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[Mark Smith]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:10:38 +1000
Paul Brooks <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au> wrote:

>   On 10/09/2010 8:00 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
> > I thought everybody was getting fibre -
> >
> > "you do it once, you do it right and you do it with fibre" - Tony
> > Windsor
> 93% of everybody is getting fibre. The rest - particularly the 'outside' - were always 
> getting radio, in every model - its one of the few ways they all agreed.

My comment was facetious.

When I'm not on paid time, I try to "eat my own dog
food", which means think like an end-user, and specifically, since both
my parents grew up on farms (and the penalty of that is that I've
never "milked the cows at 6.00am 7 days of the week", and been told
about it on multiple occasions), I also try to think like a farmer on
occasion. If an independent that I've elected, or is supposedly
representing regional concerns, is saying "you do it right and you do
it with fibre" and I'm thinking like a farmer, I'm probably going to be
saying "where's my glass going ..." when the NBNco people rock up.

> Interestingly that remaining 7% is likely to be made up of many many small pockets of 
> houses inside the nominal fibre footprint area - odd streets and spurs of suburbs 
> without sufficient housing density to justify a fibre deployment. If you live in a 
> spur of bushland beside a national park or river, you may be out of luck - 
> consequently the radio network may have to cover quite a lot of the urbanised area.
> 
> > I find it a tragedy that choices about who's going to form government,
> > with the NBN supposedly being one of the major criteria, were made by
> > people who don't know the reality of the NBN deployment. But what can
> > you expect when politicians try to understand and make judgements on
> > mechanism rather than limiting themselves to policy.
> And here I was thinking choices about who's going to form government were made by the 
> people, voting for a representative of their community. People who also largely don't 
> know the reality of the NBN deployment, if there is one.
> 

When the independents have extracted non-election commitments from
the party that that has ended up being in government (and to be
bi-partisan, that's probably what would have happened if the other
party got in), also not being what the independendts went into the
election committing to, then I think that it means that my vote is
worth far less than what the electors in the independents electorates
has ended up being worth. That's not democracy, and that is why I'd
have much rathered another election, regardless of the cost (and I
don't say that lightly).

> I find it refreshing that there is someone still left who thinks there is a one true 
> reality when it comes to the NBN, for anyone to 'know'.
> 

If you start with philosophy, you've got so much more room to compromise
when you're actually both aiming for and dealing with reality. 

> Paul.
>