Whats the point?

[keithr]

There have been several hundred messages in the last few days, praising
or slagging off the rival broadband proposals. As far as I can see
nothing has been achieved, nobody's pre-conceived notions have been
changes, no useful information has been disseminated and the shills from
both sides are having a field day mouthing their masters' propaganda.

Come next week we should know whether we will have to wait a few years
to see whether Labor comes good with it's promises or whether things
will stay the way they were 5 years ago until the copper network rots
away and nothing that anybody writes here will have the slightest effect
on the result.

So perhaps there are more interesting things to use our pitiful amounts
of bandwidth on.

 

[son of a bitch]

On 17/08/2010 9:41 PM, keithr wrote:

There have been several hundred messages in the last few days, praising
or slagging off the rival broadband proposals. As far as I can see
nothing has been achieved, nobody's pre-conceived notions have been
changes, no useful information has been disseminated and the shills from
both sides are having a field day mouthing their masters' propaganda.

Come next week we should know whether we will have to wait a few years
to see whether Labor comes good with it's promises or whether things
will stay the way they were 5 years ago until the copper network rots
away and nothing that anybody writes here will have the slightest effect
on the result.

So perhaps there are more interesting things to use our pitiful amounts
of bandwidth on.

It's not like the Govt is not going to get the money back. It would be
a Hugh Cash Cow when finished, Alas the first thing the Libs would do is
sell it at the first person that comes a Knockin'

And "when it comes to" money, it's just transferring one's and zero's
from one computer to another anyway.

As long as one's and zero's are transferring from one account into
another the economy is working. Just think of all money changing hands
just from all cable installers alone. And every time it changes hands,
there's a tax.

I can see this creating lots of jobs nationally, and somebody has to
watch the billy for all those roadside workers. The only problem is,
it is Govt, and the Scammers / Rorters will be out in Force.

 

[Rod Speed]

keithr wrote:

There have been several hundred messages in the last few days,
praising or slagging off the rival broadband proposals. As far as I can see nothing has been achieved, nobody's
pre-conceived notions have been changes, no useful information has been disseminated and the shills from both sides
are having a field day mouthing their masters' propaganda.

So stupid it hasnt even noticed that thats what election campaigns are about.

We have no masters, stupid.

Come next week we should know whether we will have to wait a few years
to see whether Labor comes good with it's promises or whether things will stay the way they were 5 years ago until the
copper network rots away

Even sillier, so stupid it hasnt even noticed the hordes using wireless right now.

and nothing that anybody writes here will have the slightest effect on the result.

Just as true of any election, stupid.

So perhaps there are more interesting things to use our pitiful amounts of bandwidth on.

Only a Ł10 pom would be stupid enough to run that line.

 

[annily]

keithr wrote:

There have been several hundred messages in the last few days, praising
or slagging off the rival broadband proposals. As far as I can see
nothing has been achieved, nobody's pre-conceived notions have been
changes, no useful information has been disseminated and the shills from
both sides are having a field day mouthing their masters' propaganda.

So what else is new? That's par for the course on Usenet.

--
Long-time resident of Adelaide, South Australia,
which probably influences my opinions.