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Of course private schools should get public funding... 1. By sending your kids to a private school, you are saving the government lots and lots of $$$ (since overall a public student receives a lot more funding than a private student). By removing all government funding to private schools...

Lol adelaide cant even afford electric trains, and their platforms are little more than tin sheds on a concrete platform

My point is that it is silly to expect the private sector to provide an incredibly sophisticated network that will cost $$$, seeing as they cant forcibly extract funding, and as a result would end up providing a much worse/more expensive final product

Have you ever been do a private emergency department? Oh wait, they don't exist... Same situation - the private sector is never going to shell out for ridiculously expensive things, seeing as the benefits don't come in the form of profit. The benefits of emergency departments and fibre...

I think it is Like health, water and public transport, internet boosts productivity of the population and improves quality of life for many people Considering its success fulfilling those 2 criteria, I think it is definitely something that should be provided at a loss (with the knowledge...

That's the point of having a government... to run services that aren't financially viable

I cant believe how much negativity there is in this thread!!! Its truly absurd! Why would you want a private company to have a monopoly over communications infrastructure? Look at the status quo - telstra charges whatever it likes (despite constant bickering between it and the ACCC) to ISPs for...

can you name 1 city in the world where privatisation of public transport has worked successfully? look at melbourne to see how shit private trains are japan and france, the world leaders in rail, both have public systems

There already is a medium term plan for transport in Sydney... the Sydney Metropolitan Strategy (for 2005-2030) There was an incredible amount of work done to publish that document, and it provides guidance which integrates housing, employment, infrastructure - it would be so easy to implement...

i second the dettol suggestion (or napisan even)

English is a real subject; the way its taught and examined destroys this though. There are 2 things to be learnt from English: -Intepreting the communications of others, whether they be advertising, novels, reports, emails etc. Its important that everyone can read beyond the surface of any...

From BJ: 8:05, 8:09, 8:12, 8:15, 8:19, 8:22 What are these "signalling limitations"??? Idk why Im even having an argument over such a stupid topic... at the end of the day, you challenged me in saying that Sydney's trains had good peak frequencies, and I proved myself right. /argument lol

i did say in peak... and anyway signalling capacity is based on the distance between signals - it doesnt magically change at different times of day 20 * 3 = 60 20 * 4 = 1hr, 20 Im also pretty sure that city circle is 20tph

even if you live as far up as gordon, the longest you wait for a train in peak hour is 7 minutes lol

Um... the North Shore, ESR, Western lines all have 3 minute frequencies in the busiest peak hour periods - go and check the timetables And the cityrail network is limited to 20 trains/hour on any single track - obviously this decreases with different stopping patterns in use (eg. south/inner...

^^^^ Sydney has a much better transport system than Brisbane; our trains come every 3 minutes in peak hour while theirs come every 15 The reason we dont have Tcard is essentially because the government refused to do a zone system, fearing that revenue collected may decrease slightly. That's...

That sucks... seems like a really hard problem to fix as well. It would have something to do with the graphics card processing the movie independently of the other onscreen graphics I think its the same reason why screenshots of movies often fail If you disable hardware acceleration and then try...

What do you mean by "punish you"?? What could they possibly do if you told them you weren't coming and didnt listen to further threats? They need skilled workers, they aren't just going to fire you. They can't dock pay, and probably won't dock any hours.

regulation will just breed frustration and a rush to drink as much as possible when its allowed what is needed is a culture shift, and smaller bars - like in Europe - where you never see fights

thats what happens when there is a private monopoly on internet infrastructure