It's our republic, not a dance with her maj's heirs smh.com.au
Australia is already effectively a republic. When it ain't broke, dont fix it. Or is the real agenda of Professor Williams to unscrew us from our heritage. We are never going to be part of Asia. The best we can hope for is to be treated as an honest anomoly on the edge of Asia. On the other hand we might do well to form permanent associations with as many Pacific islands as we can.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Elizabeth II, It's our republic, not a dance with her maj's heirs | smh.com.au
It's our republic, not a dance with her maj's heirs smh.com.au
Australia is already effectively a republic. When it ain't broke, dont fix it. Or is the real agenda of Professor Williams to unscrew us from our heritage. We are never going to be part of Asia. The best we can hope for is to be treated as an honest anomoly on the edge of Asia. On the other hand we might do well to form permanent associations with as many Pacific islands as we can.
Australia is already effectively a republic. When it ain't broke, dont fix it. Or is the real agenda of Professor Williams to unscrew us from our heritage. We are never going to be part of Asia. The best we can hope for is to be treated as an honest anomoly on the edge of Asia. On the other hand we might do well to form permanent associations with as many Pacific islands as we can.
DoCS, Father 'beside himself' as 12-year-old daughter falls pregnant.
Father 'beside himself' as 12-year-old daughter falls pregnant
Possibly the Minister could give us some idea of the nature of the cases which were more urgent in the relevant local office of DoCS. Otherwise the citizens might get the idea that DoCS is manned by entirely unsuitable people.
Possibly the Minister could give us some idea of the nature of the cases which were more urgent in the relevant local office of DoCS. Otherwise the citizens might get the idea that DoCS is manned by entirely unsuitable people.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Should one sue Facebook for libel and defamation over the IQ app.
From Justinian Lane - "I should totally sue Facebook for libel and defamation over the IQ app".
Justinian Lane writes "So, this morning my wife asks me kind of sheepishly if I took the Facebook IQ test. I told her “no,” and asked her why she wanted to know. Turns out that her Facebook profile was displaying an ad for the IQ test that claims that (a) I took it, and (b) my score was 116, which was near the bottom of her friends list.
Maybe I’m just getting old, because I’m not going to sue anyone pro se. Too bad, because I smell easy nuisance settlements. I’d sue the developer of the app, and Facebook itself. The latter would likely settle with me for some small (a couple grand) sum of money after I hit them with a ton of discovery requests asking for:
Information about their relationship with the developer of the app
How many people have seen the claim that my IQ is 116, and who those people are
What revenue they’ve made from displaying the ads
Something really burdensome from their IT logs that they wouldn’t want to produce
I’d also force the developer to admit that I never took the IQ test, and could thus move for summary judgment on the liability claims. Honestly, I don’t know what a jury would give me for having a false IQ score displayed to the world, but I bet the developer would be scared enough to also throw me a couple thousand dollars.
Perhaps they’d even throw their hands in the air, take the app offline, and then I could become an Internet pariah who would likely become the butt of a meme about my IQ. I’d lack the resources to sue those who create and transmit the meme, so I’d probably end up spending my $5 to $7k settlement on booze to drown my sorrows.
No thanks.
Unless of course someone with a credenza full of cash wants to make me the lead plaintiff in a class action over this. For $100k, you can meme me all you want."
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My Comments -
I think you should join IQ Anonymous.
Rule 1: Do not take an IQ test.
Rule 2: If you get caught take Miranda or the 5th.
Rule 3: Watching Law & Order is not a way of getting to know criminal practice.
Justinian Lane writes "So, this morning my wife asks me kind of sheepishly if I took the Facebook IQ test. I told her “no,” and asked her why she wanted to know. Turns out that her Facebook profile was displaying an ad for the IQ test that claims that (a) I took it, and (b) my score was 116, which was near the bottom of her friends list.
Maybe I’m just getting old, because I’m not going to sue anyone pro se. Too bad, because I smell easy nuisance settlements. I’d sue the developer of the app, and Facebook itself. The latter would likely settle with me for some small (a couple grand) sum of money after I hit them with a ton of discovery requests asking for:
Information about their relationship with the developer of the app
How many people have seen the claim that my IQ is 116, and who those people are
What revenue they’ve made from displaying the ads
Something really burdensome from their IT logs that they wouldn’t want to produce
I’d also force the developer to admit that I never took the IQ test, and could thus move for summary judgment on the liability claims. Honestly, I don’t know what a jury would give me for having a false IQ score displayed to the world, but I bet the developer would be scared enough to also throw me a couple thousand dollars.
Perhaps they’d even throw their hands in the air, take the app offline, and then I could become an Internet pariah who would likely become the butt of a meme about my IQ. I’d lack the resources to sue those who create and transmit the meme, so I’d probably end up spending my $5 to $7k settlement on booze to drown my sorrows.
No thanks.
Unless of course someone with a credenza full of cash wants to make me the lead plaintiff in a class action over this. For $100k, you can meme me all you want."
_________________________________
My Comments -
I think you should join IQ Anonymous.
Rule 1: Do not take an IQ test.
Rule 2: If you get caught take Miranda or the 5th.
Rule 3: Watching Law & Order is not a way of getting to know criminal practice.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Democracy and Hiring and Firing
Social democracy is not inconsistent with firing the lazy and incompetent in short order. Social democracy does not mean that a job is a form of property. But it does mean that if you do not keep a very strong eye on capitalism it will gravitate towards the worst forms of corporate and personal greed. Wall Street and the London City are both both beneficial mechanisms to aggregate capital and present co-relative opportunities for practicing extortion on whole nations.
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