Gordon Moyes has once again come up with the goods - this time an excellent formulation of immigration policy informed from the perspective of Christian values.
Civil liberties
"Necessity"
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
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Reflections on music formats and copyright
The Occasion
It was my birthday recently, and my wife bought me a CD/MP3 player for the car. Having better-sounding and easier-to-operate media in the car wouldn't ordinarily be a problem, but there were two big issues for me:
- My music collection was predominantly in Ogg Vorbis format, and my car player doesn't support that.
- Under current Australian law, it is technically illegal for me to either copy my CDs or convert my CDs to another digital format such as Ogg or MP3 for use in my car player.
The former problem could easily be solved, but not by me. There are no low-end card audio devices commercially available in Australia that support Ogg. In fact, when i went looking at devices, i didn't see a single one in any store that supported Ogg, and i got strange looks from several technology-ignorant salespersons when i mentioned Ogg.
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Trivia question
Original date: Tue Nov 12 02:01:30 EST 2002
Question: Where would you expect to see questions like the following?
To the best of your knowledge have you:
- Ever thought you could be infected with HIV or have AIDS?
- Ever had a test which showed you had Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV or HTLV?
- Engaged in sexual activity with someone you might think would answer "yes" to any of the above questions?
- Had male to male sex?
- Had sexual activity with a male who you think might be bisexual?
- Been a male or female sex worker (e.g. received payment for sex in money, gifts or drugs)?
- Engaged in sexual activity with a male or female sex worker?
Answer:
- An application form for an administrative position at your local Roman Catholic or Anglican parish
- An employment agreement for a teaching position at private religious school
- A Red Cross blood donation questionnaire
