I recently bought a secondhand 17” MacBook Pro for $150. Love it...fast; great speakers, unmarked condition. I have an iPad, but clumsy Kev has trouble doing one hand typing on a digital keyboard. I have other laptops and desktop computers which I should give away or sell, but I am afraid that I am a techno-hoarder. I still have an operational Beta VCR and 30+ movies (tapes).
The Australian Prime Minister has taken a hammering from the Indonesian President after it was disclosed that Australia has been spying on Indonesia and even monitoring President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s personal phone calls, including conversations between the Pres. and his wife. PM Tony Abbott has not really apologised and the pressure is on to either give an apology and assurances that spying will stop, or relations between Aus and Indonesia will get very frosty. Already the Pres has cancelled all military cooperation with Australia and canned the deals made about boat people heading to Australia through Indonesia.
U.S. President Barack Obama was recently caught holding the ball about U.S. spying on Germany et al. and he immediately apologised and that seems to have calmed things down. I think everyone knows that almost all nations are doing a bit of eavesdropping on friends and enemies. China has been doing a bit more than listening in...it is claimed that Chinese agencies have been breaking into U.S. military networks.
Unless our PM apologises and promises to look into what is going on, the Indonesian public might well vote in a radical President next election. Goodbye Bali!
2 comments:
kev, AS we all know it is about saving face, Why can't Abbot say He is sorry? We have to learn about how other cultures operate, Thi s will get much worse I fear.SORRY,,, Not that hard to say. Marg
Every country does this, not right yet not wrong if all take part. I agree Sorry is really not that hard to say, xo
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