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Mega Public WAN In Sydney
Chris Meder writes: "As posted on CFGN - The Nation , gibed by the recent unreasonable price hikes in Broadband connectivity in Australia, which come already after a strained relationship between Broadband users and the major telco/ISP Telstra BigPond Internet, a group of people in the largest Australian metropolitan city of Sydney have decided to form a city wide amateur wireless network. The team behind this clever idea have also put up a detailed graphical database of people interested and are still looking for more numbers to get this off the ground." This last part reminds me of the Global Access Wireless Database, as featured here. Update: 01/23 18:53 GMT by T : Reader Peter Mann wrote to point out that "there's a mailing list for a similar
wireless project in Sydney at http://sydney.air.net.au."
I guess viewing a censored web for less money is a step in the right direction but it seems to me the the Australian government officials are a bigger problem for web access there than the telcos.
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Is this really what you've come down to? Comparing a WAN to the Revolutionary War? What, is this like the Australian version of the Boston Tea Party?
Oh, Yeah, let's check out this single guy's page and see how much more Australians' appreciate freedom more than Americans'. Oh yeah, and while we're at it, why don't we go visit my friend Dr.Shitfinger from New York University's web page, and see how much more American's appreciate the cost of hookers in Afghanistan.
Let's move on down the list here, you find no reason one man can be a hundred or a thousand times richer than another. Hmmm. If the government doled out the same amount of money to everyone every month, and controlled the entire economy, wouldn't that be communist? Which you claim not to be? If everyone got the exact same thing, for not the same deeds, what would be the reason to do things like these Australian guys here are doing, when the crack smoking, herpes infested bum down the street gets the same for doing nothing. That would take away any incentive people had to do things. Our constitution does not mean we should all be the same. It means we all have the same rights. One man has the same oppurtunity to make a thousand times as much as the next guy, not that no matter what, they should be the same. That's stupid. These guys in Australia are doing a cool thing, but it's not becuase of people that think like you.
For example there wouldnt be farscape or the matrix without australia, you yanks even ruin reasionable shows like the xfiles which went so downhill since they moved it to LA.
Australia is the best in the world in sport, You yanks couldnt even organise a olyimpic games, if you guys bothered to learn the rules to chicket then you would realise that it is a much better game then baseball, casue the players hit the ball once in a while. and our football games (there a four codes in this country) dont last four hours
Samba was was made in Australia.
Australia has the best coffee in the world, you yanks have starbucks, hang your heads in shame.
The same with beer, american beer is a joke,
Does America even make movies without an Australian as a lead, or a supporting player anymore
We have a public heath system
The only prob, is right now there are some right bastards in office, who are only in there because a war started in the middle of the election, and even then they barely incresed their majorite in paraliment, but you yanks have the same problem with bush, who you will work out is a complet arsehole by the end of this year. At least the democrates have congress
Pianist : Some jerk whos taught themselves how to type in rhythm