John Linton ......after you return home - that doesn't seem to work for me....it all looks depressingly the same - except where it has become worse.
We returned to Australia last night without incident and caught up with the various personal and Australian news that has been missing from life for a week. It was a pleasant enough evening and now morning but, after the tropics, it felt quite cold to some of us who registered their displeasure at the sudden temperature drop in unusual ways. I hadn't bothered to read the Australian telecommunication media while I was away, it was some relief to get away from its boring and repetitive content for a while, but I scanned this late last night which made me smile:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/telstras-warning-over-nbn-deal/story-fn59niix-1225936195227
You have to go right to the very last line to actually pick up the 'negotiation' but it is so transparent it's laughable. Not that I personally think that there is anything wrong with using wireless as a mainstream telephone and data service but Telstra would think its all their birthdays and Christmases come at once to swap out the extraordinarily expensive tag ends of the PSTN (imposed on them by the USO at an enormous cost) for a small extension of their wireless network....seems fair enough to me....and of course there is no other option. In fact the phrase "no other option" is going to be coming out of Julia Faustus' mouth quite a lot over the time she remains promoting the 'NBN2'.
From the other papers I scanned it seems that Faustus and co are lurching ever further towards a communist state with Tasmania imposing a "you will accept the 'NBN2' or its you for the Labor Re-indoctrination Camps with other States mandated to follow or it's "Federal Enforcement For Them".
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/legal-changes-needed-to-ensure-nbn-connections-go-ahead-20101007-169w7.html
And this coercion is for a scheme that every Australian is delighted to be happening? Surely there is some sort of mis-deception if people are going to be coerced to accept something that they don't want - or at least don't want at this time? Well "democracy" has a whole new meaning in Australia now so perhaps this new meaning includes communism where 'the party' dictates what is good for the proletariat and the union thugs look after the re-indoctrination of those proles who disagree with anything the 'party' says is the way it's going to be.
Personally I couldn't care less whether the new Whitlams are going to throw away ever more billions of borrowed dollars on searches for mare's nests - two country clowns have imposed Ms Faustus on us instead of the usual rabble carrying out that task but the result will be the same - could there ever be any more loony prime minister than Krudd? Bet your life there can be. ......she 'supported Krudd' in everything he did, vocally, until she stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity and made a deal with her Mephistopheles - presumably on the basis that after a career in the unions what you would have left as a 'soul' wouldn't actually be worth anything.
I think it sets something of a new 'dimension' in waste - promising faster games playing to 18 year olds to try and win an iffy election - a new low, lower than Krudd attempted with his 39 direct lies, in any sort of standards?
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