many Wikipedia articles are based on the 1911 Britannica that does not seem particularly relevant to this discussion as many (most) of the articles analyzed for accuracy are clearly post 1911 subjects.
Slashdot Mirror
Not sure, I'm on broadband and haven't monitored it and I think it varies between the different projects. The people on the forums at the site in the link were very helpful when I had questions. They can probably help you.
There is simply the suggestion that the answer to your question "why are they needed?" is that they aren't, at least in current numbers/skill levels. The statement that "IT immigration bias exists because the demand for IT labor exists" is all well and good but it should be proven. According to a news story I just saw 60% of IT university places in Australia are now filled by overseas students as it is becoming a less attractive career option to local people due to lack of demand. Part of the reason it is still attractive to overseas students is a good chance of getting residency through the skilled migrant program even though there isn't necessarily a shortage of entry-level programmers.
The skilled migrant program is a good thing and can benefit both migrants and Australia as a whole. However it does need to be considered carefully and designed to meet everyones needs. I don't think that is the question at all, especially as it relates to entry level programmers. It's not about 'stealing jobs'. It's about whether the demand is really there warrant luring people from around the globe with the promises of residency and prosperity.
To me it makes sense that a country should try and maintain a certain level of native competancy in skills, not that I have any idea what that level would be.
You mean you didn't read the story first?
Shocking!
The case is actually made of a clear material.
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http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/195/shipcase_
Increases in that sort of safety may decrease insurance premiums which may make people consider them more. It probably won't be a major consideration though but such features do tend to become more standard over time.
For a solution that "noone would even dare mention" various governments have certainly done quite a lot of it.....and with amazing results too!
We get the best television America can produce!
Australia does have Fair Use (or "Fair Dealing") provisions in copyright, it's just that home recording/time shifting isn't one of those provisions.
Australian Fair Dealing provisions allow for:
- research or study
- criticism or review
- reporting of news
- professional advice given by a legal practitioner or patent attorney
"These laws" are just Australia's standard copyright legislation. Our "fair use" rights don't include time shifting. It's just the way it's always been but has been routinely ignored (or unknown) by the general public and no-one is really going to sue you for it because (I believe) it would be a civil case where all they could gain are "damages" which would be so minimal as to not be worth the effort (As it's just single use in the home the inflationary costing that peer to peer copying allows them to claim isn't there).
While this is being suggested as a "win" for the people I'd expect there is strong motivation from business to sort this out too. It doesn't suit them for copyright law to be seen as flexible and routinely ignored now that distribution is so easy for people to do.
At the end of the day I can understand how people don't "like" BSG05 because it is a show with an edge and a style of it's own. I think though that even if you don't "like" it as a matter of taste you should be able to see that there is much there to be appreciated.
I disagree. I think the horrific nature of the depiction really made the uglyness of it hit home.
I don't see how it can have had the same effect no matter how expertly it was implied at hinted at because there's no way my imagination would have filled in the details and 'reality' of what we saw.
Certainly not for Take Two if it get's whatever game they are pimping in the news again. The publicity will mean extra dollars to them.
Ultimately I suppose there may be an argument that the industry has to fear increasing regulation but I'm not sure it should worry them. We have reached a time where adults are people who have known games for their entire lives and see it as a 'traditional' form of entertainment. Even if government does add legal weight to ratings the adult market is big and only going to get bigger.
I see it on other posts, just not that one....
Strange....
Why does that particular post not have the [thepiratebay.org] after the URL like posts normally do (assuming you have that option checked in your profile)?
Indeed, it doesn't look like the data would provide evidence as much as it would provide leads to be investigated.
After the failed London bombings didn't they track some guy down in Europe by following a mobile phone call he'd made? Seems like it would be useful for that sort of thing.
the "but" part.
As far as I can see government isn't monitoring everything as in 1984. Rather the data is held by the respective service providers so the government can get specific information if it has specific reason to.
Even if many Wikipedia articles are based on the 1911 Britannica that does not seem particularly relevant to this discussion as many (most) of the articles analyzed for accuracy are clearly post 1911 subjects.