Hi, > I am getting well and truely fed up with this country and the lack of > brain-power in our Government.
Hey - don't get too hopeful. Other countries have equally stupid governments. Some of the things done by New Zealand's government are positively brilliant in comparison with other countries. The GST system in NZ is (in many ways) superior to the complex monstrosity they have in Australia. Now lets get this back on topic - or end this thread. Is there a greater uptake of linux in Australia - and can we take advantage of that by working remotely for them? Derek. On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > We are shifting house this week. > > Telecom will hopefully change the phone connection to the new address on > > Friday. > > > > My ISP tells me that Telecom will not arrange the new ADSL connection > > until the new POTS line is running and then it will take up to 5 days to > > reconnect ADSL. > > > > Service! What service? > > > Welcome to the quasi-monopolistic country we call New Zealand - where the > government lacks the spine to do anything at all that might anger the > company who (in theory) they gather the most tax from. > Australia is looking better and better to me all the time at the moment > (the USA actually would be my prefernce but trying to get into there is > next to impossible!). > > Excuse the venting but I am getting well and truely fed up with this > country and the lack of brain-power in our Government. > > > -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when (apparently) receiving a Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me......
