Kutipan di koin 2 pound Inggris

Sambil menunggu takeaway bebek aromatik dimasak, saya menimang kembalian koin 2 pound dari penjual.

Di salah satu sisi koin ada tulisan: elizabeth 2 dei gra reg fid def. Diambil dari bahasa latin: Elizabeth II Dei (tuhan) gratia (berkat) regina (ratu) fidelis (iman/fidelity) defensor (pembela/defender). Yang kalau disatukan: atas berkat rahmat tuhan, elizabeth 2, ratu dan pembela iman. Ckckck, Inggris itu negara religius.

Tulisan kedua: Standing on the shoulder of giants. Pasti tahu dong, ini dari siapa? Ya betul, dari Sir Isaac Newton.

Sekarang bebeknya sudah jadi. Saya mau pulang dulu...
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Sunny morning, cloudy evening

Scottish weather is moody. Sunshine in the morning, rainy in the evening.
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Two Indonesians Prosecuted for Selling Ipad with English Manual

Detikcom reported that two Indonesians selling Ipad through the popular www.kaskus.us forum had been prossecuted. Indonesian consumer law Article 8(1) does prohibit business actors to sell computerware without equipping it with Indonesian language manual. Failure to comply entails a 5 year imprisonment. The law was, of course, meant to protect consumer. Sadly, it does not differentiate retail selling with direct selling. As a result, anyone wishing to sell their computer products through direct selling, will be liable for imprisonment, up to 5 years.

Kasus ini bermula ketika Dian dan Rendy menawarkan 2 buah Ipad 3G Wi Fi 64 GB di forum jual beli situs www.kaskus.us. Entah karena apa, tawaran ini membuat anggota polisi Polda Metro Jaya melakukan penyelidikan. Lantas, seorang anggota polisi, Eben Patar Opsunggu, menyamar sebagai pembeli. Transaksi pun dilakukan pada 24 November 2010 di City Walk, Tanah Abang, Jakarta Pusat.

Lantas, keduanya ditangkap polisi. Jaksa Penuntut Umum (JPU) Endang, mendakwa keduanya melanggar Pasal 62 Ayat (1) juncto Pasal 8 Ayat (1) Huruf j UU/ UU 8 Tahun 1999 tentang Perlindungan Konsumen karena tidak memiliki manual book berbahasa Indonesia. Lalu, Pasal 52 juncto Pasal 32 Ayat (1) UU Nomor 36/ 1999 tentang Telekomunikasi, karena I Pad belum terkategori alat elektronik komunikasi resmi. Ancaman pidana penjara paling lama 5 tahun penjara. Kasus ini masih berlangsung di PN Jakarta Pusat.

This is of course, an absolute stupidity, a barrier to trade, and probably a violation of human rights. Judges are expected to be wise when adjudicating this case, but as far as Indonesian judges are concerned, one cannot expect too much, even for something as trivial as this.

Can foods are savior

Whenever I feel lazy to cook, can food is a savior. Note the tay bridge of dundee at the background of this pic.

This blog is becoming andy warholy :)
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Fresh Local Produce

This yogurt taste good.

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Kuliah Sekarang Juga, Biaya Bukan Kendala (Sampoerna Foundation)

Sampoerna School of Education (SSE) di bawah naungan Putera Sampoerna foundation, memberikan kesempatan bagi semua lulusan SMA, SMK, MA atau sederajat yang lulus pada tahun 2009, 2010, 2011 untuk mengikuti seleksi Penerimaan Mahasiswa Baru tahun akademik 2011/2012. 

Calon mahasiswa berpeluang untuk kuliah tanpa membebani orang tua melalui Student Financing Program (Pinjaman Lunak Biaya Pendidikan selama 4 tahun kuliah di SSE),

dengan keunikan sbb:

- tanpa agunan 

- tidak ada bunga (0%)

- pengembalian dilakukan setelah lulus kuliah dan mulai bekerja

- besar cicilan disesuaikan dengan besaran penghasilan

- kesempatan memperoleh tunjangan hidup

Segera daftarkan diri anda! Waktu anda tinggal...7 HARI LAGI

Pendaftaran: Gelombang Terakhir ditutup tanggal...7 JULI 2011

Info lebih lanjut hubungi : 

0858 8234 9553

0812 3637 5857

arief.purwoko@sampoernaeducation.ac.id

emawati@sampoernaeducation.ac.id

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Hati hati web tracking. Apakah browser anda aman?

Saya mencoba dua kali mengetes browser chrome saya dengan Panopticlick . Satu dengan setting biasa dan yang kedua dengan mengaktifkan 'incognito'. Hasilnya:

Dari 411,980 data browser, cuma 1 yang compatible dengan data saya. Berarti fingerprint saya unik. Kalau saya melakukan kegiatan kegiatan terlarang, bakal gampang dilacak :D Fingerprint browser saya mungkin bisa dijadikan barang bukti di pengadilan.

Buat teman teman yang jago IT, kira kira ada tekniknya nggak supaya browser kita nggak ninggalin fingerprint yang unik unik amat?

Panopticlick via kwout

Buat yang nyari beasiswa hukum. AHRC BGP Doctoral Award (Law)

Job by Reference - The University of Nottingham: "AHRC BGP Doctoral Award

Reference
LSS285
Closing Date
Friday, 15th July 2011
Job Type
Research & Teaching
Department
School of Law
The School of Law invites applications for the AHRC BGP Doctoral Award available from October 2011. This scholarship covers:

• Full HEU fees and maintenance, providing a total of around £17,000* per annum (*estimate including Home/EU fees) students who are Home for fees purposes; or
• Full HEU fees (only) for students who are EU for fees purposes."

The Dalai Lama Walks Into a Pizza Shop (Joke)

This one is terribly funny. The Dalai Lama Walks into a Pizza shop and said: "Could you make me the one with everything"? Ha ha ha, too bad that non-dualism gag didn't work out coz our Dalai Lama knows no Pizza. But it was a funny joke!!! The one with everything... LOL 

 

  

Foto foto di Dundee, Mei-Juni 2011

Foto foto di sekitar Dundee. Sempat ada badai beberapa waktu lalu menjelang musim panas. Foto yang sedang baca Kindle itu di botanical garden. Ada satu foto nyangkut yang bukan di Dundee, tapi di Glasgow. Ayo tebak foto yang mana. 

Piper's Competiton, Highland Games, Glamis

LGD Issue 2010 (1) : Special Issue on Access to Justice in Indonesia

LGD Issue 2010 (1) via kwout

Buat teman teman yang tertarik socio-legal studies atau berkecimpung dalam "Access to Justice", mungkin edisi khusus Law, Social Justice & Global Development ini menarik untuk ditelaah. Terutama paper dari pak Adriaan Bedner cs yang menyediakan kerangka analisis untuk penelitian empiris mengenai "Access to Justice"

Nook simple touch lawan Kindle 3

Ini tips bagus buat yang mau beli e-reader. Disini nggak diceritain baterainya tahan yang mana, karena konon nook simple touch 3x lebih tahan dari Kindle 3.

Kalo ebook (baik yang gratis maupun harus beli) kayaknya masih banyak di Amazon ketimbang Barnes & Noble.

More info (and credit for the above pic):

Nook Simple Touch compared to Kindle 3 – Marco.org

Untouched Amazonian Tribe Caught On Camera [The Prime Directive]

You may have learned that Star Trek's Prime Directive is the obligation not to interfere with underdeveloped civilizations. This is how this had been practiced on earth.

Well, I guess these people won't make it to the warp era though.

Apakah kita punya traktat perlindungan Domestic Worker dengan KSA?

Pemerintah Terapkan Moratorium TKI ke Arab via kwout

Kalau cuma lewat MoU saja sih kurang kuat.... Mana traktatnya?

Universitas Terbuka di Korea

Universitas Terbuka di Korea is a very creative collaboration between our embassy there, students and the Open University. This allows Indonesian migrant workers in Korea to study at the University at low cost.

I hope our embassies and students in another countries, especially Saudi Arabia, can follow-suit.

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Water Companies not Covered by the UK Environmental Information Regulation

I thought this might be interesting. The UK Information Tribunal decided that privatised water utilities are not public bodies under the Environmental Information Regulation (EIR). The EIR is a transposition of the Aarhus Convention and water utilities are supposed (in theory, at least) to have been covered by it. Full judgement is available at the UNECE website here . The short article below is from Shepherd & Wedderburn. This decision has been criticized by regulatory experts.

There are some initiative to make English water utilities covered by the FoI, through a designation by the Secretary of State under s.5 of the UK FoI Act. This initiative were not successful on the latest s.5 designation, but there are opportunities that it might be covered in the future designation. Hence, at the moment, English water utilities are covered neither by the FoI Act nor the EIR. 

It would be interesting to have the case above brought before the European Court of Justice.

  
WATER COMPANIES: NOT PUBLIC AUTHORITIES UNDER ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION REGULATIONS

The Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber), inSmartsource Drainage & Water Reports Limited ("Smartsource") v The Information Commissioner, has upheld the decision of the Information Commissioner ("IC") and found that privatised water and sewerage companies do not fall within the definition of public authorities for the purposes of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 ("the Regulations").
 
The scope of determining what is a public authority under the Regulations has always been wider than under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 ("FOIA"). This case will therefore also be of interest to privatised utility companies and other regulated bodies, as it looks at the issues of control and providing functions of public administration in relation to determing what is a public authority.
 
Under the Regulations, the public has a right to request environmental information from any public authority. The definition of "public authority" includes: a government department; all organisations covered under the FOIA; or any other body or person that carries out functions of public administration or is under the control of a public body and exercises environmental duties.
 
Smartsource made a request for information from 16 different privatised water and sewerage companies under the Regulations. All of the water companies refused to provide the information on the grounds that they were not public authorities for the purposes of the Regulations.  

#kip

Free online speed reading software | Spreeder.com

Free online speed reading software | Spreeder.com

This is not bad for a start. It doesnt teach you the techniques of zig zag reading and all that, but aint bad at all. Been thinking that speed reading is actually very much like a meditation. It's a "silent reading".

Kategorisasi Badan Publik (UK)

Lagi meriset kategorisasi badan publik di UK, siapa tahu menarik buat komparasi:

Civil Service.gov

Cabinet Office

Kelihatannya rapi dari luar, tapi kalau ditilik lebih dalam masih kacau juga. Beberapa regulator masuk kategori badan publik di satu dokumen, tapi tidak di dokumen lainnya.

Dasar penentuan Badan Publik di Freedom of Information Act (UK) 2000 adalah lewat lampiran undang-undang yang bisa diamandemen dari waktu ke waktu atau alternatifnya, Menteri Kehakiman dan Konstitusi (bukan Depkonminfonya, karena penentuan status badan publik termasuk permasalahan administratif umum, tidak terbatas pada FoI saja) diberikan kewenangan UU untuk mengkategorikan badan badan baru sebagai badan publik. Hal ini ditempuh lewat jalur konsultasi: (Click Link)

Mungkin sistem ini lebih memberikan kepastian dibandingkan sekadar interpretasi Undang Undang.

Yang menarik dalam konsultasi itu adalah analisis 'fungsional' dan 'budget' mengenai badan publik. Saya copy paste pertanyaan konsultasinya dibawah.

20. Some factors which may be relevant to determining these questions ­many of which have been considered by the courts in the contexts mentioned above - are identified below. The presence of one factor in any 

given case would not act as a reliable guide that the person in question would satisfy the test, as the question needs to be considered in all the circumstances of the particular case at hand. 

• The extent to which in carrying out the function in question the body is publicly funded. 

• The extent to which the organisation's activities are underpinned by statute.  For example, are an organisation's functions recognised by or provided for in legislation? If not, does the organisation nevertheless 

operate under the authority of the government or of another part of the public sector? 

• Whether the organisation exercises extensive or monopolistic powers, for example, by regulating entry to a trade, profession or sport. 

• Whether the organisation's source of power is derived from more than voluntary submission to its jurisdiction. For example, where a party has no choice but to submit to its jurisdiction if they wish to take part in a particular activity. 

• Whether the organisation seeks to achieve some collective benefit for the public, and is accepted by the public as having the authority to do so. 

• Whether the organisation participates in a significant way in the social affairs of the nation, pursuant to the public interest. 

• In the case of a regulatory organisation, whether but for the existence of that organisation, the government would inevitably have intervened to regulate the activity in question.

 2.2 Appropriateness of coverage 

21. Considerations that might be suitable to be taken into account under this heading include whether the organisation concerned receives public funding and whether the benefits of public access to the information held appear to outweigh any negative impacts, for example in terms of additional burdens on resources. 

2.2.1 Organisation funding 

22. It may be appropriate to extend coverage of the Act only to those organisations that receive funding from the public purse or from fees charged as a consequence of performing a public function. Since only information relating to an organisation's public functions would be covered by the Act, it would seem logical to specify those functions as the ones in respect of which an organisation to be included in a section 5 order should receive public funding. 

23. There are a number of different sources of public funding for organisations, including core funding, funding for infrastructure purposes and funding to deliver specified services. Some functions of a public nature are funded by the charging of a levy.  For example, the Pensions Ombudsman, who is already covered by the Act, is funded by a levy on pension providers. 

Q3: Should some form of public funding be essential in order for an organisation to be considered for inclusion in a section 5 order, or should this be just one of a number of relevant factors to be considered? 

Q4: Are there any organisations or categories of organisations that do not receive public funding but that you believe should be covered by the Act? Please explain why.

Is there an ideology in transparency?

 

 

I suppose nothing is value free. Transparency itself is a norm for some people, although oftentime it is difficult to prove that its benefits outweighs its cost. This discussion must be very interesting. Unfortunately I am unable to find its archive. Well, some other time maybe. It’s a bit late for now. Time to hit the bed. Test done.

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Una testo ngerito oalooo