Posts by Aussie Brusader 69 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jul 2010
How can a US regulator and Judge enforce punishment on an offense that happened in another country?
Wouldn't this be prosecuted over there, unless the meetings took place in the US of A?
I can't see how we can shout 'Go get em!!' and then bitch and moan when the US legal system is applied to ordinary people in other countries.
I'm not defending their actions, just wondering if this needs to be prosecuted in the country that it actually happened in.
Receiving a fair trial should always trump free speech.
If I had any power there should be no reporting allowed for any potential, current or on-going (appeals) trials.
Once someone has been found guilty and exhausted all recourse, then possibly the media horde and get in.
Though even then I rather tell tell them to politely Foxtrot Oscar.
He's played the unions perfectly.
He's pushed the company into the void, knowing that the Australian Government cannot afford for it to collapse. With the weight of the Government, Fair Work Australia has demanded that the aircraft be put back in service and that the unions cannot take any more strike action.
I believe he's check-mated them. They can't do any more disruptions without breaking the law and having severe penalties; and Qantas is back in the air.
But what about their brand? I'm sure he's thought this through far beyond just re-launching aircraft.
Importers and retailers are finding out that the market forces are making them redundant as the consumer can now import goods directly and easily.
This would also applies to the shopping centre owners who now have a whole lot of space that's not worth the current cost their asking.
Just like book stores are changing from a 'book store' to a 'printed paper back' store. There will always be a market, but it will be smaller.
Time to change your business structure or close up and go home.
This is why I fake my name and birthday when non-essential systems 'require' I give them information.
And this is not really me writing this...
Never have and never will own a console system (if you can actually own one).
All you have to do is wait and they bring themselves down.
Who keeps comming up with this shit and thinks that it'll make a difference?
I would put it that filming should be manditory, then you'll really know what happens and who did what to who.
There's enough cameras around anyway, so I hope they'll turn them all off 'incase we see a fight'.
Of course, this will just apply to the students and others, not the school CCTV or authorities.
It offers an “imperfect” analogy to traffic infringements, noting that whatever penalties someone may incur as the driver of a car, punishment never extends to “the total denial of access to transport.”
A quick look on the WA Police site finds the following.
"For any applicable offence police must impound a vehicle for 28 days for a first offence. For a second offence they must impound a vehicle for three months. Upon conviction for a third or subsequent offence, as well as the normal penalties for the offence, a court may also order the permanent confiscation of the vehicle or its impoundment for up to six months."
http://www.police.wa.gov.au/Antisocialbehaviour/Reportinghoons/Impoundedvehicles/tabid/1570/Default.aspx
Also, the Police tow the car away when they stop you, not when a court says you're guilty. There's been a few cases here where the driver has not been found guilty, but they or the owner have been without the vehilce for 3 months. Forget about compensation too.
You then need people to trawl through it and find the interesting stuff, and then pass it on to the departments that actually want or need it. Then they have to rinse and repeat.
ASIO have been doing a lot of advertising on the interwebs lately for extra staff.
Laptops and PCs that have worked flawlessly for years last about 1 week. Dead drives, jammed keys and operating speeds that make turtles look like speed junkies. I just don't get it.
I now only give away old stuff, cause I know I won't want it back.
The people in the videos seem to have some serious anger issues and way too much spare time.
I can't be bothered with doing anything apart from leaning across and dropping broken stuff into the bin.
But I can't justify spending +$100.00 so that I can then buy licences for books.
I'm not interested, there's no financial benefit to me to change over.
My wife and I are currently building a 2m x 3m bookshelf to store all our books and we're going to fill it, not counting all the ones we've donated to charities.
If the publishers will let me 'rent' a book then maybe, but curently the cost (purchase & restrictions) are too high.
On one hand I wish them good luck with it as I know it won't work, they're banning the sites already anyway, right?
On the other, I want them to put in writing that when it does fail to 'save us from evil', that they and the contracted companies will re-pay the costs.
I won't hold my breath with regards to the second bit, even China can't stop information entering/exiting.
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