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...

[freakiness]

Considering Telstra claimed 10 years agot that the copper was nearing the end of it's life cycle and would need to be replaced by a fibre network inside 15years chances are it will not serve the needs of most households and businesses in the future.

[poddster]

Do you happen to have the current level of the NBN FTTH uptake?

You might like to include the uptake at each tier level

[*elizabeths-mum*]

I must be a better (morer) bogan than you, bump.

No idea what Chanel 5 smells like and I have to take wine for a girly weekend away and think I will get cleanskins so I dont have to admit I dont know any brands. 

[lakeland27]

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@poddster wrote:

Do you happen to have the current level of the NBN FTTH uptake?

You might like to include the uptake at each tier level

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 you can't see beyond today or this week, like all luddites you lack vision.

[poddster]

LL my vision is clear enough to see a desalination plant that was built on the word of a "visionary"

[lakeland27]

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@poddster wrote:

LL my vision is clear enough to see a desalination plant that was built on the word of a "visionary"

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 he had the vision to know it might stop raining for a decade or so (as before) rather than think 'its raining this year so all is well'  thanks for demonstrating my point so clearly

[freakiness]

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@poddster wrote:

The problem is that under the NBN Co. scheme it is not just user pays but non user as well.

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No, it isn't. Users pay as they use. NBN Co is a company like Aus Post, we pay as we use, although if Mal stuffs it up the rest of you might end up paying dearly.  If the network is built as planned the costs will be recouped by the govt owned company with an expected ROI of 7% in approx 20 years.

[poddster]

Just about anyone can predict "might"

"'Might " is not being a visionary and at the time there was no "Might" about it.

Pretty expensive "might" huh ?

Is the FTTH NBN in the same category? People "might" use it,  was the reason to make it a monopoly so people would have no choice but to use it

[poddster]

No take up figures? thought not

[lakeland27]

pretty catastrophic 'might not' based on bleep ideaology . planning is vision. if the water doesn't run out again great. if it does ? the girl guides beat you lot hands down 'be prepared'