[plug] [OT] Ferral Politics

[Ben Jensz]

Well at least you guys have the politicians who are running in your
electoral seats living within a thousand kms of where you live.

<RANT>
The politician running for the ALP in the seat of Kalgoorlie lives in
Boulder and used to live in Esperance... now its probably a safe bet to say
that anyone who lives in the Kimberley region (like me in Broome), has
pretty much zero chance of ever actually seeing him in Broome if he ever
gets elected, oh apart from maybe up in Broome during Shinju Matsuri for a
holiday, probably called "getting in touch with the community" so it comes
out of his government perks, but probably spending $80%+ of the time down at
Cable Beach.  Same probably goes for the candidates from the other parties
as well.

I think the seat of Kalgoorlie is ridiculous, it includes towns as far south
as Esperance and as far north as Wyndum.  I'm sure there is going to be
"heaps" of common ground with people doing sheep farming down south and
people growing tropical fruit up north.
</RANT>

I'm over that now :)

>
> But, seriously; a slightly more relevant (to the list) question - from
> memory, the current government was supposed to have introduced a bill, or,
> passed into law, or, something similar, the legalising of reverse
> engineering, for porting applications from one platform to another.
>
> Am I right? If so, what (if anything) came of that?
>

I read something about that somewhere not all that long ago I think.

But I doubt that anything will happen though, it'll probably get stopped by
intense lobbying from companies such Microsoft, Adobe, Macromedia etc..


/ Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bret Busby" <bret at busby.net>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] Ferral Politics


> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Harry McNally wrote:
>
> >
> > find your local candidates .. ask the questions :)
> >
>
> Waste of time. That is like trying to get a rock to run a three
> minute mile, then to get it to calculate relativistic mechanics.
>
> They (the candidates, not the rocks) are politicians. They follow the
> fundamental principle of politics -
> "The people don't matter".
>
> Talking to a rock would get more response, than trying to get a response
> from a politician.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> ..........
>
>