The ‘Mining Super Profits Tax’ was designed to deliver an extra $14.5B AUD into the economy per annum (budget pre-analysis showed that the actual windfall would have been within ~5% of this). Luckily for the mining companies, their friends are all iconic Australian’s like Michael Caton (who defined in our national identity what a ‘fair-go’ and ‘average bloke’ were) and they spent a HUGE amount of money lobbying the public and convinced a lot of stupid people (the vast majority to be fair) that a tax on mining profits was a bad idea and just un-Australian.

Back to mining, Gina Rineheart is worth $23B AUD and most of her wealth generation has been since the tax had its teeth removed. Now it’s just a sad, old dog with no bite and a pitiful whisp for a bark – kind of like the RIAA and MPAA.

So, instead of delivering enough money to fund the Gonksi Education Reforms, National Disability Insurance Scheme and National Broadband Network (they sure do love their schemes!) within 5 years of their approval, we are left with every average Australian paying an extra $300 a year in tax and the mining tax contributing $126M AUD to the kitty. I’ve lost all respect for Michael Caton, but then again, silly me for being led, right? He’s an actor that played the character, pretended to be an extension of the character for 30 years and when he actually had the chance to be an actual hero – he chose to shut up – take his nice big mining cheque and talk the tax down on T.V.

Shame on you you clueless cunts!

Now, for the fun part, thanks to Steven Conroy (who wants to build the best fibre network in the world and then block everything from it and cache all accessed personal, public and Personally Identifiable Information for 2 years in a government data centre, which would obviously NEVER get hacked) we actually have laws in Australia where you CAN be blocked from accessing the internet (your ISP just won’t assign you an I.P) because you have disseminated or accessed illegal material – a search warrant is not needed as our entire national grid is actively policed (not that that stopped ‘Chinese’ hackers from downloading the blueprints to our new spy HQ including floorplan, cable layout, server locations et al.). Have the Chinese been pursued – or are they what the corporate world would call “valued stakeholders” (people we’re too shit scared of to piss off or accuse of any harm/foul)?

The fun part is that the RIAA and MPAA coerce Australian ISP’s into following their demands and they are the ones that get the takedown notice – BayTSP will send it to them, who will forward it to you – and using the internet connection YOU pay for is subject to THEIR terms.

Now I have various tools and hardware that make it virtually impossible for them to snoop me (oh noes).

Seriously, there’s been some good metaphor’s already bit I’d like to add my own:

I’ve never seen a prostitute take another woman to court because she offered her prospect the same service for free.

Its an idiocracy and we’re all accountable for it.

So, Riley, please educate yourself and stop sounding like the average undereducated Australian (it’s not your fault, mate, it’ll cost $15B AUD to fix our education system and you’re helping to pay for it, me too, when the mining tax would have covered it in a year).

The police don’t need a search warrant to ASK for the data and as it’s stored in your ISP’s database, it is not your data and they have the right to comply and hand it over without a search warrant.

Read your ISP T&C and Federal Communications Law (also, Australian Securities and Investments Commission Law) as the ASIC law is currently being used to actively filter our internet, with two child porn websites taken down (AT LEAST SOME FUCKING GOOD CAME OUT OF IT) based on their I.P being responsible for illegal activity in Australia (think it’s section 312 of the ASIC code) and ditto if you’re uploading content. The problem with this? The offending I.Ps are offline, but, they blocked 1598 other sites at the same time, without notice and then took over a week to unblock any of them (and only if they were requested) including charities and other legitimate businesses conducting legitimate business.

Fucking ignorance in this country is ridiculous. “I assume things about the law and I know that they need a search warrant to search” doesn’t cover “The police requested information I don’t own from a company I agreed to leave the information with with full knowledge of the ramifications due to having read the T&C of my internet connection in its entirety.” You didn’t read your internet agreement entirely? Well, you’re in for a nasty shock if you fuck up any time soon.

Ignorance is no longer bliss.

Lack of quality leadership, helium breathers like Falkvinge and a me-first me-only I don’t give a fuck about anybody else mentality is why piracy is fundamentally wrong in the human rights sense. The “humanity” only extends to taking (copying) but never taking care of their own. If pirates cared about changing the world, Jammie would have been showered in legal defense funding. Instead, when she begged for help online, pirates abandoned her and she—classy as ever—tried to sell thongs. lol

all true.