1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

four [censored] pages! this will be akin to the wanton destruction of the library at alexandria. at least thanks to modern technology we will have the wayback machine

I suspect this could go the way of painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge. By the time the moderators have achieved their wanton destruction, there will be another 800+ pages to filter ...

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

four [censored] pages! this will be akin to the wanton destruction of the library at alexandria. at least thanks to modern technology we will have the wayback machine

This thread is the equivalent of Seinfeld.  God knows how you would apply a definition to any discussion in order to be able to qualify any derailing.

Bit like applying a grid to chaos theory really.

It's been a blast, 5 years guys   Everyone I've ever had a disagreement with or rubbed the wrong way I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to, and everyone who's made me laugh (DA, Ethan, BBO, Biffen, rpfc) I love you guys.   This is me,  moving on. 

Adios muchachos, ladies  

Go you bloody demons!! 

2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

four [censored] pages! this will be akin to the wanton destruction of the library at alexandria. at least thanks to modern technology we will have the wayback machine

I'm sure we can arrange some Russian contacts for you to hack the Demonland archive before then, daisy. The two lovely young ladies from Ekaterinburg who have promised to complete my ménage and whose airfares I sent a while ago both have brothers in the computer business, or so they've told me. Of course I haven't heard from them since then but I'm sure I will soon.

2 hours ago, Biffen said:

Donald taught me how to argue  my way to scandal.

Now that he has achieved power you seem to be adopting a Hillary like approach to governance.

Couple this with the outbreak of politeness on Demonland and I am all at sea.

The world grows more complex by the minute.

Btw- I use the NBN at my meth lab in the rural backwater- the service is surprisingly good and should allow for multiple high speed banning and admonishments.

I am excited by the new regimes of political incorrectness and political correctness we live in.

None can existed without the other it seems.

Keep well good Dr and never let anyone say you are not fair and just.

Thank you Biff, but I'm sure you can exempt yourself from occasionally publicly censuring me, especially in BBO's absence. I don't mind given your expert command of the sarcastic; and besides there's plenty of cheap 'likes' that'll be available for you from some of the petty revanchists around the place.

As far as that lab is concerned I trust you'll be careful. A member of the leather-jacketed fraternity set up a lab in the roof space of a house he rented a few years back just down the road from us. He was sure (perhaps like you) that no one would notice the comings and goings in this far-flung place, on which point he was correct. Nobody noticed the fire, either, until the house was nearly gone.

22 minutes ago, Dr John Dee said:

I'm sure we can arrange some Russian contacts for you to hack the Demonland archive before then, daisy. The two lovely young ladies from Ekaterinburg who have promised to complete my ménage and whose airfares I sent a while ago both have brothers in the computer business, or so they've told me. Of course I haven't heard from them since then but I'm sure I will soon.

They maybe the same I knew of..Amazingly they both were desperately unfortunate to have relatives with terminal conditions requiring medical needs beyond their purchase Such a shame.  I hope they all faired well in the end 

2 hours ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

How do you have bananas without the peel?

you eat the peel?

56 minutes ago, Dr John Dee said:

I'm sure we can arrange some Russian contacts for you to hack the Demonland archive before then, daisy. The two lovely young ladies from Ekaterinburg who have promised to complete my ménage and whose airfares I sent a while ago both have brothers in the computer business, or so they've told me. Of course I haven't heard from them since then but I'm sure I will soon.

too true doc. it's not for me but. it's for all those historians of the 22nd century. i'm sure though that all our collective posts on bananas will certainly exceed 4 pages, so i am at a loss to understand the optimistic target being set. far too orwellian a task i fear. pass me the soylent green please, the popcorn has all been eaten

2 hours ago, beelzebub said:

They maybe the same I knew of..Amazingly they both were desperately unfortunate to have relatives with terminal conditions requiring medical needs beyond their purchase Such a shame.  I hope they all faired well in the end 

No, no, 'bub. I've heard about stories like that ... I'd never fall for such a scam.

3 hours ago, daisycutter said:

you eat the peel?

Not always. Isn't that how it is done?

7 hours ago, Jesse Christ said:

It's been a blast, 5 years guys   Everyone I've ever had a disagreement with or rubbed the wrong way I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to, and everyone who's made me laugh (DA, Ethan, BBO, Biffen, rpfc) I love you guys.   This is me,  moving on. 

Adios muchachos, ladies  

Go you bloody demons!! 

Where are you going JC?

28 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Where are you going JC?

Perhaps he's ascending into the top 8?

12 a bubbly day. 

On 11/11/2016 at 5:19 PM, beelzebub said:

Nbn

National bloody nuisance.

An absolute joke. Was severely compromised from the get go. Whoever designed it was a nong. 

Spent 12 years as a systems engineer and our little band of brethren  even when i gave it away in 2005 could see its inbuilt limitations. Only stupidity and arrogance combined with ignorance has allowed it to still be happening. Should have chucked out and started again....(before they actually started )

Billions wasted.Beuracratic bs of highest order

This post got buried in the rush after the whispering fellow put the frighteners on everyone around here but I wanted to add that it's nice to have a professional eye coincide with my far more amateur one, 'bub.

I've scratched together a few technical perspectives over time and I wrote to nbn (I'm happy with their use of the lower case; more appropriate to their level of service) with a few questions about the location and capacities of the local fixed wireless tower. Received a page and half from them setting out my 'rights' under the FOI Act and likely schedules of fees etc etc. In another lifetime I used to handle FOI complaints for the Commonwealth Ombudsman so I was tempted to dust off my knowledge and make life miserable for them for a while but I doubt whether it'd achieve anything so I'm handing it all over to the local mp. Will I get anywhere? I doubt it. Even if we get a more reliable service it will only be a more reliable joke, as you say.

20 hours ago, Jesse Christ said:

It's been a blast, 5 years guys   Everyone I've ever had a disagreement with or rubbed the wrong way I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to, and everyone who's made me laugh (DA, Ethan, BBO, Biffen, rpfc) I love you guys.   This is me,  moving on. 

Adios muchachos, ladies  

Go you bloody demons!! 

Jesse

are you being expecting to be deported from Philidelphia to Mexico by the Donald?

adios

 

1 hour ago, Dr John Dee said:

This post got buried in the rush after the whispering fellow put the frighteners on everyone around here but I wanted to add that it's nice to have a professional eye coincide with my far more amateur one, 'bub.

I've scratched together a few technical perspectives over time and I wrote to nbn (I'm happy with their use of the lower case; more appropriate to their level of service) with a few questions about the location and capacities of the local fixed wireless tower. Received a page and half from them setting out my 'rights' under the FOI Act and likely schedules of fees etc etc. In another lifetime I used to handle FOI complaints for the Commonwealth Ombudsman so I was tempted to dust off my knowledge and make life miserable for them for a while but I doubt whether it'd achieve anything so I'm handing it all over to the local mp. Will I get anywhere? I doubt it. Even if we get a more reliable service it will only be a more reliable joke, as you say.

don't know if it is any help to you doc, but i believe nbn just recently launched their own satellite. i seem to remember reading that this would allow them to use new technology for a better faster solution for satellite users. i didn't pay much attention to it at the time (as it wouldn't affect me) but there may be some promise in it for you in the future. you might like to pursue that line of investigation? there again my memory might be wonky.

6 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

don't know if it is any help to you doc, but i believe nbn just recently launched their own satellite. i seem to remember reading that this would allow them to use new technology for a better faster solution for satellite users. i didn't pay much attention to it at the time (as it wouldn't affect me) but there may be some promise in it for you in the future. you might like to pursue that line of investigation? there again my memory might be wonky.

Thanks daisy. They made a lot of noise some months ago about the second satellite going up in October. I haven't heard anything since and I presume as a customer I'll get hear when it comes on stream. The satellite will be ok (albeit with various interruptions and slowdowns) until the wet starts but we can spend weeks under the sort of cloud that denies us any connection. Meanwhile we've hung onto a telstra mobile broadband service (marginal anyway). Between them we get by, but at around $170 a month. It's all a bit mad. 

On 12/11/2016 at 3:56 PM, Jesse Christ said:

It's been a blast, 5 years guys   Everyone I've ever had a disagreement with or rubbed the wrong way I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to, and everyone who's made me laugh (DA, Ethan, BBO, Biffen, rpfc) I love you guys.   This is me,  moving on. 

Adios muchachos, ladies  

Go you bloody demons!! 

Where are you going Sloon?

Hope you can report in from time to time.

2 hours ago, Biffen said:

Where are you going Sloon?

Hope you can report in from time to time.

Sloony has clearly decided to flee the United States of Trumperica and run away to an isolsted island somewhere in the Pacific. No, not Manus Island. A little to the left of Manus. It's an uncivilised populace, not as uncouth as Trumperica, but savage nonetheless. Where the locals survive only by raising livestock and digging up the mineral riches. I believe it's called Straya.

Good Luck Sloony. You'll need it.

Edited November 13, 20168 yr by Moonshadow

11 monday and this is nearly Gawn.

17 hours ago, Dr John Dee said:

Thanks daisy. They made a lot of noise some months ago about the second satellite going up in October. I haven't heard anything since and I presume as a customer I'll get hear when it comes on stream. The satellite will be ok (albeit with various interruptions and slowdowns) until the wet starts but we can spend weeks under the sort of cloud that denies us any connection. Meanwhile we've hung onto a telstra mobile broadband service (marginal anyway). Between them we get by, but at around $170 a month. It's all a bit mad. 

Could this be why you have not heard anything about it?  BBO "surfing" agian?

 

On 12/11/2016 at 3:56 PM, Jesse Christ said:

It's been a blast, 5 years guys   Everyone I've ever had a disagreement with or rubbed the wrong way I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to, and everyone who's made me laugh (DA, Ethan, BBO, Biffen, rpfc) I love you guys.   This is me,  moving on. 

Adios muchachos, ladies  

Go you bloody demons!! 

Don't leave DL now JC you may need the virtual insanity of this site to distract you from the reality of life.

Also the rise of the Dees will provide some joy after the frustrations of the last 5 years you have been on site so the humour will no doubt rise to a new level also.

An alternative view is always welcome on this site where locker room banter prevails. Disagreement is appreciated to prolong interest and awaken satirical reference. Failure to rub someone the wrong way is a sign of intellectual incapacity and allows those with the sharpest wit to retort.

Hope your moving on has sufficient flexibility to visit occasionally 

14 minutes ago, AzzKikA said:

Could this be why you have not heard anything about it?  BBO "surfing" agian?

 

If this thread handed out awards that'd be a five bananas.

 

On 11/11/2016 at 0:07 PM, AzzKikA said:

What do you have, broadband?

Not NBN, but the fibre infrastructure will be.  It is already starting to be advertised for a replacement for land lines.

Yes Azz good old Big pond Cable old n reliable like me