Comment Free Compuserve with 300 baud modem ... (Score 2) 387
Except
When my parents got the bill for my "free" service they took away the modem
I also feel like this is Slashdot's answer to "Penthouse Letters".
I don't know why so many Australians are complaining about this network!
Because it's become an ideological issue. It's a Labor party policy so, ipso facto, rusted on conservatives hate it.
So they sit in waiting for the inevitable cost blowouts, delays, pork-barrelling, and logistic implosions that befall every large infrastructure program and use them to hammer the Labor party over the head with. And the faithful take their cues from that.
Had the conservatives introduced the NBN it would be the other way around.
I predict that once the NBN is completed and its value demonstrated it will become like Medicare - both sides of politics, regardless of ostensible ideology, will regard it as a "good thing". I mean, can you imagine the Coalition ripping out the fibre from people's homes?
will now have its address block(s) added to the blacklists of Hulu, Netflix et al
I mean, seriously, how many times will the "tech savvy" users of this site fall for ruses like this?
As if anyone who reads Slashdot wouldn't be able to find out;
Please
Let's get over our silly preoccupation with gaining systematic knowledge through observation, hypothesis, and experimentation and just say "God did it".
I mean, since scientists only possess a faith analogous to your average Christian's (for instance) faith, we know science has achieved nothing.
Vaccines? God did it.
Electricity? God did it.
Modern agriculture and food production? God did it.
The myriad of other "advantages" humans now have at their disposal? God did it.
Let's stop this ridiculous pursuit of "knowledge" when we can all just sit back and say "God did it".
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.