[plug] [OT] Ferral Politics

[Shane Short]

Boulder is the same as Kalgoorlie, Technically its the City of
Kalgoorlie-Boulder

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Jensz" <jensz at wn.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] Ferral Politics


> 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
> > ..........
> >
> >
>