Monday, April 6. 2009Why Does Australia Elect Pygmy Minded Vandals.....John Linton with the intellectual capabilities of pond scum and the ethics of a Mugabe body guard.... .........to address situations that require the education, experience, intellectual breadth and comprehensive understanding of the human condition with the requisite knowledge and experience to sensibly address the various issues that need such attributes? Why is Australia, alone among Western Democracies of the last 100 years, always cursed with intellectually bereft and ill educated mental midgets like Krudds and Whines whenever key decisions based on true understanding need to be made? Which one of the poorly educated, 'hubristic' goofballs currently masquerading as the federal government of Australia could sum up the current situation and the events leading to it as elegantly and as comprehensively as a casual visitor to Australia (who was not addressing political issues) who I, and many other people, had the vast pleasure of hearing make this address in Sydney in the later 1990s: http://www.ispa.org/ideas/obrien.html (I would put money on the fact that if a reporter asked Krudd who Horace was he would answer "Horace? ...Horace who?). ...and so Krudd returns, briefly, to Australia from the London Charade of G20 'r' Us where his soporific and puerile contributions at the furthest flung fringes of that waste of time and money, delivered in his now world famous public speaking style copied from the UK's "speaking clock" method of public articulation, were completely ignored to gee up the party faithful, and those members of the electorate who were stupid enough to vote for such a cypher, with his "NBN" announcement before he finishes emptying the piggy bank (better known as the consolidated national revenue) in the latest of his mindless p***ing away of Australian tax payers contributions to fund the pointless self puffery of his constant grandiloquent world tours. (Did he stamp his foot at a flight attendant this time because his slightest whim wasn't delivered within a split second?). As this is, at least theoretically, a blog dealing with Australian communications events, issues and strange happenings I have always assumed that the few people who might stumble across it would have some knowledge of the general topic of communications in this country. Therefore a reader would be able to use his or her knowledge of communications to be able to judge the competence of Krudd and his minions (Stupid Stephen, Whine and the Screech Owl et alia) on the two issues that currently relate to Australian communications - the proposed 'internet filter' and the about to be announced 'national broadband network'. (I'm omitting, for the moment, a group of people who decided that someone who didn't finish high school should be in charge of the highest spending of all government departments in securing the overall safety of Australia and selecting an ex-pop singer to protect the environment for future generations, the amazingly dumb about to be put out to grass TV show hostie - Chalk M'Cue together with.....but fill in the rest for yourself). By now it would be obvious, to anyone with anything not far below a few snags short of a barbie in the old thinking processes, that the Labor party's combined intellectual and experiential competencies bring to sensible government what a kindergarten class could offer to address bringing a lasting successful political and humanitarian solution to Zimbabwe. While I realise its theoretically impossible, it seems to me the combined IQ of the current federal cabinet is actually a minus figure. So....what will the decisions be on filtering the internet and a government funded network? About the same as the implementations from Krudd's first prized piece of idiocy - "The Ideas Summit"? - hey, isn't that going to be implemented by now?? It really doesn't matter now because the processes have been so screwed up by the morons that thought them up in the first place that no decision will do the slightest thing to improve communications in Australia and the likely decisions are going to put back any progress that has been made since 2002. And, for those following this line of thinking, this is the level of thoughtful analysis being used for every other aspect of federal government decision making in this country at the moment - primarily addressing the current financial issues that may occur later this year. Work it out, it would only take the blink of an eye, what sort of total stupidity will be employed by Whine, Krudd et alia on those issues?...and you really think Penny Wrong is helping the water conservation decision making with her latest "aw shucks little girl" mindless screw up? So well done, you (you = the people who voted for the current bunch of muppets). I wonder how many people actually read right through the article I referenced at the beginning of this peroration? Yes, I know it was very long but then anything of any importance can't be contained in a Labor sound bite.... "No child will live in poverty by..." "98% of all Australians will have broadband by....." "No Australian child will be exposed to......" How truly pathetic....not the morons who made these statements, they were always beyond any hope of redemption....the people who then voted for them. I surely hope you remember this shambles next time a polling booth crosses your path. 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Thank you for the link to "Conor Cruise O'Brien / A World Falling Apart?" I found it, although extremely long, to be a very good read.
Of course, people who read such an article will probably pick out their own important messages so that they can push their own barrows, but for me the important piece of information is concept of politicians playing their part in a bigger picture, and that sometimes what appears to be a failure is actually a political win because the compromise or middle ground that they really wanted, is reached. I wonder if your 'Krudd and Whine' are the total bafoons that you see them as, or if maybe they are just bit part players in the modern soap opera that is the world today, playing an important role in not really doing anything, and getting to the correct place. In Conor Cruise O'Brien's words "It is not possible to say with certainty whether the results of the performing arts aspect of social and political history have been on balance benign or malign. I opt personally for benign," so history tells us that on balance good prevails over evil more often than not. I have only pondered on this topic for a few minutes, maybe I have not grasped the situation, maybe I am too much of an optimist, maybe I have my head in the sand, but I don't think that we are witnessing the end of the world, this time....... Comments (2)
....if one more person reads what a truly erudite man with a magnificent command of the spoken and written word has to say, then that is value enough.
Personally, I doubt that Krudd and Whine are anything but hubristic buffoons and wouldn't rate an audition for one of O'Brien's bit parts. Comment (1)
Since >50% voted for the incumbants
looks like you'll just have to give 60% of your customers the boot for not having your view.... Comment (1)
The best bit about being Australian is that today we can have people with differing political views speaking together and enjoying these discussions without threat of being killed etc. and then tomorrow we can discuss technical or business related topics related to the communications industry and there are no issues left over from the day before.....
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I love reading your rants on the Labor party. I haven't read the link yet, I'll do it when I get home, I read the first two paragraphs and I don't know who the poet is either. I'm just not into 2000 year old poetry. My passion is astronomy.
I like to think I'm a practical person. I've seen you act as opposition just saying 'no' to the NBN and suggesting that HSPA would be a better solution. I think (please correct me) that you've also said that HSPA won't be able to give users the gigabytes that a portion of Australians demand. Do you have a solution for matching those people with a new great technology. I'm in total agreement that HSPA is enough for a good set of people. I'm a young person, but seem to have an idiological believe in a desire to one day have fiber to my house. To achieve it, I would follow a plan similar to the following: 1. Government create a corporation 2. Corporation has the licence to build fibre to the home. 3. Corporation has the 'grand plan' on how they want the network to look in 10 years time. 4. Sell the licence to build all fibre within the postcode to the lowest bidder. 5. Have a user-pays model similar to how power companies charge farmers. How does 5 work? Well from what I understand, if farmer1 needs 30 poles to connect him to the grid, and it costs $1000 per pole, then farmer1 pays $30,000. The farmer2 comes along and wants to be connected, and luckily they can use 15 poles that farmer1 paid for. Needing only five new poles. So he pays $15,000 to farmer1, and $5,000 for his poles. Now it would need some tweaking. Perhaps users register 'I want fibre in the next 6 months.' The winning contractor builds FTTH for everyone in that 6 months. Common costs are shared between users who needed the common costs. They're reimbursed when the next lot of 'I want fibre' people come along. This way, the richer or more desperate people would start it off, and slowly it would be built. This has the added bonus of say Western Power who already has dark fibre in all its underground power, for bidding for postcodes it already has fibre in! Therefore making plenty of money. Comments (2)
The Education system in this country will have deprived anyone under 50 of any sort of real education - it isn't your fault that you've never read Horace.
However, should you ever aspire to put yourself forward to your fellow citizens as someone appropriate to represent them then that would be a totally different matter. Reading the news on TV doesn't make you a journalist and being a pop singer doesn't give you an understanding of Australias macro and micro environments. (not knowing where Western Port Bay is just ensures everyone knows you are a total f***wit). Leaving school at 15 and becoming a commo union indoctrinate doesn't qualify you to manage the defence of Australia. Ignorance is sad (and something crap Australian education has spread so widely for over 40 years) - it isn't tolerated in holdng responsibilities that the current Labor apparatchiks have been given. The current Labor cabinet is uneducated and pig ignorant to a degree never seen in any democaracy in the history of the human race. Comment (1)
Yeah, I have to conceed that being voted in, and having the qualifications are very different. Reminds me of the Chaser's last federal election show's "This person votes" segment where they showed just how uninformed some Australians are. Me included, I didn't know the facts you point out here. But I voted green mainly on idiological grounds, I think war is dumb, and our defense budget is over the top.
But with only two parties to choose from our options are two bunches of idiots. I cannot vote for a party that chooses a health minister whose religion prohibits abortion and birth control. I'd much prefer it was more like Israel or India where they have hundreds of parties so I truely have a choice. So the major parties never have a 'mandate' to do whatever they think they were voted in for. I guess I have a degree directly related to my field of work. What person in their right mind would hire a pop singer to look after the companies environment division. The public it would seem. Comments (2)
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