The Australian Labor Party is *very* favourably disposed to the Internet Filter, as it was originally mooted *not* by the Christians, but by the Australia Institute, a left wing think-tank.
I would be very careful in this area; the filter might not be as dead as you think.
The problem is not with Corporations, but with the structure of society.
If a scientist works for a corporation, then he will *of course* act to the benefit of the corporation. Similarly, if his grant money comes from a corporation, then he would be stupid to kick that gift horse in the mouth.
To restore Science to the objective, trustworthy status that it deserves, there must be more science funded publicly, and by charitable donors without strings attached.
Why are you people so concerned about "potentially harmful species" ? From reading the article, there are no actual examples of real people being hurt by these possibly-harmless bacteria.
Sounds like a potential to develop a capacity to produce Weapons of Mass Destruction: irrelevant!
Tom's Hardware didn't present any proof that this Michael guy had actually defrauded his customers: his claims may be a bit exaggerated, but it sounds like he actually delivers hardware to people.
I think that Tom was hoping for a real "scam", but he only came up with someone who exaggerates.
Poor Michael!
Re:Dumping rabbits
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Easter Humor
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· Score: 2, Funny
As the owner of the webpage for which this thread was started, I feel that I have a right to defend myself:
Lighten up!
- We saved a rabbit from a car park and almost
certain death
Bunny Karma +1
- We fed, watered and pampered it for a week:
Bunny Karma +1
- We don't have a large cage or grass in the back
yard, so we let it hop around the house when
we were home.
Bunny Karma +1
- We don't have the space to keep the rabbit,
so we had to find it a home
Bunny Karma 0
- We didn't realize that it would want to
chew through power cords in an attempt
to commit bunny immolation
Bunny Karma -1
- We took it to a very nice pet shop in the
hope that some family with a back yard
could keep it happily
Bunny Karma +1
Please remember that rabbits are not exactly the flavour of the century in Oz, but do indeed make a very nice casserole.
I think that this would break many C64 games. The 65C816 has some instruction set differences to give the chip more functionality over the original 6502. These new instructions were placed in "holes" in the original 6502 instruction set, to preserve backwards compatibility with old machine code.
Unfortunately many C64 games used these instructions, which had weird but documentable effects, as an anti-piracy measyre. They made it harder to reverse-engineer the anti-piracy code.
I have a 20G 75GXP drive, and it has
(almost) been fine for 2 years. I had a bad
patch for about 2 days where the drive was
corrupting files and making horrible grinding
noises: these were also the only two days in
which I had installed a beta Bios for my Asus A7v
motherboard.
I had the corrupted files to contend with,
but I had no trouble with the drive after I
returned to the good BIOS.
Hey, this just goes to show what is wrong with Australia. What the &^%*&^% does the Australian government have to do with this? Radiata, a private company, is bought by Cisco, a private company. What should the Government do? Step in and block the sale?
Us aussies need to stop bleating to our government and start to do something ourselves.
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> a biotech company such as Gilead or Genentech would not construct a multiple-choice test and hire the top scorers
Who would be idiotic enough to select *any* skilled professional based upon a multiple-choice test?
I think you're implying that the USA missed out on this contract because its bribe was lower?
I'm not seeing much evidence of anything except pure commercial self-interest, here, I'm afraid.
Somehow, I doubt that the NSA would dob in US companies for corrupt behaviour, so I don't think your point makes terribly much sense.
Just because they *can* does not make it *good*
Censorship by Wikipedia may not be illegal, but it is extremely disappointing.
This analogy is appalling.
For a start, I think you would be justified if someone nicks your stuff, and it is definitely illegal.
However, information is *not* property, and nobody has actually stolen anything.
Sorry, I lost you at "communism is evil".
You're an idiot.
The people publishing the forbidden link are pro-civil-liberties, not anti-abortion.
They chose the anti-abortion link because it is both political and gory, and hence could be expected to be censored by ACMA.
Yes, but websites are all about the *content*, not the HTML!
Who cares how long the HTML took to write?
This story is more complicated than that.
The Australian Labor Party is *very* favourably disposed to the Internet Filter, as it was originally mooted *not* by the Christians, but by the Australia Institute, a left wing think-tank.
I would be very careful in this area; the filter might not be as dead as you think.
The problem is not with Corporations, but with the structure of society.
If a scientist works for a corporation, then he will *of course* act to the benefit of the corporation. Similarly, if his grant money comes from a corporation, then he would be stupid to kick that gift horse in the mouth.
To restore Science to the objective, trustworthy status that it deserves, there must be more science funded publicly, and by charitable donors without strings attached.
Goodness gracious, how pathetic!
Why are you people so concerned about
"potentially harmful species" ? From
reading the article, there are no actual
examples of real people being hurt by
these possibly-harmless bacteria.
Sounds like a potential to develop a capacity to
produce Weapons of Mass Destruction: irrelevant!
-peter.
Hi,
Tom's Hardware didn't present any proof
that this Michael guy had actually defrauded
his customers: his claims may be a bit
exaggerated, but it sounds like he actually
delivers hardware to people.
I think that Tom was hoping for a real "scam",
but he only came up with someone who exaggerates.
Poor Michael!
As the owner of the webpage for which this
thread was started, I feel that I have a right
to defend myself:
Lighten up!
- We saved a rabbit from a car park and almost
certain death
Bunny Karma +1
- We fed, watered and pampered it for a week:
Bunny Karma +1
- We don't have a large cage or grass in the back
yard, so we let it hop around the house when
we were home.
Bunny Karma +1
- We don't have the space to keep the rabbit,
so we had to find it a home
Bunny Karma 0
- We didn't realize that it would want to
chew through power cords in an attempt
to commit bunny immolation
Bunny Karma -1
- We took it to a very nice pet shop in the
hope that some family with a back yard
could keep it happily
Bunny Karma +1
Please remember that rabbits are not exactly
the flavour of the century in Oz, but do indeed
make a very nice casserole.
Regards,
-cojoco
I think that this would break many C64 games. The 65C816 has some
instruction set differences to give the chip more functionality
over the original 6502. These new instructions were placed in
"holes" in the original 6502 instruction set, to preserve
backwards compatibility with old machine code.
Unfortunately many C64 games used these instructions, which had
weird but documentable effects, as an anti-piracy measyre.
They made it harder to reverse-engineer the anti-piracy code.
I have a 20G 75GXP drive, and it has
(almost) been fine for 2 years. I had a bad
patch for about 2 days where the drive was
corrupting files and making horrible grinding
noises: these were also the only two days in
which I had installed a beta Bios for my Asus A7v
motherboard.
I had the corrupted files to contend with,
but I had no trouble with the drive after I
returned to the good BIOS.
"Their" is been used in the singular by Jane
Austen: I don't think that it is a modern
invention.
I use it quite often, and quite naturally,
in conversation: only one person has ever
pulled me up on it: they were geeky (and
a feminist).
-peter.
Hey, this just goes to show what is wrong with Australia. What the &^%*&^% does the Australian government have to do with this? Radiata, a private company, is bought by Cisco, a private company. What should the Government do? Step in and block the sale?
Us aussies need to stop bleating to our government and start to do something ourselves.