That's assuming that the fallout of this affair isn't going to impact his performance. It could be that the fallout of this and setting things right with his family again could keep him from his duties, or it could be as simple as he sees the role of Director as one that should lead by example, in some way embodying the integrity of the organisation. In that case, he wouldn't consider himself fit for such a role.

I mean, really, who wants to be named on court documents for allegedly pirating porn?

Actually, Australia doesn't have complete freedom of speech enshrined in its constitution. It wouldn't surprise me if this sort of speech (sans blackmail scam) were illegal.

Actually, I only caught my first episodes of the show (TNG) last year. I'd like to get more familiar with the show, but I'm wondering where to start as well. There's just so many different series that it makes it difficult to know where to begin

Replying to undo accidental overrated mod, please ignore

You spelt "donate" wrong :p

But emacs doesn't have a decent text editor

You mean they're afraid of how awesome it would be? =P

http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/tia.html

For those who want a nice summary on the current laws. I haven't read through the lot yet, so I can't comment on the AC's claims

You know, if you're going to tell people to read the law the least you can do is actually link to the thing.

And I also hope that they find whoever is behind it, hopefully someone in the record industry rather than someone pulling a prank. There'd be hell to pay :D

By donkey vote, I actually mean just leaving the ballot slips blank, not ordering in preference. I can't find a citation saying the numbers rose, but I remember it being discussed in the news on account of this twit

In place of leaders, we have the children that are more interested in calling each other names than actually sitting down and working through issues. As both sides just stand there screaming about how the other is going to ruin the economy, any discussion on "minor" issues such as civil liberties gets drowned out. (By minor, I mean that the vast majority of Australians seem to follow whatever Parliament is screaming about, be it gambling reforms, the carbon tax, etc and remains ignorant/indifferent towards everything else). Unfortunately, the laid-back attitude that typifies our culture also extends to our view on politics... Many Australians at the last election chose to donkey vote rather than choose between either of the major parties, instead of looking at the variety of independents that were on offer and picking one of them.