Or – The Havenots become the Haves. Preamble It’s a well known fact that when placed under restricting circumstances, all animals will look for an escape or release from the restriction. “The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” – John Perry Barlow. ——————————————————————————————————————————– The Article IRC stands for [...]
Those of you who live in the city and are able to get broadband via cable or via ADSL with all you can eat plans…. you don't know how lucky you are! Here in the Australian bush – not that where I live is bush really – its just a place where Telstra was stingy [...]
There was a a brief follow up story to this one in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning that Clubs Australia is planning to help local unsigned musicians get their music played in restaurants and venues – as long as those musicians are not signed to a major label. The premise is that the planned [...]
Some people are in denial about climate change. But that already puts a pejorative spin on the concept, doesn't it? And some people are in denial about peak oil. As long as you believe in one of the two above read on… Over the next few years we are going to have to solve a [...]
The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark. For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA. Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]
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 [...]
Media barons and some of the anointed (think glitterati, freemasons or whichever other conspiracy theory you subscribe to this week); spend a lot of time gnashing teeth these days…. In the inimitable voice of Peter Sellers, “ Oh dearie dearie me, we have let de cat out of de bag”, – how the hell [...]
In Ben Hur, we were introduced by Hollywood to the concept that some peoples idea of entertainment was pitting a man against a Tiger or Lion as a sport. All that happened was that the “cat” sated it’s enforced hunger by eating the only meat in it’s reach, which unfortunately for the Christian, was [...]
Revolutions What are revolutions and why do they happen? There are two kinds of revolution – those that involve technological progress – like the Industrial Revolution and those that involve political upheaval – like the French Revolution. Both are disruptive to the social norms of the day. But it’s the political revolutions [...]
Bob May was a guest on The Science Show a couple of weeks ago. Or Lord May to all of us plebs. He was born in Australia and has variously been Chief Scientific advisor to the British government, President of the Royal Society, and a host of other titles too many to include here but [...]