In todays “hit driven” e-commerce, it’s no suprise that certain “key words” are plugged as much as possible to spark peoples interest… despite not really being news worthy at all. It’s quite a sad state of affairs, but i guess all we can do is boycott as many of these news/gossip sites run my mega-rich [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘politics’
March 23, 2009
Know Your Enemy – ACMA
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is “responsible” for monitoring online content, including internet and mobile phone content, and enforcing Australia’s anti-spam law.
“It is not the function of Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.”
Robert H. Jackson [...]
March 19, 2009
Kremlin to Pitch New Currency at G20
Russia has proposed a number of measures to conquer the current financial and economic crisis and to rebuild the world financial system in its aftermath.
These proposals have been sent to the leaders of the G20 countries, the Commonwealth of Independent States and various international organisations.
The Kremlin published its priorities Monday for an upcoming meeting of [...]
March 12, 2009
See what 1 Trillion Dollars looks like!
The term “billion” is thrown around the media these days like it’s nearly worthless, it’s hard to get your head around what that is in real terms. Simple answer is more than you’ll ever see in your life time, however this guy has used Google Sketchup for us lay-men to visualize just how much real [...]
