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  1. petition and a love letter to conroy on Aussie Gov't To Introduce Bill That Would Require ISP-Level Censorship · · Score: 1

    sign the petition against it:

    http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet&id=892

    AND

    let mr conroy know what we think:

    Parliament Contact: Phone: (02) 6277 7480 Fax: (02) 6273 4154

    Email: senator.conroy@aph.gov.au

    Electorate Office: Suite 1B, 494 High Street Epping Vic 3076

    PO Box 1067 Epping MDC Vic 3076

    Phone: (03) 9408 0190 Fax: (03) 9408 0194 Toll Free: 1300 131 546 Toll free number is only available in Victoria

    Secondary Office: Level 4, 4 Treasury Place Melbourne Vic 3002

    Phone: 03 9650 1188 Fax: 03 9650 3251

    Crikey has a reasonably accurate guide on how to avoid receiving a standard response that doesn't address your concerns:

    http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/16/dont-waste-your-time-waste-theirs-a-guide-to-writing-to-ministers/

    I'd add that it doesn't hurt to CC the PM's office because they keep correspondence statistics tracking controversial issues too.

  2. Re:Robots.txt on Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches · · Score: 1

    yeah, what you say is good riddance and don't come back.

  3. HDCP on Blu-ray Adoption Soft, More Still Own HD DVD · · Score: 1

    why would I spend money on a hostile tech in the first place? I would rather go back to VHS. really.

  4. CFI-B8283ER on Best eSATA JBOD? · · Score: 1

    8-bay esata, raid 0,1,10,5, s.m.a.r.t., hot-swap, sparing, internal 300w psu, affordable.

  5. Re:Text of Mousavi Letter on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 1

    From any perspective, there is no difference between these two at least on paper (see quote below). Can someone from Iran tell us what's so great about Mousavi worth revolting about. He has more blood on his hands than Ahmadinejad (if I am right). Or if this is all about defending the principles of free elections and has nothing to do w/ Mousavi, that would be awesome :-) "Mousavi is Ahmadinejad without the invective or anger." --Patrick Clawson, deputy director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, on the similarities between the Presidential hopefuls. (Salon, March 18, 2009)

  6. patented... on Live Architecture — Grow Your Own Home · · Score: 1

    therefore useless

  7. Re:No wonder the USA is in the Middle East on Comprehensive Projection of World Oil Exports · · Score: 1

    iraq started trading oil in euro and now iran is doing it too. coincidence? i think not.

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    With speculation mounting over the possibility of a US- or Israeli-led military attack of Iran sometime later this year, it has been suggested that real motivation for US antipathy towards the Iranian government has little to do with concerns that Tehran is developing nuclear weapons. Some commentators have instead suggested that Iran's real Iranian threat to the US and its economy is that, in defiance of the US administration, it is attempting to establish an oil 'bourse' (exchange) in March of this year which would enable oil to be traded in euros. This would move oil sales away from their usual denomination in dollars and would, it is argued, undermine the American currency with grave consequences for the US economy.
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    http://www.energybulletin.net/12463.html

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    The Iranians are about to commit an "offense" far greater than Saddam Hussein's conversion to the euro of Iraq's oil exports in the fall of 2000. Numerous articles have revealed Pentagon planning for operations against Iran as early as 2005. While the publicly stated reasons will be over Iran's nuclear ambitions, there are unspoken macroeconomic drivers explaining the Real Reasons regarding the 2nd stage of petrodollar warfare - Iran's upcoming euro-based oil Bourse.
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    http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CLA410A.html

    google

  8. Re:Securing an other axis of evil??? on Bush Reveals New Space Policy · · Score: 1

    unfortunately for all of us, the ones who hold the power in the US can be described as microsoft used to - "...can't stand one bit of competition." - this 'doctrine' is not democracy anymore. time to hit the reset button on the american society...

  9. right on the point on Windows and Linux User Interfaces · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Progress has been quick to match features with Redmond but this type of progress will only allow Linux to play catch-up, never to lead. In order to break away Linux has to do the things that Microsoft hasn't done or perhaps will never do to differentiate and become a practical desktop alternative. Linux is verbatim free to do whatever it can. :-)

  10. Re:Vim? Emacs foreva! on Top 10 Items in the Linux Admin Toolkit · · Score: 1

    Who was this guy? :-)