Last weekend my wife and were guests with a friend who is a barrister, and on the way to becoming a judge, all being well. We were talking about the mobile devices that we each had. He does not have one. No iPhone, no iPad, no Blackberry – not even a good old fashioned mobile [...]
Setting the Scene. Consultants are people/firms that are hired to divorce an organisations internal politics from a result and quite often, consultants bring with them a differential focused expertise in the area requiring their expert attention. There’s an accepted modus operandi for consultancy firms in business, “When you get hired, look for more [...]
There is the story of the little girl that asks her father if there are any other kind of fairy stories except for the ones that start, “Once upon a time…..” and her father replies, “Yes dear, there are also those that start with If I am elected….”. Well he said he [...]
I just can’t believe that big business doesn’t yet understand the guaranteed formula for failure. Interdiction of an activity that is desired by the majority of the population will be met by alternative technological means. Each time Governments, Lobbyists and the partnered Judiciary (well they have no choice really, most judicial appointments are [...]
Have you ever noticed how the media is sometimes used as a weapon of mass destruction? Example: News Headline: Jews are Ruining the Economy! Result: Krystallnacht and 6 million Dead Jews. Rupert Murdoch wields News Limited as his private editorial rapier, slashing, trimming, opining and burning. Burning institutions, politicians, industrialists, bankers, entrepreneurs. [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is an article written by an occasional misogynist for the consumption of open minded readers. Feminists may take exception to the conclusions reached and may possibly be offended. The sixties heralded the arrival of near goof proof birth control. The weapon that women of the world needed to finally become equal [...]
We have noticed of Late that the US Judiciary don't seem to have all the facts pertainent to file sharing cases, relative to the issue of damages – or if they do, they are failing in their instructions to the Juries. Whether this is due to poor representation, or lack of adequately informed expert witnesses, [...]
It’s interesting that the Music Industry is claiming damages per file download. Their interdiction procedures have filled the ED2k (Emule/Edonkey) network with fake files and their methodology of advertising non-existent files makes the network appear as if it is thousands of times larger than it really is. I wonder if they explain that too [...]
On Neil Diamonds Album, Hot August Night, he calls out… Hello out there Tree People….. His words – which impressed me over thirty years ago are obviously an acknowledgement by Neil, that even the non-paying tree people had a value, by adding to the carnival atmosphere of the concert and were therefore worthy of [...]
Copyright was not always a criminal offense. It apparently became so in Australia as a result of concern arising from copyright infringers possibly not having the means to settle a civil copyright dispute. In 1998, Ian MacDonald, Solicitor, on behalf of the Copyright Council for Australia in an article for the Institute of Criminology, [...]