I agree and I live in Australia. Our government has been a serious embarrassment for years and what's worse, peoples' lives are being ruined, for example refugee children who have spent the first say four or five years of their lives behind razor wire in detention camps, witnessing adults trying to kill themselves and so on.
Sadly, universities are being forced to get more and more funding from the business world, as the federal government cuts more and more away from tertiary education spending - so when big business comes along and makes demands it's harder for unviersities to retain their independence or integrity.
Scanning for "mp3" might catch downloaders of mp3 files but what about commercial pir8s who are ripping many.wav files off CDs? Or simply ripping from CD to CD without storing files?
Today's SMH online has a story about the first fall in CD sales for a while, the story blames piracy and DVD sales. For once the writer does not seem to lay the blame with downloaders, but rather with people ripping multiple copies of a CD ("backyard piracy").
I felt really sad when I heard about Mt Stromlo observatory being destroyed - I worked with a nice guy a few years ago whose wife was a physicist, working out of Mt Stromlo, she died a year or so ago, maybe two years ago. She was very bright, very sweet person. It just reminded me, I hope her work doesn't get lost or anything.
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Sadly, universities are being forced to get more and more funding from the business world, as the federal government cuts more and more away from tertiary education spending - so when big business comes along and makes demands it's harder for unviersities to retain their independence or integrity.
Scanning for "mp3" might catch downloaders of mp3 files but what about commercial pir8s who are ripping many .wav files off CDs? Or simply ripping from CD to CD without storing files?
Today's SMH online has a story about the first fall in CD sales for a while, the story blames piracy and DVD sales. For once the writer does not seem to lay the blame with downloaders, but rather with people ripping multiple copies of a CD ("backyard piracy").
I felt really sad when I heard about Mt Stromlo observatory being destroyed - I worked with a nice guy a few years ago whose wife was a physicist, working out of Mt Stromlo, she died a year or so ago, maybe two years ago. She was very bright, very sweet person. It just reminded me, I hope her work doesn't get lost or anything.