Muslims are upset over the simple act of depicting their prophet...
Some muslims are, some aren't. The Koran only specificly forbids 'idols', and this is interpreted in many different ways. What really caused the riots were the extra images that the Danish imams used to inflame Islamic uproar, the original 12 had already been printed in Egypt some months before, and caused no outrage at the time.
It use to be possible to say that Australians were a peaceful and laid back people. But since the riots in Sydney over the lawful arrest and conviction of some criminals, how can anyone possibly defend Australians?
Remind me again who other than native Australians were involved in the riots, and why the riots started in the first place?
While the law does say that possessing and making child porn are different offences, there is legal precedent that downloading a file onto your computer can be classed as 'making'.
You think that this is only a problem for pedos? Legal precedent can easily be used in quite creative ways, if the court feels like it. Some precedent for criminal conspiricy in the UK comes from a court case 30 years ago in which a firm was prosecuted for advertising police radar detectors - they had to bend the laws at the time in order to get a prosecution, now the same dodgy precedent can be applied to all sorts of cases.
Suppose some future Lady Chatterley case came about - someone who owned a hard copy of the book couldn't be prosecuted, but someone who downloaded an electronic version could. If an extreme political group pushed a leaflet inciting racial hatred through your door you couldn't be prosecuted, if they sent the same leaflet as a pdf in an e-mail you could. The legal precedent is there, and can and WILL be used if needed.
The joke was originaly from a radio sketch comedy show from the early 80s called 'Son of Cliche', with the Red Dwarf writers and Chris Barrie among the cast. Barrie was the original Dave Lister.
Or was Barrie the computer and Nick Wilton the 'Lister' character? I can't remember now, I haven't heard the bloody show for 20 years.
The joke was originaly from a radio sketch comedy show from the early 80s called 'Son of Cliche', with the Red Dwarf writers and Chris Barrie among the cast. Barrie was the original Dave Lister.
...They're going to build more reactors, or they're going to restart coal mining, or they're going to shiver in the dark...
With the way politics currently work here, what is most likely to happen is that there will be masses of cash spent on inquiries, 'public consultations' and enviromental impact assessments, but nothing actually done about the problem as long as we can continue to buy enough surplus nuclear power from the French.
...According to Chief Privacy Officer Peter Cullen, Microsoft is against ISPs doing anything that would restrict customers' choice of software.
What, something like writing web pages to stop a particular browser from viewing them? *cough*Opera*cough*
The problem with Millenium wasn't just with the screenplay but with the appallingly bad casting. Kris Kristofferson as the world-weary slob Bill Smith? Cheryl Ladd as the tough, cynical Louise Baltimore? Unbelievable.
Places with jukeboxes and karaoke machines have to pay for a licence in most countries, so the music publishers have already sorted that out.
Apparently, even stores selling musical instruments are supposed to have a licence, as a customer might play a few bars of a copyrighted song while in the shop, and thus commit a public performance of the tune.
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Muslims are upset over the simple act of depicting their prophet...
Some muslims are, some aren't. The Koran only specificly forbids 'idols', and this is interpreted in many different ways. What really caused the riots were the extra images that the Danish imams used to inflame Islamic uproar, the original 12 had already been printed in Egypt some months before, and caused no outrage at the time.
It use to be possible to say that Australians were a peaceful and laid back people. But since the riots in Sydney over the lawful arrest and conviction of some criminals, how can anyone possibly defend Australians?
Remind me again who other than native Australians were involved in the riots, and why the riots started in the first place?
While the law does say that possessing and making child porn are different offences, there is legal precedent that downloading a file onto your computer can be classed as 'making'.
You think that this is only a problem for pedos? Legal precedent can easily be used in quite creative ways, if the court feels like it. Some precedent for criminal conspiricy in the UK comes from a court case 30 years ago in which a firm was prosecuted for advertising police radar detectors - they had to bend the laws at the time in order to get a prosecution, now the same dodgy precedent can be applied to all sorts of cases.
Suppose some future Lady Chatterley case came about - someone who owned a hard copy of the book couldn't be prosecuted, but someone who downloaded an electronic version could. If an extreme political group pushed a leaflet inciting racial hatred through your door you couldn't be prosecuted, if they sent the same leaflet as a pdf in an e-mail you could. The legal precedent is there, and can and WILL be used if needed.
The joke was originaly from a radio sketch comedy show from the early 80s called 'Son of Cliche', with the Red Dwarf writers and Chris Barrie among the cast. Barrie was the original Dave Lister.
Or was Barrie the computer and Nick Wilton the 'Lister' character? I can't remember now, I haven't heard the bloody show for 20 years.
The joke was originaly from a radio sketch comedy show from the early 80s called 'Son of Cliche', with the Red Dwarf writers and Chris Barrie among the cast. Barrie was the original Dave Lister.
...They're going to build more reactors, or they're going to restart coal mining, or they're going to shiver in the dark...
With the way politics currently work here, what is most likely to happen is that there will be masses of cash spent on inquiries, 'public consultations' and enviromental impact assessments, but nothing actually done about the problem as long as we can continue to buy enough surplus nuclear power from the French.
...According to Chief Privacy Officer Peter Cullen, Microsoft is against ISPs doing anything that would restrict customers' choice of software.
What, something like writing web pages to stop a particular browser from viewing them? *cough*Opera*cough*
The problem with Millenium wasn't just with the screenplay but with the appallingly bad casting. Kris Kristofferson as the world-weary slob Bill Smith? Cheryl Ladd as the tough, cynical Louise Baltimore? Unbelievable.
Wasn't there also a gene called 'Sonic Hedgehog' by the researchers? I don't recall anyone suing over that.
Places with jukeboxes and karaoke machines have to pay for a licence in most countries, so the music publishers have already sorted that out. Apparently, even stores selling musical instruments are supposed to have a licence, as a customer might play a few bars of a copyrighted song while in the shop, and thus commit a public performance of the tune.