On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *GregAtGregLowDotCom > *Sent:* Thursday, 12 December 2013 3:51 PM > > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* RE: NBN Petition > > > > “not going to be there in my working life” might not be the words you’re > looking for but the point is that it was going to take such a long time as > to nearly be irrelevant to me. > > > > OK – are you only planning to be alive for the next 10 years? If you’re > planning to be alive for more than 10 years, the I don’t see how it can be > irrelevant. Because a project like this will change the way everyone else > (people and business) are going to be doing things. And if you have kids, > or your siblings have kids, well then you might want to start caring, > because it will have a change on the way they live their lives too. > > > > Your attitude is similar to saying “we don’t have to worry about climate > change, because it won’t have a significant impact in my lifetime”. Sure. > But you might be f*cking up the lives of the next generation by not caring, > and from a civics PoV, I’d like to think that intelligent human beings > would take an interest in things where their actions (or lack of such) > today, are going to potentially have a significant impact down the track. > Putting this off because “they take a long time” is simply a recipe for > never doing anything significant. > > A perfectly valid outlook on life. Don't judge him for it. > > > My key point is that if you were rolling this out on a commercial basis, > you wouldn’t do it the way they were doing it. > > > > How do you know they aren’t? > There are ISPs that do this for money. They probably are doing it on a commercial basis, but why don't I have Fibre at my house right now? Lack of foresight. I have Cable and it's fast enough for now but yeah I'd love faster.
