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Re: Prediction of the future of Broadband

#358
From: ~misfit~
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 06:18
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"Mike Doyle" <mike.doyle_RE@move_optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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> In article <abssgu$ko1at$1@ID-69072.news.dfncis.de>, "Rod Speed"
> <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Mike Doyle <mike.doyle_RE@move_optushome.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:3ce1ec77$0$4697$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> >> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
> >>> Mike Doyle <mike.doyle_RE@move_optushome.com.au> wrote
> >>>> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
> >>>>> Mike Doyle <mike.doyle_RE@move_optushome.com.au> wrote
> >>>>>> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
> >>>>>>> Mike Doyle <mike.doyle_RE@move_optushome.com.au> wrote
> >>>>>>>> Snoopy <tennyson@caverock.net.nz.n-osp-am> wrote
> >
> >>>>>>>>> ISDN (integrated services digital network), DSL (digital
> >>>>>>>>> subscriber lines) or some sort of wireless alternative? Where is
> >>>>>>>>> the future for Australia and New Zealand?
> >
> >>>>>>>>> I read an article that says Australia is years behind some Asian
> >>>>>>>>> countries (June 2001 figures:  Aus market population penetration
> >>>>>>>>> 1% vs South Korea 12%).   Does this matter?
> >
> >>>>>>>> Australia's broadband penetration is not as good as Korea, HK,
> >>>>>>>> Taiwan, or USA.  However it is much better than NZ's.  There are
> >>>>>>>> lots of towns in NZ without ADSL, but virtually every Australian
> >>>>>>>> town has ADSL.
> >
> >>>>>>> Bullshit.
> >
> >>>>>> Fact.
> >
> >>>>> Bullshit.
> >
> >>>> Why snip the facts?
> >
> >>> Even someone as stupid as you should be able to grasp that thats
> >>> nothing like a complete list of 'every Australian town'.
> >
> >> Just because I didn't list them all doesn't make my statement
> >> "virtually every Australian town" wrong.
> >
> > Yes, and you're just plain wrong anyway.
>
> And just what particular point was wrong?
> Where are your facts?
>
> >
> > Thats why I flushed that pathetic list, its a tiny subset of the total
> > number of Aust towns and proves absolutely nothing about your terminally
> > stupid claim that "virtually every Australian town has ADSL"
>
> Of course it is a subset.
> I'm not going to type a complete list of every town in Australia
> or NZ.  Just a representative list.  And the list I published
> speaks for itself, doesn't it?
>
> >
> >> Look up the word "virtually" in a dictionary, if you know how to use
> >> one.
> >
> > Even a stupid sheep shagger should be able to bullshit its way out of
> > its predicament MUCH better than that.
>
> Ok, I'll admit it.  I am an Australian sheep-shagger.
> But I only do it because everyone else here does it.

Hey, don't feel bad, I don't blame you. I've seen australian women.
--
~misfit~
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