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| Thread ID: 30617 | 2003-02-25 19:00:00 | OT - Poor Ickle Farmers. | nz_liam (845) | Press F1 |
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| 123898 | 2003-02-26 04:23:00 | > Are you for real Liam? Your posting IS > tongue-in-cheek. Right? Um no, not really, just voicing my personal opinion on a specific article. |
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| 123899 | 2003-02-26 05:31:00 | OIC You got some weird ideas man. I think you underestimate the farming community by quite a wide margin Liam. Maybe the ones you know are a little different from the ones I do |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 123900 | 2003-02-26 05:34:00 | I lived out in the Marlborough Sounds at one stage. It was just one of those things: no or little reception for anything other than TV1/2 slow internet (phone via radio waves) long distances to travel in to town mail once or twice a week no supermarket round the corner frequent power cuts frequent phone outtages Now in Christchurch: Good dial-up speeds TV channels oportunity of fast internet unclean air noisy traffic You live somewhere because it offers what you want.... not the other way round. |
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| 123901 | 2003-02-26 06:03:00 | > OIC > > You got some weird ideas man. I'll give you that, lots of weird ideas; like this Ad-Hoc wireless LAN I'm setting up :) but that's another thread. |
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| 123902 | 2003-02-26 06:24:00 | >And from my own experience farmers don't want fast internet anyway, How many have you actually spoken to? I know several farming families with an interest in things not confined to just the the world of farming . Hey some even spend time on PressF1 helping city folk out with their computer woes, and I know a dairy farmer who runs a respected website http://www . pandasport . co . nz But its more fun in the country waiting for the pages to load . Theres the clear air and the sound of livestock to take your mind off it . Why have internet at all? >they wont part with the cash for a satellite confection, eh? So farmers have something in common with city folk . Shock Horror!!!!! >they don't use it much anyway (usually just the odd e-mail), All farmers go to bed at 6pm so they can be up for the milking . The internet is far to frivolous and intellectual for the simple country folk <gulp> > and d . the equipment they are using is SOOO slow that it is actually the problem NOT the phone lines, Quick, send a PCCompany rep to every small town in NZ to replace the huge numbers of 486's still in use in almost all the farm houses Someone could make a killing >it only takes about 15 people to want broadband in an area for telecom to put it in to the exchange for free . Not in the Dunedin suburb I live in |
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