Geological evidence suggests it originated 37 ka ago
Tag: australia
First Contact
Stumpy Brown is a Wangkujanka woman who lives at Christmas Creek in the Kimberley. Stumpy has seen many changes throughout her lifetime but nothing so dramatic, when as a teenager, she saw a white man for the first time.
McLeod’s Daughters
The award-winning Australian television series McLeod’s Daughters aired from 2001 – 2009. A drama, the story begins by following the lives of half sisters Claire and Tess McLeod, reunited after they inherit a vast outback cattle farm (“Drover’s Run”), that has been handed down through the men in their family for generations. 224 episodes were produced, and all are available on YouTube.
Australia-India DNA Link
2 specific genetic mutations on the mtDNA of the Indian and aboriginal samples matched perfectly. Not only that, but these particular mutations do not exist elsewhere in the world
Australia Internet Censorship
The Australian Government has announced that they will be joining China as one of the few countries globally that broadly censor the internet.
don’t they have enough problems with water already?
Street View Paranoia
The Drudge Report, that early-warning system for democracy, is now using a screencap of someone peering out of a living room window as his top image. If that didn’t scare you, the banner headline might: SMILE, YOU’RE ON GOOGLE EARTH!
wow, the retards have discovered street view.
2008-04-10:
Google Australia is expected within months to launch an application that will publish highly detailed, street-level photos of much of Australia, in a move that has drawn strong criticism from privacy advocates.
While Google has defended the project, the internet company baulked when The Weekend Australian requested the personal details and addresses of the group’s key figures to allow the paper’s photographers to take pictures of their homes.
it’s luddite season again!
2008-07-30:
The report also includes the distance from the street to the executive’s front door, the most likely driving route the executive would take to Google’s Mountain View headquarters and photos of the stop signs, stoplights and intersections the executive would pass along the way. The Center is publicly releasing the document today to highlight the invasiveness of these Google technologies to individual privacy.
who are these assclowns?
What is it about Europeans that makes them so susceptible to populist arguments in favor of expectations of privacy in a public space? In Europe, Street View is getting a steady onslaught of negative publicity, mainly instigated by populist newspapers, about the evils of taking photography in a public place and publishing it. What a strange concept: Government officials complaining that a company is observing the law, but that they don’t like it anyway.
2010-08-23:
Geht es allerdings um Googles fotografierenden Fuhrpark, klingt Konstantin von Notz plötzlich so, als sei er frisch einer kommunistischen Kaderschmiede entsprungen: Google stelle “monopolartig” den “kompletten öffentlichen Raum” dauerhaft und “aus kommerziellen Interessen” ins Netz, schimpft er dann und fordert “eine Beteiligung der Öffentlichkeit an den Gewinnen”. Hui! Da kommt einfach dieser Internet-Konzern aus einem fernen Land und verdient Geld mit Abbildern des öffentlichen Raums? Ohne zu fragen? Also in etwa so, wie Postkarten- oder Reiseführer-Verlage? Das geht natürlich nicht! Enteignen! Notz ist in bester Gesellschaft, beim Wettbewerb um die höchste Punktzahl auf der nach oben offenen Streetview-Hysterie-Skala.
the real reason germany is so nuts about street view: it exposes the widespread technological illiteracy in europe.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 