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...

[lionrose.7]

I just wonder why any of us bother to answer these Nil Ids, all we are doing is feeding their strange needs 🙂

[cherry*135]

I agree lion. Although we can have a decent convo in their frequent absences from the thread.

Where I used to work in the late 70's we had huge room like that debra for the computer, with aircon to keep the temperature stable.

[debra9275]

I was actually answering trustme I don't give them kudos though, & I agree

[debra9275]

Yes, am , the computer rooms always had to be temperature controlled, I remember that too

[poddster]

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@monman12 wrote:

CN:  "Most of us want to move with the times and take advantage of improved technology not hold everything back to avoid the need for upgrades.  We may as well have stuck with VGA cameras."

"Misconceptions

• The VGA rating refers only to size and not to clarity. A 640-by-480 pixel image is about the equivalent of a 0.3 megapixel image. The issues of distortion and clarity loss only occur when the image is either enlarged beyond its original parameters for printing or is viewed on a screen that uses a larger resolution."

If all you do is  drive  around locally and visit the local shops,  how does owning a Maserati help, especially if you  have no idea how to get it out of first gear.?

That I think,as I mentioned before, is why some  want a FTTH NBN because they do not  fully understand the technology involved,  and what they actually need.

What  hardware (software even)  specification improvements  would you need FN from  your "moving with the times" Internet access hardware over and above the previously mentioned specifications for my $130 IBM Lenovo ThinkCentre desktop?

nɥºɾ

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Precicely what I have been saying in this thread and others

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 comprehending what they are being conned into demanding.

Yet there are a number of posters who continually attempt to sing the praises of ultra high speed internet.

[freakiness]

Why do you assume you're the only one with any knowledge of what people need?

Most people are able to make their own decisions based on their own needs, regardless of what you perceive their needs to be.

[lionrose.7]

My Internet is really fast here in NZ, only one I can go with is WorldXchange as they own the fibre optic cables LOL

[cherry*135]

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@freakiness wrote:

Why do you assume you're the only one with any knowledge of what people need?

Most people are able to make their own decisions based on their own needs, regardless of what you perceive their needs to be.

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Just one persons view (which never takes into account  other people's varying broadband needs (from single pensioners to families with children (at school or Uni), to online gamers, businesses, libraries, health services, education services etc) , repeated on here ad nauseam.

The NBN is here and now, no matter which party is in Govt... time to embrace it.

[poddster]

I did nothing of the sort.

Perhaps reading what I did say might be a good idea.

No doubt that most people make their own decisions as they should, providing that those decisions are made on facts and not on hyperbole.

[freakiness]

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@poddster wrote:

I did nothing of the sort.

Perhaps reading what I did say might be a good idea.

No doubt that most people make their own decisions as they should, providing that those decisions are made on facts and not on hyperbole.

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Why do you assume you are the only one capable of basing their decisions on facts and not hyperbole?