September 2011 - luv-talk

Fwd: Teenage Asylum Seekers Should Not Be Trapped in Detention Centers
by Russell Coker 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Teenage Asylum Seekers Should Not Be Trapped in Detention Centers Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011, 09:11:11 From: "Care2 Action Alerts" <actionalerts(a)care2.com> To: Russell Coker <russell(a)coker.com.au> Hi Russell, About 70 unaccompanied, asylum seeking minors will soon arrive at a detention center in the remote Western Australian town of Leonora. This comes amid growing international concern about the Australian government's treatment of asylees. Tell Western Australia that asylum seekers deserve help, not imprisonment. http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AgSpP/zLEp/J10W Locking up asylum seekers reduces them to the status of criminals. This violates the principles of international refugee law, which state that refugees have the right to cross borders and apply for asylum. It is even more unconscionable that Australian immigration authorities would consider treating minors in this way when much better options exist, such as fostering them out to visa-holding families of their ethnic origin. Tell the Western Australia Premier that this treatment is unacceptable. http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AgSpP/zLEp/J10W Thanks for taking action! Kathleen ThePetitionSite Take action link: http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AgSpP/zLEp/J10W ------------------------------------------- To stop receiving this newsletter, visit: http://www.care2.com/newsletters/unsub/10007/0/5205997/28962cae or send a blank email message to: ng-u-10007-5205997-8627678-13202014-07b72a8a(a)australia.care2.com Care2.com, Inc. 275 Shoreline Drive, Suite 300 Redwood City, CA 94065 http://www.care2.com ----------------------------------------- -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Was that Lev on ABC news last night?
by Brent Wallis 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

...or had I had one too many beers? BW

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Vendor lock-in Apple style;-)
by Peter Ross 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi all, one of my colleagues had a very funny "vendor lock-in" on an iPhone. It was completely frozen, just a pretty brick (with his girlfriend's picture on it, and 7:14, the time when it stopped working, like on an old broken watch) - and there was no reset button, no switch-off, and being different as Apple is, you cannot remove the battery either. Thankfully an iPhone does not last that long without charging. So after few hours the battery went flat and he could use it again. Regards Peter

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Free server hardware
by Brian Parish 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

We have 2 Proliant DL380 servers available for pickup from our office in Brunswick. No RAM or disks, but otherwise thought to be in working order. Both units equipped with Xeon CPUs. You are welcome to contact me off-list at if interested. cheers Brian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Additional Climate Confusion
by Mike Mitchell 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

While still doing Climate Change (CC) research (or is that reading?), I decided it best to try and find something definitive. I asked myself what is, ignoring those who speak out against CC (1), that those who support CC as true could offer as definitive and undeniably caused by CC or its indirect effects. I put off looking at sea level increase as an indicator because of the hysteria surrounding its discussion (probably more accurate to say debate[sic]) but spent a short time on it today. Tuvalu, it seems is the litmus test for sea level increase caused by CC. However, there is scant information on other islands being inundated, Tuvalu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu) is an atoll (1) Please bear in mind I have concluded that there are outrageous zealots both for and against CC. I try and ignore such fundamentalists. Atolls generally tend to "sink" as a result of natural subsidence of the volcano that created them. Coral, on which the islands are built, has a small tendency to continue compacting. Farming compacts land. Islands tend to spread out, thus losing height.

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Re: [luv-talk] You have been unsubscribed from the luv-main mailing list
by Rohan McLeod 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

luv-main-bounces(a)lists.luv.asn.au wrote: >Alright why ?; regards Rohan McLeod

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