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Old 27th May 2010, 16:33     #1
Ab
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NZ Labour Party discovers the Internet

http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/...s-are-rubbish/

Clare Curran, Labour spokesperson for Communications and Information Technology, has been told about a site on the interwebs called "speedtest.net" (/facepalm) and has discovered that NZ is actually geographically remote and its "bandwidth data" or something is, um, less good than that of someone somewhere else.

THIS IS A CRISIS. IT IS UNACCEPTABLE THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS ALLOWED THIS SITUATION TO ARISE IN THE EIGHTEEN MONTHS IT HAS BEEN IN POWER.
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Old 27th May 2010, 16:37     #2
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Claire Curran means well, but she's probably one of the most ineffectual politicians I can think of. She wins her electorate because she carries their issues forward to parliament and gets some media attention, but she doesn't take the time to actually UNDERSTAND the issues she's bringing forward.

Net result? Nothing happens.
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Old 27th May 2010, 16:41     #3
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ab are you making up your own points again
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Old 27th May 2010, 16:42     #4
Ab
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Quote:
She has a BA double major in Anthropology and History from the University of Otago, and BA Honours in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington. She is a member of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and the Service & Food Workers Union.
See in Bizarro World that qualifies her to have an opinion on how the Internet works.

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That's fuckin' EXPERIENCE, bitches!
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Old 27th May 2010, 16:44     #5
^BITES^
 
Lol and the irony is that nearly every ISP in NZ worth its salt tweaks/optimizes download tests, and we're still ass ....
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Old 27th May 2010, 16:47     #6
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What's your point? MPs are idiots?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/38005
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Old 27th May 2010, 16:52     #7
Mr_Hahn
 
Someone is insulting my party of choice! I must find a completely unrelated case where a member of the opposite party has done something retarded.


The fact MPs are idiots is a given.
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Old 27th May 2010, 16:55     #8
Ab
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Most of them aren't the Opposition spokesperson for Communications and Information Technology attacking the government because she found a site called "speedtest.net".
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Old 27th May 2010, 17:13     #9
cEvin
Love In Vein
 
racism? you be the judge
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Old 27th May 2010, 17:16     #10
Warrick
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pervy
What's your point? MPs are idiots?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/38005
her teeth are like Helen's
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Old 27th May 2010, 17:29     #11
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"Two things. We need broadband. Soon"

What do we want? Fast Interweb! When do we want it? Whenever you're ready!
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Old 27th May 2010, 18:03     #12
Saladin
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If you don't like it you are free to leave and go to a country where the government minsters have a clue about the internet, like say Steven Conroy
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Old 27th May 2010, 18:06     #13
pervy
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr_Hahn
Someone is insulting my party of choice! I must find a completely unrelated case where a member of the opposite party has done something retarded.


The fact MPs are idiots is a given.
First sentence is completely your opinion. Second sentence is what I was getting at.
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Old 27th May 2010, 18:23     #14
SID|DensitY
 
It's really amusing they discover this after being voted out, and start to champion an argument that has been around for the better part of 10 years.
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Old 27th May 2010, 18:32     #15
Ab
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saladin
If you don't like it you are free to leave and go to a country where the government minsters have a clue about the internet, like say Steven Conroy
fuck you
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Old 27th May 2010, 18:40     #16
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Quote:
There’s a case being made for this. Next generation devices, like Netbooks and the iPad, consume significantly more bandwidth data.
Wat? Consume more bandwidth data than what? My wi-fi enabled wristwatch that syncs with the atomic clock via the intertubes? "Oh noes, we've runs out of data because some guy is using all the bandwidth with his ipad!"
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Old 27th May 2010, 18:44     #17
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The National Party must be doing some stupid shit lately for this to get its own thread.
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Old 27th May 2010, 19:51     #18
madmaxii
 
Wrong - the Labour Party are doing some stupid shit - hence the thread
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Old 27th May 2010, 20:04     #19
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Phil Goff gets served by JK.

Hon Phil Goff: In assessing which assets the Prime Minister, and the National Government, might put up for sale, has he considered past experience with privatisation, when a private sector board ran Air New Zealand into bankruptcy and private owners asset-stripped KiwiRail and ran it into the ground?

Hon JOHN KEY: The Leader of the Opposition has a fair point. If one is going to consider these matters, one should definitely seek someone who has had experience. Maybe, just maybe, the Minister of Finance and I should go and have a chat with the Leader of the Opposition, because that is the man who sold Telecom, the State Insurance Office, the Post Office Bank, Air New Zealand, the Tourist Hotel Corporation, New Zealand Steel, Petrocorp, the Government Printing Office, the DFC, the National Film Unit, the Rural Banking and Finance Corporation, the Shipping Corporation, New Zealand Liquid Fuel Investment, Maui Gas, SynFuels, forest cutting rights, Health Computing Services and Communicate New Zealand. If there is ever a man who knows something about privatisation, it is that one.

http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Bu...t-for-Sale.htm
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Old 27th May 2010, 21:01     #20
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saladin
If you don't like it you are free to leave and go to a country where the government minsters have a clue about the internet, like say Steven Conroy
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Old 27th May 2010, 22:25     #21
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pxpx
Phil Goff gets served by JK.
Wasn't that Roger Douglas? And wasn't the sale of SOE's almost un-avoidable due to the state of the NZ economy as a result of the previous Muldoon led govornment?
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Old 27th May 2010, 22:34     #22
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pervy
Wasn't that Roger Douglas? And wasn't the sale of SOE's almost un-avoidable due to the state of the NZ economy as a result of the previous Muldoon led govornment?
"omgosh..the bank is screaming for mortgage repayments!!What shall we do??"
"um we can sell the lawn mower and the car dirt cheap..then the tv then.."
"but we need the car to get to work and generate income.."
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Old 27th May 2010, 22:36     #23
Ab
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I think JK's point is that those privatisations were the decisions of the Labour Cabinet, of which Phil Goff was a Minister.

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure many of the big selloffs (like Telecom) happened while Helen Clark was Minister of Finance. Douglas was Minister of Police at the time.
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Old 27th May 2010, 22:42     #24
Macca@Work
 
I'm pretty sure Douglas was in on it.They coined the term "Rogernomics" from that and even gave him a knighthood for selling out his country.
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Old 27th May 2010, 22:57     #25
Dusty
 
I remember, just before the election, Helen Clarke and John Key were in a televised debate. Completely out of the blue, and unrelated to the current topic at hand, JK blurts out, "NZ has crap internet. It's slow. National will fix teh interwebs and makes thems fasters". I paraphrase (only slightly), but that was the gist. Both HC and The Walrus guy from TV1 were like "WTF?". And so, while I wait for my "fast internets", JK is going "Cycle from one end of NZ to the other? Fuck yes bitches!"
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Old 27th May 2010, 23:57     #26
fidgit
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Clare Curran: Still knows more about the Internet than Judith Tizard.
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Old 28th May 2010, 09:54     #27
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Quote:
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Clare Curran: Still knows more about the Internet than Judith Tizard.
Sad/true.
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Old 29th May 2010, 11:13     #28
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Next up from Clare "just discovered the Internet" Curran: BROADBAND IS FAST IN JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA BUT SLOW HERE. LABOUR DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION.

http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/...-a-difference/

It's like Curran is trolling ten-year-old posts in the Telco forum for talking points.
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Old 29th May 2010, 11:17     #29
Rince
SLUTS!!!!!!!
 
I'm glad I unsubscribed from WOBH - I'd hate to think how Slater is creaming himself over this .... :/
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Old 29th May 2010, 17:00     #30
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca@Work
I'm pretty sure Douglas was in on it.They coined the term "Rogernomics" from that and even gave him a knighthood for selling out his country.
"In on it"? That's an understatement... JK's point is a bit stupid when you consider he's pointing out a period when Labour's economic policy was basically akin to the current day Act party.
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Old 4th July 2010, 11:45     #31
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ab
Next up from Clare "just discovered the Internet" Curran: BROADBAND IS FAST IN JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA BUT SLOW HERE. LABOUR DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION.

http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/...-a-difference/

It's like Curran is trolling ten-year-old posts in the Telco forum for talking points.
Next up from Clare "just discovered the Internet" Curran:

Typing "LOL" is silly and I think you should stop
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Old 4th July 2010, 12:01     #32
fixed_truth
 
Maybe she should join a facebook group or something.
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Old 4th July 2010, 12:10     #33
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
This from the Opposition spokesperson for telecommunications.
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Old 4th July 2010, 12:10     #34
Fx.
 
Tasty

lol~!
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Old 10th July 2010, 12:18     #35
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Next up from Clare "just discovered the Internet" Curran:

A poll on the Labour Party site -

Quote:
"Internet speeds: are they fast enough?"

[ ] YES
[ ] NO
It's almost like some weird postmodern comedy routine.
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Old 10th July 2010, 15:42     #36
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
YES! The innernet is too slow! ALL OF IT! Please speed up the innernets! Do we need faster pipes or what?
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Old 26th July 2010, 16:10     #37
plaz0r
 
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/di...resses-run-dry

WHAT DOES THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT INTEND TO DO ABOUT THIS?
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Old 26th July 2010, 16:21     #38
xor
 
John Key: "NAT"
/cue applause

I'll vote for him if he says that
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Old 26th July 2010, 16:24     #39
crocos
 
Quote:
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John Key: "NAT"
/cue applause

I'll vote for him if he says that
Heh, good call
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Old 10th May 2011, 23:47     #40
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Clare Curran, Labour spokesperson for Communications and Information Technology, seeks crowd-sourced assistance with Open Source content management framework.

https://twitter.com/clarecurranmp/st...17487261495296
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