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From: Mr.T on 23 Jun 2010 05:01 "Swampfox" <noidea(a)whocares.com> wrote in message news:4c21c9c1$0$17175$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > > AND the existing Optus fibre cable in Melbourne and Sydney. > > Except that the Optus fibre optic cable doesn't run to houses, the one you > see in the street is coax. Fibre to the node, just like Telstra. MrT.
From: HD on 23 Jun 2010 05:06 "Mr.T" <MrT(a)home> wrote in message news:4c21c7ab$0$1029$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > > "HD" <herpem(a)bigpond.com> wrote in message > news:j7eUn.4274$Ls1.805(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... >> >> If you think it is bullshit, maybe the farmers should move to the city >> > If they can afford the land prices, sure. >> >> I'm sure they can when they sell their multi million dollar stations to > the >> Chinese > > Yep, if they sell their cattle station leasholds they can afford a house > in > Sydney I guess :-) The helicopter they use for mustering and the plane they use to fly shopping will pay for a house in Sydney. Selling a station for $10 Million will pay for a lot of units. > > >> >>and you can buy your food from China >> > A lot of it comes from there already. >> >> Yea, your grain for your bread, your daily milk, butter and cheese, your >> beef, your fresh fruit and vegetables etc. etc. >> You haven't got a clue. > > Ha, maybe you should try reading the labels on almost any other item in > the > supermarket. Is that all you eat? Some tin food? Who eats Australias 26 million cattle? Who eats the $5 billion beef that we export? Who eats the $2.5 billion wheat that we export? Even the so called Australian companies mostly list "made from > imported and local ingredients". That means the majority of the contents > are > imported. But hey, IF you think "milk, butter and cheese etc." is all > anyone > eats (and if you don't realise a lot of cheese is imported anyway) then > you're the one without a clue!
From: Rod Speed on 23 Jun 2010 05:42 HD wrote > Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote >> terryc wrote >>> HD wrote >>>> If you live in Sydney or Melbournr close to an exchange and you >>>> get a good service, the bloke in Longreach or Winton has the >>>> right to have the same srvice as he pays the same tax as you. >>> I can not remember where I read it, >> Funny that. >>> but somewhere there is an implementation plan that indicated NBN >>> rollout was running up the "middle" inland of the Eastern states first. >> Like hell there ever was. >>> That was before Ruddles's ballon deflated from the polls and it> became clear >>> that he really needed broadband in all the marginal electorates, just like in Tassie. >>> <sigh, I have an election choice between two parties lead by ultra conservatives>. >> Then do the decent thing and hang yourself. > Or join the communist party. Not even possible, they're long gone.
From: Rod Speed on 23 Jun 2010 05:48 HD wrote > terryc <newsninespam-spam(a)woa.com.au> wrote >> HD wrote >>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote >>>> terryc wrote >>>>> <sigh, I have an election choice between two parties lead by ultra conservatives>. >>>> Then do the decent thing and hang yourself. >>> Or join the communist party. >> Which faction? >> You have to get it right or you'll get expelled. >> In any case, all they do is fight amongst themselves. > The more we go to the far right, the higher the chance of the far left becoming popular. Pure fantasy. No one bothers with either of them.
From: B J Foster on 23 Jun 2010 06:47
Rod Speed wrote: > HD wrote .... > >> Yea, your grain for your bread, your daily milk, butter and cheese, >> your beef, your fresh fruit and vegetables etc. etc. >> You haven't got a clue. > > You either. > Did you mean 'you neither' Speedy boy? |