Hi all,
we are living in a country who's press landscape is described (and
experienced by me) as a prison experiment:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/01/australia-climate-scienti…
"Australia has unwittingly become a social experiment. A ruthless
experiment on the fate of a society when a single media conglomerate,
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, owns 167 newspapers and controls around 70% of
the printed media market."
"That is what happens when a media conglomerate and their allies go out of
control and escape accountability. The result is a society poised to
embark on a Stanford prison experiment."
Well, if Rinehart virtually takes over Fairfax
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/companies/gina-rinehart-is-entitl…
(Murdoch's Sydney newspaper)
"She is also asking for the right to make significant editorial decisions
such as the ability to hire and fire editors."
.. we have actually the choice to read Murdoch's "News" or Rinehart's.
That's it. If you put it in "party terms" 100% Liberal supporters (with a
touch of One Nation in it, see Bolt & Co).
Before I came here, I was used to choose between various German newspapers
who appeared to be run independently, and considered it as being at the
heart of a working democracy.
I wonder whether there is any concern and opposition amongst Australians
related to that here? Do you all consider it as normal to live in a gold
rush were few get mega-rich and buying up the society?
To be honest, I don't care so much about who is runing a country in a way
as it pleases them, whether there are Chinese Communists or Australian
miners.
If we don't have the freedom of free expression it isn't a democracy.
free press is part of it.
I wonder what to do at this point. I consider it as a tipping-point in the
development of this country - and I don't like where it is heading to.
Regards
Peter
Hi to any Thunderbird wizards out there,
Sorry about posting this here, but it seems I'm not a member of
luv-main, and I'm in a bit of a rush.
Have tried to install a copy of TB 13.0.1 onto my desktop system, as
somehow my laptop has that, and it is running smoothly there.
Have gone to this web page (below), and followed the instructions on
"install the newest release".
> https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/installing-thunderbird-linux
Have rebooted, and run System > Admin > Update Manager.
...but all I get on the new desktop system install is 13.0 not 13.0.1
The "About Thunderbird" windows between the two systems look identical
otherwise.
Hmmm. Anything to worry about?
Thanks very much for any info, or pointers to good web pages on this
particular topic.
Carl Turney, Bayswater
Mobile 0427 024 735
Home 9720 3975
The office is disposing of some OpenVMS manuals ~(250 Litres), OSF/Motif
books
maybe some old HP-UX, Solaris, OSF/1 AXP etc manuals.
maybe some terminals, a Dec Alpha box
If you're interested in anything specific email me this week
Hi everyone
I am looking for someone with solid expertise in following:
Migrating Windows based system:
Domain Controller
Exchange Server
To Open Source (Linux) equivalent.
Potential Melbourne Based job.
Please contact me directly off list.
Cheers
Daniel.