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terryc wrote
> David Clayton wrote
>> terryc wrote
>>> B J Foster wrote
>>>> David Clayton wrote
>>>>> David Clayton wrote
>>>>>> terryc wrote

>>>>>>> The other issue is how many people have fast reliable broadband and can
>>>>>>> afford to keep a computer running to sit down and open whitepages.com.au
>>>>>>> and look up a number? I suspect t is still a small percentage.

>>>>>> You have to be joking?, at the end of 2009 there were over 9,000,000
>>>>>> non-dial up connections and less than 1,000,000 dial-up.

>>>>>> http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/8153.0/

>>>>> Sorry, make that 8,000,000 non-dial-up. Still makes the 1M dial-up
>>>>> the "small percentage" and that quantity has no doubt has dropped
>>>>> even further since 12/09.

>>> So your view of democracy is fsck the minority?

>> The claim was that the MAJORITY used modems and
>> could not use on-line directories, which is patently false.

> Umm, who wrote that?

You clearly did.

>> If you want a 20th century way of looking up phone numbers don't
>> expect the rest of us who have moved on to continue to subsidise
>> your wasteful habits.

> Perhaps we should apply the same view to motor
> cars as a 20th Century way of personal transport.

Only fools like you are that stupid.

> Nor has it been demonstrated that the majority could use online directories.

Still leaves your 'small percentage' for dead.

> One needs both a reliable, fast broadband service

Nope. Dont need anything like fast broadband to use it.

> and a recent computer to do so.

And that in spades.

> Otherwise, printed directories are faster

Pigs arse they are.

> and probably far more reliable.

Pigs arse they are.

>> My view of "democracy" is that people shouldn't be held back by
>> (or pay for) those that has some bizarre sense of entitlement that
>> because something once was it should remain so forever.

> So the rich should rule?

He never said anything like that. Hardly any of those 8M are anything like rich.

>> This country is full of those who just whinge about any change,
>> no matter how trivial or bogus the objections are - just recall
>> the whingeing and outcry when we ALL moved to 8 digit
>> phone numbers, wow the sky really fell in then to.....

> I don't actually recall any of that.

Thats the altzheimer's talking.

> Having moved from 6 to 8 to 10 in my life time, it was inconsequential.

Irrelevant to how many whined about it.

> Perhaps it was just another media beat up.

No perhaps about the fact you never ever could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.