I would also liked to know, Australia is ranked 41, one of the lowest 'first-world', freely elected,US/European Centric, etc counties on the list.
But when I looked a the evaluation by region in hopes of finding out what our goverment did to censor the media. There was no mention of Australia anywhere.
I thought we had a fairly open media with two channels stand out channels SBS, and ABC. The ABC which is goverment funded but not run, and often very critical of our goverment.
The worst cases of censorship I can think of are that we don't have an R rating for games. So some games a lightly censored before entering the country [The only game that I can think of that may have been banned in Postal 2. But thats only because I haven't seen it on shelves]. And the have in the past banned movies (including one that caused a big up roar. Which included an illegal public screening in which the host of 'The Movie Show' was arrested). But this is mainly due to things such as underage sex, graphic underage rape etc. None of which has much to do with freedom of the press.
Does anyone know why Australia is ranked so low?
Fairdom of the press?
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Freedom of the Press does not mean that press is fair. Fair has nothing to do with it.
Freedom of the Press means that if there is a right-wing channel, you are free to start a left wing channel. It allows for people to openly broadcast/write/etc whatever they like and not be censored because it agaisnt the goverment/an allie/a person.
Don't get mixed up, you can never have a truely unbaised report. The best you can have is a broad range to pick and choose from so that you can make your own decisions.
You also pay for hospitals which you will never goto. Roads you will never drive on. Schools you may never attend.
You often pay for things you don't use for the 'greater good' of the people on a country. The BBC is an invaluble resource of news and educational programming. It's paid for by *almost* everyone in the UK for the greater good.
Really who is going to print out all 600 pages of the newest Tom Clancey book, then goto the effort of binding them together. It'd cost more in paper, ink, time & energy than to just buy the book.
Sure if it were a cooking book or something someone might only want 1 page. But then again, if they want 1 page they can just write it down.
Seems like a big waste of time and money to me, but then again after the IPO they have money to blow.
What if they put before hand "By viewing this page, your browser will be disabled from printing & saving what is viewed in that page". Then is it ok?
Remember you CHOOSE to view the page they aren't forcing you to. Aslong as they don't mislead/force someone to the page, imo they aren't doing anything wrong.
Gmail may be fast. But I, along with some other I know who use firefox, have problems sometimes opening e-mails. Sometimes it'll just say 'loading...' in the top right forever. Even when you sign out and sign in it still has this problem. This is a MAJOR problem, and seem to only occur with the most recent e-mail about 1-5% of the time.
In fact, while I'm at it, anyone know how to solve this problem?
So they cost the same, and have the same name. So now we have the PSX, PSone, PS2, PSX, PStwo. How hard is it to think of a name people can say, without getting confused about wtf ver of the console someone is talking about?
Thank Apple Corp for iPods!
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"They may have done it purposefully once they knew they weren't getting the Beatles' tracks on the iTMS - to see what they could get Apple Corps to do."
Ofcourse! One day Jobs was kicking around the idea of selling Beatles music online, when Apple Corp said no. He decided to invent the iPod and start up iTunes Online Store.
It all makes sense now.
Tracking the advertising is the only worrying thing. In games at the moment, you often see fake advertisments for non-existent products. If they are replaced with real ads, what does it matter? Aslong as they don't add ad's where they don't belong, I am happy for the people who make the games I enjoy to earn a bit of extra cash on the side.
They weren't ask to discribe numbers verbally, they were asked to copy something that involved more than 3 things.
From the article: "In the simplest, he sat opposite an individual and laid out a random number of familiar objects, including batteries, sticks and nuts, in a row. The Pirahã were supposed to respond by laying out the same number of objects from their own pile.
For one, two and three objects, members of the tribe consistently matched Gordon's pile correctly. But for four and five and up to ten, they could only match it approximately, deviating more from the correct number as the row got longer."
What if you were just sitting there playing your favorite game off your harddrive, when a meteorite plumted to earth, crashing through your CD rack and HDD destorying both copies of your game?
Dispite what some people seem to think, the internet did exist at one point without ads. Ads are not needed on the internet, or on websites.
There are still sites out there that don't display ads and get on fine, hosting is cheap these days, and only getting cheaper. The Best Page In The Universe has been without ads from the beginning, my personal site has no ads, my university site has no ads, a lot of business sites have no ads. The internet is a way to share information, you give other people information by making a website in return, you ask others to make websites on information they know about. So that one day you can goto their site and find what you need.
The internet can survive without ads, and a minority will keep that philosphy. In the mean time, we will block the ads other attempt to push onto us.
P.S If you really must have ads use a service like Google's AdWord. I personally find them a lot more unobtrusive, and even useful.
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I would also liked to know, Australia is ranked 41, one of the lowest 'first-world', freely elected,US/European Centric, etc counties on the list.
But when I looked a the evaluation by region in hopes of finding out what our goverment did to censor the media. There was no mention of Australia anywhere.
I thought we had a fairly open media with two channels stand out channels SBS, and ABC. The ABC which is goverment funded but not run, and often very critical of our goverment.
The worst cases of censorship I can think of are that we don't have an R rating for games. So some games a lightly censored before entering the country [The only game that I can think of that may have been banned in Postal 2. But thats only because I haven't seen it on shelves]. And the have in the past banned movies (including one that caused a big up roar. Which included an illegal public screening in which the host of 'The Movie Show' was arrested). But this is mainly due to things such as underage sex, graphic underage rape etc.
None of which has much to do with freedom of the press.
Does anyone know why Australia is ranked so low?
Freedom of the Press does not mean that press is fair. Fair has nothing to do with it.
Freedom of the Press means that if there is a right-wing channel, you are free to start a left wing channel. It allows for people to openly broadcast/write/etc whatever they like and not be censored because it agaisnt the goverment/an allie/a person.
Don't get mixed up, you can never have a truely unbaised report. The best you can have is a broad range to pick and choose from so that you can make your own decisions.
The above mirror is going slow as aswell.
So use mirrordot or coral's mirror
You also pay for hospitals which you will never goto.
Roads you will never drive on.
Schools you may never attend.
You often pay for things you don't use for the 'greater good' of the people on a country. The BBC is an invaluble resource of news and educational programming. It's paid for by *almost* everyone in the UK for the greater good.
Oh ofcourse. They shouldn't do what they think is right, they should do what gets votes.
Ha! And my friends called me an idiot when I keeped buying new batteries for my laptop instead of just recharging the old one.
Once again, I was proven right in the end.
I still haven't need to charge my laptop since I got it in '98. Lucky huh? Or else I coulda been toast if I had plugged in that adapter.
Glad to see Dell's fast response to this problem.
I don't even see the point to this.
Really who is going to print out all 600 pages of the newest Tom Clancey book, then goto the effort of binding them together. It'd cost more in paper, ink, time & energy than to just buy the book.
Sure if it were a cooking book or something someone might only want 1 page. But then again, if they want 1 page they can just write it down.
Seems like a big waste of time and money to me, but then again after the IPO they have money to blow.
What if they put before hand "By viewing this page, your browser will be disabled from printing & saving what is viewed in that page". Then is it ok?
Remember you CHOOSE to view the page they aren't forcing you to. Aslong as they don't mislead/force someone to the page, imo they aren't doing anything wrong.
Just have a blue tooth headset.
Someone else mentioned a handset, but that kinda of defeats the purpose doesn't it?
Cost to google for gbrowser.com: $10
Consumer cost if they get confused: $10 x Customers
It's not like the cost of registering a domain name matters to google, they may aswell register all the domain names just incase. Evil as that may be.
How about fixing the bugs in firefox. It is the second most used browser, basicly conforms to all standards, and is big among the geek commmunity.
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It's a civil matter.
Correct me if I am wrong, but civil matters are decided by a judge not a jury. Only criminal cases are decided by a jury.
We want them to go after the people ILLEGALLY sharing files.
These people are knowingly and willingly breaking the law.
This is much better than them trying to shut down the p2p networks/applications themselves.
Gmail may be fast. But I, along with some other I know who use firefox, have problems sometimes opening e-mails.
Sometimes it'll just say 'loading...' in the top right forever. Even when you sign out and sign in it still has this problem. This is a MAJOR problem, and seem to only occur with the most recent e-mail about 1-5% of the time.
In fact, while I'm at it, anyone know how to solve this problem?
... who cares about the brains?
Stuff the benchmarks, that is one cool computer in anyones book. I wonder if someone will make a device to turn it into a laptop.
I'll be buying one for sure.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
So they cost the same, and have the same name.
So now we have the PSX, PSone, PS2, PSX, PStwo.
How hard is it to think of a name people can say, without getting confused about wtf ver of the console someone is talking about?
"They may have done it purposefully once they knew they weren't getting the Beatles' tracks on the iTMS - to see what they could get Apple Corps to do."
Ofcourse! One day Jobs was kicking around the idea of selling Beatles music online, when Apple Corp said no. He decided to invent the iPod and start up iTunes Online Store.
It all makes sense now.
Tracking the advertising is the only worrying thing.
In games at the moment, you often see fake advertisments for non-existent products.
If they are replaced with real ads, what does it matter?
Aslong as they don't add ad's where they don't belong, I am happy for the people who make the games I enjoy to earn a bit of extra cash on the side.
Just keep it unintrusive.
RTFA :)
They weren't ask to discribe numbers verbally, they were asked to copy something that involved more than 3 things.
From the article:
"In the simplest, he sat opposite an individual and laid out a random number of familiar objects, including batteries, sticks and nuts, in a row. The Pirahã were supposed to respond by laying out the same number of objects from their own pile.
For one, two and three objects, members of the tribe consistently matched Gordon's pile correctly. But for four and five and up to ten, they could only match it approximately, deviating more from the correct number as the row got longer."
What if you were just sitting there playing your favorite game off your harddrive, when a meteorite plumted to earth, crashing through your CD rack and HDD destorying both copies of your game?
Dispite what some people seem to think, the internet did exist at one point without ads. Ads are not needed on the internet, or on websites.
There are still sites out there that don't display ads and get on fine, hosting is cheap these days, and only getting cheaper. The Best Page In The Universe has been without ads from the beginning, my personal site has no ads, my university site has no ads, a lot of business sites have no ads.
The internet is a way to share information, you give other people information by making a website in return, you ask others to make websites on information they know about. So that one day you can goto their site and find what you need.
The internet can survive without ads, and a minority will keep that philosphy. In the mean time, we will block the ads other attempt to push onto us.
P.S
If you really must have ads use a service like Google's AdWord. I personally find them a lot more unobtrusive, and even useful.
In the USA*, don't websites have to conform to a standard that allows blind to listen to the words on a site using text-reading software?
To the best of my knowledge fash does not have a function to read text allowed, and would thus be breaking this law in a flash-only site.
*I live in Australia so not quite sure of the exact law.