The Age is a creditable Melbourne newspaper. Not just an online journal. That's not to say that everything they publish is brilliant. Neither do I think Rick Moen is anything special, although he does post regularly to our local LUG (Linux Users of Victoria) so it's not surprising that a local journalist (who's also a member of the LUG) decided to interview him.
n. One who flees in search of refuge, as in times of war, political oppression, or religious persecution.
Irrelevent.... dictionary.com doesn't define International and Australian Federal laws. Legislation can give anything it's own meaning, for example in the US it was legislated that tomatoes are vegetables for taxation purposes.
So, to summarize, if people from France moved to the UK for better jobs or living conditions, they would be immigrants. If they did so without the proper paperwork, they would be illigal immigrants.
No, they are both part of the European Union. You can live/work anywhere in the EU if you are a citizen of one of it's member nations.
Not knocking you for turning away the refugees, simply setting the labels straight.
Though according to the law, one is usually not classed as a refugee unless the individual's life is at risk (though don't quote me on it). Many of those so 'asylum seekers' aren't at risk of loosing their life, they just come here thining that Australia is paradise since they come from poorer counteries. They are illegal immigrants until it's proven that they are refugees.
This would be the same Australia that sold refugees?
Don't you mean illegal immigrants? They are not refugees until they've gained refugee status from either the Australian Government or the UN, in which case they are welcome to stay. By saying these illegal immigrants were sold is misleading as it suggests that Nauru paid Australia to take the illegal immigrants to use for slavery when in fact Australia paid Nauru to take them.
Australia does not have the facilities to take large numbers of illegal immigrants. You have to remember that our own population is only about 19.5 million and we occupy a large mass of land the size the USA or Canada which mainly is mainly comprised of desert.
Doesn't exactly sound like nice ethics to me... The continuing suppression of Aboriginals is also far from nice...
That is nothing to do with the current Australian generation. It is something from the past. Something that our ancestors did. We can't be expected to apologise for something we didn't do.
If their business model is so dependent on you buying certified Xbox games then why don't they just make a contract that you have to sign when purchasing it? It could be for say a duration of 12 months during which time you can't modify the hardware, then after that time you can do what you want with it. Afterall it's your peice of hardware in the end. Although really, it looks as though they are running around like paranoid monkeys. Do we see Sony threatening not to sell Playstations in Australia?
Well if Microsoft holds even the slightest chance of changing the law, then I suggest anyone in Australia should go and tell their local Federal MP that they don't want this to happen. See How to Get Politicians' Attention and How to Visit a Politician for tips on dealing with politicians. Of course it has to be said that visiting your local MP in person is the most effective way of getting your point across.
It would appear that Jumpstart Technology (http://www.jtllc.com/) has changed their website so that it no longer says 'Direct Marketing'! Must have been causing them some greif.
I was getting some spam from crushlink and it said a crush had entered my email address and I had to list all my crushes to see if it was one of them. Being the cynical one that I am, there was no way I was going to even verify my own email address, let alone give them more without verifying crushlink first! Well found it's in the same/24 as someonelikes you which I later got email from and it's owned by a 'direct' marketing company Jumpstart Technologies http://www.jtllc.com/. (Yep just as the artile says)
(note to moderators- don't get into a tissy fit about the "TV sucks" comment. if you care about both the environment and computers (i.e. you're not a hippie or a geek, you're just well educated), you realize that TV is a waste of time)
Paritcurlarly if you live in Australia and only have a handful of free to air TV stations and pay TV, like broadband is too expensive.
They have a pretty good monopolly here in Australia and I assume anywhere else where where AOL's BBS hasn't got a monopolly which is basically everywhere outside the USA. ICQ used to be the big thing here but somehow that's no longer the case. The only people that still use ICQ are those that have been using it for a very long time. I've been trying to get people to use jabber and I don't know how in the hell people managed to move their friends from ICQ to MSN becuase I can't get anyone to change now.
Sydney is a beautiful city if you ever get the chance to visit.
Not as beautiful as Melbourne though. Melbourne is just too elegant to have been chosen for the Matrix as they were really after a US-like city. However it was chosen for Jackie Chan's Mr Nice Guy. However I'd still suggest visting both cities, they both have distinctive features.
Well I'm not quite a computer science student yet, but I just had a GAT and that required two writing tasks which I found quite painful! I'm not brilliant at english, but even when given more time, flexibility and the ability to research the topic a little, I can write something much better.
Having followed the link to
auspam and reading the list of business names that this spammer masquerades as, it reminded me of receiving spam from "Business Seminars Australia - since 1987". I was going to ring one of the numbers mentioned in that spam but I didn't have time. I received the spam on Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:49:03 +1000 (AEST). A copy of it has been placed at http://www.austux.net/spam.html.
If the domain happens to be a registered trademark then taking that trademark and changing a few letters around would still be a trademark infringement.
We have found a way to fake out the activation codes. --Put on your rubber gloves. --Connect you cat5 enhanced patch cable up to a standard 120v outlet. --Fried Bill !!!!
If *everyones* data was stored in the one place then imagine the fate that would be acheived if someone did manage to crack into this one source! Why not give the consumer a choice about which company they keep their information with? After all the Internet should be a decentralised place!
How could you trust Outlook for friends and family? Make them use Eudora. Only problem is that Eudora's interface has become cluttered and clumbsy as of lately.
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Whoops, noticed someone else posted that (and the link didn't work anyway).... and why the hell is ICQ still in my sig? :D
Some people may also be interested to see our coverage in LinMagAU
I have a torch.
Some lame Australian online journal?
The Age is a creditable Melbourne newspaper. Not just an online journal. That's not to say that everything they publish is brilliant. Neither do I think Rick Moen is anything special, although he does post regularly to our local LUG (Linux Users of Victoria) so it's not surprising that a local journalist (who's also a member of the LUG) decided to interview him.
From Dictionary.com
refugee Pronunciation Key (rfy-j)
n. One who flees in search of refuge, as in times of war, political oppression, or religious persecution.
Irrelevent.... dictionary.com doesn't define International and Australian Federal laws. Legislation can give anything it's own meaning, for example in the US it was legislated that tomatoes are vegetables for taxation purposes.
So, to summarize, if people from France moved to the UK for better jobs or living conditions, they would be immigrants. If they did so without the proper paperwork, they would be illigal immigrants.
No, they are both part of the European Union. You can live/work anywhere in the EU if you are a citizen of one of it's member nations.
Not knocking you for turning away the refugees, simply setting the labels straight.
Though according to the law, one is usually not classed as a refugee unless the individual's life is at risk (though don't quote me on it). Many of those so 'asylum seekers' aren't at risk of loosing their life, they just come here thining that Australia is paradise since they come from poorer counteries. They are illegal immigrants until it's proven that they are refugees.
This would be the same Australia that sold refugees?
Don't you mean illegal immigrants? They are not refugees until they've gained refugee status from either the Australian Government or the UN, in which case they are welcome to stay. By saying these illegal immigrants were sold is misleading as it suggests that Nauru paid Australia to take the illegal immigrants to use for slavery when in fact Australia paid Nauru to take them.
Australia does not have the facilities to take large numbers of illegal immigrants. You have to remember that our own population is only about 19.5 million and we occupy a large mass of land the size the USA or Canada which mainly is mainly comprised of desert.
Doesn't exactly sound like nice ethics to me... The continuing suppression of Aboriginals is also far from nice...
That is nothing to do with the current Australian generation. It is something from the past. Something that our ancestors did. We can't be expected to apologise for something we didn't do.
If their business model is so dependent on you buying certified Xbox games then why don't they just make a contract that you have to sign when purchasing it? It could be for say a duration of 12 months during which time you can't modify the hardware, then after that time you can do what you want with it. Afterall it's your peice of hardware in the end. Although really, it looks as though they are running around like paranoid monkeys. Do we see Sony threatening not to sell Playstations in Australia?
Well if Microsoft holds even the slightest chance of changing the law, then I suggest anyone in Australia should go and tell their local Federal MP that they don't want this to happen. See How to Get Politicians' Attention and How to Visit a Politician for tips on dealing with politicians. Of course it has to be said that visiting your local MP in person is the most effective way of getting your point across.
Hmmmm no, apparently it's no better than IT and it'd be very boring!
GPRS?
Maybe IBM are going to make a Jabber enabled phone?
Does iPod support OGG Vorbis?
It would appear that Jumpstart Technology (http://www.jtllc.com/) has changed their website so that it no longer says 'Direct Marketing'! Must have been causing them some greif.
I was getting some spam from crushlink and it said a crush had entered my email address and I had to list all my crushes to see if it was one of them. Being the cynical one that I am, there was no way I was going to even verify my own email address, let alone give them more without verifying crushlink first! Well found it's in the same /24 as someonelikes you which I later got email from and it's owned by a 'direct' marketing company Jumpstart Technologies http://www.jtllc.com/. (Yep just as the artile says)
Paritcurlarly if you live in Australia and only have a handful of free to air TV stations and pay TV, like broadband is too expensive.
Well all know that real linux users try ./configure && make && make install and failing that read the documentation!
They have a pretty good monopolly here in Australia and I assume anywhere else where where AOL's BBS hasn't got a monopolly which is basically everywhere outside the USA. ICQ used to be the big thing here but somehow that's no longer the case. The only people that still use ICQ are those that have been using it for a very long time. I've been trying to get people to use jabber and I don't know how in the hell people managed to move their friends from ICQ to MSN becuase I can't get anyone to change now.
Not as beautiful as Melbourne though. Melbourne is just too elegant to have been chosen for the Matrix as they were really after a US-like city. However it was chosen for Jackie Chan's Mr Nice Guy. However I'd still suggest visting both cities, they both have distinctive features.
Well I'm not quite a computer science student yet, but I just had a GAT and that required two writing tasks which I found quite painful! I'm not brilliant at english, but even when given more time, flexibility and the ability to research the topic a little, I can write something much better.
Having followed the link to auspam and reading the list of business names that this spammer masquerades as, it reminded me of receiving spam from "Business Seminars Australia - since 1987". I was going to ring one of the numbers mentioned in that spam but I didn't have time. I received the spam on Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:49:03 +1000 (AEST). A copy of it has been placed at http://www.austux.net/spam.html.
If the domain happens to be a registered trademark then taking that trademark and changing a few letters around would still be a trademark infringement.
We have found a way to fake out the activation codes.
--Put on your rubber gloves.
--Connect you cat5 enhanced patch cable up to a standard 120v outlet.
--Fried Bill !!!!
Why waste perfectly good hardware? hardware?
If *everyones* data was stored in the one place then imagine the fate that would be acheived if someone did manage to crack into this one source! Why not give the consumer a choice about which company they keep their information with? After all the Internet should be a decentralised place!
slashdot has a reputation for idiocy!
How could you trust Outlook for friends and family? Make them use Eudora. Only problem is that Eudora's interface has become cluttered and clumbsy as of lately.
Eeer sorry the formatting of my post turned to be very bad.