John Linton ....so the wife can watch a "Royal Wedding".....does that say it all or - does it say it all?
I was trying to get my mind in the right frame of mind to think about doing some work on next year's business plan (May is almost over and nothing much has been done) but I read this:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/turned-on-tuned-in--disagreed-20110520-1ewn0.html
and choked on my toast. I understand that Australia's media is trivial to the point of non-consequential but for Heaven's sake! If Ms Seren Trump is an example of someone whose "business will be transformed by the NBN2" then - enough said. Someone choosing to run a business from a location in Armidale which requires them to transfer files to a client by hand carrying a hard disk to them (assuming this is something done regularly) is a total moron and the only 'case' she is making is that the current nanny state has gone beyond all known bounds in using tax payer money to assist this incompetent idiot (and, presumably, millions more just as stupid in the future) play at working from home instead of moving down the road in Armidale where she can get ADSL or ADSL2 like 20,000 other residents of that city.
The largest pork barrel in the history of Federation is being used by an illegitimate prime minister and two hayseeds to further trivialise a probably already past redemption Australian society to a point of complete inanity. Anyway, irrespective of what will REALLY happen over the coming years, Australia's tax payers will become $50 billion poorer to provide a more expensive equivalent of Foxtel/Pornography/Antisocial RPGs to the parts of Australia that Foxtel itself deemed to be commercially non viable....oh and to provide nincompoops with file transfer capabilities that the rest of the country has deployed for over a decade. It's hard to put hard work into a business that is based on becoming the equivalent of the government promotion of gin drinking in Georgian London as medicinally beneficial to the restive population of that and other large cities of the time.
But then Australian governments have served the citizens of Australia well over the decades in their promotion of alcohol, tobacco, poker machines, horse racing etc as being sensible and healthy aspects of life to be forced on the electorate so why not further vegetate the population by institutionalising a larger majority of the population and ensuring that by removing the remaining benefits of living outside major cities no-one in regional areas of Australia will ever be able to progress their children's lives as they have been able to do in the past. Perhaps that massive downside, identical to their support for tobacco etc, has escaped the orange roughie?
What a terrible way to start what should have been a productive day. Time I hurled this notebook computer through the window and made a sensible contribution to society.....even if that only turns out to be contributing to the profits of the retail industry by having to buy a new computer.
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