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From: terryc on 23 Jun 2010 02:39 On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:08:49 +1000, Mr.T wrote: > "HD" <herpem(a)bigpond.com> wrote in message > news:O5ZTn.4094$Ls1.61(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... >> If you live in Sydney or Melbournr close to an exchange and you get a >> good service, the bloke in Longreach or Winton has the right to have >> the same srvice as he pays the same tax as you. > > These are PRIVATE enterprise services. The bloke in Lonreach gets a > cheaper house and misses out on fibre cable. HIS choice! Why should > taxpayers pay for HIS internet, will he pay for THEIR mortgages I > wonder? Well keep wondering because WE ALL paid for the infrastructure that provides your internet. My 2c is that if a better country internet service convinces a few people and companies to go inland, that is better for living in the city.
From: terryc on 23 Jun 2010 02:43 On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:08:26 +0000, HD wrote: > Or join the communist party. Which faction? You have to get it right or you'll get expelled. In any case, all they do is fight amongst themselves.
From: HD on 23 Jun 2010 03:10 "terryc" <newsninespam-spam(a)woa.com.au> wrote in message news:hvsafb$u0m$2(a)speranza.aioe.org... > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:08:26 +0000, HD wrote: > > >> Or join the communist party. > > Which faction? > You have to get it right or you'll get expelled. > In any case, all they do is fight amongst themselves. > The more we go to the far right, the higher the chance of the far left becoming popular.
From: Mr.T on 23 Jun 2010 04:38 "HD" <herpem(a)bigpond.com> wrote in message news:j7eUn.4274$Ls1.805(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > >> If you think it is bullshit, maybe the farmers should move to the city > > If they can afford the land prices, sure. > > I'm sure they can when they sell their multi million dollar stations to the > Chinese Yep, if they sell their cattle station leasholds they can afford a house in Sydney I guess :-) > >>and you can buy your food from China > > A lot of it comes from there already. > > Yea, your grain for your bread, your daily milk, butter and cheese, your > beef, your fresh fruit and vegetables etc. etc. > You haven't got a clue. Ha, maybe you should try reading the labels on almost any other item in the supermarket. Even the so called Australian companies mostly list "made from imported and local ingredients". That means the majority of the contents are imported. But hey, IF you think "milk, butter and cheese etc." is all anyone eats (and if you don't realise a lot of cheese is imported anyway) then you're the one without a clue! MrT.
From: Swampfox on 23 Jun 2010 04:45
Mr.T wrote: > "Felix_the_cat" <go_away(a)not_here.biz> wrote in message > news:qgUTn.4060$Ls1.2492(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... >> THE surge in the Telstra share price and a caller to Melbourne >> Talkback Radio yesterday neatly captured the reality of the >> Government's continuing National Broadband Network multi-billion >> dollar disaster. >> >> The caller made the point that we had managed to increase the speed >> at which we accessed the internet by something like 400 times - from >> the old 56 kbps dial-up to 20 mbps available on ADSL down the old >> Telstra copper network, at very little cost. >> >> Now we - or rather Kevin Rudd and Stephen Conroy and the man who >> used to be the last competent minister in this government, Lindsay >> Tanner - are embarked on spending upwards of $40 billion, to >> increase our access speed all of five times. From that 20 mbps to >> 100 mbps. > > Whilst the NBN idea is a complete WOTM the figure you quote is > nowhere near the ultimate fibre speeds, whereas the copper speeds are > getting pretty close even for those lucky enough to live within a > couple of kilometres of an exchange. > > >> Indeed, spending upwards of $40 billion to perhaps not even increase >> the speed at all, in much of Melbourne! Because Telstra can already >> deliver speeds up to 100 mbps to much of Melbourne down its HFC >> (Foxtel) cable. > > AND the existing Optus fibre cable in Melbourne and Sydney. Except that the Optus fibre optic cable doesn't run to houses, the one you see in the street is coax. <snip> |