[to man in restaurant]
Jake: [fakes accent] How much for the little girl? How much for the women?
Father: What?
Jake: Your women. I want to buy your women. The little girl, your daughters… sell them to me. Sell me your children.
So the watch search is over - TW STEEL CEO COLLECTION CE1034 : The above watch on left will replace my other watch which stopped over summer.. which I will get repaired.. but want a bigger watch like one above 50mm watch diameter. For under $800AUD @ 413 euros - it’s time to start saving/forward planning etc. And heck what’s $800 when u wake up and the government has gone Ken Bruce completely mad. If they cant get an internet filter right, imagine what happens when they try and spend $43B building a network then privatising it. Read government release from Non-Fake Conroy’s text release.
Curtis: Boys, you got to learn not to talk to nuns that way.
“.. The Australian Government will build its own $43 billion National Broadband Network, in a move that returns Australia’s telecommunications economy to an era of part-public, part-private ownership.
- A new public/private enterprise will build a 100mbps fibre to the home (FTTH) network that reaches 90 per cent of the population.
- The remaining ten per cent of the population will continue to be served by wireless and satellite technologies at speeds of up to 12 Mbps.
- The new public/private enterprise will be 51 per cent Government-owned and initially funded by the $4.7 billion Building Australia Fund, the remainder funded by the release of Aussie Infrastructure Bonds (shares).
- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the plan represented the “single largest infrastructure decision in Australia’s history” - up there with post-war nation building of the Snowy Mountains scheme.
- He expects the building of the NBN to create 25,000 jobs a year, with 37,000 jobs at its peak, and contribute an extra 0.25 per cent to Australia’s GDP.
- The network will begin rolling out in Tasmania as early as July 2009, with the mainland network build starting in 2010…”
[Jake Blues is released on parole and gets back all the things he wore when he was arrested]
Corrections Officer: One Timex digital watch, broken. One unused prophylactic.
[looks disgusted, picks something up with his pen]
Corrections Officer: One soiled. One black suit jacket, one pair black suit pants. One hat
[punches it back out to full]
Corrections Officer: black. One pair of sunglasses. $23.07. Sign here.
Awesome that In Treatment on HBO Series 2 is back on. I still have 37 of the 43 eps of S1 to go ! Gabrirel Byrne is so good!
Dont get me wrong, the sector needs $43B, but just as retailers are having LCD TV’s “stimulus” sales to capture the $900 which the government is depositing into the middle classes - action today would be better than a plan to build something in the future. For example I need to shift internet providers today, and Im sure it will be a mess as armed with knowledge from whirlpool.net.au as I am.
It’s not like it’s easy to switch internet providers, and get real competition. Your computer is connected into the telephone lines and in the sky… so why cant there be realtime auctions for internet space.. where like an energy trading market.. I could buy and sell bandwith of other individuals and businesses in the marketplace. Maybe u have 100 gig u r willing to sell for 50c a gig… and given Im paying $2 a gig for the first 60 and then $4 per gig after that, 50c a gig sounds great.
[Elwood Blues Jake Blues has a fight over the police car Elwood Blues got after he traded away the original bluesmobile for a microphone]
Elwood: You don’t like it?
Jake: No I don’t like it…
[Elwood Blues floors the pedal and jumps over an open drawbridge]
Jake: Car’s got a lot of pickup.
Elwood: It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?
[a brief thinking pause while Jake attempts to light a cigarette]
Jake: Fix the cigarette lighter.
Now Damages and Skins Series 2' have finished, BReaking Bad S2 is probably the best TV on at moment!> Walt is going to the edge...
What happens at the moment in the internet in Australia is the opposite, and spending $43B probably wont change that as parties aim to get ROI on $43B. Some of the mega annoying anti-competitive facets locally :
- Providers like Telstra etc want to bundle everything up.. and will discount… first 6 months half the cost blah blah.. 200 gigs for $80 for 1-2 years.. $310 a month unlimited with 12 month minimum… Pay $200 installation cost + buy a modem/router if u want to go month2month or pay nothing and we’ll give u a modem with no setup costs… just sign up for 2 years… etc etc So people to start with get locked in to ripoff contracts.. and no matter how bad the speed, dropouts, customer service, downtime.. shifting is not even contractually possible.
- When moving into a new place everyone has waited their 1 month to get connected because its someone elses problem in connecting the house to interwebz.. U need a phone line pretty much and then Telstra dont like phone used by other ISPs etc Telstra then outsource installation and cabling.. and now there is naked ADSL2+ if u r inner city.. anyway its so complex and reality is u cant get yer house connected quickly.
- If u have an existing connected household they have a thing called “Rapid Transfer” - that is what Ill be finding out about ere. If they could build on Rapid Transfer to allow a more dynamic auction model and allow pay per use / prepaid like contracts via rapid transfer.. u could actually create a gigage internet adsl2+ marketplace.. Anyway I digress
- Once u r connected, the bandwith sized plans were developed by a business analyst a decade ago and happily kept by management teams wanting monopoly/oligopoly margins.. I’ve gone on enough about this on twitter.. as down Peninsula 60 gig is biggest account u can get ere.. at least in city u can get 200gig for $80 plans from Primus, TPG, etc.. however back to point above - ridiculous long term contracts.. and then they throttle certain traffic eg p2p and keep moving definitions of peak/offpeak (which btw is so evil and should be its own bulletpoint) eg Im on largest internet account with primus here and i get 20 gig between midday and midnight spread over 1 month. It lasted 6 days most recently. Then internet costs $4 per gig. With Telstra who at least dont have peak/offpeak its 15c a meg over the 60gig limit. Thats $150 a gig. That is criminal.
I could go on and on.. but basically government should be focused on making joining contracts in the consumer’s favour.. at moment they arent with 12-24 month contracts being the norm.. Then they should look at reasonable excess fees : $150 a gig um amazes me… and just as the telco ombudsman is getting a truckload of calls when people get $3K bills for basically barely using the internet.. the telcos need to be bigtime policed and enforced for speed, downtime, etc
What do Internode Think
Anyway twitter for nbn is goin crazy : As I’m prob shifting to shortest term Internode contract (and then maybe shifting when i get some $$$ to an all i can eat Telstra Busines Broadband at $310 for unlimited gigage : in a few months) I’ll leave my post to get some coffee with what Simon Hackett of Internode said on Whirlpool after hearing KEvin Rudd’s speech. The positive uptake of his :
“If they take industry advice and build the new network ‘outside in’ – fixing blackspots first, installing where ADSL2+ is already running strongly last, then everyone wins, because people with no broadband get it, while people who already have broadband can use that ADSL2+ competitive landscape in the meantime, and people who have invested in that landscape can recover that investment before the new network renders it obselete. But even then (like dialup) – the old stuff will stay around for ages too – and noone loses… (!) I’m gobsmacked. If they do what they promise, they’ve actually got it right, and we might just turn into a broadband front-runner country ten years from now… after all. It’ll be interesting to read the fine print – and there will be a lot of it.
So I thought I’d dump my learnings’ere for google to index + share with future “heavy internet users” on the Mornington Peninsula.
