Entries tagged with policy

Current Mood: drunk
Current Location: Adelaide, Australia
Current Music: Katie Melua - Lilac Wine

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trawling the 'net for theses

Having embarked upon this idea of a PhD for 2007-2009/10 for serious, I have begun doing some background reading and suchlike.

What's with all these people writing stuff, eh? I just wanted to to a bit of background browsing, and here I am drowning in references. Not even got EndNote installed yet and I have, oh, a few hundred damn things to check through. Waah!

On the upside, I just might get to do the topic I've begun to suspect I very much want to do. A few people have trampled theses all over censorship, content regulation - even damn obvious feminist excoriations on Internet pornography laws. A few seem to have trampled on the topic space covered in recent discussions with possibleSupervisors™ ... to be sure I'll be drawing on InterLibraryLoans.

Looks like I have some interesting, and plenty of tedious, reading ahead. Yay! (After all, what else would I want to be doing with my time?)

Current Mood: drunk
Current Location: Adelaide, Australia
Current Music: Katie Melua - Lilac Wine

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trawling the 'net for theses

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Location: Adelaide, Australia

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SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM

If you would have peace, prepare for war.

( The War on Net Neutrality )

QUI DESIDERAT PACEM, BELLUM PRAEPARAT; NEMO PROVOCARE NE OFFENDERE AUDET QUEM INTELLIGET SUPERIOREM ESSE PUGNATUREM.
FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS, DE RE MILITARI, 390 B.C.E.

Whosoever desires peace prepares for war; no one provokes, nor dares to offend, those who they know know to be superior in battle.

I commented recently on someone's blog about this issue. But I forget whom. Please remind me ... I want to revisit what I said.

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Location: Adelaide, Australia

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SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM

If you would have peace, prepare for war.

( The War on Net Neutrality )

QUI DESIDERAT PACEM, BELLUM PRAEPARAT; NEMO PROVOCARE NE OFFENDERE AUDET QUEM INTELLIGET SUPERIOREM ESSE PUGNATUREM.
FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS, DE RE MILITARI, 390 B.C.E.

Whosoever desires peace prepares for war; no one provokes, nor dares to offend, those who they know know to be superior in battle.

I commented recently on someone's blog about this issue. But I forget whom. Please remind me ... I want to revisit what I said.

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The importance of IP in Australia ... ?

The importance of IP in Australia
http://www.builderau.com.au/manage/business/soa/The_importance_of_IP_in_Australia/0,39024656,39229100,00.htm
Mark Wheeler
January 16, 2006

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The importance of IP in Australia ... ?

The importance of IP in Australia
http://www.builderau.com.au/manage/business/soa/The_importance_of_IP_in_Australia/0,39024656,39229100,00.htm
Mark Wheeler
January 16, 2006

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realisation!

having just filled out an "expression of interest" for a television documentary (which shall remain confidential) i have realised that i can express my interests in 50 words or less.

i have been interested in the the use and abuse of power since i was in high school. i am particularly interested/concerned with the use and abuse of communication, and hence certain technologies. my legal interests largely spin out from this: propaganda, whistleblowers, sedition, privacy, intellectual property, governance, etc. so to much of my interest in technology, and society.

yep. i'm an aspie, and i'm interested in how people do and don't communicate with each other.

i have had a theory for about twenty years now; that people tend to do/study the things that they need most. by that i mean, look at what a lot of undergraduates end up studying - those who get to choose somewhat freely. they do what they need to do, what makes them tick - or not tick.

how many students in psych could do with a nice long lie down? how many med students are really good at healing compared with how many are driven to do it? (i'm not talking about those who go into med because they're told to or pushed in or got good enough grades or whatever.)

i mean need in both senses - being driven by it, and requiring it.

for me, i'm driven by a need to understand others - and to be understood. i think that's pretty obvious to all of us by now.

so, now i need to do something with this re-realisation.

wish me luck!

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realisation!

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Revealed: the battle plan to save marriage

By Stephanie Peatling
January 9, 2006

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Revealed: the battle plan to save marriage

By Stephanie Peatling
January 9, 2006

Current Mood: crappy
Current Music: Delia Derbyshire - Doctor Who (Original Titles Music)

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read this carefully ... recent announcements regarding 'divorce counselling' are not new

MARENC Speech Notes

Mr. Ross Cameron, MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Family and Community Services
To Open the Marriage and Relationship Educators' National Conference (MARENC)
Lincoln College, Adelaide
Friday 26 September 2003

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read this carefully ... recent announcements regarding 'divorce counselling' are not new

MARENC Speech Notes

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human rights 'industry' ?

Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:10 AM ET
Former London police chief says human rights "industry" has stranglehold on UK
Alexandria Samuel

[JURIST] Former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord John Stevens slammed British human rights groups [on] Sunday for their efforts to block the controversial new UK policy of deporting persons preaching violence or hatred or posing a threat to national security. Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the policy changes earlier this month following the July London bombings, and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke subsequently announced plans to deport 10 foreign Islamists arrested last week under the antiterror measures. In an article for the News of the World weekly, the outspoken Stevens wrote:
If the human rights industry hadn't managed to secure its stranglehold on Britain, they would have been kicked out years ago. Now, hand-wringing civil rights lawyers and like-minded judges will go into top gear to keep them here.
Best known for his role in chairing investigations into collusion between security forces in Northern Ireland and loyalist paramilitaries, Stevens retired as London Police Commissioner in February 2005. AFP has more.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/08/former-london-police-chief-says-human.php

wonder if we have a human rights industry here? and what kind of bling does it have?

i want the bling.

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human rights 'industry' ?

Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:10 AM ET
Former London police chief says human rights "industry" has stranglehold on UK
Alexandria Samuel

[JURIST] Former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord John Stevens slammed British human rights groups [on] Sunday for their efforts to block the controversial new UK policy of deporting persons preaching violence or hatred or posing a threat to national security. Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the policy changes earlier this month following the July London bombings, and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke subsequently announced plans to deport 10 foreign Islamists arrested last week under the antiterror measures. In an article for the News of the World weekly, the outspoken Stevens wrote:
If the human rights industry hadn't managed to secure its stranglehold on Britain, they would have been kicked out years ago. Now, hand-wringing civil rights lawyers and like-minded judges will go into top gear to keep them here.
Best known for his role in chairing investigations into collusion between security forces in Northern Ireland and loyalist paramilitaries, Stevens retired as London Police Commissioner in February 2005. AFP has more.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/08/former-london-police-chief-says-human.php

wonder if we have a human rights industry here? and what kind of bling does it have?

i want the bling.

Current Mood: indescribable
Current Music: Adam Ant - Kings Of The Wild Frontier

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rule of law?

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Real ID Act ruling [US DC]
10:20 PM ET

Enwonwu v. Chertoff, et al., US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, July 13, 2005 [ruling chastising Congress for a "virtually unprecedented" attack on judicial independence and for putting a "chokehold" on federal courts by removing, via the Real ID Act, their authority to hear deportation cases]. Excerpt:

For 217 years, through boom and bust, insurgency, civil war, and terrorist attack, this Court--the oldest United States District Court in America--has carefully and prudentially administered the Writ of Habeas Corpus to secure the rights of the individual against overreaching by the executive.

Mr. Enwonwu commenced his action in this Court on March 17, 2005, had an initial hearing 25 days later, and a full evidentiary hearing two weeks after that. This Court took the matter under advisement and commenced a detailed and reflective analysis of an evidentiary record both complex and deeply disturbing.

Then on May 11, 2005, the Congress stripped this Court of jurisdiction to act in this pending case and all others like it. Though such direct congressional interference in a pending case is virtually unprecedented in all our history, this surprising mandate has gone utterly unnoticed by our people. Evidently, only where an American jury sits to validate the separation of powers among the three branches is trial court jurisdiction immune from such peremptory congressional action.

How can this be in modern day America?

Read the full text of the opinion here. Reported in JURIST’s Paper Chase here.

Current Mood: indescribable
Current Music: Adam Ant - Kings Of The Wild Frontier

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rule of law?

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Real ID Act ruling [US DC]
10:20 PM ET

For 217 years, through boom and bust, insurgency, civil war, and terrorist attack, this Court--the oldest United States District Court in America--has carefully and prudentially administered the Writ of Habeas Corpus to secure the rights of the individual against overreaching by the executive.

Mr. Enwonwu commenced his action in this Court on March 17, 2005, had an initial hearing 25 days later, and a full evidentiary hearing two weeks after that. This Court took the matter under advisement and commenced a detailed and reflective analysis of an evidentiary record both complex and deeply disturbing.

Then on May 11, 2005, the Congress stripped this Court of jurisdiction to act in this pending case and all others like it. Though such direct congressional interference in a pending case is virtually unprecedented in all our history, this surprising mandate has gone utterly unnoticed by our people. Evidently, only where an American jury sits to validate the separation of powers among the three branches is trial court jurisdiction immune from such peremptory congressional action.

How can this be in modern day America?

Read the full text of the opinion here. Reported in JURIST’s Paper Chase here.