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Here you have to have a "Working with Children" check (you're given a card to carry) if you want to be a crossing guard, a teacher, a lecturer... fines and jail beckon if you try to avoid the system (or believe that paying a tax of $180 for the possibility of work is an unconscionable act). Another bureaucracy, another tax brought about because lame and lazy arseholes can't be bothered taking responsibility for their own actions and can't be bothered policing their children. Problem is, people are too lazy and too stupid to think about how good a job someone else is going to do of taking responsibility for their actions; if I was going to be held responsible for a [stupid] person's behaviour, I'd need power of attorney and all their money. And the right to lock them in a dark cupboard for the remainder of their un-natural.

Hi - welcome back. TOW has a campaign style to it - surviving units carry over, get promoted, win medals, upgrade, etc. It is far more polished graphically. It still didn't hold my attention for long. IMO, CMBB is the superior game. A lot of us are watching out for CM2:WW2 (CM:Normandy or somesuch title), due out early-ish next year.

Let me guess Yeknodathon; hot pink. You're gonna be reciting rosaries until next Easter - or until the Gnome passes.

Restraint? Sounds more like gluttony. Indulge in a bulging Gnome habit.

Nah, the little buggers bounce and stretch like Gumby at that age. It's only old farts like thee and me that get sore backs.

Rottnest, where the quokkas abound? Lovely place to go for a ride and a swim. No place for feral kiwis.

Renamed Tasmania 2 and 3, then we can forget all about them too. Nothin' wrong with Kiwis where they are. Let's keep it that way.

Well, obviously it has to go on a diet before it'll fit out the door; there's no sense in damaging the room. Or we could turn the room into an abattoir and eat the elephant. Personally, I'm for organising a register of volunteers willing to cork one or more of their orifices for the remainder of their lives.

...and the behaviour you display in your relationship with power (i.e. Steve) is telling. Treat him like a human or he'll start believing his own press. Then we're all stuffed.

The precedent concerns books and other published articles in the library's collection. I think that where the ISP doesn't actually have the files being copied on its hardware (that is, the ISP facilitates the transfer of the file, but doesn't actually ever claim title to the file) it's going to be difficult to get the precedent to apply.

We do love a little screw. The objection I have to the ISP being held responsible for the alleged breach of copyright is that they're being required to maintain a compliance role (that is, enforce the law) when they are a privately owned business. Now, if they claim tax credits for the funding of the mechanism of policing the traffic on their site i.e. opening every file as it passes through and examining it (as a business related expense), they then become not-for-profit tax farmers, or losers. The court injunction in relation to the alleged breaches of copyright required the ISP to shed some of its customers. Great, get the State to put the competition out of business! Hooray! Nah, this is an outright do-over for daring to enter the market with the promise of delivering a better service and then actually delivering on the promise. The complaint is being brought by a third party and it should be being brought against the agency responsible for enforcing the law - the police. Or a claim for damages should be made against the ISP. Have you seen the article (BBC) where Rupert (the One and Only) says he plans on getting rid of the "fair use doctrine"? Expect all use to be unfair.

SO - that's the first reading of the Bill, not the Act. But it does look like "hamburger" is unlikely to be included. There's an interesting article in the The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/copier-case-cited-as-iinet-fight-rages/story-e6frgakx-1225795984368 showing how an (up-and-coming, market interloper) internet company can be forced to argue in court that it doesn't have to take responsibility for it's clients actions - or be found to have the responsibility of identifying and policing every single action that it's clients take with regard to the business. - (and how do you do the tiny url linkies, anyone?)

Don't forget to give the medal to a dead 'un. Makes it all the more worthwhile somehow.

OK, this link is a short examination of the relevant legislation. We want to have a better look at Clause 8 to see if "hamburger" is covered. Whether we can get hold of that clause is something else. http://www.aph.gov.au/library/Pubs/BD/1995-96/96bd89.htm

It could well be that my memory is defective, but I also recall a fair bit of media commentary at the time about the application and consequences, in which case my defective brain has gone to quite a bit of effort in creating this fanatsy. I'll look into it further. Cheers.

You do have to be careful about shock - not so much physical impact as psychological. There are reports from WW1 and WW2 of men dying after being hit by nearly spent bullets that didn't break the skin.

Sounds great Aff, but we're not going to get volunteers for the armed forces out of any group you educate - are you sure this is the way to go?

A problem with this sort of mechanism is that it will provide a predictable path - anyone with the same software will be able to determine where you're going to move and will take steps.

Ach, common sense rears its ugly head once again. I thought we'd shot that thing long ago. Thanks for the link Wicky - I'll keep an eye out for the play over here; looks like it'd be worth seeing. Crikey, I might even read it.

How does an IED weighing 2000lbs get moved around?

During the 2000 Olympics the word "hamburger" was copyright protected. The conclusion is that any non-original or copyright breaching expression in any media can result in the shutting down of an avenue of communication. It doesn't matter whether the reason for doing so makes sense, or is even legally justifiable, the point is that there is a mechanism for controlling the dissemination of information. It'll be interesting to see if social sites like this will survive: if BFC has to risk a fine or losing their business for giving us this opportunity to express ourselves, I can see that the forums will disappear altogether. We should be able to claim cultural significance for the MBT 'though, so that'll keep going. Happy thought.

Mostly John Kettler. BUT... - the international copyright legislation has the ability to shut down the last remaining avenue of free speech available to the general populace. - GWB's escalation of the use of armed forces of the US has ensured that the US populace actually has an army to go into this next phase with (and, because it is made up of US people, it will back them before it will back a legal system). - the funding arrangements for the enviro-fascists is dependent on taxation. They aren't smart enough to think this through to the logical conclusion. Lesson: control isn't the same as leadership. Welcome to the new world order.

You forgot the smell of napalm in the morning.

If you cannot exhale it is unlikely you will get any sicker than you already are.