One of the Big Deals in Australian politics is what is called "Free Trade". John Howard (Our Prime Minister) seems prepared to sell his soul to get "free trade" with the US.
What does free trade mean?
Basically having the US not protect its own farmers and let Aussie produce compete on an even footing with US produce.
Problem is. The US government will never play in the important markets. Beef. No chance. Wheat, yeah right.
Lamb. (The US has no real lamb market or demand) OK Free trade on Lamb. Oh and by the way. To get that you need to strengthen your Intellectual Property laws.
Well Mr Howard being Bush fanboy #2 thinks that's a great idea.
Aussie farmers are pretty ambivalent to the whole deal. No free trade basically means we now have one of the best performing farm systems there is.
Oh check this out:
http://www.austa.net/pdf/chapter4.pdf
From within:
US Interest in Australias position:
- Restrict parallel importing of recorded music and branded goods - Concern about laws concerning decompilation of software - Concern about the adequacy of test data for pharamcueticals. - Concern that civil rather than criminal remedies are favoured for abuse of copyright or music.
And we are going to sell that to sell a few friggin' sheep that Americans don't eat anyway.
I read a comment in our organisation about "taking advantage" of open source which is based on a spirit of collaboration and contribution.
I asked the person involved (fairly senior) if we as an organisation intended to contribute to these communities. The answer was luke warm but slightly positive.
Talking to senior IT management about the companies stance on making some contributions back into the open source community when possible is worthwhile...
Limiting factors for larger corporates are issues around liability, determining if something gives a core business market advantage (should be kept proprietary in the medium term) and resource/support issues. Some of the technical tools which we modify could be useful to the community.
Interesting challenge. I hope we can do something in the future.
I don't use Microsoft Stupidity though.
I prefer Open Stupidity. The code is available for inspection and modification and I am free to be as stupid as I want.
Is it still covered by copyright?
No doubt. Thanks to Disney and the US government.
Also thanks to said parties it probably be so for the next 1000 years.
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One of the Big Deals in Australian politics is what is called "Free Trade". John Howard (Our Prime Minister) seems prepared to sell his soul to get "free trade" with the US.
What does free trade mean?
Basically having the US not protect its own farmers and let Aussie produce compete on an even footing with US produce.
Problem is. The US government will never play in the important markets. Beef. No chance. Wheat, yeah right.
Lamb. (The US has no real lamb market or demand) OK Free trade on Lamb. Oh and by the way. To get that you need to strengthen your Intellectual Property laws.
Well Mr Howard being Bush fanboy #2 thinks that's a great idea.
Aussie farmers are pretty ambivalent to the whole deal. No free trade basically means we now have one of the best performing farm systems there is.
Oh check this out:
http://www.austa.net/pdf/chapter4.pdf
From within:
US Interest in Australias position:
- Restrict parallel importing of recorded music and branded goods
- Concern about laws concerning decompilation of software
- Concern about the adequacy of test data for pharamcueticals.
- Concern that civil rather than criminal remedies are favoured for abuse of copyright or music.
And we are going to sell that to sell a few friggin' sheep that Americans don't eat anyway.
Idiots.
I read a comment in our organisation about "taking advantage" of open source which is based on a spirit of collaboration and contribution.
I asked the person involved (fairly senior) if we as an organisation intended to contribute to these communities. The answer was luke warm but slightly positive.
Talking to senior IT management about the companies stance on making some contributions back into the open source community when possible is worthwhile...
Limiting factors for larger corporates are issues around liability, determining if something gives a core business market advantage (should be kept proprietary in the medium term) and resource/support issues. Some of the technical tools which we modify could be useful to the community.
Interesting challenge. I hope we can do something in the future.
Hopefully the seed is planted.
I don't use Microsoft Stupidity though. I prefer Open Stupidity. The code is available for inspection and modification and I am free to be as stupid as I want.
Is it still covered by copyright? No doubt. Thanks to Disney and the US government. Also thanks to said parties it probably be so for the next 1000 years.
Where did this "Taking decisions" term come from?
Is it something that's been in language forever or something some management consultant added to sell more consulting hours?
What is the difference between making and taking a decision?
First I heard of it was when my (American) CEO used it in an organisational principle.
Oddly, never seems to get old though...
Why is the law not going to side with playing any region DVD's?
The ACCC in Australia has already deemed that region encoding is against the Australian Trade Practices Act. This ruling doesn't change that.
I can still argue that a region encoding mod "ONLY" is legal I believe.
AND Bauxite (Raw Aluminium) is very distressing when shoved up a small childs own nose.
Trust me. I was once a small child and it was very distressing.
Sad that the original silly comment gets +5 and you will likely get no mod points when you are actually correct. :-)
Oh we can't forget that they will intentionally bomb civillian targets like power stations.
A great idea because they have limited military value but serve to piss the local population off long term.
Pretty equivalent to the RIAA approach.
As long as the license is not printed on glossy paper it is not completely useless.
I always thought beer was free because of Linux.
*waves hand*
You WILL cut down on the Star Wars.
Compare countries Mr no facts to back you up. Let's say Australia V US
When I see a psycho killer attempting to Bunny hop, wielding his knife, to run faster then I'll know he was influenced by video games.
Programmers who work whilst under the influence of a southern aussie beer?
Darth FinkTooWin
And designing things to be thrown away is good practice?
;-)
You keep your used toilet paper?
I wanna go to the same parties as you!
Fuckem. I'm going to start using 9.0.0.0/8 internally so one day they can deal with a clash.
Find that in your due diligence!
or 2 cents on the loonie for the Canadians.
Those crazy Canadians.
Hotdog.
No doubt it would be trivial. In my 2 months in the US not one bloody shopkeeper bothered to even look at my signature against my credit card.
Get's at least looked at about 30% of times in Australia.
Where do I stick the green headed dwarf?