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We’ll soldier at another website for now.
Please continue on to http://www.ipresources.com/googler/
Thanks!

The WIPO “panel” has issued its decree and several of our domains will be transferred. Whilst we are deeply disappointed by this decision, and it’s reasoning does not appear to follow established rules, we will abide by the WIPO decision for now. We are discussing the possibility of providing a copy of Google’s complaint, a copy of our response and the WIPO decision on http://www.ipresources.com with our legal people. We will keep you informed.

We lodged our response to “googler.com.au” today (22 September 2008). A decision should be available by mid October or thereabouts.
A group of interested people and companies appears to be forming. Thank you all for your ongoing support.

“Google”, the search engine operators have lodged a complaint against this website with the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Until this matter is settled by WIPO, no further comments will be provided on this website. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause to our regular readers and hope that we’ll return shortly.

Regardless of the outcome of this complaint, we sincerely thank you for your support.

Administrators.

Updated: 17 July 2008, our response has been submitted.

Citigroup - $40.7 Billion (that’s six dollars for every man, woman and child alive in this world today!)
UBS: $38 Billion
Merrill Lynch: $31.7 Billion
HSBC: $15.6 Billion
Bank of America: $14.9 Billion
Morgan Stanley: $12.6 Billion
Royal Bank of Scotland: $12 Billion
JP Morgan Chase: $9.7 Billion
Washington Mutual: $8.3 Billion
Deutsche Bank: $7.5 Billion
Wachovia: $7.3 Billion
Credit Agicole: $6.6 Billion
Credit Suise: $6.3 Billion
Mizuho Financial: $5.5 Billion
Bear Stearns: $3.2 Billion
Barclays: $3.2 Billion
Source: bbc.co.uk
* Note: $1 Billion = $1,000,000,000
We think it is time for the executives of these companies to repay all salary and bonuses for the past five years.

Guess who we found on ABC’s QandA tonight but the illustrious Greg Hunt (Australian Federal Member for Flinders).

If you were ever hoping to find another politician as besotted with hot air (lots of words, negligible substance) or a bigger w*nker, you would need to invest heavily in an electron microscope….

By anonymous,

With reference to your entry on this blog “Everyone here in Australia seems to think that it is OK to use blackmail to get what you want. You know what, if it were my call, I’d let the lot of them go on strike until they came to their senses! Bunch of morons.”

That comment begs argument. EVERYONE here in Australia…? what a generalization! and you seem to equate blackmail with strikes. Having been a teacher for a number of years and now a worker in Emergency Departments I can assure you it takes a lot for teachers and doctors to threaten strike action. Apropos doctors, the press simplify the situation as a “pay dispute” whereas there’s much more to it than that. The Private Health System breakdown , which is never mentioned in the news, is lurking in the background as hospital after hospital in the private system turns away the old and chronically ill.

Private Hosps are becoming more and more like those in USA, choosing or discarding their patients despite them having paid private cover, often for decades. I overhear ambulance drivers being told to keep going as the hospital is full when I know it is not. They only turn away “complicated” non-money making people. If it seems the patient may have a long stay and be medically difficult, they retain the bed for a “simpler” case. This is putting increasingly intolerable pressures on the Emergency Departments of the Public Hospitals. The Emergency Doctors in SA are paid far less less than their interstate colleagues and I can understand how, in view of the influx of private patients and the increased hours and responsibility, they’re getting pretty fed up.

So, remember that “bunch on morons” are dedicated to helping you under increasingly difficult circumstances. And yes, if you want to raise the money issue, one third medical indemnity, one third to 50% tax - check that out against the salaries of their administrators.

One of our (new) regular visitors is of the opinion that our commentary is perhaps somewhat extreme and asks whether this is intentional and necessary to polarize the issue and/or a prerequisite to elicit replies.

I hope that our regular visitor doesn’t mind me discussing that question quite as openly as this but it seems to me that writing for a blog dictates one to “take a position”. Simply stating that a glass is both half full and half empty doesn’t, in our opinion anyway, cut it.

If we come to a conclusion on an issue it then becomes a question of how to present that in a fashion that is clear, sharp and entertaining. Nobody wants to read twelve pages of rhetoric, but equally nobody wants to move away from the website left wondering what the hell the point was.

So how do we convey complex reasoning (and conclusions) in a few paragraphs?

We have chosen to use the language that most appropriately fits the strength of our convictions. If we feel strongly about an issue, we will use strong and forceful language; if we are more moderate, we use more tempered language instead. But always remember that the old adage “you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar” doesn’t always hold up in this environment…

What do our other readers think. It this the best way to present an opinion or are there other mechanisms and/or preferences out there that would better suit this type of blog?

Your comments will be gratefully accepted and published if suitable.

We find the Australian press response to Apple’s media antics absolutely fascinating. “New Apple store full of hot air”, “Apple spin doctors said this…” and “Apple spin doctors said that…” Geez guys, what did you expect in an Apple store - Goldilocks and the seven golden bananas perhaps? We mean really - who are the stupid suckers that turn up to these media blowouts? Very few ordinary people we assure you, but by golly the media bandwagon rolls out as if there were nothing else to write about - and they parade across the Apple store in all their glory with their cameras and their microphones and their “expert questions” and an attitude the size of the Empire State Building ta boot. Front page news - “Apple opens a new store, but it’s all hot air”; well - holy shit! What a surprise!

Our advice is to get over yourselves. If you are collectively stupid enough to fall for Apple’s VERY OBVIOUS hype, then you’ve got nobody to blame but yourselves.