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After the excitement of the morning I settled back in to the BAS – the
rain also settled in. As a result the Viewer Access Satellite
Television domestic satellite dropped out (oh well … no ABC Landline
today), the Foxtel satellite dropped out (there goes the cricket and
rugby), the NBN satellite dropped out (at least I hadn’t fallen for
the ‘cloud accounting’ con).
Then the Country Hour man rang to ask my opinion about the
Productivity Commission’s bright idea that the bush didn’t need a
Universal Service Obligation for telephones!
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Smart phones are indeed a wonderful tool if indeed you happen to live
in that very small area of our nation that has mobile reception but
from where I am sitting it seems that the smarter the phones get, the
dumber the decisions that get made for everyone else.
Maybe today is the day to have a very serious talk about not only the
ability for the bush to access the new technology, but about all the
dumb decisions that are being made to remove robust and proven
communication technologies just because they don’t go with mobile apps
and smashed avo.
--
David Boxall | In a hierarchical organization,
| the higher the level,
http://david.boxall.id.au | the greater the confusion.
| --Dow's Law.
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