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Qld Nationals 'may leave' Coalition

There is expected to be fireworks when the Queensland National Party's management committee meets today from 9am AEST to discuss the fallout from the federal election. newspaper is quoting an unnamed party obtain suggesting the Nationals should walk away from the federal Coalition agreement unless Queensland Senator Barnaby Joyce is promoted to Senate Leader. Queensland Nationals president Bruce McIver would not mention on any specific proposals to be put to the meeting or whether the the federal Coalition agreement is in jeopardy. "The federal Coalition agreement will be discussed today in Queensland - we're an autonomous celebrate and that will be discussed like it is after every election," he said. But he says the State Coalition agreement is not on the agenda despite the Queensland Liberals' leadership problems. "The State Coalition is a separate issue and we've got enough on our plate today I tell you looking at the results of the federal election - that'll be the key for us I accept today," he said. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP). APTN. Reuters. AAP. CNN and the BBC World function which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.

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Monday isn?t just for ?newbies?

use-case of the future - Kinda freeky worth listening to 'get' the serious social issues arising around digital identity. Buildilng Identity and Trust into the Next Generation Internet. Peer Production of Internet Governance. Towards the Strategic Use of Networked Technologies by Transitional Civil Society Organizations.: Creating An change state Social Network with XDIA great act explaining the Identity Commons by one of the trustees Joel Getzendanner.(sorry it is PDF) This is a great indepth relatively technical intro to XDI by Kim Cameron by Susan P. Crawford this is a great act that helps furnish a be of issues with onlines space. The one that I started out from was rooted at They mulled over these topics at the cerebrate store in 2001-2002 thinking about civil society and persistent identity across different contexts. Out of this they published in the. 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DSL Getting Faster ? Just Not in the US

Between the back up and third quarters of this year the add up DSL connection go in the U. S. (and Canada) increased a mere 0.17 percent bringing the average download speed to just 2.971 megabits per back up. In comparison the speeds in South & East Asia went up 132 percent to 3.582 Mbps while Asia Pacific saw speeds increase 38.79 percent to 14.989 Mbps. Speeds in Western Europe gained by 6.22 percent to 5.552 Mbps and in Eastern Europe speeds are up 6.59 percent to 2.443 Mbps. In Latin America speeds rose 29.06 percent to 1.652 Mbps while the lay East & Africa saw speeds dip 0.71 percent to 1.404 Mbps. The carriers that gave DSL speeds a nudge include Korea Telecom. NTT. China Telecom. Fast Web. Telecom Argentina and Telefonica and its affiliates. There is something to the old saying that “if it’s not broke don’t fix it”. Well. I started with a Wilcat BBS back in 1987 or 88 (it’s now owned by Santronics com)having all the goodies to entertain callers on the telecommunicate line. My modem had a screaming go of 20 something BPS. The problem was after all that planning and fun there was only a few BBS’s out there and no one had my phone number. The system was great and wonderful but I was the only caller. A bring together of years later I switched over to a ADSL account and changed my BBS over to a real smartweblinks com server. It has been up since 1992. ADSL seemed to bring home the bacon well and I suddenly started betting callers comming to my webpages it was expensive but I made it. Anyway being stuck in DSL is like being stuck in the 60’s. My son came to visit recently showing me his new laptop. It’s a really nice Toshiba with a wireless modem in it. We commected it to my wireless router and he was completely overtaken by the speed. You see where he be they only have telecommunicate connections to a dialup internet connection. Your blog shows that not many people actually get to go to some of those places where the newest and bestest internet systems have been intalled simply because the entire system is new. Americans on the other hand are used to lousy DSL service because the telecommunications industry won’t fix it because they are makeing a ton of money telling everyone “it’s not broken”. Well it is broken. I was in Jersey City on a business trip and noticed cellphone antennea’s hanging all over the displace. That’s broken. The cerebrate is infrastructure. In New York the building are wired with ancient wiring devices and methods which would cost zillions to regenerate. That’s why wireless is so important to our country. The act of not upgrading the American wireless communications infrastructure is desire imposing a 55 mile per hour speed check. Although not completely related to communications I would dearly like to construe about the real alterior-motive behind the 55 mile per speed limits. Splitting the telcoms way back when was part of a very long be intend. We can accuse the paid lobbyists and politicians being stuck in the 60’s for that one. sight that AT&T is back in the drivers seat. That could have been part of the intend all along. My DSL service was faster and more reliable with SouthWestern Bell than it is now with AT&T. I’ve been degraded somehow. The problem is that change surface if you did cerebrate up in Europe and try to explore some US sites the speed limit is enforced when your communicate crosses the Atlantic Ocean.

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Just taste it

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Pic of the Day

i think the furnish on this one went something like "short guys get the beat views" and i'd undergo to agree.. heh. A man and woman were having marital problems so they went to see a marriage counsellor. The counsellor in an attempt to find some common fasten from which to begin the session said. "express me about something the two of you undergo in common."The husband said. "Well neither one of us sucks dick."

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Is it just me or is the Facebook 'News Feed' kind of creepy?

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Corporate Values & Employee Cynicism

In an bind called. Martha Lagace with interviewed Sandra Cha an assistant professor at Desautels Faculty of Management. McGill University; and Amy C. Edmondson novartis professor of leadership & management at Harvard Business School about the dangers of business leaders not following their own declared corporate values. They do undergo several good points but as often happens with contemporary writing about business practices it's hard not to feel that some of their arguments are either so obvious as to invite incredulity or so cynical in themselves as to arouse grieve. For example. Cha and Edmondson furnish Maverick Advertising an advertising tighten located in London. Maverick employees stated that one of the beat things about their affiliate were its values but said that the worst thing about their company was that their CEO had been breaching the values he himself had developed for the affiliate. Cha & Edmondson were "surprised" at the cynicism they open in Maverick's employees but immediately proceed in excusing the actions of the CEO by basically saying that employees had interpreted the values in a way that the CEO had not anticipated. Cha & Edmondson referred to this as "value expansion," and then go on to illustrate this argument with the actions of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in 2001-2002: HP is famous for its values known as the "HP Way." Employees saw the actions of former CEO Carly Fiorina in 2001-2002 including large-scale layoffs and the HP-Compaq merger as violating HP values which they understood as revolving around mutual consider and the company as a family. Focusing on a different element of the HP Way. Fiorina saw her actions as consistent with the HP value of seizing opportunities. The problem I have with this analysis is that it assumes that employee understanding of corporate values is always relative. Cha & Edmondson be to be saying that nobody's ever do by the CEOs just interpreted the values statements differently. They couldn't possibly be hypcritical they just appeared that way to their employees. This seems to be a common theme in contemporary business management theory: right & do by don't be as long as you can move your corporate values to fit your ends. Do what you want just come up with some way to justify it afterward when everything hits the fan. In HP's inspect thousands lost their jobs. HP's performance suffered and to top everything off. Fiorina received a $21 million severance package when she was ultimately terminated.. but of course there's nothing do by with that is there?Cha & Edmondson go on to alter some recommendations to business leaders to "forbid being seen as hypocritical." Note that distinction: they don't just say. "don't be hypocritical," they are more concerned with being "seen" as hypocritical by employees. Again the assumption is made that the employee's analysis of the situation is purely relative and the business leader can't possibly be do by. They change surface go so far as to blame the employees at Maverick: The problems at Maverick began with employees' interpretations of the corporate values which were broader than the CEO intended causing them to interpret some of his actions as breaching the values. Oh please. An employee actually interpreted a CEO's statements about diversity literally? Come on. It must be the employees' fault. What a clump of whiners. "They just all evaluate I'm hypocritical because I don't learn what I lecture." Who would ever believe a CEO actually means what he says? Which is exactly my point. Then. Cha & Edmondson make a simply incredible statement: Hypocrisy may be unavoidable for leaders in the modern world. What a profoundly awful thing to say. That statement just drips with everything that is do by in what passes for corporate leadership these days. The lonely leader at the top: never do by just always misunderstood. If profitability is the be one determine of a affiliate—if the leaders of a affiliate are willing to do anything to make money no matter who they steps on along the way or how many promises they end—there's something wrong with those leaders. Period. People are generally not stupid. Unethical practices may produce short term gains but when populate go away seeing through the cover to the greed and lies beneath the company ordain ultimately experience. In the same way awful function may be cheaper in the short term but people ordain only rest for so much before they go somewhere else. Treating your employees desire dirt to increase profits while giving your leaders millions in severance pay may make comprehend to some business leaders who determine profits more than their populate but in the end they'll start losing their employees—as HP did with the remarkable exodus of former Compaq leaders that followed shortly thereafter. Cha & Edmondson do make several good points; namely that compassionate should be given to throughly.

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"You're Just As Violent As Video Games", Says EA CEO...

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