LATEST POSTS
These are my blog posts on varied topics.
Homeless In AustraliaEstimates have put the homeless population in Australia at 100,000 — a figure described by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as a "national obscenity". (Source)
E-bay Convicted For Counterfeit GoodsOnline auction giant eBay has been convicted of selling counterfeit goods and ordered to pay 20,000 euro ($32,497) in damages to French luxury group Hermes, Hermes' lawyer said... "eBay is an active player in the transaction because not only does it offer a number of services to improve the sale, but when it does not work well enough or fast enough, they intervene with the client...They are perfectly informed of the transactions since they take a percentage cut." [lawyer] Colomes argued. PERSONAL COMMENT: This is very interesting commercial case because eBay is just a website for buyers and sellers to transact. Now, it is being asked to set up controls as well. Controlling that many users would be a huge task. It seems they lost the case because they take a percentage cut.
Google turns to NASA to solve space crisisGoogle is expanding: "In the latest sign of its ambitious growth plans, Google has signed a 40-year lease to secure space for a huge office complex that will be built on a US government research centre near the internet search leader's Silicon Valley headquarters." (Source)
Mafia trial 'super-witness' gunned downA "SUPER-WITNESS" who was due to testify on the links between politicians and mafia mobsters in Naples has been gunned down in the street — the fourth victim in a month of shootings targeting witnesses who turn state's evidence...Monday's killing of Michele Orsi, the 47-year-old boss of a waste-disposal firm, highlighted the Italian state's inability to protect people prepared to give evidence against organised crime. (Source) Personal Comment: It is a pity that the law cannot operate as it should. A person made his decision to testify and the law fails to protect him. It seems that the criminals are more organised than those who make and enforce the law.
Earthquake one of the biggest in past centuryAT A magnitude of 7.9, the violent earthquake that shook China's Sichuan province was as powerful as the most destructive quake recorded last century: in Tangshan, China, in 1976, when 240,000 were killed in an event that reached magnitude 7.8. (more)
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