Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Musk et al. Date: 16 Feb 2025 21:08:24 GMT Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <5cGcnReFBprdLzD6nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com> <563e6d1d-fabb-598e-e500-0bcb847c7009@example.net> <67e55c72-9634-7568-8a35-034bd127c016@example.net> <395bbb31-d4c9-dff6-7424-b9dc9aa4b871@example.net> <67b106e2@news.ausics.net> <5b13c6d9-5265-9aca-e23a-ccd3ece28ae2@example.net> <6ef4rj1j2isam1b1te1ju4qcadc2l2n9il@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 3M8ANacdTP80DCsi8wegpQ8Oa8wQ9v6cd0BD1Bq77va0pxXcDD Cancel-Lock: sha1:ss7hByBBi5JFGyKLtaxDuTHhwiI= sha256:R/3wPIcyoH1IYSCmn6mCmvRO4NUnbYlCmwgGk0SSCec= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:65587 On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:35:31 -0300, Shadow wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:42:41 +0100, D wrote: > > >> >>On Sat, 16 Feb 2025, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> >>> With Trump v1 I hoped Australia's eternal arse kissing of America >>> might become at least a bit less blind. Nope, still with 'em all the >>> way. Same this time no doubt - Australian intelligence agencies will >>> be the last ones to stop sharing every little scrap of info they get >>> on anyone to the USA where they officially don't give a stuff about >>> the rights of any Australian. Trump will keep the deal to sell us >>> nuclear subs going, but that won't actually happen until after he's >>> long gone anyway (out of office, and probably also died of old age by >>> then). >> >>Is it true what I read in the newspaper from my little corner of the >>world, that australia is turning into a surveillance state? >> >>Sweden is also turning into a surveillance state as well, so maybe this >>is a new global trend that caught on after corona? > > You're at least 20 years behind. They've been surveillance > states for ages... > []'s Australia or Sweden. About 35 years ago I was more or less living off the grid and got talking to a man at the laundromat who was in the same situation. I'd been interested in Australia for a long time. It turned out he had returned to the US after living there for several years. According to him no matter how much freedom the US had lost Australia was much worse.