UK Chancellor announces more funding for broadband
Are you kidding me? The economy is in near meltdown and you think giving people a faster connection to Facebook is a priority?
£100m [...] is set to boost broadband coverage in London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff. A further six cities will be identified later.
A hundred million quid of our money being spent on something that private businesses should be paying for, is not justifiable in any times, let alone times of supposed austerity. If you've got that kind of money to spare, how about giving us taxpayers a break for a change?
Firms including BT and Virgin will be able to bid for the money, which they can use to fill in urban notspots or increase wi-fi coverage, a spokesman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport told the BBC.
BT welcomed the news.
I'm sure they did welcome it. Free cash? Kerchiiing! And where will the profits from this venture go? Back into the treasury or into BT's pockets?
That's assuming there will be any profits. When the government sticks it's nose into areas of private business, failure usually follows.
I'm so sick of being governed.
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It is surely only a matter of time before social services require elderly ‘clients’ to contact them exclusively by e-mail, or public services are only available via websites.
Meanwhile, the Mail carries an article claiming that Wi-fi seriously damages sperm and reduces male fertility. Enough of that, I suppose, and the urban housing crisis is solved.
It could be down to the public service thing or it could also be down to Facebook et al. Watching the telly box seems to keep the sheep asleep. Social networking has the same effect, so maybe they just want more of that.
Julia - True dat.
Teh tinterwebs have profoundly shaken our rulers; there are apparently voices raised against them, doubting their selfless love and altruistic intentions, and they don't like it anywhere near up them. So, what better than to offer a small carrot (and it isn't a carrot they have grown, either; no back breaking work hoeing the wet soil) and demand a greater say in what is, or isn't, said.
One hundred mill is chump change for exercising power.
"When the government sticks it's nose into areas of private business, failure usually follows."
What he said.
Angry Exile - It often surprises me how your government and mine seem to be desperately trying to outdo each other. In my younger years I imagined Australia to be quite a liberal place. Not sure where I got that from.
But... what happens when the lights (and the computers and everything else electric) go out thanks to insane envirowanker policies? What then, super-smart gummint fucknuts?
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