I am not looking forward to voting for the senate. There is no way I'm going to let the parties choose preferences for me, [b]but having to number every single candidate from over a hundred[/b] for voting below the line is just dumb.
I hope you pre-prepared the basic gist of how your preferences would go because you might be there for a long time. I took one look and decided I'd rather vote above the line
I've looked at the tickets things already and I just can't agee with any of them.
Put the Australia First Party, One Nation and Australian Protectionist Party dead last please, I'd rather not have nazis and racists in parliament
[QUOTE=Lonestriper;42104172]I hope you pre-prepared the basic gist of how your preferences would go because you might be there for a long time. I took one look and decided I'd rather vote above the line[/QUOTE]
Yeah I took a look at the list and thought, "wow fuck this shit".
[editline]7th September 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Lonestriper;42104226]Put the Australia First Party, One Nation and Australian Protectionist Party dead last please, I'd rather not have nazis and racists in parliament[/QUOTE]
Yeah I made sure those dopes are at the bottom when voting reps.
Hopefully the coalition's internet policy isn't too terrible, lets face it they will win. The way I understand it, we will still have fiber optics in the street just not connected to households (currently copper). Hopefully the cost it takes for households to change their copper cable to fiber optics to connect to the street cable isn't too expensive.
mmmm the sausage sizzle is always the best part of going to the polling booths
[editline]7th September 2013[/editline]
went back and bought another 3 for lunch.
I voted two days ago, and yes I did fill out all 110 boxes. IIRC I just voted for Wikileaks, Pirate Party, Sex Party, Labor then other parties, then the Greens, then parties that sounded boring, then parties that sounded terrible (climate change sceptics, christian stuff). I think 'one nation' or whatever was around the 50s of my vote simply because it sounded racist enough, but not terrible enough.
[QUOTE=The Janitor;42103950]I'm loving facebook today. Everyone's into politics and they all have no idea. I'm having a great time!
[editline]7th September 2013[/editline]
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I simultaneously love and hate how well the "It's not cuts, it's savings!" spin is working, I even saw a newsreader imply Rudd was wrong to call them cuts.
I also find it funny how small the cuts are, yet how much the liberals claim they're so important or else the economy is going to crash (I even had my step-father repeating that claim, and he didn't vote for the liberals), 0.3% a year isn't going to do jack, apart from hurt the projects being cut.
[QUOTE=Badballer;42105721]Hopefully the coalition's internet policy isn't too terrible, lets face it they will win. The way I understand it, we will still have fiber optics in the street just not connected to households (currently copper). Hopefully the cost it takes for households to change their copper cable to fiber optics to connect to the street cable isn't too expensive.[/QUOTE]
It's a few grand per household, some of the numbers being quoted (I saw $150,000 once) are just plain wrong and forget the fact that the liberals are still running fibre to everywhere but the last few hundred meters.
For the most part, the NBN and "NBN-Lite" won't affect end users much, if you're within ~800m of a node you'll still get around 80Mbps-100Mbps with VDSL (if your line is good) and should probably max out an ADSL2+ connection, the main benefit of the NBN is that it allows for much easier future expansion (You don't have to replace fibre to run higher speeds over it, but you do with copper, that's why the NBN was scaling to 1Gbps without replacing any laid fibre)
That said, the NBN-Lite plan Turnbull has come up with is really smart, if you view it as a transitional plan. To upgrade to the full blown NBN only requires upgrading the "last mile" to be upgraded to fibre, vs. the entire network which will be done anyway under either Liberal or Labor. Even an ISP could offer the upgrade fairly cheaply if they spread it out over multiple households.
I'm 4km from exchange, ADSL2+
300 kilobyte per second maximum I've ever seen from perth servers
I'm 4KM (line of sight) from an exchange and I get around 560KBps, which is ok but trying to stream 2 youtube videos tanks my connection.
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;42107732]I'm 4KM (line of sight) from an exchange and I get around 560KBps, which is ok but trying to stream 2 youtube videos tanks my connection.[/QUOTE]
pretty sure it's our line quality, might be a fault along the way idk
I can stream a single 360p or less youtube video, at the cost of doing nothing else at the same time
So now we have a monkey as our Prime Minister
[QUOTE=Em See;42107841]pretty sure it's our line quality, might be a fault along the way idk
I can stream a single 360p or less youtube video, at the cost of doing nothing else at the same time[/QUOTE]
It probably is, we've had issues constantly with our line (Whenever it rained my net used to drop out for hours at a time, even on the best of days it'd randomly slow down) Turns out the connection from our house to the pole had nearly completely corroded through, it fell apart when one tech was looking at it and ended up being rewired.
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;42108132]It probably is, we've had issues constantly with our line (Whenever it rained my net used to drop out for hours at a time, even on the best of days it'd randomly slow down) Turns out the connection from our house to the pole had nearly completely corroded through, it fell apart when one tech was looking at it and ended up being rewired.[/QUOTE]
issue for me is, we can call an electrician out who'll have a gander at the home cabling to check for damage (we get tonnes of rats), but if it aint, callout fee is substantial
if its a fault in the line somewhere apparently we can bring it up with telstra, but if there turns out not to be a fault (their decision), we'd be charged $150 or so.
for a 4km line at the minimum I'm betting its more likely the latter case, suppose I could go ask around the street to confirm
With my Telstra Cable (realistically I get ~15mbps) I can do heaps of shit at once. With Malocolm's guaranteed 25-50mbps (up to 100mbps) I'd be over the moon.
[QUOTE=SleepyRussian;42107978]So now we have a monkey as our Prime Minister[/QUOTE]
You'd probably be banned for saying that if tony abbott was black
Petition you should sign :)
[url]http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/...australia.html[/url]
Even if you are against labour, you can't argue that the news coverage wasn't biased. This petition isn't for labour, it's for fair news coverage next time around.
[QUOTE=reevezy67;42115705]Petition you should sign :)
[url]http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/...australia.html[/url]
Even if you are against labour, you can't argue that the news coverage wasn't biased. This petition isn't for labour, it's for fair news coverage next time around.[/QUOTE]
Your link is broken. I think this is the one you were trying to link:
[url]http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/complaint-against-news-corp-australia.html[/url]
Yeah thanks.
[QUOTE=abcpea;42072360]ill vote liberal because im not an impressionable idiot[/QUOTE]
I find it funny that this is how a liberal supporter posts, compared to the well thought out, well constructed posts above and below him supporting labor.
Well Labor has lost now and if you think they are left wing supporting the lower class then you are very wrong.
On another note, anyone vote for PUP? :v:
No. Why would you?
[QUOTE=IncogMouse;42128902]Well Labor has lost now and if you think they are left wing supporting the lower class then you are very wrong.
On another note, anyone vote for PUP? :v:[/QUOTE]
I PuP them second pref in my vote behind Labor because fuck all the other candidates. It would have be hilarious as fuck if Palmer managed to steal a few seats. Palmer may actually win the fairfax electorate as he is ahead with 52.9% of the vote.
[QUOTE=mcattack1092;42129533]I PuP them second pref in my vote behind Labor because fuck all the other candidates. It would have be hilarious as fuck if Palmer managed to steal a few seats. Palmer may actually win the fairfax electorate as he is ahead with 52.9% of the vote.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention further screwing up the Senate.
Palmer is a fucking idiot.
Palmer is the best dinosaur golf for all
I read something today from Telstra saying Copper lines will be redundant by 2018. The Liberals internet plan is set to be complete by 2019 (Although it probably won't finish on time anyway).
Basically their plan is redundant and will need to be updated even before it's finished.
Any thoughts on this?
telstra are gonna cash in pretty hard on the fftp scheme, they are going to make more money than the whole cost of the NBN (by leasing out ducting and infrastructure space) - enough to build their own private network of the same caliber, enough to make copper wholly redundant
still means you'll foot a massive bill from either mob if you want fiber hooked up to your place
[editline]10th September 2013[/editline]
if you want more info there's a good ABC doco floating around that has the Telstra CEO explaining the whole thing and how they would take the money made from the NBN itself and use it to make their own private network
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