April 21st, 2010
Feeding some numbers from Google’s new Government Requests page into a simple spreadsheet reveals that Australia is 7th world-wide in Google government removal requests of search results and other materials. South Korea, Germany and Brazil lead the sad pack. Note that only countries with over 10 requests have been included and that the population data is circa 2008/2009. [...]
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October 15th, 2006
This video and article says it all, via BoingBoing which also covers it in depth. The Chinese government is a disgrace to their people and history. Bookmark to:
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May 25th, 2006
Let me jump right into the water and say: Microsoft’s new Office 2007 is a very different product from its predecessors and as such represents a very weak spot in the usually hardened Microsoft armor. This version of Office may start a huge switch-over to OpenOffice and alternatives. This is the case not because Office [...]
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May 13th, 2006
It is already old news apparently, but I’ve only just now seen the videos from the White House Correspondence Association dinner. While seeing the first video, I felt at first a very strong cognitive dissonance as a fellow commenter on SE described it. The dissonance arose because usually it takes intelligence and self-awareness for a [...]
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December 16th, 2005
CNN in a manipulatively titled article reports that [the] “Senate fails to reauthorize Patriot Act“, which translated from corpo-speech means that the Senate has so far refused to renew it. I hope the renewal fails and that Dec. 31st comes and goes without the Patriot Act, a.k.a the Police State Act, renewed. CNN also fails [...]
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November 15th, 2005
If you’ve read my previous post, you might have noticed that last paragraph in which I was hinting at the development that might bring back the balance in Democracy. You would have probably guessed that I was referring to blogs. Yes, lowly blogs. For those of you not following closely, blogs, for a while now, [...]
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November 14th, 2005
Democracy in its purest form was designed to be a balanced system. Separate judiciary, executive and legislative institutions of government are not enough. Thus the freedom of speech exists to create another institution — the press. The press was designed as a watchdog; it was there to pay the price of eternal vigilance to guarantee [...]
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