Posts by George Darroch
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The Homeland Security act has the US tapping Citizens phones as we speak let alone <GASP> looking at their eMails.
It's worse than that. Every single internet packet that passes into the United States is intercepted and filtered. As switchboard to the world, it is able to do this with impunity, and has been doing so for some time.
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Are they evil? Are they stupid? Are they batshit-Hitler-insane? Would they care about killing tens of millions of foreigners? Would they care about losing tens of millions of Chinese? Would they care about the trillions and trillions of dollars it would cost?
In other words, does Mao Zedong still run the country? Is it still 1965?
China is very concerned with prosperity-with-stability, which is what these attacks on dissidents represent. Not its opposite.
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Oh dear, good old PublicAddress, eh? Dissenting POV's welcome, as long as they don't actually dissent from the prevailing orthodoxy...
Tom, you've made very bold claims. If you were to give links in your original piece to evidence, then we could discuss that evidence.
There is reason to be concerned with the tenor of China's aid program, because it is directed at nationalist ends. But this is no more or less a reason to be concerned than with the politicisation of the US foreign aid. And it is still the United States which has military bases spread across the Pacific, whereas China has absolutely none.
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Whaaa...you mean the whole Australian defence stance of the past fifty years has been based on a lie?
It helps to have 'unspecified' threats. That way you can spend billions and billions on hardware without having to justify who you would ever have to use it against.
Australia is about to launch into spending AUD$36 billion on long range missile submarines. "The biggest and most complex non-nuclear submarine ever built on this planet". And that's before the cost overruns. Since they don't have nuclear weapons, I have no idea what the point of such machines is, but that's their problem...
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Even if New Zealand Defence were to lose the plot and blow a couple of billion on a combat wing of fighter bombers, we couldn't hold back any country with an aircraft carrier, or Australia.
I believe it is time to reprise this advertisement.
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China seems to be the bogeyman of choice. If anyone suggests that Indonesia has the desire to invade anywhere I will slap them
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I'll tell you what muddles your brain more than marijuana. Texting and email.
I say we make them restricted substances, only available to those over 18.
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Oh, good, I was hoping we'd get to fight China at some point. And I may be a wishful thinker here, but I do so like our chances.
Awesome. Does this mean we reinstate compulsory military service?
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perhaps Google had already decided to leave China (for whatever reason) and decided that this was the best way to do it. They get some good PR in the West, maybe some leverage with other governments in markets where they're the only player. Bad publicity from security breaches could be so worrying that they wanted to control the story breaking itself, although obviously that wouldn't be cause for withdrawal from a large market.
You're absolutely right there. I think there are very serious reasons (perhaps a combination of factors) for Google taking this action. Protecting the accounts of dissadents, or even protecting their entire Gmail system is unlikely to be the extent of it. There may be things that are likely to either threaten the viability of their business in China, or things that threaten the profitability of Google Inc as a whole.
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And that being the first link I've felt the need to label that way probably explains why it's not in this exhibition.
Not submissive in any way, but refusing to conform to a particular masculinity in order to do so.
Anyway, it isn't art. Art is what nice people look at.