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
yesterday that government had always believed that estimates of end
user pricing of $200 were “fanciful.”
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.