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Shucks fellas, thanks for the 'welcomes back'......I really missed this site, I was like an addict, and just had to get my daily 'fix'.
I spent all yesterday just reading back items, guess I'll be doing the same today......
(So much to see; so little time.....)
Much to the disgust of She Who Must Be Obeyed: "Dunno what you see in it, you can't learn any more, you're a bleddy know-all now."
Good to hear from ya!
Yeah, well Rosie got that right,,:DQuote:
Originally Posted by johnboy
Johnboy and I are about forty kilometers apart,[as the crow flies],but there is a little mountain in the way,everyone down our side of the hill has,or can get broadband,JB's side still cant even get FM radio,,and their currency is probably ten years behind us,,,government still has not realised that most of the countries wealth comes from the rural sector,half of that ,from Taranaki..
Correct Johnboy??:HMMM:
Good to see you back on John boy,even if you were here before me..:D
W3lcome back i know the feeling of dial up . Well maybe someone will tote the cable and equipment over the hill soon .
Yep, that's correct, you dribbled a bib-full there Robin, the rural areas are where New Zealand's wealth comes from, but not the population, (read as: votes,) so the rural people are largely ignored by the politicians. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by lamin8r
And that's just the way it is....you gotta live with it.
Bobby D, I had to install my own equipment (sattelite dish etc.) to get broadband.....if I lived in the big smoke it would be just outside my door.....fifty feet of cable and I'd have been into it.
I used to live on a cattle farm, by the ocean. There was a big ravine between us and these million dollar homes lining a golf coure. We had no cable or garbage service, but in spitting distance of the Golf course they had garbage service and cable. It was annoying to walk outside at night and see the huge screen t.v. lit up in a neighbors' fairway home, or wake up to the sound of garbage trucks, knowing it was another trip to the video store if we wanted to watch something, and a trip to the dump to get rid of the trash!
The cable companie, when asked, said it was too expensive to route cable to us, as we were only one house!:CRY:
good luck dude
Don't count me off for being late, I only seem to get around here once every couple of weeks - Glad to have you back, JohnBoy. I understand your technology frustrations; we were on dial-up when we lived in the High Sierras, the big mountains east of San Francisco and Sacramento. Cable company and phone company said it was too costly for the return on investment to run in the cables or to upgrade the old T & R phone system; we had speeds around 14.?? most of the time, but sometimes it would take an hour to load the mornings e-mail; of course, in the cities, it is a completely different story.
This is also true of the States. Nevada, where I live is a good example: Approximately 80% of the state's population is concentrated in the two major cities, Las Vegas, and Reno, and the rural areas get virtually no attention from the "powers that be", until election time, or political fundraising time; then, they're the gold mine in the sky. But as soon as the elections are over, the rural folks won't hear from their representatives for a couple of years, until the next campaign cycle.Quote:
Yep, that's correct, you dribbled a bib-full there Robin, the rural areas are where New Zealand's wealth comes from, but not the population, (read as: votes,) so the rural people are largely ignored by the politicians.
(Sigh.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rrumbler
It's the same, the whole world over,
It's the poor man takes the blame,
While the rich folk get the pleasures,
Ain't it all a bleedin' shame!
And there's not much can be done about it! :mad:
johnboy