[AusNOG] background radiation was: "i want a pony!"(wasRe:Longlive the NBN. The NBN is dead?! [personal])

[Adrian Chadd]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010, Jason Lingohr wrote:

> Absolutely... but we just followed the same old Australian way didn't
> we?  Pay no heed and fall behind.  Can't win really, can we?  We ask
> government to look after the "cables under the footpath", and we end up
> in a monolithic, sloth-speed monopoly.  We ask the private sector to
> look after it, and we get companies only spending money where they can
> make it back (of course).
> 
> (A point well made by someone whom I now can't remember on last nights'
> ABC1 Q&A...)

Or you could require the government to be efficient, open and transparent.

Oh wait, sorry, you meant "in the real world", where people benefit from
this lack of efficiency. :)




Adrian