I imagine the Philadelphia Inquirer is at the forefront of quality journalism in the United States, would I be right? Right up there with The Times and The Australian Financial Review?
I don't mind Americans. But those who write this sort of crap about our government can go to hell.
Study some Australian politics before you start pushing this sort of crap:
> semi-legal constitutional coup at the behest of > the American CIA in the 70s.
I can't begin to know where the hell you got this from. The governor general who sacked Whitlam was a pacifist leftie. Do you think he'd take orders from the CIA? As for being semi-legal, that's rubbish. What was at *best* semi-legal was Whitlam continuing to hold the ranks of governemnt when he did not have the numbers to pass supply (basically the annual budget, although it's a bit more complicated) and keep the government running.
The royal governor has a responsiblity as our constitutional safeguard. Like the British, we have some powers that are unwritten (called 'conventions' - although unlike them wer have a written constitution). It is accepted that while the governor general is a largely symbolic role, there are time when the role comes in to play to keep bastards like Whitlam from betraying our constitution in times of uncertainty.
It's always good to note that at the resulting federal election, the Liberal/National coalition won one of (if not the) biggest victory ever in Australian politics and the Labor opposition was crippled with not very many seats in parliament at all for almost the next decade.
Whitlam did a lot of bad to this country and we were all better off after his glorious departure, although the debt of his legacy (blowout in social services bankrolled by massive loans, a cowardly policy towards Indonesia with regard to East Timor) is a lingering stench.
As for involvement by the CIA: Go to hell! We run our country quite fine without the involvement of your mob. How arrogent to assume our governor general could give a damn about what the CIA wanted!
> Standing armies must be abolished. They are a > means of oppressing the populace.
Bullshit. That's way too generalised. There are a hell of a lot more factors involved than that. In Indonesia, I'd say certainly. But in Australia absolutely not. I cannot think of an example of the military holding it over Austrlaians in our history, although there was a short period of marshal law when some extremists bombed a conference in the 70s that the PM was at.
As an earlier post said, the moethod by which armies are constructed is important.
And don't give me any of that 'by the people' crap either. Give us real arguments.
What the hell are you talking about? Gun laws in Australia were introduced by the Liberal Party. That's the equivalent of the Republicans (maybe a little less right socially). And they've been great (gun laws and Liberals)
I know about the focus change, etc, and I haven't found it reliable enough to be happy with it. I *didn't* know about the task manager - thanks for that - I'll try to get hold of a demo. Nevertheless - this is bread and butter stuff that IBM has no good excuse for excluding.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a real old school OS/2 user (since 2.0 from memory) and even OS/2 User Group member, but I thought the interface was OS/2's biggest disadvantage: it sucked! Everything else was amazing: the multitasking, connectivity, speed, hardware (I had two tracker players streaming through two sound cards at the same time - I haven't even done that under linux yet) I've moved on to BeOS now - sick of waiting for IBM to fix up the PM which has never worked properly. But if this release is good - Stardock have done some amazingthings in the past - then I could set aside some apartition space again...
Firstly, I secured one of the bata copies of the new version of OS/2 Server for E-Commerce and was very dissappointed. The sooner they realise that all the wonderful technology and features in the world are useless when the PM (User interface) is almost as broken as it was in OS/2 2.0 back in 1992, the sooner they'll be able to make a useable product. The PM is incredibly buggy and there is still no task manager that I know of. At least when NT dies you can use a keypress to bring up a utilities screen. Not so with OS/2 - the only keys that work are c-alt-esc, and that just reboots the machine.
Secondly - just think of the implications of OS/2 Open Source. You could apply Win32-OS/2 and just think... most native Win32 applications could run under Linux. That's one to dream about, huh:):):) I don't think they've got Office running yet - but it's only a matter of time.:) Check out http://www.os2ss.com/win32-os2/
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I've just hada look at this guy's profile
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I imagine the Philadelphia Inquirer is at the forefront of quality journalism in the United States, would I be right? Right up there with The Times and The Australian Financial Review?
I don't mind Americans. But those who write this sort of crap about our government can go to hell.
Study some Australian politics before you start pushing this sort of crap:
> semi-legal constitutional coup at the behest of
> the American CIA in the 70s.
I can't begin to know where the hell you got this from. The governor general who sacked Whitlam was a pacifist leftie. Do you think he'd take orders from the CIA? As for being semi-legal, that's rubbish. What was at *best* semi-legal was Whitlam continuing to hold the ranks of governemnt when he did not have the numbers to pass supply (basically the annual budget, although it's a bit more complicated) and keep the government running.
The royal governor has a responsiblity as our constitutional safeguard. Like the British, we have some powers that are unwritten (called 'conventions' - although unlike them wer have a written constitution). It is accepted that while the governor general is a largely symbolic role, there are time when the role comes in to play to keep bastards like Whitlam from betraying our constitution in times of uncertainty.
It's always good to note that at the resulting federal election, the Liberal/National coalition won one of (if not the) biggest victory ever in Australian politics and the Labor opposition was crippled with not very many seats in parliament at all for almost the next decade.
Whitlam did a lot of bad to this country and we were all better off after his glorious departure, although the debt of his legacy (blowout in social services bankrolled by massive loans, a cowardly policy towards Indonesia with regard to East Timor) is a lingering stench.
As for involvement by the CIA: Go to hell! We run our country quite fine without the involvement of your mob. How arrogent to assume our governor general could give a damn about what the CIA wanted!
> Standing armies must be abolished. They are a
> means of oppressing the populace.
Bullshit. That's way too generalised. There are a hell of a lot more factors involved than that. In Indonesia, I'd say certainly. But in Australia absolutely not. I cannot think of an example of the military holding it over Austrlaians in our history, although there was a short period of marshal law when some extremists bombed a conference in the 70s that the PM was at.
As an earlier post said, the moethod by which armies are constructed is important.
And don't give me any of that 'by the people' crap either. Give us real arguments.
Well, I suppose thay could push the envolope with the foreign affirs power a bit tho ;)
It tells me Hitler was a hypocrit...
What the hell are you talking about? Gun laws in Australia were introduced by the Liberal Party. That's the equivalent of the Republicans (maybe a little less right socially). And they've been great (gun laws and Liberals)
I know about the focus change, etc, and I haven't found it reliable enough to be happy with it. I *didn't* know about the task manager - thanks for that - I'll try to get hold of a demo. Nevertheless - this is bread and butter stuff that IBM has no good excuse for excluding.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a real old school OS/2 user (since 2.0 from memory) and even OS/2 User Group member, but I thought the interface was OS/2's biggest disadvantage: it sucked! Everything else was amazing: the multitasking, connectivity, speed, hardware (I had two tracker players streaming through two sound cards at the same time - I haven't even done that under linux yet) I've moved on to BeOS now - sick of waiting for IBM to fix up the PM which has never worked properly. But if this release is good - Stardock have done some amazingthings in the past - then I could set aside some apartition space again...
Couple of thoughts.
:) :) :) I don't think they've got Office running yet - but it's only a matter of time. :) Check out http://www.os2ss.com/win32-os2/
Firstly, I secured one of the bata copies of the new version of OS/2 Server for E-Commerce and was very dissappointed. The sooner they realise that all the wonderful technology and features in the world are useless when the PM (User interface) is almost as broken as it was in OS/2 2.0 back in 1992, the sooner they'll be able to make a useable product. The PM is incredibly buggy and there is still no task manager that I know of. At least when NT dies you can use a keypress to bring up a utilities screen. Not so with OS/2 - the only keys that work are c-alt-esc, and that just reboots the machine.
Secondly - just think of the implications of OS/2 Open Source. You could apply Win32-OS/2 and just think... most native Win32 applications could run under Linux. That's one to dream about, huh