John Linton ..... from various towns that contained miltary bases and munitions factories within Germany to various points on the Germany/France border were they looking at improving the future of the tourism industry? After the bloodbath of WWI when the French began building the Maginot Line did they not notice that it was the development of the tank that had lead to the actual end of fixed fortifications as a battle tactic?
It's still raining heavily in Sydney and judging by the level of the pool it rained for a considerable part of the night...strange how heavy rain in a city where that rarely happens changes moods and therefore outlooks....or maybe that's just me. I spent Sunday, on and off between other things including the worst lunch I can remember paying for - serves us right for trying somewhere new on the recommendation of someone I should have known not to trust, trying to find something 'different' in terms of residential ADSL/other offerings and completely failing For this I blame the weather. For some reason the almost oppressive state of mind caused by heavy rain removes any remaining ability I might retain for creative thought. As March has, for as long as I have been living here, been the rainiest month of the year perhaps my gloomy outlook is inevitable.
I looked over the notes I made yesterday earlier this morning and found no more inspiration than I had when I made them......if anything the few 'ideas' seemed even less sensible than when I gave in to lack of inspiration and wrote them down. Perhaps all this means is that Exetel needs someone with more insight in to the current markets than I have. I have to admit that I find it very difficult to continue to address the issues that are apparent in a 'fin de siecle' technology and all the nonsense that surrounds such events. Yesterday my mind kept drifting past the current year and its immediate followers in trying to imagine what would really happen if somehow the 'NBN2' really did continue and Telstra really did get its hands on an extra $A13 billion and actually did close down the PSTN over some period of time. What would happen?
The one thing that always seems to happen in scenarios like this is that things don't turn out remotely as they are predicted to do (think WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan I, II and now III, Iran, Iraq or the latest Libyan 'wars' as the most obvious military examples over the past 100 years). Not only didn't they even vaguely turn out the ways described for them at the start but the time frames and magnitude of the wrongness was beyond comprehension at the outsets. So, now take the 'NBN2' - dreamed up as a face saver by a egotistic politician with absolutely zero knowledge of any sort of planning let alone facts and seized up by a disparate combination of a rabble whose stupidity and lack of understanding is boundless and vested interests who are delighted to peddle their wares to an incompetent buyer at very high prices. Is the 'NBN2' simply today's Australian version of France's Maginot Line but using infinitely more tax payer's money?
So, such thoughts make it difficult for people like me to think very long term and thinking short term makes creativity impossible almost by definition - short term leaves very little scope for imaginative decisions - all decision are tightly restricted by immediate financial considerations. So....the weekend is over and my mental notepad is devoid of any sensible thoughts on how to better address today's residential ADSL marketplaces. I think it's the weather.
Then again what does this announcement by Telstra actually mean:
http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/government-tech-policy/45893-telstra-delays-nbn-shareholder-vote
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