Australia it is not illegal to give away copyrighted material, only if you sell it.
you are 100% incorrect.
If you're going to say someone is 100% incorrect, you should quote 100% of their post. Specifically, the next sentence:
If you give it away it is considered a matter of the civil courts.
Clearly the person you replied to was confused about the meaning of 'illegal' vs. 'criminal', else they would not have said that the civil courts deal with it.
Your vote is not totally secret, it is only as secret as you want it to be. Anyone can find out how you voted if you show them your receipt or tell them your secret number.
This leads to problems such as: your boss is running in the election. Your boss says to you the day before the election, "If you don't give me a receipt and a secret number that voted for me, you're fired!". The only way you can do this is by voting for your boss.
In Australia, we use paper ballots marked by hand with pen or pencil, and counted by hand with representatives of the candidates watching to make sure they're counted correctly. We have a rule that if you write your name (or anything else which identifies you) on your ballot paper, the vote is not counted. This is designed to stop exactly the sort of situation described above. Another reply to your post mentioned a US state with a similar rule.
go get a.net.au if you don't have and don't want a business registered under the same name
The AUNIC.au domain policies links to the net.au policy, which states that the domain name must "...be directly derived from the applicant's name or trading name...". Elsewhere it states that the registrant must be carrying on an Internet related business, and must be a legally registered organisation (e.g. a company).
I ran into a problem trying to register a domain for an IRC channel I'm on with a group of friends. I thought.org.au would be the most appropriate, but Mr. Elz disagreed. He told me that an IRC channel's domain should be in.id.au, which is for individuals. To me, an "individual" domain seems strange for an online community. We ended up giving up on getting a.au domain.
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Clearly the person you replied to was confused about the meaning of 'illegal' vs. 'criminal', else they would not have said that the civil courts deal with it.
This has some basis in law. Compare the section of the Copyright Act 1968 dealing with civil actions to the section dealing with criminal offences. You will find that the criminal offences only deal with copyright infringement where there's money involved or where it occurs to an extent that will prejudicially affect the owner of the copyright. In other cases it is a civil, not criminal, matter.
The Australian Copyright Council also has an information sheet on the topic.
Re date sorting, Mozilla does this with View menu / Sort by / Order received. I know it works for IMAP; not sure about POP because I've never tried.
Your vote is not totally secret, it is only as secret as you want it to be. Anyone can find out how you voted if you show them your receipt or tell them your secret number.
This leads to problems such as: your boss is running in the election. Your boss says to you the day before the election, "If you don't give me a receipt and a secret number that voted for me, you're fired!". The only way you can do this is by voting for your boss.
In Australia, we use paper ballots marked by hand with pen or pencil, and counted by hand with representatives of the candidates watching to make sure they're counted correctly. We have a rule that if you write your name (or anything else which identifies you) on your ballot paper, the vote is not counted. This is designed to stop exactly the sort of situation described above. Another reply to your post mentioned a US state with a similar rule.
The AUNIC .au domain policies links to the net.au policy, which states that the domain name must "...be directly derived from the applicant's name or trading name...". Elsewhere it states that the registrant must be carrying on an Internet related business, and must be a legally registered organisation (e.g. a company).
I ran into a problem trying to register a domain for an IRC channel I'm on with a group of friends. I thought .org.au would be the most appropriate, but Mr. Elz disagreed. He told me that an IRC channel's domain should be in .id.au, which is for individuals. To me, an "individual" domain seems strange for an online community. We ended up giving up on getting a .au domain.