[-] zik@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

"We're already doing very little but it's WAY TOO MUCH!"

[-] zik@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

I work in software and we're permanently work from home. (I don't want to name my employer but they're a medium sized company)

[-] zik@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Why not start them off in the way you mean to continue? It's not like there are any significant downsides.

[-] zik@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

The producer who was lumped with this was horrified and handed in his resignation the next day. I don't think he was happy with the situation.

[-] zik@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago
[-] zik@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There's no such thing as Miranda rights in Australia - that's an American law. We do however have "the right to silence", and must be informed of that right by police on arrest so it has a similar effect.

[-] zik@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Even worse I can think of two other cases of the Federal Police and ASIO doing similar things:

  • Scott Rush, one of the "Bali 9", was imprisoned in Indonesia after a tip-off from the AFP. This followed his parents alerting the AFP in advance and them reassuring the parents that they'd keep him out of trouble - then waiting until the crime had been committed and tipping off the Indonesian police to take the credit.
  • Jean-Philippe Wispelaere was a defence intelligence officer with mental illness who was caught selling secrets to Singapore. The "secrets" turned out to be publically available maps - not secret at all - and he hadn't committed any crimes until the sting operation organised by an Australian government organisation and the FBI. He was arrested by the FBI and remains in prison today.

I guess for police it looks good on your resume to have caught a bad guy, and it's easier to track if you're making it all happen in the first place.

[-] zik@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Godot supports C# as well as its native python-like GDscript.

[-] zik@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

That page shows nuclear being way more expensive than photovoltaic solar with batteries, more expensive than wind power and more expensive than coal. So it exactly backs up my point.

[-] zik@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

There are something like 50 different indigenous languages across Australia. That makes it pretty hard to standardise one.

[-] zik@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

And even PET only gets recycled a relatively small percentage of the time.

The industry claims that 9% - 18% of plastic put in recycling bins gets recycled but even that's probably an overstatement. Also they're including the plastic which gets shipped to SE Asia for "recycling" - but once it gets there it's actually landfilled because that's cheaper than recycling. So the amount of actual plastic recycling which actually occurs is probably negligible.

[-] zik@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

That depends on the country you live in. In Australia for instance anything that looks like a "sale" must be an actual sale of a product and can't be something else sneakily disguised as a sale. It's illegal for services like Steam or app stores to deny you access to software you've bought on their platform in Australia.

That doesn't mean it hasn't happened before though.

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