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Please take the time to write a letter to Senator Conroy to tell him he is an idiot.

Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics: “”

Template letter here.

Oh yeah, remember not to vote for him next time.

(Via www.theage.com.au.)

Update: Any censorship is the first step down a very slippery slope…. where will it end?

Update 2: Would this be blocked? Obscene?

For all the Canadians out there….

Culture en Péril

Or with captioning Culture en Péril

Well, I don’t know which one is funnier, but it is a bit scary too.

Humor

Reality

Once again, Adobe CS4 costs about $400.00 AUD more to purchase from the Australian store than from the US store.

Today, $1399 US = ($1399/.8375) = $1670.45 AUD

Adobe Australia sells the CS4 package for $2089 AUD, that is $418 AUD more than I could buy it from the US store (if I could buy it from the US). It is a download, no physical delivery at all.

When I queried Adobe about this for CS3 they said it was for 1 year of tech support. Hands up any one who has actually needed to use Adobe’s tech support rather than just using Goggle to find an answer?

I am almost tempted to buy it and see how much I could use the tech support over a year. I am sure I could rack up a few thousand dollars of someone’s time over a year…..

This is why I refuse to buy it. The day it is roughly the same cost here as in the states, I probably will buy it, but until then, I will use The Gimp and GraphicConverter.

This one is really unbelievable. Even leaving aside the terrorism issue, how many people would know that their neighbourhoods hydrants are turned off. Lucky they did not lose a life here instead of just priceless photos.

Are the fire hydrants in your neighborhood turned on?

(Via Schneier on Security ).