Ok i've marked your words. if liberals win, we won't have a national filter. the last liberal government had a filtering program - free software to install on your pc. seems pretty fair and cheap to me.
they are totally bluffing about legal action. there's no way mpeg-la or apple wants to shine a light on the mess that is software patents. if they upset the apple cart and joe blogs suddenly has trouble viewing a dancing cat on youtube, action will be taken by law makers that will seriously fuck them up.
Ha! do you know what the liberal/national filtering scheme was??? free filtering software. cheap and about as reliable as a national filter without the lack of an opt out.
another 3 years of Rudd will be much MUCH worse then just about anything. the greens in government would be worse, because an environmental single issue party simply isn't capable of running a resource based economy. thankfully greens will only ever be a senate-take-one-seat-and-milk-it party.
your forgetting the failed "education revolution", where the taxer payer was footing bills of 1.5 mil for demountable dongers worth 100k. your also forgetting the health system overhaul that was supposed to take place in the first 12 months which is still not happening (thankfully, because the current plan is a disaster).
and lets not forget the explosion in boat people heading for australia, which the Rudd government has failed to do anything about beside let a bunch of them escape.
this is what happens when you get a new generation of voters i guess. they forget the lessons of past labor governments and get all caught up in this change the world bullshit.
lung cancer isn't the only health effect of smoking you know, stroke and cardiovascular are also high risk if you smoke. frankly i can't see the attraction of smoking, it's expensive risky and what does it give you? a high? choke yourself for 30 seconds it'll give you the same head rush.
let's look at what a tablet SHOULD be. ultra light, ultra thin, enough processing power to play hd movies, multitouch, multi tasking, atleast 10 hours battery life.
currently you can't do all this. i'd say revisit this when oled screens are economical.
your all missing the point by a wide margin. if someone else screws up, why would child's care. if you read into the story you'll actually see the guy was a fucking control freak, that was his only concern.
Child's boss is a public servant delegated the job by the mayor. that's how government works. what you think the mayor handles everything personally? how much more of a thinking fail can you have...
wrong. you elect officals who then delegate to various people who decide how to spend the money. you have no legal or moral grounds to think you get a direct say in how this happens. the best you can do is lobby and write letters.
every election you get to have your say by voting someone in or out based on the job they do.
the reason you american's FAIL so spectacularly at this, is you have reduced your system to a totally polarised 2 party system where each side always justifies their parties failings to the point it takes 2 unpopular wars, a health care system that is the laughing stock of the 1st world and the worst financial crisis since the great depression before anyone will change their opinion on which side is the right one to vote for.
he didn't have a job there anymore, that's the whole point. if you were sacked and refused to hand in the only set of keys to the building, what do you reckon would happen to you?
i'm still baffled this idiot managed to turn a simple and reasonable request into jail time. he was sacked, why did he fucking care if they had the password, it's their system after all.
even if it was a case of him thinking lives were in danger, he could always just claim he didn't remember them.
the owners of the equipment are asking for the password to their own gear, explain how the fuck that's breaking the law, and i want to see the section quoted as to what law it is.
a simple memo signed by this boss stating once said passwords are handed over he is no longer liable for any failures. it's hard to fathom why this silly idiot didn't go down that path, and instead opted for JAIL.
I've got a lot of respect for a lot of OSS programmers, however they seem to fail to know how to respond on a non technical level. it's like the local computer geek spouting about the technical reasons his N64 is better then a SEGA - no one is going to give a shit and the other nerds have already made up their minds, so he won't do anything to sway them.
agreed. the way some people treat animals is the single greatest shame i feel as a memeber of the human race.
don't get me wrong, i know it can't be all hugs and kisses, i eat meat and i understand the reality of eating meat. I'm ok with it at long as the animals got to live a content enough life and were slaughtered in a humane manner (which most are, and i vote with my wallet getting free range meat).
but shit like puppy mills is one of the few things that makes me truly angry. the animals suffer so much killing them would be a release.
no i don't know the difference, clearly you are so intelligent please spell it all out for me at length. I know without your mighty wisdom the world is in great peril!
"that produce knotty lumber"
I went down to the hardware store last week and there was a huge array of hard and softwoods, they even had structural pine with 100% knot free money back guarantee. all of it was sourced from managed timber plantations - thats HOW they get the wood knot free ffs.... by stripping the branches off early.
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Ok i've marked your words. if liberals win, we won't have a national filter. the last liberal government had a filtering program - free software to install on your pc. seems pretty fair and cheap to me.
set top boxes all come with built in youtube support now, so the next generation will all come with vp8 support if they do it.
they are totally bluffing about legal action. there's no way mpeg-la or apple wants to shine a light on the mess that is software patents. if they upset the apple cart and joe blogs suddenly has trouble viewing a dancing cat on youtube, action will be taken by law makers that will seriously fuck them up.
another 3 years of Rudd will be much MUCH worse then just about anything. the greens in government would be worse, because an environmental single issue party simply isn't capable of running a resource based economy. thankfully greens will only ever be a senate-take-one-seat-and-milk-it party.
and lets not forget the explosion in boat people heading for australia, which the Rudd government has failed to do anything about beside let a bunch of them escape.
this is what happens when you get a new generation of voters i guess. they forget the lessons of past labor governments and get all caught up in this change the world bullshit.
excuse me, but at you retarded?
lung cancer isn't the only health effect of smoking you know, stroke and cardiovascular are also high risk if you smoke. frankly i can't see the attraction of smoking, it's expensive risky and what does it give you? a high? choke yourself for 30 seconds it'll give you the same head rush.
currently you can't do all this. i'd say revisit this when oled screens are economical.
you lost me when you started talking about herbal cancer cures. what a load of shit.
your a fucking retard, i this is the 3rd hit on google.
the thing is, there are still 100000's of open relay's out there, plenty of them unsecured linux boxes run by amatures.
your all missing the point by a wide margin. if someone else screws up, why would child's care. if you read into the story you'll actually see the guy was a fucking control freak, that was his only concern.
Child's boss is a public servant delegated the job by the mayor. that's how government works. what you think the mayor handles everything personally? how much more of a thinking fail can you have...
every election you get to have your say by voting someone in or out based on the job they do.
the reason you american's FAIL so spectacularly at this, is you have reduced your system to a totally polarised 2 party system where each side always justifies their parties failings to the point it takes 2 unpopular wars, a health care system that is the laughing stock of the 1st world and the worst financial crisis since the great depression before anyone will change their opinion on which side is the right one to vote for.
he didn't have a job there anymore, that's the whole point. if you were sacked and refused to hand in the only set of keys to the building, what do you reckon would happen to you?
even if it was a case of him thinking lives were in danger, he could always just claim he didn't remember them.
the owners of the equipment are asking for the password to their own gear, explain how the fuck that's breaking the law, and i want to see the section quoted as to what law it is.
a simple memo signed by this boss stating once said passwords are handed over he is no longer liable for any failures. it's hard to fathom why this silly idiot didn't go down that path, and instead opted for JAIL.
following a policy that makes no sense to the letter is being a jerk.
I've got a lot of respect for a lot of OSS programmers, however they seem to fail to know how to respond on a non technical level. it's like the local computer geek spouting about the technical reasons his N64 is better then a SEGA - no one is going to give a shit and the other nerds have already made up their minds, so he won't do anything to sway them.
it's not a correlation you numbskull, it's a demonstrated cause.
don't get me wrong, i know it can't be all hugs and kisses, i eat meat and i understand the reality of eating meat. I'm ok with it at long as the animals got to live a content enough life and were slaughtered in a humane manner (which most are, and i vote with my wallet getting free range meat).
but shit like puppy mills is one of the few things that makes me truly angry. the animals suffer so much killing them would be a release.
care to explain how that's a failing of capitalism?
no i don't know the difference, clearly you are so intelligent please spell it all out for me at length. I know without your mighty wisdom the world is in great peril!
"that produce knotty lumber" I went down to the hardware store last week and there was a huge array of hard and softwoods, they even had structural pine with 100% knot free money back guarantee. all of it was sourced from managed timber plantations - thats HOW they get the wood knot free ffs.... by stripping the branches off early.