Wednesday, September 16. 2009Back In The Big City........John Linton ......an appropriate time to consider Stupid Stephen's latest nonsensical comments. We ended our rural holiday, dropped off our hire car at Avis Heathrow and got a taxi into central London to allow Annette to do some shopping and to allow me to talk to some industry contacts. During the cab ride I read this incredible garbage: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/27762/127/ Now I am only involved in a tiny communications company that has zero, zippo, nada, nix influence on anything but as a responsible manager of even a tiny commercial enterprise I KNOW that it is essential to consider many things when entering a new marketplace and the very least that needs to be done is to have a business plan for such an entry. Not so that total f***wit Stephen Conroy who you will see in this article makes the following ludicrous statement: "Communications Minister Stephen Conroy told a media conference Conroy is basing his baseless assertion on what??????? A price of $200.00 per month for an 'NBN2' connection may be "fanciful" but it would need a costed business case for Stupid Stephen to be able to make such a comment - and, of course, the simple fact is that NO such business case has been developed and on Stupid Stephen's own time line the consultants hired to produce a business case will not do so for over six months - and, by the way, those consultants appointed by Stupid Stephen have zero experience in developing such a business case. Right now - THERE IS NO BASIS AT ALL FOR DETERMINING WHAT THE COST OF AN 'NBN2' SERVICE WILL BE. The totally stupid Australian electorate, and I am assuming this includes 70% of the people who read my random ravings, who apparently "approve of Krudd's performance" in the latest 'poll' http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/black-and-white-and-rudd-all-over-20090706-dael.html and therefore consign themselves to being regarded by people with an IQ above their waist measurement as being hopelessly stupid, will presumably nod their heads wisely and say "Yup, Labor has it right - an 'NBN2' can be built by a government that will sell services at a profit AT LOWER PRICES THAN I PAY TODAY just like the ole Telecom Australia did". Do any of such morons remember what the costs of services provided by the 'old' Telecom Australia were? Of course you don't if you accept this mindless nonsense currently being spouted by one of the most unintelligent people ever to be given the title of Australian Federal Minister. (and let me just say that the current Labor federal government cabinet has reached the all time low in appointing education and intellect bereft people to the various portfolios). None of this matters of course in a country where we long ago abandoned the concept that the people elected to parliament would actually have either the personal and educational qualities to participate in managing a democracy and we apathetically ticked a box to select the next pig to stick it's nose in the trough of tax payer money - how else could a Krudd or a Gillard get elected to Federal Parliament? So, if you are a Labor voter, just ask yourself this: Why am I voting for someone who is planning to spend an unknown amount of money on an uncosted infrastructure that has no known delivery date, no known delivery price and no known cost and has no reason to be built? Tick one of the following reasons: 1) I am a total d***head that should never have been given the vote but I exercise my right to vote in between vandalising trains and putting meaningless graffiti on walls 2) I am an immature moron that thought that Howard was too old to understand me and anyone old is wrong 3) My mommy told me the Liberal party ate infants and exploited the working people (even though she, her grandmother and great grandmother never held a job in their lives) 4) Us working families need to stick together in the face of elitist oppression and increase the dole/pension so I can have more time to sniff petrol 5) Because all my mates vote Labor because we all dropped out of school at 12 and Labor keeps mailing us cheques for lots of money Do you go along with this nonsense for any other reason than is set out in those categories? Hard to think of one. The hotel we have checked in to has one of those dimly lit bars so beloved of American chain hotel builders so I think while Annette donates her remaining holiday cash to the owners of the Knightsbridge emporia I will spend an afternoon boring the patient and unfailingly polite bartender with the vicissitudes of Australian politics while he endlessly tries to make the perfect Martini. Sometime I wish I had never heard of Australia and the thought that I have to shortly return to a place where 70% of the population is mentally retarded fills me with despair. Trackbacks
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Voting in Oz (and most other countries I imagine) .... is tribal.
Born into the tribe...... and vote for the tribe at all times. The current tribe leaders may be power hungry... or morons... or ... or ... or.. ... but, hey, you cant vote for those other bastards! Only a very small number of people do not belong to a tribe..... (tribal people don't trust such people at all - but tribal leaders court them constantly!) So its when only a small number of tribe members become pissed off enough over an issue to vote against their tribe... ... that the tribal balance may change and the ruling tribe is replaced. H. Comment (1)
Add an option '6) I chose the better of the muppets that seemingly had a clue and would actually invest (albeit an unknown amount of the next 3 generations taxes) in the country rather than sell it off' and I'll tick that one.
Unfortunately for the liberal party, from where I am standing Australians realise that investment in the country is needed and the last govt. neglected this in favour of cash handouts (Krudd and Howard both bought votes. Krudd just had a better soundbite). Comment (1)
I concur John! Sometimes I get so depressed at the idea of living in a country filled such so many mentally retarded compatriots, not even a good glass of red will lift my spirits!
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I guess governments are not into every venture as a money spinner. Why would they bother with building roads etc? But rather building an infrastructure for all of Australia to benefit eh!!?? Let's leave the political slurs out and keep on track.
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http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/give-the-old-blokes-a-little-credit-20090915-fplh.html
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John,
the more I hear about the govt plan to split Telstra, and do what should have been done a decade before - the more I am liking the current Govt. -- I am a voter that has voted both Labor and liberal - but I am some what happy that a govt , of any persuasion has finally had the guts to cut off the head of the evil Telstra beast. If I am in anyway representative of how the average person feels -- then it’s going to be a long way back for those political parties that had the power, but choose not to wield the sword of justice as the current govt has done. cheers bill. Comment (1)
The original blame for the flawed model to privatise Telecom Australia falls squarely on Keating and Beazely who put the process in motion with all of the sdetail that the Howard Government (who squarely share the blame) then implemented.
None of that has any relevance to the current fiasco which is absolute nonsense and is a crazily expensive and diabolically risky ploy to hide the fact that akey election promise/winning soundbite could never have eventuated. You do realise that no NBN will ever be delivered I assume? - and this is just a mega billion dollar wasting political stunt - or are you one of the 70% who actually believes this nonsense? Justice - political lying should be what you say. Comments (3)
I live in the one of two? electorates that went from Labour to Liberal. Damn WA boom. The only reason I voted for Labour was because since 2003 I was discussed with Howard's decision to agree with President Bush about going to war in Iraq.
The question is, if the Australian economy is going to sh*t, would I still vote for the incompetent economists but someone who is more in line with my moral choices? Can the economic decisions cause more suffering than a war. Probably not. Still I completely agree that they're a bunch of idiots, and I do strongly remember you commenting on a post of mine before showing me that they have absolutely no credentials for the jobs they have. We just have to make the best of our own situations and accept the external world is out of our control. Comment (1)
I agree that there's nothing that can be done in this post-democracy period of Australian life.
I am just dismayed at how truly stupid the Australian population is. We wouldn't get involved in anyone's wars if we disbanded the Austalian military and fired the drones and psychopaths employed by the Department Of External Aggression. Comments (3)
Finally you let loose. You are normally pretty slick when you call the population idiots. Not this time.
I'm by no means a ALP voter. I grew up out west on a farm. Poor government really costs the farmers. $900 don't make up for it. Just a question regarding Telstra. Why does the government want them to sell their cable network when optus also has a sizable cable network? Thanks, Louis McLennan Comment (1)
The NBN being delivered isn't just a matter of money invested.
To get a fibre-delivered point-to-point service between two data centres, from a provider who has fibre in both and gear in both with capacity to burn in a situation where you have played competitors off against each other and bundled in other services, you will be paying thousands a month for a 100Mb/s service. Keep in mind this is a service being sold by the owner of the fibre, that simply pushes packets from one point to another. No VPLS, transit, peering, IP routing or anything particularly complicated. To take a service like that, add the other things to it and deliver it to the consumer for a realistic price isn't just about building a network, it's about a market shift and massive capacity increases everywhere. If the top 10 ISPs at Pipe's Sydney IX suddenly needed multiple 10GbE links, I'd love to see the outcome. Personally I think it would be of more benefit to somehow have the Group of Four appear at Pipe, Equinix and WAIX. This would level the playing field in terms of transit, particularly for ISPs like Exetel who have built a national network and invested in significant international capacity when it comes to the business market. Comment (1)
None of the cretins in the Labor party as the slightest clue about what is needed.
They are, with apparently 70% of the Australian voters approval, conducting some politically cynical circle jerk to disguise the fact that they promised to deliver something that was stupid and impossible. Comments (3)
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