Our prime minister published a media release Broadband in the Rest of the World - The Facts 4 years ago. Since he must have thought it convincing I updated it using exactly the same source.7yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
After about 30 seconds on Google I'm fairly sure I've figured out why Brandis is so enthusiastic about three-strike banning people from the Internet10yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
Why I think Malcolm Turnbull should honour the mandate regarding the NBN in this election. Democracy, full steam ahead. Spoiler: The NBN won in this election. Decisively.11yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
Here's a new scenario I just created illustrating what happens if net neutrality disappears. [PIC]15yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/pics
Multiple newspapers have now literally lost count of how many NBN inquiries the coalition is doing. You may think I'm kidding and that I'm just using the phrase 'lost count', but I'm not. This. Literally. Happened. To both Fairfax and News Corp.11yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
The Coalition says to follow Britain in rolling out fibre to the node. From the width of the copper alone, we can calculate that we need 63% more nodes to cover the same area in Australia than in the UK, and this is the single biggest expense. More info in comments.11yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
I've paid for 95% of Qantas' carbon pricing bill. I suspect others may have too. Here's why.11yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
At first I was like WTF Qantas. But then I remembered that I was VPNed to the US. So then I was like What the fuck, Qantas.10yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
The man rumoured by the coalition to be put in control of NBN Co, Ziggy Switkowski, was also responsible for this when he was CEO of Telstra. We're about to embark on a very, very long run downhill.11yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
The ABS has released its latest statistics on downloads. And yes, they're still increasing exponentially.10yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
Myer. Are you trying to tell us that your non-sale prices are bad enough to make people bawl their eyes out?13yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
LNP MP says How does copper sound for the next decade waiting for NBN to select your suburb. At least with the Go-alition, you get roll out immediately and competition on price. (by using copper for more than another decade)11yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
So I've actually been looking at what the coalition has been saying about the NBN and it's all a bit scary, isn't it?11yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
In case you can't read Chinese, this is our reputation in China going tits up11yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
Was looking for some .NET marketing blurb. While that endeavour failed, I no longer feel quite as bad fucking up .NET/web.config configuration.10yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/ProgrammerHumor
Average effective tax rates on energy (left) and CO2 (right) in OECD countries10yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
Melbourne Cup over. Some horse won, and it wasn't Camilla. Millions rejoice as they turn off commercial television for another year.12yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
The coalition repeated, again and again, that Australia had the world's highest carbon tax. Here's a graph of carbon taxes around the OECD.11yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
Keeping in mind the release of the coalition's broadband policy today, this is probably more telling than the policy itself12yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
2006 - Chinese (red), Arabic (green), Vietnamese (yellow), Greek (light blue) and Korean (pink)13yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/sydney
I think I figured why no one is buying them digital DAB+ radios. Apart from streaming and FM being good enough.13yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
King George Square, this morning. The flags of Australia, Queensland, Brisbane. The Aboriginal flag at three quarter mast in a position denoting subjugation and disrespect. Then the Torres Straight Islander flag. While perhaps only symbolic, this should never have happened. Sorry about the quality.15yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/brisbane
The Coupe 60 has had a registered design application booked in three months after its reveal that's been approved now. Could it be going into production as a new 'Monaro'?16yr ⋅ quink ⋅ r/australia
