Rudd to build broadband network (2 Viewers)

[ratcher0071]

"build broadband network"

It's about time

 

[Riet]

No, I'm saying it doesn't. I don't think it should receive funding from the government full stop. Either it's private or not this half arsed shit is stupid.

Edit: Though people's rational is that since they pay taxes they should get funding regardless of what school they go to.

Which is fine, except that public schools don't get any federal funding. If the federal funding was based on number of students alone I'd be cool with it, but Kings getting government money while half of Australia's state schools are fucked up is shocking.

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

TBH I think education (both curriculum and funding) should be something decided at the federal level.

The state-based systems basically seems like nothing more than a holdover from the pre-federation days.

Thoughts?

 

[Riet]

Yeah, I just realised how I took this way off topic.

 

[aussie-boy]

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, parents would never be able to afford the prohibitive costs which are currently partially subsidised by the government, and so would have to send their kids to public schools where the government has to foot the entire education bill.

2. Private school parents are generally richer than public school kids (the poorest 30% of families receive more in welfare than they pay in tax), and since they are paying for both their kids education as well as someone else's kid, they definitely deserve a certain amount of funding

 

[writer'sblock]

THere shouldn't be any government(taxpayer) funding to private schools, for the sole reaso nthat they are private, not public.
they are owned by private business, it is unethical to give people who can afford elite education better education by the taxpayer, it is completely oligarchic and undermines the work of public school who must share the lack of funds with overfunded "private" school.
if there is any funding to a private school it isn't really opperating as a business should, it has a massive subsidy. that money could be better spent increasingthe productive capacity of Australia and the schools which are in dire need of funding.

 

[writer'sblock]

IF you support the broadband upgrade of Australian's internet infrastructure and you have Facebook - which all humans your age should - join this group in an attempt to quash any political opposition without rational argument.

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if you can't just email me and i'll give you a differnt link...

 

[aussie-boy]

Isnt the Optus coaxial cable different to fibre optic?

I do agree, however, that its stupid to ensure it gets to everyone.

I think it would be fair to say that those who would gain the most productivity (successful business people and researchers) from the new network live and work in the densest areas of the country - in or around CBDs

My suburb has a density of 6355/km^2; this is clearly dense enough for a reasonably priced FTTP network - and as such I dont see why I should have to pay the projected $200 a month or whatever so some Aborigine can get lightning fast internet at their campsite in the simpson desert

 

[Real Madrid]

What I find ridiculous is that they could just like submarine cables to PNG and Fiji so we wouldn't be stuck on bandwidth maximums of only a petty 160 GB/S. What I find more fucking ridiculous is that private companies like Rapidshare have dedicated servers that are able to churn terabytes of data a second, completely obliterating any justice left in this 43 billion dollar rudd fudd.

IMO, lay down the cables, it only costs $2 billion, and it should make broadband popular with the youth denomination (which likes to torrent)!

 

[justanotherposter]

the projected $200 a month or whatever

Consumers to pay a premium under NBN plan - Telecommunications - CRN Australia

 

[justanotherposter]

The NBN MIGHT be filtered:
Typeboard

First the budget, now this. I'm slowly watching my country disintegrate into a nanny state. Although the quality of the source and the interpretation is questionable at best.

 

[Uncle]

da government needs faster internets to jack off too

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

They can filter it all they want.

If they actually filter it, and if the Greens + Coalition don't unfilter it in Parliament, then it'll just make people flock to (or stay on) Telstra's copper lines till the government caves into economic pressure and unfilters it.

But I'm pretty sure that questionable source is wrong.

 

[zstar]

Rudd and Conroy can go fuck themselves.

 

[justanotherposter]

They can filter it all they want.

If they actually filter it, and if the Greens + Coalition don't unfilter it in Parliament, then it'll just make people flock to (or stay on) Telstra's copper lines till the government caves into economic pressure and unfilters it.

But I'm pretty sure that questionable source is wrong.

Well technically the ISPs use their own DNS servers and such so the NBN would essentially just provide the 'pipes' so I don't think there's a plan to force filtering on us through the NBN nor will it make it any easier to implement the cleanfeed.

 

[ChockoRepublic]

The ex-CEO of Telstra thinks this whole thing is a political sham.

 

[ChockoRepublic]

Trujillo.

 

[ChockoRepublic]

 

[SylviaB]

Kevin07?

More like, Kevin1984 lolololol

 

[ChockoRepublic]

Kevin07?

More like, Kevin1984 lolololol

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i don't get it.