How can you afford it?

[how.about.another.slice]

After being away several months, I notice many of the same faces are still spending all day posting, despite their assurances that they work. One even spent a whole day waiting until 5.30 pm before posting just to prove she is employed!!! (only people unemployed or on benefits for years would assume the average work day is still from Nine-to-Five LOL!)

My question is, how do you afford to be here so much? Do you live off savings, an inheritance, divorce settlement, or do you simply chat from a library or a second hand notebook on limited internet usage?

To get a decent computer costs at least $2000 and without good internet connection, chatting on a forum isn't even worth it, so are these regulars going into debt over the boards? Would a bank even loan or credit them enough to supplement their activites and time usage here?

It's all very puzzling...

[poddster]

I inferred nothing of the sort.

Perhaps you might like to read what I wrote without having a preconceived idea of what you think I meant.

What I wrote is quite clear.

[cherry*135]

The NBN 'inside box'  doesn't need to be in the lounge room. Ours was put in the front bedroom nearest the street and outside box ( at previous house). High beamed ceilings in the living area.

[freddie*rooster]

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@poddster wrote:

I very much doubt that they do realize John.

I would venture to say the a large percentage of those who assert the need for FTTH NBN do not have a clue as to what their needs are even :). Let alone even comprenending what they are being conned into demanding.

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OK so I should have asked who you were referring to when you said 'they'

[i-once-was-bump]

am*3 they have really stuffed up a lot of the installations in my area and they are all being reinspected to try to work out how to deal with the mess over several suburbs.

[poddster]

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

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@poddster wrote:

I very much doubt that they do realize John.

I would venture to say the a large percentage of those who assert the need for FTTH NBN do not have a clue as to what their needs are even :). Let alone even comprenending what they are being conned into demanding.

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OK so I should have asked who you were referring to when you said 'they'

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the percentage of those who assert the need for FTTH NBN who do not have a clue as to what their needs are

[i-once-was-bump]

I should mention that there is a comcrete slab between my unit and the one above me and then there is a fire wall up in the ceiling cavity and we have common walls between the units and any work on those will mess with the sound-proofing.

These units were built before the days of installing conduit for future cabling.

At my mothers place they drilled a huge hole through a waterproof wall thus breaking the waterproof nature of the wall and it has been filled around the cable with silicon goo. The house has stood for well over 50 years and now it has some silicon that will last about 5 to 10 years under the soil and in a garden bed that gets hit really hard with southerly winds bringing heavy sweeping rain. Needless to say my mother is not happy.

The just turn up and walk into your yard and do whatever they want to connect this stupid cable.

[freddie*rooster]

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@poddster wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

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@poddster wrote:

I very much doubt that they do realize John.

I would venture to say the a large percentage of those who assert the need for FTTH NBN do not have a clue as to what their needs are even :). Let alone even comprenending what they are being conned into demanding.

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OK so I should have asked who you were referring to when you said 'they'

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the percentage of those who assert the need for FTTH NBN who do not have a clue as to what their needs are

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Oh OK, I thought you were meaning us here on this thread.

Never mind!!

[poddster]

That just goes to highlight my objection to having something forced on you that you did nor request.

[poddster]

It's ok Freddie, It happens to me a lot and I am used to it and I dont take offence 🙂

[leigh.the.loser]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Never mind touchscreens, I'm fightting  a running - and losing - battle with the touchpad on my lappy. My paragraphs  often end up totally illegible and look as if they were written by someone with severe dyslexia.

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That says it all, really...