Posts by Dukenhide

FREE PARTY for TEN lucky Australian Reg readers

still rolling, rolling, rolling

I was sucked in by the words "FREE PARTY"

so I'm trying to be a word smarty

now the words I must find

in the mess of my mind

even though I really ain't arty

As a little reward for the readers,

(or a scam to round-up the troll feeders),

the Reg put on a shin-dig

but didn't want it too big

so only allowed 10 rhyme leaders

Dont pick me, I just did this to get the ball rolling

Vulture South wants to see poetry,

for its industry gig at The Winery

Sime Sharwood will judge

if he can’t budge

the decision onto Daz Pauli

NBN CO told to pretty itself up for bankers by 2017

Re: Disaster looms

Relax everyone - everything is going to plan. The Labor Party needed to spend money on big projects to ensure that Australia was barely touched by the GFC, the NBN was one of these projects. The danger of the GFC has passed, spending lots of money on non-urgent infrastructure will gain little for the nation but add to the debt in a time when Australia can afford to be tightening the belt and getting rid of the debt. Slowing (and also cheapening) the progress of the NBN with technology that will be required to be replaced at sometime in the not-too-distant future, gives this Government (and future govts) a project that can be taken off the shelf and continued (hopefully with technology current for the day) at some future time - most likely this will be when there is a need to prop up the economy with govt spending. The parts of the NBN that were done properly will still be good, the parts that were done on the cheap will need to be redone (but maybe after the parts that have not yet been touched). In the meantime the govt lowers the amount it owes, maybe even builds up a surplus, and the general population continues to either hate or love the government for what it has done/is doing depending on where they get their news reports from.

I QUIT: Mozilla's anti-gay-marriage Brendan Eich leaps out of door

Free speech for all

Eich believed in the anti-gay marriage proposal and exercised his right to free speech by supporting it financially.

A large number of people disagree with him and exercised their right to free speech by publicly informing Mozilla that they will not support a company that supports him.

Eich once again exercised his right by publicly declaring he would step down as he did not want Mozilla to suffer for his beliefs.

Nobody was wrong, everybody was just exercising their rights. Nothing to see here.